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Editorial
Defense Of
Hutchins' Plan
VOL. LI. No. 90 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1942 Z-323
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Japan's
Downfall
Will Begin In '43,
Churchill Claims
Asks Vote Of Confidence
As He Assumes Blame
For Weakness In Malaya
Dispute Arbitrated
By Peru, Ecuador
LONDON, Jan. 27.-(')-Winston
Churchill told Britain today that
Ameican fighter and bomber squad-
rons would participate "in the coming
offensive against Germany," and
gave his assurances that in 1943 the
United Nations would be able to set
out in "good style" to destroy Japan.
On his longest and most important
war review in many months he staked
the life of his administration by de-
manding from the House of Com-
mons a vote of confidence that will
without question be given shortly.
He said plainly that the Allied posi-
tion in the Pacific was yet grave and
would remain so through- 1942.
For the relative British weakness
in that theater, Churchill shouldered
full responsibility.
In the 'past, he said, while the
menace posed by Japan was yet dis-
tant and passive, the British govern-
ment had been faced with the reali-
ties of actual conflict in Africa and
in Russia and to these theaters it
had diverted its major available troop
strength and every ounce of material
aid that could be spared.
"It follows," he explained, "that
we could only make partial provision
LONDON, Wednesday, Jan. 28.
-(A l-Foreign Minister Eelo Ni-
colaas Van Kleffens of the Nether-
lands Government in London is on
hishway to Washington to confer
with American and Allied authori-
ties on the war in the Pacific, the
Netherlands Government Informa-
tion Bureau announced today.
The Lieutenant-Governor Gen-
eral of the Netherlands East Indies,
Dr. H. J. Van Mook, is already in
Washington, and Maj.-Gen. A. Q.
H. Dyxhoorn and Rear Admiral
J. W. ter Mytelen, chief of the
Netherlands Naval Staff, also went
there from London.
in the Far East against the hypo-
thetical danger of a Japanese on-
slaught."
Nevertheless, he disclosed that re-
inforcements had arrived in Singa-
pore, although the limiting factor in
the Asiatic theater had not been lack
of men but lack of available trans-
port.
"A hard fought battle is raging on
the approaches to Singapore," he
said. "I am not going to make any
forecast except to say it will be
fought to the last inch by British,
Australian and Indian troops."
The Prime Minister's speech
ranged the whole world front-now
offering encouraging words, now
warning that hard and painful blows
were yet to fall on the Allies-and in
the end he went back to the only
all-embracing promise he ever had
made to the British people on the
war: "Blood, toil, tears and sweat."
But, he went on:
"It is because, however, I see a
light gleaming behind the clouds and
broadening upon our path that I
make bold now to demand a declara-
tion of confidence of the House of
Commons as, an additional weapon
in the armory of the United Nations."
Dispute Arbitrated
By Peru, Ecuador
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan. 27.-O(P)-
The century-old border dispute be-
tween Peru and Ecuador has been
definitely settled, Brazilian Foreign
Minister Oswaldo Aranha announced
tonight.
Under an agreement between the
two countries, Aranha said, Peruvian
troops would withdraw immediately
from positions in the disputed area
while final terms are being worked
out.
This settlement cleared the way
for Ecuador to join 18 other Ameri-
can nations in terminating relations
with Germany, Japan and Italy.
Peru already has broken with the
Axis, but Ecuador had held off pend-
ing disposition of her ancient dif-
ferences over 2.800 square miles of
Final Changes
In Curriculum
Are Announced
Final course changes for the com-
ing semester in the Literary College,
as announced yesterday through the
office of Assistant Dean Lloyd S.
Woodburne, show four courses omit-
ted against six additions.
All courses dropped for the second
semester were given by the Depart-
ment of Astronomy. They are:
Astronomy 32. Descriptive Astron-
omy of the Stellar System. 3 hours
credit. Sec. 1. MWF 9.
Astronomy 51. General Astronomy.
4 hours credit, MTuThF, 1.
Astronomy 154. Method of Least
Squares. 2 hours credit. TuTh, 10.
Astronomy 156. Advanced Practi-
cal Astronomy, 3 hrs. credit, TuTh 11.
Added courses from four depart-
ments have been placed on the Uni-
versity curriculum. They are:
Anthropology 101. The North
American Indian. 3 hours credit,
TuThS, 10.
Anthropology 162. Problems, of
Race. 3 hours credit TuThS, 9.
Astronomy 36. Nautical Astronomy.
Designed to prepare students for a
course in navigation. 2 hours credit.
