nWeathe r Snow and Colder. J ri' iflfrFigu ~IaitAp Editorial Football Players And Subsidization Fifty Years Of Continuous Publication VOL. LL No. 50 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1940 Z-323 rE PRICK FIVE CENTS Gridders Choose, Westfall Captain For 1941 Season He's The Team's 'Head Man' For '41 Nazis Claimed Deserting Axis Partner In Greece; Britons BidForBulgaria I' Lettermen Name Harmon Most Valuable Player At MeetingYesterday Team's New Leader Is From Ann Arbor By GENE GRIBBROEK The nation hasn't given him the credit he deserves, but the boys who played with him-the ones who know best-did yesterday. The 25 letter- winners on Michigan's football squad elected Bob Westfall to captain the 1941 Wolverines-the first Ann Arbor boy to be so honored since Johnny Maulbetsch in 1916. They also paid another tribute, probably the most important in all he has received, to All-America Tom Harmon, when they named him the squad's most valuable player for the second successive year. The choice of Westf all for next year's captaincy was the acknowl- edgement of a job well done. The Ann Arbor boy is one of the top full- backs, better than the experts' rank- ings indicate, but he won't be so recognized until next year, when Harmon and Forest Evashevski are gone and the sports writers can get a good look at him. 'Great Fullback' He moved into that "dream back- field" as a sophomore last fall, well- thought of, but always thought of after Harmon and his running-mates of the year before. He was very good then, and this year, in the words of Coach Fritz Crisler, he was a "great fullback." Maybe next year the rest of the country will admit it. If you don't believe it, and you probably do, here's what he's done while others were getting the ac- claim, in 1939 he carried the ball 80 times, made a total of 363 yards for an average of 4.5 per try; in 1940 his average was 4.28, with 827 yards in 193 tries. All this yardage was piled up while putting the Wolver- ines in scoring position, for "Bullet Bob" only crossed that goal line five times, two as a sophomore and three this year. But it takes more than ability as a player to be a good leader, and West- fall has this, too. Crisler put his O.K. on the result of the poll as "a very fine choice. Their judgment was wise." A captain can do a lot to make or break a team's record, so the Coach's approval makes it unani- mous. No Surprise The choice of Harmon as most valuable shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. The Wolverines were shot with talent this year,and there's more than one man on the squad who would have a good claim to the honor on any other team. But not on this team. The Hammer was the best of a very good lot. Coach Crisler added to the tribute when he called it "a fine testimony of the respect and amiration the men had for him." They may still be aching from the blocks they threw for the Hammer in that 40-0 rout (Continued on Page 3) Gray To Open Lecture Series Fitzgerald, Rich Planned For Future Lectures J S Gray, editor and publisher of the Monroe "Evening News, " will give the opening lecture in the 1940-41 Department of Journalism lecture series at 3 p.m. today in Room E Hav- en Hall. Gray will discuss the part of the press in the recent presidential election. After the speech, there will be a coffee hour for students in the de- partment and their guests. The pub- lic is invited to attend the lecture. Other speakers who are scheduled to speak in the current series in- clude: Harold A Fitzgerald, editorof the Pontiac "Daily Press," who will be here Dec. 11; and Phil Rich, publisher of the Midland "Daily News," who is scheduled to lecture Jan. 8. Frosh Frolic, Senior Dance Petitions Due Petitioning for positions on th Senior Ball and Frosh Frolic danct committees will begin at 3 p.m. to morrow and extend through 5 p.m Dec. 5, it was announced yesterday by Ward Quaal, '41, president of the Men's Judiciary Council. Men may obtain official petition blanks at the Student Offices of the Union between 3 and 5 p.m. They must be returned to the Offices by Dec. 5, accompanied by the signa- tures of 25 of the petitioner's class- mates and an eligibility card. The petitioner must also answer a ques- tionaire compiled bythe Judiciary Council to aid in determining the qualifications of those wishing to become candidates. Women may obtain petition blanks at the Michigan League between 3 and 5 p.m. beginning tomorrow, sub- ject to the same general instructions, Doris Merker, '41, president of the Women's Judiciary Council, an- nounced.' Thirteen members are to be elected to the Senior Ball committee; five will be chosen from the Literary Col- lege (two of whom must be women), three from the Engineering College, and one each from the schools of Architecture, Music, Education, For- estry and Conservation, and Nursing. Eight positions are to be filled on the Frosh Frolic