The Weather Today unsettled; probable snow; moderate to fresh winds. LI E A6F 41P of - r .i4t 4t g Datitj Editorials The Inaugural Address ... Borrowed Time... VOL. XLVII No. 86 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JAN 22, 1937 PRICE FIVE CENTS Strikers, GM At Stalemate; Next Move .Up To Roosevelt Sloan Leaves Washington; Lewis Says It Is Up To President ToHelp Chrysler Company Closes Four Plants WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.-(A)- General Motors management and labor union officials directing the strike in the company's plant tonight virtually left up to the President the next governmental move for peace. Alfred P, Sloan, Jr., company pres- ident, told reporters tonight that he was leaving the capital, where labor department officials had sought to in- duce both sides to negotiate for settle- ment of the strike. He said, however, that "any time the President sends for us, we'll be there." 'No Halfbaked Compromise' A few hours earlier, John L. Lewis, generalissimo of the strike, told re- porters that there would be "no half- baked compromise," then when asked if it was time for President Roosevelt to intervene, said: "That's up to the President-but labor intervened for him." (Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers as well as advocate of industrial unionization, gave Mr. Roosevelt both moral and financial support during the presidential cam- paign.) Sloan, in a press conference, indi- cated that so far as he was concerned, efforts by Secretary Perkins to bring the two sides into negotiations were off. Willing To Return "I don't think at the moment any- thing further could be accomplished is Washington," he said, but later added company officials would be glad to return to Washg tomorrow if Mr. Roosevelt requested it. When asked to what General Mo- tors particularly objected in Lewis' statement, Sloan made an answer, and then withdrew it as "off the rec- ord." John 'Thomas Smith, company counsel, then said that "it was plain from Mr. Lewis' statement it was im- possible to get the men out of the seized plants." DETROIT, Jan. 21.--AP)-Despite prospective settlement of glass indus- try strikes, the shortage of that prod- uct affected motor car manufactur- ing lines tonight. Chrysler corporation closed the De- troit plants of its four divisions-Ply- mouth, De Soto, Dodge and Chrysler -until Monday, announcing that present sources were unable to supply sufficient glass to meet requirements of the five-day production week that has been in effect since Jan. 1. Ap- proximately 50,000 workers were af- fected. General Motors Corporation, its production paralyzed by strikes in a number of plants and by material shortages, issued a claim late today that 110,262 employes, representing 79 per cent of the total employment in 43 of its automotive plants, have protested against the interruption of operations, Bishop's Death Makes Coughin Status Doubtful DETROIT, Jan. 21. - UP) - The death of the most Rev. Michael J. Gallagher, staunch defender of Fr. Charles E. Coughlin in several con- troversies, made uncertain tonight the radio priest's future. As plans were made for Bishop Gallagher's funeral Tuesday, many church leaders speculated whether Father Coughlin's activities outside the church would be affected by the appointment of a new bishop, who governs all priests in the Catholic diocese of Detroit. Father Coughlin, who announced after the November 3 election that he was quitting his radio talks, has inquired in New York about obtain- ing Sunday radio time. Whether Bishop Gallagher's death would change these plans could not be learned. Bishop Gallagher recently urged Father Coughlin to resume his speeches, and, in one of his last public statements, said: "I hope the people call him back to the air where he belongs." Father Coughlin's entrance into Increased Sedatives Given Holy Father -Associated Press Photo POPE PIUS XI * * Pope Takes Turn For Worse; Heart Is Weakening Rapidly VATICAN CITY, Jan, 21._-(W)- Pope Pius was given increased quan- Federal Survey tities of sedatives tonight to fortify his weakened heart against great o Bir suffering, persons close to the Holy Lees si .o ad A slight fever was reported to have In Relief Load developed. There was a noticeable "turn for the worse" during the day, Vatican sources said.Diiu onO 30 erC t New pains he called "atrocious" af- Diminution Of 30 Per Cent fected the Pope's swollen right leg Is Shown; Ten Billions and added to difficulties of blood cir- SEiit Since 193 culation. The newspaper Osservatore Romano WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.