Weatther Scattered Showers; Slightly Cooler ig Official Publication Of The Summer Session :4Iaiti Editorial How Fast Is Defense Moving?.. VOL. L. No. 31 Z-323 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, JULY 30, 1940 PRICE FIVE CENTS i Biology Camp 'Visitors' Day' Will Be Held. A Present For A Dictator This Sunday University Group To Show Educational Exhibits To Illustrate Class Work Public Is Invited To Douglas Lake The thirteenth annual Visitors Day of the University Biological Sta- tion at Douglas Lake, Cheboygan County, will be held from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday. Educational exhibits illustrating the work of the classes ad scientific investigations will be on display. All persons who wish to learn more of tre plants and animals of Northern Michigan or want to become ac- quainted with the type of work done at the Biological Station will find the displays of value, according to Prof. Alfred H. Stockard, director of the Station. The Station is located on the southeast shore of Douglas Lake, Cheboygan County, on the Cheboy- gan-Petoskey road, thirteen miles southwest of Cheboygan. The roads from Cheboygan, Topinabee, Brutus and Pellston will be posted with signs directing visitors to the Station, and ample room has been provided for parking cars. The Biological Station was estab- lished in 1909 and has held an eight- week's session every summer since that time. Its founders had two principle objectives: to investigate biological problems and to bring stu- dents and teachers into direct con- tact with living animals and plants in their natural surroundings. This summer 116 students are en- rolled, 93 of whom are graduate stu- dents. The students come from 23 states, Puerto Rico and: the District of Columbia. Of the 116 students, 53 are from the University, and 63 are from 47 other universities. Dur- ing the 32 sessions, a total of 1,273 individual students have been en- rolled. Research has been emphasized equally with teaching, and research+ studies result in the publication each year of a score or more scientific re- ports. To date about 490 such re- ports have been published in scien-1 tific journals which are distributed to libraries and biologists all over the world., Draft Boards Already Set Up For Michigan Plans For U-Boat Nets Revealed In Report Of New Defense Commission LANSING, July 29. -(P)- Draft' boards have been created in 55 Mich- igan counties already, and others are in the process of selection, in anti- cipation that Congress will enact a selective service law. Col. John S. Bersey, who previ- ously had declined to discuss draft board plans,-disclosed today that the' work has been in prgress quietly1 since July 20. Each board is com- posed of three members and an ad- visory physician, he said. Appealj boards, medical advisory boards and government appeal agents also are being designated, he added. The Colonel explained that the] appointments are subject to approval7 by the Governor and the President of the United States, and that it would be premature to discuss personnel1 before the names are made public in Washington. Roughly, he said, the system fol-1 lows that employed in the world war draft. 'It is based on a skeleton plani that has been in existence for several years. Sub Traps To Cost Twenty Million WASHINGTON, July 29.-(P)-A confidential Navy plan to station tow- ing vessels in every major harbor for +1%- - -0,21.of .4 .- . , arin.a v af Premier Benito Mussolini is shown leaving a special armored train which was given to him by Adolf Hitler. A battery of anti-aircraft guns are mounted at the end of the car. There are two cars in the train. Ja-m ison Sees, Platforms Full Of FalIse Promises Democrats Tried To Eclipse GOP Planks And Appeal To Small Business, Professor Says 'So full of false promises and couched in such glittering generalities are the platforms of the two major political parties that "none of us can point the finger of scorn at any of the rest of us if we feel disposed to go to the polls November 5 and vote for Norman Thomas if he is still living ad is still a candidate," Prof. Charles L. Jamison of the business administration school told the fifth American Policy audience yesterday. Professor Jamison pointed out that the Democrats, writing their plat- Axis Insists Carol Settle Boundaries Germany Warns Rumania To Meet Balkan States Or Accept Nazi Terms Peasant Party Balks At Further Cessions BUCHAREST, July 29.