Weaher Clou dy, light rain or drizzlIe. Y £fr igun Iaitxj Editoriatl Give Generously ToUSO... Fifty Years Of Continuous Publication VOL. LI. No. 176 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1941 Z-323 PRICE FIVE CENTS American Vessels Assembly Hears Panel; Ingersoll Talk Canceled British Action . To Help In British Dominion Service Maritime Comm issioni's Move R el ea s es Dozen British Freighters From Trade With Caniada, Australia, New Zealand WASHINGTON, June 3.-t(P)-In a new move to strengthen Britain's Atlantic life-line, the United States Maritime Commission announced today that American vessels would henceforth handle all British shipping services from Canada and the United States to Australia and New Zealand. 'This will release a dozen British vessels for Great Britain's own war effort," said an announcement from the commission. The Neutrality Act forbids American vessels to carry supplies to Britain, because it is in a war zone, and President Roosevelt has indicated he has no plans to ask changes in the act. However such vessels are not forbidden to go to Australia and New Zea- land. Putting them into such service and shifting British vessels to the task of carrying supplies to Great Britain or other war zones strength- ens the British lifelines without mod- Reported In Syria; Against Nazis e ifying the Neutrality Act. During the day Britain's urgent needs in terms of military and econ- omic warfare were put before high administr ation officials. The White House and St&te De- partment were scenes of unusual ac- tivity in appaent preparation for more active steps to checkmate Axis sttategy in both the East and West. Speed Indicated President Roosevelt's return to the capital from a week-end visit to Hyde Park was followed by these events, all portending greater emphasis on action and speed in executing the for- eign policy laid down in his speech last week: 1. The Presiden received a detailed report on conditions in Great Britain from1 John G. Winant, American Am- bassador to London, who later con- ferred also with Secretary of State Hull-. 2. The President had- a luncheon conference with Admiral Ernest J. Ping, Commander of the Atlantic Fleet and the Atlantic Patrol. - the man chiefly responsible for carrying out President Roosevelt's promise to see that the goods are delivered safe- ly to Great Britain. Hull Confers 3 Secretary Hull conferred at length with Neville Butler, British Minister, and Noel Hall, representa- tive of the British Ministry of Econ- omic Warfare. 4. Dr. Eelco N. Van Kleffens, Neth- erlands foreign minister, gave Sum- ner Welles, Undersecretary of State, a full report on his findings on a Far I Eastern observation trip and par- ticularly on the progress of slow-mov- ing economic negotiations between the Netherlands East Indies and Ja- pan. 'Miracle' Needed 5. Secretary of the Navy Knox left a weekly "strategy" conference with Secretary of State Hull and Sec- retary of War Stimson to tell a con- ference of shipbuilders that a "mir- acle" was needed in the warship building industry to assure command of the seas by the United States and Britain. At his press conference this after- noon, President Roosevelt was un- usually non-committal. Gas less' .Days May Be Asked In .E'mergency WASHINGTON, June 3. -(A- Rigid restrictions onuthe use of oil, Including "gasess Sundays," were suggested today by a committee of the petroleum industry, in the face of an acute shortage expected by July 1. In a report to Secretary Ickes, de- fense petroleum coordinator, the oil men pledged their support "to any extent" to meet the anticipated emer- gency, and thus ward off a menace to the preparedness drive. The shortage is expected on the Eastern Seaboard, hub of defense production. It results from the trans- fer to British service of 50 of the approximately 250 tankers of Ameri- ca's coastwise fleet and the expect- ed transfer of others. "There will be sinking and we will haveto replace them," Ickes told the oil men as the report was being read to him. The committee, formed by the Babel' Dinner Will Be Held hI West Quad,' Banquet Today Will Honor Language Counsellors In International Setting By ROBERT MANTHO With an assortment of beer steins, imported wine bttles-empty-and gourds collected on various tables, the unique "Tower of Babel" banquet will get off to a proper start at 6:15' p.m. today in the West Quadrangle. Head waiters will appear from all' sides to escort the guests to their tables-and they will be dressed in native Tyrolean, Spanish and French costumes in keeping with the atmos-' phere, which will be foreign to the last word. The banquet will be in honor of the voluntary language counselors who led the foreign language tables during the semester at the West Quad. The students to be honored for their services at the head of the language tables include Robert Hack- er, Grad., and Warner Heinemann, '44, for leading the German table; Ernest McCarus, '44, Henry Sanchez, '44E, and Alberto Ramirez-Angel, '44E, for leading the Spanish table;' Bertram Smith, Grad., for leading the French table, and Peter Ostafin, Grad. for taking the head of the Polish table. Gor don Stars As Thtird Play Continues Run "Ladies In Retirement," third offer- ing of the 1941 Dramatic Season, will continue its performances with a showing at 8:30 p.m. today in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. Ruth Gordon, star of Denham and Percy's English melodrama, enacts the role of the iron-willed house- keeper who murders her employer to provide