The Weather Cloudy and colder today with rain or snow probable. Y A6F A6P jIat&1 Editorials Welcome To Thomas Mann.. Will France Hold Fast?... VOL. XLVIII. No. 108 ANN ARBOR, MICHiGAN, THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1938 PRICE FIVE CENTS Board To Get Report Today On Magazine Committee Recommends Four Issues Annually; Opinion To Be Barred To Avoid Techncal A :ndTrivialEays The Board in Control of Student Publications will consider tonight a report on the personnel and organiza- tion of a new campus literary maga- zine, submitted by its sub-committee. Chosen by the Board Jan .28, the committee of three English Journal Club members-Giovanni Giovaninni, Morris Greenhut and Charles Peake -and Edward Magdol, '39, former Daily junior editor, recommended that the periodical, as yet unnamed, make its aim to print the best ma- terial availaible from all colleges and schools, that it appear at least four times yearly and that, in format and type of book review, it follow the model set by the defunct Contem- porary. The periodical, it was advised, should include the publication of ' poetry, critical book reviews, fiction-includ- ing short stories, short plays and self- sufficient parts of longer narrative works-and essays in literary crit- icism, essays dealing with problems of campus interest and of broad general import. "It is suggested," the report says, "that the policy for the selection of' essays be one of avoiding those of a highly specialized interest suggesting a technical journal and those of an ephemeral interest suggesting a news magazine." The committee was given a frame1 within which to work when the Board laid down guiding principles on policy and circulation. Thus, the Board (Continued on Page 6) East Presents ' Illustrated Talk On Adventures D.S.R. Strike Fears AllayedBy Court DETROIT, March 2.-- ()- An- nouncement that the State Supreme court would hear a dispute over sys- tem-wide seniority among employes -f the Detroit Street Railways Thurs- day morning partially allayed fears tonight of a strike that would tie ip the city's mass transportation fa- Aities. The announcement came from Tho- mas Chawke, attorney for the Amal- gamated Association of Street Elec- rical Railway and Motor Coach Em- ployes ,and Clarence E. Page, assist- ant corporation counsel. Prior to learning that the Supreme Court would hear the case almost mmediately, Chawke termed the sit- uation "dangerous." British-Italian Affairs Lecture SubjectToday Carr, English Professor, Reviews Current Crisis In Mediterranean Area In what promises to be one of the most popular University lecturesof the year, Prof. E. H. Carr of the University College of Wales, Abery- stwyth, and former member of the British Foreign Service, will discuss "Great Britain, Italy and the Mediter- ranean," at 4:15 p.m. today in the Natural Science Auditorium.I Professor Carr became a member of the British Foreign Office in Lon- don in 1916 and subsequently held the posts of Third Secretary in 1922 and First Secretary from 1930 until his resignation in 1936 to go to Abery- stwyth. During that time he was at- tached to the British delegation at the Peace Conference in 1919 and temporary secretary at the British Embassy at Paris for the Conference of Ambassadors in 1920. He became Second Secretary of the Legaton at Riga in 1925'and in 1929 was made assistant adviser on League of Nations affairs of the Foreign Of- fice. He is a graduate of the Mer- chant Taykur's School, London, and of Trinity College, Cambridge. Professor Carr's long service in the British Foreign Service has given him International (By The Associated Press) MOSCOW-Twenty defendants in Russia's greatest treason trial yesterday pleaded guilty to charges, including plotting to dismember the Soviet Union, restore capital- ism and murder Russian leaders. Nicholas Krestinsky, twenty-first defendant and former ambassador to Berlin, repudiated his confession of guilt and called his co-defen- ,dants "liars." Leon Trotsky, exiled by Stalin, was named as one of the inspirers of the plotting. Retiring United States Ambas- sador Joseph E. Davis was among the diplomatic corps who, with for- eign newspapermen, heard a lengthy indictment of the defen- dants read before the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court. Among those accused in the plot- ting, which the indictment traced back in part 20 years when Trotsky was still in power, is Nicholai Bu- charin, former editor of Izvestia, government paper. LONDON - Britain indicated yesterday that the world arms race would force her to add to the $7,500,000,000 earmarked last year for a five-year armament pro- gram. Government reports esti- mated the 1938-39 defense expen- ditues