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Editorial
Defense
of Freedom..
Official Publication Of The Summer Session
VOL. L No. 7 Z-323 ANN ARBOR MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, JUNE 30, 1940
PRICE FIVE CENTS
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New Defense
Law Requires
Of Foreigners
President Roosevelt Urges
Citizen Aid In Enforcing
Anti 'Fifth Column' Bill
Key Men To Get
Intensive Training
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, June 29.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt, terming it a measure
for mutual protection of this coun-
try and "loyal aliens who are its
guests," signed today legislation re-
quiring registration and fingerprint-
ing of all foreigners in the United
States.
In putting his signature to the bill
enacted by Congress as a defense
against "Fifth Column" activity, Mr.
Roosevelt said thatit did not carry
"any stigma of implication of hostil-
ity toward aliens.
Urging cooperation of citizens and
no-citizens alike, he declared, too,
that it would be unfortunate if "any
loyl aliens were subjected to har-
assment."
Defense Developments
In addition to the placing of this
law on the statute books, defense
developments included:
The army experimental organiza-
tion of an armored corps of two divi-
sions. Armed with 1,400 tanks, 300
artillery pieces and more than 13,000
automatic and semi-automatic weap-
ons, the corps will have striking
power approaching that of Ger-
many's hard-hitting. "Panzer" divi-
sions.
The War Department also dis-
closed that its special service schools,
hitherto reserved for officers, would
be used for intensive training of key
soldiers. The infantry school at Fort
Benning, Ga., will teach tank and
motor mechanics, among other
courses, and the cavalry school at
Fort Riley, Kan, will give training
in combat car mechanics andallied
courses.
Young Amists 1Hilian
President Roosvelt, the White
House announced, has asked Owen
D. Young, retired board chairman
of the General Electric Company, to
assist and advise Sidney Hillman,
CIO leader who is in charge of train-
ing workers for national defense in-
dustries. Young has not yet an-
nounced his decision.
In an address to the National Police
Academy, William Green, AFL Presi-
dent, urged that Congress outlaw the
Communist Party and the Nazi Bund.
The big job of registering and
fingerprinting the estimated 3,500,000
aliens in this country will be carried
out by the Justice and Post Office
Departments under direction of Soli-
citor General Francis Biddle.
Balbo Is Killed
In Air Battle
Italian Marshal Shot Down
By British Over Libya
ROME, June 29. -(P)- Marshal
Italo Balbo, bearded pioneer in the
Fascist movement, and nine others
including prominent Italians died
when their plane was shot down in
flames by British aircraft encoun-
tered over Tobruk, Libya.
The viptims included the Italian
consul general of Tripoli, the editor
of Balbo's newspaper Corriere Pa-
dano, and two relatives of Balbo,
Signor Derrara, a nephew, and Lieut.
Florio Gino, a brother-in-law.
Five passengers and five crew mem-
bers perished.
The plane was on an official mis-
sion but did not go up for military
action when it was brought down
yesterday.
Italy's only Air. Marshal had an
Impressive record as soldier, flier of
the Atlantic to North and South
America, and colonial administra-
tor.
Prof. Howard Jones To Speak
Here On American Literature.
Addresses Conference
Will
Present
First In Series
Of Talks
Discussing
Germany, Italy Promise
Military Aid To Rumania
If Soviet Troops Advance
'Regional Varieties Of
First of six lectures to be present-
ed this week in the Graduate Study
Program in American Culture and
Institutions centered around the
general theme "Regional Varieties
of Cultural Development" will be a
talk on "American Literature as an
Instrument for Cultural Analysis"
at 8:15 p.m. tomorrow in the audi-
torium of the Rackham School by
Prof. Howard M. Jones of Harvard
University, former member of the
faculty here.
Professor Jones, author, play-
wright and poet, is also literary edi-
tor of the Boston Evening Transcript.
He has taught at the University of
Texas and the University of North
Carolina in addition to Harvard and
six years as professor of English
here, from 1930 to 1936. He has been
at Harvard since.
