,Weather Generally fair; Continued cold. Y Ak itr~gan tlaiWti 'Editorial Fraternity Men And The Future .. VOL. L. No. 126 Z-323 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1940 PRICE FIVE CENTS Newly Formed French Cabinel Is Given Power By Single Yoe Reynaud's Ministry Plans To Fight For Its Lif Despite Narrow Margin War Committee Will Meet Today By JOHN LLOYD PARIS, March 22.--'P)--The new French government of Piemier Pau Reynaud wrung an absolute major- ity of just one vote from the Cham- ber of Deputies today but decijjed to stick it out and fight for its ife For a time it appeared that the seven Radical Socialist ministers headed by former Premier Edouard Daladier would desert the regime. But after an hour and a half's pow-wow, the unwieldy 22-man cab- inet agreed unanimously to carry on. Whether this means a mere mo- mentary arrangement or that by th/ time the Chamber re-convenes on April 2 Reynaud will try to whip up a larger majority, remains to be seen. 'War Committee' At all events, the inner "war com- mittee" formed by Reynaud to meet several times a week is gathering at 10 a.m. (4 a.m. EST) tomorrow to get on with the little premier's pre- carious promise to push the war. The government emerged from its first precarious day of existence shy only one man-the Navy Undersec- retary Jean Le Cour Grandmaison, who resigned under pressure from his Rightist party. There are now 12 undersecretaries in the new regime, making a total governmental group of 34. Reynaud gave several clear-cut pointer in his talk to the Chamber which returned him a majority of one today. He said he intended to prosecute the war vigorously. Nevertheless, he intends to follow the policy of his predecessor, Dala- dier, in doing nothing rash. That is, he, like bDaladier, will be "sparing in lives." 'To Fight Communism' He will continue a relentless fight against Communism. Speaking to the chamber he said: "It (the Com- munist Party) is an organization of treason. It acts against the country. We will crush it." Today's close vote onthe new coal- ition Government showed 268 dep- uties voting in favor; 156 voting against. But 111 others present re- fused to vote at all, and had to be considered hostile. Thus Reynaud got a one-vote absolute majority of those present. So far as fundamental differences between the Reynaud government and that of Daladier which resigned Wednesday are concerned, the French already are saying that this is merely a "Reynaud-Daladier" gab- met instead of a "Daladier-Reynaud" Cabinet. If today's abstainers became ac- tive oppositionists, Reynaud might be overthrown. Conversely, he ma' win these votes, or most of them, over to his support. Communique Cited The communique aniouncing Rey- naud's decision to remain in power read "The Cabinet Council examined the situation resulting from the Chamber's vote. All the ministers assured the Premier of their loyal collaboration. In these circum- stances, the chief of the French gov- ernment considered that in the pres- ent grave situation the duty of the Cabinet, which obtained an absolute majority of votes in the Chamber, was to remain at its post." Reynaud, noted enemy of Nazism, speaking before a crossfire of debate in the Chamber staked the life of his government on a ministerial dec- laration which said in part : "France is engaged in a total war. The stake of this total war is every- thing. To win means saving every- thing. To lose means losing all." 'The Gentle People' To End Run Today Hillel's 1940 major production, Ir- win Shaw's "The Gentle People," will conclude its two-day run at 8:40 p.m. today in the Lydia Mendel- sshn Thentr - 700 Initiates Hear Hackett Call Fraternity Social Laboratory' Sigma Alpha Mu Is Awarded Pledge Scholarship Cup; Dean Mitchell Opens Greek Week 'sessions Describing the fraternity as a "social laboratory," Norman Hackett nationally-known fraternity leader told more than 700 initiates at a ban- quet last night in the Union that "more than half of what a student gets out of college comes not from 1books but from learning how to live with and be agreeable to other peo- ple." Mr. Hackett, claiming that a fra- ternity is useful to individuals in pro- viding many good times and life long friendships, warned that scholarship must not be neglected as it is the first requisite a personnel man seeks I when a college graduate applies for . a job. Other characteristics looked . for by these men, he pointed