WV eather Cloudy and Warmer Y t igan Fifty Years Of Continuous Publication Iati Editorial They Never Learn . VOL. LI No. 49 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, November 26, 1940 Z-323 PRICE FIVE CENTS U.S **Will Delay Consideration Of Monetary Aid ToBritain Lothian Agrees To Await Next House And Senate Sessions For. Action Anti-Strike Laws Foreseen In House WASHINGTON, Nov. 25-(P)-Ad- ministration leaders and Lord Lo- thian, British ambassador, appeared to be in agreement tonight on putting off the question of financial aid to Great Britain until the new Congress convenes in January., Lord Lothian, just back from Lon- don, spent an hour each today with President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull, but said that credits were not mentioned at either confer-1 ence. The ambassador told newsmen that financial assistance was one of the problems to be met "in the-first half" of the new year but could wait for< action by the new Congress. Earlier, Senator Barkley of Ken- tucky, the Democratic leader, said af-4 ter a White House conference that7 the question of British credits would not be taken up at the current session of Congress. The matter was dis- cussed, other sources said, at the con- ference which Speaker Rayburn (Dem.-Tex.) also attended. Secretary Hull indicated a belief that action by Congress would be nec- essary to permit financial aid. He was asked at his press confer- ence whether there might be ways of extending financial assistance with- out revising the Johnson and Neu- trality Acts, which bar credits to a debt defaulter or a belligerent. Hull repled that .he would not undertake to say there was any without action by Congress in some approving man- ner. Anti-Strike Laws Foreseen In House WASHINGTON, Nov. 25-()- Possible legislation to curb strikes in defense industries, was discussed by: members of the Judiciary Committeei today after an hour's House session devoted almost exclusively to criti- cal comment on work stoppages in plants having Army and Navy orders. Chairman Sumners (Dem.-Tex.) and a half-dozen other members met informally to talk over the question. Afterwards, Sumners said he had' called a meeting of the committee for tomorrow to "go over the whole1 situation." He said it was possible that the Committee might ask Congress to enact legislation to outlaw defense strikes.1 The House discussion was touched off by Representative Cox (Dem. Ga.)1 who demanded that Congress "out- law all strikes against the govern- ment." Several other members also took the floor and, for the most part, de- nounced strikes in defense industries as "sabotage." Arch College ; Will Sponsor Housing Meet' Two-Day Session Opens With Talk By C. S. Steint At RackhaiF On Friday The College of Architecture and Design will sponsor a conference on; "The Expansion of Industrial Cim- munities With Regard to Housing and{ Planning" Friday and Saturday at the Union and the Rackham Build- ing. The conference has been arranged by a committee composed of Dean Wells Bennett of the College of Arch- itecture, Mr. Barton C. Jenks, archi- tect and manager of Westacres near Pontiac, Mr. Herbert A. Olson, direc- tor of the Michigan Municipal League, Prof. Richard U. Ratcliff of the School of Business Administration, and Prof. Harlow 0. Whittemore of the College of Architecture. Men interested in both public and private housing and planning from neighboring states as well as Michi- nl v, nll nn,.+4nivnt0 in the n nr.Av 25 Wolverine Gridmen Receive Varsity Letters Crisler Com'npletes Third Year As Michigan Coach With Team Defeated Only By Minnesota U; Squad To Name New Captain Today Twenty-five members of the Wolverine football squad that wound up the most successful Michigan grid season since 1933 by handing Ohio State an unmerciful40-0slacing Saturday, were awarded varsity letters yesterday by Coach Fritz Crisler. Heading the list were six gridders who received the honor for the third time in their Wolverine careers, Captain Forest Evashevski, Tom Harmon, Ralph Fritz Ed Frutig, Paul Kromer and Milo Sukup. The complete list of letter-winneis includes: Ends: Frutig, River Rouge; Joe Rogers, Plymouth; Ed Czal,, Elyia, O.: and Harlin Frauman, Pontiac. Tackles: Al Wistert, Chicago: Reuben Kelto, Bessemer; Bob Flora, Muske- Bulgarians Refuse Axis Alliance As Berlin Calls Popoff To Parley, Greeks Enter Major Italian Base rN gon, and Jack Butler, Port Huron: Milo Sukup, Muskegon Heights; Bc Kolesar, Cleveland; and Bill Melow Flint. Centers: Bob Ingalls, Marble- head, Mass.; and Ted Kennedy, Sagi~- naw. Quarterbacks: Evashevski, Detroit; George Ceithaml, Chicago; and Harry Kohl, Dayton, 0.; Halfbacks: Har- mon, Gary, In.d Kromer, Lorain, .; Dave Nelson, Detroit; Norm Call, Norwalk, O.; Harold