iglr~ Litn Abr 4:3att Editorial Evaluating Britain's Act.. Official Publication Of The Summer Session r - - Z-323 ANN ARBOR, MICMIGAN, TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1940 PRICE FIVE CENTS Japan May Move Against Hongkong Protest U.S. Move Britain's Refusal To Close Burma Road Draws Threat Of Japanese Action TOKYO, July 9 (Tuesday).-Q)-It is quite possible that continued refusal of Britain to close the Burma road to China may result in armed Japanese action against the British crown colony of Hongkong, persons close to the Japanese government declared today. The war, navy and foreign ministries scheduled immediate emergehcy conferences to discuss the British rejection yesterday of Japanese demands that this last link between the Chinese Nationalist forces and the outside world be shut off. Reliable sources said the Japanese would take "drastic action" if the British stand were not changed. Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita yesterday told British Ambassador Sir Robert Leslie Craigie -that his replys was not satisfactory and urged him C t advise London to reconsider. R (Ht Series The Japanese press unanimously asserted that "an understanding" P &ith the United States and Russia r S n $( preceded Britain's rejection of the Japanese demand and repeated pre- ' ByiF x rious charges that the United States Future Of Religion Lies In America,_Sweet Says British Claim 'Richelieu' Safe From Nazi Control; French Nearing Fascism Chicago Professor Claims Theologians. Have Too Dependent On European Leadership Been acting as Britain's "watchdog hie Pacific." compiant. - Nevertheless, a foreign office com- munique said Sir Robert had agreed to transmit to London Arita's urging that Britain think the Burma issue over. Informed persons said further negotiations would seek a compro- mise. Japanese said Japan had no intention of receding from her posi- tion. British Reply Cited The British reply was understood to have said that Britain's commit- ments to Burma and India prevented her from closing their borders with China since their trade would be affected. As for Hongkong, it assert- ed that already trade between that colony and the Chinese hinterland had been halted. In informed quarters here belief, was' expressed that Britain's order for the removal of all British women and children from the crown colony of Hongkong indicated British deter- mination to stand pat regardless of Japan's insistent demands. The press reported that Japan's roving emissary, Naotake Sato, , has "conferred with German Foreign Min- ister Joachim Von Ribbentrop and ,had received indications that Ger- many would back Japan in any ac- tion against Britain in the Orient. Japanese resentment also flared against the United States for the ar- rest of 15 Japanese gendarmes in Shanghai. Col. Peck Refutes Tokio's Charges (By the Associated Press) SHANGHAI, July 8.-The blunt report, "it's a lie," was given by Col. Dewitt Peck, United States Marine commander, to Japanese accusations today that fifteen Japanese plain- clothes gendarmes had been mal- treated after their arrest by marines in the American defense area of the Shanghai International Settlement. The gendarmes were arrested when they were found in the area yester- day in violation of an agreement not to enter without American militay authorities' consent. A Japanese army spokesman, as- serting the gendarmes were clubbed, humiliated and otherwise mistreated, forecast "a strong protest." He denied any apology had been given to United States authorities, although admitting the Japanese were at fault in not advising that the gendarmes would be sent into Dumas Malone To Offer Third Lecture In Series On Graduate Program Speaking on "Religion and Hu- manitarianism", President Dixon Ry- an Fox of Union College will lecture at 8:15 p.m. today in conjunction with the Graduate Study Program irk American Culture and Institu- tions. Dr. Dumas Malone, Director of the Harvard University Press, will give his third talk of the summer at 4:15 p.m. today on "Personal Achieve- ments of the Clergy." Both lectures will be held in the Rackham School auditorium and will be open to the plblic. President Fox took his A.B. degree at Columbia University in 1911, where he received his A.M. i 1912 and Ph. D. in 1917. He recieved the degrees of L.H.D. from Union College in 1931 and Syracuse University in 1934 and Litt. D. from Columbia in 1935 and from Knox and Williams Colleges in 1937. In 1936 he was awarded a Ph. D. degree by the N.Y. State College for Teachers and he received LL. D.'s from Bates College in 1934, the Uni- versity of Rochester in 1935 and Keuka College in 1937. In 1936 Al- fred University gave him a D.C.L. de- gree. A member of the faculty of Co- (Continued on Page 4) Linguists Plan. Two Lectures Froeschels And Bloomfield To Address Institute Two distinguished specialists high- light the week's open program of the Linquistic Institute. Tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. in room 2029 of the W. K. Building Dr. Emil Froeschels will, speak on "The Development of Lang- uage in Children." Friday evening Professor Leonard Bloomfield of the University of Chicago will discuss "The