out, are to converse intelligently; . . . "attrib- utes greatly enchanced by fraternity contacts." He also asserted that it is the duty of every affiliated individual in col- lege to cooperate in every way with his school and strive to uphold his fraternity's ideals. "Make yourself worthy of the ideals your fraternity stands for," he said. The Interfraternity Scholarship Cup, awarded annually to the pledge class with the highest average for the first semester, was presented by Assistant Dean Walter B. Rea to Sig- ma Alpha Mu at the banquet. The other houses among the first 10 in pledge scholarship were Phi Epsilon Pi, Kappa Sigma, Phi Sigma Kappa, Delta Tau Delta, Acacia, Kappa Nu, Sigma Nu, Sigma Phi Epsilon and Beta Theta Pi. Panel discussions, which were started yesterday as part of Michi- gan's first Greek Week program, will continue at 2:30 p.m. today in the Union. Opening the =session yesterday, Dr. Faculty Selects Club Advisers Five Junior Law Students Chosen To Lead Society Junior Case Club semi-final deci- sions were handed down yesterday by a three-man faculty bench; and, as a result, five of the eight students argu- ing in the fictitious case were made Senior Case Club advisers next year on the basis of excellence of their arguments and legal presentation. The five men selected were: Phil- ip Buchen, John W. Cummiskey, Robert P. Kneeland, Charles D. John- son and Kenneth K. K. Lau. The first four men will argue in the Case Club finals on April 19, Founder's Day, and the winners will receive a cash award. Lau will act as alternate in the advisory staff next year. The finals will be heard by a court composed of three justices from the Supreme Courts of Michigan, Ohio and Illinois, according to John Pick- ering, '40L, present senior adviser. Gargoyle Sales Continue The March issue of Gargoyle will be sold all over campus today from 8 a.m. to 12. Copies may be obtained from the salesmen at the center of the diagonal or in the main corridor of University Hall. Fred T. Mitchell, dean of men at Michigan State College, discussed "Fraternities and Their Place in the University" praising the Interfrater- nity Council for their Greek Week program. Dean Mitchell said the Council had taken a significant step in presenting this program, that it represented realization of the fact that fraterni- ties regard themselves-and rightly -a part of the University. What is needed, he maintained, to better any relations of fraternities and colleges, is more responsibility placed upon the fraternities themselves, so that they may develop an independent and self-governing system of working out their own problems. Another important thing that must be considered when weighing the ad- vantages of a fraternity system, Dean Mitchell concluded, is that they are in a particularly unusual position in the large school-for the administra- tion cannot give the mass student body the well-rounded development that is possible in a small school. Therefore, the fraternity should real- ize this and seek to take this func- tion into its own hands, as far as it is able, be concluded. Senate Passes Million Dollar Farm Measure Economy Pleas Overruled As Bill Goes To House For ApprovalOf Change WASHINGTON, March 22. -(/P)- Ignoring pleas for economy, the Sen- ate late today passed an annual farm bill providing more than $1,000,000,-' 000 for agricultural programs.1 The big appropriation measure,I passed on a voice vote, now goes back to the House for consideration of numerous Senate increases. Senate leaders forecast approval there. j As passed by the Senate, the bill carried more than $922,000,000 in ap- propriations and directed the Recon- struction Finance Corp. to finance an additional $90,000,000 outlay with loans. The House had voted a totalf of $713,896,084 in appropriations, no1 loan provisions being written in until the bill reached the Senate. Biggest increases made by the Sen- ate were $212,000,000 for parity pay- ments to farmers complying with t'1t Federal farm programs and 25,00D.1 000 for removal of surplus farm com- modities. The latter item, which would be used in part to expand the1 Government's food stamp system, wasJ approved by a vote of 79 to 0. This was one of the few unanimous Senate roll calls in recent years.1 The parity outlays would be in addition to about $500,000,000 pro-I vided for soil conservation payments< to growers of wheat, cotton, corn,. tobacco and rice. Parity paymentst are