'the Weatlhe Cloudy, not quite so cold in extremne south portion today; tomorrow, generally fair. LI r it igan ItitJ Editorials Britain's Foreign Policy .. VOL. XLVII No. 128 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 1937 PRICE FIVE CENTS Mermen Lead Ohio And Yale MussoliniIs Acting DefiantRole To Keep His Power, Slosson Says' * France In More Serious CgiaPosition Than England 3 With Italy,_He Believes n ussolini's sudden attack on Great Britain earlier this week and his Wolverine Medley Team promise to avenge sanctions just asj Shatters National Record, he avenged the Adowa defeat in Ethi- califying l opia are merely obligatory shows of In Trials defiance that any dictator must make Haynie Wins 220 Free-Style. Event MINNEAPOLIS, March 26.-()- The University of Michigan served notice it is nt yet ready to reln- quish its national swimming crown by outdistancing a fast field in the first day's events of the 14th an- nual Collegiate Championships to- day. When the firing in the six events had ceased tonight the Wolverines rode well out in front with 34 points, I followed by Ohio State with 27 and Yale with 21. Another feature of today's com- petition was the dethroning of two of last year's individual champions, Daniel Zehr of Northwestern Univer- sity in the 150-yard back-stroke and Ray Walters of Iowa in the 50-yard free style. One Record Broken While exceptionally fast times were turned in for most of today's events, only one record was bettered, that in the 300-yard, medley relay prelimin- aries when Michigan churned the distance in 2:57.8, breaking its own mark of 2:58.2 made in the 1936 Col- legiates. . The Wolverine medley aggregation of Fred Cody, Jack Kasley and Ed Kirar, capped its record breaking per- formance in the preliminaries by taking the finals in the event handily, beating out Ohio State in 2:58.4. Kirar became the new champion in the 50-yard free-style event when he splashed to the finish line in :23.2, just three-tenths of a second short of the record for this race. Michigan counted 10 points in the short race -when Waldemar Tomski, a team mate, breezed in just behind Kirar. 1Z. Penn of Yale was third, while Walters, the defending cham- pion, was able to gain no better than sixth Cody Is Fourth Zehr fell before the powerful stroke of William Neunzig of Ohio State who traveled the 150-yard backstroke race in 1:37.1. Cody of Michigan was fourth. The defending champions collected another first place when Tom Haynie flashed to the front in 2:11.5 in the 220-yard free-style. Dexter Wood- ford of Ohio State was second while Brueckel and Macionis of Yale were third apd fourth. Jim Patterson of Ohio Statc, un- defeated in a dual meet all season, gave his school first place in the one-meter board diving, the well-built youth piling up a point total of 135.80 to far outdistance his five rivals. Ben Grady of Michigan was second with 117.30. Five events still remain on the pro- gram, the 100-yard free-style, 200- yard breaststroke, 400-yard free -style relay, three meter high board diving, and 440-yard free-style. Qualifying in all of these events will be held Sat- urday afternoon with the finals at night. Complete summaries will be found on Page 3. ^ Hitch-Hiking Bill Attacked In Iowa Following the proposed "anti- hitch-hiking" legislation now being considered by the Iowa state legis- lature, students at the University of Iowa circulated petitions to prevent the passing of this bill, according to a report from the Daily Iowan. t The report went on to say that Mark K. Baker with the aid of four other students has cooperated with1 a movement begun at Iowa Wesleyan College in Mt. Pleasant which is also directed against the bill. Tom Bell, president of the Wes- leyan student body, is quoted in The Daily Iowan as saying that he was starting the movement, because he believes "hitch-hiking is a vested in- terest which all college students must preserve." Mrs. Simpson Will Not Buy New Easter Clothes to his people in order to remain in power, according to Prof. Preston W. Slosson of the history department. Orating with a degree of militancy that he had not displayed since he won the war in Ethiopia, Mussolini attacked the Edglshpress, the Eg- lish clergy and declared that Italy and not Britain had won last year's siege of sanctions. France Is Keystone Though this sudden attack on Britain in a period of cordiality may have serious implications, Prof. Slos- son believes that France occupies a more essential position in the embro- glio than England. France is endan- gered in the readily conceived struggle between fascism, represented by Germany and Italy, and commu- nism represented by Russia, he said, because of France's connections with Russia. France is further implicated in the possible outcome of Mussolini's vow to avenge sanctions, because if Mus- solini is successful in his interven- tion in Spain, a project that France feared to undertake, it may mean that France will be hemmed in by Federal Action Is IDemranded To End Striles Bostonian Group Under A. L. Lowell Gives Senate -Derisive Statement WASHINGTON, March 26.