The Weather Increasing cloudiness and warmer, rain in southeast to- day; colder in west. L r Lw 43ZU jIat Editorials The Republicans Look Towar4 1940... Ramsay MacDonald Passes On .. VOL. XLVIII. No. 41 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, NOV. 12, 1937 PRICE FIVE CENTS Last Chinese, Flee Shanghai As Jap Soldiers SeizeNantao Withdrawal Due To Lack Of Water And Food, Says Official Communique Nanziang Pressed I By Nipponese Men SHANGHAI, Nov. 12 (Friday)-(P) -The three-months battle for Shang- hai ended early today when the last Chinese retreated from Nantao, last section of the metropolis remaining in Chinese hands. The Japanese army completed the withdrawal-"partly due to exhaus-! tion of water and food supplies"-con- firmed an announcement from Japan- ese headquarters that the Shanghai area had "been pacified and cleared of all Chinese troops" Does Not Mean Defeat The Chinese admission of the fall of Nantao-the walled native city just south of the International areas-said this "does not mean defeat, but is merely the beginning of a prolonged campaign of resistance." A statement from headquarters ofl General Iwane Matsui, Japanese army commander at Shanghai, said the victory would be followed up vig- orously. A Japanese spokesman said the Chinese retirement from the Shanghai area toward the Taihu lakes to the west was becoming a rout under< severe bombardment of JapaneseI planes. Japanese troops were pressing hardt against Nanziang, 10 miles west of here and other points along what the Chinese call their "winter" line of defense. Earlier General Matsui said that whether the Japanese continued their drive until Nanking, the Chinese cap- ital 175 miles northwest of here, was taken depended on whetlqer Chinese resistance to Japan's purposes in CN, continued.- Resisted 48 Hours The Chinese communique said the retirement from Nantao was carried out after a small force had fought a rearguard action against the Japanese for 48 hours. Throughout Thursday the Japanese army, navy and airforce 3 blasted away at this Chinese detach- ment with all the power they could muster, and Chinese lines finally1 oroke China Claims It Is Willing To Talk Peace1 Tells Brussels Conference It Is Amenable Even If Japanese Group Balks BULLETIN TOKYO, Nov. 12.--(Friday)-p)- The Japanese foreign office said today Japan has declined a second invita- tion to attend the Brussels Conference on the Far Eastern War. BRUSSELS, Nov. 11. - (P) -The Chinese delegation today informed the Brussels Conference on the Chin- ese-Japanese war that China still is willing to discuss peace even if Japan rejects the conference's latest over-; ture. Dr. V. K. Wellington Koo, head of the Chinese group, presented this as- surance to Norman H. Davis, head of' the United States delegation, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden of Britain and Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos of. France. The Conference still awaited Ja- pan's reply to the note sent Tokyo last Saturday, asking whether Japan would be willing to discuss the Far Eastern crisis with envoys of a small- er group of powers than the 19 mak- ing up this conference. Delegates said there appeared to be two courses open to the conference after Japan'sreply comes. First, if the reply were final and negative, would be -to issue a statement of "his- toric" nature, possibly a condemna- tion of Japan's course in China. Sec- ond, if the reply seemed at all favor- able, would' be to send another note to Japan urging her to enter into peace talks. Enorinper (urricu la Goes To President Green Carries -NLRB Protest S- Brazil Regime Is Not Fascist, -E French Author Is Given Nobel Prize On Novel University Blamed I i V WILLIAM GREEN o rresdenP evNar asNinsists tSTOCKHOLM, Nov. 11-(A")-Rog- er Martin Du Gard, French author of Board Orders Utilities Co. 'Democracy Moulded To "Les Thibaults," a series of novels on To End AFL Contracts Necessity,' He Calls His family life in France, today was award the 1937 Nobel Prize for lit- FollowingInvestigation Government After Coup erature Scientists in the' United States, Federation Leaders German And Italian England and Switzerland were an- nounced as winners of the prizes for Call Ruling Biased Bids Turned Down physics and chemistry. Each prize is worth about $40,000. WASHINGTON, Nov. 11.-(JP)- RIO DE JANEIRO, (By telephones The physics award was shared by William Green, president of the to Buenos Aires), Nov. 11.