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VOL. XLVII No. XLVII No. 91 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, JAN. 28, 1937
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Sr
Miss Perkins Asks
Power
To
Probe,
Arbitrate Strikes
Requests Congress To Act
Quickly; Sloan Denies
Secretary's Charges
40,000 Start Work
At Chevrolet Plants
Assembly Lines Still Idle
As Lack Of Bodies Cuts
Production Of Cars
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.-(WP)-
Secretary Perkins asked Congress
today for power to investigate the
causes of strikes and to recommend
the terms for their settlement.
Blocked in her efforts to bring to-
gether the General Motors Corpora-
tion and the striking United Auto-
mobile Workers for a peace confer-
ence, the labor department chief
asked House and Senate simultane-
ously to consider the legislation with
"the utmost haste."
About the same time General Mo-
tors posted on all plant bulletin
boards a statement signed by Alfred
P. Sloan, Jr., president, saying the
corporation would negotiate with the
Auto Workers Union as soon as sit-
down strikers evacuated the plants.
Denies Accusations
Sloan denied Miss Perkins' accu-
sation that the corporation had evad-
ed "moral responsibilities" in the
strike crisis.
"You know this is not true," he
added. "So why all these charges?
Simply because we refuse to nego-
tiate with a group that holds our
plants for ransom without regard to
law or justice."
What the strike leader, John L.
Lewis, demanded, Sloan said, was
"that we should turn you over, body
and soul, for exploitation."
Miss Perkins asked for the strike
legislation--in simultaneous letters
to Majority Leader Robinson in the
Senate and Speaker Bankhead of
the House.
DETROIT, Jan. 27.-(P)-Nearly
40,000 automotive workers anticipat-
ing their first pay check in three
weeks returned to their jobs in ten
Chevrolet plants of General Motors
Corporation today without disorder
or interference. Another 5,900, in
Michigan Fisher Body plants, follow
them tomorrow.
Pickets Absent
Picket lines of-the United Automo-
bile Workers of America, active out-
side some strike-closed plants of the
nation's biggest automobile producer,
were absent as theChevrolet em-
ployes returned to what M. E. Coyle,
general, manager, said probably would
be a minimum of two days' employ-
ment a week.
The resumption of operations in
the plants at Muncie and Indian-
apolis, Ind., and Detroit, Flint, Sag-
inaw and. Bay City, Mich., had no
effect on the continuing decline in+
car production of the industry. As-
sembly lines in a majority of Gen-
eral Motors plants remain idle be-
cause of lack of bodies ordinarily pro-
duced in Fisher plants where strikesI
have occurred.
Weekly Output Declines
The week's output in the industry;
was estimated by Automotive Daily,
News at 69,459 units, a decline of
several hundred from the previous
week. Chevrolet assemblies were
placed at about 2,000, but further
curtailment appeared likely with sus-
pension of Fisher body operations at
Buffalo, and a U.A.W.A. strike at
Oakland, Calif.
Floods, the Automotive News said,
halted operations in Ford plants in
Cincinnati and Louisville and a Chry-
sler (Plymouth) plant at Evansville,
Ind., adding, however, that receipt
of glass shipments was expected to
permit Chrysler to resume its normal!
five-day working week in the Detroit
area, after last week's curtailment
to a four-day basis.
Sit-down strikers in the Fisher No.'
2 plant at Flint watched from win-
dows as 1,000 workers filed into the
Chevrolet Motor plant across the
street. The only break in the silence
was the strikers' phonographs grind-
ing out union marches.
Calls Move Definite Step'
By STUART LOW
The General Motors back-to-work
movement which started yesterday is
a definite step in the direction of end-
ing the strike in the automobile in-
Examination Notice
Was Unauthorized
A notice in the Daily Official Bul-
letin yesterday, informing literary
college students that examination
schedules are obtainable at Room
four, University Hall, was unauthor-
ized by University officials, Dr. Frank
E. Robbins; assistant to the President
and editor of the D.O.B., said last
night.
