weather Continued Sultry tY iflfr IAUU ~Iaztbj Editorial Parallel Action' In Japan . Official Publication Of The Summer Session L L. No. 24 Z-323 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, JULY 21, 1940 PRICE FIVE CENTS ___..... FDR Approves 'GreatestFleet Appropriation For 4 Billions Contracts Will Be Given For 200 More Ships ; Ninety NowBeing Built 'Two-Ocean' Navy Due In Six Years WASHINGTON, July 20.-(f)- Prompt action to begin construction of the greatest fleet in world history was promised by the Navy Depart- ment today after President Roose- velt signed a bill authorizing a 70 percent, $4,000,000,000 increase in naval strength. Within the last 40 days, officials pointed out, construction has been started on 92 vessels previously au- thorized, thus clearing the way for immediate negotiations on contracts for the first of the 200 combat ves- sels to be added to the fleet under the new act. Upon cmpletion of those 200 ves- sels, scheduled for 1946 or 1947, the United States will have a "two- ocean" navy of 701 fighting ships of 3,547,700 tons. That record-shattering armada would outweigh today's combined fleets of Great Britain and Japan, the two other principal sea powers. Funds to begin construction of the 200 new vessels were not pro- vided in the bill signed today, but a $178,000,000 appropriation is in- cluded in a $936,176,540 bill on which a House committee is scheduled to commence hearings Monday. Hearings will begin Monday also on President Roosevelt's request of July 10 for $4,848,11,957 in appro- priations and contract authorizations for the army and navy to assure "total defense" for the United States. The Senate Military Committee had hopend to have a compulsory training bill ready to report with the reconvening of Congress after the Democratic convention, but Chairman Sheppard (Dem.-Tex.) said it would be delayed. The committee is engaged in re- drafting the Burke-Wadsworth Bill calling for registration and selective training of all men between 18 and 65 years of age. The revised bill will incorporate changes proposed by the army and navy. Sheppard said it would be ready shortly. Before the naval expansion pro- gram can be pushed to top speed, navy officials said, additional ship construction facilities will have to be provided at both navy and pri- vate yards. It is anticipated that essential elements of the program will be the negotiation of contract without wait- ing for competitive bids, as recently authorized by Congress and the duplication of ships already built or building in order to save time in planning and procurement. Culture Series Opens Fourth Week Of Talks Person Discusses Problem Of Technology's Rise In EconomicSociety Opening the fourth week of lec- tures in the Graduate Study Pro- gram in American Culture and In- - stitutions, Dr. Harlow S. Person, New York economist, will speak at 8:15 p.m. tomorrow in the Rackham School Auditorium on "Technologi- cal Progress in Economic Society." Graduating from the University here in 1899 with a Ph.B. dgree, Dr. Person returned to take his M.A. degree in 1901 and Ph.D. degree in 1902. Between 1902 and 1922, he taught at Dartmouth's Amos Tuck School of Administration and Fi- nance. From 1919 to 1923, Dr. Person was managing director of the Taylor -So- ciety in New York. In 1934 he was a member of the Mississippi Valley Committee, and. from 1934 to 1935 was .acting director of the water planning commission and acting di- rector of the water resources section of the National Resources Board and In Cabinet Yosuke Mtsuoka (above) chief Japanese delegate at League of Na- tions at the time of Japan's with- drawal, is foreign minister in the new Japanese cabinet. The cabi- net is expected to make Japan more totalitarian. Education Aids To Be Shown in Series Here Visual-Sensory Methods Will Be Demonstrated During Week's Program In response to the demand of Summer Session students for demon- stration and application of visual aids, Visual-Sensory Education Week will be held here beginning tomor- row, according to Dr. F. Dean Mc- Clusky, head of Scarborough School and director of the program. Exhibitions of projection and camera equipment will be on +dis- play in the recreation and dark rooms of the University High School all week while daily demonstrations and lectures will be given at 11 a.m. in the Architecture and Elementary School Auditoriums. Dr. McClusky will open the series tomorrow in the Architecture Audi- torium with the showing of slides for classroom use and a discussion of their, utility. Tuesday Mr. J. E. Coffey will dem- onstrate film slides and Dr. McClusky will appraise the value of a sound film shown by Owen Anderson of Bay City. Using a group of elemen- tary children, Miss Rice of Battle Creek will illustrate how nature study may be taught through the use of film on Thursday in the Elementary School. The concluding session of the series will consider unusual uses of visual aids and films in interpreting the school to the