Wen V ather Continued Fair and Cool ig 4v A6F 4f[t t an ARW ", r4 I g tIaiI Editoril Victory For The Americas .. . Official Publication Of The Summer Session VOL. L. No. 34 Z-323 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1940 PRICE FIVE CENTS Msgr. Babcock Is Named Head Of University CatholicParish Religious Unit To Be First Made Distinct Parish On Michigan Campus Fr. Berry To Aid Students' Pastot The Very Rev. Msgr. Allen J. Bab- cock has been named by Archbishop Edward Mooney of Detroit to head a Catholic students' parish here, the first student religious group on the Michigan campus to become a dis- tinct parish with its own pastor. Monsignor Babcock, recently re- turned from Rome, Italy, where he served as vice-rector of the North American College for three years, was assistant in charge of the St. Mary's Student Chapel here for eight years, 1928-1936. Rev. Clair J. Berry, who has been in charge of the St. Mary's Student Chapel as assistant pastor at St. Thomas Church, was appointed as- sistant pastor of the new parish. The new pastor announced Thuts- day that he planned an immediate campaign to clear the chapel's in- debtedness and that support of Cath- olic alumni would be enlisted in this endeavor. This would be the first step, he said, in an effort to coordinate and expand the spiritual, educational and social program offered the 1,250 Catholic students at the University by the Chapel. He predicted greater achievement since there would now be two priests devoting full time to the needs of the Catholic students. On the threshold of a new era, Catholic students looked back to the year 1915, when the late Rev. Mi- chael P. Bourke pioneered a drive for a student chapel on the campus. His efforts over a ten-year period culminated in the dedication of the chapel in February, 1925. Father Bourke, until his death in February, 1928, worked with students here as assistant to the late Rev. Edward D. Kelly and then later was appointed chaplain at St. Joseph's Hospital. 25 Students Enter Naval ROTC Here Captain Davidson Arrives To Take Over Post As Commander Twenty-five prospective naval re- servists filed applications in the first day of registration for the new Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps to be established here. Capt. Lyal A. Davidson, comman- der of the local unti, arrived today to take over his post, and announced that a staff of six instructors will assist in the instruction here next fall. Limited to a quota of 80 students, the unit here will take only fresh- men for the four-year course. Those completing the four-year course will receive commissions as ensigns in the naval reserve, and will be elegible for special appointment to the U.S. naval academy at Annapolis and the naval air station in Pensacola, Fla. The training course will cover nav- igation, naval history, seamanship, communications, ordinance, gunnery, naval engineering, naval tactics, ad- ministration, aviation and milit ry law. The course will in general offer instruction, in a more condensed form, of all subjects taught at Anna- polis. Under the leadership of Capt. Da- vidson, the young midshipmen will be taken each year on summer cruises to far-flung ports. White Russian Shot In Japan SHANGHAI, Aug. 2 (Friday). -(P)-Charles Metzler, head of the White Russian community here, was assassinated by gunmen this morning in the International To Be Comptroller Rep. Lindsay Warren of North Carolina is shown receiving con- gratulations in Washington after the White House announced that he would be nominated comptroller general. Linguists Tell What Meaning ReallyMeans Discuss Semantics During Weekly Luncheon Meet; Bloomfield Talks Today Differing attitudes, sometimes con- trasting sharply, sometimes supple- mentary to each other, appeared when linguisticascholars here for the Linguistic Ihstitute engaged in a free-for-all discussion of semantics or the study of meaning at the reg- ular weekly luncheon conference yes- terday. Prof. C. C. Fries, opening the sym- posium, presented the basic concep- In the fourth of his series of lectures dealing with basic con- cepts in linguistic study, Prof. Leonard Bloomfield, chairman of the department of compar- ative philology of the University of Chicago, tonight will offer an explanation of 'The Lexicon." The lecture is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. in the Rackham Building Amphitheater. tion that meaning is the sum total of the experience brought into atten- tion by the stimulue of a linguistic form or symbol. "Thus meaning," he asserted, "is a much more highly in- dividualized thing than is commonly supposed. Yet it is true that for dif- ferent individuals, with different to- talities of experience thus brought into attention, there is nevertheless a common core of experience which provides the basis for using the sym- bol in the process of communication." "A dictionary editor," Professor Fries continued, "gathers as many contextual examples of a word as he can find, and then tries to extract the common core of experience brought into dominant attention. Often, of course, there are several such cores, as different aspects of the total experience have been em- phasized at different times. That is why 'horn,' for instance, has a varie- ty of meanings or senses, depending upon whether the material, or the shape, or the resulting noise is stressed in any given situation.". Speaking from the point of view of (Continued on Page 3) Nazis Claim Decisive Sea, Air Victories Military Observers Say 'Major Attack' On Isle Is Already Under Way England Prepares Offensive Moves (By the Associated Press) BERLIN, August 