Weather Partly cloudy with occasional snow flurries; colder tomorrow. Jr t E azt33 Editorial Flood Control .. I_ VOL. L. No. 93 Z-323 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY FEB. 13, 1940 PRICE FIVE CEN Hoosiers Smash Varsity, 57To 30; Tied With p urdue Doherty Makes Debut With 3-Way Meet Here Varsity And Thinclads Are Expected To Ypsilanti Normal Teams As Season Gets Under Way Dominate State 1940 Track Today Deadlock For Five Minute Broken By Armstrong Indiana Used 21 Me Capt. Rae Limited To But One Score (Special To The Daily) BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Feb. 12.- Indiana University's basketball team with 21 men playing, crushed Mich igan, 57 to 30, tonight to remain tie with Purdue for the Dig Ten lead. The game never was in doubt afte Curly Armstrong, Indiana forward broke an 11-11 deadlock after fiv minutes of play. With his team leading, 21-to-13, midway of the firs period, Coach Branch McCracken sent in his second team, which fin ished the first half in front, 29-to-13 The second- and tird-string In- diana teams ran the score to 44-15 be- fore Charley Pink Michigan guard, hi the Wolferine' first field g o a eight minutes after the start of the sec- and half. Chet Francis, re- serve forward, who played only 12 min- Schaefer utes, led the Indi- ana scoring with nine points. Pink's eight were best for Michigan. Capt. Jim Rae of Michigan was held to a single basket, scored with one minute left, but hit five free throws. The Crimson got away to an early 6-3 lead but the Wolverines came back :to knot the count at 11-all Armstrong broke the tie with a two- Pointer and the Hoosiers were away never to be headed. Midway in the first half, Coach Branch McCracken started his string of substitutions. The second string five was as hot as the regulars, and a bas- ket bombardment forced the Wolver- Ines to call time .. with three minutes remaining. The Indiana fives>.. poured three field goals throughhthe hoop, in machine- Dro gun style as the half ended The Hoosier reserves swept through the Wolverines with lightning-fast plays as the contest was resumed. Eddie Zimmer received a pass under his own basket and scored. Michi- gan again took time out. Wolverine substitutes came into the lineup in a vain effort to halt the scoring spree. Francis brought (Contnued on Page 3) Flay Production Plans To Give 'Julius Caesar' Shakespearian Tragedy To Have Four-Day Run ,BeginningWednesday Play Production's fourth major presentation of the current school year will be Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" to be given at 8:30 p.m. Wed- nesday through Saturday, Feb. 21-24 in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. A matinee will be given Saturday, Feb. 24. Discarding both Roman and mod- ern styles of presentation, Play Pro- duction will offer "Julius Caesar" in its original Elizabethan style, Prof. Valentine B. Windt, director of the group, disclosed. Professor Windt pointed out that the play has been given too often re-. cently in modern costume, but he added that modern costume distorts Shakespeare's real "Caesar." The play was written in Elizabethan times for Elizabethan eyes, he explained. Play Production's version of "Julius Caesar" will offer an almost complete text, with only a few deletions. Wholesale streamlining, in the Or- son Welles manner, will not be at- tempted. Commenting on the play itself, Professor Windt observed that its plot is one of Shakespeare's most ex- cii ing. and that its melndramaa vnks s Morgan Opens Religious Talk: Series Today SRA Head Will Introduce _ Lectures With Talk , On 'What Is Religion' d As a general introduction to the Student Religious Association's new r lecture series on "The Existence and , Nature of Religion," the subject e "What Is Religion?" will be discussed a by Kenneth Morgan, director of the t SRA, at 8 p.m. today in Lane Hall. n The lecture series, starting with the address of Prof. Anton J. Carlson of the University of Chicago at 8 p.m. -Friday in the Rackham Lecture Hall, e will bring four different points of -view on religion to University stu- dents. Morgan today will present a t preliminary discussion of the subject' s to be dealt with and will attempt to l organize the subject, making certain r generally accepted definitions of re- ligion. The series, which will consider such - questions as "Why be religious?" and "What is religion?", will include, be- sides Professor Carlson's address, lec- tures by The Rev. Paul H. Furfey of7 Catholic University, Washington, " D.C., Prof. Walter M. Horton of Ober-" lin College, and Rabbi Stephen S.' Wise, president of the American Jew- ish Congress. Professor Carlson, a Fellow of the1 American Association for the Ad- vancement of Science and a former president of the American Associa- tion of University Professors, takes1 a critical attitude toward orthodox religious institutions and beliefs. Rev. Furfey, speaking Feb. 24, dill present the Catholic point of view in his lecture. He is a professor of soci- ology and has written several books on religion. He has been associate editor of several scientific publica- tions. Professor Horton, who will speak March 2, takes the Protestant point of view in his lecture. A teacher in theology at several colleges, he has written' several