The Weather Generaljy fair today and to- morrow; continued cool. Y.t e Liltt~ll :43attig Editorials Back Yard Mussolini Mystery Story ... 1 VOL. XLVII No. 123 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, MARCH 21, 1937 PRICE FIVE CENTS Fourth Butler Title Falls To Michigan; State Academy Censures Plan By Roosevelt v Waer, S ler Star Conservation Department Proposal Hit; Bergquist, McMurrv Elected One World's And Six Meet What Ho, Milords! .o.c Records Broken As 400 Public Land Polcy Athletes Compete Roosevelt-For-KingIs Labeled Model' Cinh Pieks Nobilityi l l 1 %-4b1 0 i v\1+/4.7 . , vI Iv Unio jumper Mets. World Mark, 6, 9%/ Wolverines Take Places In 10 Out Of 11 Events To Win 41 Points INDIANAPOLIS, March 20.-(P)- The University of Michigan won its fourth consecutive Butler Relays championship here tonight to add to four straight Big Ten titles, leading! Ohio State, its nearest rival, 49 to 31. The Wolverines, setting meet rec- ords in two-events, won the mile relay and four individual crowns, taking points in all 10 events they entered to win the team championship. Mel Walker. Ohio's brilliant high jumper, was the star of the meet, smashing the world's indoor high jump record with a leap of six feet nine and three quarters inches as six meet records fell before the on- slaught of 400 athletes. Michigan's Sam Stoller, still handi- capped by illness which spotted his indoor season to date, turned on the heat in the 60-yard dash to win over Bob Grieve of Illinois in :06.2, and then led Michigan to second, third, and fourth places in the broad jump. Michigan's team victory was scored by a well-balanced outfit which piled up points in 16 of the 11 events the Wolverines were eligible to enter. Indiana was third in the final standing with 28 points while Pitts- burg, Kas., State Teachers College finished on top in the college class with 27 points. The mile relay teams of Michigan and Ohio State also put on a thrilling show. Ohio led through the first half of the race but Osgood of Michigan, running third, took the lead and Birleson fought off Charlie Beetham's challenge to win the event in 3:20.4. It was one of the new meet records established. Meet records broken during the evening were the University two mile relay by Ohio State; the shot put by Bill Watson of Michigan; the college two-mile relay by Pittsburg Kansas State Teachers College; the Univer- sity medley relay by Indiana; the high jump and the University four- mile relay Archie San Romani of the Em- poria, Kas., State TeachersCollege made another bid tonight to suc- ceed Glenn Cunningham as Amer- ica's ace miler by defeating Cunning- ham in the feature mile run. The time was a slow 4:21.4. The summary may be found on page 3. Prof. Slosson Will Give Talk At Faith Parley The last session of the Inter-Faith Symposium will meet from 3 to 5 p.m. today in the Grand Rapids Room of the League. Prof. Preston W. Slosson, of the history department, will give the main address from the Protestant viewpoint on the question "Does the Universe Reveal Intelligence?" Dr. Yuen Z. Chang, visiting lecturer in English, will present the Confucian Taking as its theme the premise that "the Michigan student body exists in an intellectual vacuum" the local Roosevelt for King Club will attempt to mitigate this condition by an appeal to the student body's sense of humor, according to the founders. The first official meeting of the club is to be scheduled at 7:45 p.m. Monday in the Union, according to Clifford Wells, '39. A pre-meeting caucus has decided upon a tentative nobility for the proposed new regime, which will in- clude such characters as: Sir John Roosevelt, the Jack of (Knight) Clubs, Sir James Farley the Ace of Spades, Sir James Roosevelt, the deuce, Sir Alfred Smith, Crown Prince, Frank II (Murphy) and Sir Alfred Landon, young pretender to the throne and over-lord of the re- volted petty states of Maine and Ver- mont. E. S. Brightman Will Give Tales On Christianity Series Of Four Lectures Under Bequest Of Loud To BeginTomorrow The first of the Martin Loud Lec- tures will be given by Prof. Edgar Sheffield Brightman of Boston University at 4:15 p.m. tomorrow in Natural Science Auditorium. Dr. Brightman's first lecture topic will be "Concerning Knowledge of the Future." On Tuesday he will speak "Concerning the Bible and the Church" at 4:15 p.m. in the Audi- torium. "Concerning God" will be the third topic to be given at 8 p.m. Tuesday in the First Methodist Episcopal Church, and "Concerning Man" the last subject, will be de- livered at 8 p.m. in the Methodist Church. Dr. Brightman received his A.B. and M.A. degrees at Brown Univer- sity, his S.T.B. degree at Boston University, Ph.D. at Boston, and