designed to give farmers the same purchasing power they had in 1909-1 14. The bill also carried funds for the Weather Bureau, the Food and DrugT Administration and scores of otherF agencies under the Agricultural De- partment.I English Sub Sinks First Nazi Vessel Germany' s Merchantman Is Hit Near Denmark; Few Men Are Missing Norway Protests Raids On Neutrals LONDON, March 22. -(9P)- The first German merchantman to be sunk by a British submarine since the start of the war was added proudly today to Allied sea conquests while British sources accused Germany of "torpedoing without warning" one Norwegian and six Danish vessels in the last 48 hours. Admiralty announcement that the 4,947-ton Nazi freighter Heddern- heim had been torpedoed eight miles off the Danish coast was regarded in some quarters as indicative of a Bri- tish campaign to cut off Scandinav- ian ore shipments to Germany, one leaky place in the Allied blockade. Location Of Sinking The Admiralty merely gave the location of the sinking as 8 miles off the Danish coast, but unofficial re-~ .ports said it occurred in the Kattegat, entrance to the Baltic Sea, shortly before last midnight. In Denmark 35 members of the Ger- man merchantman's crew, rescued from small boats by a Danish coast guard cutter, said they had been giv- en 15 minutes to leave the ship be- fore the British torpedo was launched. The captain slipped into one of the boats and the other crewmen told the British he was "dead;" thereupon, the crewn en said, the British took the Heddernheim's first engineer aboard the submarine. British Plane Crashes On top of these developments came word from Amsterdam that a Bri- tish plane, apparently attemptingto make a forced landing after a battle with several German planes over the German frontier, had crashed in flames in a Netherlands' flooded de- fense area. The plane's crew pre- sumably was killed. Three other Bri- tish machines accompanying it were reported to have made their escape. Tonight, reports from off the Nor- folk coast said a German plane had attempted to tomb the Cromer Knoll lightship during the day. Despite this quickened tempo of the war, even British munitions work- ers took a Good Friday holiday. Hun- dreds of thousands of Britons thronged the country and seaside for Easter vacations. Norway Protests Raids On Neutrals OSLO, March 2.-IP)-Norway has protested to Germany against the "unnecessary" sinking of ships plying between Norway and neutral ports and neutral ships carrying supplies to Norway, authoritative sources said tonight. They asserted that the note sent to Berlin requested a conference to dis- cuss the affair. Norway previously protested on March 16 after Berlin's assurance of March 11 that Germany would make every effort to respect neutral ships not sailing in convoys. Finland's 120 Others To Compete aisto Maki, In A.A.U. Rlys Today Finnish Star Is Primed For Contest Daily Photo By Sapp Finland's Taisto Maki arrived in Ann Arbor yesterday afternoon with his coach, Paavo Nurmi, and went immediately to Yost Field House to get a look at the track he will race on tonight and to get a rubdown from Steve Bronson, Michigan trainer. .Capt. Ralph Schwarzkopf, Maki's most formidable opponent tonight, looks on while Bronson gives Maki's record-breaking legs a massage. Japanese Diet Questions Arita On Axis Policy Foreign Minister European War Is Considered Declares Outcome Certainty TOKYO, March 22. -(')- Mem- bers of Japan's Diet, posing the ques- tion as to whether Japan should not take some positive role in support of "Germany and Italy," were in- formed tonight by Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita that Japan already was "certain" of the way the Euro- pean war would come out. The matter, he added, is too deli- cate to talk about further. However, he did say that "Japan wil not put any obstacles in Germany's way by joining hands with Britain or Amer- ica" during the European conflict, although Japan's entry in the West- ern affair is inadvisable since she is concerned solely with the construc- tion of a "new order" in Asia. Arita was asked such leading ques- tions as these: "Don't you think Japan should discard her policy of uninvolvement and openly side with Germany and Italy?" "Why, while mouthing phrases about involvement, has Japan prom- ised Britain not to transport German nationals or armament to Ger- many?" SRAOpenHou-se Tonight To Feature Round Table, Music Open house will be held by the Stu- dent Religious Association from 7:30 p.m. to 12 tonight at Lane Hall. Ken- neth Morgan, director of the SRA, will lead a round table discussion on Baha'ism, a universal religion, from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. Other activties include handicraft work of various kinds, sewing, clay- modeling, wood-carving, and work in the toy library. Facilities for play- ing chess, checkers and ping pong are also available. Students are invited to come at any time during the evening to the Open House, which is bne of the weekly activities of the SRA. Molotoff Expected In Germany Today ROME, March 23. (Saturday) .