EXAM SCHEDULE Y LwW41 D4naii4 CLOUDY WITH See Page 2 RAIN VOL. LVI, No. 43 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1946 PRICE FIVE CENTS Great Lakes Swimmers Surprise Michigan, 43-41, in Strong Finish; malt Ris Leads Bluejacket Victory (v, By CLARK BAKER Capturing only three firsts on the nine-event program, Michigan's 1young swimming team bowed to Great Lakes, 43-41 in a thrill-packed meet before 1,200 cheering spectators last night at the Sports Building pool. Not until the closing event of the evening, the 440-yard free-style relay, was the outcome certain as the lead passed back and forth five tines. Even then the sailors had less than two feet to spare. It took the visitors' star, Walt Ris, swimming his third 100-yard stint of the evening, Ground Broken For University Veterans' Clinic Psychiatric Center To Be Completed by Fall Ground has been broken for the new Veterans' Readjustment Center, to be built northeast of University Hospital. "Not a large proportion of the re- turning servicemen need help, but those that do need it badly," Dr. Raymond Waggoner, director of the Neuro-Psychiatric Institute declared. The new building will provide a place where veterans having difficulty in adjusting t6 civilian life can go for a two to six week period. A gym, lounge, hobby and craft equipment as well as the necessary psychiatric treatment facilities will be provided. The Office of Veterans Affairs has made plans for University supervision of the' Center, which will function through the Medical School and the hospital. Upon recommendation of Governor Kelly, the Office has set up ten psychiatric fellowships, the holders of which will assist in the work of the Centet, aided by an ade- quate staff of psychologists and so- cial workers. Dr. Moses M. Frolick of the Department of Psychiatry will be in charge. There are at present 14 psychiatric clinics in the state, the busiest of which are located in Detroit, Kala- mazoo and Ann Arbor. The Veter- ans' Clinic here has been functioning within the Neuro-Psychiatric Insti- tute since February, but will be trans- ferred to the new building when it is completed, probably in about six: months. Army Delays Troops' Return Lack of Replacements Is Reason for Move WASHINGTON, Jan. 4-(IP)-The army today slowed down the return of soldiers from overseas. The action may cause a delay up to three months in the homecoming of a soldier on foreign service eleigi- ble for discharge. The priority in whichrtroops will be returned, how- ever, is unchanged. Lt. Gen. Joseph Lawton Collins ex- plained that voluntary enlistments and the draft had failed to supply enough replacements. "Our overseas forces would be dan- gerously under-strength in occupy- ing hostile countries if all eligible men were to be returned before suf- ficient replacements had arrived," he told a news conference. Under the revised program, ap- proximately 1,553,000 men will be shipped home during the next six months, whereas three months would suffice were all available shipping used. The rate will be cut from the current 800,000 or more monthly to about 300,000 a month. Collins, Army Director of Informa- tion, said that in no case "should this delay any man in the theaters more than three months beyond the time he became eligible for discharge." Swing Concert Will Be Given Frank "Sugar Chile" Robinson, seven-year-old piano prodigy from Detroit, will be the feature attraction of the Swing Concert to be held from 3 to 5 p.m. and from 7 to 9 p.m. to- morrow in the Ann Arbor High School auditorium. Crowding three feet, the miniature virtuoso became quickly famous after crashing a contest for older musi- cians held in Detroit. He is now un- Aa inn- ararftyfhAf'CUm nf -nn - -to nip the Maize and Blue's Dick Weinberg by that margin in the fin- ale.. Young Mann Stars Michigan's Matt Mann I was the meet's high scorer with a pair of firsts but Ris was the shining star of the night. Three times his amazing closing 25-yard spurts ate up enough distance to bring the Sailors home a trio of firsts and 19 valuable points. Individually Ris scored only five points in winning the 100-yard free- style by less than a yard from Char- ley Fries, but his other pair of efforts won both the 300-yard medley and 400-yard free-style relays for the in- vaders. Each time he came from be- hind in the last 25 yards to register wins. Mann looked good in taking the 220- and 440-yard free-style events to add 10 points to the Michigan totals. Both times he won handily over Sailor Tommy Gastineau with Wolverines Chuck Moss in the .220 and Neville Adams in the 440 garn- ering thirds. Divers Look Good The other Maize and Blue first came in the low-board diving where Alex Canja and teammate Gil Evans finished one-two over Great Lakes' Carl Quaintance. Another Wolverine, Ralph Trimborn, also topped Quain- tance but was entered unofficially. The diving event proved one of the evening's brightest spots