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VOL. XLVIIL No. 140 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1938
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Spring Drama
Series Opens
HereMay 16
Five Week Play Season
To Feature Jane Cowl
And Aline MacMahon
Helen Arthur Is New
Executive Director
A five-week Dramatic Season fea-
turing Jane Cowl, Aline MacMahon
and several other artists of the New
York stage, was announced yester-
day by the Ann Arbor Dramatic Sea-
son Committee for this spring. The
season, under the executive direc-
tion of Helen Arthur of Actors-Man-
agers, New York, will open May 16
and close June 18.
This will mark the first year in
which the , season has not been in
charge of the late Mrs. William D.
Henderson and her son, Robert Hen-
derson. The Committee, composed of
nine faculty members and towns-
people, is headed by Daniel L. Quirk,
Jr., of Ypsilanti, who has been as-
sociated with several previous sea-
sops.
Five plays will be presented this
year. Besides Miss Cowl and Miss
MacMahon, Pauline Lord, star of last
year's Broadway production of "Eth-
an Frome," and famed for her crea-
tion of the titled role in "Anna Chris-
tie," will appear. Tonio Selwart and
Doris Dalton, who have appeared In
pevious seasons, will also be on hand.
The season will open with Sidney
IMoward's satire, "The Ghost of
Yankee Doodle," which was produced
on Broadway last winter. Miss Mac-
Mahon, who has starred for several
years on stage and screen, will play
the lead. She will be supported by
Dorothy Sands, Russell Hardie, Joan-
* na Roos, Frederick Tozere and Otto
Hulett.
The second play, opening May 24,
Ferenc Molnar's celebrated fantasy,
"Liliom," will feature Mr. Selwart
and a Vompany which has been re-
hearsing for some time and has had
several previous engagements with
the play.
Miss Lord will tpear in the third.
play, opening May 31, "The Late
Christopher Bean," also by Sidney
Howard. Miss Lord will play the role
of Abby, which she created. Opposite
her will be Carl Benton Reid in the
role of the doctor.
The fourth play, "French Without
Tears," by Terence Rattigan, will
open June 7, featuring Doris Dalton.
Miss Dalton has just completed an
engagement in New York in which
she starred opposite Henry Fonda in
"Blow Ye Winds." The play is a.
modern comedy, set on the Riviera.
The final presentation of the sea-
son will be S. N. Bchrman's comedy,
"Rain From Heaven," in which Miss
Cowl will appear in her original role,
Lady Violet Wyngate. Remembered
by Ann Arbor audiences for her roles
in "Twelfth Night" and "The Lady;
of the Camelias," in which she ap-
peared in 1933, Miss Cowl is consid-
ered one of the most distinguished
actresses ever brought here
Work Resumed
On UnionAnnex
New Interior Is Ex ected
TO lie Donc Sept, 1
Work will begin this week to com-
plete the interior of the Ulion addi-
tion on Madison Street after the
contract for the job was let last, Tues-
dlay to the J. P.. Utley Co. of De-
troit, it was annouiced yesterday by
Stanley Waltz, manager of the Union.
The interior, which will provide for
90 more sleeping rooms, two rooms
for visiting athletic teams, a chib
room for foreign students and quar-
ters for the University Club, now lo-
cated in Alumni Memorial Hall, is ex-
pected to be finished by Sept. 1.
The estimated expense for the,
present work is $225,000. This money
is coming from a bond issue of $550,-
000, which was approved by the,
Board of Regents Feb. 11. and for
which final arrangements were made'
March 22.
The remainder of the money will7
be used to refinance work alreody
done on the addition.
University Student
Hurt In Auto (rasli
Rader Announces Committee
For 1938 Michigras Carnival
v
May 6 And 7 To Be Dates
For Festival Designed
To Aid Band, Pool Fund
Heads Michigras
Huah Rader, general chairman for
the 1938 Michigras, huge carnival
which will benefit the Varsity Band's
proposed trip to Yale next fall and
the Women's Athletic Association's
proposed swimming pool, announced
the complete committee of more than
70 members last night.
The Michigras will be held May
6 and 7 in Yost Field House.
The executive committee this year
is composed of Dean Walter B. Rea,
Miss Marie Hartwig, Rader, Ernest
Jones, '38, Sam Charin, '38, Irving
Matthews, '38, Mary Johnson, '38,
Betty Lyons, '39, Dick Fox, '39, and
Norma Curtis, '39.
Fox and Miss Lyons are in charge
of the booths committee. Helping
them are Faith Watkins, '39, Patty
Haff, '39, and Patty Haislip, '39.
