THE MICHIGAN DAILY TM Allies Discredit Balkans' Peace Feelers RHODES SCHOLAR: i "V JAG Tells of English Reactions to Total War 4 Women in Play Production Also Handle Stage Coeds Have Complete Charge of Properties, Lighting, Costuming Backstage at the Lydia Mendels- sohn Theatre is a strange place these days. For the first time in the history of Play Production women have com- plete charge of everything - from lighting to costumes to moving furni- ture. In fact, there isn't a man in the whole show. "Brief Music," which opens today, has a lot of problems that would daunt less ambitious coeds, Prof. Val- entine Windt, director of the play, said. "These girls surprised even me; they've cooperated beautifully and are doing a good job." For instance, on the lighting crew, which formerly was strictly a man's domain, there are three women. Not only are they responsible for the house lights, but they climb ladders to change the gelatins for different scenes. They even crawl along the "catwalk" above the balcony to set the lights for the show. Then there is the properties crew. This college drama presented a very special problem. The girls had to gather more than 100 different items -including rag dolls, books, college pennants, pictures (which were made from magazines), and sofa pillows. Even the stage manager is a wo- man-which is something unusual in the theatre, Mr. Windt said. Her job is to act as a kind of coordinator of lights, sound effects, props and actors. Yarn Needed By War Council Donations To Be Used in Recreational Work "Still more yarns are needed for the Rehabilitation Program," an-' nounced Monna Heath ,'44, president of Women's War Council, yesterday. These yarns, collected from the coeds, will be used in the hospitals in the Occupational Therapy classes. A box has been placed in the Under- graduate Office of the League for the yarns. Any color or weight is usable, and wool-and-rayon mixtures may also be contributed. As this drive is pri- marily for those unused scraps of yarn, no piece will be considered too small. It is asked that the yarn be knotted together and rolled up into a ball before placing it in the box in the League. However, if some women wish to contribute new yarn, it will be grate- fully received. In this case, the yarn need not be rolled up, but may be left in the original skeins. County Officer Now Is Paid $1I-a-NMouthu Charles H. Hemingway, county probation officer, is today in some- what better shape than the prover- bial $1-a-year man, inasmuch as Washtenaw supervisors, in a unani- mous vote yesterday, raised his sal- ary to $1 a month. Yesterday's drastic action was the culmination of months of bickering by the board over the "methods of operation" of Mr. Hemingway, de- spite the high praise he received from Circuit Judge George W. Sam- ple and other county officials. Be- cause the supervisors have no control of the office other than the matter of salary this was their only means of assertion. The board objected to Hemingway having a full time job (at the Bomb- er Plant) and acting as probation officer at the same time. Both Judge Sample and Hemingway have planned no immediate action, it was learned today. War Workers Killed in Crash J ( C 1 7 1 A Dr. Gsovski To Give Lecture On Soviet Law Foreign Law Expert To Discuss Russian Concept of Ownership Doctor Vladimir Gsovski will give a lecture on "The Concept of Own- ership in Soviet Law" at 3:15 p.m. tomorrow in Rm. 120 of Hutchins Hall. Doctor Gsovski is Associate Li- brarian, in charge of Foreign Law, at the Library of Congress. He stud- ied law in Germany in 1910-1911, and was graduated from the Law School of the University of Moscow in 1914, and from the Law School of Komensky University, in Czecho- slovakia, in 1926, magna cum laude. He received the degree of Ph.D. in Political Science from Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in 1935. He was formerly acting judge in Russia, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia, and Professor of Russian Language and Area Studies at Georgetown University. Doctor Gsovski is the author of "The Soviet Concept of Law," 1938, "Roman Law and the Polish Jurists," 1943, and many other articles and books printed in America and abroad, in various languages, on points of foreign law and Russian law in par- ticular. He is now engaged in the prepara- tion of a translation of the Soviet Code, under the auspices of the Law School. The lecture, which is open to the public, will not be technical in nature but it will be designed to afford a general view of property concepts in the Soviet Republic. Russia.... (Continued