The Weather Unsettled today; tomorrow partly cloudy and not quite so cool. Y1 I Sir iga ~E~Aitj Editorials Front Populaire ... .._... VOL. XLVIII. No. 23 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, OCT. 22, 1937 PRICE FIVE CENTS t President Ruthven Breaks Up'40-'41 ShanghaiTorn As Both Sides Carry Attack, Fierce Battle Rages On All Fronts; Fires Ravaging Stricken Areas Of City Poll On Peace! To Be Taken By Daily, SRA CaInpus Survey About U.S. Foreign Policy Planned For Next Wednesday Fracas At Dorms Sophomores Warded Off Theatrical Partners By Freshmen With Hoses in Doubles Match Behind Allen-Rumsey F1 Vt From nVarsity Men Battle Paves Way Two varsity tennis players lost a For Black Friday 22-game doubles tournament yester- day on the Intramural's indoor court. The score was: President Ruthven early this morn- Paul Lucas and Dennis King, 12; ing broke up the sophomore-fresh- Hank Cohen, '38, and Rubin Frost, man battle in back of the Allen and '40, 10. Rumsey dormitories after the fresh- The winners, of stage and screen men head warded off the sophomores fame, are currently appearing in for an hour with three streams of "The Doll's House" in Detroit, where water from hoses. they met a Michigan alumnus who The President came on the scene brought them to Ann Arbor fr a alone as the Class of '40 was drag- workout." ging some of the first-year men "It's marvelous-marvelous playing through the mud and taking off their on these courts, but those old men pants. As he proceeded toward the can't stand up to youngsters like us," dormitory, the hoses were stopped Lucas, dressed, in sweatshirt and when someone hollered "The Pres- shorts, proclaimed with a flourish ident!" The President told several of those whom he saw in the fracas to and an accent typically Hungarian. come to Dean Joseph A. Bursley's The singing star of "The Three office later in the morning. Musketeers" had been beaten three When the President asked one of sets to one by Mr. Lucas, but he the proctors whether much damage explained with a bit of England had been done, the proctor answered lingering in his words, that he had that none of the rooms were badly :never played on the boards before." damaged. The President then pro- The foursome has a date for 11 ceeded through the dormitories a.m. today when the actors will face alone, talking to many of the fresh- the varsity representatives 9.gain. men. Before the final battle behind the dormitories about 30 freshmen had St Cad been shorn of their pants as the orm aused Class of '40, more than 100, paraded from the campus around to Packard Airplane Crash Street and back to the campus after Aas the police warned them that they " had received more than 15 com- Officials Claim plaints. The sophs were out this morning to get the five heads of the fresh- Mountain Gale Is Believed man class who were recently elected. It was the first manifestation of the To Have Disabled Radio; class rivalry which will be continued Attains High Velocity tonight in the traditional Black Fbi- day ceremonies. Tonight Members of both classes SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 21.-(P)- are expected " "6 'rwrni thie campui~s as ' h~Ited Air Lines tonight blamed the Black Friday, almost as old as Mich- crash of its mighty "Mainliner" that igan itself, is revived, killed 19 people on a sudden moun- Then, at 2 p.m. tomorrow, the "ver- tain gale that probably prevented dant freshmen" and the "gay young use of the radio team. sophomores" will tangle on South Maj. R. W. Schroeder, the com- Ferry Field in the class games. pany's manager of operations, said Three events are planned-a pillow the storm caused the airliner to drift fight, a cane spree and a flag rush. off its course Sunday night and crash Opportunity will be given for every- into Chalk Peak, 40 miles east of here. one from both classes to enter the "A sudden, unexpected squall flag rush, and certain teams will be which developed north of the course, chosen for the other events. the occurrence and aloft intensity of . But tonight is the time when the which would not be predicted from greatest spirit of the freshman-soph- the ground, is believed to have at- omore rivalry will be shown, tained the velocity of a gale, esti- If t night's Black Friday proves to mated at 70 miles per hour, when the be an thing like those of previous plane reached a point where the years, the campus will see a display ~ln ece on hr h of spirit and genuine class feeling storm crossed the course," he said. unequaled at any time during the Weather conditions were good year. when the plane left Cheyenne, Wyo., Both classes have selected their for Salt Lake City, and the plane captain for the games tomorrow and flew at 10,000 feet, high enough to these two men will be the object of clear any mountain along the radio many searching parties tonight. beam. But, the activity will not cease with "It is believed the squall created the search for the class leader,for a condition which probably made anything can be expected tonight, if the pilot's radio inoperative in which the past serves as an indication. case he would have been unaware of At Black Friday two years ago, one the, drift which took him off the individual was found wandering course," said Major Schroeder. around sans trousers in the Union "Evidence indicates that the plane lobby, while couples in evening clothes collided with higher terrain approxi- were preparing to go upstairs to the mately 17 miles south of the regular Union Formal. course, while in normal flying posi- tion, at normal crusing speed, and heading toward the scheduled destin- Secure Lawton ation, showing that the plane was rr @ Tfunctioning properly." Claim 10,000 Japs 1 1 i , i . Cut Off From Base SHANGHAI, Oct. 22.