The Weatiher L Mfr igan A6F AOL- OJA At Editorials Shock Troops Against Japan . . The Persistence Of Slavery ... Fair and colder today; with moderate north to northwest winds. VOL. XLV. No. 103 ANN ARBOR., MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1935 PRICE FIVE CENTS -- - - I Return To GoldAsked ByHoover Declares All Devaluation Of Currency Should Now Cease Stresses Need To Restore Confidence Dollars Should Be Made Convertible Into Gold, Says Ex-President TUCSON, Ariz., Feb. 20.- (>) - Former President Herbert Hoover, commenting on the Supreme Court's gold decision, said today the United States should i'eturn to the gold standard "and restore confidence in our currency.a Mr. Hoover declared that all threats of further devaluation should now be removed and the dollar should im- mediately be made convertible at the present 59 cents of gold "payable in gold bullion." In a prepared statement to the Tuc- son Daily Citizen, the former presi- dent said: "I have now had opportunity tog read the Supreme Court decision. Ap- parently all members of the Court agreed that the government acted un- constitutionally in repudiation of the covenant on its own bonds. A majority of the members concluded that theY citizen has no remedy. "That will have long moral conse-t quences, but whatever the morals ofl right or wrong in the devaluation may be, the face of the American people must be forward. "The need and the opportunity nowt is to restore confidence in the dollar. All threat, actual or potential, of fur-x ther devaluation should now be re- moved. To do this and give a neededt contribution to real recovery the dol- lar should immediately be made con-t vertible at the present 50 cents of gold. making it payable in gold bul- lion-the modern methed- of-specie3 payment.i "There is no need to wait on for- eign nations before we reestablish the gold standard and restore con- fidence in our currency. This would be found to follow sometime. They are far more afraid of our doing just thist than they are of any 'American-man-Y aged currency' at which game they1 have us at a disadvantage." Michigan Daily Tryouts Are To Be Held TodayY Candidates For Women's, Sports And Men's Staffs. To Meet AtDaily Office Preliminary tryouts for all second semester freshmen interested in work- ing on the editorial staff of The Daily< will be held this afternoon., Candidates will report in three sep-I arate groups. Freshmen interested ini working on the sports staff will meetI in the Publications Building at 3:30 p.m., tryouts for the women's staff1 will meet at 4 p.m., and candidates for the men's editorial staff will re- port at 4:30 p.m.1 All meetings will be held in Thei Daily editorial offices on the second floor of the Student Publications Building on Maynard Street. Freshmen will be given preliminary training in headline writing and proof reading as well as the actual covering of stories. Following this period of instruction they will be as- signed to regular campus beats. Freshmen must be scholastically eligible in order to try out for The Daily. The requirements as set by the University stipulate that all grades must be "C" or better with at least one grade of "B" or better. During the sophomore year on the various staffs of The Daily the try- outs will be assigned regular beats, in the city and in various departments on the campus. If a sufficient degree of work has been put in, and a rea- sonable degree of efficiency attained, the individual is eligible for one of the night-editorships, of which there are seven, during his junior year on the campus. In the senior year three positions, managing editor, editorial director, and city editor, are open to the members of the men's editorial staff, and editorships for members of FRESHMEN! All freshmen who wish to try out for The Daily staff are requested to report this afternoon at the Student Publications Building on Maynard Street at the following times: Editorial staff, 4:30 p.m. Women's staff, 4 p.m. Sports staff, 3:30 p.m. All second semester freshmen and others who have been enrolled in the University one serhester and are scholastically eligible will be permitted to tryout. ExtensionOf NRA Projects Is Requested! Roosevelt Message Calls For Strict Enforcement Of Anti-Trust Laws Small Business Man To Be Aided Senate Finance Committee Proposes Resolution For Investigation Of NRA War Defense Now Assured To Italians 4,000 Italian -Troops On Way To African Scene Of Frontier Tension It Duce Says War Supplies Adequate Fascist Council Declares Nation Can Depend Upon Its Own