SIX TIE MIChIGAN DAIIY __________________________________________ U I - New Freighter 678 Feet Long Is Launched 'U' Facultymen Get Credit for Research LORAINE, 0., - (P) - A new queen of freshwater ships --678 feet long-was launched here yes- terday. In a matter of some 10 seconds the huge ore carrier, Wilfred Sykes rode sidewise down the timbers of the launching ways into the flood- ed rdydock of the American Ship- building Co. yards. * * * CREDIT for establishing the practicality of building a mam- moth ship such as the' Sykes- carrying 5,600 tons more than any other Great Lakes carrier afroat -goes to two University of Mich- igan professors. Prof. Louis A. Baier and Prof. Charles W. Spoon- er, Jr., provided data for the con- struction from tests run in the University's naval test tank. -The long hull thrust the waters upward in a great silver arc. She rocked backward, then pushed across the close-fitting drydock for a bump made gentle by the tug of restraining cables. "A very smooth launching," veteran shipbuilders said. NEARLY 2,000 invited guests were crammed into the shipyards. On the Black River bank opposite the drydock and from the upper floors of nearby buildings some 5000 other onlookers saw the big ship leave the seven-foot-high keel blocks where she has been under construction since last November. There were no speeches.-only the, "I christen thee, Wilfred Sykes," voiced by Mrs. Wilfred Sykes, the slender, black-gowned woman whose honor it was to spatter a beribboned champagne bottle against the streamlined hull. Wilfred Sykes is chairman of the Inland Steel Co. of Chicago, the firm for which the new queen of the Lakes will be hauling iron ore next season. TODAY THE shipyard's power- ful cranes will lower boilers and the 7,000 horsepower geared tur- bine drive into the hull. It will take about three months to pre- pare the vessel for her trial runs. The Sykes is the first new ore ore carrier on the threat Lakes since early World War IL Her length is 678 feet, beam of 70 feet and molded depth of 37 ft. The largest freighter now on the lakes are 640 feet long. Designed to carry 20,000 tons of the red dirt of the Mesabi ranges at a top speed of 16.5 miles an hour, she will be the fastest bulk cargo ship on the Lakes. Her con- struction cost is estimated unoffi- cially, at about$5,000,000. CYCLIST ENDS CROSS-COUNTRY RIDE-George F. French, III, 19 year old Princeton senior, holds up twin bottles of water after driving his bicycle into the Pacific Ocean at Santa Monica, Calif., to end a coast-to-coast bike ride that began at Asbury Park, N.J. One bottle contains Atlantic Ocean water and the other- newly-filled - Pacific water. BROAD INTERPRETATION : ,Student Drivers Confused By One Little Word --'ermit' Exploitation Causes Loss Of Resources Rosecrats Blames Epoch of Indifference Indifference to conservation has caused more deterioration of land and forests in the United States in 250 years than has been caused by several thousand years of land use in Europe. This charge was made by W. S. Rosecrans, vice-president of the United States Chamber of Com- merce,,who Monday night opened the Summer Session lecture series on "Natural Resources in World Affairs." * * * ROSECRANS, who is also chair- man of the California State Board of Forestry, spoke on the topic "Under All, the Land." * "Paralleling the exploitation of our forests and farm land came .the development of our minerals," 1z said. Again, the . "attitude of indifference to con- ,servation was apparent. Very few until recently could envision any scarcity of natural re-, sources." This "epoch of prodigality" is now at an end, the lecturer warned. * * * HE LISTED various natural re- source problems facing Americta now and in the future, including among them the problem of the 147,527,000 American people who will determine the solution of all our problems. Rosecrans will outline possible solutions to America's natural re- sources problems when he delivers the second of the series of public affairs lectures at 4:15 p.m. to- morrow in Rackham Amphi- theatre. Pratt Lecture Scheduled Today Prof. Edwin J. Pratt of the Uni- versity of Toronto will deliver a lecture on "Recent .Canadian Fic- tion and Poetry" at 7:30 p.m. to day in the Rackham Amphithea- tre. The lecture is the second in the summer series on Canadian- American relations. Prof. Pratt has been the lead- ing poet of Canada for the past two decades. Since 1923 he has published 15 volumes of verse. In recognition of his work as a poet and teacher, he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1930. In 1941 he was awarded the Lorne Pierce Gold Medal of the Royal Society. ASSOCIATED PUCTURE NEWS PRESS P R O T E C T I V E MA M M A -Susan, Australian swan, swims with cygnets, Wynken, Blinken and Nod, at Catalina Island.' M ! N I S T E R - P E R F 0 R M ER - The Rev. Johnstone. Beech (above) Episcopal rector, is newest clown in Gainesville., Texas, community circus which recently opened its,20th season.' By PAUL BRENTLINGER Differences of opinion over the meaning of the word "permit" in signs on restricted campus park- ing lots cause much confusion in the minds of student drivers, ac- cording to John P. Gwin of the Office of Student Affairs. It seems that parking lot signs inform drivers that parking is restrictedtothose holding "per- mits." This word "permits" refers to parking permits given to cer- tain faculty and staff members. * * * THE SIGNS, however, do not specify what sort of a permit they mean. Since the Office of Student Kerr Gets $5,000 Dr. Leonard A. Scheele, United States surgeon-general, announc- ed that Dr. Donald A. Kerr of the University's dental school has been granted $5,000 to be used for a year's dental research in cancer. The money, the top amount al- lowed for such grants, is part of the $81,439 allocated through the National Cancer Institute to 36 of the nation's 40 dental schools. Affairs issues driving "permits" to student drivers, the drivers have a tehdency to give the parking lot sign word "permit" a broad interpretation, thereby finding themselves faced with the prospect of paying a park- ing fine. Summer school students are eli- gible for a recreational driving permit, which is not available dur- ing the fall and spring semesters. The recreational permit is de- signed to enable students to take advantage of recreational facilities which are offered away from Ann Arbor. Since there is no mileage limi- tation with it, students possessing a recreational permit are free to drive any distance in order to participate in swimming, boating or other warm-weather activities. * * * Otherwise, driving regulations are exactly as they were during the regular academic year. All students not exempt from the reg- ulations muwt report to the Office of Student Affairs to register their vehicles and receive their driving permits. D AK.DRA KR 5DK I f K U U TS...Barbara Stanwyck greets her brother, Byron Stevens, who is making his Hollywood screen debut in her picture, "File on Thelma Jordan." S T R O N G 4S C R E E N -Nurse Dorothy Bell .and architect Adrian Wilson demonstrate a new screen for Los Angeles County Hospital. The screen gives half an inch under 150-pound impact. I . SUVMEIR DIRECTORY 4 Z 0 0 P R U N I N G - Fred Ulmer, curator at the Phila- delphia Zoo, prunes the horn of Kifaru, the rhino, with keepers John Regan and Pat Minichini, who finished operation with shears. : k. * ;1 N S P E C T I 0 N-Bun, mascot of the Grand Crossing police station, Chicago, checks office'rs at inspection of summer uniforms. THURSDAY DIA G EN ( G "Si INE fiR C H BOOK TORE S 50c- 11 11 U 11 _ ... v.;:: .. . ?tea . ............: .............. : <.:..::::; : i:;<:>; > rri f: . : ; :;: "' ?' s: : : :.::. >r ...