Lockard, Can- tor, 0.; and Cliff Wise, Spring Lake; and Fullbacks: Bob Westfall, Ann Arbor and Bob Krejsa, Shaker Heights, O. Eleven additional members of the squad received reserve awards. They were: Robert Zimmerman, Chicago, who won a varsity letter in 1939; Jim Grissen, Holland; Leo Cunningham, Revere, Mass.; Clarence Hall, Rayn- ham, Mass.; John Laine, Puritan; El- mer Madar, Detroit; Rudy Sengel, Louisville, Ky.; Phil Sharpe, Lake- wood, 0.; Rudy Smeja, Chicago; Bob Smith, Riverside, Calif.; and Ted De- nise, Lansing. Among the letter-winners were nine graduating seniors, leaving Coach (Continued on Page 3) Merchandise Group To Meet In Ann Arbor. Dean Griffin Wih Address Convention .Tomorrow In Opening Conference A conference on "The Controller's Responsibility for the Merchandise Budget," sponsored by the Detroit Controller's Group and The School of Business Administration, will be held -tomorrow in the Rackham Am- phitheatre. Dean Clare E. Griffin, of the bus- iness administration school, will de- liver the address of welcome at 2:30 p.m. in the afternoon session which will be chaired by F. E. Logan of Detroit. The results of a ques- tionnaire which was sent out to all members will be discussed by E. H. Gault, Prof. of Marketing. The controller's viewpoint of the convention theme will be presented by T. C. Sperry of Toledo, while the management's viewpoint will be given by J. W. McEachren of Detroit. A discussion will then be held. Congress Cleaningy C7 C7 Discoun t Card Sale Will Open At Union Discounts in dry cleaning, press- ing, laundry and shoe repairing will be offered to students starting to- day when , Congress, Independent Men's Association, puts on sale its Discount Cards. These cards', according to David Margold. '42E, chairman of the stu- dent welfare committee, will entitle the bearer to a 25 percent discount on 59-cent cleaning, a discount of 10 percent on laundry and 10 percent off on all shoe repairing. The cards will be on sale at Con- gress' office between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. at the union today aid every day ex- cept Sunday hereafter. The discount cards will be valid for the remainder of the school year and will sell for 25 cents each. Director Lectures Today The American Social Customs Class will hear Miss Sara Rowe, social di- rector of Martha Cook, discuss con- trasts between American and foreign usages at 7:30 p.m. today in the In- ternational Center. Druids Tap Eight Druids, senior literary honor so- ciety, reported at 12:30 this morn- ing that eight senior men were Guards: Fritz, New Kensington, Pa.; U. Of M. Club Tenders Sport Dinner Today Ohio State Football'Movies, Kipke, 'Whizzer' White,% To Feature Round-Up Sport celebrities of today and yes- teryear will make an appearance at the Fniversity 'of Michigan Club of Ann :rbor's banquet at 6:30 p.m. to- day f -r high school athletes of Ann Arbor and the surrounding commun- ities. Regent Harry G. Kipke, former All- American star and later head foobtall coach here, will be the principal, speaker. Baseball will be represented by two all-time greats - Charlie Gehringerj and Mickey Cochrane. The profes- sional gridiron will have as its repre- sentatives, Byron "Whizzer" White and Lloyd Cardwell, backfield stars on the Detroit Lions team. Jack Ad- ams, general manager and Ebbie Goodfellow, manager of the Detroit Red Wings, will be the prominent fig- ures from the world of hockey who will attend. More than 600 persons are expected to attend the dinner at the Union, and 200 will be the athletes from 11 high schools in Ann Arbor and neighboring communities. Motion pictures ofsgridiron slaugh- ter in Columbus last Saturday will be shown and Coach Fritz Crisler will give accompanying comments. Next year's football captain will be intro- duced by Forrest Evashevski, the present captain. Tom Harmon and the other lettermen of this season's squad will also be at the banquet. Prof. John Brumm, chairman of the journalism department, will be the toastmaster. Captured Italian soldiers (left) in Athens await their turn, mess kit in hand, to be ladled food by the Greek army cook at right. This picture ws rushed to Belgrade, telephotoed to Berlin and radioed to the United States just after the Greek Government announced the capture of Koritza, key Italian base in southern Albania. Since then London has reported the capture of 8,000 more Italian prisoners by Grecian forces. Michigan Aeronautical Society Will Hear Plans On New Airport Proposal At Meeting Tonight Balkan Region Breathing Spell Seen In Delay Hungary- Rumania-Slovak Signatures Are Reported As Last Axis Additions RAF Bombs Albania (By The Associated Press) BERLIN, Nov. 25-Bulgaria; long viewed as a likely convert to the Axis lineup, is staying out, for the