Weather Fair, .somewhat warmer. LL Sfr in Off icial Publication Of The Summer Session tiaitl Editorial Wishful Thinking And Defeatism .. . I VOL. LI. No. 17 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, JULY 20, 1941 Z-323 PRICE FIVE CENTS Route To Moscow Dean Hoover To Sneak High School Band Clinic To Give Session's Second Concert Today Undefended, Nazi Command Claims Capital Termed Vulnerable To Troops That Forced Land Gate Of Smolensk Russia's Version A Different Story (By The Associated Press) Germans declared last night that Moscow lay vulnerable before an army that had forced the Smolensk land gate to the capital, but today's Russian communique told of con- tinuing great battles in the Smolensk, Pskov, Polotsk-Nevel and Novograd- Volynski areas, suggesting the Ger- man thrust has been held at least 24 hours. It was in those general sectors, the approaches of Moscow, Leningrad and Kiev that the Russians reported fighting in progress previously. In addition, the Soviet information Bureau said Russian bombers and torpedo boats had destroyed 11 Ger- man troop transports and tankers in a great raid on a Nazi convoy in the Baltic Sea. Premier Joseph Stalin further tightened his personal control of Russia's military effort by assuming the post of Defense Commissar,. a position held since May 8, 1940, by Marshal Semeon Timoshenko. The Marshal, credited largely with modernization of the Red Army and newly placed in active command of Russia's western front, was made Deputy Commissar. The Germans, in claiming the road to Moscow now lay comparatively open, represented destruction of the Red Army as a more immediate ob- jective than capture of the Soviet capital. A possible explanation of the Ger- man disdain for Moscow might be this: An Istanbul informant-an Axis diplomat who left Moscow just be- fore the conflict %tarted-said the Russians were. -holding 4,000,000 troops in reserve, behind Moscow, ready for a sharply timed counter- offensive. . Officially, the Russians had little to say today on the trend of the war. They identified the Smolensk sector as the point of greatest pressure but omitted the usual claim that they were holding their ground. Indica- tions were that a tremendous strug- gle was under way to cut off the Smolensk salient. The army newspaper Red Star re- ported two cities, unidentified, had been retaken by guerillas harassing the German rear. Latin-America To Be Subject Of Alton Talks Three Lectures In Spanish Will Be Given; First One Set For Tomorrow Three lectures in Spanish on "Re- lations of the United States With Latin America"'will be given by Prof. Arthur S. Aiton of the history de- partment at 5 p.m. tomorrow, Thurs- day and Friday in the Amphitheatre of the Rackham School. The lectures are part of the pro- gram of the Latin-American Sum- mer Session of the International Cen- ter attended by students -from Ecua- dor, Chile and Venezuela brought here by the Grace Line. Professor Aiton's lectures are by way of introduction to a series of 12 lectures on "Some Aspects of the Culture of the United States" to be- gin Tuesday, July 29, with a talk by Prof. Verner W. Crane of the history department. A recognized authority on Latin- America, Professor Aiton will leave in a few weeks for Costa Rica, where he is to give a course of lectures at the National University. All interested who have a sufficient knowledge of Spanish may attend. Fort Custer To Conduct ROTC Officers' School FORT CUSTER, July 19.-(P)-Col. Robert G. Kirkwood, a field artillery instructor at the University of Illi- nois, will be the commandant of an officers' school Aug. 4.to 23 at Fort Burden Of Proof Plus That Of Marriage-Nix! LANSING, Mich., July 19.-()- Col. Samuel D. Pepper, deputy direc- tor of the draft in Michigan, said today the "burden of proof is placed upon the registrant to establish that his marriage resulted from the normal course of human events" if he has married since Oct. 16, when Selective, Service registrations began. "The registrant," Col. Pepper added, "will be obliged to make a showing that his marriage was not an elevent -hour effort." He dedareddraft boards might require affidavits from relatives of the registrant and his bride to show the duration of the courtship prior to the marriage, and that decisions would remain with local boards. Should evidence indicate a young man married to evade the draft, Pep- War Economy To Be Subject