Increasing cloudiness, pos- sibly rain in north, warmer to- day; tomorrow cloudy, colder. LL Liegm Abp Editorials A Constitutional Amendment.. Cutting Our Own"Throats .. Stabilize World Currency... VOL. VLVI No. 112 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1936 PRICE FIVE CENTS Jones Is Silent On Rumored Resignation Is Considering Favorably Harvard's Offer, Student Newspaper States Has Opportunity Of Full Professorship Meeting Last Week With President Conant Was Start Of Rumors Prof. Howard Mumford Jones of the English department "declined to com- ment for a few days" last night as a wire from the Harvard Crimson stated that he is "considering favorably the offer of a full professorship at Har- vard." Professor Jones arrived here yester- day from New York City, where after docking from Bermuda Friday, he conferred with President James B. Conant of Harvard Saturday. Ru- mors that he would take a post in the Harvard English department, re- signing his position here, started last week when it became known that he saw President Conant in New York before sailing for Bermuda. He is on a semester's leave. "Although Jones has not yet ac- cepted," the Harvard dispatch stated, "he is considering the proposition fa- vorably and will decide this week. If he comes, he will teach courses on prose fiction of the 18th and 19th centuries in American and Eng- lish literature, as well as seminar courses in comparative literature showing connection of these fields with European literature." When informed of this wire, Pro- fessor Jones told The Daily last night that he htd "nothing to say. I shall have to decline to comment for a few days. I will let you know as soon as I can." No comment could be obtained from University officials. Alumni To Meet With Students At Detroit Banquet Discussion Will Facilitate Exchange Of Ideas That Pertain To University Michigan alumni of Detroit will consider University problems, with nine campus leaders -and several prominent members of the faculty to- night at the Student Relations Ban- quet at the University Club in De- troit. It is an annual practice of this club to hold a round table discussion in which alumni, faculty and students are all able to exchange their ideas pertaining to the University. Faculty members and others con- nected with the University attending the banquet are: Prof. Henry C. And- erson of the engineering college; Em- ory J. Hyde, president of the Alumni Association; Stanley Waltz, manager of the Union; T. Hawley Tapping, general secretary of the Alumni As- sociation; and Robert O. Morgan, also of the Alumni Association. Students attending the banquet are: William Dixon, '36, president of the Men's Council; John C. Mc- Carthy, '36, secretary of the Union; Foster Campbell, '36, business man- ager of the Michiganensian; Clayton Lem, '36, president of the Chinese Students Club; Paul W. Phillips, '36, cadet-colonel of the R.O.T.C.; George R. Williams, '36, president of the In- terfraternity Council; Wencel Neu- man, president of the Union; Thomas H. Kleene, '36, managing editor of The Daily; and Francis Wallace, '36, president of the Engineering Coun- cil. Bates To Speak On 'Law As A Career' Dean Henry M. Bates of the Law School will deliver the first of a series of 13 lectures to be given this spring by prominent faculty men on profes- sions and the student's preparation for them when he discusses "Law As a Career" at 4:15 p.m. today in Room 1025, Angell Hall. In the past these talks have en- joyed great popularity with students, ,- ,-nc C itnrq lOirar n11 c? of. - ~No lWar For E~ Key iNahions 1 Danger Is Minimized By Preuss, Hleneman; See Event As Inevitable By FRED WARNER NEAL No war for Europe - yet That was the opinion yesterday of political science department author- ities on international affairs, who an- alyzed the crisis caused by Germany's repudiation of the Locarno Pact. t Prof. Lawrence Preuss ninimized the danger of conflict because he sees the key nations of Europe as "check-mated" by each other. Point- ing to Hitler's renunciation of the' treaty as "perfectly timed," he held that the action "fully justifies" a French invasion of Germany. But nevertheless he thinks the nation' west of the Rhine is not in a posi- tion to stand up for its rights. Both Professor Preuss and Dr. Har- low J. Heneman declared that Ger- many's occupation of the Rhineland is "another inevitable and expected step" toward