-The Weather Rain today and tomorrow; not much change in tempera- ture. YI r 131kiga ijatt Editoril Front Populaire Against Fascism . I VOL. XLVII No. 124 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1937 PRICE FIVE CENTS Court Plan Would Anpair Judiciary, Chief Justice Says Hughes Says High Judges Students To Rally Will Function Efficiently o Support Plan With No Additions Toupor_ Pan Program Supported By Retiring Jurist Van Devanter, Brandeis, Oppose Court Proposal; Wallace Backs Plan WASHINGTON, March 22-UP)_- Chief Justice Hughes bluntly declared today that to increase the member- ship of the Supreme Court would "im- pair" its efficiency. His words, read to the Senate Ju- diciary Committee, had scarcely been digested by those who heard them when John H. Clarke, only living re- tired member of the court, declared in a radio speech that President Roose- velt's court reorganization proposal was "clearly constitutional." Neither of the two venerable jurists passed judgment on the policies in- volved in the plan. Hughes confined himself to the mechanics of court procedure, asserting the tribunal was not behind in its work and could function more efficiently without ad- dition of new members. Clarke, who retired from the court in 1922, confined himself to the "naked legal question" of constitu- tionality and asserted the proposal "is plainly within the powers granted to the Congress." Speaks From San Diego Clarke spoke from San Diego, Calif. Fifteen minutes later, Secretary Wal- lace told a farm bureau audience at Richmond, Va., that the President's proposal was a "simple and effective" method of assuring progress of na- tional welfare. He said recent deci- sions of the Supreme Court blocked -. attemnpts o o te Roosevelt adminis- tration to erect "necessary safeguards for agriculture and industry." Hughes' statement, to which Asso- ciate Justice Van Devanter and Bran- deis agreed, was thrown dramatically into the tense hearings of the Sen- ate Judiciary Committee by Senator Wheeler (Dem., Mont.), the first wit- ness to appear in opposition to the bill. Seeks Justices' Opinions Opposition senators had long been seeking to getman expression of opin- ion from the high bench, believing it would lend powerful support to their cause, and they were obviously happy over the Hughes decl.aration. Wheeler, asserting that he had been "shocked and surprised" by the President's proposal and by charges that the court's work was hindered by the age of its members, told the committee that he had gone "for the facts to the one source that could be expected to know them better than anyone else." Letter Received From Hughes From the Chief Justice, he re- ceived a letter which asserted that "the court is fully abreast of its work," that "there is no congestion of cases upon our calendar," that the work of reading petitions for review is "laborious" but adequately handled. "An increase in the number of jus- tices, apart from any question of policy, which I do not discuss, would not promote the efficiency of ,the court." the Hughes letter said. "It is believed that it would impair the effi- ciency so long as the court acts as a unit. Student Press Group To Meet Here In May The Michigan Interscholastic Press Association will hold its annual con- vention here May 13, 14 and 15, Prof. John L. Brumm, chairman of the journalism department, announced yesterday. The convention, Professor Brumm said, will attract about 450 editors and advisers of high school publica- tions from 50 different publications' on the association's list. Professor Brumm pointed out that a change this year from previous programs will be the judging of the high school papers on their editorial make-up. A reception and dance for the vis- ifinn nnupn,,finn an ffanrirln ,,c wnill thp NEW YORK, March 22.-Y)-Jo- seph P. Lash, executive secretary of the American Student Union. said tonight that organization had de- cided to call a rally of its members in 150 American colleges at noon on April 13 to support President Roose- velt's move to "enlarge the Supreme Court to lift the judicial blockade on human rights." Lash said the Union's executive committee voted to call the nation- wide rally after learning of attempts of "a handful of students" to cre- ate the impression that students gen- erally were opposed to liberal action of the Supreme Court. He said the rally would not be a departure from the union's an- nounoed non-political stand, but was based upon a belief that desirable social and economic legislation which the Union supports cannot be real- ized until the court's power is limited. Nazis Did Not Keep Pledges, t Pope Declares Germans Forbid Comment About Message; Retract Beobachter Editorial BERLIN, March 22.