Resources Hubbs Safe- Expedition R adiogram Tells Of Landing Reports Position Negro Convict College Man Has Speak On Better Chance To Make 'Whos Wh( ., Labor Cas es) IeStatistics contained in edition of Who's Who In Xn, Jailed 1-reveal that your chances the last America of being Angelo lHernd / By Civil War Law, Willi Lecture Tonight included in its hallowed pages areI much better if you have been grad- uated from a college. Eighty-five per cent of the 26,991 Angelo Herndon, 22-year old Negro persons included in the book that Communist who has been con- furnished educational data were col- demned to serve 18 to 20 years in a legians. Of these 19,874 were gradu- Georgia chain gang, will speak on ates, while 3,092 attended college, "The Scottsboro-Herndon Cases" at but were not graduated. The analy- 8:15 p.m. today in Natural Science sis further reveals that 7,784 of the Auditorium. college graduates have bachelor's The speaker will be introduced by degrees, 6,865 doctor's degrees and Willis Ward, '35, and Olive Manly, 4,693 master's degrees. '36, will be the chairman of the Physicians and sugeons have the meeting. highest rating when the relative ed- The lecture is being sponsored by ucation of occupational groups1is the National Student League and the i considered, their record being 100 International Labor Defense. There per cent, while among the artists will be no admission charge. only 59 per cent of their number ever Convicted Two Years Ago attended college. Other occupations, in descending order of education, Herndon was convicted in the are: educators, public officials, ar- Georgia courts two years ago' on achitects, writers, editors, and busi- charge of violating a slave insurrec- ness men. tion law passed at the outset of the Of the 4,025 persons included in Civil War. the book who are not collegians, His case was taken up by the In- 2,230 were educated in high and sec- ternational Labor Defense, and an ondary schools, and 1,795 were ed- appeal was filed in the United States ucated in common ,r public schools. Supreme Court. He is now out on Education is definitely a factor in $15,000 bail.pending theresult of fame. the appeal. Of the 651 men and women from R r th arrest in 1933 the case Michigan included, 154 are from Ann J I t l r .j I WASHINGTON, Feb. 20-(AP)- A ROME, Feb. 20. - (NP) -Italy'si call by President Roose.velt for a two- supreme defense council promised year extension of NRA, with a tight- the nation tonight that the wells ening of its anti-trust provisions, to- of war supplies will not run dry as day stirred in Congress a sentiment 4,000 Italian troops steamed across that promised action in favor of the the Mediterranean to Africa in con- business "little fellow." sequence of Italo-Ethiopian tension. In heavy majority, Congressional Many more soldiers are ready to{ leaders praised that part of the Pres- embark at Naples and Sicilian ports. ident's special message which said, in The Council, over which Benito effect, that additional safeguards Mussolini presides, concluded its fifth were needed against monopolies. session in recent days with this state- Expect Trouble Council Has Done Duty Smooth sailing in the extension of "Italy can rest assured that the NRA was far from assured, however. Council has done its duty in prepar-I Hardly had the Roosevelt message ing in time those indispensable meas- reached the Capitol when Senator ures so that an eventual warlike effort Robert F. Wagner, New York Demo- can be carried out in conditions which crat, asserted that he would re-in- will assure victory. troduce tomorrow his Labor Dis- The Fascist government has liber- putes Bill. The measure as entered ated the nation from "the bondages last year was aimed at company- of war" and any future campaign canj dominated unions, a matter about be fought in the knowledge that war which much has been heard pro and supplies will be adequate, the Council con under NRA. Still further dis- said in its statement. pute appeared possible under pend- The communique said the nation ing investigations into NRA. can depend in time of war upon itsj Coincidentally with the arrival of own resources to supply iron, lead, the White House communication, zinc, aluminum, wood and coal. the Senate Finance Committee ap-, Italian newspapers, meanwhile, set proved the Nye-McCarran resolution up an outcry against asserted an- for an inquiry into NRA and the ad- archy reigning among Ethiopian bor- ministration of its codes. der tribes, declaring further incidents{ Complaints that small business along the border