The notice should not have been
contained in the D.O.B., and Dr. Rob-
bins said no examination schedules
are available.
All Daily Official Bulletin notices,
he warned, must be turned into his
office. 1017 Angell Hall. The Mich-
igan Daily cannot take notices for the
D.O.B., which is "official."
4 Union Men
Shot At During
TripTo Flint
Organizers Threatened By
Crowds; Fired At While
With Police
FLINT, Mich., Jan. 27.-(P)-Four
union organizers were hurt tonight
when the automobile which was
bringing them to Flint from Saginaw
after they had been threatened twice
by crowds was forced from a pave-
ment into a tree. Four shots were
fired at the car.
Saginaw police were returning the
six men to Flint after they had spent
a tempestuous afternoon and evening
at Bay City and Saginaw.
The Auto Worker organizers had
gone to Bay City from Flint to con-
fer with union officials in a hotel
there. During this session a crowd
of men broke into the room and ab-
ducted two of the organizers, John.
Mayo and Anthony Federoff.
They were taken to the edge of
Saginaw, where police of that city
took them away from the crowd and
game them protective custody in the
office of Police Chief Fred H. Genske.
While this was taking place, the
four other organizers had summoned
Bay City police to their hotel in that
city and asked for protection.
Frank Anderson, Bay City police
superintendent, escorted the four to'
Saginaw and they were reunited at
police headquarters there with their
two associates. Anderson returned to
Bay City.
500 Dental Alumnii
At Honiecomin"
More than 500 alumni of the
School of Dentistry returned yester-
day to Ann Arbor to attend the an-
nual dental homecoming.
The group met at 10:30 a.m. at the
school to witness clinical demonstra-
tions and hear talks given by mem-
bers of the school's faculty. At 12:30
p.m. the alumni went to the Union
for a luncheon meeting and heard
addresses by Prof. James K. Pollock
of the political science department,
Dr. Paul Jesserick of the dental
school, and T. Hawley Tapping, gen-
eral alumni secretary.
A short intermission followed the
meeting until the entire group met
in the main ballroom of he Union to
hear Dr. George Wood Clapp of New
York City, an alumnus
Tank Squad
Whips State
InDualMeet
Spartans Score Only One
First And Two Seconds
In 58-22 Defeat
Lower Relay Mark
In Exhibition Trial
By STEWART R. FITCH
The Michigan tankers won their
second dual meet of the season, 58-
22, against the Michian State team
last night in the Varsity pool. The
Wolverines annexed every first with
the exception of the 400-yard relay
in which they were disqualified by a.
bad start.
In addition to the scheduled events
of the meet, Coach Matt Mann sent
Tom Haynie, Jack Kasley and Walt
Tomski into the pool to attempt to
crack the A.A.U. 150-yard medley
relay record, of 1:21.8 which is held
by Princeton. The team came across
the line with a time of 1:19.4 which
bettered the record but will not be
claimed since Haynie got away a split
second before the gun.
State was completely overwhelmed'
by the superior swimming of Mich-
igan's National champions and
gained only two seconds in addition
to the one first by disqualification
and a second in the medley relay.
The Spartans gained these two sec-
ond places in the 50-yard free-style
and the quarter-mile swim.
The first event of the meet, the
300-yard medley relay found Mich-
igan well out in front leading by 40!
yards. The Varsity team consisting
of Fred Cody in the back-stroke, Jack
Kasley in the breast-stroke and Bob
Mowerson swimming free-style fin-
ished with a time of 3:00.4 which is
one-tenth of a second slower than,
the time in the Indiana meet,
In the 220-yard free-style Baker
Bryant and Co-Captain Frank Bar-
nard placed one-two. Bryant held
but a slight lead over Barnard over
the entire distance but both of the
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Glass Workers
Win Increase
As StrikeEnds,.
