Weather Thundershowers, cooler. Y i' e Fifty Years Of Continuous Publication aitj I Editorial A Lesson In German Propaganda .. a VOL. L. No. 171 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 1941 Z-323 PRICE FIVE CENTS DR Proclaims nlimited Emergency' i 66 Publications Board Election Will Be Toda W Ballots Union, To Decide Con re Parachutists Rain On Crete; Bismarck Sunk By Torpedo ,British Lose Cruisers And Destroyers In Island Battle; RoyalFleet Avenges Hood After Long Chase ss9 Athletic Positions Nine Polling Places Will Remain Open From 8 A.M.-5 P.M. Men's Council Conducts Vote Michigan students will go to the polls today to elect student members of tro control boards, the Union vice- presidents and executive post mem- bers of Congress. Nine different polling places will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. today, according to William Slocum, '42, president of the Men's Judiciary Council. Five students are vying for the three positions on the Board in Con- trol of Student Publications - a board which is now undergoing a transition which may end with eight voting adults instead of the present four. Three-Man Slate A three man slate has received the endorsement of the outgoing student board members. The slate includes Karl Kessler, '41, retiring Daily as- sociateeditor; Harold Guetzkow, '41, president of the Inter-Cooperative Council, and Charles Heinen, '41E, former secretary of the Union. Run- ning against them are Margaret Campbell, of the American Student Union, and George Cheffy, a member of the MAfichigan Party. Both secured Here's where you can vote today: Union and League lobbies; literary college, University Hall; engine school, the Arch; law school, libra- ry; forestry school, Room 1042 Na- tural Science; medical school, E. Medical Building lobby; dental school, lobby of old dental build- ing, and business administration school, the anteroom of Room 102 Tappan. ballot positions through a petitioning procedure One two-vear term on the Board in Control of Athletics will be filled to- day. Cliff Wise, '43, and Frank Mc- Carthy, '43, are on the ballot. Six Union vice-presidents will be chosen from 14 men. Candidates in the literary college are Albert K. Ludy, '42, Robert Samuels, '42, and Richard Strain, '42, Seeking the law school post are Brooks Crabtree, Richard Killin, and Jay Sorge, all '42L. List Candidates Combined engine and architecture school candidates are Bob Imboden, '42E, Robert Ogden, '42E, and Carl Rohrback, '42E. Running from the business administration and forestry schools ae Irl Brent, '42BAd., Allyn Ferguson, '42BAd., and Alex Yorman, '42F&C. Reinhold Sundeen, '42M, and J. Robert Short, '42D, have been au- tomatically elected to the medical and1 dental school posts as their nomina- tions were -uncontested. Candidates for the four rooming house positions in Congress, indepen- dent men's organization, are Ivan Gil- man, '44E, Ted King, '44P, Monte Konicov, '44, Albert Wohl, '43, and Richard Orlikoff, '44. MichioranWins ve Ypsilanti In Close Game Fisher Uses Four Hurlers To Take 5-4 Decision; Wise Checks Hurons -r By BOB SHOPOFF (Special to The Daily) YPSILANTI, May 27.-Coach Ray Fisher's red hot baseball nine suf- fered a couple of mental relapses to- day in their game against Michigan Normal, but the Wolverines showed enough power to beat the Hurons, 5-4, at Briggs Park in Ypsilanti. In the fourth inning Normal capi- talized on two Michigan errors and two throws to the wrong base to pass in three runs. Again in the eighth frame they scored another marker on a misplay. But the Wolverines were busy making a few runs on their own throughout the game. It was the fifth straight win for Michigan. Cliff Wise, fourth pitcher for the Varsity, was credited with the victory as he held the Hurons to only one run and one hit in the last three innings. Fisher used a quartet of hurlers today, Mase Gould, Mickey Stoddard, Lefty Muir and Wise, because he wanted to see what he could expect for the crucial series against Northwestern. Davey Nelson and Big George Ruehle supplied Michigan with its power as the former got three well- placed singles while George smacked a homer out of the park plus a single. Ruehle hit the ball over the centerfield fence 320 feet from home. The Varsity didn't waste any time in getting in the ball game as Nelson led off the first inning with a single to left. He advanced to second on Don Holman's sacrifice and Wayne Christenson, second sacker, drove him across the plate with a sharp drive to left. In the fourth Michigan added its second run when Ruehle connected for his circuit blow. Mike Sofiak and (Continued on Page 3) LONDON May 27.