I Weather' Cloudy and Continued Cool. ..Mdwmwl 0 Sit igan Iait!3 i Editorial Thank You, Mr. President .. I VOL. L No 174 Z-323 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1940 PRICE FIVE CENTS Henry Canby Is Announced Dickinson WillAddress Tung Oil Dinner Today Morrison Will Present Crown To Winner At Impromptu Faculty Speech Contest Allies Alarmed As Nazi Troops As Hopwood Continue To Make Advances; Speaker Here Famous Editor, -Author And Critic To Deliver Annual Address; Plan To SpeakOn Tradition Contest Winers Will Be Announced Dr. Henry Seidel Canby, famed; editor, literary critic and author, has been announced as speaker to deliver1 the Annual Hopwood lecture at 4:15 p.m., Friday, May 31, in the Rack- ham Auditorium. The sukject of his lecture will be "The American Tra- dition and Contemporary Litera- ture." Immediately following the lecture the names of those persons who have been awarded prizes in the 1940 Hopwood writing contest will be an- nounced together with the stipend awarded to them. ' Author Of 'Thoreau' Author of a long series of works, Dr. Canby last year achieved the popular recognition of the nation with his biography, "Thoreau." In the past he had published many1 books on the American short story and in 1934 was co-author of a col-1 lection of literary works entitled "Designed for Reading." From 1920 to 1924 Dr. Canby was editor of the Literary Review, later assuming the editorship of "The Sat- urday Review of Literature," which position he held until 1936. 'Book-Of-The-Month' Judge He was selected as chairman of the Board of Judges of the "Book- of-the-month" Club in 1926 and has held that position 411ti this time. Dr. Canby took his Doctor of Phi- losophy degree at Yale in 1905. He taught school until 1922 when he was made lecturer at Yale with pro- fessional rank. From time to time he has taught at Dartmouth, Cam- bridge, and the University of Calif- ornia. The Hopwood lecture is an an- nual affair given in conjunction with the Hopwood contests, which, were begun in 1932. Last year's speaker was Carl Van Doren, author of "The Life of Benjamin Franklin." Michigan Band Leads Sentiors In 'Swing Out More than 500 seniors attended the University's annual "swing out" ceremony Sunday celebrating the closing of their academic days at Michigan. Led by the Michigan Band and heedless of the threat of rain, they met in front of the main library, marched through the Engineering Arch and continued to Hill Audi- torium by way of State St. There the band continued playing favorite campus tunes and Shirley W. Smith, vice-president of the University, gave a short address warning the students of the "frankenstein monsters" which threaten the world. He also commented that it was hard to "swing out" in these trou- bled times and advised students to be tolerant of others because the core of civilization is "personality and individuality." Francis P. Hogan, '40. of Hornell N. Y., president of the senior class in the literary college, also made a short address. The leading drum major of the band and the student band director were John C. Sherrill, '40, of Evanston, Ill., and Miller L. Chrisman. '40, of Crown Point, Ind., respectively. Council Passes Vetoed Budget Disputed Water Allotment Approved After Debate After a stormy session last night the city council passed the 1940-41 budget over Mayor Walter C. Sadler's veto by a vote of 14 to 1, with thee Gov. Luren D. Dickinson's first campus address on "Character in Democracy" will highlight Sigma Rho Tau's 11th annual Tung Oil Banquet at 6 p.m. today in the main ballroom of the League. The Governor will arrive in Ann Arbor at 5:15 with a police escort and will be greeted at the League by the Michigan Band which will play a number of selections in his honor. Tickets for the stag affair are still available for one dollar at the League and at Wahr's and Ulrich's book- stores. The "Man at the Helm" of this Stump Speakers' Society's dinner will be Prof. Roger L. Morrison of the Hillier Nared 1940-41 Head Of Law Review Faculty Announces Choice Of Four Juniors To Act As Associate Editors William H. Hillier, '41L, of, East Lansing, has been appointed to serve as student editor-in-chief of the Michigan Law Review for the year highway engineering department, one of the most active supporters of the group. It is he who will wield the famous Sigma Rho Tau standard- sized traffic light, steamboat whistle and cannon to control the faculty im- promptu speaking contest and pre- sent the equally famed Tung Oil Crown to the winner. By turning on the green light Pro- fessor Morrison will inform the col- league called upon to begin. The yellow one will warn him that his time is drawing to an end and the red signal will tell him to stop. If the speaker still continues, the steam- boat whistle will be blown and, at a last resort, the "man at the helm" will fire his cannon. Prof. Robert D. Brackett of the engineering English department, fac- ulty adviser of he Society, has in- vented a coacheementor which may also be used at the Banquet. By means of this device the chairman will be able to turn on various col- ored lights telling the speaker to, modulate his voice, talk louder, speak