-(Friday)- (IP)-What may be the decisive battleC for Shanghai was raging today on all fronts of this area. Intense fighting was going on toI the northwest in the vicinity of Ta-, zang, where the Japanese were t throwing in their utmost offensivet power to crack the Chinese lines. The Chinese abandoned defensive tactics and poured in reinforcements to en- t gulf the Japanese in a powerfult counter-offensive. Repeated Chinese a i r r a i d s throughout last night and early to-1 day kept the Japanese anti-aircraft, guns in action and subjected the city to danger from shell fragments andf shrapnel. Chinese authorities said last night that 10,000 Japanese troops were in danger of being cut off from their base in heavy fighting at Wentsao-3 pang Creek, 12 miles northwest of Shanghai. Forty thousand Chinese were re-1 ported driving from three sides against a wedge which the Japanese, seeking to capture Tazang, had driv- en into the Chinese front Tuesday The Chinese said they hoped to com- plete encirclement of the Japanese before reinforcements could reach the latter. Shanghai was rocked last night by a two-hour artillery and aviation duel at the city's very doorstep. Chinese took the offensive when their air- planes and gun batteries in Pootung bombarded Japanese shore positions and warships along the Whangpoo river. Japanese warships replied with heavy gunfire. Huge fires in Chapei, at the northern edge of the International Settlement, and Poo-I tung, across the Whangpoo, further ravaged those stricken areas.I Tientsin dispatches reported Ja- pan's North China command was making extensive preparations for further invasion of Shantung prov- ince, where Chinese reports said Japanese forces had been retiring northward recently under pressure by the forces of General Han Fu-Chu, the provincial governor. Chinese airplane squadrons moving' to attack the Japanese near Shang- hai took new routes today to avoid flying over foreign areas. This fol - lowed a protest to the Nanking gov- ernment by United States Ambas- sador Nelson T. Johnson, who pointed out the danger to foreign lives when, A i Questionnaire Will Be Printed By Daily A poll to determine the sentiments of the campus on peace will be held Wednesday, Oct. 27 under the direc-1 tion of the Student Religious As- t sociation in conjunction with Thet Daily.s The poll will attempt to sound outd the opinions of the student body on the foreign policies of the Unitedr States with respect to the Far East-f ern and Spanish conflicts. In addi-c tion, students will have opportunity to express their views on fighting tov save democracy.l Ballots will be given out at several places on the campus ,and The Daily4 will print the questions to be includedv on the ballots with the locations oft the polling places Tuesday and Wed--t nesday mornings.1 The poll is being conducted in con-~ nection with Kirby Page's lecture tos be given Thursday, Oct. 28, in the Natural Science Auditorium.p Mr. Page, whose works on inter-t national, social and religious ques-f tions have been translated into manyi foreign languages, will speak on "Ther World Situation - Some Religioust Implications." He is a contributing editor to the Christian Century and was formerly editor of The World Tomorrow, a position later held by Norman Thomas. Labor Acts Hurt Wage-Hour Bill,, O'Connor StatesF New York Representative 'Embarrassed' By Stand Of Organized Labor f WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.- )-t Chairman O'Connor of the House Rules Conmittee charged today that both the AFL and the CIO are "hurt- ing the chances" of wage-hour legis- lation at the coming session of Con-t gress by statements criticizing thet pending bill. Engaged, himself, in an effort to extricate the measure from his com- mittee, in which it was pigeon-holed last summer by a combination of Republicans and southern Democrats, the New Yorker added that he had been "embarrassed" by the attitudes of the two labor organizations. O'Connor expressed confidence that early in the special session called for November 15, the committee would reverse itself and report the measure for action by the House as a whole. In addressing the CIO conference in Atlantic City on Friday, John L. Lewis, head of the organization re- ferred to the bill as "that poor, halt- ing wages and hours bill that finally emerged from the committee." In convention in Denver on Wed- nesday, the AFL approved a com- mittee report criticizing aspects of the measure'on the ground, among others, that it constituted an intru- sion upon the right of workers to improve their economic condition by; collective bargaining through labor unions. "If such a law were to be enacted it would establish the principle in American government that the fixing of wages was a natural and proper function of politicians and lawmak- ers," the report said. Program Planned At Meeting Of SWF An organizing committee was form- ed and a program for the year mapped out at a meeting of the Stu- dent Workers' Federation held last night at the Michigan Union. "We plan to enforce the contracts made last year and to help other stu- dent workers obtain desirable working conditions, Jack Sessions '40, tempor- ary chairman of the group, stated. Tom Downs '38. and Neil Ball '38 were appointed to represent the S.W.F. on the Ann Arbor Trades Council. The organization expects to form closer contacts with organized labor through association with the Council. [ab Lights Bad For Draftsman, Potts Declares By WILLIAM ROY SIZEMORE Drafting with the efficiency that is equired in technical work is exceed- ingly difficult under lighting condi- ions existing in engineering drawing laboratories, Prof. Phillip O. Potts of the engineering college told the Daily resterday. "Although the facilities which are provided are probably not injurious o the student's health, the accuracy and speed with which they are able to draw is greatly reduced," he con- tinued. Results of a survey in the drafting' laboratories revealed that illumina- tion on the desk tops averaged eight to ten foot-candles, going as low as six foot-candles in intensity without daylight, however. Standards set up in an article in yesterday's Daily recommended 30 or 40 foot-candles for reading or writing, with ten foot- candles as the very minimum. All drawing rooms are equipped with skylights and since artificial lighting is not what it might be, there is no work carried on in them after 4 p.m., Professor Potts said. An inadequate wiring system which was installed in the West Engineering building at the time of its construc- tion in 1904 was blamed for the poor lighting conditions by Professor Potts. The conduits are much too small to accommodate the size of wires