The Weather LL Cloudy, cooler in extreme south, with light rain today; tomorrow partly cloudy. Ait iga n OWELIMUL IMMOMPMGM vatt Editorials Life Insurance.. VOL. XLYII No. 136 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 1937 PRICE FIVE CENTS CampusAction Opposing War WinsApproval Of University Site Same As Last Year; Two Items Of Document Are Unapproved Four-Point Program Of Action Is Set Up Part pation of the campus in the April \22 nation-wide anti war dem- onstration was assured last night by the University Peace Council, when it announced acceptance by. the University of all except two sections of its petition. A four-point plan of action was adopted by the Council at its regular meeting to ask the University to re- consider granting permission for the passage of resolutions. The council will forego an attempt to re-appeal for the use of the library steps as a site. Contact Governor Murphy The demonstration will be held on the mail between the University High, School and the College of Ar- chitecture, the same location on which 2,000 students assembled last year. Classes will be dismissed for an hour at 11 a.m. The Council was contacting Gov. Frank Murphy last night as one of, the possible speakers for the meet-; ing. Other persons being consid-; ered are Heywood Broun, notedE Sc'ripps-Howard newspaper colum- nist, and Paul De Kruif, author.I The plea for reconsideration for the passage of resolutions will be addressed by Prof. Henry C. An- derson, director of alumni-student1 relations and representative for President Ruthven in negotiations with the Peace Council ;and thea council of deans which will convene tomorrow. Faculty Supports Petition Faculty support for the petition has already been registered by Dr. Edward W. Blakeman, counselor in religious education, P rof. Howard B. Calderwood, of the political science department, Prof. John P. Dawson and Prof. John E. Tracy of the Law School, and Prof. John F. Shepard of the psychology department. Professor Anderson was reported to have objected to the passage of resolutions because they might be construed as expression of official University opinion. The resolutions which the Council (Continued on Page 6) Fascist Forces Retaliate; Win In Nor th Spain Basque StrongholdTaken In Advance To Durango; Halt Guadalajara Drive (By The Associated Press) Spanish Insurgents countered their foe's victory drive in southern Spain Monday night with triumphs in the North. They captured the Basque strong- hold of Ochandiano and three vil- lages, Clateta, Verderin and' Mon- chategus, in their offensive against Bilbao, Basque capital. An advance of three miles brought them within six miles of Durango, key to the Bilbao defenses. Bilbao is 16 miles from Durango. Two sharp Insurgent attacks on the Guadalajara front were repulsed by the government, whose southern army pressed on in Cordoba province to capture the village of La Gran- juela. This success opened a direct path for government attack on the Insur- gents holding the valuable Pen Aroya coal mines. Police in Madrid seized a store of bombs and arms in one of the cap- ital's principal markets. They said this action, which included the ar- rest of 12 men, had broken up a plot to convert the market and a nearby hotel into an Insurgent fortress. A government spokesmen in Rome asserted Italy may withdraw from the European "Hands-off Spain" agreement on the basis of charges France -had violated it. His statement followed charges by the authoritative Italian newspaper Giornale d'Italia that France has "flagrantly violated" the accord. Ann Arbor's New Mayor WALTER C. SADLER Solution Close In Conference on Auto Strike Murphy Fails To Comment As Chrysler Meeting Has Recess UntilToday LANSING, April 5.-(')-A con- ference between Walter P. Chrysler and John L. Lewis on the Chrysler automotive strike adjourned tonight without reaching a settlement, which earlier reports had said might come in "a matter of hours." "There is no comment I can make," Gov. Frank Murphy, Michigan's in- dustrial peacemaker, announced as the negotiators recessed until 10 a.m. (EST) tomorrow. An authoritative source disclosed that an agreement might be reached tomorrow or Wednesday. This in- formant said the final pact will be "far more explicit than the General Motors plan" and will be so careful- ly drawn "that only minor distur- bances can follow." Ifidifr ist1 'l during the 'day were that Chrysler, chairman of his cor- poration's board, and Lewis, head of the Committee for Industrial Or- ganization, together with their asso- ciates, had