f Weather Cloudy, Possible rain. 12 L1it ~aiti Editorial Ehcortnic Outltihk If titler Wints VOL. LII. No. 58 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, DECEMBER, 5, 1941 Z-323 PRICE FIVE CENTS i f Germans, Reinforce Mariupol Intram uralOpen House GoodfelIows T', E1 lll A h rNl ~ / r L 10-rv r F "1 Nazi Is By Force At Sevastopol Believed Weakened Diversion Of Troops Italians, Slovaks CalledUp To Aid (By The Associated Press) LQNDON, Dec. 4.-Stiffened Ger- Yvan resistance on the Rostov-Mariu, p0 frotit where the, retreating main Nazi armies were understood to be urgently calling up reinforcements from the Crimea in an effort to break the most powerful Russian counter-offensive of the war, was re- ported tonight in Soviet avices. This vwas accompanied'by indica- tions German pressure on Sevastopol, the great Black Sea naval base in the Crimea and by far the most impor- ant of Hitler's dbjectives on that peninsula, had been in consequence much weakened by the diversion of these substantial forces.' On the Moscow front, the midnight Soviet communique announced, 4,400 Germans had ben wiped out, and 700 more "annihilated" in the south- west. Coordinated land and air at- tacks in the latter' sector were said to have taken a heavy toll of German tanks and supply trucks. While a correlated strengthening of Field Marshal Ewald von Kleist's resistance on the road back from Rostov, toward Mariupol 100. miles to the west was thus noted, Soviet in- formants said the great Red push, still was rolling generally unchecked. Nazis 41ll Up 1As Allies To HaltSoviet Army (By The Associated Press) BERLIN, Dec. 4.-Powerful and r- lentless Russian tank, cavalry and infantry charges on the Rstov and Donets Basin fronts were reported tonight in German news dispatches whkh said the ds iud raled upon their Italian and Slovak allies in an effort to halt the Red army. Swarms of Russian airplanes also fell on the Axis armies, one dispatch revealed in saying 100 Red planes had been shot down. German planes also were reported roaring to the aid of their ground forces. In one unidentified sector German dive-bombers destroyed 16 Soviet tanks and a Red regiment, a dispatch said., "Mere territory is of no importance to us," a military spokesman com- mented on the Russian drives. "The fightig is a fanatic Russian effort to recover lost ground. No sacrifice in men and materials seems too great for them. "Our object is to destroy the en- emy and our advantage is that we can conduct an elastic defense and choose the battlefields giving us stra- tegic superiority" Application Forms For JHop Tickets Will Be Due Today Today is the last opportunity for juniors to apply for tickets to the "College Dance of The Year"-the 1942 J-Hop, 4ob Begle, tickets chair- man, announced yesterday. Each junior must call in person be- tween 1 p.m and 5 p.m. today in the League or Union and must present his own identification card. Those bringing ca'ds of others will not be given blanks. Only one application blank will be allowed per junior and it musti be turned in along with a self-addressed, stamped envelope. There is no charge for application. Reply cards will be sent to all appli- cants Within a weel of application indicating acceptance or refusal. Those receiing "accepted" reply cards are required to present them at the final ticket sale after Christmas. In case the number of applicants exceeds the ticket limit of 1250, a lottery will be conducted by Henry M. Moser, of the speech deartment, to reduce the number. Pre-Medical Test To Be Given Today All students wlio wish to, enter a medical school next fall and have not :rU eatiure Varsity Men To Put All-Stars Will Play r A hand-picked collection of Michi- "r gan's bestin the sports world w test- ert lers, natators and varsity football R players-will turn out tomorrow down H at the I-M Building to put on one of hi the biggest athletic exhibitions ever; for staged indoors. tea ' It's open house-everybody invited, sea and it's sponsored by Congress, Inde- pendent Men's Organization. Gen- W eral chairman for the sports carni- me val as Harvey Rotenstreich, '43, who en challenges anyone not knowing him th for at least a year to spell his name for correctly and adds that the following A program is "official" for the day: wr Promptly at 1:30 p.m. Bob Kolesar's na All-Star football basketeers will play 17 and exhibition game with members Co of the Varsity basketball team. Line- wi up for the All Star quintet presents Jo] ~ las The Blue Bird' an on To Be Shown Ga sw Again Tonigtti'42 th Play Production of the Department an of Speech will present Maurice Mae- thi terlinck's "The Blue Bird" for the sw third time at 8:30 p.m. today in the h Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. ex The play, which will be shown mt through Saturday, is tlle tale of a th young Belgian boy and girl who go art n search of the blue bird, symboliz- pu ing happiness. A live blue bird is used ha: in the final scene of the show. str Jim Bob Stephenson, '43, and Mil-C dred June Janusch, '43, lead a cast of In 108 characters in the roles of Tyltyl er e and Mytyl.' Margaret Cotton, '42, takes the part of the Fairy Berylune who