Weather Partly cloudy; continued mild, L Lw6 ijatt I Editorial Time M agazine's Disgusting Lie'... VOL. LII. No. 53 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1941 Z-323 PRICE FIVE CENTS Tattered Form Of Roosevelt's Price Control Bill Approved Administration Is Faced With Choice Of Drastic Revision Or Defeat Coalition Of Parties Is Higlhly Effective WASHINGTON, Nov. 28-(P)--A tattered remnant of the Administra- tion price control bill was passed by the House tonight after President Roosevelt's forces, facing a complete rout, compromised on many points with a coalition of Republicans and Democrats. Climaxing what. many members said privately w the most confused legislative situation they had experi- enced, the revamped bill was seAt to the Senate by a roll call vote of 224 to 161 after a Republican effort to send it back to the House Banking Committee had been defeated by a standing vote of 171 to 134. As finally approved the bill would give A single administrator power to impose ceilings on the prices of com- modities whose prices get out of line with the rest 6f the price structure, but :an administrative board of re- view would have authority to set aside the administrapor's rulings. Labor Wins Victory Early in the day, the labor bloc scored a victory when the House swept aside a proposal for a modified form of wage control. The chamber quickly followed that action by approving a provision prohibiting the establish- ment of ceilings for farm prices below their 1919-29 average, although crit- ics contended this clause would per. mit some farm prices to,rise as much as 30 per cent. Besides commodity prices, the bill would empower the administrator to establish ceilings for rents in defense areas if state or local governments failed to take action 60 days after he had recommended stabilization. He would be required to take into con- sideration the rents prevailing about April 1, 1940 #fixing any rent ceil- ings. Soon after 't House resumed con- sideration of Vamendments to the bill, the first major revision of -the Admin- istration's version was accomplished when Chairman Steagall (Dem.-Ala.) of the banking committee accepted a substitute for" a coinmittee amend- ment which would have given the price administrator power to engage in klarge-scale buying and selling of any commodity for the purpose of maintaining price stability. Under the substitute, proposed by. Rep. Dewey (Rep.-Ill.), the only pur- chases that could be made woul be those designed to stimulate produc- tion of high-cost or marginal pro- ducers. Under the committee plan, the administrator could have made the purchases anywhere and proceeds from sale of such commodities would have gone into a revolving fund. Stock T o Lead Fith Concert HereSunday Leading an orchestra with his left hand while making notes of the dif- ferent tempos of a new composition with his right is one of the many abil- ities of Dr. Frederick A. Stock who will lead the Chicago Symphony Or- chestra in the fifth concert of the Choral Union Series at 3 p.m. to- morrow in Hill Auditorium. br. Stock has been conductor of the Chicago orchestra since 1905. He is known as the "dean of American conductors" and is famous for his great knowledge of orchestral litera- ture, He never depends on a musical score while directing. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is this year celebrating its 51st season.. It is rated as one of the world's finest orchestras and is famous for its spirit of cooperation between leader and musicians. Sunday Dr. Stock will lead the or- chestra in Suite No. 2 in B minor, for strings and flute, by Bach, "On the Shores of Sorrento," from Sym- phonie Fantasia, "Aus Italien," Op. 16, by Strauss and Frantasis, "Fran- cesca da Rimini," Op. 32, by Tschai- kowsky. Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36, by Elgar and Rim- sky-Korsakoff's Capriccio Espagnol, Op. 34, will also be played. Refugee Ship Reaches U.S. After 84 Days Bombings, Water Shortage Hamper Egyptian Liner In EscapeVoyage NEW YORK, Nov. 28-(P)-An es- capee from more than 100 bombings, the Egyptian passenger liner El Nil steamed into port today after an 84- day voyage from Alexandria with ad- venturous passengers whose tales ri- valled fiction. The 48 passengers and 165 crew- men told of bombings at Suez, a fran- tic search for fuel oil along the east and west coast of Africa, jealousy which gave rise to knife wielding be- cause of the presence of a pretty wo- man aboard and the actions sof a man who described himself as a priest. Then