-(P) -The Rome Radio early today broad- cast Berlin reports that Soviet Pre- mier-Foreign Minister Molotoff would arrive in the German capital during the day for a talk with Adolf Hitler on a possible rapprochement between Itafly and Rusia.n Architectural Trends Noted By Untermeyer Typical American Cities Called Imported Jumble Of ManyCopied Styles Poet Louis Untermeyer, who de- scribes himself as an "enthusiastic amateur" of architecture, last night ripped apart a few notions about the use of Grecian columns and rococo living rooms and told an overflow audience in Rackham Amphitheatre that American architecture, like American poetry and painting, has discovered its nativity. Giving free reign to his destruc- tive talent, Mr. Untermeyer described the typical American city as a hope- less jumble of imported and imitated architectural styles ranging from Spanish missions to Roman bath- houses. "They represent for the most part," he declared, "a cross between a pastry cook's dream and an archi- tect's nightmare." American architects, he added, have had a passion for imitating two chief style importations-the Grecian and the Gothic. The early architects of our country fell in love with the Gre- cian column and apparently desired to make American public buildings look like a series of Acropoli. They were afraid of American styles and materials and therefore retreated in- to something remote and ancient, The Gothic influence has been par- ticularly potent, he observed, in the design of American college buildings. Most of our dormitories look like mon- asteries. "It is strangely incongru- ous," he said, "to find existing with (Continued on Page 7) Solomon Lee Dies At Lowell Home (Special To The Daily) LOWELL, March 22. - Services were held here yesterday for Dr. Solomon S. Lee, '98M, who died Thursday night after a long illness. Dr. Lee was a graduate of Olivet College as well as the University and was a member of Phi Rho Sigma, professional medical fraternity. Af- ter his graduation from the Univer- sity he practised medicine at Calu- met and at Lowell from 1912 until six years ago, when he retired from active practice. He was a strong supporter of the University through- out his life. Dr. Lee was a life member of the Free and Accepted Masons Lowell Lodge Number 90. He is survived by a sister, Mrs. Dale Morgan, of Grand Rapids. Herbert Witt To Speak New Marks Are Expected As Famed Track Stars Invade Yost Field House Olympic Ace Nurmi Will NotParticipate By HERM EPSTEIN Track fans from all over the state of Michigan will pour into Yost Field House at 7:30 p.m. today to watch the Michigan A.A.U. Relays, a meet which may cause future Michigan track his- torians to call tonight "The Night The Records Fell," as almost every event is a very probable record-break- er. Heading the galaxy of some 120 in- ternational, national, and state track stars who will be present, are two Finns, Paavo Nurmi and Taisto Maki, for the benefit of whose war-ravaged country the meet is being held. Will Not Run Nurmi will do no running tonight, for age has overtaken the Olympi hero, but Maki will take over in his stead. The erstwhile Peerless Paavo has seen his records crumble one after another under the onslaught of his protege. Tonight, Maki will run the two mile, in which e.vent he holds the world record, but he will be fac- ing Michigan's Capt. Ralph Schwarz- kopf whose indoor times have been better than Maki's. Then, there is the factor that Maki is better at distances longer than two miles, despite his holding the interna- tional record for that event, and Schwarzkopf is best at that distance. Also, Maki is just slowly rounding into real condition, while the Michi- gan captain is very little, if at all, removed from the peak of condition which he reached for the