faster, etc. Another of the featured events will be the awarding of the "Cooley Cane" to the most outstanding man of the Stump Speakers' Society during the past year. Dean Emeritus Mortimerj E. Cooley, after whom the cane was named will make a short address at the presentation. The cane was once a picket in a fence placed about the campus to pro- tect students from wandering cows in the late 19th century. One day a number of students destroyed the (Continued on Page 6) 3,000 Alumni To Meet Here For Reunions Furstenberg Will Speak At Dinner, June 13 For '0, '5 Graduates Elaborate preparations were an- nounced yesterday by the Alumni Association for the reception of over 3,000 alumni representing all classes ending in '0 and '5 to the reunion to be held here Thursday, Friday and Saturday, June 13, 14 and 15. The All-Campus dinner to be held in the Union ballroom Thursday, June 13, and the annual alumni luncheon Saturday in Waterman Gym will highlight the reunion. Featuring the All-Class dinner will be an address by Dean A. C. Furstenberg of the School of Medi- cine. Dean Krause of the literary college addressed last year's reunion. Alumni will have the opportunity of meeting professors and classmates at the dinner. At the luncheon Saturday, all alumni observing their "golden an- niversary" in alumni membership will be inducted into the Emeritus Club, composed of all alumni who graduated 50 or more years ago. Prof. Herbert Goulding, '93, of the engineering college, will be the host to the Emeritus Club and its new members. Following registration Thursday in Alumni Memorial Hall, reunion headquarters, the program will begin with meetings of the alumni advis- ory council and the board of direc- tors of the National Alumni Asso- ciation. The All-Class dinner will follow. U. S. Arms Budget Considered, Ex-President Hoover Proposes To Centralize Defense Authority Terms Political Coalitions, .Boards, Foolish In Time Of National Emergency NEW YORK, May 27. -(')- A1 "single-headed administrator" to direct the United States' vast defen- sive armament program was proposed tonight by former President Herbert Hoover. In a nation-wide radio speech on ''National Defense,'' he termed boards and political coalitions "fool- ish" in emergencies and advanced the following program for "real pre- paredness:" Hoover's Program "1. That a muntions administra- tion can be created in Washington. "2. It should have a single-headed administrator with assistant heads for labor, agriculture and industry. "3. This administrator should be an industrialist and not a politician. "4. He should have authority to appoint a non-partisan advisory board representing the Army, Navy, labor, transportation, manufacturing and agriculture. "5. The whole of the purchasing and manufacturing for the Army and Navy from private industry should be done by this administrator. The business of the Army and Navy is to state what they want. It is for the munitions administrator to deliver it. "6. A research organization should be created to constantly improve these products. "7. All appropriations for such work should be made to this organi- zation." "This is a form of organization that will get speed and economy," Hoover, declared. "Urgency, speed and econ- omy are not bureaucratic virtues." He based his recommendations on three "lessons" which he said had been learned during and since the World War. Experience had shown, first, that large-volume procurement of muni- tions must be separated from Army and Navy establishments, he said, adding .that this was a job "for man- agement and labor," a job that "re- quires that thousands of factories be coordinated to do their part." The second lesson was that such operations could not be "controlled by boards, councils or conferences, he, said. "The whole genius of the American people has demonstrated over 150 years that when we come to execu- tive action, including the office of the President of the United States, we must have single-headed respon- sibility. Says Board Is "Foolish" "It is just as foolish to set up a board to conduct munitions business as it would be to set up aboard to conduct the presidency of the United States." "The third lesson taught by ex- perience," he continued, is that we must get these vast expenditures of money out of politics-get them out of sectional pressures and out of group pressures. Yost To Talk At 'M' Club's Dinner Today Germans Widen Gap Separating Trapped Army In Flanders From Main Forces; Reich Battalions Pound Ypres Area BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Grave alarm spread through the Allied capitals last night over the fate of their armies hemmed in on the English Channel coast and pounded by all the force Germany's charging military machine could muster. In London it was said the gravity of the military situation was increas- ing hourly. In Paris the French Cabinet remained in session until after midnight, then announced only that Premier Paul Reynaud would address the na- tion by radio at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday (2:30 a.m. EST). As the Allied military position grew more critical Rome diplomatic circles reported-without confirmation-that