The Weather Mwderate to fresh southc-ast to southwest winds; partly cloudy today. Ap Daitp Editorials A New Workshop For Play Production.. . Christian Civilization ... VOL. XLVIII. No. 127 ANl ARBOR, MICHIGAN FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1938 PRICE FIVE CENTS International Student Center Planned Here Union To Be Headquarters For Foreign Section; Project Long Anticipated Aniolunce Opening For Next Semester An International Center, planned to be the headquarters for Michi- gan's 300 foreign students, will be a princeipal part of the new addition to the Men's Union, it was announced yesterday by Prof. J. Raleigh Nelson, counselor to foreign ;students. The project, which has been, planned for several years, is now as- sured with the fioating of the $550,- 000 bond issue announced earlier this week to finish the shell. Active in laying the plans have been President Ruthven, Professor Nelson, Dean Henry C. Anderson of the College of Engineering, Stanley G. Waltz, man- ager of the Union, and Prof. Lewis M. Gram, director of plant extension. To Be Part Of Union The University of f other powers. Envoys of GermanyI nd Italy apparently were absent. Lord Halifax, foreign secretary, re-t eated Chamberlain's statement, ther nost important declaration by at ritish Prime Minister since ther World War, in the House of Lords.t In his broad address, the lanky grime Minister also: 1. Rejected Soviet Russia's callI or a conference of "nonaggressive" I owers to resist aggressors. , 2. Urged that the League of Na-I ions be nursed "back to health" and ie made into a "front of overwhelm-1 nig power, Defends Rearmament4 3. Reaffirmed the government's view that nonintervention still was he best policy in Spain.i 4. Reiterated that quickening re- armament, especially for the Royal1 air force, and air raid precautions were essential. "Rearmament work," he declared, "must have first priority in the na--I ion's efforts." Purely European .in scope, the dec- aration -avoid4-mention- of the ; Drient. Italy Pledges Cooperation Chamberlain declared that Brit- an's friendship talks with Italy were "'fullof encouragement to those who regard appeasement in Europe as an objective to which the efforts of all men of good will should be directed." He said Italy had pledged her will- ingness "loyally to assist" in carrying out the British plan for withdrawal of foreign volunteers from Spain's civil war and reiterated her declara- tion she had no territorial or eco- nomic aims in Spain or the Balearic Islands. Library Receives Wenley Collection Of 5,000 Volumes The 5,000 volume library of the late Prof. Robert M. Wenley, head of the philosophy department for 30 years prior to his death is 1929, has been received recently by the Uni- versity library, according to Dr. Wil- liam W. Bishop, librarian. The books are the gift of Professor Wenley's four children. He "was philosophy" for many stu- dents, Prof. Roy Wood Sellars, pres- ent chairman of the philosophy d~e- partment, has declared. The Scotch- born philosopher, noted for popular- izing an extremely abstruse subj1ect, was one of the leaders in bringing the Union idea to this campus. The collection includes an auto- graphed presentation copy of James F. Thorne's "In The Time That Was," which will be sent to the Rare Book Room; William Wallace's "Epicur- eanism; a presentation copy of "The Field of Philosophy," by Joseph Leighton; and "Through Nature to Christ," by Edwin A. Abbott. 'Upstream' Dr. Lewisohn e LecWres Todayt On Religion Dr. Ludwig Lewisohn, one of America's outstanding novelists andF critics, will speak at 4:15 p.m. todayC in Hill Auditorium on "Religion as Historic Experience." 0 Noted chiefly, perhaps, as the au- thor of "Upstream," his autobiog- raphy, Lewisohn has written somef twenty novels dealing with race and1 religious conflicts and criticism on1 the drama and American, French and German literature.- Drama editor of the Nation in 1919, he served as associate editor of thatt periodical from 1920 to 1924, and formerly had been on the editorial board of Doubleday, Page and Co., He taught German language at the University, of Wisconsin and was as- sociate professor of German lan- guage and literature at Ohio State, University. Dr. Lewisohn has translated sev-i eral German works into English, .thei most well known of which are Ger- hart Hauptmann's dramatic works and Wasserman's the "World's Illu-; sion," and from the French, he has translated a collection of modern poetry. He has spent the last eight years for the most part in France lecturing{ and wdi~ng, Ja an Bolsters Mitary Powr B yMohilization Tokyo Spokesman Admits Fear That U.S. Naval BuildingAims At Orient Popular Front In New Crisis Deputies Vote Down Move To Bolster Defense By Tapping Stability Fund Present Cabinet Seen Nearing End PARIS, March 24.