Weather ?: y zd T 2'ne Y r Fifty Years Of Continuous Publication ~~at Editorial Prtais-e FQT 15-aato VOL. LI. No. 111 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 1941 Z-323 PRICE FIVE CENTS Indiana Breaks Michigan's Seven-Year Hold On Track Title By HAL WILSON (Special To The Daily) LAFAYETTE, Ind., March 8.-A small but potent band of Hoosier trackmen over- came Michigan's vaunted balance here in the Purdue Field House tonight to snap a seven-year Wolverine grasp on the Western Conference indoor title. Led by the sensational veteran running twins, sandy haired Roy Cochran and long Campbell (Billy) Kane, star-studded Indiana captured first place in five of the 12 events to wind up the two-day carnival with a 44 point total. Completely swept aside by the Hoosiers' amazing parade to the finish line, Ken Doherty's defending champions took runner-up honors with 33%i1 points, only three ahead of third place Ohio State. Illinois, Northwestern, Wisconsin, Purdue, Minnesota, Chicago and Iowa trailed the leaders in that order with the cellar-occupying Hawkeyes failing to score a single point. The very first event on tonight's program, the one mile run, gave 2,500 spectators notice of what was to foliow. For moving into the eighth lap, Kane, Hoosier hot shot and Michigan's greatest villain all night, roared into a commanding lead over Ohio's Les Eisenhart and easily led the pack across the line in 4:16 with Paul Kendall and Wayne Tolliver boosting Indiana's point total in the single event to 10 by racing home right behind Eisenhart. That wasn't all for the phenomenal elongated Indiana middle distance star. There was plenty more good running left in his powerful legs and he returned to the cinders about an hour later to cutsprint Park Brown of Illinois to the tape for the Conference half mile title with a timing of 1:54.8. The other three Hoosier individual titles came from Cochran, who whipped Mich- igan's great sophomore, Bob Ufer, by five yards in the 440; Fred Wilt, brilliant young distance ace, who won the two mile crown; and Bob Burnett, who took a surprising first away from favorite Bob Lewis of Illinois in the broad jump. Those performances were enough to take the heart out of the battling Wolverines. Indiana garnered points in only two of the other seven events, but that proved more than enough to snatch the team title. As expected the Wolverines displayed outstanding team balance by scoring in nine of the events, but their ability to win only two of' them and finish second in two, told the tale of tonight's defeat. Capt. Don Canham leaped six feet, three and three-quar- ter inches to snare the high jump title and Michigan's speedy mile relay quartet made up of Bob Barnard, Bill Dobson, Al Thomas and Ufer, stormed home ahead of the Hoo- (Continued on Page 3) U.S. Senate Passes Lease-Lend Bill, 60-31 _____________ n Natators Capture , Canham Soars To Conference Crown Third Swim Title Swimmers Amass 87 Points As Big Ten, Collegiate Records Are Smashed Wrestlers 'Finish In Fifth Position By WOODY BLOCK (Special to The Daily) IOWA CITY, March 8.-The great- est team of collegiate swimmers in the world gave Michigan its third consecutive Big Ten tank title here tonight with a record-shattering point total of 87 and as brilliant a display of swimming as has ever been seen. Iowa was second with 24, Minne- sota third with 17 and Ohio State fourth with 16, with the rest of the field strung way out. Wisconsin was the only school failing to garner a point. They hauled out the old record book once again and applied the eraser as Matt Mann's terrific tank- ers torpedoed their way to five new Big Ten course marks, four national intercollegiate records, and tied both records in the backstroke as they swept every first place on the pro- gram but the dive. The only race that failed to either equal or smash a mark was the Michigan's Big Ten champions swing right back into action, at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Sports building pool when they meet Michigan State's highly successful Spartans in a dual meet-one of the last two of the season. final 400 yard free-style relay and that record was set last night by the same Michigan quartet of Clair Morse, Gus Sharemet, Dobson Burt- on and Charley Barker with a timing of 3:37.6. They swam it tonight in 3:42.9, nipping Iowa and Ohio State in a close finish. All the rest were of the record- shattering variety with Barker and beautiful-stroking Jimmy Welsh pac- ing the field as they both became double champs, the only ones in the crowd. Barker was as brilliant as he has ever been and he thrilled the small crowd here as he nipped Sharemet in the 100 and 50, but he had to step out and set new records to do it. In the shorter sprint Charley, swimming (Continued on Page 3) Galles Takes Title By STAN CLAMAGE (Special to The Daily) COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 8.