Weatherr Partly Cloudy and Warmer. L gik iau :4Iaiti3 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 I 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. i 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- (Continued on Page 3) 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 Student Will, Directory Sale Begin Tomorrow