-(A')- stated 300 persons in Monte Solaro, The nation's relief load has dropped Italy, offered the Lord "one day of nearly 30 per cent from the peak of their lives for prolongation of the me ta 5,300,n0 fmile and precious life of the supreme Pon- sge psn5,300,00anuay 1935.and tiff," a day spent entirely in prayer. This was disclosed today in a new The Po remained in bedruntil federal survey compiled by Emerson late afternoon when he was trans- Ross and T. E_ Whiting, statistical ferred to the new wheeled divan de- experts in the works progress admin- signed to keep his swollen legs hor- istration. izontal andat the same time to per- Ten Billion Spent mit his Holiness to sit erect enough Simultaneously, treasury figures to aid his labored breathing. !ndicated. that since 1932 about ten The Holy Father was propped up billion dollars of federal funds has among cushions and a short white been spent under the heading "re- cloak was thrown around his shoul- covery and relief." ders to protect him against draughts. The Ross survey showed that the While still in bed, the Pontiff heard "net number of relief persons" in the mass and attended to the curtailed peak month of January two years ago routine permitted him. was about 16 per cent of the total population. His latest adjustments Civilians Get.otice carried the statistics to September of last year, when close to 3,800,000 To Leave Ma r families and single personsywere re- ceiving federal relief money. This was about 11 per cent of the pop- MADRID, Jan. 21. -/P)-Defense ulation. authorities tonight gave the civil 3,000 00 raw Relief population 72 hours to evacuate '' w Madrid, permitting only those en- Isolated figures compiled by the gaged in combat or public office to Works Progress Administration re- remain. flect a further downward trend since Those refusing to leave, the evac- then and indicate that perhaps less uation committee announced, "will than 3,000,000 family heads and in- be taken from their homes by desig- div ufeeral reiedra g checks nated authorities and removed." fo eea eifpywnos ase. le The WPA has estimated that the Citizens were ordered oa assemble a ge relief recipient probably at Garcia De Paredes street, desig- shares his income with three oilier nated the center of evacuation ad- persons On that basis, between 20,- ministration. To protect unoccupied 000,000 and 21,000,000 persons were homes against vandalism, commun- "on relief" at the peak, and less than ists urged authorities to place a spe- 12,000,000 now are dependent on fed- cial watch. cral emergency spending. As the defense junta pushed its As for the cost of relief, the federal evacuation plans, Madrid residents expenditures began with $300;000,000 watched a spectacular aerial "dog delivered to the states by the Recon- fight" under cover of a thick mist structidn Corporation in 1932: The that gave them relief from the fascist :.ext year the civil works program shelling. took $802,000,000. Stanton Refutes Wrigl, Says Turks Do Have A Dictatorship Carillon Bells ToBe Included On Broadcast Tests Prove Successful; Director Praises The Cast For Cooperation Demand For Tickets Indicates Full House The Charles Baird carillon will be included in the Pontiac Varsity hour broadcast tonight, it was definitely decided yesterday. After tests of the bells through the microphones and wiring set up by the technicians from the National Broadcasting Co., had been conduct- ed yesterday it was found that the carillon could be picked up by the microphone system sufficiently well to be broadcast. The piling up of tones caused by the continuing res- onance of the bells after the note has been struck, audible to those in the tower and caught by the micro- phone will not interfere with the successful broadcast of the carillon. May Get Too Close To Bells The main trouble in broadcasting carillon music, Marvin Eichorst, NBC technician from Chicago said yes- terday, will be due to getting too close to the bells, which will cause dis- tortion and improper balance be- tween the bells with greater volume and those with less volume. Tickets for the broadcasts went fast, according to Prof. Waldo M. Ab- bott. The last of the 5500 tickets printed for the broadcast were given out yesterday, and a full house for the broadcast was assured. For this reason, 'those holding tickets are urged by