instigates the quest in hopes that the bird will C' cure her crippled daugh'ter. On the journey the children are accompanied by the souls of' the Animals and Thilgs such a tread, Milk, Water, Dog, Cat and Light. St The presentation is under the direc- tion of William P. Hlstead and Val- entine B. Windt of the speech depart- ment. Robert Mellencamp is art di- A rector. by Tickets for the production may still an be bought at the box office of the ep Mendelssohn Theatre. wil at 'Full House' Ticket br Reservations Open en Ssin Va Money orders are now being ac- Gl cepted at the Lydia Mendelssohn Sa Theatre for tickets to the 14vimes Un- be ion Opera "Full House," to be pre-F sented Tuesday through Saturday. wi Block reservations may also be ob- th tained at the main desk of the Michi- Co gan Union. toy The general ticket sale will open tio tomorrow at the ticket office of the tim Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. T "Full House," a Hopwood winner, th was written by Ray Ingham, Grad., ar and will feature more thn 80 Uni- we versity of Michigan men. An all- in time record of 23 student written tim songs will be introduced in the show. br Budget-Cutters Take Notice: Survey Shows Thf Appreciate Val (Editor's Note: This is the first of th several articles revealing the results of t a survey of student NYA workers and wo faculty supervisors taken last spring by the University NYA administration.) inf ,sit' The majority of student NYA work- an ers feel that their NYA work at the th University gives them not only valu- co able experience for working after ai leaving school, but also enables them NY to contribute toward the achieve- th ments of the aims of the University. and These facts ,are disclosed in a sta- tistical analysis of a !survey of NYA workers, in which more than 900 stu- lea dent workers were asked 33 questions con regarding their NYA positions. dis To the question "Have you acquired P any skills in your NYA work?" 755 pe students answered that they had, 147 bri answered No, and 66 were uncertain. oth Comments by students showed that To their work has enabled then to be- the come skilled to a certain degree in li- rec brary, clerical, construction, labora- an x tibitLonsL On Athletic Show; Basketball Team on Guard" Angie Trogan, '44, Rob- "Buckets" Shemky, '44, "Raging" iy Sowers, '43Ed, "Hairbreadth" rry Anderson, '43-and Kohsar rnself. his will be the first opportunity the public to see the basketball im in action before their regular son gets under way. Following the basketball game, ayne Stille, '42, and Lawton Ham-r tt,, '42E, ranking Western Confer-t ee tennis stars and co-captains oft e '41 varsity netters, will perform2 the spectators.t After the tennis match, there'll bea estling-when Jimmy Galles, '42,t tional collegia'te champion in the 5-pound division and captain ofa ach Cliff Keen's contortion experts,T 11 square off against contender< hnny Green, '44E, 200 pounds ofi t year's freshman wrestling tar.c Varsity newcomers Dick Kopel, '44, d Mike Rolak, '45Ed, will also be hand for the anti-climax to ther lles-Greene contest.f Matt Mann will lend some of hisl immers-Strother "T-Bone" Mar--3 , '42, Dobson "Pocket-ship" Burton,5 Jim Skinner, '43, and more oft eir mates-for Congress' ojen house,. d they'll show the visitors some- ng new indiving, splashing and1 imming.C In addition to the regular varsity ;ibitons, every variety of intra-i ral athletics will be on display forf e public. Ted Peck, '44, ping pong ist, offers to spot anyone on cam-r s ten points and beat him. Squash,t ndball, and boxing will be demon-f ated. Congress has even arranged withl tramural authorities to have lock- and towels supplied for the small of a dime. ' am pus Carol x Sing_,Planned RA Will Sponsor Event;I Glee Clubs To Assist c An all-campus carol sing, sponsored the Student Religious Association d under the direction of Prof. Jos- h Mattern of the School of Music, 1 be held at 9 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 14,< the steps in front of the Main Li- ary. This is the first carol ing ever held tirely for University students. The ging, will be aided by the Men's rsity Glee Club and the women's ee Club under the direction of Bill wyer, Grad. A mixed chorus will led by Don Plott, '44M. Following the sing, an open house 1 be held at Lane Hall, home of e ;Student Religious Association. ntributions of sturdy and washablet s to the Student Religious Associa- n's toy library can be made at this ne. The toy library of SRA is run for e benefit of needy children. Toys e loaned out for a period of two eks. Children returning the toysk good condition over a period oft e are given one to keep. The li-1 ry is in Perry School. at Students ue Of NYA Jobsx at NYA work taught them how tor rk with others. That NYA work is of definite value furthering the aims of the Univer- v of , Michigan is shown by the swers to the question "Do you feel at you are making a significant' ntribution toward achieving the ms of the University by working on VA?" Of the students answering' e question, 717 answered Yes, 71 No, d 170 were uncertain. ' NYA jobs also enable workers to irn to assume responsibility, ac- .ding to 745 students. Only 152 agreed with this statement. Perhaps the most important as- ct of NYA work is the money it ngs in for students who might not herwise be able to attend college. the question "Is the main value of e NYA program to you the money ceived?" 