Osaka Fires Under Control-Tokyo 'Super-Dum Pacific Safe By The Associated Press SAIPAN (Delayed)-The "Super-t Dumbo" has joined the ceaseless campaign to make the long over-- water road to Japan safer for B-29t Superfortress fliers. And it is helpingI to cut down losses. In Navy parlance, a "Dumbo" is any air-sea rescue plane. A Super- Dumbo is the name given a B-29 which accompanies a strike missione in the role of shepherd, observer, and rescuer to any Superfort which mightz hit trouble. Crews Organize Campaign Crews of the B-29s, who dread the1 1,500-mile over-water return tript Play Prcoduction Will Present Tonight at 8:30' Noel Coward's Series Scheduled for June 6-9 With the opening of "Tonight at 8:30" June 6 through 9 in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre, something new will be presented to Ann Arbor audi- ences. The plays chosen for Play Pro- duction's last offering of the spring semester are "Ways and Means," "Fumed Oak," and "Family Album" from the series "Tonight at 8:30". They are under the direction of Prof. Valentine Windt and the sets are designed by Herbert Philippi, of the speech department. The idea of presenting three one- act plays at once is not original with Noel Coward. The "triple bill" for- mula has been used with varying de- grees of success since the earliest times in the theatre. In the words of Coward, "a short play has a great advantage over a long one in that it can sustain a mood without tech- nical creaking or over-padding.. It deserves a better fate than it has re- ceived in recent years." First Presented in London Coward wrote six plays and pres- ented them on two consecutive nights in London, three on each night, and called them "Tonight at 7:30," be- cause London theatres open at 7:30 p. m. Their success was so pronounced that 'he decided to present them in New York. When he brought them over the group had increased to nine plays which were presented on three successive nights at 8:30, New York opening time. Coward Versatile Called a master of farce, historic pageapt, melodrama, comedy, oper- etta, revue, and satire, Coward is not only a playwright but is also an actor, singer, dancer, producer, and director. Tickets for the play will be placed on sale in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre box office Monday through Saturday. Meat Control Plan .Announced WASHINGTON, June 1-(A)-The OPA tonight announced a new pro- gram designed to spread the limited meat supply more evenly through the country. Effective June 17, the program re- quires all slaughterers to resume the same pattern of distribution they fol- lowed in the first three months of 1944. The new distribution plan will work like this: During each accounting period, usually a month, any slaughterer must deliver to a county at least 80 per cent of the proportionate amount of the civilian meat supply he deliv- ered there in each of the first three accounting periods of 1944. To illustrate this, assume a packer's total supply of meat in January, 1944, was 1,000 pounds, and that he de- livered it equally arnong four coui- ties, or 250 pounds to each. If his total supply for a month is reduced now to 800 pounds, he would be re- quired to send into each county at least 80 per cent of 200 pounds, or 160 pounds a month. Over a three-month period, how- ever, the amount shipped to each county must be 90 per cent of the proportionate share, giving each county an average of 180 pounds or more per month. ' Graduate Joins Ohio State Faculty Prof. Allan C. Barnes, who received his master of science degree at the University in 1942 and spent' three years training here, began his duties as associate professor in the Depart- -v+_T VofM-rtrc0" n arnn- a. bo' Makes 1r for B-29's from Japan to the Marianas more than the perils over the target itself, joined actively in the campaign early this year, after survivors of one mis- hap got together on ways and means of improving the rescue service. Lt. Alton C. Ayers, Corpus Christi, Tex., was one of a crew which had to "ditch" returning from the Dec. 3 strike on Tokyo. He and nine other survivors spent 11 days on their rafts before being picked up. On his return, 35 pounds lighter, Ayers talk- ed things over with Capt. Francis J. Murray, Brooklyn, N.Y., and together they obtained permission to organize a Super-Dumbo unit.E Dumbos Affect Rescues Members of the unit are all sur- vivors of "ditchings" and life raft experiences. They include 2nd Lt. Robert C. Pope and Lt. Harold A. Bodley, Three Rivers, Mich., a for- mer commercial airline pilot and with the RAF at Dunquerque before coming to the Pacific. The Super-Dumoo has one advan- tage over the Navy's 'PBM's and PBY s and other rescue planes, even if it can't land on water to pick up survivors. It has terrific fire power to resist attack in Japanese skies while directing rescue vessels or sea- planes to scenes of "ditchings". Be- tween April 18 and 30, during the strikes on Kyushu, the Super-Dum- bos were instrumental in rescues of 26 out of 29 men spotted off the coast of Japan. War Theater Shifted The unit works under and in close cooperation with the Navy Air-Sea Rescue Group, which now has per- fected a "bridge" of rescue units a- long every strike route, so that any crew "ditching" is fairly close to help. The routes vary with each mission, of course. A distressed pilot radios his trouble and approximate position, and immediately, from headquarters, rescue is directed. Fre- quently a pilot can choose his "ditch- ing" point to be near a rescue vessel. The Navy's seaplanes (PBM's, PBY's) can function more satisfac- torily now that the war has moved out of the vast open seas into large land masses like the Philippines and the Ryukyus and the Japanese home islands. Five representatives from the World moan of the organiza.tions oni camipus Youth Council, who are returning sponsoring, the viitr,will pi~eside from the United Nations Conference, at the meeting. will be guest speakers at a rally at In addition to a discussion and 8:15 p. m. EWT (7:15 p. m. CWT) questioning period following the Monday in Rackham Auditorium. speeches, the University Concert Dean Alice Lloyd has been selected Band, under the direction of Prof. as the keynote faculty sneaker of William D. Revelli, will be featured the evening and Bob