-P--The Clinton J. Davisson of New York and American Federation of Labor, car- government of President Getulio Var- Dr. George P. Thomson of London' ried to the White House toda the gas assured foreign diplomats today for their research in electronic inter- that its assumption of dictatorial ference. Federation's request for drastic re- powers was not fascism but democ- Professors Walter N. Haworth of organization of the Labor Relations racy "moulded to Brazilian necessi- Birmingham, England, and Paul Kar- Board. ties." rer of Zurich, Switzerland, divided the After accusing the Board of fa- Diplomats of many countries made chemistry prize for studies of carbo- vorir g John L. Lewis' rebel CIO in inquiries concerning the reported fas- hydrates and vitamins. labor's civil war, the Federation's re- cist implications of Vargas's coup DuGard was born 56 years ago in cent convention at Denver instructed yesterday, in which he dissolved Con- a Paris suburb and started serious Green to ask President Roosevelt gress and promulgated a new consti- a ri atbthe ae of 28. for "prompt relief." writing at the age of 28. Cp res rstution.ars"Les Thibaults" is a lengthy work Green said Mr. Roosevelt assured It was learned on good authority along the lines of John Galsworthy's e would consider a list of cases that the Italian and German envoys "Forsyte Saga." which Green intends to assemble. All adhern verturestIalian-German of these, Green said, would show that Japanese anti-Communism pact but huBrtthdAd favored the CIO and had been turned down. 4 Signers Green called on the President a Rio De Janeiro Calm GencleontePeieta The situation in the capital was' skIa ato few hours after the Labor Board had calm today, as it wasyesterday, withAsk Vacation ordered the Consolidated Edison.nootadsgofcne.Titr- Company of New York and six af- no outward sign of change. This tran- filiated utility companies to break quility apparently extended through e. contracts with the International Bro- the nation, with Vargas firmly in con- Petitions For Thanksgivig therhood of Electrical Workers, an trol. Recess Are Explained AFL affiliate. Censorship continued, however, ___ Aunder the "state emergency" set up With more than 4,000 signatures SAlthough he said he had not dis- under the new constitution, which cussed this case with the Presideit, replaced the often-suspended "lib- received, circulators of petitions ask- Green calledWtherdecision "out- eral" 1934 constitution. ing for a vacation Friday and Satur- rageous." D. W. Tracy, president of day after Thanksgiving last night the I.B.E.W., called it "another ex- Under the legislative powers of the gave the Daily facts concerning the ample of the Board's bias" in favor new constitution which permits the petitions. of the CIO. The United Radio and President to promulgate laws by de- Students from California to New Electrical Workers, a CIO union, pre- cree when the chamber is not sitting, York, and from Michigan to Floridat ferred the charges that resulted in Vargas was understood to be working are represented on them, as are stu- M the Board's orderon two important measures.A-+,- ,--I,-A Simpler Rules Will Face New U.S. Congress Prof. Sunderland Tells Of Radical Changes In Laws For Session's Proceedure When the regular session of the United States Congress convenes next January it will be presented withl a radically new and simpler set of I rules of procedure for federal district! courts, Prof. Edson R. Sunderland, of the Law School, told the Daily yester- day. Professor Sunderland, who is a} For Boosting Rents y Building Plans Hypocrisy' Cry Enrollment Mounts Every 1Mar i I4crYear But Rooms Grow B r itisProportionally scarcer Armistice Day Regulation Sought For Lower Prices LONDON, Nov. 11.-iP)--England's King George VI and his brother, the Duke of Windsor, who was king By JACK DAVIS before him, played unintended roles Responsibility for excessively high today in the solemn observances of rent in Ann Arbor rooming houses the 19th anniversary of the Armistice. rests squarely upon the University, George stood in rigid salute before administration sources admitted yes- the graceful Whitehall cenotaph dur- terday as campus sentiment to com- ing the two-minute tribute of silence bat rising prices gained momentum, to the World War dead while a Michigan, with one hand, permits screaming man struggled through the increased enrollments every year t guards, almost to the monarch's slim, bring an increasing demand for khaki-clad figure, and shouted his rooms. With the other, it demolishes hysterical accusation: blocks of rooming houses in pursu "All this is hypocrisy-you're de- ance of its building program. These liberately preparing for war!" houses have not been replaced and shIn Paris, the Duke of Windsor as a result there are less student ac- shunned the morning church servicei commodations than there were 10 in which he had planned to honor years ago. Such expansion, as the his fallen comrades. TheDAnglican Rackham graduate school typifies rector, the