WPeather Aqueous Air Raids ito 4attli Editorial John L. Lewis Must Be Stopped . " VOL. LI. No. 125 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 1942 Z-323 H r PRICE FIVE CENTS Bomber Destroys Axis Submarine; Three Ships Sunk Atlantic Coast Undergoes 'Dim-Out' To Protect Vessels From U-Boats Survivors Of Liner Arrive In New York (By The Associated Press) Shortly after the Navy announced last night that three more merchant ships had been sunk the Army came through with good news that a bomb- ing plane had destroyed an Axis sub- marine off the eastern coast. The date was not disclosed. Six battered survivors of a Hon- duran passenger liner arrived at New York with a story of the torpedo sinking of their ship March 16 off the New Jersey coast with a prob- able loss of 44 lives. Among the miss- ing were three women, two girls and a 7-year-old boy. Four Lives Lost Four lives were lost in the sinking by a submarine of a large merchant ship off the southeastern coast March 16, the Sixth Naval District at Charleston, S. C., said. Thirty-seven crewmen were rescued. Another American merchant ship went down off the Atlantic coast ear- ly Wednesday. Two men were listed as missing. Survivors reaching Nor- folk, Va., told how lightning flashes illuminated the sea anti helped the submarine's torpedo aim. The German high command, in a special announcement, claimed two U. S. coastal patrol ships and 11 freighters had been sent to the bot- tom in the last week. 'Dim.Out' Enforced Along Atlantic Coast (By The Associated Press) Automobile headlights went dim, big theatre signs and little shop win- dows faded into the darkness and shades were drawn in thousands of sitting rooms tonight along 1,200 miles of Atlantic coastline because somewhere off shore enemy submar- ines were on the prowl. Ships had been running blacked out to escape the marauders, but sea- men reported the glow in the skies above beachfront resorts, and in cases even the actual twinkle of boardwalk lights, made their craft silhouette targets for undersea skip- pers. The result was a "dim-out" order from the government. Last night in most areas from New York to Florida a crescent moon enhanced a spring- like mood along promenades where it would have been lost in the blaze of a few weeks back. Atlantic City Hit Probably the most brilliantly lit ocean fropt resort, New Jersey's At- lantic City was one of the last to pull the switches. But the turn-out-the- light order hit there with a ven- geance yesterday. Spurred by the state defense di- riector's threat of summary action by state and military, the local de- fense council ordered that all neon signs within store windows be "put out immediately and kept out." Out- door signs had been extinguished Fri- day. The many shops along the board- walk, already under orders to keep window lighting down 50 per cent, were instructed to cut it farther, Fri- day night's dim-out having proved inadequate. Promotion-conscious city fathers hastened to announce that, far from spoiling the resort's attractiveness, the dim-out had, in the words of no less an authority than Associate Jus- Turn to Page 6, Co. 7 Invaders Meet Ignoble Defeat In Arboretum By BART JENKS The Arboretum was invaded yes- terday afternoon but after two and a half hours of bitter fighting the en- emy were thrown back by the stub- born resistance of local troops. Establishing positions over the rail-i road tracks, the defending troops twice repulsed the enemy with ter- rific losses before they retired, ig- nominiously defeated. Close observers of the situation at- tested to the great part played by the Ann Arbor grade-schoolers who were pop-eyed by the whole thing; apparently pacifists these latter suc- ceeded in impeding the progress of both sides in this epochal combat. At times the adult bystanders were hardly less careless in their mean- derings, many suffering greivous wounds for their foolhardiness. After the battle both sides good- naturedly assembled where the de- tails of the battle were discussed at length. Unofficial reports, based on the convincing statements of the par- ticipants, revealed that out of 100 men who took part there were 500 casualties. The semi-automatic fire of Tom Kuzma and his partner Bill Lyman was given credit in saving Ann Arbor from a horrible fate. When questioned the enemy freely admitted that one of the main causes fo their defeat was the inability to maintain adequate control and cgor- dination of their troops, This plus the Horatian spirit of the defenders spelled doom for the invaders. With the day saved for Ann Arbor the locals then retired to a local tav- ern where they speedily recuperated from their great effort. In answer to numerous demands the military censorship has finally Turn to Page 6, Col. 1I Roosevelt Orders Railroad Sei'zure. (By The Associated Press) WASHING'TON, March 21.