Among Professor Jones' works are
"The Life of Moses CoitTyler,"
"They Say the Forties," and "The
Harp That Once." With E. E. Leisy
he edited the standard American
G.O.P. Defers
Appointment
Of Chairman
Sub-Committee Established
To Confer With Willkie;
Hamilton Is Considered
PHILADELPHIA, June 29.-()-
The rear guard of the Republican
National Convention squabbled over
the' selection of a National Party
chairman today and settled the is-
sue temporarily by appointing a sub-
committee to confer with Wendell
Willkie andl choose the man.
Im>ortant influences backed a
move to continue John D. M. Hamil-
ton in the job, with- Willkie's ap-
parent concurrence. The opposition
had the leadership of Alf M. Lan-
don, the 1936 presidential nominee,
who at Cleveland four years ago
selected Hamilton as his pre-con-
vention manager.
Later Hamilton, in a statement,
termed a creation of a sub-commit-
tee "very natural in view of the
rapidity with which events have
moved in the last few days."
This affords Willkie the "needed
opportunity" to consider campaign
plans, Hamilton said, and added that
meantime the present "staff" of the
committee will continue to function.
Willkie, meanwhile, left the city
without making known his choice.
He and his attractive wife sailed as
guests of publisher Roy Howard
aboard the yacht Jamoroy for a brief
sea voyage.
Dean Hunts Prowlers
As Police Hunt Dean
A radio squad car with two patrol-
men was rushed to Dean Walter B.
Rea's house Friday night to appre-
hend a prowler reported by neigh-
bors to be lurking about the house.
Stalking stealthily around the
side of the house, the officers nabbed
the prowler-who turned out to be
the honorable dean himself, hunting
night-crawlers with a flashlight.
Cultural
Development'
literature college text "Major Amer-
ican Writers."
Two lectures of the series willbe
given Tuesday; one at 1:45 p.m. and
one at 8:15 p.m., in the Rackham
School auditorium.
The first of the two will be pre-
sented by Dumas Malone, Director
of the Harvard University Press, who
will talk on "The Geography of
American Achievement." The second
will be by Prof. Charles S. Sydnor
of Duke University. Professor Syd-
nor's subject will be "The Old South
as a Laboratory fo Cultural Anal-
ysis, a
Dumas Malone is well known for
his editorship of the Dictionary of
American Biography, a twenty-vol-
ume work completed in 1936. Dr. Ma-
lone was associate editor of the Dic-
tionary with Allen Johnson until the
latter's death, whereupon he became
sole editor.
Before editing the Dictionary, Dr.
Malone taught at Yale, Harvard and
the University of Virginia. He is the
author of "The Public Life of Thom-
as Cooper," and a contributor to
many journals.
Professor Sydnor is generally ac-
knowledged to be the outstanding
authority today on Southern history.
He has been a member of the facul-
ties of Johns Hopkins, Hampden-
Sydney and the University of Missis-
sippi. He is the author of "Slavery
in Mississippi" and, with Claude Ben-
nett, of a volume on the history of
Mississippi.
The public is invited to attend any
of the lectures. The round table will
be open only to students enrolled in
the Program and members of the
faculty.
Annual Parley
Panel Section
Heads Named
Session Will Begin July 19
In Union; Dr. Blakeman
Made Faculty Director
The Second Annual Summer Par-
ley, one of the three student-faculty
conclaves sponsored by the Student
Senate each year to discuss current
events, will be held July 19 and 20 at
the Union.
The subject of the war and its ef-
fects on such diverse fields as nation-
al elections, education, civil liberties
and religion will dominate the par-
ley. Four points of view on the war
will be presented by members of the
faculty at the opening session Fri-
day, July 19. One will support limit-
ed intervention, another non-inter-
vention, a third complete participa-
tion and the last absolute pacifism.
Included among the chairmen of
the four panel sections will pe Philip
Westbrook, '43L, who will head the
discussion of national elections. Ber-
nard Friedman, '38, will be chairman
of the panel on education, and Joseph
Fauman, Grad., will head the section
on civil liberties. Chairman of the
panel on religion will be Daniel Suitz,
'40. All the panels will start at 3:15
p.m. Saturday, July 20.
