The Weather Cloudy, light snow East por- tion today, warmer; tomorrow unsettled, rain or snow prob- able, colder West and North. L £fir tigrni tii Editorials A Penalty That Is Too Severe . . . Success To The Student Forum . . . VOL. XLVI No. 110 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1936 PRICE FIVE CENTS Rapid Spread Of Strike Hits Many Hotels One Company Signs Pact With Strikers Granting Shop Clause Picketing Continues With Few Disorders Restaurant, Hotel Unions To Go On Picket Line In Support Of Strike NEW YORK, March 6. - () - Building service strikers laid siege to the midtown hotel sector today and by nightfall claimed approximately 8,000 recruits. In nearly every case, the manage- ments disputed the union's figures, declaring that while some elevator operators, maids and housemen had walked out there was no serious dis- ruption of service. Strike headquarters announced that 62 hotels were affected and six others had capitulated to union de- mands. Little Disorder Picketing went forward with little disorder in front of the approximate- ly 1,820 other buildings that have come under strike rule since the walkout began Sunday. Two other developments heartened the strikers on their first payless payday." 'An agreement ending the strike in 45 buildings, including the Fifth Ave- nue Hotel, was signed by the Prudence Co. The pact included a preferential shop clause, one of the chief demands of the union. Paul N. Coulcher, secretary-treas- urer of the Hotel and Restaurant Employee's Union, announced that 5,000 kitchen and dining room work- ers in 100 hotels would go on the picket line in support of the service workers' strike. Newark Strike Seen lhe ywaout thxeatene lto spread to Newark next week. Robert Ever- itt, New Jersey representative of the Building Service Union, said that be- 4, tween 300 and 350 workers in 40 downtown Newark office buildings would strike Monday unless they re- ceived wage increases. Manhattan strike leaders pressed their efforts to tie up service in the Washington Heights and Harlem areas. The union asserted that 2,500 workers had quit in 600 Harlem build- ings. Among the hotels affected were the forty-two-story Barbiszon-Plaza, the fashionable Hotel Weyland, the Dind- sor, Wyndham, Peter Stuyvesant, Al- den and Murray. Chris Houlihan, head of the union's hotel division, said that employees might be called out of the Waldorf- Astoria tomorrow. Move To Oust Haber As Head Of Relief Fails LANSING, March 6.-Dr. Wil- liam Haber, heckled State Relief Ad- ministrator, came out a definite win- ner today in his controversy with Rep. Frank E. Hook as the State Demo- cratic Committee refused to back their congressman's demand that the relief head be ousted. Two definite attempts to drive Dr. Haber from his office were stopped when the committee failed to back motions made by two of its members. First, the resolution of Mrs. Frank Jamieson of Ontonagon, to endorse the efforts of Representative Hook, Upper Peninsula Democrat, to ousi Dr. Haber, was tabled after the back- ing of Rush Culver of Marquette, chief complaintant against the re- lief director, received insufficieni support. After Patrick H. Kane of Port Huron had forced the chairman, Mrs. Christie J. McDonld of Ypsilanti, vice-president of the committee, to agree that the committee, called to decide the time and place of the state convention, could not digress fron its purpose, Culver proposed Dr. Ha- ber's removal. This motion did not receive a second. Trainer Of Louis Aicquitted By Jnry Teachers' Union Here Studies Its Relation To Organized Labor Affiliation With A.F. Of L.a Rests On Belief In Unitya Of All Wage Earners : By FRED WARNER NEAL a The University teachers' union, af- filiated with the American Federa- tion of Labor, has begun a study oft its relation to organized labor in gen-e eral, its president, Prof. John F. Shep- ard of the psychology department,' announced yesterday. Formed nearly two years ago, thisL is the first public statement of the details and program of the Ann Arbor local of the American Federation of Teachers - the union's official name.t Believing that "the logic of the labor movement in America is toward industrial unions," Professor Shepard declared in an interview that the localt Union's affiliation with the A.F. of L. is based on the idea that "all those who earn a living through salary or wage, rather than through invest- ment, should ally themselves with labor." Teachers are laborers as much as any other wage earners, Professor Shepard emphasized, and it is because of that fact that the Federation of Teachers was formed in the first place. Union Has 40 Members The local union has 40 members, approximately two-thirds of whom are members