Weather -igmmu. Snow and Colder. Fifty Years Of Continuous Publication Iait j Editoria Jurisdictional Strikes Condemned . VOL. LI. No. 64 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1940 Z-323 PRICE FIVE CENTS Britain May Name Eden Ambassador Replacing Lothian Don't Pass Them By -Buy A Goodfellow Daily Monday Italian Forces Flee British Blitzkrieg On Egyptian Front Warship May Transport Body Through Atlantic War Zone For Burial Death Creates Gap In Foreign Service LONDON, Dec. 12-()-War Min- ister Anthony Eden was mentioned prominently by, some tonight as a possible choice to succeed the late Lord Lothian as British ambassador to the United States. It was pointed out the dapper War Secretary enjoys the support of all parties in the British Parliament. A reliable source said that in the event the choice falls on someone holding ambassadorial status, the likely selection would be Sir Ronald Campbell, former British Ambassa- dor to France. He recently was named Envoy'to Portugal, Lord Lothian's passing in Wash- ington early today created a severe gap in Britain's. diplomatic ranks since he was regarded generally as the very man needed at this critical time to build up British-American relations. WASHINGTON, Dec. 12-(/P)-The unexpected death of Lord Lothian in the midst of burdensome duties as British ambassador created the possi- bility tonight that a United States warship might transport his body through the Atlantic war zone to his embattled homeland. Both British and American of- ficials, however, awaited word from Lothian's relatives in England before arranging a funeral for the 58-year- old bachelor diplomat, who died of uremic poisoning at 2 a.,M. (EST). Secretary of State Hull, calling at the sprawling red brick embassy to extend condolence, offered " all fa- cilities at our disposal." Customarily a warship is made available for taking a foreign envoy', body home. In view of wartime con- ditions, it was generally believed that a decision would be left up to Pres- ident Roosevelt should a burial in England be desired. Goodfellows - Monday Mimes Opera Coninues Run Only Tickets For Matinee SaturdayYet Unsold The Mimes Union Opera "Take A Number" will continue its run at 8:30 p.m. today at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre, with performances sched- uled also for tomorrow afternoon and evening. The only tickets remaining may be had for the matinee tomorrow, priced at $1 for orchestra seats and 75c for box seats. All other showings have been completely sold out. The Union, in collaboration with the opera's songwriters, is now of- fering a limited supply of books con- taining ten of the most popular "Take A Number" songs, the words and piano arrangements of the music. The song books may be had in the Mendelssohn lobby before the shows and throughout this week and next at the Union and campus book stores for 35 cents. Crawford Will Talk At Phi Delta Kappa Initiation Ceremony Dean Ivan C. Crawford of the en kineering college will speak on "Scholars and Leadership'; at the ini- tiation banquet of Phi Delta Kappa. education "Phi Beta Kappa" and national professional fraternity at 6 p.m. today in the Union. Sixteen graduate and undergradu- ate men have been selected for mem- bership on the basis of leadership and outstanding scholarship. Among those to be initiated are Percy Danforth, Grad., Donald J. Davis, Grad., Walter S. Grimala, Grad., James R. Irwin, Grad., Wil- iam E. Martin, Grad., William M. McLean, Grad., Howard E. Parr, '41, J. Donald Phillips, Grad., Karl L. Randel, . Grad., William Riodan, Grad., Winston Roesch, Grad., George Ruehle, 4lEd., William Faulson, Grad., Donald E. Smith, Grad., Al- vah L. Zwickey, Grad., and Clarence Carothers, Grad. Be A Goodfellow Student Senate Makes Winter ParleyPlans Draft, Academic Freedom Will Highlight Annual Three-DaySymposium The draft and academic freedom will be among the highlights of the Student Senate's annual Winter par- ley, according to plans disclosed last night by Robert Warner, '43, chair- man of the parley committee at the Senate's regular meeting. The date of the parley has been set for January 10, 11, and 12, the first weekend after Christmas vaca- tion. The first day will be devoted to a discussion of the draft and the war situation. It is expected that some prominent draft official will give an