.,2 5k 43U 33att \Editorial Professor Curtis Will Be Missed.,, Partly Cloudy and Warmer. A 6 VOL. LII. No. 76 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, JANUARY 11, 1942 8-2 Z-2 PRICE FIVE NTS Barkley. Calls Much Altered Price Control 'Farm Relief' Farm Bloc-Dictated Ceiling Leaves Food Costs Free To Soar 25% Above Par Anti.nflation Bill To Return To House WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. - VP) - The Administration's wartime price control legislation emerged from a weary Senate today so much amended by its farm bloc that Democratic leader Barkley (Ky.) called it a "Farm Relief Bill." The vote on passage was 83 to 1 with Senator Nye (Rep.-N.D.) cast- ing the only dissenting tally. Before- hand, however, the farm bloc, in a 55 to 31 division, had succeeded in writ- ing in a series of restrictions on ceil- ings over agricultural 'products with the result, Administration men said; that many farm commodities were left free to rise 25 per cent or more above present levels. Goes Back To House The far reaching and complicated measure-intended to help prevent inflation and sky-rocketing living cost-now goes back to the House. A Senate-House conference commit- tee is expected to be appointed to redraft important sections before the measure comes up for final' consider- ation.° Whether this group could work out and secure Senate and House ap- proval of a measure satisfactory to the Administration was, however, an open question. When the bill passed the House last month with a provision allowing sharp increases in farm prices the word was passed around that Presi- dent Roosevelt would veto it if it reached him in that form. The Senate Banking Committee knocked out the House farm provi- sion objectionable to the Administra- tion, but the Senate went beyond the House. in approving restrictions on farm price-fixing. Farm Bloe In Control With the farm bloc in complete control, the Senate adopted 55 to 31 an amendnient by Senator O'Ma- honey (Dem,-Wyo.) providing: First, that no price ceiling should be placed on a farm product below the 1919-29 average price of that commodity-a period when farm prices were the highest in history. Second, directing that the Federal. Reserve Board's index of industrial wages should be used as a factor in calculating parity figures. The effect of this latter provision, it was explained, was to raise parity about 10 per cent. Parity is the price at which the agriculture departrhent figures that a farm product has the same pur- chasing power, in terms of non-farm products, that it had in the 1909-14 period. The Administration was agreeable to two restrictions on ceilings on farm products: That none be set be- low the average market prices last Oct. 1, and that none be set below 110 per cent of parity. In addition to the Oct. 1 date, the Senate directed that rno ceiling be below the average price on Dec. 15. Price Ceilings Set Thus it wound up forbidding any farm ceiling below: 110 per cent of parity (figured on a basis making it 10 per cent higher than heretofore); the Oct. 1 or Dec. 15 price; or average price in the years 1919-29. The farm bloc's runaway with the measures had been forecast yester- day when the Senate, by a 48 to 37 vote, inserted a provision giving the Secretary of Agriculture a virtual veto over any farm prices fixed by the administrator empowered by the bill. This ignored a direct request of the President. Viat stos To Tfalk On Skepticism One of the leading younger think- ers in protestantism in this hemi- sphere, Dr. Gregory Vlastos, profes- sor of philosophy at Queen's Uni- versity in Kingston, Ontario, will discuss "The Failure of Skepticism" at 8:15 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 18, in the Rackham Lecture Hall. The third and concluding speaker in a series sponsored jointly by Hill- el Foundation, the Newman Club Speaks Here 'today FRANCIS C. LINE: * * * A first-hand insight into the na- tions dominating the Pacific-Japan, China, Malaya, the Dutch East In- dies, the Philippines and Guam, an insight 'vital toward understanding the world-shaking news breaking in these areas every day will be given in the lecture-color movie "Circle, of Fire" at 8:15 p.m. today in the Rackham Auditorium. Tickets will be on sale today at the League. The film is sponsored by the Art Cinema League. Embodying a new type of motion picture technique evolved by Francis R. Line, a University graduate, and one of America's foremost color pho- tographers, "Circle of Fire" reveals the