Weather it 31r !3a4 Editorial Laval's Return Verifies Vichy Submission . VOL. LU. No. 145 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1942 Z-323 I _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _I_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ PRICE FIVE CENTS 'Social justice' To Be Probed; Tabloid Faces Complete Ban Seditious Material Charges Pressed Against Coughlin Publication May Result - In Barring From Mails Riddle Recommends Postmaster's Action WASHINGTON, April 14. - (P) - Postmaster General Walker tonight ordered a hearing to determine whe- ther Social Justice, a weekly newspa- per founded at Royal Oak, Mich., by Father Charles E. Coughlin should be barred from the mails for alleged seditious statements. Pending the hearing April 29, Walker directed the Postmaster at Royal Oak to withhold the publi- cation from the mails until officials' at Washington determine its avail- ability, a proceeding which it was said would have the effect of barring the tabloid from the mails imme- diately. Walker acted on the recommenda- tion of Attorney General Biddle. He made public an exchange of letters in which Biddle declared that ex- amination of Social Justice since the war began Dec. 7, 1941, made it clear that "it has made a substantial con- tribution to a systematic and un- scrupulous attack on the war effort of our nation, both civilian and mili- tary." Echoes Nazi Line "Social Justice reproduces in this country," the Attorney General said, "the lines of the enemy propaganda war being waged against this coun- try from abroad. The Espionage Act of 1917 is designed to defeat this type, of attack." . Officials said that the Michigan corporation records showed Father Coughlin as one of the original founders of Social Justice. It was added; however, that records do not disclose that any stock in the Social Justice Publishing Company, publishers of the tabloid, is now owned by the priest. The paper lists E. Perrin Schwartz as editor, and Cora Quinlan as secretary-treasurer. Its weekly circulation was estimated at 200,000. Father Coughlin disavowed any connection with Social Justice last July, at that time disclosing that his parents, Thomas J. and Amelia Coughlin, owned the magazine. Founded In 1936 The Michigan Catholic, in an issue of April 2, published a statement by Monsignor Edward J. Hickey, chan- cellor of the Detroit Archdiocese, say- ing that Father Coughlin had with- drawn from responsibility for Social Justice with the issue of May 27, 1940. The publication was founded in 1936. Informed of the Postmaster Gen- eral's action, Father Coughlin de- clared in a statement from the Shrine of the Little Flower at Royal Oak that "the Jews and Communists and New Dealers of America have been characterizing me as a sedi- tionist, a pro-Nazi and a disgrace to the priesthood of the United States." April 'targ' %Will Appear Tomorrow There's a great day coming to- morrow! It's the day when from behind every tree and corner on campus, and from the top of every newsstand Gargoyle's April issue will confront the student body. Offering the most of everything good, the big new magazine has hit all of the aspects of life at the Uni- versity. First on the list is a photo feature comparing the League and Union. The satire will contrast the decorum of the coeds' meeting place with the action of the men's Union. A page of cartoons will appeal to the lighter fancies. The college boyj on campus and in the Army campy . . . the BMOC turned private . . . will be highlighted here. A take-off on the Garg's rival pub- lication, The Daily, will also be feat- ured. All of the outstanding features of the paper. will be dealt with in bold, black print on Garg's pages. Continuing along the line of satire will be an article showing the lounge New Engine Heads JAMES M. EDMUNDS ROBERT SFORZINI * *.