explanatory talk on that topic. The question of American foreign policy will be taken up when four speakers representing divergent points of view will describe what part they believe this country should play in the pres- ent conflict abroad. "The second day's session," Warn- er said, "will be concerned with stu- dent problems and higher education." Members of the Senate debated whether the subject of academic free- dom because of its ramifications should be scheduled. It was finally decided that the parley committee should place it on the agenda. Additional (topics on the second day will be student goveriment on the campus and the importance of fraternities and sororities. On the third and final day of the parley, talks will be heard on the question of what plans if any the college student can make concern- ing his future in view of the pres- ent world conditions. Earlier in the meeting, Robert Krause, '43, chairman of the student rights committee reviewed his group's plans for a survey of student work- ing conditions throughout Ann Ar- bor. ;-c 4- \\ lt~K More Goodfellow Salesnan Are Needed Although 250 Have Volunteered Services SRA Will Sponsor Annual All-Campus Carol Sing Sunday Annual All-Campus Sing will be held at 9 p.m. Sunday at Lane Hall under the auspices of StudentRelig- ious Association, Lonna Parker, '41, chairman announced. Students are invited to participate in singing the traditional Christmas carols. Music will be led by a double quartet composed of Barbara Fischer, '41, Linda Gail George, '42, Ann Weh- ner, '41, Jean Fairfax, '41, Bob Hol- land, '43SM, Russell Van Cleve, Grad, Urie Bronfenbrenner, Grad., and Frank Dugan, '41F&C. This group will also sing some unusual carols. All students attending are asked to bring an inexpensive washable gif t. Refreshments will be served fol- lowing the musical program. Assist- ing Miss Parker on the committee in charge are Helen Pielemeier, '41Ed, Madeleine Smith, '43, Kay Summers, '42, and Ted Hildebrandt, '42. Be A Goodfellow Santa Claus, Played By Evy, Is HereToday Christmas Party Of IFC Will Feature Clowns, Band And Tumblers Santa Claus-personified by Foot- ball Captain Forest Evashevski, the campus choice-will arrive in Ann Arbor this afternoon, as far as some 5,000-odd local kids are concerned. Old Santa, the patron saint of Christmas, will ring up the curtain of the Holiday season for the children at the third annual Interfraternity Council Christmas Party in Hill'Aud- itorium, a gala affair that will raise youthful spirits to a high-point pre- viewing the Christmas morning cli- max. IFC members have been working nearly a month to arrange a pro- gram of entertainment that prom- ises to. be better than anything staged at the two preceding parties. They have arranged for acts by indi- vidual students as well as groups, and staff members are ready to take the roles of clowns who will amuse the kids with their antics. Curtain raiser of the program, the Varsity Band, will present a specially arranged series of Christmas carols shortly after the doors of the Audi- torium swing open to the crowd at 4 p.m. The Band will be followed by members of Dr. George May's Uni- versity Tumbling Club, acrobats who will put on a gymnastic show. Charles Forbes, '41BAd, a semi- professional magician, will stage a "kid show," to be followed by the showing of a movie program, selected cartoons and comedies provided by the management of the Michigan Theatre. Climax of the afternoon will come with the appearance of Santa "Evie" Claus. IFC workers will distribute more than 5,000 packets of cookies, candy, nuts and fruit-provided by Ann Ar- bor merchants-to the kids as they leave the Auditorium at 5:30 p.m. I i 20,000 Prisoners Seiz As RAF Bombs Fo Retreat From Egypt it British Clean Out Wide Battle Area ROME, Dec. 12.-(P)-The Rome radio conceded tonight the loss of the Italian Egyptian base of Sidi Barrani to the British, the speaker remarking: "For the moment General Wavell (the British commander) has cap- tured Sidi Barrani. What of it?" CAIRO, Egypt, Dec. 12.