Italy had closed her French and Swiss frontiers. While no inkling was forthcoming on the matters discussed in the secret French cabinet session, except that the military and political situa- tion had been reviewed, it was known that France was greatly concerned WILLIAM H. HILLIER, 1940-41, according to an announce- ment made yesterday by Prof. Paul G. Kauper of the Law School. The following students: Alfred El- lick, '41L, Omaha, Nebr.; Jeremiah Belknap, '41L, Napoleon, Ohio; Eu- gene Kinder, '41L, Gates Mills, Ohio, and William Sutton, '41L, Butler, Pa. were named by the Law Faculty to serve as editorial associates on the Law Review staff. Hillier and his associates will serve as an editorial board to head the Stu- dent Editorial Staff of the Law Re- view. The remaining members of the student staff will be appointed before the beginning of the 1940-41 school term. A high academic record in the Law School as well as the quality of the Law Review work done during the junior try-out period fur- nishes the basis for selection. The Michigan Law Review is a scholarly publication issued under the auspices of the Law School and repre- sents a cooperative effort of the Law faculty and students. The student work consist of the writing of comments on legal ques- tions and decision notes on recent in- teresting court cases. Supreme Court Upholds Union In Strike Case Tribunal States Sit-Down Is .Beyond Jurisdiction Of FederalJudiciary WASHINGTON, May 27. -(N)-- Restraint of trade arising from a labor union's sit-down strike "of the most brutal and wanton character" was held by the Supreme Court to- Pay not to violate the Sherman Act. The restraint did not "have an ef- fect upon prices in the market or de- prive purchasers or consumers of the advantages which they derive from free competition," the Court said in a 6-3 decision. Therefore, the tri- bunal added, it was not "the kind of restraint at which the act is aimed." Chief Justice Hughes demurred at this construction as too narrow and pointed out that "leaders of indus- try have been taught in striking fash- ion" that if they "impose a direct restraint" upon trade, even for "ben- evolent purposes," they become sub- ject to criminal prosecution. Jus- tices McReynolds and Roberts joined the dissent. The far-reaching decision, embod- ying a further clarification of labor's status under the Sherman Act, was delivered in the case of the Apex Ho- siery Company of Philadelphia, which sued a local of the America Federation of Full-Fashioned Hosiery Workers for triple damages under the act as a result of a seven-week sit-down strike in 1937. The Supreme Court majority, in an opinion by .Justice Stone, likewise declared that the union, "by substi- tuting the primitve method of trial by combat for the ordinary processes of justice and more civilized means of deciding an industrial dispute, vi- olated the civil and penal laws of pennsylvania." Fielding H. Yost, director of ath- letics, will be the chief speaker at the "M" Club's third annual Letter Night banquet to be held at 6:30 p.m. to- night in the Union Ballroom. Presentation of letters for spring sports, track, baseball, golf and ten- nis, will be made, and "M" blankets will be awarded to senior members of the club by Coach Yost. Francis P. Hogan, '40, retiring president of the club, will introduce the new presi- dent, William Combs, '41, captain- elect of the wrestling team. The custom of holding the dinner was inaugurated three years ago, when undergraduate lettermen held 'the initial gathering. The affair is sponsored by the University Athletic Association. This year some 45 alumni, mem- bers of the Senior "M" Club, will at- tend the banquet. J. Walter Bennett, who captained the Wolverine foot- ball team in 1898, president of the, senior group, will travel from New York City to be present. Among other former Michigan athletes who will attend are four All-Americans, Homer Heath, "Willie" Heston, Louis Allmendinger, and "Germany" Schultz. Sports Awards Are Presented At West Quad .'. t Lloyd House Wins Trophy For Athletic Excellence;t All-Star Teams Honored Winners of intramural awards andt freshmen numerals in the men's dor-1 mitories were honored yesterday ati a "Victory Dinner" in the West Quad- rangle. Varsity coaches presented these awards as well as plaques to; houses holding championships. Lloyd House was awarded the All-Sports Championship trophy. Winchell House was awarded sec- ond place in All-Sports Champion-, 'ship. -Houses receiving plaques for1 intramural championships were Wen- ley, in swimming, baseball, relays; Michigan House, for championships; in bowling and handball; Lloyd House, in football, table tennis, track, tennis; Winchell House, in basket- ball, A and B, wrestling, foul shoot- ing, horseshoes, volleyball. Members honored for having been selected on the All-Star Football Team were J. Lazerwits, '43, Lloyd House; Ted Albrecht, '43, Lloyd House; Ted Lorig, '41E, Lloyd House; Ray Jarsma, Michigan House; Charles ,Esler '41, Fletcher Hall; Arnold Lar- sen, '42, Fletcher Hall. All-star awards to members of Michigan House went to Leonard Wozniak, '43, baseball, and Howard Strauss, '43E, volleyball. Awards