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VOL. XLVI No. 174
ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, MAY 30, 1936
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Black Legion
Is Reported
'On The Run'
Frightened Members Burn
Robes And Hoods Of
Order, Says Prosecutor
Klan Chief Urges
National Cleanup
Michigan Recruiting Agent
For Nightriders Declares
He's Through
DETROIT, May 29.-OP)-The
Black Legion was reported on the
run today before the campaign of
extermination set in motion a week
ago when the arrest of 13 men on kid-
naping and murder charges disclosed
the existence of the night riding ter-
rorist society with its dream of a
super government.
Definite information that fright-
ened members were burning the hoods
and robes the secret order wore on its
nocturnal flogging and arson expedi-
tions was reported by Prosecutor
Owen Dudley of Jackson, a Black Le-
gion stronghold where five men are
held on charges of beating a fellow
member.
Admits He's Through
As Dudley was making his an-
nouncement, Arthur F. Lupp, admit-
ted Michigan recuriting officer for
the whip-wielding band, declared that
"I've had enough. I'm through with
the Black Legion."
Gov. Frank D. Fitzgerald took
command of Michigan's war on the
blabkcloaked brotherhood today while
Prosecutor Duncan C. McCrea as-
sembled the evidence from a score
of states which he hopes will permit
the department of justice to enter the
case.
"You are engaged in a defense of
our free government against a group
which would impose upon law-abiding
citizens a reign of terrorism which
stops not even at murder," the Gov-
ernor said in a letter to Attorney Gen-
eral David H. Crowley.
Urges Intervention
Intervention of the Federal gov-
ernment was urged in Atlanta, Ga.,
by Hiram W. Evans, imperial wizard
of the Ku Klux Klan who denied his
organization is related in any way to
the Black Legion.
The attorney general announced
today that the state would take part
in the trial of the men held for the
"ritual execution," of Charles A.
Poole, who "knew too much."
"There is no doubt that the Black
Legion is a real threat," he said, "and
I intend to go just as far as the law
will allow in breaking it up."
A grand jury investigation already
is underway in Flint, and another has
been voted in Detroit.
Commenting on McCrea's charge
that V. F. Effinger, of Lima, O., had
a monopoly on the sale of regalia to
Black Legion members, Wilber Rob-
inson, Detroit street railways em-
ploye suspended for alleged member-
ship, said:
"There wasn't any racket in selling
the robes," He termed the garments
"a fine value," at $7.50.
Dale Peterson, post office inspector,
conferred with McCrea today on re-
ports mail carriers were members,
and both the Detroit police and rail-
ways departments pressed investiga-
tions of charges that there were num-
erous Black Legion initiates on their
rolls.
Memorial Day
Parade Today
Will Begin At 9
The University Varsity Band will
again lead the annual Memorial Day
parade, which leaves the Engineering
Arch at 9 a.m. today.
The procession will go north on
East University Ave. to North Uni-
versity Ave., west on North Uni-
versity to State St., south on State
to Williams, west on Williams to Main
St. and north on Main to the court
house, where it will disband.
Following the band will be the en-
tire University R.O.T.C. Corps, the
members of the G.A.R., the veterans
of the Spanish American War, the
V.F.W., and the Ann Arbor Boy
Scouts. Captain Kenneth Hallen-
beck of the 126th infantry will be
marshal of the parade.
Immediately following the parade
'PrUieop mi he held in Bethlehem
Michigan County Supervisors
Oppose Central Relief Plan
Prof. Aigler
Decentralization Tendency
Condemnation Is Told
By Professor Angell
By I. S. SILVERMAN
The county supervisors in the State
of Michigan would rather take the
chance of losing Federal funds than
acquiesce in the continued domin-
ance of centralized state administra-
tion for the distribution of federal
relief funds, it was explained yes-
terday by Prof. Robert C. Angell of
the sociology department and Wash-
tenaw County supervisor, although he
emphasized that this was not his
viewpoint.
