The Weather Snow changing to rain today; rising tempzratures; tomorrow probabiy snow and colder- t " t ctYt tt Editorials Gabriele D'Annunzio The Fight Against Cancer... VOL. xLVIII. No. 110 ANI ARBOR, MICHIGAN SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 1938 PRICE FIVE CENTS _ ._ i f ... 64 Candidates AskForobsIn Student Senate ElectionFriday P.R. Election On Campu's To Be Held March 11; Will Publish Platforms Candidates To Meel. FacultySponsors A last minute rush of Student Sen- ate petitions yesterday raised to 64 the number of candidates and gave pro- mise of a three-cornered fight with the injection into the race of two more parties, the Conservative and Progressive Independent. The United Liberal Coalition had registered Mon- day. The campus-wide P.R. election of 32 Senators will be March 11. The Daily invites candidates to present a short platform and will print those submitted to it before Wednesday. All 64 candidates and others inter- ested in the Senate will meet with faculty members and the Senate Sponsoring Committee at 4 p.m. Tues- day in the Union. Those who wish to serve as counters and clerks for the election should report at 4 p.m. Monday to the Union. Candidates Listed . The list of candidates in their order of filing follows: Liberal-Peace-Republican: Carl A. Viehe, '39; Liberal: George H. Gang- were, '39, and Tom Adams, '40. United Liberal Coalition: Joseph I S. Mattes, '38; Hope Hartwig, '38, Phil Westbrook, '40, Martin B. Dwor- kis, '40, Albert Mayio, '39, Stanley Le- bergott, '38, Ann Vicary, '40, Jack Ses- sions, '40, Robert H. Edmonds, Grad., Tom Downs, '39, George Mutnick, '39, Joseph Gies, '39, Frances Orr, '40, Irv- ing Silverman, '38 and Tuure Ten- ander, '38. Young Communist League: Philip D. Cummins, '39; Unaffiliated; Har- old Ossepow, '39; Student Religious Association: Charles C. Buck, '40; In- dependent ProgressiVe: Richard Loeb, '40; Progressive Democracy: Rolfe 1 Weil, '40; Liberty-Equality-F'rater- nity: Robert M. Perlman, Grad. and Neil A. Ball, '38; Independent Con- servative: Donald H. Treadwell, '40; Non-Partisan: John P. O'Hara, '39. Independents Named Ann Arbor Independents: Cecile M. 'ranking, .39; Fraternity Liberal: Louis H. Grossman, '40; International Typographical Union: G. Kerby Jen- nings,rGrad; Unaffiliated: Charles E. Kistler, '39 and Charles S. Quarles, '39; Liberal Conservative: Alfred H. Lovell, Jr.; Unoffiliated: Donald C. May, '38; International (Friends) Council: Anand M. Kelker, '39E; Lib- eral-Peace-Republican: Jack H. Wil- cox, '39. Progressive Independent: Marvin W. Reider, '39, Seymour Spelman, '39, Allen Braun, '40, Roland Rhead, '40 and Edward Wetter, '39; Conserva- tive Independent: Alfred L. Baumann, (Continued on Page 2) Labor To Hold Demonstration To Show Sympathy For Local Strikers Today A mass demonstration of sympathy for members of the typographical union striking against the Ann Arbor Press will be staged from 10 to 12 a.m. today when representatives of organized labor in Ann Arbor, of student organization, and members of the typographical union in othel Michigan cities join the picket line in front of the Press building. About 100 persons are expected tc participate, in the demonstration, according to Lewis Falstreaux, chair- man of the strike committee. Th Trades and Labor Council, a body representing all unions in this city, the local typographical union, the Progressive Club and the Graduate School, as well as typographica unions from Pontiac, Detroit and Flint will be among those organiza. tions represented. Literary Magazine Issues Tryout Call The editorial staff of the new cam. pus literary magazine took the firs step toward completing its personne yesterday when it announced that i would call a tryouts' meeting at 4:1'r " rn A nn + inthePubicantion Local Strikers Carry On Ioused Above Rat Exterminator Plant Union Official Attempting we are concerned, the picketing can Settemen Of -Wgo on indefinitely" Settlement Of 2Week her si of the street, on Old Press Walk-Otu the second floor of 308 Maynard Street, the Union local has estab- By EARL R. GILMAN lished strike headquarters-peculiarly Members of composition classes on!Ienough---above a rat exterminating Mamu s ilfid msit n masea for company. Union spokesmen state: campus will find suitable material for "We are going to strike until we a novel equal in length to "Gone With exterminate the rats' from the Ann The Wind" or "Anthony Adverse" if Ar borPress." they apply immediately in the gen- Active picketing had been going on eral neighborhood of 317 Maynard util Wednesday. Then two things Street where a printers' strike is in jhiappened: progress. (1.) It began to rain .heavily. Situated at the above address is 2.) The Ann Arbor Press closed the Ann Arbor Press which is alleged temporarily when it loaded most of to have precipitated the present strike its employes into cars and headed which began on Saturday, Feb. 19 toward the general direction of De- when it fired several members of the troit. International Typographical Union. The strikers were pretty well de- Included was one Joseph Sobecki, the cided on the first point. They felt day foreman, who curiously enough that it would be .silly to picket in was fired just one day after he joined the rain-it might give Mr. Wiltse the Union. a chance to stick his head out of a However, Arthur J. Wiltse, co- second story window and holler out: owner of the company, maintains. "You guys are all wet!" 