Weather Slightly Cooler; Cloudy With Scattered Showers LL 4 1Pia Iait j Editorial India As A Partner . m Official Publication Of The Summer Session VOL. L. No. 42 Z-323 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 1940 - --- ----- - - PRICE FILE CENTS Moment Has Come To Crush England, Hitler Aide Warns Local Group To Collect Clothes For War Relief Reich Will Continue' For Peace', Hess Worst Is Yet To 'Fight Jim Farley Becomes Cays ; Coca Cola Politician Come Danger Passing, England Claims BERLIN, Aug. 10. -(P)- Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler's deputy for Nazi party affairs, declared tonight that the German nation was convinced that "the moment now is at hand to break England's power even to the. ruination of the entire Empire." Speaking in a Vienna concert hall at a ceremony marking the success- ion of a new Nazi district leader, Hess said Germany would "fight for the peace which the ruling English plutocratic clique derisively rejected when the Fuehrer once more offered to England after England's aides and accomplices were defeated. "Never in history was a more gen- erous offer made to a land which is in the worst situation since its be- ginning." 'Boundless' Animosity The animosity of the German peo- ple toward England, he said, was "boundless." "All of us," Hess went on, 'know how widespread among our people is the conviction that there can be no peace in the world until England definitely has been struck down. "Now when all means of power of Germany and her ally Italy can be concentrated on England, the nation is saying that the moment is at hand finally to make a clean sweep-to break England's power even to the ruination of the entire Empire." Says Axis Superior Germany and Italy were so super- ior to Britain, he asserted, that "there can't be the slightest doubt" about the outcome of the battle. England daily had been experiencing "tiny foretastes" of what is in store foil her, he added, "and care has been taken that all doubts will be removed in England whether the Fuehrer's offer (to hialt the war) sprang from weakness." British Military Is Optimistic LONDON, Aug. 10.-(A')-Although Nazi warplanes struck with renewed ferocity today, British military men expressed belief that the threat of a German blitzkrieg invasion is dwindling day by day toward a van- ishing pointnear the end of Septem- ber. - Mass attacks by power-diving Ger- man bombers, spraying machine-gun fire and whistling bombs on British coasts and shipping, caused unstated1 damage and casualities. The Birtish, however, expressed belief they were primarily "terror" raids. The British, too, kept up theirI dogged air attacks on Germany andt German-occupied territory.t The Air Ministry announced: Several fires started by three wavest of British bombers at Guernsey air-I drome in German-occupied channeli islands; "heavy damage" on muni- tions factories in Germany; hangars and anti-aircraft batteries damaged at German seaplane base near Brest, France; oil tanks set afire at Flush- ing, the Netherlands. Italians Advance And Bomb Aden CAIRO, Egypt., Aug. 10.-StrongI Italian armored columns, harassed almost continuously from the air, advanced through hot wastelines to-1 day on the main British positions int British Somaliland and stepped upe the tempo of the desert war by fierce-k ly bombing the protectorate of Aden. The British-still apparently de-. pending upon the impersonal mal- ignancy of the desert to cut down many of the invaders as always it has done-were active mainly witht their aviation. British military headquarters told of heavily bombing the marching Italians as they wound through Kar- rin Pass just east of the Italian-occu- pied town of Hargeisa; of raids on fh arn sit, a h 1r miha . , nr i By CARL PETERSEN In the fall and winter that lie ahead, Europe will writhe in the grip of cold and famine, the only real victors in war. The fight against these double vic- tors has been carried even to Ann Arbor, where this week will see the beginning of a drive among students by the French Committee for Relief in France, to secure serviceable cloth- ing for shipment to France or Eng- land. Letters will be sent to all students oy Dean Byril F. Bacher, Dean Walter B. Rea and Prof. Karl Litzenberg, director of residence halls, inviting German Club Holds Banquet Tuesday Night Final Meeting To Feature Skits, Songs And Talks By Nordmeyer, Eaton Summer activities of the Deutscher Verein will be brought to a close with a banquet at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in Deutsches Haus, 1315 Hill St. Prof. Henry W. Nordmeyer, head of the German department, Prof. J. W. Eaton of the German department and Mrs. Ruth Wendt, social director of Deutsches Haus, will deliver brief talks. Liese Price, secretary-trea- surer of the Verein, is in charge of the special program arranged for the banquet, while John R. Sinnema, Grad., president of the Verein, will act as