I 1 .d ., / #... "... 1 1 Wether43t Mild Partly Cloudy VOL. LH. No. 44 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1941 Z-323 Russians Gain Defense, Labor's Rights Tokyo Envoy, Mines Virtuall St Near Capital; Compatible,_Carey Says FDR ConferY Nazis Capture (Editor's Note: Thistry weas. shop was granted in the mines, it On Far East X Lews Defies S( ,. tained frm exclusive interviews with woud not be pushed further, he * up , t i ' James Carey and R. J. Thomas last asre 1ly Port night !at the CIO convention head-asetd Cr. ne n Por quareters in Detroit.) -Carey claimed the Mediation Board K , ROeVelt Attempt andthe President deviated from their TO fele Differences a0 T ak e Uver C O GermanRnh B brF Ra I HOMER SWANDER to grant the union shop and, at the In U1S-Ni Pnli Editorial O ou-l s Nllws From~ Chile .t PRICE FIVE CENTS opped )ldierS 11 t s To East As Oil Fields Appear As New Goal Soviet Announces - Success In North (By The Associated Press) Hitler's long gray columns appear- ed last-night to have surmounted the last obstacle save one before the west- ern Caucasus, but it was equally ap- parent that his armies of the north and center were hard put to hold their own upon harsh and frozen battlefields where the worst was yet to come. While the Germans were announ- cing the capture of Kerch, the ex- treme eastern Crimean port separ- ated from Caucasia by a strait at one point onlyitwo miles 'wide, the Rus- sians were proclaiming that the weary invader wa in retreat in three sec- tors about Moscow and before Lenin- grad had been driven out of positions which he had held for two months. Ludicrous Flight In one of the three Moscow thea- ters-that of Tula, about 100 miles south of the capital-the retreat was described in Soviet accounts as a ludicrous flight of elgtat miles. There, the officiel' Soviet news agency declared, the. Nazis were thrown into a panic-striken rout," in some 'cases leaving behind their uneaten lentil porridge and in the sotithern outslkirts of Tula "running down th frosty streets in their un- derwear" eforekLeningrad, Russian coun- terattacks wre pictured as ap- proaching the strength of a mao counter.offensive, inyolving artillery, bombers, fighter aircraft and infan- trymen,:and it was said that every, German attempt to regain their lost positions had failed. In the Crimea it appeared thatkthe Germans were preparing to try to sprin&the strait toward the Krasno- dar oil fields in the western Cauca- sus, and Berlin claimed that Nazi bombing planes were ranging as far east as the Caussus mountain' bar- rier. Gloom In Japan ° In an atmosphere of gloom that perhaps was. more suggestive than what actually was said, the Japanese Parliament gave the impression last night that the emrfire had fatalisti- /cally resolved to go to war with the United States unless Washington made what would amount to utter \ capitulation in the Pacific. Nothing said in the House sug- gested that the government was going to be checked in any way, and barring the single possibility tha$ it was a grandiose and terribly hazardous bluff it appeared that the United States could not make friends. Army Bomber Falls In Storm Fatal Cras Also Reported From MaineBoglands PARK CITY Utah, Nov. 17.-()- An amy bomber, rocked by a savage Western storm, plunged to a fiery end in the snow lashed Wasatch Mountains early today after five of the seven men aboard had parachu- ted to safety. Major Robert E. L. Pirtle, 34, Coun- cil Grove, Kan., plummeted several thousand feet to death witl' a torn 'chute trailing him in a high wind. Sgt. J. D. Anderson, 20, Ogden, Utah, stayed with the plane a d was killed as the twin-motored bomber ploughed into a tree-studed moun- tainside and exploded.' At Bangor Maine, the bodies of four army men were found today be- side crumpled wreckage of their B- 18-A bomber that crashed in the trackless boglands 60 miles from the northeast army air base they missed on a foggy flight last Saturday night. An unopened parachute was found on each of the men. The pilot's body was strapped to his seat, which had been torn from the cockpit floor, and his hands still gripped the "stick," which also had been ripped away. The bodies had been hurled about 1)0 feet from the wreckage, part of which was burned. Soldiers will be sent into the woods tomorrow to cut a trail over which Young, soft spoken James ,Carey, secretary of the CIO, maintaized last night that CIO interventionists are entirely consistent in their simultan- eous support of the President's for- eign policy and of a last-resort strike in the captive coal mines. I Carey, one of. the CIO members who resigned from the National Med- iation Board only a few days ago, said the Board violated its initial function of judging fairly and not taking away