-(P)-Itall- an prisoners of war were declared tonight by a British spokesman to be falling so rapidly by thousands into British hands that the prob- lem of feeding and eventually mov- ing them out of the desert is becom- ing troublesome. The day's operations were two- fold: Around Sidi Barrani, the Italian base that fell yesterday, the Bri- tish were occupied in clearing up a battlefield which had extended over 200 square miles. Those Fascists who had escaped the British encirclement-and their number was said here to be small- were being pursued westward toward Italian Libya, harassed by the Royal Air Force and the Navy as well as the land forces. A spokesman at British headquar- ters said the official estimate of at least 20,000 Italians already captured could not yet be extended because of the difficulty of keeping in touch with the pontinuing sumccesses of British troops. Vast quantities of tanks, lorries and arms of all sorts were captured from the fleeing Italians. There was no confirmation of rumors that Salum, the Italian posi- tion just within Egypt beyond the Libyan frontier, had fallen to the British. Hundreds of Italian officers have been taken prisoner. Be A Goodfellow Hillel To Hear Dr. Blakeman zed e's More than 250 Goodfellow sales- men have already volunteered to sell the special editions of The Daily Monday, Laurence Mascott, '41, chairman of the Goodfellow drive, announced yesterday. Mascott urged that all cooperating organizations turn in lists of names of salesmen and the times and places of their selling by 2:00 p.m. today, and he called attention to additional case histories submitted by Mrs. Dorothy Engel of the Family Wel- fare Bureau in illustration of local need for financial aid. During the five years since Mr. J walked out on his family, Mrs. J had waged a gallant fight to keep her home together. It was not easy to keep up with all the needs of three growing boys, but she was de- termined to do just that and to "keep off relief," Mrs. J managed to get all the cleaning jobs she could and still find time to make all the family's clothes and to raise vegetables for canning their winter supply. Mrs. J couldn't always pay at- tention to some of the things that she knew were important in raising boys, things that would keep them busy and happy during their hours at home, she worried about their "running wild," and one day through one of her employers she came in contact with the Bureau. Realizing that keeping all her wor- ries to herself was making her impa- tient and irritable, Mrs. J confided in Diishnik Victorious In Chess Matches Prof. Ben Dushnik of the Univer- sity's engineering college won eight of the 14 chess games he played simultaneously last night at an Ann Arbor Chess Club contest in Union. Of the other six games, Prof. Dush- nik lost four and two were draws. His opponents, 16 of them, were grouped around 14 chessboards, try- ing to outsmart last Tuesday's winner of the "Spoofuncup.' All but two were University students. The professor's average of games won is ranked with that of profes- sional players who have attempted the same feat. Tickets with the following num- bers will not be honored at the Soph Prom tonight, Bernard Hen- del, general chairman of Soph Prom, announced-Nos. 95, 99, 295, 229, and 300. the Bureau worker. The relationships between her and the boys had grown strained and bitter, and more and more the boys were staying away from home. Mrs. J was invited to come to the Bureau office where for at least one hour in her busy week she might spend some time unloading her bur- densome fears and anxieties to a friendly, sympathetic listener trained to understand all kinds of human -troubles. Here 'she found a new perspective, new courage to go on. She talked over every sort of worry, from budgeting to her more personal feelings. Grad- ually she became less tense and ir- ritable with the boys. At the same time the boys were helped to join some groups where their interests in music, nature study and camping were encouraged. They are still pretty unruly at times, but the Bureau worker has managed to strengthen the straining threads of this family's life, preventing what might have become a truly broken home. Christmas this year is going to be a very different time for the M fam- ily. It was sad enough three years ago, the year Mr. M died after a long illness, for in a big family of (Continued on Page 2) New Is Religious Discussion Conflicts Subject Dr. Edward W. Blakeman, counse- lor in religious education, will be the guest speaker on the Fireside Dis- cussion program at 8:15 today at the Hillel Foundation. "The Religious Conflicts Peculiar