master of ceremonies. Included in the activities of the evening will be dramatic skits, folk songs and dancing, according to Dr. Otto G. Graf of the German depart- ment, director of Deutsches Haus. Admission to the banquet will be free to all Verein members. Other interested students and faculty mem- bers may reserve tickets by calling the German department office, Room 204 University Hall, before noon Monday. Price of 'the tickets is seventy-five cents. The Summer Program of the Ver- ein has included two excursions to Saline Valley Farms, a travel talk by Mrs. Wendt, anillustrated lecture by Prof. Walter A. Reichart of the German department and a demon- stration lecture by Prof. Percival Price, University carillonneur. Manufacturers Face Patent Prosecution NEW YORK, Aug. 10. -(/P)- In- dictments before Labor Day involv- ing some of the leading corporations of the country engaged in produc- tion of defense materials were pre- dicted in informed legal quarters to- day as Thurman Arnold, assistant U.S. Attorney General, took over tem- porary direction of a Federal grand jury investigation into patents. Lawyers for many large concerns, however,shad been fully aware for months of the Department of Justice's investigation into the alleged use of patents in restraint of trade. them to turn over to their landladies or housemothers, all unwanted, ser- viceable clothing when they leave Ann Arbor. University trucks will collect the clothing, which will be delivered to the Committee, of which Maxime Rainguet, French Consul in Detroit, is honorary chairman. It has not yet been decided whether the clothing will be.sent to England or France. The Committee empha- sized that it is serviceable clothing, not fancy- or decorative, which is needed in Europe today. Headquarters have been set up in Lane Hall this week for students and townspeople who wish to bring in clothing themselves. Deadline for the acceptance of this clothing has been set at noon Saturday. A similar drive will probably be carried on in Ann Arbor in the fall when the University is in regular session, according to the Committee. Nazis Blame Britain For Famine (By The Associated Press) BERLIN, Aug. 10.-(P)-Nazis are pressing a propaganda campaign de- signed to place upon the British blockade responsibility for any fam- ine when winter howls down upon this war-ravaged continent. "Who in England has the right to speak of the necessity on the part of Hitler to supply relief to the peo- ples of the countries he has occu- pied?" asked a propaganda broad- caster who uses the air name "okay". "There's no necessity. There is no obligation-either legal or moral." The broadcast today was addressed especially to the United States. The broadcaster suggested that Great Britain could avert 'a serious food shortage" without aiding Ger- many by loosening the European blockade. Meanwhile the :German press, dis- cussing harvest prospects, said Ger- many herself was assured an adequate winter food supply and that German surveys of Balkan crops indicate that, "while they are not record breakers,'' they will be more than sufficient to feed the southeast. 'eace Army' Will Use Car Roosevelt Tours Defense works In New England; Tery Satisfied' From Politics To Pop * * * WILMINGTON, Del., Aug. 10.-(P) -The salesmanship ability that made James A. Farley the Democratic par- ty's master politician for the past eight years landed him a job today as chief promoter of Coca-Cola sales abroad. He will take '"at least a month's rest" after his retirement this month as Democratic National Chairman and Postmaster General, and then will become chairman of the Coca- Cola Export Corporation. French Trial Will Decide 'War Blame' Supreme Court To Study Actions Of Ministers And Former Premiers RIOM, France, Aug. 10. -(/P)- Al- most the whole. recent past of France's national life-not merely the quality of its military and political leadership-will be examined before the supreme court here in the forth- coming "war blame" trials. It was evident today, as accusation piled upon accusation, that this ex- traordinary prosecution by officials of the new government of Philippe Pe- tain would be much more than a proceeding to lay direct responsibil- ity for France's conflict with Ger- many and her disastrous defeat. It will push back through the years' into the broad fields of diplomacy, finance, social life, social experi- ments and secret lodges. Names of former premiers Edouard Daladier, Paul Reynaud and Leon Blum are constantly mentioned, along with those of former Minister of Col- onies Georges Mandel and Gustave Maurice Gamelin, the deposed French generalissimo. The case will, be a long as well as historic one: the court is expected to take formal charge shortly. The gov- ernment then will present its com- lpaint and secret investigations and hearings will begin. Only at the end of all this-which will require weeks-will the open trial be started. The press