Weather Rain and Colder pr 5k igau Iaitx Editorial 'United Front' Needed Against Local Thieves . . VOL. LII. No. 33 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1941Z-2 t Z -32- PRICE FIVE CENTS 5 4m Tlo-I& 70 I Navy Reveals Atlantic Battle Has Cost U.S. Lives Of 122 Oil Tanker Is Torpedoed Southwest Of Iceland; No Casualties Are Listed Hope Is Abandoned For 97 Aboard James WASHINGTON, Nov. 4.-VP)-The United States Army and Navy have lost 1'22 men in connection with the battle of the Atlantic, it was dis- closed today,'although there was no loss of life in the latest incident to be reported--the torpedoing of the U.S.S. Salinas, Naval oil tanker. The tanker, the Navy announced, was torpedoed "without warning" last Wednesday night while it was travel- Drama Season To Open With 'Jim Dandy' Today WASHINGTON, Nov. 4-A)- At least fou of the seamen listed by the Navy as lost in the sinking of the. destroyer Reuben James were reported safe tonight by relatives. Officials explained last-minute changes in the ship's roster might account for the discrepancies and indicated the official list might be changed later when further infor- mation becomes 'available. ing in a convoy southwest of Iceland. It was seriously damaged, but reached an undisclosed port in safety. Even as new details of the struggle accumulated into story of submarine- surface ship fighting without prece- dent, the Navy formally abandoned hope for those listed as missing in the torpedo sinking of the U.S. Destroyer Reuben James west of Iceland., That meant the death list in the Reuben James incident stood at 97 officers and men-one of the most costly losses in modern American naval history. Other losses have included 11 killed in the torpedo attack on the Destroy- er Kearny, 11 Navy men and an Army officer lost in a patrol plane crash last Sunday, an yrmy officer killed in a plane crash in Iceland last August, and a naval officer lost over- board from a dpstroyer. The Navy rekorted today the big patrol bomber had crashed into a mountain on an unidentified island somewhere in the Atlantic. Only twice during the entire World War were heavier losses of naval per- sonnel recorded than were listed in the Reuben James sinking. The worst disaster of World War days was the sinking by a submarine of the U.S.S. Ticonderoga, a cargo ship. Casual- ties included 214 dead, among them 99 soldiers and two Army officers. Senior Class Petitions Due Monday Made Deadline For OfficeApplicants Petitions for sinior class offices are due in the Student Offices of the Union, at 3:30 p.m. Monday, Robert Samuels, '42, Director of Elections announced yesterday. The applications, which are now obtainable any day from 3 to 5 p.m. in the Student Offices, must bear the signatures of 25 seniors in the lit- erary college and as many as possible in the other schools. Offices in the literary college will be divided between the men and wo- men in the following manner: the positions of president and secretary will be held by men and the vice- president and treasurer will be wo- men. Men petitioning in that school should sign up for an interview with the Men's Judiciary Council. Inter- viewing will be held between 3:30 and 5:30 p.m. Monday. Elections for senior class officers will be held on Thursday Nov. 20 for the following schools: College of Pharmacy, College of Literature Science and Arts, Law School, School of Business Administration, College of Architecture and Design, School of Forestry and Conservation and School of Music. Triangles Tap 12 For Membership T>Pf Tarr Rntn'ardnharma o By GLORIA NISHON jJim Dandy," William Saroyan's rolicking fantasy-comedy, will open the winter season of Play Production of the Department of Speech when it begins its four-day run at the Lydia Mendelsohn Theatre at 8:30 p.m. today. Play Production is probably the first theatre group in the country to present the play. It is being given this month in approximately 50 Uni- versity and Community theatres and for this reason has attracted nation- wide interest. This is the first time thata Broadway play has been pre- sented by a number of amateur groups before its New York appear- ance. Play Will Surpass Prize-Winner Saroyan, who is the first play- wright ever to win both the New York Critics' Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize simultaneously, has ex- pressed the belief that this play will surpass his prize-winning "The Time of Your Life." Says Mr. Saroyan: "At the worst, we will confuse people; at the least, we will awaken their imaginations; at