FACULTY BASEBALL See Page2 Oill L4W-w rgan zaii49 CLOUDY, COOLER VOL. LVI, No. 162 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1946 PRICE FIVE CENTS $5,200 Awarded to Hopwood Winners Police Chief Will Attempt Self Defense Charged With Aiding Gamblers Sherman H. Mortenson, suspended Ann Arbor police chief, said yester- day he would file a petition for a hearing before the Board of Police Commissioners to defend himself on charges of collaborating with local gamblers and accepting protection money. Mortenson and Detective Lieut. Eugene J. Gehringer were suspended late yesterday as a result of find- ings filed with the commission by Circuit Judge James R. Breakey, Jr., who has been conducting a one man grand jury investigation of an alleged two million dollar gambling racket in Washtenaw County. The grand jury findings, disclosed by Joseph C. Hooper, local attorney and police commission chairman, charged Mortenson and Gehringer with the following alleged offenses: 1. That they accepted protection money. 2. That they knowingly allowed horse race bookies, numbers rackets, and professionally operated card games to operate. 3. That they discouraged appre- hension of gambling violators and refrained from taking action. 4. That funds from an alleged bookie located in a United Cigar store operated by Wilson Haight and Vernon Maulbetsch were deposited in the police department safe over- night for safekeeping. Hooper, after conferring with Prof. Orlando W. Stephenson of the history department and Herbert Frisinger, other members of the commission, named Capt. Caspar Enkemann to be acting police chief and Sgt. Albert Heusel to be acting chief of the de- tective bureau pending an investi- gation by the commission. Honor Society To Conduct Vet Tutorin gin Fall Members of Tau Beta Pi, engineer- ing honor society, will conduct a comprehensive free tutoring program for the benefit of returning veterans next fall. Society members will offer tutoring service covering most of the basic courses of the first two or three years of the engineering curriculum. In general the students will teach the courses of the department in which they are specializing. Small Classes The tutoring will be in the form of small informal classes of ten or twelve veterans. Although plans have not yet been completed, the classes will probably be held in West Engi- neering. Richard Broadman, president of Tau Beta Pi, estimates that each of the 30 men in the society will devote about two hours a week to the pro- gram. On the basis of classes of ten students this would mean a total of 600 man-hours of tutoring each week. Free Assistance The program will provide an op- portunity for returning veterans in the College of Engineering, whose technical backgrounds may have been dimmed by long absence from school, to receive free assistance in those courses in which they encounter dif- ficulty. Veterans interested in the program will be asked to sign up for the tutor- ing service the second week of the fall term. Continuation of the pro- gram in the future will depend upon the response received in the fall. Textbooks for Vets Will Be Collected Textbooks to be loaned to veterans unable to procure them at bookstores in future terms will be accepted at the Textbook Lending Library,. 1223 An- gell Hall, through June 19. In case the books are not required by veterans, they will be loaned to students who are in need of help and who have been recommended by an academic counselor or a mentor. Af- ter June 19, the books may be left -4 +"r - ,hrrorlacl o fa rtpnpa 640 LSA Students Are Scheduled to Graduate Other Colleges Have 664 Tentatively Listed To Receive Diplomas June 22 A total of 640 students are ten- tatively listed for graduation from the literary college at commencement exercises to be held at 6 p.m. June 22 in Ferry Field. Speaker at the graduation cere- monies will be Clinton P. Anderson, Secretary of Agriculture. The list of graduates will not be final until all grades are in. Other tentative graduation lists are: Col- lege of Engineering, 127; School of Public Health, 84; School of Business Administration, 79; School of Edu- cation,64; School of Music,58; School Today is the last daysthat or- ders for caps and gowns can be placed at Moe's Sport Shop. They may be picked up the week of graduation and must be returned to the store immediately following the graduation exercises June 22. of Dentistry, 48; School of Forestry, 35; Law School, 35; College of Archi- tecture and Design, 19; and School of Pharmacy, 5. Students receiving degrees in the commencement exercises will assem- ble for the graduation procession at 4:45 p.m. in front of the General Li- brary. The University Marching Band, in accordance with tradition, will precede the honor section and she graduating seniors in the pro- cession to Ferry Field. In the event of rain, a siren will be NROTC Plans Peacetime Unit Of 300 Men Present fall plans of the NROTC provide for a 300 man peacetime unit at the University, with 125 of the men already enrolled continuing in the program, Captain Woodson V. M!ichaux, commanding officer of the Unit here, has announced. If legislation for the Holloway