W eather Light rain and colder. LY Fifty Years Of Continuous Publication Iaiti Editorial Cooperation With 3Mexico? VOL. LI. No. 70 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1940 Z-323 (PRICE FIVE CENTS Britain Negotiates With U.S. For Arms Notre Dame Whips Wo verie Cagers 37-27; IRiska Stars Mandler Is High Scorer For Michigan's Team In One-Sided Contest Irish Enjoy Lead Of 21-11 At Half (Special to The Daily) SOUTH BEND, Ind., Dec. 19.-The Notre Dame baslietball team found the going easy tonight against Mich- igan and led all the way to win, 37-27. The Irish enjoyed a 21-11 margin at te half. Michigan's superior height was off- set by aggressive play by Ed Riska, Larry Ryan and Cy Singer, who con-. tinuay drove under the bucket to capture rebounds and deprive their lankier rivals of sucker shots. Capt. Ed Riska paced the Irish of- fense with 12 points, while Jack Mandler fired 10 points through the net for the Wolverines. The game was rough in spots; a total of 33per- sonal fouls being assessed. The victory was the fourth in five starts for Notre Dame this season and marked- the first defeat in three contests for Michigan. In the all- time series between the schools Michigan still retains a 4-2 margin. Four thousand fans saw the Wol- verines jump to a 4-2 lead \ in the first five minutes. Riska's shot tied the count and Al Delsopho, guard, put the Irish ahead with a long shot. Notre Dame had a margin of only 9-6 with the first period half gone. Then the Irish solved Michigan's tightly knit defense by the simple de- vice of shooting from far out on. the floor. Quinn, Carnes and Ryan en- tered the Notre Dame lineup and Carnes sank in a long hooper to make the score 11-6. Mandler and Hermann closed the gap to two points. Quinn's follow- up, Smith's long set shot and free throws by Smith and Quinn and Ryan's long push shot added 10 (Continued on Page 3) Federal Inquiry Of Ford-CIO Fight Ordered Investigation Of Dispute Follows Union Request To President Roosevelt DETROIT, Dec. 19-()-The Fed- eral Government moved today to in- quire into the dispute between the Ford Motor Company and the CIO's United Auto Workers. James F. Dewey, conciliator al- ready here at work on other labor problems, was ordered by the Labor Department to investigate the Ford- CIO issue, in whch the Union charges discrimination. The Department's action followed a Union request to President Roose- velt for intervention. Michael F. Widman, Jr., director of the UAW- CIO's Ford organizing drive, tele- graphed the President that the Ford Company was trying to "provoke a strike" by "open and arrdgant viola- tion of the labor laws." Replying - to UAW-CIO charges that the company dismissed men for wearing union buttons, Harry H. Ben- nett,.Ford personnel chief, retorted today the union was making "a de- liberate attempt to frame us." Bennett said he was not thorough- ly familiar with all Widman's ac- cusations, but knew "some of the employes Widman said were dis- charged are working right now." Bennett heatedly denied Widman's charges of violence. "They pulled that badge stunt again last night," Bennett said. "But no- body came to us for protection or even to make a report of the incident. Annarently thev ran outside and we Leads Wolverines Otto H. Hans, Former Daily Member, Dies Ex-Newspaperman Pases Away In Detroit At 67; Was Prominent Alhmnus Business Manager Was Wrestler Here Friends and fellow alumni learned of the death yesterday of Otto H. Hans, '01, business manager of The Daily from 1897-1901 and who is giv- en credit for placing the Michigan Daily on a payn ba'is for the first time in its history. Mr. HaIn4 died in D::troit at the age of 67. He took over te management of The Daily when it was burdened with debt and when he left it was already one of the most successful college newspapers in the country. He is also remembered for starting the Sunday morning issue of The Daily at that time. When Mr. Hans completed his studies in 1901, with a law degree and a bachelor of arts degree, he became the manager and editor of the Ann Arbor Times. In addition to his success on The Daily, he was light weight wrestling champion of the University for three years. He originated a huge barbecue in 1901 to celebrate the colossal 550 to 0 compiled by Fielding H. Yost's first Michigan team. He builtda foot- ball scoreboard at Ferry Field which was used for more than a quarter of a century. He was credited with fi- nancing the Varsity Minstrel show with a cast of 80 persons to help the then defunct University band. He was part owner and manager of the Ann Arbor Press from 1903 