e Weathers Scattered Showers. "1 'Jr i I,, Official Publication Of The Summer Session E *tt Editorial Three Posers, For John Bull. __ (rn OL. LI. No. 45 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1941 Z-323 PRICE FIVE CEN'S' I I Vinners Of Annual summer Hopwood, 'rizes Announced Eight Student Manuscripts In Fiction, Essay, Poetry Fields Are Rewarded Awards Totaling $350 Are Allotted Eight University of Michigan stu- dents last night were awarded prizes totaling $350 in the annual Summer Hopwoods Contests. Thirty-four manuscripts were sub- mitted in the four divisions of the contest-drama, essay, fiction and Wandering Democrats Indicted By Roosevelt Biggest awards were given td Clara Laidlaw of Gladstone, Michigan, and Sister M. Edwardine O'Conner of Grand Rapids, who took first prizes of $75 each in the fiction and poetry divisions.,I First prize of $50 in the essay di- vision was won by Henry Gordon Green, 811 S. Division,; Ann Arbor. No other awards were made in this division. Margaret Roberts, Alma, Darrel Abel, Brookings, South Dakota, and Charles Mair Kenyon, Apponaug, Rhode Island, each won $25 awards in the fiction contest. -Ruth Herschberger of Chicago was awarded the $50 second prize in the poet-y 'division, and Dorothy Jean Farnan, South Bend, was awarded $25. No awards were made in the drama division. Judges for the four contests were: POETRY: Prof. N. E. Nelson, Prof. Bennett Weaver and Prof. C. D. Thorpe. FICTION: Dr. Louis Haines, Dr. Andrew Green and Prof. M. L. Williams. ESSAY: Prof. E. A. Walter, Prof. Arno Bader and Miss Vivian Hop- kins. - DRAMA: Prof. H. T. Price, Prof: A. L. Marckwardt and Prof. Paul Mueschke. Twenty-two contestants entered the Hopwoods this year, as' compared to 20 last year. Five of the 34 manu- scripts submitted were in the drama division, seven in essay, 14 in fiction and eight in poetry. The awards were presented by Dean Edward Kraus in the presence of the Hopwood Committee. The Hopwood Contests are made possible through the will of the late Avery Hopwood, noted playwright and Michigan alumnus, who wished to encourage novice writers on the campus. The Hopwood Contest during the regular school session awards more than $10,000 in prizes, and has fos- tered many successful authors, in- luding Maritta Wolff, whose Hop- wood prize novel, "Whistle Stop," was recently published. Anti-Semitic Drive Reported In Paris; 6,000 Are Arrested VICHY, Unoccupied France, Aug. 21.--(P)-French and German police were reported tonight to have ar- restedr6000 Jews in Paris in a con- tnuing new drive that brought to 150,000 the number of persons de- ,prived of their liberty because they were Jews, foreigners or political sus- Otects. The arrests were made yesterday in a 5-hour, house-to-house search of the working-class 11th arrondisement (ward) and were believed to have been only the starter for steadily in- creasing roundup of persons opposed to German occupation troops. More were reported arrested today. The roundups yesterday and on May 15 netted 11,000 Jews. About 500 others have been sent to camps or were in forced residence on the Rivi- era. A Marseille police roundup of foreigners has been estimated as re- sulting in 5,000 more added to the list. These are only the arrests in re- cent months. Mrs. Henry Beaumont Dies In 'U' Hospital Mrs. Helen Porter Beaumont, wife of Dr. Henry Beaumont, instructor in the Summer School of Education, died yesterday afternoon in Univer- sity Hospital after an illness of four LOUISVILLE, Aug. 21.-(P).-Pres- ident Roosevelt said , tonight he thought Democrats in Congress who have joined "obstructionists" of na- tional preparedness were "in the wrong party." In a message to the national con- vention of Young Democratic Clubs,1 the President said: "I, like the rest of you, hoped that domestic politics would play no part in our defense measures. To some ex- tent our hopes are realized-a multi- tude of the opposition party is serving the cause zealously and efficiently- but on the other hand the votes in Congress on thevarious steps in our preparedness, show that partisan pol- itics is still rampant." FDR Requests New Attempt To Halt Strike Renewal Of Discussions In Shipyard Dispute Follows Conference WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.