-(QP)-Possession of Crete hung in the balance tonight as airborne German troops, heedless of deaths estimated at 18,000, en- larged their hold on a seven-mile stretch of plain around Malemi and Britain announced loss of two new cruisers and four destroyers in Cretan waters in history's greatest air-naval battle. The Nazi invaders are constantly being reinforced by new parachutists, but Britain also is rushing up fresh manpower, while the fleet's sacrifi- fices have blocked German attempts to land from the sea, the British said. The ships lost, all apparently last Thursday, were the cruisers Glouces- ter and Fiji and the destroyers Grey- hound, Juno, Kashmir and Kelly. Commander of the Kelly was Lord Louis Mountbatten, second cousin to King George VI. What happened to him is. not known. In addition, the battleships Ware- spite and Valiant and several cruis- ers were damaged by the swarms of Nazi bombers which constantly beset them. More than 1,000 men - most of the crews - of the sunken ships were rescued. Prime Minister Churchill told the House of Commons, however, that some of the damaged ships already had put to sea again, and said that German claims of having sunk 11 cruisers, eight destroyers, five torpedo boats and a submarine were "even more exaggerated than usual." Britain's naval position in the east- ern Mediterranean remains firm, he said. 'Skylark' Continues~ fMendelssohn Run. "Skylark," Samson Raphaelson's comedy which opened yesterday at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre, will continue its run with a performance at 8:30 p.m. today, Ruth Matteson, who replaced Ilka Chase in the stellar role, enacts the neglected wife of an advertising ty- coon. Leon Ames, who will be remem- bered for his portrayal of Joe Fer- guson in "The Male Animal," is the well-intentioned advertiser who loves his business so much that his wife, threatens to name it corespondent. Hirman Sherman, who has ap- peared in previous drama festivals here, will continue his characteriza- ion of the sardonic and slightly al- coholic lawyer. LONDON, May 27.-(/P)-The 35,- 000-ton German battleship Bismarck, one of the newest and most powerful- in the world, was smashed and sunk today by British warships and aerial bombers on the fifth morning of as coldy implacable a chase as sea war- fare has ever known. From the Norwegian port of Ber- gen-where American-built Hudson warplanes attacked her before ever she left that harbor-she had been pursued and harried for 1,750 miles by a vast concentration of Royal Navy units afloat and in the skies until at last, crippled, whirling crazily, trapped and already mor- tally hit, she -was sent to the bottom 400 miles west of Nazi-occupied Brest. Hood Avenged Thus was avenged, in such a furi- ous display of British naval might as had not been seen before in this war, the one great victim of the Bismarck's short career, the 42,100-ton British battle cruiser Hood. It was at 11:01 a.m. (4:Q1 a.m. EST) that she sank at last in the chill waters so close to the refuge which she had sought to reach-the harbor of Brest-and the last of the long series of blows that sent her under came from the torpedoes of the circling warships. .She carried 1,300 men and the German Admiral Guenther Luetens, and her loss was the gravest suffered at seab ytheNa i sinice the war be- gan. Began May 23 The battle began on May 23, when the Bismarck made a dash out into the Denmark Strait to the south. It became an embittered effort to blast her to bits--if it took the whole of the British Navy-after her guns had found the heart of the Hood on May 24. At least 11 battleships, aircraft carriers, battle cruisers and cruisers, in addition to destroyers and torpedo- planes, took part in the roundup. A like pursuit went on tonight for the 10,000-ton German cruiser Prinz Eugen, which apparently fled and left the Bismarck to fight it out alone. It was declared that not a British vessel save the Prince of Wales was damaged, and she only slightly. Residence Hall Victory Dinner Plantned Today Wlhen the Residence 1-all's annual "Victory Dinner" is held in the West Quad dning halls at 6:00 p~m. today the occasion will mark the honoring of 97 numeral winers and 85 intra- mnural athletes from the dorms. Williams House, All-Year Intra- mural champions, will be specially honored by the presentation of the Intramural Department All-Year tro phy. Harry Moorstein, Williams House Athletic Chairman, will be given the Residence Halls Athletic Chairman trophy. Moorstein has been Athletic Chairman of Williams House for the last two years. Lloyd House, last year's champion, will receive the runners-up award. At the dinners, which will be held simultaneously in the four dining halls of the West Quad, medals will be given to the men who were on championship teams, and to the men who were named on All-Star teams during the ,year. 37 recipients of these awards will come from the East Quad and Fletcher Hall to receive their medals, Athletic Chairman awards will be given to 13 House Chairmen. After the dinner movies of the Ohio State football game and the American League Baseball movie will be shown. Wally Tipp, onetime New York Yan- kee first baseman, will talk on Inside Base balln Emergency Powers Explained WASHINGTON, May 27.