The Wea Occasional light and possibly tom change in temperat ther snow today sorrow; no ture. Y Lie4tZII t t VOL. XLIV No. 75 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1934 I PRICE FIVE CENTS Aloofness Defended By Borah Our Foreign Policy Not One Of Isolation, Critics Told By Senator Freedom Of Action U.S. Goal, He Says Women Members Of House Talk With Speaker Rainey Suspension Of Contracts By State Allowed Republican Leader That We Remain In Political Matters Asks Free NEW YORK, Jan. 8 - () - Sena- for Borah tonight reiterated his faith in the foreign policy of Wash- ington and Jefferson and defied his critics to apply the term "isolation" to an aloof concentration upon America's own problems. "It is not isolation, it is freedom of action," he said addressing the Coun- cil on Foreign Relations. "It is in- dependence of judgment. It is not isolation, it is free government - there can be no such thing as free government if the people thereof are not free to remain aloof or to take part in foreign wars. "People who have bartered away or surrendered their right to remain neutral in war have surrendered their right to govern. In matters of trade and commerce we have never been isolationists and never will be, In matters of finance, unfortunately, we have not beefs isolationists, and probably never will be. "When earthquake and famine, or whatever brings human suffering, visits any part of the human race, we have not been isolationists, and never will be. "But in all matters political, in all commitments of any nature or kind which encroach in the slightest upon the free and unembarrassed action of our people or which circumscribe their discretion or judgment, we have been free, we have been isolation- ists. And this, I trust, we shall ever be. "If there be any truth established by the experience of nations, it is this: that to accommodate your for- eign policies to the demands or in the interest of other nations at the peril of your own security, is to in- vite contempt, and it seldom fails to earn a more substantial punishment." For the leader of the nation, Borah, ranking Republican of the foreign relations committee, urged the goal of an increased and intensified patriot- ism instilling into the heterogeneous millions of America a lofty pride of country with its finer qualities di- rected along high, honorable, and peaceful lines. Student Takes His Own Life In Rooming House William Hallensleben, 33, Strangles Himself; Had 'Persecution Complex' Said by his acquaintances to have been suffering from a "persecution complex," William P. E. Hallensle- ben, Grad., 33-year-old student work- ing for a Ph.D. degree in German, yesterday took his own life in his room at 905 Sybil St. Mrs. George C. Tryon, landlady, discovered the body at about 4 p. m. when she went to Hallensleben's room. The student had tied a shoe string about his neck and attached it to the top hinge of the door, ap- parently leaning backwards until he strangled., In a note which he left, Hallens- leben directed that his belongings be sent to relatives in Germany but he gave no reasons for his action. Friends stated that he was probably despondent over personal matters and that this, coupled with the com- plex from which he was said to have been suffering, caused him to take his life. In his note Hallensleben blamed professors and fellow students for "discriminating" against him. It is said Hallensleben believed others thought him a Nazi sympathizer and a "Polish spy." A native of Germany, Hallensle- ben is registered at the University -Associated Press Photo Women members of the House of Representatives discussed President Roosevelt's message and pro- posed plans of Congress in this conference with Speaker Henry T. Rainey. Left to right: Mrs. Virginia Jenckes, Indiana Democrat; Mrs. Marian Clarke, New York Republican; Mrs. Edith Norse Rogers, Mass- achusetts Republican; Speaker Rainey; Mrs. Isabella Greenway, Arizona Democrat; Mrs. Kathryn Mc- Carthy, Kansas Democrat; Mrs. Florence Kahn, California Republican. Plan Parley Of Committees On Stu.dent Affairs Rumor Indicates Meeting Is Called To Consider Liquor Question A joint meeting of the Interfrater- nity Alumni Conference, the Council Judiciary Committee, and the Senate Committee on Student Affairs has been called by Nathan S. Potter, '98, chairman of the alumni group, for Saturday afternoon, and will be held in the Union. Mr. Potter could not be reached last night for a statement regarding matters to be discussed at the meet- ing, and Dean of Students Joseph A. Bursley stated that he was ignor- ant of its cause. A rumor, caused undoubtedly by the direct similarity between the con- ditions under which this meeting is being held and the one held last spring shortly before the legalization of 3.2 per .cent beer, intimated that recommendations may be made on the liquor question. At that time, the alumni presented a list of recommendations to the In- terfraternity Council which would have prohibited the use of the bev- erage on the premises of any frater- nity house. Action was refused on the petition with but one dissenting vote, the delegates expressing themselves in- formally that they preferred to leave the matter up to a vote of their in- dividual national or local organiza- tions. Bethel B. Kelley, '34, president of the Interfraternity Council, upon hearing of the impending meeting, announced that the council meeting originally scheduled for Wednesday would be postponed until Wednesday, Jan. 17, so that any results of Satur- day's meeting might be presented to the delegates at that time. Comstock Sees Relief As Issue In February LANSING, Jan. 8. -- (N)-Gover- nor Comstock today foresaw the probability that welfare relief legis- lation will be a mnajor issue at the forthcoming special session of the Legislature in February. Announcing the receipt