rights from either em- ployer or union. "If judged completely on its merits," he declared,"there is no rea-d son why the United Mine Workers' request for a union shop should not have been granted. "Ninety per cent of the soft coal; mines in the nation are working un- der such a contract and 95, per cent of the workers in the captive mines are members of the UMW. If, with shch evidence before it, the Media- tion Board refuses to allow a union shop we may be sure it would con- tinue such a policy as long as it re- mained intact." According to Carey, the inside story on the refusal of the mine owners to grant the closed shop is that they had feared a union shop in the mines would mean the same in steel and shipbuilding. The mine owners, there- fore, wanted a commitment from. labor guaranteeing that if a union Secret Is out; Gargoyle Hits Campus toay Gargoyle can keep no more secrets about its November issue, because the magazine is being sold today at an increased number of places on dam- pus and will be available-for a while -to the student body. Points of interest in the pigskin issue include a spread of pictures re- cording the highlights of the football season, together with candid shots of the crowds. Taking a wider field un- der its wing, Gargoyle has also se- cured articles by three faculty men, authorities in their respective .fields, on the "Impact of World War II., Psychology has been treated by Prof. Norman R. F. Maier, effects on political institutions by Prof. James K. Pollock and literature by W. H. Auden, visiting lecturer in English. Aesthetics lhave come to the fore again in the moithly feature, Album of Beauty, for which several coeds are selected and photographed to grace each issue. And, of course, there are Prepos- terous Persons, Gargoyle Speaks, The Worm Turns and Your Michigan, the last showing this month the Art School. A second sellout is, predicted, in view of the results of last ,month's sale, so students are urged not to pass that first salesman by, if they want to be sure of buying a Gargoyle. Bishop Defends Strikes For Increased Wages PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 17-(P)--A Catholic Bishop asserted here today that the working man who strikes for more money "is only imitating the employers, who did it first." The employers first demanded large sums of money from the gov- ernment before they would proceed with defense contracts, the Most Rev. Gerald Shaughnessy, Bishop of Se- attle, declared in an interview during sessions of the church's seventh na- tional Congress of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine. City Council Approves New Voting Machines At its regular meeting held yester- day, the -City Council unanimously voted to adopt voting machines at the earliest possible moment and au- thorized the City Clerk to advertise for bids quoting on both outright pur- chase and on some time-payment plan. The action followed the recommen- dation of a special committee on vot- ;n-ff 4., c same time, attempted to stop the miners from striking. He emphasized that this was inconsistent with the ideals of a democratic labor move- ment. Carey, who has continually advo- cated close cooperation between the CIO and government mediation agen- cies, and has been an ardent suppor- ter of the Administration's foreign policy, is firmly convinced labor can- not give up now. He maintains that while "no trade unionist can honestly be an isolation- ist," nevertheless, every union mem- ber must support the UMW because of the justice of its request. Expressing the views of many dele- gates contacted at the convention, R. J. Thomas, president of the United Automobile Workers, asserted that "if someone other than Lewis had asked for the union shop he would have obtained it, but the Mediation Board will not give John L. Lewis anything. It is purely a clash of per- sonalities." Louis Hopkins Warns Against WarPassivity ,- University Defense Head Condemns Isolationism, Stresses Civilian Work Warning againsis an isolationist psychology which would prefer to "sit in Ann Arbor and watch the wheels go 'round," Prof. Louis Hop- kins, University defense head, out- lined yesterday the results of his trip to Washington Thursday for the first meeting of the Commission on Col- leges and Civilian Defense. The work of Director 'Fiorello La- Guardia's commission will be under two general headings, according to Professor Hopkins. The main prob- lem to be solved is the protection of students, faculty, members and prop- erty ,in any college likely to be in a wartime danger zone. "With the massing of people in dormitories and buildings," Professor Hopkins declared, "the average col- lege or university presents a peculiar situation. Here in Ann Arbor, with our hospital and health