LL.D. at Nebraska Wesleyan. He has been professor of philosophy at Boston University Graduate School since 1919, having taught previously Greek, philosophy, psychology, ethics and religion. He was the Ingersoll lecturer at Harvard in 1925, lec- turer at the Lowell Institute in Bos- ton in 1925 and 1934, and McTyeire Flowers lecturer at Duke University in 1927. He is the author of several books on philosophy, religion and ethics, and religious psycology, and is a (Continued on Page 6) TO DISCUSS INTERMARRIAGE "Is Intermarriage between People of Different Religious Advisable?" is the topic for this week's all-student symposium at 8 p.m. today at Hillel Foundation with Aaron Lowenstein, '37L, Harold Ross, Grad. and Wil- liam H. Wilsnack, 37, ex-president of theHStudent Christian Association, as speakers. FreshmanTryou Male Forte In Vigorous opposition to the Presi- dent's proposed reorganization of the cabinet to include a Department of Conservation was formally expressed yesterday by a resolution adopted in the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters at its concluding session in the Natural Science Build- ing. Prof. S. G. Bergquist, head of the geology department at Michigan State College, at the same session, was elected president of the Academy for the coming year. Other officers include: Prof. Kenneth C. McMurry, chairman of the geography depart- ment, vice-president; Prof. Leigh J. Young of the forestry school, secre- tary; E. C. Prophet of the Michigan State College geography department, treasurer; Prof. Alfred Stockard of the zoology department and Dr. W. W. Bishop, University librarian, li- brarian. Professor Young, Mr. Pro- phet, Professor Stockard and Dr. Bishop were reelected to their re- spective positions. Land Policy Praised The resolution, which was recom- mended for adoption by the forestry section, and passed unanimously by the Academy declared that the change advocated by the President was " . . . one that, under the guise of promoting the conservation ac- tivities of the government, actually threatens to weaken them." The resolution included along with con- demnation of the proposed depart- ment a clause urging strongly the inclusion in the Department of Ag- riculture of all activities dealing with the soil and its products. Labeling Michigan land policy and procedure in relation to the state public domain as a national recog- nized model, a second resolution said in part: Delinquency Changes Deplored "Be it resolved, that the Academy deplores the efforts now being made in the legislature (1 to modify dras- tically the basic contempt of the tax delinquency procedure, and (2) to set up a new agency in the form of a State Office Board, to carry on vir- tually the same functions now being performed with a high degree of satisfaction by present agencies." The resolution further urged the legislature to give serious consider- ation to making no more than the minimum and necessary adjustments on present legislation dealing with tax delinquency and the administra- tion of state lands. Concluding Papers Given The day of camping sites for tent- ers has not passed, but today the landscape architects must plan for trailers, C. P. Halligan told the land- scape architecture group in yester- day's opening lecture. With camps springing up in every part of the country, readjustment of regional thinking to meet new prob- lems must be made, Herbert H. Twin- ing, executive director of the Amer- ican Camping Association told the group. A. S. Hazzard of the Institute of Fisheries Research read a paper be- fore the wild life management sec- tion which stated that the lakes of Michigan could stand more fishing without endangering the stock of fish. The session constituted a joint meet- (Continued on Page 6) Love, Bock Beer, Not The Calendar, Herald Springtime The city editor received the fol- lowing inter - office communication late last night, too late for him to do anything about it: I did not write the annual spring hooey story you assigned me: I would like to contribute my bit toward ending this colossal farce that newspapers# conduct every year. This is not an ex- cuse either for my inability to be funny or for laziness. Spring begins, as every stu- dent knows, either on the 20th or 21st of March. He also knows that snow annually falls in March. If he doesn't know these things, it will do no good to re- peat them. Besides, spring means love and love means spring. It is the old story of which came first, the chicken or the egg. When love manifests itself, it is spring; when spring comes, love mani- fests itself. This is a good enough indication of spring, I think. If there are other students who understand co-eds well enough