would be $341,250,000 more than those of the current fiscal year. Expenditures for the air armada alone for next ytar were estimated at $557,510,000, an in- crease of $115,000,000. A Government white paper, or official report, made clear that the actual cost of the five-year I arms plan would depend largely upon the success of Prime Min- ister Chamberlain's "efforts to achieve some appeasement in in- ternational affairs." BERLIN-Rev. Martin Niemoel- ler was given a seven-month sen- tence for volating a pulpit law dat- ing back to the time of Bismarck; the Church announced that he was3 in secret police custody althoughI the court ruled that he had al- ready served more than seven months. GRAZ, AUSTRIA-Minister of the Interior Arthur Seysz-Inquart imposed stern orders on Stylria's turbulent Nazis to maintain dis- cipline and said that he did not believe there would be a Nazil march on Vienna., (Further International News on Page 6.) 173 Withdraw From College In Marks Purge Literary School Puts 600 On Probation; Totals Normal For Semester Scholastic fatalities removed 173 students in the literary college last semester and 600 went on probation, according to statistics released yes- terday by the office of the assistant dean of the College of Literature, Science, and Arts. Of the 173 forced to withdraw from tim University, 70 were immediately reinstated and put on special proba- tion for this semester. They will have a second and last chance to bring up their averages to University require- ments. The 600 on probation include stu- dents whose work in either degree or general programs is below a "C" aver- age. These consist of students still on probation, those going on for the first time under general require- ments and those going on after rein- statement or other special probation. About 85 are below the 60-hour, 60- honor-point requirement for the sophomore year. If the grades of these students fall even lower this semester, they may be asked to withdraw; if they im- prove, they will either be taken off probation or given permission to con- tinue their probation period. All ac- tion is taken by the Administrative Board of the College and each case decided individually. In addition to the students required to withdraw at the end of the se- mester, there were 30 put on the "N.T.R." list. They were notified not to register for this semester without special permission of the board, but are students whose records are in- complete due to illness or other ex- traordinary circumstance. Such ac- tion of the Board is to make certain of the ability of the students to con- tinue their work. The figures for last semester rep- resent the normal average trend for that time, both for withdrawals and probations. Ohio Thrashes To 461w38 Win Over Mermen Buckeye Swimmers Beat For A Second Victory Before Home Crowd Kirar,Haynie Snag Two Firsts Apiece By DAVID ZEITLIN Ohio State's powerful swim team lived up to expectations in the Intra- mural pool yesterday afternoon before an overflow crowd of rabid fans, and captured its second sucessive victory over Michigan's Big Ten and Na- tional Collegiate champions. The 46 to 38 loss delivered the Wolverines was the first defeat a Michigan team has suffered at home in nine years. Captain Ed Kirar and "Tireless Tom" Haynie contributed 11 points apiece to the Michigan total, Kirar winning the 50 and 100-yard races, and Haynie breezing home on top in the 220 and 440-yard events. Ohio put together five firsts, including two relay victories, five seconds, and two thirds to capture the meet, but was forced to woin the last event, the 400- yard free-style relay, before it had the affair in the bag. Haynie Beats Johnson The visiting 400-yard free-style re- lay quartet of Sabol, Johnson, Quayle, and Neunzig bettered Michigan's Con- ference mark 'of 3:35.6 while taking, the event by a one-yard margin. Kirar bettered the only other mark sur- passed during the afternoon as he sped to his 100-yard free-style first in :52.5, 4 tenths of a second faster than the Conference mark held by Charles Flachman of Illinois, and a half second better than his own I-M pool record. Coach Matt Mann's Michigan forces were hapless in the back and breast- stroke races in which Buckeye nat- ators finished one-two. in the opening event of the pro- gram the Buckeye medley relay trio of Neunzig, McKee, and Quayle taxed' itself only enough to nose out the Wolverine representatives. The time for the event was 3:03.1, far below the! team's known capabilities. Visitors Better Marks Things began to happen ii an ac-c commodating manner for the Wolver-t ine cause after the first event. Tomt Haynie beat out Buckeye Bob John- son in the 220-yard race and Ed Hut- chens