Mathews is handling publicity and
is being aided by Mary Alice Mac-
Kenzie, '39, Marian Smith, '39, Sue
Potter, '39, Jean McKay, '39, and
Virginia Voorhees, '39.
Eliot Robinson, '39, and Janet Ful-
lenwider, '39, are chairmen of the
ticket committee. Working under
them are Charlotte Houk, '39, Betty
Slee, '40, Roberta Genrich, '40, Jean
Bertram, '39, Virginia Bensley, '39,
and Tony Aalbersberg, '40.
Virginia Allen, '39, is in charge
of concessions and is being helped by
Evelyn Brown, '40, Mary Lou Mills,
'41, Barbara Bolton, '40, Virginia
Mulholland, '39, Cecily Forrest, '40,
and Helen Tucker, '39.
The parade committee is being
headed by Paul Brickley, '39. Aiding
him are Harry Howell, '40, Ted Span-
gler, '40, Dick Livingston, '40, Douglas
Tracy, '40, and Ben Eastman, '40.
Fred Luebke, '39, isin charge of
the program committee. Working
Fisher's Nine
Starts Big Ten
Season Today
Fishmian To Start Against
Badgers In Opening Bid
For Conference Title
Batting eyes sharpened by south-
ern exposure and defensively in ex-
cellent form after a six game Dixie
rehearsal, Michigan's 1938 baseball
this afternoon facing Wisconsin's
edition opens its Conference season
nine on the Ferry Field diamond.
Game time is 4 p.m. Students will
be admitted upon presentation of
identification cards.
Michigan wound up in sixth place
in the Big Ten race in 1937 while the
Badgers finished in a tie for third
with Ohio State. The visitors, how-
ever, are weakened by the loss of all
but three lettermen from last year's
squad, while the Wolverines are un-
doubtedly a stronger outfit than they
were last season.
Probable pitcher for Coach Ray
Fisher's crew today is stocky, veter-
an Herm Fishman, whose clever left-
handed slow stuff has stood him in
good stead in two previous years of
competition,
An ex-Michigan student will start
behind the plate for the Badgers.
He's Walter Beilita, a great skier as
well as a likely diamond prospect,
who transferred to Wisconsin last
year because of the superior skiing
(Cor inued on Pe 3)
HUGH RADER
under him ,are Cliff Livingston, '40,
Frank Bussard, '40, Ted Leibovitz, '40,
Don Nixon, '40, Bill Pollock, '40, Jim
Halligan, '40, Hadley Smith, '40, Jack
Knecht, '40, Gene Strauss, '40, Harry
Howell, '40, Harriet Sharkey, '39, El-
len Kriekhoff, '40, Lee Siff, '40, Kath-
erine MacIvor, '40, Zelda Davis, '40,
and Ruth Jacobson, '40.
The patrons' committee is being
headed by Marjorie Merker, '49.
Helping her are Barbara Teal, '39,
Jeanette Beck, '39, Betty Spangler,
'39, and Margaret Waterston, '38.
Jean Smith '40, is making the
posters with the assistance of Kay
August, '39, Florence Brotherton, '40,
and-Lillian Zimmerman, '40.
Don Belden is in charge of the
rides committee and Barbara Ep-
stein, '39, is in charge of the decora-
tions committee.
Golfers Nose
Out Stubborn
Buckeye Team
Eke Out Victory, 12%-
11 %, As Barclay Upseit
Features Day's Play
COLUMBUS, April 19.--(/)-Mich-
igan's high powered golf team barely
nosed out Ohio State University 12 2
to 11%/ in a Big Ten match here
today featured by Springer's upset
single victory over Barclay, Wolver-
ine number one man.
While Michigan took the lion's
share of doubles honors, it met fre-
quent reversals in singles competi-
tion, winning only one.
Reiss of Michigan, with 74, had the
low medal for one round, although
Hatton of Ohio State, posting 75-76
-151, had the day's low total.
Barclay and Karpinski, Michigan,
defeated Springer and Carl, 2%/ to 1/,
while Reiss and Yearnd trounced
Ohio's Wilburn and Hatton by the
same score..
In singles, Hatton whipped Reiss
and Bartschy and Evans, Ohio, di-
viding play against Michigan's Tuss-
ing, broke even.
'ENSIAN POLL TODAY
Students will be given an oppor-
tunity to vote for the cover they de-
sire for this year's 'Ensiaii today in
front of the General Library. Twelve
different covers will be exhibited
and students will ballot there.
State Strikes
Hit 10,o500
Auto orkers
U A W Secretary Denies
That Union Dues Drive
Caused Fisher Closing
Contract Breach Is
Charged By Union
Approximately 10,500 workers were
affected yesterday by strikes that
closed the Fisher Body plant of Gen-
eral Motors in Flint, the Buick as-
sembly line in the same city and three
firms in the Detroit area, according
to the Associated Press.