there was a water shortage which left the ship dry three days before she reached Trinidad and the crew's refusal to sail the trim 7,769- ton motorship to Freetown, Sierra Leone, because of the fear of Axis submarines and raiders. The passengers-Jews from Pales tine, members of the Royal Canadian Airforce, sailors who quit their ship at Suez and a Turk with a fortune in jewels, art treasures and Islamic man- uscripts-were delayed in docking here because they got in at night and another ship was at their pier. The El Nil left Alaxandria Sept. 5, witnessed bombings at Port Said and Suez, put into Mombasa for oil 'and finally reached Capetown. Prom there she went to Lagos and Tkoradi on the west African coast. 'The Blue Bird' To 'wOpen Here On Wednesday Maeterlinck Fantasy Has Student Cast Of 108 Directed By Halstead "The Blue Bird," a fantasy by the Belgian playwright, Maurice Maeter- linck, will be presented by Ply Pro- duction of the Department of Speech Wednesday through Saturqay, Dec. 3 through Dec. 6, as the second of- fering of the winter dramatic sea- son. . Two dance routines under the di- rection of Ruth Bloomer, modern dance instructor, will be features of the pla'y. The first will be the dance of the 12 hours, and the second, a dance of the stars, perfumes, will o' the wisps and fireflies. The cast of 108 characters is made up of students in Play Production classes under the direction of. Wil- liam P. Halstead, associate professor in the speech department. Tickets will be sold ' at the box office from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday and continue through Tuesday. For the days of the show, the box office will be open from 10 a.m. to 8:30 p.m., Patrons with season tickets must turn in their stubs by Thursday to obtain tickets for the presentation. The preceding play of the season was William Saroyan's "Jim Dandy." Strike Laws. Take Shape In Congress Committees Approve New Legislation Permitting Defense Plant Seizure House To Examine Measure Monday WASHINGTON, Nov. 28-(A)-Leg- islation empowering the government to take over a defense plant when pro- ducion is interrupted was approved by Senate and House Committees! today after the Administration drop- ped the idea of compulsory arbitra- tion of labor disputes. But while both provided for gov- ernment seizure of strike-bound plants, the separate measures report- ed by the Senate Judiciary Commit- tee and the House Labor Committee differed widely. It was quickly evident, too, that the House Committee's version would not satisfy a considerable group of legislators on that side of the Capitol and that there would be a battle to substitute more stringent anti-strike legislation when the bill comes up on the House floor next Monday. The House committee's bill pro- posed government possession of a plant only when lengthy efforts to settle a dispute had failed. It would give statuatory authority to the De- Lense Mediation Board, which was created by a Presidential order, and establish the following procedure: The Board, at the discretion of its chairman, could take jurisdiction over any labor dispute affecting national defense which could not be settled by collective bargaining, conciliation and mediation. At present the Board can- not assume jurisdiction over any case, acting only when a dispute is certi- fied to it by the Labor Department. At any time after taking jurisdic- tion, the Board could issue an order effective for 60 days prohibiting any one from calling or assisting a strike and prohibiting the employer from changing the working conditions. The orders would be enforceable by federal injunctions with violators sub- ject to contempt of court proceedings. SU' Club Heads Convene Today Annual President's Day Honors State Alumni More than fifty guests of the Alumni Association will convene to- day for the second annual President's Day, held in honor of the presidents of the Alumni Clubs of the state. Presidents of each of these clubs along with their guests have been in- vited to participate in the meetings of the day. Assembly and registration will begin at 9:45 today in the Union. This will be followed by a conducted tour of the University Hospital. Later conferences will be held in the Union. These will end at noon, and the guests will attend President Ruthven's luncheon. Adjournment will come at the will of the luncheon- ers. President's Day, however, will end officially at 5 p.m. Informal din- ner with the District Officers and Alumni Association officials will be held at 6 p.m. Vital