whole significance of the Pacific area in most graphic form. To produce this film, with its ac- companying lecture, Line spent five months in the Orient in the summer and fall of 1940 and travelled 25,000 miles-by clipper, auto, horse and steamer-to virtually every "hot spot" in the Far East. Winter Parley BeginsFriday Panel Groups Will Discuss 'America At War' Campus opinion and opinion-mak- ers, from Gargoyle to the Interfra- ternity Council, will be represented on four panel groups in the annual Student Senate Winter Parley sched- uled to open its two-day session Fri- day, Jan. 16. As announced yesterday by the' Senate Parley Committee, the all- campus forum on "America at War" will be under the chairmanship of Bill Muehl, '44L, while Prof. Ben- nett Weaver of the English depart- ment will present the closing sum-1 mary Saturday. . The irstpanel, headed by Norm Call, '42, will deal with the econom- ic problems of providing "arms for' America." Allen Axelrod, '43, Tom Marshall, '42, and William Todd, '42,. will comprise the rest of the panel. Defense training and other educa- tional aspects of the war will be dis- (Continued on Page 7)# War Stamp Drive Opens January 23 New Tag Day Campaign Will Enlist University For Defense Savings Sponsors Set Goal Of 5,000 Albums By DAN BEHRMAN Campus peg-tops and porkpies will give way to the savings habit Friday, Jan. 23 when University minute-men will open a tag-day drive for student participation in the Government's defense stamp campaign. With a goal of 5,000 10-cent al- bums, Ann Arbor's Junior Chamber of Commerce will work with a faculty group and the Committee of 1942 to reach "those persons who cannot afford to set $18.75 away all at once." The defense savings albums, de- signed to hold 25 10-cent stamps, will be sold in fraternities, sororities and residence halls Jan. 22. Ann Arbor's downtown area will be covered Jan. 24 when local merchants will ask both students and residents to "take part of your change in defense stamps." Purchasers Get Tags A round tag, bearing the national drive's minute-man symbol, will be given to every album's purchaser. Each book will contain one 10-cent stamp, and permanent defense sav- ings stations will be set up on cam- pus to provide the other 24. The city of Ann Arbor has al- ready amassed the highest per capita savings of any city in the country as over $2,500,000 has been contribut- ed by townspeople-almost $100 per resident. With the University a vir- tually untapped source, this total is capable of only an upward revision. According to the drive's faculty- student sponsors, two campus groups have joined the campaign even be- fore its official announcement. The J-Hop Committee, originators of a plan being adopted throughout the nation, will substitute 1,400 25-cent stamp albums for favors at the coun- try's biggest college dance. Phi Eta Sigma, freshman honor society, will purchase 60 books at its meeting to- day. Stamps Exchangeable The stamps are exchangeabl for Series. "E" defense bonds, maturing in 10 years with a value of $25. The bonds will be redeemable at any time before date of maturity for $18.75 plus interest. Co-ordinating University partici- pation in the drive will be Prof. Charles Jameson of the business ad- ministration school and Burton Ru- bens, '42. Reardon Peirsoll will re- present the Junior Chamber of Com- merce. Campus workers will be provided by the Committee of 1942, composed of every major student organization. v All-Out Japanese Attack Is Expected As Activity1 Lulls On Both Sides MacArthur Holds Corregidor Lines SINGAPORE, Sunday, Jan. 11. -(P)-The "scorched earth" policy, effective in China and Russia, is being carried out with a vengeance by British forces retreating slowly before the' Japanese invader, re- ports from the Malayan front said early today. (By The Associated Press) WASHINGFTON. Jan. 10.