The Weather Partly cloudy today; con- tinued cold wilh moderate winds. 12 A6F .Aft- Ash- MM-4&kN, jf% Ar att Editorials Fascism Talks- Can It Act?. I VOL. XLVIII. No. 134 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1938 PRICE FIVE CENTS Congress Gets Report Hitting Excessive Rate On Telephone Requests Conm u nications Commission To Consider All New Board Policies Gifford Declares Assertions Absurd WASHINGTON, April 1.-(P)-- Telephone rates of the Bell System could be cut approximately 25 per- cent without interrupting existing net earnings, Paul A. Walker, of the com- munications commission, said today in a report on a $1,500,000 investiga- tion of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. He recommended that Congress give the commission authority to pass upon all policies promulgated by the central management group of the A.T. and T. for the Bell System com- panies, its operating units. Further, Walker asked the legis- lators to rant the commission pow- er to reglate the costs and prices of telephone apparatus and equip- ment, to pass upon all inter-company contracts, and to regulate Bell Sys- temn financing. Issues Statement Walter S. Gifford, president of A.T. and T., immediately issued a state- ment declaring the two-year investi- gation directed by Walker had been "one-sided from start to finish." "We have not been given a copy of Commissioner Walker's report, said to contain 1,000 pages, but if the summary of it correctly reflects the report, it presents much that is sim- ply not true and has been prepared with the same unfairness that char- acterized the investigation proceed- ings," Gifford declared. "This country has the best, the most extensive, the most widely-used and the cheapest telephone service in the world. "In spite of this, it would appear that fault has been found wvithialrnost eveything this company has done throughout its existence. This just does not make sense. Earnings Not Excessive "Bell system caings have never been excessive. The suggestion that the rates might be reduced 25 per cent throughout the Bell System without reducing net earnings by changing depreciation and other ma- jor policies and practices is absurd." Walker's report, which the commis- sion sent to Congress, said unneces- sarily high costs result from certain major policies and practices of the Bell system, "including the cost of manufacturing telephone apparatus and equipment, engineering, research, and standardization policies, depre- ciation policies, license contract pay- ments, and segregation of plant rev- Raps Phone Rates I [ant A Date? W orley Flays ian Holds Recrti! Nothing To It;eU.S. Coddlin0 'Ensian kept its record yesterday Rule-Book . C of never doing anything on time. t .A uIv c Q Staff members under the direction ........_ ... House Attempt levolt Kills To Speed ,?AUL A. WALKERf Press Walkout Parley Halted Over lnj untion I T U Charges Collusion Between Management1 And Enployes Group Negotiations that had been under way for many days between the strik- ing local of the International Typo- graphical Union and the Ann Arbor I Press came to a standstill yesterday as union spokesmen charged collusion between the Press management and! the Independent Association of Ann Arbor Press Employees, Inc., in thel request for an injunction restraining ITU activities. The preliminary injunction, issued! Thursday by Circuit Court Judge George W. Sample, names 32 mem- bers of the ITU and Horace G. Pretty- man and Arthur J. Wiltse, co-part- ners in the Ann Arbor Press, as de- fendents. It was issued at the request of the Independent Association. Five of the ITU members named as respondents were served with the in- junction yesterday. The order restrains Wiltse and Prettyman from discharging any of their present employes "by reason of any intimidation or coercion" by the strikers and from re-employing any of the strikers "by reason of intimi- dation, duress or coercion to the det- riment of the members of the plaintiff Association until further order of the Court." The injunction, which was issued the day after another preliminary in- 'C7ntlnued on Page 2) Snate Passe BetBsiness Aid Bill .Broadening RFC Loan Powers Given Auuroval For men who make love by rule: The harried members of Athena and Sigma Rho Tau put their heads together this week and decided that social relations can be reduced to a few very simple maxims and learned from a book. The book they say has nothing to do with Emily Post. The literary school debating socie- ties, it is rumored, refused