Charges that the shutdown of the
Fisher Body plant was caused by a
dues-collecting drive of the Flint
local of the United Automobile Work-
ers were denied by Jerry Aldred, sec-
retary of the local, who pointed out
that 3,500 men went through the
picket line around the factory and
that "the company produced for two
hours, so obviously there must have
been enough men in the plant."
The picket line around the plant
stopped all workers and some were
sent home when they refused to pay
dues. Aldred said the drive was suc-
cessful from a dues collection stand-
point and that many workers joined
the union for the first time. Soon
after the picket line formed the com-
pany shut down the plant and sent
approximately 3,700 men home with
instructions to return at 7 a.m. today.
The closing of the Fisher plant,
which supplies automobile bodies to.
the Buick division of General Motors,
brought shutdown of the Buick as-
sembly line. Twelve hundred men
were sent home.
Three hundred men, charging that
the Peninsula Metal Products Cor-
poration management had failed to
abide by a contact with the UAW,
staged a sit-down strike at the plant
in Hamtramck.
Officials of the Detroit Moulding
Company claimed that a UAW "fly-
ing squadron" ejected a paint shop
employee and a superintendent. The
paint shop was closed and 250 men
left following the alleged incident.
Thousands walked in Columbus, O.
when street car and motor bus oper-
ators failed to settle their strike.
At the same time Canada's first
major Great Lakes strike ended with
an agreement between seven big ship-
ping companies and the Canadian
seamen's union.
Student Artices
Feature Technik
Chinese Take
Key Shantung
City Ini Drive
Hangchwang Recaptured
As Japan Mobilizes For
Major Offensive Push
Defeat Endangers
Japaniese Positions
SHANGHAI, April 19.-(Tuesday).
-(/P)-Chinese military leaders re-
ported today the recapture of a 20-
mile stretch of the Grand Canal in
the second setback to the Japanese
within 24 hours.
SHANGHAI, April 19-(Tuesday)
-(P)-Chinese reported today they
had given the Japanese another de-,
feat in southern Shantung by re-
capturing Hangchwang spearhead of
the Japanese southward drive toward
Suchow.
Hangchwang, at the junction of the
Tientsin-Pukow railway and the,
Grand Canal 27 miles north of Su-
chow, has been the scene of bitter
fighting since the Japanese occu-
pied it a month ago. It is 32 miles
northeast of Taierhchwang where the
Japanese suffered an overwhelming
defeat April 6.
This development came as the Jap-
anese navy was reported preparing
to throw its support behind the new
Shantung drive which is expected
to determine the success or failure
of the invasion.
Japs Plan Air Attack
Foreign travelers arriving in
Shanghai said they had seen Jap-
anese aircraft carriers stationed at
various points along the Shantung
coast.
From these carriers, it was pre-
sumed, mass warplane attacks will be
launched into the interior to cover
the advance of the reinforced Jap-
anese army, estimated to have as
many as half a million men.
Further evidence that the Japanese
are concentrating all efforts to re-
venge their defeats was seen in the
fact that they have withdrawn all
troops from large areas in Shansi
and North Honan to be used in the
new Shantung offensive.
Recruits Needed
While both sides waited reinforce-
ments for the big battle, fierce fight-
ing continued over the 60-mile front
in southern Shantung.
At Lini, 80 miles northeast of Su-
chow, the opposing armies were
locked in a crucial battle. Fresh
Japanese troops attacked the Chinese
defense lines.
Foreign observers predicted that
this engagement might develop into
the biggest conflict of the nine-
month-old war, since Lini is the first
major objective of the new Japanese
advance down the Eastern Shantung
coast.
Japanese said that 1,700 Chinese
troops had landed on the north shore
of the Yangtze River, almost oppo-
site Nanking.
A Hongkong dispatch said that 250
civilians were killed and more than
300 injured Sunday in a Japanese
air raid on Canton and vicinity.
Lovett To Address
A nti-war Meeting
Robert Morss Lovett, vice-president
of the American League for Peace
and Democracy and well known pro-
fesgor at the University of Chicago
was selected as one of three speakers
for the strike against war to be held
April 27 at a meeting of the United
Peace Committee last night at Lane
Hall.
Joseph Mattes, '38, managing edi-
tor of the Daily, was chosen as stu-
dent speaker for the strike with
Clarence Kressin, '38, president of the
Student Religious Association as al-
ternate. Governor Murphy has been
invited to talk but has not yet sent
his reply to the group.