-()- At the personal request of President Roosevelt, management and labor representatives agreed today to re- new discussions looking toward set- tlement of the strike at the great Kearny, N. J., yards of the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company. "Certain suggestions," John Green, president of the striking CIO Union, said, were advanced at a White House conference and would be discussed in the new talks with the manage- ment. Wasting no time, the management and union representatives agreed be- fore leaving the White House to meet a few hours later for their renewed direct negotiations. Mr. Roosevelt gave over a good part of his day to efforts to end the strike which is holding up work on $493,000,000 of naval and merchant ship construction. He held a forenoon conference with L. H. Korndorff, president of the company, and Myron C. Taylor, for- mer board chairman of United States Steel Corporation, of which Federal Shipbuilding is a subsidiary. Korndorff and Taylor left to go and see Secretary of the Navy Knox. Sidney Hillman, associate director of the Office of Production Manage- ment, and William H. Davis, chair- man . of the Defense Mediation Board. In mid-afternoon this grop went to the White House and was joined there later by Green and Judge Wal- ter Stacy, a member of \the Defense Mediation Board panel which han- dled the Kearny case. Shortly before six o'clock the con- ference with the President broke up and Green announced the agreement to resume direct negotiations. '49 Too Many' EAST LANSING, 'Aug. 21.-(A>)- State Police Commissioner Oscar G. Olander today warned Michigan mo- torists unless they remember Memor- ial Day's "49 too many" traffic deaths, a Labor Day highway "mass- acre" was in prospect. Berlin Claims Fresh Blows At Leningrad Nazi High Command Calls Russian Struggle Only 'Prelude' To Future (By The Associated Press) BERLIN, Friday, Aug. 22.-The in- vasion of Russia entered its third month today with German cannon and bombers relentlessly besieging the Black Sea port of Odessa,; while at the opposite end of the long front a similar ring of encirclement was gradually being drawn ever nearer to Leningrad, onetime capital of the Czars. With Finnish-German units press- ing down from the northeast and Germans from the west and south, German accounts portrayed Russia's second city as threatened by a pin- cers movement which would cut it off- from the hinterland. Successes were reported for the German army on every front, but were linked with a reminder that the Reich still considers Britain the chief foe, with the Russian campaign only a prelude to the ultimate struggle of the future. The day's top claims were capture of Novgorod, Narva and Kingisepp, closely menacing great Leningrad in the northern zone, and Kherson, con- trolling the mouth of the Dnieper River on the Black Sea in the south. Odessa was declared to be cur- - tained in smoke from incessantly- falling bombs and artijlery shells said to have made it a spot more terrible than Dunkerque or Calais on the Western Front last year. The German tally of Russians cap- tured around Gomel in the central sector was raised to 84,000 as the cleanup was pressed after the great battle of Mbnday and Tuesday Latin American Group To Take Tour Of East Summer Session Students DSR -Strike Settlement Still Sought No Indication Of Progress As Meetings Continue; Traffic Slows Down Federal And State Soviet With 'Ha Reds Admit Gomel Lost To Germans Agents F. D. R. Says Peace Would Clear Way For Nazi Invasion Called InI Will Will Leave Tomorrow; Stop Day In Detroit Report Says W Nazi Germany s Only Begun' ar, Ecuadorians, Chileans and Vene- zuelans of the Latin-American Sum- mer Session of the International Cen- ter will leave Ann Arbor early to- morrow for a tour through the East before embarking from New York for their homelands. Spending tomorrow in Detroit, they will take the boat to Cleveland where they will see the baseball game Sunday. That night they will board the train for Pittsburgh where they will spend Monday visiting the Heinz plant aid the Carnegi-Illinois Steel Co. Tuesday they will take the day train to Washington and Wednesday will be spent visiting the White House, Mt. Vernon and Arlington. That afternoon the Latin-Americans will attend a reception for their group in the Senate with Vice-Presi- dent Wallace doing the honors, and in the evening they will inspect the Congressional -Library. A trip to Annapolis has been scheduled for Thursday, and Friday the group will'be back in Washington for a day of miscellaneous sight seeing. The Latin-Americans will leave for New York Saturday of next week, where they will stay at the Inter- national House until sailing time. The Venezuelans will sail the fifth of September and the Ecuadorians and Chileans will leave this country oil the 12th. DETROIT, Aug. 21.