service, we have an excellent opportunity to co- operate in the civilian defense pro- gram." In this connedtion, Professor Hop- kins pointed out that the University "was less than three minutes away from Fort's Ypsilanti plant as the bomber flies. Althoughthe more in- tensive preparation will be concen- trated in such coastal universities as Yale, Harvard and Stanford, Profes- sor Hopkins noted that "there is little difference in the flight distance from Bermuda to Ann Arbor, and that be- tween Moscow and Berlin." Morale building will be the second phase of the Civilian Defense pro- gram in - American universities. "In this respect," Professor Hopkins de- clared, "the University of Michigan has made excellent headway. We have already begun Red Cross training, and we intend to inaugurate public policy courses next semester to ac- quaint students with the emergency situation. Ju . ".'1 1 1U1 Conciliation Limits Qualified By Japan WASHINGTON, Nov. 17. -(.)- President Roosevelt talked today with Japan's special emissary, Saburo Ku- rusu, who flew from Tokyo to Wash- ington in an effort to settle Japan- ese-American differences and arrived just ahead of an ominous warning from his government that "there is naturally a limit to our conciliatory attitude." Kurusu went to the White House with Japanese Ambassador Kichisa- buro Nomura and Secretary of State Hull, with whom they had just held a preliminary conversation. After the White House conference, which lasted more than an hour, Admiral Nomura said to newspapermen that:. "Many things were said." Neither Secretary Hull nor the Japanese diplomats had much tq add to those four pregnant words, but in Government circles it was indicated that the conversation had not been entirely one-sided. It was know that the President had on his desk up-to-the-minute information on ts country's mili- tary preparedness in the Far East, but officials discouraged an specu- lation as to what extent he had called these facts to the attention of his visitors. Hull was noncommittal and cau- tious. He avoided ,the direct question as to whether today's talks could be regarded as a satisfactory beginning and pointed out that they were of a very general and preliminary char- acter. i Asked if he could say whether to- day's talks indicated an optimistic or a pessimistic outlook for further conferences, Hull's reply was laconic: I"Not, yet." Kurusu and Nomura were in a (Contiinueon Page 7) Adler Derides Critics Of Aid For Russians To say ,that aid to Russia is com- munistic, anti-religious and un- American is malicious nonsense, de- clared Philip Adler, editorial staff member of the Detroit News, in his address yesterday before the local Russian War Relief (Medical Aid to Russia) cpmmittee at the Rackham Building.~ Adler, a Russian-born American citizen, described the Soviet Union in light of the first hand information gathered by him during years as a foreign correspondent in that coun- try. He spoke of the tremendous medical strides which Russian scien- tists have made and told of the vast collective farms which he saw. Confident of Soviet victory, Adler described the vast war machine which includes every man, woman and child, regardless of age, that the Russians have been developing for many years in anticipation of the present conflict. Geographically, if, for no other reason, Russia, England and the United States are bound together as the nations having the natural re- sources of the world against the on- slaught of the "have pot" Axis na- tions, Adler. said. Pinza, Martinelli Are Fecwatred In Fourth Choral Union Concert I Tall, handsome Ezio Pinza, basso, and silver-haired Giovanni Martin- elli, tenor, will present a joint recital in the fourth concert of the Annual Choral Union Series at 8:30 p.m. to- day in the ,Hill Auditorium. Two of the most popular members of the Metropolitan Opera Company, Pinza and Martinelli are favorites of Ann Arbor concert audiences. This will be Pinza's fourth appearance here while Martinelli will be heard for the fourteenth time. Martinelli has established a record equalled by few in American operatic annals. He made his New York debut in 1913 when Enrico Caruso was startling the music world and has sung some 58 operatic roles since that date. Pinza first sang before a New York audience in 1926. Pinza and Martinelli will be accom- panied by Fritz Kitzinger at the pi- ano. The program will be opened by Martinelli who will sing Au die Musik by Schubert; Die Mainacht by ,Brahms; and Ch'ella mi creda, from "Girl of the Golden West" by Puccini. Pinza will sing the following group '42 Officers ; To Be Elected Today At Polls Four Schools Will Select Senior Heads; Votingi By ProxyIs Prohibited Elections will be held today 'for senior class officers in