Prerequisite: trigonometry. TuTh, 11.
407 M.H. Maxwell.
Psychology 153. Mental Measure-
ment. 3 hours credit. MF 9, and a
third hour to be arranged. 307 West
Med. Meyer.
Psychology 340 (240). Seminar in
Current Psychological Literature.
Maier.
Russian 31. Beginning Russian. 3
hours credit. Sec. 1. TuTh, 10, S,1.
Sec. 2. TuThS, 9.
Sharp Reveals
Rules For Hop
Dance To Stop At 3 A.M.;
No Corsages Allowed
In order that there be no misun-
derstanding concerning what is and
what is not to be done on the nights
of J-Hop, general chairman Ted
Sharp, '43E, announced yesterday
that the following rules must be ob-
served the evenings of Feb. 6 and 7.
Dancing will cease at 3 a.m. Friday
and at midnight Saturday and lights
must be out inathe Sports Building
one half hour later each night.
No corsages will be permitted, ex-
cept for members of the Committee
and their dates. There shall be no
decoration of individual booths ex-
cept that done by the J-Hop Com-
mittee.
Each booth must be chaperoned by
at least one couple, chosen from the
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Van Wagoner
Will Dedicate
New Building
New Rackham Memorial
In Detroit Will Become
Extension Headquarters
President Ruthven
To Accept Edifice
Governor Murray D. Van Wagoner
will preside at the opening exercises
of the $2,000,000 Horace H. Rackham
Educational Memorial in Detroit at
2 p.m. today. The new building will
house both the University extension
service courses and the Detroit En-
gineering Society.
Mr. Bryson D. Horton, chairman of
the trustees of the Rackham Fund,
will present the building.
President Alexander G. Ruthven
will-accept the building in behalf of
the University, while the Engineering
Society will be represented by its
president Harvey M. Merker.
The white limestone structure not
only furnishes classroom space for
the more than fifty classes of the
University extension courses, but also
houses the graduate curriculum of
the University's Institute of Public
and Social Administration, in addi-
tion to Engineering Society quarters.
The new building, which occupies
a block near the Art Institute and the
Main Library in Detroit, was made,
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Allied Air
On
Three
Downed
By
U.S.
Torpedo
Boats
Forces Gain
Fronts; Jap
One Of First Pictures Of A mericans On Old World Soil
Victories
Bombers
1'-
Nippon Troops Land
Above Singapore
In Furious Battle
Engineers To Register, Classify
On Monday, Kessler Announces
* * *
F Eke Protests
Although plans were upset consid-
erably by the seven-day condensation
of the final examination period, Col-
lege of Engineering students will be
registered and classified under the
new schedule starting Monday, Feb.
2.
Registration cards may be obtained
and filled out between 8 a.m. and
noon, and from 1:30 to 5 p.m. every
day starting Monday and running
through to the end of classification,
Prof. Clarence F. Kessler of the me-
chanical engineering department, in
charge of registration and classifica-
tion, announced.
As in the past, the cards will be
available in Room 244, West Engi-
neering Building.
Payment of fees for the College of
Engineering will be made Thursday
and Friday, Feb. 5 and 6, in Water-
man Gym accordirng to the general
University schedule already in effect.
Engineers will be 'classified for the
second semester starting at 2 p.m.
Friday, Feb. 6, and classification will
continue until 6 p.m. Friday, to be
concluded from 8 a.m. until noon
and from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Saturday.
No changes have been made in the
methods of classification previously
used by the various departments, Pro-
fessor Kessler stated, and individual
clasification time will be determined
separately in each department as it
has in the past.
Examinations in the College of En-
gineering will coincide with the liter-
ary college schedule this semester,
and will get under way at 8 a.m.
Thursday, runningdthree exam peri-
ods a day until Wednesday, Feb. 4.
Usually taking four-hour examina-
tions, engineers will this year be cut
to two hours, scheduled from 8 to 10
a.m., from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
and from 2 to 4 p.m.
Eighth Concert
Will Be Given
Mitropoulos To Conduct
MinneapolisSymphony
One of the greatest conductors in
this country at the present time,
Dimitri Mitropoulos, will lead the
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra in
the eighth Choral Union concert at
8:30 p.m. Tuesday in Hill Auditorium.
Born in Greece, Mitropoulos started
studying piano when he was only
seven years old. His first conducting
post was as assistant conductor of
the Berlin Staatsoper. In 1932 he
led the Orchestre Symphonie de
Paris.