books discussing theism and the scientific spirit. A new chapter in Michigan track history, as well as a new season, be- gins at 7:30 p.m. today when Ken Doherty makes his debut as head Wolverine track coach as the 1940 thinclads take part in a triangular meet with Michigan State and Mich- igan Normal Colleges. Doherty has inherited a large nu- cleus of last year's Big Ten cham- pionship squad, and, with the addi- tion of some promising runners from his last freshman team, should pre- sent a group of trackmen almost as strong as Charlie Hoyt's last great team. While the all-around power of the Wolverines is expected to dominate the meet, the individual contests promise to make the meet the most interesting one seen here in recent years. With Capt. Ralph Schwarz- kopf, Warren Breidenbach, and Don Canham of Michigan, Tommy Quinn and Whitey Hlad of Normal, and Capt. Roy Fehr' and Walter Arring- ton competing, records should be falling all night. The big events of the evening are expected to be the two-mile and the high-jump. The distance run has Schwarzkopf, the greatest two-miler Michigan has had, Big Ten cham- pion, third in the Millrose Games about a' week ago in the extremely fast -time of 9:04; Quinn, twice con- queror of the Wolverine captain, the last time being in the Sugar Bowl last Dec. 31; and Dick Frey, number one man of the Spartans' cross-country squad. The meet record of 9:21 seems certain to fall, and Schwarzkopf's. own' Field House standard of 9:15.8 is also definitely wavering in antici- pation of one of the fiercest races at that distance that local fans have seen. The high 'jump brings together Michigan's junior star, Don Canham and State's junior ace Walter Ar- rington. Canham wasn't satisfied with the form that enabled him to leap six feet five inches in high school, and this year, switched to a straddle style with which he has been Jumping ever betterthan before. Ar- rington set a new record of six feet five and one-eighth inches when the Spa tans met Notre Dame a week ago, and might push Canham over Dave Albritton's Field House record of six feet five and seven-eighth inches. Arrington was hurt later in the Notre Dame rfeet, but Coach Ralph Young of State said yesterday that Arrington would be ready to- night. Arnold Cooperman of Normal who has done six feet three inches (Continued on Page 3) Piano Team Plays 'Concert In Series Here Ethel Bartlett and Rae Robertson, two-piano team which went on as substitute for Kirsten Flagstad during last year's winter concert sea- son, come to Ann Arbor tomorrow night as ."first choice" for the ninth Choral Union concert. So great was their success last year, Dr. Charles A. Sink explained yesterday, that insistent demands made it imperative to sign them on the regular program this season. Tickets .for the concert which be- gins at 8:30 p.m. in Hill Auditorium may still be obtained at the School of Music office, and at Hill Auditor- ium box office, Dr. Sink said. Inprivate life Mr. and 'Mrs. Robert- son, the two British artists have won distinction throughout the musical world. They were students .together3 in London under Mathay when ro- mance united their artistic careers and established them as one of the1 foremost piano teams. State Traffic Men To Hold Meeting Here Michigan Highway Groups And Engineering School Sponsoring Conference Speakers To Stress Functional Matters Highway and traffic engineers will focus their attention on Ann Arbor this week with the opening of the twenty-fifth anniversary meeting of the Michigan Highway Conference. Held under the direction of the en- gineering college in cooperation with the Michigan State Highway Depart- ment, the Michigan Association of Road Commissioners and Engineers and the Michigan Department of Pub- lic Safety, the conference will draw more than 700 traffic and highway men here to the three-day session, to- morrow through Friday. To Emphasize Administration Presenting speakers in all branches of construction, maintenance and safety, the conference will emphasize pertinent administrative, financial ad traffic problems facing both state and county road commissions. In contrast to the first conference 25 years ago where earth, stone and gravel road construction formed the center of discussion ,the 1940 sessions will stress maintainance and opera- tions from the standpoint of financial and safety factors. Included among the engineers at- tending the conference here will be several of the speakers prominent -at the organization session here in'1915. Among those listed are Dean Emeritus Mortimer E. Cooley of the engineering school; Frank F. Rogers, first official state highway commissioner; Prof. H. E. Riggs and William C. Hoad of the civil engineering department and K. I. Sawyer, county engineer for Mariuette County. Highlight of the conference will be the informal dinner Thursday eve- ning in the Union. 