of a letter from Washington demanding addi- tional State and local funds supple- menting Federal relief aid, the Gov- ernor charged county road commis- sions had failed to use highway funds for welfare purposes as designated under the Kulp Act. He attributed the present emergency to the com- mission and the Legislature. Tugwell Appointed To Position At Yale (By Intercollegiate Press) NEW HAVEN, Conn., Jan. 8. -The Yale School of Law has appointed Rexford G. Tugwell, assistant secre- tary of agriculture and professor of economics at Columbia University, a research associate for the current academic year. "In this capacity," the Law School said, "Professor Tugwell will make frequent trips to New Haven for the purpose of consultation with mem- bers of the law faculty and of such teaching as his governmental duties will permit in the development of new courses in the school of law." Prof. Tugwell is author of the much-debated Pure Food and Drug Law about to be presented to Con- gress. B R...'U Million Loss in ChicagoBlaze- CHICAGO, Jan. 8-(/P)-Dam- age estimated at about $1,000,- 000 was caused tonight by a spectacular fire that razed a large automobile accessory plant on the edge of the Loop, dam- aged two nearby buildings, and brought injury to two persons. Authorities immediately began an investigation to determine if there was any connection be- tween the blaze and an alleged automobile theft, ring under in- vestigation. The fire started in the Warshaw- sky Automobile Accessories Co. plant at 1915 S. State St. and spread rap- idly through the half block of build- ings. The L. Fish Furniture Co. build- ing and an annex owned by the auto- mobile plant were damaged. A stiff west wind carried embers a block away. More than 200 firemen played streams of water before bringing the stubborn blaze under control. It took nearly four hours ,to quench the flames, For two hours at the height of the fire, street car and elevated traffic was tied up in the vicinity. Flames attacked the elevated tracks back of the plant but were finally extin- glished. Electricity was cut off, how- ever, and arterial elevated traffic north and south was halted. BIG TEN BASKETBALL Northwestern 33, Minnesota 26. Purdue 36, Illinois 21 Indiana 38, Ohio State 22. Iowa 32, Wisconsin 26 Wolverine Five Defeats Chicago Quintet, 34-18 Attack Led By Petoskey, Jablonski And Allen As Varsity Finds Itself By ALBERT H. NEWMAN Michigan's quintet clicked for the first time last night. The Wolver- ines hit the boards with a fast block- ing attack and swamped the Univer- sity of Chicago five 34 to 18, with Fred Allen breaking into the scoring column for 11 points to lead the at- tack. Captain Petoskey followed closely with nine points, while "Loose" Jablonski crashed through for eight. The Maroons opened the scoring with a foul-shot by Petersen, center, who hung up the point in the first minute of play. That score was all Chicago got until the final minute of the first half when Petersen again scored, this time a field goal from the foul line region to the right. He bkok- away 4ae-4 r the tally-and made a long shot from the dead run. Petersen's three points represented the Maroon scoring for 20 minutes. Chicago Cracks Meanwhile the Maize and Blue quintet cracked the Chicago defense for nineteen points. Breaking fast and working for block-shots, pivot- shots, and close ones, the Michigan five put on an exhibition of accurate passing and deadly shooting which surprised the spectators. It was a complete reversal of form. The second half was all even as far as scoring was concerned, with Mich- igan holding the edge on play and the Maroons being forced to rely for the most part on long-shots. Each team made 15 points, five field goals and five fouls, but Cappon started his stream of substitutes at the end of 10 minutes of play, Plummer re- placing Jablonski. Rudness Oliver, Ford, Regeezi, and Fishman followed Plummer into the game, only Pe- toskey of the starters playing all the way through. Following Petersen's successful foul shot, Jablonski put the Wolver- ines into the lead with a field goal closely followed by Allen with an- other two-pointer. Allen missed a foul shot, but Zit Tessmer came through with one to complete the first five minutes of play. After Ja- blonski broke through for another two points putting the Wolverines into the lead at 7-1, Chicago took time out, but they were unable to stem the tide. With eight minutes to play, Tessmer took a pass under the basket and counted, Allen scored again quickly with another short shot. Rout Goes On Another two minutes elapsed be- fore Petoskey took a back-pass from Allen, and drove fast to score on a dribble-in. Tomagno hit the basket for the first time a moment later, when he scored one-handed from the foul line, Petoskey followed with a one-handed shot from the sideline a minute later. Petoskey opened the second-half scoring with a long shot from far to the right of the ackboard. Haar- low of Chicago got away on a fast break and scored from close in after two minutes of play. A minute later Jablonski tallied a neat tip-in shot following an attempt by Allen, and Allen scored a foul shot a minute later. Allen scored a long shot after six minutes of play and a moment later, Petoskey pivoted and sank one from Supreme Court Decision Indicates Approval Of Congress' Action Judgment On Law Ends Long Dispute Selection Of Morgenthau For Cabinet Position Is Approved By Senate WASHINGTON, Jan. 8. - (W)- WILLIAM W. BISHOP The Supreme Court upheld a Minne- sota law today in a ruling that was immediately interpreted in the cap-AH ital as auguring well for the wide va- Orit riety of emergency legislation en- acted under President Roosevelt's To BishoI The decision upheld the right of a BBihop sun state to suspend contracts in an uletn ssue emergency, such as was provided by the