Conference Meet, Schwarzkopf's Field House record of 9:15.8 appears to have only hours to live. The Wolverine leader ran 9:10 in the Big Tens without any com- petition; Maki ran about 9:05 Mon- day night in Kansas City. With the added impetus of the battle, the time should go down near the nine-minute mark. Special Events Listed Overshadowed only by the two-mile are a number of special events. The mile run will bring together the fin- est field ever to appear in the Field House ,and the competitors are aim- ing at Schwarzkopf's recently estab- lished record of 4:14.2. The bst col- legiate milers in the Midwest will be present. Earl Mitchell and Bill South worth of Butler, Ed Barrett of Michi- gan, and Ed Holderman of Purdue have all run down around 4:15, and the rest of the field is only slightly behind. Joe Brezezinski and Duane Zmeper of Wayne, Tommy Jester of Michigan, and Bud Leonatd of Wes- tern State are all capable of run- ning faster than 4:20, and may sur- prise their more famous opponents. Mitchell, only a sophomore, has run 4:12 already, and it is-only a step from that time to the first 4:10 or better mile run in the Field House. Barrett ran 4:14.6 in the Confer- ence despite a fever and heavy cold, and is also ready to set a new mark. The high and low hurdles will have for their major attraction the world- record holder Allan Tolmich, former- ly of Wayne University. Tolmich has no easy task tonight, for he will be competing against such aces as Whitey Hlad, Michigan Normal's great sophomore, Marshall of Butler, Henderson of Wayne and Jeff Hall of Michigan. Tolmich Works Out Working out in the Field House last week Tolmich three times ran with- in one-tenth second of the record, and followed this up with a 7.2 second low hurdle run, which ties the track mark set by Jesse Owens. With the com- petition he faces, the little hurdler may easily crack both standards. The high jump field includes the state's best leapers, including Michi- gan's undefeated Don Canham, Mich- igan State's all-around star, Walter Arrington, Wayne's Perry Simons, and Michigan Normal's Arnold Cooper- man. Canham set the Field House record early this year, and since then has had serious competition only in the Conference Meet When he had an "off-night." ItalyWants Peace, Villari Claims; Doubts Possibility Of TripleAxis Former Fascist Minister Points Out Analogies To First World War "Italy wants to see an early peace in Europe, but Italy does not want to see, as the terms of that peace, the domination over Europe by any one power." Thus did Dr. Luigi Villari, former member of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, yesterday summar- ize Italy's stand on peace, in his University lecture sponsored by the political science department on "It- aly and the International Situation" at the Rackham Lecture Hall. Describing as a fatal error any attempt to force on the German peo- ple a form of government imposed from without. Dr. Villari warned that did negotiate with the Kaiser and more or less forced his exile. They then created a disastrous economic situation in Germany that gave rise to Hitler." If the Allies attempt again, that is, if they win the war, to dominate Germany, they can only create a "Super-Hitler, Communism or utter chaos," he predicted. Italy regards the present war as a horrible mistake by all sides, Dr. Villari pointed out. He cited the in- vasion of Poland by Germany as a mistake, adding that Hitler could have gained his demands without re- sorting to war. He maintained that, above all, the failure of the Allies to declare war upon Russia as the result of the invasion of Finland, was a grave error. He listed the re- sults in Italian policy caused by the Finnish-Russian war; an intensifi- Interview Reveals Fears Of Russian Expansion Held ByItalian Leaders Dr. Luigi Villari, in an interview yesterday, expressed his personal opinion that "I don't believe for one moment the idea of a triple axis of Rome. Berlin and Moscow."G - He indicated that the German- Italian agreement was stimulated by the "Eden sanctions" against Italy and was made possible because both nations had suffered under the Ver- sailles Treaty, both had experienced economic depression, and both were acutely hostile to Communism." Italy considered, at that time, and considers today, that it is very dan- gerous for Russia to expand west- ward, either by force of arms or the use of the "Trojan Horse or boring J 7 i