514 answered Yes, 333 No d 110 were uncertain. .gf11r1A.,fQ. ,rn..sa len r a i t , A -~ r. 0 r I d m a ti a ti a ti a: n G it d f b y y ti c b o g v fi a ti f b Volunteers To Take Posts In Attempt To Establish All-Time Record Fund Facilty Members To AidCampaign Charged with halting an apparent ecline in man's desire to help his Dore unfortunate brethren, more ;an 250 Goodfellows volunteers will ake their posts Monday, Dec. 15, in n attempt to send Goodfellows re- urns sky-rocketing upward this year fter three years of diminishing re- urns. Upon the success or failure of this im depends the welfare of many a eedy Ann Arbor family-for the Goodfellows turn what they raise mto financial help for those persons eemed most worthy. New Goal Set Disappointed in the $759 collection made last year and faced with the act that the amount turned in has een diminishing for the last three ears, the leaders of the drive this ear will place as their goal the all- ime record of the six annual drives onducted to date-$1675. Pledged to this supreme effort will je University faculty members and fficials and prominent campus or- anizations as well as the army of volunteer workers to be recruited rom the ranks of the student body. Promoted entirely by students, the nnual drive is particularly beneficial o families whose incomes are insuf- icient to overcome all their problems, et who are still making enough to e ineligible for public relief. Distribution To Be Decided , 1._w eul I ;-ummumuu T v 111 J"" "RIAiLS Annual Drive I Break Feared In Eastern Crisis; Jap Press Assails 0- 0 Galens Funds Will Aid This Workshop Mexican Capital Reports apanese Ambassadors .Are Prparing To Leave Nipponese Promise a Reply To Roosevelt * * * * TitetGesDieDeie 0 The distribution of the funds col- lected will be decided upon by Thep Daily. In the past donations have <> been made to the Student Good Will Thirteen may mean bad luck to you,q Fund for needy students, to the text- but Galens men will be on campus lending library, to the Hospital Aid with their buckets today and tomor- Fund and to the Family Welfare Bu- row to walk all over that supersti-t reau. tion. Cooperating in the drive will be the Today marks the thirteenth yearly b League, Union, Panhellenic Associa- drive that Galens has sponsored toG tion, Assembly, Interfraternity Coun- raise money for the Galens workshop, cil, Congress, 'Student Religious Asso- the children's Christmas party and toC ciation, Women's Judiciary Council, support a library of children's bookso Women's Athletic Asisociation, Scroll, and movies.k Senior Society, Mortar Board, Wy- The medical students will be on vern, Sphinx, Michigauma, Druids, hand most of the day, and all you "M" Club, Triangles, Men's Judiciary have to do to keep the junior hospitala Council, Vulcans and the Engineering iamates happy is to drop your con- Council. tribution into one of the yawningc buckets. Galens Society will do thes rest. - Local Theatre Tomorrow, the bucket brigade willp move downtown to cover the non-b ' FUniversity area, with just a few hardyt L fu tsouls remaining on campus for theg late contributors. For IFC Party Last year Galens raised $1800, a i new high, but for tis Christmas, thea Ann Arbor school children will havesh the time of their young lives at the Experts Reach Manila annual Interfraternity Council's On Way To Burma RoadI Christmas party to be held at 3:30 . (By The Associated Press) p.m. Dec. 15 in Hill Auditorium. MANILA, P. I., Dec. 4-Forty-sixS Besides candy ,and favors, the Uni- United States mechanical and truck-n versity cheerleaders and tumblers will ing experts, assigned to smash the be on hand along with the second bottlenecks in the Burma militaryh University concert band, Prof. Wil- supply road to China and to be pro- tected from Japanese bombers in thati liam D. Revelli directing. vital task by American planes and F High point of the party will be the pilots, have arrived here en route to t showing of movies which have been their new posts. .7 donated by a local theatre. Incidentally, Santa Claus will be there. No one knows which Santa Second Of A Series: Claus will be on hand, the one, the only, the original, or a local substi- F s tute, but a man with a long white anious beard and a red suit will attend. If the fellow with the reindeer does To ive Leeti not show up or send a telegram very shortly, a campus election will be held to determine just who will be the A world-famous Jesuit scholar and ersatz for the occasion. lecturer in Thomistic philosophy at To date no candidates have been of- the University of Oxford in England, ficially announced, but several cam- The Rev. Fr. Martin Cyril D'Arcy, pus big-wigs are slated. In a sur- will deliver the second in a series of prise move, committeemen from the talks on "The Failure of Skepticism" Council have announced that at least at 8:15 p.m. today in the Rackham one professor, preferably pudgy, will