- - -~ Weather Continued Cola. Jt AtP iaii4 Editorial British Shake-Up Should Be Extended ... VOL. LM. No. 101 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1942 Z-323 PRICE FIVE CENTS Fireside Chat To Lay Stress On War Effect On All In U.S. Stimson Declares Attacks On Cities Are Possible; U.S. Army Protection Can Not Be Extended New Expenditures Are Authorized WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. -()- President Roosevelt's Monday night radio speech is to give a picture of a world at War, the White House said today, and will endeavor to show the effect of battles fought thousands of miles away upon each little American community. In addition, said Stephen Early, the President's secretary, "it will be made very clear that the oceans on each of our coast lines are no longer the saviors or the protection of the country they were said to be by some not so long ago." This statement followed assertions by both the Chief Executive and Secretary of War Stimson that at- tacks ,on American cities and towns were not unexpected. Stimson said protection could not be given be- cause the nation's forces must be massed for the offensive, not scat- tered and weakened. Meanwhile, the War Production Board published figures giving the total of authorized war expenditures, plus war funds requested of Con- gress, as $145,000,000,000, a figure only a little less than the total na- tional income in the years 1939 and 1940. At the same time, with a $32,070,- 901,900 Army-Navy appropriation bill before it, a Senate appropriations sub-committee heard Robert P. Pat- terson, Undersecretary of War, testi- fy on the actual progress of the arm- ament program. Committeemen said afterward that Patterson gave such an encouraging report that it "amazed" them. "They've really gone to work on the bottlenecks and they're moving heaven and earth to turn out the materials," said Senator Thomas (Dem.-Okla.), Bothered by a slight cold, Mr. Roosevelt remained in his quarters at the White House proper today. Bishop Hob son To Speak Here Veteran To Offer Plans For War Cooperation A leader in the fight for united democratic cooperation in the post- war world, the Rt. Rev. Henry W. Hobson will discuss "America At War" before a Committee To Defend America rally at 4:15 p.m. Monday in Rackham Lecture Hall. Bishop Hobson, head of the Dio- cese of Southern Ohio, has served America both in his church and on the battlefields of St. Mihiel, Thia- court, and the Meuse-Argonne. In 1918 he was awarded the Distin- guished Service Cross for "extra- ordinary heroism in action." Past chairman of the national For- ward Movement of the Episcopal Church, Bishop Hobson has been a powerful backer of a more unified Christian religion. As part of his Ohio "missionary" work, he intro- duced the Wayside Cathedral, a "church on wheels" for isolated areas. Bishop Hobson's record in this war shows an unflagging support for the Allies' cause and the principles of internationalism. In recent months he has contributed much time and effort to this movement. Bishop Robson will be the fourth speaker in the CDA's 1941-42 series which has already represented labor- ite, economic, political, and scientific views on the present struggle. Physics Group To Meet Today Convening here after its opening session in Detroit yesterday, the 247th regular meeting of the American Physical Society will hear six papers and an infra-red ray symposium at 10 a.m. and 1:45 p.m. today in the Rackham Amphitheatre. Yale Favored In Vital Swimming Meet Today National Breaststroke Champ Jim Skinner.. . Mann Relies On Him .4 * * * By BUD HENDEL Michigan and Yale, with the nation's sports spotlight thrown full upon them, will hit the Sports Building Pool's waters together at 8 p.m. today to wage war in the greatest dual swimming meet of a decade. And Michigan's war drums are pounding out their battle message, calling forth every ounce of Michigan effort to hurl back the foremost threat to ever face the power-laden Maize and Blue aggregation. For mighty Yale, possessors of the most indominatable season's record of any team in the nation, with eight overwhelming triumphs General admission tickets for tonight's swimming meet with Yalel will go on sale at 6:30 p.m. in the Sports Building. Students will be admitted for the reduced fee of 40 cents upon the presenta- tion of an ideiltification card. and a galaxy of records to its credit, will throw its full strength into the fray in an attempt to unseat the Wolverines from the throne of the swimming world. Tonight, for the first time since 1938, a Michigan swimming team will enter the water in the unfamiliar role of the underdog. The last time was four years ago against Ohio State when the Buckeyes swamped he Wolverines, an occasion dutifully recorded in the official archives to mark the last dual meet defeat suffered by the Maize and Blue color- bearers. Since then the Wolverines have crushed opponent after opponent (Continued on Page 3) MihianScorf esUpset WinOver Irish,'546 Pee-Wee Sub Sinks Vessel OffVirginia 46 Crew Members Saved As Brazilian Freighter Falls Victim To U-Boat Captain Says 34 Shells Rake Ship NORFOLK, Va., Feb. 20.