-()- A demand .for immediate federal ac- tion to end sit-down strikes came to- night from A. Lawrence Lowell, presi- dent emeritus of Harvard University. In a telegram to the Senate and Vice-President Garner, Lowell and a group of other prominent Bostonians declared that "a few words of coun- sel" by the president several weeks ago would have ended what now "challenges the supremacy of the government itself." The message said: "Armed insurrection-defiance of law, order and duly elected authority -is spreading like wildfire. "It is rapidly growing beyond con- trol. What determined action by the Governor of Michigan several weeks ago, or a few words of counsel by the president, would have ended summarily, now challenges the su- premacy of government itself." They contended no question of the right of labor to "liberal wage and healthful working conditions" is in- volved. If minority groups can seize prem- ises illegally and hold them "by vi- olence and threatened bloodshed," they declared, "then freedom and lib- erty are at an end, government be- comes a mockery, superseded by an- archy, mob rule and ruthless dicta- torship." FLINT WAREhOUSE BURNS FLINT, March 26.-(A')-A fire de- stroyed the contents of the Arthur S. Boyd moving company's warehouse tonight. The loss was estimated un- officially at $3,000 to $4,000. three hostile powers, Professor Slos- son said. Mussolini's outbreak was also termed significant by Professor Slos- son, in view of the recently conclud- ed non-intervention pact which may cause France to reconsider her pas- siveness in the Spanish war. A Dictator-s Device The fiery premier's outburst was not one of resentment nor was it ostensibly to make for trouble, he explained, but simply the device of a dictator to fortify hris position in the eyes of the people. Comparing a dictatorship with a democracy, he pointed to the use of elections in the latter to confirm the position of a mian in power. "The hereditary monarch has a similar assurance through his inheri- tance, but the dictator unlike either the leader of a democracy or a hered- itary monarchy must establish his prestige by such devices as the one just employed by Mussolini." TWA A ttributes Plane Disaster To Icy Wings Safety Devices To Prevent Formations Of This Kind Will Be Developed PITTSBURGH, March 26.-(A)- Two separate investigations today at- tributed the crash of the Transcon- tinental and Western Airlines plane in which 13 persons were killed to the formation of ice on the air liner's control equipment. While federal and state aeronau- tical inspectors searched through the splintered wreckage of the giant twin- motored transport that nosed into a cornfield last night, officials of TWA said ice had formed on the ailerons and sent the plane out of control. Dr. John J. McLean, director of the Allegheny County Airport where the plane had attempted to land a few moments before the crash, said the disaster was caused by ice collecting on the wings. L. C. Fritz, eastern region superin- tendent of the airline, said new safety measures would be developed to pre- vent a repetition of the tragedy, de- c laring: "Never before in tests or in sched- uled flying has ice formed on the ailerons to an extent that it inter- fered with riormal flight. "However, the unusual ice form a- tion causing this accident indicates that protection against icing must be extended to include ailerons, and TWA is taking immediate steps to de- velop this additional safeguard." Workmen burned the twisted fus- ilage of the plane late today after fed- eral investigators announced they had completed their inspection of the scene of the disaster. W. A. Ham- ilton, superintendent of maintenance for TWA, said the motors and in- struments would be preserved for fur- ther examination. Company officials said only the ice would explain why Pilot F. L. (Larry) Bohnet and the 12 others crashed to their deaths a few minutes after he had circled the airport and radioed that all was "okay." From the debris of the demolished liner came additional support of the ice theory. Investigators reported they found a postcard on which one of the passengers, Miss Pauline Trask a school teacher from Germantown, Pa., had written to a f~iend: "Arrived safely-6:15 p.m.