Lecture Hall. also run for St. Nick in the fiercest Called by Prof. W. 11. Auden of'the campus rivalry election since Willkie English department "the most brilli- beat Roosevelt at the University straw ant theologian in England," Father poll. D'Arcy is well-known in religious and educational circles throughout the entire world. L / Born in England in 1888, Father 1 -D'Arcy received his education at Stonyhurst, Oxford, and the Gregor- ian University in Rome, winning ev- erywhere the highest scholastic hon- ors. Today he enjoys the unusual po- sition of being Catholic priest, Jesuit and lecturer on Thomistic philosophy at Oxford at the same time. -o Help Children Society is out to go over the two thousand dollar mark. Specifically, here is how your con- tributions will be used: Majority of the fmlnds collected will be used to maintain and improve the Galens workshop on the hospital's top floor. Through your contributions, Galens is able to furnish a supervised occupational and recreational pro- gram. Handicrafts are taught, pro- ects are guided by an instructqr, and at the moment, toys for Christmas are being made. The equipment of the workshop in- cludes' several power driven tools, plus special handicraft implements. Sup- plies of wood, paints, nails, and other perishable equipment must constantly be renewed. Your help in filling up the pails will keep the workshop going. The workshop is the only one of ts kind in the country, and hospital authorities have been well pleased with its help in keeping the children happy and as active as their illness permits. Heavy buckets will also mean a Christmas party for the kids, com- plete with gifts, a Christmas tree, Santa Claus, music and entertain- ment. Four embryo senior medicos are heading the drive. Robert Murphy s general chairman, Donald Cooper is publicity chairman, William Ver- Hey is handling advance sales, and the production chairman is Logan Hovis. WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 -tP)- Foreboding statments at Tokyo and :ignificant developments here tonight indicated an imminent major break n the Far Eastern crisis-one upon which may hang the question of peace or war. An official of the Japanese Em- bassy announced its diplomats would carry to the State Department to- morrow Tokyo's answer to President Roosevelt's pointed demand for an explanation of large-scale Japanese troop movements which seemed to threaten an invasion of Thailand (Siam). Reidy To Hull? + Perhaps, the same official said, they will take with them the long- awaited reply to the memorandum in which Secretary of State Hull re- - stated last week America's unalter- able opposition to Japanese aggres- sion. Meanwhile, Domei, authoritative Japanese agency, circulated a dis- patch saying the Hull declaation of principles cannot stand as a basis for continued negotiations looking to- ward maintenance of peace in the Pacific. Donrei's dispatch was preceded, moreover, by a series of pessimistic statements from government leaders and Japanese newspapers. The latter were said to have -expressed "shocked surprise and extreme pessimism" at statements by Hull. These statements, they thought, indicated an unbridg- able gap between Washington and Tokyo. Rumblings In Mexico The gloomy expectation of porten- tous developments here was further incrieased by a dispatch from Mexi- co City which told of the Japanese diplomatic staff there making hur- ried preparations for a return to Japan. Their activities were reported- ly prompted by the arrival of a cour- ier from Washington bringing con- fidential reports of the Progress of the American-Japanese negotiations, Japanese News Agency Denounces U.S. Proposal (By The Associated Press) TOKYO, Friday, Dec. 5-The au- thoritative Japanese news agency Do- mei said today "Japan cannot accept" the stipulations of the document which the United States goverpment handed to the Japanese Ambassador Nov. 26 in the course of negotiations aimed at maintenance of peace in the Pacific. Quoting observers described as thoroughly reliable, although unoffi- cial, Domei said: "Such a document cannot serve as a basic datum in Japanese-American negotiations henceforth. "Japanese-American conversations have taken place twice since the Uni- ted States handed over to Japan the document in question, and the United States Government has sent the Jap- anese inquiries pertaining to certain questions.- "But there is no tangible evidence of progress of the negotiations." Because of Domei's close connec- tions with the government, Americans considered the Domei statement to be an accurate forecast of the eventual Japanese reply to the American ques- tions. Domei further quoted observers as charging that "unilateral disclosure by Secretary Hull of details of the negotiations has made the situation still graver." Pett1ions Due Today For Student Senate Amateur mugwumps and logrollers will have their first chance at the real thing today as petitions for the Student Senat election of Dec. 12 are received in Room 302 in the Union. Petitioning for the 12 Senate posts will close Monday, which is also the defina la~r~tes fnrrn pt,.ibito Thw resuit Scholar re On Sk(,ptieism