f The Weather fMostly cloudy; rain in ex- treme east; colder -today in west and north portions. C, r Sirt EIaiti FINAL VOL. XLV. No.39 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1934 PRICE FIVE CNTS DEMOCRATS SWEEP COUNTRY AS. REPUBLICNS REGAIN Former Regent William Clements Dies Suddenly Passes Away In Bay City At AgeOf 73 Was Donor And Foundel Of Clements Library Of American History Served As Regent For Three Terms Relatiyes Here Unable To Determine Exact Cause Of Death By THOMAS H. KLEENE Former Regent William L. Cle- ments for more than two decades a prominent figure in the affairs of the University, died suddenly at approxi- mately 11 p.m. last night at his res.- dence in Bay City at the age of 73 years. The exact cause of his death was not known by relatives in Ann Arbor at an early hour this morning, but it was reported that he was subject to heart attacks and that he had under- gone a minor operation two weeks ago in a Detroit hospital. Mrs. ClementsWs not present at the time of her husband's death in- asmuch as she was out of the city. An attempt was being made to con- tact her last night by relatives. The high esteem with which he was regarded by University officials is in- dicated by the statement of President Alexander G. Ruthven, who said, when he was first informed ofathe death of Mr. Clements shortly after midnight last night, that "in the death of Regent Clements the Uni- versity has lost an old and true friend." The citation read at the time he was presented with an honorary de- gree at the last Commencement des- cribed Mr. Clements as a graduate "whose name and services will be re- membered as long as the University shall stand. During the twenty-five years of his term as Regent he has helped to shape the destinies of this institution by his unstinted labor, his broad vision, and prudent. counsel. Untiring in his search for rare ma- terial relating to the early history of America, a scholar deeply versed in his own domain, he gave to the Uni- versity the Library which lends to it a special distinction and renown. By assembling these documents and en- couraging research he has placed pos- terity forever in his debt." Founder Of Libraryf Mr. Clements has given property and materials valued at more than $20,000,000 to the University and is the founder and donor of the Wil-. liam L. Clements Library of American History located on South University Avenue. He served three terms, a period of 24 years running from 1910 to Jan- uary 1, 1934, on the Board of Regents. Mr. Clements was born April 1, 1861, in Ann Arbor, where he lived until his family moved to Bay City. He spent most of his boyhood years in a house that was located on the campus and leased to his father by the University. Entering the University in the fall of 1778, he completed a course in mechanical engineering in the liter- ary department and was granted a B.S.,degree in 1882. Last spring he ( was again honored at Commencement exercises by his, alma mater when he received an LL.D. honorary degree. Prominent In Bay City He became a manufacturer in Bay City in 1887, and in 1898 he was presi- dent of the Industrial Works, which position he held until 1925, the dateI of his retirement. After he had re- Noted Figure Passes Republicans Victorious In LocalBallot Heavy Majority Piled Up By Michener To Defeat Rep. Lehr Ann Arbor Favors Amendment Four WILLIAM L. CLEMENTS Class Elections To Be Held By Juniors Today Fraternity - Independent And Washtenaw Slates Are Announced Junior men and women in seven schools and colleges of the University will go to the polls this afternoon to elect officers and J-Hop commit- teemen for the current year. Elections are scheduled in the liter- ary college, engineering college, law school, medical school, education school, business administration school, and pharmacy school, according to I Carl Hilty, '35, president of the Un- dergraduate Council. Campaign officials in both the lit- erary college and engineering college have announced their slates of candi- dates for today's election. Advance indications point to a race between two parties in both colleges. In the literary college the Fratern-; ity-Independent party will oppose the Washtenaw-Coalition faction, while in the