been laboring over final phraseology of the strike settlement formula. "I would not say that," was Gov- ernor Murhpy's answer, however, when newsmen asked if an agree- ment had been reached tentatively but awaited final drafting. His reply came immediately after the night's adjournment. The Governor said that the Chrys- ler conferees would converse with their plant managers tonight, prob- ably by telephone. Dr. William Haber, University of Michigan ecoqomics professor and one of Governor Murhpys' advisers, entered the Governor's office before the session ended. He would not re- veal his mission, and it was not known whether he was with Murphy alone 'or whether the other nego- tiators were present. German Group To Give green Cockatoo' Here Arthur Schnitzler's drama "The Green Cockatoo" will be presented by Deutscher Verein at 8:30pp.m. today in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. The action of the play occurs on the day of the storming of the Bas- tille, July 14, 1789. Into the inn around which the drama revolves, Schnitzler has introduced all the es- sential elements that contributed to the French Revolution, according to Otto Graf, of the' German depart- ment, director The cast, which has beeninre- hearsal for six weeks, is composed entirely of members of Deutscher Verein. Last night, amid a stage replete with powdered wigs, dangling swords rnd groups of the Parisian mob, the dress rehearsal was held. Many of the cast were chosen by Prof. Henry A. Nordmeyer, according to one of the principals, who as- serted further that it is believed that Professor Nordmeyer in most in- stances chose those persons whose personal characteristics were almost exactly consonant with the charac- ters in the play.- The principals in the plav include Bill To Control Coal Industry Passes Senate. Majority Quashes Attempt At Changing Act; Raise Constitutionality Doubt Votes Down Clause On Sitdown Strike WASHINGTON, April 5.--(P)-The Guffey-Vinson Coal Bill, represent- ing the newest effort to regulate the soft coal industry, passed the Senate today and went to the House for ac- tion on a stack of amendments, most of them minor. The" Administration mn a j o r i t y squelched all efforts to alter material features of the bill and pushed the measure through with a 58-15 vote, despite warnings by some Senators that parts of it might be invalidated by the Supreme Court. Before the final vote, the Senate rejected the anti-sit-down strike amendment which had blocked action for three days. fo tBorah Amendment Fails Senator Borah (Rep., Ida.) made a last-minute effort to eliminate from' the bill a section exempting coal pro- ducers from prosecution under anti- trust laws because of their compli- ance with the measure. His proposal went down, 58 to 23. The bill is similar to the old Guffey act, but does not contain labor pro- visions which the Supreme Court found objectionable when it invali- dated the earlier legislation last May Proponents assured the Senate every effort had been made to meet the Court's objections in the new bill. The measure would create a seven- man National Bituminous Coal Com- mission,to fix minimum prices based on cost of production and to enforce a code of fair practices. The Com- mission also would have authority to fix maximum prices. Constitutionality Argued The question of the measure's con- stitutionality was raised several times during the debate. Senator Tydings (Dem., Md.) voted fo, the bill but said proposed control of intra-state coal transactions might invalidate the measure. Senator Borah contended the Sen- ate had no authority to exempt coal producers from the Sherman Anti- Trust 4ct. He contended a specific exemption would not be necessary because the price-fixing and fair practices involved would not violate the anti-trust stattes. If the ex- emption were given, he asserted, pro- ducers might use it to form price combinations. Shed To Aid Wings In Rangers Series. Johnny Sherf, former Michigan ace hockey player and this season with the Pittsburgh Hornets, en- trained with the Detroit Red Wings for New York last night. He was called by Manager Jack Adams for the purpose of filling an emergency or as a replacement at left wing, should he be needed. Sheff played as a member of the Michigan hockey teams in the 12, '33 and '34 seasons when he was given All-American left wing post. He was co-captain in the 1934-35 team and held the individual scoring records for Michigan 'players until last year when it was broken by Vic Heyliger. Adams regarded Sherf as major league material his