Mitropoulos first appeared in the
United States as guest conductor of
the Boston Symphony Orchestra in
1936. The following year he was in-
vited for a guest engagement to Min-
neapolis. He was then selected to
succeed Eugene Ormandy as conduc-
tor of the Minneapolis Symphony.
The Minneapolis Symphony was
founded by Emil Oberhoffer. It gave
its initial concert in 1903. The or-
chestra now has ninety members.
Most of the orchestra's Minneapolis
concerts are given in the Northrup
Memorial Auditorium on the Univer-
sity of Minnesota campus.
Tuesday Mitropoulos will lead the
orchestra inthe following numbers:
Overture, "Academic" Festival" by
Brahms; Symphony No. 3 in F major,
Op. 90 by Brahms; Suite, "Le Tom-
beau de Couperin" by Ravel; and
Toccata No. 1 in C major by Bach-
Weiner.
Perhaps That's Why
The Shades Stay Up
The latest call of the campus ap-
peared to be "Keep your shades
down, Kiddies," today as police re-
corded another complaint of a "peep-
ing Tom" who prowls around campus
looking into sorority house windows
and frightening the bewildered coeds.
Alpha Chi Omega is the latest vic-
tim of this window peeper. Girls
who study late into the night for
threatening finals claim that the
prowler's calling hours are from 12
to 1 a.m. and usually over the week-
Troop Landing
By Americans
(By The Associated Press)
DUBLIN, Jan. 27.-Eamon de Va-
lera, the Brooklyn-born Prime Min-
ister of neutral Eire, vigorously pro-
tested tonight the landing of United
States troops across the border in
Northern Ireland and the renewed
emphasis thus placed on the rift be-
tween Eire and the six counties of
the North.
De Valera based. his protest on the
fact that Irish government was "not
consulted either by the British gov-
ernment or the American govern-
ment" on the arrival of the troops,
and added:
"It is our duty to make it clearly
understood that, no matter what
troops occupy the six counties, the
Irish people's claim for the union of
national territory and for supreme
jurisdiction over it will remain un-
abated."
Simultaneously Minister of Sup-
plies Sean Lemass, in a speech here
tonight, declared that Eire's inde-
pendence and neutrality faced in-
creasing danger and might have their
supreme test in the coming year. He
made no further elaboration on that
statement.
De Valera softened his protest
somewhat with the declaration that
his people have "no feeling of hostil-
ity toward and no desire to be
brought in any way into conflict with
the United States."
- .ssociated Press Photo
War Agencies
Will Be Given
J-HopProfit.
The 1942 J-Hop will contribute
more than $3,800 to the pation's war
effort, general chairman Ted Sharp,
'42E, revealed yesterday.
Recipient of the expected $2,620
net profit has not yet been decided,
Sharp asserted, but the money will
be donated to either the USO or the
Red Cross.
Each student to attend the dance
will receive, instead of the usual fav-
or, a 25-cent defense stamp, adding
$325 to this country's coffers.
The 10 per cent Federal tax on
tickets will increase the sum by an-
other $875 to make the total $3,820.
Through the use of organized com-
petitive bidding and by cutting down
decorations to a minimum, Sharp
said, nearly $1,300 has been cut from
the budget as compared with last
year's expenses. In this way, he
pointed out, the greatest possible
contribution to national defense can
be effected.
A story giving the list of J-Hop
regulations as announced by Sharp
I appears on column 2 of this page.
Examination schedules for the
College of Literature, Science and
the Arts and the College of En-
gineering will be found on page 8
of today's Daily.
Axis Receives
LibyanSetback
-BULLETIN --
NEW YORK, Wednesday, Jan. 28
--(P)--The British radio, in a
broadcast heard here by NBC, said
today the Russians had blown up a
hotel in Orel where 150 German
officers were billeted.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27. -()
Daring exploits by planes and tor-
pedo boats attached to the forces of
Gen. Douglas MacArthur were re-
counted today by the War Depart-
ment, while the Japanese invaders
gave the defenders of Batan Penin-
sula a 24-hour respite.
Quoting MacArthur, a department
communique said that two Army P-40
pursuit planes took to the air to
combat three Japanese dive bombers.
Two of the three bombers were shot
down and the third disabled. Neither
American plane was damaged.
The officers of two motor torpedo
boats, sighting two formations
of Japanese bombers approaching,
placed themselves directly in the
path of the second formation, let
loose with their guns, and dispersed
the planes.