* Engine Council Names Heads Group Chooses Edmunds, Poyser And Howerth. Naming James M. Edmunds, '43E, of Toledo, Ohio, president, the En- gineering Council yesterday selected its officers for 1942-43. Others elected to posts were Thom- as A. Poyser, '43E, Milwaukee, Wis., vice-president; Robert A. Sforzini, '43E, Dumont, N.J., treasurer, and Howard J. Howerth, '44E, Detroit, secretary. Edmunds. who is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Triangles and Scabbard and Blade, has served on the Engin- eering Honor Council and the Union staff. Vice-President Poyser is a former member of the Daily business staff. the Interfraternity Council. end th- Technic stiff. fie also belongs o Tnriarngles and Scabbard and Blade. Presidert of the Society of Auto- motive Engineers Sforzini fils c of the most difficuit posts on the Coun cil. Eg ineers Will Select Undergraduates Today Freshman, sophomore and junior engineers will go to the polls today to elect two men from each class to positions as class representatives on the Engineering Council, engineering college student government body. Candidates for the election will be Fred Betzhold, Dick Schoel, Harry Altman and Robert Mott, junior can- didates; Harry Scott, Karl Reed, Bud Burgess, Jack Brown, Allan Gard- ner and Buck Coveney, sophomores; and Don Hafer, Walter Bauer, War- ren Shwayder, Robert Williamson, Stephen Sselby and David Upton, freshman candidates. 'U' Post-War Conference Opens Friday Pres. Ruthven, Kingsley, McMahon Will Keynote - All-Campus Discussion Panels To Be Held Saturday In Union By MURPH SWANDERt University students - many of whom will soon be in the armed forces-will have the opportunity Friday and Saturday at the all-cam- pus Post-War Conference to discuss among themselves and with experts in the field the important question of what kind of world they are fight- ing to establish. The Conference will be keynoted in a general meeting at 8 p.m. Friday in the Rackham Auditorium by President Ruthven, Dr. Francis Mc- Mahon of Notre Dame University and Prof. J. Donald Kingsley of An- tioch College. Dr. McMahon, who has frequently been the object of fierce attacks by FatherhCoughlin's "SocialaJustice," has for years taken an active part in the struggle for democracy. In addi- tion to being one of the founders of Freedom House, he is state chairman of the Indiana Fight For Freedom Committee and vice-president of the Catholic Association for Internation- al Peace. Professor Kingsley, editor of the Antioch Review, is also an author and speaker of national note. His talk here Friday will concern itself with "The Strategy of the War and the Peace." It will be somewhat in the same vein as his recent book, 'The Strategy of Democracy." The three discussion panels of the Conference are scheduled to begin at 2 p.m. in the Union and will deal with economic, political and sociolog- ical problems of the post-war world. The discussions-to be directed by a qualified graduate student in each field-will emphasize student ideas. Although faculty men are to be pres- ent, they will serve only in an advis- ory capacity. Art Cinema Gives Fund 200 Tickets "The Man Who Seeks the Truth" and "Night Mail," with W. H. Auden of the English department as special commentator, will be shown by the Art Cinema League at 8:15 p.m. to- morrow, Friday and Saturday in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. The League has allocated 200 tick- ets for tomorrow's performance to the Bomber Scholarship fund. These tickets are being sold on campus and at the League Union and Wahr's bookstore. Holders of tickets to the recent spring series are entitled to attend tomorrow's showing without charge. "The Man Who Seeks the Truth" stars the famous French actor Rai- mu, acclaimed in the movie, "The Baker's Wife." In addition, a color cartoon and "Night Train," a movie of the carrying of the mail from Scotland to Ireland during the night, will be included in the program. Brooks Gets Illinois Nod CHICAGO, April 14.-UP)-Repub- lican Senator C. Wayland Brooks swept to renomination tonight in the Illinois primary election while Con- gressman Raymond S. McKeough won the Democratic Senatorial nom- ination. As Pierre Laval Rises Jap Drive Threatens Burmese Oil V Invaders Stand 20 Miles From Central Burma As India Crisis Looms Filipinos Ambush Jap Truck Column LONDON, April 14.