already is spot-lighting the trial by accusing old-school poli- ticians of keeping alive a state of dissatisfaction and refusing to co- operate with the new regime. "Severe punishment is suggested. Post At Dakar Sen. Wheeler Starts Move To Have Country Decide O 0n Compulsory Training BOSTON, Aug. 10. -(F')- Presi- dent Roosevelt asserted today that "we are really getting into our stride" on the $10,000,000,000 defense pro- gram. He told reporters that fact was demonstrated on his inspection dur- ing the day of the Portsmouth, N.H., and Boston navy yards and the army arsenal at Watertown, Mass. At an informal conference outside the administration building at Wat- ertown, the Chief Executive was asked whether he was satisfied with what he had seen on the tour of vital New England defense projects. "Very much, very much," he as- serted. "Things are going along aw- fully well. I'm very well pleased with all I saw today, and it shows we are really getting into our stride. "I hope by late fall all the Navy yards and Army arsenals will be at full production. The cheapest way to produce war materials is to run at full production." Starting out early this morning for a personal look at defense instal- German Film To Be Shown HereTonight Cinema League To Offer Kameradschaft Tonight In Rackham Auditorium The final summer offering of the Art Cinema League, "Kamerad- schaft", a German film of pre-Hit- ler days, will be shown at 8:30 p.m. todaymin the Rackham School audi- torium. Set in 1919 in a Franco-German border mining village, the picture is based on a disaster in the French mine, during which the German min- ers forget their grudges of the war years and come to their fellow work- ers' aid. Directed by G. W. Pabst, the film lists among its stars Fritz Kampers, Ernest Busch, Elizabeth Wendt, Al- exander Granach, Gustav, Puettjer, Daniel Mendaille, George Chalia, An-. dree Ducret, Alex Bernard, and Pierre Louis. Dialogue is in German with some French, but English sub-titles are included. Short subjects will also be shown. With this film the Art Cinema Lea- gue closes its first summer season here. During the summer, the League has offered a group of American doc- umentary films including "The Riv- er", "The City", "The Plough That Broke the Plains". Mobile Will Recruiting Unit Tour Country ations, Mr. Roosevelt had seen work underway on submarines at Ports- mouth, destroyer and airplane tend- er construction at Boston, and the processing of steel into big guns at Watertown. Before driving back fromYWater- town to the Boston Navy Yard to board his yacht Potomac and spend Sunday at sea, the President said he was glad to know the arsenal was operating at about 75 per cent of capacity and that the navy yards "also are working pretty near to capa- city." Ten Thousand To Flee Flood In Louisiana 'For God's Sake Send Help' Red Cross Agent Says; To Evacuate Whole City CROWLEY, La., Aug. 10-(P- Residents of this rice belt city today surrendered their homes to the ad- vance of Louisiana's worst rain flood and appealed for food and medicine to forestall wholesale illness and death. While the Red Cross and Coast Guard moved to evacuate the entire population of 10,000 from the city which was from 2 to 8 feet under water today except for a stretch along the railroad right-of-way, men, women and children crowded into the court house, school buildings and rice warehouses to await develop- ments. Urgent Appeal Noble Chambers, chairman of the Arcadia Parish Red Cross chapter, issued an urgent appeal for help. "For God's sakesendaus help," he said. "We need boats and food." Miss Margaret Moore, field secre- tary for the American Red Cross at New Orleans said flood refugees in this section had increased to 13,000. Rains since the gulf storm of last Tuesday have measured up to 24 in- ches in parts of southwest Louisiana, and enormous crop damage is fore- cast by Louisiana State University extension workers. Boats Ready From Jennings, La., came the statement that a fleet of 15 boats stood ready for movement toward Crowley for renewal of the most ur- gent cases among the refugees. The Red Cross activities at New Orleans included the mobilizing of flatboats which could negotiate the bayous and backwaters of this sec- tion. A second relief train was being loaded at New Orleans also, Red Cross officials announced. Governor Sam Jones at Baton Rouge said all relief agencies had been co-ordinated under the Red Cross, and that everything possible was being done to insure relief. Contracts For Michigan DETROIT, Aug. 10.