The Weatlit Cloudy; slight change in temperature. L A& 4kpp 444tr 't an AW ~Iaiti Editorials Problems Of The Housing Committee .. I VOL. XLVII No. 133 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1937 PRICE FIVE CENTS Bates Asserts Judiciary Plan May Overrun People's Land' Local Big wigs Well Paid Off In Latest B.M.O.. Bluebook Law School Dean Move Neither Nor Progressive Brands Liberal Cream Of Crop Unmasked j In 32-Page Book Being' Sold On Campus Today Michigan's 221 B.M.O.C.'s, those Olympian figures that hold down the important campus jobs or are giants of the social world, are the subjects+ of a booklet that is being sold on campus today. j Entitled "The B.M.O.C. (big men 1 on campus) Bluebook," in its 321 pages 145 juniors and seniors are' described, according to the preface,; "with no attempt made to catalogue+ the activities or statistics of the va- rious victims, other than to index1 the names alphabetically. CommentsI have been calculated to typify in- dividuals, not as the editors see them, . but as the Campus views them. We 1 have tried to keep our remarks brief and unsweetened to the point of I piquancy." l Among the 145 upperclassmen that are listed and commented upon, there are 45 women included who prove no more invulnerable to the stinging finger of notoriety than the men. Freshmen and sophomores are listed as embryo B.M.O.C.'s with no at- tempt made to classify their campus accomplishments. Besides the superabundance of opprobium, the Bluebook is seasoned by the inclusion of pictures of the various celebrities. The last issue of the Bluebook was in 1934 and then as now, the authors remained in careful anonymity. Copies of the Bluebook may be bought behind Angell Hall, on the Diagonal at the Engineering Arch in front of the Union and in the League. According to its "anonymous" au- thors it can also be purchased at such establishments as Wahr's, the Parrot, the Bell, and Drake's. The price is 25 cents. Denies That Crisis Exists At Present WASHINGTON, April 1..-)P- Dean Henry M. Bates of the Law School asserted today that what has been described by President Roose- velt as . a "no man's land" should more properly be called "the people's land." He added the people should decide its use. Opposing the Roosevelt court bill before the Senate Judiciary Com- mittee, the Michigan educator said proposals for a new tribunal to in- terpret the Constitution might result in "the people's land" being "invad- ed" without their consent. Facing one of his old law school pupils-Chairman Ashurst (Dem., Ariz.), of the committee-Dean Bates contended the Roosevelt court pro- posal was not "liberal and progres- sive." Asserting it. would move "to- ward a theory of government trium- phant in part of Europe at the pres- ent time," he described the measure as being "retrogressive and reac- tionary." Questioned By Logan Senator Logan (Dem., Ky), asked Dean Bates whether if he were trying a case before a jury of nine and knew from the jury's past decisions that it was against him, he would not ask the judge for an increase to 15 members. "Possibly," the dean replied. "But when I was trying cases before juries I felt the number 12 was heaven born." "You would not consider such a move packing the jury, but an at- tempt to get people with an open mind, Wouldn't you? Logan asked.. "If there was some legal, existing method I would of course avail my- self of it" Dean Bates replied. But he added that he doubted whether he would take such action if he was "in control" of the machinery. "Why is it unethical for the Presi- dent to ask Congress, instead of the judge, for an increase in the num- ber of judges so that'fair and im- partial men could be selected to re- try the cases and see if a mistake had been made?" Logan asked. Dangerous Proposal "It is not unethical," Bates replied. "It is dangerous." "What is the danger in asking for fair and impartial men to re-examine the cass?" "It is this. The proposition is not to follow the existing and normal way of filling the court," Bates said. He added that if normal vacancies occured on the court he would ex- pect, and consider it proper for, the President to fill them with men whose views he had confidence in."1 Senators Balk At Recording Strike Protest Guffey-Vinson Bill Vote Stalled As Upper House DebatesViolently WASHINGTON, April 1.