may be expected at has been oppressed was the motivat- any time. Position Given As Flores, Guatemala, In Heart Of Central America Esxploring Party Started January 27 Were Held Up By Fog In British Honduras And Missed Plane The words "Buenos - Hubbs," rad- ioed through jungles and across oceans, notified civilization that the Hubbs-Vander Schalie expedition to Guatemala had landed safely at Flores, in the heart of the Central American wilderness, Prof. Freder- ick M. Gaige, director of the museum of zoology, disclosed late yesterday. Word had not been received from Prof. Carl L. Hubbs, curator of the zoology museum fish division, and Dr. Henry Vander Schalie, assistant cur- ator of the mollusk division, who left Ann Arbor Jan. 27, for Guatemala, where they are exploring jungle rivers and lakes of the ancient Maya coun- try for undiscovered specimens of fish and mollusks. The expedition is the fourth sent into Central America by University men under the auspices of the Carnegie Institution of Wash- ington, D. C. Held Up By Fog Held up by fog at Belize, British Honduras, Professor Hubbs and Dr. Vander Schalie missed the plane at Puerto Barrios which was to have tak- en them directly to Flores, the island I city of Peten. CARL L. HUBBS Wisconsin Law Makers Debate Badger Matters Solons Investigate The Red Scare, Discuss R. 0. T. C. And Grant To Students ing force behind the resolution. In adopting it, however, the Committee stipulated that the study should be made by the group while it was drafting a bill for the 1935 model NRA. Johnson Speaks Anarchy Reported (The Italian newspapers carried their reports in the form of dispatches from London, but cables from the British capital said no reports of "anarchy" along the Ethiopian fron- tier had been received there). A government spokesman said to- night Italy had replied to the last communication from the Ethiopian government, accepting some of the dnritinn lnr id d by Addri Ahn h By Big Ten Press Seravice) Nothing was heard of the expedi- MADISON, Wis., Feb. 20. - With tion for nearly a week, and some little the Wisconsin legislhture prevented fear was expressed for it by museum from taking action along other lines officials. The radiogram, however, by factional splits, the University of dispelled all doubts. Wisconsin took up most of the atten- A letter from Dr. Vander Schalie4 tion of the Badger solons. Three bills received at the museum shortly after pertaining to the university are now the wireless message, described the awaiting action before various "marked progress" made already by branches of the legislative machine, the explorers. The letter related how Prompted By Hearst ( they finally reached Guatemala City, Prompted by William Randolph where they were able to get a plane, has developed into one of the lead- ing "labor cases" in the country. Herndon's cause has been espoused by liberals and radicals throughout, the world, and his $15,000 bail was raised by contributions from sym- pathizers. Is One Of line Children Herndon was one of nine children of an Alabama miner. When he wasj 13 his father died of miner's pneu- monia, and he was forced to go to work in the mine. In June 1930 Herndon attended a meeting of the Birmingham Unem-E ployment Council. After the meeting he joined the Council, and some weeks later the Communist Party. "From that day to this," he says,, "every minute of my life has been tied up with the workers' move- me~nt." Two years later he was arrested as one of the leaders of a mass dem- onstration of negro and white un- employed before the Atlanta court- house. He was charged with viclat- ing a statute passed in 1861 pro- hibiting "exciting insurrection, re- volt, conspiracy, or resistance on the part of slaves, Negroes, or free per- sons of color." Herndon will arrive from Detroit late tomorrow afternoon. He is mak- ing a speaking tour of the country while out on bond. Michigan Glee Club To Present Four Proorams Michigan's Varsity Glee Club will present four programs this week-end under the direction of Prof. David Mattern. Their first program will be broadcast from Ann Arbor over Station WJR at 10 p.m. today. This will mark their second broadcast this season. Friday, the club will journey to Pontiac where it will be featured by the Pontiac Alumni Association in a program at 2:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. in the Pontiac High School. The fourth program will be given in the Variety Club Hour at 9 p.m. Saturday at the Book-Cadillac Hotel. They will start the program with "Feasting By Watch," Algar; "Devo- tion," Strauss; "I Hear a Harp" and "Song From Ossian's Fingal," Arbor, the only city in the state fur- 3 In New York, meanwhile. Hugh S.