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VOL. LI No. 95 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1941 Z-323
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Wolverine Cagers
Take Ragged Tilt;
State Road
Engineers
To Convene
Van Wagoner To Speak
On Military Highway,
At 27th Conference
Matmen Lose, 17-9
Stampf Continues Drive UnionlToHol
Toward Scoring Lead;
Brogan, Sofiak T4lly Witr Snow
Ineligibility Cripples
Wolverine Wrestlers
(Special To The Daily)
CHICAGO, Ill., Feb. 17-Control
of the rebounds under both baskets
gave Michigan a 42-29 victory over
Chicago in a raggedly payed game
before 1,500 fans in the Midway Field
House tonight.
The Maroons, banking practically
all their offense on bespectacled Joe
Stampf, jumped off to an early lead
but faded just before the end of the
half and were never again serious
contenders for their first Big Ten
victory.
What some hoped would be a scor-
ing dual between Stampf and Jim
Mandler failed to materialize when
the big Wolverine sophomore was re-
moved for Mel Comin with about
five minutes left in the first half.
Comm promptly dropped in two bas-
kets and a free throw as Michigan
pulled away to a 21-17 half-time
lead.
Stampf drove further toward the
Big Ten scoring title, dropping three
baskets and eight free throws for 14
points. The eight free throws brought
his season total to 56, seven over
the number with which he led Con-
ferenice free throwing last year.
Bill Cartmill, Capt. Herb Brogan,
and Mike Sofiak paced the big second
half, accounting for all but three of
Michigan's 21 points. Cartmill, Michi-
gan's most valuable man under the
baskets, trailed Stampf for high scor-
ing honors with 13 points and a free
toss.
Sofiak drew three personals in the
first half, but settled down to open
the second period with a 20-foot push
and the Wolverines pulled steadily
away, leading by no less than ten
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Ineligibility Cripples
Wolverine Grappiers
By STAN CLAMAGE
Old man ineligibility stopped-over
in Ann Arbor again last night and
helped Indiana to a 17-9 victory over
Michigan.
Only four regular Wolverine grap-
plers worked last night against the
Big Ten Champions, but in spite of
these adverse conditions, it was one
of the best dual meets seen here in
a long time.
Stepping down into Capt. Bill
Comb's 155-pound spot, Art Paddy
gave the fans one of the best fights
of the evening. Against the Hoos-
iers' Dan Gill, Paddy continually
piled-up points but couldn't gain a
fall win. He had several near falls
in his 18-2 decision.
The most surprising match was
the one in the 165-pound class.
Sophomore Bill Cour;ight, in his
first varsity tussle held his own
against Angelo Lazzara, Big Ten
Champion. The fight was even at
4-4 until Lazzara gained a go-behind
in the last five seconds to win 6-4.
Ray Deane .and Jim Galles con-
tinued their wins by virtue of one-
point decisions. Deane, a regular
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Student Exchange
Will Remain Open
Two More Days
The student book exchange in the
lobby of the Union will remain open
until 5 p.m. tomorrow.
Books for popular freshman and
sophomore courses are urgently need-
ed and can probably be sold at once.
according to Bob Samuels, co-direc-
tor.
Barbara Dittman, '42, and Beth
Castor, '42, members of the League
staff co-operating in sponsoring the
exchange, announced yesterday that
used texts are yet available for most
courses.
Samuels estimated that Michigan
students have saved several hundred
dollars by using this non-profit serv-
ice,
The exchange is handling the
Festival Today
The snow came-so at 3 p.m. today,
500 to 1000 Michigan students will,
travel by sleigh, taxi, bus and foot
out to Carnival Hill in the middle of
Nichols Arboretum to take part in
the Michigan Union's much-delayed
extravaganza, the winter carnival.
It was an anxious Jack Grady, car-
nival chairman, who dropped his for-
ty cents into the telephone last night
to call Detroit's weatherman, Nor-
man B. Conger. The answer was
short, but consoling: Cloudy and
Colder, Lowest Temperature about 18
Degrees.
The show begins with a cross-
country ski race over a mile and a
half course and will be followed at
3:30 by a skiing demonstration by the
Ann Arbor Ski Club, headed by Bob
Lewis, Grad. The club members will
slalom and illustrate intricate turns.