-)P- Shelled into a battered, flaming wreck, the Brazilian freighter Olinda was sunk off the Atlantic coast Wed- nesday afternoon by an Axis sub- marine described by the ship's crew as "pocket size" and as being too small to have crossed the Atlantic Ocean without refueling. The Fifth Naval District announ- ced the sinking of the 4,080 ton ship today after the 46 crew members were landed here by a rescue vessel which picked them up after 20 hours afloat in two life boats. Captain Jacob Benemond, one of 23 men aboard the Olinda who were admitted to the U. S. Marine Hospital at Norfolk for treatment for expos- ure, said the submarine opened fire on the Olinda at a distance of about a mile and a half. The captain said about 14 shells were fired at the ship before the crew abandoned the vessel, and that the submersible then circled the Olinda and fired about 20 more shells at the ship. The captain said he thought' the freighter also was torpedoed, but he was not sure. Suffering from wind-burned eyes and swollen feet, the captain related that the first shell hit the antenna, making it impossible for the radio operator to send calls for assistance. The second shell hit the engine room and the third hit the forecastle. The engines were stopped when the first shells struck the ship, and a general alarm was sounded. The crew quickly took to the life- boats and the submarine, which had approached to within a quarter of a mile of the Olinda ordered the cap- tain and the radio operator to come aboard. Germany May Pay Post WTar Debts In Labor David Nichol Would Use Great Productive Ability For Rebuilding Eu rope By HOMER SWANDER Urging that Germany be allowed to pay her post-war debts in the form of labor to rebuild Europe, David Nichol, former Daily news editor and until irecently Berlin correspondent of the Chicago Daily News, asserted in an interview yesterday that while the Germans will possess no money or materials of sufficient value after the war, they will still have some of the world's finest scientists, techni- cians and engineers. "Every supply, every resource-the whole economy of Europe-has been? siphoned away to support the Nazi army and the Nazi economy," Nich- ol said. "A Hitler defeat will thus remove the only value that now exists on the continent-German promises- to-pay and German-backed cur- rency." Utilize German Capacity The well-known correspondent pointed out that these promises-to- pay must be made good if a complete collapse of Europe is to be avoided. "And the best way to do this," he said, "is to utilize the proved German capacity to produce. Why shouldn't we make the repayments in terms of labor?" "We should take the medals and the uniforms off the men in the Nazi army and put them to work rebuild- ing the Europe which they have torn down. The supplies and materials," he added. "would necessarily have to be provided by the Allies."~ He also explained that to make such a plan workable, there would have to be an immediate freezing of the entire continental economy, in- cluding a moratorium on debts. This condition would have to be main- tained until a complete solution had been worked out. No Written Peace "The period of repayment," Nichol emphasized, "should be merely an armistice with no written peace. One of the things which contributed to the failure of last time was that the Japanese As Battle Opens In Bali; Belin DefenseDesperate Gosho,, Alleged Draft Dodger, Faces Action By Grand Jury * * * * Lewis Gosho, a natural-born American citizel of Japanese par- entage, who was arrested here by FBI agents as an alleged draft dodger, is shown on the right, handcuffed to Richard Roenicke of Detroit, a German-born engineer, who allegedly failed to register as an alien. Gosho, as a conscientious objector, stated: "I cannot compromise with my conscience." * *; * * Threaten Java Former University Stude Can Get Three To Fi Thirty-three-year-old Lewis Gosho, former University of Michigan stu- dent, who was arrested by FBI agents for failing to report for his Selective Service physical examination last June, yesterday issued a statement from Detroit where he is being held for federal grand jury action, facing a three to five year