THE MIC H IGAN DAILY TUES

DAY, JANUARY iA, 1942

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Rooming House Burns
A student rooming house at 952
Greenwood Ave. was seriously dam-
aged by a fire which broke out at
noon yesterday.
The fire started in the basement
and spread rapidly upward through
the walls of the house. The blaze was
checked by firemen at the second
floor, but smoke had already caued
damage to the third floor rooms.
Walls on the lower floors were either
burned or scorched, and much fur-
niture was destroyed.
Mrs. Elbert R. Wall, owner of the
house, said the fire began suddenly
-and that the whole house appeared
to be in flames. Firemen said hot
ashes piled against a wood partition
in the basement were the cause of the
blaze.
Staubach Speaks Today
D. Charles N. Staubach of the
Spanish department will be guest
speaker at the first post-vacation
meeting of La Sociedad Hispanica to
be held at 8 p.m., Thursday night in
the League.
The Spanish play, "La Indepen-1
dencia" by Breton de Los Herreros,
which will be presented by the group
on March 17, will be the subject of
Dr. Staubach's talk.t
Another item on the program willi
be the reading of a poem by Latin1
America's greatest poet, Ruben
Dario: "A Margarita, de Bayle" by1
Miss Mae E. Counts. The group willF
sing Spanish songs, accompanied by
Mr. Ernest M. McCarus, accordionist.-
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Five new members were initiated
into Alpha Lambda Delta, 'freshman.
honor society, at the League last Sat-t
urday. They include Helene Holmes,s
'44; Ann Costikyan, '44; MarthaY
Keas, '44; Liselotte Hecht, '44, and1
Mary Ann Stapp, '44. .
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British Retreat
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dark rain clouds and ending th
menace of Japanese raids.-
Most of Singapore's residents wer
unaware of the drama fought hig
in the clouds but occasional burst
of machine-gun fire were heard
prompting many to move into shel
ters. People were visibly heartene
by the familiar whistling roar of th
RAF's Brewster Auffalo fighters ov
erhead and the absence of bombs in
the town area gave morale a boost.
(Tokyo broadcast an official- an
nouncement, recorded by the Associ
ated Press, this morning that Kual
Lutnpur was in Japanese hands.)
The British said severe fighting
continued in the Selangor area, how.
ever, although "our troops have been
withdrawn to positions north o
Seremban."
Chinese Smash
J ap Advance
CHUNGKING, Jan. 12.-(P)-The
offensive of China's far-spread arm-
ies has scored new successes on four
widely scattered fronts against a Jap-
anese foe who is , preoccupied with
other wars in the Philippines, Malaya
and the Dutch East Indies, it was
announced today.
At the same time strong Chinese
forces were reported moving into
Burma where they will be in posi-
tion to join with their British allies
in a flank attack on Japan in Thai-
land and Indo-China. Christopher
Sharman, of an ambulance unit who
had just made a trip over the Burma.
Road, said the highway was clogged
with crack Chinese troops moving
westward with tanks, motorized ar-
tillery, Bren guns and light weapons.
Indicating a disastrous finish to
Japan's third Changsha campaign,
the Chinese said / they had utterly
smashed the force of 100,000 which
had set out to capture and Beep that
Hunan provincial capital. In the
final 24-hour battle of entrapment
8,000 Japanese were killed or wound-
ed and 1,000 captured, the Chinese
said.
Used Paper Drive
To le Crnduc ted
In Town Today
In response to the acule paper
shortage created by war production,
the Junior Chamber of Commerce
will conduct a drive for used paper
throughout the city today.,
Wayne Meadows, chairman of the
committee in charge of the drive, said
yesterday that the committee hopes
to receive the same enthusiastic co-
aperation from fraternities, sororities
and cooperatives which it received in
a, similar drive early last month. He
emphasized that old books, newspa-
pers and magazines, not scrap paper,
are wanted.
Collections will be made by 15 local
business firms who are donating
rucks and drivers. To facilitate col-
lections, paper should be tied securely
and placed on the front porch or
inside the front door. The Armory,
n Fifth St., will be open all day to
eceive donations.
The telephones of the firms who
kill make collections when called are
is follows: 2-3231, 4213, 6335, 2-2567,
191, 4117, 2-3123, 2-3184, 2-5200,
722, 4193, 4171, 2-5544, 2-4571,.4700
nd 9342.
The December drive netted 33,000
pounds of paper. Proceeds 'of $200
from its sale were turned over to
he local Red Cross organization.

