The Weather Cloudy, possibly snow in the south, colder Friday; Saturday generally fair, slightly warmer. L G A6F 414tr Ap, 4t g* an A6F at Editorials Why Not Boats To Russia,... Michigan's Grand Old Man.... VOL. XLV. No. 104 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1935 PRICE FIVE CENTS Roosevelt Beaten On Relief Bill Senate Forces McCarran Wage Amendment Into President's Measure Final Roll Shows One Vote Margin Democrats Fail In First Major Test Of Strength In New Program WASHINGTON, Feb. 21. - () - Despite the threat of a Presidential veto, the Senate today forced the McCarran prevailing wage amend- ment into the President's $4,880,000,- 000 relief bill by the narrowest of margins --44 to 43. So startling was the defeat handed the administration that it left Demo- cratic leaders in a quandry as to the ultimate fate of the bill in Congress. The White House was silent concern- ing the setback. Some considered significant the fact that the adverse vote came only a matter of minutes after the reading of a letter from President Roosevelt, giving assurance that wage scales in private industry would not be per- mitted to be lowered because of the $50 a month "security wage" con- templated for relief workers. The ballot in favor of paying 'pre- vailing wages"~ in whatever commu- nity the relief projects are under- taken came as the first major test of administration strength in its New Deal program and was reached only after two days of 'heated debate' between the Roosevelt wheelhorses and the organized labor group headed by Senator Patrick A. McCarran, Nevada Democrat. During consideration of the meas-. ure, American Federation of Labor representatives brought their power- ful influence to bear for the amend- went. Despite an eloquent last-minute plea by Senator Carter Glass, (Dem., Va.), to defeat the amendment on the ground that it would endanger the government's credit and wreck the relief program, 21 Democrats voted for it. Forty-one Democrats and two Re- publicans, Frederick Hale, of Maine,1 and Jesse H. Metcalf, of Rhode Is- land, voted against the amendment. But the tide was' turned when 21 Re-; publicans, an equal number of Dem- ocrats, together with R. M. LaFol-1 lette, the Wisconsin Progressive, and Henrik Shipstead, the Minnesota Farmer-Laborite, recorded themselves for the "prevailing wage." Scottsboro And Herndon Cases Are Discussed Condemned Negro Asserts Victory In Trials Would Be Blow At Fascism The Angelo Herndon and Scotts- boro cases werehcalled symbolic of "the fight for the emancipation of all enslaved peoples of the world" by Herndon in a talk last night in the Natural Science Auditorium. After reviewing the history of the two cases he declared that a victory in either would strike a telling blow at Fascism, which, he said, . the Roosevelt administration is trying to force on the American people. Herndon, who spoke under the joint auspices of the National Stu- dent League and the International Labor Defense, is out on $15,000 bail pending the result of his appeal to the United States Supreme Court from a sentence of 18 to 20 years in the Georgia chain gang on a charge of violating the slave insurrection law. He asserted that he had violated no law ,of the state of Georgia, but said he was guilty of two crimes, "be- ing born with a black skin, and or- ganizing white and black unem- ployed together." During the question period follow- ing the lecture Herndon described conditions in a chain gang, and de- clared that the life of the prisoners in them was never longer than ten years. Herndon attacked the testimony of Ruby Bates and Victoria Price, the mrin irl A'c crt alv ranned by the 4 __"__. ______ _____. _ _ Professor Ehrmann Interprets Italian-Ethiopian Border Clash, By MARSHALL D. SHULMAN While Il Duce's powerful oratory begins the mobilization of the Italian war machine, defiant Emperor Haile Selassie prepares a million Ethiopians to meet an impending invasion. Chief international question of the hour is whether negotiations under way can successfully avert an African con- flict. The approach of the African rainy season may be an important factor in preventing extensive military oper- ations for the next three months even if negotiations fail, in the opinion of Prof. Howard M. Ehrmann of the history department. "War does not seem imminent. There seems to be a good possibility that a settlement can be effected peaceably, and if not, mil- itary operations can not begin on a large scale before next May, after the rainy season," he stated. "Combined intervention of French and British agents in Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia, (which, by the way, is preferred to the term Abys- sinia) may be sufficient to induce Emperor Haile Selassie (or Silassi) to assent to a settlement of the disputed regions," Professor Ehrmann believes. The fact of Ethiopia's membership in the League, however, will make