to fall in love with them, they know that spring comes with bock beer. Bock beer and spring, a sort of cause and effect ar- rangement, are just like love and spring My suggestior is that we run a one paragraph story, which will read something like this: SPRING IS HERE. Spring began yesterday all over town. It also snowed yesterday. Summer will be the next season. Palm Services WillBGiven In City Today Baptist, Church Of Christ Choirs To Sing Cantata By Theodore Dubois The spirit of Palm Sunday will find voice literally in cantatas and dramatic interpretation today in Ann Arbor churches. "The Seven Last Words of Christ" by Theodore Dubois will be presented by the choir of the Church of Christ at 7:30 p.m. The soloists will be Wallace B. Tyrrell, '38, tenor, Keith Tustison, '37, baritone, Hope Bauer Eddy and Iva Howard, sopranos. The program: The Introduction, "All Ye People"; the First Word, "Father Forgive Them"; the Second Word "Today Shalt Thou Be With Me"; the Third Word, "Woman, Behold Thy Son"; the Fourth Word, "My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me"; the Fifth Word, "I Thirst"; the Sixth Word, "Father, Into Thy Hands"; the Seventh Word, "It Is Finished"; the Prayer, "Thee We Adore, O. Christ," The First Baptist Church will pre- sent th "Seven Last Words of Christ" by Dubois at 7:30 p.m. with Mrs. H. B. Allen, soprano soloist, Charles B. Ruegnitz, tenor soloist, Prof. Wil- mot F. Pratt, University carillonneur, bass soloist, Miss Lou C. White, or- ganist, and Robert Campbell, pianist. "Jesus Converses with the Sit- Downers," a dramatic interpretation, which will attempt to show the rela- tionship between religion and the labor movement, according to the Rev. H. P. Marley, will be given at the 11 a.m. service of the Unitarian church. "The Man of Nazareth," a cantata, will be given at 4 p.m. in St. An- drew's Episcopal Church. The Rev. Dr. William P. Lemon, minister of the Presbyterian Church, will give a sermon on "Victorious Living," the final talk in a Lenten series on "Letters on Life" at 10:45 a.m. Music for the service will in- clude a trumpet solo, a baritone solo, "The Palms" by Faure, and an an- them "Praise ye the Lord" by Cesar Franck. "Michigan Night" will be observed at the 5:30 p.m. Westminster Guild meeting at which all Presbyterian students on the campus from the state will be entertained. The Rev. Dr. C. W. Brashares will have for his subject at the 10:40 a.m. service of the First Methodist Epis- copal Church "Palm Sunday." This service will be preceded by organ music played by Achilles Taliaferro. "The Meal in the Upper Room" will be celebrated at the 6 p.m. Wesleyar Guild Service at Stalker Hall. Palm Sunday services will be held at both Trinity Lutheran and Zion Lutheran Churches at 10:30 a.m. Bert Ostenson, Grad., will speak at the Lutheran Student Club at 6:3( .m. 6 Are Injured In Eviction Of Women From Factory Of CigarCompany Plan More Raids On 'Captive' Plants Strikers Are Rounded Up' Without Use Of Weapons Or Tear Gas Bombs DETROIT, March 20.-(A)-Six persons were injured tonight when police, who had ejected 60 strikers from the Newton Packing Co. plant without disorder during the after- noon, evicted 75 women from the striker-held Bernard Schwartz Cigar Co. plant. The women pelted the police with wooden blocks, snow balls and other weapons until they were propelled, screaming and kicking, to patrol wag- ons. Other raids on captive cigar plants were planned tonight, police indi- cated, although they held their plans secret. Only one of the injured in the Schwartz Cigar factory disturbance was a woman. She was Mrs. Sophie Marczchuk, 60, who was knocked down and bruised. Mounted Patrol- man Russell Wellman was given first aid for head lacerations and bruises. Police Superintendent Fred W. Frahm and Policewoman Eleanor L. Hutzel led the raiding party on the Schwartz factory, which had been occupied since February 18 in defi- ance of a court injunction. They kicked in the door when the strikers refused to open it. The riding party was pelted with missiles as it ascended a stairway. Some of the women surrendered peaceably. Others fled to the far corners of the factory, the police rounded them up without using gas or weapons. The earlier raid on the Newton Packing Co. plant lasted only 10 minutes as 50 sheriff's deputies and 90 policemen broke into the plant and arrested more than 60 men and women strikers who had defied a court injunction. Siegal, Thalner Head Fresh Air Camp Fight Bill Donald Siegal, '39, state golden gloves heavyweight boxing champion, will be matched against Robert Thal- ner, '40, in the main bout of the Michigan Boxing Show Thursday, April 1, it was announced yesterday by Walter