i Weather Fair and Cooler LL Official Publication Of The.Summer Session i3attx Editorial The Fight For Democracy . ,.- .. VOL. I. No 35 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 1941 Z-323 PRICE FIVE CENTS Republicans Seek To Cut Extension; SalesTax Is Asked -' House Amendments Draft ServiceTo Final Vote To ,Be Limit Year; Closie To Speak In Series Brown Suggests Tax On Luxuries WASHINGTON, Aug. 9. -(A)- House Republicans drafted amenl- ments by the dozen today for at- tempts to 'modify administration leg- islation which would keep the Army's rank and file in service indefinitely. Polls taken by leaders of both par- ties showed that the vote next week on the questions of unlimited exten- sion of service would be so close that a few members, now uncommitted, cofld. turn the outcome either way. But, at the same time, these surveys indicated that an 18-months contin- uation - already approved by the Senate-might win a House majority, and there were indications that Dem- ocratic leaders were willing to com- promise. " Two Amendments Representative Short (Rep.-Mo.), one of the floor leaders of the oppo- sition to the legislation, said the minority would make their principal fight for these two amendments: 1. To make the continuation of service beyond the present 12-month period apply only to National Guard, Reserves and enlisted men, thus per- mitting the selectees to be discharged at the end of their year of training. 2. To eliminate a preamble declara- tion of policy which says that 'the national interest is imperiled." 'Breach Of Faith' "We' do not feel that Congress should at this time continue selectees in our Army beyond their 12-month period of training and. service," Short said. "For us - to keep them longer than that would be a breach of faith or at least considered so, on the part of-the go'rnment. " Rep. Fish (Rep.-N.Y.), who said' "scores" of .amendments would be presented, said he would propose the release of all married soldiers, Na- tional Guardsmen and selectees. Some Democrats expressed the opinion that it did not make much difference what restrictions the House approved because the Senate and House bills would be sent to a joint Senate-House committee com- prised predominantly of administra- tion leaders who would then bring back a new bill which would have to be accepted or rejected in whole. * * * Senator Brown Asks For Modified Sales Tax WASHINpTON, Aug. 9.-(A)- Senator Brwn, Michigan Democrat, suggested to the Senate Finance Committee today a modified form of the sales tax, applied chiefly to lux- ury items. Senator Brown's suggestion came as opposition developed in the com- mittee against further broadening of the income tax base. At a finance committee hearing yesterday, Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau proposed that tax ex- emptions be reduced from $2,000 to $1,500 for married persons and from $800 to $750 for single individuals. Majority In Favor Chairman George (Dem.-Ga.) of the finance group endorsed the sug- gestion, and said he believed "a ma- jority of the committee is disposed to accept it." However, Brown, a member of the finance committee, told reporters that little would be gained from low- ering exemptions further. Senator Connally (Dem.-Tex.), another com- mitteeman, said he doubted that cut- ting the exemption from $800 to $750 for single persons would rise any appreciable revenue but added that a reduction from $2,000 to $1,500 for married persons might be worth- while. Exemption Cuts When the exemptions were cut from $2,500 to $2,000, for married persons and from $1,000 to $800 for single individuals, Brown declared, the new group of lower-bracket tax- payers provided only $19,000,000 in revenue. In addition, he said it cost $15,000,000 to collect that revenue. "The additional revenue we would gain from a further cut wouldn't amount to anything," Brown con- tended, "and we would. merely be harcit an.roiin nf alrnadv-dis- * * *- Hall Will Open Study Group's Last Lectures 'Dilemma Of Democracy' Is Subject Of Address At 4:15 P.M. Tomorrow Beginning the last week of lec- tures of the Graduate Study Pro- gram in Public Policy in a World at War, H. Duncan Hall, formerly of the League of Nations Secretariat, will speak at 4:15 p.m. tomorrow in the, Lecture Hall of the Rackham School on "The