After the special short-course ski
race for women the downhill tobbog-
gan race for distance will be held.
There will alsobe a women's division
in this race. There are no restrictions
on the size of the tobboggan or the
number of men.
Skis and tobboggans may be rented
from the Women's Athletic Building,
the Z-M, and campus sport shops
Annual Contest
Ruthven Will Talk
At Union Luncheon
Problems in military highway en-
gineering, the minimum road, county
road systems and the administration
of traffic activities will highlight the
discussions of more than 700 engin-
eers and road administrators who will
convene here tomorrow, Thursday
and Friday to attend sessions of the
Michigan Highway Conference in the
Union.
The Conference, which is the 27th
annual convention on highways to
be offered in Ann Arbor, is being pre-
sented under the direction of the Col-
lege of Engineering in cooperation
with the Michigan State Highway
Department, the Michigan Associa-
tion of Road Commissioners and En-
gineers and the Michigan Depart-
ment of Public Safety.
Tomorrow's program will be fea-
tured by an address by Gov. Murray
D. Van. Wagoner, former Michigan
Highway Commissioner, who will dis-
cuss various aspects of the state's mil-
itary roads. His talk will follow a
short introduction by President Alex-
ander G. Ruthven at a luncheon at
12:30 p.m. in the Union ballroom.
Prof. John S. Worley of the trans-
portation engineering department will
preside over the introductory session
at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow in the Ball-
room at which Oscar M. Gunderson,
traffic engineer, Michigan State Po-
lice, will discuss "Accident Experience
on the County Road Systems."
Following a panel discussion on
"How Can Road Commissions Reduce
Traffic Accidents?" A. F. Malo of the
State Highway Department will speak
on "County Roads Safety Problems
in Relation to Trunk Lines Safety
Problems."
Two sessions will be held at 2 p.m.,
one dealing with traffic problems,
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Mrs. E. Prytz
To Talk Today
Norwegian Will Lecture
On Invasion Conditions
Mrs. Elizabeth Prytz, secretary of
the University Library of Oslo, Nor-
way and former secretary to Crown
Prince Olav of Norway, will deliver
a University lecture on "Conditions
in Norway Since the German Invas-'
ion," at 4:15 p.m. today in the Rack-
ham Lecture Hall under the auspices
of the University Library.
After witnessing the invasion, Mrs.
Prytz saw how conditions under the
Nazi regime grew worse, and decided
to escape to tell the world of what
really had happened in Norway.
She stayed for four months, then
succeeded in getting out of the coun-
try, bringing with her material illus-
trating the conditions in the bombed
cities and reports from eyewitnesses.
Lantern slides will illustrate the lec-
ture.
Prof. Young
Gains GOP
Nomination
Prof. Glenn L. Alt Wins
Council President Race;
Crippen Beats Out Rival
Garthe And Waite
Defeat Opponents
Two University men were chosen
by Ann Arbor voters in yesterday's
lightly-voted primary election for
the leading positions on the Repub-
lican ticket.
Prof. Leigh J. Young of the fores-
try school received 1366 votes by un-
official count to defeat his business-
man opponent Albert L. McDonald,
who got 1114 votes in the race for the
mayoralty nomination.
Prof. Glenn L. Alt of the engineer-
ing school was nominated G.O.P.
council president when he was given
1263 votes to the 1154 votes given
Cecil O. Creal, buinessman. Both are
incumbent aldermen.
Herbert Crippen Wins
Herbert W. Crippen was unsuc-
cessfully opposed for the renomina-
tion as city assesor by Carl H. Schall-
horn. The final figures gave Crippen
1263 and Schallhorn 1175.
All Democratic candidates for city
and ward offices were unopposed.
In the alderman race, first ward,
Republicans nominated Walter R.-
Garthe. incumbent, by giving him
144 votes to his opponent, Robert Du-
val's 66.
Prof. John Barker Waite of the
Law School. incumbent. received 240
votes from sixth ward Republicans
while his opponent, Wm. M. Pendorf,
got 101 votes.
Sydney P. Cook was nominated ov-
er Ray Collins in the seventh ward.
Cook got 456 votes and Collins 231.