first year out of school, when he played on the Olym- pics. This year, however, Adams had no need for left wingers so he shipped Sherf to Pittsburgh. TW I T~~ 1U d l' U.1 Spring Parley Gains Support From Ruthven Faculty Counselors To Be Humnphries, Blakeman, And Angell First Meeting Set; Topics Decided On is Detroit Returns Favored To Carry Democratic1 Nominees For Regfent Leading In Race President Ruthven lent his support 1________ yesterday to the plans for the sev- enth annual Spring Parley, which Republicans A will convene at the Union on Friday, May 7 to construct "A Program for For Three Our Times" in a week-end of debate and panel discussions. Voicing approval of the general Superintendent 0 purpose of the Parley and the main IsrcinJl theme, President Ruthven suggested Instruction Job consideration of the specific sub- Won By Elliott topics and faculty panel by the ad- visory committee nominated by the Edmund C. Shields, student group and approved by him- self. Lansing, and Richard R. The committee consists of Prof. publican, Grand Rapids, head Offices f PublicI Is Easily Democrat, Smith, Re- were' lead- Returns From All Wards Excppt 7th Show Sadler 194 Votes Ahead Prof. Young Wins Council Presidency City Balloting On Gives Murf in, Small Majorities Regents Shields ladler Wins Mayoralty Position As Close Fight Marks Regents' Election Prof. Walter C. Sadler of the Col- lege of Engineering was virtually as- sured of election as mayor at 4 a.m. Charles F. Remer, acting chairman ing at 4 a.m. today for the posts of of the economics department, Dean Regent of the University with the Wilbur R. Humphries of the literary'voefrm267utfthsaes college, Prof. Robert Angell of the votes from 2,627 out of the state's sociology department, and Dr. Ed- 3,480 precincts counted. ward Blakeman, counselor of religion. In one of the closest spring elec- The subtopics were accepted and tions in the history of the state, the unanimously approvedathadmeeting Democratic and Republican candi- of campus organization heads Sun- day. Members of the faculty panel dates for the Board of Regents fought will be selected at a meeting today of to gain or hold slim margins as over the student executive council from a 200 precincts from Wayne county re- general list of nominations sub- mitted by the all-campus group. Both the panel and the sub-topics as well as the final organizational plans of the Parley will be sent to the advisory committee Wednesday. Following the procedure of former years, the Parley will open with twoI general sessions Friday afternoon and night. On Saturday, seven sec- tion meetings will be held simultane- ously during the afternoon and night to discuss the different phases of the general question. A session on Sun- day morning to correlate the discus- sions of the various sections will con- clude the Parley. The seven approaches to the "Pro- gram For Our Times" will be: 1. Our Economic System-handsI (Continued on Page 2) Daily Had Locked Its Forms; No War Story Printed Here At 2 a.m. twenty years ago today, The Michigan Daily had locked its forms and gone to press, carrying as its latest flash on the World War, that debate on the question was still l progressing in the House and Sen- ate. A few minutes later, an excited member of the United Press in De- troit called up and informed an un- derstaff member of The Daily that America had entered the war. "We're not interested," the embryonic jour- -nalist said, "we've already gone to press." Thus the Michigan Daily did not carry the story of America's entrance into the war for 11 days, for the issue Apri 6, 1917 was the last one before Spring Vacation that year. f However, The Daily of April 17, 1917, the first one published after Spring Vacation adequately compen- sated for the blunder of the young staff member. Eighty inches of the 102 inches of copy on the front page were devoted to the war and its various angles, both local and na- tional. One particularly interesting story, boxed at the top of the page, told of a letter from the Council of National Defense urging all medical students to finish their medical course. "The country needs the trained and not the untrained serv- ices of its medical students," it said. 1 'W iClfl B itS7 1d - - - - - i S mained unheard from. Wayne Returns Slow The returns from Wayne county, slow in coming, were expected to de- feat Mr. Murfin after being a mem- ber of the Board of Regents since 1917. Mr. Smith has been a Regent since 1931. Mr. Shields served as Regent in 1933 when he was appointed by for-# mer Gov. William