captured the important third.X Ed Kirar and Walt Tomski followed this race with an eight point con- tribution gained from first and second_ place in the short sprint. Tomski was the first to heed the bark of the gun and had a yard advantage in the first lap of the race. But the "Moose" came plowing down the last few yards to win by the narrowest of margins. Michigan's sophomore diving duo of Hal Benham and Jack Wolin pro- vided the major upset of the after- noon as they outscored Ohio's highly (Continued on Page 3)t Steffey To Give Talk On Housing Aid Todaye A detailed explanation of practicalc applications of the National Housingt Act will be presented by Harry M.i Steffey, field representative and staff evaluator of the Detroit insuring officex of the Federal Housing Administra- tion, before the University extension course in building at 8:15 p.m. today in Room 231 Angell Hall. Everyone planning to buy a house, build a house or refinance present mortgages is invited to learn of the opportunities for long term loans and mortgages under the Federal act. The talk will include an explanation of the 1938 amendments and the meth- ods by which the Federal government will insure mortgages.1 International Lai Washington (By The Associated Press) THE LA FOLLETTE CIVIL LIBERTIES COMMITTEE pro- duced evidence yesterday to show that the National Association of Manufacturers had actively pro- moted the formation of "company unions." Officialsand former officialsrof the organization seated in a row before the committee testified that activities in behalf of "employee representation" plans had been undertaken since 1919, and that with the coming of NRA, a $7,000 fund was raised to facilitate the program. Earlier in the day, committee in- vestigators drew protests from Manufacturers Association repre- sentatives by declaring that 207 top-ranking contributors to the association had purchased 60 per cent of all the tear gas sold to in- dustry for "labor warfare" in 1933- 37. (By The Associated Press) HIOUSE LEADERS, expecting stubborn resistance to any form of "gag rule," decided yesterday to throw the tax revision bill open to amendments from the floor. That will permit advocates of outright repeal of the undistribut- ed profits and capital gains levies to put the House on record on these taxes. Reporting the bill to the House, where debate will begin tomorrow, the committee Democrats said it ought to provide "a very substan- tial stimulation to business." ADMINISTRATION LEADERS IN THE HOUSE talked yesterday of sidetracking wage-hour legis- lation for this session. At the same time, members who usually reflect President Roose- velt's wishe ssaid the chief execu- tive still believed a "wage-hour bill" should be enacted before ad- journment. (Further Washington News on Page 6.) A nti-M~achinery Laws NATTo Help , Haber Contends Some form of protection and se- curity for those who are displaced by the introduction of machines, rather than a legislative restriction on their use, was advocated yesterday by Prof. William Haber of the economics de- partment in his address to the second Ann Arbor Social Service Seminar. The second Seminar, composed of Professor Haber left yesterday afternoon for Washington.eD.C.y World Figure Here THOMAS MANN Students View Crime Problem I n Ann Arbor Cheap Magazines, Movies And Parole Ae Seen As Causes Of Condition The problems of crime, juvenile de- linquency, recreation and unemploy- ment were forcibly presented to 12 students yesterday afternoon in the courst of the Student Religious As- sociation's first reconciliation trip through the part of Ann Arbor that lies beyond the Pretzel Bell. A trip to the Washtenaw County Jail sufficed to show that crime in Ann Arbor constitutes a serious prob- lem. Detective magazines and cheap motion pictures are direct causes of crime, one of the deputy sheriffs told the group. Another cause, he assert- ed, is lack of proper parole facilities. In Ann Arbor one parole officer is supposed to have charge of about 200 boys. Juvenile delinquency is closely re- lated to crime, Judge Pray of the Juv- enile Court informed the group, add- ing that approximately 90 per cent of all criminals begin their careers as de- linquent children. Delinquency in Ann Arbor last year was greater than it has been in thirteen years, the Judge said. Gangster films, beer gar- dens, undesirable home environment and economic problems are partially (Continued on Page 2) Business Chiefs Headline Parley On Job Choice Thomas Mann, Famed Writer, Speaks Today On Democracy Nobel Prize Winner's Talk On Democracy Attracts large Student Interests Venture Modeled On Contemporary Thomas Mann, acclaimed as the most distinguished contemporary