Phoneme." Dr. Froeschels, world-renowned worker in the field of children's, speech, is one of the many European scientists who have been forced by the vicissitudes of political upheavel to make their home in the United States. For nearly twenty-five years he was a member of the faculty of the University of Vienna, where as pro- fessor and as head of the speech clinic he directed the activities which were required by the 2.500 patients who annually came for corrective treatment. In this country since February, 1938, Dr. Froeschels is now on the (Continued on Page 3) Joseph P. Martin Seen As Republican National Head WASHINGTON, July 8. -('P)- Word spread through Republican ranks tonight that Representative Joseph W. Martin, Jr., of Massachu- setts the minority leader of the House, would become Republican Na- tional chairian and director of the By HARRY M. KELSEY The future of religion, whether Catholic, Protestant or Jew, lies more with America than with any other land, Dr, William W. Sweet, Profes- sor of the History of American Chris- tianity at the University of Chicago, told students and guests of the Grad- uate Study Program in American Culture and Institutions last night in his lecture on "Church and State in the New World." - "In recent years," he stated, "there have been subtle forces at work tend- ing to divert our attention from the liberalism of the democratic ideal toward the dogmatism of an external authority. This is the remedy pro- posed by some of our theologians, most of whom are of European birth or training, in order to combat the control of religion by the authoritar- ian states. But the remedy is as dangerous as the disease. The demo- crac'y of America today stands for one great principle, and that is the resistance to all tyrannical force over the individuals' conscience." "Our American theologians have been too dependent upon European leadership," he asserted, "and have given practically no attenion to the history of American religious thought. For myself I am tired of getting our theology out of somebody else's experience." From the beginning of colonization to the present hour, Professor Sweet said, America has been the haven of perscuted religious groups. He point- ed out that when the last published Federal religious census was taken in 1926 there were 213 independent religious bodies in this country. It is better, however, Professor Sweet Job Application Demonstration Opens Tonight Dr. Purdon And Star Cast Will Dramatize Correct Standards Of Conduct "Why people do not get jobs when there are jobs" will be demonstrated in dramatic form at 7 p.m. today in the Rackham Lecture Hall by Dr. T. Luther Purdom, director of the Uni- versity Bureau of Appointments and Occupational Information with the assistance of a staff of dramatists. The dramatized lecture will be the first in the series of three weekly demonstrations on te art of impress- ing the would-be boss presented un- der the direction of the Bureau. Appearance and attitude will be featured at the lecture today. In harmony with a running commen- tary by Dr. Purdom, a cast of stu- dents will demonstrate the correct and incorrect mannerisms of job ap- plication. The program will attempt to pre- sent faults shown by the average job applicant. In view of time limitations in the use of the Lecture Hall, the hour program wil begin promptly at 7 p.m., Dr. Purdom announced yester- day. maintained, to have 213 free church- es than to have one church to which all are compelled to conform. "What seems an absurd diversity is far bet- ter than an enforced uniformity of religious expression," he affirmed, "and yet there is little doubt but that the cause of religion in America might be greatly advanced if there could be achieved a greater unity." Professor Sweet indicated the crea- tion of an environment favorable to the achievement of complete re- ligious liberty and the separation of church and state in the Colonial period and the following of the popu- lation westward with the refining and softening influence of the Cris- tian gospel in later years as two of the most important tasks accom- plished by the religious forces of America., Music Faculty To Give First Concert Today Prof. Okkelberg, Hackett Are Featured Soloists; Quartet Will Perform The first faculty concert in the Summer Session Series will be given at 8:30 p.m. today in Hill Auditor- ium. Six members of the School of Mu- sic faculty will participate-two so- loists, Prof. Maud Okkelberg, pianist' and Arthur Hackett, tenor; and a quartet composed of Professors Was- sily Besekirsky, violinist; Hanns Pick, violoncellist; Anthony J. Whit- mire, violist; and Joseph Brinkman, pianist. An all-Brahms program will be provided, as follows: Romanza, Op. 178, Nd. 5; Capric- cio, Op. 116, No. 3; Intermezzo, Op. 116, No. 4, and Capriccio, Op. 76, No. 5, by Professor Okkelberg, pianist. Die Mainacht; Es Traumte mir; Wir Wandelten; Feldeinsamkeit, and Juchhe; by Arthur Hackett, tenor. Quartet in G minor, Op. 25; Allegro; Intermezzo; Andante con moto, and Rondo alla Zingarese, by the quartet. Hawaii Chief Calls On FDR Admiral Richardson Talks Routine Fleet Matters' WASHINGTON, July 8. -(p)- Admiral J. O. Richardson, command- er