to Our Time" will be the subject of Dr. Blakeman's discourse. He will dis- cuss the present-day conflicts be- tween the theological and ethical concepts of religion. The Hillel Fireside Discussions have been on the general 'topic of "This Changing World" which has been approached from various view- points by such outstanding campus speakers as Mentor Williams of the English department, Prof. Arthur Smithies of the economics depart- ment, and Kenneth Morgan, direc- tor of the Student Religious Associa- tion. Engineers, ,Foresters Join Dentists Turbulent Near East Opposes Axis Powers, Lecturer Believes In Protesting Coeds' Arabs throughout the Near East fighting for independence from Brit- ish and Fiench mandates are never- theless opposed to the Axis powers, Mrs. Howard Taylor, wife of a form- er Associated Press correspondent in Syria pointed out yesterday at Rack- ham Amphitheatre. Confederation of the Arabic peo- ples of Trans-Jordan, Syria, Le- banon, Palestine and possibly Tur- key and Egypt would unite territory half the size of the United States having as many people, she com- t mntol the peninsular Arabs; Prince Abdul Majid Haydar, and Emir Aodula, prince of Trans-Jordan. Nationalistic spirit has been fought by the French in Syria by censorship of the press, and telegraph and tele- phone communications and by se- vere economic hardships, Mrs. Tay- lor illustrated from her personal ex- perience. Heavy taxation, exploitation in- stead of guidance, bankruptcy, and mismanagement of utilities regulated by the government have hindered Pmnnm innmnn o af K ria cl-i By A. P. BLAUSTEIN While the students in the School of Dentistry were busy yesterday planning a wholesale dating of Ypsi- lanti girls as a mark 'of protest to the Michigan coed, groups of en- gineers and foresters prepared de- tailed discussions accusing the vic- tims.of "four out of five" of ex- tremely bad taste in men. The whole thing started last week when a survey was taken among 150 University women to find out what men they thought made the best dates. The results placed the Literary College males in first place, men- tioned the dentists and foresters as "least liked" and accused the en- ~rnorc of havira'nfl arnon oh inAd and announced yesterday that plans were well under way. The engineers struck back by forming The Committee for Social Justice for Engineers and prepared a statement of protest for The Daily early this week. Yesterday a letter was received from the Forestry School giving the reasons why the foresters were not rated first in the popularity poll. As far as the engineers were con- cerned most Michigan coeds cannot fairly judge them and they give the following assertions to support their position: 1. They just accept the statement that "the engineer never gets away from his lid rule" without actually rste For ien for the engineers showed that only 34 could have had dates with the engineers. 5. The engineers sponsor two of the biggest formal dances of the year, the Engineering Ball and Slide Rule Ball, while the Literary College students sponsor none. The foresters have the following contentions to make: 1. The method of rating was not reliable as 150 "average" girls were picked to vote and foresters do not date "average" girls. So few women meet our specifications that there were bound to be only a small num- ber who had had the good fortune to date us, they claim. 9 Ask the oirl whn knowsn - Western World Told To Follow Hopi Indians' Peace Methods Addressing Phi Kappa Phi's semi- annual initiation banquet in the League last night, Prof. Micha Ti- tiev of the anthropology department praised the Hopi Indians for having found a peaceful means to solve their problems and advised the peo- ples of the so-called western civili- zation to do the same. "We can't follow the model cre- ated by the Hopi tribe because of the many differences in our cultures' public opinion prevents qny an- archy." The young people grow up with the idea of peace, Professor Titiev con- tinued, and all are taught to respect one another's opinions. Their train- ing is so complete that they have never made any agressive wars and have never praised warriors or advo- cated agression at any time, he said. He also pointed out that the tribes have not liked the white settlers in their section of the country and to- dAU almi +ham ac my nh O .