to take part because they support the old school of spontaneous love-making. They all had dates anyhow. Men, remember this and be a social success, the parley led off. The ideal time to arrive for a date is five min- utes late. "rhe first five minutes con- sist of preliminaries such as 'hello' and can be dispensed with anyhow." According to the feminine contin- gent "smoking and drinking depend upon the person. Petting too depends upon the person." Which can be ac- cepted as supporting the Dorothy Parker analysis. The men, however, disagreed pro- foundly. They claim they feel ob- ligated to make what are "purely con- ventional advances because they think women enjoy that sort of thing." This almost precipitated a brawl. The men really came to grips with campus problems by asserting that goodnights were demonstrations in inversearelation to the candlepower of the nearest lamp. A co-ed was heard to mutter that the great men of the generation got used to kissing babies in public. Pounding along the same lines the men confided that they enjoyed hav- ing a date grasp their arms at odd times such as when crossing the street or when walking on the sidewalks. One fellow confessed, while tension grew, that being clung to in broad daylight embarrassed him. He, how- ever, is a social outcast. US. England In Naval Race Two ations Fear Japan; Other Powers Notified LONDON, April 1 -(i)-Great Bri- tain and the United States today took the first formal action in a new su- per-battleship building race to meet Japanese naval building. The two powers announced they no longer would be bound by the 1936 London Naval -Treaty's upper limit of 35,000 tons for battleships because of fears Japan is building or has ordered warships of more than 40,000 tons. France, the third party to the 1936 pact, announced she would continue to observe the treaty's restrictions unless another continental European power passed the 35,000-ton limit. (The three powers on Feb. 5 asked Japan. a non-signatory of the treaty, for assurances she neither was build- ing nor intended to build warships exceeding the limitations in the pact.' (Failure to receive such assurances, the Island Empire was told, would lead to the assumption the Japanese government was not conforming to the restrictions and the treaty pow- ers would be obliged to resume "full liberty of action." Britain formally notified Germany and Soviet Russia, with whom she has separate treaties through which they came within the scope of the 1936 pact, as well as Italy and Japan of her battleship escalation. Claims Over 60,000 Miles Of Property No Longer1 Necessary For Servce Feidera (,Aonr ro h-as Kitle(I Leaders Urging that between 60,000 and 140,- 000 miles of railroad property be scrapped, Prof. John S. Worley of the engineering college, transporta- tion expert formerly connected with the I.C.C., yesterday broadcast over WJR a plea that the federal govern- ment cease coddling the railroads, and allow them to work out their own salvation. Charging that government control! during the last 30 years has destroyed vigorous leadership in the railroad field, Professor Worley declared that it would be in the public interest to! remove many present federal re- straints. "I am no admirer of the current vogue for authorities," he said. "In my judgment, operation of the rail- roads under such a system (with the affairs of all railroads in the hands of z Government authority) would in ad wise cure their ills. I am opopsed to this special type of Government own- ership and operation." Although he disagreed that railway transportation is a dying industry Professor Worley suggested that if it is to be invigorated and stabilized, full responsibility for its administra- tion must be shifted to its officers. "The Government should permit," he explained, "these officers to reor- ganize industry as a whole. It may well retain a veto power over the acts of railroad officials but this power should never be exercised save in the public interest. "The solution of the railroad problem lies in the adjustment of plant, properties and operation to the service required and that can- not be accomplished by attempting to adapt the public to the needs of the railroads through the medium of legislation." House Of Future Must 'Function'4 To Be In Fashion Modern "functionalist" architec- ture will be the universal architecture of the future, Dr. Gunnar Asplund, prominent Swedish architect and University lecturer here, predicted yesterday. This, however, does not necessarily