committee; five will be chosen from the Literary College (two of whom must be women). Three members will be elected from the Engineering College. The election itself will be held on Wednesday, Dec. 11, balloting to take place between 10 a.m. and 12 a.m. and between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. Merchadsig Budget Session To Open Today Detroit Controllers' Group Sponsors Conference; Logan To Be Chairman Sponsored by The Detroit Con- trollers' Group and the Michigan School of Business Administration, the conference on "The Controller's Responsibility for the Merchandise Budget" will open at 2:30 p.m. today in the Amphitheatre of the Rackham Building. Speakers in the afternoon session include F. E. Logan of Detroit, who will act as chairman of the session; Dean Clare E. Griffin, of the School of Business Administration, who will welcome the group to Ann Arbor, and Edgar H. Gault, Professor of Marketing, who will discuss the re- sults of a questionnaire which was sent out to all members of the Con- trollers Group. T. C. Sperry, of Toledo, will dis- cuss the controller's viewpoint of the convention theme, while J. W. Mc- Eachren, of Detroit, will present the management's viewpoint. A discus- sion period will follow the speeches. In the evening session, which starts at 6:30, William A. Paton, Professor of Accounting, will act as toastmas- ter. The main speech of the con- vention will be given by Charles L. Jamison, Professor of Business Pol- icy, on 'Fundamentals in a Chang- ing Business World." After the talk, motion pictures of one of Michigan's football games will be shown. The social program, for visitors with the controllers' group, includes a tour of the campus which starts fromrthe registration desk at 2:30 p.m. and a tea at 4 p.m. which will be held in the Assembly Hall. IAS Elects Officers At Meeting Yesterday Scott Osler, '41E, was elected vice- president and Henry T. Fielding, '42E, was elected Engineering Coun- Bob Westfall, the first Ann Arbor boy to be elected captain of a Michigan football team since Johnny Maulbetsch received this distinc- tion back in 1916. Westfall played in the backfield with All-American Tom Harmon and retiring Captain Forest Evashevski since last fall and has done more than his share of holding up the scoring punch of the Wolverine team. English Need U. S. Aid To Ha It Nazi L ufrtwaffe (The following revealing dispatch on the seriousness of England's condition passed through a censor which here- tofore has frowned on such statements. It may mean the Britishhave changed their attitude and believe a dark pic- ture of their danger would arouse more sympathy in the United States than the confident optimism displayed so far by the government.) By DREW MIDDLETON (Associated Press Correspondent) London, Nov. 26-Britons, painfully aware of their inability to stop the Luftwaffe's night raiders and restive under German domination of the war, more and more are looking to the United States for all-important supplies to wrest the initiative from the Nazis. The British are confident they have the men, but it is arms, planes, tanks and more ships that they need ur- gently and must have to battle the Axis upon equal terms. Even the most optimistic officials here in the "front line" admit there is much to be done in preparation before Britain can take the offensive. At first they said an offensive could be expected in 1941; now they talk of 1943 and 1944. Britannia still rules the waves, but needs more American help to do it. A considerable part of recent stagger- Graduates To Hold Luncheon, Concert Graduate students and faculty are invited to attend a classical rec- ord concert at 4:15 today in the men's lounge of the Rackham Building. Tschaikowsky's Piano Concerto in B Flat Minor and Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony will be featured on the program, Bob Lewis, chairman, an- nounced. Abraham L. Rosenzweig, Grad, will speak today at the Graduate Lun- cheon in the Russian Tea Room of the League on the workd of graduate students in the bacteriology depart- ment. This is the sixth lecture in the "Khnow Your University" series in which the gradpate students describe the fields of major interest to them., ing shipping losses can be traced to deficiencies in escort ships. Unless Britain can get more United States destroyers to go with the 50 already obtained, shipping losses like- ly will continue at a high level. There likewise is need for merchant ships and this need will grow as spring brings an increase in U-Boat activity. Only today Minister of Shipping Ronald H. Cross made the ominous admission that Britain is losing ships faster than she can replace them. The press is demanding a speedup of the still-faltering industries and the use of the unemployed, whose numbers are rising despite the war effort. Britons have been blinded partly by patriotism, partly by propaganda