The We'aiher Generally fair today and to- morrow; slowly rising temper- ature. L 4ilt Aof jr4t an 4hp Editorials Two Wrong Arguments ... Europe Vs. America ... VOL. XLVI No. 174 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, MAY 30, 1936 PRICE 5 CENTS --M-- -- ,..,. 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. I 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 i 1 '! f j I 1 t ,i s s c i t c t e g , 7 ; Guthe Tells Of Latent Scientific 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 3 l e e e e 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.