Rev. J. L. C. Dart, had must inevitably produce a rooming said, "I would rather the Duke did shortage; yet no steps have been not attend." taken to forestall it. Mr. Dart explained that he had ex-s pressed only his personal opinion Prices Pegged as a vicar of the Church of England, Moreover the University practice Of which opposed Edward's marriage to requiring semester contracts in ap- a divorced woman. Before time for proved houses pegs prices at a higl the service, Mr. Dart telephoned the level. In the mad scramble that Duke's equerry, Lieut. Dudley For- marks the beginning of school, stu- wood, to apologise for "what amdunt- dentshare inclined to grab anything ed to a public insult." that has a bed and four rather dur- _____________ ______able walls. Afterwards other things, " vseem important but they are tie C t n rS 1down by contract. Were it possible 1 for a great majority of students t rent rooms at the beginning of the H it For H alting semester on a weekly or monthl basis the unrented rooms would pre S pen P arleys vent prices from remaining at a peak 7~level. For these reasons a drive to induce Fraser Knocks Business the University to take action to clu down rents in approved' houses 1 And Patriotic Bodies At intensified today. University offlc a Pro essiveMeetingcontacted have reacted favorably or M eta proposal to have college author - Great harm in blocking freedom of ties regulate maximum rents in ap- proved houses. It is expected thai discussion essential to democracy is the number of houses asking foi being brought about by organized University approval would be greatly groups-patriotic, veteran, business,' lessened-increasing the number of ' rooms available on a weekly instead professional and even fraternal, Dr. of semester basis. In this way the Mowat G. Fraser, of the education reservoir of empty rooms would serve school yesterday told the opening ses- to knock out the props from initial sion of the three-day Progressive Ed- high rents and, by shopping around ucation Association being held in the students would soon be able to bring Ann Arbor High School building about a more just equilibrium. Speaking on "The Influence of Regents' Help Needed Pressure Groups in a Democracy," This scheme, which would have t Mr. Fraser said that such organiza- receive the sanction of the Board o tions are inevitable in a government Regents, depends for success upon a where the people rule and have free- well organized housing bureau pos- dom of speech, press and assembly. sessed of up-to-date information or They are the natural result of the 'vacancies and prices in the Univer. desire for group action, he said, but sity area. The present set up for ap- they are detrimental if they attempt proved houses accomplishes this i to restrict the free exchange of ideas excellent fashion. which is imperative to democracy. This proposal has been tried i Woman Judge Featured various schools throughout the coun- Featured speaker of the banquet try with satisfactory results. Alter. last night in the Union was the only nate suggestions envisage an expan- woman judge south of the Mason- sion of the University towards th Dixon line-Camille Kelley-judge of %west side of town where Dean Olm. the juvenile court in Memphis, Tenn. stead, in charge of housing, esti- for the past 17 years. mates there are low cost accommo- Social conditions must be changed dations for several thousand students before the American educational standards can be improved, according Franco Repels to Dr. S. A. Courtis of the education school, who attributed the confusing position of the teacher in the present Lo alist Attack day and age to the chaotic social LOAta conditions in speaking to the after-k a ivI member of the advisory committee of t ' U1ue the Supreme Court on the rules of 'Lesser Evil' civil procedure in federal district In the Consolidated Edison case,' courts, said the regulations which the Board also ordered the seven com- are being considered by Bar Associa- panies to stop recognizing the AFL tions throughout the country will union as the sole bargaining agency remove many possibilities of techni- for their employees, to notify em-' calities.and tend to make action in., ployees they were free to join any, these courts run smoother. union, to deal with an union en- titled to recognition and to discon- Uniformity For Courts tinue "espionage" into employees' ac- Furthermore, he said, a degree of tivities. uniformity in the federal district !ThesBoard found the AFL union courts will be established. was successor to the companies' em- Such practices as the interlocutory ploye representation plans abolished objections which are permitted in the when the Supreme Court upheldthe New York State courts and which Wagner