to Lloyd House residents were presented to Peter Brachman, baseball; Taft Toribara, Grad., basketball and base- ball; William Burke, '43E and Robert Matthews, '43, were given athletic chairman awards. . Matthews was given recognition for having been a member of the all-star football team. Clifford Young, '41A, was given an athletic chairman award for Flet- cher Hall, and also an all-star vol- leyball and baseball award. Gordon (continued on Page 3) over the likelihood of Italy's en- tering the war. In bitter fighting throughout the night the Germans appeared to be slowly widening the gap between the French Army south along the Somme and the Allied armies trapped in Flanders, above the Nazi salient to the sea. Having fallen back during the day, the Allies were -making their stand along a new line defending the Channel. The German High Command said its armies, striving to snap the steel trap on approximately 1,000,000 Al- lied troops in Flanders, were pound- ing at the historic World War battle sector of Ypres, Belgium, after storming across the River Lys at several points. Germans Cross River Barrier In crossing the Lys, the Germans broke through the last river barrier separating them from the English Channel ports of Ostend and Zee- brugge. The biting jaws of the Nazi pincers in the Ypres sector-threatening to sever the eastern arm of the Allied forces already encircled in Northern France and Belgium-were reported only 18 miles apart. French troops fell back under the terrific impact of the Nazi assaults, which swept in wave after wave apparently heedless of manpower losses, and took a new stand in the sector north of Valenciennes, west of the Scheldt River. Here was the main target of the Nazi fury, driv- ing from the east towards Ypres and from the southwest towards Lille. Nazi Pincers Closing Simultaneously, the Germans wid- ened by approximately 15 miles the northern side of their vital "bottle- neck" of their corridor to the Eng- lish Channel. * The French admitted that this "feed-line" to Nazi troops now swarming along the Channel coast had been deepened to extent now between Peronne and Arras. Taxes And Borrowing Suggested For Armaments WASHINGTON, May 27.--(IP- Immediate action to finance the Don Canham, High Jumper, Made Varsity Track Captain 'The World We Make' To Open Today At Lydia Mendelssohn The Lydia Mendelssohn curtain rings up 8:30 p.m. today on the third Dramatic Season offering, Sydney Kingsley's prize-winning, Broadway- proven play, "The World We Make." Madge Evans, well known in Holly- wood and New York as a leading lady, will be starred, and Herbert Rudley. who created his role in the original production, Louis Calhern and Tito Vuoli will be among her supporting players. The play is based on Millen Brand's novel "The Outward Room," and deals with a mentally unbal- lection for this effort, is staying in Ann Arbor for the extent of the play's run. He has also authored "Dead End" and the Pulitzer-prize winning "Men In White." The play is being directed by Prof. Valentine Windt, of the speech de- partment, director of the Dramatic Season, lighted by Feder, of New York. The art director is Lemuel. Ayres. According to an announcement yesterday the last main role for the final Season production, "The Guardsman," has been cast. Cecil Humphreys, noted screen actor who By HAL WILSON Lanky Dor Canham, Wolverine high jumping ace who is undefeated in competition this year, was chosen by his teammates to captain Mich- igan's 1941 track team yesterday. The selection of the Oak Park, Ill.. junior to succeed Ralph Schwarz- kopf, Michigan's great distance run- ner, as leader of the powerful Wol- verine cindermen, comes as no sur- prise for his stellar performances this year earn him a place high among the Maize and Blue's all-time track greats. Playing an integral part in the Dohertymen's fourth consecutive Western Conference track and field championship at Evanston, Ill., last Saturday, Canham came through with his usual dependable perform- ance to cop the Big Ten outdoor high jump crown with a winning leap of 6 feet 4Ys inches. But for one of the strange twists that Fate sometimes takes, Canham vast national defense program-pos- sibly by the double method of in- creased taxes and additional bor- rowing'-was under consideration in Washington tonight. An additional $32,000,000 was add- ed to the huge expenditure already in prospect when President Roose- velt asked Congress for that sum today to train civilian pilots. With his request he sent a letter from the budget bureau saying that the Civil Aeronautics Authority was prepared to undertake immediately a big ex- pansion contemplating preliminary training for 45,000, secondary train- ing for 9,000 and advanced training for 40,000 more. Bill Takes Shape Congress, while awaiting a deci- sion as the financing question, prod- ded the big armament plan through the various legislative processes. One subcommittee agreed to work far into the night to hasten action on a supplemental $250,000,000 appro- priation for the Navy. At the same time, the men who manufacture machinery which pros duces the myriad and intricate parts ofanr, oi,.n, ,andnf r.r ri ,4nsc .... . ..