if Weather L2 snow aa Col ,der. 5k gan il Editorial COaptain DavidsonW .r .. VOL. LII. No. 62 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1941 Z-323 PRIGS FMVECENTS Roosevelt Warns U. S. Of Long, Hard War . ___.. C Hitler To Announce German Stands President Denies Claims Nazi Policy Declaration Is Awaited Berlin Antidipates Meeting Of Reichstag To Hear Government's Decision 'Ominous Silence' PervadesCapital ---- BULLETIN --- NEW YORK, Dec. 9-(P)-The British radio quoted the official Tokyo spokesman tonight as say- ing: "We have asked Germany to declare war on America." This report, heard here by NBC, was similar to one relayed by Lon- don earlier in the day. BERLIN Wednesday, Dec. 10-(IP) -Ominous silence prevailed in the Wilhelmstrasse early today in antici- pation of a declaration by Adolf Hitler during the day on Germany's policy toward Japan's war on the United States and Britain. There were persistent reports, ap- parently supported by postponement of tonight's opera performance, that khe Kroll Opera House would be the scene of a Reichstag session. It is here that the Reichstag meets to hear important pronouncements by Hitler. Usually well-informed sources free- ly predicted that clarification of Ger- many's stand is imminent but com- mentators refrained from 'elaborating on Just, when and how it would be One sign of big things in the mak- ing was the absence of Wilhelmstrasse functionaries from their spare-time haunts early today. An authorized spokesman said last night he could not tell whether there would be a change in German-Amer- ican relations within24hours. "I can't say," he remarked. "The situation has not changed." Other well-informed sources said meanwhile that "a clarifying German statement" could be expected soon. "In view of the far-reaching im- portance of this question, such a statement will not be long delayed," said the authoritative commentary Dienst Aus Deutschland. Male Females Trip Fantastic Ian "Full House' Mimes presented the 1942 Michigan Union Opera last night at the Men- delssohn. Title: "Full House." It wasn't. As the grapevine starts functioning, attendance mayr or may not pick up. But last night, probably because the premiere had been anticipated by world events, and too because President Roosevelt's speech was scheduled for 10 o'clock, there was not so large an audience as is ordi- narily the case at these affairs. In order that the first-night audience might hear the President, Act I of the Opera was speeded up. This should serve as a partial explanation of the lack of pace, and a certain nervousness observable among the cast and it must be added, the audi- ence, through most of the first scene. With the introduction, of the can can chorus, the always enjoyable pony line, things picked up a bit, and though from time to time thereafter scenes would start sliding towrd the *exit, certain really excellent comics, (Continued on Page 4) Coast Radio Ends Silence Of 12Hours Brig. General Warns Air Attack Is Still Likely; 'Frisco Has Blackouts Planes Scour Ocean For Jap Carriers SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 9-(A )- Pacific coast radio stations ended nearly 12 hours of silence today dur- ing which Army and Navy planes and naval surface craft were reported to have searched off the coast for possi- ble Japanese airplane carriers and submarines. The exact extent of the search was a military secret. Enemy airplane carriers have been variously reported off the Alaskan, North Pacific and California coast. In disclosing that patrols from the 2nd Interceptor Command had taken off from Portland, Ore., to criss-cross the ovan for 600 miles from the shore, Brig. Gen. Carlyle H. Wash warned the "possibility of an air at- tack is still present." An alarm sounded at noon today in the San Francisco bay area, which underwent three blackouts last night after the army reported a fleet of 30 enemy planes had circled over the industrial area. Today's alarm, given as two naval planes returned to their base, was cancelled quickly. Radios were silenced from the last of. the ,,early ,mrorninzgblackouts, around 2:30 a.m., to prevent guid- ing possible Japanese bombers to their objectives, "The time has passed when we're trying to please the public with radio programs," commented Col.' G. P. Tourtellot of the northwest defense command. "We're trying to save our lives." Broadcasts were resumed in the early morning coincident with the return of two big naval bombers to their base on San Francisco bay. The bombers returned while unconfirmed reports were being circulated that an enemy airplane carrier had been sunk some 400 'miles west of San Francisco. Other bombers returned at