Italy less likely to declare war. In- stead, its armies become a 'punitive' expedition. "Virtually assureu of a hands-off policy on the part of France and Great Britain, the other two powers which surround Ethiopia, Italy is in- terested not only in establishing a more stable condition along the fron- tier, but in extending the territory of Italian Somaliland and 'therebyl increasing its African influence. Fur- thermore, from the Italian point of view, military operations would serve the added purpose of testing out the Italian war machine, particularly the air force. Finally, it would avenge the Italian defeat at Adua in 1896, which lowered Italian prestige considerably in her foreign affairs. "This difficulty is characteristic of situations where powers have colonial possessions. Border skirmishes with. natives lead inevitably to a pushing back of the natives until the entire area is foreign controlled. Witness the (Continued on Page 6) Work On New Hospital Pool To Begi So Anonymous $20,000 Will Provide Funds Therapeutic Pool Gift For Work on the therapeutic pool, for treating infantile paralysis, provided by an anonymous gift of $20,000, and additions to the University Hospital will be started as soon as the plans are completed, Mr. George P. Bug- bee, office manager of the Hospital,! stated yesterday. Mr. Bugbee said that Albert Kahn, Inc., architects, who designed the Hospital, expect to have the complet- ed plans drawn within two weeks. The committee who will finally pass on the plans consists of the orthoped- ic surgeon and other members of the Hospital professional staff, Mr. Bug- bee added. "Plans call for the location of the pool and an addition to the physio- therapy department in the basementI of the southeast arm 'Y'-shaped main building," Mr. Bugbee remarked, "which is now occupied by a store- room. An addition will be con- structed to the basement and sub- basement floors on the east side ofj the 'y' for the courtroom and addi- tional storage space. ,About 12,000 feet of floor space will be added by the addition." Mr. Bugbee explained that the add-J ed space is needed for food storage, since the Hospital buys for some of the dormitories. The pool will be 15 by 25 feet, varying in depth from two to four feet. "Besides the pool," Mr. Bugbee stated,."the physiotherapy depart- ment will install adjacent equipment for the treatment of infantile paraly- sis, consisting of whirlpools, heat- treatment booths, a n d massage booths. We hope to be able to install heliotherapy (out-of-doors) treat- ment by the physiotherapy depart- ment." The addition will extend just one floor above the ground level, Mr. Bugbee remarked, since the basement and sub-basement floors will be util- ized. Mr. Bugbee stated that work will probably be under the direction of the Building and Grounds Depart- ment. Hauptmann Given Stay Of Execution TRENTON, N. J., Feb. 21-VP)- Bruno Richard Hauptmann, sen- tenced to die in the electric chair for the kidnap-murder of the Lind- bergh baby, won an indefinite stay of execution today, and his four lawyers, once more in harmonious relations, promised to go ahead with his appeal as speedily as possible. Edward, J. Reilly of Brooklyn and the three New Jersey counsel, C. Lloyd Fisher, Frederick A. Pope, and Egbert Rosecrans, conferred for sev- eral hours at the State prison. Mrs. Hauptmann attended the conference,; and all five saw Hauptmann. Hauptmann's execution, set for the week of March 18 by Supreme Court Justice Thomas W. Trenchard, was stayed when a certified copy of a writ of error was filled with Irvin Bleam,1 «......1 .4.r__ a 0a rn n-v a ai r An Snowstorm Forces Airplane To Land On Baseball Field The blinding snowstorms which started locally early yesterday after- noon forced Lieut. Newton Crumley, U.S. Army retired, to land his small open biplane on South Ferry Field, near the Varsity baseball diamond, at 3:30 p.m. yesterday. Neither the pilot nor his plane was injured. Flying over unfamiliar territory, Lieut. Crumley was en route from Nebraska to New York City and planned to make a temporary stop- over at Selfridge Field, Mich., where he was formerly stationed. When he left Jackson yesterday afternoon, he planned to fly out of the snowstorm, but was forced to land here. Unable to locate the local airport in the blinding snow, the playing field south of Ferry Field grandstands appeared to be the only safe landing place and Lieut. Crum- ley brought his plane to earth a few hundred yards from Yost Field House. From this spot, he taxied and wheeled it to the shelter of a grandsand, where it was covered. Lieut. Crumley will proceed to New York in his plane as soon as weather conditions permit. Gold Clause May Decide Next Election Supreme Court Decision Is Thought To Be Vitally Connected To Campaign Hoover Asks Return To Gold StandardI Morgenthau Decides T o Take Up Challenge Made By Former President WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 21. - (P) - The Supreme Court gold deci- sion was inexplicably tangled in the web of national politics tonight and appeared as an irrepressible issue for the 1936 presidential campaign. That 'result was made inevitable, many thought, by the statement of Herbert Hoover, titular head of the Republican party, pushing the vast implications of the verdict - and himself to the forefront of political discussions. His urge for a return to the mone- tary standard of another day cleared, up figuratively, a gold hornet's nest. The situation was intensified by a quick and chilly reply from an ad- ministrative spokesman a n d by a torrid Senate debate which saw two factions of the Demociratic party battling each other on the court's finding that the government had no right to disregard the payment of its own bonds. Upholding a private statement of Hoover's view that the currency should be made immediately redeem- able in gold, Senate Republican lead- ers scrupulously avoided taking any part in the acrid argument which divided the senators on the other side of the aisle. Instead, they gleefully watched the Democrats fight it out among them- selves and complacently noted flying pencils and dashing copy boys in the press box overhead. Meanwhile Secretary Morgenthau,{ the New Deal outstanding spokesman on monetary problems promptly ac- cepted the gauge flung across the continent by the former president. Safety Drive Is House Duties Emphasized By President Ruthven Says Fraternities Must Assume Greater Responsibility Warning Is Voiced To Representatives! Sympathetic Attitude O f University Is Reiterated; 200 AttendMeeting' Further warning to fraternities that they must assume a greater responsi- bility to the University was voiced yes- terday by President Alexander G. Ruthven at a meeting in Angell Hall which was attended by more than 200 fraternity representatives. The President emphatically stated that the action taken at the last fra- ternity meeting on Jan. 19 would be vigorously carried out, and that, con- trary to the belief of many, it was no passing threat. The University itself has laid down no definite rules for the fraternities, President Ruthven stated, but is merely attempting to compel the var- ious chapters to carry out the regu- lations which they have set down for themselves. Reiterating his statement made at the last meeting, President Ruthven declared that the University is sym- pathetic towards the fraternities and has no desire to drive them off the campus. "We are merely trying to help you to save yourselves," he told the num- erous representatives. Fraternities, he said, are declining throughout the country and will con- tinue to do so unless they adopt "de- cent social conduct and decent busi- ness conduct." The President emphasized the fact that his earlier warning was directed at all fraternities on the campus, both general and professional, including those that are local and national in organization. In reports which each fraternity had turned in to Dean of Students Joseph A. Bursley following the last meeting, it was noted that some houses stated that they could not be responsible for the individual mem-' bers of the chapter, President Ruth- ven stated. This he termed a very "dangerous" policy and intimated that such a method of regulation could not be satisfactory. Those in attendance at the meeting included faculty and alumni advisers as well as student officers of the var- ious chapters. The President declared that another meeting for general dis- cussion would be held in the near future. FERA Students Are To Complete Quotas All FERA students were warned yesterday by Harold S. Anderson, cost accountant of the buildings and grounds department, that they must work their full time during February. "In the past," Mr. Anderson said, "because of vacations and other things, we have been lenient in al- lowing FERA workers to work less time than they contracted to do. Now, however, if they do not work their full quota we will assume they do not need the money." Mr. Anderson also emphasized that students working under the Univer- sity FERA must call for their checks promptly when issued. February checks will be issued shortly after March 1, it was predicted, although the exact dates have not yet been de- termined. BULLETINS LANSING, Feb. 21.- (R) - The University of Michigan will re- ceive $4,000,000 and Michigan State $1,000,000 in 'the State budget recommended by t h e House ways and means commit- tee tonight. The amounts for the two schools are the same as last year. The budget provided for the University is $64,000 less than that requested by President Ruthven. PAWNEE, Okla., Feb. 21. -OP)-- -Phil Kennamer, precocious nineteen-year-old son of a Fed- eral judge, was convicted of first degree manslaughter in the fan- tastic John Gorrell, Jr., murder na~P tni.ht Council Chooses Group To Form -G overnment Plan Michigan Ranked Recommendations Will Be SBased Upon Summation Third In College Of StudentSurvey Enrollment Survey New Constitution m . .