A. Comstock. He1 was graduated from the literary col- lege of the University in 1894 and received his law degree here in 1896. During his six years in college he, was active in major sports. He is at present a member of the Democratic National Committee for Michigan. Mr. Lynch was graduated from the literary college in 1910 and re- ceived his law degree two years later. He is a member of the Michigan State Bar and the Detroit Bar Asso- ciation. Elliott Wins Eugene B. Elliott, Republican Sup-' erintendent of Public Instruction, had an outstate lead of approximate- ly 40,000 when more than two thirds of the precincts outside of Wayne county reported. Indications were it might rise to more than 50,000 in complete outstate returns. The Wayne county vote-in 450 precincts which had reported-ran about three to two in favor of the Democrats. To wipe out Elliott's lead a Wayne county vote of 250,000 would be required, should all ratios continue unchanged. Two Republican justices of the Su- preme Court were slightly behind Elliott, They had outstate leads of more than 30,000. Their supporters' believed they had a chance of win- ning. Van Wagoner Reelected' The reelection of Murray D. Van Wagoner, Democratic state highway' commissioner, was conceded. The trend of the voting pointed to victory' for Democratic candidates for the State Board of Agriculture and the State Board of Education. Republican hopes for the election of at least one candidate on their ticket soared as Elliott's outstate ma- jority continued to pile up and the early Wayne county returns were surprisingly small. In this combina- tion they saw the possibility of sal- vaging something from what had looked like a clean sweep, for the Democrats in the earlier returns. ' Indications were the final vote for both Superintendent of Public In- struction and justices of the Supreme Court might be close. To Pick Champion Debate Team Here The State championship highi school debate will be held in Hilll Auditorium at 8:15 p.m. April 30; it was announced yesterday by Prof. Gail Densmore of the speech depart- ment. The four high schools still remain- ing in the tournament are Flint Nor- thern, Detroit Mackenzie, Ionia and Elsie. The semi-finals will be held in Flint and Elsie. Freshmen of the University will put on an exhibition debate for the high EDMUND C. SHIELDS Independents Plan Activities Over Vacation Dinner Meeting Scheduled For April 20; To Invite Faculty Members A program of activity during the i Spring Vacation aiming toward the 3 vitalization and crystallization of plans for organization was discussed and approved at ,the meeting of thet Independents last night at the Union.I The hope was expressed by thef chairman, Bruce Telfer, '38, and sev-I eral members, that the programi would be completpd sufficiently to allow the selection of committees along functional lines at the nextc dinner 'meeting to be held Tuesday,f April 20, at the Union. It was urged that all members and others interested attend the meeting the second day after vacation in the7 event that committees selections are made. Cards of notification will also be sent to members. It was further decided that faculty and student speakers address the+ dinner meeting. Arrangements are to be made by Telfer, who is a mem- ber of the Union Executive Council,+ and by several members of the In-. dependents' Executive Committee. Investigation into organization plans at other universites and col- leges was placed in the hands of the Executive Committee to complete during Spring Vacation. The proposal that one of several faculty members be asked to serve on the Executive Committee and as- sume active participation in the or- ganization was agreed upon unani- mnously. Arrangements to approach several faculty members were subse- quently made. Leader D. Lef ies French Social PartyBreak-Up PARIS, April 5.-(A)-Col. Fran- cois ole la Rocque in an address to the nation tonight defied Premier Leon Blum to break his French Social Party, which the governmenthcharges, is the nationalist Croix de Feu under a new name. De la Rocque was indicted today with five of his aides on a charge of recreating the Croix de Feu, declared illegal by government decree. Chargingthat Blum's was a "dic- tatorial government," de la Rocque asserted tonight his party with a membership of more than 2,000,000 "cannot be destroyed nor sup- pressed." Called a Fascist chief by the Peo- ple's Front government, the Colonel warned that, "we will continue to work no matter what happens." ,. He assailed the General Confed- eration of Labor, which