weather Scattered Showers ig uictim in Official Publication Of The Summer Session ~Iaitr i Editorial The Aluminum Of His Country,, VOL. LI. No. 13 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, July 16, 1941 Z-323 PRICE FIVE CENTS E Time Change To Conserve Power Asked By Roosevelt Shortage Of Electricity Is Cited By President To Warrant Request, Year-Round Plan May Be Instituted WASHINGTON, Juy 15. --(/P)- In a surprise move that may alter the living habits of millions of Americans, President Roosevelt asked Congress today for authority to order a far- flung extension of daylight saving time. Under the plan, which is designed to conserve electricity for defense production, he could order clocks' throughout the country or in any part of the country, to be turned as much as two hours forward for the whole year or any part of the year. How- ever, because the power situation varies in different localities, it was1 indicated that no blanket advance for the whole country was actually planned- Changes In Some Areas Instead, Mr. Roosevelt asked that he be empowered to issue executive orders fixing new time standards in some areas and leaving others un- changed, according to what measures "he deems necessary to conserve elec- trical energy or otherwise promote national defense." (In localities where daylight saving time is now in effect, it is invariably one hour ahead of standard time.) "Summer daylight saving time is already in effect in many of the highly industrializeddareas of New England and the Middle Atlantic and North Central States," Mr. Roosevelt told Congress. U.S. Agencies Interested "The Government agencies pri- marily interested in the fullest utili- zation of electricity for national de- fense-the Federal Power Commis- sion, the Department of the Interior and the Office of Production Man- agement-have advised me that there is immediate need for the extension of this daylight saving time to other parts of the country, including in particular the southeastern states, and that there is also a need for the establishment in various parts, or all, of the country of year-round day- light saving time., FDR Contends Draft Change Was Foreseen By RICHARD L. TURNER (Associated Press Staff Writer) WASHINGTON, July 15.-(P)-- With simple emphasis, President Roosevelt said today that the con- troversy over extending the training period of draftees involved essen- tially the question whether the Army should be permitted to disintegrate in times such as these. If the selectees, national guards- men and reserves who were called up for one year of service are discharged at the end of that time, he said, two-thirds of the Army will be gone. It would have to be replaced by an equivalent proportion of untrained men, he continued, adding that this was why the situation was so serious. He challenged directly the argu- ment of those who have said that since the men were called for one year it would be breaking faith not to release them when the year is up. As a matter of fact, he said, the draft law specified that they were to be kept in training longer than that if either one or two things hap- pened. These, he said, were the declara- tion of a national emergency by Con- gress or the enactment of amend- ments to the present law. Not know- ing what the situation would be at the end of a year, Congress made these conditions, and the men were inducted with these possible changes in mind. Pageant Will Portray 'American Defense' Ann Arbor children from five city park playgrounds will join forces to- night to nresent the annual summer Faculty Women 's Group To Give Luncheon Today Affair Will Given Replace Annual Tea For Organization By Summer Session Administration In conjunction with the adminis- tration of the Summer Session, the Faculty Women's Club will entertain visiting women on the faculty andl wives of visiting and local faculty members at a luncheon at 12:30 p.m. today in the League Ballroom. Receiving guests will be Mrs. A. E. White, president of the organization, and Mrs. Louis A. Hopkins, Mrs. Shir- ley W. Smith, Mrs. Walter B. Pills- bury, Mrs. Edward L. Adams, Mrs. Emil Lorch, Mrs. John Sundwall. Mrs. Henry M. Bates, Mrs. A. S. Whitney, Mrs. Ralph W. Aigler, Mrs. Byrl F. Bacher, Miss Ethel McCor- mick, Mrs. Clarence A. Yoakum and Mrs. E. Blythe Stason. The luncheon is an innovation this year, previous Summer Sessions hav- ing seen annual teas for the faculty wives. More than 160 women are ex- pected to be present. Upon arrival at the League, guests will draw cards to determine seating arrangement. These cards, designed by Virginia Osgood, assistant to the social adviser at the League, contains sketch paying honor to the various schools in the University. The sketch pictures a graduate wearing an education school mortar- board over a laurel wreath represent- ing the forestry school. Scales of the Law School and a triangle for the architects are shown, with a slide rule forming the mouth. Pharmacy, den- tistry and other professions are also represented in the cartoon. Hostesses at the tables will be Mrs. Hopkins, Mrs. Ira M. Smith, Mrs. Wells I. Bennett, Mrs. Bacher, Mrs. Edward W. Blakeman, Mrs. Samuel T. Dana, Mrs. James B.%Edmonson, Mrs. Paul A. Leidy, Mrs. Howard B. Lewis, Mrs. Alfred H. Lovell, Miss McCormick, Mrs. Peter O. Okkelberg, Mrs. Yoakum, Mrs. Clifford C. Glover. Mrs. Stason, Mrs. Charles M. Davis, Russian Films.- To Be Shown Mrs. Edward H. Kraus, Mrs. Alfred H. White, Mrs. Sundwalln Mrs. G. E. -Densmore and Miss Jeanne Rosselet. In charge of table decorations is Mrs. Robert Briggs, with a commit- tee consisting of Mrs. Densmore, Mrs. F. A. Test, Mrs. W. L. Bulbick and Mrs. H. P. Wagner. Fire College Group Meets In Ann Arbor Demonstrations, Lectures Highlight Opening Day's Activities Of Convention. Program Continues At Kellogg Institute By KARL KESSLER Fire fighting demonstrations and educational lectures yesterday fea- tured the opening day of the thir- tmanth AH.-hian"Pira Orlu p - Reds Report Destruction Of Nazis Near Leningrad; German Advance Denied 'Contrast', Satire On Typical U.S. Customs, Opens Today Under the direction of Charles H.+acted by a professional company in Technology Expert !1 i C M i { I Movies Answer To Art Cinema Requests League $ * Policy Group To Hear Talk .y Compton M.I.T. President To Speak Today On Technological, Scientific Resources Speaking on "Technological and Scientific Resources" President Karl T. Compton of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will deliver the last lecture of the week of the Graduate Study Program in Public Policy in a World at War at 4:15 p.m. today in the Lecture Hall of the Rackham School. Dr. Compton received his Ph.B. de- gree from the College of Wooster, Ohio, in 1908, and his M.S. there in 1909. In 1912 he took a Ph.D. from Princeton University. Instructor of chemistry at Wooster from 1909 to 1910, Dr. Compton taught physics at Reed College in Portland, Ore., from 1913 to 1915, when he went to Princeton as assist- ant professor of physics. Rising to the chairmanship of the physics de- partment in 1929, he left Prinecton in 1930 to become President of M.I.T. During the war, Dr. Compton was aeronautical engineer for the Signal Corps of the Army, and in 1'918 was associate scientific attache of the American Embassy in Paris. From 1924 to 1930 he served as consulting physicist for the Department of Ag- riculture and the General Electric Co. Dr. Compton was a member of the Massachusetts Commission on Sta- bilization of Employment from 1931 to 1933, and of the advisory board of the Bartol Research Foundation (Continued on Page 3) LeenLn mic ± i± ie u onege meet Meredith, present director of the ing here this week under the spon- sorship of the University Extension Dock Street Theatre in Charleston, Service. S.C., the Michigan Repertory Players Talks on the training of firemen of the speech department will present and safety precautions featured the Royall S. Tyler's "The Contrast" at morning sessions of the college yes- terday. Dr. C. A. Fisher of the Ex- 8:30 p.m. today in the Lydia Mendels- tension Service gave the opening ad- sohn Theatre. dress, followed by a short talk by Third offering of the current Sum- Burr. Taylor of the Western Actu- mer Session drama series, "The Con- arial Bureau, Chicago. trast" will continue through Satur- Captain Lyon Speaks day. Other talks in the morning session day. were given by Capt. Laurence A. Customs Satirized Lyon of the State Police, J. W. Perry, The play, which is based upon the of the State Board of Control for English style of drama of the Restor- Vocational Education and F. Ronald ation and 18th Century, is a satire McLean of the Socony Vacuum Oil contrasting typical American customs Co. and those which are modeled on the Highlighted feature on the pro- British. gram yesterday was an exhibition en- Although known in some circles as titled "Fire from the Sky," demon- the first play ever written by an strating the nature of magnesium American, "The Contrast" is actually fires and methods of control. the first American play ever to be Ordinary Methods Useless Magnesium, a metal commonly used in industry today, and also the Furstenber g chief constituent of incendiary bombs, burns at a very high temper- ature. R. I. Thrune, safety engineer W ill Present for the Dow Chemical Co., showed firemen attending the college that M edical Talk water and ordinary fire extinguish- ing solutions only accelerate the burning metal. Dean Of Medical School' Intensely hot flames leaped as high as 15 feet when water was To Lecture In Series sprayed upon the burning magnesi- planned For Layman um, but the application of as little as a few shovels full of specially Using moving pictures for illus- prepared black powder was suffi- tration, Dr. Albert C. Furstenberg, cient to extinguish the hot flame. Talks To Continue dean of the medical school, will lec- Talks at 9 a.m. today in the Kel- ture on "Foreign Bodies in the Lar- logg Auditorium will be given by ynx" at 8 p.m. today in the Lecture Arnold C. Renner, chief of the fire Hall of the Rackham Building. marshall division of the State Po- lice, "State Marshall Regulations"; Second in a series of medical lec- E. C. Knowlton, engineer of the Na- tures planned especially for the lay- tional Board of Fire Underwriters, man, the speech is open to the gen- Chicago, "Fire Chief-A Full-time eral public. Executive Job"; Richard E. Vernor In connection with his topic, Dr. of the Western Actuarial Bureau, "It Can't Happen Here"; and "The Furstenberg will present the condi- Chemistry of Fire" by Donald W. tions under which organic and inor- McCready, of the chemical engineer- ganic objects are drawn into the ing department. lungs and lodged there and will elab- i 5 7 T s ., In response to many requests, the Art Cinema League has scheduled presentation of two Russian movies, "Chapayev" and "The Childhood of Maxim Gorky." "Chapayev" will be shown at 8:15 p.m. tomorrow in the Lecture Hall of the Rackham School. "The Child- hood of Maxim Gorky" will be given the following Thursday. Tickets are on sale at the Union, the League and Wahr's Book Store. The story of a peasant carpenter who fought in the World War as a common soldier and led the peasants and workers against the armies of the Whites after the Revolution of 1917, "Chapayev" is an authentic historical- document. Called by critics the most perfectly cast picture of the decade, "The Childhood of Maxim Gorky" por- trays the early years of the life of the famous Russian writer. The title role is played by Alyosha Lyarsky. this country. Director Meredith, who is spending the first three weeks of the Summer Session here with the Repertory Players, is a graduate of the School of Theatre of the Carnegie Institute and a veteran of both the profession- al Broadway theatre and the silent films. He has also aeen an instructor at Southern Methodist University, a junior college in Dallas, Tex., and the Santa Barbara State Normal School. At the present time he is also presi- dent of the Confederacy of American Community Theatres. Alexander Wyckoff is in charge of scenery and Evelyn Cohen and Emma Hirsch are in charge of costumes. Moll To Star Heading the cast is James Moll who plays the original "stage Yankee" role of Jonothan, waiter to Col. Man- ly. Betty Gallagher and Ellie Ter- retta take the parts of Letitia and Charlotte, two girls in love with Dim- ple, while Lillian Canon plays Maria, Dimple's fiancee. Colonel Manley will be portrayed by Robert Rittenour, and William Alt- man wil play Dimple. Others in the cast are E. S. Cort- right, Frank Jones, Genevieve Ed- wards, Mary C. Palmer, Paul Black- burn, Roger Reed, Vietch Purdom, Harriet Cooper, Claire Cook, Naomi Greifer, Theo Turnbull, Dorothy Han- sen, Jack Ulanoff, Merle Webb, Ellen Jones and Jane Elliot. Prof. Glover Dies Following Year's Illness Former Math. Department Head Was 73; Known For Actuarial Courses Prof.-Emeritus James W. Glover, former chairman of the mathematics department and nationally known educator in the field of actuarial mathematics, died at his home here early yesterday morning at the age of 73, following a year's illness. Professor Glover was born in Clio on July 24, 1868, and graduated from the University in 1892. He trans- ferred to Harvard and received his M.A. there in 1893 and a Ph.D.* in 1895. One of the first educators in the country to offer courses in actuarial mathematics, he was instrumental in building up the University's statisti- cal laboratory, one of the best in the country. Professor Glover was made profes- sor of mathematics here in 1911, and chairman of the department in 1925. He relinquished his post here in 1934 to become Edward Olney professor of mathematics, which post he held un- til his retirement in 1938. For the term of 1930-32, he was president of the Teacher's Insurance and Annuity Association ofAmerica. Professor Glover's body has been taken to the Dolph Funeral Home and will be taken to Detroit' for cre- mation services. Other funeral ar- rangements have not been made. Blatz Will Give Lecture Today At 4:05 p.m. today Dr. William Blatz will lecture in the University High School Auditorium on the sub- ject, "The Nursery School Points the Way.f Dr. Blatz is professor of child psy- chology and director of the Institute of Child Study at the University of Toronto, and director of the Windy Ridge Day School. He was educa- Luftwaffe 'Blazing' Path To Novgorod; Stalin Line Broken, DNB Asserts Battlelines Steady, Moscow Claims MOSCOW, Wednesday, July 16.- (P-The Red Army was reported early today to have wiped out a great segment of German forces driving toward Leningrad while successfully holding the Nazi tide trying to break through toward Moscow and Kiev. The Soviet Information Bureau communique acknowledged that all- day fighting yesterday in the Pskov- Porkhov, Vitebsk and Novogad-Vo- linsky sectors took a heavy toll of lives on both sides. It gave this pic- ture of the battle front: Nazi Troops Encircled In the Pskov-Porkhov area 175 miles south of Leningrad, German motorized troops were encircled by Soviet soldiers who destroyed section after section. Red troops seized 'a great quantity of Nazi tanks, arm- ored cars and other equipment. In the Vitebsk sector 300 miles west of Moscow, "fighting continued all day long against motorized and mechanized units which endeavored in vain to penetrate to the east." "The fighting continues with heavy losses on both sides," the com- munique said. German Thrusts Countered In the Russian Ukraine far to the south, the Soviets said their troops stubbornly countered German at- tempts to break through in the Novo- grad-Volinski area toward Kiev, 120 miles to the east. The Russians indicated German advance units had swept ahead in this sector, but that these were tank crews who now found themselves in a dangerous spot because of the in- ability of German infantry to fol- low them. In an undisclosed sector the com- munique said Red troops surprised and destroyed two German infantry battalions of perhaps 2,000 men who were moving along a narrow road where.Russian artillery troops were lying in ambush. The Soviet air force was said to have destroyed 52 German planes yesterday, losing only 24 planes. Red airmen also bombed the Rumanian oil field of Ploesti north of Bucha- rest, and the Rumanian ports of Sulina and Tulcea. In the Gulf of Finland a German submarine sank after striking a mine, the communique said. Nazis Bombing Roads . On Way To Moscow BERLIN, July 15.-(P)-The Ger- man luftwaffe was reported today to have blasted a path of blazing destruction ahead of advancing Ger- man armies, now declared to be close to Novgorod, just 100 miles south- east of Leningrad, and in possession of the easternmost bunkers of the Stalin Line on the road to Moscow. DNB, German official news agency, said strong Nazi air units effectively bombed the highway from Smolensk to Moscow and the railway network in that area while Adolf Hitler's land forces were reported to have captured vital Red Army defense positions in the Vitebsk area, some 300 miles from the Russian capital. A number of railway stations and spur lines and pontoon bridges were smashed in this sector, the news agency asserted, adding that in oth- er sections of the vast battleline Soviet rear communications and sup- ply bases were heavily assaulted in support of attacking Nazi infantry- men.. In the Smolensk area alone DN said the Luftwaffe destroyed 33 tanks, 500 trucks and a great num- ber of guns. Between Chernigov and Brayansk, DNB related, rail lines, depots and rail yards were destructively at- tacked by German airmen. Club To Examine Carillon In Action Members of the German Club will visit the Carillon Tower at 7 p.m. tomorrow to see Prof. Percival Pride Emeny Says U.S. Will Survive Conflict With Power Enhanced a. v - uv,vm- wyrniyC~i'V; n tPar arhPC and rnncirlarnhlP .rarrifirP 4 By HnRx M. KhbZYea .1a IacosU4'.)I1 a±U aeraatsas America has the power and re- on the part of civilians." sources for accomplishing the task . Even today, he declared, America's industrial potential, wvhile not as yet to which it is committed in this war, reorganized for all-out war produc- and unlike the other nations of the tion, is nevertheless greater in rela- world it will survive the present con- tion to the other powers than was flict with its power intact and en- the case 10 years ago. hanced, Prof. Brooks Emeny of West- In the long run, the lecturer assert- ern Reserve University told an audi- ed, there is no danger of this coun- ence of the Graduate Study Program try's armament effort breaking down in Public Policy in a World at War through lack of available sources in yesterday. raw materials. "There will be delays, The possibility must be faced, how- resort to substitutes, severe restric- ever, Professor Emeny pointed out, tions on civilian consumption and that the time lag in our armament difficult periods of adjustment, but program may be such as to prevent despite these the United States has our granting sufficient aid to China the power, the geographic position and the British empire to preclude and wealth with which to procure all the possibility of certain disastrous the basic essentials of our gigantic defeats or a long drawn out war. defense effort," Professor Emeny said. "Congress," Professor Emeny in- Professor Emeny spent some time dicated, "and even the Executive did listing the sufficiencies and deficien- not take sufficiently to heart the cies of the world powers before the warnings of many well-informed stu- outbreak of the war, saying, "Even dents of the importance of creating the lack of one essential mineral can large reserves of certain raw materi- bring defeat upon a nation otherwise als to insure against the frenzy and nowerfu1lv equipned." Purdom Talks On Bad Traits Of Jobseekers Speaking on "Undesirable Person- ality Traits" last night in the second of a series of three lectures spon- sored by the Bureau of ASrpointments and Occupational Information, Dr. T. Luther Purdom, director of the Bureau, discussed habits distasteful to employers and how to avoid them. Emphasizing the fact that the pur- pose of the lecture was not to tell how to get a job, but rather how toI apply for one, Dr. Purdom poinfe'1 out common faults which prevent otherwise capable people from se- curing positions. Following his discussion, three demonstrations were given. The first portrayed the applicant who dresses like a "sixteen-year-old girl" when she is past that age; the second, pointedtout the fallacy of attempting to tell the employer how to run his business when applying for .a job; and the third demonstration showed that some jobseekers are not suc- cessful because they are too passive, and do not assert themselves in any way. Next Tuesday, July 22, the final lecture in the series, "Why People Do Not Hold Jobs," will be presented in the Rackham Lecture Hall at 7 p.m. All three of the lectures are under the general heading "Why People Do Not Get Jobs," M' Summer Band To Present Concert Under the direction of Prof. Wil- liam D. Revelli of the School of Mu- sic, the Michigan Summer Session Rnr will nffer a onceort at $:-30 orate on some of the more dangerous conditions under which this occurs. Continuing, he plans to describej the common signs and symptoms of the aspiration of foreign bodies. He will then explain the methods which physicians use today to dislodge these objects at the same time causing a minimum of damage to the patient's breathing system. Also included in the lecture will be description of the precautions which the layman can take to avoid acci- dents of this kind. It is especially stressed that the talk will be in language keyed for the layman, and the information in it has been gathered for the purpose of giving benefit to everyone. Knight Speaks On Education To Teachers, "Although public education in the Southern States was greatly retarded by the Civil War and Congressional Reconstruction and for nearly a gen- eration following these twin calami- ties, during the past three or four de- cades remarkable educational and social progress has been made in that section of the country," asserted Dr. Edgar W. Knight before the as- sembled teachers in the University High School Auditorium yesterday. Dr. Knight in his talk, "The Educa- tional Revival in the Southern States" continued, "The revival began about the end of the past century in a movement unique in the educational history of this country, through the Conference for Education in the South and the Southern Education Board. These organizations repre- sented most effective agencies for stimulating interest in and promoting -- - - r -- - +. --- ._ L _ _ ... .,_