This was the motivation, Professor
Angell stated, behind the recent ac-
tion taken by 100 county supervisors
from 24 Michigan counties when
Emergency Relief Administration
methods were condemned as too cost-
ly and the direction of welfare relief
was asked to be returned to the agen-
cies in operation before the creation
of the FERA.
Washtenaw County was asked by
the Governor, Professor Angell ex-
plained, to arrange to have mothers'
pensions administered by the Emer-
gency Relief Administration rather
than by the probate judge in order
that the state might receive federal
funds under the Social Securities Act.
Under this provision, Washtenaw
County alone would receive more
than $9,000 a year of the $9,000,000
to be apportioned by the state.
But the overwhelming majority of
supervisors in this county were of
the belief that under the present sys-
tem of waste in appropriation and
administration of relief funds they
would lose this $9,000 and more. They
insisted, it was explained that the
control of relief expenditures be
brought back to the local units. '
Professor Angell stated that this
action was not motivated by any
selfish reasons but by a sincere be-
lief that local supervision would be
more efficient. However, the policy
of the Federal Government would
not permit the hand-out of its funds
unless it has something to say of its
appropriation.
The opinion held by the small mi-
nority among supervisors of this
county was, as Professor Angell stat-
ed, that although the present system
of relief administration is not per-
fect, by any means, neverthless, it is
doubtful whether the rural supervis-
ors could handle adequately the job
of relief appropriations. The task
was in their hands before the Roose-
velt administration but relief was not
Public Utility
Companies Hit
TVAValidity
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May 29. -(AP)
-Nineteen operating utility compan-
ies attacked the constitutionality of
the Tennessee Valley Authority on
two fronts today seeking to enjoin it
from "further operation."
Identical bills of complaint, filed
simultaneously in United States Dis-
trict Court here and the State chan-
cery court at Knoxville, Tenn., struck
at the TVA Act of 1933, the power
program authorized in the act and
its "yardstick" power rate structure.
Complainants include virtually all
major operating units in the Ten-
nessee Valley area.
They are largely subsidiaries of
Commonwealth and Southern Cor-
poration, Cities Service Company, As-
sociated Gas and Electric Company
and Electric Bond and Share Coi-
offered on as large a scale then as
at present and the funds were not
so great. It is the view of this mi-
noiity that these supervisors would
soon be willing to give the control
back to the state after having had a
taste of the difficult job.
This group has further emphasized
that federal money means too much
to the state to let it go on this way,
and, regardless of the supervisors,
the state probably will not waive the
federal grant of $9,000,000, Profes-
sor Angell believes.
He also explained that it is the
opinion of many experts that if direct
relief to employableswere offered to
the states by the Federal government,
Michigan will not receive such money
if the state does not have a central-
ized relief administration.
Varsity Beats
Spartan Team
By 5-3 Score
Capt. Larson Allows Only
Five Hits For Sixth Win
Of 1936 Season
The Varsity baseball team, poten-
tial Big Ten champions, gained the
first leg to the mythical State cham-
pionship yesterday by defeating the
Michigan State powerhouse 2 to 1 in
a pitcher's battle that wasn't decided
until Capt. Berger Larson struck out
Fred Ziegel, Spartan first sacker, the,
last man to face him.
The Michigan team will leave at
10 a.m. today for East Lansing to playa
the second and deciding game of the
annual home and home series. Herm,
Fishman will face the State nine
while George Hill, ace of the East
Lansing aggregation, will oppose him
in the Memorial Day exhibition.
Garnering only four hits while the
State team was touching Larson for;
five, the Wolverines combined two
hits and a Spartan error to score both
tallys in the first inning. Given three
scoring chances, Coach John Kobs',
men were able to push only one run
across the plate for their single run.