Albert G. Miller, director of the program to be at Hill Audi- torium early, both to get seats and prevent confusion. The doors will be closed at 10:15 p.m. and all must be seated before the program begins. There will be no standing room, he says. Rehearsal Satisfactory- Mr. Miller spoke o yesterday's re- hearsal which took place on the stage of Hill Auditorium over the regular microphone hook-up, as being highly satisfactory. He expressed his pleas- ure at the manner in which the stu- dents having parts in the sketches played their parts. Among the longer sketches is one which he has built up to fit imitative abilities of Allen Braun and Peter Gerded, who do imitations of Walter Winchell and Bob Burns. Others in the group of campus anecdotes in- clude a skit of two students who are trying to think of a good way to 'cut' a lecture, and one of a coy co-ed who handed in the wrong paper to her professor. As the rehearsal ended for the day Mr. Miller was pleased with the pros- pects for tonight's broadcast. "This," he said, "should be as fine a show as I have ever helped produce, and will be, if I continue to receive today the same fine co-operation as I have received from the students who helped write the script and the fac- ulty, especially, Dr. Frank Robbins." Earhart Deeds 18 Acre Tract To Park Board Announcement of the gift of an 18-acre tract of land along the Huron' River by Harry B. Earhart was made yesterday by the city board of park commissions. The land is a section suitable for development into a park that the city had wished to acquire. It comprises a wooded area bounded by the Huron River and Fleming Creek, and is de- sirable for its undeveloped scenic beauty. The donor, Harry B. Earhart, is the retired president of the White Star Refining Co., of Ann Arbor and De- troit. On learning that the city wished to acquire the land he bought it from the Cadillac Sand and Gravel Co. of whose land it was a part, and presented it to the city Covered with trees and shrubbery in which are included sugar maple, coffee, ash, maple, three kinds of oak and many fine shrub specimens, the land is to be the first part of a proposed system of parks, the board of park commissioners revealed yes- terday. Adjacent to a 12-acre sec- tion of land which alone stands be- tween 72 acres of land along ,the Huron, which the Michigan Central Railroad Co., has given the city per- mission to use as a park, the land is the keystone in the system. Plans for developing the land with the aid1 of the National Park srvice. John'Held, Jr., famous artist and cartoonist, who will do the masterj of ceremonying for the new NBC network program, the "Pontiac Varsity Show" which goes on the air waves tonight from Hill Audi- torium. Following Michigan the Varsity Show will come from Chi- cago University; Ohio State; Co- lumbia and the University of Penn- sylvania. Nazi Doctrine Unlike Jewish, Heller. asserts' 'Chosen People' Concept Does Not Imply Racial Superiority, He Says By FRED WARNER NEAL Jews' religious concept depicting themselves as the "chosen people" has no resemblance to the Nazi theory of racial supremacy, Rabbi Bernard Heller, director of the Hillel Founda- tion, said yesterday. Dr. Heller spoke in answe to a let- ter in The Daily Jan. 13, which com- pared this aspect of Hebrew philos- ophy to the idea advanced by Adolf Hitler that "pure Aryans" are su- perior to members of any other 'race, Jews in particular. Chosen People "The doctrine of the selection of the people of Israel as especially chosen by Jehovah,'' Dr. Heller said, "has no connection whatsoever with any supposition of racial superiority or moral excellence of Jews or. He- brews. The legends of most of the peoples of antiquity are replete with stories which make its heroes and founders lineal descendants of their gods. Such stories aie intended to prove; the racial superioi'ity of that stock. Israel is a rare exception. "There is not the slightest hint in all the stories of Genesis or in any of the subsequent myths of the Tal- mud (a body of Jewish law)," he declared, "to indicate the biologic connection of Abraham, father of Israel, or Moses, founder of Judaism, with Jehovah." Task A Mission Jews, Dr. Heller explained, regard themselves as "chosen" solely because of the presen'e within their midst "of a spiritually unique literature and philosophy and because such is the exposition of what they feel is their task and mission in the world. It is a purely religious concept. "The