Weather Colde ami ao rls Y2 4* AdW --AAL tti4 t u tIaiti1 Editorial Vor Nationai ife. Fifty Years Of Continuous Publication VOL. LL No. 90 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1941 Z-323 PRICE FIVE CENTS Marshall Declares Britain Could Beat Axis With U.S. Aid Wolverines Will Battle State Wrestlers Today Weakened Squad To Face Powerful Spartan Team, Without Seniors Tom Weidig And John Paup Free French Open Third Fighting Front In Africa; Nazis Renew Air Attacks Trade With Russia Faces Curtailment As British Protest Supplies To Nazis Murray Proposes Industrial Council WASHINGTON, Jan. 28. -()- In clipped monosyllables, General George C. Marshall today expressed the opinion that Britain could whip Germany with the American aid contemplated under the Lease-Lend Bill, while Secretary Morgenthau de- clared that unless the bill is passed the British must stop fighting. The views of the army's chief of staff, expressed to reporters after he had testified at a secret session of the House Foreign Affairs Commit- tee, recalled the testimony given last week by Col. Charles A. Lindbergh. Lindbergh said that even with the full military assistance of the United States Britain could not hope suc- cessfully to invade the continent of Europe, unless Germany collapsed in- ternally. Another major development was a disclbsure by Chairman Bloom (Dem.-N.Y.) of the House Foreign Affairs Committee that Democratic committeemen, in conference with House leaders, had tentatively agreed on fourr amendments to the Lend- Lease Bill. He said they would. "clearly pro- hibit" the use of United States naval vessels to convoy materials to bellig- erents, would limit the life of the President's sweeping powers to two years, would require periodic reports to Congress on the administration of the program, and would require him to consult the Army Chief of Staff and the Chief of Naval Operations. efore taking any step under the proPwed statute. English Assert Russians Send U.S. Goods To Nazis WASHINGTON, Jan. 28-(A)-The possibility arose tonight that Ameri- can trade with Soviet Russia might be curtailed further after British of- ficials claimed that important mili- tary supplies were "leaking" into Germany through Russia. Russian purchases of cotton in the United States, which amounted to approximately 140,000 bales during the last three months of 1940, ap- peared to be Britain's chief concern. The British government disclosed that it was seeking through diplo- matic conversations here to reduce this traffic. Secretary of State Hull said the United States government was seek- ing to determine to what extent American exports might be reaching certain belligerents through other countries. He appeared to regard Rus- sian purchases of cotton and other. products in this country as of small military importance, but indicated the government was watching the situation closely. He added that there was "little evidence that United States exports to the Soviet are reaching Germany direct but there is ample evidence that the Soviet is exporting Russian goods to Germany and replacing them by imports from the United States." New Management Council Suggested For Industry WASHINGTON, Jan. 28. -(T)-- CIO President Philip Murray pro- posed today that President Roosevelt establish a Labor-Management Coun- cil in the steel industry to supply what he said was a "critically needed" coordination of production facilities for defense and civilian needs. The steel industry Murray de- clared in a survey of capacity, is fall- ing 5,920,195 net tons a year below attainable production despite re- ports that operations are within one per cent of capacity. He said the machinery of the na- tional defense commission, is "in- escapable of achieving this vital in- dustry-wide coordination" because it is organized on what he called a "horizontally specialized basis" in stead of a "vertical, industry basis so Arrange menrts For Vox Pop' Are Completed JOHNSON and BUTTERWORTH The cast of radio's original quiz show, "Vox Pop," will invade Ann Ar- bor sometime today to make final arrangements for their broadcast here, scheduled to be held from 730 to 8 p.m. tomorrow in the Union Ball- room. Students who have obtained tickets for the broadcast must arrive at the Ballroom before '7:10 p.m., the time all doors will be closed. The Union and League reported last night that all of their tickets had been distri- buted and that, as far as was known, there were none left in the city. Parks Johnsonsand Wally Butter- worth, conductors of the show, are expected to address the radio class of Prof. Waldo Abbot of the speech department at 9 a.m. today in Morris Hall and Nathan Tufts, director of the program may also be present to add a few words. The "Vox Pop" presentation here is the first campus appearance of the program west of New York State. Engineers' Institute To Hear Prof. Gault Presenting his paper entitled "to- tor-Bar Currents in Squirrel-Cage Induction Motors," Prof. James S. Gault of the electrical engineering department will be in Philadelphia today to attend the annual winter meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. In addtion to presenting his paper, Professor Gault, as faculty adviser to the campus student section of the AIEE will also meet with other stu- dent counselors