the literary, forestry, business administration and education schools at the following places and times. Literary college, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., 25 Angell Hall. Forestry school, 3 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., 2039 Natural Science. Business administration school, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., Tappan'Hall Lobby. Education school, 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., 2431 Elementary School. Identification cards are absolutely necessary for securing ballots, Robert Samuels, '42, tlirector of elections, pointed out. It was also stressed that voting by proxy is prohibited. Lit School Candidates The candidates for president in the literary college are Richard Arbuckle, James Aldrich, Norman Call; Lee Perry and Hoe Seltzer. Vice-presi- dential candidates are Agnes Crow, Jeanne Goudy and Helen Rhodes. Those running for secretary are Roger Kelley, Robert Krause, John Sharemet, and Keith Watson. The candidates for treasurer include Pat- ricia MacFarland, Mildred Radford .and Barbara Suffrin. In the forestry school Carl Lan- genbach and Alex Yorman are the presidential candidates, and Law- rence Howard and James Vardman are the candidates for vice-president. Those running for secretary are Sam- uel Bellanca, Robert Neelands and William Hauser. Business Ad Candidates Candidates for president in the business administration school are Jack Harwood and Stanley Sayre, and candidates for the vice-presi- dency are Clarence Klopsic and Rob- ert Travis. Those running for secre- tary are James Keenan and Charles Le Claire. Russel Braga and David Rice are the candidates for treasurer. In the education school Robert Halm, David Nelson and Matthew Zipple are the candidates for presi- dent, Marny Gardner and Mary Ann Paton for vice-president, Albert Hyde and Ralph Snyder for secretary and Lindsley Buck and Jean Johnson for treasurer. Elections Are Easier If No One Else Runs The senior class officers in the law, music and architectural schools were elected automatically, as there was no opposing candidates. The officers in the law school are rInn Tr.d+wm nvreidnnt JTack Shn- EZIO PINZA of selections: Tu o sai by Torelli; Lungi dal caro bene by Sarti; Ich grolle nicht by Schumann; and Der. Atlas by Schubert. Martinelli's ren- dering of Paradiso from Meyerbeer's "L'Africana" will complete- the first half of the program. Velvet Shoes by Thompson, Thun- derin' Wonderin', a Negro spiritual by Faure; Ariett by Vidal; La fleur que MacGinsey, Nebbie by Rspighi and Il lacerato spirito from Verdi's "Si- mon Boccanegra" will be sung by Pinza following the brief intermission. Martinelli's last group of solo num- bers will include Apres un teve by tu ni'avais jettee from "Carmen" by Bizet. The two opera stars will com- bine to conclude the concert with a duet, I Mulattieri by Masini. CIO To Back Mine Strikers In Coal Battle Detroit Convention Votes Its Unqualified Support Of UMW's Demands DETROIT, Nov. 17-(AP)-Without a dissenting voice; the Congress of Industrial Organizations today placed its unqualified support behind John L. Lewis and his United Mine Work- ers of America in their demand fo a union shop in captive coal pits. As the CIO opened its fourth an- nual convention here, delegates also applauded a call for "whole-hearted" backing of President Roosevelt's for- eign policy.I In pledging unanimous support tc the UMWA, the convention approved a resolution adopted yesterday by the executive board. The convention also received for later' consideration an executive board statement contending that arms production was lagging and urging full employment of the na- tion's manpower A.nd productive fa- cilities in the defense program. President Philip Murray drew cheers when he advocated "whole- hearted" support of the administra- tion's foreign policy. The CIO chief stated he was not a warmonger, expressed the hope that "our nation will never undergo the rigors of war" and added: "When I support the President, I do so with the definite commitment that we will fight for the retention of our liberties and the maintenance of our economic freedom." Murray accused the National Medi- I ation Board of "reprehensible dis- crimination" in the captive mines dis- pute and charged that AFL repre- sentatives on the board had "resorted to the vilest kind of treachery" in voting against a union shop in that controversy. Late in the day, the exeutive board disclosed it had endorsed unan- imously a pronouncement on "lag- ging arms production and defense unemployment." I D.R.rPii'CTTVIFQ C UTIN7E' UMW President's Letter To Roosevelt Reviews Breakdown Of Talks Pickets Withdraw From Steel Works WASHINGTON, Nov. 17-(P)--An effective strike of United Mine