Labor Disputes Act. delay action sometimes for years will: The decision quoted Flod L. Car- be largely removed, Professor Sunder- Tlisle, chairman qot he oyd L. Cr- landpoitedout.Indvidal sate lile, haimanof the board of trus- land pointed out. Individual states tees of Consolidated Edison, as tell- might also revise their court processes ing an employee the company pre- to conform to the federal chances, ferred the"AFL to the CIO union as he added, pointing to Illinois and the lesser of "necessary evils." Michigan court methods which he drew up and which contain manyl similarities to the rules proposed for r the district courts.!Tan Beta Pi Elects ' 1 i . i 1 The first, declaring a moratorium on foreign debt payments, was indi- cated in his radio broadcast last night explaining to the nation the' reasons for the coup. Although there has been no official announcement it was understood the short term mortgium w yq" be4in- augurated by formal notices explain- ing Brazil's financial situation to in- terested countries.; Decree Prepared Vargas was also preparing a decree cutting the export tax on coffee and1 giving substance to the policy, an- nounced Nov. 3, of abandoning export' price control over Brazil's principal product. At that time Vargas even scrapped the seven-year old system of controlling coffee surpluses by gov-j ernment purchase and destruction. Vargas proclaimed the new consti- tution yesterday under the decree powers under which he has ruled most of the time since 1935. He was authorized to remain in office indefi-; nitely until a plebiscite on the new: constitution had been held. The con- stitutional election was to be held at the President's discretion and his present term would end then "if the For the past two years since the Su- preme Court selected the committee, two different drafts of rules have been circulating among judges and lawyers, Professor Sunderland stated, so that suggestions could be made. by the profession. Comment Is Favorable On the whole, Professor Sunderland added, comment from all parts of the country is favorable to the changes.' Among the 15 legal experts on the committee, he said, are William D. Mitchell, formerly attorney general of the United States under ex-President1 Hoover, chairman of the committee and the vice-chairman is ex-Senator George W. Pepper of Pennsylvania. HITCHHIKER FATALLY INJURED MICHIGAN CITY-Darlene Green, 15-year-old girl hitchhiker from Pon- tiac, was injured fatally today in a collision between a Michigan Central passenger train and a truck. Lack Of Labor N By Riegel To By JOSEPH FREEDMAN Although the current business re- cession has forced dramatic laborl news out of newspapers, industrial managers continue to face serious in-I dividual problems, Prof. John W. Riegel, of the Bureau of Industrial Relations, explained yesterday. "Much adjustment is going on without the public's knowledge in the endeavour to eliminate a great deal of future labor-capital friction," Pro- fessor Riegel pointed out. "The problems which managers are now aremainly individual onesacon- cerned with temporary layoffs." At a time when business begins Fourteen Seniors Tau Beta Pi, men's engineering honor society, inducted 14 men, se- plebiscite be favorable to the consti- lected from among the highest quar- tution." Vargas could then standfor ter of the senior class, into the or- reelection. ganization at the formal initiation In his speech last night Vargas said Tuesday evening in the Union. his bloodless coup had been made The following seniors were initiat- necessary by the threat of armed re- ed: Mendel W. Kitzmiller, Donnan volt from "regional mobsters masked E. Basler, Harry D. Marshall, Alfred as party leaders and armed to impose C. Erickson, Donald F. Vanloon, Wil- their decisions on the nation" in the lis F. Brondycke, Truman N. Hoenke, scheduled January presidential elec- Kenneth L. Graf, Henry W. Wallace, tion. Lee E. Widman, Henry W. Crote, Robert S. Moore, Goff Smith and George N. Stuart, Jr. Successful Fund A banquet in honor of the new men 'I followed the formal initiation cere- mony. Charles Spencer, national DriveExpected president of the society, addressed the society and was followed by Mr. Mc- Carrol of the Ford Motor Co., who $47,500 Already Obtained spoke on "Progress in the Automotive Industry." For $53,000 Mark Y ___'1 With $47,500 subscribed toward the : I dents in every class and college in the University. This petition has received more support than any other project in the recent history of the University, ac- cording to circulators. Arguments for the vacation, as pre- sented by petitioners, point out that some instructors give bolts the days after Thanksgiving, that only one session of each class would be missed