for a discussion of their activities. By STAN CL.AMAGE A Wolverine wrestling team, caught in the midst of the current flu wave, meets a powerful Michigan State squad tonight at East Lansing in a meet which should be hotly contest- ed. T flu epidemic has added three ofthe home grapplers to its ver- growing toll. Seniors Tom Weidig and John Paup have both been made inactive for the Spartan clash. And Weidig's substitute in the 128-pound class, Art Schoenberg, is also ill. Thus with nobody else available at that weight, Michigan will be forced to spot State five points on a default. Sophomore Marvin Becker will take over Paup's post at 145-pounds. Sporting a team which is probably the best in its history, State will play host to the Wolverines in a meet which will be the toughest one on both teams? schedule. Fendley Col- lins, the Spartan mentor, in addition to having several Oklahoma star wrestlers, will have a squad tonight that will be at top strength. Top honors for the best scraps, should go to the 175-pound and 155- pound matches. In both tussles are four of the finest grapplers in the country. Hutson of State and Michi- gan's Jim Galles will wrestle in the heavier class, while Bill Combs and Prof. C. Heller Will Address Art Banquet Prof. Catherine Heller of the arch- itecture and design college will ad- dress the initiation banquet of Tau Sigma Delta, international honorary fraternity for students of architec- ture and applied design at 6 p.m. today in the Union. Seven students of the college were chosen for membership on the basis of their excellent work and promise. They include Janet Fisher. '41A, Ann Arbor; Julie Hart, '42A, of Ann Arbor; Fred Arnold, '42, of Salt Lake City, Utah; John Maxon. '41A, Hemp- stead, N. Y.; Chauncey Korten, '42A, of Iron Mountain; Clelan Grahman, '41A, of Flint; and Charles Shaw, '41, of Ann Arbor. The initiation program will be held at 5:15 preceding the banquet. Ann Wills, '41A, is in charge of the program and entertainment. Transports Sighted ear indo-China SAIGON, French Indo-China, Jan. 29.-(R)-Japanese troop transports were reported sighted off the coast south of here today as new Japan- ese military moves in Indo-China overshadowed the violation of the Thai-Indo-China armistice agree- ment for which each side blamed the other. Willkie Witnesses JIM GALLES Benny Riggs, both captains of their teams, will take on each other at 155-pounds. Riggs has been gunning for Combs, but Bill is set on pro- tecting his 18-match winning streak. Since the two schools started re- lations in wrestling 19 years ago, Michigan has an edge on wins, 22-5. State's last victory came in 1935. Michigan won last year, 26-8. Both teams have two victories, and no defeats up to date. Michigan has scored decisive victories over the Dearborn A. C. and Northwestern. (Continued on Page 3) Brown To Head SenateGroup On Taxation Congressional Committee Will Analyze Problems Of Tax-Free Securities WASHINGTON, Jan. 28. -(A)- Selection of Senator Prentiss M. Brown today as chairman of a Con- gressional committee to draft new tax legislation placed the Michigan Democrat in the forefront of what promises to be one of this session's most complex tasks. The committee will figure in the problem of boosting the national debt limit from $49,000,000,000 to a pro- posed $65,000,000,000 and in an an- ticipated battle over attempts to place a tax on certain securities heretofore exempted. , In the last Congress Brown, then also chairman of a subcommittee recommended that all tax exemp- tions on bonds be denied. Today he said he felt sure that Congress would approve such a proposal. Senator Brown said he had ob- tained data showing that approxi- mately half of all estates of $5,000,- 000 or more lay in tax-exempt secur- ities of Federal, State or municipal governments. He said this repre- sents "a tremendous loss" to govern- ment. "We do not believe that we will achieve absolute tax justice in the bill to be drafted," Brown said. "But it is our hope to distribute the burden among those who can best meet the obligations which the heavier taxes, necessitated by the defense program, have forced upon this Congress." Student Enlists To Aid Britain Curtis Atherton Will Join Canadian Air Force Curtis Atherton is going to fight "for the cause he believes to be right and just, the Battle of Britain." Forsaking his studies, Curtis will add his flying abilities to those of Britain's RAF defenders in "America's fight, as a fulfillment of my moral obligation, as my contribution to the fight for freedom." First Nazi Attack (By The Associated Press) LONDON, Jan. 28-German bomb- ers ended London's four-day respitet from raids with a shower of incen-t diaries and explosives which caused1 considerable damage to houses and brought the city's anti-aircraft de-t fenses into vigorous action today.