George Rudness, Michigan outfield-
er, led off in the last of the first in-
ning with a hard hit single that
careened off the shins of Blanie Wal-
ters, sophomore southpaw who lost his
third Big Ten start in yesterday's
game. Don Brewer sacrificed Rud-
ness to second with a bunt down the
first base line.
Carl Ferrier ,cove another single,
through Austin Weimer, Spartan sec-
ond baseman. Both Michigan men
were advanced on the bases when
Ziegel dropped Walters' throw, after
Steve Uricek tapped a weak ball to
the box. With the bases loaded, Jab-
onski hit to Weimer who threw
Uricek out at second while Rudness
was scoring the first Wolverine run.
The winning run was scored by
Ferner who came home when Clyde
Randall attempted to double Jab-
lonski off first in the same play. His
high throw landed in the stands and
permitted the Michigan shortstop to
come home standing up. Jablonski,
who advanced to second on the error,
died on base when Joe Lerner flied
out to right field.
The Spartans' lone tally came in
the fourth inning after only ten bat-
ters had faced the Wolverine pitcher
in the first three innings. Larson
struck out Weimer, who went down
swinging, but the second man to face
him was Steve Sebo who had two hits
in four times at bat. He collectedbhis
first hit at this time, poling the ball
fcontnued on Pae 3) ___
May Accept
Arizona Job
Athletic Board Chairman
In Western Conference
With Arizona Regents
Bid For Presidency
Is Expected Result
Law Professor Would Be
Sixth To Leave Michigan
Since September
Prof. Ralph W. Aigler of the Law
School may leave Michigan to become
president of the University of Ari-
zona, Dean Henry M. Bates revealed
last night.
Professor Aigler, Who has been a
member of the Law School faculty
since 1908, and who is now chairman
of the Board in Control of Athletics,
is in Arizona conferring with the
board of regents of that University.
Dean Bates said. Even if the position
is offered Professor Aigler, it is not
yet determined that he will accept,
according to the dean.'
The Arizona board of regents is ex-
pected to reach a decision next week,
Dean Bates said. Th'e board is also
considering Dr. F. W. Hart of the
University of California for the psi-
tion, it was learned.
If Professor Aigler does become
president of Arizona, he will be the
sixth member of the University fac-
ulty to have left or made announce-
ment of leaving this year. Prof. O. J.
Campbell of the English department
is now teaching at Columbia Univer-
sity. Prof. Howard Mumford Jones
also of the English department, will
go to Harvard next year, Professors
Stephen Timoshenko and Warren L.
McCabe, both of the engineering col-
lege, will go to Stanford University
and the Carnegie Institute of Tech-
nology respectively, and Dr. Rudolph
Winnacker of the history department
will take up duties at the University
of Nebraska.
Professor Aigler has taught at many
other colleges and universities dur-
ing leaves of absence granted him
here, 'and he has been both president
and secretary-treasurer of the As-
sociation of American Law Schools.
He received his degree in law from
the University in 1907, has edited
"Cases on Property' 'and "Cases on
Bankruptcy," and is a contributor to
various law journals and reviews.
Fire Hazards
Removal Beaun
By Fraternities
ursley And Andrews Fail
To See Anything Wrong
With 'Unsafe' Houses
Many fraternities and sororities of
the 41 declared unsafe by the State
Fire Marshal Thursday, took action
yesterday to remove the fire hazards
in their buildings, but an even greater
number took no action at all and sev-
eral declared the state's charges are
unfounded.
"There isn't anything particularly
wrong with a single fraternity or sor-
ority in Ann Arbor," Chief Charles
J. Andrews of the Ann Arbor Fire
Department said yesterday when
questioned on the fire hazards dis-
covered by Assistant State Fire Mar-
shal Charles V. Lane in his investiga-
tion here.
Much the same sentiment was ex-
pressed by Dean of Studtnts Joseph
A. Bursley, who declared that literal
interpretation of the law would re-
sult in many houses being closed, and
added that city authorities had al-
ways kept down any fire hazards.