TOLEDO, O., Jan. 27.--()-The
Federation of Flat Glass Workers'
six-week strike against the Libbey-
Owens-Ford Glass Company, affect-
ing 7,100 employes in four cities, end-
ed today when the company granted
a blanket wage increase of eight cents
an hour.
Representatives of the Company
and the Federation, an affiliate of the
John L. Lewis Committee for Indus-
trial organization, signed a one-year
contract effective Feb. 1.
In it the company recognizes the
federationhas theauthorized bargain-
ing agent for its members only.
Federal mediator Ralph Lind draft-
ed the agreement after a series of
conferences with both sides.
Lind's proposal aimed also at uni-
formity of wages in the entire flat
glass industry. It provided for the
appointment of a committee of five to
investigate wage rates of the Pitts-
burgh Plate Glass Company, where a
strike was settled on a similar basis
a week ago.
This committee is to include two
Libby - Owens - Ford representatives,
two named by the union and a fifthI
"impartial member" to be chosen by
the four. It is to report its findings
next Oct. 1.
David H. Goodwillie, executive vice
president of the company, said the
8-cent wage hike would add $980,000
to the annual payroll and boost the
average hourly wage rate to 89.9
cents.
Campus Gives
$913 To Aid
Flood Victims
Proceeds Will Buy Food,
Clothes; Heads Of Drive
Laud Cooperation'
Wyvern Collecting
Donations Today
The all-campus Red Cross drive
conducted yesterday raised $913 to be
used for food, clothing and care of
flood sufferers in the Ohio Valley,
according to Fred Olds, '38, and Wil-
liam Barndt, '37, co-heads of the
drive.
The money that was earned
through the efforts of volunteers
from various student societies and
the contributions of students, fac-
ulty and townspeople, will be tele-
graphed to the flood area as a do-
nation from the students of the
University, according to Lewis Ayres,
head of the Washtenaw County Red
Cross unit.
Wyvern Collects Articles
Contributions of food and clothing
were collected yesterday by members
of Wyvern, junior women's honorary
society, and will be received today
from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Under-
graduate office of the League.
"We have received a large amount
of clothing and expect to obtain more
contributions today," Hope Hartwig,
'38, president of Wyvern said last
night.
Brandt and Olds said in a state-
ment last night at the conclusion of
the all-campus Red Cross drive, "This
concentrated effort by volunteers
from honorary societies, church
guilds, fraternities and others has
been a marvelous demonstration of
the spirit of 'do unto others'-a true
indication of genuine Michigan spirit.
We offer our thanks and appreciation
for the cooperation of the Stofflet
Radio Shop, the Fisher Hardware Co.,
the Oratorical Association, and the
contributors, who were directly re-
sponsible for the success of the drive."
Honor Societies Cooperate
The organizations that cooperated
in the drive are, Michigamua, Vul -
cans, Sphinx,eDruids, Triangles, Mor-
tarboard, the S.C.A., the Interfra-
ternity Council, the Hillel Founda-
tion. and the Baptist, Lutheran,
Methodist and Presbyterian Guilds,
Barndt said.
MISSiSSippi vacuatlion
Plans Mapped By Army;
Epidemic Hits Kentucky
Schoenmann, Ramsdell
Label River Disaster
'Climax Flood'
Ground Reaches
Absorp tive Limits
Declare Height Of Flood
Would Not Be Affected
Greatly By Forests
By WILLIAM SIZEMORE
A "climax flood" was the label
given to the present situation in the
Ohio Valley in a joint statement is-
sued yesterday by Professors Lee Roy
Schoenmann and Willett F. Ramsdell
of the forestry school.
Foresters and others dealing with
the watershed protection phase of the
flood problem recognize clearly that
certain unusual combinations of me-
teorological conditions will cause the
height of flood waters to be much in
excess of the average flood crest, they
continued. In simpler words, Pro-
fessor Schoenmann explained, the
ground has reached the limit of its
absorptive powers and is frozen too
solidly to absorb its natural amount
of moisture.