--(1P)-Mayori Edward J. Jeffries, state and federal conciliators sought a peace formula1 for Detroit's street car arid bus strike tonight while half a million workers continued to depend on private means of transportation. ! There was no indication of prog- ress towards a solution as Jeffries resumed his meetings with leaders of the striking Amalgamated Asso- ciation of Street Electric Railway and Motor Coach Operators (AFL). Earlier today Thomas Donahue, chairman of the State Labor Media- tion Board, declared, "there are signs of a break." Mayor Sees No Solution He did not elaborate, and the may- or this afternoon said, "I do not share Mr. Donahue's feeling that there is a crack of light in this situation." Generous motorists hauled their neighbors to work this morning and home again tonight, and interrup- tions in the city's business and in- dustrial life were reduced greatly from Wednesday when the start of the stri)e at 4 a.m. caught Detroit's workers unawares. The increased number of motor- cars on bhe streets caused traffic snarls, and police reported that Wednesday's accidents totaled 199 compared with 126 on Tuesday, but the mishaps were not serious as traffic on mail arteries moved at slow speed. AFL Refuses To Retreat As settlement negotiations re- sumed late today there was no indi- cation AFL leaders had retreated from their demands that the city bargain exclusively with their union, and accord the AFL sole rights to bulletin boards in barnsand garages of the municipally-owned system. The AFL union and the state, county and municipal workers (CIO) union each claim to represent a ma- jority of employes of the Depart- ment of Street Railways. Mayor Jef- fries has maintained a position that the city can't grant exclusive bar- gaining rights to either union. Cut In Auto Quota For '42 Will Be 50o Truck Production Increase Is Authorized; Designs Will Be Altered WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.-i)-~- Production of 1942 model passenger automobiles probably will be slashed 50 per cent, defense officials said to- day after announcing definitely that output in the first four mAha of the model year would be cut 262 per cent. A total of 4,397,000 passenger cars were made in the 191 model year which e:aded the first of Lhis month. A 50 per cent reduction would bring this down to 2,148,500, the smallest in any yca;r since 1934. The curu ment, anninced jointly by the Office of Producior .Manage- ment and the Office of Price Control ard Civilian Supply, will start at 26 1/2per cent for August, September, Octobcr and November. However, since much of August has alrEady elapsed, the cut during the rcirmainder of the four-month period will be somewhat greater than 2612 per cent. During the following three quarters of the year still sharper re- ductions will be made progressively. Defense officials ordered the reduc- tion to conserve scarce materials for the armament program. They said the industry already has altered de- signs and eliminated materials such as aluminum and zinc from trim- mings and other 'nonfunctional parts of cars. While passenger car production is being restricted, the output of trucks mu: t be increased, officias said, and they expected that to help minimize unemployment in the industry. It was estimated 1,189,000 trucks will be needed in the model year iY Anih nca% - ia, . 1 an -n - tc (By The Associated Press) MOSCOW, Friday, Aug. 22.-Rus- sian withdrawal from Gomel on the central front after a great battle was acknowledged by the Red Army to- day. Despite this loss, admitted reverses in the Ukraine and the concession the northwestern metropolis of Lenin- grad was under "direct threat of at- tack," a Soviet spokesman declared 2,000,000 Germans have been killed or wounded in the two months of a war that has "only begun." Heavy fighting is continuing in the Gomel sector, said the communique which announced the withdrawal, and the Red defense also was de- scribed as especially stubborn in the Novgorod and Kingisepp zones, the southern and western approaches to Leningrad. The Germans Wednesday claimed a great victory at Gomel, with de- struction or capture of parts of 25 Russian divisions, including 84,000 men taken prisoner, and hundreds of guns and tanks seized. Gomel is 140 miles north of Kiev and 170 miles south of Smolensk, but 360 miles southwest of Moscow.) All up and down the front the struggle continues unabated, the early morning Russian communique said, and the Soviet leadership sum- moned vall its people to the fullest measure of resistance-in a pledge that the invade's would be destroyed eventually, in months or in years. Citizens of Leningrad were called upon to stand with arms behind a garrison of a million Soviet regulars to hold that old city of the Czars. False Figures Are Circulated On Gas Ration Coordinator Of Petroleum Says Attempt Was Made To 'Confuse' The Public WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.