a home for her two crazy sisters. Thepart of Leonora Fiske, the re- tired actress, is taken by Eva Leon- ard-Boyne. Mildred Natwick and Dorothy Blackburn portray the im- becilic sisters. Other roles in this mystery drama are taken by David Powell-the worthless nephew--and Perry Wilson, who is the maid. Tickets for this play, "Man and Superman" and "Golden Boy" may be purchased at the box office in the League. Co-op Intervlews (lose Tomorrow The last interviews of the semester for men students interested in living or boarding in cooperative houses next semester will be held at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in Room 304 of the Union by the Intercooperative Per- sonnel Committee, David Zaron, '42, chairman, announced. All those interested who will not be able to be at the Union at 7:30 p.m. are requested to phone Zaron at 7350, as this will be the last oppor- By HALE CHAMPION Before a capacity audience gathered to hear Ralph Ingersoll, a panel con- sisting of Prof. James K. Pollock, Prof. Preston S. Slosson, Prof. Charles F. Remer, and labor analyst Herbert McCready discussed various aspects of the world situation, answering questions from the floor concerning our future policies. Explaining that we can retain our democracy during wartime, Professor Pollock denied that the present cen- tralization of power was undemo- cratic. He stressed that only loss of popular control can bring dictator- ship, and added that such a loss had not taken place in either England or the United States. McCready argued that labor realizes that this is a war between fascism and a potentially newer, more dynamic democracy. He also maintained that labor was giving its full support to national defense, and used as evidence the Reuther and Murray plans. In his talk, Profes'sor Remer em- phasized the importance of the Far East in any consideration of our ac- tion in the Atlantic, explaining that the interaction of the' two situations demanded consideration of both. Professor Slosson, 'speaking on I "Aims and Objects of the War," con- eluded the series of short talks with an explanatioi of the real reasons that England is fighting. Claiming that it is obviously a matter of self- interest, he added that many other benefits were to be obtained from a British victory, no matter what their motive for fighting. Sponsored by the American Student Defense League, the panel was the final event of the regional conference of the Student Defenders of Demo- cracy held here today. The afternoon meeting decided on an annual all- state conference, the first of which is to be held next fall. Thost schools represented at the meeting today were Michigan State College, Wayne Uni- versity and Michigan State Normal College. Student Senate Votes To Pass on Constitution The Student Senate passed its new constitution by unanimous vote at the final meeting of the year, held last night in the Union. "This constitution represents a marked advance," declared Bill Tood, '42, president of the Senate. "It gives the student body a greater sense of its responsibility in campus govern- ment." Under the new by-laws, the Senate has the power to initiate legislation Any senator can introduce a bill, if he presents it in typewritten form to the secretary before the meeting opens. The Senate can now legislate on any matter pertaining to campus affairs, except that measures relat- ing to student organizations must be approved by those groups. A new member was added to the Senate when Bill Rockwell, '41, an- nounced that he was turning his sen- atorship over to John Middleton, '43. By ROBERT SPECKHARD Somewhere between Detroit and Chicago was as close as Ralph Inger- soll, editor of PM and a leading in- terventionist, could get to Ann Arbor yesterday. He had been scheduled for an afternoon and evening of dis- cussions under the sponsorship of the American Student Defense League. Ingersoll had planned to arrive at the Detroit airport at 2:40 p.m. yes- terday, but a wire from Winnipeg notified a greeting committee that foggy weather had delayed him sev- eral hours. The fog caught up with him again in Chicago where the air transport he was riding in was forced to circle the Windy City for 90 min- utes until a thick blanket of fog lifted. That was too late to catch a Bombers Spread Of Fires' In Kiel Canal Is The ASDL expresses its regret at the enforced absence of Mr. Ralph Ingersoll. Not until 9:50 p.m. did we know that he could not make the meeting. We thank those who attended for their patience and understanding. American Student Defense League ship in time for his 8:15 p.m. speak- ing engagement on the campus. Refusing to give up, Ingersoll char- tered a special plane to Detroit, in- forming the committee that he would arrive there at 8:15 p.m. and arrange- ments were then made for quick transportation to the campus. The program meanwhile was carried on by a group of faculty men serving as a panel on aspects of the war situation. Edito W eeKS To Give Annual Hopwood Tallh1 Contest Award Winners To Be Revealed Friday; Speaker To Be Honored Edward Weeks, editor of the Atlan- tic Monthly, will deliver the annual Hopwood lecture at 4:15 p.m. Friday in the Rackham Auditorium. Im- mediately following the talk, "On Counting Our Chickens Before They Are Hatched," winners of the $8,000 in Hopwood awards will be revealed to the public. Author of "This Trade Of Writing," Weeks is noted as an essayist and for articles and book reviews which he has contributed to national publica- tions. His versatility extends into the field of radio where he conducted for two seasons the program, "Meet Mr. Weeks." The Hopwood committee will honor Weeks at a dinner Friday in the League after which the 53 contest en- trants may meet him informally. Major and minor awards will again be given in the fields of dramatic writing, essay, fiction and poetry. With the aim of encouraging skilled creative writing, the Hopwoods are outstanding in the United States. Es- tablished under the terms.of the will of Avery Hopwood, '05,the awards have amounted to nearly $10,000 a year during the decade in which they have been given. German Airmen Hit NorthEngland LONDON, June 3.