mean that the future architecture will be characterized by the dradical, flat-roofed and Llngular buildings popularly associated with modern ar- chitecture, Dr. Asplund declared in a University lecture at 4:15 p.m. yes- terday in the Natural Science Audi- torium. Functionalism is a new "the- ory" of architecture, he said, and ap- plies only to the purpose and phi- losophy of design, not the style. Functionalism is the effort to plan a structure as an organic whole, he explained, fitting the style and ap- pearance of the building around its purposes and functions. As such, it has become recognized by architects in every part of the world, he said, and has been applied to designs rang- ing from public buildings to churches. (Contiued on Page 6 of Betty Gatward, '38, woman's ed- i1or, planned a twenty-first birthday party for John McFate, '38, editor. At 4 rixm. yesterday they had him called out of the room and presented him with a cake plus a slightly off-key version of "Happy Birthday" as he re- turned. The only trouble was Mc- Fate's birthday was Thursday, not yesterday as the staff believed. 'Perspectives' Will Come Out Tomorrow New Sunday Supplement Will Feature Literary Efforts Of Students The first issue of "Perspectives," new literary supplement to the Daily, will appear tomorrow, presenting stu- dent-written essays, poetry, reviews and short fiction. Essays appearing in the first issue will be: "Jingoes in the Peace Move- ment," by Jack Sessionz, '40; "Little Adventures in the Land of Health," by Mary Evalyn Owen, '39 and "The Poor Step Child," by Eva Tuttle, Grad. Norman Rosten, Grad, Wil- liam Gram, Edith Folkoff, Grad, Ki- mon Friar, Grad, John M. Brinnin, '41 and F. G. Cassidy, Grad, will con- tribute to the poetry section. Short stories to appear are: "Not in This Town," by Dennis Flanagan, '40; "Into the Kingdom of Freedom," by Harvey Swados, '41; and "Ter- ror," by Hervie Haufler. The last mentioned work has been awarded a prize in the Freshman Hopwood Contest. The supplement will appear in magazine form, 11 by 812 inches in size. The first issue will be 20 pages long, later issues probably longer, Jones announced. The editors have made an effort to publish all writing of significant in- terest, avoiding trivialities. They state editorially: "Any significant and careful work will be published, wheth- er it be an essay on world politics or Sa poem about spring, whether writ- ten by a faculty member, a senior, or a freshman. N LRB Invited To Hear Debate Team To Meet Princeton WednesdayAt Union The National Labor Relations Board named to judge the Ann Arbor Press strike has been invited to at- tend the debate with Princeton Uni- versity on Wednesday, 7:30 p.m., in the North Lounge of the Union, Ar- thur Secord, varsity debate coach, said yesterday. The topic will be "Resolved: That the National Labor Relations Board Be Empowered to Enforce Arbitration in All Industrial Disputes." Jack Rosa, '39, and Harry Shnider- man, '38, will be the affirmative Mich- igan team. The Princeton team will be com- posed of the president and vice-pres- ident of Whig-Clio, Princeton debat- ing society. They are John Van Ess, Jr., of Basra, Iraq, and J. Har- lan Cleveland, of Cincinnati, G. Hindu Monk Talks At Religious Parley "International Religion and the Na- tional State" will be the subject for the last in a series of Interfaith Sym- posiums to be held at 3 p.m. tomorrow in the Lane Hall Library under the auspices of the Student Religious As- sociation. Dr. Mahanam Brata Brahmachari, Hindu monk who will be in Ann Arbor tomorrow and Sunday, Prof. Edgar Durfee of the law school and Dr. Bernard Heller, director of the Hillel Foundation, will discuss informally the following questions: "What is the nature of the conflict between Church and State?" "Is the church stronger if it transcends national boundaries?'! Leader In Oil Crisis Foes Beat Administration By Big Margin- Predict Measure To Be Defeated 50,000 Telegrams Bombard Capital WASHINGTON, April L.