Weather Cloudy YI r Official Publication Of The Summer Session :43aiti Editorial Democracy At Home Is Necessary, Too.. VOL. LI. No. 4 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1941 Z-323 PRICE FIVE CENTS Yearly Faculty Event Attracts 1200 Students Reception Precedes Bridge, Two Dances At Opening Summer School Affair Rackham Building Is Scene Of Affair By BARBARA JENSWOLD More than 1,200 students were pres- ent at the primary function of the Summer Session, the faculty's re- ception of the summer students, held yesterday in the Assembly Hall of the Rackham Building. Guests were led down the receiv- ing line by a committee of hostesses selected by the League Council, and were then ushered to the terrace of the building, where punch was served to all present. Hopkins Leads Lie Dr. Louis A. Hopkins, director of the Summer Session, and Mrs. Hop- kins led the receiving line, which was divided into two sections, the one standing from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m., and the second from 9:30 to 10:30 p.m. With Dr. Hopkins in the first group were Dean and Mrs. Clarence S. Yoakum, Mr. and Mrs. Shirley W. Smith, Dean and Mrs. Edward H. Kraus, Dean and Mrs. Ivan C. Craw- ford, Prof. and Mrs. A. E. White, Prof. and Mrs. Earl V. Moore, Prof. and Mrs. Howard B. Lewis, Dean Byrl F. Bacher, Dean Joseph A. Burs- ley and Prof. and Mrs. Louis M. Eich. Receiving with Dr. Hopkins from 9:30 to 10:30 p.m. were Dean and Mrs. Peter Okkelberg, Dean and Mrs. James B. Edmonson, Prof. and Mrs. John Sundwall, Prof. and Mrs. Charles L. Jamison, Prof. and Mrs. White, Dean and Mrs. Samuel T. Dana, Dean Bacher, Dean Bursley Prof. and Mrs. Malcolm H. Soule, and Professor and Mrs. Eich. Two Dances Held Following the reception, students attended dances held in the Union and the League ballrooms, as the guests of the Summer Session, or played rotation bridge in the League. The League Council provided host- esses at the dances to introduce stu- dents who had come without part- ners. Mary Neafie was in charge of the bridge arrangements. Among the girls acting as official hostesses at the'reception were Con- nie Lorch, Claire Cook, Betsy Ross, Mary Neafie, Peggy Whitker, Betty Newman, Shirley Lay; Bea Selvin, Mary Herbert, Marge Leete, Cather- ine Adams, Mary Newcomb, Betsy Lawrence, Betty Johnson, Priscilla Ehlers, Mary Margaret Meloche, Bet- ty Newton, Olive Beebe, Frances Crary, Dorothy Love, Helen Hagey and Annette Palmquist. Also introducing the students were Margaret Enswiler, Marjorie Ken- dall, Frahces J. O'Connor, Marie Soucazi, Eleanor Toutant, Mary Johnson, Betty Whithouse, Barbara Alt, June McKee, Jane O'Brian, Dorothy Burke, Betty Lou Robinson, Eileen Lay and Jean Langford. Hostesses Listed Hostesses at the League dance in- cluded Pat Stearns, Betsy Ross, Mar- ilyn Vogel, Peggy Whitker, Mary Neafie, Mary Herbert, Marge Leete, Barbara Brooks, Nancy Bonnisteel, Betty Johnson, Priscilla Ehlers, Con- nie Lorch, Dorothy Love, Helen Ha- gey and Dorothy Burke. Union hostesses were Claire Cook, Dorothy Cummings, Rosemary Al- drich, Kitty Simrall, Betsy Lawrence, Penny Shaw, Betty Newton, Olive Beebe, Frances Crary, Annette Palm- quist, Bea Selvin, Margaret Enswiler, Marjorie Kendall, Betty Whitehouse and June McKee. Orchestras which played at the two dances were Tom Snyder at the Union and J. Clark McClellan at the League. Approximately 600 students were at each of the dances. Michigan Trackster Leads In Decathlon BRIDGETON, N. J., July 3.-(A)- Uyval C. Jones of the University of Michigan jumped into the lead at the end of the third event in the National A.A.U. decathlon competi- tion today. Although Jones failed to place first in any of the events, he amassed a total of 1,978 points to 1,896 for John Borican, a home-town boy who Mediation Board Averts Labor Trouble At Plant (By The Associated Press) The Defense Mediation Board worked out a formula yesterday for averting a strike at the Western Cartridge Company, Alton, Ill., and secured approval of it by the com- pany management and high AFL officials. At the same time the Federal Con- ciliation Service announced an agree- ment had been reached forestalling a strike called for July 9 by 10,000 CIO workers in three