of the fleet, arrived in the Capital unannounced from Hawaii and was a White House caller today as Presi- dent Roosevelt worked on the final draft of his new defense requests, expected to call for expenditure of $5,000,000,000. What purpose brought the com- manding officers of the Navy's fight- ing forces secretly 5,500 miles from the fleet's present base was not dis- closed. He merely told reporters that he discussed "routine fleet matters" with the President. p cc el of C]( di th A se al to th th. R S h of d( fi fa A fr P 01 of w d# in hE nE to 0 w p So pi S th A tc is ai do lo R S M as w G ze B; I U.S. Must Fight Puppet Controls" In Latin America, Preuss Says By NORMAN A. SCHORR of the British fleet being taken over Revitalizing the Monroe Doctrine by Germany. aprevent establishment of puppet For, "we are in a certain sense at war," the speaker declared, having ontrols in Latin American nations committed certain definite hostile Lust be adopted by the American acts towards Germany which give eople to cope "with the most severe that nation ample legal cause for the hallenge the Monroe Doctrine has declaration of war. ver faced," Prof. Lawrence Preuss, Professor Preuss reviewed the ef- f the political science department, forts to continentalize the Monroe eclared yesterday in a lecture before Doctrine in the so-called "Good 50 persons in the Rackham Amphi- Neighbor Policy," at the HIavana heatre. Conference in 1928, and later Pan- Since this unilateral instrument of American meetings at MoneVideo, merican foreign policy, providing Buenos Aires, Lima and Peru. minimum requirements of national Such attempts to promote under- lf-defense," did not foresee Nation- standing among the Pan-American 1 Socialist Trojan Horse annexation nations must be continued, but the actics, Professor Preuss urged that speaker insisted a basic reformation us nation prepare now to reinter- of the Monroe Doctrine is essential ret the Doctrine to meet the latest to the maintenance of the security of reat in the hemisphere-the Third the United States. ech. He recommended that the United tates "acquire possessions in this Fifth Sum m er emisphere to secure the integrity f the Panama Canal, build national We Til T e efenses to the highest point of ef- Tour Visit ciency, reaffirm the democratic '1 ith and place relations with Latin Fora Factories merican nations on a firmer basis."1 "We must recognize that our only e iend today is the British Empire," Reservations For Second rofessor Preuss claimed, pointing Excursion To Dearborn ut that the Petain government Today hich controls islands "vital' to our Tomorrow Due efenses" is very obviously controlled Reservation should be made by 5 Berlin. Since the United States tsdain sheud me bysio as o tlati fletto pek o, hep.m. today in the Summer Session s no Atlaintic fleet o speak of, the poffice, Room 1213 Angell Hall, for litica scientist called upon this the fifth excursion of the summer, aiion. to act, tomeet'the. possibility a repeat trip tomorrow to the Ford plant in Dearborn for the benefit ' of those who were unable to make 0 V ll Dr ma the journey last Wednesday. Excursionists will meet at 12:45 To Star Three p.m. tomorrow in front of Angel Hall and will return to Ann Arbor t Veterans by 5:30 p.m. Buses will take the Sta e s group to the Ford Rotunda, from where special Ford buses will trans- Starred in the Michigan Reper- port the party to the Ford River ry Players' production of Eugene Rouge plant. After a general tour of the 1,000 'Neill's "Beyond the Horizon," acre plant during which guides will 'hich opens its four-day run at 8:30 indicate the various buildings and .m. tomorrow in the Lydia Mendels- the purpose of each, the party will )hn Theatre, are three veterans: of be conducted through the final as- lay production, Arthur Klein, John sembly line and shown the open chwarzwalder and Mary Jordan. hearth furnaces, the rolling mill, the Klein and Schwarzwalder portray rubber and tire factory and the test- e roles of two brothers, Robert and ing laboratories. ndrew Mayo, each of whom desires The divisions of the plant to be a pursue a certain course in life and visited provide opportunity for ob- forced by circumstances to follow serving typical phases of the Ford nother which he dislikes. Miss Jor- industrial technique. an plays Ruth Atkins, who is be- ved by both brothers and marries obert. Her life, like 'the others, is Callis To Give nhappy. Others in the cast include Everett T . Courtright and June Madison as r. and Mrs. Mayo; Henry Patterson s Mrs. Mayo's brother Captain Dick, Illustrated Lecture On Far ho takes Andrew to sea; Elizabeth reene as Mrs. Atkins; William Kin- East Will Be Presented r as Ben, a farm hand; and Tom attin as Dr. Fawcett. Madame Maud E. Callis will pre- sent an illustrated lecture on the Far " East tomorrow at 8 p.m. under the d Sess l o naauspices of the Cercle Francals at the club Foyer, 1414 Washtenaw. ORlo n Madame Callis has spent much time in the East, making observations of the customs and manners of the peo- ple as graduate work. Her narrative he problems presented by the con- of expressions and impressions of the rence. Far East will be supplemented by an