Axis Libyan Force Trapped As North African Climax Nears; U.S. Awaits Next Japanese Move . I Orient Remains In Crisis As Tokyo Masses Men Near Thailand Frontier Peke In Pacific Depends On Japan (By The Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Nov. 28-The om- inous Japanese-American situation reached a new point of gravity today with the captial's most authoritative quarters asserting in effect that this country's last word has been said and that the question of peace in the Pa- cific depends upon Tokyo's next move. At the same time, the only indi- cation of what that move would be was a continuation of troubled re- ports from the Orient. They told.of Japanese troops massing in Indo- China and of preparations in Thai- land for defense against attack. Jap- anese newspapers defended the course Leading Figures In Far East Cri'sis Moscow Danger As Nazi Striking Advances FromM Grows Force South --BULLETINI NEW YORK, Nov. 28-()- Sharp attacks on the United States, holding Washington re- sponsible "if anything breaks out" in the Pacific, were broad- cast by the Tokyo radio tonight. "The United States has broken the peace," said a Tokyo announ- cer heard by NBC. An English-language broadcast heard by CBS %quoted Tokyo newspapers as declaring: "So long as the United States maintains an attitude of obstruc- ting Japan's policy to establish a new East Asiatic order, in col- laboration with Britain, the 1 Dutch Indies, Australia and t Chungking, we have to conclude that the United States lacks in faith and sincerity in preserving the peace, not only in the Pacific,1 but also in the entire world, and if anything breaks out, the Uni- ted States must bear the whole ' responsibility." - of their "government and said the dispatch of an expeditionary force to Indo-China had been justified by events. Officially it was said here that negotiations with the Japanese rep- resentatives had not broken down completely. However, President Roosevelt entrained at mid-afternoon for a rest at Warm Springs, Ga. It was felt that he would not have left the capital if there remained any- prospect of improving relations be- tween Washington and 'I'okyo by a qontinuation of the discussions. How long he would remain at the Southern resort depended, he told a press conference, on developments in the Japanese situation. From that he went on to announce that Ameri- can merchant ships in the Pacific would not be armed "under existing circumstances." He gave the last phrase so emphatic an inflection that a correspondent asked: "Mr. President, how long do you expect existing circumstances to con- tinue?" It would be much better Mr. Roose- velt replied, to ask that question in Tokyo than in Washington. The situation as it stood was: Jap- an insists upon the establishment of a Japanese - controlled economic sphere in the Orient, imposed if nec- essary by military force. The United States is unalterably opposed to such military conquest. Diplomatic dis- cussions have failed to break the dead- lock. With America's final'terms for Far Eastern settlement in Japan's hands, the diplomatic spotlight shifted to Tokyo last night where U.S. Ambassador Joseph 'Clark Grew (left) and Japanese Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo (right) took the center of the stage as Nippon's net move was awaited. Sophomore Battle Spirit RsTng; First Year Fur Will .Fly Today, Frosh Struggle To Obtaint Right To Remove Pots In AnnualGrudge Fight Led by husky, 210-pound Merv Pre- gulman and eleven other determined captains, the Class of '44 is more than ready for "total war" against their traditional rivals-those ever-cocky frosh. The expected blitzkrieg and mutual massacre is scheduled for 1:15 p.m.; today in the Intramural Sports Build- ing. Unlike past years a definite winner will be decided upon today. Ten points are to be awarded on each event and the class with the highest total will receive the Holy Plaque. Plaque Is Large' This latter is a large plaque upon which the victorious class will each year have its name inscribed. It will be hung in a prominent place on cam- pus and is expected to become a cov- eted possession of warring classes in the future. An added incentive to the frosh is the announcement that if they come out on top they may burn those de- spised pots. However, if they lose, the sophomores will have the pleas- ure of being able to call "Pots, frosh!" for the rest of the year. Comes As Surprise Coming as a surprise to iany, in view of past experiences, is the un- paralleled spirit and enthusiasm of the