An open forum at which all issues
pertinent to peace will be discussed
is planned by the Peace Committee
for some time after the strike. A
special meeting of this organization
1 will be held Thursday night.
Nino Martini, world famed tenor
scheduled to sing here in the May
Festival starting May 11, is recov-
ering from injuries received Sun-
day when the Cleveland bound
train in which he was traveling
rammed a side tracked section.
Martini's injury " forced him to
cancel all engagements for the next
week. The accident was blamed on
the failure of a block signal to
function.
Hurt In Accident
French Seek
Rome Treaty;
Might Revoke
Russian Pact
Italy Assures Hitler That
Roine-Berlin Axis Will
Not Lose Effectiveness
An lo-Italian Pact
Acclaimed By Nazis
PARIS, April 18.-(A)-France's
"strong man" Government worked
today toward an agreement with Italy
which Right-Wing leaders thought
might lead to a real settlement with
Germany and possible abandonment
of the Franco-Soviet pact.
The Left opposition, whose ardor
has been dampened since the collapse
of Socialist Leon Blum's cabinet April
8, meanwhile asserted a French-Ital-
ian pact would be "useless except to
Il Duce."
Talk of a settlement with Germany,
it said, was a "surrender."
The key to France's diplomacy
however was in the hands of Premier
Edouard Daladier, the man who
joined Blum in 1936 to form the Peo-
ple's Front Union of Leftist parties
and then gained such popularity by
his building up of national defense
that the present Government has
Left, Center and Right backing.
The cabinet will meet Wednesday
when Daladier and his Foreign Min-
ister, Georges Bonnet, are expected
to present for ,final approval the,
plan for a quick French-Italian
agreement.
Central NLRB
To Hear Case
Of Local Strike
Typographical Union Files
Charges With National
Board At Washington
The National Labor Relations
Board hearing in the ease of the Ann
Arbor Press may be held in Washing-
ton within a few weeks as a result of
t h e International Typographical
Union's action in withdrawing its
charges from the Detroit NLRB of-
fice and refiling them yesterday with
the Board in Washington.
Circuit Judge George W. Sample
yesterday heard NLRB attorneys ask
him to dismiss the injunction lie
issued March 31 restraining the De-
troit office of the NLRB from hold-
ing a hearing in Michigan on charges
against the Ann. Arbor Press of un-
fair labor practices. Judge Sample
took the case under advisement and
asked that counsel for the NLRB and
the local printing plant file briefs
within 20 days.He said he will prob-
ably announce the decision within a,
month.
Recent decisions by the United
States Supreme Court preclude the
issuance of injunctions restraining
the NLRB, because respondents
named by the Board (the Ann Arbor
Press in this case) have adequate ju-
dicial review in the Federal Circuit
Courts of Appeals, Harold A. Crane-
field, NLRB attorney, argued before
Judge Sample.
George Meader, attorney for the
Ann Arbor Press which applied for
the injunction restraining the NLRB,
said that the NLRB officers were ex-
ceeding their authority because the
company was not engaged in inter-
state commerce. He cited decisions
to support his statement that the
fact that a federal officer is involved
is not sufficient grounds to deny the
court jurisdiction to hear and de-
termine the controversy or to grant
or deny the relief asked.
Mr. Meader further argued that
while federal courts have limited
powers-only those granted by Con-
gress--state courts have ' pkenary
equity powers."
On April 9 the International Typo-
graphical Union, which has been
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Prices Will Be Taken 'UP
By Student Senate Today
The Student Senate will hold its
first post-vacation meeting at 7:30
p.m. today in Room 305 of the Union.
Items on the agenda for tonight's
session include consideration of
service problems. Richard M. Scam-
mon, Grad., Senate Speaker, an-
nounced last night that reports would
be submitted by the student govern-
ment and housing committees.
Germans Hail Pact
4N
[wiv El -cl rons,' Colo
Appear in April Issue
9
'Hard Hearted' Winchell Goes
To Bat For U. Of M. Couple
"A large majority of college stu-
dents upon graduation do not seem
to realize fully the definite require-
ments necessary for them to attain
their proper place in industry." Such
is the opinion of R. K. Bowden, man-
ager of the metallurgical division of
the Chicago district of the Carnegie-
Illinois steel corporation, whose ar-
ticle, "You Get the Job" is a feature
of this edition of the Technic.
Prof. A. D. Moore continues his
comments of last month on the sum-
mer job situation in his regular de-
partment in this month's magazine.
Two student, articles headline the
April issue of the Michigan Technic
which goes on sale tomorrow in the
engineering buildings.
