s ~T1E !MIUT1T AN DA1LY L. 'b'+ + + '1 11 "-.r. 111 1 t.e 11 .l. _+' / Tumin To Speak To Joint Group At Owen. Co-op FUTURAMA UNDERWAY: En gineering gResearch Stri es To Buildi Belier World to L ,'e ASSOCIATED PRESS PucTURE NEWS Educator To Discuss Inter-racial Problemsf Dr. Melvin Tumin, of the Wayne University Department of Sociologyt and advisor to the Wayne chapter oft the National Association for the Ad- vancement of Colored People, will address a joint meeting of IRA and the Wayne NAACP at 9 p.m. Friday at Robert Owen Cooperative house. A dinner will be given by IRA mem- bers for the Detroit group, preceding Dr. Tumin's talk. A discussion of the aims, accomplishments and mutual problems facing both organizations will also be featured at the meeting. An attempt will be made to find a way in which the two inter-racial or- ganizations can work together on various issues. The two groups will also discuss ways in which conferences of the in- ter-racial associations in the Big Ten schools can get together on a similar scale to discuss their problems. Final arrangements for the dinner will be made at a business meeting of IRA which will be held at 8 p.m. to- day in the Union, following a meet- ing of the executive council at 7:15. Students who wish to make reserva- tions for.the dinner may do so .at to- day's meeting, when plans will also be made for a Campus Brotherhood Week to be held some time in May. All students are invited to hear Dr. Tumin's speech and to participate in the general discussion, according to Sheldon Selesnick, IRA president. The evening will be climaxed by a so- cial hour. Germany Gets Service Again Pre-War Mail Rules Renewed by Sullivan Immediate resumption of limited mail service to Germany, shut off since November of 1939, has been an- nounced by 'Acting Postmaster Gen- eral Gael Sullivan. Letters and unillustrated postcards weighing not more than one ounce will be accepted for delivery any- where in Germany- by all United States post offices. Rates will be the same as before the war, five cents for letters and three cents for cards. The order specified that communi- cations are restricted to those of a personal or family character. No communications of a financial, com- mercial or business character may be sent; and enclosures of checks, drafts, securities, or currency are prohibited. Envelopes must have no innerlin- ing. They .may carry no indication other than the address of the sender and the addressee and necessary pos- tal direction. Communications should bear the name of the addresses, street and house number, town, postal dis- trict number, province and zone of occupation. Bly CLAYTON DIC KEY The highways you drive on and thep airplanes you fly in now, the housee you will live in and the radio and tele- vision sets you will enjoy in the fu-c ture-these and countless other fea- tures of the modern world owe part. of their developmnt to the Univer - sity's Department of Engineering Re-t search. A little-publicized division of ther College of Engineering, the depart- ment aims at "a better world inr which to live, through research."' Established In 1920 The department was established in 1920 to aid small industries in Michi- gan. Through the years, it has risen to a position of prestige in the indus- trial world and now carries on re-c search projects far federal govern-t ment. agencies and industrial con- cerns throughout the country. I Prof. A. E. White, together with Dean Mortimer E. Cooley, founded the department and has been chair- man throughout its history.1 Spanish Club TO Give Plays April 16, 17 Tickets for the two one-act Span- ish plays, "Rosina es Fragl" and "Las Cordortuices," will go on sale at 2 p.m. Monday in the box office of the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. The plays, to be presented April 16 and 17 in the theater, will star Anne Sugar '48, Ann Lewin '48, Dick De- fendin, teaching fellow in the Ro- mance language department and Carlos Soares '47. "Las Codornices" involves a caseof mistaken identity. A suspicious aunt and a hen-pecked uncle cause a mis- erable day for a newly-married cou- ple. The theme of "Rosina es Fragil" is based upon Rosina's inability to say,"no" to a suitor. Music for the productions will be played by