T-HE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, DEC.29, a A.A s.F .,: . w,............,a rm a. 9 .as .cx x ae s TITS. Sowp A*otl Takes Over Ward Property Avery Maintains Order 'Violates Constitution' Detroit Workers Call Off Three Week Strike As Army Assumes Control; Plan Full Schedule By The Associated Press CHICAGO, Dec. 28-President Roosevelt and Sewell Avery, Chairman of the Board of Montgomery Ward and Company, collided headon tonight on the issue of the Presidential powers in seizing company facilities in seven cities. The Army took over under presidential executive order in the climax of Ward's long refusal to comply with War Labor Board directives for employes' wage increases and maintenance of union membership. :; . I In Seven Cities GUIANA SHANGRI-LA: Explorer Discovers Botanical Gems on Table Mountain Top "I Highlights On Campus.. Honor Celebration.. .. Commemorating the works of Dr. Jose Rizal, outstanding Filipino, the Philippine-Michigan Club will hold its annual celebration at 6:30 p. m. tomorrow in the Women's Athletic Building. Reservations for the dinner which will be followed by a program and dancing can be made by calling 2-6034 or 2-4658. Dr. Rizal, a physician, is consider- ed the most outstanding figure in Philippine history in the last 300 years. He devoted his life to the struggle for improvement of condi- tions on the Islands during their domination by Spain. Opposition to his activities forced him to leave his homeland and exile himself in Eu- rope where he wrote two novels that eventually led to his execution. To Present Paper ... Prof. E. T. Vincent will address the 1945 Annual Meeting of the Soci- ety pif Automotive Engineers to be held January 8, through Jan. 12 in the Book-Cadillac Hotel, Detroit. Prof. Vincent will present a techni- cal paper-"Piston Development Re- view" before the Diesel Engine Ses- sion, the afternoon of Jan. 12. The meeting will be attended by the engineers responsible for the design and production of motoriz- ed war equipment as well as rank- ing military engineering officers. Approximately 3,000 engineers will exchange information concerning technical requirements of motor- ized warfare and prospects for peacetime applications of wartime materials and methods. Meeting Time Changed ... . The Unity meeting which is us- ually held at 11 a. m. Sunday in the League chapel will be held 'this Sunday and throughout January at 4 p. m. in the chapel. "We Can Prolong Christmas" will be the topic of Marie Munro. leader, Sunday. Will Address Meeting ... Shirley Smith, vice president of the University, will speak at a din- ner to be held by the University Club of Cleveland at 6:30 p. m. Jan. 8 at the Cleveland Athletic Club. Vice President Smith will speak on the University's part in the war and the business side of the ad- ministration under the new set up. He will also tell of his recollections of the previous presidents of the University under whom he has work- ed. The affair which has been limited to 125 persons because of war time conditions will be arranged by Rex. P. Dryer and Elizabeth Partenfelder. County Drive Nets Six Million Pounds For the first eleven months of 1944, waste paper collections in Washtenaw County totalled 6,540,000 pounds, George H. Gabler, chairman of the local salvage committee said yesterday. Complete statistics on 1944 paper and rag collection will be available when yesterday's pick-up total has been added to the eleven-month fig- ure, he explained. Chaplin Trial In Recess, Will Resume-Tomorrow LOS ANGELES, Dec. 28-W)- Trial of the Charlie Chaplin pater- nity case was in recess today while attorneys prepared for a quick wind- up of evidence tomorrow and its presentation to the jury early next week. 4 MONTH INTENSIVE Course for COLLEGE STUDENTS and GRADUATZ A thn,.... . t enve n ti..:,. r,,e- tarSt Avery, remaining at company headquarters throughout the day, as- serted the presidential order violated the constitution and the company could not "accept or obey." By after- noon he and the military manager, Maj. Gen. Joseph W. Byson, were functioning in separate offices. No Restraint on Avery Army public relations officers said no restrictions were placed on Avery's movements but the military position was that authority now rests with General Byron, not Avery. President Roosevelt in an accom- panying statement declared Avery guilty of "consistent and wilful de- fiance" of WLB decisions, threaten- ing the structure for impartial ad- judication of disputes. He said the government "can not and will not tolerate any interference with war production in this critical hour" and that Ward's would not be allowed to set aside government war time poli- cies "just because Mr. Sewell Avery does not approve of the government's procedure for handling labor dis- putes." There