of the University fac- ulty, and the remaining third Ann Arbor public school teachers. The former head of the union here, Prof. Wesley H. Maurer of the journalism department, is now vice president of the state organization. The union here meets once a month during the academic year. At its March meeting recently, the union decided to study the movement of organized labor in the United States Hitler Orders Locarno Pact Parley Today Summons Special Of Reichstag To Attitude Toward Session Discuss Treaty BERLIN, March 6. - (AP) - Adolff Hitler tonight called a special sessiont of the Reichstag for tomorrow tor consider "administration explana-t tions" expected to deal with the Ger-t man attitude on the Locarno treaty. The Reichstag session will be broad-t cast throughout the nation. Diplomatic quarters expressed' firm belief that the Reichsfuehrert may announce a moderate course,t neither completely withdrawing fromN the Locarno pact nor immediately oc- cupying the demilitarized Rhineland. Some .diplomats declared Hitlerl might even offer to return to the League of Nations if the demilitarized# zone were to be abolished and under certain other conditions. It was considered almost certain, however, that the Nazi leader would declare that France had violated the Locarno Treaty through its action in ratifying the Franco-Soviet military I assistance pact. Another possibility was that an in- vitation might be extended to Great Britain, France, Belgium and Italy; for a new conference to review the_ existing situation under the provision of the treaty guaranteeing mutual security in Western Europe. Dr. Long And Son Recovering Rapidlyj GRAND RAPIDS, March 6. -(Spe- cial) - Dr. Dwight C. Long, of the University history department, and his son, Robert, are "definitely out of1 danger," doctors of the Blodgett Hos- pital announced here last night. D1. Long, sitting up today, wrote to his wife in Ann Arbor, despite the fact that he is suffering from a sprained right wrist. Although Rob- ert's condition was not so good, he, was understood to be well on the road to recovery from his severe head in- juries. Plans Announced For Dental Smoker Plans for the second all-dental smoker of the Dental School, to be held next Tuesday at the Union, were announced yesterday by the commit- tee of seniors in charge of arrange- ments for the smoker. T henvova xiil beouned with and its relations to it, Professor Shep- rd explained. Recently through its state organi- ation, the teachers' union sponsored r tenure bill in the state legislature I nd is now concerned with a teachers' ension proposal. See Danger in Teachers' Oaths The union is "more or less opposed o the Michigan law requiring teach- rs' oaths," Professor Shepard as- erted,,"because, although there may e objection to it on its face, there is i great danger that it may be mis- ised. Anyway, it is a discrimination gainst teachers. I don't see why I hey should be required to take an ath any more than any other por- ion of the public." Not only the local organization, but he National Federation is growing, Professor Shepard believes. Pointing B o local unions at Yale, Harvard, andF (Continued on Page 2)a Probe Of WPAb Activity Asked P By Republicans t Buchanan Says That Reliefd Funds Must Be LimitedF To $1,000,000,000 b WASHINGTON, March 6. - (R') - A Republican demand for a Senateo investigation of the Administration's; work relief activities was drafted to-c day in one corner of the Capitol,a while from another came a Demo- t cratic demand that any new relief appropriation be limited to $1,000,- 000,000. On still another front Senators Rush D. Holt, youthful West Vir-v ginia Democrat, asserted that hek would vote for a Senate investigation if WPA "white-washed" his chargest that political considerations have in-C fluenced the West Virginia work re-f lief administration.i Holt made his statement after dis-t closing that his office desk had been jimmied during his recent absence toF conduct his personal investigation ofe West Virginia WPA activities. e Police and fingerprint experts, Holtc said, had examined the desk, bute found no fingerprints. Nothing wast taken, he added, because he had re-a moved all valuable papers. Holt said that he had a mass of new evidenceI to back his charges.c The disclosure was made elsewheret that Senator Frederick Steiwer, Ore-r gon Republican, had drafted a reso- t lution calling for a full Senate inves- tigation of all expenditures underr the $4,800,000,000 work relief fundc voted by Congress last year. ' On the opposite side of the Capitol, c Chairman James P. Buchanan, Texas I Democrat, of the House Appropria- I ions Committee, asserted that new funds for relief should be limited to $1,000,000,000. High School Strike; Has California City Cutting Paper Dolls ALAMEDA, Calif., March 6.