Weather Continued Cold -mommums--o lqqqmm pp, Fifty Years Of Continuous Publication 'aiti Editorial Alien Problem And Government . .« VOL. LI. No. 118 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1941 Z-323 PRICE FIVE CENTS French Food Ships! To Pass Blockade;I Labor Need Faced University withdraws Park Purchase Offer Decision Not To Buy Felch Park Revealed At Meeting Of City Council Yesterday 240,000 German Troops Sent To Greek rontier; Bremen Reported Afire White House Conferences Result 1In Settlement For Relief Of 'Shortage Red Cross. ere To Send Cargoes WASHINGTON, .March 17.-()- R4elief of the bread shortage in un- occupied France was in sight tonight through an arrangement for French grain ships from the United States to pass through the British block- ade. A virtual setlement of the contro- versy which had led to French warn- ings that convoys would be used, if necessary, to get wheat and corn to the unoccupied zone, was reached at a series of White House and State De- partment conferences. After Gaston Henry-Haye, the French Ambassador, had called at the White House, it was announced President Roosevelt had agreed for French authorities to submit a pro- posal to the American Red Cross for two French ships now in New York to take grain cargoes to unoccupied France.- Viscount Halifax, the British Am- bassador, later went tothe State De- partment and an informed British source indicated the arrangement would be acceptable to' the British authorities Supplies for the unoccupied zone previously had been restricted by the British authorities to milk and vita- \min concentrates, medicines and chil- dren's clothing. The British source said, however, grain supplies might now be,rmit-_ "fed under conditions assu~ing tey would not aid Germany, directly or indirectly.. 'The State Department, in disclos- ing the French plan, said it was "ob- vious that the American Government must assure itself that the final con- sumption of all foods sent takes place within the area of unoccupied France." Defense Industries Face Labor Shortage WASHINGTON, March 17.-(A')- Vital defense industries were report- ed officially today to be facing a rapidly dwindling supply of skilled labor at the very moment the Gov- ernment is preparing to give effect to the British aid program by increasing armament orders more than 60 per cent. To forestall an actual shortage of capable workmen, management and union representatives were urged by high Administration officials to add. a vast program of apprentice train- ing to the routine of work-jammed factories. On the success of such an under- taking, it was indicated, eventually will depend the effectiveness of lease- lend assistance to Britain, Greece and China as well as the speedup in preparation of America's own de- fenses. Galaza Cites Nee Attitude Towar . 1y EMILE GELE If North America does not change its attitude toward Pan-American cooperation, the South American peo- ples will lose confidence in the United States and will become more suscep- tible to fascist penetration, Ernesto Galarza, chief of the Division of La- bor and Social Information of the Pan-American Union, asserted in a University lecture here yesterday. "Long range planning to raise the standard of living in the Latin Amer- ican nations and to break down the barriers between them and the Unit- ed States is as vital to South Ameri- cans as the immediate military de- fense cooperation," Mr. Galarza stat- ed. "If the United States does not see the need of planning ,for permanent ennration with ,Snuth Amerinca the ; -BULLETIN- . Submarine Scare WASHINGTON, March 17.-(A) -The United States has received a tip, it was learned tonight, that a Nazi submarine is being sent across the Atlantic to operate in waters close to American shores, presumably off the Atlantic coast. The purpose of the submarine was not stated explicitly, but it was assumed that if it actually came to these waters it might operate against British and other foreign ships carrying supplies from the United States to Britain. There was no comment on the report from the State Department, the White House, the Navy or any other department in the executive branch of the government. Senator Wheeler (Dem.