Connecticut planes of the American Brass Com- pany, holder of large government contracts. No details were disclosed pending ratification by affected lo- cals of the International Union of Mining, Mill and Smelter Workers. Seizure Threatened The Western Cartridge agreement was reached shortly before a 5 p.m. EST) deadline which officials had indicated might be followed by gov- ernment +seizure of the ammunition plant, if a strike were still in pros- pect. If provided that the company enter into negotiations tomorrow with the AFL's chemical workers union and that the union call off a walkout scheduled for Sunday midnight in the smokeless powder division of the plant. Disputes Continue Other matters claiming attention of the Mediation Board included the continued failure of Southern coal operators and the United Mine Work- ers (CIO) to get together on a con- tract, and the dispute between the farm equipment workers organizing committee (CIO) and the Interna- tional Harvester Company. John L. Lewis, mine workers chief, FDR To Give Fourth Of July SpeechToday Chief Executive To Stay At Home To Deliver Nationwide Address HYDE PARK, N. Y., July 3.-(AP)- President Roosevelt's stay at his fam- ily home stretched into the longest in many months today when the Chief Executive decided to make a Fourth of July address to the nation from here. Mr. Roosevelt will broadcast over all networks and by shortwave to other parts of the world at 4 p.m. EST as part of a nationwide observ- ance of Independence Day arranged by the Office of Civilian Defense. When the President would return to Washington was uncertain. While he has had considerable business to handle since coming here last Thurs- day, Mr. Roosevelt nevertheless has had ample opportunity for relaxa- tion behind the wheel of his car or in a swimming pool.' He signed today the last of the bills passed Monday by Congress just be- fore the government's fiscal year ended. It approximated $1,041,444,- 529 to make up deficiencies in prior appropriations. Mr. Roosevelt signed it with a pro- test. He objected to a provision pre- venting the extension of the civil service system to employes of the farm security administration and said it was his earnest hope that Congress "will take prompt action to repeal this rider." confered with chairman WilliamH. Davis of the Mediation Board, but the nature of their talk was not disclosed. Miners are now on vaca- tion and the union has declared that the 150,000 employed in the South- ern Appalachian region will not re- turn to the pits July 8, when the holiday period ends, unless the union gets a contract. After the Lewis- Davis conference direct negotiations between union and operator repre- sentatives were resumed. Board Meets 'Tuesday The Board ordered a hearing on Tuesday on the International Har- vester case. At that time, it will re- ceive a report from a special in- vestigator on the union's demands for recognition and other conces- sions. The union conducted a strike affecting 13,250 workers in four Har- vester plants last winter. A tem- porary agreement reached in April provided for an investigation of con- ditions by a special Board agent. Prof. Condliff e Will Give Tall In Study Group Dr. Hu Shih, Count Sforza Will Present Lectures In Graduate Program Three lectures next week spon- sored by the Graduate Study Pro- gram in Public Policy in a World at War will consider the world from 1918 to 1938. At 4:15 p.m. Monday Prof. John B. Condliffe of the University of California's department of economics will speak in Hill Auditorium. His, lecture will consider "The Economic War." Dr. Hu Shih, Ambassador of China to the United States, will lecture Tuesday on "The Conflict of Ideolo- gies." This talk will also be at 4:15 p.m. in Hill Auditorium. Count Carlo Sforza, Carnegie visit- ing lecturer, will speak at 4:15 p.m. Wednesday in Hill Auditorium on "The Diplomatic Debacle: London and Paris Before Munich." Prof. Charles Remer of the eco- nomics department will introduce Professor Condliffe on Monday. Tues- day Prof. Robert B. Hall of the geog- raphy department will preside over the lecture, and on Wednesday Prof. Everett S. Brown of the political science department will introduce Count Sforza. The lectures will be open to the public. Denmark Asks Consuls oG WASHINGTON, July 3.