-(')-A proposal to put Congress on record against the sit-down strike technique threw the Senate into violent debate today and forestalled a vote on the Guffey-Vinson coal bill. The proposal offered by Demo- cratic Senator Byrnes of South Car- olina, evoked Republican demands that President Roosevelt declare his policy on sit-downs. Senator Vandenberg (Rep., Mich.) criticized the Administration for re- maining as "silent as the tomb about preserving law and order and civ- ilized society." Senator Johnson 4Rep., Calif.) contended a federal statute made it the "imperative duty of the President to intervene in the sit-down situa- tion." , Byrnes' amendment would insert, the following statement in the coal bill: "It is declared to be the public policy of the United States that no Dickstein Asks House Inquiry Into U.S. Nazis U.S. German Reply; Ask For An Investigation Of Organization WASHINGTON, April 1.-(P)- .Rep. Dickstein (Dem., N.Y.) predict- ed tonight that the House would vote next week to investigate charges that Nazi agents are drilling troops in the United States and attempting to establish a fascist state. Dickstein's resolution for an in-I quiry received the approval of the House Rules Committee today. "There won't be ten votes against' it when it reaches the floor," Dick- stein said. "We are going to clean house in this country." Fritz Kuhn, hed of the American- German Volksbund, said tonight in New York he would welcome an in- vestigation of his organization as tT~merder by the House Rules Committee in Washington this after-E noon. He said, however, that he would demand that the inquiry, if approved, by the House, also include the non- sectarian Anti-Nazi League, which he described as the "organization of Samuel Untermeyer and Represen- tative Dickstein." It was Dickstein (Dem., N.Y.) who, proposed the investigation of the Volksbund in a resolution charging that Kuhn had organized 200,000 Americans into storm troopers in an effort to establish a Fascist state in the United States. Propose Continuing Teachers' Tenure LANSING, April 1.-(,R'-A bill which would provide continuing ten- ure for school teachers after they have proved satisfactory in two years of probationary employment was in-, troduced today by Reps. Mervin W. Tomlin, (Dem., Port Huron), and George O'Hara, (Dem., Atlantic Mine). The bill would create a state ten- ure commission composed of the su- perintendent of public instruction and five other members appointed by the Governor, to serve staggered five- year terms. To this commission the dismissed teacher would have the right of appeal. Under the law a teacher who had served out the term of probation could be dismissed only after formal charges had been preferred at least 60 days before the end of the school year and the teacher had been given a hearing. Martin Defends Sit-Down Strike Before Miners Says Technique Is Resurti Of Lawlessness Of Auto Corporations GILLESPIE, Ill., April 1.-(R)- Homer Martin, president of the United Automobile Workers of Amer- ica, defended the sit-down strike as' a "technique in the working classes' struggle for their rights" before a group of miners here today, and de- clared "we will continue to use this method where it is necessary." The Automobile Union head came here at the invitation of the Gilles- pie Progressive Miners' Local No. 1. John Fisher, president of the local, said Martin was asked to give infor- mation on recent labor' troubles in Michigan. Martin asserted the sit-down strike was a direct result of lawlessness on the part of automobile corporations. "I hadn't ought to be telling this on General Motors now since we have an agreement with them," he said. "But these people hollering about law obedience make me tired. We couldn't begin to approach the law- lessness practiced by these corpora- tions in their attempt to break the workers' unions. "The sit-down strike was spontan- eous. It came after the corporations had set the example for lawlessness." Martin declared the workers had merely stayed inside the plants to avoid certain death if they had gone outside. "The corporations themselves gave birth to the sit-down strike-it's their baby," he continued "even though they now claim it's an illegitimate child. "The sit-down is effective. When the corporations find a way to com- bat this method and beat down the workers in their own factories, we'll figure out something else," he de- clared. "The corporations are going to deal collectively with the workers, and if they do it honestly they won't have to contend with sit-down strik- ers." Tie-Up In Coal, Strike Parley Brinos Recess' Only 30 Days Bituminous Supply Is Left Above Ground For Industry Mine Workers Ask 50 Cent Increase NEW YORK, April 1.