-Mont.) said, however, he had learned the tip had been passed along to the State Department by Lord Hali- fax, British Ambassador. Wheeler, a leading foe of the lend-lease bill, minimized the tip as an attempt to "frighten the State Department." l Three Faiths To Participate In Discussiont Dunne, Binsock And Nall To Lead Symposium On Reliion Today "Religion in a World at War" will be the topic of the symposium led by a Catholic priest, a Protestant minister, and a Jewish rabbi at 8 p.m. today in the Rackham lecture hall. Representing the views of the three branches of religious faith, Father George H. Dunne, Dr. Otto Nall, and Rabbi Louis Binstock will discuss the place of religion in the present crisis. The symposium open to the public is sponsored by the Student Religious Association and the National Confer- ence of Jews and Christians headed in the Mid-West by General Charles G. Dawes. Speaking for the Protestant de- nominations will be Dr. Nall, who is known nationally as the author of books on youth in the world order. He is the editor of the Christian Ad- vccate and has served on the edi- torial boards of publications of the Methodist Church. A student of international affairs at the University of Chicago, Father Dunne was formerly a missionary at the famous Chinese mission center at Zikawei. For the past few years he has been a participant of the Chi- cago Roundtable. The third speaker, Rabbi Louis Binstock, is the leader of one of the largest congregations in Chicago. As vice-president of the Chicago Urban League, he is active in civic affairs and the directer of Jewish charities. d For Changing d South America should be supplemented by a network of roads laid out to facilitate trans- portation between specific produc- ing areas. Observing the lack of certain nec- essary agencies for promoting Hem- isphere cooperation, Mr. Galarza not- ed that there is no agency for the cooperation of American labor, and stated that "the views of labor can- not continue to come through politi- cal and commercial offices as now, but can only be expressed adequately by a labor organization." Mr. Galarza said that the Euro- pean war has caused a serious rise in living costs, shortage of materials and loss of markets in South Ameri- can countries. As an example of materials short- age he cited the lull in Argentine con- struction which has thrown 70 'per By ALVIN DANN The University's offer to purchase Felch Park from the city was with-, drawn at the City Council meeting last night. The University's action came as a climax to a controversy which had been raging among local citizens ever since the offer was first made to pur- chase the two and one-half acre site of land opposite the Rackham Build- ing on Fletcher Street last January for the sum of $30,000. a Many citizens had opposed the deal on the grounds that the park should 'be kept by the city for the benefit of nearby residents, and also it was argued that the city was prohibited from selling the property to the Uni- versity under the terms which the city had purchased the property about 50 years ago. This view appears to have been Housing Expert To Tall Today Contreras To Open Series Of Public Lectures Speaking on "Modern Architecture and Housing in Mexico," Carlos Con- treras, Mexican authority on housing and city planning willopen a series of three public lectures at 4:15 p.m.j today in the Amphitheatre of thej Rackham Building, under the spon- sorship of the College of Architecture and Design. Mr. Contreras, architect and city' planning consultant of Mexico City, is a graduate of 'Columbia University, and was lecturer here during the summer session of 1939. He is a mem- ber of the executive committee of the! International Foundation for 'Hous- ing and Town Planning, and is pres- ident of the National Planning Asso- ciation of Mexico. The second lecture, on "Painting and Sculpture in Mexico," will be given at 4:15 p.m. tomorrow in Room 102, Architectural Building. The series will be concluded with a talk dealing with "City Planning in Mexico," at 4:15 p.m. Thursday in the Rackham Amphitheatre. All lec- tures are open to the public. Campus Yesterdays To Appear In Garg' substantiated by the University's legal advisers. In a communication to the council signed by President Alexander Ruthven and Vice-Presi- dentrShirley Smith it was stated that "Our attorneys doubt the city can transfer this property with a mer- chantable title. The views are based on the terms and conditions of the deed under which the city acquired the property." When the land was purchased it was understood it would be used for the new public health school. In the communication to the city the ad- ministration explained