'With Leroy Smith, engineer-manager of the Wayne County Road Commission acting as toastmiasterMurraym Vn Wagoner,' state highway commissioner will de- liver a tribute to the founders, fol- lowed by an address by Thomas H. MacDonald, commissioner of the U.S. Public Roads Administration. Both Smith and MacDonald were speakers at the original highway conference here in 1915. Marsh To Speak Featured speakers at the various conference sessions will be Burton W. Marsh, director of safety and traf- fic engineering for the American Automobile Association in Washing- ton, D.C., who will speak Wednes- day morning on pedestrian protec- tion; Gilmore D. Clarke, dean of the college of engineering at Cornell Uni- versity on parkways Thursday morn- ing and C. M. Nelson, editor of "Bet- ter Roads," who will speak on county highway department organization Fri- day afternoon. Those presiding over the sessions are Louis M. Nims, deputy state high- way commissioner; John W. Kush- ing, research director of the state highway department; M. W. Cochran, Detroit traffic engineer; Col. Sidney D. Waldon of Detroit and Profs. Lewis W. Gram and Roger L. Morri- son of the engineering college. Prison Committee Meets Here Today Ann Arbor will be the scene today of a meeting of the Michigan Cor- rections Commission, a prison group now involved in the selection of a new warden for Marquette prison. This afternoon's conference is a regular Commission meeting, but in- formed sources believe that an at- tempt to select a new warden at Mar- quette will be made. The new warden is sought by Republicans to replace incumbent Marvin L. Coon, a Demo- cratic holdover, who has been under fire since a spectacular break last fall. Elmer Swanson, of Escanaba, for- mer Delta county sheriff, is thought to be the leading candidate for the position. New Give Both Reich And Britain Gains Trade Pacts Enrollment Increases 4.9 Per Cent This Year Michigan's second semester enroll- ment reached 10,682 yesterday, an increase of 4.9 per cent over the 1939 figure at the same time. Official figures released by the University showed that total regis- tration in the literary college had reached 4,418, an increase of 320 stu- dents, or 7.8 per cent, over last year. In the dental school there is an in- crease of 11.7 per cent. In the engineering college there are 1,977 students, and in the graduate school 1,617 students. Male enrollment is running ahead of female registration by 7,693 to 2,989. There are four women in the engineering college, but no young lady has shown up yet to replace the one female forester who graduated last spring. In the first semester of this year enrollment reached a high mark of 12,128 persons. Music Groups Plan Finnish Relief Concert Faculty Committee To Give Program For Feb. 27 In Hill Auditorium As part of the Ann Arbor drive to collect relief for the aid of Finland's refugees, University musical organi- zations are cooperating to present a benefit concert Feb. 27 in Hill Audi- torium. Groups throughout the city are banding together to promote sale of tickets for fhe concert, all the proceeds of which will be sent to Fin- land to provide much-needed food and clothing for the beseiged Finns. The concert, to be given by several University organizations, will present a program being arranged by a com- mittee composed of Prof. David Mat- tern, director of.the men's Glee Club; Prof. William D. Revelli, conductor of the University Bands; Ruth Enss, '41SM; Dr. Charles A. Sink, president of the School of Music, and Prof. Carl G. Brandt of the engineering English department. Tickets are on sale at 50 cents each and may be bought from members of the ticket committee, headed by Mrs. A. C. Furstenberg. It has been arranged to promote ticket sales through occupational groups, and many local persons have agreed to carry on the sale among their fellow workers. Tickets are also available at stores throughout the city. Thomas To Be Lecturer Here L Arrival Of Fresh Troops At Suez Bolsters British Near Eastern Forces Finns Say Russians Halted At Summa (By The Associated Press) Germany and Great Britain scored new economic triumphs yesterday while the British bolstered their man- power in the Near East by landing thousands of troops from Australia and New Zealand at the strategic port of Suez. The German success was disclosed in the announcement that the Reich and Soviet Russia had signed a new pact designed to speed up their mu- tual trade. Germany and Russia startled the world last August by be- coming friends, a step which opened the way for the German invasion of Poland and the resulting European war. Pat Con ger Accepts Cope iwgen Post As .Foreign Correspondent ~w~m X9 4 England Woos Turkey Patching up her Near Eastern fences with her new ally, Turkey, Great Britain announced a new trade accord with the Turks would become effective Feb. 19. Britain hopes to displace Germany as the leading salesman and customer to Turkey. The feat of transferring the Aus- tralian and NeW Zealand troops 10,- 000 miles from the Antipodes to the Near Eastern keystone port with the loss of only one man--and he died of a heart attack-ranked in the news with the stout resistance of the Finns to a new Russian offensive launched against Summa, on the Karelian Isthmus. Istanbul advices said 30,000 men had been landed in Egypt, bringing the British and French forces in the Near East to at least 570,000-and heightening fears that the belliger- ents might make Southeastern Eu- rope a battleground this spring. Brit- ain, France and Turkey are estimated to have nearly 1,000,000 men ready in the Near East. Russians Shell Viipuri In Helsinki, the Finns said Russia had thrown several divisions into the Summa