Weather ig Clear-and Warmer Fifty Years Of Continuous Publication daii- Editorial Ncw America And The War ... , ". - I tf VOL. LL No. 104 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1941 Z-323 PRICE FIVE CENTS Varsity Trackmen Hamilton College Names Evashevski Head Coach Bulgaria Agrees To Join To Face Powerful OSU Squad oday Wolverine Hockey Team Seeks Victory In Second Battle Against Gophers Renaissance Five Defeats All-Stars By HAL WILSON Spearheaded by their sophomore hurdle sensation, blazing Bob Wright, a strong crew of Ohio State trackmen invades Yost Field House for a dual meet clash with Michi- gan's undefeated' cinder powerhouse at 7:30 p.m. tonight. Serving a two-fold purpose, the battle will act as a proving grounds on which the relative, strength of each team will be definitely determ- ined and also provide a final tune- up for both outfits before next week's all-important Western Conference championships at Purdue. Wolverines Rate Edge Although Coach Ken Doherty's Wolverine squad rates a slight edge over the Buckeyes, the invaders pos- sess a brilliant parade of top-flight performers. Comprising young sopho- mores mainly, the Scarlet and Gray squad has virtually unlimited poten- tialities and should these potentiali- ties explode into dynamic reality, as they did last month against Indiana's great track machine, the Buckeyes may romp back to Columbus with a surprise victory. In its sole duel meet of the current indoor campaign Ohio dropped a nar- row 52 1-3 to 51 2-3 decision to the star-studded Hoosiers, but only af- ter a hard-fought struggle in which the desperate Indiana team came from far behind to win. The Wolver- ines, on the other hand, have swept their first two encounters with com- parative ease, downing Pittsburgh's Panthers and crushing Michigan Nor- mal and Michigan State in a triangu- lar meet. Most highly-publicized performer (Continued on Page 3) Pucksters Seek Revenge By ART HILL Still a little groggy from the ter- rific 8-0 beating handed them Thurs- day, Eddie Lowrey's Michigan hock- ey team prepares to take the ice again tonight for another battle with Minnesota.i Although it would seem that Min- pesota's superiority has been pretty conclusively demonstrated the Wol- verines are still clinging to a shred of hope. Four seniors, who have never experienced the thrill of a victory over the Gophers, will get their last chance to hang one on the lads from the Twin Cities tonight, and there is nothing they'd like more than to do just that. Pucksters Play Well Michigan hockey teams traditional- ly play over their heads against Min- nesota and Thursday night was no exception. For two periods. they bat- tled the Gophers almost on even terms, holding them to three goals, one of which was an out-and-out fluke. But fatigue caught up with the Wolverines in the third frame as it has in so many games this year. The members of the Michigan squad are almost always slower than their opponents. To keep up with them, they have to put out just a little' more than do the visitors. Conse- quently, by the time the third period rolls around, they are exhausted This happened Thursday and in the third periol the tired Wolverines were no match for their speedy qp- ponents. The game developed into a (Continued on Page 3) Renaissance Wins, 32-24 By GENE GRIBBROEK New York's Renaissance colored five stopped off in Ann Arbor last night on their annual barnstorming tour and outclassed Johnny Town- send's All-Stars, 32-24, at Yost Field House. A crowd of 1,400 saw the Now Yorkers win their 80th game in 92 starts this year and contributed some $500 to the WAA Swimming Pool Fund. The affair was a complete success fnaensni a nly it themain Pment Aart, Woherine 440 Ace Wolverine Gridiron Star Signs Three Year Pact As New Football Mentor By H. STROUD SELTZER Forest Evashevski, Michigan's erst- while star blocking back and "front man" for Tom Harmon, has been appointed head football coach of Hamilton College, Clinton, N. Y., it was learned here yesterday. Dean Campbell Dickson, of Hamil- ton, who had the opportunity of coaching and observing Evashevski for two years while end coach at Michigan from 1937 to 1939, recom- mended him for the position. In ad- dition, "Evy" has been highly praised by Fritz Crisler, who considers him one of the most promising men entering coaching he has known in twenty years of experience. The "One Man Gang's" appoint- ment is for three years. Soon after his marriage to Miss Ruth Brown, daugh- ter of United States Senator Prentiss Brown, on April 12, the couple will take up residence in Clinton. The ex-Wolverine quarterback will have the rank of Assistant Professor of Physical Education, and will parti- cipate in the coaching of other sports in addition to his specific football duties. As an all-round athlete Eva- shevski is expected to contribute an unusual range of skills to the Hamil- ton physical eduction program. Immediately following the an- nouncement of his appointment there were rumors that "big time" football methods would invade the Will Mediate Axis; Japan Claims Vichy U -- Nipponese Patrol Vessels Sighted In Gulf Of Thai, Troops In Indo-China Ex-King Alfonso Regent Nom With Sia inee Gerpian Troops To Enter Balkan Region As Allies; Britain To End Relations Turkey