Helen Sloan. The committee for the plays are as follows: Publicity: Lynn Shapiro, chairman, Sally Anne Cartnell, Irene Clutter; Decorations: Prof. Vincent Scanio, director, Carol Fraser, Carol Lasser, Virginia Moore, Joyce Law- rence, Maxine Mintz, Carl Kaufman, George Chiames, Emil Kurtik, Don- ald F. Mela; Programs: Bunny Brett- schnieder, chairman, Chapin Barn- ard, Bernice Weiner, Joan Kleyen- berg, Clarice Tudheiser; Make-up: Moe Dix; Props: Barbara Davenport, Jane DeMaso, Harriet Wilson, Mary Christmas. Seven More Classes Will Attend Reunion Seven more classes have indicated they will participate in the Victory Reunion, raising to 85 the total num- ber responding to date. Further plans for the reunion, to be held June 20 through 22, will be made'tomorrow at a meeting of the General Committee on the Victory Reunion, During the war the engineering de- partment devoted its facilities almost entirely to research for the Army and Navy. Its most important wartime contribution was the sensational VT Fuze. Expenditures Enormous Expenditures for projects during the war years amounted to over a million dollars annually. T'oday tIhe department is engaged in more than a hundred projects---rang- ing from the use of steel in modern house construction to electronic re- search-which will eventually result in a higher standard of living. The department's relations with in- dustry and government pays divid- dends, its directors believe, by aiding members of the engineering faculty in keeping up to date on develop- ments in their particular fields, pro- viding paying jobs for engineering students and helping students to choose a line of engineering endeavor. Departments Numerous The project which Engineering Re- search undertakes are carried on in the following departments of the College of Engineering: Chemical and Metallurgical Engi- neering, Aeronautical Engineering, Metal Processing, Civil Engineering, Engineering Mechanics, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Marine Engineering. Also included in the Engineering Research program and the depart- ments of chemistry and physics in the literary college, the School of For- estry and Conservation and the Col- lege of Architecture and Design. Symposium Is Tomorrow A symposium on the natural re- sources of Michigan will be the topic of the Sigma Xi April meeting at 8 p.m. tomorrow in the Natural Sci- ence Auditorium. The program will include a dis- cussion of limestone by Prof. K. K. Landes of the geology department; oil and coal, Dr. George V. Cohee, U.S. Geological Survey; brine and salt, Prof. Chester B. Slawson of the mineralogy department; forests and timber, Prof. Leigh J. Young of the School of Forestry; and gravel and water, Prof. George M. Stanley of the geology department. The meeting will be open to the public. Housing Subsidy Upheld by Senate WASHINGTON, April 9-(A)-The Administration won a major round in the housing battle late today when the Senate voted, 53 to 20, to restore a $600,000,000 subsidy fund to the bill designed to provide 2,700,000 homes in the next two years. The house had knocked the sub- sidy out of the measure. Intended to encourage production of scarce build- ing materials, the provision is viewed by President Truman as the heart of the bill. O X Y G E N T E N T C I F T-Mayor William O'Dwyer (center) and Newbold Morris (left), chairman of the Greater New York Committee for Russian Relief, deliver to Capt. Boris Iirhasov, Soviet skipper. an oxygen tent for a Moscow hospital. 'FIVE - MONTH A IR VETERAN.--Johnny Stev- ens, five months old, who has, more than 50 hours aloft to his eredit, gets ready for another flight with his parents, Mr.,and Mrs. _Warren Stevens, at _ Phoenix, Ariz, V I SI T O R-Valerie Hobson' (above), British film actress soon to make .a film in' Hollywood" fondles a little pig. on a model farm near her country homein R U B B E R F I R E-huge columns of smoke rise from; fire which destroyed a million used timbs at Atlanta. Danage to a rubber firm and a cotton gin was estimated at $W0,000, DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN (Continued from page 4) Seminar in physical chemistry will meet on Thursday, April 11 in Room 410 Chemistry Building at 4:15 p.m. Miss Beth Cook will speak