-pulling out of ice storm." Investigators estimated this was written about half an hour before the crash. Regents Get T otal Grants 3 Rockefeller Foundation Gives $7,500; Carnegie Fund Is Also Donor 5 Of Faculty Given Full Year Leaves Gifts totalling $13,250 were accept- ed by the Board of Regents in it monthly meeting yesterday. The largest of the gifts was $7,50C from the Rockefeller Foundation, tc be used in financing the Early Mod- ern English and Middle English dic- tionaries from March 1 to July 1. The Monsanto Chemical Co., St. Louis, and the Charles Pfizer & Co., New York City, gave $4,000 for the continuation of research in phar- macy, which was begun after a sim- ilar grant last year. Prof. Howard B. Lewis of the pharmacology de- partment is directing the research. The Lake Angelus Solar Tower fund was enlarged by $1,000 by a gift of Willard Pope, Detroit. nRuthven Designatory The Carnegie Corporation gave the fine arts institute $750, designated for Peter Ruthven, Grad., son of Pres- ident Ruthven, to continue his re- search on Islamic carved ivories in Europe. He said last night that he would spend next summer in various European cities. Two new degrees, master of science in public health engineering, and a higher one, public health engineer, were created by the Regents. They will be administered by the civil en- gineering department with the coop- eration of the hygiene and public health department. Regent Junius E. Beal, Ann Arbor. gave to the archives collection 23 vol- umes of the Ann Arbor Courier, pub- lished here about 60 years ago, and of which his father was for a long time the editor. Griffith Appointed Gordon Griffith; a graduate of Princeton University who has been employed by the First Detroit Cor- poration for the past six years, was appointed assistant investment offi- cer effective April 1. Dr. Russell N. Dejong of the neu- rology department was appointed as- sistant professor and Dr. Ruth C. Wanston was advanced from assis- tant professor to associate professor in the pathology department. Both appointments will be effective July 1. Miss Bessie Whitaker was appoint- ed associate professor of speech and director of speech reading in the In- stitute for Human 'Adjustment- Speech Clinic. Her appointment will be effective July 1. Tenant Resigns The Regents accepted the resig- nation of Miss Agnes Tenant, who has been superintendent of nurses in the State Psychopathic Hospital here . for the past 30 years. Requests for leaves for the next school year were granted to Prof Charles F. Remer, acting chairman of the economics department, Prof E. W. Dow of the history depart- ment, Prof. Everett S. Brown of the (Continued on Page 2) W. I. MVcI enzie To Talk Today At Allenel Hotel Wetroi Democratic candidate for State su- preme court justice, and Arthur E Erickson, Ironwood, Democratic can- didate for state superintendent o: public instruction, will speak at 1 p.m today after a luncheon in the main: dining room of the Allenel Hotel. The luncheon, which is being spon. sored by the Washtenaw Count: Democratic Committee, will be oper. to anyone interested. Persons desir- ing to hear the speakers but not wish- ing to attend the luncheon may joir the group when the program begins Mr. McKenzie was graduated fron the Law School in 1915. He serves as assistant U.S. District Attorney it 1919 in Detroit and has been presiden and treasurer of the Wayne Count: - Bar Association. _Dean Bates To Testify Before Court Committei , Dean Henry M. Bates of the Lav school left Thursday afternoon fo ' Washington, D. C. to testify befor+ - the Senate Judiciary Committee , n- in i a llii- - h - ,, - n- - - ' Oadds Are 1,000 T'o 1 Against Repetition Of TWA Air Crash Odds of 1,000 to 1, or even 10,000 to 1 prevail against a repetition of the freak air conditions that caused the; crash of the TWA airliner piloted by Lawrence Bohnet, former University student, outside of Pittsburgh on Wednesday, according to George Downs, flying instructor at Ann Ar- bor airport. Apparently the accident occured when, due to icing conditions in a very small area, the ailerons froze and Bohnet was unable to prevent the ship from spinning, Downs said. In normal flight position even under the worst conditions the ailerons are almost never affected, and only a combination of exceptional weather in a small zoneand the turning po- sition of the plane could have been responsible, Downs declared. Bohnet, who was well known at the airport during his two years at Mich- igan, had a reputation even then as an extremely capable pilot. He leaned to fly at the Naval Training station at Pensacola, Fla. and flew in the naval reserve while up