The Weather eliidty, snow tiomorrinw,, andI iii we-t iint il .fh rtodiAy: no dq-.i4zd led ditge Iii iffiiiv.-ttire. L A6P -96& ~aiW Editorialg 3Ji tlk'1t 4,t1it tniA 1.ai I F VOL. XLVI No. 116 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1936 PRICE FIVE CENTS Two Qualify For Michigan And Indiana, Howie Davidson Wins His Heat In 880 As Birleson Places In 440 Osgood's Injured Leg Getting Worse Gorman, Starr And Mason Fail To Gain Final Spots In Their Events By WILLIAM R REED UNIVERSITY OF C H I C A G O FIELD HOUSE, CHICAGO, Ill., March 13. - Michigan began the defense of its Western Conference indoor track title here tonight, placing two quali- fiers in the finals of the quarter-mile and half-mile runs. Howard Davidson in the half and Stan Birleson in the quarter were the qualifiers as Ben Starr lost a place in the half-mile finals by inches when he lost his shoe. Indiana, Iowa, and Northwestern shared the lead in the qualifying with Michigan, each putting two men in the finals. The Hoosier finalists are Duke Hobbs in the half and Malcolm Hicks in the quarter. Times in the half mile were rela- tively slow, but two heat times in the quarter were as fast as last year's winning time of 50.5. Ray Ellinwood of Chicago was the winner in the first heat with a fast 50.1 with Birleson an easy step behind him, and Sunny Heg of Northwestern led his heat in 50.5. Paul Gorman in the half and Steve Mason in the quarter were other Michigan entries who failed to qual- ify, each placing third in his heat with but two to qualify for the finals. Bob Osgood, Michigan's ace hur- dler who won the indoor high hurdles title last year, was taking treatment for an injured leg which has been hampering his running all week. Little change was reported. with the possibility that the leg might be al little worse. Osgood's injury would not only cripple the Varsity's chances in the hurdles but also in the mile relay, which the Wolverines are fa- vored to win in record time. Track authorities have been re- newing queries as to whether Don Lash, Indiana's distance star, will be able to run a really tough race in the mile and still win the event which the Hoosiers are counting on to de- feat the Michigan team. Wolverine supporters were encouraged as they recalled that in last year's indoor mile Lash, buffeted about at the start of a rough mile, gave up after 150 yards. Lash or one of his Indiana team- mates, Tommy Deckard or Harry Smith, is conceded the two-mile run. Peace Council Begins Drive For Members Anti-War Group Hears A.S.U. President Advise More Active Organizing Fifty students and faculty mem- bers meeting under the sponsorship of the University Peace Council last night in Lane Hall appointed a com- mittee of four to enlist the coopera- tion of the University Administration and campus organizations in the Council's coming anti-war activity. Wencel Neuman, '36, president of the Union, Winifred Bell, '36, of the League, Mennen Williams, '36L, and Dr. Edward Blakeman, counselor in religious education, compise thE committee. Marking the first action by th( Council, the appointments concluded the meeting the major portion of which was given to the address by George Edwards, President of the American Student Union. The necessity of anti-war activity and organization instead of mere dis- cussion of war was emphasized by Mr. Edwards. He told of a conversatioi with Senator Gerald,P. Nye in Wash- ington last year during which Ny' stated that "the most powerful and Prof. Muyskens Is Jubilant Over Outcome Of Party Fight Says 'We've Got Abbott On The Run'; Affidavits1 ComingInVoluntarily By CLINTON B. CONGER Prof. John H. Muyskens of the I, speech department yesterday saw a rosy horizon in the political battle he and a group of unrevealed associates are waging with the aim of ousting Horatio J. Abbott, Democratic Na- tional Committeeman, from controlf of the party in Michigan. Prominent party men had as yet in no way denied or refuted the* charges of disloyalty hurled at the Ann Arbor political leader during the past week, and more documentary evidence against Abbott was being ready for circulation. 