from Page 1) Candidate Emerson G. Spies, af member of the 4th OC class at thes Judge Advocate General School, wont a Rhodes scholarship in 1936 at Ho- bart College and attended Oxfordr University for his legal training, re- ceiving BAJ and BCL degrees. While he was studying in England he had six week vacations at Christ-t mas and Easter, at which time he3 had a chance to travel in many of1 the European countries. Candidate3 Spies was in Germany in 1936 and 1937. He said that it was obvious1 that they were arming to the teeth and that even then every third man was in military service. Visits Italians, French in '36 When he visited Italy and France at about the same time he found the people still living much as they had been for many years past. In Eng- land this was even more true. Candidate Spies noted that in England after Munich the people seemed to be awakened and that once the war seemed inevitable prep--{ arations were stepped up consider- ably. He said that the thing was to be noted that the English were all rec- onciled to war and once war seemed inevitable everybody, married men as well as single, took it for granted that they would have to do their part in military operations. English Students Get Gas Masks The students in England were all issued gas masks and given assign- ments in the spring of 1939 in case war should break out while they were there, he said. There is no law school as such in England. The curriculum is divided up into individual instruction by col- lege tutors supplemented by univer- sity lecturers and by considerable in- dividual study. Only 3 Exams Given Candidate Spies said that there were no examinations until after two years at which time students are given comprehensives lasting ten days which cover all the work that Eleven war workers were killed when their plant-bound bus over- turned and burned after colliding with a truck and its trailer at Camp- bell, N.Y. Eight other occupants of the bus were injured. Above is the charred wrecked bus after the accident. Rods in foreground are from the wrecker preparing to remove the remains .of the bus. HOMECOMING: U Gd e Explains Life, Training Program of WAVES far. At the end of three years tests are given which cover all the work taken up in the past three years. Oral examinations before a board are also given and then the student is marked entirely on the basis of these examinations. Candidate Spies returned to this country in 1939, one month before the war broke out. He taught two years at the University of Chicago law school and practiced for two years in Mudge, Stern, Williams and Tucker law firm in New York City before entering the Army. Hours Change For Surgical Dressing Unit Today is the last day that volun- teers may work at the League Surgi- cal Dressings Unit between the hours of 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. before the holi- days; Friday the rooms will be open from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. As the League rooms will be closed for the vacation period, all rn Arbor women are asked to work at the Rackham Buildingfrom 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday and Friday. "Remember that the fighting, men are getting no holidays," Jean Whit- temore, head of the Unit, said yes- terday, "and that your hours spent in this work are a direct present. to the armed forces." Medical Society Chooses President Dr. W. E. Forsythe, director of the Health Service, was chosen piesi- dent-elect of the Washtenaw County Medical Society at its monthly meet- ing Tuesday night. Dr. Richard Freyberg, elected ti that office a year ago, now becomes president. OPA Investigates Gasoline Black Market in Michigan DETROIT, Dec. 15.-P)--The Of- fice of Price Administration is invest tigating an extensive gasoline black market operating in Michigan with stolen and counterfeit coupons, Fred W. Lindbloom, district OPA ehforce ment attorney, said today. He said the black market was'op. erated by a highly organized gang with a "certain central gathering ani distributing agency. Ensign Sarah Corwin Lehman, who graduated from the University last May and enlisted in the WAVES im- mediately after graduation, spent yes- terday in Ann Arbor on her way to Washington, D.C., where she will re- port for a new assignment. Although she admitted that life in the WAVES was much more difficult than college had been, Ensign Leh- man was very enthusiastic about her new occupation. "I love the Navy. At first when I started my basic training, I felt that I was just learn- ing about some one else's Navy. Sud- denly I began to realize that I