north. Enrolled in the electrical engineer- ing department here, Bohnet did not graduate, lacking a few hours for a degree when he quit school for com- mercial flying. While a student he had a 2.7 average. Denominations To Hold Union Easter Service Sunrise Program Planned For 7 A.M.; May Be Held In Auditorium Easter Sunday will be observed in Ann Arbor with an interdenomina- tional sunrise service and special programs in all churches tomorrow. The sunrise service will be held at 7 a.m. tomorrow on the mall be- tween the architectural school and the University High School. If the weather is inclement, the services will be held in the auditorium of the architectural school. The interde- nominational service is under the di- rection of a central committee repre- senting the Disciples, Lutheran, Methodist, Baptist and Presbyter- ian Guilds. William Barndt, '37, is chairman of the committee consist- ing of Geil Duffendack, '37, Wesley Purkiss, '37, Mildred Sweet, Grad. " Helen Orvis, Grad., and Wilbu Mindel, '38. The Rev. Dr. W. P. Lemon, min- 'ister of the First Presbyterian - Church, will give the message with 1 .a sermon entitled "Life After Life' following a selection by the Anti- phonal choir. Dr.Lemon will giv the benediction. To accommodate the crowds tha in former years have been 'turned away, the Methodist Episcopa Church will conduct two services to morrow, one at 8 a.m. the other a 10:30 a.m. . Two Easter breakfasts at 7 an 9:30 a.m. will be served to the publi at Stalker Hal Reservations shoul be made at her Stalker Hall : the Methodist Church, according t the church. "Irresistible Immortality" is the subject upon which Dr. Lemon wi] speak at 10:45 a.m. at the First Pres byterian Church. Instrumental an choral numbers will be a feature o the service. Martin Thompson wi direct the choir and double quar" tette. ' A sunrise service will be held b: (Continued on Page 2) As Progress Is Made Debate Continues - v9 Non-Committal Smile Believe Agreement Will Be Rushed Because Of Lewis' N.Y._Meeting Agreement Hinges On Bargaining Pact 90,000 Workers Are Idle; Dependent On Chrysler Strike Settlement Strike Parley i s t s p f a a n i v s v k s t c -Associated Press Photo Walter P. Chrysler, chairman of the Chrysler' corporation, whose eight factories in Michigan were' occupied by sit-down strikers, looked happy as he emerged from a conference in Lansing with John L. Lewis, CIO director, and Gov. Frank Murphy. Material View Says In Of Spiritual Must Share The Understanding Heredity LANSING, March 26.--( )--Gover- nor Frank Murphy said tonight 'progress was made" in negotiations toward settlement of the Chrysler strike, which has kept at least 10,000 persons idle. The governor, emerging :rom the fifth session of the conference in which Walter P. Chrysler, chairman of the corporation bearing his name, and John L. Lewis, head of the Coin- mittee for Industrial Organization, which is supporting the striking un- ion, declined to say final agreement was near. "Not a great deal separates them," said Murphy, appearing tired and worn, a condition he attributed to a bad cold. "Progress was made. Both sides are striving earnestly to reach a settlement." Conference To Continue Originally today's conferences were to have adjourned at noon until Tues- day. Asked whether the continuation of negotiations tomorrow was indicative of approximate settlement, the gov- ernor said, "I wouldn't say so." Murphy said both Chrysler and Lewis would return to New York Sat- urday night because of personal obli- gations, but indicated they would re- turn to Lansing if no agreement had been reached by then. "This conference will continue until a settlement is reached," he, said. Adding to the belief that a Chry- sler bargaining pact may be near was the fact that Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, wishes to be present at New York conferences on a bituminous mine wage and working contract. Settlement of this dispute, with a provision for return to work pending adjustment of other demands relat- ing to seniority, wages and working conditions, would start production wheels moving again in ten Chrysler plants, eight of them evacuated by strikers in Detroit Thursday. Briggs Would Eid Idleness In addition to the more than 60,- 000 Chrysler employes such aa az rangement would return to their jobs, about 19,400 Briggs Manufacturing Company workers, making bodies for Chrysler cars, would end a period of enforced idleness. Governor Murphy has conferred with officials of the Hudson Motor Car Co. at Detroit, whose more than 10,000 workers are idle because of a sit-down strike, and of the Reo Company at Lansing, where a sim- ilar strike