for Michi- gan fans. It was an ex-Wolverine, Dobby Bur- ton, also coach of the winners, who aided materially in the defeat of his former teammates. Burton nipped See NAVY, Page 3 ANCHORS AWAY: T' Sailors Will Combine Fun, Music in Show "Anchors Away" not "Aweigh," starring V-12 students Bill Goldstein, John Rogers, Bob Shafer and Chrys Chrys, will be presented at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Hill Auditorium. A musical comedy, written by mem- bers of the Naval Unit on campus, the plot concerns the trials and tribula- tions of a sailor who is expecting dis- charge from the Navy. He gets the desired release, but in the three scenes of the musical, encounters 12 blondes, three redheads who are Mar- ilyn Watts, Joan Ling and Doris Klee, a vision from the spirit world, a ma- gician, professional dancers, the Navy Dance Band and the Navy Chorus. Scene 1 takes place in a train car- rying three sailors to the east coast for discharge. Succeeding scenes concern the experiences of the sailor and his buddies in New York's Cen- tral Park and in a Gotham night spot where Goldstein is emcee. En- tertainers provide the program for both the stage audience and the stu- dent audience. Shafer is producing the show, and Carl Hemmer is director. George Hawkins, head of the Navy Dance Band, has charge of music, and Lyle Schrum heads the ticket committee. Tickets for the show are 50 cents and will be on sale daily in the Un- ion and the League. News of The Nation.. Assails President.. . WASHINGTON, Jan. 4-(P)-Sen- ator Taft (R-Ohio) termed some of President Truman's legislative pro- gram "Communist" and "left wing" tonight and said "Congress ought to get credit for a little delay." 'That was part of his answer to the President's bid last night for more action and less talk in Congress on measures Mr. Truman recommended. "To summarize" he said, "the Tru- man program has been delayed be- cause it is superficial and ill-consid- ered, because it is a CIO-PAC pro- gram and not a Democratic program, because it adopts a philosophy with which the people do not agree." 10 1.'. Navy'sEvidence .. . WASHINGTON, Jan. 4-(P)- The Pearl Harbor committee heard today that the Navy did scout for Japanese attackers on the day they came-but in the wrong direction. It also received a claim that a Naval officer predicted the sur- prise blow in detail months before it fell. A long-secret report from the 1941 Secretary of the Navy, Frank Knox, to President Roosevelt sup- plied the first information the Senate-House investigating com- mittee has had that there was air reconnaissance the morning the Japanese struck, Dec. 7, 1941. Strife Disorders . , NEW YORK, Jan. 4-(P)-Disor- ders resulting 'in injury to four per- sons and arrest of several others to- day at two New Jersey plants of the Western Electric Company marked the second day of a two-state strike by 17,200 union employes. The walkout, begun yesterday by the Independent Western Electric employes association to back de- mands for a 30 per cent wage in- crease, halted manufacture of tele- phone equipment at 21 Western Elec- tric plants in New York and New Jersey. A new effort to settle the strike was made today by U. S. Conciliation Service Commissioner Jacob R. Man- delbaum, who was allowed through the picket lines to see Frank J. Ham- mel, industrial relations director. GM Called Evasive . DETROIT, Jan. 4-()-The CIO United Auto Workers charged to- night that General Motors Corp. planned a post-war 40-hour work week, but later, decided to press for a 45-hour week as a means of evad- ing union wage increase demands. Victor Reuther, director of the UAW-CIO's full employment division and brother of Vice-President Walter P. Reuther, said the company's pro- posal for an extended work week was "a means of evading the demands of its employes for a 30 per cent wage increase." Six weeks later, Victor Reuther as- serted, GM President C. E. Wilson proposed the longer work week as a solution to the union's demand for maintenance of war-time take-home pay. "The corporation's action is purely and simply a trick maneuver to evade fair a'nd serious consideration of the legitimate demands of its employes," Reuther added. Regents AllocateFundsfor illow Village; Approve New Four-Year MechanicalEngeerin ourse Social Director Will Be Employed for Veterans Board Accepts Gifts Totaling $165,255, OK's Research Contracts, Additions ' .2.:Employment of a social director for Veterans' recreation at Willow Village was approved yesterday by the Board of Regents. A sum of $2,000 for this purpose and for other expenses i reopenig Community House at Willow Village was allocated by the Regents at a monthly meeting here. Approximately 140 veterans and their wives are now living at the Village, and the number is expected to increase to 500 couples by March. .2. Approved also by the Regents yesterday, a new four-year curriculum -:2.:.::.:: ., in mechanical and industrial engineering will be offered in the spring .term in the College of Engineering. The new curriculum, replacing the present five-year program, leads to a dergee of Bachelor of Science > in Engineering (Industrial-Mechanical). S*...