-()- With some members of Congress de- manding an investigation of the facts behind gasoline rationing in the East, the Office of Defense Petroleum Co- ordination declared today false fig- ures were being circulated, apparently in a deliberate effort to "confuse the public" into believing diversion of American tankers to British service was unnecessary. The charge was made by Ralph K. Davis, acting Petroleum Coordinator, who asked the public to be wary of figures "circulated with a definite purposeby uninformed and unoffi- cial sources." At the Capitol Senator Maloney (Dem.-Conn.) urged aninvestigation to determine whether, a shortage of gasoline actuallly exists, and Sena- tor Clark (Dem.-MO.) said he wanted to learn whether it was necessary to cut down American consumption in order to supply Britain with fuel. Davies, on the question of justifi- cation for transfer of American tank- ers to the British, said: "The inadequacy of British and allied controlled tankers to fulfill their war time task, as indicated by conclusive evidence in our hands, is such as to warrant fully the transfer of American tankers to aid in the transportation of oil. No one should be deluded about this fact." No Sneezing Matter: Pollen Count Rises LANSING, Aug. 21.-UP)-The state health department had unhappy news for the sneezing hay fever vic- tim today. The count of ragweed pollens was reported increased at strategically located centers. Counts for the week: 'F Upper Peninsula-Lake Superiort coast 30. Lansing area-daily average of 132,a with a count of 1,165 (CQ) Wednes-e day. Although the pollen count is in- creasing here, it is increasing at ac lower rate than the Lansing reportl shows. A count of 65 granules was re-I ported by the University Hospital for.a the 24-hour period ending at .9 a.m.T yesterday.t e e Gen. Kreuger Criticizes Way Army Is1 Run Recent Maneuvers Reveali Disregard Of Dangers From Air, He Claims CAMP POLK, La., Aug. 21.-()- Lieut.-Gen. Walter Krueger, com- manding general of the Third Army,1 in a blistering criticism of handling1 troops thus far in maneuvers here, today said there had been a stupid disregard of the danger of air attacks.t He said troop convoys had so badly1 clogged roads, laying his 250,000 men open to annihiliating enemy air at-c tacks in simulated battle, that his. wholp army might have been de- stroed had this been actual war with real ammunition.) Generalsrueger, addressing a cri- tique of corps, divisional regimental and company officers here after the first three-day phase of the games, said he had been so disappointed with the lack of proper camouflage protec- tion from airplanes and with traffic jams that he personally had flown about with a megaphone , warning troop units of their danger. "Why it's perfectly asburd for any army commander to have to go up in a plane to warn his men about these things," said Krueger. "They should have sense enough in modern war to scatter and make the most of protec- tive covering. "It is not duly very bad, but it is stupid for an army to clog up the roads with traffic jams; enemy air- craft would blow us apart," he con- tinued. Hiscriticism recalled similar com- ment at the conclusion of army games here last year when control officers vigorously assailed officers for not de- trucking and scattering their men when advancing columns were held up in traffic. Uniform Hours Sought. CHICAGO, Aug. 21.-(P)--A reso- luion asking Oil Co-ordinator Ickes to establish nationwide uniform hours for retailers of petroleum pro- ducts-filling station operators-was adopted by directors of the National Association of Petroleum Retailers today. Churchill Meeting Report Is Given To Congress By Chief Executive Sen. Barkley Lauds Eight-Point Plan WASHINGTON, Aug. 21. -(A)- President Roosevelt gave Congress a terse report on his meeting with Winston Churchill today and ,sserted a peace on Nazi terms would mean only a breathing spell of preparation for a Nazi conquest of the American hemisphere. His report was contained in a spe- cial message to Congress which re- peated the eight-point declaration of principles signed at the sea meeting and said these were difficult to op- pose without admitting a willingness to compromise with Naziism. In addition, the Chief Executive emphasized that "the worldwide need for freedom of religion and freedom of information" was included in the joint I Anglo-American objectives. (Some criticism had been voiced be- cause freedom of religion was not expressly mentioned in the Roose- velt-Churchill declaration.) Freedoms indispenible "No society of the world organ- ied under the announced principles could survive without these free- doms which are a part of the whole freedom for which we starve," Mr. Roosevelt said. . Reaction to the message generally. followed the already, well defined lines of support or opposition' to Mr. Roosevelt's;foreign policy. Senator Barkley (Dem.