Luszki, '37, director. The 10-bout show to be staged in Yost Field House is being given to raise funds for the Fresh Air Camp for underprivileged boys. Others participating in the bouts are Miles I. Lihn, '40, who will fight Robert H. Snyder, '40; Andrew V. French, '40, and Daniel J. Tenen- berg, '40; and James Scott, '40 against James E. Brown, '40. Robert Trowell, '39, Will fight John E. Veneklasen, '38. Arthur H. Cut- ler, '37, is matched with Theodore Schaible, '40; and Robert Smith, '40, will box James H. Flynn, '40. All Rendezvous men will meet Mon- day, March 22 at 8 p.m. in Lane Hall to organize the ticket sale drive. General Sit-Down Threat Is Made As Police Force Evacuation From Plants r.? - ----- ---v Symposium To Hear Strike Discussion Sit-down strikes, interpreted from their legal and industrial aspects, will be the topic of the symposium con- ducted by the Union at 4:30 p.m. today in the small ballroom. Prof. Edgar N.aDurfee of the Law School will evaluate the position which the court holds in strike cases brought before it, the legal force which may be used to combat sit- downers, and the part property rights play. Prof. John W. Riegel of the bus- iness administration school will treat the strikes from an industrial view- point. He will explain the relation of employe to employer, the relative values to employes of company and industrial unions, and the efficacy of collective bargaining. Amelia's Hopes Dashed As She Escapes Death Partly Filled Gas Tanks Blamed For 'Laboratory Plane' Crack-Up HONOLULU, March 20. - (P) - Amelia Earhart cracked up her "lab- oratory plane" and her world flight hopes today in a split-second brush with death. Her quick thinking saved her life and the " lives of two male companions. - Rolling down the Luke Field run- way at 50 miles an hour, bound for tiny Howland Island, the $80,00 plane began swaying crazily as nearly three tons of gasoline sloshed about in the partly-filled fuel tanks. Under the strain the right tire burst and the plane jumped out of control. "A tire blew out . . . no one was hurt . . . only our spirits are bruised ... I cut the switches." That was the story in Miss Ear- hart's own words. The ship then spun to the right, crashed down on its right wing, and the right motor snapped offi the right wheel. A single spurt of flame came from the twisted derelict-but only one, for audacious Amelia had snapped off the vital ignition switches. Aviation experts expressed the be- lief that the heavy load of gasoline washing back and forth in the tanks set the plane to swaying and forced it beyond control. The tanks have a capacity of 1,151 gallons but con- tained only between 800 and 900. Miss Earhart's lightning-like ma- neuver of the throttles and ignition switches alpparently prevented an explosion and a fire which would have trapped her and her navigators in an inferno. Even the ground about the plane was drenched with gasoline. Miss Earhart announced the plane would be-sent back to its factory in Los Angeles and that she would con- tinue her projected 27,000 mile world flight later. A technician said fac- tory repairing would take two weeks. LUTHER MAY BE REPLACED WASHINGTON, March 20.-()- Diplomats heard today that Dr. Hans Luther soon will be replaced as Germany's ambassador to the 1 United States. Martin, UAWA President, Issues Statement After 6 Are Hurt In Riot GM Is Exception In Tie-Up Warning Mass Meeting Of All Auto Workers Will Be Held Tuesday As Protest DETROIT, March 20.-{]P)-The United Automobile Workers of Amer- ica threatened tonight to call a gen- eral strike in Detroit automotive plants unless "the brutal eviction of sit-down strikers and the ruthless clubbing of workers by Detroit police is stopped immediately." The threat was contained in a statement issued by Homer Martin, president of the U.A.W.A., after po- lice had ejected strikers from the Newton Packing, Co. plant and the Bernard Schwartz Cigar Co. factory. Six persons were injured during riot- ing which accompanied the ejection of 75 women from the cigar factory. Subsequently, Wyndham Mortimer, first vice-president of the U.A.W.A., said the strike threat did not apply to plants of General Motors Corp., with which the union signed an agreement last Sunday. Martin declared that "every or- ganized automobile plant in the city will be closed down Monday" unless the raids cease, and that "the 175,000 organized automobile workers of De- troit will mass Tuesday night in Cad- illac Square to protest these ac- tions." Martin said that the U.A.W.A. was "determinednthat ,strikers in these smaller plants shall not be the vic- tims of police brutality." The statement contained no ref- ernce to the eightChrysler plants, which 6,000 