-(AP)-Startled German officialdom tonight forbade comment on Pope Pius' surprise en- cyclical message accusing the Nazi regime of breaking pledges to the Catholic Church and fostering pa- ganism. until the government has had full time to consider all conse- quences. Editorial reaction appeared in only one newspaper, Chancellor Hitler's Voelkischer Beobachter, but officials described it as unauthorized arid or- dered it withdrawn from later edi- tions. Foreign Office Irritated The Foreign Office was particularly irritated by implied suggestions in the editorial that treaties and agree- ments can be changed at will. The newspaper avowed that at con- clusion of the 1933 Concordat with the Vatican, "the State could not know how the Church would later interpret its provisions," and added that "even an agreement with the Holy See has not sacrosanct, un- touchable and eternal value." This interpretation aroused fears, one informant said, lest Germany's signature be discounted on other in- terstate documents. For this reason, the editorial was withdrawn. German authorities admitted that they were taken by surprise by the encyclical letter. Police Watch Suspects Germany's secret police were re- ported watching persons whom they suspected of delivering excerpts of the papal letter to foreign correspon- dents. So far as official opinion was ap- parent, there seemed an inclination tonight to seek by mutual agreement an amendment to the Vatican con- cordat-which pledged the right to instruct on religion to the Church and delegated economic education to the state. The Reich Government, according to Foreign Office circles, does not want the odium of outright can- cellation. Read in German Catholic churches yesterday"the complete message was released at Rome today. In even stronger terms than the Berlin for- eign correspondents had been allowed to report, the Pope declared that in Germany existed "a state of spiritual oppression such as never before has been witnessed." Declares Blast Caused By Gas Beneath Floor NEW LONDON, Texas, March 22. -(AP)-A military inquiry into the London school explosion which killed 455 children and teachers ended dra- matically late today with the formal opinion of Dr. E. P. Schoch, explo- UAW Defers Plan To Call General Strike Workers Warn Employers They 'Are Not Bluffing In This Matter' Union Heads Plan Huge Mass Meeting United Automobile Workers deferred a decision on a general automotive strike in Detroit tonight, but at the same time asserted "we are not bluff- ing in this matter.": The union this afternoon charged that the Chrysler Corp. whose eight plants here are held by sit down1 strikers, had "deliberately withheld" evidence in "contemptuous disregard of a Senate committee subpoena. The evidence, the Union claimed, concerned blacklisting of employes for union activities and espionage, matters that Senator Robert M. La- Follette's special Committee on Civil Liberties is investigating. Hutchinson Denies Charges B. E. Hutchinson, chairmanof the! Chrysler Finance Committee, denied the charge and countered with an al- legation that "the UAW appears to have added the crimes of breaking and entering and burglary to their already illegal seizure of our plants." Police, continuing their raids on sit-down strikers in the face of a UAW threat of a general automotive strike ejected 25 men from a print- ing plant and 19 persons from a city welfare office today. Homer Martin, UAW president who issued the ultimatum of a gen- eral strike, to be called today unless police desisted in their campaign against smaller struck plants, said a decision "probably would not be reached tonght." To suggestions that the Union' was "bluffing," he replied that "Gen- eral Motors thought we were bluff- ing and Chrysler thought we were bluffing. We are not bluffing in this matter, either." Plan Huge Mass Meeting Outwardly; the UAW officials were concentrating on plans for a huge cmass meeting to be held tomorrow evening at Cadillac Square despite the city council's refusal of a per- mit. Ed. Hall, second vice-president of the Union, said: "We don't give a whoop about the permit; we'll be there anyway." Martin said between 100,000 and 200,000 would participate, to "show labor's strength" and to demand that the police "Stop strike- breaking brutality." Martin's commenting on the pos- sibility of a general automotive strike! said: "if we declare a general strike, it will be a general strike." WOULD AFECT 200,000 DETROIT, March 22.