'We do not fear the strike. The shop They were not quite so sure about is operating normally and as far as why all the employes were loaded into cars, though several spokesmen were willing to "hazard a guess" Ni emoeller Se t that Mr. Wiltse and Horace Pretty- man, another owner, were taking the people into Detroit so that they could To Disciplinary show the National Labor Relations Board that the complaints which the _ NaUnion had made against the Press Camp By l' azi were unfounded. Mr. Wiltse could not be reached for a definite state- ment on the above. Gestapo Overrides Court The strikers claim that they were Decision Giving Pastor working in abominable surroundings. sv v g(Continued on Page 6) Two Ex-Soviet Ambassadors Termned.Sies Recalled Envoys To China And Germany Implicated In Great Treason Trial Reveal Plot rTo slay Stalin, Red Leaders MOSCOW, March 4.---(,P4)-A letter n secret chemical ink brought the names of two recalled Soviet am- bassadors today into the great web, f conspiracies confessed by the 21 defendants in Moscow's greatest trea- on trial. Plotters already executed were inked with D. V. Bogomoloff, former nvoy to China, who was recalled un- explainedly from Nanking last Sep- :ember, and Dr. Constantine Youre- neff, who was called home from Ber- in and since has been rumored under arrest. The two ambassadors were named by Christian Rakovsky, one of the lefendants and himself once the So- viet's ambassador to France. The mysterious letter, addressed to, Youreneff and signed by Gregory Piatakoff, a former vice-commissar of heavy industry who was executed as a conspirator, said a certain gov- ernment would approach Rakovsky. It also implicated Bogomoloff. Rakovsky said he already had met an important public figure in Japan and they had agreed "our aims and those of a certain government coin- cide." Another sensational disclosure was of a plan to seize the Kremlin and' kill Joseph Stalin and other RussianI leaders in May, 1937. Mikhail N.1 Tukhachevsky, brilliant Red Army Marshal who has been executed, wasl pictured as the ringleader. In conspiracies to dismember theI Soviet Union and build a capitalist state on the ashes of the Soviet, the, defendants told of plots to enlist the aid of Germany, Japan, Great Brit- ain, Italy and Poland. They accused Piatakoff and Ad- miral Vladimir R. Orloff, both of whom died at traitors; Marshal Jan Garmanik, who committed suicide shortly before Tukhachevsky was shot, and Leon Sedoff, Leon Trotsky's son, who died in Paris last month. The confession of Faysulla Khod- jaieff, once president of the Uzbek Soviet Republic and admitted leader of a separatist movement, divulged unsuccessful attempts to invoke Brit- ish aid to separate middle Asia from the Soviet Union through armed re- volt. Wage-Hour Bill M nvNo Pss. . ... .-I w 1 /-V /"V 7 .r" 4 'Do Or Die For Guam' Sunny Skies GTreet California As 5-Day Ra9n, Floods Abate NORMAN THOMAS Thomas Sees His Complete Freedom' BERLIN, March 4.-OP)-Pastor Martin Niemoeller, rallying point of Protestant opposition to Nazi efforts to dominate the Church, has been sent to a concentration camp by the German secret police despite his be- ing set free by a court. His wife collapsed when she was told today that her husband had been, sent to the Sachsenhausen, Saxony, camp. His six children and friends despaired of ever seeing him free again when the full significance of his detention at Sachsenhausen dawned on them. Many Bible Students In that camp of about 3,400 "cus-I todied" men are said to be nearly 1,-I 000 members of the International Bible Students Association and others who have run afoul of the Nazi re- gime' for reasons of conscience. The Gestapo, the secret police, is claimed on good authority to be de- termined ' none of these "offenders against the state" would ever be re- leased again unless they retract and promise to change their attitude of opposition. Niemoeller's past gives little hope that he is likely to come around to the point of view of the Gestapo, which has sole discretion as to how long he is to be held in "protective custody." ' Justice Minister Fails Even the Minister of Justice, Franz Guertmer, was reported reliably to have been unable to save Niemoeller from the Gestapo. He was said to have fought against handing the pas- tor over to the secret police. Niemoeller, after seven months in prison, was brought to trial and Wednesday was sentenced to seven months in jail and fined $600 for attacking leaders of the State and using the pulpit improperly. ASK MORGAN TO RESIGN WASHINGTON, March 4.