fulfillment of the Third' Reich's nationalistic amoitions, and Dr. Heneman says the odds are says ( thee dd Matthews Talks On Methods Of Crime Detection Describes Use Of Ballistics And Micro-Photography In War On Criminals The work which can be done by ballistics and by micro-photography in fighting crime was described by Prof. J. B. Mathews, chairman of the University of Wisconsin chemistry department, in his address on "The Use of Scientific Methods in the Iden- tification of the Criminal" yesterday afternoon in Natural Science auditor- ium. Constantly illustrating by slides the met nods about which he spoke, Pro- fessor Matthews mentioned many cases which he and his colleagues had solved by detecting various markings on bullets which were found at the scenes of crimes. Use Micrsopic Studies Through microscopic study of the markings which were left on the lead of the bullet by markings on the gun barr i, the gun used in the crime can be taced. Another method is to study the markings left on the shell of the bullet, Professor Matthews stated, either by the firing pin or by the impact of the shell against the breech of the gun when fired. i;y photographing these markings, highly magnified of course, and com- paring photographs of the firing pins and breeches of guns, the gun with wv'ich the shot was fired could be determined, Professor Matthews pointed out. Markings Examined In cases where firearms were not used, Professor Matthews explained Lhat a similar study of the markings of the bla'ded instrument, if such were used, could be studied. This often led to the apprehension of the perpetrator of the crime, Professor Matthews added. He cited an instance where a knife had been used merely as an instru- ment to whittle branches which were used as a camouflage in a forest mur- der. By a two-weeks study of the ends of the branches and the blade of a knife found on a suspect, the latter was connected with the crime. rtrope--Yet,' As tre Check-Mated against war because "no nation in Eu- rope is prepared, either economically or psychologically, for a major con- flict." Germany's move could especially have been anticipated now, Professor J Preuss pointed out, "because the only three states that could have prevent- ed it - France, England and Italy, upholders of the Versailles Treaty - were at swords points aover Ethi- opia, Hitler Times ills Move "Hitler timed hismove to make it at exactly the moment that the League of Nations Committee on Sanctions reported avorably on an oil embargo," he continued. The committee's report, according to Professor Preuss, really put France on the spot. "Disapproval of the report by France would alienate England. Approval would alienate Italy. Either, with Nazi troops camp- ing on her borders, would be embar- rassing for France." And despite Nazi solemn protests to the contrary, Professor Preuss be- lieves that the occupation of thef Rhine is only the beginning of further demands on the part of Germany. "The only thing remaining in the Ver- sailles Treaty is territorial adjust- ments," he declared. "No one had ought to be certain that Germany has no territo"al ambitionsbecause of other offical Nazi proclamations and because of their consistency in throwing off provision aftermprovision of the Versailles Treaty. Denounces Germanys' Argument Pointing to the "peculiar" interpre- tation of international law worked out by National Socialist jurists, Profes- sor Preuss denounced Germany's ar- gument that the VersaillesTreaty was voided by the recent Franco-Soviet Pact. "It is utterly without validity," he charged. He pointed to Third Reich rational- izations on international law, all for the purpose of invalidating the Ver- sailles treaty, including, especially the toontimuea on age B) No One Bitten, But An Economics Class Goes To The Dogs When a class, especially an ec- onomics class, goes to the dogs then that's news even if no one was bitten. Members of W. Lawrence Hebbard's class yesterday were opening their books to settle down to an hour's dis- cssion. Suddenly a loud bark was heard in the back of the room where a sleeping police puppy came to life as someone stepped on said canine's tail. In the midst of the confusion no one noticed the arrival of a second puppy attracted by the bark. Soon the room was in a state of bedlam as both puppies chased each other under seats and around the desk of Mr. Hebbard. Finally the police puppy, being