was no physical or outward opposition to the Army taking con- trol in Chicago, Detroit, St. Paul, Denver, Jamaica, N. Y., Portland, Ore., and San ,Rafael, Calif. Ward Head Invokes Constitution But after a long conference with the military manager, Maj. Gen. Jo- seph W. Byron, Director of the Ar- my's Special Services Division, Av- ery issued a statement asserting that the president's order was "a viola- tion of the constitution," that con- gress "has given the president no power to seize the non-war business of Montgomery Ward" and that: "Ward's cannot in good citizen- ship accept or obey the commands of those who have no legal power to give them and who are seeking to deprive Ward's of its constitutional rights and liberties." Late Permission Given For Ball Navy trainees and women students have been granted late permission to attend the International Ball which will be held from 8:30 p. m. to 1 a. m., Friday, Jan. 5 in the Rainbow Room of the Union. Women will be allowed to stay out until 1:30 a. m., while Navy men must report to the West Quad at midnight. Dancing to the music of Bill Lay- ton and his orchestra, foreign stu- dents, their American friends and faculty will attend this all-campus dance, proceeds of which will be de- voted to the Emergency Relief Fund for Foreign Students. The Ball is semi-formal and an internationally cosmopolitan air will be added by the native costumes of the foreign students. Tickets for the dance may be ob- tained at the International Center, the Union and the League. ARMY ENGINEERS REPAIR the roadbed of a rail line between San Jose and nearby San Austin short- ly after the American invasion of Mindoro Island in the Philippines. This picture is the first received showing Yanks on Mindoro. MICHIGAN MEN AT WARx By The Associated Press NEW YORK, Dec. 24-A veritable floral Shangri La, with botanical specimens considered "exceedingly important" to scientific and econo- mic research, has been found atop Table Mountain in South Central Surinam. Dr. Bassett Maguire, curator of the I New York Botanical Garden, who has just returned from Surinam (Dutch Guiana), is believed to be the firstj explorer to have reached this table- land. He found no trace of civiliza- tion on the rich mesa, no inhabit- ants within 100 miles. Nor were there any traces or tracks or fossils of pre-historic animals. Table Mountain, first seen from the Wilhelmina Range 30 years ago, says Maguire, has the same geologi- cal history as Mount Roraima, in- spiration of A. Conan Doyle's "Lost World," and Mount Duida, another "lost world" recently discovered, both in. Venezuela. Table Mountain might be called a botanical lost world. l Its luxuriant vegetation is unus- ual in that 25 per cent of all the specimens found there are known only to that particular plateau. Us- ually, less than 20 per cent are native to such an area of size considered worth exploring. Maguire's exploration was con- ducted under the joint auspices ot the Botanical Garden, the American Philosophical Society and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foun- dation-one of a series of expeditions into unexplored regions of South America. The trek started from Paramaribo, capital of Surinam. It took five weeks to cover the 200 miles through dense jungles to the base of the mountain which rises to some 3,600 feet above sea level. Maguire and his 2*1 native porters, boatmen and other assistants faced sheer cliffs, 1,600 to 1,800 feet high. They reached the plateau which ex- tends 12 miles north and south, nine miles east-west, after a three-week climb. The expedition found exotic flow- ers, plants and trees in utmost va- riety. There is an almost inex- haustible supply of valuable timber, with a richness in color, ranging from yellows and reds through green and purple. Editor's Note: Contributions to this col- unmn should be addressed to tihe Mili- tary Editor, The Michigan Oaily, Stu- dent Publications Building, 420 May-I nard. Sgt. WENDELL E. YOUNG, son of' Professor and Mrs. Edward Young,f recently completed a course in main- tenance of the secret "electronic eye" bombing equipment used by the Eighth Force (England) to hit Nazi targets when weather conditions are not favorable for visual bombing. Sgt. Young, whose father teaches geodesy and surveying, has been in England for more than three years, having enlisted in the RAF before this country was at ,war. Last year he transferred to the AAF. Before enlisting in the RAF, Sgt.I Young studied at the University. The fifth and sixth Oak Leaf Clusters to the Air Medal have been awarded Major PAUL D. HOEPER, member of Alpha Tau Omega while studying at the Uni- Williams To Lead Discussiont1 At Foundation "What Will the Big Three Con- ference Bring" is the topic of the fourth Hillel Fireside Discussion to be led by