-(IP)-The Danish government today requested the United States to withdraw all American consuls in Denmark by July 15. The Nazi-dominated government's request, which was confirmed by the State Department after German re- ports had reached this country, was in conformity with similar action al- ready taken by Germany, Italy, oc- cupied France, Norway, The Nether- lands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Yugo- slavia and Greece. Congressmen Balk At Army Plea To Send Draftees From Americas; Moscow Claims Nazi Drive Halted Soviet Says Heavy Losses Inflicted On Germans In Battle Near Minsk Finland Announces First Gains In War (By The Associated Press) MOSCOW, Friday, July 4.-Red troops fighting a vast bloody battle on the banks of the Berezina River east of Minsk on the path to Mos- cow threw back a rising tide of Nazi soldierse and inflicted heavy losses on them, the Soviet information bureau announced today. The Soviet troops were reported counter-charging with bayonets. Thousands of German dead fell in the attempt 'to cross the river, the Russians said, implying the Nazi broadside again had failed. The com- munique did not, 1,owever, say speci- fically the river had not been crossed, as was claimed Thursday. To the north in Latvia, however, German troops forced the Dvina Riv- er and engaged Red troops in violent combat near Jekabpils, halfway be- tween Dvinsk and Riga, former Lat- vian capital, the communique ack- nowledged. Battle Near Jekabpils The Russians said the Germans succeeded in crossing the Dvina only after bringing up fresh forces, and added that Red troops again engaged them fiercely along new lines near Jekabpils. Fighting still raged in southern Poland near Tarnopol, 30 miles west of the old Soviet frontier, and at Bobruisk, 80 miles southeast of Minsk, where Red troops have re- portedly blunted the Nazi drive for several days. The Germans were encountering "stubborn resistance" everywhere, the. Soviets said, adding that the Red air force was dealing crippling blows. .The Nazis threw lines of tanks into the vital battle of the Berezina. Where Napoleon Stopped Here, within 40 miles of Moscow, where Napoleon's grand army bled to death in retreat, and 300 miles to the south, in the Ukraine, the regular Soviet armies fought their greatest battles of the day. Behind these fronts of clamor and chaos, back in the cities and villages, volunteer "peoples' armies" sprang up to defend the old, vast Russian home- land as their obscure ancestors had done against the Poles in the Middle Ages and against Napoleon early in the 19th century.- Thousands of laborer and former capitalists in Moscow, Leningrad and elsewhere rose in arms in response to the appeal of Premier Joseph Sta- lin who ordered them to sear and lay bare the limitless countryside with fire and dynamite if the Nazis make a general break-through. The gravity of the Russian situa- tion was suggested by the observation of informed military quarters in Lon- don that Russia could lose -the war or lay the foundations for possible eventual German defeat in the next 48 hours. Finland Claims Entrance Into Russia HELSINKI, Friday, July 4.-(AP)- Finland announced today penetra- tion of Soviet territory by its troops, capture of "important enemy strong- holds," sinking of a Russian sub, marine in Finnish minefields and de- struction of 48 Red aircraft up to July 2.' The first Finnish war communique of the new conflict with Russia also told of German and Finnish forces crossing the eastern frontier in the north (presumably in the onslaught against the Russian Arctic port of Murmansk and the Murmansk-Len- ingrad railroad.) Nazis 'Say 100,000 Reds Captured FORMER 10 200 FINLAND BOUNDARIEsMLES HELSINKI a LENINGRAD PALDISKI ESTONIA t".U. S. S. R. WINDA-. eRIGA " LATVIAMOSCOW S- DVINSK .TH . L KAUNAS SO k . .VLNA,/SMOLENSK, - s mss? % ''w 'MINSK t : **BIALYSTOK * sr. "lPGOMEL, ,aA Pinsk Marshes., LUCK;.KIEV KHARKOV* *QUBNO LWOW , ZO Germans claimed capture of 100,000 Russians and destruction of "a large part" of Red forces trapped in the Bialystok-Minsk area (oval). Meanwhile, attacks were reported launched from Finland and Germans claimed Windau, Latvia, besides Riga, already reported taken. Germans also reported successes against Russian tanks in the Zloczow and Dubno areas. Russians reported their planes were checking Germans in Minsk and Dvinsk sectors. Black arrows indicate Germans; white arrows, Russians. United States Warns Japan About Moves To Spread War Senator Wheeler Declares Administration Intends To OccupyIceland Gen. Marshall Cites DangerOf Attack WASHINGTON, July 3.