the only one of the two owning a collar, was ejected from the class while the other pup settled down under a rear seat. The room was warm, so Mr. Heb- bard, opened the door slightly, re- marking, "We'll leave this open in case he should change his mind and want to return." Simultaneously the door did open wider and a tardy student came in. The class roared. The laughter grew when the second puppy returned to see what all the confusion was about, and then the police pup in the rear woke up to see what was going on. This time both dogs were removed, not out of the room but out of the building., Burton Tower Building Gifts Reach$500 All But 2 Of Contributing Fraternities, Sororities Donate $50 Or More To nve Out Pledge 4111 1 .2 7 in Fench Stan( Weakened; British Seek Conciliation; Await MeetingOf League CtUrVs Last Of Week Supply Companies Give $1850 In Materials For 2onstru ction Gifts from a group of 14 fraterni- ties and sororities to be used in the building of the Burton Tower totaled more than $500, T. Hawley Tapping, Alumni secretary, announced yester- I Paris Counting On Aid Of Little Entente, Russia, BelgiumAnd Poland Germany Formally Invited To League Hitler's Peace Pact Offer To Stand Or Fall On Council Decision day. * The groups contributing, all but two of which gave $50 or more, are: Phi Sigma Delta, Acacia, Alpha Phi, Chi Omega, Zeta Beta Tau, Collegiate Scrosis, Phi Kappa Tau, Sigma PhiI Epsilon, Alpha Omicron Pi, Trigon, Alpha Xi Delta, Alpha Tau Omega, Sigma Chi and Phi Kappa Psi. Reports last night stated that the Martha Cook, Mosher Hall, Adelia Cheever Cottage, Alumnae House, Alpha Delta Phi, Pi Beta Phi and Kappa Kappa Gamma had also con- tributed to the drive, but the total of these gifts was not known. General distribution of pledge cards will take place in the city Thursday, Friday and Saturday and subscriptions from the townspeople are being turned in to officials in charge of the drive. A goal of $25,000 has been set by the local University Club to build the superstructure of the Tower and the chamber housing the $70,000 Charles This pikture, rushed by mnessen; Baird Carillon, which will arrive in and by radio to New York, shows Ann Arbor late this summer accord- entering the city if Cologne, in t ing to Prof. Earl V. Moore. Rhine, after Reichsfuehrer Adolf t Among the volunteer gifts already and ordered military occupation of t given for materials and service in~ conjunction with the Tower construc-_ tion are Luther G. Randolph, $900, the Killins Gravel Co., $450, and the Stately Indian QuenC Shawnee Stone Co., $500. I! Rescued From Chains Teams to distribute the pledge cards throughout the city and campus PROVIDENCE, R. I. March 9.-An have been organized. They will at- PRVDNER.IMac9-A tempt to canvass the entire down- unwelcome attendant at morning town district as well as the campus. chapel for Brown University students had to be sawed from her place in the front row. The visitor was Little Red Wing, a cigar-store Indian, placed in the A chapel by student pranksters. The Severs A rter y, stately Indian queen, cigars in hand, was found chained to a seat when the Is: TRecl v Terincr chapel was opened in the morning.' ! i The chapel caretaker and a car-' penter worked vigorously to saw the Herman Volz, 46-year-old Ypsilanti chains by which the figure was held. man, was reported out of danger last Through their efforts the solemnity night by Dr. Karl D. Malcolm, staff of the chapel service was saved be- physician at St. Joseph's Mercy hos- ifore the main body of students ar nital after he had allegedly attempt- I rived. --Associated Press Photo. ger to Berlin, telephoned to London a detachment of German cavalry he demilitarized district along the Hitler denounced the Locarno Pact the zone. f i Mimles .Society Discloses Plan For New Opera A call for manuscripts for the Union Opera to be produced next year was issued yesterday by Shirrel Kasle, '37, new president -of Mimes, honorary dramatic society of the Union. At a meeting yesterday other of- ficers elected were G. Stewart John- son, '37, vice-president and Edward Adams, Jr., '37, secretary-treasurer. Retiring officers are Robert Slack, '36, Nesbitt Haas, '36, and Vaudie Vandenberg, '36. Anyone interested in writing a book for next year's production is urged to see Kasle. Manuscripts must be in one week after spring vacation. kasle is a member of Phi Epsilon Pi fraternity, the Varsity