Herbert Wagner Defeated
In the sixth ward Supervisor Her-
bert P. Wagner was defeated for re-
nomination by Dr. Warren E. For-
sythe, director of the health service
Forsythe got 197 and Wagner received
148. Constable A. C. Gaston was de-
feated for renomination by Roy H.
Stoddard. Voters gave Stoddard 341
votes and Gaston 119.
The first, second, third, and fourth
wards, populated mostly by towns-
people, supported McDonald. The
fifth, although populated in the same
way as the other four, gave Young
a small plurality. McDonald's slight
lead was then swept away by the
heavy Young pluralities in the sixth
and seventh wards, where the faculty
reside.
Architect Senior Wins
Airport Design Contest
William D. Kinsell, Jr., '41A, was
awarded the $100 first prize in an
airport design contest, it was an-
nounced yesterday. C. Wesley Lane,
'41A, received the second prize of $50.
The contest was held under the
joint sponsorship of the American
Road Builders Association and the
transportation division of the Uni-
versity, in cooperation with the Na-
tion Aeronautics Association, the
American Association of Airport Ex-
ecutives, and the National Associa-
tion of State Aviation.
Prof. Ralph W. Hammett of the
College of Architecture and Design
was faculty critic for the students
who competed from here.
Bulgar-Turk Agreement
Weakens Greek Position,
Clears Way For Germany
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University enrollment figures re-
vealed a substantial decrease for the
second semester of the 1940-41 school
year as statistics released late last
night showed that 10,458 persons had
enrolled in all schools and colleges
up to that time as compared with
10,908 students enrolled by the first
day of the last semester.
The enrollment was also consid-
erably less than that of last year
when 10,682 students registered in
February.
With four exceptions the percent-
age decrease was spread almost even-
ly among the various schools and
colleges of the University with the
School of Forestry and Conservation
suffering an approximate twenty per
cent decrease in enrollment as com-
pared with last year. In real figures
its enrollment dropped from 156 last
February to 124 this year.
The largest real decline in enroll-
ment was evident in the College of
Engineering, whose total enrollment
dropped from 1,977 for last year to
1,872 for this year.
A slight gain was noted in the Col-
lege of Literature, Science and the
Arts as registration figures topped
last year's total of 4,418 by 41 stu-
dents.
Had it not been for an increased
registration of women students the
real decline in registration would
have been considerably sharper. This
year's total enrollment of women was
3,047 as compared with last year's
enrollment of 2,989.
In the graduate school there were
94 fewer students enrolled this year,
a total of 1,189.
Compared wtih registration statis-
tics for last September, enrollment
decreased in nearly all divisions ex-
cept the graduate school, where en-
rollment moved up from 1,474 to
1, 523.
University Enrollment Shows
Second Semester Decrease
In Law School
Nearing Finals
Name Freshmen, Juniors
To Argue In Case Club
Debates; Ends April 25
Sixteen freshmen and eight juniors
in the Law School were chosen by the
Case Club Committee last week as
finalists and semi-finalists respective-
ly in the annual Lawyers' Case Club
Competition.
The freshmen will argue their
cases before the School's senior ad-
visers on Thursday, March 13, while
the juniors will hold their semi-finals
on Thursday and Friday, March 27
and 28. The juniors' final round is
scheduled for Founders' Day at the
Law School, Friday, April 25.
Juniors who were chosen include'
Charles O. Laughlin and Seymour J.
Spelman, Kent Club; David G. Laing,
and James O. Guernsey, Story Club;
William Butler and Oscar Clark, Jr.,
Holmes Club; and Jack H. Shuler and
Lcn 'H. Barringer, Marshall Club.
Freshmen from the Cooley Club
include Charles A. Dean, Owen P.
Lillie, William R. Newcomb and
George T. Schilling while Hamilton
T. Hoyt, Jack D. Redwine, Rodman
N. Myers and Jack Conn represent
the Holmes Club.
Kent Club members are R. Arnold
Kramer, John T. Ryan,-Emerson W.
Smith and James M. Sullivan and
Marshall Club representatives include
Forest A. Hamline, Jr., Roland F.
Rhead, Joseph Hession and Neil Mc-
kay.