present at least, informed Nazi sources indi- vated today. This disclosure came with the sur- prise statement by the informants that the signatures of Hungary, Ru- mania and Slovakia to the Rome- Berlin-Tokyo pact ended the pres- ent series of additions. Authorized quarters hinted, never- theless, that Adolf Hitler's diplomatic maneuvers, which already have cov- ered most of the continent, will con- tinue.x They added that the fact Bulgaria is not expected to join up at this time has nothing to do with developments in Turkey. There was unconcealed relief in Sofia, where a high government of- ficial's reaction was that "it now ap- pears certain to us Bulgaria will not be involved in war this winter." At the same time it was disclosed Bul- garian Foreign Minister. Ivan, Pop- off already had packed his bags to go to Berlin early this week. Diplomatic circles in Sofia saw in the developments an indication that Hitler and Joseph Stalin do not see eye to eye on division of German and Russian spheres of influence. The Bulgarian argument against joining the Axis was believed generally to have been inspired by the Russians, who were represented as still not wil- ling to concede that all the Balkans belong in Germany's lebensraum - living space. < ;- By WILLIAM BAKER Ann Abor may yet have a new airport, for the special Airport Com- mittee of the Common Council, though balked by the Council at the last meeting Nov. 18, is still working on the proposal for a new and larg- er airport. At a meeting of the Michigan Aeronautical Societ "at 8 -p.m. today in the Union, Prof. A. D. Moore of the engineering college and a member of the Airport Committee, will explain what the committee hopes to do in regard to the proposed larger air- port.' On Sunday six aldermen and sev- eral county officials participated in a trip to Detroit to inspect the air- port there. The trip was sponsored by the Ann Arbor Junior Chamber of Commerce, which has been backing the new airport plans. Seventeen of the party of 35 - all who cared to - were flown back to Ann Arbor in one of the American Airlines' flagships, to view prospec- tive sites for the airport from the air. The rest of the group toured the Detroit city airport. At a dinner at the Union held af- terwards, Mr. A. H. Wait, Chicago, regional supervisor for the Civil Aer- onautical Board, addressed the group. Mr. Wait stated that he thought a new airport would supply a "real in- centive" for new industries which might locate in this community, since manufacturers now prefer to have airport facilities near. He said that Congress has recently appropriated $40,000,000 for develop- ment of coastal airport, and that he believed a similar appropriation would be made for interior airports. The new airport, - he observed, would probably not operate at a profit, but would easily make its own expenses. George M. Downs, co-operator of the Ann Arbor airport also addressed the meeting, pointing out that the facilities of the present airport are severely overtaxed. Speech Contest Finalists Picked Six Compete Tomorrow In N.S. Auditoriun Six students were selected yester- day in tryouts for the finals of ,the semi-semester speech contest for stu- dents in Speech 31, by members of the speech department. William Baker, '43; Libby Faunce, '43; Stanley Frye, '42; Jim Bob Steph- enson, '43; William Wadworth, '43 and Joy Wright, '43, were chosen from among the 18 representatives of the class sections. Finals will be held at 4 p.m. tomorrow in Natural Science Auditorium. Judges for the finals will be Prof. Louis Eich, Mr. Maxwell and Mr. Beal of the speech department. Prof. Henry Mosher will act as chairman for the first contest of the year. The second Speech 31 contest will be held in January, Professor Moser an- nounced. He also stated that aviation has grown considerably in Ann Arbor since 1933. During that entire year local fliers flew only 300 hours, while in July and August alone of this year they flew more than 1300 hours. Approximately 140 trainees, includ- ing the 70 CAA students of the Uni- versity, are now taking lessons at the field, he said, causing crowded con- ditions which make the training in some ways inefficient. Dr. C. Merle Dixon, chairman of the Junior Chamber of Commerce's airport committee, and toastmaster at the dinner, announced that ne- gotiations are under way to have American Airlines designate Ann Ar- bor as a regular stop for commercial flying if the new airport is obtained. Jewish Refugee Ship Explodes Off Palestine HAIFA, Palestine, Nov. 25-(AP)- The refugee steamer Patria, packed to the gunwales with 1,771 wander- ing, homeless Jews, exploded and cap- sized in Haifa Harbor today with an undetermined but possibly heavy loss of life. The refugees, who had sought il- legally to