man of letters, will make his first appear- ance in Ann Arbor to lecture at 8:15 p.m. today in Hill Auditorium. He will speak on "The Coming Victory of Democracy." Dr. Mann will be introduced by President Ruthven. He is expected to address a capacity house in what will be the outstanding event of this year's Oratorical Association lecture course. Tickets are still available, the business office reported last night. Dr. Mann is at present living in exile from Nazi Germany, where he has been deprived of his property and citizenship. He is confident, however, that his exile will not be of permanent duration. He still con- siders himself a German, although he has lived in Switzerland almost from the beginning bf the Hitler dic- tatorship and travels with a Czecho- slovakian passport. Born In 1875 Thomas Mann was born in Luebeck in 1875 of a marriage between one of the town's outstanding citizens and the daughter of a German planter at Rio de Janiero. He was the sec- ond of five children, the oldest of whom was his brother Heinrich, also a novelist of distinction. Thomas was a poor student, his artistic instinct rebelling against the Prussian state- discipline of the nineteenth century German schools. He helped publish a school literary magazine to which he contributed his earliest work, in- cluding a number of poems one of which was reprinted in a Leipzig monthly. At 19, following his father's death four years earlier, he entered an in- surance office, but loathing the dull routine of a business career, he spent his nights writing, completing a novel which was published in serial form. The poet Richard Dehmel became ac- quainted with the young author and encouraged him to drop his business attachment and enter a university. A short time later his brother Hein- rich invited him to visit him at Rome, where the elder Mann was studying painting. The year he spent there was a crucial one in his life, for it persuaded him to devote himself ex- clusively to his writing. Wrote Short Stories He wrote a number of short stories at this time, and began work on his great novel "Buddenbrooks." He had already attracted considerable atten- tion in Munich by the publication of "Little Herr Eriedemann," and when he returned in 1898 with the first manuscript of "Buddenbrooks," he was given a position on the staff of a well-known literary periodical, "Sim- plicissimus." "Buddenbrooks" was published at the end of 1900 with a 1901 imprint. At first the book sold poorly, but pres- ently the critical world became aware of its significance and soon its creator found himself the famous author of a classic at 25. The book was introduced in Amer- ica on this campus, it is interesting to find. About this time the young au- thor began to frequent Munich draw- (Continued on Page 6) AFL -CIO Gap Can Be Closed, Leaders Agree A CIO and an AFL representative debated last night at the Ann Arbor Community Forum the differences between the organizations, and the one distinct difference they agreed upon was that the AFL is more con- servative. Adolph Germer, State Director for the CIO, and John Reed, Secretary of the Michigan Federation of Labor, agreed that the difference between the two groups "is one that can be bridged when reason prevails. The CIO and the AFL will probably have to merge for the survival of both." Mr. Germer, in asserting the ad- vantages of industrial as opposed to mr.fft iininiarmaan - a cfa 1f t MaV~e of anadan . first-hand contact with the opera- Movies Of Canadian Trip tion of British diplomacy and of in- Show Voyage Of Group' ternational relations and he is con- nto Noh Cy sidered one of the best-informed men _____r__o tynow working in that subject in aca- demic fields. His books include: Michigan has Eskimo neighbors "Dsoesy' 91"TeRmatc living within 800 miles of her borders, x"osoevsky," 1931, "The Romantic Ben astpoplar ournlis, sprts Exiles," 1933, "Karl Mark: A Study in Ben East, popular journalist, sports- Fanaticism," 1934; "International Re- man and scientist, said last night in lations Since the Peace Treaties," Hill Auditorium at the presentation ltosSnetePaeTete, of his illustrated lecture on the 1937; and "Michael Bakunin," 1938. "Land of the Midnight Twilight." Natives of Michigan need not travel as far, Mr. East said, to shoot polar ( Churches plan bear in lower James Bay as they doI to shoot jack rabbits in Kansas. Mr. East showed movies of a 21-day Lenten Events, cruise into the lower Hudson Bay and James Bay regions of Canada on a 43-foot trading schooner. The Features To Be Lectures, venture was sponsored by the Cran- Sermons And Suppers brook Institute of Science. The voy-I age took a party of 18 people under Special lectures and sermons, parish, the