Charges made against many fra-
ternity and sorority houses were that
there was an insufficcient number of
exits. Ropes are used to fulfill the
requirements of this rule and among
the houses which will have to put in
window ropes are Delta Gamma, Psi
Upsilon, and Collegiate Sorosis, ac-
cording to members of those houses
questioned yesterday.
Warning lights were found lacking
in several houses and also insufficient
lighting on stairways. Other frequent
shortcomings revealed through ques-
tioning the houses charged with fire
hazards by the state marshal were:
not enough fire extinguishers, wiring
under rugs, combustible waste baskets
Swingout Will
Start At 4:15
NextTuesday,
Procession Will Start In
Front Of Main Library
And March North
13 Senior Groups,
Band To Parade
Various Schools, Colleges1
To Wear Multi-Colored,
Tassels At Affair
Swingout will begin at 4:15 p.m.
Tuesday in front of the Main Library,
it was announced yesterday.
According to present plans the va-
rious colleges and schools will con-
gregate in the following places: 1
(1.) Literary college-on the diag-
onal between the Main Library and
the Engineering Arch.,
(2.) Engineering college-on the
diagonal between the Main LibraryI
and the Engineering Arch, directly
behind the literary college seniors.
(3.) Architecture college - on the;
diagonal between the Main Library
and the Engineering Arch, directly
behind the engineering college sen-
iors.
(4.) Education School seniors-
on the east-west walk directly north1
of the physiology and pharmacology
building.
Medical Seniors March
(5.) Medical school seniors - be-
tween the Main Library and Water-
man Gymnasium on the diagonal.
(6.) Nursing school - directly fol-
lowing the seniors of the medical
school.
(7.) Business administration school
-on the walk leading from the diag-
onal to the physiology and pharma-
cology building.
(8.) Forestry school-directly be-
hind the business administration
school seniors.
(9.) Law School-on the east-west
walk on the west side of the inter-
section in front of the. Main Library.
(10.) Pharmacology college - di-
rectly behind the Law School seniors.
11). Dental school-on the north-
south walk running in front of the
north wing of University Hall.
(12.) Music school-on the .diag-
onal between the Main Library and
Alumni Memorial Hall.
(13.) Graduate school on the
walk leading between the west en-
trance of the Main Library and the
diagonal.
Varsity Band Leads
Foster Campbell, '36E, said that the
procession would start toward State
St. on the diagonal, led by the Var-
sity Band. It will turn left on State
St. until it reaches the steus in front
of Angell Hall, where it will enter
the street. It will turn left at South
University Ave., left at East Univer-
sity Ave., and left at North Univer-
sity Ave.
It will enter the University drive-
way at North University Ave. and
Thayer St., proceed to the General
Library steps where the senior class
will form in a semi-circle, and be led
by the Varsity Band in the Senior
Sing.
The various schools and colleges
will be designated by the colors of the
tassels, which will be as follows:
The literary college, black; the en-
gineering college, yellow; architec-
tural college, red; education school,
blue: medical school, green; Law
School, purple; pharmacy college,
olive; dental school, lilac; business
administration school, white; forestry
school, russet; and music school, pink.
The maintenance of order was espe-
cially emphasized by Campbell yester-
day.
16 Students Given
$8,500 As Awards
IIn 1936 Hopwoods
Hayden Is Newest
Winner Of Sigma
Delta Chi Award
The 11th winnei of the Oil Can as
most loquacious lubricator of all Uni-
versity faculty men is Prof. Joseph R.
Hayden of the political science de-
partment, former vice-governor of the,
Philippine Islands.
His feat of presenting the same
speech on "The Changing Orient"
five times since his recent return from
the Far East was the notable achieve-
ment which was most influential in
his victory, Marshall D. Shulman,
president of Sigma Delta Chi, pro-<
fessional journalism fraternity, an-
nounced last night.