1. - Germany claimed victories tonight for a West- ern Atlantic raider and for the Luft- waffe (Air Arm) with which she hopes to stagger Britain sufficiently for a knockout blow or, short of that, force her into surrender, German military observers insist the "major attack" on Britain is now under way, indicating that in- creased pressure by sea and air is the present strategy-rather than immediate land invasion. At the same time Germany moved to avert any suggestion of disorder in the Dutch part of her vast, war- worn military domain in Western Europe by warning Netherlands not to demonstrate in favor of the refu- gee Royal Family when Dutch Me- morial Day is celebrated next week, under penalty of severe prosecution. Germany's war reports were classi- fied thus: Western Atlantic: A German auxiliary cruiser (con verted merchant ship) heavily dam- aged and put to flight the armed British merchant cruiser Alcantara in battle off the Brazilian coast last Sunday and is continuing a hit-and- run warfare on British shipping. DNB, official news agency, said heavy hits forced the 22,209-ton for- mer Royal Mail liner quickly to break off the running gun duel and seek the shelter of neutral Rio de Janeiro Harbor. (The British declared the raider showed no inclination to come to close quarters and fled after a "lucky shot" reduced the Alcantara's speed. The Alcantara put into Rio de Janeiro Harbor today for repairs.) British Isles: Despite adverse weather, Nazi air- men yesterday and last night bombed shipping in the English Channel and on the Atlantic side of the Scilly is- lands, on Land's End, southwestern- most England, and southern English ports and searchlight positions. Ex- plosions and fires were "observed." Removes Road Blocks For War On Wheels' (By the Associated Press) LONDON, Aug. 1.-Great Britain has so strengthened herself against invasion that tonight she was pre- paring elaborately for an "offensive defense." This entailed removal of barriers once counted on to slow an enemy but now cast out as handicaps to her own troops' mobility. An order today by the new Com- mander-in-Chief, General Sir Alan Brooke, to remove many of the steel and concrete traps and road blocks studding roadways throughout Eng- land announced this startling shift of strategy. It is a return to the traditional theory that attack is the best de- fense-provided there is sufficient man-and machine-power to execute it. Now a trained and equipped army and Home Guard of several million men has converted Britain into an armed camp. Britain is ready for a hard-hitting war on wheels. Edward Flynn To Head Democratic Committee WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-(lP7) Edward J. Flynn, of New York, a leader in the pre-Convention campaign to renominate President Roosevelt for a third term, ac- cepted today the chairmanship of the Democratic National Commit- tee. He succeeds another New York- er, James A. Farley, under whose direction two Democratic cam- paigns rolled up huge majorities for Mr. Roosevelt. With this in mind, Flynn announced: "I intend that this campaign shall be as thorough as though the results were doubtful. I do not hope to equal the record of my predecessor and friend, Jim Farley, but-I will do my best." Flynn was picked for the job at a White House meeting today of the President, his running mate, Secretary Wallace, and d, committee appointed at the Chi- cago Conventiop4. He will take over formally August 17, when Farley steps out of office to be- come president of the New York Yankees Ball Club. Lawrence W. Robert and Oliver A. Quayle, secretary and trea- surer, respectively, were chosen at the Convention for new four- year terms. At the White House it was said Flynn and Farley would hold a series of conferences between now and August 17 and that the two would be associated quite closely throughout the campaign. Krause Pitches Reds To I-M Championship Big Fifth Inning Upsets Pitchers Battle; Victors Pound 4 Runs Around By MYRON DANN Opening and closing the season in a blaze of glory, "Phantom"' Phil Krause shut out th Trojans with a single run to give the Reds the In- tramural Softball Championship by a 4 to 1 score at South Ferry Field yesterday. In his first appearance of the season, the Antego, Wisconsin, school teacher pitched a no-hitter against the Super Dupers. The game was a pitchers' battle for the first four innings as neither Krause nor Don Farnum, Trojan hurler, permitted a man to cross home plate. But in the fifth inning things took a turn for the worse for the Trojans when the Reds push- ed across four runs before the side could be retired. Cunningham led off the "big fifth" with a single to right and went to second as Round reached first on an infield error. Keglouvitz then singled to deep short filling the bases. Owen came through in the pinch by delivering a sharp single to center scoring both Round and Cunningham with the first runs of the game and sending Keglouvitz to third. The fourth ball to Powire was a wild pitch scoring Keglouvitz and sending Owen to third later to score on Krause's long fly to center. The Trojans scored their only run in the last inning after two were out when Jones singled to right and scored on successive singles by pit- cher Farnum and centerfielder Simp- son. Merrim Declares .A merica Can Face Future With Confidence 'We Have Said Goodbye To An Era' Chicago Professor Tells American Culture Institute Premier Hits Imperialist' Designs Within Nation; Foresees Intervention stimson Diseloses Anti-Alien Moves By HARRY M. KELSEY "I am sure the world will never be the same again. We have said good- bye to an era. We