More than 40 members of the facul-
ty have been invited to participate
in each of the panel sections as well
as a number of student advisers.
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Prof. H. M. Ehrmann To Open
World Crisis Lecture Series
'The European Background Of The Present War'
To Be Title Of First Talk At 4 P.M. Tomorrow
Balkan Preparations
For War Continue;
Axis Wants Peace
I
Foster TQ Talk
For Religious
Meetin s Here
Will Lecture in Mexican
Religion, Old And New;
Parley To Last A Week
Dr. O. D. Foster, author and lec-
turer, will be the featured speaker
at two luncheon meetings of the
Sixth Annual Summer Conference
on Religion July 7-14.
Dr. Foster will present his two
lectures on "Religion in Old Mex-
ico," and "Religion Today in Mex-
ico," from his backiround .of recent
study of Mexican culture and the
effect of religions of Latin American
peoples.
A graduate of Yale, Dr. Foster is
the author of "Comrades In Ser-
vice," a description of the work of
the clergy in the World War.' Dr.
Foster has been a leader in religion,
acting as University Secretary of
the Council of Church Boards of
Education and University pastor for
Congregational students at the Uni-
versity of Wisconsin. He was also
instrumental in creating the Univer-
sity Religious Conference at Los An-
geles at the University of Califor-
nia.
The Religious Conference directed
by Dr. Edward Blakeman, counselor
in religious education is based on
the theme of "Religion and National
Development." The conference ar-
ranged by the University Committee
on Religious Education, is open to
students enrolled in the Summer
Session and the clergy and religious
leaders attending the meeting.
The series of lectures will be de-
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rcace Party'
Is Suggested
Prof. Howard Ehrmann of the
history department will present the
first in a series of weekly lectures
analyzing the position of the United
States in a war world at 4:15 p.m.
tomorrow in the Rackham Lecture
Hall.
In his lecture, "The European
Background of the Present War,"'
Professor Ehrmann will discuss the
underlying causes of the present con-
flict, the changes arising from that
war and their significance for Eu-
rope.
He will also consider the weak-
nesses of the post-war settlement,
the circumstances which made pos-
Art Cinema's
Movie Series
Begins today
Four Documentary Films
Of, American Problems
And Progress Featured
Beginning its summer series of
moving pictures, the Art Cinema
League will present four examples
of the American documentary film
at 8:30 p.m. todaykin the amphi-
theatre of the Rackham School.
The films to be shown are "The
River," "The City," "The Plough
That Broke the Plains," and "New
Schools for Old."
A few remaining tickets may be
purchased today at the League and
the Union. While no tickets are be-
ing sold for single performances,
memberships selling at $1 each en-
title the bearer to one admission
for each of the four programs to be
offered.
The pictures to be shown today
were all exhibited at the New York
World's Fair last year. Each deals
with specific problems facing Amer-
ica today and the progress that is
being made toward their solution.
Students enrolled in the Graduate
Study Program in American Culture
and Institutions are especially urged
to attend.
"The River" is, of course, the
Mississippi, and concerns flood con-
trol and power utilization. "The
City" concerns housing and city
planning, comparing the metropolis
of today to the ideal. "The Plough
That Broke the Plains" has to do
with land conservation and the
problems of the dust bowl. "New
Schools for Old" deals with the mod-
ern American school.
The three other films that will be
presented during the summer by the
Art Cinema League are "Grand Illu-
sion," "The Childhood of Maxim
Gorky," and "Kameradschaft."
sible the rise of Germany within 20
years after the Treaty of Versailles
and the meaning of the new German
state for the continent.
Professor Ehrmann will inaugu-
rate the series of lectures entitled
"American Policy in the World Cri-
sis," to be given at 4:15 p.m. each
Monday during the Summer Session,
according to Dr. Louis A. Hopkins,
director. Professor Ehrmann's lec-
ture will serve as background mater-
ial for the lectures which will fol-
low. Prof. Lawrence Preuss of the
political science department will de-
liver the second in the series.
The lecture series is under the
direction of a faculty committee
composed of Prof. A. E. R. Boak of
the history department, Prof. Arthur
W. Bromage of the political science
department, Prof. John Dawson of
the Law School and Prof. Charles
Remer of the economics department.