Reinforces Troops On Frontier (By The Associated Press) BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, March 1. --Bulgaria stated officially early this Horning that it will join the Roie- Berlin-Tokyo Axis today. Before the ink is dry on the docu- ments at Vienna-expected scene of Succumbs At 551 BOB UFER Social Action IS Supported By GovernorI Asserting that "democracy must be in action every minute, wiping out injustices, fighting to bring fair play,, to every American," Gov. Mur- ray D. Van Wagoner opened last' night the new series, "Why Save De- mocracy?" sponsored by the Univer- sity Extension Service over WJR, De- troit. Urging every citizen to take an ac- tive part in making democracy work, Governor Van Wagoner declared that democracy is worth saving precisely because it is the only form of gov- ernment which permited positive social action. He warned that Americans cannot afford to put aside "some or all" of, the democratic liberties during the present emergency, pointing out that those. European nations who had fol- lowed a policy of retreat had been been enslaved. Admitting that American democra- cy still had important defects and abuses, Governor Van Wagoner in- sisted that we must overcome those weaknesses by formulating new laws to meet new conditions. "The moment we are satisfied with our laws, the moment we look on democracy as a thing accomplished and stored up in gold and goods, that moment democracy starts to die," he said. Freshman tryouts for the Daily Editorial Staff will meet at the Student Publications Building ac- carding to the following schedule: Group I: 7:15 p.m., Monday and Wednesday. Group I: 5 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday. Tryouts may meet with either group, depending on their sched- ule. Eligible freshmen who have not yet reported may still tryout by coming to either the Monday or the Tuesday meeting next week, Strike Spreads To Harvester Chicago Plant Knudsen Offers Proposal To Cover Labor Disputes In Defense Industries CHICAGO, Feb. 28.-()-Strikes spread to a fourth plant of the In- ternational Harvester Company to- day amid a shortlived burst of vio- lence in which several persons were injured when CIO farm equipment workers and other employes came to" grips with shovels and bricks in a foundry plant. The CIO union called the strike at the Company's huge ' McCormick Works, which employs 6,000 men here, after accusing the company of refusing to meet with the union to negotiate demands. Sergt. George Barnes, head of a Chicago Police Labor Detail, said the fight started when a CIO com- mittee went to the foundry to per- suade workers there to strike. A; CIO spokesman, however, charged nonstrikers barricaded a door of the plant and hurled shovels and bricks at about 100 FEWOC men who were attempting to walk out. Meanwhile, in Washington, Wil- liam S. Knudsen proposed today a conciliation plan for labor disputes in defense industries including a "cooling off" period in advance of strikes. Under the proposal both sides would be compelled to comply with a fact- finding report from the Office of Production Management or lose their rights before the National Labor Re- lations Board. Play Production To Give, 'Much Ado About Nothing' "Much Ado About Nothing", Shake- speare's popular comedy, will be Play Production's next offering, follow- ing the run of "Trelawney of the Wells which will end at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre tonight begin - ning at 8:30 p.m. The Shakespear-' ean play will open Wed., Mar. 19, and) will run for four performances. * I The play, to be directed by Profs. Valentine B. Windt and William P. Halstehad, of the Speech department, is in accordance with the drama group's usual custom of presenting orie Shakespearean production a year. FOREST EVASHEVSKI small school, and President Cowley felt it necessary to issue the state- ment: "Athletic teams at Hamilton are organized chiefly for student1 camera derie, and our teams will play! only colleges of our own type and standards." ^ He added that Evashevski has beenj selected as the new coach because he subscribes whole-heartedly to the athletic ideals of Hamilton. Neville Traces Japanese Rise Of INatioalism Shinto, originally a pagan nature worship, gradually evolved into the, intense nationalism which character- izes Japan today, Mr. Edwin L. Ne- ville, former American Minister to Thailand, asserted in a University lecture yesterday. "Early feudal families began to claim relationship to the nature gods and eventually the ruling family came to be known as direct descen- dents of the sun god," Mr. Neville observed. "Japan has the world's oldest roy- al house," he noted, "but the power behind the throne has always been the feudal Shoguns who unified the Japanese tribes into a national unit." Commenting on the great influence of Buddhism, Mr. Neville pointed out, that monasteries often gained con- trol of local governments and the Buddhist evangelists preached a forceful type of national puritanism. In 1592 powerful Japanese armies crossed the strait§ and penetrated Korea, but were gradually driven back, 1 and completely expelled in 1596, he stated. Forty-two years later~ Japan closed its frontiers to all foreigners except a group of Dutch traders, and