- () - A "general strike" in the automotive in- dustry in Detroit, if made effectual by the United Automobile Workers of America, would immediately add ap- proximately 200,000 persons to the 90,000 already idle here as a result of! the Chrysler and other strikes that have been in progress more than a fortnight. Extended to the Ford plants and General Motors' Detroit units, the total easily could reach 400,000. Thousands of workers in other cities woud be affeceted almost at the same time, for "stop" orders would go out immediately to parts and ac- cessories manufacturers the instant the motorcar industry's assembly! lines ceased moving. In Detroit, there are more than ,-2 000 plants with operations dependent almost exclusively upon the automo- bile industry. 'Power'Seen As Big Motive Of Unionists Chrysler Strikers Desire 'Potent And Invincible' Labor Organization Striker Describes 'Jail-Like' Work' By RALPH HURD Why is the United Automobile Workers Union risking its life in the Chrysler Corporation to achievea a sole bargaining contract? An answer to this question was sought yesterday from men in the picket line at the Chrysler Highland Park plant and from an official at the union headquarters. The answer may be summarized in one word: power. To the men in the picket line power means security on the job, ability to! find satisfaction for felt grievances, ability to achieve maximum possible1 wages at minimum possible discom- fort or effort. To leaders of the union power means an established. potent and invincible organization. "You can't be sure about things- about your seniority rights, about the things you'd like improved on the job," a fender department worker DETROIT, March 22.-' - s ..Other developments _oday included the rejection by Chrysler Corp. conferees of a union pro- posal to settle the Chrysler strike on the basis of the UAW-GM agreement, which provides Or- tually exclusive bargaining rights for six months. in the picket line said. "You don't know what it's like inside, just read- ing the papers. It's like a jail, you can't speak to anyone, can't even get a drink of water. (Referring to coi- ditions of work while the plant is in operation.) "What would happen to us if we lose the strike?" another picket re- plied. "It would be just plain hell for us and for the bosses too. We'd be having little sit-downs all the time, union men protesting against anti-union men. We'd fear our or- ganization was being undermined by the bosses. There'd be lots of trouble, all the time. "With a sole bargaining contract we wouldn't have to fear these things. We'd be sure of our union, sure of our job, sure we'd be respecte: as human beings with rights like anyone else." Down at the union headquarters Henry Kraus, editor of the United Automobile Workers, official newspa- per of the organization, put it this way: The UAW wants a sole bargain- ment heads. (Continued on Page 2) Daily Columnist To Feature Show! Bonth Williams, Daily columnist, will be featured between bouts at the Michigan Boxing Show to be held Thursday, April 1, in Yost Field House, it was announced yesterday by Walter Luszki, '37, director of the event to raise funds for the Fresh Air Camp. Williams said last night that he had accepted an invitation to give brief talks between bouts. Through an amplifying system, he will present snatches of campus talk, and hu- morous incidents. He will also point out students in the audience, well-known or other- wise, he said. Among those who have signified intentions of being present are President Ruthven and Prof. Wil- bur R. Humphries, assistant dean of the literary college. Janet Allington, Barbara New Hospital Union Lovell, Berta Knudson Denies Strike Plans Given Scholarships DskP s Triple Basis Used Rumors that employes of the T~pe UI University Hospital were planning a F r Pstrike were denied last night by or Presentations members of a union of hosnital em- I Senior Honor Societies Tap 35 Junior Women; 3 Given League Awards Activity Cup Presented To Delta Gamma; Name Undergraduate Council List W.A.A. Board Members For 1937 Installation Dinner Theme Is University Centennial; Anderson, Lloyd Speak Sixteen junior women were tapped for membership by Mortarboard and Three Recipients Are All Prominent In Activities And Honor Societies Berta Knudson, '38, Janet Alling- ton, '38, and Barbara Lovell, '38, were' awarded the three Ethel McCormick Scholarship Awards of $100 each at the Installation Banquet held last night at the League. The awards are given for participa- ticn in activities, good scholarship and need. This is the second year they have been offered to members of the junior and sophomore classes and are incorporated in the League undergraduate fund. . Prominent In Activities E Miss Knudson, a member of the As- sembly board, worked on the decora- tions committee for the Freshman