-Jim Galles, Michigan's 175-pound iron man, was the only Varsity grappler to win a Big Ten individual title here tonight in a meet which saw Minne- sota unexpectedly upset Indiana and take the Conference wrestling crown. Galles outclassed Art Johnson of Iowa and won 5-2 in a match which was marred by Johnson's repeated fouling tactics. Two of Galles' points were gained when the Iowan commit- ted fouls. Minnesota's amazing team victory, with a total score of 22 points, left all the pre-meet dopesters non- plussed. In discussing the possible Far East Crisis T o Be Analyzed In Speech Here With the interest of the United States constantly turning to affairs in the Far East, Admiral Yates Stir- ling, Jr., will bring important infor- mation about the activities of the United States Navy in the Pacific, when he lectures here Tuesday night on the subject "The Challenge Across the Pacific." Admiral Stirling will speak in place of Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, as the seventh lecturer in the current Ora- torical Association Lecture Series. Patrons are asked to use their reg- ular March 11 ticket for this lecture. The Box Office at Hill Auditorium will be open from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 2 to 4 p.m. tomorrow, and all day Tuesday for single admission tickets. Problems of naval defense and nav- al strategy, both as regards our own defense effort and as they affect the outcome of the wars now raging in the Eastern and Western Hemis- pheres, will be the main points of Admiral Stirling's speech. He brings to the platform a back- ground of forty-eight years of active service in the United States Navy as well as a keen, critical mind which has gained him repute as a naval ex- pert. Admiral Stirling has won praise as Naval Critic for the United Press, through which his articles are re- leased to 1400 papers and 400 radio stations throughout the United; States. Civilians Killed In London Raid Luftwaffe Renews Blitz Attack After Respite (By The Associated Press) LONDON, March 9-(Sunday)-A number of Londoners were killed, wounded or trapped in piles of debris last night and early today in the first heavy night Luftwaffe raid on the British capital in weeks. Attacking with a fury reminiscent of the blitz raids of last fall, the Ger- mans scored a direct hit on a night club crowded with dancers; killed and injured a number of pedestrians on a London roadway; and caused other casualties when two bombs ex- ploding at the ends of a block caved in a cafe where many were dining. There was a brief lull in the raid shortly before midnight and then the Luftwaffe stepped up the bombs. It was believed a large number of civilians-and perhaps service men enjoying a leave-were trapped late last night in the wrecked night club. Crowds which gathered around the club wreckage quickly scattered as more bombs fell. Bombs falling on both sides of another cafe caused casualties. Mass- es of German planes were dumping hundreds of high explosives on the capital. DON CANHAM French Navy TOConvoy Frei__rs Berlin Says Greece Scores GermanyI For Massing Troops; Turk Intentions Asked (By The Associated Press) While diplomatic and military ac- tivity increased in Europe's Balkans Saturday, threatening to plunge all southeast Europe into war, it was an- nounced in Berlin, and denied in Vichy, that remaining units of the French Navy would convoy French merchantmen if British attacks on those vessels continued. Possible effect of such a naval move would be to throw the former allies into naval conflict. However, the United States Embassy in Vichy de- nied that it had been informed off such a move by the French, and it was believed the statement, creditedj in Berlin to Fernand de Brinon, French representative in Paris, was purely hypothetical. Some sources said Admiral Jean Darlan, vice- premier of France, may have cited the possibilitiy of such action. Newspapers Attack Germany The report and denial opened a new diplomatic front in Europe, al- ready jittery from the suspense in the Balkans, where activity was height- ened by a statement published in an Athens newspaper berating the Ger- man nation for even thinking of at- tacking the Greek flank, and a report in Belgrade that Greece had asked Turkey what her intentions might be if Germany did attack. An authoritative source in Belgrade, said a clear statement of Turkey's position with regard to the expected Nazi invasion of Thrace and eastern Macedonia has been sought from the Turkish Foreign Office by the Greek minister at Ankaar. Turkey and Greece signed a mutual Electric Power Strike Ended, Petty Declares GRAND RAPIDS, March 8.