-P)-A request by the army high command for power to send draftees and na- tional guardsmen outside the West- ern Hemisphere stirred up a storm of controversy in Congress today and Senator Wheeler (Dem-Mont) de- clared the Administration was plan- ning to occupy Iceland. The request was made by General. George C. Marshall, army chief of staff, who also urged that conscripts, reserve officers and national guards- men be kept in service longer than one year. A maximum of one year's training was prescribed by the Selective Serv- ice Act and the legislation included a proviso that except for possible service in the Philippines and other American possessions, the duty of the men be confined to this Hemi- sphere. WASHINGTON, July 3.--(P)-The United States in effect served notice on Japan today that this country would be vitally concerned by spread of the European war to the Pacific and expects the Tokyo government to take no action detrimental to peace in that area. Sumner Welles, acting secretary of state, in answer to questions as to Japan's attitude toward the Russo- German conflict, said at a press con- ference that the United States gov- ernment naturally hoped the course to be pursued by Japan would make for the maintenance of peace in the Pacific. Welles indicated the United States had no official information on the policy just approved by a Japanese imperial conference. Tokyo an- nounced only that a course had been decided upon which would be kept a secret until disclosed by action. In addition to the official an- nouncement, Foreign Minister Yo- suke Matsuoka stated that "a really grave state of emergency is develop- ing before our eyes throughout the world, particularly in East Asia, with direct concern to our country." With so little factual information available, Welles' statement was in- terpreted in informed quarters as a diplomatic reminder to Japan that the United States was vitally inter- ested in preserving peace in the Pa- cific and would maintain a close watch on all developments. Some students of Far Eastern af- fairs believed adoption of a "secret policy" meant that Japan, for the present at least, would maintain neu- trality while awaiting any develop- ment which might redound to Japan's interests. There were reports from Chinese sources, however, that Japan in pay- ment for Axis recognition of the Japanese-sponsored Wang Ching- Wei government in Nanking, would blockade Vladivostok, the Siberian port through which American goods' and materials for Russia would pass. Such a move might be a prelimin- ary to invasion of Siberia, which would take the war within a few miles of Alaska, just across the Bering Strait. Mitchell Cites New Stress Given Fitness Marshall Cites Dangers But making his biennial report to he Secretary of War today, Marshall aid recent developments, presumably he outbreak of hostilities between Germany and Russia, had given 'forcible indications of the sudden- ess with which armed conflict can pread to areas hitherto considered ree from attack," and he added: "When and where these forces are o serve are questions to be deter- mined by their commander-in-chief and the Congress and should not be confused with the problem of their readiness for service. Wants Limitations Removed "I submit that the limitations re- ferred to should be removed as quick- ly as possible if we are to have a fair opportunity to protect ourselves against the coldly calculated, secret and sudden action that might be di- rected against us." Wheeler, foe , of Administration foreign policy, told reporters at an informal press conference that he was "reliably informed that we are about to take over Iceland and send troops and ships and planes there." After Germany invaded Denmark, Iceland's sister