- 7 r. Ina u urated By Wisconsin Probes Ia B 'Reds' In Schools City ommittee In a comparison made recently by the Oklahoma Daily for the academic year 133-34, the University of Mich- igan ranks third in enrollment and! in teaching staff among what is termed "the major schools of the mid-west." Michigan was recorded as having 8,773 students, a teaching staff of 713,! and more than 12 students per teacher. The highest enrollment was! at the University of Minnesota, where 13,108 students and 916 teachers were registered, and the second at the Uni- versity of Illinois with 10,972 stu- dents and 1,255 teachers. Minnesota had more than 14 students per teacher, while Illinois had less than seven.I The survey was undertaken by the' Oklahoma University newspaper in! order to prove that the money ap- proprialed was well spent. Their tabulated figures included a column; on "cost per student." This column was severely criticized, however, by Miss Marian Williams, statistical as-! sistant of the University, as being' "grossly unfair and inaccurate." Cost per- student can not be estimated, explained Miss Williams because cer- tain classes of students cost more than others. So, she pointed out, if the Univer- sity of Michigan should happen to have more graduate students, for example, than the University of Okla- homa Daily credited with having the lowest cost, its cost per student would appear greater than that of Oklahoma. "Acautlly," she said, "it might be much lower for the average student." Laud Fitzgerald At Republican County Meeting1 Frank B. DeVine Is Elected Chairman Of Delegation To State Convention Commendation of the state admin- istration program inaugurated by Gov. Frank Fitzgerald was the key- note of the convention of the Wash- tenaw County Republicans concluded yesterday afternoon. The meeting was held in the court room of the county building here. Frank B. DeVine, Ann Arbor at- torney, was elected chairman of the county delegation to the State Repub- lican convention along with 27 addi- tional delegates and an equal number of alternates. Nine of the men chos- en are from Ann Arbor, four from Ypsilanti and the remainder from throughout the county. In addition to DeVine, five delegates at large were chosen by the conven- tion at the afternoon session. Those' elected are Lawrence Leever and Fred Sodt of Ann Arbor, Prof. J. Milton Hover and James M. Brown of Ypsi- lanti, and Mayor Mark B. Sugden of Saline. The morning session of the conven- tion opened with speeches by Mayor Sugden, Professor Hover, Regent Jun- ius E. Beal and Joseph Hooper of Ann Arbor. Most of the session was devoted to national politics, the speakers predicting a return of the Republicans to power and criticizing the Roosevelt administration. A vigorous denunciation of the Pub- lic Works program sponsored by the present administration was made in the address of Mayor Sugden which featured the opening session. The Public Works administration already has spent $2,000,000,000 to give part timne work to a million men and on that basis it should cost $7,000,000,- 000 to provide employment for 3,500,- 000 men, the speaker declared. "I believe the President is very optimis- tic. He must be going on the pre- sumption that the treasury is inex- haustible," stated Mayor Sugden in conclusion. Occupational Data Must Be Checked ITentatively Drawn Proposal Must Be Given To Senate Committee On Student Affairs Monday Two further steps toward the es- tablishment of a new men's student government were taken yesterday by members of the Undergraduate Coun- cil, the first in a meeting of the com- mittee appointed to draw up the re- sults of the Council survey and the second in a regular open meeting of the Council. A final summation of the survey, which had been conducted to deter- mine student opinion on the subject of student government, was prepared in the morning by the committee and was submitted in the afternoon to the Council to be used as a basis for pre- paring a new plan to be submitted to the Senate Committee on Student Af- fairs in accordance with its request. As a result of this report the second step was taken with the appointment of a committee to redraft the recom- mendations of the committee in con- stitutional form. The new proposed constitution with the Council tabula- tion of the student survey must both be in the hasads of the student affairs committee by Monday. Jurisdiction Restricted Some dissension of opinion was evidenced by Council members over the question as to wether the survey showed the majority of voters to be in favor of election of representatives by direct vote or by a system of pro- portional representation. In the survey, the majority of fra- ternity-society ballots were in favor of those plans which provided for