Dilemma of Democ- racy." A graduate of the University of Sydney in Australia, Mr. Hall was awarded a traveling scholarship which allowed him five years of study at the University of Oxford. From 1921 to 1926 he published articles and lectured at the Uiiver-' sity of Sydney. In 1925 he led the Australian delegation at the Insti- tote of Pacific Relations and was delegate to that conference in 1927 and 1939. Following a year teaching and lec- turing in this country, Mr. Hall was appointed to the Secretariat of the League of Nations in 1927. He stayed with the League in various capacities for the next 12 years. Since 1939 Mr. Hall has spent his time writing and lecturing. Last sum- mer he spent as visiting professor at Harvard University. aMr. Hall is perhaps best known for his book "The British Commonwealth of Nations," published in 1920, which summed up the past development and forecast the main lines of fu- ture development of the British Em- pire. Church Plans Choral, Solo For Evensong Offering 'two solos from oratorios, Profs. Arthur Hackett, tenor, and Hardin Van Deursen, baritone, will be featured in a Choral Evensong to be presented at 8 p.m. today in the sanctuary of the First Methodist Church. The selection to be rendered by Professor Hackett is "In Native Worth" from Haydn's "Creation." This will be followed by the choir's offering "The Heavens Are Tellin from the same work, with Bonnie Ruth Van Deursen in the solo part of Gabriel. Professor Van Deursen's solo offer- ing will be "But Who May Abide" from Handel's dramatic "Messiah." The choir will then sing the Halle- lujah Chorus. Rounding out the program will be numbers by the choir, directed by Professor Van Deursen and accom- panied at the organ by Mary Eleanor porter. To be rendered by the group are "Grant Them Rest" from the "Man- zoni Requiem" by Verdi, a plain song chant, "Jam Lucis," and "How Lovely Is Thy Dwelling Place" from Brahms' 'A German Requiem." Concluding the program will b "Cast Thv Burden Unon the Lord" Aly, lBrigance Open Speech Conferences Dr. Hopkins To Welcome Second Annual Forensic Meeting Tomorrow Registration for the second annual Speech Conference will take place from 9 to 11 a.m. tomorrow in the lower lobby of the W. K. Kellogg In- stitute, and Dr. Louis A. ,Hopkins, director of the Summer Session will give the welcoming address at 11 a.m. in the Kellogg Auditorium. Prof. W. Norwood Brigance, of Wa- bash College, and Prof. Bower Aly, of the University of Missouri, will be the visiting speakers in the sessions tomorrow. Both men are nationally recognized leaders in the field of speech education. Professor Brigance will speak at 2 p.m. on "The Place of Public Address in American History," and Prof. Aly at 3:30 p.m. on "Directing Forensics, with Special Attention to the Nation- al High School Debate Question for 1941-42." Both lectures will be given in the auditorium of the Kellogg In- stitute. Chairman of the Department of Speech at Wabash College, Professor Brigance is also editor-elect of the Quarterly Journal of Speech, the offi- cial publication of the National Asso- ciation of 'teachers of Speech and is the director for the National Asso- ciation of Teachers of ,Speech of Studies on American Public Address. Professor Brigance is the author of eight books in the field of speech and has published more than 30 es- says and research articles in educa- tional and literary magazines. Professor Aly, director of forensics at the University of Missouri, is a member of the executive committee of the National Association of Teach- ers of Speech and is the editor of the (Continued on Page 3) French Picture To Be Shown By Art Cinema 'Crime And Punishment' Stars Pierre Blanwhar; English Sub-Titles Used "Crime and Punishment," the best foreign film of 135, will be revifed by the Art Cinema League when it is shown here at 8:15 p.m. today in the Lecture Hall of the Rackham School. Based on Dostoyevski's famous novel of the same name, the French film . stars Pierre Blanchar as the student-murderer, Madeleine Ozeray as Sonia and Harry Bauer as the po- lice inspector. Voted by the Venice Exhibition in 1935 the world grand prize for act- ing, the picture also was chosen as one of the ten best foreign films to be released in the United States that year. The story centers about a mur- derer's