sophomores. In previous years the frosh have usually run rampant over the few sophs who hadn't decided to spend the day quietly in Detroit or under the bed in their room., I But this year's class--encouraged by the fact that referees will be on handN to keep the sides even at all times- is vehement in its determination toi "teach 'those lowly, childish frosht which class is the best in the history of Michigan."1 Jumped Gunt Jumping the gun somewhat-but unable to wait any longer for thet chance to get at each other-smallI gangs of both closses roamed around, the campus last night raising the fa- miliar cry, "To hell with '45 (or '44,t depending upon who's reading this).t The real battle in the I-M Building; this afternoon will climax several weeks of planning and preparation by; both frosh and sophs. Early this week each side issued flaming proclama- tions and scattered them about the campus. Twelve captains t have also been elected by the battle-hungry classes. (Continued on Page 2) Fifth Music Clinic Commences Today Sponsored by the Michigan School Band and Orchestral Association and the Music School,, the Fifth Annual Instrumental Music Clinic will begin, today at 10 a.m. in Hill Auditorium. Mr. Charles B. Righter of the Mu- sic School of the University of Iowa will lecture at 10 a.m. on "Building the Stringed Orchestra in the High School." The afternoon session will be de- voted to performance by the Univer- sity Symphony Orchestra of music on the lists for class A, B, and C high, schools. The conductors will be Thor Johnson and Mr. Righter. German Tobruk Column Doomed (By The Assocated Press) The strongest surviving forces of he Axis Libyan tank corps appeared ast night to be entrapped and fight ng for life east of the Tobruk-Re- ;egh zone, where the Imperial British rmy had erected a wall against es- ape to the west. The hour of opportunity for a supreme British objective-the de- truction of the elite of General Er- vin Rommel's mechanized arm-thus ,eemed at hand. In thetsecond and greater theatre gainst the Axis, hobwever-that in' Russia--the Germans clearly were nhalted generally in their drives up- n Moscow. Both below and above he capital, the Russians were falling ack under enormous German pres- ;re and a Nazi effort to outflaink he city on the east was progressing rom the region of Stalinogorsk, 120 niles to the southeast. Within 36 Miles Of Capital To the west of Moscow, Soviet ac- ounts implied that the German ad- vance had been halted,; but the in- vader was acknowledged'to be stand- ing within 36 miles of the capital in that area. On the far southern Russian front, however, the Germans were getting the worst of it. Berlin admitted Red counter-at- acks of extraordinary strength in the Rostov-oa-Don and Donets River pend sectors. These appeared to be in continuation of an all-out countr- offensive in which the Russians had claimed to have driven the invader back by as much as 70 miles in some areas. The Nazis laid claim to Only two successful operations of conse- quence in the south. One of these was a new drive on Sevastopol in the Crimea, which was said to have broken through the dif- ficult montain passes to the east. Nazi Aerial -Ation The dther was stabbing aerial action across the Kerch Strait, which separates the Crimea from the Cau- casus, against the Kuban River sec- tion of Cis Caucasia, on the fringe of the oil country. This suggested that an effort to leap the -strait in force might be in the making. In Libya, the most critical phase of the campaign was unfolding. Moving westward in two columns- the one the remnants of a diversion expedition which was reeling back with .hardly half of itg original force after a foray over the Egyptian fron- tier, and the other made up of de- tachments driven out of frontier posi- tions about Sidi Omar and. Halfaya Pass-Rommel's forces met the, full shock of the strongest British line yet formed in Libya. Presumably, he had set out with the intentien of breakin through some- where below Tobruk to go to the re- lief of other German and Italian troops engaged in heavy 'action be- yond Tobruk and deeper in Libya at the spearhead of the British ad- vance. The solidification of the Tobruk- Rezegh junction changed all this and confronted him with the alternative of breaking out or being smashed. Finland Labeled 'Nazi' By Hull Claims Finns Cooperate Fully With Germans WASHINGTON, Nov. 28. -)- Secretary of State Hull toay labeled Finland a puppet of the Hitler re- gime. He asserted the little country's signing of the .Anti-Comintern PactI was highly significant and could not be camouflaged or explained away, and added that every recent act of the Finnish Government shows it is "fully cooperating with the Hitler forces." He reiterated previous warnings that Finnish military operations in Russia grievously hamper American efforts to aid the Soviet Union and t E Lewis, Browne Battle Tuesday: SaukCenter Will Meet London In Lecture Series Debate Here Inquiring Reporters Inquire: Ed And Coed Express Views: What's Wrong With Michigan? 