-(W)- With 16 of 20 local unions giving unanimous approval to an agree- meng between the Consumers Pow- er Comnanv and the International assistance treaty in September, 1933, which guaranteees their frontier in Thrace and pledges use of military force to defend it. They also are bound in mutual defense pledges by the 1934 Balkan Entente Treaty. At the same time, with 150,000 German soldiers reported to be massed at her border, Greece hurled defiance at the Germans and chided the central power for even thinking of attacking her smaller neighbor. Greeks To Fight To End An army of "free Greeks" will fight to the death against any German invasion from the east just as they have fought the Italians on the west, an open newspaper letter to Adolf EHitler said. The paper also hinted the Italians must evacuate Albania if they want peace with Greece. The open letter appeared in the newspaper Kathimerini. (Six words of the dispatch were censored). If Germany wants to save the Italians now fighting in Albania, the letter said, Greece is ready to settle matters "without humiliation to It- aly"-provided the Italians "leave Al- bania alone," but it expressed incred- ulity that the German nation of 85,- 000,000 people would "strike from the flank" of Greece, a little country "now struggling for freedom against an empire of 45,000,000." Dean Issues Scholarship Applications Literary College Students May Call For Forms At Office Tomorrow New Grants Made Available This Year Applications for the following scholarships, which are now availablez to students in the College of Litera-t ture, Science and the Arts, may be obtained at the Office of the Dean of the literary college tomorrow and thereafter: Martha Robinson -Hawkins Schol- arship for undergraduates of dis- tinction in personality, character, and scholarship, from Maryland, Virgin-j ia, and Maine. who at the time of ap- plication have completed one full ac- ademic year's work in the College of LS&A. Only one scholarship is given and the amount is the income from $5,000. James B., Charles J., and Margaret Smith Hunt Scholarship for worthy and needy undergraduates from Michigan. More than one scholar- ship is given on the income from $15,000.; (Both the Hunt and Hawkins Scholarship funds are new this year.) Fanny Ransom Marsh Scholarship for worthy, needy students in the College of LS&A. One scholarship, or possibly more than one, is given for $200. John Pitt Marsh Scholarship for the undergraduate student(s) in the College of LS&A who has been in res- idence for one year prior to the date of application. Consideration will be given to character, need for aid, and scholarship. Possibly more than one scholarship will be given for about $200. There are two scholarships avail- able for students of chemistry: Paul F. Bagley Scholarship for a worthy and promising student of chemistry on the income from $5,000. Also the Moses Gomberg Scholarship for out- standing, needy students of chemis- try. Provision is made for more than one scholarship of $200. Application for these should be made to the Chairman of the Department of Chemistry. Others include: Charles Francis Adams Scholar- ship for 'a graduate of Detroit Cen- tral High Echool on the income from $1,300. Apply to the Principal of the Detroit.Central High School. John Blake Memorial Scholarship preferably for graduates of Grand Rapids Junior College. Emma M. and Florence L. Abbott Scholarship for Caucasian, Protest- ant, women students of Americap (Continued on Page 2) Ford Resists Union Bargaining Groups WAYS, Ga., March 8.-(P)-Henry Ford said today he believes unions are "losing ground" and that he has no intention of recognizing them as bargaining agencies for employes of the Ford Motor Company. "We do not intend to submit to any union, and those who belong to on are h in nn1fooled" the manufnic- World Conflicts Will Be Theme Of Panels Here "Contemporary Conflicts," the an- nual discussion series sponsored by the Wesleyan Guild of the First Meth- odist Church, will provide four panels on current problems, led by student chairmen and adult resource guides, open to all students beginning at 7 p.m. today. John Marvin, editor of the "Mich- igan Christian Advocate," and Col. Ambrose C. Pack of the local draft board, will assist the panel on "A World in Conflict" headed by Robert Bessey, Grad., and Jean Westerman, '42. George Francis, educational direct- or of Jackson State Prison, will be the leader of the forum on "Prison Re- form" under the direction of Made- line