Project in her first year on campus. She was chairman of the costume committee for the 1935 Sophomore Cabaret and was a member of the costume committee for the Junior Girls Play. She was chairman of decorations for Assembly Ball and was on the decorations committee for the League Fair. Last year she was vice-president of Alpha Alpha Gamma, honorary architectural sor- ority and this year she is the pres- ident-elect. Miss Knudson was tapped by both Mortarboard and Senior So- ciety last night. Secretary- Treasurer Named Miss Allington, affiliated with Col- legiate Sorosis, is the newly-installed secretary treasurer of the League. She was ticket chairman for the Junior Girls Play and had a lead in the production. She has been in the Stanley Chorus for three years and is a member of the Choral Union at present. In her second year she was music chairman for the sopho- more Cabaret and has been on the Women's Athletic Association board for two years. She is secretary of Wyvern and a new member of Mor- tarboard. Miss Lovell, a member of Wyvern, has been on the women's staff of The Daily for three years. She worked on the orientation committee as an adviser last fall, was on the publicity committee for the Junior Girls Play and is a member of Theta Sigma Phi, honorary journalism sorority. She is a new member both of Senior Society and Mortarboard. Future Of Race Unpredictable, Lecturer Says Prof. Edgar S. Brightman Says Scientists Can Not ForetellChristianity Scientific 'knowledge of the future, exact and reliable as it is, gives no ' light of the future of humanity and Christianity, Prof. Edgar Sheffield Brightman of Boston University, IMartin Loud Lecturer, told his au- dience yesterday in the Natural Sci- ence Auditorium. Science shows us a vast framework of possible choices, Professor Bright- man said, but it does not point out what the choices will be; it abstains from revealing what the human spirit will do within the framework. "Christian faith rests on facts, but the facts on which it rests are the facts of moral and religious exper- ience, not the facts of physics and chemistry," he said. "Not that God and religion have nothing to do with matter; but rather that matter is a revelation of God and an instru- ment of religion only in so far as it expresses and realizes values." Murphy Urges Passage ployes. The union was formed last night in Union Hall, and is a branch of the American Federation of Labor. Frank C. Snyder, national vice-pres- ident of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal em- ployes, was the representative of the American Federation of Labor at the meeting, a member of the union stated.E Sixty-three members of the hos-' pital staff were enrolled in the or- ganization. Independents To Dine Today; Discuss Plans1 Unorganized Men Invited, To Attend Dinner; Will' Plan Organizationa Continuing in the campaign to pro-1 vide a vital and permanent organi- zation for independent men, the In-1 dependents will hold their first dinner meeting at 6:15 p.m. today in Room 116 at the Union. Plans for permanent organization of the independent men on the.cam- pus, suggestions for primary inter-E ests of the men and a program forI immediate fupctional activities will be discussed at the dinner. Committee Named The student committee in charge1 of the arrangements of the dinner,1 selected at the first meeting of the group last week, are William Barndt, '37, associate business manager of The' Daily; Bruce Telfer, '38, member of the Executive Council of the Union which sponsored the organization of independent men, and Richard S. Clark, president of the Student Chris- tian Association. All independent men interested in participating in formulating the foundation of the organizations have been invited to attend this dinner meeting. Through special arrange- ments with the Union, the price of the dinner will be 35 cents. Organized By Council The Independents were first brought together at the initiative of the Executive Council of the Union last Thursday for the purpose of organizing the men into a vital body and interesting the men in social! and campus activities In a petition to the Senate Com- mittee on Student Affairs, requesting' permission to allow the executive council of the Union to offer its serv- ices in organizing the independent men, the advantages of an indepen- dent organization of men cited were: "To participate in campus activities, to enter student politics, to hold luncheons and social affairs, to en- gage in sports, to secure representa- tion in student government and to1 foster student-faculty relations, to keep in constant and intimate com- munication with the University." 