Woodward, pres,- during the program. ident of MYDA and temporary chair- As accredited observers of the World Youth Council at San Fran- A 11 . (Attb cisco, the quintet will relate their in- fl1oC hdividual impressions of the confer- (:ence and will also discuss youth ee W i Be i movements in their own countries. I "i ' They represent China, Czechoslova- 1 1 1 k ia, Yugoslavia, Denmark, and the United States, and are making the Ha current tour before attending the third World Vouth Conference which New Gro up 1 o For will be hield in London in August. On International Basis Upon arrival Monday, they will be feted by a tea from 3 to 5 p. m. in A newly organized student group on the International Center, where campus, the All Nations Club, which members of the faculty and students has as its aim the realization of bet- may meet the visitors personally. ter international relations at the A dinner in their honor preceding University, will hold its first general the rally will be held in the League 'meeting to welcome all students at with student leaders as hosts. 7:30 p. in. EWT (6:30 p. m. CWT) Before they leave for Wayne Umn- Tuesday at the International Center. versity, Detroit, an open discussion Offering the American and foreign session will be conducted from 10 students a chance to belong to an a. m. to noon Tuesday in Lane Hall organization independent from all where students will have another others in existence and made up of opportunity to discuss the onfer- students from the United States and ence and the World Youth Cuncil. other nations represented on campus, the student-run All Nations Club plans a program of varied entertain- ment in social activities. The club will make final arrange- nor I ments for the coming formal dance, June 9, at which George Hall of the International Center staff, who is7'h ' rhd leaving this semester, will be special guest. The recent dance at the Rack- A program commemorating the ham building was the club's first 70th birthday Wednesday of Thomas activity. Arrangements will also be Mann, author of "Buddenbrooks," made for a picnic and dinner in "Magic Mountain," and the Joseph honor of students.of highest scholas- novels, will be held at 4:15 p. m. EWT tic achievement. (3:15 p. m. CWT) Tuesday in the A formulation of policy will head Amphitheatre of the Rackham Build- the agenda, while forthcoming elec- ing. Ltions and future activities will be dis- Sponsored by the German and Eng- cussed at the meeting to twhich all lish departments, the celebration will I students interested in the club are include speeches presenting Thomas invited. Mann as a literary artist, as a per- LORD HAW HAW AFTER CAPTURE-William (Lord Haw Haw) Joyce, Britisher who broadcasted for the Nazi. government, lies guarded by two British soldiers on a stretcher in an ambulance at Lueneburg, Germany, after his capture. He was shot in the thigh at the time of his apprehension. This is a British official photo. _..._. _ C'hureb News To Install Officers dent; Dorothy Smith, secretary; Ro- ger Glass, treasurer; Rachel Shields The Congregational-Disciples stu- worship chairman; Bill Conant, AS dent program will center around the recreational chairman; Priscilla Hod- recognition of seniors and the instal- ges, Congregational representative lation of new officers Sunday. and Beverly Paul, Disciples repre- First on the program will be a ban- sentative. quet at 5 p.m. EWT (4 p.m. CWT). Following the banquet, the mock -uild Y o Pjcnic graduation ceremony with Jo Mc- * * Millan as toastmistress, there will be Prof. G. E. Carrothers, Director a will, a prophecy and a mock serious -of Cooperation with Educational sermon. Institutions, will be the speaker at Upstairs later, in the church, in- the Wesleyan Guild's annual pic- stallation of officers will take place. nic at the Earhart Estate tomor- Records of some of the "best mem- row. ories" during the guild year will be Members will meet in front of played as part of the ceremony as the church at 4:30 p.m. EWT (3:30 Rev. Pickerell tells stories on some p.m. CWT). of the officers. The new officers to be installed are: Walter Scott, AS, president; Camping Trip Held .. . Barbara Stauffer, first vice-presi- dent; Dawn Saari, second vice-presi- Lutheran Student Association is _-- _- _-holding its annual Ashram at Cami Birkett on Silver Lake this week-end Secoiutconcer't Ashram is the Indian word mean ing free conference. The three dis cussions to be taken up in the con To Be ference are: Responsibility of the Church in the Present Crisis; Christ Ross Will Conduct ian liberty (based on Martin Luther' Ross ill Cnducttreatise, "The Liberty of the Christ- Symphony Wednesday ian Man); and Lutheran Studen Association techniques. Highlighting the program with se- Rev. Yoder is the adult advisor fo lections by Mozart, Frescobaldi, and the conference and members left a Brahms, the University Symphony 6:30 p.m. EWT (5:30 p.m. CWT) Fri Orchestra under the direction of day and will return Sunday. ' Prof. Gilbert Ross, will present its second concert of the current season at 8:30 p.m. EWT (7:30 p.m. CWT) Scarlett To Speak. . . Wednesday in Hill Auditorium. The orchestra, which was conduc- of St. Peter's Church, Tecumseh, Johnson, now in the service, is com- will speak before the Canterbury posed of approximately 65 players. Club at the home of Martha eet Prof. Gilbert Ross, head of the de- partment of string instruments in the School of Music, re-established Missionary To Speak... the full symphony orchestra in the fall of 1944, one year after the or- Dr. and Mrs. C. E. Thompkins, ganization had been temporarily dis- medical missionary and his wife wh banded. I have spent more than 25 years in During this interval (1942-43) Prof. West China, will be the speakers a Ross organized the University String the Baptist Church Sunday. Orchestra and presented several con- Dr. Thompkins, who graduated certs of 17th and 18th century music. from the University of Michigai At present several faculty members medical school, will talk on his ex occupy positions in the orchestra, periences in China at 11 a.m. EW'. and a few guest players from Ann (10 a.m. CWT) Sunday. Mrs. C. E Arbor, Ypsilanti and Detroit will Thompkins will speak before th participate. Roger Williams Guild at 5 p.m. EW': -(4 CWI) in the guild house.