Of Policy T alk Price, Brinkman, Beller And Page To Present Other Musical, Events The High School Clinic Band, un- der the direction of Mark Hindsley, guest conductor, will offer its second concert of the Summer Session at. 4:15 p.m. today in Hill Auditorium. Featured on the program will be a horn quartet, "In the Country" by Beethoven-Pottag, which will be played by Alvia Hafer, Dale Mast, Eugene Schmidt and Jack Yancey of, Sturgis. Among the other selections which will be heard are Gounod's "Over- ture to Mireilla," Wood's "The Sea- farer," Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring," Curson's "Robin Hood Suite," "Jota" by Granados, "Fiesta, Paso Doble" by Caneva-McAllister, "Tales of the Vienna Woods" by Strauss and "America" by Williams. A program of Mozart compositions will be presented by Prof. Percival Price of the School of Music in his regular Sunday recital from the Bur- ton Memorial Tower today. Professor Price will play the Alle- gro from first piano sonata, selections from "The Magic Flute," "Don Gio- vanni" and "The Marriage of Figaro," Sonata (for violin and piano, No. 18), bell music from "The Magic Flute" Excursionists Visit Niagara And Environs and "Romanze" from "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik." At 4:15 p.m. tomorrow, Prof. Joseph Brinkman of the School of Music and William Belier, both pianists, will offer the second in a series of six programs in the Rackham Assembly Hall. The concert will open with Haydn's "Aidante and Variations, F minor" and "Fantasia, C major" and will continue with Mozart's "Sonata, D major," Haydn's "Sonata, E-flat ma- jor" and Mozart's "Sonata, A minor." Burton Page, a student at the School of Music, will present a piano recital at 8:30 p.m. tomorrow in the School of Music Auditorium on May- nard Street playing sonatas by Bee- thoven, Chopin and Darius Milhaud. Price To Tall Here On Early French Music Carillonneur Will Discuss Jongleurs, Troubadours In Illustrated Lecture Prof. Percival Price, professor of composition, and University carillon- neur, will offer a lecture at 4:10 p.m. tomorrow in Room 202, Burton M- morial Tower, on "Early French Mu- sic of the Jongleurs and the Trouba- dours." Noblemen during the Middle Ages, these troubadours, singers and poets, generally sang to the accompaniment of a lute. The jongleurs, though of lower class in society, gave essentially French Fi~m Stars Ramay Opens Today Duke'! To For Roosevelt Dictates Draft For Message Un Armed Forces Dean C. Hoover Lecture Tomorrow Graduate Program per said, he unmarried. would be classified as Mrs. Fraser To Talk Here Lecturing on "The Requirements of a War Economy," Dean Calvin B. Hoover of the Graduate School at Duke University will speak at 4:15 p.m. tomorrow in the Lecture Hall of the Rackham School. Dean Hoover's talk will be the first of the week for the Graduate Study Program in Public Policy in a World at War. Taking an A.B. degree at Mon- mouth College in 1922, Dean Hoover earned his Ph.D degree at the Uni- versity of Wisconsin in 1926 after doing graduate work there and at the University of Minnesota. From 1923 to 1925 he was instructor in the School of Business at the University of Minnesota. He has been at Duke since 1925 and has been Dean of the Graduate School since 1938. Social science research fellow for .the study of U.S.S.R. from 1929 to 1930, Dean Hoover was economic ad- visor to the ,Department of Agri- culture from 1933 to 1935. In 1935 he was executive secretary of the President's Drought Relief Commit- tee and in 1937 was consultant of the National Resources Committee. Dean Hoover is the author of "The Economic Life of Soviet Russia," pub- lished in 1931; "Germany Enters the Third Reich,".published in 1933, and "Dictators and Democracies," pub- lished in 1937. Kaufman And Hart Comedy Will Open "You Can't Take It With You," George S. Kaufman's and Moss Hart's comedy hit, will be presented by the Secondary School Theatre of the speech department under the direction of Nancy Bowman at 8:30 p.m. tomorrow in the University High School Auditorium. ' All students in Play Production, or in other classes in the Department of Speech and students in the School of Education are invited to attend. Sea- son ticket holders to the Michigan Repertory Players' drama series may also attend. Anyone else interested may obtain permission by phoning the speech office or the Lydia Men- delssohn