actual- ly was a part of the Navy. It certain- ly is a wonderful feeling," explained Ensign Lehman. Attended Smith College After her enlistment, Ensign Leh- man spent two months at Smith Col- lege where she received her basic indoctrination. The courses at Smith WAVES Will le at League Ensign Jean Courtney and SP. (R) 3/c Harriet Simonson will be station- ed from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and tomorrow in the Grand Rapids Room of the League to answer questions concerning the WAVES. The two Naval recruiting officers want particularly to talk with Uni- versity women who will be graduated in February. They have chosen this time to come so that those women interested in enlisting in the WAVES may have an opportunity to talk it over with their parents during the Christmas holidays. Co. E. Will Hold Party rlloinor~r~ow included: Naval organization, history, personnel, Naval correspondence and law, and ships and aircraft. A course in ships and aircraft was the favorite subject, according to Ensign Lehman. The women learned how to identify all the various ships and aircraft in this course. After successful completion of her course at Smith, Ensign Lehman was sent to Mount Holyoke College for her advanced specialist training in communications. The WAVES train- ed with officers of the Marines and SPARs there. "While we were at school, we led very rigid lives. We were up at 6:25 every morning and in bed promptly at 10 p.m. We spent eight hours in class every day. It's a lot tougher than college ever was; but it's more satisfying, too," Ensign Lerman said. WAVE Does Man-Sized Job University graduates are eligible to enlist in the V-9 program which. is for officer candidates; women with- out a college education are eligible for the V-10 program and after six months in the ranks may apply for officers' training. "Every WAVE takes over a man's place and does a man-sized job. She may be assigned to duty anywhere in the continental United States. To be stationed at an air base is the ambition of most women. A WAVE does not select the base where she will be stationed; but her request for service in a particular place will be given consideration as long as it does not conflict with the needs of the Navy or Coast Guard," continued En- sign Lehman. Long Vacation Set for State EAST LANSING, Dec. 15.-(P)- Robert S. Linton, Registrar at Michi- gan State College, announced today, that Christmas vacation for civilian students will begin Friday noon and end Jan. 3, when registration for the winter term will begin. Col. Grober B. Egger, Comman- dant, said that men in the Army Specialized Training Program will have Christmas Day off-duty and will be granted seven-day furloughs Jan. 1. an important communications hub on the north-south railway in the Dnie- per bend. From Berlin came reports of two Soviet drives which may prove the most significant operations now und- erway on the long Russian front. For the second day the Russians attacked with perhaps 60,000 men and three tank brigades in the area south of Nevel where the Red Army was but 70 miles from the Latvian border, a Nazi broadcast said. The Germans admitted 16 waves of attack in one sector and conceded some bteaches made in their lines. These, they said, were "sealed off." W ~alkout.. (Continued from Page 1) I just can't see a nationwide railroad strike." The railroads will be represented by the same committee which served during the wage negotiations. Joseph B. Eastman, Director of the Office of Defense Transportation, de- clared, "I cannot and will not believe railroad workers will resort to a strike and stop transportation." Union Registration Will Begin Today Union offices will be open for reg- istration daily from 3 to 5 p.m. be- ginning today and running through next Wednesday, Bill Wood, chair- man of the Union administrative committee, announced yesterday. Wood emphasized that it is neces- sary to have a Union card to take advantage of facilities such as the swimming pool, bowling alleys, bil- liards and the Pendleton Library. F SCINATION International Club Chooses Relations Officers The International Relations Club at a meeting at 8 p.m. yesterday elec- ted Fred Hoffman, '44, president, and Marj Borradaile, '44, secretary-treas- urer. New members were voted in, and it was decided that the club will meet monthly to discuss current problems of international interest. Look your loveliest for him this this Christmai in a new formal .. SIZES 9-18 from t I lfi Moths are destructive. They can ruin a good wool suit or dress overnight. But there's another pest more insidious 1111 I L I. 11111 I I