that they were giving up this purchase because of "the necessity we are under of find- ing a site at the earliest possible moment for the proposed school of public health building which was ten- dered by the Rockefeller Foundation (Continued on Page 2) Drama Group Announces Cast 'Much Ado About Nothing' Players Are Named Members of the cast for Play Pro- duction's presentatidn of Shake- speare's "Much Ado About Nothing" were announced yesterday by Prof. Valentine B. Windt, director of the group. The play, which opens at 8:30 p.m. tomorrow, will run through Sat- urday, including a matinee perfor- mance the last day. Ada McFarland, '42, will play Be- atrice, Hugh Norton, Grad., Bene- dick; Adeline Gittlen, '42. Hero; Dav- id Rich, '42, Claudio; Dorothy Hay- del, '41Ed, Margaret; Dorothy Morris, '43A, Ursula; Norman Oxhandler, '41, Leonato; and Willian Altman, '42, Don Pedro. The clowns, Dogbei'ry and Verges 1 will be played by Robert Lewis, '42, and John Sinclair, '42, respectively. Other parts will be taken by Jack Mitchell, '42, Don John; William Kin- zer, '42, Borachio; Neil Smith, '4lEd, Conrade; Marvin Levey, '43, Anton- io; and James George, '41, Balthasar. Francis Warner, '41, Messenger; Sheldon Finklestein, '42, Sexton; Marion Chown, '42, Boy; Donald Dia- mond, '42; Dean Burdick, '42. George Shepard, '41, Watch; Elaine Alpert, '41, Ollirae Bilby, '41, Neva Dilley, '41Ed, Bruce Forbes, '42, Joseph Gornbein, '41 ,and Merle Webb, '42, as Dancers complete the cast. The direction of this play was done by Professor Windt and Prof. William Halstead, of the Speech department, while dances were composed by Miss Ruth Bloomer, of the physical edu- cation department. All eligible second semester freshmen are invited to come out for the Michigan Daily business staff Wednesday or Monday , at 5 p.m., ]brad Williams, '42, an- nounced today. Allies, Axis Gird For Balkan Scrap BULGARIA Back .. © '8 - - 84 .TIRAN ::>0:: - e dSTANBUL SALONIKA .. ...... -00....... '".^'.'. arryed.-Lo:h Bu'e DArDeANEEsil ith eTEE. Cm t Te a oprtedly landed one third of a 300,000 man expedition (1) on Greciani oi, In Albania (2) Mussolini's spring offensive was reported beaten with 15,000 Italians kilied in five days. Yugoslavia still held out against German pressure to join the Axis. Meanwhile the Turkish press re- iterated that Turkey (5) will stand by "our allies" and disclosed plans for Turkish parachute troop maneuvers. Summer Daily Editors Named Kelsey Five Made City Editor; Positions Filled Phojgraphs of campus yesterdays, and campus tomorrows as seen in a cartoonist's imagination will be feat- ured in four pages of the March Gargoyle, on sale Thursday, Allan Axelrod, '43, issue editor, announced yesterday. Included in the spread will be pic- tures of the "new" Mason Hall, the downtown building where J-Hops of the day were held and a shot of State Street-even before it was paved. Highlighted, too, will be a 'shot of the Diagonal of 1841. Harry M. Kelsey, '41, of Grosse Pointe Park, was named city editor of the 1941 Summer Michigan Daily in a staff announcement made last night by Karl G. Kessler, '41, man- aging editor. h , Others selected for Daily posts were Barbara Jenswold, '43, of Duluth, Minn., and Albert P. Blaustein, '42,,,of Brooklyn, N.Y., who will serve as women's and sports editors respec- tively, and William Baker, '43, of Welborn, Kans., and Eugene Mande- berg, '43, of Detroit, who will hold the posts of associate editors. Former secretary-treasurer of Sig- ma Delta Chi, professional journa- lism fraternity, Kelsey was a member of the Daily's junior editorial staff last year and was associate editor, of the 1939 and 1940 Summer Daily. Blaustein ,a member of SDX and associate editor of last summer's Daily, is at present a night editor and activities director of Congress. Independent Men's Association. Leland Stowe To Speak Here- Foreign Correspondent To TalkThursday Not only does a war correspondent have to keep his eyes and ears open for news, but he has to keep in good physical condition as well, testified Leland Stowe recently after return- ing from the various European war fronts. Stowe, who will speak Thursday night in Hill Auditorium in the Ora- torical Lecture Series, explained that transportation at the fronts was one of the biggest problems confronting the correspondents. "Sometimes we had to hike many miles and it is quite a battle to get anyplace. It is a matter of keeping in fairly good physical