Weather Slightly Colder. C, r --. ll 1 11,110. Icr 4 a14 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 (Continued on Page 6) 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, (Continued on Page 2) 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.