the best, we will broaden the areas of dramatic art. One thing is sure, we will not find it possible to leave people exactly where we found them." Typical of the mood of the play are the descriptions of the charac- ters which vary from Jim Dandy as "anybody" and Jim Crow as "any- body else" to Johnny, "a young man with one foot in the grave." The scene is laid in a public library- without walls-supervised by a fem- inine librarian who reclines on a can- opied couch in the true Cleopatra manner. The play fulfills all the require- Fund Campaign Short of Goal On Final Day Half Of $59,000 Quota Is Yet To Be Collected Today In Local Drive On the eve of the final day of sol- icitations the Community Fund cam- paign had covered less than half the ground towards its $59,434 goal. At the close of a report luncheon fo the mens' divisions at the Union yesterday a total of $24,238.85, 41% of the quota, had been collected since the beginning of the campaign Oct. 26. But Prof. Laylin K. James, of the Law School, chairman of the Fund, was not discouraged. 'Some of the di- visions are composed of large units which do not report until their can- vass is finished, which explains the slowness of some divisions, he said. However, he pointed out that an in- tensive effort would have to be made on the last day if the quota is to be reached. The special gifts division still leads the other divisions with a total of $12, 416.10. Totals for the other di- visions are: University $6,474.50, com- mercial $2,657, Industrial $1,870, util- ities $1,250, Junior Chamber of Com- merce $984.25, women's $946.25, pub- lic schools $464.50, service clube $309, University hospital $184.25 and Dun- bar Community Center $41.50. The final report meeting will be held at noon tomorrowmin the Union. The Real American Spirit? ments of three different kinds of dramatic presentation as drama, mu- sic and dancing combine to provide an epoch-making form of entertain- ment. The music, however, is not of the usual "soft lights" variety for blares of a bugle will announce the entrances of "anybody" Jim Dandy. Windt Will Direct For the thirteenth consecutive year Valentine B. Windt, Director of Play Production and member of the De- partment of Speech, will direct this season's plays. In the instance of this opening drama, however, play- wright Saroyan objects to the use of the term "director" as applied to the1 guiding hand. "'Jim Dandy' ", he maintains, "is a symphony of words and therefore needs a conductor rather than a di- rector." Art director for the play is Robert Mellencamp and Emma Hirsch is cos- tumiere. Lucille W. Walz, treasurer , of the drama group, announces that season tickets will be on sale until tomorrow and seats for this produc- tion are still available. Extra Showing Accommodates Comedy Fans Art Cinema Will Present Two Movie Programs In Revised Schedule There are some who missed the op- portunity to "get away from it all." The Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre was filled to capacity at the first pre- sentation of the Art Cinema's comedy series, and to -accommodate "eager fans," the League, under great pres- sure, its officials say, will provide a supplementary showing of the re- maining films in the series at 6:30 p.m. preceding the regular 8:15 p.m. performances. Season tickets for the remaining three presentations to be given at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 23 and Jan. 18 are on sale'at reduced rates in the Union, League and a State Street book store. Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton will be the stars in Sunday's presenta- tions of "Grandma's Boy" and "Sher- lock Jr." A student of American comedy wrote, "it was after he assumed his horn-rimmed glasses in 1917 that Harold Lloyd developed his own in- genious type of character comedy. "The Lloyd character in 'Grand- ma's Boy,' a typical American coun- try boy, always struggles eagerly to adapt himself to circumstances more complex and more sophisticated than are common to him. He is always successful in the end, but comedy arises from situations which reveal how difficult this adaptation is." This author writes of Buster Kea- ton in 'Sherlock Jr.,' "He would re- semble the classic simpleton of legend and fairy tales were it not for a qual- ity which might be termed meta- physical madness. He is imperturbably serious, in- scrutable, and stubborn and acts un- der the impulse of an irresistible power unknown to himself, compar- able only to the mysterious urge that causes the birds to migrate or