prison sentence. Stating that he is opposed to war and therefore conscription, he said that "to accept the conscription law in entirety or in any part would give my approval to conscription. To avail myself of the provision made for con- scientious ~bbjectors and to accept placement in a Civilian Public Serv- ice Camp under the Selective Service Act would relieve me of the burden of killing but I would be complying with the conscription law and condoning war. Conscription that prohibits a man's right to determine for himself on moral issues violates democracy. I dislike thoroughly having to go to prison but I cannot compromise with my conscience. "I cannot support war or conscrip- tion, an instrument for war. I re- gret, therefore, that I cannot comply ent, NaturalBorn C ve Year Prison Term itizen, with any part of the Selective Service Act." Gosho, whose full name is Yoshi- Hide Lewis Gosho, is a natural-born American citizen of Japanese parent- age. He has .been active in Quaker and Pacifist groups on campus. Since he failed to report for his physical examination he has repeatedly been advised by the local draft board to report, and was questioned by au- thorities two days after Pearl Harbor. Cinema League Series Planned Paul Robeson, noted Negro bari- tone, will play the title role in Eu- gene O'Neill's famous play "Emperor Jones," to open the Art Cinema Lea- gue's spring series at 6:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Sunday in the Lydia Men- delssohn Theatre. "La Maternelle," famed French film, will be the second of the series, and will be shown on March 8. Acclaimed as one of the greatest of Soviet films, "The Thirteen," com- ing on March 15, tells the story of a small group of Red Army men, fight- ing against overwhelming odds in the desert. Alfred Hitchcock, well known to American audiences, will bring "The Lady Vanishes," starring Margaret Lockwood, Paul Lukas, and Michael Redgrave, to conclude the series on April 5. Tickets are on sale at Wahr's and the League. Enemy Landings Endanger Australian - Dutch Frt In ,Portuguese Timor British Chances Believed '50-50' By WILLIAM SMITH WHITE (Associated Press War Editor) The fateful struggle appeared last night to have begun for Java-the last and strongest Dutch East Indies island not yet violated, the only ma- jor base remaining to the Allies in the South Pacific save for menaced Aus- tralia-for the invader had invested Bali and stood across only a mile or so of water from Java itself. It appeared, too, that he had struck at Portuguese-Dutch Timor, to the east and lying to the northwest of the Australian mainland, for Tokyo claimed as much and the Netherlands authorities were without information from that distant strand. On Bali, a hot, shining and aro- matic little dot of sand and coral, a kind of Shangri La to many and one of the most unlikely arenas in all the world for the opening of such a grand test in martial history, the Japanese enemy had won strong beachheads. Ashore his troops were being met by stout Allied resistance and in the air and upon and under the sur- rounding seas Allied planes and war- ships were inflicting heavy casual- ties-but yet he continued to land. In preliminary reports of the running action the Supreme Allied Command announced from General Sir Archibald P. Wavell's headquar- ters on Java that one or more enemy cruisers had been heavily hit, two direct hits had been scored on enemy transports, an enemy cruiser and a,. transport had been hit by lighter bombs and eight near misses had possibly knocked out of action an en- emy destroyer. Delaying Action Still, as had often been the case, it appeared that this was principally another delaying action. Any hope that Bali itself would long stand was improbable, the Dutch Command suggesting as much in announcing that all on the island that could be of value to the enemy already had been destroyed. To Australia, meanwhile, the men- ace raised by the enemy's apparent landing on Timor was no less real, although less imminent, for it cast the Japanese shadow within 400 miles of Port Darwin, the Australian Naval base which on Thursday had been hard hit by Japanese bombers with considerable loss to ships and Aus- tralian planes aground. In Lisbon, the Japanese minister to Portugal announced following a long conference with Prime Minister Antonio de Oliveira Salazar that Jap- anese troops would evacuate Timor "after obtaining their objective" pro- vided Portugal "maintains its neutral attitude." Parliament Meets The Australian Parliament took the extraordinary step of meeting in utter secrecy to discuss the greatest crisis to confront part of the British Commonwealth of Nations