engineering college the New Deal party will compete against the Fraternity-Independent group. " The Fraternity-Independent party in the literary college has named Phil- ip Van Zile, Delta Kappa Epsilon, to head its slate as the presidential candidate. The remainder of the' slate includes Louise French, Kappa Kappa Gamma, for vice-president, Alison Tennant, Alpha Phi, for sc retary, and John Perkins, Beta Theta Pi, for treasurer. The J-Hop candidates of this fac- tion are James K. Eyre, independent, for chairman, and Jean Seeley, Kappa Alpha Theta, Robert Rogers, Psi Up-, (Continued on Page 3); G.O.P. Candidates Make Clean Sweep Of County Offices Riding into office on a Republican wave county officers followed a Re- publican trend which in Washtenaw county extended from the governor's office to the last man on the slate. On the state-wide elections Wash- tenaw gave Republicans on the aver- age leads out of proportion to the gen- eral state vote. Fitzgerald led Lacy by 3,641 votes, and Vandenberg had almost 3,558 extra votes. The vote for representative in Con- gress from the second congressional district was strongly favorable to Michener in almost all precincts, al- though Lehr secured appreciable ma- jorities in Lodi and Manchester Townships only.4 The County's vote on the position was Michener, 10,713, Lehr, 7,542. Amendments up for approval were with one exception rejected. Amend- ment Four on County Home rule was approved. With two thirds of the votes in from Washtenaw at 6 a.m., there remained a doubt only as to the offices of County Clerk and County Treasurer, where the contest seemed to be one of personality rather than party. Harry G. Raschbacher was elected I to the office of county surveyor with- out opposition, giving the Republicans a clean sweep in county offices. Al- bert J. Rapp was re-elected Prose- cuting Attorney, John S. Cummings' was elected Register of Deeds, and Cornelius Tuomy Drain Commis- sioner.. Dr. E. C. Ganzhorn and Dr. David N, Robb were elected to the Coroner's office, and Joseph Hooper and Lee Brown won the election of Circuit Court Commissioners. In the second precinct of the Sev- enth Ward, generally watched as an indicator of faculty political beliefs, results showed overwhelmingly Re- publican sentiment, with majorities ranging in general from 500 to 700 votes, and ranging as high as 1104 votes in the case of Sheriff Andres. Amendments five and six were voted down by smashing decisions of about 1,500 "no" votes to 150 "yes." CHICAGO, Nov. 6.-(UP)-T. G.I Lee, 56 years old, president of Armour & Co. since 1931, died today after four months' illness. Upstate Vote Gives G.OP. Safe Majority Lacy And Picard Fail To Make Expected Gains In Wayne County Adverse Vote Cast On 6 Amendments Republican Congressional Candidates Lead In 7 Out Of 12 Districts BULLETIN DETROIT, Nov. 7 - (A) - At 6:15 a.m. today the vote was: 2,074 precincts - Fitzgerald, 379- 168, Lacy, 321,478. Two thousand precincts for Sen- ator: Vandenberg 340,825, Pc- ard, 301,614. DETROIT, Nov. 7. - (A) - Barring a Democratic vote in Wayne County of avalanche proportions, the Repub- lican party appeared to be assured of the two major offices in the state. When nearly half-he 1,082 Wayne County precincts had been tabulated early today Democratic candidates for governor and U. S. Senator had gained only around 15,000 votes to offset an outstate Republican majority mount- ing steadily around the 50,000 mark. In 500 Wayne County precincts the vote was: G o v e r n o r - Fitzgerald, 68,635, Lacy, 82,374. Senator - Vandenberg, 64,167, Picard, 80,000. The total vote in 1772 of the state's 3452 precincts -Fitzgerald, 328,766, Lacy, 273,642. Vandenberg, 300,928, Picard, 260,- 934. Less than one-half of the outstate votes had been accounted for. On the present basis the heads of the Demo- cratic ticket would pick up around 30,000 votes in Wayne County while the outstate majority of the Republi- cans would be around 100,000. The Republican State ticket below governor, however, was falling behind in Wayne. Theodore I. Fry, Demo- cratic State treasurer, and John K. Stack, Democratic Auditor General, gained nearly 25,000 votes on their Republican opponents, Patrick H. O'Brien, Democratic attorney-gener- al, approximately 