Most of the speakers in the series
will be selected from the faculty, Dr.
Hopkins said, but an effort will be
made to secure the participation of
authorities from other parts of the
country in succeeding lectures.
This series of lectures is consid-
ered an outgrowth of the wide public
interest in the position of this coun-
try in a world at war, Dr. Hopkins
asserted.
Llocal Pastors'
Start Summer
Service Toda
Ann Arbor churches will inaugu-
rate their programs of student ac-
tivities of sermons, vespers, special
musical programs for the students
of the Summer Session today.
For Lutheran students, Rev. H. O.
Yoder will conduct early worship
services today at 8:30 at the Trinity
Lutheran Church and Rev. E. C.
Stellhorn will conduct the regular
service at 10:30. The Lutheran Stu-
dents Association will hear Paul
Kemper of the Law School discuss
"Christianity and Totalitarianism"
at its supper meeting at 6 p.m.
Dr. Leonard A. Parr of the Con-
gregational Church will deliver his
.sermon on "God's Poems" while Rev.
C. H. Loucks of the First Baptist
Church will speak on "Jesus the
Judge" at the morning worship ser-
vice.
Baptist students will meet at 6:15
p.m. to hear Prof. Harlan Koch of
the School of Education speak on
"Religion in the Mental Hygiene of
Youth. Episcopal students will gath-
er at Camp Birkett on Big Silver
Lake to hear Kenneth Morgan, di-
rector of the Student Religious As-
sociation, direct the discussion.
Turkey Ready
To CallTroops,
BUCHAREST, Rumania June 29.
-(/P)-Germany and Italy tonight
promised military and air assistance
to Rumania, it was reported on high
authority, if Soviet troops attempt
to make further advances into this
patchwork kingdom-beyond the areas
reluctantly ceded by King Carol.
Informants who are close to both
palace and cabinet said the axis pow-
ers had given broad and flat assur-
ances that any more penetrations
would be stopped.
Bessarabia, which the Russians al-
ways have called the land of milk
and honey, already is under the
heavy tread of the Soviet military
In a comparatively bloodless occupa-
tion.
Russian sources said, too, that the
principal cities in Northern Buco-
vina-the other area yielded by Carol
under a Moscow ultimatum-are now
in control of the Red army.
The chaotic state of affairs and
the lack of good communications
from Bucharest to the provinces
made it difficult to learn at what
point in the .north the Russians had
halted, but the latest semi-official
word was that they had pushed on
as far as Dorohoi, some 15 miles
beyond the western boundary of
Bessarabia and thus well within old
Rumania.
Russian informants declared, how-
ever, that this penetration beyond
the agreed line was "probably a mili-
tary error."
There were, at the same time, signs
that at least two possible sources of
conflict were quieting.
These involved Bulgaria and Hun-
gary, which have claims of their'own
for Rumanian territory. It seemed
clear, from information received by
diplomats here, that their demands
were being calmed.
Military Preparations
Made In Hungary, Bulgaria
BUDAPEST,+ June 29-(')-Mili-
tary preparations continued in the
Balkans tonight although it was be-
lieved that Hungary and Bulgaria,
under diplomatic pressure from Ger-
many and Italy, had decided to de-'
fer their revisionist claims upon Ru-
mania.
If this postponement of demands
is definite and the crisis in the Bal-
kans has been surmounted, it is as-
sumed that a clear promise was given
by the Rome-Berlin axis partners
that the claims of Bulgaria and Hun-
gary will be met in full later.
Political observers opined that
Bulgaria and Hungary were told to
wait until Southeastern Europe has
been "reformed" under a policy of
"peaceful revisionism."
These observers viewed the pro-
ceedings as a diplomatic victory for
Germany and Italy at a time when
they need peace in this important
production area.
Berlin and Rome were believed to
have assured Hungary she need have
no fear that the Russians would ad-
vance so far into Rumania as to
jeopardize Hungary's Transylvanan
claims.