the same time to their San Diego base. In the civilian land war against the enemy the FBI arrested approxi- mately 350 Japanese, Germans and Italians on the Pacific Coast. In northern California 167 were taken into custody, 70 in southern Califor- nia and 152 in the Pacific Northwest. Arrangements were made for more blackouts all along the coast tonight and a possible resumption of radio silence. , Tentative plans were laid for a (Continued on Page 6) - Buy a Goodfellow Edition - Good fellows To Start Drive Collections Will Be Made On StreetsMonday Sew up those holes in your pockets, fill them full with the shiny products of the U. S. mints, and venture on the streets Monday prepared to meet the Goodfellow Army-that's the way to do if you want to make your "Merry Christmas" to Ann Arbor's needy families really ring true. Fraternities, sororities and coopera- tives have already begun to pledge their contributions to the Goodfellow Fund and campus organizations have pledged their support to the drive which now promises great success. All contributions-individual and group may be made at The Daily business offices in the Student Pub- lications Bldg. Pledges may be tele- phoned in. Money given to the Goodfellow Fund is turned over each year to the Family and Children's Service, for- merly the Family Welfare Bureau. This agency looks after the needs of "marginal income" families through- out the entire year-not just at Christmas time. The Second War In-24 Years Of Japanese Supremacy In Pacific Fighting Area d Surrounded by Congressional leaders, President Roosevelt signed a declaration of war against Japan in Washington, the second war in which the U.S. has been embroiled in 24 years. Soberly watching are (left to right): Rep. Luther Johnson (D), Texas; Rep. Charles Eaton (R), New Jersey; Rep. Joseph E. Martin (R), Massachusetts; Vice- President Henry A. Wallace, Speaker Sam Rayburn, Rep. John McCor- mack (D), Massachusetts; Sen. Charles L. McNary (R), Oregon, and Sen. Alben W. Barkley (D), Kentucky. Argentina Gives United States Port Facilities Buenos Aires Maintains Relations With Tokyo, Declares Neutrality U.S. Non-Belligerent -BULLETIN- HAVANA, Dec. 9-(P)-Cuba de- clared war on Japan tonight by unanimous votes of the Senate and Chamber of Deputies. (By The Associated Press) BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Dec. 9 --Argentina tonight granted the use of port facilities to U. S. warships as its contribution to hemisphere soli- darity against Japan, but declared for neutrality toward both Japan and Great Britain and maintained diplo--' matic relations with Tokyo. While other Latin American repub- lics rallied against Japan with dec- larations of war, by breaking off re- lations with Tokyo and by other man-, ifestations of cooperation, Argentina decreed that the United States was a non-belligerent. This is the device by which Ameri- can warships will be permitted to put into Argentine ports without time limit and for any purpose. The maintenance of diplomatic re- lations with Japan would be carried out by a new ambassador now tryingj to reach Tokyo across the warring acific. The Argentine amnbassador also planned to represent Great Britain in Tokyo at the request of the Lon-' (Continued on Page 6) Party Politicians Plan Plots For Poll Coups Locked doors were the order-of- the-day on campus yesterday as party moguls schemed plots and plotted schemes for Friday's Student Senate election. With 34 candidates from campus fraternity, co-operative, dormitory and rooming house groups slated for the ballot, the Board of Elections re- ported a quiet day in the campaign Eastern Cities Hear Air Raid Warning Flash New York, Boston Have First Signals Of Danger In City Blackout Trials Planes Patrol Coast NEW YORK, Dec. 9. --(1)- The heavily-industrialized Eastern Sea- 'board from New York to Boston ex- perienced its first air raid warnings of the war today and for more than two hours there were all the ear- marks of a prelude to hostile attack, but later the alarms appeared to be the butgrowth- of a misunderstanding. Somehow a report gained currency that an attacking force was swoop-, ing down the Newi England Coast headed for the nation's largest city. The report reached Mitchel Field, Long Island, air base for the first Army Air Force, in such a manner as to seem "authentic and credible" to the commanding officer and an interception was ordered. The result _was that the man in the street savi and heard plenty to make him believe it was the real thing. It resulted, too, in a test of warning and civilian defense organ- izations which high army and air forces later agreed was "a good thing." The stock market, always