settle in Palestine, had been placed aboard for transporation to some other British colony for the dur- ation of the war. The causeof the explosion was not determined. Many of those aboard managed to swim ashore. Hitler Is Reported Leaving Italians To Work Out Own Military 'Destiny' Hitch-Hiker To Address. Spanish Club, Robert Friers, nationally known as Hitch-Hiking Champ of the World, will speak and show his color movie, "Overland to South America," at a special lecture sponsored by La Socie- dad Hispanica tomorrow at 8:30 p.m. at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. Last summer Friers thumbed his way 6,000 miles through Mexico, Central America and Colombia. At Monterrey on election day he was seized by followers of General Alma- zan, who accused him of being a spy of the oppositionists camp. They roughed him up and stole his pocket- book, and then had a sudden change of heart and allowed him to take pictures of them. In Colombia Friers interviewed the deposed President of Ecuador, Senor Ibarra, who told the young traveler that he still dabbled in domestic pol- .tics by influencing six revolutions in six successive months. Tomorrow night's showing of "Ov- ?rland to South America" will be its Michigan premiere. The film has re- -ently been shown six times in Chi- -ago, including an appearance at the Adventurers' Club. Friers' talk will be in English. Moore To Speak To SRA Group John Moore, director of the Ann Arbor Community Fund, will address the social service seminar of the Student Religious Association at 7:15 p.m. today at Lane Hall. He will speak on "Ann Arbor Social Service Agencies" and present mater- i19 from a survey conducted here recently to determine the nature and Greeks Enter Main Italian Military Base ATHENS, Nov. 26.--(VP)-Greek troops advancing in most places along a 100-mile front in - Albania have "overshot" Pgradetz, 25 miles north of Koritza, and have entered the out- skirts of Argirocastro, main Italian base in Southern Albania, it was re- ported today. At the same time, Royal Air Force headquarters in Greece announced heavy daylight raids were carried out yesterday bi RAF bombers on Dur- azzo, described by the RAF as the "only important port on the Albanian coast," The Greek forces pursuing the Ital- ians across Albania were reported in advice from the front to be about to take Argirocastro.The entry into the Southern Italian base, the last remaining to the Fascists in that Sector, was reported yesterday, just our days following the capture of Koritza, northern base of Premier Mussolini's back-firing invasion of Greece. , A government spokesman said the Greeks were pushing ahead despite a lack of good roads and were cap- turing more equipment. Opera Tickets To GoOn Sale 'Take A Number' Seats AvailableSaturday Tickets for the Mimes Union Opera "Take A Number,"' which opens at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre Dec. 11 for a four day run, will go on sale Saturday, Jack Silcott, chairman, an- nounced yesterday. All main floor seats for the per- formances Dec. 11, 12, 13, 14 and the matinee on the 14th, will be priced at $1, as well as the first four rows in the balcony. The remaining bal- By KIRKE L. SIMPSON (Associated Press Staff Writer) An informal but apparently auth- orized intimation has come from Berlin that Italy is to be left for the present to work out her own mili- tary destiny in her clash with the Greek-British Allies. Just what it means is not clear. It may represent almost as serious a hitch in Herr Hitler's diplomatic- political drive eastward in the Balk- ans as does the military setback Mus- solini's armies have sustained in Greece. German failure to extend the Ber- lin-Rome-Tokyo alliance to Bulgaria, Yugoslavia or Turkey would leave the conflict along the Greek-Albanian frontier isolated. It is only through Bulgaria or Yugoslavia that Nazi mil- itary power could be thrown quickly and effectively against the Greek flank. ian retreat all along the 104-mile battle front is an effort to draw the victory-flushed Greeks into a trap. Once they drive forward beyond the mountains of Northern Greece and Southern Albania, Italy's mechanized forces may be able to turn the tables. It is also within the realm of pos- sibility, however,.that Berlin regards the neutrality of Bulgaria and Yugo- slavia protecting the vital war re- source of Rumanian oil from British bombing attack as too important to risk at this stage. That alone seems to provide a logical explanation of Hitler's tactics. There are many symptoms that the Greek successes have stirred anti- Axis elements in both Bulgaria and Turkey to resistance of any internal move to knuckle down to Berlin. The Berlin attitude is hailed as at least a breathing spell for Bulgaria. ADOLF HITLER