-(P) -Two "armies" guarded Alameda's City Hall today as the third Clay of a1 high school student strike churned up conflicting rumors. Some said citizens planned to seize the city government, others that Mayor Hans W. Roebke was plotting) a coup against the police department.] Reports that Roebke planned to de-a clare an emergency caused District Attorney Earl Warren to warn the Mayor it might "result in bloodshed." Warren told Roebke that the "parties responsible" for such action would be held "accountable to the law." In another section of the City Hall,j Police and Fire Commissioner Lee Cavanaugh, an elective officer not ordinarily subject to the Mayor's or- ders, and Police Chief Vern Smith marshalled extra policemen with shotguns and tear gas bombs. The weapons later disappeared. Meanwhile the high school strug- gled along with two "superintend- ents" and no more than 600 students attending classes. Refuse 19 Special Initiation Requests One petition to hold a special in- itiation was granted to a fraternity Great BritainI Protests Raid ] On Red Cross talians Kill Four British E Subjects During Attack On Ambulance Unit Ethiopians Expect I Raid On Capital Fascists Charge Red Cross P Used As Arm Of Defense And Offense LONDON, March 6.- (/P) --Great Britain ordered its ambassador to Rome today to protest strongly t against the alleged bombing of a t British Red Cross unit in Ethiopia g by Italian planes.o Sir Eric Drummond, the British V ambassador, was instructed to urge a Premier Mussolini's government toe press an investigation of the attacko and to order his military leaders onc he war front to make certain such an incident did not occur again. t Official quarters were plainly in-t dignant at the bombing in which ac Red Cross identification flag, spreadf out on the ground, actually was hitI by a bomb, according to official Brit-I ish sources.I The action was taken on the basisc of a report by Sir Sidney Barton,I British minister to Ethiopia. Sir Sidney's information was based on advices received from Dr. Melley of the Red Cross unit. Four Reported Killed At Addis Ababa, the GovernmentI stated four British subjects, includ- ing Maj. Gen. G. A. Burgoyne, were killed.I Burgoyne, a sixty-one-year-oldl transport officer in the Ethiopian Red Cross organization, was moving back1 from Amba Alagi, recently taken by£ the Italians, to Quoram, 30 miles to the south. Women and children in Addisl Ababa were ordered to be ready to, evacuate the city Saturday in thet event of an air attack. An airplanef circled over the capital Friday andl escaped apparently unscathed fromI the fire of machine-guns and anti- aircraft guns. Details of an Italian protest to the League, Feb. 28, against what it charged was misuse of Red Cross em- blems by the Ethiopian Army were made public in Rome. The protest asserted that the Ethiopians had transformed Red Cross units "into a real and genuine arm for military defense and offense." It also de- clared that the Italian government had sworn statements from members of the Egyptian medical mission in Ethiopia that Italians, captured by Ethiopians, have been tortured to death. Bombing Unconfirmed A report from Dessye that an Italian airplane had bombed the headquarters of Crown Prince Asfa Wosan and that two Greeks were killed went unconfirmed. The government, denying Italy's claims of new victories in the north, said a battle was about to begin in the mountains near Amba Alagi. Em- peror Haile Selassie was believed by some to have reached the northern lines to lead a major fight, but there was no official confirmation of this. Premier Mussolini, an Italian spokesman at Geneva indicated, might answer the League's appeal for peace negotiations within the League's framework Saturday after a meeting of the Fascist Grand Coun- cil. Emperor Haile Selassie has ac- cented the plan unreservedly. 1 axing O Couzens Gifts IsReported. WASHINGTON, March 6. - (1P) - The Evening Star says that an effort is being made to collect Federal gift taxes from Senator James Couzens on $3,000,000 which he gave away, last year. The paper recalls that Couzens op- posed appointment of Guy T. Hel- vering, the present internal revenue commissioner, and recently charged that Walter J. Cummings, national Democratic treasurer, was receiving salaries of $90,000 a year from RFC borrowers. The gifts involved were said to be $2,500,000 to the Children's Fund of Detroit and $500,000 for an experi- mental low-cost housing project at Pontiae Purdue Here For Important Game Tonight Basketball Team To Close Season With Crucial Tilt Against Boilermakers Battle May Decide Big Ten Title Race Michigan Expects