-(A-The Jap- anese invaders, slowly beating back both anchors of the Allied line, stood tonight only 20-odd miles from the fringes of the centr'al Burma oil fields and as the crisis approached in that campaign for outer India the pow- erful counter-action of American and British airmen formed the one bright spot amid the general and increas- ing gloom. Successive communiques from New Delhi reported that RAF bombers raiding the enemy-held Andaman Is- lands-the presumed base in the Bay of Bengal for part of the vast Japa- nese naval concentration now aprowl in those waters on India's flank-had destroyed or put out of action 13 enemy flying boats, and related other successful Allied actions. In one of these, America volunteer group fliers turned into a minor dis- aster for the invader his attempt to assault an Allied airdrome in the Shan states of northeastern Burma, for when the fighting was over seven enemy planes had gone down under fierce American attack. Other American airmen destroyed three Japanese bombers without loss to themselves in an attack on grounded enemy aircraft at the Toungoo Airdrome. Jap Column Ambushed In Philippine Sortie WASHINGTON, April 14. -(P)- The .rmy reported today that an American-Filipino raiding party had ambushed a Japanese truck column on the Island of Mindanao and in- flicted heavy casualties with no losses to itself. At the same time, it said small bodies of troops in northern Luzon had conducted successful raids against "lightly held enemy positions in the mountains." Luzon is the principle Philippine Island, on which is located Manila and Bataan Pen- insula. Mindanao is far to the South. The Army communique also dis- closed that an American motor tor- pedo boat which sank an enemy cruis- er near the central Island of Cebu last week ran a gauntlet of enemy tire to do so but escaped unscathed. Repeated salvos were fired by a de- stroyer which attempted to come to the rescue of the cruiser. The raids in northern Luzon brought to four the number of points at which the Japanese are still meet- ing vigorous resistance in the Phil- ippines. The communique told of continued artillery battles between the island fort of Corregidor and enemy guns ashore. An early-day communique had dis- closed that fighting continued on Cebu, with defending forces heavily outnumbered but offering a stubborn resistance. SSuslai viciuskas Assumes Alias DETROIT, April 14-UP)-Stanis- lawas Suslawiciuskas, 46, of 1315 S. State, Ann Arbor, pleaded guilty before U.S. Commissioner J. Stan- ley Hurd today to using an as- sumed name in registering under the Selective Service Act last Feb- ruary. Suslawiciuskas said he was 45 years old when he registered as Students Charged With Police Car Theft Now Deny Their Guilt, Coed Released On $500 Bail While Accomplice Stays In Jail For Merry Ride To Ypsilanti 0 A pert, blonde University coed was free on $500 bail and her boyfriend partner in a bizarre midnight esca- pade remained in jail here today while police are trying to decide if it was just a college prank that made two students steal a police squad car and take a merry ride to Ypsilanti. The two Detroiters, Helen Neuberg, '43Ed, and Richard R. Stofflett, '43E, were bound to a circuit court trial after waiving examination in the Justice Court of Jay H. Payne on charges of unlawfully driving away in a stolen car. Stories Conflict Confronted with conflicting stories, police are trying to ascertain why Stofflet was carrying a .25 calibre gun and how he shot himself in the hand. Police reported that the couple lured a squad car to Miss Neuberg's apartment on Jefferson street at 11 p.m. Monday with a phone call ask- ing for assistance in handling a "drunk." The car was found abandoned in Ypsilanti 20 minutes later. Police, who watched Miss Neuberg's apart- ment, arrested Stofflett at 1 a.m. when he returned on foot. Miss Neu- berg was taken into custody shortly afterwards. Following their arrest Miss Neu- berg signed a statement attesting that they had driven to Ypsilanti via Huron River Drive and abandoned the car because they were being fol- lowed. Refutes Story By yesterday noon Miss Neuberg denied to reporters that her story of the night before was true. She told a Daily reporter that both she and Stofflett would plead not guilty. Stofflett was carrying the gun, she explained, to protect them when they hitch-hiked back from Ypsilanti. She later said that they didn't even go to Ypsilanti, but "drove around Ann Arbor." Stofflett claimed he had shot him- Meyer To Discuss 5th Column Today Frank Meyer, Chicago Workers School professor, will discuss "Amer- ica's "Fifth Column" at 8:30 p.m. to- day in Room D, Haven Hall, under the sponsorship of the Karl Marx Society, it was announced by Robert Chapman, '43. Meyer is a noted authority on American history and an outstand- ing Marxist scholar. He