Recent winners of the Oil Can,
which has gained a significance notj
at all derogatory, are Prof. John L.
Brumm of the journalism department
in 1934, and Prof. James K. Pollock
of the political science department
last year.1
The award was made at the Key
Dance last night. Professor Hayden
was initiated into Druids, one of the
societies sponsoring the dance, this
week.
Drive For Old
Clothes To Aid
Children Starts
President Ruthven Offers
Help; Contributions May
Be L.eft In Union
A campaign to gather cast-off
clothing of University students and
faculty members for the benefit of 1
Detroit children who are kept from
school. for want of clothes, will begin
here today, it was announced yester-
day.
Although no campus organization
is supporting the campaign, princi-
pally because it is too late in the
year, President Alexander G. Ruth-
yen has assured the Detroit chapter
of the Volunteers of America, which
is conducting the campaign, that the,
University will lend its support.
Dr. Frank E. Robbins, assistant to
President Ruthven, has arranged that
students can leave their contributions
to the drive in the Union and Bar-
bour Gymnasium, where trucks of
the Volunteers of America will collect
them.
It is the plan of the Volunteers
that all clothes given shall be mended
and otherwise repaired during the
summer in order to be ready for the
use of Detroit children in the fall.
The organization has made the fol-
lowing suggestions to those who wish
to contribute to the campaign :
"1. Garments should be wrapped
in bundles
"2. Bundles should be tied or fas-
tened.
"3. Shoes and rubbers should be
tied together in pairs
"4. Sizes should be pinned or fas-
tened to the garments where possible.
"5. The larger sizes of trousers,
dresses, underwear and shoes are al-
ways in demand. No sizes are too
large."
Dobson, Hathaway Win
$1,500 Each In Fiction
And Poetry Divisions
Gies Gets Award
For Fourth Time
John Moore Takes Major
Poetry Prize Of $1,000
With 'AprilHarvest'
Major an~d minor awards stotaling
$8,500 were given to 16 students yes-
terday as prizes in the sixth annual
Jule and Avery Hopwood Awards
Contest.
A prize of $1,500 was given'in the
major fiction contest to Ruth Len-,
inger Dobson, Grad., Detroit, for her
novel "Straw in the Wind." Baxter
Hathaway, Grad., Kalamazoo, also
won $1,500 for winning entries in fic-
tion and poetry. He received $800 for
his novel "Little World," and $700 in
poetry for "The Last Days."
Dorothy Gies, '36, Ann Arbor, re-
ceived the third major fiction award
of $800 for her novel "Days of Thy
Youth." It was the fourth prize that
Miss Gies has received in the Hop-
wood Contests.
Wins $1,000 Prize
John E. Moore, '36, Kalamazoo, won
a prize of $1,000 in the major poetry
contest for his group of poems "April
Harvest."
Man Kuei Li, Grad., Canton, China,
was awarded a prize of $500 for two
entries in the drama and the essay.
Her group of essays was entitled "Es-
says on Chinese Literary Criticisms,"
and the play was entitled "The Grand
Garden."
Other winners in the major drama
contest were John B. Geisel, Grad.,
Grand Rapids, who won $400 for his
play "No Villain," and Wallace A.
Bacon, Grad., Detroit, who was award-
ed $500 for his group of plays, "To
Sleep Before Evening," "Strange Lo-
tus," and "The Mad Byrons."
Samuel Kliger, Grad., New York,
won $300 in the major essay contest
for his entry "The Holy Thorn." No
other prizes were awarded in this di-
vision.
Winners of $250 prizes in the minor
awards contest for drama were Ar-
thur A. Miller, '38, Brooklyn, and
James V. Doll, '36, Ann Arbor.
Harry R. Bethke, '36, Fort Atkinson,
Wis., and Ella Judith Miller, '36Ed.,
Latrobe, Pa., were awarded $250 for
prize-winning entries in the minor
essay contest..