-(P)-Ger- many has given Rumania until Sept. 15 to settle her territorial differences with Husgary and Bulgaria by direct negotiation, it was reported tonight in authoritative quarters. If there is no agreement then, it was said, the Axis Powers plan to step in and impose their own settle- ment. Other than expressing satisfaction with the outcome of the Salzburg conference with Hitler, Premier Ion Gigurtu and Foreign Minister Mihail Manoilescu made no public com- ment. They reported direct to King Carol. The Government later issued a communique expressing appreciation for the German-Italian "compre- hension of real interest for Rumania and the maintenance of peace in this part of the continent." The communique said that "only general principles to establish con- ditions which can lead to a definite entente in the Danubian Basin" were discussed at the talks with the Axis heads. However, Juliu Maniu, leader of Rumania's powerful peasant party, opposed any further ceding of terri- tory. Reservations For Final Trip Are Due Today Summer Students Leave At 7:15A.M. Tomorrow For 'Put-In-Bay' Island Reservations for the final Suummer Session trip from 7:15 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. tomorrow to Put-in-Bay Island in Lake Erie, must be made in the Summer Session office, Room 1213, by 5 p.m. today. The trip will be conducted by Prof. Ruel V. Churchill, director of Sum- mer Session excursions. Prof. Irving D. Scott of the geology department will acompany the excursionists as consulting expert on the Island's geological formations. Expenses for the journey will not exceed $3.50. This amount includes round trip bus fare at $1.25, round trip steamer fare at 85 cents, meals on the steamer and incidentals. Students are advised to bring their own picnic lunches. Those wishing to drive into Detroit and back, to avoid cost of bus fare, are invited to do so. The group will spend three hours on the Island, which is about 60 miles southeast of Detroit. In this time excursionists will have a chance to examine the rugged limestone shore National Guard, Reserve Officers Need Training, Roosevelt Message Says Wheeler Suggests It Replace Draft WASHINGTON, July 29.-(M)- A request from President Roosevelt for authority to order the National Guard and Army Reserve Officers to active training duty was received today by a Congress engaged in a deep-seated controversy over the question of compulsory military training. 'The developments of modern war- fare are such," Mr. Roosevelt said in a letter read to the Senate, "that only seasoned and highly trained troops can hope for success. This group of men who of necessity must be among the first to fight in the nation's defense have a right to the best preparation that time and cir- cumstance permit." In some quarters, and principally among the opponents of the pending Purke-Wadsworth compulsory train- ing bill, there was an immediate dis position to link the two proposals. Senator Wheeler said that if the conscription bill were withdrawn he would be glad to support Mr. Roose- velt's new suggestion. Senator Vandenberg, also a critic of the draft bill, advanced the opin- ion that the two were part of one program, but declined to comment on the National Guard suggestion until he could see more clearly what the whole involved. Meanwhile, Senator Austin of Ver- mont; assistant Republican floor- leader, said it was his understanding that if Mr. Roosevelt were given the power requested, the National Guard would be called out to train recruits drafted under the Burke-Wadsworth bill, if the latter were passed. Heat Wave Returns To Increase Deaths; Tops 98 In Detroit (By the Associated Press) Strength - sapping heat plagued half of the U.S. anew yesterday but showers cooled broad stretches of the Midwestern prairies. Forecasters reported the nation was divided by a weather line ex- tending diagonally across the coun- try from Upper Michigan to Ariz- ona. Most of the states on the east side were hot and humid. The bulk of those on the west enjoyed tem- perate conditions. The total of fatalities during the last 11 days was increased to 680. Heat deaths numbered 338 and drownings 342. Thermometers registered in the 90's in Michigan and hit 98 in De- troit and also in Ohio, Indiana, Illi- nois, District of Columbia, Florida, Tennessee, Maryland and other states. Tops of 100 were attained in some places in Okla. and Kan. n Signing 'Train Men' form three weeks after the Repub- licans, tried to eclipse many. of the latter's planks. He cited as an ex- ample the inclusion by the Demo- crats of a 400-word plank on