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.-(IP)-A
e $400,000,000 government program for
production of synthetic rubber-de-
signed to make the United States in-
dependent of the Far East for all
m military and many civilian rubber
- needs--was announced today.
a Jesse Jones, federal loan adminis-
trator, sid enough synthetic rubber
would be coming out of American
- factories in 18 months "to supply all
military and limited civilian needs."
f Jones, announcing the program,
declared that he anticipated there
would be enough rubberat that time
to make new automobile tires avail-
able to the public.
The new rubber factories will be
designed to produce about 400,000
tons of synthetic rubber a year and,
Jones added, "if it develops that
more is needed, the capacity will
' be provided."
In addition to these factories, the
r nation will have, the official ex-
plained, about 90,000 tons a year of
other synthetic rubber from factor-
ies already operating. or under con-
struction, plus some natural rubber
from South America and Africa and
from the rubber-bearing guayule
shrub which grows wild in Mexico
and Texas and has been cultivated
to some extent in California.
Jones pointed out that in 1941,
the greatest rubber consumption year
in history, the nation used about
750,000 tons of rubber without stint-
ing civilian demand.
The new artificial rubber is to be
made primarily by the Butadiene
Process, which uses crude oil as the
base. Jones said nearly all the lead-
ing oil companies would join in mak-
ing this basic material, and early all
the leading rubber and chemical
companies would band together to
process the material and make the
artificial rubber.
"The techncal and scientific skill
of many of the companies as well as
existing patents have been pooleq to
insure maximum efficiency and pro-
duction," Jones said.
He said he did not know exactly
what the rubber would cost but
guessed it would run about 30 cents
a pound compared with 20 cents be-
ing paid currently for natural rub-
ber.
Jones also announced that in order
to stimulate the production of zinc,
lead and copper, the government-
owned Metals Reserve Company will
start paying a premium Feb. 1 on
output in excess of the production
formerly achieved by American firms.
He said quotas to determine what
production is extra will be announced
later by the Office of Price Adminis-
tration.
A bonus of about five cents a
pound will be paid for exta copper
production and 2 cents for extra
lead and zinc. The plan will run for
two and one-half years from Feb. 1.
The total price for bonus copper
will be 17 cents a pound "Connecti-
cut Valley," for zinc 11 cents a pound
"East St. Louis," and for lead 9V4
cents a pound "New York."
Honor Yugoslav Leader
LONDON, Jan. 12.-(/P)-Gen. Dra-
ja Mihailovic, who remained in the
mountains of Yugoslavia to continue
an organized guerrilla opposition to
the German and Italian occupation
armies, tonight was named war, navy
and air force minister.

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Koella To Talk
Members of the Cercle Francais
will. hear Prof. Charles E. Koella of
the Department of Romance Lan-1
guages relate the story of his flight
from Europe during the early days
of the present war, at a meeting of
the club to be held at 8 p.m. today
in the Michigan League.
The "Fuite d'Europe en Septembre,
1939" started Sept. 1, when Professor
Koella took the last train from Laus-
anne, Switzerland, to Paris. Since
both countries were mobilized at the
time, travel was complicated, and
there were no passenger trains tra-
veling between those two points for
some time thereafter.
Navy Regulations
"Navy Regulations" will be dis-
cussed by Lieut-Comm. John E. Fitz-
gibbon, U.S.N., in a lecture at 7:15
p.m. today in Room 348 West Engi-
neering Building.
Lieut.-Comm. Fitzgibbon, assistant
professor of Naval Science and Tac-
tics here, received last week news of
promotion to his present rank. His
talk today is part of a series of lec-
tures on naval subjects sponsored
by the Department of Naval Science
and Tactics, primarily for the benefit
of those students who hold commis-
sions in the Naval Reserve.
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Defense Saving
Best In Nation
Ann Arbor Leads Country
In Bond,_Stamp Sales
Complete cooperation of all con-
cerned 'with the sale of defense bonds
and stamps has made Ann Arbor the
leade' of the nation in their per cap-
ita sale. $2,500,000 worth have been
sold, in this town of 29,712.
Mr. Reardon Piersol, chairman of
the Committee for Defense Savings
Bonds and Stamps, made this an-
nouncement before the Ann Arbor
Community Forum meeting last
night in the Ann Arbor High School's
auditorium. He said that the com-
mittee hopes to raise this sum to
$3,000,000.00 by March.
The topic before the forum was
"The Victory Program." What can
we in Washtenxw County do to fur-
ther this program? Prof. Albert C.
Jacobs, of the Columbia Law School,
was the acting chairman and in-
troduced the speakers.
Mrs. Merle' T. Malin, Executive
Secretary of the American Red Cross
in Washtenaw County, told of, the
many courses and services offered by
the Red Cross. Mrs. Arthur C. Bro-
mage, Publicity Chairman of Wash-
tenaw Civilian Defense Council, out-
lined the organization and activities.
of the Council. Necessity of thrift
and plans for salvage and conserva-
tion program were the subjects of
Mr. Harrison Caswell's talk. He is
the chairman of the Council.

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night at 8:00 in Room B, Haven Hall.
Sponsored by Karl Marx Society.
Michigan Dames General Meeting
tonight at 8:00 at the Michigan
League. Dr. Maddy of the School of
Music will show colored films of
Mational Music at Interlochen,
Michigan.
Faculty Women's Club: The Music
Section will meet tonight at 8:00 at
the home of Mrs. Wm. D. Revelli, 906
Granger Ave. The soloist for the
evening will be Burnette Bradley
Staebler, accompanied by Estelle Ti-
tiev.
Christian Science Organization will
meet tonight at 8:15 in the chapel
of the Michigan League.
Coming Events
American Institute of Electrical
Engiieers will meet on Wednesday,
January 14, at 8:00 p.m. at the Mich-
igan Union. Refreshments. The
speaker will be Mr. Jack Cline, a
graduate student in the Electrical
Engineering Dept. He:- will talk on

blood's message to the convention will
be played.
The German Round Table will
meet Wednesday at 9:00 p.m. in
Room 23 at the International Center.
Mrs. Ruth L. Wendt will be in charge
of the meeting and Lettie Dresden
will sing German Folksongs.
"George Washington Slept Here"
by George S. Kaufman and Moss
Hart will be presented Wednesday
through Saturday nights at 8:30 p.m.
as the third production of the sea-
son by Play Production of the De-
partment of Speech. This is a re-
vival of the sell-out hit of our last
summer season. The Box-office will
be open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Monday
and Tuesday, 10 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. the
remainder of the week. 'Tickets are
83c, 55c and 39c.
The University Hospital Alumnae
will hold a meeting on Thursday,
January 15 at 8:00 p.m. at the Michi-
gan League. Dr. Henry Vaughan of
the School of Public Health will
speak on "The Place of the Institu-
tional Nurse in the Defense Pro-
gram."
The Slavic Society will meet at the

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