on "Reac- tivity and electronic structure of organo-silicon compounds." All in- terested are invited. Exhibitions Ancient Man in the Great Lakes Region." Rotunda, University Muse- um Building, through April 30. Events Today Radio Program: The University Broadcasting service and the School of Music present today over Station WKAR (870 kc.) another of its week- ly programs entitled "EPOCHS IN MUSIC" under the direction and su- pervision of Prof. Hanns Pick. Pian- ist Prof. Mabel Rhead and Mr. Theo- dore Heger, Instructor in the History of Music will conclude their lecture- recital on Muzio Clementi. Botanical Journal Club will meet today at 3:00 p.m. in Room N.S. 1139. Reports by: Travis E. Brooks, "Classi- fication of the Boletes," Bernice M. Tuggle, "Predaceous Fungi;" and Kieth Wagnon, "Root Rot Caused by Clitocybe Tabescens." Anyone inter- ested is invited to attend. A.S.MS.: The University group of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers is going on an inspection bers of the faculty art invited to at- tend. Romance Language Journal Club. There will be a special meeting of the Romance Language Journal Club on Thursday, April 11, at 4:15 p.m.i in the East Lecture Room, on mez- zanine floor of the Rackham Build- ing. Professor Paul Merrill Spurlin of the University of Alabama will speak on "Rousseau in America, 1760- 1809." Sigma Nu Fraternity wishes to contact all members of the fraternity at Michigan, regardless of previous chapter affiliations. Plans will be made this spring regarding the re- opening of the chapter house this summer and for next fall. The meet- ing will be at the Union at 7:30, tonight. Reception at Lane Hall today at 5:00 after Radhakishnan's lecture. Everyone is invited to attend. Meeting of ALPHA PHI OMEGA, the campus service friternity, to- night at 7:30 at the Michigan Union. Important business will be discussed so all members are urged to be pres- ent. Any man on campus who is in- terested in joining our organization is invited to attend. Phi Delta Kappa Coffee Hour at 4:15 today in Rackham West Con- ference Room. Will discuss the Na- tional Council. Coming Events The Enliih Journal Clnh will meet ham Assembly Hall on Thursday, April 11, from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. Tea at the International Center: The weekly informal teas at the In- ternational Center on Thursdays, from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m. are open to all foreign students and their Ameri- can friends. Professor Lawrence R. Blinks, Direc- tor of the Hopkins Marine Station, Pacific Grove, California, will show two reels of color films illustrating the marine invertebrates, chiefly tide- pool forms, of the Pacific Coast, 4:15 p.m. Thursday, April 11, in the Nat- ural Science Auditorium. The show- ing will take about 40 minutes. Facul- ty and students are invited. Admis- sion is free. Sigma Xi, April meeting. Thurs- day evening, April 11, in Natural Sci- ence Auditorium, beginning at 8:00 p.m. Program: "A Symposium on the Natural Resources of Michigan." Top- ics and speakers: Limestone, Prof. K. K. Landes, (Geology); Oil and Coal, Dr. George V. Cohee, (U.S. Geological Survey); Brine and Salt, Prof. Chester B. Slaw- son, (Mineralogy); Forests and Tim- ber, Prof. Leigh J. Young, (Forestry); Gravel and Water, Prof. George M. Stanley, (Geology). The public is invited. The Annual French Play: Le Cercle Francais will present "Les Femmes Savantes," a comedy in five acts and in verse by Moliere, Wednesday, May 1, at 8:30 p.m. in the Lydia Medels- sohn Theater. I N ACT I V E W A R S H I PS Two light cruisers, the USS Brooklyn (left) and the USS Phoenix (center), are moored at Philadelphia naval base, the first major combat ships preserved and assigned to the Navy's inactive Sixteenth fleet. At right is* DIMS Stockham, destroyer escort lend-leased to England. U. S submarines in foreground are ready for scrapping/ G E TS H AT B A C K - After three years in the Navy, Edwin Shultz of Evanston, Ill., reclaims the hat he left hanging in the Ranger Inn, Chicago, to await his return., Of the 400 hats left in the inn by Evanston and Chicago men and women entering the services, some_300 have been reclaimed by ex-GIs,_WAVES, WACs and nurses,', ,, x r ,+r ._ . ! 4r