Glee Club and president of Hillel Foundation. Johnson was a member of last year's Opera cast, and Adams has been a member of the Opera cast for twoa years in addition to being a member of the Dance Club of Play Production. PINCHOT'S WIFE CANDIDATE HARRISBRG, Pa., March 9. - (P) -- Cornelia Bryce Pinchot, red-haired wife of former Gov. Gifford Pinchot, and long an aggressive political fig- ure in her own right, took the re- quired legal steps today to get her name on the Republican ballot. PARIS, March 9. - (A) - France, with pledges of support for her pro- test against German reoccupation of the Rhine zone, saw her position weakened tonight by an apparent British desire to negotiate a new Eu- ropean peace treaty. Publicly, the government asked its military allies how far they would go to punish Adolf Hitler's violation of the Locarno Pact. Six nations -Poland, Russia, Bel- gium, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Rumania-came forward with pledges of support for the French protest to the League ofrNations. Privately, French officials declared that the speech in the House of Com- mons by Anthony Eden, British for- eign secretary, left possible only a "platonic" condemnation of the Reich. The threat of war to oust the Ger- man troops from the Rhineland les- sened after French officials declared that they believed an outbreak of ac- tual conflict to be impossible. Officials expressed themselves as convinced that Great Britain mut be the intermediary in any discus- sion between France and Germany over the Reich's denunciation of the mutual security treaty The flat refusal of Premier Albert Sarraut to consider offers of new trea- ties, they said, makes it "impossible" for Paris to talk directly to Berlin and at the same time "save its face." GERMANY LOOKS TO LEAGUE BERLIN; March 9. - (P) - Ger- many, expressing disappointment at France's curt refusal of her offer of a peace pact, looked today to a meet- ing of the Council of the League of Nations Friday to decide whether she will further estrange herself from the former Allies. Adolf Hitler's offer to sign peace treaties with his neighbors, a foreign office spokesman said, stands or falls on the manner in which the Council will handle the Franco-Belgian charge of a violation of the treaty of Locarno. A foreign office question spokes- man, commenting upon the Council's session said: "A fateful question con- fronts all Europe next Friday. Will France prove stronger than the League, or will the League prove more formidable than France? "Will the League take March 7 as a starting point and say we violated Locarno or will it go back to May 2, 1935, to find the Soviet pact so pro- voked Germany that her action is understandable?" LEAGUE INVITES GERMANY GENEVA, March 9. - () The League of Nations formally invited Germany tonight to participate in a meeting of the Council Friday to examine the Franco-Belgian appeal against Ber- lin's violation of the Locarno treaty. The speech of Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden to the British House of Commons created the impression here that League sanctions against Germany are unlikely. Some circles said Premier Mussolini would demand cancellation of the sanctions now in force against Italy as a condition to pursuing African peace negotiations. Italy Saturday accepted the League's appeal for such negotiations. GERMANY SIGNS TREATY ROME, March 9. - (P) - Italy and Germany signed a treaty today giv- ing mutual recognition to civil and juridicial codes of their countries. Despite reports that Berlin and Rome are seeking a rapprochement in the current European crisis, of- ficials said the meeting was limited to this point. A First Latin Edition Of Euclid Acquired By University Library ed to commit suicide shortly before noon at the county jail. Discovered by sheriff's officers just before he was about to be questioned by a representative of the state fire marshall's office, Volz was found to have a severed artery in his left arm. The cutting was done with the lid from a salve box in the prisoner's pos- session, Sheriff Jacob Andres stated. Volz denied that he had attempted to do away with his life, officers said. The prisoner was being held here on a charge of felonious assault with intent to do great bodily harm, less than the crime of murder, brought by his wife. He was also charged with reckless driving by his sister-in-law. Moved to a new cell, where