-J. W. Barriger, associate director of the Office of Defense Transportation, was appointed today as Federal man- ager of the Toledo, Peoria and West- ern Railroad, which was ordered by President Roosevelt to be seized and operated as a war measure. Arnold Deals Labor Unions SharpBlow Assistant Attorney General Lists Six Accusations In Committee Hearing Industry Harmed, OfficialCharges WASHINGTON, March 21. -(P)- Attacking "organized labor in terms seldom, if ever, used by a New Deal official, Thurman Arnold, Assistant Attorney General, accused the unions today of a long list of mis-deeds which, he asserted were preventing the efficient use of men and ma- chines and hampering the distribu- tion of civilian neccessities. He charged organized labor with injuring or destroying independent business men, and holding farmers and consumers "at its mercy," of im- peding the distribution of housing and food, and of "undemocratic pro- cedures" within itself. Bill Held 'Insufficient' On the witness stand of the House Judiciary Committee, he said a pend- ing bill to require the registration of labor unions was insufficient to pro- tect the public from the practices which he alleged. "No other group in our society" could do anything like the things of which he complained and escape punishment, he said. Arnold's indictment of the unions contained six counts: 1. Exploitation of farmers. 2. Undemocratic procedure, includ- ing packing its membership to insure the outcome of elections. 3. Impeding transportation. 4. Making it "impossible" to get cheap, mass production of housing. 5. Forcing businessmen to employ useless labor. 6. Restricting "efficient use of men and machines." Control Independent Business "Independent businessmen all over the country are completely at the mercy of any organized labor group," he said, adding that the unions "can tell any independent businessman to stop business, either by refusning to deal with him, or by putting too great a burden on him in the form of useless and unnecessary employes." Large unions, particularly, he said,' want to deal with large organizations and "small organizations get in the way, so they simply eliminate them." The jurisdictional strike was the method generally used, he said, and in Chicago such a strike, accompanied by a labor boycott had "forced on consumers a luxury system of milk delivery." Examples Cited Turning to his allegation that labor was restricting the efficient use of men and machines, he cited union barriers against the use of (paint) spray guns in Southern California, and union efforts to prevent the use of pre-fabricated housing material. Labor itself was exploited in some instances, he said, asserting that welders working on ships were re- quired to take out five to eighteen cards in unions other than their own. Another bar to the "efficient use of labor" lay, he said, in the union prac- tice of "arbitrary classification" of types of work and refusal to permit members to engage in any activity outside the union's own classifica- tion. MacArthur Readies Allied Forces For Impending Australian Battle; Russians Smashing At Orel Lines Heavy Fighting Continues Along All Main Fronts; Kharkov Sector Active Factional Conflict Increases In India MOSCOW, March 21.-(P)-"Tens of well-trained divisions," drilled and equipped on the vast plains of Siberia, awaited the command tonight that would send them into the front lines to lend added power to the Russian offensive driving forward relentless- ly in the north, the center and the south. A dispatch from Siberia indicated these were several hundred thous- and troops drawn from the Soviet's still untapped reserves of manpower. The sharpest spearhead of the Red Army drive, according to latest re- ports to the army newspaper Red Star, now is aimed at Orel, one of the principal German strong points 200 miles south and slightly west of Mos- cow which fell before the Nazi invad- ers last Oct. 8. Thrust Near Orel Red Star located this thrust within 35 miles of Orel from the north and east, for it declared the advancing Russians had captured a German- designated mayor of Krenin County in the Mtsensk district. Mtsensk it- self is 33 miles from Orel. (The BBC, as heard in New York by CBS, quoted Moscow radio reports' that the Red Armies were attacking six German divisions holding forti- fied villages around Kharkov, the great steel center, and that 85 miles beyond Kharkov to the west a fierce battle was raging for possession of a Nazi-built supply base at Poltava. This railway junction lies 60 miles ybove Jhe Dnieper River.) At the same time Soviet guerrillas were said to be striking in force at Nazi troops withdrawing in the sec- tor around Bryansk, another an- chor of the German winter line 80 miles almost due west of Orel. Indian Political Factionis Await Cripps' Arrival BOMBAY, March 21. --(IP)- Four main political factions of controversy- ridden India sharpened their differ- ences today in tensetexpectation of the arrival of Sir Stafford Cripps, Britain's special envoy, and his plan for the country's future. For the last 10 days, Cripps' mis. sion, at the special request of Prime Minister Churchill has been the prin- cipal subject of discussion in political circles. This has now finally emerged into a clear sharpening of differences between four main groups with which Cripps will have to negotiate. They are: 1. The Indian National Congress Party under the presidency of Maul- ana Abdul Kalan Azad which claims to be India's only truly national poli- tical organization free from religious discrimination. Moslem League 2. The All-India Moslem League under Mohammed Ali Jinnah. This party pours scorn on the claim of the Congress to be non-sectarian. 