Theatre box office. Continental Comic To, Play Leading Role In Movie At 8:15 In Rackham Raimu, continental comic, plays the baker in the French film "The Baker's Wife" to be shown at 8:15 British Laborite Will Give Lecture At 4:15 Today' British laborite and former mem- ber of the London County Council, Mrs. Robert Fraser, will give a pub- lic lecture at 4:15 p.m. today in the Rackham Lecture Hall on "British Labor and World War II" Mrs. Fraser is being brought to Ann Arbor by The Committee to De- fend America by Aiding the Allies. The lecture wii be free to the pub- lic, The noted British sociologist and laborite was a member of the London County Council from 1934 to 1938 in the first majority ever received by Labor in the metropolis. Mrs. Fraser is wife of Robert Fras- er, leading writer on The Daily Her- ald, labor national daily in England. She served as air raid warden in London for nine months before com- ing to this country with her small daughter. By EUGENE MANDEBERG the same performance. p.m. today in the Lecture Hall of the (Special to The Daily) Rackham School by the Art Cinema Continuing with his description of League. NIAGARA FALLS, July 19.-Met at early French music, Professor Price Acclaimed as the best movie of Buffalo this morning by a special bus, will explain the development of the 1940, "The Baker's Wife" has Eng- we of the Niagara Falls excursion song in that country and will also lish b-titl tt b Joh Er arrived at our destination about 10:15 go into the theory of music, as stud- kine suThe film wsdirected by Mr- a.m. after spending the night on the ied by scholars at Paris University.clno andfismas ed n a - Greater Detroit, the D&C steamship Recordings will illustrate his talk. enel Pagnol and y based on an inci- which took us over Lake Erie. This is the first in a series of three dentin a novel by Jean Giono. Upon our arrival here, we were lectures on music, sponsored by the Ginette Leclerc, 'popular French. taken for a tour. around the Gorge Department of Romance Languages, actress, plays the title role in the and went over to the Canadian side and given in English, which are open story of the village baker whose mari- of the Falls, where we lunched at to all students and faculty members tal problems are solved by the entire the Hotel General Brock. interested, community which finds itself bread- The trip- -around the Gorge was Second in the series will be a dis- less when his wife runs away. especially interesting, beginning be- cussion of the development of the op- Tickets for the Art Cinema League's low the International Bridge and cir- era, the symphony and vocal music, series of four foreign films, of which cling through the entire area of the with special attention to music of "The Baker's Wife" is the second, Falls. Professor Scott, of the Uni- the court. The period following the may still be obtained at the Union, versity's geology department, ex- Middle Ages up to 1800 will be cov- the League and Wahr's book store. plained the rock formations we saw ered by this talk, to be offered Mon- Tickets will be on sale at the Rack- and in general answered all the ques- day, August 4. ham School from 7:30 p.m. until tions 'put to him by the definitely starting time. impressed students: Other films still to be shown in the Aerial Ride Over Pool Final Job' Lecture series are "The Cobbler of Koepen- Following the 14 mile ride around O r uick" on Aug. 3 and "Crime and Pun- the Gorge, we went to the railroad To Be On Tuesday ishment" on Aug. 10. bridges above the Whirlpool, 'and most of the party was game for an Final lecture in the Bureau of Ap- aerial ride over the 'pool.' Looking pointments and Occupational In- 'Motley Crew' Is Leading down from our little car, we were able formation's series will be presented President, Wheeler Says to see a magnificent view of the Falls at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Rackham and gasp at the height we were at. Lecture Hall, titled "Why People Do WASHINGTON, July 19.-(P)-,-- Later in the afternoon, we went Not Hold Jobs." Senator Wheeler (Dem.