Prof. Mentor Williams of the English department 8:30 p. m. today at the Foundation. In his talk, to precede a general discussion on the evening's topic, Prof. Williams will analyze the is- sues that may be faced at the next "Big Three" conference, involving Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt. Prof. Williams will comment briefly on the current Grecian and Belgian political problems and the recent appointments to the U. S. State De-" partment When Prof. Williams last spoke at the Foundation, he discussed the fu- ture position of American labor, stressing that the vast experience in the political arena gained by organ- ized labor during the past decade should materially aid labor organiza- tions in maintaining conditions fav- orable to their constituents after the war. Following the discussion, a social hour will be held during which re- freshments will be served. Religious services, commencing at 7:45 p. m., will take place in the chapel. versity, and now a fighter pilot with the Eighth Air Force. Already recipient of the Purple Heart and the Distinguished Fly- ing Cross with one Oak Leaf Clus- ter, Maj. Hoeper flies a P-51 Mus- tang as a member of the 55th Fighter Group. Recently promoted to the grade of Staff Sergeant, WILLIAM G. LOW-. ERY, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Lowery of Ann Arbor, is serving with the 15th AAF (Italy) as a ball- turret gunner on p B-24 Liberator bomber., Since arriving overseas in Septem- ber, s.-Sgt. Lowery has participated in more than ten combat missions against enemy oil refineries, rail in- stallations, aircraft factories and oth- er strategic targets throughout Eu- rope. He holds the Air Medal "For meritorious achievement . . . while participating in sustained operational activity against the enemy." A former student at the Univer- sity, Sgt. Lowery entered the armed forces in February and completed gunnery training at Harlingen, Tex. before coming overseas. Second Lieutenant MILTON D. SOLOMON, a graduate of the Uni- versity with an A. B. degree in 1941, was a member of the largest class in the history of the San Marcos, Tex., AAF Navigation School of the Central Flying Taip- ing Comand, which recently receiv- ed wings as aerial navigators in the AAF. , I 14 MONTH -END 'A-DAY HEROISM' Lt. Don NixontIFormer Student, Tell. Story of Jap Seas battle RA story of heroism in a forty day sea battle with the Japs was told in a recent letter by a former Michigan alumni to the Alumni Association. In relating'the incident, Lt. Don L. Nixon, '40, said: "We've been going strong ever since that noisy morning of Oct. 20. It certainly has been a most inter- esting forty days-and nights. "Perhaps the most impressive ev- ent was the terrific naval bombard- ment given the Jap positions on A-Day. "I stood on deck. with powerful field glasses, and watched the sort of three dimensional show. Huge battleships stood off and lobbed huge shells upon Jap positions. Navy lia- ison officers ashore would call for a quick shelling of a newly discovered Jap emplacement. Seconds later a fast destroyer would dash in spew- ing ammunition with amazing accu- racy. "Jap air opposition, at first, was very slight. Later on it became more noticeable, but never serious. At night pyrotechnics made the sky glow with color. During the day an alert would send all ships' fog mak- ing machines into instant action. Soon the harbor would be a simply innocent looking mass of clouds. "At present my duty permits me to roam quite freely in the area. I've had the opportunity to visit several of the neighboring villages. As you'- ve undoubtedly read, the Filipinos are friendly to the very generous and sometimes gullible Americans. The natives trade constantly for any piece of clothing or food. The small- framed natives appear to survive under the most humble conditions. Many of them wear simply burlap bags for clothing. Their wooden and thatched roof homes, in most cases, are small, fragile and badly in need of repair. However, it is the guerilla fighters whose yet untold stories will prove them the real heroes of Jap occupation." at BALANCE OF WINTER GROUP... B. H.Wragge Classics '/2 Pricel Remaining are dresses in wools and rayon crepes, wool jackets, velveteen suits, a few accessories. Sizes 10 to 16. Casual and Date-Time Drsses I 6.98 9098 14o98 I .i CLASSIFIED DIRECTORY t LOST AND FOUND LOST: Wdnesday night. Gold cigaret case. Engraved initials F. T. W. Call Frank, 7211. LOST: Tan key case. Co-re-ga on front. Four keys. Leave message for Jean McKinney, 2-1017. LOST: Set of keys, 4 keys and a min- iature license plate. Call 2-4401. Myron Marks. Room 307 Allen- Rumsey. WANTED LEICA telescopic lens and darkroom accessories wanted. Drop card Maurice Wing, Grass Lake, Mich. 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