-(P)-Still deadlocked, the committee of miners and operators negotiating a new wage and hour agreement for the soft coal industry recessed tonight until to- morrow afternoon. President Roosevelt's intervention unless an agreement was reached soon was predicted in usually well- informed quarters. United Mine Workers officials said 400,000 miners would stay away from work tomorrow and would not go back until the new agreement was signed. The operators estimated about 30 days coal supply was above ground. Two Hour Meeting After a two hour meeting of the negotiating committee of eight min- ers and eight operators tonight, John L. Lewis, union president, gave the following explanation for the recess: "The operators asked more time. They evidently want to think it over." Asked whether there would be a strike tomorrow, Lewis said: "There won't be any work." The strike theoretically started last midnight when the working agree- ment between miners and operators expired. Actually, it will start to- morrow morning unless the miners are notified beforehand a new- agree- ment has been signed. Today was John L. Lewis Day, a miners' holiday celebrating the eight-hour day. Edward F. McGrady, assistant sec- retary of labor, said he would "offer the Federal government's services" if today's negotiations proved fruitless. He refused to say, however, whether he would propose extension of the old contract while negotiations pro- ceeded. Workers' Demands The United Mine Workers' demand for an increase of 50 cents in the old basic daily pay rate of $5.50, an increase of nine cents in the com- bined cutting and loading rate for miners paid by the ton, and time and one half for overtime is the only re- maining issue. The Union has withdrawn demands for a 30-hour work week, two weeks vacation with pay and a guarantee of 200 days work each year. Operators were reported in in- formed quarters to be willing to grant the 50 cent increase in the day rate. They were said, however, to be unanimously opposed to time and one-half for overtime. House Crushes Probe Of State Hihway Dept' College Women flail A ffiliation Quest ion As Biggest Problem LOS ANGELES, April l.-/P)-The most important problem in the life of a modern college girl is not men or money-but whether to join a sor- ority-in the opinion of several prom- inent eastern delegates to the Inter- collegiate Association of Women Students' conference here. The girls, all sorority members, as- seraed a Greek letter pin no longer is1 a requisite for a successful career as a coed. "Until recently, the so-called in- dependent' girl was virtually lost on most college campuses," said Kath- erine Skehan, of Richmond, Va., a Cornell delegate. "Usually, she wasI not popular socially and had Vmost' no chance to hold any student of- fices. But that's changing rapidly now." "As a matter of fact," agreed Lois strikers to leave Yellow Truck and Baird of Denison University, "if a Coach, and Fisher Body plants at. girl is ambitious to hold offices, it is Pontiac, Mich. sometimes easier if she is an inde- Governor Frank Murphy's confer- pendent. ence seeking end to Chrysler strike "All sororities' like to have their affecting 80,000 workers, to resume members in these offices. Hence, Friday; presence of Walter P. Chry- there is sometimes bitter competition ! sler and John L. Lewis uncertain. in the elections." Sit-down strikes continue at Hud- At Michigan State College, said son Motor Car Co., Detroit, affecting Jane Shaw of Detroit, sororities are 10,000, and Reo Motor Car Co., Lan- declining in importance for the same sing, with 2,200 idle. GM Walkout Boosts Total Idle In Motor Strikes To 120,000, Labor At A Glance O. New sit-down strikes affect 19,000 workers in General Motors divisions, bringing total automotive idle to nearly 121,000. Conference between William S. Knudsen, General Motors vice-pres- ident, and Homer Martin, United Au- tomobile Workers president, sched- uled for Friday. Union .officials seek to persuade (i i reason. Charlotte D. Rueger, '37 and Mary- anna Chockley, '37, are representing the University at the conference. Negotiations to avert threatened strike at Oshawa, Ont., plant of Gen- era Motors of Canada to open Fri- day at Toronto. Ford Company 200 Strikers Starts Building Peacefully Quit Own Tire Plant Book - Cadillac Brick And Steel Structure At River Rouge To Cost Over Three Millions DETROIT, April 1.-(A')-Excava- tion work for the Ford Motor Com- pany's first tire and rubber manu- facturing plant, a $3,500,000 brick and steel structure, has begun at River Rouge, it was reported re- liably today. The building, designed to cover 450,000 square feet of floor space, probably will be completed within five months and company officials expect to start full production be- Ifore the end of the year, informed sources said. The new step in the Ford Com- - pany's plan to meet some of its own tire requirements was made known following the disclosure Wednesday at Akron, O., that Ford had awarded a contract to the National Rubber MViachinery Co. The contract for more than $1,- )00,000 worth of tire vulcanizers and moulding equipment was described as the largest single order for tire