retribution brought about by his own conscience. The picture has been called by New York critics "a brilliant, human document of a tor- tured mind." As most of Dostoyev- ski's characters, the film's portrayals are psychological studies. Dialogue is in French and English sub-titles are appended. Tickets for "Crime and Punish- ment" may be obtained at the Union and the League. They will also be on sale at the Rackham School from 7:30 p.m. until curtain time. Piano Recital Is Scheduled Brinkman, Beller To Play Brahms And Chopin Music by Chopin and Brahms will be played by Prof. Joseph Brinkman of the School of Music and William Beller in a piano recital at 4:15 p.m. tomorrow in the Rackham Assembly Hall. Mr. Beller will open the program with "Sonata, Ip. 58, B minor" (Al- legro maestroso; Scherzo; Adagio; Finale-Presto) while Professor Brink- man will offer "Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel" by Brahms. Phyllis Warwick, pianist, a student of Professor Brinkman and Prof. Ma- bel Ross Rhead, will offer another recital at 8:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Rackham Assembly Hall. n' .~ A Berlin Claims Reds' Lines Weakening Along All Sectors Advance Seen In Ki4.ev .Area (By The Associated Press) MOSCOW, August 9. - Russian sources tonight reported the big guns of the Soviet Baltic Fleet had smashed German troop concentra- tions along the Estonian coast, while the official Red Army communique said fierce-fighting troops were hold- ing the Germans firm in the same battle-torn areas where they have stood for several days. At the same time, the Soviet Army newspaper reported the cutting up of ten new Nazi divisions with a toll of 50,000 invaders slain or wounded and an official spokesman said the air fleet would continue the bombing of Berlin with one of the objectives the breaking of German morale. Admitted Bombings (The German official news agency DNB acknowledged tonight that Russian bombers had attempted to attack Berlin last night. hut stated that the Red raiders were forced to turn back by anti-aircraft fire before even reaching outskirts of the Nazi capital.) Tass, the Soviet official news agency, reported that the Russian bombers dropped explosives and in- cendiaries on railway and nfilitary objectives in Berlin last night, start- ing fires, but that the raid was chiefly for reconnoitering. Relieved Army Unit Reporting the use of the Baltic Fleet,...along the Estonian coast, a dispatch to Red Fleet, Qrgan of the Russian Navy, said the , action re- lieved a threatened Red Army unit.. Red Fleet said ,this teamwork be- tween the Army and Navy resulted from a hurried call for aid from the hard-pressed Soviet troops. Without regard to the danger of Nazi shore batteries, it added that the warships steamed up to the shore line to fire deadly salvos. Elsewhere in the Baltic, the offi- cial war bulletin said the Red Fleet sank an "enemy" torpedo boat and damaged two others along with some transports. "List Conflict Zones In the official report of the prog- ress of the continent-wide battle line, the Red Army communique said the zones of gigantic conflict along the 1,200-mile front were in the fa- (Continued on Page 3) Price Will Talk At 4:15 Today Priorities Control Over Steel of it ti( do of li d4 ki a in ar May Hamper Civilian Output NEW YORK, Aug. 9.-(P-Placing ingots at close to the full "rated" E all forms of steel under full prior- capacity pace of 84,000,006 annually, ies control by the Office of Produc- but yet there is not steel enough. For the automobile industry, the on Management in Washington to- full priority announcement may be ay may "put the choker" on output particularly bad news. The automo- civilian goods in thousands of key bile companies, which in the 1941 nes, business circles said here to- model year just ended produced 5,- 590,000 passenger cars and trucks, ay. almost as many as in the record year Automobiles, electric refrigerators, 1929, long ago agreed to reduce the itchen ranges, washing machines, 1942 model output by 20 percent, but nd other familia items may appear with priorities on steels of all kinds, a fewer numbers of display rooms the reduction may be as much as 50 nd on store counters. or 60 percent. With allow steels as well as other types going under priority, evei things like