14,000, and Guy M. Wilson, Democratic candidate for Secretary of State, 20,000. Republicans seemed certain of sweeping Congressional gains in Michigan, this morning on the strength* of incomplete returns from 12 of the 17 districts which showed the Democrats leading in only 3. Democratic Representatives John C. Lehr, George Foulkes and Michael J. Marsh appeared to have gone down to defeat, while Claude E. Cady and Harry W. Musselwhite were engaged in neck-and-neck races. DETROIT, Nov. 7 -(A)- An ad-1 verse vote on all six proposals to amend the State constitution was registered in heavy out-state ballot- ing. Proposals to reduce the gasoline tax and limit the automobile tax were snowed under 3-1 in early re- turns. The proposed income tax amendment was rejected even more emphatically and the so-calledcoun- ty home rule amendment of nearly 2-1. The most favored proposal in the' early tabulations was that to make the election of judges of record non- partisan..I With 118 widely scattered and fair- ly representative precincts accounted for, the vote on the amendment was: FRANK D. FITZGERALD Election Winners MICHIGA NewDeal Congress Is Assured; Sinclair Loses In Ca ifornia (By Associated Press) The New Deal got a huge Democratic Congress into the bag in yesterday's election as incomplete returns indicated the stu- pendous sweep would engulf- more governorships and other state offices than the Democrats expected. A glance showed: Pennsylvania: Democrat Guffey far ahead of Republican Reed for Senate. Democrat Earle trailing Schnader, Republican, for governorship. California:Republican Merriam elected governor over former So. cialist Sinclair, Democrat. Connecticut: New Deal Maloney victorious over Republican Senator Walcott. Democratic governor Cross re-elected. Indiana: New Deal critic Robinson dropped by Democratic Mintor for Senate. Missouri: Republican Patterson defeated for Senate by New Deal Truman. New York: Democratic cleanup. Copeland returned to Senate and Lehman remains as governor. Ohio: Veteran G.O.P. Fess concedes Senate seat to- qualified New Dealer, Donahey. Rhode Island: Democrat Gerry overturns Republican Senator Hebert. West Virginia: Liberal Holt appears "new Senate baby" as replaces ment of Republican Hatfield. Illinois: Republican Rep. Fred Britten beaten by Democrat McAn- drews, Negro DePriest supplanted by Democratic Negro, Mitchell. Massachusetts: Roosevelt advocate Curley becomes governor; Demo. crat Walsh assured of senatorship. New Mexico: Two Democrats: Hatch and Chavez -lead Repub licans, Dillon and Cutting for Senate. New Jersey: Moore, Democrat, heading over G.O.P. Senator Kean. Minnesota: Farmer-Laborite Olson apparently re-elected governor. Shipstead in van of Democrat Hoidale for Senate. Nebraska: Democrat Burke a jump ahead of Republican Simmons for Senate. Maryland: Governor Ritchie, Democrat, and G.O.P. Nice in close race for governor; Democrat Radcliffe leads Republican France in Senate contest. Vermont: Austin was the first Republican to come through for the Senate, narrowly. Wyoming: O'Mahoney, Roosevelt-Farley friend in Senate, given the first lead. Wisconsin: Senator Bob LaFollette won out for re-election. His brother, former Governor Phil, running again for that office, was ahead. Washington: Schwellenbach, who out-left the New Deal, ahead for Senate on Democratic side. Nevada: Senator Pittman in the van. The House standing, in the early morning hours, stood at 172 Democrats, 35 Republicans. Instead of losing seats up to that time the New Deal had actually gained a net of seven. In Philadelphia Democrats Daly, Dorsey and Stack beat Repub- licans Connelly, Edmonds and Davis. In the second Illinois, Moynihan, Republican, fell before McKeown, Democrat; in New York's 38th district, old-time Republican Whitely lost to Democrat Duffy; Dodds, Republican in the fifth Connecticut, who antagonized some voters because of his work in the House military affairs committee's War Department investigation, conceded his defeat to Smith, Democrat. The Republicans counted one gain in California, where Gearhart had the Democratic as well as Republican nomination in the ninth district. They also had one in the Maine elections in September when Brewster, Republican, beat Utterback, Democrat, in the third district. In that same Maine election Democrats pushed Hamlin to a win over veteran Republican Beede in the first district. NEW YORK, Nov. 7.