--()-The Royal Air Force spread "a whole circle of fires" in the center of Berlin last night with a comparatively small flight of warplanes, t;he air ministry reported today, and raked the Kiel Canal yesterday with bombs an'd gun- fire directed at Nazi shipping. It was the RAF's 46th raid on the German capital, and the stories of returning pilots indicated that it was sharp and punishing. Bombers ranging inland over Ger- many through ice and storm clouds loosed fire bombs and explosives on Dusseldorf, in the industrial Ruhr. The total effect of the attack on Kiel shipping was obscured by the fact that the diving planes had to take cover in clouds after each swoop. A direct hit was claimed, however, on onte ship in the canal and an enemy" ship was reported sunk off German-occupied Norway. Germany acknowledged that sev- eral Berlin apartment buildings were damaged and that civilians there were killed and injured. Other places in northern and western Germany also were attacked and three British planes were bagged, Berlin said. Britain acknowledged that a num- ber of casualties had been caused by small-scale raids on Northern England in the give-and-take of ac- celerated air warfare, and a com- munique reported two German planes downed off the coasts. The British, fanning out for small,. concentrated attacks with new super- bombs, also attacked land objectives in Schleswig-Holstein - and the Germans verified this in Berlin, but said no important damage was done. Delay Announced In Filling Of Court WASHINGTON, June 3.-(P)--With the Supreme Court in recess until next fall, President Roosevelt irdicat- ed today that successors to Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughesand Associate Justice James C. McRey- nolds would not be named immediate- ly, Hughes' announcement last night that he was retiring July 1 for "con- siderations of health and age" was as much a surprise to him, Mr. Roose- velt said, as to anyone else. SENIOR ENGINEERS Senior engineers may call for their graduation announcements from 9 to 12 p.m. today and tomor- row in the lobby of the East En- gineering Building. 'Circle Capital; Attacked Ermine Case ' Is To Resign September 11 Ermine C. Case, professor of his- torical geology and paleontology, chairman of the Department of Geol- ogy, and curator of vertebrates in{ the museum of paleontology, will re- tire from the faculty September 11j when he reaches his seventieth birth- day. Member of the teaching staff of the University for more than a half cen-1 tury, Professor Case was recognited; by Who's Who in 1930 as one of the] distinguished paleontologists in the country, and is the author of several books on geology and paleontology. Professor Case came to the Uni- versity in 1897 af$er teaching chem- istry at the University of Kansas,1 where he received his undergraduate, training. He also holds a master of science degree from Cornell Univer- sity and received his doctor's degree from the University of Chicago. Next German 1 M11editerranean . . Plan Unertainc By KIRKE L. sIMPSON Pending clarification of France's role in the British-Axis war, the world can only guess where Germany and Italy will strike next to smash Britain in the Mediterranean and Middle East. A British communique stating that a German troop-carrier plane has been shot down off Malta may or may not indicate that that Mediterranean' island bastionnmight be the next Nazi target.y Only time will tell. Viachyvery possibly holds the key to Axis major strategy. The sequence of cabinet conferences there with General Weygand, Petain-selected- French colonial overlord in Africa, indicates that a final decision on French policy is in the making. Whether the next Axis thrust is to be via French mandated Syria or from Sicily to stimulate the stalled at- tack on Egypt, French cooperation with German-Italian forces on a scale far beyond any yet reported is deemed possible in London. And if Turkish reports of Nazi forces landed by sea in Syria are true, such co- operation already is in effect. This would be a graver act of French aggression against Britain than permitting the Nazis to use French air bases in Syria enroute to Iraq, assuming such a Nazi invasion was invited or accepted without pro- test by French authority. The terms of . the German-French armistice could not be put forward as a legalis- tic excuse to cover such a movement. Both London and Cairo remained strangely silent as to the reports from Turkey. Yet both by now must know the facts. Asea-ferried expe- dition such as Ankara cables describe could hardly reach the Syrian coast without being detected by British sea or air patrols. RAF Planes Raid Berlin r,0 t r . French Mandate Predicted As Next War Theatre; Suez Canal Threatened Berlin Gives Vichy 'Free Hand' In East LONDON, June 3.