di- rect election and the majority of the independent vote was in favor of those plans whic hadvocated a pro- portional representation plan. The question debated by Council members was which of these groups of voters should be given most consideration. As tentatively drawn up, the con- stitution provides for a membership of 15, five of which are to be ex-officio members and 10 of which are to be chosen from the schools and colleges of the University by a direct election. The president of the Council is to be elected either from the Council mem- bership or from the campus at large. Dissension Over Vote As the survey revealed that gradu- ate school and professional fraternity groups were opposed to participation in undergraduate student govern- ment, these schools were left out of the Council's jurisdiction. It having been determined that women students did not desire to par- ticipate in the new government, wom- en students were also definitely omitted from the Council's jurisdic- tion. It was provided, however, that in matters of joint concern an execu- tive committee of the Council should meet with a women's committee. With the submission of this consti- tution and the survey results to the Senate Committee the present Under- graduate Council will have completed its share in the formation of anew government unless the Senate com- mittee decides that a campus refer- endum should be held. In this case there is a possibility that the N.S.L. or S.C:A. plans might be run in oppo- sition to the Council's plan. Oldest Graduate To Be Honored Today The University's oldest living grad- uate, Dr. John Parker Stoddard, '59,, will celebrate his hundredth birth- day today at Muskegon. Not only is Dr. Stoddard the Uni- versity's oldest graduate but he is probably the oldest living alumnus of any American college or univer- sity. The occasion will be marked in Muskegon with a testimonial dinner in the Occidental Hotel, given by alumni organizations of the Univer- sity and Albion college, the Muskegon and Michigan Medical Societies and the Muskegon luncheon clubs. Emory J. Hyde, president of the Alumni Ase-'inn TTi r m - -, MADISON, Wis., Feb. 21.- (/P) - The Wisconsin State Senate, dis- turbed by recurrent rumors about, radicalism in schools, voted today to have five of its members conduct a hunt for communism, atheism, and other subversive influences in the halls of the University of Wisconsin and in the nine state teachers' col- leges. American Legionnaires complained that the Milwaukee State Teachers' College atmosphere was red, or at least bright pink. But the quiz is ex- pected to concentrate itself largely upon the university; the resolution providing the investigation failed to furnish funds for travel. The University of Wisconsin Pres- ident, Dr. Glenn Frank, expressed no fear of, or objections to, the study. "I certainly have no objections," he said. "To the investigation of any- thing that interests any member of the Senate. The University of Wis- consin is simply a cross-section of American society. They will find the same things which they would find if they investigated any church, legisla- ture, Congress, the Republican party, the Democratic party, or any other aggregation of Americans." POST TO HOP-OFF TODAY LOS ANGELES; Feb. 21--(P)-Wil- ey Post, 35-year-old holder of two round-the-world speed flight records, said late today he planned to take off about dawn tomorrow on his sub- stratosphere flight to New York. Elimination of motoring hazards in Ann Arbor and Washtenaw County is the aim of a drive launched yesterday by a special civic committee composed of city officials and traffic experts. Prof. Roger L. Morrison of the highway engineering and transport division of the University, is chair- man of the committee. Other mem- bers are Mayor Robert A. Campbell, Prof. John S. Worley of the engineer- ing college, George W. Kyer, chair-! I man of the police commission, and William M. Strickland, manager of' the local branch of the Automobile Club of Michigan. According to Mr. Strickland the committee will attempt to inaugurate a program of safety education for automobile drivers in the county. In addition, they plan to make specific recommendations to the City Council and other governmental units in or- der to decrease the number of acci- dents which occur on the highways. It was understood that the com- mittee will not have any police power but awill make recommendations to the proper authorities. A traffic safety ,plan similar to that being used at present in Detroit will be carried out. The first act of the committee, it was decided at a meeting Wednesday, will be to recommend the installation of a warning flasher sign at the Ann Arbor railroad crossing on Pontiac Road, where two men were killed last Saturday night when the car in which they were riding, struck a freight train. FRESHME~N! 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