English Film
T o Be Shown
Art Cinema To Present
'Edge Of The World'
England's great film of 1940, "The
Edge of the World," will be presented
by the Art Cinema League Friday
and Saturday at 8:30 p.m. in the
Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre.
The story takes place upon a small
island off the coast of England and
concerns the difficulties with which
Michigan AIEE
Group To Hold
MeetingToday
A. F. Rose To Give Talk;
Engineers From Entire
State Will Be Present
Planning a two-part program, elec-'
trieal engineers from all ovf r the
state will meet at 6:15 p.m. today in
the Union for a regular meeting of
the Michigan section of the Ameri-
can Institute of Electrical Engineers.
Scheduled to speak on the program
is A. F. Rose of American Telephone
and Telegraph, whose topic will be
"Toll Circuits of the Bell System."
A new method of laying underground
cable by means of a plow will be ex-
plained and demonstrated by mov-
ing pictures.
It is planned to hold the banquet
part of the meeting in the Union,
bhen to adjourn to the Rackham Am-
phitheatre for the talk, which will be-
gin at 7:45 p.m.
Officers of the campus student
chapter of the AIEE will meet with
officers of the Michigan section in
a special session during the evening,
Prof. M. B. IStout of the electrical
engineering department, vice-presi-
dent of the Michigan section, an-
nounced.
Informal entertainment is sched-
uled for the banquet program. A stu-
dent quartet will sing several num-
bers, and a skit will be presented.
Local arrangements for the din-
ner and entertainment parts of the
program are being made by Professor
Stout and Prof. James S. Gault, of
the electrical engineering department,
who is faculty adviser to the stu-
dent section.
I. L. Sharfman
Made Member
Of Strike Board
FDR Appoints Professori
To Serve In Vermont
Railway Labor Dispute
Prof. I. L. Sharfman, chairman of
the economics department, ill eave
Ann Arbor today for Rutland, Vt.,
where he will begin proceedings as a1
member of a three-man board ap-
pointed by President Roosevelt last
Saturday to investigate a threatened
strike of 1,300 employees of the Rut-
land, Vt., railroad.
Prof. Sharfman, nationally recog-
nized as one of the country's out-f
standing authorities on railroads,
participated in New York harbor juris-
dictional controversy in 1937 and the
Pacific Electric Railroad dispute in
Los Angeles.t
He has also served as a referee on
the Railroad Adjustment Board. t
A strike on this Rutland railroadt
has been called serious to the na-
tional defense program.t
In invoking the Railway Labor Act
and creating the special board the
President has blocked a strike whicht
was to have started Friday. Under the1
law, the board is given 30 days to
report. Another 30 days must elapse
before a strike can begin.
Groups Form
For Connable;
Students, Alunni To Aid
Candidate For Regent
Formation of two groups to sup-
port the candidacy of Alfred Con-
nable of Ann Arbor for Republican
nomination for Regent, at the com-
ing State Convention in Grand Rap-7
ids has been announced.
The committee of University Alum-
ni and citizens of the state backing
Connable includes Dean Emeritus
Henry M. Bates, former Regent Har-
ry G. Muckley, Mr. and Mrs. Jamesi
Inglis, Charles Gore, James B. Craig,
and Harry Gualt.
Phillip Buchen, '41L, is the chair-
man of the student committee. Other
students serving with him are Thomas
G. Ford, '41, secretary of the group,
Edward Frutig, '41, William Dobson,
'42, Jane Krause, '44, Virginia Lee
Hardy, '41, David Laing, '42L, Horace
Gilmore, '42L, and Jay McCormick,
'42.
Michigan Flying Society
To Hold Meeting Today
The Flying Club will hold an im-
portant meeting at which a flight
board will be elected at 7:30 p.m.
today in room 1042 East Enginerring
Quick End To Greek War
Expected As Probable
Result Of New Treaty
British May Lose
Balkan Foothold
(By The Associated Press)
SOFIA, BULGARIA, Feb. 17-A
Bulgarian-Turkish nonaggression a4
cord emerged tonight and by a few
statements in which the two Balkan
nations professed no more than sim-
ple amity for each other it threat-
ened to change the oourse of the
European war.