-(JP)-The belief grew in London tonight that a rigid official silence on the Middle East concealed swift British action al- ready undertaken to forestall a Ger- man move into French-mandated Syria. Informed sources intimated that the Middle East communique report- ing "no change in the situation" hardly told the whole story of what is under way. Some quarters said reports of large German troop movements into Syria may have been encouraged or even inspired by the Nazis to draw atten- tion from other scenes of impending operations. No Account of Operations Doubt ' was expressed elsewhere, however, that the British command: entertained any such notions, for it gave no account of operations in the Middle East or even in Ethiopia -and such determined silence in the past almost always has meant that something notable was afoot. It was recalled, too, that the Middle East command, on the word of For- eign Secretary Anthony Eden, ha. been given full authority to do what- ever it deems necessary in all that section of the world to defend the Suez Canal and its approaches. Authorities stuck to a single phrase-"no confirmation"-on all reports of German troop movements into Syria. Enemy-Occupied Land It was predicted here that Britain soon will officially declare Syria to be "enemy-occupied territory," thus opening up that East Mediterranean shore as the next likely war front. Among the German offensive pos-' sibilities were listed a thrust in Syria, a renewed drive from Libya east- ward toward the Nile, and fresh efforts to rouse the Iraqis and other Arab peoples into revolt against the British. Berlin Gives Vichy 'Free Hand' In East BERLIN, June 3.-(P)-An intima- ion that the French would be given ], free hand to defend Syria or other outposts against any British attack uas made today by authorized Ger- man sources with the declaration: ". ..We have Marshal Petain's and Admiral Darlan's statements that they will defend all their territory. Germany, although victor, is ready to concede this sacred right and duty )f every nation to the French them- selves." French Not Committed And, it was added: "Whether and in what manner lFrance may desire to throw onto the scales the weight of German-French "elationships developed in the course of the past year is something'ne can- not discuss theoretically. Only a prac- tical case can show." As to whether Germany herself could afford to let Britain seize Syria, this was the response: "We don't cross bridges before we come to them." Infantry In Syria Earlier, authorized persons here had thus dismissed reports abroad that Nazi motorized infantry had landed in Syria at the Port of Lat- atria: "It is unthinkable that this cor- responds to the facts." While Germany and Italy had not outlined publicly their next military move whether it would be against Cyprus, Egypt or England proper - remained problematical. The result of yesterday's Brenner Pass meeting between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mus- solini were hidden in silence. The German press even before the fall of Crete had called attention to other British bastions in the eastern Mediterranean. For weeks it has made no mention of invasion of England - a circumstance which alone has kept fnpiannh rP s lrt hat stand- Michigan '5 Conference Champions Meet California Nine Here Today By ART HILL Ray Fisher's Big Ten champion Michigan baseball team will clash with the barnstorming University of California aggregation, co-champions of the California Intercollegiate Base- ball Association, today at Ferry Field. The game will start at 4:05 p.m . The traveling Golden Bear outfit has a great record3behindit. After taking 25 of the 30 games played on the Coast between February 8 and April 29, the Berkeley lads set out on a trip through the Middle West which called for them to play 19 games in 23 days. Thus far, they have dropped but four games while winning eight. They handed Michi- gan Normal a 26-9 shellacking yester- .day at Ypsilanti. Coach Fisher will call on Cliff Wise, sophomore fast-ball pitcher, to go to the mound for the Wolver- ;,-i.c, WXi P, had a. rnod of five wins bable choice of Coach Clint Evans to start on the slab for the Bears. The lean left-hander won ten games on the Coast while losing only one and has not lost his effectiveness since starting East. He hurled a one-hitter last week against Minnesota and, while Notre Dame managed to take a 4-3 victory from him, it took the Irish 12 innings to do it. Koll is a pretty fair hitter, too, as his .407 batting average will attest. Hoberg In Clean-Up Spot Behind the plate for the visitors will be heavy-hitting Carl Hoberg, who clouted the apple for a .357 mark during the regular, season and bats in the clean-up slot. Hoberg, who also plays football, has a rep- utation for being a fine signal-caller and was named all-conference back- New Bill Will Curtail Any Defense Strikes WASHINGTON, June 3. -()-- President Roosevelt indicated today that one purpose of the Administra- tion's new property seizure bill was to end any irreconcilable strikes or lockouts in the defense industries. It is to be used in other situations involving a stoppage of deliveries, he said, but he cited just one past in- stance as a reason for the measure and that was a strike, the protracted dispute at the Allis-Chalmers plant in Milwaukee. Under present law, he pointed out, the. government has authority to take over a plant at which there is a re- fusal to supply the government with defense products. In the Allis-Chal- mers case, he said, the strikers were willing to return to work if the com- :: :: v. .. ...1 ... ' .._ ..... .. .. ..