- German long-range guns also re- newed shelling across the Dover Strait tonight.1 The four alarms in I.andon were( the first since last Thursday, butE the attacks ended before dark ush- ered in the ninth night without a raidI warning.1 Bombs landing in a residential area killed one woman, but otherwise there were no reports of serious casualties. Planes were reported to have ma- chine-gunned a train in eastern Eng- land and dropped fire bombs and explosives on villages whose inhabi-1 tants were said to have been firedl upon when they fought the incendi- aries. Threshers also were reported machine-gunned. Wendell Willkie Confers Jt'ith English Officials " LONDON, Jan. 28-(IP)-Minus tin hat, Wendell L. Willkie plunged cheerfully about London today through four air raids, acting as if nothing out of the ordinary had hap- pened and permittingnothing to dis- turb his strenuous schedule. He inspected the bomb damage at St. Paul's and called it "outrageous;" talked with Montagu Norman, Gov- ernor of the Bank of kngland, con- ferred with Sir Kingsley Wood, Chan- cellor of the Exchequer; sat for half an hour in Commons listening to de- bates; had a half-hour's conference with Arthur Cardinal Hinsley, Ro- man Catholic Archbishop of West- minister. 'Empress Of Australia' Torpedoing Disclaimed LONDON, Jan, 28-()-British naval authorities announced tersely today that the big war-converted din- er Empress of Australia is "safe in port," and one source suggested that radio messages reporting her torped- oed and shelled might have been "a German trick." The messages were received last night by the Miami, Fla., station of tropical. radio, which said they had no way of telling whether they were genuine. Beginning at 10:36 p.m. E.S.T., the messages, over a period of about 20 minutes, gave staccato account of a torpedo striking. Daylight Bombing Raid Ends Four-Day Lull; Batteries Shell Coast G ov. Osborn' s' 'Possums Make Feast For Si s By WILL SAPP The boys at the Sigma Chi house are going to eat 'possum tonight, all1 because House-manager Blaz Lucas happened to be listening to the radio last week. Lucas heard a radio birthday salute to former Governor Chase Osborn, a1 brother Sigma Chi, and sent him a congratulatory card. Two days ago "Sparky" Harrison, the fraternity's porter, dragged a 40 pound crate- Osborn's thank-you card-into the kitchen. Inside were two 15-poundf well-fattened, scrowling 'possums. The return address was Possumpoket Farm, Possumlane, Georgia. They had to kill the things Rush Cattell, the chef, backed out, "I'm a chef, not- a butcher." Sparky1 said he didn't even like 'possum meat. So yesterday afternoon 14 determined Sigs slipped into the basement, in- tending to kill them in a humane way,, like drowning. They opened the crate ad one of the animals jumped out. Steward Mert DeLancey, seeing that he could save money on the food if they killed them, grabbed a lead gas pipe, clonked the 'possum over the head, smiled as it dropped to the floor. The other met the same fate. So they're going to eat 'possum to- night, slowly-roasted 'possum with: candied yams in the mouth and car- rots in the body. Dean Emeritus Mor- timer F. Cooley and Fielding H. Yost will be special guests at the feast. ; Osborn even sent directions how to cook the animals ". . . with potatoes, in the mouth and carrots in the body, roast slowly for half a day and then you'll have a feast for the Gods, Coach Yost, Dean Cooley and all of you. Wish I could be there and cook them for you." And the steward says that Blaz Lucas is going to get double servings tonight. Elizabeth Dew Given Mann Scholarship Elizabeth Dew, '41, has been award- ed the first Margaret Mann Schol- arship for University students in li- brary science it was announced yes- terday. This award which carries a stipend of $75 this year was established in 1938 by gifts from the University Li- brary Science Alumni Association, the Ann Arbor Library Club and as- sociates and former students of Prof. Emeritus Margaret Mann who was a member of, the library science de- partment from 1926 to 1938 when she retired. New Campaign In Libya May Result In Downfall Of Mussolini's Empire Nazis May Attempt Landing In Africa CAIRO, Egypt, Jan. 28.-A "Free F'rench" camel corps operating from Chad-the northern area of Equator- ial Africa-has begun an offensive against the Italians in southwestern Libya, thus opening a third fighting front in an African struggle menac- ing the whole of the Fascist empire. This new blow against the Italians was belatedly announced by radio tonight by General Georges Catroux, an associate of General Charles De Gaulle, the supreme commander of all those Frenchmen who rejected the armistice with Germany and have been fighting on as Britain's allies. Corps Assembled The corps was assembled along the Libyan frontier early this month, he said, and crept slowly across the desert by night, hiding by day, until at last they met and drove out the Italian garrison in the important oasis of Fezzan. The regional capital, Marzouk, was declared to have been haided in a fierce, suddendassault which took the Italian defenders wholly by surprise. The town is 300 miles from the Frehch base in Chad, and lies some 700 miles to the south- west of Derna, Libya, where only to- day British Imperial forces were re- ported being rapidly reinforced for a general attack. The third front active during to- day is 2,000 miles away to the south- east. There, advancing British forces were said to be closing in on the towns of Agordat and Barentu in Italian Eritrea. Agordat Essential Center Agordat is an essential rail center some 40 miles within Eritrea, and there and at Barentu, military in- formants said, the disorganized Ital- ians were preparing to make what