community. Excursion To Visit Greenfield Village Greenfield Village in Dearborn will be the destination of the ninth Summer Session excursion, to be held from 1 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. Wednesday. The trip will be an exact duplicate of last Wednesday's and is scheduled for the benefit of those who were unable to go then. Reservations should be made at the Summer Ses- sion office, Room 1213 Angell .Hall, by 5 p.m. Tuesday. Yesterday students and faculty members participating in the eighth excursion of the summer visited the State Prison of Southern Michigan at Jackson, observed prison life and heard talks by prison officials. Second Vesper Today Offers Choral Music Christiansen Will Direct Chorus; Morgan Reads Scripture And Prayer Service To Be Held In Hill Auditorium A mixed chorus under the direc- tion of Prof. Olaf Christ!ansen of Oberlin College will present choral music representative of the past 400 years at the second Vesper Service of the Summer Session at 8 p.m. to- day in Hill Auditorium. Accompanied by Prof. Arthur Pois- ter also of the Oberlin faculty, at the organ, the group will sing a variety of spirituals, carols, oratorio chor- uses, and a Russian liturgy. Kenneth Morgan, director of the Student Religious Association, will give the scripture and prayer. The program arranged by the Uni- versity Musical Society and the Com- mittee on Religious Education, in- cludes : Prelude-Chorale in B Minor.. .Frank Hymn-St. Anne .............. Croft Rejoice And Sing ............. Bach Agnus Del.... .........Morley O Mata Lux de Lumine....... Tallis Deep River ................ Burleigh Cherubim Song.......Tschaikowsky Organ Interlude.......J. S. Bach Christ lag in Todesbanden Ich ruf zu Dir, Herr Jesu Christ The Lord Is A Mighty God.... .......Mendelssohn There Shall Be a Star. .Mendelssohn Three Psalms..........Lockwood Hymn-Dominus Regit Me.... Dykes Postlude................. oister Concert Today Wlle 1Gven By Clinic Band Erik Leidzen Will Conduct 136 High School Music Students At 4:15 P.M. Erik Leidzen, noted Swedish- American composer, will be guest conductor at the second concert of the High School Band Clinic at 4:15 p.m. today in Hill Auditorium. Hitler Launches War Of Words In Effort To Oust British Leaders As England Girds To Hal Invason ~~ ~ ~ *a- Mightiest Army Is Ready Under General Brooke For ComingOnslaught twelve Nazi Planes Downed By English (By The Associated Press) LONDON, July 21 (Sunday).-- Far-ranging Germah air bombers carried on their almost constant at- tacks against England and Wales early today. Some raiders dumped clusters of bombs on two English sectors before they were chased, away. In Northwest England, one person was killed and a number were in- jured by eight . bombs reported dropped by a single plane which flew low over a town. One bomb was said to have hit a school. In Southwest England, several en- emy planes dropped about a dozen bombs, damaging shops and cottages. The Nazi raiders penetrated as far westward as Wales before British fighter planes drove them back. No bombs were reported dropped in Wales, however. A brief communique said "the largest number killed in any locality on any - occasion was 32." Newspa- per records show total casualties during the World War as the result of- air raids to be 857 dead, 2,058 injured. Swarming across Britain's coasts in day-long attacks again today, Nazi raiders kept British anti-air- craft batteries and fighting planes constantly busy resisting one of the As Hitler Gave England 'Last Chance' This picture, sent .by radio from Berlin to New York, shows Adolf Hitler (center) as he addressed the Reichstag and the world, warning Great Britain to withdraw from the conflict or see destruction of heri world empire and terror for millions. Field Marshal Hermann Wil- helm Goering is standing above and behind Hitler. Summer Parley De ba tes 'thnis War1" We Live In' Renews Threats Of Total Destruction In Radio Appeal ToEnglishmen Berlin Continues War Preparations (By The Associated Press) BERLIN, July 20-Germany un- leashed a thunder of words today in an attempt to sway the English peo- ple, over the head of Winston Chur- chill, and get them to end the war. The alternative, Nazi Germany says, is destruction. Radio transmitters dinned Adolf Hitler's "blast appeal to reason" in- to English ears until, as authorized sources put it, every Englishman knows exactly what is in store for him unless he gets rid of "the pluto- cratic ruling clique" which wants to keep on fighting. Repeatedly the English were told that Hitler has no desire to harm either England or her empire. It was suggested that only by getting out from under Churchill's control can England escape the German on- slaught. No Slowing Up There was, moreover, not the slight- est hint either in Hitler's speech or in the words of radio or press that Germany is slowing up one iota in - her preparation for this attack. It is assumed that the whole military and naval machine