electric power where the Republicans had said nothing about it, although their platform had been written before they nominated Willkie. Most important of the planks, the foreign policy sections of Republi- can and Democrat platforms alike say about the same thing, he de- clared. The Republicans are "firmly opposed to involving this nation in foreign war," while the Democrats "will not participate in foreign wars." He cited Raymond Moley's objec- tion that the phrase "foreign war" is meaningless in that any war in which the United States engages would no longer be a "foreign" war. Professor Jamison declared that while there may be reason to ques- tion what the two parties can do to carry out their pledges to keep the United States out of "foreign" wars, and to send aid to "liberty-loving" peoples, this country is definitely committed to a policy of rearma- ment, whatever turn politics may take.j "The (rearmament) program," he declared, "will be continued as it is laid out when this year ends with, we hope, little interruption and lit- tle change in its major character- istics. Let it be said that the pro- gram as thus far formulated is as free from politics as any program; can be. There is little reason to be- lieve that it will not continue so." Next in importance to the foreign policy plank, Professor Jamison placed the agriculture plank, in which each party pledged the farmer a Utopian existence, with the pre- ponderance of promises on the Dem- ocratic side. Republicans and Democrats alike, pledge defense of business, with the Democrats trying to turn small busi- nessmen against large; each speaks out for freedom of speech as it re- lates to radio; each condemns the fifth-column and un-American ac- tivities; each promises the Negro, the Indian, the veteran increased rights, he pointed out. Speech To Be Given By Extension Man Nazi Night Raiders Blast England's Defenses; FDR Asks Right To Call Guard 'Escape,' Starring Norm Oxhandler, To Use Novel Sets Two-dimension scenery will be one of the features of the Michigan Rep- ertory Players' production of John Galsworthy's "Escape" which opens a four-day run at 8:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. The scenery has been constructed in this manner, according to Alex- ander Wyckoff, art director, in order to give an appearance of unreality. He explained, "This play is more a melodrama than a real portrayal of happenings and two rather than three dimensional scenery helps the effect." "Escape", directed by the noted Irish actor, Whitford Kane, stars Norman Oxhandler in the role of Matt Denant, an escaped convict whose attempts to elude pursuit form the main plot of the drama. Mr. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT Bates, Malone Present Culture Lectures Today Topics Are 'Fundamental Law, Judicial Review' And 'Riddle Of Genius' Dr. Dumas Malone, director of the Harvard University Press, and Dean Emeritus Henry M. Bates of the Law school will give today's addresses for the Graduate Study Program in American Culture and Institutions. Dr. Malone will talk at 4:15 p.m. on "The Riddle of Genius". Dean Bates will speak at 8:15 p.m. on "The Fundamental Law and Judicial Re- view". Both lectures will be given in the Rackham School auditorium and will be open to the public. Dean Bates took his Ph. B. degree here in 1890, his LL. B.degree from Northwestern in 1892, and in 1925 received an LL. D. degree from Kala- mazoo College. From 1892 to 1903 he practiced law in Chicago. With the exception of the year 1917 to 1918, when he was professor of law at Harvard University, Dean Bates has been associated with the University here since 1903. In 1910 he became dean of the law school, retiring at the end of the academic year in 1939. A charter member of the Ameri- can Law Institute, Dean Bates also belongs to the American Bar Assco- iation, the American Political Science Association, the Chicago Law Insti- tute, the American Judicature Soc- iety, the Social Science Research Council and Phi Beta Kappa. Dictator Seen ForBelgium French Free Belgian Fascist On German Request BERN, Switzerland, July 29.