-- (AP) - Caroline O'Day, for whom Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt stumped the state, swept to an imposing victory on the Democratic ticket to win her contest for Congress at large. She rolled up an approximate 700,000 majority over her feminine opponent on the Republican ticket, Natalie Couch, and polled 1,726,438 votes on an uncompleted tabulation to lead all the four major candidates for the two posts for Congress at large. MILWAUKEE, Nov. 7. - (AP) --Wisconsin's infant Progressive party was running like a veteran on the face of early returns in today's election, the LaFollette brothers, who head the ticket, holding leads for both U. S. senator and governor. Sen. Robert M. LaFollette, asking re-election, enjoyed a 3-2 margin over John B. Chapple, Republican; John M. Callahan, Democrat, trailed. The Senator's younger brother, Philip, was slightly ahead of the Democratic Governor A. G. Schmedeman. Howard T. Green, Republican, was far back in third place. NEW YORK, Nov. 7. -- (AP) - Melvin C. Eaton. Renphlican state ARTHUR H. VANDENBERG Sinclair Defeated In California Vote SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 7.-() - Upton Sinclair, socialist turned Demo- crat, lost his "post and poverty" bid for the California governorship today to acting Governor Frank F. Merriam. Merriam hailed the result as show- ing California's voters "have rejected radicalism and socialism." Sinclair in a speech addressed to his opponents said "We congratulate you on your brief victory, and we are pre-, paring for the next campaign." Sinclair previously had announced his intention to start a recall cam- paign against Merriam in the event of the Republican's election. Latest available returns at 11:30 p.m. (2:30 p.m. E.S.T.) when Sinclair conceded Merriam victory gave Merriam 594,- 955 votes, Sinclair, 481,554. These returns represented 6,893 complete and incomplete precincts ofi the state's 10,721. In conceding the election Sinclair charged President Roosevelt had promised to broadcast to the nation "on the principle of production for you-" a major plank of the widely denounced "Epic" plan. Owosso Club Holds annual Fall Smoker (Special to The Daily) OWOSSO, Nov. 4. -One hundred Michigan alumni gathered here to- night in the annual fall smoker cele-, bration of the University of Michigan Club of Owosso, to welcome President Emory J. Hyde of the National Alumni Association, and a delegation from Ann Arbor. The meeting was pre- ceded by a dinner at which the local club was host to the visitors. One of the most entertaining fea- . rac, f .. a nna'rnm , 0 nnnm-. Blakeman Terms Continuity An Essential Of Education, Religion EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the second of a series of articles explaining the re- ligiouls opportunities available for stu- dents at the University. The series is being run in conjunction with a con- certed effort of religious organizations on the campus to advise the student body of their activities. Other articles in the series will appear each day this week. By DR. E. W. BLAKEMAN Continuity of expression is one of the factors on which education de- pends. In religion that student will be most certain to attain an education who continues worship from child- hood to maturity. That is, the man who submits every experience to judgment while the ideal is held in nontemnltion strengthens his nir- be utilized while at college and through them our new experiences should be brought into orderly rela- tion and meaning. Growth may mod- ify and radically change those pat- terns but thoughtless repudiation does violence to the unity within and weakens the personality. To disregard the worship in which I have been de- velopedfrom childhood in the inter- est of a bathrobe and Sunday supple- ment is to engage in a popular type of educational neglect. Every change in structure is apt to do violence to the living essence. Campus groups in religion have a specific function at the University of Michigan. The invitation to worship is central. I hone every student.