Forests Wouldn't Help
"Under these conditions," Profes-
sor Ramsdell added, "the height of
flood waters would not be materially
affected by the presence or absence
of forest on the drainage basins in-
volved. The accumulation of the al-
most complete and immediate run--
off from the climatic conditions re-
sults in the dangerous flood stages.
Explaining current tendencies in
attempting to control floods, Profess
sor Ramsdell told of the recent Up-
stream Engineering Conference which
was held in Washington, D. C.
"Geographers, foresters, geologists,
engineers and others at the meeting
were nearly in complete agreement
as to the necessity of what is termed
vegetative control to accompany en-
gineering control for any long-time,
ultimately successful program.
Vegetative Control Important
"The engineers particularly recog-
nized the great import/ance of veg-
etative control including forest cover
in dealing with the tremendously im-
portant problem of soil erosion and
silting of flood reservoirs and stream
channels," he said.
The vegetation on the watershed
has an important function in protect-
ing soils from destruction through
rin wash and erosion, the two pro-
fessors stated. Not only is there
an enormously diminished silting of
reservoirs and channels, they said,
but the destruction and damaging of
farm lands, highways and even towns
and villages through carrying soil
and depositing debris is minimized.
Bontih Williams Leaves
lo Report On Flood
To insure full coverage of the flood,
The Daily last night sent Bonth Wil-
liams to the inundated Mississippi
valley from where he will send ex-
clusive dispatches covering the flood.
Williams expects to enter the dis-
trict early this morning. The Daily
will carry his stories until the sus-
pension of publication Sunday morn-
ing.
Doctors Leave
To Aid Victims
In Flood Area
Ten doctors and ten public health
nurses under the direction of Dr. Na-
than Sinai of the Medical School and
Hazel Herringshaw of the public
health nursing department left Ann
Arbor late Tuesday night to offer
their services in flood-stricken Ken-
tucky.
Dr. John Sundwall, director of the;
division of hygiene and public health,
received a request Tuesday from Dr.
A. T. McCormick, commissioner of
health of the State of Kentucky,
through Surgeon-General Thomas
Parran of the United States Public
Health Service, for a group of doc-
tors and nurses to aid in giving med-
ical attention to the hundreds in-
jured in the flood, Dr. Sundwall saidi
yesterday.
Group Leaves For Kentucky
The group of 22 left Tuesday night
for Kentucky where they reported
to Dr. McCormick yesterday. The
Blue Goose Bus Lines contributed a
bus and two drivers to enable the
group to reach their new post as
quickly as possible.
The doctors and nurses who left
came to the University from various
states to do field work under the
provisions of the Social Security Act,
Dr. Sundwall said. They include Doc-
tors M. F. Schafer, Neb.; E. J. Bren-
ner, Mich.; E. H. Place, Mich.; Roel-
of Lanting, Mich.; C. K. Kincaid, O.;
L. C. Krotcher, Idaho; A. J. Martin,
O.; G. E. Savage, O.; C. E. Merritt,
Mich.; and H. L. McMartin, Idaho.
May Ask For More Aid
The nurses, under the direction of
Miss Herringshaw, are Frida J.
Starkle, O.; Elsie Bowman, Ind.; Na-
omi Johnson, Ill.; Martha Johnson,
Ill.; Ruth M.' Stege, Ill.; Ruth Feely,
Ill.; Sara Macnamara, Ill.; Treva
Lamp, Ill.; Nina Rice, Ill.; and Cath-
erine Delaney, Ill.
Request for more aid may be forth-
coming, Dr. Sundwall said, and plans
have been made to supply more doc-
tors and nurses if the need arises.
County Contributes
Eight Times Quota
Ann Arbor and Washtenaw County
residents have contributed $3,308.52
for relief in the flooded areas, more
than eight times the original quota of
$415 set for the county, it was an-
nounced yesterday.
The local Red Cross office, which
'is raising the money will continue to
receive funds, Mrs. Josephine Davis,
executive secretary, said yesterday.