kitchenware, cut Vcy, vacuum bottles, tin cans, and variety merchandise may feel 4 sharp pinch. When the big $50,000,000,000 na- tional defense program started, steel company executives, meeting with government officials, believed that steel producing facilities were ade- quate to provide all the metal needed both for consumer goods industries and for armaments. Defense demands, however, have been soaring. Steel companies, lighting every available furnace, now are producing Churches Plan Vespers, Talks And Services Final Program In Sunday Evening Series Planned By Presbyterian Church "After Death-What?" is the last of the topics to be considered at the Sunday Vespers at 6:45 p.m. today at the First Presbyterian Church and concludes the series on "Questions That Haunt Mankind." This will be led by Dr. William P. Lemon, pastor of the church, and will follow a 6 p.m. supper in the church. Morning worship services will con- tinue today and next Sunday, fol- lowing which the church will be closed for three Sundays. On Sep- tember 14 and 21, union services will be conducted at the church, the Christian Church congregation unit- ing, and their pastor, the Rev. Fred Cowin, leading the morning worship services. - * * The Rev. Henry O. Yoder will ad- dress the Trinity Lutheran Church congregation at the 10:30 a.m. serv- ice on the subject, "A Spiritual Diag- nosis." Drawing on the story of the 38-year paralytic at the Pool of Bethesda, Reverend Yoder will at- tempt to prove that many of the problems which are generally attrib- uted to physical causes may be in- terpreted in 'terms of mental, and spiritual outlook. Instead of their regular meeting, the Lutheran Student Association will be ,entertained at 5:30 p.m. at an informal evening at the home of Reverend Yoder, 215 East William Street. (Continued on Page 3) Vichy Accepts Nazis' Views France To Follow Berlin, Envoy Brinon Declares VICHY, Unoccupied France, Aug. 9.->P)-Vernand Brinon, envoy of the Vichy government in Occupied France, declared today in an inter- view in Paris, made public in Vichy tonight, that France has decided to accept the German version of the new world order as opposed to that of Britain and the United States. As the interview was made public there was considerable speculation on the results of the day-long con- ference here among Chief of State Soviet Fleet Guns Bombard Nazi Concentrations; Moscow Pouring M1iions Of Men Into Battle Front -4; Songs, Dances, Talks Feature . Holiday Today Ecuadorians On CampusI To Celebrate National Holiday Here At Union La Fiesta Nacional del lode Au- gosto, the national holiday of Ecua- dor, will be celebrated by Ecuador- ians on campus and all others inter- ested with a program at 8 p.m. today in the Union Ballroom presented by the Ecuadorians of the Latin-Amer-~ ican Summer Session of the Inter- national Center. The program will open with the singing of the national anthem of. Ecuador by the assembled Ecuador- ians. Following this Senor Wilson Cordova, private secretary to the President of Ecuador, will preside over introductions. Dr. Teodoro Al- varado Olea, who was originally scheduled to make the introductions, has been called to New York and so will not be present. Senor Cordova will next give a short talk on "The Significance of the 10th of August," explaining the meaning of the Ecuadorian national holiday. Dr. Miguel Albornoz will then speak on "Spanish and Ecua- dorian Art." The program will be concluded with two dances, one a typical native dance, "San Juanito," and the other a typical Spanish dance, "Jota Es- panola." Senorita Teresa Bueno and Dr. Alejandro Paz will present the first dance and Senorita Clara Busta- mante will do the latter. The Ecuadorians invite all inter- ested in celebrating their national holiday with them to attend the pro- gram. There will be no charge. Prof. Wethey Will I'Discuss "Paris School' Concluding a series of three lec- tures on French painting, Prof. Har- old E. Wethey, chairman of the De- partment of Fine Arts, will speak at 4:10 p.m. tomorrow in Room D, Alumni Memorial Hall, on the sub- ject, "The School of Paris" (20th Century.) Although the center of the group, from whose creations evolved all new movementsin the field of painting, was in Paris, it was essentially cos- mopolitan in character. Artists from all over