depression. The law, which the court held valid, extended the time University Librarian Cited in which mortgaged property sold For Scholarly Activities under foreclosure might be redeemed. The right of contracts and of the In Numerous Fields government to set them aside in an emergency was debated with some William W. Bishop, University li- acerbity last April and May while brarian and head of the department several of the bills of the President's of library science, has been honored emergency program were before Con- by having the latest issue of the Bul- gress. letin of Bibliography, a bi-monthly The decision was one of a wide va- magazine, dedicated to him, it was riety handed down by the court dur- disclosed yesterday. A full-page pic- ing a busy day. On either side of the ture of Mr. Bihepis used as the court in the capitol building, Repub- frontspiece in the issue. licans in House and Senate were In describing the many attain- gathering fuel with which to ligh rnents of Mr. Bishop that have led the fires of dissension. to his being selected for this honor, Despite this, however there was a he accompanying article said in striking unanimity shown in carrying part: "In honor of his world-wide in- out the one presidential recommen- terests, international activities in the dation that was acted on during the fields of bibliography and libraryship, day. The Senate, with but one dis- scholarly attainments in numerous dsubjects, accomplishments in library senting voice, approved the appoint- science and education, and stimula- ment of Henry Morgenthau, Jr., as ting leadership among his fellows, we secretary of the treasury. salute this gentleman of the old school and of the new." G.O.P. Plots Attack Among the many offices listed WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 --(P)- which Mr. Bishop has held are the The fuel that will provide the fires presidency of the American Library of dissension on Capitol Hill during Association, five years on the execu- this session of Congress today was tive board of the same body, and piling up. membership on many other boards Bit by bit, in measures demanding and committees of the organization. reinstatement of many of the vet- The article closes with the state- erans' benefits that were cut at the ment: "Tribute is due to the recog- emergency session, asking the rea- nized leadership of a stimulating ad- son for a drop in hog prices during ministrator in progressive librarian- the last two months and calling for ship, a scholar in his own right, thor- a report on how the collection of oughly at home in any intellectual processing taxes on farm commodi- gathering," ties was proceeding, Republicans be- Mr. Bishop graduated from the gan to press old issues to the fore literary college in 1892 and from the and seek for new ones. Graduate School the following year. In the Senate Arthur R. Robinson, He has received honorary degrees of Indiana, a Republican who lost from Columbia University, New York few opportunities to assail the Demo- University, Miami University, the cratic Administration during the spe- University of Western Ontario, and cial session, stepped into the first Oberlin College. day of Senate debate with a speech calling the President's message one T of "glittering generalities" and his Righltmirel OAct budget recommendations as "amaz- ing." He drew an immediate reply In OMelee from Joseph T. Robinson, of Arkan- sas, the Democratic leader. COLUMBUS, 0., Jan. 8- (R) - I The cases of 10 "conscientious ob- ONE FOR THE CWA jectors" to compulsory military BAYFIELD, Wis., Jan. 8. - (/.) -J. training at Ohio State university M. Gordon is wondering how a large were put squarely up to President silver souvenir medal of the Colum- George W. Rightmire for decision bian Exposition came to be under a today when the Board of Trustees huge rock he had removed from his declined to act. yard. The rock, five feet in diameter, After conferring with Dr. Right- was removed by members of a CWA mire, the board announced it would crew. Under it they found the medal leave the decision in the hands of the which had been struck off 40 years President - a move which may spell previously. dismissal for the 10. Cannon Must Stand Trial For Violating Election Laws In 1928 WASHINGTON, Jan. 8-- (/) - In unequivocal language, the Su- preme Court today told Bishop James Cannon, Republican, that he had to stand trial on charges of violating election laws while opposing the election of Alfred E. Smith in 1928. Miss Ada Burroughs, of Richmond, Va., who was treasurer of the "Head- q u a r t e r s Committee Anti-Smith Democrats," will be tried also on the same charges. Cannon directed the committee's work which helped put Virginia, Texas, North Carolina and Florida in the Republican column for the first time since Reconstruc- tion days. The court today did not pass on Old Time Political Feud Back Of Kemp-Sanders Election Fi lit WASHINGTON, Jan. 8. -(/P) - Back of the battle between Mrs. Boli- var E. Kemp and Jared Y. Sanders, Jr., over the sixth Louisiana congres- sional district seat lies a heritage of bitter factional politics with Sen. Huey P. Long the storm center. Although she denies having been a "Long candidate"- in her disputed election of Dec. 5, Mrs. Kemp had the support of the Long organization, which, she says, "always supports the strongest candidate." tion in the district fought the Long forces without success in an effort to elect their candidate, Paul Borron. The Sanders feud with Huey Long dated far back of this local election. Sanders' father, a former governor of Louisiana and a former Louisiana representative in Congress, was one of Long's first and most bitter po- litical enemies. These enemies grew rapidly in numbers after Long be- came governor in 1928 and began or- ganizing his political machine. Young Sanders, now an anti-Long