'Abbott On Run' "We've got Abbott on the run,, Professor Muyskens exclaimed jubi- lantly yesterday. "The dirt on his activities is rapidly coming in, and even his friends are deserting him. "Why, they're offering affidavits' against him of their own accord now. Just the other day a young fellow came up to me and wanted to give me an affidavit to prove Abbott worked against John Lehr (Demo- cratic nominee for U. S. Representa- tive) in 1934." He cited as additional ammunition which may soon be brought to bear on Abbott a stenographic copy of a speech Abbott made in Ludington during the campaign in question, in which he is said to have "run down the nominees of his own party," specifically, the candidates for seats in the House of Representatives. Possible Nominees He corrected an earlier announce-' ment to the effect that Rep. Prentiss Brown would be his group's nominee for Abbott's national committeeman's position in the fall, naming instead George Schroeder of Detroit. Other possible nominees are Sen. James Couzens, (Rep., Mich.) for Senator if he can be persuaded to switch to the Democratic party; Frank Murphy, now high commissioner to the Philip- pines, for governor; and Leo J. No- wicki, Wayne County drain com- missioner, for lieutenant-governor. Murphy, he said, had been ad- vanced more or less "by popular ac- claim." Nowicki and Schroeder have sought the support of the "insur- gent" Democrats, and have been promised it. Muyskens reiterated his previous statement that he did not know how the Abbott correspondence had been obtained for circulation, but hinted that Raymond F. Horton, '01E, Ypsi- lanti engineer, might have sold it. Radical Mobs Cause Latest Madrid Riots MADRID, March 13. - (P) - Mobs of extremists roved the streets of the Spanish capital tonight, setting fire to churches and convents and shout- ing "burn all the Pope's property." Horton, a Democrat at the time of the correspondence, in December, 1934, is now a Republican, according to Muyskens. Muyskens said that his offer to run for Senatorhad at first been a joke "Someone called me one night and ;told me Abbott was planning to run for Senator, and Iasaid that if he did I'd run against him and beat him in. his own bailiwick. It is my sincere intention in that eventuality just to show that he can't even be nominat- ed in this state." The University faculty member re-, fused to disclose names of Democrat- ic leaders who may be backing his group in its drive to clean out "po- litical rottenness" in the party. "We're saving the party, but I'll take the knock," he said. Questioned about the plans to run Couzens on the Democratic ticket for Senator in the November election, he said that Couzens had been ap- proached, on the subject of running as a Democrat but declined to re- veal the result. He intimated that Couzens might be persuaded to switch (Continued on Page 2) Council Votes Appropriation For City Relief Emergency Act Prevents Suffering Among Needy Employables A special session of the City Coun- cil last night voted an appropriation of $2,000 with which to pay the city's share of relief for the last half of March. The session was called yesterday noon by Prof Walter C. Sadler of the engineering college, president, as an emergency measure to prevent suf- fering among welfare recipients. A petition asking for council action before Mach 14, the date upon which County Welfare Commissioner Charles Wagg declared some 200 employables now on relief Would be cut from the rolls, had been presented earlier to President Sadler by the Ann Arbor Citizen's Council. Through approval of the $2,000 ap- propriation by a 13 to 1 vote coun- cilors estimated that the reduction in the state's share of relief would be taken care of for the remainder of March. At the same time they em- phasized in discussion that the ques- tion of the relative sharesofrelief funds to be provided by state and county should again be taken up with the state. . Also passed at the meeting was a resolution to fix the salary of a full- time poor commissioner at $125 a month for the balance of the fiscal year-about three and a half months. John Staffan, one of the two nomi- nated by the council's budget com- mittee, was elected to the post over Chester Wood, the other nominee. Campbell Reported SlightlyImproved Wolverines Face Loss Of SwimCrowi Iowa Tops Michigan 11.8 In Preliminaries Of Big Ten Championships Kasley Tops World's Breast-Stroke Mark Tanksters Fail To Qualify In Sprints; Fehsenfeld Stars In Diving By GEORGE J. ANDROS (Special to The Daily) VARSITY POOL, MINNEAPOLIS, March 13. - Michigan's varsity swim- mers stood in danger of losing their Big Ten title after the preliminaries in the annual conference champion- ships here tonight as they lagged be- hind Iowa, 11 to 8, in men qualified for the finals tomorrow. Reserve seats for tomorrow night's finals are already sold out and not even standing room will be available when the gun sounds for the-opening event. Jack Kasley with a new world's record in the 200-yard breast-stroke was the star performer in an evening that saw four Big Ten records broken. Kasley Smashes Record Kasley's time of 2:23.9 smashed the accepted world's mark of 2:26.5 made by Cartonnet of France