Hebrew race," he pointed out, "ages ago found itself with a mono- theistic religion, involving moral ob- ligations. Its religious laws, con- tinually expanding and growing (Continued on Page 2) *-O Somlinson Says Latin America Likes Roosevelt By WILLIAM SPALLER President Roosevelt could be presi- dent of any of the 20 Latin-American countries and by a larger majority than he received in the November election, Edward Tomlinson, writer and lecturer on Latin-American af- fairs, said yesterday afternoon be- fore his address in Hill Auditorium.' Mr. Tomlinson, who presented a color motion picture, "Haitian Ad- venture," last night in the auditorium under the auspices of the Oratorical Association, said, that the President is the most popular person in any of the southern nations since his ap- pearance in December at Buenos Aires to speak at the Pan-American Peace Conference. His popularity is due to the fact that he is the greatest example of democracy in the world, he said. Meeting Of Good Will Mr. Tomlinson was in charge of the broadcasting of the peace conference for themNational Broadcasting Co., and termed the meeting a "demon- stration of good-will and friendliness unsurpassed." The actual accom- plishment of the conference, he said, was strengthening of the machinery of peace and of mutual relations be- tween the 21 countries represented. He outlined the four major achievements of the conference. These were the provisions for non- intervention in the affairs of another country; obligatory consultation to avoid war; neutrality in case war should break out (including the pre- vention of the sale of war munitions), and the creation of an educational convention. Under this latter ar- rangement the United States will send two graduate students and one professor to each of the Latin-Ameri- can countries every year and they will do likewise. Good School System One of the accomplishments of the American occupation, he said, was the system of school's which was in- troduced, "Every town now has at least one school, and they are packed and jammed with children," he said. "The death rate among infants is the smallest of any peasant country, and consequently the island is full of children." The mulattos are the aristocracy of the island, he explained. They own the industries in which work the black people, the direct descendants of the first slaves brought to the Americas. "The black people of Hait," he said, "are the kindest, most-gracious, and the hardest work- ing people I have met anywhere." To Raise Operetta Curtain At 8 P.M. Tonight's curtain for "The Yeo- men of the Guard," Gilbert and Sul- livan opera at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre, will be raised promptly at 8 p.m., it was reemphasized yester- day, to avoid conflict with the na- tional broadcast from Ann Arbor at 10:30 p.m. Ohio Town Four Hours To Save Lives Rain, Snow Raising Turbulent Streams Red Cross, Relief Agents Rush Food, Clothing, Tents To Homeless BULLETIN CINCINNATI, Jan. 21.-()-The Norfolk & Western Railroad aban- doned service in and out of Cincinnati tonight when floods east of the city washed out tracks at Clear Creek, just beyond a bridge crossing the Little Miami River. Tracks at that point were under 36 inches of water, line officials said. Service on other roads was im- paired. PORTSMOUTH, O., Jan. 21.-(P)- Screeching sirens and roaring factory whistles at 11 o'clock tonight gave citizens "of Portsmouth four hours to abandon the low-lying business district before sewers are opened to let in the muddy Ohio River flood waters at 3 a.m. FLOOD TOWNS AT A GLANCE (By The Associated Press) CINCINNATI - Twenty thousand homeless along Ohio River. City cal culated losses at $1,000,000, rising riv- er expected to crest at 68 feet, 16 feet above flood stage.- ' Newport, Ky.-Fifty city blocks submerged. Hazelton, Ind.--White River surged through homes and buildings resi- dents had evacuated before a levee collapsed. Golconda,. 11.-Water from ' hio River ran eight feet deep down front street.- Point Pleasant, W. Va.-Flood wa- ters seeped through every business house in town. Boats rescued fam- ihies marooned on second floors. Pittsburgh-Six foot rise over 25 foot flood stage at junction of the Monongahela, Allegheny and Ohio expected. Birds Point, Mo.