the world gathered in the Latin Quarter to work together. Leaders of the School were Ma- tisse, a Frenchman, and Picasso, a Spaniard. These two men figured widely in the development of the two chief movements of the early part of the period, expressionism and cubism and abstract art. The, former interpretation originated with Matisse, Rouault and Derain, princi- pally, and the latter with Picasso and the Frenchman Braque. From these two movements have been de- Air Raids On Berlin To Be Continued,' Moscow Reports Ten Divisions Of Nazis Cut (By The Associated Press), BERLIN, Aug. 9-German war re- ports tonight said that the Russians were pouring a seemingly endless stream of millions of men into the continent-wide bloody battlefront. They declared, however, that there was a marked softening of Soviet re- sistance, and reported that the posi- tion of the Red armies fighting in the Ukraine, where the major Ger- man effort now appears to be cen- tered, was untenable. New Victories In South The official reports told of new victories in the drive on the impor- tant southern front, generally lo- cated south of Kiev and north of the Black Sea port of Odessa, bringing the German count of Red prisoners to more ;than a million. Declaring that the Russians had suffered a crushing blow in the en-, circlement battle south of Uman re- ported earlier in the week, high Ger- man sources said they thought the Soviet forces now would soon have to yield that part of Vkrainian terri- tory east of the Dnieper River bend including- the Black Sea coast and Odessa. Benefit By Sacrifice Germans said the great battles of thle last seven days in which Russian soldiers stood and accepted anihila- tion were paying increasing divi- dends for German arms now cutting deep slices into the Ukraine and cen- tral fronts.. The German count of prisoners mounted to more than a million- 1,036,000-with the wiping out of an encircled unit at Roslavl, 60 miles southeast of Smolensk, as reported by the High Command. 'I Predict Kiev Success Military commentators predicted decisions "of the broadest scope" in the Ukraine where 'the High Com- mand also announced the capture of Korosten, 80 miles northwest of Kiev, one of the keys to the defense of that capital. In the north the German Luft- waffe was reported peppering every- thing afloat in an offensive which Germans compared with those at Dunkerque, Greece and Crete, to pre- vent Russians fighting with their backs to the Baltic, from executing a successful evacuation of Estonia. The reported capture of 38,000 prs- onep' at Roslavl appaently meant the. Germans had widened their' wedge to a broad front aimed at Moscow, 230 miles or less away. The Germans first reported this force partly surrounded and partly anni- hilated three days ago. Added to the 25 divisions which the Germans said were destroyed in the Ukraine with Russian losses of 200,000 casualties and 103,000 pris- ners, the, Nazis thus totaled within 14 hours Soviet dead, wounded and captured at 341,000. German speed troops, with the help of Hungarians, were reported by- passing Kiev, turning southeastward from Bel Tserkov to skirt the west side of the broad Dnieper toward the huge Soviet complex of steel making, coal and ore mining and power pro- ducing at Dnepropetrovsk. This industrial center in the broad bend of' the Dnieper Is 240 miles southeast of Kiev. Germans said that it was in this gigantic battle for' the road plateau of wheat and ,mineral producing lands between the Dnieper, Dniester and the Black Sea that Russian forces. were first to really weaken. * * * Tw 'AFs'T Rai8 n Hl On Germany, London Says (By The Associated Press) LONDON, Aug.-The two RAF's-- the British Royal Air Force and the Red Air Force-will ride Europe's lengthening night in superlative raids that will turn German cities into "hells of death and destruction" before the year is out, the British predicted tonight. 'Russia At War' Is Theme Of Professor's Speech Prof. Hereward T. Price, of the University's English department, will lecture at 4:15 p.m. today in the Rackham Lecture Hall on "Russia at War," under the sponsorship of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies. Born in Madagascar, son of an English missionary, Professor Price received his education in England, taking his B.A. and M.A. at Oxford.