quick to react to news of major importance, suffered its worst slump since the collapse of France in May, 1940, as ~a result of the alarms and the "war. Mitchel Field sent all its planes into the air. Navy patrols soared along the coast. Fire and police sirens screamed. More than a million school children in New York City and thousands on Long Island and along the seaboard were dismissed from their classes. Boston was "alerted" for more than an hour. The huge military and naval establishments at New London, Conn., took precautions. -- Buy a Goodfeilow Edition --- FBI Denies Arrest of State Japanese Denying rumors circulating around the campus that several local Jap- anese had been arrested, John S. Bugas, chief agent of the Federal Choral Union Will Present Concert Today Orchestral music at its finest will be heard when the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Dr. Serge Koussevitzky presents the sixth Choral Union concert at 8:30 p.m. to- day in Hill Auditorium. Dr. Koussevitzky, now conducting the orchestra in its sixtieth season, has been at the podium since 1924. He has attained fame both in this country and abroad where he received his straining in Moscow,' Paris and London. Now in his seventeenth year as con- ductor, Dr. Koussevitzky has devel- oped a vigorous method of orchestra leading with which he has been suc- cessful in making his music appear alive. Since he has been in Boston he has kleen able to aid in the creationof a school-the Berkshire Music Center -which is exclusively a school for the training of musicians. It is here that the now-famed Berkshire Symphon- ic Festival is held. kDr. Koussevitzky, who -was born in a small Russian town where his father gave violin lessons, ran away at the age of 14 to Moscow and enrolled in the Philharmonic School. ere, he studied bass-fiddle, not because he liked the instrument, but because he had to choose something. The program which the Boston Symphony will present here today is as follows:, Symphony in D Major (Haffner) by Mozart; Symphony No. 3 by Wil- liam, Schuman; Symphony No. 4 in E Minor by Brahms. - Buy a Goodfellow Edition -- Merchantmen Are Captured ,japanClaims Bound-up By Enemy Ships Includes U.S. Liner; Lubang Island Seized TOKYO, Dec. 9-(official radio picked up by AP)-The Japanese claimed tonight to have swept up and captured more than 200 mier- chant ships of "enemy nationalities" along the China coast and in the Whangpoo River-including the 10,- 509-ton' Americal liner President Harrison-and at the same time ret ported an extension of the Pacific offensive. (German dispatches attributed to the Japanese Army spokesman at Shanghai a ,claim that Japanese troops had landed in the Philippines without losses to themselves and also had landed on Britain's Malay Pen- insula and in nearby Thailand with- out casualties. (Just where in the Philppines the landing was claimed was not stated. There had been previous reports, however, that the Japanese had seiz- ed Lubang Island, some 50 miles off the entrance to Manila Bay) A spokesman for the Japanese Navy Ministry asserted that already the balance of American-Japanese sea power had been changed to favor Japan and that attacks thus far delivered had "completely shattered all naval strategy popularized by Uni- ted States naval experts." Speaking of alleged American plans for encircling Japan, he added that Washington had miscalculated Jap- an's strength, and "the fruit of this irresponsible estimate has been to Chief Executive Acknowledges Some Initial Successes For Foe's Surprise Attacks On Hawaiian Isles; Germany Encouraged Tokyo Move, He Declares WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.--(P)--President Roosevelt warned the nation tonight that it is in for a long, hard war, against "crafty and powerful bap.- dits" with Germany and Italy as much pneinies of the United States as is, Japan. But he emphatically denied Japan's boast that she had gained naval supremacy in the Pacific by her lightning stroke at Hawaii and he declared confidently: "We are going to win the war and we are going to win the peace that follows." Making his first report to the nation on; the past and future of the conflict that has suddenly engulfed the country, the Chief Executive stark- ly acknowledged that Japan's initial successes have been extensive. "Many American soldiers and sailors have been killed by enemy action," he added, adding the damage done at Pearl Harbor was "admittedly seri- Longer Work Week Is Asked ByRoosevelt President Discloses Vast Plan For Increasing Industrial Production WASHINGTON, Dec. 9. -(J)- President Roosevelt today proposed a seven-day production week for the industries