must now take a position which will have behind it the unity of the nation and the power of the American democracy. In a crisis, a nation may prove to be a rope of sand or a ring of fire. What- ever we choose, our course will re- quire broad modifications in our at- titudes and in our practices. We are not going backward, but forward." These are the words of Prof. Char- les E. Merriam of the University of Chicago, who yesterday gave the closing lecture in the five week series of the Graduate Study Program in American Culture and Institutions. Professor Merriam left his announ- ced subject, "The Function of Politi- cal Parties," to speak on world affairs, saying there are not going to be po- litical parties when there are no countries in which they can exist. If America watches the Allied pow- ers go down, we must then be pre- pared to take up the burdens of pro- tecting and policing the world of democratic ideals and institutions along with our national core of in- dustrial and material interests, he claimed. "For my part," he asserted, "I hold that America will come triumphant through this, the greatest ordeal of modern times, triumphant not mere- ly in a material or in a military sense, but triumphant in the higher an finer values where life really dwells in its fullness." America, Professor Merriam main- tained, will take its place and assume its share of responsibility in shaping and maintaining a jural order of the world, in lifting human relations to new levels of order and justice. He predicted that America will work out a program built upon a national unity which will raise the volume of national production and at the same time raise the standards of living in accordance with the prin- ciples of social justice. "Our vast national resources, our dynamic ener- gy, our inventiveness and resource- fulness, our organizing ability and our huge economy with its rich pow- ers of expansion make this a possi- bility," he stated. "This is not the task of soft hearts and hands alone, but of hard heads and tough temper," Professor Mer- riam concluded. "America will main- tain its free society, industrial and political, stream-lined to meet the changing conditions of modern life. m-i olotoff Criticizes U. S.; 81 Alien Agents' Seized In Panama Canal Zone Crew Caused Train Wreck Crumpled Orders Indicate Men's Responsibility AKRON, O., Aug. 1.-(P')-A crum- pled copy of trainman's orders, found on the conductor of a Pennsylvania Railroad motor coach in which 43 persons perished, tonight backed up the road's declaration that the crew's "disregard" of instructions was responsible for the tragedy. The order provided that the motor coach should take a siding and allow a 73-car freight train to pass. In- stead, the coach's crew continued a mile past the siding, down the Penn- sylvania's Hudson to Akron single track, and crashed head-on with the freight. Investigators said a copy of the order issued to the freight train crew was found is the clothing of conductor Harry Shafer, 57, one of the trio who survived the fiery crash. Similar orders had been issued to the coach crew, the railroad said, ex- plaining that each crew of trains ordered to "meet" gets a copy of the instructions issued to the other crew, The railroad said in a statement: "The crew of the motor coach not only disregarded their orders to stop at switch No. 1 at Silver Lake -and to vait in the siding, but, in con- tinuing on the main track from Sil- ver Lake toward Akron, disregarded another rigid rule, as permission was required from the block (signal) op- erator at Hudson to make this fur- ther movement. This permission was not obtained." Willkie. .Solicits Non-Partisans GOP Candidate To Seek Independents' Vote COLORADO SPRINGS, Aug. 1.- (P)-Wendell L. Willkie said today fully half of the country's voters are independent and that they "cross party lines very easily." Willkie spoke to a press conference in company with William Allen White Emporia, Kan., editor. White asserted voters no longer could be counted on "blocks," such a labor, agriculture and business and added that he believed Willkie would carry Kansas "unless some things happen before November." Willkie remarked that independent voters had been increasing for 25 years and that the number had grown particularly in the last five or six years. White asserted independents are "a definite minority that might be- come a majority" in any election. Willkie, in response to questions, said he was in substantial agreement with White's views. He added that most recent elections had been de- termined by the independent voter. White said opposition to electing a President for a third term was "a very definite factor" in general sup- port of Willkie. The nominee said he had been in- terested in reading census figures forvarious cities. He added he would "have something to say" later on regarding the fact Washington's (population had increased from 486,- 1 869 to 663,153 in the last decade. By WITT HANCOCK MOSCOW, Aug. 1.-MP)-"Imperi- ilist designs" in the United States nay turn the war into a "World Im- perialist" struggle, Premier-Foreign Miinister Vyacheslaff Molotoff told the Supreme Soviet today in pre- icting that England would be "as- isted" by America in fighting Ger- many and Italy. His speech was filled with antag- nism toward England and the United States and at one point he said he hesitated to dwell on Russian relations with the United States be- cause "there is nothing good that can be said about them." 