} Other action taken by the Regents included acceptance of gifts of ..money totaling $165,255.99. Largest sum received was $75,000 from the Queens Jewels Are Accepted By University Necklace, Propeller Rare Books, Received YOUNGSTER AND MOTHER ADVERTISE NEED FOR HOME - Car- rying a sign reading="I'm. no GI, but gee I need a home," five-year old Karl Wollfenden pedaled his tricycle around city hall in Detroit, as the City Council discussed Detroit's severe housing situation. Mrs. Mary Wollfenden, his mother, explained that she had been ordered to leave their rented home by Jan. 31 and had no place to go. Yam1agiwa Describes Effect Of Allied Air Attack on Japan (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first of two interviews with Dr. Joseph K. Yamagiwa of the Japanse language department who has just returned from an eight- week leave of absence in Japan where he served as a member of the U. S. 'Govern- ment agency.) Describing the physical results of the Allied bombing of Japan as "dev- astating," Dr. Joseph K. Yamagiwa, Educational Director of the Army In- tensive Language Training program here, who has just returned from an eight-week trip to Japan, said yes- terday that the urban population is hardest hit, by the near-total de- struction of housing and the break- down of transportation of food into the cities. Mrs. RobeSon Will Lecture Mrs. Paul Robeson, substituting for Richard Wright whose illness has made it necessary for him to cancel his lecture tour, will deliver the fifth Oratorical Association lecture Wed- nesday, Jan. 16, in Hill Auditorium. Wife of the internationally famous actor and concert singer, Mrs. Robe- son is a well known author and lec- turer on race relations. She recently appeared in the New York Town Hall series. Mrs. Robeson's subject will be "The Negro and the Pattern of World Af- fairs." Dr. Yamagiwa was in Tokyo at the Government agency's headquarters, except for six trips within a 100 mile radius around the city. Wooden Buildings Destroyed Except for spots missed by accident, everything wooden in Tokyo was con- sumed by fire-bombs, he stated. Pic- tures showing buildings still standing are deceptive; in many cases, close investigation shows empty hulks with no floors or furniture of any kind. Many of those buildings which sur- vived are now used by the Army of Occupation for billeting and as of- fices for the administration. Ceiling Prices Violated Estimating the difference in the price of certain rationed and black market foods as 60 times, or 6,000 per cent, Dr. Yamagiwa said that be- cause of the difficulties in transport- ing food to the cities, the Government must combat two tendencies. "First, there is the reluctance of producers to sell at ceiling price; second, hoard- ing (almost impossible to estimate accurately) results in starvation side by side with luxury dinners enjoyed by the well-to-do from their hoard- ed supplies." In the country, farmers and fisher- men are doing "very well," Prof. Yam- agiwa stated. People in urban Tokyo habitually go out to buy from the farmers once or twice a week. "Every night the trolley cars in Tokyo are crowded with people laden with food, fruit, and fish which they have brought back from the country, be- cause of the uncertainty of regular food markets." The oft repeated "Let them eat cake" was recalled yesterday as the University Board ofsRegents ac- cepted a Russian amethyst, emerald, and pearl enameled necklace, which once belonged to Marie Antoinette. The necklace] presented by Miss Isabelle Stearns, Worcester, N. Y., in memory of her brother, Chilton Rupert Stearns, '97, was purchased in Nice, France, about 1903. Among several other gifts not in the form of money were a large col- lection of about 50 meteorites, in- cluding a number of exhibition speci- mens, valued at approximately $5,- 213.24. Everett D. Graff, Chicago, presented a copy of the Narrative of the Adventures of Zenas Leonard, value estimated at $2,250, and rare western Americans, valued at $1,305, for the Clements Library. Other gifts included a Denver Lab- oratory Flotation Machine for the use of the Department of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering and, from the King-Seeley Corporation, Ann Arbor, one inclined typeDMano- meter, for the use of the Depart- ment of Mechanical Engineering. Also presented were 311 photo- graphs of Modern Argentine Painting and Sculpture for the Institute of Fine Arts, three framed photographs of Avery Hopwood for the Hopwood Room, and a cavalry saber for the armor collection in the Museum of Art and Archaeology from Miss Eu- nice-Wead, Ann Arbor. The Propeller Division of the Cur- tiss-Wright Corporation, Caldwell, N. J., presented a _Curtiss C-53158 propeller suitable for demonstration purposes and the necessary mechan- ism and equipment to mount and demonstrate the propeller. Union Offers Plant A solution suggested by UAW-CIO Local 38 concerning the seven-week old Hoover Ball and Bearing Co. strike was announced last night, ac- cording to J. Clisham, chairman of the group. 