DALY, 21, il)45,
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
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MANPOWER LAW:
La ConresfL elis
In Con ress Limehght
razilan Group
Arrives Here
Wednesday
Reveal Difficulties as
Methods of Teaching
ny ' ibe Associated Press
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20-The ad-
ministraion's deliand for a labor
draft law pushed everything else into
the congressional background this
week.
The house leadership showed a dis-
position to keep other major legis-
lation on the hook until the military
Hoffman Blocks
Proposed Draft
'No Nleed' for Nurse
Conscription, He Says
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.-(A)-"I,
for one," Representative Hoffman
(Rep., Mich.) said today, "will not
vote to conscript nurses or to put
men between 17 and 46 under the
control of the President. when I
know there is no need."
In a statement in which he said the
President was attempting to "frigh-
ten everybody," Hoffman said he
wouldn't be "scared into anything,"
and added:
"The sympathy, the determination
to alleviate suffering which is inher-
ent in every woman's heart, will in-
duce her to volunteer for nursing.
When they have volunteered, let the
President join us in giving them a
wage and a consideration comparable
to that given the President's political
pets in war factories.
"Also, so far as I have been able
to learn, there has been no actual
lack of manpower. The President
has tried to frighten people into be-
lieving that those fighting on the
battlefronts lack guns, ammunitionI
and other things."
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St bs
affairs committee completes work.
probably Monday, on some form of a
modified national service act intend-
ed to keep manpower at war plant
machines.
Spur Maipower Law.
President Roosevelt and the na-
tion's top military commanders put
the spur to manpower legislationj
during the week. re-emphasizing
Mr. Roosevelt's state of the union
message request for a national ser-
vice act. At week's end the com-
mittee went into executive session to
start its final revision of the meas-
ure. It came out Friday with the
first major change:
Instead of inducting into military
labor battalions those men who walk
out on essential war jobs, the com-
mittee substituted language which
would make them subject to five
years-in prison and fines up to $10,-
000. Chairman May (D.-Ky.) said
the same penalty will be put into the
bill for men 18 to 45 who refuse an
assignment to -an essential job. The
punishment is the same as that now
held by law over the heads of draft
dodgers.
The manpower bill held center
stage, but during the week the house
hurried to passage the first major
war bill of the new Congress---a
$1,500,000,000 authorization for Navyj
building. Two-thirds of the amount,
will go for the construction of ad-
vance bases in combat areas. '
House Expands NROTC
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DR. THOMAS PX1NRAN, SURGEON GENERAL of the U. S. Public
11halth Ser vice, (t) C and Col. Udo Wile, medical consultant who
visited the Michigan Rapid Treatment Ccnter here Friday inspect an
early 0ook on syphilis owned by the Clerents library.
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Editor's Note: This column was written for The Daily by Allan Albert, a
member of the Union Staff.
A party of Brazilian professors in
this country under the sponsorshipc
of the International Training Ad-t
ministration and sanctioned by thel
United States government, will visit7
the University on Wednesday with1
the purpose of seeing our methods of
teaching and the application of en-
gineering and science to industry.
Several Chrysler officials and J.
Silvado Bueno of the Inter-Am-j
erican Development Commission
will accompany them.;
A luncheon in honor of the visit- 1
ors will be held at 12:30 p. m. in the
Founders Room of the Union, as ar-
ranged by Prof. Alfred H. Lovell,
acting chairman of the Department
of Electrical Engineering.
A technical host for each visit-
ing professor will meet the party
at the office of Dean Ivan C.
Crawford of the College of Engi-
neering, so that they may visit
classes during the morning hours.
The six visiting professors from
the universities of Rio de Janeiro
and Sao Paulo are: Prof. Mauricio
Jappert da Silva, of ports, rivers
and canals; Prof. Ruy Mauricio de
Lima e Silva, of mineralogy and
geology; Prof. Alano Leon da Sil-
veira, of metallurgy; Prof. Paulo
Guimaraes da Fonseca, of industrial
chemistry; Prof. Homero Barbosa de
Assis Martins, of electrical tele-com-
munications; and Prof. Filinto An-
tonio Guerra, of inorganic chemistry.
BUY WA R BONDS
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Corscription
Crisis Arises
Reveal Diffisnities as
Canadians Go AWOL
By The Associated Press
OTTAWA, Jan. 20-A new crisis in
Canada' over conscription for over-
seas service arose today with official
disclosure that half of a group of
home defense troops-7,800 out of
15,600-had gone absent without
leave as they were about to be sent
abroad.
Defense minister A. G. L. Mc-
Naughton announced that although
1,500 men had since returned volun-
tarily or been apprehended, 6,300
were still AWOL. They will be clas-
sified as deserters if they do not re-
turn within 21 days, he said.
More than 8,300 of the drafted
home army have arrived in Britain
recently under the government's new
conscription policy, McNaughton an-
nounced, plus the "normal quota of
reinforcements," presumably men
from the regular home training
stream.
Hubert Liang -
To Be Center's
Guest Today
Hubert Liang, Chong King jour-
nalist and formerly Chinese corre-
spondent for the Detroit News, will
be a special guest at the Interna-
tional Center program at 7:30 p.m.
today in the Center.
One-time director of Chinese co-
operatives, Liang is in the United
States on an extended lecture tour.
He will speak informally on the
program.
Paul Lachance of Quebec, a stu-
dent in the forestry school, will lec-
ture on "Canada Today," following
the Center's presentation of the
March of Time film, "Canada."
The program is open to the public
and the lecture and movie will be
followed by a social hour, assistant
director of the Center, George Hall,
said.
All foreign students and their
American friends are urged to attend.
INVEST IN VICTORY
The House also passed a bill ex-
panding the Navy's reserve officers
training corps which eventually will
absorb the V-12 program for train-
ing war emergency officers.
Both bills await Senate approval.
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Sometime when you are enjoyingI
a swim in the Union pool, stop to no-
tice the large trophy which rests in
a glass case on the wall. Step up
and read the insignia "Perpetual
Trophy, Ten mile swim winners Do-
nated by Walter M. Noack, Inc.,
Detroit, Mich.", for in this case rests
another campus tradition, evidentlyI
closed for the duration.
The cup was donated by Walter
Noack, a Michigan alumni. Class of
1924, with the intention of further-
ing the sport of swimming among all
Michigan men. At its donation in
1927, the' announcement was made
that the first ten who completed ten
miles of swimming each semester
would get their name engraved on
the cup. The men would come down
for a swim and shower each day and
would swim as many laps of the pool
continuously as possible with a
minimum of ten laps each day go-
ing toward the count. Then, at the
end of their swim, they would reg-
ister their laps with the attendant,
who would keep accurate score for
all competing. Thus there was the
challenge of the "Triple T~en," ten
mhen swimming ten laps each day,
for a goal of ten miles of swimming.
The competition was very keen
those first few years. Then, evi-
dently, the Michigan natators paus-
B3UY W Af R ONDS
ed for their second wind and came up
with a mouthful of water, for the
number of men who wanted to try
for a place on the cup gradually
diminished each year. In all, some
250 names have been engraved in
that place of honor, with the last
recorded ones being in 1935.
Now, with' PFM classes, we don't
seem to have the urge to get in that
extra curricular swimming. But,I
really, the Union pool is a great ad-
vantage for campus men, as most ofj
the coeds, being without a pool, will
testify.
Recipes on Teea Towels
Yes, the directions on the way to cook
delicious beefsteak with mushrooms, and
baked ham are printed on these gay new
dish towels. Made to brighten winter
chores.
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