-The American-Filipino Army facing over- whelming forces of Japanese above and on the Batan Peninsula of Luzon Island in the Philippines, still have their major battle ahead of them, miliIlary tacticians said here tonight. Despite the lull in military activity on the peninsula, with only scout- ing flights and sporadic artillery fire by both sides, there was every indi- cation that the Japanese fully intend to drive Gen. Douglas MacArthur and his men off Luzon Island. MacArthur Strengthens Position However, it was indicated by the tacticians, who based their opinions on fragmentary news dispatches from the Luzon front, that General Mac- Arthur was taking advantage of the lull in activity to strengthen his position on a line on an arc-like front above the peninsula, and Subic Bay, the flanks of which are pro- tected on one side by Manila Bay and the other by the South China Sea. The terrain, the experts said, pro- vided MacArthur with a natural line of defense, but that any further forced retreat would mean withdraw- al farther south, with the consequent abandonment of Subic Bay and the secondary naval station, Olongapo, which is situated on it. MacArthur May Move After a last stand fight, it was be- lieved, MacArthur x(ould attempt to move as many of his men as possible to Corregidor Island, just off the mainland of the Batan Peninsula. Corregidor, considered impregnable by many experts, is built of almost solid rock, and controls Manila Bay whichtprevents the Japanese from using it as a naval base. Meanwhile, the news indicated that the Japanese might be planning an immediate full scale assault up- on the Dutch East Indies, simultane-\ ously with one against MacArthur's forces. This view was bolstered, tacticians said, by army reports of an enemy fleet concentration off Mindanao, the southernmost of the large Phil- ippine Islands, together with a mass- ing of Japanese reinforcements on the Luzon front. Additional Landings The Army announcement of enemy ships off Mindanao foresaw addition- al landings on that island and stopped there. Looking further a- head, some observers thought Mm- danao would be used as a base for the attack on the East Indies. It is so situatedi that it could be used as an important depot on the Japanese line of communications. The nearest major island is that of Borneo, on the northern coast of which, in Sarawak, the Japanese have already established themselves. Beyond lie the Dutch East Indies. It was recalled that American bombing planes raided Japanese con- centrations at Davao, on Mindanao, a week ago with highly successful results, and there was much conjec- ture as to whether the blow could be repeated. 'U' Graduate Flaherty Killed At Pearl Harbor University authorities were in- formed yesterday of the war death of a second graduate, Frpncis Charles Flaherty, '40. Word was received from the fam- ily of Flaherty that he died in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7. Late last night the only other information available was that he Nazis Plan Spring Offensive- Fuehrer Asks Faith At Home. Recruiting Drives Launched In Occupied Countries Suggest Internal Weakness Of German Army --BULLETIN-- SOMEWHERE ON THE GER- MAN FRONTIER, Jan. 10.-(1P)- Reports persisted tonight, despite official denials from Berlin, that Finland is seeking peace with Rus- sia through Stockholm intermedi-1 aries. Behind the feeling for peace,l these reports said, is Finnish dis-i couragement with present hard- ships, food shortage and limited clothing. (By The Associated Press) SOMEWHERE ON THE GERMAN FRONTIER, Jan. 10.-The German Army, depleted by huge losses in the, now apparently hopelessly lost Rus- sian campaign, has launched a re- cruiting drive stretching beyond Ger- man borders into Nazi occupied coun- tries. In every available quarter, the Nazis are seeking new manpower for, the army in the hope of rebuilding a fresh force for the planned spring offensive, wherever it may strike. Highly reliable advices said that because of German losses, and the need for a far greater army for the new push, the recruiting drive was underway in the.Baltic States, Bul- garia and even Norway. The bid for new soldiers followed admissions which, coupled with ap- peals for a renewal of faith in Fueh- rer Adolf Hitler, showed that the winter campaign in Rusia is written off by the German le ers as lost. The Nazi leadership, however, has taken extraordinary measures to deny' reports of incipient revolt within the; Reich, advices to this border point disclosed. Nazis Worried7 These measures -including the awakening of foreign correspondents in the middle of the night to inform them of the rumors and the Foreign Office denials-came at a time when Adolf Hitler's own press chief and all, the German newspapers were ac-, knowledging the gravity of the mili-, tary situation in Russia. As far as the internal German situ-I ation goes, it is known here that the first German failures in the East in- spired feelings of concern and unrest at home. However, the correspon- dents who were called from their beds to hear telephoned denials of reports, of an imm'ent state of revolution said it was quite