-(A)- Members of the Tennessee Valley Au- I *hority called for the resignation of ' Chairman Arthur E. Morgan today in a statement made the more emphatic by the fact that President Roosevelt himself released it to the press. Jackson Gets Empty Solicitor1 General's Postr Congress Overwhelmingly Approves Selection Of 'Big Business' Opponent WASHINGTON, March 4.-(Al)- An overwhelming 62-to-4 Senate vote today confirmed the nomination of Robert H. Jackson, a top-flight ad--s ministration business adviser, to be,.t Solicitor General. I Jackson, now an assistant attorney general, has been a vigorous critic of "big business" and has been promi- nent in drafting administration plans to restrict monopoly. He will succeed' Stanley F. Reed, now a justice oft the Supreme Court.' Jackson, a 46-year-old New Yorker, will have charge of defending Con- gressional enactments before the high tribunal as Solicitor General. The Senate vote found 54 Demo- crats, four Republicans, two Farmer- Laborites. one Independent and one Progressive voting for confirmation. Senator King (Dem., Utah) and Senators Austin of Vermont, Half of Maine and McNary of Oregon, U. S. Involved In World War. Roosevelt Policy, Idealism, And Nationalism Likelyt Factors Responsible By SAUL R. KLEIMAN v Chauvinistic nationalism, the ideal-'1 ism of collective security and the Roosevelt Administration's "policy of b no policy" are the three forces thatI make likely America's involvement in a new world war, Norman Thomas, three times Socialist candidate forY the Presidency, told the audience ofa more than 600 that crowded into the Congregational Church yesterday. Shaking his audience again anda again with biting bits of ironic hu-r mor, Mr Thomas outlined a six- point program to fight war. He sug-5 gested: g s . Outlines Plan i 1) Withdrawal of American troops and nationals from China. 2) Defeat of the "Big Navy Bill" e and utilization of the money in-! volved for an extensive low-cost hous- ing program. 3) Enforcement of an improvedr nuetrality act in the Far East based upon the cash and carry principle. 4) Revival of the Ludlow Amend- ment bringing it to the floor of the1 House for debate.t 5) Defeat of the May Bill (form-1 erly the Hill-Shepard Bill) embody- ing the war department's plans for mobilization of labor and industryt upon the outbreak of war. 6) Boycott by individuals of goods} manufactured by aggressor nations.. There is, however, no perfect solu- tion for the entire problem of war1 today, Mr. Thomas emphasized. In the "long view," he said, the only true guarantee of peace will be a federation of socialist nations in a "cooperative commonwealth." Condemns Naval Policy He heartily condemned the Vin-' son Naval policy which, he said, com- mits the United States to a Navy large enough to defend both coasts at the same time,aprotect the Pana- ma Canal, Hawaii, the insular pos- sessions and American interests all over the world. "The insular posses- sions:" he said, "some of you boys will be happy dying for dear old Guam." The Panay had no business to be on the Yangtze River, Mr. Thmmas said, explaining that if the Neutrality Act had been enforced the gun-boat would have been withdrawn. "The - presence of the Panay, he said, "was (Continued on Page 6) To Show Art Collection t At Alumni Memorial Hall t A four-day exhibit of photographs of Chinese subjects will begin today in Alumni Memorial Hall, Shih Min Cheng, Grad., announced yesterday. s The collection, which is composed of between 200 and 00 photographs, - concerned with pre-war and artistic subjects, shows such things as farm life, the Imperial palace, landscapes Utile Coinpares University To 'Comic opera' DETROIT, March 4.-(Special to the Daily)-The "comic opera" that is the modern university has made little progress in the past decade, Dr. Clarence Cook Little, former presi- a dent of the University, declared last t night. 