is ready to go at any time at the Fuehrer's word. No further direct proposal to Eng- land may be expected from Hitler, the authoritative Dienst Ais Deutsch- land said. "The initiative must now come from England," said this commen- tary. "Hitler has not set a time lim- it for the answer from England, but from that fact it cannot be con- cluded that England is able to claim an unlimited period to answer the peace offer." The British press view that Hitler's Reichstag speech of yesterday was "not worth answering" was rejected in Berlin as not the true voice of the British people. Radio Broadcasting With the German radio broadcast- ing English translations of the Hitler speech over and over again, the High Command made it plain there is a much grimmer side to this "realiza- tion" campaign directed at England. Today's communique detailed wide- spread air raids on shipping, harbors, power plants, warehouses and mill- tary positions from South England to Scotland; claimed the sinking of a 5,000-ton merchant ship and dam- age to three other merchantmen and a destroyer, and reported the sink- ing of 24,700 tons of merchant ship- ping by a single U-boat. It took cognizance of new British air raids which "injured several civ- ilians" in Northern and Western Ger- many last night. When the next step will come and of what it will consist, they reiterat- ed, is solely up to Hitler. r severest air offensives of British defense planes down twelve of the aerial the Air Ministry said, and man fighter planes were damaged" attempting toi a British night bombing Germany. the war. brought invaders, two Ger- "severely drive off raid on Composed of 136 high school mu- sicians from all parts 'of the coun- try, the fifth annual Band Clinic is under the direction of Prof. Wil- liam D. Revelli of the School of Mu-- sic. - The program of nine numbers will open with a composition by America's march king, John Phillips Sousa, El Capitan, followed by Komnm Sus- ser Tod by Johann Sebastian Bach. Aladdin's Lamp by Charles O'Neill is the third presentation. Mr. Leidzen will conduct the band in his own composition, Nordic March, a selection constructed en- tirely from Scandinavian themes and depicting the rugged grandeur and1 atmosphere of the North. Floyd St. Clair's latest composi- tion, L'Aiglon, an overture, will re.- ceive its first Ann Arbor performance Sunday, followed by Richard Wag- ner's stirring Invocation of Alberich from Das Reingold. Again, it disclosed, British fliers made their own night forays over German territory Friday, striking at air and naval bases along the coasts of Germany and Nazi-held Holland -potential jumping-off points for invasion of England--and attacking Nazi aircraft factories, oil plants and railroad communications. "What A Life' To Open Here On Wednesday Goldsmith Comedy To Be. Fifth Play In Annual RepertoryGroup Series "What a Life," the Clifford Gold- smith comedy which introduced Henry Aldrich and his high school adventures. will open Wednesday night in Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre as the fifth production of the Mich- igan Repertory Players this summer. Succeeding performances will be given at 8:30 Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. Mrs. Claribel Baird, a guest direc- tor of the Players this summer, will direct the play. Mrs. Baird is head of the speech faculty at Oklahoma College for Women and has been assistant to Prof. Valentine B. Windt, managing director of the Players, for several seasons. She had the role of Kniertje in last summer's produc- tion of "The Good Hope" and of Mrs. Rutledge in the recent produc- tion of "The Star Wagon." Two of the Players' youngest per- formers will head the cast. William. Kinzer, who had parts this summer in. "The Critic" and "Beyond the Horizon," will portray Henry Aldrich. Adeline Gittlen, who appeared in "The Critic" and "The Star Wagon," will depict Barbara Pearson, the high school sweetheart of Henry. Among those in supporting roles will be James Barton as Mr. Nel- son; Lazelle Laughlin as Miss Shea; June Madison, as Miss Eggleston; Fascism And Mobilization Are Coming Together Rev. Wilson Asserts By MORTON JAMPEL Several hundred summer students7 and faculty men refused yesterday to let the heat keep them from airing their views on "This War We Live In" at the second annual Summer Parley. Main attraction seemed to be the National Elections panel where the debate ranged from a definition of democracy to the differences between the two major parties. Discussing the conscription pro- gram, Rev. Edwin Wilson, visiting Unitarian minister from Chicago, and a world war pilot, asserted that any general moblization plans would mean fascism in this country-and it is well under way now, he added. "A general mobilization means we have lost the things for which we are asked to fight, before we even enter the war." he declared. Rev. Wilson, who for four years worked for United States entry into the League of Na- tions, declared he did not