-Mont.) con- through the Cave of the Winds, a Previously, under the general head, tended today that 'President Roose- series of tunnels which run behind "Why People Do Not Get Jobs," two velt was basing foreign policy on the the Falls, and come out to the very lectures were offered, showing that advice of "a motley crew" consisting brink of wall over which the water wrong courses and undesirable per- of Secretaries Knox and Ickes, Lease falls. This was extremely interesting, sonality traits were often responsible Lend Coordinator Harry Hopkins and both from a scenic % and geological for unemployment. Felix Frankfurter, an associatice jus- point of view, for the numerous for- Dr. T. Luther Purdom, director of tice of the Supreme Court. mations have been exposed through the Bureau, stressed the fact that Renewing the running verbal ex- the eroding of the water. these lectures are meant to show change between himself and the Chief Ride On Maid Of The Mist people how to apply for a job, and Executive, Wheeler asserted that the Having seen how the Falls looked how to keep a job once they had se- great bulk of American public opine' from that particular angle, we board- cured one. It is not meant to ex- ion was not reflected in the Presi- ed the Maid of the Mist, and in an plain how to get a- job. dent's actions. exciting ride, steamed around the bottom of the drop, and then went behind the waterfall, to the agony Lemon Will Address Seventh of several of our party. Incidentally,, everyone looked especially handsome Religious Conference Tuesday in the over-sized raincoats and hats Will Seek To Hold Draftees And Others In Service Over Enlistment Period Voluntary Gas Cut Is Asked By Ickes WASHINGTON, July 19. -()- President Roosevelt dictated today a tentative draft of his message to Congress recommending that the service period of draftees, National Guardsmen and reserves be prolonged and set aside the entire weekend for the completion of the communica- t ion. A Congress already deeply em- broiled in controversy over the issue will receive it on Tuesday or later, scarcely 10 days before the Aug. 1 deadline, beyond which Gen. George C. Marshall, the Army Chief of Staff has said enactment of the legislation could not be postponed with safety. What line of approach the Presi- dent will take was, of course, a close- ly guarded secret, but some were dis- posed to think that he mght urge the declaration of a state of national emergency by Congress; as a basis for retaining the men in the army after the year for which they were induct- ed originally. Production To Be Curtailed From the office of prices and civil- ian supply, meanwhile, came an an- nouncement that production of auto- mobiles, mechanical refrigerators and household laundry equipment, would be reduced by as much as 50 per cent in the next 12 months, because of an "acute shortage" of raw materials needed for defense production. Leon Henderson, the price adnin- istrator, also said conferences were in progress with manufacturers of air conditioning apparatus, heating and cooking equipment, metal furniture and miscellaneous household appli- ances, with production cuts in pros- pect for those lines as well, One-Third Less Gasoline Pressing his program of gsoline conservation-in the face of an ex- pected shortage in the East-Secre- tary Ickes asked for a voluntary re- duction of one-third in gasoline con- sumption in 16 East Coast states. The White House announced the appointment of a six-member com- mittee to'investigate complaints that Negroes seeking jobs in defense, in- dustries and in the Government were the objects of discrimination. To the chairmanship, he named Mark Eh- ridge, general manager of the Louis- ville Courier-Journal. Wages Ruled Out Of Price-Control Bill WASHINGTON, July 19. -'(P)- Although, details of the Administra- tion's price-control legislation are not complete, a Congressional source said today that leaders had ruled against including wages among the items which would be subject to regula- tion by the President through the Office of Price Control. The measure is expected to be sub- mitted to Congress next week. As explained by those familiar with its general terms, the legislation would fix a basic period-probably the first six months of 1941-as an average level to be used in computing fair wholesale prices for various products. A formula which would take into consideration the cost of production as well as other factors then would be applied to arrive at a "ceiling" Embryo Study Is Talk Topic Prof. Twitty To Lecture At 8 P.M. Tomorrow "The Study of the Embryonic De- velopment by Microsurgical Experi- menots" will be the subject of an il- lustrated lecture to be given at 8 p.m. tomorrow in the Lecture Hall