since the German aerial offensive on England in 1940. In the Burmese theatre, the Brit- ish were desperately trying to hold line along the western banks of the Bilin River-a line whose fall would drive the defenders back to the Sit- tang River, the last natural defensive area on the approaches to the Ran- goon-Mandalay railway feeding the Burma supply road to China. The British Command reported a long successionofeImperial counter- attacks, and whether the Biln de- fenses would fall seemed about a 50- 50 affair. The one favorable point was that Allied air superiority re- mained manifest. On the Bataan Peninsula of Luzon in the Philippines General Douglas MacArthur's report, given in the U. S. War Department's morning commun- ique, told of positional fighting all along the front and announced that the Japanese were dropping incendi- ary bombs behind the American lines. Rail Traffic Is Held Up By Wreck Near Ypsilanti Alice Lloyd To Head Deans Of Women SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 20.-()L-- The National Association of Deans of Women today reelected Miss Alice C. Lloyd of the University of Michi- gan as president. Miss Ruth Hier of Cleveland was named secretary of the organization. Michigan's Al Thomas nosed out Wolverine Capt. Al Piel and Notre Dame's Jay Gibson in the 60-yard dash in the fast time of 6.4 last night. The Detroit speedster finished just one step ahead of Piel who was appearing in his first meet of the season. By DICK SIMON Michigan's super-charged track team continued to keep the Indian sign on Notre Dame as it scored a stunning 58-46 upset victory over the fighting Irish last night in Yost Field House. For the 13th time in the 14 meetings of the two schools, th Wol- verines, showing strength in every event, dominated the entire meet, taking six firsts, tying for two others and setting new meet marks in the 440-yard and mile relay events. Michigan's Frank McCarthy romped off with scoring honors by piling up 14 points and made life miserable for his fellow Irishmen. The Wolverine husky led the pack in the 65-yard high hurdles, out- jumped the field in the broad jump and then upset the pre-meet dope by tying Notre Dame's great high-jumper, Keith O'Rourke. But it was the all-around balance of the mighty Wolverines which ultimately brought victory. Five of Coach Ken Doherty's heretofore un- heralded cindermen came through with much needed points and pushed the Maize and Blue out in front. Jim Byerly took a third in the high (Continued on Page 3) Cagers1WillFace Iowa (Special to The Daily) IOWA CITY, Ia., Feb. 20.-Michigan's unpredictable basketball team invades the Field House tomorrow night in an attempt to continue its jinx over Iowa teams on the Hawkeye court, this time without Coach Bennie Oosterbaan who was called to Tuscon, Ariz., by the illness of Government Reluctance Causes Delay In Housing At Willow Run (This is the fourth in a series of ar- ticles on Willow Run. It is based on FACTS obtained from real estate com- panies, health authorities and the group of civic-minded local residents which makes up the Ann Arbor Citi- zens' Council. The conclusions reached are the writer's own.) By BOB MANTHO Speed is the over-all consideration down at Willow Run if the swarm of laborers who are pouring into that vital defense area to find work in the huge bomber plant are to be con- trolled and adequately housed-but knotty complications are causing un- necessary delay and the situation threatens to get seriously out of hand unless immediate action is taken. Mainly to blame for the confusion and doubt of responsible local heads is the government's reluctance to step in and take charge-to determine the extent of the housing, to send pro- fessional men who can efficiently ap- praise all facilities and plan in ad- None of this has been done. The result of this waiting to see what the government does before making a move is an unwillingness on the part of local department heads to assume responsibility for the gi- gantic task before them. Thus, they have left themselves wide-open for criticisms of short-sightedness, buck- passing and general impotence. The Ypsilanti Board of Commerce is active in getting interest, aroused for the project and has been from the beginning-but it has met with apa- thy from electoral officials who be- lieve the matter is only "temporary." Lots Investigated The State Defense Council only re- cently began to investigate the lots which have reverted to the state be- cause they were condemned as tax delinquent. The State Planning Board was reorganized a short time ago and George Ross, executive sec- retary, is scheduled for a trip to Washington with 'recommendations.