Miss Davis said that residents here
and throughout the county are show-
ing great generosity in contributions
of clothes and food to be sent to flood
sufferers. A total of 12 truckloads
of clothing and supplies have already
been sent to the flood area.
The Red Cross is completing organ-
ization of a group to carry on the
work of packing clothing and food
to be shipped by truck. The local
chapter has received more than 250
calls from local and county residents
offering clothing and other articles.
U.i
S .
Escapes
Hundreds Die In Nation's
Most Disasterous Flood;
Worst Appears Over
Red Cross Estimates
1,000,000 Homeless
Property Damage Totals
$400,000,000; Fight
To Hold Main Levees
(By The Associated Press)
The dead in the mightiest flood
ever to strike this nation reached
high into the tragic hundreds to-
day (Thursday) and the army, bol-
stering the levee defenses of the Mis-
sissippi, prepared-should the worst
come-to evacuate the endangered
along its course.
In the Ohio Valley, where so many
died-particularly at sadly hit Louis-
ville, which could only guess at the
number of its fatalities-the worst
appeared over at most points. Louis-
ville, Cincinnati and scores of other
smaller cities, however, still faced
cold, water shortage and disease. In-
fluenza of epidemic proportions was
reported at Paducah, Ky.
The homeless in 11 states were es-
timated by the Red Cross at nearly
1,000,000; the property damage con-
servatively ,was estimated at above
$400,000,000.
Prepare For Evacuation
Fearful of what might happen
along the lower Mississippi as the
Ohio's crest rolled southward, Major
General Malin Craig, the army's
chief of staff, had mapped out and
ready a military organization cap-
able, if need arose, of evacuating half
a million people from Cairo, Ill., to
the Gulf of Mexico.
The danger area, however, was de-
clared by army officers to be par-
ticularly in the river stretch between
Cairo and Memphis, Tenn., where
live about 30,000 river people.
The war department made it plain
there was no occasion for panic;
General Craig said, nevertheless, that
it looked like a "very difficult fight"
to hold the main line levees below
Cairo, especially in the Memphis dis-
trict.
Thus, he ordered an evacuation
setup to stand by, and quickly the
corps area commanders took their
places.
Major General Van Horn Moseley
reported he was ready in his territory
-Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisi-
ana.
The same word came from Major
General Stanley H. Ford, who had
Missouri and most of Arkansas in his
supervision.
Major General Herbert J. Brees
said he would be ready by today
(Thursday) to handle any situation
that might develop in Arkansas south
of the river of that name.
Memphis Not In Danger
From the two greatest cities of the
lower river-New Orleans and Mem-
phis-came reports that both were
in no prospective danger.
A greater concentration of boats
upon the lower Mississippi included
an additional 100 coast guard craft,
said by an admiral to be capable of
transporting 5,000 persons at one
time. This fleet was ordered to pro-
ceed up the Mississippi.
Atlanta reported railroad cars had
been loaded with 31,000 bed sacks,
30,000 cots, 10,000 blankets. An army
officer declared it a "patriotic duty"
not to raise food prices if a crisis
occurred.
Supplementing other statements
that New Orleans appeared in no
prospective danger, Col. Harry Jacobs
of the Louisiana state Board of En-
gineers said he had been told by Ma-
jor General E. M. Markham, chief
of U. S. Engineers, it was "absolutely
ridiculous to think there was any
flood danger in the Mississippi river
valley south of Arkansas City, Ark."
While the Ohio valley situation was
clearing, there still was alarm for
persons in isolated settlements.
Above Cairo, Ill., the Ohio smashed
a setback levee and covered Mound
City, Ill., with five feet of water with-
in half an hour.
Flood Waters Receding
CINCINNATI, Jan. 27.-(P) -A
weary city turned eagerly to the tasks
Foreign Unrest,
Kaltenborn Says
Lecturer Scores Fascist
Leaders ; Hits Perkins,
Sloan And Lewis
Terse, caustic comment by Hans V.