4Jessie G. M. Clapp Trust, Cleveland, 0. Th money will be used to set up a fund in memory of the late James B. Angell, president of the University from 1871 to 1909. Also accepted were $1,000 from Dean Joseph A. Bursley, for the Marguerite Knowlton B u r s l e y Scholarship fund; $3,000 from the Galens Honorary Medical Society for the Galens Loan and Scholar- ship funds; and $134.07 from the Class of 1945 Senior Ball Fund for purchase of radio equipment for student patients at the Health Service. Dr. George Kiss, in the Depart- ment of Geography of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, from the rank of instructor to as- tant professor, to be effective July 1, 1946. Dr. Albert H. Marckwardt, in the Department of English of the Col- lege of Literature, Science, and the Arts, from associate professor to professor, to be effective for 1946-47 academic year. Dr. H. R. Crane, in the Department of Physics of the College of Litera- ture, Science, and the Arts, from as- sociate professor to professor, to be effective for Fall Term 1946-47. Dr. Wilfred T. Dempter, in the Medical School, from instructor to assistant professor of anatomy, ef- fective at once. Dr. Moses M. Frohlich, in the Med- ical School, from instructor to as- sistant professor of psychiatry. Dr. Frohlich has been in the Army since June, 1941, as psychiatrist with Uni- versity of Michigan Hospital Unit where he had rank of Lieutenant colonel. Dr. Alexander Barry, of the De- partment of Anatomy in the Medi- cal School, from instructor to As- sistant Professor. Dr. Barry re- turned to the Department of Anat- omy following service in the U. S. Army Air Forces where he was a captain. Miss Grace E. Potter, assistant editor of scholarly publications, to associate editor of scholarly publi- cations, effective January 4, 1945. Miss' Potter has been in the waves for the past three years with the rank of lieutenant. (jg.) Dr. John B. Barnwell, associate professor of internal medicine was granted a leave of absence for six months to direct tuberculosis work for the Veterans Administration. Dr. C. Robert Plank, resident in the De- partment of Roentgenology, also re- ceived a leave of absence. He went on active duty in the Army on Dec. 1, 1945. Approval of the following appoint- ments to committees and boards was given yesterday by the Board: Prof. Glenn McGeoch to mem- bership on the Executive Commit- tee of the School of Music for four- year term starting Jan. 1, 1946, succeeding Associate. Professor Maude Okkelberg. Dr. Howard B. Lewis as member of the Executive Committee of the Medical School for a three-year term, Sept. 1, 1945 to August 31, 1948, succeeding Dr. Robert Gesell. James R. Breakey, Jr., to Board of Directors of the University Musical Society, to fill the unexpired term of office of the late Horace G. Pretty- PARLEZ-VOUS FRANCAIS, MADEMOISELLE? Prof. Pargment Stresses Need for Language Study L By LYNN SHAPIRO (EDITOR'S NOTE: The following article was written to acquaint students and faculty members with the reasons for requiring language study in college. Other faculty members are invited to submit articles explaining other proposed changes in the curriculum.) Stressing the importance of language study in the modern world, Prof. Michael S. Pargment of the Romance Language department advocated that all college students be required to study a foreign language for at least two years and pointed out that the United States lags behind the other na- tions of the world in this field. He cited as reasons the value of foreign language in exercising memory discussion of the. need for foreign language requirements. The text of his statement follows: Q. How does the U. S. stand in regard to proficiency in foreign languages? A. I am glad that I do not have to answer this question myself. A quo- tation from a letter written by a dis- tinguished American writer, Pearl S. Retill mrnm.i rip f-lp n-r.. was being said in the enemy lan- guages on the air and on the printed page, we had actually so few persons who could under- stand anything except English that we were really endangered by our ignorance. In the same way when we wanted to spread among other peoples, both enemy and ally, what we felt should be 1- - c --n ah lf ho v r aA K Q. To what is this deficiency due? A. It is due mainly, if not entirely, to the disesteem in which foreign languages have been held by a large proportion of those who are shaping the destinies of our schools, which has resulted in the following two de- termining factors: 1) A very large number of our foreign language