apparent that there was no evidence of such a thing in Berlin, and the best information ob- ainable elsewhere is that no organ- ;zed effort to revolt exists or is likely o exist soon. Newsmen Surprised Yet, the correspondents expressed1 surprise that the drastic form of de-; nial was deemed necessary in the Wilhelmstrasse. In making its denials, the Foreign Office blamed the reports on British and American sources. Today the Berlin radio, quoting the Berlin cor- British Facing Desperate Struggle In Singapore, Commander Warns; Vital Philippine Battle Imminent respondent for the Rumanian news- paper Timpul, said that "rumors of growing dissatisfaction in Germany .. were launched in the hope of in- fluencing the forthcoming confer- ence (of American Foreign Minis- ters) at Rio de Janeiro." By indirec- tion, the broadcast said' the rumors had it that machine guns were mounted on the roofs of Berlin hotels, adding that Rumanian journalists in Germany could themselves see that this was not true. Dr. Otto Dietrich, Hitler's own press chief, told newspaper readers in a universally-published article that German military operations "have entered an extremely serious and in- deed critical phase." He asked the, people to remember that the Fuehrer had led them to victory in the past and urged them to believe that he would, do so again.', "Der Fuehrer will know how to overcome this crisis," said Dietrich. Survey Proves 24-Hour Basis Still Far'Away Many Of Vital Industries Face Serious Barrier To All-Out Production NEW YORK, Jan. 10. -(Wide World)-- The twenty-four hour day, seven-day production week which the President called for In his historic address on the State of the Union is already a reality in some key war plants, is being rushed in others, but, still moy be months away for the country's war industry as a whole. A survey of delense centers by World Wide today showed three prin- cipal factors standing in the way of complete and immediate realization. of the President's goal of clock- around operation for the $50,000,000,- 000 arms program: 1. Lack of some critical materials. 2. Need for time to train skilled workers. 3. Engineering, managerial and maintenance problems in wide vari- ety. But still the swing toward continu- ous use of production machines since the first bombs fell on Pearl Harbor Dec. 7 has been impressive and is growing steadily, the survey showed. In Washington leading defense of- -ficials are convinced the drive to- ward all-out factory operations can be accelerated much more, despite some of the handicaps mentioned'by industrialists. In many factories producing war materials where all-day, every-day production had not yet been achieved, the check-up 'showed intermediate (Continued on Page 6) Japanese Meet Stubborn Resistance In battles In Slim River District 'Hairpin' Strategy Traps Nazi Force By C. YATES McDANIEL SINGAPORE, Jan. 10. -- () - Driven back relentlessly after a brief, hard stand along the Slim River, 220 miles north of here, the British were told tonight by their commander, Gen. Sir Henry R. Pownall, that they faced desperate days ahead in de- fending the most vital areas, includ- ing Singapore. (A Japanese broadcast heard in San Francisco by CBS claimed the capture of Kuala Lumpur, Malayan rubber capital only 180 miles north of Singapore, after attacks from the north and northwest. (Earlier Japanese claims hinted that the British had abandoned the Kuala Lumpur area after the Japa- nese had occupied an airfield but two and a half miles southwest of the city and started an all-out attack upon the town from the rear.) Gen. Pownall told the defenders in a broadcast tonight that their task' was one of hard fighting on the defense. "Japan has the advantage which lay with the other aggressor nations -she was able to get her blow in first," he said. "Here, as elsewhere, our first task has been to ward off that blow so that the enemy gains as small a chance of success as possible. "Our second task is to hold the enemy from vital areas and as far from them as possible while we re- new, regroup and supplement our forces. "Then we will be able to bring the enemy to a halt and later drive for- ward ourselves. "We are engaged in the second of those tasks. "The most vital of the areas which are to be defended and the one which we are absolutely determined to defend is Singapore," he concluded. (The British radio said the Japa- nese had been able to throw 12-ton tanks into the battle, reinforcing the much lighter two-man tanks which they previously had been using.) The most optimistic feature of a desperate situation was the growing activity of the British air force which, according to today's communique, de- livered telling blows upon three Jap- anese aviation and communication bases, smashing planes, runways and stores and setting fierce fires among buildings and military objectives. Nazis Meet Setbacks On Russian Front LONDON, Jan. 10.