-('P)-Un- der the powers of unlimited emergen- cy, which\President Roosevelt pro- claimed tonight, the Chief Executive may close or commandeer radio sta- tions, demand preference ,for troops and war materials on any transporta- tion system, suspend trading on se- curities exchanges, and take over powerhouses, dams and - conduits needed in munitions and manufac- ture. Any step he, may choose to take, aside from actual declaration of war, must be done by individual proclama- tion. Only Congress has authority to declare war. President Roosevelt proclaimed an emergency in 1939, which he described as "limited." Governmental -legal ex- perts said, however, that there was no clear distinction between a "limit- ed" and an "unlimited" emergency, and that technically the President could call into force his full powers in either ca'se. They believed he pro- claimed a full emergency tonight pri- marily to emphasize that the situation was serious. The President may do these things: Forbid Federal Reserve Banks to do business except under Treasury regulations. Investigate, regulate or prohibit transactions in foreign exchange. Place the coast guard under the Navy. Refuse clearance to vessels of a. belligerent country which discrimin- ates against American vessels or citi- zens. Empower the Federal Power Com- mission to require temporary connec- Promises Delivery Of War Supplies; Warns Of Danger By RICHARD L. TURNER WASHINGTON, May 27.-( P)-Repeatedly warning that America stands in peril of attack by the Nazis, PresidentRoosevelt tonight proclaimed the existence of a full national emergency and promised' that all necessary measures would be taken to deliver war supplies safely to England. At the safne time, the Chief Executive warned Adolf Hitler that America will "actively resist his every attempt to gain control of the seas." And he called upon capital and labor to "merge their minor differences" in the broader interest of assuring "the survival of the only kind of government which recognize's the rights of labor or of capital." On the question of getting aid to England, Mr. Roosevelt said that the nation's far-flung Atlantic patrols "are helping now to insure delivery" of Oneeded supplies and that the patrols To Resist Control Of Seas tions for the energy. transmission of electric Tripe'Is Offered By New 'Ensign For the best in Tripe, readthe 1941 course, for that's only the name of a satire magazine section within the yearbook written by two editors of The Daily and giving a news slant on campus life and personalities. Although these men have properly buried their heads under the sand it's really too late now, for the 'En- sian is out and the satire is in black and white for posterity to judge. Many have not seen this feature, nor have they seen the four-color spreads of the League, the Law Quad- rangle and the campus walks. It is for these that the 'Ensian is holding its office open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. again today to distribute yearbooks to their purchasers, PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT Michigan Band ToHold Annual SpringBanquet The annual spring banquet of the Michigan Bands will be held at 6:30 p.m. today in the League. Arthur Hills, '42SM, chairman of the event, has announced that an innovation will be made in awarding a plaque to the most valued members of the Bands. Other awards will include those which will be given for service in the Bands; namely, a silver witch charm for one year, a gold watch charm for two years, a Band M sweater for three years and a Band M blanket for four years. Winers of the Kappa Kappa Psi honorary' band fraternity's solo and ensemble contest will be given medah as an added feature of the dinner. William D. Revelli, conductor of the University of Michigan Bands, wil' name the student staffs which will assist him next year. are being steadily augmented. After stressing that the security of the western hemisphere was threat- ened by Hitler's career of conquest, he, said cryptically: "We are placing our armed forces in strategic military position." These things were contained in a long awaited address delivered before a distinguished gathering of the dip- lomatic representatives of all the American nations. The speech also went by short wave to distant lands, in English and half a dozen translations. Text Sent Abroad It went directly, too, and in full text to both Berlin and Tokyo. Newspaper- men representing the German and Japanese news agencies were waiting in the White House lobby when, two hours before its delivery, the text of the address was given to the pres The President, seated beneath