strikers are holding in defiance of a court injunction. Since Friday, Sheriff Thomas C. Wilcox has held court writs for the arrest of the strikers. The strikers told Gov. Frank Murphy in an Qpen letter today that forcible moves to arrest them would lead to "bloodshed and violence," and appealed to the Governor to "see that our grievances are adjusted." Neither Mayor Frank Couzens nor Governor Murphy could be found for a statement on the general aut- motive strike threat. The Chrysler strikers told the Gov- ernor in their communication today that "we elected you . . . and we don't intend to leave these plants without a satisfactory statement." New -Testament Play, 'Barter,' Will Be Given "Barter," a play by the Rev. Fr. Nagle of the Dominican Order at Washington, D. C., will be presented at 2 pm. today in the Ann Arbor High School Auditorium, it was an- nounced yesterday by Dr. Edward W. Blakeman, counselor in religious edu- cation. The play portraying a New Testa- ment theme treats Judas according to the modern reading of his char- acter and treats of the influence and reactions of the betrayal. "There are many unusual features in the handling of the material of Judas and his friends, his tempta- tion, struggle and remorse together with their suffering are made human and very forceful. Father Nagle is a member of the Dominican Order of Washington, D. C., and shows his deep insight into church history in the intimate details of the play," ac- cording to the Adrian Daily Telegram. Union Open House To Be Wednesday The Union will hold open house Wednesday evening, Burton Well- man, Jr., member of the Union ex- ecutive council who is in charge of the affair, announced yesterday. Four departments and one school, L view, Rabbi Bernard Heller, director of Hillel Foundation, the Jewish, and By ROBERT WEEKS Prof. William A. McLaughlin, of the Romance Languages department, the When the Michigras is an honor Catholic view, society, Prof. Henry C. Anderson is "Students are invited to come with head line coach, and the CIO stands their questions relating to the idea for "Cats' International Opera," then of God, evidence of purpose, relation women will know more about current of naturalism to religion, and other events than they do now. subjects bearing upon this general This conclusion might be reached question of revealed intelligence," Dr. fromthe results of a test given the Edward W. Blakeman, counselor in men and women tryouts for the edi- religious education, said yesterday. torial staff of The Daily, in which the The Interfaith Symposium is an men scored higher on all but one of effort to understand the problems of the 13 questions asked. religion by means of inquiry rather The male forte was national and than promotion, Dr. Blakeman said. international affairs; for example, 81 It is designed to "announce freedom per cent of the men knew about of belief, freedom of worship, freedom 3reat Britain's $7,500,000,000 rearm- ts Test Shows National Affairs C. Anderson, and Miller Sherwood, the women picked two correctly, the men knew 2.4. Besides calling Pro- fessor Anderson who is head of the mechanical engineering department, i football coach, two freshmen said that Miller Sherwood, president of the Men's Council, is a playwright; and Hope Hartwig, president-elect of the League, is a gym teacher. CIO, SWF and DOB are initials for the Committee for Industrial Organ- ization, the Student Workers' Fed- eration and The Daily Official Bul- letin, but the men knew only 2.3 of these and the women 1.4.' The only catch question on the test was the tenth, which asked for identi- r i i 1 s i r. 1 1 1 t 0 Saturday Siren Call's Function Found To Be Testing Of Alarm By ELLIOTT MARANISS The screeching siren which sounds over Ann Arbor and the neighboring county every Saturday noon is not the toy of some playful noise-maker, nor a work whistle, but a required fire safeguard that has been sounded every week for the last 15 years. "If the siren is sounded any time other than Saturday noon, all em- ployes of the University know that a building is on fire, and maintenance men and our own little fire depart- ment get on the job," said Thomas Hopwood, chief enginer at the of the town know the purpose of the siren call, but very few students do. They really should know its purpose, as it would warn them of danger, and preclude the possibility of their being trapped like the school children in New London, Texas," he added. Ten students on the campus were asked if they knew what the siren call meant, and while all professed to have wondered about it, not one knew its purpose. Three students answered that they supposed it was a lunch whistle, but couldn't understand why a lunch