the avalanches to come crashing down." Conference Opens Today At Rackham Parent Education Institute To Hold 3-Day Meeting; Plan On 1,000 Delegates Wyland To Speak At Opening Session Over 1000 delegates are expected to attend the twelfth annual Parent Ed- . ucation Institute which will open its three day program at 9:30 a.m. today in the Rackham Building. Considering the general theme. "Man Remakes His Environment," the opening day sessions will be lim- ited to a discussion of family rela- tionships, this topic being taken up by a series of conferences and speeches. R O Wylaxd To Speak IRay 0. Wyland, Director of Edu- cation and Relationships for the Boy Scouts of America, will address the first general session this morning on' the topic, "Guarantees of Democra- cy." He will be followed in the after-' noon by one of the Institute's top at- tractions, Dean Marten ten Hoor of1 Tulane who will speak on "Democracy vs. Totalitarianism-A Crisis in Edu- cation." Other featured speakers of today include Eugene Ellot, State Su-' perintendent of Public Instruction, and Prof. Ernest G. Osborne, Teach-'1 ers College Columbia University. Hooton ToTalk Thursday Prof. Ernest Hooton, well-known Harvard author and anthropologist, will headline Thursday's program with speeches both in the morning and evening, his topics being "The Patology of Nations," and "Environ- ment Unmakes the Man." Also speaking tomorrow will bej Prof. Howard Y. McClusky, Univer- sity adult education expert; Mrs. Sid-' onie M. Gruenberg, author and edu- cator; and Dean Carroll Sibley of Los Angeles College.E Scheduled to address the closingt sessions of the Institute Friday onI the day's topic "The World Com-I munity" are Mrs. Gruenberg; Frank- lin Dunham, director of the Catholic Community Service; Dr. Ernest J.3 Chave; and Wendell Lund, Executive Director of the Michigan State Un- employment Compensation Commis-7 sion. - Engine School HoldsElection, Freshmen Will Elect Two To Engineers' Council Freshmen in the College of Engi- neering will do their first voting as a class today when they elect two rep- resentatives to serve on the Engineer- ing Council. Balloting, will be done in regular weekly freshman assemblies at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. today, rather than at a separate ballot box as used on other class elections, election chair- man Verne C. Kennedy, '42E, an-, nounced. New this year are stringent regua- tions against electioneering in the. form of bulletin board posters andt pass-out slips or cards. Instead, pic-f tures of the candidates have been ob-r tained and posted on the EngineeringI Council bulletin board by the electionr committee.. Candidates for election as selected by the election committee are George Collins, John Dowdle, James Eyster, Walter Furbush, John Mansfield, John Miller, AlfredoShevin, David Upton and Ray Yagle. .Serving on the election committee are Kennedy, John Burnham, 42E, Don West, '43E, and David Weh- meyer, '44E.. Tokyo Offers Seven Point Far Eastern Program To Ease Pacific Crisis Nippon Says U.S. Must Name Ternis TOKYO, Wednesday. Nov. 5-()- The foreign office-controlled Japan Times and Advertiser published a sweeping 7-point program today for the United States "to make effective on her own initiative" to ease the Pacific crisis in which other sections of the press bluntly said the time has come for a final showdown. "This is not the time, when the Pa- cific is on the brink of war, for Japan to make known terms to the United States, but rather for America specif- ically to say what terms of settlement that country intends to make toward undoing its acts of aggression," the newspaper said. Boldly asserting that if the United States does not "take the right turn in the road she can face the alterna- tives," the newspaper put forward its program for the United States as follows: "1. Stop all military and economic aid to Chungking by all foreign states and cease all propaganda or military missions to keep Chungking at war with Japan. America could advise Chungking to make its peace with Japan. "2. Leave China completely free to deal with Japan and therefore end hostilities and establish economic co- operation. "3. Stop encirclement of Japan by military, naval and air bases and by economic barriers. Proceed no fur- ther with military and naval move- ments in the western Pacific under the pretext of defense. "4. Acknowledge Japan's co-pros- perity sphere, her leadership in the western Pacific and, in doing so, leave Manchukuo, China, Indo-China, Thailand, the (Netherlands East) Indies and other states and protec- torates to establish their own political and economic relations with Japan without interference of any kind. "5. Recognize Manchukuo. Nobody can undo what is done there.. The state exists with an emperor heading it and nobody will change it. Common and political sense . . . ditates such diplomatic recognition. "6. Stop at once unconditionally the freezing of Japan's assets and China's assets in America, Britain, the Indies and wherever that provocative mea- sure is applied. "7. Restore the trade treaties, abol- ish all restrictions on shipping and commerce, undo everything wrong- fully done in the name of peace but with the design for war, whether ec- onomic or military." Ross Takes State Job George G. Ross, associate professor' of landscape architecture and city planning in the College of Architec- ture and Design, has obtained leave' from the University to take over his new duties as Director of the State Planning Commission, it was an- nounced yesterday. Appears Here, Sunday ARTUR RODZINSKI S * Choral Union Will Present Third Concert Camera Artist Rodzinski Will Lead Symphony ProgramSunday Even musicians 4ove to take pic- tures. Artur Rodzinski, distinguished/ con- ductor of the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, is one of the country's many camera fiends. Besides that, he is one of the best amateur photog- raphers in the state of Ohio. But he'll forsake his camera for a baton at 3 p.m. Sunday when he steps to the -podium on the Hill Auditorium stage to lead his 82 virtuosos in the third concert of the annual Choral Union Series.I His audience will probably reach, the 5,000 mark-Hill Auditorium's seating capacity-because Dr. Charles A. Sink, president of the University Musical Society, says "there aren't very many tickets left." The few that can still be bought are available at the offices of the University Musical Society in Burton Memorial Tower. Program for the afternoon concert is designed to please the audience by its variety. The works to be played include: Overture to "Euryanthe" by Weber; Symphony No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 82, by Sibelius; "Iberia," Impressions for Orchestra No. 2, by Debussy; and "Scenaiio for Orches- tra" on Themes from "Show Boat," by Kern. The Cleveland Orchestra is one of the finest musical institutions in the nation. It has toured for 22 years, played 856 concerts in 25 states and earned the name of the "touring or- chestra." The organization is .very popular with Cleveland audiences, has its own three-million-dollar home ' and has appeared in -Choral Union concerts twice before. German Offensives Peril Caucasus, Crimea; Japan Wants Final Showdown' U.S. Warning To Finland Attacked By Opposition; Foreign Policy Defended 'Defensive War' ClaimedBy Taft (By The Associated Press) The multi-armed German offen- sive reaching out in the east toward the Caucasus and south for Sevasto- pol in the Crimea apparently still was pushing back the Soviet lines general- ly last night, and the, loss of much of the best of the Russian south was a plainly growing probability. In the Crimea, about which the Russians were silent yesterday save for reports of minor and local suc- cesses, the German command claimed the capture of Feodosiya, a port and communications center 60 miles short of Kerch and connected by rail to that city-which is separated only by a two-mile-wide strait from the Cau- casian mainland. This, victory was attributed to a Nazi force striking eastward and roughly at right angles from the col- umns beating downward upon Sevas- topol itself with the assignment of knocking out that key Soviet naval base for the Black Sea. Sevastopol was understood to be under German artillery fire. Well to the north of all this action, a third German force, or rather a series of forces operating along and above the northern shores of the Sea of Azov, was smashing from several directions at the approaches to Ros- tov on the River Don, the western en- trance to the Caucasus on the trunk railroad connecting that area with the rest of Russia. The Russians themselves acknowl- edged that before Rostov violent Ger- man tank charges had driven a sali- ent several miles deep' into the Soviet line, although saying that efforts to extend this salient had failed. So far as the Crimea was con- cerned the immediate German con- cern appeared to be to reach Kerch in time to prevent its possible use as a point of debarkation. The Nazi High Command pictured the Russian Crimean forces as in flight generally, but every other source of informa- tion-including the observation of a German war correspondent that the hardest fighting was still to come- rebutted that contention. Senators Attack Warning To Finns WASHINGTON, Nov. 4.