THE MICHIGAN DAILY
TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1
Japan Placed
On Full War
Footin Now
(Continued from Page 1)
Japanese diplomacy, however, has
long been known to' lag behind the
ambitions of Japanese military lead-
ership.
At London, Reuters, the big British
news agency, received a cryptic dis-
patch from Tokyo saying "important
developments"-nature unspecified-
were expected there shortly. The ex-
pectation was linked to return to the
city of the United States and British
Ambassadors, Joseph C. Grew and
Sir Robert Leslie Craigie, presumably
from a week-end out of town.
Observers at Peiping, North China,
expressed conviction Japan might
move any day against Siberia rather
than Thailand, where it is reported
to have been demanding bases and
other concessions while consolidating
positions in neighboring French In-
do-China.
Foreign Military sources at Shang-
hai agreed Japan was mobilizing a
great striking force in Manchukuo,
but persons at Shanghai usually well
informed expressed belief Japan
would act only if European Russia
seemed near collapse.
Reports from the southern part of
Japan's envisioned "co -properity"
sphere, however, indicated no lessen-
ing of tension in Thailand and the
British Malay States.
Bankok reported that two axis
ships, one Italian and one German,
which had been taking refuge in
Thai territorial waters since the start
of the European war, had slipped
from their anchorages Saturday
night, headed presumably for Saigon,
French Indo-China.
Beethoven's Ninth
Is Featured Today
Instead of conducting the Strauss
Library Music Hour on the days in
which it has been given throughout
the summer, Cornelius D. Gall, di-
rector of the Hamilton Community
Symphony and a student in the
School of Music this summer, will
bring the remainder of this week's
program of recorded masterpieces to
the public today, Thursday and Fri-
day,
Beethoven's "Ninth Symphony"
will be played today at 6:45 p.m. in
the Main Lounge of the West
Quadrangle. Listeners will hear only
the concluding movements, numbers
three and four, since the first two
movements were offered yesterday
on the program.
Performing this work will be the
Philadelphia Orchestra, soloists and
chorus, with Leopold Stokowski con-
ducting.
Del Baker -- T he Miracle Man'
Whose Magic Now Has Failed
By WHITNEY MARTIN
NEW YORK, Aug. 11.-(The Spe-
cial News Service)--It is to be hoped
that Del Baker took out job insur-
ance after winning the American
League pennant last year, as it might
be hard to collect in damage suits
against the U.S. Army, Buck New-
som, Charley Gehringer and any oth-
er persons or organizations sharing
the responsibility for Detroit's pres-
ent spot back there near the alley
entrance.
Last year Baker was a miracle
man, and a mystery man. Nobody
knew much about him. He was that
anohymous gent backstage who
crawls under the canvas and makes
the waves that add realism to the
ship scene, and it took a lot of wave-
making to make the Tigers look like
anything but an old scow in drydock.
He was working with a mixture of
wheezy old guys and callow youths,
but miraculously enough the wheezy
old guys and callow youths had that
good year, as Baker himself would
say, and he steered them to a pen-
nant.
Few believed Detroit would be able
to repeat this year. Miracles don't
come in pairs,. and old age was bound
to catch up with some of the players.
The ban against trading by a cham-
pion also added a somber daub to a
generally dark picture.
Del started this year with much the
same club that finished runnerup tin
the World Series, and the blows be-
gan to fall. The Army got Hank
Greenberg, which reduced the Tigers'
growl to a purr.
Dick Bartell's legs began to fold at
the wrong places. Charley Gehrin-
ger's legs and eyes began to go back
on him. Rudy York couldn't hit in
the style to which he was accus-
tomed. Buck Newsom's victories
mostly were conversational.
ASSOCIATED
PDCTURE
PRESS
NVEWvS
CLASSIFIED
DIRECTORY
Du plicate ' Bridge
Tournament Open
To All Interested
Townspeople and faculty members
as well as students are welcome at
the duplicate bridge hour to be held
at 7:30 p.m. today in the League.
Each week's tournament is a com-
plete one, with prizes to be awarded
to the winners and runners-up in the
North-South and the East-West fac-
tions. No scores are held over from
one session to the next.
Due to the large numbers of cou-
ples who have come our during past
weeks for this feature activity of the
Summer Session calendar, Barbara
McIntyre, assistant to the social di-
rector at the League and chairman
of the bridge hours, has announced
that if enough are present today,
the group will be divided and playing
will bein two sections.
The tournament has been planned
to last not more than three hours.
Prof. Bidwell Will Talk
On Hemisphere Defense
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special advisor to the Tariff Com-
mission and in the latter year be-
came professor of economies at the
University of Buffalo. He left Buf-
falo to become director of studies
for the Council of Foreign Relations
in 1938.
Among Mr. Bidwell's books on in-
ternational economic relations and
American commercial policy are
"Tariff Policy of the United States,"
published in 1933, "Our Trade With
Britain," published in 1938, and "The
Invisible Tariff," published in 1939.
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2-1416.
TRANSPORTATION
GOING TO MEXICO Aug. 15th. Re-
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$20 round trip. Call Herrarte,
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R O L L U P A N O T H E R L 0 G-Through Puget Sound's narrow Deception Pass a big log boom
is towed, evidence of the increasing need for lumber that's being used in homes and defense plant con-
struction work, That white patch in the upper center is another log boom being towed to a mill where
it'll become lumber to supply nation's unparalleled demand.
C HA IR MA N-A night's
grist of work in hand, Sen. Tom
Connally (D-Tex.) heads for
the capital early. He's thesenate
foreign relations committee's
new chairman.
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Landlords,!!
IF YOU HAVE ROOMS TO RENT
YOU'LL BE INTERESTED IN THIS-
On August 16th The Michigan Daily will publish
its annual Freshman Edition.
C A Y P L U M A C E-For cocktail hours, Brenda Marshall of
the films favors powder blue velvet with feathers, veil.
S P R Y, A T 1 1 6-Neighbors say that James Walter Wilson
(above), a former slave, is about 116 years old. He helps his son
grow tobacco near Vidalia, Ga., attributes his longevity to "obedi-,
ence and minding the laws of nature"
This paper
is mailed out to all incoming
Freshmen. This is your first opportunity to con-
tact the new students who are to be at Michigan
for the next four years.
If you are interested in renting your rooms
you will surely want to run an ad in the Classi-
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Use the Daily Classifieds!
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S E R V E S--Pretty Mrs. Henry
T. (Dick) Merrill is a Red Crass
staff assistant at Miami Beach,
Fla. She's the former Toby Wing
of the movies; her husband is
a flyer.
T H E W A T C H O N T H E P O T O M A C-Wearing an expression of rather dubious en-
joyment, a stagehand watches New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia rehearse the national symphony
orchestra which performed on the Potomac recently. The "Little Flower," who's also national civilian
defense director, was guest conductor, conducting the national anthem and two Sousa marches.