Plan is passed by Congress, the govern- ment will pay tuition, $50 per month and uniforms for those who fulfill the requisite academic and physical standards for entering the program. Students will be responsible for their own room and board, and will have the privileges of civilians, wearing uniforms only on drills and summer cruises and attending the college of their choice if admitted to it. Upon successful completion of their training, members of this peacetime unit will receive Ensign's commis- sions in the Regular Navy and will be required to serve at least 15 months of active duty. However, if this proposal is not passed, the pre-war NROTC program will go into effect, permitting current trainees to complete their college on a civilian basis if they wish. Enroll- ment in this program will entitle students to uniforms and remunera- tion of sixty-five cents per day dur- ing their junior and senior years. * * * Guns To Boom At 'Open House NROTC To Feature Realistic Reunion Fun Would you like to shoot a machine gun amidst all the noises of battle without taking the drastic step of joining the Army or Navy? You'll have an opportunity to do so when the University NROTC Unit holds open house as a part of the Alumni Victory Reunion from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, June 21, at North Hall. The guns in question are 20 and 40 millimeter ones, gunnery trainers used to teach the men firing machine guns on ships the use of sights in tracking planes. Four projectors flash on the screen films of Japanese dive bombers and torpedo planes at- tacking a ship from different angles, simulating actual battle conditions of a Kamakaze attack. The machine gunner fires on the planes as they dive, learning how far ahead of them he must aim to hit Baker Receives $1,000 Top Prize Poetry Manuscript Gets Highest Prize; Eleven Writers Place In Annual Contest Prizes amounting to $5.200 were awarded to 11 contestants for the 16th annual Avery and Jule Hopwood Awards in creative writing, following the Hopwood Presentation Lecture by Harlan Hatcher, dean of the literary college of Ohio State University, yesterday. Disclosure of the awards was made by Prof. Roy W. Cowden, director of the Hopwood Committee. No Minor Poetry Awards Top winner was James V. Baker, of Provis, Batcombe, near Bath, Eng- land, who received $1,000 as the major contest award in poetry for his man- uscript "Music in the Eye." No minor awards were made in poetry. Judges for the poetry division of the awards* blown from 4:45 to 4:55 p.m. and graduates will proceed directly to the south entrance of Yost Field House. Psuedo diplomas will be handed out at the commencement exercises. Di- plomas will be mailed to the address given on the diploma application card after the degrees have received final approval from the Board of Regents. Victory Reunion Dinner Sold Out To 550 Alumni Attendance Expected To Set New Record Reservations for the Victory Re- union Dinner June 20 have reached the 550 mark and are sold out, T. Hawley Tapping, general secretary of the Alumni Association announced yesterday. Between six and eight thousand graduates from at least 120 classes are expected to attend the Reunion, the largest in University history. Alumni To Be Speakers The dinner, opening event of the three-day reunion, will feature as guest speakers University alumni William H. Stoneman, Col. Joseph Darnall, Margaret Ann Ayres, and Walter G. Kirkbridge. A foreign correspondent of the Chi-_ cago Daily News, Stoneman is now working with the secretary-general of the United Nations. Col. Darnall of the Medical Corps is commanding officer of the Fort Belvoir, Va., Sta- tion hospital. A native of Detroit, Miss Ayres served 15 months overseas with the American Red Cross, and Kirkbridge, a resident of Toledo. Ohio, is presi- dent of the National Alumni Associ- ation. Memorial Service Highlighting the second day of the Reunion are a memorial service for the University war-dead, the alumnae luncheon and a Victory Reunion Dance. Individual school and college break- fasts, the annual varsity "M" Golf tournament and alumni luncheons on the third day will be climaxed by early evening graduation exercises in Ferry Field. Correspondent To Lecture Sigrid Arne, Associated Press cor respondent will address the Alumnae luncheon June 21. As a roving re- porter, she has handled such varied assignments as the United Nations conferences, national political con- ventions, and an analysis of the Soc- ial Security Act. In 1929, ten years before John Steinbeck wrote his Pul- itizer Prize winning novel, "Grapes of Wrath", Miss Arne wrote a series of 14 stories about the Okies and their grim predicament Mrs. Arthur Vandenberg, who was to have been one of the speakers at the Alumnae luncheon, will be un- able to attend since she is returning to Paris with Senator Vandenberg. Posthumous degrees will be awarded to 20 former students killed in action, at the memorial rites at 11 a.m. June 21. These are the first such degrees to be conferred by the University since 1918. Sponsored by the 1931 engineering class, the Victory Reunion dance will be held from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. at