Ferris, '41, Harris Hool, Grad., and Janet Sibley, '41. With Howard Parr, '41, and Caro- line Curtis as chairmen, the "Marital Relations" panel will have Mrs. Ed- ward Blakeman, Dr. Ralph Patter- son of the psychiatry staff of the hospital, and Prof. Richard C. Fuller as guides. Dealing with labor in national de- fense, the panel on "The Community in. Conflict" will have Prof. Charles L. Jamison of the business adminis- tration school, Alex Barber, educa- tional director of Local 7 of UAW- CIO; and Redmond Burr of the local AFL as resource guides. Hervie Hauf- ler, '41, and Fritz Liechty, '43L, will be chairmen. U.S. Warned ByJapanese Envoy Claims American Opposition Is Useless BERLIN, March 8.-(IP)-Adolf Hitler's newspaper, the Voelkischer Beobachter, published today an inter- view with Hiroshi Oshima, Japanese Ambassador to Berlin, quoting him as saying that opposition to Japan "would do the United States no good." "The new order of the great Asiat- ic Area is our unshakable objective," the envoy said. "If anyone in America wishes to oppose it with power, I cannot be- lieveit, I do not want to believe it, but if so such opposition would do the United States no good. "We have never been provocative against the Anglo-Saxon powers and we are not so now. Bit we are strong and fearless and we are at all times prepared to do that which proves necessary." "Japan is on her way!" SLabor Conciliator Seeks To Settle Steel Walk-Out DETROIT, March 8.-(P)-Faced by nossihilitr of' s.rikeMrnnr] vo Roosevelt Is Authorized To Mobilize Industry In Cause Of Britain Walsh Amendment RejectedBy Solons By RICHARD TURNER WASHINGTON. March 8.-()- Worn down by three weeks of oratory and dispute, the Senate tonight by a vote of 60 to 31 finally passed the lease-lend bill authorizing President Roosevelt to mobilize industrial America and throw its products into England's battle against Germany. Then it sent the measure to the House with a request that the latter soncur in the series of Administra- :ion-approved amehdments which had been added. All indications were the House would agree to doso on Tuesday, or by Wednesday at the latest, with the bill going to the WhiteHouseimmediately tliereafter for President Roosevelt's signature. Senate In Good Humor The vote on final passage found ;he Senate in easy-going good humor, jespite many days of frazzled tem- >ers and personal animadversions. The opposition, clinging obdurately o its view that the bill means war, vas simply worn out by repeated lemonstrations of the Administra- ion's numerical superiority. For all practical purposes it utter- v collapsed last night, and today's session consisted of a routine of hrowing out remaining opposition mendments as rapidly as they were iffere, and then capping the de- >ate with the passage of the bill. In the course of this process, the 3enate summarily rejected an amend- nent by Chairman Walsh (Dem- Mass) of the Naval Committee, to uard the navy and air force against iepletion in the help-to-Britain pro- ram, and a substitute bill by Senator Taft (Rep-Ohio) to authorize loans otaling $2,000,000,000 to Britain, anada and Greece. Amendment Turned Down Walsh's amendment was rejected 56 to 33 and Taft's substitute bill was turned down 63 to 28. But, specifically, the manufacture of the defense materials in question would be limited, in'terms of money, by a provision, added in the Senate which Administration spokesmen said would retain for Congress a complete and always current control of the program. This limits orders for the production of war materials to the extent to which Congress later ap- proves appropriations or authorizes the signing of contracts. To make the money control com- plete, another limitation restricts the extent to which war supplies already in the hands of the Army and Navy may be used. These things may be transferred to England or others to a maximum "value" of $1,300,000,000. There was extensive debate on what the word "value" meant and Adminis- tration leaders finally put in a pro- vision that the "value" of the articles should be determined by the heads of the departments or agencies immedi- ately concerned. Defense Information President Granted Sweeping Powers Latin Say To Visitors Goodbye A nn A rbor They're having a wonderful time in the United States-the senoritas and senors from seven Latin-Ameri- can countries, who just completed a two-day visit of the campus yester- day. Spanish expressions of farewell filled the air in the early afternoon, as the group of 85 Latin-Americans bade good-bye to their Ann Arbor hosts and entrained for Niagara Falls, from whence they will continue to New York City and then home again on Marh 15.