and their censorship often is guilty of making a reverse look like a victory because the British can and are "tak- ing it." Complacency, distortion and reluc- tance to admit the truth are as dan- gerous to the British cause as nightly bombings. Opera Ticket Sales, Will Open Monday, Silcott Announces, The Union Opera ticket sale, which was incorrectly announced yesterday as opening on Saturday, will start Monday, Jack Silcott, Grad, chair- man of the opera, has announced. All the main floor seats for the performances of "Take A Number" on Dec. 11, 12, 13, and 14, and the matinee on the 14th, -will be priced at $1, as well as the first four rows of the balcony. The remaining bal- cony seats may be had for 75c. Mail orders may be addressed to the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre af- ter Monday. All dormitories, fratern- ity houses and sorority houses will be canvassed by members of the opera ticket committee on Monday, Tues- day and Wednesday of next week. The box office sale will not begin until Saturday, Dec. 9. Lord Halifax Guarantees Nation's Independence In Future Peace Pacts Fear Axis Thrusts At Suez Life-Line (By The Associated Press) LONDON, Nov. 26-Britain lifted a hopefully beckoning diplomatic finger at Bulgaria today, promising that if she would stay neutral this country would do its best-when peace comes at last-to assure her future independence. The overture was made bluntly in the House of Commons by Lord Hali- fax, the Foreign Secretary, through Undersecretary R. A. Butler, who submitted this written statement: "Lord Halifax welcomes this op- portunity of stating that provided Bulgaria does not join or assist, either actively or passively, the enemies of Great Britain 'or attack her Allies, it is the intention of His Majesty's Gov- ernment to do their best to insure that in any eventual peace settle- ment to which Great Britain is, a party the integrity and independence of Bulgaria shall be fully respected." The reference to British Allies clearly was to Greece, whose men are fighting off the Italians now but fac- ing, nevertheless, the possibility of another , and stronger Axis thrust through Bulgaria. This offer of a British guarantee to Bulgaria-which informed per- sons here thought was not likely to influence that nation greatly in view of the power of Adolph Hitler's Pan- zer Divisions-illustrated the night- mare which has been troubling Brit- ish strategists, the possibility of a giant pincer closing on the Suez Ca- nal. Six Contestants Vie In Speech FinalsToday Professors Eich, Maxwell, Beal To Act As Judges; Moser To Be Chairman Six finalists chosen from the rep- resentatives of the 18 sections of Speech 31 will compete in the first contest of the semester at 4 p.m. to- day in the Natural Science Auditor- ium. William Wadsworth, '43, of Tra- verse City, will speak on "The pur- pose of Intramural Sports Program" and Joy Wright, '43, of Battle Creek on "A Nazi German Couple Visits America." Jim Bob Stephenson, '43, of Ann Arbor will present his speech on "Se- curity in Black and White." Eliza- beth Faunee, '43, of Palmyra, N. J., has chosen "Youth and the World Crisis" as her topic and Stanley N. Frye will describe "A Serbian Wed- ding." "Innocence Abroad" will be the subject of William Baker's speech. He is a sophomore from Welborn, Kansas. The contest will be judged by Prof. Louis Eich, Mr. Beal and Mr. Max- well of the Speech department. Prof. Henry Moser will act as chairman. Thumbing Champ * * * Robert Friers Will Describe HikeExploits Robert Friers, Hitch-hiking Champ of the World, will describe his thumb-r ing exploits through Mexico, Central America and Colombia at a specialt lecture in English sponsored by LaJ Sociedad Hispanica at 8f30 p.m. to- day in the Lydia Mendelssohn The-.. atre. His lecture will be featured by theN Michigan premiere of his color mqvie, "Overland to South America," which was recently shown six times in Chi- cago. Friers last year won national fame after hitch-hiking 'round the world1 on $82.00, to win a five dollar bet with his roommate. His adventures1 included wading in the pool of thet Taj Mahal, making friends with the native villagers on the Tibetan bord-c er, playing bridge with a Bombay pearl merchant, a Persian poet andt an Indian Communist leader on a ship crossing the Persian Gulf. He is at present doing graduate work in Latin American history, and later hopes to secure a job selling U. S. products in South America. Meyer To Speak Today In, Union. Will Discuss 'Imperialism' Before Marxist Society Frank Meyer, director of the Chi- cago Workers' School, and one of the outstanding Marxist scholars of the Midwest, will address the second meeting of the Karl Marx Society at 8 p.m. tonight in the Michigan Union.j Speaking on "Yankee Imperialism, 1940: Economic Perspectives," Meyer will define the meaning of the term1 'imperialism' and discuss the