-(RP) -Freed from prison in the French Pyrenees, fiery Leon Degrelle, long- time leader of an aggressive Fascist minor party in Belgium, was reported tonight to be on his way back to Belgium-possibly to head a new pro-German government. Word reaching the Swiss frontier indicated that Degrelle's release was effected at Berman request; that the man whose pro-Nazi Rexist party bid for power before the war, then lost in the elections, might become premier in his German-occupied homeland. These reports hinted that King Leopold, whose surrender precipi- tated the Allies' defeat in Flanders, would remain king of the Belgians and would be asked to approve D- grelle as his premier. With 2,000 of his followers, De- Britain Claims Germany Loses 23 Airplanes; Dover Center Of Attack English Doubt Jap StoryOf Suicide LONDON, July 30.-German pre- dawn raiders struck again today through the darkness at' blacked-out towns of Southeastern England where massed dive bombers yester- day pounded at the key defense works of Dover, within sight of the Nazi-held coast of France. In one southeastern town bombs smashed into a working class resi- dential district, wrecking homes. Residents fled to air raid shelters but the first bombs exploded before all could take cover. There was no estimate of the casualties. Other raiders streaked inland from the northeast and southwest. For three hours German planes circled over Wales, dropping 14 bombs in one area. Adolf Hitler hurled his greatest aerial thunderbolt against Dover, the logical debarkation point for any in- vading force, in a day-long series of savage attacks yesterday. British fighters swarmed into the skies to tangle with the attackers. Official figures placed the bag of Nazi craft downed in this engage- ment at 20, but unofficially the to- tal was given as 23. Some of the most important mili- tary concentrations in England are at Dover, a town of 40,000, and it was at these the Germans apparently were aiming their bombs. Britain Chalenges Japanese Charges TOKYO, July 30.-(P)--Great Bri- tain has demanded a full investiga- tion into the death of Melvile James Cox, veteran English newspaperman who, Japanese said, committed sui- cide after his arrest on espionage charges, reliable sources disclosed early today. Britain also has called for sub- stantiation of charges of a British "espionage network" operating in Japan following Tokyo's action in rounding up several prominent Bri- tish business men. ,Japanese officials said Cox, a Reu- ters correspondent, dodged his guards and hurled himself through a second story window of the police headquar- ters while being questioned, China Refuses Japanese Of fer To Make Peace Proposal Includes Cession Of 5 Chinese Provinces, Anglo-French Colonies HONGKONG, July 29. - () - China was reported today to have turned down unconditionally Japan- esepeace overtures giving Japan five northern Chinese provinces outright, plus indirect hegemony over the Asi- atic possessions of France and Brit- ain. Foreign quarters close to the Chungking Government of General- issimo Chiang Kai-Shek listed the Japanese proposals: 1. Outright cession by China to Jap- an of five provinces, Hopen (which includes Tientsin and Peiping), Cha- ha, Shantung, Shansi, and Suiyuan. 2. Recognition of Wang Ching-Wet, Japan's puppet in Nanking, as Pres-- dent of a Chinese republic made up of the remaining provinces plus Brit- ish Burma, French Indo-China and Trailand (Siam), in which China and Japan would share economic op- portunities. (Thailand is independent but un- able to defend herself.) 3. The status of Manchoukuo would be left in abeyance indefinitely. Kane, himself, portrays a parson in the play. the part of line with its surface evidences of I glaciation and the four caves. Ans A rgentina Holds Out Oj sAct Of H Solidarity nI Delegates Leave Loophole; Say Consent Must Come From Argentine Congress HAVANA, July 29-(A)-Argentina hedged tonight on the important American Foreign Ministers Confer- ence agreement on treatment of for- eign possessions in America by mak- ing a reservation to its signature of the 'Act of Havana." Members of the Argentine delega- tion said that any signature put on the document here would have to be approved finally by the government in Buenos Aires. Altho-h thev said the mat'ter wae Has Argentine Trouble Financial Authority Sees Barter As Coming Policy For United States Trade SAN FRANCISCO, July 29.-(JP)- The United States probably will have to embrace to some degree "a policy of barter or compensation trade" pending the restoration of normal economic processes after the war era, Joseph C. Rovensky, international financial authority, told the National Foreign Trade Council convention today. At the same time, he said, this country might maintain "in so far as possible the continuance of reciprocal trade agreements where the position of the other countries permits a free i I ::~:~:*:~:~.. :............ -, I I