Barton Hills Country Club. This is the last Daily of the spring semester. Publication will be resumed July 2. ENGLAND ATTACKS HOUSING SHORTAGE-Workmen place a sec- tion of a pre-fabricated aluminum bungalow on a building plot in Man- chester, England. Delivered in four sections, the bungalows are as- sembled in 12 hours. CASE LABOR BILL: House Upholds Truman Veto, Backers Plan Revival at Once v WASHINGTON, June 11-UP-A tu- multous House today upheld Presi- dent Truman's veto of the Case labor bill by the hairline margin of five votes-and its backers immediately planned a drive to revive the measure. Amid boos and cheers, 225 legis- Nussbaumer Signs $15,000 Pro Contract By WALT KLEE Spurning the offers of seven other Major League clubs, Bob Nussbaumer, Michigan's centerfielder and leading batter, yesterday received $15,000, the second largest bonus ever paid a Wol- verine athlete as he signed a con- tract with the Philadelphia Phillies. Scout Eddie Krajnik who signed the Maize and Blue athlete said that Nussbaumer would be assigned to the Utica farm in the Eastern League where he will join Ohio State's Don Grate who was signed by the Phillies last year. In choosing the lowly Phillies over the two Chicago and New York teams, Detroit. Cleveland, and Pittsburgh the ex-Michigan centerfielder said, "I feel that the Phillies will give me more of a chance than some of the better known clubs, and maybe they will go somewhere under their new management." Nussbaumer's bonus was second to the $52,000 paid to Dick Wake- field when he affixed his signature to a Detroit Tiger contract in 1941 and double the $7,500 paid to Don Lund last year when he signed with the Dodgers. The centerfielder batted a neat .371 in his last season for the Wol- verines, lead the team in number of hits, 30 for 21 games, and hit seven triples to lead the team in that de- partment. Nussbaumer bats and throws right handed and has one of the finest arms in college baseball today. De- fensively he is a much better ball player than Wakefield when the former Mighigan athlete signed his contract with the Tigers. He has excellent judgement on fly balls and one of the finest arms on the Michi- gan team. Nine stolen bases have been chalk- ed up to the speedy outfielder whose speed also serves him well when pull- See NUSSBAUMER, Page 3 lators voted to over-ride the veto and 135 to sustain. Since a two-thirds vote was necessary to override, the measure died for the time being. Supporters To Try Again But undeterred supporters made plain that they were bent on passing its major provisions anew-perhaps in the form of an amendment to Mr. Truman's own strike -control legisla- tion. This would force him to accept the Case program or forego his own bill. The fact that the Case bill back- ers obtained a good majority on to- day's vote helped fuel the new drive. The dramatic vote was completed within 30 minutes after the clerks finished reading the President's 4,- 500 word veto message to the jam- packed chamber. Mr. Truman based his veto on the argument that the permanent, long- range bill would breed rather than curb labor strife and would force men to work for private employers in peacetime. Case Bill Provisions The Case bill would have: created a Federal mediation board, restricted strikes and lockouts while the board was functioning; prohibited secon- dary boycotts, and permitted court suits against employers or labor or- ganizations violating contracts. There was talk among its suppor- ters of trying to revive it and tack it onto temporary, emergency legis- lation asked by President Truman. In the form it passed the House, the latter measure would permit the President to draft men who struck in industries seized by the govern- ment, but the Senate struck this pro- vision out. . Senator Byrd (Dem., Va.) called a number of Senate and House backers of the Case measure into a strategy conference late today, and it was said the informal understanding was to await public reaction. Professors Elected To School Board Prof. Merwin H. Waterman of the School of Business Administration and Raymond K. Klaasen were re- elected Monday to the Ann Arbor Board of Education and Prof. Robert S. Ford of the economics department and Director of the Bureau of Gov- ernment was chosen as a new mem- ber of the board. Their three-year terms will begin in July. were: Louise Bogan, of the chair of poetry of the Library of Congress; Horace Gregory, poet and critic; and David McCord, poet and teacher. Four major awards were made in the fiction division of the contest. Winners of $800 each were two grad- uate students: Clara M. Laidlow, 1309 Washtenaw, Ann Arbor, for "The House of Atreus," and Josephine Eck- ert, Ottawa, Ohio, for "The Prac- ticing of Christopher." Miss Laidlow previously won summer Hopwood Awards in 1942 and 1943. Miss Eck- ert won a prize in poetry the sum- mer of 1944. Other Major Winners Other major winners, each receiv- ing $500, were Russell M. La Due, Jr., a senior, Sioux City, Iowa, for "No More With Me" and Mrs. Kathleen Hughes Thumin, senior, 9922 Iris, De- troit, for "The Grass Divides." La Due won a minor fiction award in 1944 and