and broke his own Conference record of 2:30.3. Frank Barnard was the second Wol- verine to better an existing standard, lowering Tex Robertson's 400-yard free-style record of 4:58.6 with an ef- fort of 4:57.5. Other record-breakers were Danny Zehr of Northwestern in the 150- yard back-stroke with 1:39 and N. Lewis of Illinois in the 220-yard free- style with 2:15.8. Zehr's new mark erased Taylor Drysdale's record of 1:39.3 and Lewis bettered the 2:17.3 made by Johnny Schmieler of Michigan. Although he tightened up during the first 50 yards, Sophomore Harry Rieke gave indicationthat Zehr is due for a harder battle tomorrow night when he came within three yards of the Northwestern star in the back-stroke with a great come- back. Lewis A Surprise The advent of Lewis to the front in ' the 220 was a surprise after Barnard had done his heat in 2:18.4 in a dead- heat with Jacobsmeyer of Iowa. Wil- son of Chicago pushed Lewis to 2:16. Capt. Frank Fehsenfeld topped the divers with 108.18 points as Coach Mann's entire quartet of spring-board artists qualified. Der Johnston was in third place behind Patterson of Ohio State and Ned Diefendorf was close behind in fourth. Christen of Iowa was fifth and Ben Grady of Michigan came back with 31 points in his last three dives to qualify sixth after being eleventh at the end of seven dives. With the failure of a single Mich- igan man to qualify in the sprints, on the basis of tonight's performances I the Wolverines appeared to have a bare margin of three or four points over Iowa. New Evidence Is Only Hope Of Hauptmann Governor Will Not Sign New Reprieve; Prisoner Remains Optimistic New Peace Offer Made ByRealtors 6,000 Strikers Returning To Work After Signing Of Arbitration Proposal Solution Is Hopeful In Opinion Of Board Charge Government Funds Are Being Used To Crush BuildingStrike NEW YORK, March 13. - (P) - The Realty Advisory Board, repre- senting a large section of the owners' front against the building service strike, submitted a new offer of peace late today, shortly after the Metro- politan Building Owners' Association signed arbitration agreements for 600 buildings. Six thousand employes will return to work tomorrow in the 600 build- ings covered in the agreements, it was announced. The Realty Board proposal suggest- ed a new division of strikers to be taken back and replacements to be retained, a proposition that James J. Bambrick, strike leader, has said cannot be arbitrated. Spokesmen for the Advisory Board said they believed an argreement could be reached "if the Building Service Employees Union will meet us half way." William D. Rawlins, executive sec- retary of the Advisory Board, said after a conference with Mayor F. H. LaGuardia that while 15 per cent of the replacement employes had been promised permanent positions, 85 per cent "were men who would not be satisfactory under ordinary circum- stances." Jacob E. Hurwitz, counsel for the Metropolitan Association, announced the agreement returning 6,000 men to duty. Hurwitz said it was under- stood that each worker would get his job back and that "replacement workers" who have taken their places since the walkout began March 1 would be dismissed. As this partial solution to the pro- tracted walkout was announced, Bambrick, local head of the Building Service Employes' Union, asked Fath- er Charles E. Coughlin, radio priest, to publicize his charges that Federal To Preside At Senate JOHN C. McCARTHY Studecnt Setnate Anniouices Its New Chairman John C. McCarthy, Union Secretary, Will Preside At First Meeting John C. McCarthy, '36, recording secretary of the Union, will act as chairman of the Student Senate in its maiden meeting Tuesday night in the Union ballroom, members of the organization's council announced last night. The Senate, organized by professors and students in social science units of the University, is for the purpose of creating a medium for student ex- pression, according to Edward Stone, '36, president of the council. The in- itial meeting of the Senate will be held at 7:45 p.m. Tuesday. The question to be debated by stu- dents, all of whom are urged to at- tend, is "Should the Student Back the Old Parties in the Coming Cam- two professors and two students, will paign." Four persons; tentatively present the Republican, Democratic, Socialist and Communist viewpoints for seven minutes each. Then Mc- Carthy, acting as chairman, will rec- ognize students from the floor. The meeting is scheduled to last until 10 p.m. The idea, according to Senate plans, is to have one session every two or three weeks, the inter- val to be determined by those students present. Stone, in announcing the meeting, declared