stand they could. British ground forces were reported advancing in strength and it appeared to be only a question of a short time before both towns fell. Still other British troops were de- clared to be pursuing an Italian column, 3,000 to 4,000 strong, which had abandoned the post of Umm Hagar, near the Eritrean-Ethiopian border, and had taken flight into an area which is infested with Ethiopian "patriots" aiding Britain. Recapitulating recent operations in East Africa, the British announced the capture of an Italian general- the 17th of that rank to fall into Bri- tish hands in the whole campaign- and the seizure in the Eritrean sec- tor of an additional hundred. prison- ers, thus bringing to 1,200 the total taken there to date. The general was not identified. Hitler Expected To Move Against French In Africa (By The Associated Press) ROME, Jan. 28-Foreign observers said today that there was a possibility of a German landing in North Af- rica, if necessary, in an attempt to drive a military wedge between Gen. Sir Archibald P. Wavell's British Ar- my in Libya and Free French forces to the west." The British are expected in Rome to reach the end of their driving force when they get to Bengasi, more than 300 miles from the Egyptian Border, with vast stretches of sand between them and their bases and more hun- dreds of miles of desert ahead. Gayda Accuses America Of Coveting Azores Base ROME, Jan. 28-P)--Virginio Gay- da, the highly-placed Fascist editor, accused the United States today of planning to establish air and naval bases in the Portugese-owned Azores as a threat to Europe. His editorial, "Eyes on the Azores," Mitropoulos Declares Germans World's Best Concert Audiences By S. R. WALLACE With a rueful smile on his deeply lined face Dimitri Mitropoulos opined yesterday that "although they can be unbelievably cruel, the German peo- ple are romantic sentimentalists at heart, and I have found them to be the best concert audiences in the world." Interviewed before his performance last night in Hill Auditorium where he conducted the Minneapolis Sym- phony Orchestra in the eighth Chor- al Union concert, Mitropoulos de- clared that as conductor of the Ber- lin Symphony Orchestra he knew the pre-Hitler people as the best informed and most respectful music lovers. Born in Greece, which at present through its war with Italy, is decid- edly anti-Nazi, the noted maestro has been active on war relief com- mittees for his homeland. He has of- ten expressed his deep concern over the outcome of its conflict, but speak- ing as a musician he admitted that nnwheree se hnve audienes int- cal supplies that the Greeks were un- able to obtain before. As to Greek-German relations, he related the news that the wife of the German ambassador in Athens heads one of Greece's soldier-supply units, but that-as they would feel towards a friend that consorts with their ene- my-he knows that his people are definitely distrustful of all Germans at the present. Since his debut in America in 1936, Mitropoulos conducted both the Bos- ton Symphony and New York Phil- harmonic Orchestra as well as tour- ing the country with the Minneapolis group. Comparing the East's sophis- ticated audiences with those here in the middle-west, he asserted that while the former are as a whole bet-j ter informed, they are also noisy and1 less respectful. During the interview two Daily photographers who had met and ob- tained pictures of the conductor a few weeks ago, brought enlargements of the shnts to Mitronoulos. After t S Aid To Britain Now May Avert Future Conflict, Kitchin Asserts .By WILLIAM BAKER , It is better to take every step in aiding Britain now, even though it may possibly mean war, than to wait and fight a far worse war that will be forced upon us if Britain collapses and three continents are dominated by the totalitarian system," Mr. Jo- seph A. Kitchin of the political sci- ence department stated in an inter- view yesterday. Our interests are very closely tied up with those of the British Em- pire, for they grew side by side under similar conditions, he continued, and if we wish to save our own system we must aid her in every way pos- sible. "It may mean man power later on. It may even involve the eventual collapse of our free economic sys- tem. But the comparatively small loss in aiding Britain would be nothing to our loss if we wait for totalitarian invasion, external or internal, that will come," Mr. Kitchin said. "And a to the collanse of our economic of England and France then, he claimed. We can prevent a far worse war if we act now. There is a good chance that we will not have to use man power to aid Britain, he continued. If Germany is blockaded, if we supply Britain with sufficient food and enough mechani- cal equipment, and if the weapons of American finance are used to keep the rest of the world friendly, then England can probably defeat Ger- many, he asserted. The victory may come through in- ternal collapse, within a few years or possibly even a few months, Mr. Kitchin said. Germany's defeat will be more cer- tain if Russia can be weaned away, and if Turkey can be kept actively in the Allies' camp, Mr. Kitchin con- tinued. "If the United States-and Great Britain-can do this, then I think Germany will be defeated." By aiding Britain we will be aid-