manufacturing machinery ever placed. The building contract, which will run between $1,000,000 and $1,500,- 000, calls for 5,000 tons of steel. In- formed sources said the cost of allI equipment in the factory would be close to $2,000,000. The Ford Company, which has a policy of making part of everything it uses, also has indicated concern over the possibility of labor disputes that would tie up the supply of tires. The tire factory plan also gave# rise to rumors that the company might be expecting the first ship- ments of crude rubber from some of the Ford rubber plantations in South America. Present plans indicate the com- pany will manufacture about half of its tire requirements. HAS TRIPLETS AGAIN ADRIA, Italy, April 1.-(P)-Elvira Viovan Ardi, who gave birth to trip-' lets last year, bore three more chil- rdren today. The 28-year-old woman is the wife of a fascist soldier now in Africa., Police Threat Of Eviction Ends Sit-Down Feature In Two and Half Hours DETROIT, April 41.-(,P) - Two hundred striking employes of the towering Book Cadillac Hotel left voluntarily tonight, after police threatened to come in and throw them out. The sit-down feature of the strike lasted for two and one-half hours. The strikers, clustered in the Casino dining room, had just voted unani- mously to occupy the hotel until the management agreed to their de- mands when Police Superintendent Fred Frahm delivered his ultimatum. "The order is that you cannot oc- -upy other people's property," he said. "That is over. You can strike. in the ordinary way, but you must get out. If you don't there are 200 policemen outside who can come in and throw you out." Then the strikers voted unani- m'ously to leave. They said they would picket the hotel. Several hundred policemen pa- trolled Detroit's four largest down- town hotels for the second time in three weeks a's the dispute flared anew in the 27-story Book Cadillac. 'Millions Of Dollars Cut From Securities NEW YORK, April 1.-(P)-Many millions of dollars were lopped off quoted values of United States govt ernment obligations today in an ac- celerated decline which followed Sec- retary Morgenthau's assurance Fed- eral agencies had sufficient funds to make an "orderly" market. The .decline was checked in late trading by formidable buying sup- port ,attributed by Wall Street chief- ly to official sources, after losses ranging up to about $12.50 per $1,- 000 face value bond had been record- ed. The drop was the widest of the de- cline from the peaks of the big bull, market in gilt-edged bonds touched toward the close of 1936 and one of the most severe in recent years. G.M. Head, Union Chief Will Confer In Parley Arranged For Today Former Agreement Is Cause Of Dispute DETROIT, April 1.-(P)-A walk- out of union employes suspended op- erations in all units of the Chevrolet Motor Company at Flint, tonight, adding nearly 12,000 more to the number of automobile workers al- ready idle in Michigan. Only a few hours before the big Chevrolet division at Flint was closed, arrangements had been made for a conference tomorrow between Gen- eral Motors' operating head and the president of the United Automobile Workers of America. Evacuation of General Motors au- tomotive plants closed by new sit- down strikes started tonight after an agreement for negotiations Friday between high officials of the corpor- ation and the strikers' Union. 120,000 Now Idle The final assembly line and parts and service divisions of the Chevro- let Motor Company's plant at Flint,. were the first to. be vacated. The strikes raised the motor car industry's total idle to nearly 120,000, highest since the nationwide General Motors strikes of January and February. Assembly line workers will return to work tomorrow; operations in the parts and service division were to be resumed tonight. Within a few hours after strikes in three General Motors divisions threw 17,300 employes out of work at Pon- tiac and Flint, two officers of the United Automobile Workers of Amer- ica, after conferring with corpora- tion representatives, headed for those cities to try to persuade the men to return to their jobs. They had arranged for aconfer- ence tomorrow between William S. Knudsen, General Motors executive vice-president, and Homer Martin, president of the Union. Meeting Tomorrow Also scheduled for tomorrow is the renewal of conferences in Gov. Frank Murphy's office at Lansing seeking an end to strikes in Chrysler Corpora- tion automobile plants here which have thrown more than 80,000 wage- earners out of work. There was un- certainty, however, whether Walter P. Chrysler, corporation chairman, or John L. Lewis, head of the Commit- tee for Industrial organization, would be present at the 11 a.m. hour set for a meeting. Both