maintained their isolation 'until op- ened in 1854 by the United States, Mr. Neville declared. ( reek -ranizatio s Practice Relay Races For Carnival Sunday Members of 30 canmui sororities and fraternities are busy these days practicing for the relay races of Michigan's Winter Carnival Ice Show at the Coliseum tomorrow evening. Eleven sorority teams will compete with each other for one of the gold championship cups contributed by Ann Arbor merchants to reward the victors. . Nineteen fraternities have entered teams in the relay events, NEW YORK, Feb. 28-JP)-The Tokyo (Japanese) Radio said to- night, it was officially announced that Thailand had "completely ac- cepted" Japan's mediation propos- als in the dispute with Indo-China. * * * The British Broadcasting Com- pany carries an unconfirmed re- port, picked up by NBC, that the Vichy government had decided to give in to the Japanese mediation demands. * * TOKYO, March 1-(P)-A Japan- 'se ultimatum that France cede large areas of its oriental empire to Thai- land or suffer "forceful action" by Japanese armed forces expired on the stroke of last midnight with nothing from the French but their silence. This silence appeared to make the next move Japan's under the re- ported terms of its ultimatum, but there were immediate indications any "forceful action" in Indo-China would be delayed. (According to reports at Saigon that could not be confirmed, Japan- ese naval patrols numbering 51 ves- sels of various classification were in the Gulf of Siam and waters off southern Indo-China. (Moreover, Japan is reported to have in northern Indo-China, aside from air bases, more than double the 6,000 troops allowed under last September's accord with the French -these ostensibly for prosecution of the war with China-and the air- field at Saigon, southern Indo-China, is said to have been convertedbysthe Japanese into a "nucleus" air base. (In Vichy, after a French cabinet meeting, it was announced merely that the French position on Indo- China had been decided. During the meeting, however, an official spokes- man said France "is obligated to con- serve the integrity of her empire by the terms of the armistice"- with Germany.) Authoritative sources said the Jap- anese foreign office planned an ex- traordinary conference of key offi- cials later this morning to which French and Thai mediation delegates would be invited. Ex-King Alfonso Dies ROME, Feb. 28.-'P)-Former King Alfonso XIII, 55, of Spain died today after 15 days of the agony of angina pectori, and tonight his body lay in the hotel bedroom which for a decade had been his place of exile. His weakened heart stopped at 11:50 a.m. (4:50) a.m. EST). Fif- teen minutes before the end all that remains of his family had gathered about him-all save the Infanta Christina, who was at Turin awaiting the birth of another grandchild of the dying 1monarch. ALFRED T. CONNABLE Slate Named At Republican State Meeting GRAND RAPIDS, Feb. 28.-())- The Republican State Convention, hailing itself as "unbossed," nominat- ed a slate of candidates for the April 7 election here today, naming Leroy C. Smith of Detroit to head the tic- ket as its choice for state highway commissioner. The balance of the ticket follows: For University of Michigan Re- ents-Senator Earl L. Burhans, Paw Paw, and Alfred T. Connable, Arn Arbor; For Supreme Court Justice-John M. Dunham, Grand Rapids, and George A. Cham, Pontiac; For State Board of Agriculture- Clark L. Brody, Lansing, and William H. Berkey, Cassopolis, incumbents; For Superintendent of Public In- struction-Dr. Eugene B. Elliott, Lan- sing, incumbent; For State Board of Education-Dr. Wynand Wichers, Holland, incum- bent. Lacking the leadership of the old McKay-Barnard alliance which for years has named the tickets of nom- inees and gone into the convention with enough votes to back up their judgment, the delegates settled on the convention floor ,fights for the nominations for highway commission- er, regent and ju'tice. They were battles of ballots, rather than of words, and the convention ended as one of the most harmonious in recent years. There were no wild scenes such as marked the party's fall convention here in September, in which a Wayne County delegation headed by Edward N. Barnard, political ally of Frank G. McKay, was ejected from the hall. the ceremony - German troops al- ready marching in Rumania will en- ter Bulgaria automatically as allies and Great Britain will have to break relations with the newest Axis re- cruit, keenly-watching diplomatic quarters predi'cted. The official word that Bulgaria fin- ally has yielded to the Nazi program was conveyed to Yugoslav Foreign Undersecretary Smaljanic by Bulgar- ia's Charge D'Affairs, Ivan Starteff. Diplomatic reports from Sofia said Bulgarian Premier Bogdan Philoff and Foreign Minister Ivan Popoff were flying to Vienna in a special plane this morning to sign the pact. Troops Reinforced - Turkey was said to be reinforcing its .troops on the Bulgarian frontier following conclusion of the talks be- tween Turkish leaders and Anthony Eden, British Foreign Secretary, and Gen. Sir John Dill, chief of the Bri- tish Imperial General staff. The big question now was "what will Turkey do?" And despite the communique issued in Ankara that Britain and Turkey were in