Eight Winners In Minors
Winners of $250 minor awards in
fiction were F. Randall Jones, '38,
Washington, D.C., and Alfred H. Lov-
ell, Jr., '38, Ann Arbor.
Elizabeth Allen, '36, Ann Arbor, and
Robert C. B. Campbell, '36, Royal Oak,
won $250 prizes in the minor poetry
contest.
Judges in the drama contest were
Alexander Dean, Edith J. R. Isaacs
and Alfred Kreymborg. E. L. Master,
Harriet Monroe and Allen Tate judged
the entries in poetry.
Judges in fiction were Robert P.
Tristram Coffin, Martha Ostenso and
T. S. Stribling. In the field of the
essay the judges were May Lamber-
ton Becker, Mary M. Colum and H.
L. Mencken.
Names of the winners were an-
nounced in the Union ballroom by
Prof. Roy W. Cowden, director of
the Hopwood Awards. Prof. Louis A.
Strauss, chairman of the English de-
partment, was chairman at the meet-
ing.
65 contestants entered manuscripts
in the contest, many sen ing more
than one.
No Hopwood lecture was given be-
cause Christopher Morley, author and
columnist, who was originally sched-
f uled to speak, was forced to cancel
his engagement as a result of illness.
Because of the late date, no substi-
tute was secured.
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Black Legion Causes Shortage
Of Detroit Police, Journalists
By FRED WARNER NEAL
DETROIT, May 29. - (Special to'
The Daily)-You can't even find a
policeman or a newspaperman in De-
troit these days. And the reason, they
tell you, is the Black Legion.
Every single policeman not required
on duty elsewhere, according to
Police Commissioner Heinrich Pick-
ert, is helping trace down the hooded,
secret cult, the exposing of which
has had the entire nation agog. And j
the same thing is true about his dep-
uties.
As for newspapermen, you only have
to look at the front pages, and the
inside pages too, for that matter, of
the Detroit dailies, if you think very
many of them are writing much else
fh P Riair Loeinn conv .One nho-
Legion news. And the lengths to
which a reporter won't go to get such
news just aren't worth speaking
about. A Detroit Times reporter,
Prosecutor D u n c a n C. McCrea
charges, offered a man $250 to state
that the prosecutor is a Legion mem-
ber. He plans to sue the Hearst
paper, he maintains.
The women's angle, whatever that
is, has been hit by all the sob sisters
in the city. And while the situation
is not exactly"a newspaperman's holi-
day, from the point of view of work,
it is making them all happy.
But the police are inclined to
grumble about it. They don't see, as
a sergeant at the Commissioner's of-
fice put it, why the heck they should
have to follow all sorts of crazy leads
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Learning In BlankSpots Of U. S.
By WILLIAM SHACKLETON S work for engineers will be found in
Blank spots on the map of the the accurate measurement of cliff
United States contaln a wealth of dwellings with the object of preparing
potential scientific knowledge, Dr. scaled drawings for the national rec-
Carl E. Guthe, director of the Uni- ords.
versity Museums, indicated yesterday. Physical geographers will have op-
Recently appointed a member of a portunity to study rock weathering
committee to determine the qualifica- from wind, stand-storms, frost and
tions of individuals participating in rain, and the development of natura
an expedition to the Navajo country bridges, which are plentiful in the
of northern Arizona and southeast- region.
ern Utah, Dr. Guthe detailed some of The problems which sedimentary
the more immediate objectives of this deposits always raise - where did the
enterprise as a suggestion of the ex- sand and clay making up the rock ma
tent and type of work which scientific terial come from, and what informa
progress requires. These programs. of tion about prehistoric life do th
study of the area, some 3,000 square rocks contain will be very much in th
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No Issue Of The Daily
To Appear Tomorrow
Classes in all colleges of the
University will not be held today
Nbecause of the Memorial day holi-
day. However, final examinations
for freshmen and senior lawyers
will be given.