have beer, in New York attending to other business, since the negotiations adjourned early this week. The new General Motors strikes, Ed Hall, union vice-president ,said, cen- tered about the shop committee pro- visions of the agreement signed March 12 which ended the long labor dispute that at one time caused 135,- 000 workers to be idle. Hall said the strikes were "a pro- test of the men against the plant managers" refusal to recognize and deal with their committees juniors To Plead Harsh Words Are At SIpporters Service Law DirectedI Of Civil Court To Plan Symposium Hear Aigler, Fuller Prof. Ralph W. Aigler of the Law School and Richard C. Fuller of theI sociology department will conduct a symposium on the President's Court Plan, Sunday, under the au-1 pices of the Union Forum Commit- tee, H. Murray Campbell, '38, its di-I rector, announced yesterday. It will be held at 4:30 p.m. in the main ballroom of the Union. 'Cannons Before Butter' Slogan1 Retained In Germany, Ellis Says LANSING, April 1. - (P) - The Democratic House majority smoth- ered today a Republican-sponsored resolution demanding an investiga- tion of State Highway department contributions to legislators' campaign funds. The House was in an uproar in the wordy battle, during which harsh words were direcieG at some support- ers of a proposed civil service law for state government. . The demand for an investigation came from Reps. Maurice E. Post,' (Rep., Rockford), and James W. Helme, (Rep., Adrian), after William P. Lovett, head of the state merit system association, had charged in newspaper interviews that highway department campaign contributions were connected in some way with House opposition to the civil service bill. Rep. Chester B. Fitzgerald, (Dem., Detroit), chairman of the state af- fairs committee in which the civil service bill has lain bogged for weeks, fired the opening barrage at Lovett with a speech and a resolution sub- mitted from the floor. ' He charged Lovett headed a lobby which "openly and untruthfully, and viciously" has spread propaganda Law Club's Purchase Of Canned Goods Needs Care, Economist Says After five weeks of preparation, eight juniors in the four case clubs at Law School will argue in two trials to be held this afternoon, with the four outstanding speakers to be chosen for the finals to be held on Friday, April 23. In one of the two semi-final trials, Lorenzo T. Carlisle, Jr., and Richard E. Cross will oppose Charles L. Moore and Milton A. Kramer. The case will be argued before Professors Ralph W. Aigler, Burke Shartel, and Paul G. Kauper, of the law faculty, in Room 120, Hutchins Hall. 'Nebulous' Blind Dates Give Variety To April 1 The prevalent belief that Michigan freshmen have no awe for the sanc- tity of upperclassmen was substan- tiated last night when Howard Begin, '37, and Jack Zelder, '38, had an otherwise dull April Fool's Day liv- ened up for them. Cases By SAUL R. KLEIMAN "Cannons before butter" is still the German national slogan, but the cannons are now being made for foreign consumption, Prof. Howard Ellis of the economics department said in an interview yesterday. He explained that Germany is temporarily easing her own rearm- ament program in order to consoli- date her economic position. But, he pointed out, this does not mean that armament production in the Third England, and Berhard Koehler, head of the Nazi "Commission on Eco- nomic Policy," proclaimed a new drive to expand German exports, especially for payment in cash. The result has been a 50 per cent reduc- tion in the import allowance for German rearmament and the "Er- satz" program with a proportionate increase in the amount of raw ma- terials for the exporting industries. Previously, under the system whereby the government completely EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the third in a series oftarticles dealing with the position of the consumer. By TUURE TENANDER The consumer should be very care- ful when entering the food market. especially when intent upon purchas- ing canned goods, Robert R. Horner of the economics department said yesterday. "Canned goods in this country are not specifically labeled as to grade," Mr. Horner said. "The main ob- jection that is raised by manufac- fiii-re n A nh r nrrl n.rc~ of a can or in advertising are as poor a guide to intelligent purchasing as price'. The A & P peas sold in the South and labeled "Fancy" were so Lough and lacking in flavor and uni- formity that they were listed among the poorest of those tested," Con- sumers Union stated in its report for October of last year. "Compulsory government grading of all canned products, which would require the information . . . to be placed right on the label of every can sold, is the only means by which