battle after the weekend lull which followed 10 days of bitter fighting. Long-range Russian ar- tillery began shelling the Finnish port of Viipuri, 20 miles north of Summa. Two other Russian thrusts at the center and the eastern flank of the Karelian front were repulsed, the Finns said, with the destruction of 72 Russian tanks, the greatest one- day bag of the war. One of the Finnish casulaties was Gunnar Hoclre#t, who set' world's records for the 3,000 meter 'and two- mile runs at the 1936~ Olympics in Berlin. He was, reported killed in Sunday's fighting on the Isthmus. Finnish authorities took keen in- terest in reports reaching Helsinki of a possible crisis between Russia and the two Baltic states from which she gained concessions last fall, Estonia and Latvia. The chiefs of the armies of Latvia and Estonia were said to have conferred on de- fenses of the two states and the Lat- vian president, Karl Ulmanis, re- cently hinted in a radio speech 6 Book Exchange Business Good Political Science, History Texts Are In Demand A report of greatly increased activ- ity in the' Student Book Exchange was made by Robert Ulrich, '41, chair- man, yesterday, together with the promise that the organization would continue to function as long as books were on demand and continued to come in. "The turnover indicated, will in all probability exceed that of any time of the exchange's two year existence," Ulrich said. "Popularity of the pro- ject has been steadily increasing," he added. The rapid turnover experienced has created a shortage and conse- quent demand for books in practically all of the popular courses and de- partments. Among these were listed political science, history and litera- ture. Engineering school texts large- ly sought include such subjects as heat engines, electrical engineering and descriptive geometry. Ulrich reminded students that the system of the exchange was one in which the owner of the books offered for sale could establish his own sale price and could offer as many books as desired for sale. Congress To Start Student Insurance An insurance plan for students an- nounced several weeks ago by Con- gress, independent men's organiza- tion, will be put into action at 3 p.m. tomorrow in Congress' offices in the Union, William Rockwell, '41, an- nounced yesterday. pnl afi f~..ies a iq. mtt- o- nsrn Liberal Club To Five Speakers In Present Series Former Michigan Daily Writer Continues Family Journalistic Legend Norman Thomas, leader of the So- cialist Party of the United States, will give one of a series of five lec- tures to open Thursday at the Union under the sponsorship of the Liberal Action Club. McAlister Coleman, authority on gas and electric power, will open the series with an address on the topic, "Electricity's New Frontiers" at 4:15 p.m. Thursday in the Union. Mr. Coleman, who has taken the side of the consumers in many great fights, is a member of the commit- tee on coal and giant power and head of the Information Bureau of the Utility Users League of New Jer- sey, is now working on a book on the industrial and economic history of New Jersey. The series will continue through- out the semester. Other speakers will be Lewis Corey, labor leader and author, who will speak Feb. 29 on "Re-Creation of Socialism"; Tuck- er Smith, educational director of the Retail Clerk's Union and former di- rector of Brookwood College, on March 7; Norman Thomas will speak March 14 on "Does Democracy Need Socialism?"; Royal S. Hall, profes- Technic Offers New Job Story Interview Pointers Given In Tomorrow's Issue Presenting the second in a series of articles dealing with job-getting, the February issue of the Michigan Tech- nic will go on sale tomorrow, accord- ing to J. Anderson Ashburn, '40E, editor. "Good Morning, Sir," by Prof. Arthur D. Moore, companion article to "Dir Sir," in last month's sell-out issue, deals with the all-important interview for employment, Ashburn said. Also in this issue are: "Barge Design," by Prof. L. A. Baier; "Silent Flight," story of gliding here at Michi- gan, by F. A. Tietzel, '43E; and "Fac- tory Performance After 5,000 Miles," by William Yenni. Usual features and another pro- fessional practice contest with a five dollar prize complete this issue, of which an additional number of copies have been printed to meet increased demand. By STAN SWINTON When 23-year-old Clinton Beach Conger stepped into a New York- bound plane at 3 a.m. today he began to write another chapter in the legend of Ann Arbor's most famed family of journalists. Conger, familiarly known as "Pat," has been named a member of the United Press Copenhagen bureau. He will be the third member of his family to be a foreign correspondent. I , - - - - . . . - . I - United Press and the Detroit Free Press, leaving the posts to accept a position in the Detroit Bureau of the United Press. After a year in which he served as Michigan Sports Editor for UP and scored journalistic beats on such stories as the partial blindness of heavyweight Jimmy Adamick and the contract baseball star Bennie McCoy signed with the Philadelphia Athletics, Conger two weeks ago was PerspectivesI Literary Invites Aspirants Students interested in creative writing are invited to tryout for the staff of Perspectives, campus liter- arc mac--rt .a. . A - - m 1 .