-(A')-Like a heavyweight champion keeping his foe off balance, the Soviet army to- night was reported pressing its un- interruptedycounter-offensive with conspicuously successful blows in the central sector northwest and south- west of Moscow. The two arms of the pincers seek- ing to trap perhap 100,000 Nazis about Mozhaisk, 57 miles west of the capital, were extended further. Below Mozhaisk the Red army claimed recapture of Mozalsk and to the north the Nazis were said to be retreating from Staritsa toward Rzhey -placing the Soviet advances at least 30 miles beyond Mozhaisk on either side, with the jaws of the pincers drawing ever closer. In the Staritsa-Rzhev uarea the Germans apparently were trying to make a stand, for the Moscow radio broadcast a dispatch to the newspa- per Izvestia reporting that the Nazis were rushing up planes "and infantry units are being brought up from deep in the rear." Booth Application Is Due Wednesday Booth applications for the 1943 J-Hop must be turned in by Wednes- day, Bob Begle, tickets chairman, announced yesterday. Any organi- zation having at least 20 members'. going to the dance is eligible to apply. 9 On The Sports Front: Hockey Team Edged Out, 5-4; Wolverine Cagemen GoHungry By STAN CLAMAGE Yes 'it can happen here.' And it was proved at the Michigan Coliseum last night when Point Edward nosed out the Wolverine hockey team, 5-4, in one of the wildest puck battles ever played on the Michigan ice. The small number of attending fans will never see a more thrilling athletic' contest for some years to come. Before anyone had a chance to catch their breath, the ice was heated with the play of a rejuvenated Wolverine sextet. And the play didn't let up until the final gun ending the sixty minutes of play. Sparking the entire Michigan play was Captain Paul Goldsmith. Goldie pulled the old "hat trick" last night. by powering three hard goals into the Point Edward nets, two of them unassisted. But it wasn't only a sparking of- fensive play that Goldsmith con- tributed to the night's play. He checked hard all night, and his stick- handling was fine. Next to the Wol- verine captain, Johnny Braidford turned in a more than creditable performance. He set up play after play, two of which were directly re- sponsible for two of Goldsmith's markers. But despite the fine play of Eddie Lowrey's team, a last period Michigan's victory-starved basket- ball team made another game at- tempt to chalk up its first Big Ten win of the season at Yost Field House last night, but met a tartar in the powerful Illinois quintet and suc- cumbed, 44-40. It was the sixth straight loss for Coach Benie Oosterbaan's men and the third consecutive setback in the current Conference campaign. The victory for the Illini, their seventh straight, helped them maintain their lead in the Big Ten title race. The Wolverines played their best ball of the season, but the rangy The Wolverine basketball team will leave for Evanston, Ill., today where they will meet the North- western Wildcats tomorrow night at 7:30 p.m. Illini cagers were just a little too polished for the Varsity. Led by the brilliant performance of their sophomore guard, Eugene Vance, the Illini executed some of the most dazzling plays local cage fans have seen in many a day. Vance sank six field goals while breaking up numerous Wolverine socring at- tacks. Far East Brought Near: Prof. Bartlett Lectures Today O America And Philippmes' The Philippine Islands, America's malignant territorial headache, will be discussed at 4 p.m. today in the Rackham Lecture Hall by a man who has been exploring, investigating and teaching in the Far East since 1918. The man, Prof. Harley H. Bart- lett, chairman of the botany depart- ment, will deliver a public lecture under the auspices of the Committee to Defend America. The subject, "America and the Philippines," will be as timely as the last news-wire bulletin in today's Daily. , As an agent for the Department of Agriculture last year, Professor Bart- lett travelled throughout the islands studying potential sources of qui- nine and rubber for the United States.