{ nishing more famous persons being Johnsen, who headed NRA during1 Detroit. the period when it operated in a semi-revival atmosphere, was quick to comment: I've said 3ll those Co ed Cub things." Johnson added, however,'gdthatI "people should know what they can To Open New do under the NRA and still not vio- late the trust acts." But D::nald Richberg, director of P a y Tithe National Emergency Council and the foremost administration advisor on NRA, said that a major trust law To Give Premiere Showing could be defined.I Of 'Why, Minnie Bogst!' "I is a fundamental question,"I Richberg said, "whether certain so- At League Theater called monopolistic devices are to be banned if, as a matter of fact, they The first showing of "Why, Minnie help preserve a monopoly." Boggs," a comedy written by Raymon Van Sickle, actor and playwright, will Hold Tts For be given at 8:30 p.m. tonight in the!. To HodTyot)o Lydia Mendelssohn Theater by mem- Business Staff Monday bers of Comedy Club.A This is the first time that a before- All second semester freshmen New-York opening has ever been held interested in trying out for the in Ann Arbor. Mr. Van Sickle him- business staff of The Michigan self will direct the production. Daily are requested to report at Evelyn Malloy, '37, will have the 4:45 p.m., Monday, Feb. 25 in The title role of Minnie Boggs. David Daily business office on the second ZimmemanM'35,asBagenterprising floor of the Student Publications Zimmerman, '35, as an ntasprnsing Building. young advertising man, has one of All students who have been en- the male leads. Mr. Zimmerman had rolled in the University for at been in the cast of "The Royal Fam- least one semester and are scholas- ily," "See Naples and Die," and played tically eligible for extra-curricular the part of Sir Walter Raleigh in activtiies will be permitted to try- Play Production's presentation of out- "Elizabeth the Queen" last year. out. Sarah Pierce, '35, another one of Play Productions actresses familiar{ to a loca audience, will play the part olleetiVe Bara Pierce had the role of the ruler in t "Elizabeth the Queen." She appeared I Of Auto Indus in "The Double Door," "The Royal Family" and "Street Scene." - Mr. Van Sickle was the author of By ARTHUR M. TAUB "The Best Years," selected as one of "The present set-up within the au- the ten best plays of 1934. Hubert Skidmore, president of Comedy Club, toobile industry represents anew has managed the business end of the structure of industrial relations be- production. tween capital and labor," declared Tickets are available now at the Robert P. Briggs of the economics box office of the Lydia Mendelssohn department, who with Prof. Francis Theater. Prices range from 35 to 75 E. Ross of the School of Business Ad- cents. ministration has been in charge of elections for collective bargaining I 1 1 V1A 1A./VLLi. i..s .ii raa ac+.a: . a.vvr w +y'--- { con ations i a gown oy auuis aoaa Hearst's Wisconsin News of Milwau- for establishment of the proposed kee. the state senate is expected toj neutral zone along the frontier be- vote late this weekrbn the bill of tween Ethiopia and Italy's African colonies. Other conditions were re- aueen to inettehnefaci-t jected, the spokesman said, and Italyand tuetodynvsofatethe aulesty now awaits reply to its latest mes- for "communism and other subversive sage. activities." A previous attempt toI By- bring on a joint investigation was IntLiation Held By killed when the assembly, controlled' E by the . newly-formed Progressive Engineering Society party, voted the measure hdwn. Now, ________however, it is expected that the sen- Culminating an afternoon of en- ate will conduct its own probe under' forced "apple polishing" and "shovel- the direction of conservative Repub- dnrthi tditi l "st " licans and Democrats. although they were held up by diffi- culty in getting their baggage through. Land At Flores Finally, nearly a week~ ago, they landed at Flores and immediately be- gan work. At lime hills near the Tay- asal ruins, remains of the ancient Maya civilization, they picked up some rare land shells, which Director Gaige says may prove "very revealing." Most cf their work has been aquatic so far, however. In Lake Peten, the explorers have taken preliminary soundings and are of the opinion that a deep water ing arounu ue U ll~a wz of the Stump Speakers' Society of Sig- ma Rho Tau, located just inside the Engineering