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 (Continued from Page I) 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. TYPING rYPING-Experienced. L. M. Hey- wood, 414 Maynard St. Phone 5689. TYPING-Experienced. Miss Allen, 408 S. Fifth Ave. Phone 2-2935 or 2-1416. TRANSPORTATION GOING TO MEXICO Aug. 15th. Re- turning Sept. 1. Need passenger. $20 round trip. Call Herrarte, 5407. FOR SALE 1940 BUICK SPECIAL; 4-door Se- dan. Radio; heater; new white sidewall tires. 17,000 miles. Like new. $800. Dial 4800 days; 7380 evenings. LAUNDERING LAUNDRY 2-1044. Sox darned. Careful work at low price. 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He's thesenate foreign relations committee's new chairman. 4 i 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- fied Ad Section of The Michigan Daily. Use the Daily Classifieds! Ur aMnrii4w atu 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.