3. The Hindu "Mahasabha," pre- sided over by Vinayak Damodar Sa- varkar, comprising the militant Hin- du extremists at variance with the Congress and Moslem League alike. It accuses the Congress of being too lenient toward the Moslems who, Sa- varkar says, are only one-fourth of the total population and must not be allowed to have an influence dispro- portionate with their numbers. 4. The last group is the 600 Indian princes, ranging from all-powerful Nizam of Hydarabad with immense wealth and territory as large as Italy to small land owners with only a few thousand subjects. The princes fear that if the British Indian connection is broken they will ultimately be swept away. Senior Class Fees Are Due Tomorrow Senior dues are payable tomorrow and Tuesday in the lobby of Angell Hall, from 1 to 4 p.m. and on the A int.nn I frnm 0 51A 1n , r4 ,..,- n,, .- . Brett Takes Pacific Air Command Lieut. Gen. George Brett (right), who rates as a combat pilot in the United States Army, laughs over a story with Lieut. Gen. Henry H. Arnold, now chief of all U. S. Army Air Forces. Brett has been an- nounced as commander of all air forces of the United Nations in the Australia-New Zealand area. Senior Committees Announce Ordering Of Booklets, Folders Campus Views, Schedule Of Graduation Events To Feature Publications Seniors of each of the 12 schools and colleges of the University will have the opportunity beginning to- morrow and ending Friday to order their 1942 commencement announce- ment booklets and folders, the class committees in charge of the sale an- nounced yesterday. Early Orders Urged Because these booklets take nearly a month to be made up, the commit- tee emphasized that it is important for interested seniors to place their orders early. The booklets, complete with fine leather or cardboard covers, will con- tain five views of campus buildings besides a schedule of the Commence- ment events, a list of the administra- tive officers of each college, a list of the various class officers and com- mittees, and the names of all the candidates for degrees in each of the colleges. One type of booklet will be for the Law School, Medical School, and the School of Dentistry, while the second type will be for all the other colleges. Graduates Listed The folders, which have an excel- lent etching of the Carillon Tower on the front page, are not an invitation to the exercises but an announcement of them, the committee heads said. These booklets and folders will in-3 clude the names of all the persons who have graduated in February and of those who will graduate May 30 and at the conclusion of the summer semester. The committees in charge of the sale will post the times and places of the sale in prominent places in their respective schools and colleges. German Bombers Downed In Malta VALLETTA, Malta, March 21.--(W) --Five enemy bombers and two fight- ers were shot down and four bombers damaged by Malta's anti-airctaft de- fenses and the RAF during several raids yesterday, it was announced to- night. Four of the attacking bombers were shot down as German pilots came in through a murderous screen of anti-aircraft shells during a sus- tained half-hour attack on one of the island's airdromes. British anti-aircraft gunners were credited with bringing down eight of the bombers and two Messer- schmitt 109 fighters, The fighters went north of the island to meet the incoming flights of Germans and picked off four of the new German type fighter-bomb- er, Messerschmitt 110. The Messer- schmitt 110's, slowed by their bomb loads, were easy prey for the British. Wainwright Reports Japs Are Regrouping Armies For New Bataan Attack Gunboat Asheville Latest Navy Loss MELBOURNE, March 21.--)- Gen. Douglas MacArthur swiftly to- day marshaled Allied forces for his rendezvous with destiny on this em- battled continent while planes of his command sank a heavy Japanese cruiser and damaged another in Ra- baul Harbor and the enemy struck back at northwest Australian ports. The heavy Japanese cruiser was sent flaming to the bottom of the New Britain harbor. The damaged cruiser was in addition to one heav- ily battered late Wednesday. The score of Japanese warship and mer- chant vessels sunk or damaged at the approaches to Australia thus was raised to 28. Port Attacked Enemy bombers struck again at the pearl-fishing port of Broome, 600 miles southwest of Darwin, centering their attack on the airport. Some commercial planes were damaged by the 50 bombs dropped and a civilian was killed. Derby, 75 miles southwest of Broome, was attacked for the first time by two bullet spitting Japanese fighters which did no damage. A lone merchant ship survived undam- aged an attack off Darwin by an en- emy plane. The enemy maintained ceaseless