ope- tion of imperialism in American for- eign policy. The attitude of the pres- ent administration toward the Latin- American countries, the Far East, and Great Britain will form the basis+ of his analysis. Formerly a student at the London School of Economics, Meyer now heads the Chicago Workers' School, which enrolls several thousand in courses on trade unionism, American history, argi world politics. All studentsinterested in learning more about the Marxist position are invited to attend and participate in the discussion which will follow Mey- er's talk. More Snow Foreseen As City Digs Way Out Ann Arborput on its overshoes yesterday as the first heavy snow of the season blanketed lower Michigan, and still more snow was on the way today and tomorrow. With temperatures freezing over Sources Report Germans Not Preparing Military Action Against Turkey Greeks Win Battle On Northern Front (By The Associated Press) ROME, Nov. 26.-Well-informed sources in Rome said today Nazi Germany was leaving the fight against Greece entirely up to Musso- lini's Italian legions, with no inten- - tion of intervening there to help her southern Axis partner. The same sources also scouted ru- mors here that the Nazis were pre- paring to take military action against Turkey. Diplomatic Activity The Reich is only. attempting through diplomatic activity to keep Turkey from entering the war on the side of her neighbor, Greece, an in- formant said. As evidence, he said, there is no German military movement in the Balkans and only a few Nazi troops are in Rumania and none in Bulgaria. (Neutral sources have estimated there are 1,250,000 German soldiers in Ru- mania.) Although Bulgaria has been expec- ted to join the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Alliance, this source said its adher- ence to the pact was out of the ques- tion because Turkey might consider such action grounds for entering the war on the side of Britain. Fear Of Compromise Spain likewise, is staying out of the alliance, this source said, for fear of compromising her position. Meantime, the Italian High Com- mand reported successes today against Greek landing forces on the Epirus coast and British motorized units in East Africa. Greek troops "which disembarked on the Epirus coast were in part de- stroyed and in part captured with their arms," the High Command's communique said. Greeks Scatter Italian Reinforcements (By The Associated Press) ATHENS, Nov. 26-Bayonet thrust- ing Greeks were declared today to have scattered fresh Italian troops- 'a choice regiment of Romans," the Greeks called them-thrown into ac- tion in a desperate attempt to bol- ster the center of the sagging Al- bahian Battle Line. There was no stopping their forces here or anywhere else along the rambling, mountainous front, the Greeks reported. In te north, they said, Greek fighters pushed steadily beyond Po- gradetz, Italian stronghold 30 miles inside Albania( and in the south they engaged tattered Italians battling fiercely to hold Argirocastro, the sec- and and last major Fascist "invas- ion" base, and keep open their path to the Adriatic Sea. (Authoritative military circles in London reported some Greek units had got beyond the Greek town of Philiataes, near the Albanian border on the coast, and others, landed from ships, had severed Italian communi- cations from the rear. The Greeks themselves had reported the capture of Konispolis, Albanian town just north of Philiataes. County Needs Airport, Sayvs Prof. Moore Washtenaw County needs an air- port for both local and national rea- sons, Professor A. D. Moore of the University's engineering school said last night in a talk before the Mich- igan Aeronautical' Society. The national defense needs of the nation was listed as one of the pri- mary reasons for the construction of a landing field. An airport in this '3 Student-Faculty Get- Together Series Wins Approval In Survey Of Campus By ROBERT SPECKUARD Have you ever felt, as you listened to one of your professors expound his neatly outlined hour's worth of knowledge, that you would like to meet him sometime when the discus- sion wasn't confined between the covers of a textbook? Bob Shedd, '42, of the Union ex- ecutive staff believes that you have, and he is planning a series of Stu- plan would depend nearly wholly on student participation, Shedd wished to find out how they might be ex- pected to receive the idea by having Daily representatives ask a few stu- dents for their opinions. Here are the results: Lewis Londy, '41, "I think that Stu- dent-Faculty Get-Togethers are an T'., ,1«. - -.e - anything but the academic basis of student and professor. Many students want a chance to meet their profes- sors informally but don't realize when and where it is available." William Rockwell, '41, "I have al- ways felt that there exists a deplor- able lack of contact and understand- ing between the faculty and students.