0 n By MORTON MINTZ There's nearly as much contrast between their viewpoints as their birthplaces. r ! Sinclair Lewis-Sauk Center, Minn. -and Lewis Browne-London, Eng- land- will debate "Can It Happen Here," with Lewis taking the nega- tive and Browne the affirmative at 8:15 p.m. Tuesday in Hill Auditorium. The Oratorical Association will open the Hill Auditorium box office from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m., and 2 p.m. until 4 p.m. Monday, and from 10 a.m. until 8:15 p.m. Tuesday. In 1920, Lewis' first important nov- el, "Main StreeThb was' the center of a bitter controversy. The book was an immediate success not only in English-speakingcountries but in translation in other lands. In suc- cession followed "Babbitt," "Arrow- smith," "Elmer Gantry," "Dods- worth," and other novels which won Lewis a lasting nlace in American inclines to say Fascism can happen here. The author of "Stranger Than Fiction" has defended democracy in the past, at great cost to himself. While.Rabbi at the Temple Israel in Waterbury, Conn., he gave a spir- ited defense of free speech which pro- voked disagreement and caused him to resign. Browne's books include "This Be- lieving World," to this day the most popular of all studies of comparative religion, the biographies "Blessed Spinoza," and "That Man Heine." Other works are "Oh, Say Can You See," "All Things Are Possible," "How Odd of God" and "The Graphic Bi- ble." For the last few years, Dr. Browne has worked against time to complete bis history of civilization since 1776, "Something Went Wrong," which has just been published. Browne has lectured widely throughout America, and is known as one of its outstanding platform per- Wonder If Breakfast Was In Glove Panel DETROIT, Nov. 28--)-Before an utterly aghast traffic judge a dapper little music teacher related today how he plugged his electric razor into the automobile battery and shaved at 40 or 50 miles an hour without taking his eyes off the road. Into Judge Thomas F. Maher's court came Patrolmen John Milner and Archie Hamon with the musician, John F. Jones, whom the officers discovered in the midst of his non- stop shave in front of a turned down rear view mirror. He was going 48 miles an hour, the officers said.. Jones, who told the court the story + By BOB MANTHO and BILL BAKER "Restore the standard three-to-one ratio of men to women on campus. We think the reason is obvious." This was the winsome answer of Betsy Follin, '45, and Peggy Vickroy, '43, to the question: "If you could sug- gest one improvement in the Univer- versity of 'Michigan,* what change would you make? The girls were sitting on the steps in front of the Library contemplat- ing the old days. Also on the Library steps was Al Morrison, '44E, who thinks that "East Hall should either be given back to the Indians or turned into a recrea-, tion hall for tired-out lit students." Inside the Library Phil Sanford, '44, works in the check room and gets a good opportunity to observe Michi- gan coeds,. Said "Phil to the ques- tion: "Get a few good-looking women down here. The standards are low." Phil comes from Flint, admits that dates there are really something to Angie doesn't like surprises, thinks that unannounced quizzes in Poli Sci should be eliminated. "That course is making me a nervous wreck." -Bunny Bunnell, '44, is chairman of the publicity committee for Soph Cabaret and has a one-track mind. Says Bunny: "There should be more good dances on campus like those that will be held when Soph Cabaret rolls around Dec. 5 and 6." Ginny Graham, '44, spoke serious- ly. "There should be a closer re- lationship between students and pro- fessors at the University. You never get to know them as well as you might. Not in the way of apple pol- ishing or faculty teas, which are a bore," she added. "But there should be more personal conferences with instructor and student-faculty get- togethers." We went around to the lobby of University Hall to ask the girl be- hind the candy counter, but she had just closed up shop.