Kaltenborn, CBS commentator, de-
picted Hitler as a fanatic, Mussolini
as a shrewd actor, and painted a
dreary picture of present world-wide'
unrest at yesterday's Oratorical Lec-
ture at Hill Auditorium.
A first-hand glimpse into currentI
affairs from internal strikes to ex-
ternal revolutions led Mr. Kaltenborn
to the conclusion that the United
States, with its democracy and con-
comitant political patronage, is far,
better situated than any foreign, po-
litically agitated, nation.
"Let's pay our price for political
waste," he commented. "It's up to us
to check our leaders."
Neutrality legislation attempting
to formulate, in advance American
policy for future widespread wars, Mr.
Kaltenborn claimed, is nonsensical.
"The chances are that we would
change our laws if a war came."
Miss Perkins, Mr. Sloan and Mr.
Change In Selection Of Judges
Jane Reinert, '39, Flood Envoy,
SRecalls 'Grotesque NI'trhtinare'
By ROBERT P. WEEKS
Jane Reinert, '39, Mosher-Jordan's
ambassador - extraordinary to the
flood area, described her trip to Rip-
ley, O. as a "grotesque nightmare."
Alarmed at her inability to reach
her mother, Mrs. C. N. Rorer, Jr.,
Jan. 24, in Cynthiana, Ky., Miss Rei-
nert finally that afternoon decided to
drive down to see if she could learn
the wihereabouts of her mother and
also aid in the rescue work. She ar-
rived back in Ann Arbor at 2 a.m.
yesterday.
"I knew I couldn't take a train, and
so I called Rod Whitford and asked
hirn~ toc nrmpm rsxn,. n an 1-nmn with
she and Whitford had rented a car
for $2 at a garage and started out
for the flood at 5:30 p.m. Sunday.
They arrived 12 hours later at her
uncle's front door in Ripley in a
row boat after driving all night, she
said.
"All my uncle's family were next
door sleeping in the pews of the high
and dry Presbyterian church," she
said. That morning she and Whit-
ford helped the Red Cross in handing
out clothing to flood victims, Miss
Reinert said, because help was sorely
needed in the rescue work, especially
from women, for practically all the
Lewis all drew their full share ofto ese
Mr. Kaltenborn's fiery criticism in
his discussion of the auto strike. Le-
galistic, not legal, this interpretation By TUURE TENANDER
should be applied ifl the evaluation of
eviction proceedings against sit- Resolutions for a constitutional
downers, he said. amendment providing gubernatorial
"They shouldn't be 'kicked out'," appointment of Supreme and Circuit
Mr. Waltenborn stated, agreeing, to Court judges in Michigan will be sub-
the applause of the audience, with mitted to the State Legislature by
Governor Murphy's attitude to the la- the State Bar within two weeks, Ros-
borers. I coe O. Bonisteel, local attorney and
president of the State Bar, said yes-
terday.
Hospital To Release '''
H "We'll have to work as fast as pos-
6 To Flooded Area sible," Mr. Bonisteel said, "in order
that in event the legislature reacts
ste By ytate Bar
Bonisteel said. The report contain-
ing these recommendations was
turned in by the committee Saturday
at the meeting of the State Bar in
Jackson.
The appointive method for choosing
justices, Mr. Bonisteel said, is the
result of a thorough study of the
problem of "judiciary in politics." He
feels that the present system of'
electing judges is not the best in'
that it does not allow the judge to
perform his functions as well as pos-
sible because he must of necessity
consider coming elections when he
must be re-elected in order to keep his
job.
"We are trying to give the State of
Michigan an independent judiciary,"
The Hospital yesterday announced
that it was ready to release
sixteen of its staff who are mem-
bers of the medical reserve officers
n "r -f JI. T T C' A - - if +I. 4., - ull f-..
favorably we can get the proposed
amendments on the ballot for the ,
April elections." He explained that in
case the proposed amendment did not
make the ballot for the coming spring