that "it is impera- tive that as many students as pos- Financier Afraid Ot Sanctions Schaclit Sends Emissary To Paris To Ask Delay In PenaltyImposition League To Consider Rhineland Conflict France Insists Upon Bans As World Awaits Move By Hitler PARIS, March 13. - (AP) - A Ger- man financial official, a reliable source said tonight, is in Paris seeking to persuade Fraice to drop her de- mand for sanctions against Germany because of the remilitarization of the Rhineland. Emil Georg von* Stauss, third vice- president of the Reichstag and direc- tor of the Deutsche Bank, was sent here as the confidential emissary of Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, German min- ister of economics and Reichsbank president. This source said the emissary warned Georges Bonnet, French min- ister of commerce, and leading Paris bankers, that huge amounts of French capital invested in Germany would disappear if there were a financial collapse of the Reich. One source was quoted as saying Dr. Schacht submitted a memoran- dum to Adolf Hitler 15 days ago warn- ing him against violating the Locarno treaty and pointing out that ruinous sanctions were likely to follow. To 'Work On' Hitler Schacht, von Stauss was said to have told the French leader, promised to "work on" Hitler to have him with- draw the soldiers from the Rhine- land if France dropped her demand for sanctions. The emissary was reported to have said Schacht is convinced that sanc- tions would lead to the economic and political ruin of Nazi Germany." LONDON, March 13. - (P)- A vig- orous French stand for sanctions against Germany was disclosed to- night after a conference of the re- maining Locarno Treaty signers had failed to ease the grave European crisis. money is being strike. used to crush the Italians Stag~e 1 Fresh Assault On Sudan Rim ASMARA, Eritrea, March 13.- (P) - A new Italian army "of the west- ern plains" was striking into Ethiopia tonight along the Sudanese border. Simultaneously, four full army corps - comprising all the troops on the northern front - were in full forward motion southward. The advance guard of the western plains army had reached Alcadrai and was moving toward Nogara, an important junction of caravan trails from the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan into Ethiopia. On the left flank of the western plains army, the fourth army corps was far beyond the Takkaze River region near Uoldebba. The second army corps was deep in the Tzel- lemti area. The first and third army corps were in the Ashangi section, and their patrols had penetrated as far as Fenaroa. J sible attend, representing all groups." France insisted that the Locarno In addition to support of faculty members recommend the application members, he said, the Senate has the of sanctions when they report to t1he active support of the Union, the League of Nations Council on Ger- League and a number of fraternities many's remilitarization of the Rhine- and sororities, land. j "We are ready to go as far as pos- r 'ible 'in this direction certainly -Lawyers Seed Last las far as the other Locarno powers . will go with us," said the Paris spokes- Kennamer Hearing man The French attitude, it was dis- OKLAHOMA CITY, March 13.-(1P) closed, remains absolutely unchanged Young Phil Kennamer's attorneys from the point of view there should prepared a last-ditch fight tonight to be a full application of the League keep their client out of the Oklahoma Covenant. penitentiary. The State Criminal Hitler Move Awaited Court of Appeals ruled today that the D . on of Federal Judge Franklin E. Despite the statement in an official I Kcnnamcr must serve 25 years for ommunique that "a closer approx- the slaef John Gorre2y at Tulsa irmation of views" had been reached, he slayingof hnGorrela French spokesman said privately in 1934. "No substantial progress has been A. Flint Moss, chief defense coun- made." sel, said at Tulsa that he would file It was emphasized that nothing a petition for a rehearing. can be done for the moment until it Kennamer testified at his trial at is seen whether Adolf Hitler will make Pawneee, Okla., that he shot Gorrell a gesture of conciliation or continue in a fit of insanity to protect Vir- deaf -to British appeals for one . ginia Wilcox, daughter of H. F. Wil- The Rhineland problem will pass cox, Tulsa oil man, from a purported from the hands of the Locarno pow- i kidnap plot. ers-Britain. France, Belgium and gim n 1 1 1 The latest outbreak of political dis- (special to The Daily) turbances was the signal for an emer- NEW YORK, March 13. - The con- gency meeting of cabinet ministers dition of Prof. Oscar J. Campbell, who after the roaming rioters had