Work- ers (CIO) slowed the flow of steel to steel mills to a trickle today, and John L. Lewis, belligerently defying the government to use troops, de- clared "the army is not going to shoot our people and the soldiers are not going tomine coal." To President Roosevelt, who had asked for a personal report on week- end negotiations concerning UMW's demand for a unin shop in "captive" coal mines, Lewis sent instead a let- ter which he also made public. Letter Recites Contention This communication recited mine workers' contention that an open shop agreement with steel companies which own the captive mines would be violative of union shop agreements with commercial coal mines. Then it tersely said: "We offered the Appalachian- agreement (providing for a union shop), the steel executives refused NEW YORK, Nov. 17. -P)- Benjamin Fairless, president of the U.S. Steel Corporation, de- clared tonight the three major steel companies involved in the captive mine dispute would at- tempt to operate their mines and expressed hope it would not be necessary for the Government to take them over, acceptance. They offered an open shop agreement. We refused." Mr. Roosevelt received also a report from the steel industry representa- tives-Benjamin Fairless of United States. Steel, Eugene Grace of :Beth- lehem, and Frank Purnell of Youngs- ,own Sheet and Tube., It was first dlelivered orally in the forenoon, but hey promised a written report later. #teview Of Negotiations Their written report, made public 'y the White House, recalled that ,ontract'negotiations with the UMW began in July, and said all issues "were disposed of practically all in favor of the union," with the excep- ion of the union shop demand. On this, it said, the union refused ,o yield while "we firmly and sin- ,erely believe that the r ght to work in our coal mines, or in any other 'ndustry, should not be dependent upon membership or non-member- ship in any organization." It closed ,vith an expression of belief that "ev- ?rything reasonably within our pow- r has been done to avert a work stoppage." The White House was silent, for the ;ime, being, on what the President # night do in the light of his public assertion last week that production from the "captive mines-which pro- luce fuel for steel mills busy with armament orders-must be contin- zed without delay, and his assurancew ;o Congress that "the government proposes to see this thing through." Rep. Cox (Dem.-Ga.) complained vehemently during a meeting of the House rules committee that President Roosevelt "is still in the talking stage" and suggested that Congress might "put the lid on" the admin- -istration's price control legislation intil the President consented to con- sideration of labor measures. The strike itself appeared to have stopped work by all but relatively a handful of the 54,800 miners who 'Jig the coal to keep the steel mills functioning. About 95 per cent of these, by the Defense Mediation Board's estimate, are members of the UMW. Pickets Leave Gates Of Birmingham Plant BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Nov. 17-(;P) -Picket lines were suddenly with- drawn tonight from the seven main gates of the huge Fairfield Steel Works of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company. Union sources charged the pickets had been threatened by county deputies. The Steel Workers Organizing Committee (CIO) picket lines were established about an hour previously Silver Anniversary Of Union Will Be Commemorated Today The Seventh Annual Union Open House, commemorating the silver an- niversary of the erection of the pres- ent Union building, will be held from 8 to 10 p.m. today and everybody is invited. Jim Edmunds, '43E, of the Union executive staff, says that the entire two-million dollar plant-from swim- ming pool to the bowling alleys-will be thrown open to public inspection. National defense, the part that the University and Detroit are playing, will be highlighted by displays from the General Motors and Chrysler Corporations and the University ROTC and NROTC units. On the fun side the ledger is full +n Pr.. anninwil l hP nirifltA1 in at the front door, will relax his vigi- lance for the only time in the school year tonight and permit women-es- corted and unescorted-to enter the Union building by the front door, the traditional privilege of men only. But George is going to take a busman's holiday and attend the open house celebration. The General Motors Corporation will display a 50 caliber aircraft ma- chine gun, samples of 75 and 105 rtm shells from beginning to end of man- ufacture and a machine gun mounted on a board to show the related posi- tions of the parts when the explosion takes place within the gun. A 37 mm cannon will be displayed by the Uni- vers+tyRTCunit.