-Ky.), the Administration floor leader, praised the message (for its clarity and said the aims set forth would "find a universal response in the hearts of all lovers of human freedom." "It's a pretty Sold man= who will guarantee the freedom of religion as practiced by Joseph Stalin," bluntly remarked Senator Johnson (Rep.-Calif.), noting the message re- iterated the President's policy of as- sisting Russia. ' Favors Eight Points "I am heartily in favor of the eight points and I am glad the President has advised Congress officially of his meeting with Prime Minister Church- ill," said Senator Thomas (Dem.- Utah),an Administration' supporter. "The restoration of freedom of re- ligion will be quite a shock to the President's ally, Joe Stalin," com- mented Senator Clark (Dem.-Mo.). The message began with a simple statement that the Roosevelt- Churchill meeting had occurred. Be- cause the safety of ships and per- sonnel involved had to be guarded, he ,said,, no advance notice of the conference cduld be given. He then quoted. the eight-point declaration. RAF Bombers Hit Railroad Lines In Fallen France LONDON, Aug. 21-(P)--Escorted by "many hundreds" of RAF fighters, three waves of bombers today smash- ed at railway lines around St. Omer and Bethune, France, and wrought havoc in a 50-foot level attack on the German-operated steel mill at Ijmui- den, the Netherlands, the Air Minis- try reported tonight. - In independent sweeps the fighters blew up a German torpedo boat with a shot in its magazine and fought numerous engagements with German pursuit planes, it was announced. Fourteen fighters were admitted lost in the dawn-to-dusk operations, with only one.German plane defin- itely claimed as destroyed. It was explaned low clouds pre- vented confirmation of crashes of several other Germans seen to be falling. The coastal command meanwhile attacked shipping off the French coast. Gasoline Sales Are Cut 50% In Washington WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.-()- Gasoline sales to "non-essential" consumers were cut 50 percent at many service stations in Washington today. The sharp curtailment, regarded k 4'. t ; i y 3 l zv f: r f ss' A Summer's Project: Senior Architectural Students Plan Quarters At Camp Custer Viewing The News: Russian Outlook Grows Black As Nazis Move On Leningrad By EUGENE MANDEBERG If you're curious enough to walk up to the third floor of the College of Architecture and Design, you will be able to see the summer project of senior students in design, plans for building a permanent headquar- ters at Camp Custer, Battle Creek. Following a trip to the camp and a discussion of what was needed, the students decided upon a 200-acre plot, west of the present training center. Supplied with maps and in- formation by Capt. Plaenert, sta- fnna io .a rn-, m t a lRl- tn_'- tually be built up, Capt. Plaenert is interested in the students' ideas, and may visit Ann Arbor, unofficially, to see their work. In addition to the design display, student work of the Summer Session is now being exhibited in the first floor corridor of the building. Work in industrial and architectural de- sign, water colors, experimental de- sign, pottery and design theory are included. Emphasis this summer will be laid on the study of scale relationship, By EDWARD E. BOMAR (Associated Press Staff Writer) The threatened seizure of Lenin- grad and further Nazi triumphs in in a gloomy light, although the out- look is not desperate. The uncertainty that continues to cloud the'ultimate .outcome of the at- tempt to crush Russia before snow' flies remains the most significant feature of history's greatest military campaign. The reeling German giant is still grimly fighting. A few more days of the bloody struggle probably will dis- close whether he can absorb such pun- ishmpnt a sthe los sf the old Carist nevertheless that the first two months of the battle of Titans has brought the German legions within sight of decisive victory, if not actu- ally within reach of it. Much of the richest areas of the Ukrasine and White Russia has been overrun, eyen though, as Moscow as- serts, they contain now only scorched fields, wrecked cities and ruined fac- tories.% These are clear facts, without re- gard to the latest Nazi claim that five million Russian troops have been killed. wounded or cntured thus far.