reconnaissance. over the vast island of New Guinea, just to the northeast of the mainland, and a heavy Japa- nese bomber Q oP~Port Moresby was dr ven away by anti- aircraft fire. Two Morning Raids Port Moresby, however, had two raids during the morning. Single planes reconnoitered the area per- sistently during the afternoon. (Signs that MacArthur's second steel test was near came fromAxis- inspired sources. The Vichy radio reported "A Japanese squadron is approaching Cape Leewin, the south- west corner of the Australian conti- nent. The fleet is said to be approach- ing the important harbor of Perth.") Renewed Jap Offensive Expected In Philippines WASHINGTON, March 21. -(AP)- Sharp skirmishes took place all along the Bataan front in the Philippine today, and the War Department re- ported signs were that the Japanese were regrouping their forces for re- sumption of the offensive in the"6-11! lands. A communique said Lieut.-Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright reported that the renewed assault appeared probable. Enemy batteries meanwhile con- tinued hammering at the Manila Bay fortifications. All around the islands, the War Department said, Japanese cruisers and destroyers were active, seeking to blockade the unoccupied portions of the Archipelago. Earlier, the War Department re- ported Japanese siege guns were hammering with increased intensity at Manila Bay fortifications. Described by the War Department as "etremely heavy shelling," the fire came from the largest enemy guns yet reported in action, 240 milli- meter, about eight inch, weapons which hurl high explosive missiles of 350 pounds or more. U.S. Gunboat Sunk In Action Off Java WASHINGTON, March 21. -()- The Navy Department announced to- night that the 1,270-ton gunboat Asheville is presumed lost in enemy action south of Java. Her commander was Capt. Ken- neth Mortimer Hoeffel, 48, of Ocon- to, Wis. No word has been received of the personnel on the ship, and all must be presumed lost. The Navy did not announce the number of her personnel, but the Barriger's appointment came from Joseph B. Eastman, director of De- fense Transportation, who received the order from the President. Bar- riger will leave immediately for Peoria with instructions to reinstate, "with certain exceptions," all strikers, East- man said. Wages and working conditions which the government will put into effect on the T.P. and W. will be those existing prior to Dec. 29, when the dispute between the railroad management and rail unions began. L i L 'r } l Good Neighbors To Be Discussed: Prof. W. H. Hobbs To Lecture On 'South America And War' 24 Shoot For Zoot Suits: Student Body Will Go To Polls To Choose 'Best Dressed Man' SCHOLARSH IPS Four more offers of support, an- nounced yesterday by the Dean of Students Office, raised to 16 the num- ber of organizations who have reg- istered promises of cooperation or promises of funds with the Student Bomber-Scholarship Fund. Groups whose support was received Long known as an authority on glacial anticyclone zones, Prof.- Emeritus William H. Hobbs, of the geology department, will speak on a warm-clime topic-"South America and the War"-at 4 p.m. today in the Rackham Lecture Hall, under the auspices of the Committee to Defend America. Representing the Carnegie Endow- ment for International Peace and the University's College of Engineering at the First Pan-American Congres,,r for Mining Engineering and Geology in Santiago, Chile, Professor Hobbs was in a position to observe much of the political transformation in South America in relation to the United States and the Axis powers. Professor Hobbs arrived at Rio at the close of the conference called by the United States to discuss the breaking of relations with Germany and Italy, and traveled by plane th-bnr'hxt Smit h Amerni,,n. iitinor Twenty-four 'men will be on the ballot as the student body goes to the polls tomorrow to vote for Michi- gan's BDMOC. Alphabetically speaking, here are the candidates: Fred Bryan, Walter Bury, Alex Canja, Tom Coffield, Lindly Dean Dick Denyes, Chuck Dillman, Irv- ing Griffel, Claude Hulet, Richard. Jchnston, James Kehoe, Roger Kelley. Norman Kohlenberg, Cary Lan- dis, Art Marin, George McDer- mott, Ralph Mitchell, Richie Raw- don, John Rookus, Don Scott, Bob Shedd, Robert Titus, Keith Wat- son, and Ira Wilson. Voting places for BDMOC will be at University Hall, the first floor of the West Engineering Building, and present a complete line of spring clothes by Ann Arbor merchants. In addition to the regular styles, there will be a very special showing of a few outfits representing only the views of the wearers themselves, and completely disowned by any and all clothiers. O. E. Schoeffler, fashion editor of Esquire, will be on hand to supervise the style show and award the prizes to the winner of the contest. Prizes will consisty ofa complete wardrobe donated by the Van Boven, Wild, Wagner, and Saffel and $ush stores and a gold watch, suitably engraved, presented by Esquire. Coeds Invited Although Zoot Suit Stuff is a dis- play of men's clothes, coeds are spe- PROF.-EMERITUS