-(9P)-Mich- igan industries will get between $200,000,000 and $250,000,000 in war and national defense program con- tracts, including contracts in pros- pect, the Michigan manufacturers and financial record said today. Alice Marble Holds Throne Over Jacobs RYE, N.Y., Aug. 10. -(AP)- The end of the train came today for Helen Jacobs. four-time national champion, and one of the few wo- men believed capable of extending Alice Marble, queen of the world's tennis courts. Her game ready and her strategy carefully planned, she took the field against Alice, hoping to end the ruthless domination of the The Ann Arbor campaign for the Emergency Peace Mobilization will feature this week the use of an auto- mobile as a "Mobile Recruiting Unit" for delegates to the Chicago peace meeting, accordingetoEdBurrows, student chairman. Modeled after the mobile recruit- ing units which the United States Army is now using the automobile, as a center of information and ma- terial with regard to the EPM, will tour Ann Arbor, and farm commun- ities of Washtenaw County. The unit is expected to be of great aid in filling the quota of 100 dele- gates and visitors, Burrows said. Montana Senator Claims Popular Sentiment Is Against Draft Measure People For Draft, Barkley Asserts WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.-(P)-A challenge to supporters of the Burke- Wadsworth compulsory military training bill to submit the question of conscription to a referendum vote of the people was voiced today by Senator Wheeler, a leader of Senate forces opposing the measure. Contending that popular sentiment definitely was against drafting young men into the army, Wheeler said that those who believed in the compulsory method ought to be willing to test SEN. BURTON WHEELER Rowe Wins 11th As Tigers Conquer the popularity of their views at the polls in the November general elec- tion. "If the proponents of conscription feel that it is necessary to have the draft to save democracy, as they re- peatedly have said, they ought to be willing to submit the question to the people because that would be the democratic way to ascertain the pub- lic viewpoint," Wheeler told reporters. Wheeler's challenge came as pro- ponents and opponents of the Burke- Wadsworth measure prepared for re- sumption in the Senate Monday of debate which began yesterday with a routine explanation of the bill by Senator Sheppard and flared almost immediately into a heated contro- versy as to whether the United States was likely to be attacked in the near future. The Montana Senator's confident statement that public sentiment was opposed to conscription was quickly disputed by Senator Barkley of Ken- tucky, the Democratic leader, who said he thought the weight of opin- ion in favor of drafting men would begin to be felt heavily as debate progressed. On the other hand, Senator Nye, an opponent of conscription, said he thought the Senate debate would build up so much popular opposition to the draft that even if he and oth- ers of like views were unsuccessful in defeating the measure in the Sen- ate, it would almost certainly be com- promised in the House. Barkley said he was opposed to proposed compromises such as that outlined in a substitute bill by Sen- ator Maloney. The Burke-Wadsworth measure would call for the registration of about 12,000,000 men 21 to 30 years old, and part of this number would be drafted by a selective system. Ma- loney's bill, however, would delay conscription until after a period of voluntary enlistments had elapsed. Sugar Coated' Tax WASHINGTON, Aug. 10. -(P)- Booming voiced Senator Clark (Dem.- Mo.), long-time critic of miUnitions manufacturers, hurled into a con- gressional tax hearing today the White Sox, 5-2; Reds Beat Cards 0 (By The Associated Press) The Detroit Tigers stretched their American League lead to a full game today with a 5 to 2 victory over the Chicago White Sox in a five-inning, rain-shortened contest before 17,247 spectators. The victory was Schoolboy Rowe's 11th of the season as against two defeats, although he was hit freely in the early stages. The victory, coming as second- place Cleveland was rained out at St. Louis, enabled the Tigers to gain a half game in the two-team battle for first place. Reds-Cardinals With his high, hard one and snap- ping curve working like a clock, Whitey Moore pitched the Cincinnati Reds to their third straight victory today, a four-hit, 5 to 0 whitewash of the St. Louis Cardinals. The St. Louis' crew, going down to their sixth straight defeat, could do struck out three and didn't give a single base on balls, while his mates plastered three Athletic flingers for 13 hits. Red Sox-Senators Earl Johnson, rookie left-hander from the Piedmont League, checked the Nationals here today as his Red Sox mates made the most of their five hits off Ken Chase and Walter Masterson to deal Washington a 3-0 defeat. Johnson required the aid of Jack Wilson in the ninth, but scattered eight hits effectively and escaped several threatening gestures by the Nats, who loaded the bases with no- body out in the seventh but failed to score. Pirates-Cubs Southpaw Vern Olsen held Pitts- burgh to seven scattered hits today as the Chicago Cubs capitalized on Dominic Dallessandro's fourth-in- nin- trin o ,p.k the Rii, W pi The Schoolboy han1"rntl ,..in r,.,..r tarid di -as_