Hinduism was not affected by the interesting collection of scenes pro- se of nationalism in India, Mr. Mor- jected on a screen. an pointed out on the basis of his It was announced that at the last cent studies in Indian monasteries,, meeting of the Cercle the following lthough religion was one of the officers were named: president; W. lost potent forces behind its modern M. Sage, Grad., Lansing; Vice-presi- ationalism. Professor Waterman dent: Helen Crawford, Grad., Ann ted the parallel development of re- Arbor; Secretary: E. L. Bassett, gion and nationalism with increased Grad., Windsor, Conn.; Treasurer; )cial emphasis throughout Ameri- Margaret Kalp, Grad., Flemington, an history. Democracy may well N. J. ke stock of the necessity of reli- ion in its society when it faces the Extension Of Mine Fields hallenge of the totalitarian states, e stressed. The forum of religious In Canal Zone Is Reported rnd social leaders listed blighted CRISTOBAL, Canal Zone, July 8. reas which present problems to the -(IP)-An extension of the live mine ctive religious organization and the field sowed by the United States at ecessity of a broad social viewpoint both terminals of the Panama Canal Y the church. Zone was reported today. Petain Is Named 'Chief Of State (By the Associated Press) LONDON, July 9. (Tuesday)- British sources today claimed a "suc- cessful" action by the British fleet to keep from enemy hands France's mightiest battleship, the 35,000-ton Richelieu launched at Brest but still not completed for service with the fleet. There was no indication of the scope of the engagement, nor wheth- er it was connected with the loss of the 1.760-ton British destroyer Whirl- wind, which was sunk by a submarine yesterday. The action against the Richelieu- presumably sunk, seized or damag- ed was said to have taken place early yesterday. A more detailed account of the action was expected later today. The operation was described as a continuation of the seizure of French warships stated last. week to pre- vent fulfillrent of the armistice pacts between France and Italy and France and Germany. Under those terms the French fleet would have been assembled in French ports and placed under control of Germany and Italy. Prime Minister Churchill has told Commons he had po faith in axis power promises that the ships would not be used against Britain. The Richelieu was the nearest completed of France's newest class of four mighty warships intended to dwarf the 26,500-ton Dunkerque and Strasbourg. Bth of them were 4am- aged in last week's fight off the Al- gerian coast. Although the Richelieu had been launched, it was understood her arm- ament had not been completed. Other ships of her class still in- complete are the Clemenceau, Jean Bart and Gascogne. The two nearest completion, the Richelieu and Jean Bart, were re- ported in German hands after the Germans occupied France's Atlantic coast. Vanquished France Near Dictatorship (By the Associated Press) GENEVA, July 8-Nazi-vanquish- ed France, the cradle of republican freedom in Europe, appeared tonight on the threshold of a virtual total- itarian dictatorship headed by Pre- mier Marshall Henri Philippe Pe- tain, the man who surrendered to Germany. Dispatches fron,-Vichy, seat, of the German-mastered ,French g'overn- ment, said the 84-year-old premier would head a new regime under the fuehrer-like title of "chief of state- but without the personal power of Adolph Hitler. These advices also forecast the re- signation of Premier Albert Lebun to make way for a new nazi-fascist government under Petain, the world war "hero of Verdun" who capitu-. lated to Nazi legions in mid-June. As described in the censored French press, Petain would take "only the title of executive power"-presum- ably as a figurehead-under this ar- rangement, with the government dominated by a triumvirate consist- ing of General Maxine Weygand, former allied command-in-chief; For- mer Premier Pierre Laval, and For- mer Labor Minister Adrien Mar- quet. The reshaping of France's long- time Republican government into the totalitarian mold was expected to be- gin Wednesday or Thursday at a meeting of the French Parliment in Vichy. British Destroyer Sunk By Germans (By the Associated Press) LONDON, July 8-Bomb-battered France's Mightiest Vessel, Launched But Unarmed, ,Taken In Sudden Moe Dr. Gale To Open Se con Of Annual Conference Dr. Essen M. Gale, speaking on "American Religious Stake in China" will open the' second day of the Sixth Annual Conference on Religion at- tended by outstanding religious lead- ers and clergy, faculty and students at the luncheon session at 12 p.m. in the Union. ,From his experience as consul as- sistant of the American Legation at Peking, former lecturer and profes- sor of history and Oriental languages at the University, and the University of California, and wide traveler in the Far East, Dr. Gale will analyze the historical trends of China's de- velopment in his lecture tomorrow and Wednesday. Dr. Gale has been the recipient of medals and awards of the Chinese government for his services as revenue officer, consul and scholar. ti fe ri gE re a. m n ci lid so c to gi cl h ai a ac of W ..._ ....__. .. 4 ___... '' ? .