has thrown 2,200 employes of the truck manufacturing concern out of work. He is known to believe settlements in these strikes may fol- low a Chrysler agreement. An understanding of heredity is im- possible until science takes the spir- itual into consideration or religion ac- cepts what science has to offer, Dr. B. Jimenez told an open meeting of the Theosophical society last night in the League. Tracing the history of heredity in I the relation to science, Dr. Jimenez showed that while science has been able to show how physical traits can be transmitted from parent to son, the spiritual or soul qualities are the result of the reincarnation in the body of the child which are the result of a number of stages of growth which range from the savage to the spir- itual, or final, stage. The spiritual can develop wisdom from experience, respond to inspira- tion, select environment and govern reactions, and attain to spiritual unity, while the physical cells can keep the body intact and repair it when necessary, Dr. Jimenez stated. The talk was the first of a series, the second of which, dealing with re- incarnation in the light of heredity, will be given April 23. COLD EASTER FORECAST A forecast of a cold Easter was is- sued yesterday to a nation already shivering in temperatures scaling down to 42 degrees below normal. Mawkish Poem Terml ed ia _ " Of The 'Naive Am erica ' Period By ROBERT PERLMAN "Etiquette for Husbands and Wives,' I "Hill's Manual of Social and Busi- "Out in the gloomy night, sadly I ness Forms," recommended "Always roam, leave home with a tender good-bye I have no mother dear, no pleasantalavinhom dsith or tey gaydby h 'and loving words," fo tey may b hNobody cares for me, no one the last." The manuel was "a Guide to Nobod cr Correct Writing, with Approved would cry Methods in Speaking and Acting in Even if poor Bessie should die. the Various Relations of Life, Em- Barefoot and tired, I've wandered bracing Instruction and Examples in all day, Penmanship, Spelling, Use of Capi- Asking for work, but I'm too small tal Letters, Punctuation, Composi- they say; On the damp ground I must now lie tion, Writing for the Press, Proof- my head-- reading, Epistolary Correspondence mthead-kNotes of Invitation, Cards, Commer- Father's a drunkard, and mother is cial Forms, Legal Business Forms dead!" Family Records, Synonyms, Short- hand Writing. Duties of a Secretary In Olden Days They Had A Word For It, And It Was Slang, Too By BOB FITZHENRY The weird epithets commonly mouthed by the contemporary Mich- igan undergraduate may be indigen- ous to the 20th century but according to an issue of the Michigan Alumnus of a decade before the turn of the cen- tury former generations too had their peculiar patois. The female of the species it was who bore the greatest number of soubriquets. If a young lady were studying to be a doctor for example, "hen-medic" became her monicker, whereas if she were simply a first- year student she resolved herself into a "freshlet." A delightful or charm- ing person was invariably appraised a "la I" w rsmetimes even a "lu In" uppers." A campus reprobate was adjudged a "wild Willy" while a writer was doomed as an "inkslinger." The piece of pie which one received at his boarding house was always ter- ribly "skinchy" in size, whereas the landlady's son invariably got a "soc- dolger." No matter how small the portion, one "sank his lunch hooks" in with alacrity. A comparison of the slang in vogue at the time at other colleges reveals that each campus had an indigenous vocabulary. Whereas at Michigan a person under the influence of liquor had a "jag on" or was simply "teed up" at Amherst there were various stages of inebriation consisting of "semi-pleased" (about half full) "nleased" (rather full) and "nar- Plans For Spring Parley Being Made The subject for the 1936-37 Spring Parley will be decided upon tomor- row evening with a meeting of the executive committee of the Parley, under the chairmanship of Ralph Danhof of the sociology department. The committee, which has been meeting for two months preparing plans for the parley, consists of 36 students chosen by a continuing com- mittee selected at the conference held last spring. The Parley is sponsored by the Council of Religion and has as adviser Dr. Edward W. Blakeman, counselor in religious education. Services To Be Given By Presbyterian Guild "They went and made the sepul- cher sure, sealing the stone, the guard being with them." Matthew 27:66. The sixth in the series of morning watches being held during Holy Week in the League Chapel under the auspices of a general commit- . _ .. _ "_ _ _- - - - .1 .- - - MONTS, France, March 26.-(AP)-