-()-The House dealt the Administration lead- ership a stunning blow tonight and forced it to abandon plans for shov- ing the President's government reor- ganization bill through to early pass- age. By a vote of 191 to 149, the opposi- tion leadership achieved its first ob- jective, the rostponement of a final vote on the measure and then pre- dicted the bill's ultimate defeat The ballot, taken as the result of a parliamentary maneuver, was tech- nically upon the question of whether or not the House should vote imme- diately upon a motion to end general debate on the reorganization bill. Debate Ended Quickly IGNACIO GARCIA TELLEZ But its intrinsic meaning was so :r *plain that the motion to end debate S Findwas withdrawn quickly by its maker, M exico 1Fin s Chairman Cochran (Dem., Mo.) of the reorganization committee, and in Fore n Outlet e next minute he moved that the Hou adjourn until tmorrow. STheaction came after a day of For Ol S urplus seething debate and crafty parlia- mentary tactics, in which the oppon- ents of the measure used every de- American Oil ice under the "filibuster-proof" rules Compaies'of the House to delay action. Claims Are Moderated Their purpose was to postpone final action until a flood of telegrams pio- testing against passage of the meas- -ure could have an effect upon waver- MEXICO CITY, April 1.-(IP)-The ing supportrs of the bill. More than Mexican government was reported ; 50,000 telegrams were received today. today to have reached an agreement Striving to offset the effect of these "in pinciple" with a Briton and an messages, Representative Rayburn American to seek desperately needed (Dem., Tex.), the Democratic floor leader, recalled "faked" telegrams foreign outlets for mounting stocks which were sent - during the battle of oil produced by the expropriated iover the public utilities holding com- $400,000,000 petroleum industry. pany act, and said at least one of Oil circles said it was understood the messages received today could be proved false. tentative terms were reached at con- Brings Open Rev.ht ferences between high government The reorganization bill brought officials and Francis W. Rickett, Brit- Representative O'Connor (Dem., N ish promoter who negotiated an Ethi- Y.), who as chairman of the Rules opian oil concession in 1935, and Ber- Committee is one of the three most nard E. Smith, New York stock powerful members of the House, into broker. open revolt against the Administra- Rickett and Smith, declining to tion. comment, left by plane after talking 4 "I am not afraid of a dictatorship with President Lazaro Cardenas and in -this country," he said. "I believe Gustavo Espinosa Mireles, president our great President was sincere when of the newly-created national petro- he stated last midnight that he had leum export company, no desire to be a dictator. Rickett was reported to have prom- j "The fact is, nevertheless, that our ised Cardenas to try to find a place people are inflamed almost to the in the world market for 25,000,000 point of revolution-and I use my barrels of oil. Mexico's oil produc- words guardedly-at the thought of tidn in 1937 was 41,000,000 barrels. the possibilities of this bill. Some Smith, it was understood, was to letters mention 'bloodshed,' others put up the money to finance any 'resort to arms.' That is the situation arrangement Rickett made with the which concerns me. (Continued on Page 6) No Time To Incense People "Rightly or wrongly, this is no time to further incense our people, who ew CongreSs have gone through eight years of a depression and who since last fall suf- fered a relapse, so that today business and employment is back to the low state we found it in 1933, and in A some respects the lowest in our his- All Fraternities, Sororities tory." To Be Represented Rayburn said later he did not re- gard the vote of tonight as a test of sconsistinghow the House would vote on the A fraternity congress, nbill itself. of two representatives from each gen- "It simply means," he said, "that eral sorority and fraternity, will be the House thought there ought to be formed shortly after spring vacation, more debate. I don't think it was a according to a statement released yes- test. We'll start tomorrow and talk terday by Charles Frost, '40, chair- it all day." man of the sponsoring committee. "It may be amended some," said The purpose of the congress, which Speaker Bankhead but this bill is go- will be organized on non-partisan 1 ing to pass." Reorganization Bill enues and expenses." _______--- Walker also recommended legis- WASHINGTON, April 1.