he was found bleeding to death, Volz was about to be questioned concerning the burning of the barn of his fath- er-in-law, Gus Sandusky, on Dexter road. Volz was suspected of arson because of the family altercations. He was brought to the county jail Saturday afternoon and had not been arraigned in justice court when the alleged suicide occurred. Anniounce Winners In Poster ContestI Announcement of prize winners in the Tower Poster Contest sponsored for both High School and University students was made yesterday, by of- ficials in charge. In the University division first prize, $25, went to Max E. Hodge, '39, Pontiac. Second prize was awarded to David Lemon, '38, Ann Arbor. Robert Grams of Ann Arbor High Rehm] wrn first nzie of 9 in his Prof. Housel To Speak Before Citizens' Council Prof. William Housel, of the en- gineering college, will be one of four speakers at a meeting of the Ann Ar- bor Citizen's Council to be held at 8 p.m. Wednesday in the Council chambers of the City Hall. The proposed water softener and how it operates will be the subject for discussion. The operation of the Water Department, the problems it has met, results of the recent sur- vey of the ground water supply and policies of the Water Board will also be considered. One of the three or four first Latin editions of Euclid in the world is now a part of the collection of rare books in the University Library, and dating from 1493, the work is the first print- ed edition in any language, accord- ing to Prof. Louis C. Karpinski of the mathematics department. The book was given to the Library by John Spaulding, '97, a well known Detroit lawyer. Professor Karpinski, who for more than 30 years has been wiorking on the rare book collection, located the edition in the book mart. Mr. Spaulding volunteered to buy the book and desired to place it in the Library as a memorial to Prof. Alex- ander Ziwet, former faculty member of the University, whom Mr. Spauld- ing described as the "finest teacher I ever had." Bound in the original vellum, the rnnv of Euclid ha the hook-nlate of appropriately enough include the words, "It is not good for man to live alone." Approximately 150 editions of Eu- clid's Elements including nearly all of the English translations are in the Library. There are editions in Eng- lish. French, German, Spanish, Ital- iarn, Dutch, Russian and Arabic, Pro- fessor Karpinski stated. "In some of these languages there are only por- tions of the text, as the complete text with even short comments includles about the material in two ordinary sized volumes," he said. Possess Many Editions "Mr. Spaulding," Professor Kar- pinski continued, "saw an article in the Michigan Alumnus of some weeks ago concerning our collections. He then wanted to add the book to make our collection more nearly complete." Professor Ziwet taught Mr. Spaulding in a ten-honr eourse in calclush and Million-Volt Vaeuum Tube 'Gun' Will Bombard Nuclei Of Atoms By E. BRYCE ALPERN possibility of employing them in the A vacuum tube capable of opera- cure of cancer and other diseases." tion at one million volts potential The cost of these synthetic products inominal, and scientists have point- will soon be thrown into operation ed out that they may be less dan- by the physics department in an at- gerous to employ therapeutically than tempt to solve some of the problems radium, since they lose their radio- in nuclear theory confronting science. active properties after a few hours In complementary use of the cyclo- or days. tron, which is also being built by, Although the cyclotron will be cap- the physics depar inent with Rack- able of speeding projectiles up to a ham Foundation funds, the gigantic greater velocity, the high potential tube will act as a gun, bombarding tube will be able to speed up a greater the nuclei of atoms, splitting them number, making the latter more po- into their component parts, or trans- tent for some kinds of work, Dr. muting them into new atoms and pro- Crane asserted. He emphasized that viding a means of observing the exact the uses of the two do not overlap, nature of the products. By this pro- for there are problems for which each cess it is expected to learn the con- is better suited. stitution and form of these nuclei. Future investigation employing the '.T.- . n a crnhn.rIm en f v ma n nvmnw1rn y .-. i- . i-.. ..-.-..-.-.fn- ~ ,. 4-.-. -- t a Professor Campbell Is Reported 'Much fetter'