until his retirement in 1927. During the last five years he lived at Klinger Lake and in Detroit. Enlish Claim Air Successes (By The Associated Press' LONDON, Dec. ,19-In a British campaign which informed London quarters said was intended to destroy communications between Germany and Italy, Mannheim was bombed last night and early today in the third successive nightly assault, while other pilots ranged to the south to strike at Milan and Genoa. The attack on Mannheim-an in- dustrialy important southwestern German city which lies at the con- fluence of the Rhine and Neckar River and is a key junction of the river-rail routes to Italy for steel from the German Ruhr and coal from the German Saar-was Official- ly declared to have set off many new fires amid the smoking rubble left in previous raids. The city, said the Air Ministry, was under intermittent assault from early last night to the hours just be- fore dawn today. Scene Of Italian Retreat In Africa DERNA 0 S....., ARDIA :M/LES EGYPT 3. EGYPTIA N ,. "a SUDAN w.r :-:"----.: -s ADDISABABA .: .;.::ITAL. EAST'- -------AFRICA 8 *E _WA K UGANDA BE LG. KENYA - CONGO ::f British Royal Air Force observers reported a general Italian retreat toward Derna, Libya (1), 150 miles west of fighting around Bardia (2) in the battle of North Africa. Bardia apparently had been isolated by the British. The British also reported a thrust from northern Kenya on the Italian base at El Wak (3). Further reports in London said re- volt among followers of Emperor Haile Selassie in Ethiopia "appears to be making progress". * * * * Italian Rear Wingf Faces Capture, British Declare. England May Place Purchases By Plan Of 'Lease-Lending' CAPT. HERB BROGAN C'enter Plans Full Program For Holidays A full program of activities will be sponsored by the International Cen- ter for foreign students who. will be away from their homelands during the holidays, Prof. Raleigh Nelson, its director, announced. For students remaining in Ann Arbor the Center's facilities will be open every day. Classes in English will be continued and special tutor- ng service will be available, he said. IGroups in conversational English will also be formed at 4 p.m. each Jay. A musical program of classical :ecords will be played every evening ),t 9 p.m. A watch night party will be held New Year's Eve and Professor and Mrs. Nelson will hold open house at 'he Center New ,Year's Day. More ,han 25 students will travel to Howell o present a program on world af- airs and trips to points of interest ;hrough the state will be scheduled for other groups of students. Fugitive Arrested Here George Wilson, 22, was ' arrested yesterday by Ann Arbor police for being one of six soldiers involved in an escape from the guard house at Fort Wayne Wednesday. A total of four out of the six have been ap- orehended. o (By The Associated Press) CAIRO, Egypt, Dec. 19.-The Bri- tish, brought up new troops before Bardia today for a last heavy blow in that Libyan sector, and declared officially the rear wing of the Itali- an army entrapped there was facing imminent capture or annihilation. The road of Fascist exit to the west toward the important base of To- bruk-the next objective of the desert offensive and lying 80 miles west of the Egyptian frontier-was under in- termittent bomb fire, and in the Mediterranean the guns of the Bri- tish fleet commanded the route of retreat. The Italian position in the whole area was termed "precarious" by the British command. How many Italians were cut off about Bardia was not stated official- ly, save that their forces were de- 2cribed in a British communique as "numerically superior" to the length- ening columns which had boxed them in, and were believed by some to be perhaps two divisions. Lengthening, too, was the British Kallio, Finnish Leader, Dies Ex-President Passes Away When Leaving Helsinki list of Italian captives. Those sort- ed, counted and in hand as "per- manent" prisoners of war numbered 31,546, said general headquarters here, and to this number will be added the "several thousand" still being brought forth from the battle areas. Total British losses-killed, wounded and missing-were official- ly put at less than 1,000. Royal Air Force reports indicated the earlier heavy Italian flight ob- served toward Tobruk had thinned out. There were some indications a gradual retreat from Tobruk, similar to that from Bardia, was the Italian plan. A withdrawal toward Derna, 175 miles within Libya, had been re- ported by British pilots earlier in the week. Inside and about the perimeter of Bardia heavy fighting went on. The Fascists were