THE MIC-HIGAN DAILY
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Kaufman-Hart
Play-Will Open'
On Wednesday
Play Production Vehicle
Replaces Rice Drama
For Current Season
"George Washington Slept Here,"
last season's Broadway hit by George
S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, will
open its four-day showing at 8:30
pax Wednesday in the Lydia Men-
delssohn Theatre.
It is the third in a series of five
productions presented by Play Pro-
duetlon of the Department of Speech.
"Flight to the West," Elmer Rice's
anti-Nazi melodrama which was or-
iginally scheduled to appear, will not
le# given because it has lost its per-
tinence since our entry into the war.
The Kaufman-Hart show is a re-
viya frofm the summer session pro-
duction by the Michigan Repertory
Players. For this reasona apartial re-
fond on, season tickets will, be given
to those patrons who saw the pre-
sentation then.
The play was a hit among summer
audiences, between 300 and 500 peo-
ple being turned away at each per-
fornance. Previous productions of-
fored were "Jim Dandy" and "The
Blue Bird."
Hillel To Hear
Muyskens alk
"The Meaning of Meaning," a dis-
cussion of semantics, will be anal-
yzed by Prof. John H. Muyskens of
the- speech department, at Hillel
Foundation's regular Fireside Dis-
cussion Group 8:15 p.m. Friday.
Professor Muyskens, an expert on
phonetics, will speak on the subject
of0 semantics and its importance to
human information. Semantics it-
self a subject of considerable current
discussioI involves important prob-
lems of human understanding and
has troubled scholars for many years.
A forum discussion will follow Pro-
fessor Muyskens' talk.
PtecedIng the Fireside Discussion
Group at 7:30 p.m. regular conserva-
tive religious services will be held.
Local 'Hobos'
To Assemble
In 000 Dance
The campus will 000 at the Hobo
Hop, Congress' unique "come as
catch can" dance to be held Jan. 16,
in the Michigan Union ballroom-
.that's the promise of the Indepen-
dent Men's Organization.
The Hobo Hop will be under the
personal supervision of Hickory
"Hobo" Squeaks, who claims to be
the only full-fledged bum in the
country holding a college degree and
who will fly, he °says, from Hollywood
in a few days to give hard-working
Congress members a helping hand.
The dance is an all-campus affair
and anything from tuxes to patched
trousers is -allowed. Besides this, Con-
gress has arranged with Assembly, In-
dependent Women's Organization, to
provide a date bureau for males who
like their cuties to specifications.
Music makers for the OO0-offi-
cial title forhthe Hop-will be Bill
Sawyer and his Ragamuffins and a
series of "humorous incidents" will
highlight the evening program, gen-
eral chairman S. Che Tang, '43, an-
nounces.
A telegram from Mr. Squeaks in'
Hollywood was received by Congress
late last night, in which the cele-
brated bum stated briefly he would
see ''about rounding up some of old
roadmates - stop - Are scattered
around country-stop-Think I can
get them to turn out for 000-stop
-Get the brass band ready."
Meanwhile, Congress is mapping
new plans for the dance in the offi-
ces on the third floor of the Union.
Richard Shuey, '42, Congress presi-
dent, hasn't been seen in his room-
ing house for the last two nights.
Passengers Camouflage
Vessel Trapped At Sea
HOBOKEN, N. J., Jan. 7.-(IP)-
Trapped in the Indian Ocean on its
maiden voyage by the outbreak of
war between America and the Axis
powers, a sleek American ship put
into port today with 65 passengers
who pitched in to help the crew paint
the ship a wartime grey.
The ship was equipped for black-
outs when it left New York three
and a half months ago. It was cam-
ouflaged in a rolling sea in two days
with men and women passengers
slinging paint brushes and pails
cheerfully.
'Carry Attack Against The Enemy'-President
Germans Face
Crimean Rout;
Siege
Broken
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President Roosevelt, jaw firm set, told a joint session of the 77th Congress in the House Chamber in
Washington, "We shall carry our attack against the e nemy-we shall hit him and hit him again, wherever
and whenever we can." Others shown are, left to right: Vice-president Henry A. Wallace; Speaker Sam Ray-
burn; Maj.-Gen. Edwin Watson (in uniform); George J. Maurer, Congressional messenger; Edmund Star-
ling of the secret service, and South Trimble, house ci erk.
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broadcast communique acknowledged
a Russian landing at Yevpatoriya,,I
under protection of the Soviet Fleet,
but claimed that the Soviet forces
were "annihilated."
From Feodosiya, which stands in
eastern Crimea in the area of the
junction of the main peninsula with
Kerch, a second Russian offensive
was driving westward.
Supporting Russian forces were
landed southwest of Peodosiya, the
Germans admitted, but again the
claim was made that they had been
"smashed."
The second most active theater of
the day was in the Ukraine, where
the upper column of the Russian
armies of the south was reaching out
for Kharkov, the great industrial
center whose recapture would put
Marshal Semeon Timoshenko a long
way forward in his campaign for the
restoration of all the Ukraine.