Their accurate fire scored hits on
three enemy planes. When last seen
the bombers were smoking and rapid-'
ly losing altitude. General Mac-
Arthur cited the officers and men of
the small, speedy boats for gallan-
try.
The swarms of enemy troops
pressinghMacArthur into Batan Pen-
insula had evidently had enough
fighting for a while, after the smash-
ing blow which routed one ,end of
their battle line at the end of the
week. For 24 hours, the department
said, there had been practically no
ground fighting on Batan.
Japanese Land
North Of Singapore
SINGAPORE, Jan. 27.-(R)-Brit
ain's growing air force struck with
telling fury at a Japanese convoy
landing reinforcements above the
eastern Malayan front, but tonight
the invaders were fighting closer and
closer to this great naval base.
Despite determined air bombard-
ment, the Japanese landed an un-
specificed number of troops and war
machines at Endau, 85 miles to the
northeast. While they were landing,
the British scored one direct bomb
hit on a cruiser, 12 hits on transports
and wrought havoc on a large dump
of supplies on the coast.
Twelve Japanese planes plum-
meted to earth in flames, two others
probably were destroyed and another
two were damaged, the British said.
The Japanese radio attested to the
fury of the combat. It claimed 39
British bombers and torpedo planes
were destroyed over the waters of
Endau and the town itself. The Brit-
ish communique made no mention of
losses.
Barges and landing craft were ma-
chine-gunned heavily, and bombs
dropped so near another cruiser and
transport that they probably were
damaged. The Japanese sent up
planes from land bases to try to
stave off the RAP assault.
Weather Forecast - Heavy Draft:
Selective Service Registration
For Non-Residents To Be Feb.16
Leaves Post He Founded:
Prof. White Presents Resignation
From Department Chairmanship
n2
Non-resident students will be regis-
tered for Selective Service by the
University for the second time Mon-
day, Feb. 16.
Registration personnel under offi-
cials of the several schools and col-
leges organized and correlated by
Assistant Registrar Robert L. Will-
iams, will enroll students born be-
tween Feb. 17, 1897 and Dec. 31, 1921
inclusive, who have not previously
registered.
Registration offices will be open
from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Because the
work is being handled by voluntary
workers, students are requested
whenever possible to register between
the hours of eight and five in order
that a minimum staff may take care
of the other hours.
Students of the College of Litera-
ture, Science and the Arts will regis-
ter in Alumni Memorial Hall under
the supervision of Assistant Dean L.
S. Woodburne. It is expected that as
many or even more students will reg-
ister as registered on the first call
October 16, 1940.
School of Dentistry, Exhibit Room,
Kellogg Institute, under the direc-
tion of Dr. F. D. Ostrander; School
of Education, 1431 University Ele-
mentary School, Miss Marion Mc-
Lellan, director; College of Architec-
ture and Design, Library, Architec-
ture Building, Prof. Walter V. Mar-
shall, director.
Students of the Law School, School
of Business Administration, School of
Forestry and Conservation, School
of Music, Graduate School and
School of Public Health will register
in 116 Hutchins Hall under the su-
pervision of Assistant Dean of Stu-
dent Charles T. Olmsted.
Students whose permanent home
addresses are in Ann Arbor, mem-
bers of the faculty, administrative
staff, or other University employes
within the age limits should register
in the city at their regular polling
places. They should not register in
the University because the machin-
ery is authorized to handle only stu-
With no more ceremony than a
change in the office directory board
in the East Engineering Building,
noting his removal to 3026, Prof. A.
H. White will resign the chairman-
ship of the Department of Chemical
Engineering which he founded in
1914.
His resignation becomes effective
Saturday at which time Prof. G. G.
Brown will take over the chairman-
ship. Professor White will continue
teaching.
The establishment of the depart-
ment 28 years ago was accompanied
by somewhat of an apology, for in
the request to the Regents for its
addition to the College of Engineer-
ing it was stated that the field was
not expected to become very large.
Such a department was something
new in technical education. The
Massachusetts Institute of Technol-
ogy had established one and Michi-
gan was to have the second in the
RAF Blasts
Of Axis In
Equipment
Libya
CAIRO, Egypt, Jan. 27.-(P)-The
RAF announced today vast destruc-
tion of German-Italian motor ve-
hicles and manpower in what was
generally described as its most de-
structive single day's work on Axis
columns since the Libyan campaign
began.
Figures were not yet available,
but the British bombers and fight-
ers were known to have destroyed
hundreds of Axis machines of all
sorts and to have killed many of
their crews. with machine-gun fire
as the men abandoned their vehicles
to flee afoot in the desert.