spoke before the Karl Marx Society two years ago. He will attempt to point out the traitorous element in our society and show how their work is similar to that of the Copperheads, Tories and others who have attempted to be- tray the nation in times of war. He will speak of the significance of the arrest of William D. Pelley and of the necessity for curbing such men as Coughlin and Dies. Vichy-U.S.Near Diplomatic Break self when the gun accidentally dis- charged in the hallway outside of Miss Neuberg's apartment. He said that he didn't know why he was carrying it. Sheriff John L. Osborn said that their trial probably would come up "early in May." Judge George Sam- ple's Circuit Court is not in session this week. If the two are convicted of the felonious charge of unlawfully driv- ing away an automobile, they will also be subject to disciplinary action by the University for violating the Re- gential auto ban. Police said that they understood that Mr. Alex Neuberg, the girl's fa- ther, had withdrawn her from school after he furnished the $500 cash bail. Five Veterans To Lead Nine In First Clash Midshipmen Have But Strong Ball To TestVarsity By HAL WILSON To Power; Green Team Squad (special to The Daily) ANNAPOLIS, Md., April 15-Mich- igan's rambling baseball team will open its 1942 campaign against a strong Naval Academy diamond crew here this afternoon in the initial clash of an abbreviated four-game southern tour. Hard-hit by the stepped-up de- mand for trained naval officers and the resultant accelerated academic program, the Midshipmen will field a green albeit powerful combination which has taken easy victories from Dartmouth, Vermont and Temple while dropping one decision to Har- vard, 15-4. A quintet of veterans who will man starting posts plus a crop of promis- ing sophomores are expected to gen- erate most of the power in the Wol- verines' quest for a successful south- ern invasion and a second consecu- tive Western Conference baseball crown. Last year Coach Ray Fisher's out- fit took six out of eight in Dixie be- fore returning north to continue its victory surge against Big Ten oppo- sition. The elimination of spring va- cation by University scholastic offi- cials this year, however, has forced Fisher to halve his training schedule. A four-car caravan arrived here early this morning and the group will move on to Maryland, Virginia and Georgetown in successive days after this afternoon's tilt. The bulk of Coach Fisher's atten- tion in Wolverine practice drills has been centered upon his mound corps which was so riddled by graduation and national defense that not a sin- gle veteran is currently on hand. The Turn to Page 3, Col. 2 Pro-Nazi Laval Is Named 'Chief Of Government'; Full Cllaboration Seen U.S. Is Denounced For Diplomatic Act BERN, Switzerland, April 14.-(P) -The Vichy Government with pro- German Pierre Laval back in power, was near a diplomatic rupture with the United States tonight after an- grily rejecting an American note ac- cording recognition to Free French rule in Africa, which is one of the war's strategic theatres. An announcement by Marshal Pe- tain's regime indicated that British- hating Laval would be given a promi- nent post in a reorganized govern- ment, and DNB reported from Paris that he would be'come "chief of the government" with Petain remaining as "chief of state" and VicePremier Admiral Jean Darlan becoming "suc- cessor-designate" to Petain. Thus Laval, it is believed here, would be the real power in Vichy which thus far has not risked all-out collaboration with Germany. No Compromise In such an event, foreign observ- ers generally took for granted that there could be no compromise by which the United States would con- tinue to recognize a government at Vichy with Laval urging a program of full collaboration with Germany. Perhaps the first practical result of such collaboration was an an- nouncement in Berlin tonight of the opening of a French labor office to handle French civil workers and also war prisoners to speed the Nazi war production. It was obvious that 'some French officials in Vichy were angered by Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles' reference to "that handful of Frenchmen who under the guise Of 'collaboration,' attempted to pros- titute their country to that very re- ime in Germany which is bent upon nothing less than the