450 Initiates Attend Banquet In Union Today More than 450 recently initiated fraternity men will attend the Inter- fraternity Council's Initiation Ban- quet at 6:15 p.m. today in the Union Ballroom, according to John Mann, '37, secretary-treasurer. Frederick H. Neymeyer, former member of the National Interfrater- nity Conference and an authority on fraternity affairs, will be the guest speaker. A feature of the program will be the presentation of a gold cup to the freshman pledge class that had the highest grades last semester, Mann said. Dean of Students Joseph A. 4.,ni r~x x...1 rx . cx 1nn..Ts., 19 women were tapped by Senior So- ciety at the Installation Banquet held last night at the League. The new members of Mortarboard are Betty Gatward, Florence Mc- Conkey, Janet Allington, Barbara Bradfield, Berta Knudson, Betty Whitney, Miriam Sanders, Mary Jane Mueller, Margaret Curry, Bar- bara Lovell, Marie Sawyer, Mary Johnson, Sally Kenny, Elizabeth Bax- ter, Roberta Melin and Hope Hart- wig. Those tapped by Senior Society are Ruth Bertsch, ' Margaret Ferries, Joanne Kimmell, Helen Douglas, Helen Jane Barr, Dorothy Novy, Janet Groft, Janet Karlson, Margaret Myers, Mary Redden. Elizabeth Ay- res, Nancy Kover, Angelene Maliszew- ski, Miss Lovell, Miss Sawyer, Miss Knudson, Miss McConkey, Miss Ken- ney and Miss Sanders. Delta Gamma Given Cup Delta Gamma was awarded the activity cup, given to the sorority, dormitory or zone earning the lar- gest number of merit points during the past year. The sorority had an average of 4.83 points per member. Alpha Chi Omega was second-with Ia 3:89 average and other houses which has an average of more than three points per member were Gamma Phi Beta, Kappa Kappa, Gamma, Pi Beta Phi, Collegiate Sorosis, Kappa Alpha Theta and Alpha Omicron Pi. The new League Undergraduate Council for 1937-38 was announced by Miss Hartwig, '38, president. The heads of the five League committees are Miss Ferries, orientation chair- man; Miss Gatward, social chairman; Miss Bradfield, merit system chair- man; Miss Kimmell, head of the theatre-arts group and Roberta Me- lin, in charge of publicity. Other Members Announced Other Council members who have been announced during the past month are Miss Mueller, Miss Mc- Conkey and Margaret Ann Ayers, vice-presidents from the education school, architecture school and lit- erary college respectively; Miss Ma- liszewski, head of Judiciary Council; Miss Allington, secretary-treasurer; Miss Johnson, president of the Wom- en's Athletic Association; Helen Jes- person, president of Assembly, and Harriet Shackleton, president of Pan- hellenic Association. All Council members are juniors. Members of the new W.A.A. board under the direction of Miss Johnson are Betty Lyon, '39, vice-president; Miss Mueller, secretary; Miss Whit- ney, treasurer; Miss Kenny, the American Federation of College Women delegate; Mary Alice Mac- Kenzie, '39, publicity chairman; Ruth Hartman, '39, intramural manager and Norma Curtis, '39, awards chair- man. Sports Managers Named Sports managers for next year are Marjorie Merker, '39, golf; Beatrice Lovejoy, '38, dance; Ruth Carr, '38Ed, archery; Dorothy Gardner, '38Ed, badminton; Alberta Royal, '40; bas- ketball; Martha Tillman, '39, base- (Continued on Page 5) Lutherans Give Second Of Holy Week Services "He is not the God of the dead but of the living-Jesus." The second in the series of morning watches being held dur- ing Holy Week in the League Chapel under the auspices of a general committee representing six church guilds is to be held from 7:30 to 7:55 a.m. today. Today's worship service, center- ipg about "The Scene In The Tn~r Rnyt," is in rharL~a f th Justices' Opinions On Issuesj Not Unusual' Says Cuncannon By TUURE TENANDER Political statements by members of the Supreme Court, such as made yesterday by Chief Justice Hughes and last week by Justice James C. McReynolds, are not completely un- precedented, although extremely rare, Prof. Paul M. Cuncannon of the po- litical science department said yes- terday. Justice McReynolds made a plea for sportsmanship in accepting the decisions of a "fair tribunal" at a fraternity dinner in Washington. "Although it is indeed a rare oc- the Presidency. During an address at the commencement exercises of the National Cathedral School in Wash- ington before his daughter's grad- uating class, Justice Hughes, speak- ing on the flag, permitted the public to know he favored preparedness. This convinced the Republican lead- ers that Hughes was the man they wanted to run against Woodrow Wil- son. "This speech by Justice Hughes," Professor Cuncannon said, "was the concluding factor in the Republi- cans' choice of Hughes as their man.