known to have plenti- ful supplies, and British military sources suggested the operation might require some time, although they expressed no doubt about the ulti- mate issue. In the vanguard of troops sur- rounding the town were a contingent of "Free French" forces and detach- ments of Australians. The Royal Air Force backed up the land and sea assault from Bardia by bombing Italian airdromes to the rear of it and protecting the British troops moving steadily across the Libyan plateau to the attack. These operations included one of the heaviest raids of tle war in the western desert. New Speakers Announced For, Senate Parley The names of additional speakers on the Student Senate annual winter parley to be held Jan. 10-12 were an- nounced yesterday by William Todd, '42, general chairman of the parley. He disclosed that Prof. Howard Ehrmann of the history department, Prof.-Emeritus William Hobbs and William Clark, '41, will give talks at the Friday evening session at the panel on American foreign pol'cy. - He stated that members of the parley committee will be notified by mail during vacation when the first meeting of that body will be held after the holiday. The position of the student in the world of today will be the theme of the parley. An additional panel chairman was named yesterday also. He is George Shepard, '41, who will lead the dis- cussion on student government. The parley will open Friday after- noon with a discussion of the draft. Friday evening's session will be con- cerned with American foreign policy, the probable outcome of the war, and America's role in any future peace. The symposiums on Saturday af- ternoon will take up extra-curricular activities, fraternities and sororities, student government and the place of student cooperatives. The Saturday evening session will be divided into three vertical panels on the topic "License-Freedom-Sup- pression." British Leader Warns People LONDON, Dec. 19-(P)-Winston Churchill gave this pre-Christmas warning to the British nation today: "Watch from hour to hour the dan- ger and menace of German invasion. "It would be disastrous if anyone supposed that the danger, the su- preme danger, the mortal dangers, are passed," he declared to the House of Commons, recessing for these war- time holidays. "They are not! . . .The winter sea- son offers some advantages to an invader . . . it would be a very great lack of prudence, a lack of prudence amounting to a crime, if vigilance were relaxed in our armies at home." The Prime Minister used this oc- casion to express hope that Britain, "still only a half-armed nation fight- ing a fully-armed nation," would in 1941 become well-armed, with thj help of America's 'great supplies.' Empire Looking To Purchases Three Billion Forward Totaling Dollars Morgenthau Gives 'Go Ahead' Signal WASHINGTON, Dec. 19-{P)- ireat Britain has begun negotiations, t was disclosed today, looking to- vard ordering $3,000,000,000 worth of rms in this country, possibly to be inanced by the United States under resident Roosevelt's "lease-lending" plan. Announcement the British had been old to go ahead with negotiations >n new war orders, was made by Secretary Morgenthau, who said no ontracts would be signed until Con- ;ress could act on Mr. Roosevelt's proposal for putting aid to Britain >n a new footing. 'Lease-Lending' Plan As outlined by the President at a press conference Tuesday, this idea is for the United States to take over British orders for war materials, pay he manufacturer for their produc- tion, and lease or lend the products to Britain. When the war was over, he British would return those arms which were in good condition and replace those destroyed. Morgenthau gave no hint as to the size of the proposed new British or- ders, but informed sources said the total was upward of $3,000,000,000 and included the following: About 12,000 additional warplanes, to cost $1,125,000,000, and 2,000 to 2,500 tanks, guns and ammunition to cost about $1,700,000,000. Current British ontracts are understood to total about $2,500,000,000. Speed Up Production The treasury secretary's announce- nent came amid increasing indica- ions that some steps would be taken very shortly in an effort to speed irms production. Stephen Early, presidential press ecretary, said Mr. Roosevelt was tudying five or six plans, among hem a proposal for a defense "high ommand" headed by Secretaries Stimson and Knox and William S. Knudsen, production chief of the De- .ense Commission. Nazi Aircraft Carry Italians To Battlefront Yugoslavian Reports Claim German-Piloted Planes Taking Men To Albania (By The Associated Press) STRUGA, Yugoslavia, WP)(At the Albanian Frontier), Dec. 19.