-Fifteen hundred residents of Birds Point-New Madrid area ordered to evacuate. Portsmouth, Ohio-Thirteen thou- sand of community's 43,000 residents prepare to abandon homes. (By The Associated Press) Nearly 80,000 persons were unof- ficially estimated homeless tonight in the flooded areas of the Midwest. Meantime, rain or snow contin d to fall over a wide section, resulting in predictions by meteorologists that most of the rivers, already running above flood stages, would reach even higher levels. Red Coss and relief agencies rushed food, clothing and tents and blankets into every zone that called for as- sistance. Ten states had reported heavy damage. Populations Move Out The entire populations of Law- renceburg and Aurora, Ind., were moving out. Flood waters of the Ohio River threatened to crush newly built levees. Calls for help were sent to Indianapolis. A special relief train was being made up to take supplies to the stricken areas. Three Indiana towns and five in Kentucky were without electricity when flood waters of the Ohio River cut off the electric light and power company at Troy, Ind. At Portsmouth, 0,a boulder esti- mated to weigh six tons, loosened by rains, rolled 150 feet down a hill and crashed into an apartment house. One woman was injured. The lives of eight families were endangered. At some points business and indus- try was at a standstill. Household- ers and merchants moved their goods to upper floors. Trucks hauled val- uable stock to the hills. Transporta- tion was crippled. Seek Shelter Bedraggled refugees - many of them had seen icy waters creep to the eaves of their dwellings-sought shelter in schools, box cars, tents, halls and public buildings. The overburdened Ohio swelled steadily from Pittsburgh to Cairo, Ill. But the worst, meteorologists warned, was yet to come. More rain, turning +A v"1 i., -,-,.a,,n.nra fall Wm Sirens Give Citizens Master Of Ceremonies Midwestern Flood Covers Ten States; 80,000 Flee Homes Of Public's Tacit Support Helps Uniois Cause, Say sMcFarlan By SAUL ROBERT KLEIMAN Turkey is a dictatorship, her full parlimentary government and state- ments to the contrary notwithstand- ing, Prof. John W. Stanton of the history department declared yester- day. Professor Stanton's statement was made in response to a denial that Mustapha Kemal Ataturk was a dic- tator made Tuesday by Dr. Walter Livingston Wright, president of Istanbul American College, here for a lecture. "Turkey is a backward country," Professor Stanton said, "and in a backward country the army is a de- cisive factor." He went on to say that Ataturk controls the army, and +-,n _ _ fl oa" t-f- _ r nl trun blance between the Turkish dictator- ship and the Nazi and Fascist is too great to be ignored. He pointed out that although in theory there is an opposition party in Turkey, in practice there is but one party, Kemal's Popular party; and although formally there is a parlia- mentary government, to all practical purposes none exists. Turkey since 1922 hassbeen taking the same nationalistic steps toward cultural and economic self-sufficiency that so characterizes Italy and Ger- many, Professor Stanton indicated. The fixing of maximum retail and wholesale prices, stringent exchange contr'ol, and the exclusion of foreign goods in the interest of autarchy, as well as the building up of military By WILLIAM SIACKELTON The union strength in the history- making General Motors strike arises not so much from the sit-downers' occupancy of important plants as from the rather tacit support of pub- lic opinion, Prof. Harold J. McFarlan of the geodesy department asserted yesterday. Not only does the United Automo- bile Workers union possess more members than is admitted by the company executives, Professor Mc- Farlan declared, but also the balance of the General Motors workers are in sympathy with the union men. Even if the union included only 15 per cent of the workers among its members, General Motors would hardly hesitate to resume operations ber of union buttons displayed on the street. The automobile buying public also exerts some influence upon General Motors' attitude towards the strikers, he stated. Fear of possible loss of markets deters the company from ejecting the sit-down strikers, be- cause this action might cause public indignation, he said. A large body of workers in other industries are likewise watching the strike with sympathy, he added. These workers, to whom the Commit- tee for Industrial Organization, has appealed, or who see in the stand of the U.A.W. a situation analogous to their own, are important, in Pro- fessor McFarlan's opinion, in direct- ing the public's attitude towards the strike.