There were reports the main Rus-
sian forces had pushed forward to
within 30 -miles of Kharkov on the
east, but while there was no specific
confirmation of this, the German
communique acknowledged a "local
breach" in the Nazi lines northeast
of the city, but asserted these lines
had been straightened out by coun-
ter-attacks.
On the Russian center before Mos-
cow, where imprisonment of the main
Nazi stronghold of Mozhaisk, 57 miles
west of the capital, was being at-
tempted-Soviet reports told of
strong Red cavalry raids which
forced the Germans to weaken their
front lines to protect rearward com-
munications.
In the far north the Finns them-
selves officially announced Russian
forces had penetrated the Finnish
lines north of Lake Onega in an of-
fensive that remained unhalted.
Measles Rate
Rises Rapidly
OnCampus
Latest report on the sabotaging ef-
fort of the German measles reveals
the total of students hit by the fast
spreading disease has risen to 26
since the University reopened Mon-
day.
Health Service warns students to
watch for the symptoms which may
include soreness in the glands behind
the ears, rash on the face and chest,
possible temperature, cold, or sore
throat.
So far the measles outbreak has
not reached serious proportions but
since the period of active illness
doesn't strike until two to three weeks
after exposure it is difficult to see
how far it will spread.
German measles, called "victory"
measles during the last war, is not
serious, usually lasting only three
days.
The sub-zero temperatures have
kept the Health Service staff busy
with a number of cases of frostbite,
and Dr. Warren E. Forsythe, direc-
tor, warns students against thawing
out frozen ears, fingers and toes with
sudden application of heat instead
of the safer gradual method.
Board Advises Further
Instruction InCitizenship
LANSING, Jan. 7.-(/P)-The Mich-
igan Advisory Council for Citizenship
Education, at its meeting here yes-
terday, prescribed an expanded pro-
gram of citizenship education for
Michigan aliens and called for the
aid of volunteer teachers. The Coun-
cil includes representatives of the
State Department of Education, the
Works Projects Administration and
the U. S. Immigration Service.
Persons classified as enemy
aliens," excepting Japanese nationals,
who were eligible for citizenship at
the outbreak of the war may con-
tinue to apply for naturalization,
Benjamin J. Buikema, Council chair-
man, said.
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Prof. Bartlett
Will Lecture
On. Fr, East
Prof. Harley H. Bartlett, Far Last
explorer and member of the Univer-
sity botany department, will discuss
America's first large theatre of war
Sunday in the Rackham Lecture
Hall.
Sponsored by the Ann Arbor Chap-
ter of the Committee to Defend
America, Professor Bartlett's talk on
"America and the Philippines" is
based on a wide personal acquain-
tance with our Pacific territories.
Last year, as an agent of the
United States Department of Agri-
culture, Professor Bartlett undertook
a special study of the Philippines'
possible value to America as a source
of quinine and rubber.
Professor Bartlett is also familiar
with Filipino life and customs, since
he spent a year in the islands as ex-
change professor with the University
of the Philippines. In 1935 he was
made a charter member of the Phil-
ippines' National Research Council.
During the last war, in 1918, Pro-
fessor Bartlett began his East Indies
work as a botanist for the United
States Rubber Company. He per-
formed additional studies for this
company in 1926-27.
Professor Bartlett will be the first
Committee To Defend America
speaker since Japan's attack on Pearl
Harbor. The committee has now
adopted the slogan "Win the War-
Win the Peace."
Itense Cold- Wave
Sweeps Ann Arbor;
Fire, Injury Result
As the mercury continued to hug
the zero mark last night Ann Arbor
residents "kept the home fires burn-
ing" and as a result, the fire depart-
ment had an "unusually busy eve-
ning."
At 6:00 p.m. an alarm was sounded
for a fire at the corner of Calvin
and Miller streets. Less than a half
hour later firemen were called to a
blaze at 1126 Broadway. A third
alarm was sounded at 7:30 for a fire
at 520 Walnut. Though none of the
fires were reported as serious they
kept the department on its toes.
Along with the zero weather came
icy streets and sidewalks. Wood Mor-
gan, of Dexter, a milkman in, this
city, slipped on an ice-covered step
yesterday and fell on a milk bottle
which he was delivering. The bottle
broke making a severe cut in his
wrist. He was taken to St. Joseph's
hospital with a possible severed ar-
tery.
OPM Replce
Ol Committee
Industry-Labor Deadlock
InsuigatesChange
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.-P)-A
deadlock between management and
labor representatives attempting,
with OPM officials, to work out a
program for converting the automo-
bile industry to war materials pro-
duction led the OPM today to replace
the committee with a new group.
OPM's action, constituting a re-
jection of labor proposals for joint
industry-labor-government supervis-
ion of the pooling of resources dur-
ing the conversion task, was bitterly
assailed by the five labor members
of the dissolved committee.
A management spokesman, C. E.