through the proposed vacation and that Thanksgiving is one of the im- portant holidays of the year and stu- dents like to get home for the occa- sion. It was also pointed out that stu- dents at Michigan State College are having a vacation this year for the first time since 1932. They obtained their vacation through petitions, propaganda and faculty support. Petitions here were passed out in fraternity houses, sorority houses, the League, the Union, the lobby of An- gell Hall, the engineering school and on the diagonal. The Men's Council is backing the local petitioning. Typhoon Sweeps The Philippines Heavy Rains And Big Wind Leave Many Homeless SMANILA, Nov. 11 -( P)-A typhoon swept across five Philippine provinces and through Manila tonight, leaving an undetermined number of dead, in- jured and homeless. Property dam- age was extensive. First meager, incomplete reports showed five known dead, 20 missing, and many injured. In Manila alone 3,000 persons were homeless, their houses blown away by the terrific wind or inundated by torrential rains. Full reports awaited communica- tion from the affected provinces- Tayabas. Rizal, Bulacan, Pampanga and Zambales. Some lives were believed lost when giant waves dashed 14 heavy cargo lighters onto the rocks in Manila bay. The 20 missing had been aboard 10 fishing boats in the bay. Floods were widespread. The hur- ricane threw huge trees across high- ways, stopping traffic around Manila. High winds delayed an Armistice Day celebration. Junior Party Asks Recount Of Election. The Men's Council will consider the petition of the Washtenaw 4unior party asking that votes cast from z s s 0 r s e' d 0 e 6 n f h t 9 s d e 0 e y k e b s n ,t .r y if d e e LI 9 O of a n n n L- (e S. " ' d C WS A ttributed goal of $53,110, leaders in Ann Ar- bor's Community Fund drive were SIs confident yesterday that final efforts Lag In Business will bring the 1937 campaign to a' successful conclusion. i The industrial division was report- lief agencies and of the ossibilities Ied yesterday to have more than ful- of spreading work. filled its quota. "Ann Arbor has Professor Riegel warned that ex- shown a fine cooperative spirit in sup- t reme care must be exercised in set- porting the fund," Osias Zwerdling, tling upon these policies. I general chairman of the drive, said. "A great deal of friction which "The Volunteers who have been ac- arises between laborers and employ- tive in the campaignhhave worked ers has its source in depressed times, long hours and hard in the interests Enlightened businessmen will deal of the fund and the response to their adequately with labor to be certain of efforts has been excellent." harmonious relations throughout the The University total reached $6,- year. 140.12, more than 75 per cent of its "During depressed times, business $8,000 budget. The University Hos- is spurred to improve production pro- pital had contributed $1,010.49 of its cesses and management can retrain budget of $1,710. Leaders in the fund its employes in more efficient meth- drive reported that solicitations this tis o i w th a11ri, of nrnai,. f ~ .-nnA ___ , . . t 4 1 a . noon session. j 1 eaCSl U oll Hits Communities The American community has not HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish Fron- provided sufficiently for child de- tier, Nov. 11.-( )-Spanish Insurgent velopment and it is the parents' pro- communiques reported tonight Gen- vince to meet this deficiency by be- eralissimo Francisco Franco's troops coming an integral instrument in the had thrown back attacks by govern- adjustment of the child to his en- ment forces on the northern Aragon vironment, Mrs. Martha Ashby Hess front, "crushing whole regiments" in of the education school said. furious action. Parents, in her opinion, should The reports said Government avoid being too emotional about chil- troops, preceded by an artillery bar- dren's mistakes and should allow rage of several hours, launched their much of the teaching to be done by attack on military positions known negative experience. " as Hill 1100, Hill 1062 and Coseta The educator must help the conser- I Del Batanero, in the Orna-Sabinan- vationist to train children to partici- igo sector. It soon became a general pate in activities to preserve life, not! offensive. to wilfully destroy it as they are often "Our brave troops beat them back (Continued on Pags asto the starting point,' 'said an In- surgent communique, "our machine- l 1 Trade Committee Orders Picketing Of Oil Stations Pickets were placed at seven Stand- guto 111i V )fldIx1df 11 tbW 11,,e 1 es." Contradicting the Insurgent re- ports, Government sources asserted that Catalan militiamen had broken through the Insurgent line in North- ern Aragon, in guerilla warfare.