Height To Prove Advantageous l In Last Contest By RAYMOND A. GOODMAN Confident that they still have in hem one game of basketball better han any they have yet played, and good enough to knock Purdue out of the Big Ten title race, Michigan's Wolverines will take the floor tonight against "Piggy" Lambert's Boilermak- Michigan 30 1/3; Records -Associated Press Photo PREMIER KOKI HIROTA ers at Yost Field House before what officials estimate will be a record A crowd of 9,500. ArmIyCensure Tonight's game, which will close 7l' the Conference season for both quin- Creates Toio tets, looms up as the crucial game of the Big Ten race. If the Purdue C b ne*rii five drops this final tilt its tie with abine sis Indiana will be broken, giving the Hoosiers their first title since 1928. Purdue has won 10 games and lost 'Oiinous Tension' Reigns one while Indiana, its schedule com- As Negotiations Result pleted last Monday night, has won 11 and been defeated once. In Deadlock Five Michigaii seniors will be play-1 ing their last game. Capt. Chelso TOKIO, March 6.-(A!P)-The Tamagno, George Rudness, Earl threatened wrecking of Koki Hirota's Townsend, John Jablonski, and Dick attempts to form a Japanese Cabinet Evans all graduate at the end of the because of the Army's disapproval of semester. some of his selections created an om- Michigan will go into the game de- inous tension in Tokio tonight. pending on its vast superiority in Principal figures involved in the height to bestheadeciding factor efforts to organize a Government to against the Boilermakers' speed and succeed that shattered by Army ex- basket-eye. The Varsity averages tremists last week went to bed short- a fraction over six feet three inches ly before midnight with their negotia- while Lambert's starting five hardly tions still deadlocked. tops the six-foot mark. Despite the announced retirement However, it is the tremendous of five senior generals under a cloud height of Michigan's front line - the of indirect responsibility for the last Townsend brothers and John Gee -- weel's rebellion, the Army served that will prove the real handicap notice of its still tremendous power. to the Boilermakers. It was this Count " Juichi Terauchi, whom Hi- height that virtually monopolized the rota had selected as war minister, play against Illinois Monday night, withdrew under pressure from mili- never allowing the Illini to get con- tarists. The army men indicated trol of the ball long enough to score. that they would not allow anynother If this height can function tonight general to enter the Cabinet unless and keep Bob Kessler and his mates Hirota approved the military's de- out of the backboard play, observers mands. (Continued on Page 2) It was understood that the Army leaders disapproved the choice of Shigeru Yoshida for the foreign af- 3 Killedt In Gun fairs ministry. An indication that the Navy - J . which remained loyal during the re- ghwcentuprising - did not join the Army Es a pposing Hirota's choices was seen; Pr * n c e in the acceptance of the Navy port- folio by Admiral Osami Nagano. The Admiral reached Tokio today from SIOUX FALLS, S. Dak., March 6. the London Naval conference. - (P) - A hitch-hiking Kansas gun- er -n ftermath of the revolt, ma-- man who sought to relieve his broth- "o chanaes were made in Army lead~ er from the penitentiary, brought ersbi ip. Among them: Gen. Sadao death to three persons and wounds Arftki and Gen. Senjuro Hayashi ,o two others here today in one of ,,rare retired from active service. It he most sensational prison breaks of as'understood that Gen. Yoshiyuki the state. washima, war minister under Warden Eugene Reiley, 72, and Phil Premier Keisuke Okada, would retire. Ray, St. Paul desperado serving 30 years for bank robbery, were killed in Se a running gun fight with a posse. ote F teamarm Berlan Meisel of Webster, S. Dak., died in the hospital early tonight Purchasing Power from wounds suffered when he and his fiancee, Miss Frieda Rausch also NEW YORK, March 6. - W) - of Webster, were ordered from their Events since the Supreme Court de- car by fleeing convicts. clared the AAA unconstitutional have Miss Rausch was slightly wound- served to dispel any remaining fears ed. Claude Carrier, 18-year-old as to farm buying power this year, Kansan, who engineered the escape, says the National City Bank's monthly was critically wounded in the chase, survey of economic conditions issued and George Collins, a deputy sheriff, today. also suffered gunshot wounds. , "It is too early to express a gen- Meiso was shot over the heart and eral opinion as to the -ffectiveness Miss Rausch wounded in the face of the new program in controlling when the gunmen ordered them from crop acreages," it