1 Dr. Little was in Detroit to address f the Detroit Institute of Arts on can- cer. . His 'comparison of university lifet with Gilbert and Sullivan came in an interview preceding his address. t "The modern university," he said, reminds me of a comic opera in that no matter what the actors, youc always get the same music-state po- litical groups, alumni, athletics, andr various educational theories-and they are mostly all funny."' Dr. Little declared that there has been little advance in education since his hectic and colorful career at Michigan ended in 1928. "The principles are still the same,"t he said, "and educators still talk' about changing them without doing it. "For instance," he explained, "They are still talking about the principleN of replacing some of the studentsi now attending college with others notX able to be in college-through some system of competitive examinations or other means. They are still try-i ing-and failing-to place primary emphasis on the student-to make the1 student the real reason for having an education as it i, too many peoplee are more interested in theories and regulations, forms and unimportante restrictions. -"We trust too much," Dr. LittleI said, "that a changing civilization will be good to all that is kind ahd true and beautiful and we put too little emphasis on seeing to it that1 the student not only knows what is kind and beautiful but also how to fit it into the world." The noted scientist thinks, however,1 that people on the whole. are more tolerant than they were when he was president of the University. "Lib- eral ideas," he said, "are received with much less opposition now than; they were formerly. One reason is (Continued on Page 2) Brewery Explodes Taking Lives Of 3 NEW YORK, March 4.-(IP)-Ex- plosions described by wide-eyed wit- nesses as "sounding like an earth- quake" destroyed a brewerynbuilding in upper Manhattan today, took at least three lives, injured 15 persons and spread incalculable damage about the crowded neighborhood. Hundreds of stores and apartment buildings in a radius of many blocks were left without windows and debris was strewn about the streets and in some instances upon far away lamp posts and traffic signs. Fire Marshal Thomas Brophy said it appeared the blasts had been caused by the ignition of coal dust in the boiler rooms of the Horton Brewery by an electric spark from a welding machine. District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey ordered an investigation. MARINES HALT 75 JAPS SHANGHAI, March 4.-(.I')-Unit- ed States Marine guards were re- ported by police today to have halted a force of 75 Japanese soldiers at the Bubbling Well Road boundary of the American defense sector. Estimate And ,Damages Reaching Into Tens Of Millions Railroads Expect To Break Isolation LOS ANGELES, March 4.-()- Soggy southern California raked mud and debris under sunny skies today o determine the life and property osses in five days of rainstorm and lood. Death and damage figures fluctuat- ed with the faltering of communica- tion lines. It seemed the toll might be 198 lives and the devastation in the tens of millions of dollars. A recheck of casualties late in the day showed 74 bodies found, 56 or which were identified. Others re- ported missing aggregated 124. Many sections remained isolated but large areas were slowly shaking off the storm paralysis. 30 Bodies Found Orange County appeared to be the scene of the greatest floods. The mad Santa Ana river, breaking over wide areas, was roprted to have caused 60 deaths. Thirty bodies were found. In Los Angeles County 30 bodies were reported recovered, 23 of them identified. Thirty others were re- ported lost. There were some 3,000 homeless in Orange County and 2,800 refugees in Los Angeles County alone. County Health Officer John L. Pomeroy of Los Angeles said there was no danger to public health yet evident. Food supplies were ade- quate. Army airplanes joined in the effort to drop supplies in the isolated mountain areas. The Southern Pacific expected to break the railroad isolation of South- ern California before morning. Sarta Fe officials established bus connec- tions to the Bristow area. Limited Traffic Moves Limited highway traffic was get- ting through the coast highway to Santa Barbara. Los Angeles engineers estimated damage in the city at $3,000,000 and county road and bridge damage at $8,000,000. San Bernardino reported $500,000 damage; Pasadena $715,000, Glendale $100,000, Santa Monica $50,000, Glendora $39,000. The government provided a pos- sible agency for rehabilitation when President Roosevelt signed a bill ex- tending the life of the Disaster Loan Corporation, enabling it to advance funds to areas affected by catastro- phies during 1938. Fred R.. Hough Dies At Home University Electrician Dead After Lingering Illness Fred Rutherford Hough, 62 years old, chief electrician of the Univer- sity for 27 years, died yesterday at his home, 1111 E. Washington St., after a lingering illness. Hough was born in 1875 in Pon- tiac. He came here from Bay City 27 years ago, and became a member of the Ann Arbor and Washtenaw chapter of fraternity lodge F&A.M. and the Ann Arbor chapter of Zal Gaz IGrotto. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Agnes Hough; four daughters, Mrs. John Burzan, Mrs. Mitchell Werwa, Ethel A. Hough; and Mrs. Irving Coleman; three sons, George J., Jerome F. and Fred R. Hough, Jr.; four grandchil- dren; and a sister, Mrs. Edward Coo- per of Los Angeles, Calif. Funeral services will be held at 4 p.m. tomorrow at St. Andrew's Epis- copal Church. The Rev. Henry Lewis will officiate. Interment will be in Arbor Crest Cemetery. Has 198 Dead '38 Congress all P4epublicans, opposed. Senator Norris (Ind., Neb.) made ai speech supporting Jackson, saying! Roosevelt Indicates Doubt he would make an apt nominee for the Supreme Court or President. Wiliot Pratt To Concerts On Resume Carillonj Back yesterday from a two-month stay at the Bok Carillon, Mountain Lake, Fla., Wilmot Pratt, carillon- neur, will resume his carillon con- certs with a broadcast from noon to 12:30 p.m. tomorrow over WJR. Mr. Pratt, while in Florida, worked with the noted Belgian carillonneur, Anton Brees. His regular noon-day recital will begin Monday and his Sunday series next week at I1' a m. League Of Nations Executive Declares Tribunal Will Not Die For Bill As He Enters Fifth Presidential Year WASHINGTON, March 4.-{I'}- President Roosevelt is beginning to entertain doubts that wage-hour leg- islation-important part of his legis- lative program-will be passed by Congress this year. At a press conference today, he de- clared his objectives are unchanged and that "the old ship of state is still on its same course," but said the legislation to put a floor -under wages and a ceiling over hours might not go through this session. He made it plain that he would like to see it get ithrough. The wage-hour proposal has en- countered' strong opopsition in Con- gress, especially from southereners who helped kill a bill last year, con- tending it might cripple the growing I industries of the South. Recently a House subcommittee decided to "be- gin all over again" in an effort t draft a bill acceptable to various fac tions. Aside from the disclosure abou wage-hours, Mr. Roosevelt devoted his press conference today largely to a discussion of policy during the pas five years, and in the future. Thi was the fifth anniversary of his firs inauguration. As major objectives, he mentione financial stability, increased pur chasing power, and an end to specia privileges. The already enacted cror control law he described as a step to ward more purchasing power and h cited the proposed wage-hour legis lation as a contribution to the sam end. By NORMAN A. SCHORR "In the mad confusion of the inter- national crisis, anything can happen; but we in Geneva feel certain of just one thing-the League will not die," declared Arthur Sweetser, one of the directors of the Secretariat of the League of Nations, yesterday after- noon in an interview with the Daily Mr. Sweetser, an American, who has been connected with the League since its inception in 1920, is in this country to study at close hand the points of contact between the League and the United States, and in Ann Arbor on a short visit with Prof. Charles F. Remer of the economics department. "Any one of a dozen things may hanuen at any moment that may, extremely divided on the question," some being passionately in favor of one form, while others as passionate- ly in favor of the other," it was stated. "The Covenant of the League will not change greatly, but the method of actual execution of its provisions will depend on the particular political circumstances surrounding each case. This fact was established beyond any doubt by Mr. Chamberlain in his recent speech." Mr. Sweetser referred to the Feb. 22 speech of the British Prime Min- ister, when the latter said, "I would not change a 'single article in the covenant, not even Article XVI (the sanctions article) in the hope that some day it might be reconstituted in such a form." d o I >t ci t I d - . e e e and gardens. Carr Believes England Will ,Not Give Back Germany's Colonies By ROBERT D. MITCHELL England probably will not offer to give Germany back its colonies to di-' vert the recent threats at Austria and Czechoslovakia, in the opinion of Prof. E. H. Carr of the University College of Wales, former Secretary of the British Foreign Office and University lecturer here. Although reluctant to see any growth of German power in Europe, whether Germany would consent to any agreement on its central Euro- pean policies and also doubt as to whether sacrifice of English colonies would do any more than merely postpone the German plans for Eu- ropean expansion. Hitler, he said, has always taken the stand that for- eing policy was Germany's own busi- ness and not subject to interference by other nations . mrl a ntinin[71- Choffa rt -nni I e C Tickets For Military Ball To Go On Sale Tickets for the 20th Annual Mili- tary Ball, Friday, April 29, will go on sale Monday at R.O.T.C. headquar-