Turkey Prepared To Call
Million 'Men To Arms
ISTANBUL, June 29. --(P)- Tur-
key will call to arms at least 1,000,-
000 men in the event Bulgaria mo-
bilizes, informed military sources
said tonight.
The fleet resumed its position at
the mouth of the Bosporus after a
cruise along the southern tip of Bul-
garia's Black Sea ;coast.
Anatolian soldiers marched toward
the Bulgarian border.
The general picture in Turkey was
that of a national marshalling of its
land, sea and air forces to demon-
Friers To Visit Central America:
University's Richard Haliburton
On Search For Southern Belle
Sen. Johnson Backs New
Alliance Of Pacifists
WASHINGTON, June 29. -(AP)-
Senator Johnson (Dem.-Colo.) call-
ing Wendell Willkie an "interven-
tionist," asserted today that there
would be a third party-"The Peace
Party"-if the Democratic presiden-
tial nominee also was one.
"The mothers, the 'cannon fodder,'
and the veterans of this republic de-
mand a vote on the question of peace
and they shall have it," Johnson add-
ed in a statement.
The Colorado Senator is support-
ing Wheeler of Montana for the
Democratic nomination.
Wheeler has been critical of the
Administration's policy of aid to the
Allies, and two weeks ago in the
Senate declared that he would "break
with the Democratic Party" if it be-
came a "war party."
With the Republican Convention
over, capital political interest veered
to the forthcoming Democratic Con-
vention at Chicago beginning July
15.
Mexican Army Gets
Ready For Trouble
Second Drama Season Play:
Repertory Players To Present
Anderson's The Star Wagon'
SAGINAW, June 29.-(P)-For two
years he's been wishing he could see
the "most beautiful girl in the world"
again, so today Robert E. Friers,
24-year-old collegiate vagabond who
graduated from the University this
June, was off on an 11,000-mile
hitch-hiking jaunt to Central Amer-
ica.
Riding his thumb isn't anything
new for the slender Friers. In the
past 12 years he's travelled 107,000
miles without buying a single ticket
and has clippings in a dozen strange
languages to prove that he is the
world's champion collegiate vaga-
bond. But this trip is going to be
different from the others.
"IIa,-, _ rra~ in H rin + wnvpA r
After he leaves Saginaw, Friers
will go to Mexico and, from there,'
south to Guatemala, Nicaragua, Cos-
ta Rica, Panama, Venezuela, Colom-
bia, Ecuador, /Peru and then back
home. He has $40 for the trip, but
since he returned only last Decem-
ber from a $30,000 round-the-world
cruise during which he spent just
$81.97, the University's famed vaga-
bond isn't worried. Articles writteni
for a chain of newspapers will help
support him.
Aside from getting the photo-
graphs of Rosalino, Friers has two
other objectives. He wants to be
around if revolution breaks out in
Mexico and he wants to crash the
In Coming I
Election
The second presentation of theI
Michigan Repertory Players of the1
1940 Summer Session season will beI
Maxwell Anderson's Broadway suc-
cess of 1937-38, "The Star Wagon."
The first performance will be held
at 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Lydia
Mendelssohn Theatre and other per-
formances will be given Thursday and
Friday nights.
The production is under the di-
rection of Valentine B. Windt, man-
aging director of the players. As-
sisting Professor Windt, are art di-
rector, Alexander Wyckoff, and cos-
tumier, Evelyn Cohen.
Cast in leading roles In the drama
Richard Hadly, of long standing in
the Players, will be seen as Charles
Duffy, Minch's chief rival. Claribel
Baird, one of the visiting faculty who
is acting as assistant director to
Professor Windt, will portray Mrs.
Rutledge. Mrs. Baird last appeared
here as Kniertje in "The Good
Hope."
Truman Smith will play Hanus
and Eveylh Smith will act as Hallie.
The play, which covers a period
of more than thirty years, presents
a contrast between the leisurely pace
of small-town life in the 1900's and
the mad, recklessness of modern
times.
MEXICO CITY, June 29. -()-
Mexico's army stands on call tonight
to stamp out trouble in Mexico's bit-
ter presidential election of a week
from Sunday-July 7-but officials
insist thev e inot ning tn h any
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