leadership of East 400 miles up C suppers and pre-Easter music will be James Bay into country which the featured by Ann Arbor churches for speaker described as "the last fron- the Lenten season, which began yes- tier in the Western Hemisphere." In- terday with Ash Wednesday. cluded in the party were hunters, The Presbyterian Church will have tourists and scientists collecting a series of Lenten suppers in the par- fauna and flora. ish house followed by lectures on the The flowering season in the James general topic "Moods of the Soul in Bay region and the summer last only Life and Letters." The suppers begin two months, East said, and then the at 6 p.m. and the lectures, which will Cree Indians, native of that country, be delivered by the Rev. W. P. Lemon, retire to the wilderness of the great will begin at 7 p.m. Mr. Lemon will Canadian Rivers and live primitively also give a series of talks for students by trapping, hunting and fishing un- each Friday at 4:30 p.m. All of the til the next year when they return to Sunday morning sermons for the the trading post. When summer Lenten season will follow the general comes in late June, East said, tliy theme, "Moderns and Miracles." come down the rivers and pitch their St. Mary's Student Catholic Chapel wigwams at the outskirts of the will hold two daily masses at 7 a.m. posts for about six weeks, during and at 8 a.m. In addition there are which time they loaf, hold tribalI two special services weekly. The de- dances and bartar with the few white votions consist of Novena Services men at the post. to Our Lady of Perpetual Help and The only white men in the land, Benediction on Tdesday at 7:30 p.m. East remarked, arc the missionaries and The Way of the CrosA and Bene- at the Roman Catholic and Chris- diction Friday at 7:30 p.m. tian churches, the two Mounties who The Student Fellowship of the Con- patrol more than 500 square miles of gregational Church will have a series territory, and the traders who wan- of Lenten lectures, three to be given der in and out. This is the land which by Prof. Bennett Weaver of the Eng- Curwood and London clothed with so lish department and two by the Rev. much glamour, East said, preserved Leonard A. Parr. There will be spe- intact by its inaccessibility. cial Passion music at the regular Sun- Dramatic interest in the film day morning services at 10:45. reaches its height in the shooting of Dr. Charles Brashares of the First four polar bears, one of which mea- (Continued on Page 2) (Continued on Page 6)- !The Golem' Coming Students And War Topic Here This Week-End Of Thomas Tomorrow I where he will attend a meetirv A conference on Vocational Guid- of Senator Burns' Committee on ance and Occupational Information unemployment relief. He will re- sponsored by the University will open turn Sunday morning. Tuesday, March 8, in the Union, em-* bracing a series of vocational forums1 30 Ann Arbor women, met at the .pf- conducted by well known leaders of fices of the Hoover Ball Bearingb Co. The group later was escorted business and industry. through the plant. Through the efforts of the Univer- Many trade unions, Professor Ha- sity Bureau of Appointments and ber said, have provisions for retard- Occupational Information the serv- ing the introduction of lavor-saving ices of many men prominent in their devices. Under the NRA, he point- respective fields have been secured. ed out, an effort was made to reduce The conferences are to cover student dislocation from machine introduc- opportunities in fields of business and tion in the textile industry by requir- industry, and will be held twice daily ing permission from the code author- March 8-12. The forums will be ity. open to all students and others in- Railroad consolidation, which has terested in the various fields to be been seriously considered for many discussed. years, Professor Haber said, has been Opening the conference Tuesday delayed partly because of the labor will be an address by Dr. James S. displacement which would result. Thomas, president of the Chrysler Institute of Engineering, on "Present LIQUOR STORE PICKETED Day Vocational Opportunities," fol- A lone picket paraded before the lowed by an open forum. During the fire-gutted building which housed the rest of the week the conference will state liquor store yesterday protest- cover the following fields: advertis- ing awarding of the repair contract ing, criminal investigation ,social to Geo. Walterhouse whom Ann Ar- service, personnel and industrial re- bor Building and Trades charged re- lations, demonstrations of applicant fusal to employ union help. interview technique, psychological tests in employment, practical guid- ance methods and programs, guid- w N S f