-(4P)-Foes of the Roosevelt foreign policy joined in a concerted attack upon the Ad- ministration today for warning Fin- land to end its conflict with Russia. In reply, Administration supporters' charged them with endeavoring to di- vert attention from the real issue before the Senate and the nation. This, said Senator Lee (Dem.- Okla.), was whether the United States is to help those, meaning Russia in this instance, "who stand as a barrier between the United States and war." The day's debate on Neutrality Act revision also brougit declarations from Senators Bilbo (Dem.-Miss.) and Lodge (Rep.-Mass.), who previ- ously had supported much of the Administration foreign policy, that they would oppose 'removing restric- tions which keep American ships out of combat zones. Senators Taft (Rep.-Ohio), Clark (Dem.-Ida.) and Clark (Dem.-Mo.) participated in the criticism of the warning to Finland, with Taft ask- ing in tones of deepest sarcasm whe- ther this country had received any assurances from Russia that the lat- ter would not attack Finland if and when it is victorious over Hitler. "We will be deeply ashamed," said Taft, "for all time to come of our warning to Finland to .cease a war which is essentially a defensive war." Marriage Lecture Series Ends Today Last in the fall series of marriage relations course lectures will be given at 7:30 p.m. today in the Lecture Hall of the Rackham Building on "iVIarriage Adjustments." Prof. Ern- est G. Osborne of Columbia Univer- .Halifax Bombarded With Eggs Hurled By Irate Woman Pickets Ersatz For Black Friday: Freshman-Sophomore Games To Take Place November 15 DETROIT, Nov. 4--A')-Unshaken by a barrage of eggs and tomatoes hurled at him by women pickets op- posing this nation's entry into war, Lord Halifax, British Ambassador to the United States, rounded out to- night a two-day tour of Detroit's arms production centers. One egg struck Halifax as he pass- ed a group of 25 parading women outside the downtown building where he visited with) Archbishop Edward Mooney, head of the Catholic Arch- Diocese of Detroit. An hour later the Ambassador visited the Henry Ford Hospital and received treatment for an eye irri- tation, but Cyril Cane, British consul here, said the trouble was not a result of the egg-throwing. The missile-tossing women carried such placards as "Remember the burning of the Capitol in the War of By ROMER SWANDER LaGutardia Wins Over O'Dwyer; Jeff ries Elected NEW YORK, Nov. 4-(AP)-Fiorello H. La Guardia did it again, but this time it was a tussle. For the third successive time he ad- ministered a beating to Tammany Hall, and the city's other Democratic organizations, not by such impressive margins as the two previous elections, but still enough to defeat the Demo- cratic candidate, William O'Dwyer. With only 348 election districts out of 4,059 yet to be heard from, the "Class rivalry on the Michigan" campus is not dead." This is the cry which yesterday came from the lips of freshmen and sophomores alike, as they set Nov. 15 for the staging in Yost Field House of what seems likely to prove the most spirited class games Michigan has ever seen. Rushing plans for the big day, leaders of both classes announced meetings for tomorrow in the Stu- dent Offices of the Union. Dormi- tory presidents and a few other prom- inent freshmen will meet at 7:30 p.m. to decide questions of strategy, dis- cuss the rules for the games and elect a captain. A similar conference of sophomore leaders will take place at 8 .m. then defend it against the determined rush of the freshmen. Other games to be held include aj mass tug-of-war; a fight over a gigantic canvass ball, eight feet in diameter, and a pillow fight. - Under the direction and sponsor- ship of the Union, the Interfraternity Council and The Daily, the games have full University approval. John White, '42, is acting as adviser for the freshmen, while Jack Hooper, '44, is temporary adviser-leader of the sophomores. ASU To Give Skit Today; Nazis Will Be Discussed A skit entitled "School for Bar- barians" will be presented at a meet- ;- -f.. ..C E t.-. A * C+ 1-f- T T--.2. LORD HALIFAX Beatrice Knowles, president of a group called "The American Moth- ers," charged that the egg-throwers were members of a rival organiza- fin-.. ~ t'MI. . dn.. .C of I,- TT C0 A 1