kingdom, British and Canadian forces took over Iceland. The Canadians have since been with- drawn. Wheeler said his information was that American forces, embarking on the 23rd or 24th of July, would proceed to the island to relieye the British. American merchant ships, he said, then could carry goods to Iceland and transfer them to British vessels for shipment to Britain. U.S. Would Patrol "Then," he continued, "American ships and planes will patrol the routes used by the British ships on the re- mainder of the journey across the Atlantic." The Senator, who said he would fight any legislation to remove pres- ent restrictions on the movements of the armed forces, expressed the fear that taking over Iceland "would be like acquiring a new stepping stone to war." The Army and Navy had no com- ment immediately on Wheeler's statements. Request Reverses Law Senator Johnson (Rep-Cal), rank- ing minority member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued this statement: "This (Marshall) statement as I understand it does just the reverse of what the President has repeatedly promised would not be done. It alters the contract that was made by our Selective Service Law. It makes other changes that are equally bad, and worse than all, it, apparently, contemplates the taking of our boys across the water to fight a foreign war, which, in the most solemn manner that could be con- ceived of, was promised them and the people of the United States would never be done. U.S. Not At War Senator Adams (Dem-Colo) sar- 8nr~r in.il y r~mrkP~ t. t 1,a+Am 'tv. e'. 'n - '120 Gallons Of Beer' Bearded Dexter Goes AllOut' For Three-Day Centennial Fete By KARL KESSLER and BILL BAKER (Special to The Daily) DEXTER, July 3.-Scattered show- ers failed to daunt this quiet, beard- ed little town today, as 10,500 fes- tival-bound carnivalites flocked here, for the Dexter-Michigan Central Cen- tennial Celebration. Ferris wheels, merry-go-rounds and side shows were the order of the day, as costumed Dexterites left their plows standing in their fields and turned off the traffic light to turn the town's entire faciities over to the festival occasion. Bearded tavern-keepers prepared for the avalanche ,of fun-seekers by stocking up 120 gallons of beer, 60 The world's only woman black- smith, Dexter's Martha Drew. gave an exh bition of her prowess today before breathless spectators, shoe- i:ig a hori'r as part of the day's en- tertaininert. The Centennial festivities Will reach their height tomorrow, however, as a replica of the first train to enter Dexter will chug into the railroad station here atop a Michigan Cen- tral flatcar; 100 years to the minute after the arrival of the first train. Bearded localites will commem- orate the occasion with speeches and a band concert by the 90-piece Na- poleon High School Band. At 8:30 p.m. every day of the Cen- Use Of 'Ersatz' Is Predicted By McConnell WASHINGTON, July 3. -(P)- Robert E. McConnell, chief of the conservation section of the Office of Production Management, warned to- day that Americans must resign themselves to many "ersatz" pro- ducts and a sharp decrease in lux- uries. "We, can have the necessities of life and all-out defense," he told re- porters, "but we cannot have the luxuries of life and all-out defense, During times of national emergen- cy the physical fitness of the youth of the nation naturally becomes , a matter of national consciousness and concern, Prof. Elmer D. Mitchell stated in a talk before the School of Education Assembly yesterday. As a result of the high percentage of rejections in the last World War, 38 states passed laws requiring physi- cal education in the school curricu- lums, but while there has been some evasion the situation today is better because of the higher standards. De- fective teeth and eyes are the major causes for physical rejections; and mental hygiene shortcomings, not considered in the last war examina- tions. also rank high. Two agencies are at present work- Ing on physical education in defense: 4'ha Tnint 'Arv yandA NsJuvv (Committee Local 'Where's Who' Comes Out Tuesday The orange-bound "Where's Who" of the Michigan campus, the 1941 Summer Student Directory, will make its appearance Tuesday, ac-