"New Electrons" by Charles Piece-
wicz, '39E, presents the Michigan
physics department's stand on the
latest con troversy over the ultimate
construction of matter, "Color" by ..
Anderson Ashburn, '40E, outlines the
development of technicolor.
H i lve ii Returns
-10 r no Of West
TPX-~iresi nRuthven will arrive at
2::13 pm. todaldy in A i Arbor coin-
pleting a mouth's tour to the West
Coast which he made to further al-
umni contacts with the University.
During his trip Dr. Ruthven was
given an honoraary LL.D, degree by
tihe University of California, ad-
dressed eight University alumni clubs
in various western cities. and visited
several scenic spots on the west coast
including the new Grand Coulee Dam
on the Columbia River.
VacatiOn Tiuef Robs
BERLIN, April 18.-(P)--Whatever
misgivings may have existed in Ger-
many that an Anglo-Italian accord
might weaken the Rome-Berlin axis
have vanished, at least outwardly, in
view of Italy's solemn assurances that'
the Axis would continue to function
with undiminished strength.
German officials after watching the
Rome negotiations with great anxiety
now see reasons for rejoicing.
First, they see in the accord a new
justification of Reichsfuehrer Hitler's
thesis that direct negotiations be-
tween two nations are better than
multilateral pacts,
They also feel that Prime Minister
Neville Chamberlmin, encouraged by
his Italian success, now is likely to
press for an Anglo-German arrange-
ment. Hitler has never made any
secret of the fact that he regards
friendship with Great Britain the
most important of his foreign po-
litical objectives.
Rebels Report
Tortosa Taken
Coastal City Entered After
Bitter Day's Fighting
HENDAYE, France, April 18.-(R)
-Spanish Insurgent officials at Irun
tonight reported that Generalissimo
Francisco Franco's troops had en-
tered the important coastal city of
Tortosa, 95 miles south of Barcelona,
after a day of bitter fighting.
HENDAYE, France, April 1 8.-V-(P)
--Spanish Insurgents pushed north-
ward today to the Ebro River south-
east of Tortosa, a natural line of
defense for Southern Catalonia
which must be crossed in any drive
up the Spanish eastern. coast.
A coastal column drove to the riv-
er's edge at Amposta, covering six
miles in three hours. Government
forces hastily withdrew to the north
bank of the river where they had
set up strong defenses to block an
insurgent crossing and a march on
Tortosa.
Wolverine's 'Speedy
Second In Turtle Race
Fighting it out with the elite of
Intercollegiate turtles, Speed, a mid-
get snapper from the Michigan
stables romped to second place in
the first Intercollegiate Turtle Derby
sponsored by University of Detroit
as part of its program of higher edu-
cation.
Mustang, a six inch snapper bred
on the plains of the Southwest an-
nexed the race from a field of 11 in
phenomenal time. Wearing the col-
ors of Southern Methodist University
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By JACK DAVIS
This is a Broadway yarn with a re-
verse twist.
They tell you New York is littered
with small town ambitions that fade
so fast even the Traveler's Aid So-
ciety hasn't time to hold a wake. They
tell you Gothamites are as hard as
their derby hats. But it's only part
of the build-up and considerable
sentiment washes underneath the
pose.
Walter Winchell's column carried
a piece last week about a couple from
the Mid-West who quit school, mar-
ried, arrived in New York and pro-
ceeded to starve. le called them.
broke, sick and desperate. The
couple was Joan Hanson. '40 and
Bob Lodge, '39, former editors of
Panorama.
Under the heading U. of M. tragedy
he sketched a dramatic story describ-
rubber checks. Bob, who has a job
with Chamberlain, Brown, theatrical
producers and booking agents, had
been on the receiving end of a nuim-
ber of these drafts which came back
marked no bank. Hearing the story
Winchell went to bat for the pair,
turned bill collector and printed the
story. It musti have proven an ef-
fective dun for Bob reports that
while his duties and salary were non-
existent before, the back pay is now
coming in with almost monotonous
regularity.
The repercussions of the comedy
were almost fantastic. in Joan's
home town, the Minneapolis Journal,
under a two column picture, sobbed
out a story that pictured the pair
wearily trudging through New York
streets in search of a job, hungry
and without hope. The pair was be-
sieg eii with teleaivains a-ndjob offers
Educatloio Must Be Worthwhile,
Students Give Blood For It
By HARRY SONNEBORN
Nearly 200 students in the Univer-
sity are helping to further their edu-
cation by selling their blood for trans-
f m.,iiw _arpni'dina fto George P. Bug2-
though it is not known that more
frequent donations would be harm-
ful," he added.
Five to six donations per day are
received at the hospital All stu-