an arc of flags of the 21 American re- publics, spoke in his customary de- liberate, word-spaced manner. But his voice rose and his pace grew more rapid as he several times reached what appeared to be the principle message of his address - that it is Hitler's plan and intent to "strangle the United States of America," that the war "is coming very close to home." Secretary Hull, chin in hand, sat almost immediately in front of the President with Mrs. Roosevelt across an aisle from him. The Chief Ex- ecutive, in a white -dinner jacket, sat in a red velvet chair before a small mahogany desk littered with micro- (Highlights of President Roose- velt's address to the Nation yester- day will be found on page 2.) phones, a bottle of water and a glass, and the leather-botnd loose-leaf notebook from which he always reads his prepared speeches. Presidential Secretary Stephen Ear- ly, in explanation of Mr. Roosevelt's words that "all additional measures" necessary to deliver war supplies to Britain would be taken, said they did not mean convoying "in the old sense of the word," "It probably means," Early said, "a strengthening, a better and more efficient patrol, with more ships pa- trolling." He told reporters he had not dis- cussed with his chief what powers might be exercised at once under the proclamation of a full national emer- gency. He said he did not know, either, whether 'any Executive orders might be 'issued immediately. % t With his proclamation - of a full- emergency, Mr. Roosevelt took to himself extraordinary powers to be exercised as developments demand. Limited Emergency In legal circles it was considered that most of the power he can wield could have been exercised under the "limited emergency" already in effect. His proclamation was principally for the purpose of impressing upon the people a full realization of the gravity of the present situation. With emphasis, Mr. Roosevelt warned that Iceland, Greenland, Lab; rador, Newfoundland and Nova Scotia could, under Nazi domination, become "stepping stones" for an attack upon the United States itself. In the same An Answer To Fascism: Peac Leader Norman Thomas To Speak on Democracy Today Indian Backs Britain: German Victo-ry miuld iBring Slavery To India, Raman Says By DAN BEHRMAN Michigan will hear one of the na- tion's leaders in the fight for peace when Norman Thomas speaks at 8:15 p.m. today in the Rackham Am- phitheatre to give "A Democratic Answer to War and Fascism." Thomas, now on a country-wide lecture tour, is making his second appearance of the school year in Ann Arbor. On Oct. 15, he spoke before the Michigan Forum on "Butter and Guns." Originally a Presbyterian minister in New York's East Harlem district, Thomas broke with the church to join the American Union Against Militarism in 1918. After his anti- war activities, he jcined the Nation 'as an associate editor in 1922 and became director of the League for Industrial Democracy. In 1928, Thomas received the So- ,,ialis tnomination for President and By MORTON MINTZ Political slavery would be but the "smallest part" of the price India would have to pay if the calamity of a Nazi victory 'were to befall the world, T. A. Raman, a native In- dian and London editor of the United Press of India, asserted in a lecture in the Rackham Building yes- terday. Raman, whose talk was sponsored by the history and political science departments, maintained that under the Nazi heel "the united nation we seek to build would break into a thousand pieces and between the cracks would rise the human vermin which would help to rule India for Germany. "That is why," Raman explained, "India throughout bitterly opposed Britain's pre-war foreign policy on the ground that it temporised with insatiable evil and~ vigorously sup- ported Mr. Churchill's resolute stand against aggression." war, Raman pointed out, are "two powerful motives, nationalism and anti-Naziism, which though the world at large seems to overlook it, is pro- found and unshakable, not divided by differences of race or creed." With this nationalism, Raman said, "India's war effort continues apace, and the most extreme leaders would do nothing materially to preju- dice it and the country will remain stable and fifth-column proof what- ever befalls. "The problem, therefore, of nation- alist India can be quite simply put thus: we want to be free and we do not want the Nazis to win. Our task is to reconcile these two factors in our policy to continuously advance our nationalist interests consistent with the overriding necessity of pre- venting a Nazi victory." Raman emphasized the influence of the United States on the problem of India, contending that "she can I Health Service Blames Cold Germ For Busy Day One of the busiest Mondays on record sent 600 students scurrying into Health Service for examination and diagnosis of what proved to be