of the Rackham Building by Prof. V. C. Twitty of Stanford University. Professor Twitty will be introduced by Prof. Peter Okkelberg, assistant dean of the graduate school. The lecture, third in a series sponsored by the Offices of the Summer Ses- sion, is open to the public. The next lecture in the series will be given on Monday, July 28, by Prof. Ralph W. Hammet of the College of > - -- __ =: s ,: 3' . L.i'. t r Local Churches Sponsor Tours And Talks On Vital Topics Today Student tours and talks on various.government, and herself suffered im- topics vital at the present time will prisonment as a part of the severe be sponsored today by Ann Arbor persecution of the liberal'movement. churches. Since she was there from before the The Rev. Henry Lewis of St. An- outbreak of the war to the beginning drew's Episcopal Church has made of the Greek-Italian conflict, she pos- arrangements for all Episcopal stu- sesses authentic information on how dents and their friends to go to the the blackout of freedom actually came Cranbrook Foundation in Bloomfield about. Hills. Leaving Harris Hall at 3 p.m., Miss Handler studied at Tufts Col- the students will first go to the lege and Tufts Theological School in Foundation, where they will hear a Medford, Mass., and also at Boston lecture on its work given by Rev. University and Northwestern Univer- Charles Cadigan, rector of Christ sity. She has preached in a number Church at the Foundation. of churches in the East and has From there the students will travel worked in the Unitarian headquarters to Lake Angelus for a picnic supper at Boston. Recently she resigned from and swimming. Reservations must her work in the Western Unitarian be made for this tour. Conference office, to become minister * ** Iof tR e hutrch in. Lanwrence_ Kan. spray. Before going to the Temperance Hotel, where we shall spend the night, we visited the Canadian Heights Park, a beautiful scenic place with mam- moth trees, and another fine view of the landscape. After dinner at the hotel, most of us were content to sit around and wait for dark, at which time the Falls were brilliantly lighted. Giant search- lights spread a rainbow of color on the falling water, making a perfect climax to a day full of scenic won- ders. Booker To Lecture On Social Security Dr. Ivan A. Booker, visiting mem- ber of the School of Education Fac- ulty, will lecture at 4:05 p.m. tomor- row in University High School on "Teachers and Social Security." Dr. Booker is Assistant Director of the Research Division of the Na- tional Education Association. He re- Highlighting the first meeting of the seventh Conference on Religion, to be held on the campus Tuesday through Thursday, will be a talk by Dr. William P. Lemon, pastor of the Ann Arbor Presbyterian Church. Dr. Lemon will address members of the Conference at an informal Called "one of the effective in- terpreters of Biblical literature" by Dr. Edward W. Blakeman, coun- selor in , religious education at the University, Dr. Lemon is outstand- ing in religious circles, having served on the editorial staffs of the Chris- tian Century and of the Presbyterian Tribune, New York. He came to the Ann Arbor church'seven years ago after preaching ten years at the Uni- versity of Minnesota and four years at the University of Iowa. With the luncheon will open three days of discussion designed to offer to members of the Summer Session an introduction to certain religious issues. of the day and acquaintance with a few recognized leaders in religious' thought. Principle consideration of the meet- ings will be upon-the general theme:' A Consideration of Current Religious Education and the relation of religi- ous leaders to the Public Schools. This general topic has been divided into three specific sections for the forum meetings from 2:30 to 4 p.m. each of the three days, in the East Members of the Lutheran Student Association, meeting at 5:30 p.m. at Zion Lutheran Parish Hall, will hear a talk by Kenneth Morgan of the Student Religious Association on the speaker's experiences in a Hindu mon- rctery. Morgan recently spent a year in India, studying modern Hinduism. * * * ULLCUu ul l IUW mt:, 1ci. At the round-table discussion at 7:30 p.m. Miss Handler will discuss "Women in the New World," covering the fields of teaching, preaching and journalism. This will be the last service in the church until fall. * ** m The student class which meets at