Arch, a formal initiation was held by the society last night at the Union. Thirteen members of the freshman engineering class were received into the society. The new members are: Ralph Laidlaw, Leon Highhouse, Bruce Rohn, Frank Vihtelic, Ivan Kollgaard, William Koch, Michael Jastremsky, William Burns, Maxwell( Anning, Arthur Dubord, John Wisler,1 William Boice and William Shackle- ton. Following the initiation Ira W. Smith, registrar of the University, spoke to the initiates on the subject "Dedication Of Our Education To the State." ining Agencies try Are Explained I Wolman, representing the govern- ment. "This board had powers under NRA to see that Section 7(a) was carried out. and which guaranteed that (1) employees have the right to organize into a group or groups, (2) when such groups are organized they can choose representatives by freely bal- lotting and such representatives must be received collectively in an attempt t to straighten out disputes and im- prove conditions of employment, and (3) discrimination against employees because of their labor affiliations, or for any other unfair reason is barred. The first thing that the Board did e after settlement of the strike, con-, s tinued Mr. Briggs, was to decide casesI e of discrimination. Over 2,000 cases Capitol circles were startled last' fauna, perhaps as deep as 150 feet, week by the disclosure by The Daily may exist. They have investigated Cardinal of the fact that reporters for some small rivers near the lake,,and the Hearst Milwaukee News were will continue work in the immediate gathering names of liberal students territory of Lake Peten until tomor- and faculty members for questioning row, when they are expected to set by investigating senators in the event off for the unexplored interior, their that the upper house decides to go first stop being more than 50 miles through with the probe. In the mean from Flores. This, Professor Gaige time, the Madison Capital Times explained, is a long distance in the pointed out that the legislature, in jungle, as traveling has to be done by two months of sessions, has passed mule-pack. only two statutes of any importance, They will conduct explorations and censored the solons for their in- around Loguna Peridida and the San difference to matters of vital import- Pedro River and finally will go down ance such as state relief, taxation, river ad finally wilsg don and other social legislation. rivers leading through British Hon- R,.O..C. onsieredduras to the coast. R.O.T.C. Considered They are expected to leave some- Another measure which will be in- time in April before the rainy season troduced by conservative legislators calls for the re-establishment of com- pulsory military training at the state university. Ever since 1928, atewhich time it became the first state uni-' versity to take military training off the compulsory basis, Wisconsin has had optional drill. Last year another attempt was made to institute re- quired military training, but the bill z.,zva n rlby{-ho nrr m Detroit Extends Its greetings To Frank Murphy was vetoeo by t e governor. . While the upper house was de- DETROIT, Feb. 20.-(P)-Frank liberating on the so-called "Red" Murphy, '14L, governor-general of probe, the assembly finance commit- the Philippine Islands, received a tee had placed before it a bill designedt roaring welcome from his home city to give students in Wisconsin colleges tonight as he stopped off for a brief and universities a grant of $510,000 visit enroute from the islands to of which $170,000 would be available Washington. for use in the current semester which A military escort, a soldier band has just started. It is expected that and several thousand admirers of the the finance committee will report fa- former Detroit mayor greeted him vorably on the bill sometime this as he stepped from his train for the week. first visit since he left for his Philip- pine post early in 1933. He had one answer for all queries Regent Cram Seeks as to his plans and political ambi- tions in Michigan. Board Reelection "If leadership means being a cans didate for office," he said, "I am not Council Prepares Government Report The Undergraduate Council will meet at 2 p.m. today in Room 316 of the Union, Carl Hilty, president of committees within the different plants of the automobile industry throughout the country. Asked to give an account of the background leading to the setting up of collective 'bargaining agencies by labor under the supervision of the Automobile Labor Board, Mr. Briggs presented an outline of events since