'Appetites Growing' "Imperialist appetites are grow- ing," he told the Supreme Soviet (Parliament), "not only in distant Japan but also in the United States, where there are not a few people who like to conceal their imperialist designs behind well-advertised 'con- cern' for the interests of the entire 'Western Hemisphere' which these gentlemen are prepared to turn into their property with all its numerous republics and with the colonial pos- sessions of other countries on islands in the neighborhood of the American continent."i Germany, Molotoff said, will have the advantage of a "calm feeling of security in the east," thanks to the Russo-German non-aggression pact. Relations with Italy, Germany's ally, also "have lately improved." But as for America: "there are certain people in the United States who are not pleased with successes of Soviet foreign policy in the Baltic countries," the Premier-Foreign Commissar observed. "But we are not worried. We can get along with- out the help of these displeased gen- tlemen." Energetic Protest "However," Molotoff continued, "the fact that authorities in the United States unlawfully placed an embargo on gold which our State Bank recently purchased from the banks of Lithuania, Latvia and Es- thonia meets with a most energetic protest on our part. "In this case we can only remind both the Government of the United States and the Government of Great Britain, which adopted the same pro- cedure, of their responsibility for these illegal acts." Josef Stalin, Secretary-General of the Communist Party and Dictator of Russia, attended the session in a special booth. Move Taken To Protect Vital Defense Zone By RICHARD L. TURNER WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-(P)-A broad cleanup of aliens in the Pana- ma Canal Zone, involving the de- tention of 81 persons described as foreign agents, was tersely announ- ced today by Secretary of War Stim- son. As the result of a painstaking check, he said, all aliens, other than Panamanians, have been discharged from the employment of either the Army or the Canal Zone, for the pro- tection of that vital link in the American defense system. The secretary of War made his disclosure at the end of a day which saw the peace-time Conscription Bill and the measure authorizing the mo- bilization of the National Guard and the Reserve Officers Training Corps for ttraining purposes encountered new delays in the Senate. A senatorial proposal that the number of conscripts be limited to 1,000,000 forced the Senate Military Committee to postpone final action on the draft bill until after War De- partment officials can be heard. Leaders agreed to defer Senate con- sideration of the National Guard measure until next week, in compli- ance with requests from several leg- i~n~nm nr oretimeto ,uf th / President Canvasses Problems Raised By Pan-American Deal WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-P)- Problems which would be posed for the United States if events forced the Pan-American nations to estab- lish a trusteeship over European possessions in this hemisphere were canvassed today by President Roose- velt and Army and Navy heads. Sumner Welles, Acting Secretary of State, also attended the confer- ence with Admiral Harold R. Stark, Chief of Naval Operations, and Gen- eral George C. Marshall, army chief of staff. While they were meeting, another phase of the Administration's pro- gram for defense of the Western Hemisphere was advanced a step at fli rInnit- concerned chiefly with the military and naval problems which would be involved in the establishment of a trusteeship over any Western Hemi- sphere territory threatened with a change of sovereignty from one Eu- ropean nation to another. The recent Havana Conference provided for the American nations to assume such a trusteeship jointly. Any dispatch of armed forces, how- ever, would have to be by the United States since no other American na- tion is in a position to take such a step. The trusteeship proposal was ad- vanced at the Havana meeting by Secretary Hull. Returning here to- day, the Secretary of State warmly nraised thea ttitr f the Havanat 'Our Wcdly' Is Coming Home With A Duke LISBON. Portugal, Aug. 1.-UP)- The Duchess of Windsor and other passengers aboard the U.S.-bound American export liner Excalibur tapped their collective heels for forty minutes past sailing time tonight' while waiting for the Duke of Wind- sor. The Excalibur sailed at 8:15 p.m. (2 p.m. EST) after the Duke arrived to join his Duchess. It is due in New York Aug. 9. Presumably British warships lurked behind the Excalibur to protect the Duke from seizure by German or Italian raiders. The couple was listed as "Captain and Mrs. Wood." It's believed they will spend only a short time in New York before going to Nassau to be- i I e f t Staff Of Scientists Will Assist Visitors At Biological Station Experts on all phases of biology, zoology and botany will be on hand Sunday at the University Biological Station on Douglas Lake to discuss any problems the public may wish to bring with it when it invades the Station for the annual Visitors Day program from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Besides the regular teaching staff, six visiting investigators are studying biological problems at the Station this summer. They are Mr. Sterling Brackett of the University of North ard of the zoology department, who is director of the Biological Station; Profs., Paul S. Welch and Frank E. Eggleton of the zoology department and Profs. Carl D. La Rue and Wil- liam C. Steere of the botany depart- ment. From other colleges and univer- sities to the Station teaching staff come Prof. Frank C. Gates of Kan- sas State College's botany depart- ment; Prof. Herbert B. Hungerford, head of the department of entomolo-