-Mili- tary sources reported tonight that fleets of German-piloted Juhkers air transports were ferrying Italian re- inforcements across the Adriatic to the Albanian battlefront as Ger- many's aid to her hard-pressed ally. Concurrently, Greek forces, fight- ing in cold so fierce that hundreds f their Fascist foemen were report- 2d found frozen to death, were said by front dispatches to have forced Italian withdrawal from the strategic Albanian towns of Klisura, Tepeleni and Palermo. The same advices said, however, the Greeks followed their customary tactics of delaying occupation until dominating heights nearby had been mopped up, lest the Italian rearguard entrap them. (In Athens a government spokes- man said tonight the Italians had abandoned Palermo Bay, on which Porto Palermo is situated, in flee- ing toward Chimapa. (The Fascist-held town of Klus- ura was under fire. he added. and Christmas Pageantry To Relate Story Of Nativity At Churches Christmas pageantry will relate the story of the Nativity by ancient hymns and carols at candlelight serv- ices and midnight masses at Ann Arbor Churches throughout the week. Music by choirs, organ and solo- 'sts will predominate at the services on Sunday, Dec. 22. At the morning service, the St. Andrew's Episcopal Church Choir will perform "And the Glory of the Lord" from the Mes- siah by Handel. An old French Christmas carol, "Lullabye," will be performed by the Junior Choir of the First Presbyter- ian Church at 10:45 a.m. Sunday. This will be supplemented by musi- cal selections on the organ from Bach and Brahms. The annual family Christmas serv- ice of the First Congregational paniment by the St. Andrew's Men and Boys' Choir. At the same time the Choir and Drama Guild of the First Methodist Church will present a Christmas Pageant and Choral Evensong. A symbolic communion and candle- light service and the formal recep- tion of new members into the con- giregation will take place at 5:30 p.m. Sunday at the Unitarian Church. Special Christmas masses will be held on Sunday morning at 8 a.m., 10 a.m., and 11:30 a.m. at St. Mary's Catholic Chapel Midnight services will be held at several churches Tuesday night, Dec. 24. At the Trinity Lutheran Church from 11:15 p.m. to 12 midnight Rev. Yoder will lead a meditation. There will also be a candlelight service and (By The Associated Press) HELSINKI, Finland, Dec. 19-Ky- osti Kallio, who broke his health in leading Finland's lost cause against the Russians in 1939, died tonight of a heart attack in the arms of the country's gr'eatest military leader, Baron Gustaf Mannerheim, just as he was saying farewell to Helsinki and to public life. A few hours beforehand, Risto Ryti had been elected his successor as President, and Kallio, ill and tired at 67, had been driven to the railway station with his wife through streets ringing with the cries of Godspeed from tens of thousands. He was going home to the country. On the platform a company of sol- diers was drawn up in his honor. He faced' smartly to the end of the line in the last act of what Helsinki had planned as its goodbye to him. Student Arrested For Evasion Of Draft Denies Defense Need By ALVIN DANN The attitude that this country must arm itself with all possible haste in order to thwart any threat of fascist invaders was denied yester- day by Thaddeus A. Szymanski, '41E, the 24-year-old student who was ar- rested Tuesday for his refusal to fill out a draft questionnaire. He has been released on bond for examination Jan. 3 in Detroit. He objects to the present defense program on the grounds that "war and its antecedent preparation for war is a complete negation of all that is good in life." He argued that preparing for war is merely creating the conditions that will make us enter the war. When asked whether he considered th nnnrmi forceo nf fascism a men- preparing for war is merely one of degree." He declared that his pacifistic be- liefs rested on the attitude that the "futility of war has been repeatedly demonstrated throughout man's his- tory. Its greatest tragedy has been that in innumerable instances, the best in Duman nature has been tricked into the service of the worst. The ends it has purported to attain have been rendered impossible by the very means it has employed." He said he had been asked by some why a chemical engineering student like himself should be con- cerned about non-scientific matters. "I believe, however, that a scientist who is not socially conscious is of Ann Arbour U., Detroit, Ill., U.S.A.-That's Us!