which manufacture the war machines that will pound Japan into submission. He made this recommendation while a nation deep in war impatient- ly awaited his 10 p.m. radio address and its expected delineation of the pattern and consequences of the hos- tilities-especially Japan's sudden, savage stroke at Pearl Harbor. Making his production announce- ment at a press conference, Mr. Roo- sevelt declined to discuss or fix re- sponsibility for the success of the Japanese raid. And mindful of con- gressional criticism-which included a demand that the ranking officers involved be courtmartialed-he said he knew nothing about that question, nor did any member of Congress. Mr. Roosevelt disclosed the Admin- istration was planning a vastly in- creased delivery of war industry pro- ducts-a speedup agreed upon at an earlier conference with members of OPM and the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board. It was understood meanwhile that the seven-day week referred to the factories and not to their employes, although much longer working hours for the latter might eventually be involved. The President also dis- closed he was considering calling a conference of industrial and labor leaders with the purpose of working out an anti-strike agreement. Professor Kessler Wins Spoofuncup At ASME Roast Four professors of the engineering college were "done to a turn" yester- day by the ASME at their eighth annual roast in the Union, and the Spoofuncup was presented to the "man who can take it," Prof. Clar- ence F. Kessler of the mechanical engineering department. Confronted by their students and faculty colleagues 87 strong the "roastees"-were attired in freshman pots and quiz-kid bow ties, and re-' quired to answer the snappy question- ing of roastmaster Axel Marin, pro- fessor of mechanical engineering. Leading the roastees Prof. W. W. Gilbert, of the metal processing de- partment, Prof. J. M. Neickelsen, me- chanical engineering, Prof. J. A. Van den Broek, engineering mechanics, and Professor Kessler a merry chase ous " And, he said, the people must be jrepared at any time for an an- announcement that Guam, Wake a i Midway Islands have been seized, by the enemy. Eighteen M*iths Preparation But, on the other side ,of the war ledger he placed eighteen months of preparation, assembly lines already producing a profusion of war ma- terials, and of plans for doubling, and quadrupling that output. Te latter included a seven day week for the war industries, and the con. struction of new plants. In addition, he balanced againt the power and, ruthlessness of the enemy, the determination of a united MANILA, P.., Wednesday, Dec. 10.-(P)--Two Japanese landings on this Philippine Island of Luzon were reported today by the Filipi- no Constabulary, and an Army spokesman announced, "all indi- cations point to a heavy enemy at tack with land troops Supported by naval contingents and air- craft." 'eople, which, he said will be satis- 'ied with nothing short of complete victory. He spoke from the heavily guarded AVhite House, his first talk witli the aation since the Japanese attack of Sunday, with the exception of his erse request to Congress for a declal'- ition of war. Repeatedly, and with great empha- 3is, he spoke of Japa's relationships with Germany. The latter he accused >f pushing Japan into the war with promises that she would become the master of the Pacific, and be given '"a stranglehold on the west coast of North, Central and South America." "Remember always," he solemnly warned, "that Germany and Italy, re. gardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the United States at this moment just as much as they consider them- selves at war with Britain and Rus- sia." Asks People Repeatedly, the President asked the people not to accept wild rumors of successes or failures. To do that, he said, was to be deceived by the propaganda of the enemy. The Gov- ernment would give them all the facts that it could confirm provided that their revelation would not be of as- sistance to the enemy, he pledged. "We are now in this war," he said, "We are all in it-all the way. Every single man, woman and child is a partner in the most tremendous un- dertaking of our American history. We must share together the bad news and the good news, the defeats and the victories-the changing for- tunes of war. "So far the news has all been bad. We have suffered a serious set-back in Hawaii. Our forces in the Phil- ippines, which include the brave people of that Commonwealth, are taking punishment, but are defend- ing themselves vigorously. The re- ports from Guam, and Wake and Midway Islands are still confused, but we must be preared for the an- ONLY! 191.