-(AP)-An lation to limit the scope of Bell Sys- administration proposal to hielp busi- tem activities to the commounications s field, and to clarify existing authority ness out of the slump by broadening of the communications commission lending powers of the ReconstructionI over interstate telephone service and Finance Corporation sped throughk rates. the Senate today. He said: Acting with speed reminiscent of "Public relations policies and prac- its pace in the 1933 banking emer- tices of the Bell System are directed gency, the chamber approved the towar dthe maintenance of its mo- measure in precisely two minutes. nopoly position in the communica-m Introduced by Senator Glass, tions field, and the maintenance and (Dem., Va.), the bill would permit increase of its revenues. the RFC to make loans to business "Such policies have been accom- without restriction on maturity. plished by indoctrination, by eco-w nomic contacts, and political pres- The corporation either could make sure." loans to business without restriction son maturity. IThe corporation either could make Cantons Seen Ioans,or buy securities. In addition, the bill would permit advances to{ As oostates and other political subdivisions A Solu ion Tfor construction projects, Czech Trouble I Under the measure, the corporation Czec TroU Ucould make available $1,500,000,000 for new lending. By ROBERT I. FITZHENRY Chairman Wagner, (Dem.,N.Y.) of. With swastika& wavimg on its bord- the Senate Banking Committee told ers and the Third Reich threatening reporters the bill would permit gov- along a 1,500-mile frontier, the divi- ernment lendmg to small business sion of Czechoslovakia into cantons which now has no adequate , source similar to the Swiss Federation, is vir- tually inevitable, Dr. Vaclav, Hlavaty, said in an interview yesterday, point- Journalism Group ing out, however, that cantonizationI will be the limit to which Der Fuehrer Initiates Members can go in the face of rapidly cooling I support from Rome and continued protest from Paris and London. Thirteen urnalism students were Germany sees the handwriting on intiated into Kappa Tau Alpha, na- the wall, the Karl University mathe- tional journalistic society, at a meet- matics professor declared, and she ing yesterday afternoon. knows she cannot attempt Anschluss The new members are: Gerald at the present time. Brunske, '39, James Colenso, '39, Were the Germans to disregard in- Frank Davis, '38, Constant C. De- i Road Layout, Many Stop Lights, Seen Peril To Ann Arbor Driver, EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first in a series of articles analyzing the features of city planning in Ann Arbor. dThe articles will present the views of authorities on the University faculty. By BEN MARINO Badly planned street layout, super- fluous traffic lights,, unnecessary dead-end streets and a perilous lack of traffic islands pile-up the traffic hazards facing Ann Arbor motorists, Prof. Roger L. Morrison of the College of Engineering said yesterday. Probably the greatest factor mak- ing for traffic obstacles he added, is the indiscriminate addition to the city of individually developed subdi- visions, plotted with an eye to selling the greatest amount of space for pri- vate homes -and wth little considera- tion for the system of roads and high- Factors contributing to frequent accidents are the prevalence of bends and quirks in the streets which ob- scure traffic 'or warning lights, Pro- fessor Morrison said, pointing to the bend in Packard Street just before it reaches Main Street. Only one street in the entire town of Ann Arbor is a through street, ProfessorMorrison emphasized, namely, Main Street. This is confusing to out-of-town driv- ers and makes through traffic a mat- ter of much difficulty. Streets like Liberty, North Univer- sity and South University dead-end- ing in a main artery like State Street also add to the general confusion, he added, especially during the noon and dinner hours. Traffic lights, though a boon in cities where the number of vehicles passing through aon in 1 orvoanfnn nvrannA o 1 (IMlflnr,' lines, will be to insure a greater spirit of cooperation among campus frater- nities, Frost said. It will meet in joint session with the Independent Congress to hear reports of political investigating comimttees, and will in no way encroach upon the powers of the Interfraternity Council, he stated. Sponsoring committee members in- clude Shirl Crossman, '38; Jeanne Vant, '39; Ken Johnson, '40; and James Frederick, '41. Pollock To Speak On Civil Service Prof. James K. Pollock, of the po- 114 Students Given Awards Ten $1,000 Fellowships Given By University The University yesterday awarded 114 graduate fellowships and scholar- ships for the 1938-39 school year about half of which went to students now enrolled here. Predoctoral fellowships of $1,000 went to Gardner Ackley, Herbert R. J. Grosh, Clyde F. Kohn, Frederick R. Matson, Clark F. Norton, Ralph S. 1 ,i .1 1 ways. Statistics on traffic problems were