set fire is ill here with pneumonia, was de- to a newspaper plant, three church scribed as "slightly more favorable" buildings, and engaged in numerous today by Mrs. Campbell. street encounters. Professor Campbell, formerly of the Michigan English department, now Mounted storm police and civil at Columbia, has been confined to Suia ds charged madly through the the Murray Hill Hospital for a week streets in attempts to disperse the with pneumonia. miling crowds. I His condition took a slight turn for The plant of La Nacion, Rightist I the worse yesterday, but the report newspaper which criticized Leftists from Mrs. Campbell today indicated for the recent campaign of terrorism, that Professor Campbell was getting r x I was gue dy fre. Record Enrollm4 Summer Sess By I. S. SILVERMAN An increased enrollment for 1936 which will break all existing records for the Summer Session was predict- ed yesterday by Prof. Louis A. Hop- kins director of the Summer Ses- sion. He predicts the enrollment will approach the 4400 mark while the previous high in 1931 was more than 4330. Professor Hopkins explained that this expected rise will be a natural continuation of the rapid increase in enrollment since 1933. Also special railroad rates to Ann Arbor which will along bette ater nis siight relapse TRENTON, March 13. - (MP - Al- though his chances of escaping the electric chair three weeks hence are F rpractically negligible, Bruno Richard ion Is Predicted1Hauptmann told his wife, Anna, today 15 Pr d c 1 Ihe is still confident his execution will be stayed again. I-Hauptmann, convicted of the Lind- Summer Session was 39.2% that of bergh baby kidnaping murder, is the larger enrollment. under sentence to die the week of An interesting fact revealed from March 30, and will probably be ex- the charts was that while the Gradu- ecuted the night of Tuesday, March ate School was rapidly increasing its 31. enrollment up to the peak year of Governor Harold G. Hoffman, who 1931, the undergraduate units of Lit- granted a 30-day reprieve on Jan. 16, erature, Science and the Arts and 29 hours before Hauptmann was to go Education School reached the peak in to his death, said he will not sign a 1927 and began their decline from new reprieve, and that Hauptmann's that year. The reason for this de- only chance of sidestepping his fate crease before the depression years at the end of the month lies in the was not explained by Professor Hop- discovery of new evidence. kins. Even in that case, the governor Since 1933, the year of the low in said, he has no legal power to do any- Editors Oppose Heidelburg Bid At Columbia, Vassar, Cornell( By SAUL R. KLEIMAN 549th anniversary of the founding Opposition by the student body and of the University of Heidelberg.. faculty to the sending of a delegate According to the Columbia Specta- tor, unless the University rescinds to the 550th Anniversary Exercises its acceptance "it will in effect be be- of the University of Heidelberg this stowing a benediction upon the spoil- summer is steadily mounting at Co-- ation of education and culture by the lumbia, Vassar and Cornell. Hitler regime. It will be giving its The editors of the three Colu- approval to those who have sup- pressed academic freedom, perverted bian organs, the Spectator, the Law the content and teaching of all Review, and thme Teachers' College branches of learning, fostered a News, the Cornell Daily Sun and the fraudulent 'race science' and dis- Vassar Miscellany News have taken missed and persecuted scholars on a definite stand on the issue and religious, political and racial asked their respective administrations grounds." to rescind their decisions. However, the administration jus- At Columbia, on March 5, the tifies its stand upon the ground that branch of the Teachers' Union adopt- "it is the custom of Columbia Uni- V,15 - LL ~ l, 1 l_,, tA 1"A i4 Italy - tomorrow and be merged into a general international problem when the Council of the League of Nations meets here to take up Franco-Belgian appeals against Germany's scrapping of the Locarno Pact. The day's biggest developments were: Italy Remains Aloof 1-A high authority stated that Italy flatly refused to join a move- ment to impose sanctions against Geirmany. Italy was said to feel that since Britain, with the consent of France, led in application of sanc- tions against her because of the Af- rican war, "no British or French statesman can now go to Italy and ask the Italian people to fight for them in any eventuality whatsoever." 2-The British Foreign Office an- nounced: "The door is still open for Germany to make any kind of offer it wishes." 3-Soviet Russia pledged France its >,' is S I'