THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Strikers Wounded At Uniontown, Pa.
Simpson Links Libyan Attacks
With Nazi Threat In Caucasus
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By KIRKE L. SIMPSON
One of the most impressive phases
of the British Libyan offensive, is
the fact that it was launched whilet
a crisis was brewing in Russian de-t
fense of the Caucasus front against
a triple-pronged German attack.
If any one thing is certain about
the war at this stage, it is that Ger-
man seizure of Russian oil fields inz
the Caucasus would be a crushing,
blow for the British. A flow of more
than 200,000,000 barrels a year is
credited to those wells. Half of thata
as war spoils would enable Hitler to
fight on for years. Without it his
capacity for all-out warfare is defi-
nitely limited by fast dwindling oil
reserves.
Major Assault Opened
Yet British armies in the East,
estimated at 750,000 men, all that
could be used effectively on the 140-
mile Libyan-Egyptian front, have
been hurled into a major assault to
smash German-Italian armies in
North Africa. The obvious explana-
tion, aside from the diversion effect
to help Russia (which is still uncer-
tain), is that the British hope and
expect to clean up in Libya, perhaps
force Italy out of the war, before
the Germans can reach the oil fields
in the Caucasus.
It is not clear here just what in-
formation the British may have as
to Russian ability to hold the Cau-
casus front on the Don-Rostov-Kerch
strait against the lunging Nazi at-
tack. However, there is official word
from London that the drive in Libya
has been in preparation for five
months.
Rostov Capture Claimed
Berlin claimed yesterday the cap-
ture of Rostov-on-Ron, "spigot to
lRussia's oil barrel."
The main Russian oil source, the
Baku fied in the Transcaucasus,
however, is still 700 to 800 miles from
the-nearest Nazi threat. It is bul-
warked also by the most rugged
mountain chain in that part of the
world, the Greater Caucasus Moun-
taihs. To reach the source of more
than three-fourths of all the oil of
the region German forces must scale
those mountains.
There are oil fields in the rolling
steppe country north of the moun-
tains and only 200 to 300 miles now
from closest German lines. The Mai-
kop and Grozny fields yield a rela-
tively small output annually, howev-
er, not sufficient for German needs.
That their flow would be greatly re-
duced or retarded by Russian efforts
to destroy those wells if forced to
give ground is certain. Hitler can I
gain little immediately or in the
long run so far as Russian oil is
concerned unless he drives clear to
the Baku field.
It is a staggering undertaking even
for German armies that could sweep
across Russian buffer states so swift-
ly to invest Leningrad and Moscow,
overrun the whole Ukraine and the
Crimea and gravely threaten the
Caucasus. A march into the Cauca-
sus would extend German supply
lines another thousand miles.
George Faxon
offers Second
OrganRecital
The second in a series of organ re-
citals will be given by Mr. George
Faxon, organist and choirmaster, at
6 p.m. today in St. Andrew's Episco-
pal church.
Opening the program will be Han-
del's "Concerto in B-flat," one of the
most popular of the concertos for
organ and orchestra, but presented
here as a solo.
"Adagio e staccato and Allegro Ca-
denza" for obligato pedal will be given
by Mr. Faxon. Frescobaldi's "Toc-
cata" and "Toccata and Fugue in D
minor" by Bach will be followed by
Schumann's "Sketch in D-flat" and
Cesar Franck's "Choral in A minor."
Examples of the work of modern
French composers will be offered by
Mr. Faxon in the second half of his
recital. "Musette" by Jacques Ibert
and Maurice Durufle's "Scherzo,"
while modern in idiom, reflect the
French style. The final composition
ill be "Prelude and Fugue in G
minor" by Marcel Dupre, one of the
great organ virtuosos of our time.
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John Stephanic, shot over the right eye, comforts Mike Febete,
21 (on stretcher), shot in the hand, groin and side, as they waited to
go to the operating room of a Uniontown, Pa., hospital. They were
shot after violence broke out in the vicinity of the H. C. Frick Com-
pany's Edenborn mine which has been operating on a partial basis in
the face of the UMW strike in the 'captive' coal mines.
Latin America
To Be Subject
Of U' Lecture
Hubert Herring To Discuss
Relation Of Germany,
U.S. To South America
Hubert Herring, who has learned
about Latin America by learning to
know the people themselves, will de-
liver a University lecture on "Latin
America, Germany and the Uni'ed
States" at 4:15 p.m. tomorrow in the
Rackham Amphitheatre.
Authdr of the recent book on "Good
Neighbors," Herring has specialized
in Latin America for the past 20
years.
He has known peasants and presi-
dents; he has attended 10 pan-Amer-
ican conferences. Last year he spent
eight months in Brazil, Argentina
and Chile; this summer he flew
around South America interviewing
leaders in all the capitals.
All these, added to a background
of many journeys to Europe for study,
have enabled Hubert Herring to in-
terpret South America authoritative-
ly in many books and lectures.
His latest book, "Good Neighbors,"
is directed toward the question: "Will
Latin America play with us or with
Germany?"
Choral Union
Will Present
Fifth Concert
Stock, Chicago Orchestra
To Return Next Sunday
In 33rd Performance
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Dr. Frederick A. Stock, the dean of
American conductors, will return to
Ann Arbor for the 33rd time to lead
the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in
the fifth concert of the annual Chor-
al Union Series at 3 p.m. Sunday,
Nov. 30.
Dr. Stock and the Chicago Sym-
phony Orchestra are both very fa-
miliar to Ann Arbor concert-goers.
They appeared in the May Festivals
annually from 1905 to 1935 and in a
Choral Union concert in 1937.
The orchestra is now in its 51st
season and Dr. Stock has been con-
ductor for the past 36 years. The
only other conductor of the orches-
tra was Theodore Thomas, its found-
er.
Thomas organized the Chicago
Symphony in 1891_ and remained at
its head until 1905. Most of its Chi-
cago concerts are given in a hall built
with the contributions of more than
8,500 music lovers.
Opening the program will be Suite
No. 2 in B minor, for strings and
flute, by Bach. The next selections
will be "On the Shores of Sorrento,"
from Symphonic Fantasies, "Aus
Italian," Op. 16, by Strauss; and
Fantasis, "Francesca da Riminis," by
Tschaikowsky.
After the intermission the orches-
tra will play Variations on an Orig-
inal Theme, Op. 36, by Elgar.
Patrick Toohey To Talk
To Karl Marx Society
Patrick Toohey, secretary of the
Communist party of Michigan, will
speak to the Karl Marx Society on
the subject "America needs Earl
Browder" at 8 p.m. Tuesday in the
Union.
Browder, who is secretary of the
Communist party of America, has
served six months in a federal prison
for entering the country with a forged
passport.
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