last month called a half-day general strike in the Paris area in protest against Fas- cism, as responsible for his indict- ment. ,his morning when complete returns from all voting districts except the strong Republican second precinct of he Seventh ward gave him a lead of 194 votes over his Democratic op- ponent, Arthur C. Lehman. The count stood 2796 to 2602. Professor Sadler said early today that he expected a majority of at east 600 votes in that precinct when the results are tabulated. The sec- and precinct of ward seven is the argest in the city and is Professor Sadler's home constituency. The entire Republican ticket was swept into office in the city to bear out pre-election predictions of the customary Republican victory, al- though the vote was one of the closest in years. Democratic leaders con- ceded victory in all city offices. All Republican candidates led in the county balloting' where 21 out of 36 precincts were reported. Murfin And Smith Lead Regents James o. Murfin of De- troit and Richard R. Smith of Grand Rapids led their Democratic oppon- ents, Edmund C. Shields and John D. Lynch by almost 2,000 votes each in the 21 precincts reported. Prof. Leigh J. Young of the forestry school, candidate for president of the city council, was unopposed in the election. Fred C. Perry, incumbent city clerk, was assured of reelection to the of- fice over his Democratic opponent, Harry H. Atwell. The count stood at 2,993 to 2,336 in the precincts that were reported. Herbert W. Crippen, present. city assessor was far ahead of William C. Gerstner, Democrat, 3,323 to -1,956, and Jay H. Payne, Republican jus- tice of the peace was certain of re- election over Hubert Thompson, Democrat. The nearly complete re- sults place him comfortably ahead, 3,267 to 2,062. Democrats Carry Ward Five Results of the voting for super- visor, alderman and constable were available in only the second, third and fifth wards. In the fifth ward the Democrats carried all three offices, Louis C. Bauer defeating Werner A. Hinter- man for supervisor, 177 to 135 and Arbie C. Clever defeating Nuel E. Smock for alderman, 204 to 113. Jo- seph Gross, constable, was unopposed. Murray D. VanWagoner, Demo- cratic state highway commissioner, was running behind in the county where 33 out of 36 precincts gave Charles M. Zeigler, Republican, 6,395 votes to 5501 for Van Wagoner. T. Reardon Peirsol, chairman of the Sixth ward Republican commit- tee, refused to comment yesterday on charges made Saturday by George Smith that he had intimidated Smith into withdrawing his nominating pe- tition as Republican candidate for supervisor from that ward to leave the field open for the Democratic candidate, Prof. George C. S. Ben- son, of the University Bureau of Gov- ernment. Democrats Win Four The Democratic candidates carried four of the seven wards in the city to poll one of the strongest Demo- cratic votes ever recorded here. The wards which went Democratic were the second, third, fourth and fifth. Their margins were slight, however, in all except the light voting fifth ward where it was almost two to one. The Republicans made up for their losses in the Sixth ward which went Republican by three to one, and the seventh ward where the margin is expected to be even larger. The vote by wards for mayor: First ward-Sadler, 336; Lehman, 228. i inturnallIonaidL nres t vviirni War In Decade, Slosson Asserts By ALBERT MAYIO depression that even that meager New religions with their gods being xistence was denied to them," he the gods of the totalitarian state, are ad' "Manchuria, Germany, Spain, andAustria are outstanding examples forming an integral part of a pat- of nations with dictatorships and ag- tern of international unrest-an un- I gressive foreign policies arising out rest which will lead to ,war within of economic poverty." ten years-according to Prof. Preston I The 20-year cycle, Professor Slos- W. Slosson of the history depart- son explained, is the intermittent ment. period of time which seems always to Speaking before the Westminster be punctuated by war. The imme- Guild Sunday, Professor Slosson diate impressions of the last war are stated that the other general causes always forgotten, he said, by the for such a war are a prevailing ten- youth of the participating nations. dency to form leagues and alliances The new generation which has arisen and economic distress. since the World War did not experi- Lack of trade, not lack of colonies, ence the war, but the peace that foi- is the chief economic reason for war, owed- thev know. only too well.