-(P)-France tonight faced a new cabinet crisis when the hostile Senate rejected one of Premier Leon Blum's financial bills and made it clear it wanted him to resign to make way for a National Union Government. Many deputies said the days of hir second People's Front Government formed March 13, were numbered. Strikes grew in the Paris region among metal workers and '6,000 chemical workers in factories \in the Lille district quit work for an hour and a half. The workers all belong to unions under control of the General Con- federation of Labor, one of the most powerful elements behind the Peo- ple's Front. Members of the Rightist labor or- ganization at the Citroen plants is- sued a protest against the strikes, calling them "illegal" and ordered "entirely for political ends." Leaflers of the more than 20,000 "inetallos" on strike in the Paris re- gion said their move vas for new collective contracts. The strikers themselves echoed a warning carried in Le Populaire, So- cialist -Party organ, that a national union government might be an ex- cuse to put Rightists into power. Leaders of the Lille strikers said their action was "only a warning" of a threatened occupation strike un- less the men won their fight for au- tomatic wage increases to keep step with rising prices. The Senate in its action against Blum rejected yD193to 48 vo bill aiready approved by tie:..ar ber of D'eputies to permit the premier to transfer a surplus from the"' change equalization fund to the spe- cial national defense account. Permission was sought to take 3,- 149,000,000 francs ($94,470,000) from the stabilization fund for defense needs. The Senate later adopted Money Defeat 'Perils. Blum' s 1 -1 a I -mm mr- *imr%%, Alk TOKYO, March 24.-N)-Japan today pushed forward plans to mob- ilize her manpower and economic re- sources both at home and in China. At the same time a Navy, spokes- man expressed the Island empire's fear that the United States Navy's $1,121,000,000 expansion bill indicat- ed the United States was consider- ing naval operations against Japan. The Lower House of Parliament unanimously adopted bills to create agencies for exploitation!of con- quered territories in China. The cabinet decreed that a new govern- ment in central China be established at Nanking, former capital of Gen- eralissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, "under the umbrella" of the, Japanese-spon- sored Peiping regime in north China. Chinese Advance SHANGHAL, March 25.-(Friday) --(A')-Chinese asserted today they, had forced back a Japanese outpost from the north bank of the Yellow River, on the 'northwestern side of the vital central front, Taking advantage of Japanese troop withdrawals to aid the stale- mated Suchow offensive, the Chinese said, two regiments crossed the river and ousted a Japanese garrison seven miles west of Menghsien. They said 400 Japanese were killed. a bill giving the government an ex- tra 5,000,000,000 francs ($150,000,- 000) from the Bank of France to meet current expenses. The margin was 156 votes to 137. Blum did not pin the fate of his government on the stabilization fund question and therefore remained in power. Fred Greiner Wins ratorical' Award Fred H. Greiner, '39, won the Uni- versity Oratorical finals yesterday, and a trip to Cleveland in May to the l4orthern Oratorical League con- test in which many Big Ten schools will compete. Stephen J. Madden, '38, was chosen as alternate. The American democratic system will not succeed uinless the college graduate enters politics, Greiner said in denouncing the political boss sys- tem. Madden spoke on "idberty and Justice for Whom?" The winners of yesterday's contest were among the five chosen in the preliminary contest a week ago. Olive E. Lockwood, Louis M. Eich, Dr. Henry Moses, and Harold Westlake, all of,, the speech department, were the judges. Insurgents Report Four New Victories Lynching Bill which they had talked to a standstill in the first six weeks of the session would not be revived' as an amendment. The comptroller bill would abolish that office and divide its duties be- tween the Director of the Budget and a new officer, an Auditor General. RUSSIAN IMPORTS HIT PEAK NEW YORK, March 24.-(P)-The Amtorg Trading Corporation said to- night Soviet Russia's purchases in this country during 1937 reached the highest point since 1930, Drive Will Aid China's Students Forced To Flee By Jap Attacks Here Is The Straight Dope On The Expense Of Marriage HENDAYE, France (At the Span- ish Frontier) March 24.-(R)-Span- ish Insurgents in northern Aragon today reported smashing victories along a 35 mile irregular front in a continuation of their sweep eastward toward the Xediterranean. Insurgent advices said four vil- lages fell to Insurgent Generalissimo Francisco Franco's fighters, whose next immediate objectives were Gov- erment mountain strongholds in the Sierra De Alcubierre, 25 miles east of Zaragoza. The Insurgents said one column oc- cupied the village of San Garren and Taberna De Isuela, some 10 miles south of Huesca on the road to Al- berobajo, in a converging movement By WILLIAM J., ELVIN "July 29, China's Nankai Univer- sity was subjected to two systematic aerial bombardments by Japanese pilots. The result was the almost complete destruction of the Univer- sity. Cavalrymen completed with kerosene what the incendiary bombs connected with Columbia University. The relief of Chinese students who have been forced into the interior by attacks such as that on Nankai University is the object of a $1,000 drive which is to be staged here next week. Dr. T. Z. Koo, leading Chinese educator and student leader, will be at Hill Auditorium Tuesday to give By VIRGINIA VOORHEES Don't marry on less than $30 a week; avoid arguments concerning clothes expenditures; share control of spending money! These items of advice are based on the results obtained by Henry F. Pringle in this month's survey con- trohs, small-town women and farm- ers' wives also feel, according to the survey that a bride and groom should not start out on less than the aforementioned $30 a week. The minimum for a family of four is placed by the majority of the women, the statistics show, at $44 a week.