permanent en- :lavement of France." Pressure Hard Laval undoubtedly is one of the handful" referred to, and foreign 'bservers here believed that these >oints were due for action because of Laval's emergence: German pressure obviously com- ^elled Marshal Petain to make way or Laval in a series of conferences xhich had gone on since Saturday. The new government will be an- aounced Thursday. Petain's function in the reorgan- ized administration will be more sym- oolic than ever, limited probably to presiding at meetings of the Coun- -l of Ministers while Laval, as active nead of the government, directs the expected moves toward French-Ger- :ian collaboration, these sources fore- cast. The position Darlan will assume has not been announced, although his present title of Vice-Premier is expected to be abolished. He may retain his post as foreign minister or he may continue to command all of France's armed forces. Vichy Denounces U.S. For Sending Diplomat VICHY, France, April .14.-R)- The Vichy French government to- night angrily rejected the United States' outline of its reasons for send- ing a consul-general to Free French Brazzaville in equatorial1Africa, fin- ally issuing a previously withdrawn statement denouncing the American position. This statement, which had been urgently recalled after it first had been issued in the afternoon, referred to the American note as "injurious" - this by official translation - but some thought that under all the cir- cumstances the translation "insult- ing" would be more nearly accurate. It was for the second time released for publication some hours after it had been cancelled by the authorities. Six Students Participate In SpeechContest Finals Six members of the Speech 32 Forget The Folderol: Wartime Health Problem Laid At Public Doorstep By Emerson His Muscles Are Like Knots: May Favors Dynamite-Packed Calesthenics Program For Men By MORT MINTZ Turning a deaf ear to the "fol- derol" welding economic conditions to disease, Dr. Haven Emerson, pub- lic health authority, last night heap- ed bountiful advice upon a nation facing the problem of health in war- time, contending: Certain diseases, such as tubercu- losis, can and will be cleaned out by medical science long before econo- mists, sociologists and politicians "have even defined their terms and agreed upon a blueprint for their Utopia." The causeso f draftee reections re- health, "but rather our way of life in the non-working hours, our self- drugging, our alcoholization, our vi- carious excitement of the bleachers and the ringside seat, as substitutes for the recreation of the body and mind that comes from active per- sonal participation in games, sports and avocations." The great majority of all days of workmen's absences are due to con- ditions and habits of life created by the men and their families elsewhere than in the shop or factory. The War Board lecturer, a visiting orofessor on leave from Columbia e4 Robert E. Land with Wayne County Doc May, the spry, 69-year-old Draft Board No. 55 in Dearborn. gentleman who has been putting He reregistered later with Ann Ar- freshmen through Indian club drills bor Board No. 1 as Stanley Sus- for the past 41 years, thinks that a ler. good stiff calisthenics hardening pro- He was taken into custody when gram-packed with dynamite-is just he failed to appear for examina- what the Michigan Man needs. tion. HIe said he registered under Rumors put it that both the U.S. the name of Susler since that was Navy and the University War Board the name on a birth certificate want to set up a strenuous physical which he had obtained to gain education here, and Dr. George A. employment at the Ford Motor May, who still puts himself through Company's Willow Run bomber a thrice-weekly gym workout, can't plant. think of anything better. "I'd like to put these Michigan men f1 f1 ... T T.l1r through some tough one-and-one- that they're purely recreational-it's got to be what you should do, not what you want to do!" "And it isn't 'hardening' unless you do it three or four times a week. It's too bad," he added, "that it took a, war to bring out the importance of developmental sports. This should start when the boys are growing in junior high school. You can't exer- cise by seasons, you know, it's a year around job." Whatever compulsory physical training program is decided upon, Dr.