continued. "Under their car and took the machine in a the limitations laid down by the wild dash for freedom. Supreme Court, the government will Wolverines Lower Mile Relay Record Albritton, Beacham Lead Buckeyes, Each Setting New Indoor Marks By WILLIAM R. REED Individual performances rather than team competition had to satis- fy Michigan track fans last night as the Wolverines swamped Ohio State, 64 2/3 to 30 1/3, in their final dual meet of the indoor season, but those fans were not disappointed when three Field House records were brok- en, including the long-besieged mile relay mark. The Michigan victory extended through the sixth year an uninter- rupted series of dual meet wins in in- door competition. While Dave Albritton, the Buck- eye sophomore, and Chuck Beetham, backbone of the Ohio squad in the absence of Jesse Owens, established new marks in the high jump and quarter-mile respectively, it was the performance of the "remarkable re- lay team" from Michigan which cli- maxed the meet. I Last Field House Appearance Running together for the last time in Yost Field House, it was apparent from the manner in which Captain Frank Aikens left his blocks to start the race that a serious assault on the record of 3:23.7 was under way. De- spite a late bid by Dick Squire, Aikens passed the stick to Harvey Patton with a slight lead, and Patton prop- seeded to lengthen the lead over Don Blickle as the old mark began to tot- ter. Far ahead of the Buckeyes as Pat- ton gave the baton to Bob Osgood, it was no longer a match race with Ohio State's quartet but with the timers' clocks. Tremendous but ef- fortless strides took Osgood around his leg of the race and then Stan Birleson, coming back after a defeat in the 440, ran one of the fastest legs of his career, and not a person, in he Field House could express honest amazement when the final time was announced, 3:21.8, breaking the ex- isting mark by more than a second. Unofficial lap times for the four rUnners were Aikens, running from blocks, :51.1; Patton, :50.4; Osgood, :4: and Birleson, :49.9. R.. ord Broken A de tou the relay team s per- w,'rmance it was the two Buckeye s ars who provided the outstanding p" rfrmances of the meet. Albritton, who has already done 6 feet, 5 inches mrst year of competition, es- b me a w m vk of 6 feet, 4 7/8 t he had bested his opposi- hon at 6 feet, 2 inches without re- moving his sweat shirt. The former mark was made in the State A.A.U. meet last month at 6 feet, 3 5/8 inches by Roscoe Washington, Western State freshman. Charlie Beetham, Western Confer- ence outdoor champion in the half- mile, introduced himself to Michi- gan fans in a new capacity, and most successfully as he took down by a tenth second the 440-yard mark of :50.4 made last week by Malcolm Hicks of Indiana. Stan Birleson, of Michigan, failed in his final bid and lost to Beetham by a scant step. Fails To Place Beetham failed to place in the half- mile which followed the quarter and announced that he would enter but one event, the half-mile, in the Big Ten meet next week at Chicago. Showing its reserve strength to great effect against a Buckeye team depleted for the indoor season by in- eligibilities, the Wolverines took on*- two in six of ten events and for first time this year garnered susta&,- ing points in the field events. Michigan took first in the mile, 60- yard dash, high and low hurdles, two mile and half-mile besides the relay while the Buckeyes were winning in the pole vault and shot put in addi- tion to the quarter and high jump. Bob Osgood again proved the mainstay of the Michigan team with two firsts in the hurdles events and a leg on the relay team, although Mo Leads Tense Japan Ohio State' Traekmen Swamped Wins, 642/3. 3 Field House Are Broken F I ff L f f 7S 1 Entries In Poster Contest Due Today University students competing in the $50 poster contest sponsored by the M. L. Burton Memorial Tower Committee must submit their posters to the Bureau of Alumni Relations or the Alumni Association office by noon today, Wilfred B. Shaw, chairman of the University of Michigan Club's Art committee, said yesterday. Neither of the University alumni offices was able to estimate the num- ber of posters which will be entered in the contest. Any suitable posters, not be able to exert the same com- pulsion as under the AAA; in fact, the secretary of agriculture is not per- mitted to enter binding contracts with farmers to curtail their produc- tion. "Instead, cash inducements will be offered to farmers who adopt recom- mended soil conservation practices. The intent is the same, and the of- ficials hope the result will be the same." Colorado Throng Will Hear Hoover COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.,