Reliable informants said the accord
meant, among other things:
1: A probable quick peace between
Greece and Italy, with Greece the
suppliant despite its victories in Al-
bania.
2. That Germany would steer clear
of the Dardanelles, vital link between
the Russian-dominated .Black Sea
and the eastern Mediterranean.
Major Obstacle Is Removed
(The strategic Dardanelles pas-
sage bisects Turkey, separating its
European and Asiatic parts.)
3. That a major obstacle to a Ger-
man march through Bulgaria to
Greece and the Mediterranean had
been removed, for the Turks had
promised in the accord not to attack
Bulgaria.
-A tangle of diplomatic maneuver-
ing lay behind the accord.
It was understood that in return
for Germany's promise to leave Tur-
key alone and keep away from the
Dardanelles, Soviet Russia would be
forced to seek return of the "lost"
provincesoftars ani Ardahan froi
Turkey should the Turks become em-
broiled with Germany over passage
of Nazi troops through Bulgaria.
In the eyes of most diplomatic ob-
servers the platitudes of the Bulgar-
ian-Turkish accord seemed to have
sealed- the fate of Greece and to have
squeezed Britain out of its last small
foothold in Southwestern Europe.
Axis Is Jubilant
German and Italian quarters joy-
fully interpreted the understanding
to mean that Turkey, despite its stat-
us as nonbelligerent ally of the Brit-
ish, would stand within its own fron-
tiers when and if the time comes for
Adolf Hitler's Balkan army to roll
through Bulgaria into Greece and to
the shores of the Mediterranean.
Reliable informants even doubted
that such a move by Germany would
be necessary to cause Greece to yield.
They felt the threat of it, without
any opposition to Germany from the
Turkish plan, would be enough to
stop the Greeks.
The kingpin of this latest victory
for Axis diplomacy is understood to
be Franz Von Papen, ace Naci diplo-
matist. It was said he played a big
part in bringing the Turks and the
Bulgars together. The negotiations,
culminated by the accord, have been
going on for weeks.
Pacific Tension Reported
By Japan, Australia
(By The Associated Press)
TOKYO, Feb. 17-Domei, Japan's
near-official news agency, quoted
Vice Foreign Minister Chuichi Ohashi
today as saying the United States,
Britain, Australia and the Nether-
lands Government-in-Exile "seem in-
tent upon suppressing Japan" and
that Japan might "be obliged to face
the issue."
This, declared the published state-
ment, "might cause serious conse-
quences."
The Australian Government de-
clared last week the Pacific situation
had reached a stage of "utmost grav-
ity.
Causes or effects of this "gravity"
include: reports of Japanese Naval
movements in the China Sea, of Jap-
anese concentration of 150,000 troops
in the Canton area of South China,
in French Indo-China, Hainan Is-
land, Formosa, and the Spratly Is-
lands and of a "nucleus" military air
base established by the Japanese at
Saignon, Indo-China, less than four
hours flight from the British Sing-
anore naval base nrotective mining
German Internal disorder Depends
On Military Reverses, Simons Says
By CHESTER BRADLEY,
Internal opposition to the Nazi
regime can be successful within Ger-
many only after the Nazi war ma-
chine has suffered very great mili-
tary reverses, such as the failure
of the invasion of Great Britain,
Dr. Hans Simons, noted political
science authority on the faculty of
the New School for Social Research
in New York City, commented in an
interview here Sunday.
"No one except he who has lived in
Germany in recent years can begin
to realize the extent of the tremen-
dous amount of power back of this
war effort by the Nazis, and only the
most fundamental failure in military
strategy will affect adversely that
effort," Dr. Simons declared.
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By GEORGE W. SALLADE,
Any future European peace plan
must have a promise of social secur-
ity, no slavery of some national
groups for the benefit of others, and
a regulated disarmament, according
to Dr. Hans Simons of the New
School for Social Research in New
York, who spoke here Sunday in a
lecture sponsored by the Ann Arbor
chapter of the Committee to Defend
America by Aiding the Allies.
Dr. Simons is an exiled German
leader who served on the German
peace delegation to Versailles in 1919
and is a student of political science.
Director of the Institute of Political
Science in Berlin, he was District
Governor of Pomerania and Silesia
in 1929-30.
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