Wilson, President of General Motors,
defended the action. He said that to
divide the responsibility for manage-
ment would amount to "socializa-
tion" and would "destroy the very
foundation upon which America's un-
paralleled record of industrial ac-
complishment has been built."
R. J. Thomas, President of the
United Auto Workers (CIO), charged
in a statement that under the new,
setup conversion, would be handled
in "a leisurely way."
Charges of Scrap
Hoarding Retracted
By Van Wagoner
LANSING, Jan. 7.-(,P)-Governor
Van Wagoner backed down today.
from his implication that Michigan
junk dealers were hoarding scrap
iron of value to war-time steel pro-
duction.
At the same time, he appointed a
State Salvage Committee to acceler-
ate collections of scrap metal, waste
paper, old rubber and rags.
This morning the governor instruc-
ted Byron L. Ballard, his legal ad-
viser, to determine whether the state
could confiscate scrap metal he be-
lieved was being hoarded.
This afternoon, he issued a state-
ment declaring "I find that, rather
than condemning scrap iron dealers
and car wreckers, Michigan should
give them wholehearted thanks for
the leadership they have assumed for
some months, and the all-time rec-
ord movement of scrap iron to the
steel mills that they have achieved in
Michigan."
Van Wagoner said the junk dealers
made periodic reports to the Office
of Production Management, that
piles of scrap on dealers' hands were
awaiting cutting up and sorting and
that many dealers paid considerable
sums from their own pockets to pro-
mote scrap iron collections.
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U Graduate
G iven Medal
For Bravery
Lt. Donald S. Robins, '30, has been
awarded the Distinguished Flying
Cross by the War Department for
taking part in a secret air flight
made by four-engine bombers from
Honolulu to the Philippines last Sep-
tember.
Among the 75 men who received
the Flying Cross in Manila last
month was Capt. Colin P. Kelly, Jr.,
who received it posthumously. Lieu-
tenant Robins was in the bomber,
piloted by Captain Kelly, which sank
the Japanese battleship Haruna. On
the way back the bomber was at-
tacked by two Japanese fighter
planes. Five members of the crew
bailed out when fire broke out in the
motors. The ship exploded blowing
Lieutenant Robins out. He para-
chuted to earth. Captain Kelly died
in the explosion.
Lieutenant Robins was a Quarter-
master Corps reserve officer called to
active service in January, 1941. His
parents believe that his work in con-
nection with the mass flight was that
fo arranging for supplfes for the
bombers at Hawaii. He then accom-
panied the flight to the Philippines
where he has been stationed ever
since. This mass flight was cited by
the War Department as an example
of "heroism and extraordinary
achievement." The planes which took
part in it have since been helping to
defend the Philippines.
Lieutenant Robins is a graduate of
the University and of the Detroit
College of Law.
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LAUGHTER THAT ECHOES ACROSS THE NATION!
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THE
STORY
OF ELECTvRICITY
Number One in a series published by The Detroit Edison Company
When was electricity first discovered? the word magnet is a matter of dispute.
How did it get its name? More than One tale has it that a shepherd named
twenty-five centuries ago, about 600 Magnes suddenly found his iron-tipped
B. C., the Greek philosopher Thales staff and the nails in his sandals mys-
noted one of the earliest recorded elec- teriously adhering to the mineral ..
trical phenomena. He observed that if he he gave it the name "Magnes stone.
rubbed a piece of amber on his woolen Others claim that the word magnet
gown, it first attracted and then re- comes from Magnesia, a town in Asia
pelled light objects. Through its sugges. Minor where lodestones were first found.
tion of sunlight, the Greeks named the Some say that the sailors in the north-
golden amber "ELEKTRON." era countries of Europe first discovered
Another substance which attracted its curious property of pointing to the
the early attention of the ancients was north when suspended like a compass...
a magnetic mineral, lodestone. Some- hence the name lodestone, or "leading
times found as an outcropping rock on stone." Others credit the discovery to the
the surface of the ground, this black Chinese. Today we know the mineral as
stone had the peculiar property of the iron ore, magnetite. Noteworthy is
attracting iron. The stone's strange the observation of the Greek philoso.
magnetic power was the . phers,whoremarked--"The
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basis of many leger
but the origin o
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C4 "rJ, Todug!
FAST, FURIOUS
ACTION - -.
MICHIGAN
Based on Stephen vincent Bener's
story "The Devil and Daniel Webster."
The Lady
with a
Devil
In Her Heart!
A bride's stir-
ring fight against
the temptations
that lured her
husband from
her side!
LIAM, DIETERLE
0anuu 11TIN
ndsy stone
rf it
the
GREEKS
has a soul since
can move iron."
"LOVE, HATE, SCANDAL
-1'LL PRINT IT ALL"
He fought gangland's bullets with scorching
headlines! Romance that packs action. ..plust
Edward Laraine Marsha
ARNOLD' DAY-H UNT
William T .lrr - Dan Reddne
with
Edward ARNOLD
Walter IIUSTON
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