complete agreement on "Bal- kan problems," there were few diplo- mats in the Balkans who were will- ing to wager Turkey would oppose any German entry into Greece through Bulgaria. Most diplomats expressed belief Turkey would remain within its own frontiers and fight only in the event its borders were violated. Sofia Shut Off Sofia, Balkan capital, shut itself off from the outside world last night and today by establishing a police cordon which made exit from the city impossible, mysteriously suspend- ed telephone communications for 23 hours and began a roundup of "men with British connections." There was no word from the fron- tier with Rumania, where many of the 600,000 troops of Adolf Hitler's Balkan army have beefi concentrated across the Danube River from Bul- garia. A mass movement of German troops in battle formation through Buchar- est was reported in diplomatic dis- patches reaching Belgrade from, the Rumanian capital, which is less than 50 miles from the Bulgarian border. These dispaches gave no indication, however, of the direction taken by the .Nazi formations., Bucharest Quiet Business in Bucharest was report- ed at a standstill, with all main streets reserved for the German mili- tary. The British legation in Sofia was packed for a quick getaway ahead of any Nazi invasion., All diplomatic missions, including the United States legation, were cut off from any kind of outside-om- munication during the interruption in telephone service-both interna- tional and internal-from 8 p.m. last night (1 p.m.EST, Thursday) until a single line was reopened to Bel- grade at 6:45 p.m. (11:45 a.m. EST) tonight. Even after this line was restored it still was impossible to communi- cate with the provinces. Journalists Attend Press Convenion Three senior editors of The Daily and two former members of the edi- torial staff, all members of Sigma Delta Chi, national professional journalism fraternity, journeyed to the campus of Michigan State College in East Lansing yesterday, to attend the Michigan Collegiate Press Con- ventinn. ,_i," Market Loss Requires Changes In Farming, Soil Expert Says Milstein Says Art Will Survive Wars And World Revolutions Wars, revolutions and world-draa- mas do not produce art, nor do they stop its production unless they end the physical life of artists, Nathan Milstein, distinguished violinist who will appear in the next of the 1940- 41 series of Choral Union Concerts, declared in a statemzent prepared] es- pecially for The Daily. .Milstein, who will present a re- cital Tuesday at 8:30 p.m in Hill Auditorium, will take the place of Georges Enesco, Rumanian violinist detained in Europe by the war, "I believe the creative artist is born," Milstein declared, "not made by circumstances and happenings out- side him." The material for creation and expression does not appear when "I started to play the violin," he said, "not because I'was drawn to it, but because my mother made me. I was attracted to music, wanted to hear it and wanted to make it. But I had to be forced to learn how to make it. She sensed my affinity for music and made me practice regular- ly, It was only when I had progressed far enough to feel the music itself in my playing that I practiced will- ingly and eagerly." Although Milstein first played in public when he was ten years old, his series of professional recitals did not begin until he was nineteen. He survived the Russian revolution, went to Paris in 1925 without soi much as a violin and on a borrowed By GEORGE W. SALLADE Drastic changes in the present ag- ricultural system of the United States to meet the problem caused by the loss of export markets as a result of the war were advocated by Charles E. Kellogg, Chief of the Division of Soil Survey of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, in an interview yes- terday.I No market exists at the present time for what we could grow and have been growing, and huge surpluses of cotton, tobacco, fruits such as apples, wheat and corn are piling -up in this country, Mr. Kellogg pointed out. For the interests of hemisphere solidar- ity a trade program is supposed to be worked out with South America who also has surpluses of cotton, beef, wheat and corn. Indicative of the difficulties of such a program are the protests of the beef producers who oppose the importation of Argentine beef because it lowers prices. Mr. Kellogg. agreeing, however. finding of alternate uses for the land. All changes must be made, Mr. Kellogg emphasized, without damage to the farmer or to the land. Shipping food to the Continent will not alleviate the surpluses as it amounts to "only a drop in the buc- ket". Canada alone last year produc- ed enough wheat surplus to handle all of Europe's demands. Use for some products nevertheless, may be found in industry. Henry Ford has already begun to use the soybean and experimental roads have been made with cotton. The government an- nually spends about four million in experimental laboratories located in San Francisco, Philadelphia, Peoria, and New Orleans, explained Mr. Kel- logg. As a result of this research, new products will be stimulated, and industrial uses and markets found for old ones. Contrary to popular opinion, there will be no boom for agriculture even if we enter the war. concluded Mr.