condition,",the well-known reporter pointed out, "but a correspondent can't keep doing this sort of thing indefinitely. He has to get back from the front and rest if he is going to keep alert as a corres- pondent." And that's what Leland Stowe, who is back in the U.S.A. for the first time since 1939, wants to do-get a rest. He plans to remain in the United States until April. Meanwhile, in- stead of restings, he is speaking be- fore many audiences and trying to write a book on his war experiences. Stowe also hopes to find time to get acquainted with his family. Sixteen German Divisions Are To Counterbalance British Forces Landed Bulgarians Move To Prevent Spying BELGRADE, Yugoslavia. March 17. (1P)--Germany has moved 16 divisions -perhaps 240,000 fighters-up to or within striking distance of Bulgaria's Greek frontier, a military expert re- ported tonight, as Bulgaria itself pre- pared for possible Balkan battles be- tween Nazis and British. The 16 divisions were part of long columns of Nazi troops which this expert said were continuing to pour toward Greece through Hungary and Rumania to counterbalance the land- ing of a British expeditionary force in Greece. Near a third of a British force of 300,000 was, reported Satur- day to have been landed in Greece, with convoys still on the way. The Bulgarian governient ordered all direct contact with German troops in Bulgaria suspended .to eliminate possible spying on Nazi military con- tingents. The decree applied to any trader, private persons, society or organization was issued in connec- tion with a new plan for feeding the Nazi army through the Bulgarian food ministry out of surpluses which have been accumulating for months to Germany's credit, Bulgaria, with Rumania, also adop- ted new rules to reduce non-military traveling except on specific tele- graphed instructions from the Buch- arest and Sofia foreign offices. Then I li' xiii cidi 'visio ;thienMill- tary expert said, are in addition to the 12 in Rumania. Roughly de- scribed as in these locations: two still actually instructing the Rumanian army or defending strategic points; four on the Russian frontier or mov- ing in that direction; two near Yugoslavia; and four scattered along the supply line ready to be thrown in any direction they may be needed. Liner Blazes In Home Port (By The Associated Press) BERLIN, March 17-A big fire raged today aboard the $20,000,000 German liner Bremen, idle pride of Germany's merchant fleet and one- time holder of the blue ribbon for speed in Atlantic crossings. The whereabouts of the 51,731-ton liner were not disclosed in so- many words and the cause of the flames was undetermined, but a DNB, Ger- man official news agency, account of the, first was carried here under a Bremen dateline. The finer, complet- ed a spectacular hide-and-seek dash across the Atlantic to a home port soon after the war began. Late today, authorities said, the fire was "big" and was "still con- tinuing." They declined to give fur- ther details. * * * The British Broadcasting Corpora- tion hinted the Bremen was the vic- tim of a British air raid. The announ- cer said in a broadcast heard in New York by CBS: President Ruthven Opens Fingerprint Drive McDowell Stresses Position Of 'Turkey 1In Present Crisis By ROBERT MANTHO Stressing Turkey's key position for both offensive and defensive pur- poses, Dr. Robert H. McDowell, re- search associate in Mesopotamian Archaeology and an authority on the Near East, declared Sunday in a lec- ture at the Rackham Building that "Turkey will become a belligerent the moment British and Turkish staffs decide belligerency will, be useful in terms of long term operations." "The key position of Turkey stems from the fact that the greater part of the country lies in Asia, separated from Europe by the Straits. Thus a successful invasion of Turkey would continent or adjacent to the conti- nent to use as offensive bases; if she had an adequate reservoir of man power; and if she had an adequate reservoir of material. Of these, Britain lacks the mater- ial, he said. The British war aims at present, Dr. McDowell continued, are to preserve the largest possible reservoir of man power in the Bal- kans in preparation for the day she can take offensive and to attempt the establishment of bases there. "The German aims in the Balkans are threefold. First, Germany intends to exploit the Balkans in order to gain the maximum of food supplies which are absolutely vital to her: