r.... ' Weather fi igttan Off icial Publication Of The Summer Session ~Iatt Editorial Priorities Create A New Problem . . Fair And Warmer VOL. LL No. 16 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1941 Z-323 PRICE FIVE CENTS FDR Declares U.S. To Keep Iceland's Sea Routes Clear Roosevelt Lends Support To Draft Amendment Extending Year Period; Altmeyer Suggests Security Act Change WASHINGTON, July 18. -()- President Roosevelt today swept away any lingering doubts that, at what- ever cost, the Govrnment intends to keep the sea lanes to Iceland clear. At the same time he disclosed he would throw his prestige formally and fully behind proposals for extending the service of draftees; national guardsmen and reserves. A special message on that subject, he said, will go to Congress next week. These developments came at a press conference which Mr. Roosevelt also made the occasion for another thrust at Senator Wheeler (Dem.-Mont.), a leader of the Senate opposition to his foreign policies. No Comment On Movements Discussing the occupation of Ice- land by American forces, the Chief Executive said he did not care to comment on future troop movements, because-and for emphasis he auth- orized direct quotationy "I don't think it's right that I should pull a Wheeler." Wheeler had already been severely criticized in Administration quarters for saying, in advance of the Iceland operation, that he had reliable infor- mation that United States forces would shortly take over the island. Those with access to the best in- formation feel, Mr. Rooseveltbsaid at today's press conference, that the possible occupation of Iceland by an unfriendly power would be a serious blow at national and hemispheric de- fense. Foremost Issue In Capitol On the question of extending the service period of the draftees, reserves and national guardsmen beyond one year, Mr. Roosevelt said the issue was simply whether or not the Army should be subjected to complete dis- ruption, and that the burden of the decision was very definitely on Con- gress. Already the question is a foremost issue at the Capitol. With the mili- tary committee of the Senate holding1 hearings on the subject, Norman Thomas, leader of the Socialist Party,+ testified today that in his opinion theI views of General George C. Marshall, the chief of staff, who originally pro- posed the extension of the service period, were being "used in a great game of politics" to obtain approval of the legislation. * * * Altmeyer Favors Security Act Change WASHINGTON, July 18.-()-An eight-point program for liberalizing the Social Security Act to provide health insurance and to abandon the 50-50 matching of federal and state funds was recommended today by Chairman Arthur J. Altmeyer of the Social Security Board. Asserting the National Defense program had created many new prob- lems of insecurity, Altmeyer told a House committee studying worker migration that it was "more essential now than ever" to make progress in social security. Altmeyer commented in a state- ment submitted to the committee that when the defense program arose some said there was no need for further advancement of social gains. Then he remarked that under simi- lar circumstances Great Britain had liberalized and extended its social security program. Recalling that some persons had expressed concern health security might lead to "socialized medicine," Altmeyer said: "'Socialized medicine' is some- thing to which I am opposed if that phrase means a system which de- stroys the personal relationship be- tween the patient and his doctor. The present trouble about free choice of a doctor is that so many people have neither a choice nor a doctor." New Japanese Cabinet To Follow Same Policy Konoye Says Empire's Program Is Set; Calls On Nation For Unity In Crisis (By The Associated Press) C TOKYO, Saturday, July 19. - Japan, with a newly-streamlined cab- inet loosed from political party ties and made up in half by three admir- als and four generals, set forth anew today on its "immutable" but still secret foreign policy. "The Empire's policy for coping with the international situation al- ready has been fixed and it now re- mains for us to put it into practice with decision and speed," said Pre-. mier Prince Fumimaro Konoye last night after the first meeting of the new government, his third. What action might be in prospect Konoye did not say. He simply called on the nation for unity because, "with the rapid changes that are taking place" in international affairs, "the mission of our country is growing heavier and heavier." 'Policy Adapted To Situation' Vice Admiral Tetjiro Toyoda, who became foreign minister yesterday in a shakeup that ousted Yosuke Mat- suoka, said Japan's foreign policy might have to be adapted to the "day- to-day international situation." But the broad lines of that policy -whatever it is-will remain what they wereteven before Matsuoka, father of the neutrality pact with Russia as well as the Axis alliance, was ousted. The official declaration that Ja- pan's foreign policy was unaltered were taken by some informed persons to mean the campaign for the "Great- Auto Workers' Strihe Ties Up Local Factory Precision Parts Company Closed As Officials Fail To Agree On Pay Rates A strike of 150 UAW-AFL workers tied up production at the local plant of the Precision Parts Co., manu- facturers of automobile parts, when company and union officials failed to reach an agreement on basic pay rates after two months of negotia- tion. Local 702 of the UAW-AFL, which claims an almost 100 percent mem- bership in the plant, is asking for a wage increase from 45 to 65 cents an hour for men and from 35 to 50 cents an hour for women. Burton H. Warner, company pres- ident, quoted 45 cents for women and 50 to 55 cents an hour for men as the current pay rates. He offered to raise the average rate by 3%/2 cents an hour. No violence has been reported from the picket lines in front of the plant. Company officials have closed the plant and have not tried to force a reopening. "We are not striking in an attempt to force Detroit wages o this com- pany," Kenneth Wells, ur ion repre- sentative declared, "because we know it can't pay them; but we do want a living wage." Warner stated that the company "has conceded recognition of the union" and is negotiating the union's wage demands. Wells, however, as- serted that though negotiations are not now in process, "the union is prepared at any time to negotiate with the company." The strike was caused, the union official said, because the manage- ment was not negotiating in a sin- cere manner and did not attempt to reach a wage agreement. Strike Board Is Appointed LANSING, July 18.-(/')-A spe- cial commission has been appointed by Governor Van Wagoner to act in the labor dispute between the Great Lakes Engineering Works at River Rouge and the Steel Workers Organ- ivirrr~mmt CIPPrO the tXoiv er East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere," the alliance with Germany and Italy as well as the neutrality pact with Russia still were cardinal points of policy. Only Possible Move (To preserve all these points, the only possibly new move by Japan would seem to be southward, perhaps in French Indo-China, for there it would neither be attacking Russia nor, ostensibly, running counter to the Axis.) The foreign office-controlled Ja- pan Times and Advertiser, as an edi- torial accompaniment to the induc- tion of the new government, asserted "a Roosevelt wall is being built and strengthened about Japan's eastern front which threatens the safety of this empire." The newspaper said "the time for Japan to take forceful measures in its own interests is now, before the throttling circle becomes too strong and dangerous." It called strength- ening of American bases in the Paci- fic "nothing less than an attempt to establish an American empire over the approaches to end exits from Japan." Experimental Theatres Plan Presentations Seven bills of plays will be present- ed this summer by the Secondary Theatre under the direction of Nancy Bowman and the Laboratory The- atre under the direction of Hugh Nor- ton. Both 'of these theatres are designed by the speech department to give students who do not desire to partici- pate in the weekly performance of the Michigan Repertory Players of the speech department experience in the- atre work. The Secondary Theatre devotes it- self to giving productions suitable for high school presentation and un- der conditions found in the average high school. The casts for these plays are ,picked from high school students in and around Ann Arbor. "You Can't Take It With You" by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart will be presented by the Secondary Group at 8:30 p.m, Monday at the University High School Auditorium. Bills of student-directed one-act plays will be given at 10 a.m. Satur- day, July 26, and Saturday, Aug. 2 at the Ann Arbor High School Audi- torium. You May Take Vanilla; You Won't Take It Long LANSING, July 18.---(P)-You may take vanilla, but take it from the ice cream makers of the state, you won't take it long. The Michigan Allied Ice Cream Manufacturers appealed to the State Department of Agriculture today for a hearing of proposals to use sub- stitute flavoring in "vanilla" ice cream. They said war blockades have cut off shipment of vanilla beans from Madagascar, which holds a virtual monopoly on the flavoring market. Lawrence ONeil, deputy commis- sioner of agriculture, set July 31 ! Union Stages Version Of 'Light That Failed' Strong men quaked and beautiful women screamed in candlelight when the Michigan Union staged its own private blackout from 1 to 3 24 p.m. yesterday. The occasion was the result of put- ting in new transformers, which in- volved shutting off the lights in the building for nearly three hours. Candles were employed during the emergency, casting an eerie light in the catacomb-like hallways. Yesterday was picked to install the transformers because the sun was out in the morning, but the weather was fickle, and the afternoon was the darkest of the summer. Customers were warned ahead of time that the lights would fail, and all was in readi- ness at 1 p.m. The elevators, on a different cir- I cuit, were kept in service during the blackout. Calvin Hoover Will Give Talk Here Monday 'Nation At War' Is Theme As Graduate Program Goes Into Fourth Week Dean Calvin B. Hoover of the Graduate School at Duke University will open the fourth week of lectures in the Graduate Study Program in Public Policy in a World at War at 4:15 p.m. Monday in the Lecture Hall of the Rackham School. Dean Hoover will speak on "The Requirements of a War Economy." The theme of the week is "A Nation At War." On Tuesday, Prof. Max Lerner of Williams College's political science department will lecture on "The State In Wartime." Prof. Hans Speier of the New School for Social Research in New York City will deliver the final lec- ture of the week Wednesday on "The Effect of War On the Social Order." Prof. Charles L. Jamison of the business administration school, Prof. Arthur S. Aiton of the history de- partment and Prof. Charles E. Mar- tin of the University of Washington will introduce the lecturers on Mon- day, Tuesday and Wednesday re- spectively. The lectures are open to the pub- lic and all interested are invited to attend. Hopkiis Reports On Shipbuilding (By The Associated Press) LONDON, July 18.-United States shipbuilding yards will complete and make ready for sea at least 6,000,000 tons of merchant ships during 1942. and will produce 1,000,000 tons this year, Harry L. Hopkins, Supervisor of the U.S. Lend-Lease Program, told interviewers today. (The recent acknowledged British shipping losses have been at the rate of about 6,000,000 tons a year.) Hopkins, who said he would be here a week or ten days to survey the entire problem of American war sup- ply to Britain, said the 1942 ship- building figure would be about 2,000,- 000 tons better than that for the peak year of the World War program. Russian Germans Claim Forces A re Beyond Smolensk; Troops'Dig In' osi- Nil- 0. erg, ville s in ons in pe- ysi- ir r 7 3 t izingcmmt - , eexuve office announced today. Art Cinema Will Present Noel P. Fox, a member of the 'Baker' Wife'TomState Labor Mediation Board, was 'Baker's W e' Tomorrow named chairman of the commission Named the best picture of 1940, which also included Rev. Rollin Fair- the French film, "The Baker's Wife," banks, rector of the Grosse Ile Epis- will be shown at 8:15 p.m. tomor- copal Church, and Kenneth Burns, row in the Lecture Hall of the Rack- Detroit bank cashier. Hm Q^*k^^ M anfiio e4011 3the strirk