Mrs. Thumin won summer prizes in 1944 and 1945. Minor contest winners in fiction, each receiving $100, were: Mrs. Mary V. H. Echols, senior, Willow Village, for "The Glass Pistol and Other Stories;" John A. Ingwerson, junior, Middletown, Ohio, for "Short Stor- ies;" James F. Land, senior, Bay City, Mich., "The Greek Boy"; and Eugene L. Van Buren, sophomore, 19460 Cumberland Way, Detroit, for "The House in Oak Park." Judges in the fiction division were: Whit Burnett, editor of "Story" mag- azine; Lewis Gannett, of the New York Herald-Tribune, and Mildred Walker, 1933 Hopwood winner and author of six novels including "Win- ter Wheat," a Literary Guild selec- tion. Major Drama Awards Two major drama awards were giv- yn in the drama division, with John A. Merewether, graduate, 1032 Vau- ghn, Ann Arbor, receiving $700 for "They Cut You Down Alone" and Shirley Robin, graduate, New York City, receiving $500 for "Fruit of Great Renown." Merewether won a minor award in poetry in 1945 and Miss Robin a minor fiction award in 1944. Judges in the drama division were Alfred Kreymbourg, poet and drama- tist; Percival Wilde, playwright; and Stark Young, of "The New Repub- lic." No awards were made in the essay contest. SBetter Late Than Never? 'Ensian will be even later this year. Because of additional delays at the printer, the 1946 yearbook will not arrive June 21 as previously an- nounced, Norma Johnson, 'Ensian business manager, said yesterday. Graduating seniors and other stu- dents who will not return in the fall are requested to leave their mailing addresses at the 'Ensian business of- fice in the Student Publications Building. There will be "positively no mail distribution" of 'Ensians to students who will be on campus during the summer session or the fall semester, Miss Johnson said. Hatcher Sees Rediscovery Of America Cultural Heritage Is Present in Every Art The spirit of rediscovery of the homeland which was obscured earlier in our history, has risen to almost symphonic proportions, Harlan Hat- cher, dean of the literary college of Ohio State University, said in giving the annual Hopwood Awards Pre- sentation Lecture yesterday. In speaking of the American cul- tural heritage, Dean Hatcher said that the culture of the time is pre- sent in every work of art; that it determines what the artist sees, what he considers important and the man- ner in which he presents his impres- signs. Until 1900, no European would have thought of reading an American book, he said. Henry James did not reveal Amercan -culture but it wa with the advent of Thoreau, Twain and Whitman that the rest of the world became conscious of American literary works. The American people began to grow interested in their own culture around 1930 when the historical novel de- veloped such a wide market lhe stated. And during World War II when so many refugees came to this country the people began to realize that America possessed a fundamen- tal strength, not merely the crude small-town culture of Sinclair Lew- is' novels. "Louis Bromfield's 'Plea- sant Valley' has supplanted 'Main Street',". he said, in that the life of the small farm and of good citizen- ship are now becoming recognized for their own merit. No Transport Problem for Ingenious Soph Robert Brown, University sopho- more enrolled in the engineering school, has his own method of lick- ing post-semester travel problems. He's going home to Rochester, N.Y., 388 miles from Ann Arbor on his motorbike which has performed per- fectly for 1,300 miles without costing him a cent for repair. The 21-year-old veteran of two years' Army service said that the bike "would probably average 110 miles to the gallon." "I hope to make it home on four gallons of gas at a total cost of $.80," he declared. "The bike averages 33 to 35 miles per hour, although it's capable of hitting speeds up to 47 mph." He'll leave Ann Arbor next Wed- nesday, travel through Canada, stop- ping off only at St. Thomas, Ont. Brown expects to be home early Thursday afternoon. The bike, for which he paid $144, is practically foolproof, but he will carry spare parts for use in the event of technical trouble. Although the bike is capable of carrying one passengerbesides the driver, he said he would not lower the welcome mat to hitch-hikers along the road. Senate Confirms Snyder STRUTHERS ON DELINQUENCY: Juvenile Detention Reform Program Is Offered Special To The Daily YPSILANTI, June 11-A three- point program of juvenile detention which would largely dispense with the Washtenaw County Juvenile Detention Home was outlined to- drit, v b nh' .T N. P N.iuitbpr. d,-_rer- 1. A number of county-subsi- dized foster homes be developed to supervise and care for children during the period of fact-finding and diagnosis of the causes of de- linquent behavior. 7 Iin tn< sr Y -c n rn t 7 Juvenile delinquency is "usually an outburst against the society to which the child has failed to ad- just," Dr. Struthers said-and add- ed: "Repressive measures don't help. You can be firm but also Dr. Struthers laid the blame for existing juvenile conditions "not on poor parents alone but also on inadequate understanding and use of resources by the community."