believe our arms program was designed for home defense. He objected to any material aid to Britain on the grounds that the same supplies may fall into German hands and be used against this country. Prof. De Witt Parker of the phi- losophy department stated his great opposition to U.S. entry into war was so strong that he favored Willkie as less likely to involve this country than FDR, although he admitted a GOP administration would see "pro- found changes" in our governmental structure. Questioning brought the admission from Professor Parker that "profound changes" might mean an American brand of fascism. Prof. Arthur Smithies of the eco- nomics department from the other side of the fence predicted that the defense program would reach an an- nual bill of ten to fifteen billion a year, and would not necessarily mean a lower standard of living. It might raise the standard of living he showed, using the economic improvement of Germany from 1933 to 1936 as illus- tration. Putting the unemployed millions to work, and using the po- tential production capacity to its fullest might mean better conditions, he asserted. As the discussion moved into defin- itions and the efficacy of planned economy Prof. Roy W. Sellars called' strongly for an ,original pattern of planned economy. This country, he maintained, should be able to design a satisfactory planned economy that would eliminate totalitarian char- acteristics that generally accompany such forms of government. It seems we stopped being political thinkers in the 18th century, the noted hu- manist said. Second place for determined de- bate went to the Civil Liberties group' where Professor John Shepard an- nounced his belief that civil liber- ties need not be suspended in time of war. In regard to the much-dis- puted student dismissal cases the. psychology chairman made these points: 1.) Education is a right and not an arbitrary privilege. "Regulations must be relevent and universal." And every right must have an accompany- ing responsibility. 2.) Admission, discipline and teach- ing can not be dissociated. Such reg- ulations must be entirely under the control of the general faculty. The education group agreed that its .field is the last stronghold of democracy. 1=, Sadie Hawkins To Come To League On Saturday Tigers Humble Yanks To Retain No. 1 Slot In American League Leap Year and the Summer Ses- sion will join forces Saturday when the University gets its first taste of the Sadie Hawkins tradition in a somewhat milder form than it is practiced by the comic strip hill- billies. The League and the Session will cooperate in sponsoring a Sadie IHaw- kins dance from 9 to 12 p.m. in the League which will be a women's in- vitational affair. The women will do all the asking for dates in the best Leap Year tradition, according to Betty Hoag, chairman of the affair. Cartoons from the comic strip "Lil Abner," in which the local spinster, The orchestra will be in costume, as will all officials. Since the dance is to be the dating night for women, they will also be able to come stag and may cut in from the floor or ask boys to dance. Men may come alone as usual and cut. There will also be couple "rob- ber dances" in which couples will change partners for one dance at the suggestion of the women. The idea for a Sadie Hawkins dance has been taken up on many. campuses in the United States and Canada, and has become a tradi- tion. It is hoped that its success will Fourth Lecture Will Be Given By Culbertson The fourth lecture in the current American Policy Series, sponsored by the Summer Session, will be given by Dr. William Smith Culbertson, former chairman of the United States Tariff Board, at 4:15 p.m. to- morrow in the Rackham Lecture Hall. In addition to' being a former pro- fessor and chairman of the econom- ics department at the Foreign Ser- vice School in Georgetown, and chairman of the Institute of Politics at Williamston, Mass., Dr. Culbert- son is a member of the American Bar Association, the American Eco- nomic Association, the American So- ciety on International Law and the Federal Bar Association. Last year he spoke here at the conference on Latin American stud- ies and chaired the conference on NEW YORK, July 20.-(A)-The hopes of the World Champion Yankees for getting back on the pennant trail were given a rude set- back today by the Detroit Tigers, who clawed out a 3 to 1 victory to continue their mastery of the Amer- ican League. The Yanks ran afoul of eight-hit hurling by Hal Newhouser, Detroit's 19-year-old rookie southpaw, and a persistent offensive led by Hank Greenberg. The slugger had a per- The run off Rufus the Red came in the third inning when Red Kress led off with a three-bagger and eventually scored on a fly by Barney McCosky. Kress and McCosky greet- ed Sundra with a pair of doubles and a run when he came on duty in the fifth, And in the sixth Greenberg tripled and scored on Rudy York's long fly. This proved the end of Detroit's scoring, although the Tigers loaded