The 'weather~ 4 Snow or rain, rsing tempera-w tures todav; tomorrow snow and colder. .rtH. VOL. XLVIII. No. 85 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, JAN. 20, 1938 Editorials Opposition... To Dormitries... Parliament'iE Coal Bill .. . PRICE FIVE CENTS I France's New Cabinet Drafts ReformPledge Gesture Is Made To Retain Support Of Old Popular Front Government Bloc Age Pensions; Farm Insurance Promised PARIS, Jan. 19.-(P)-Premier Ca- mille Chautemps' new government to- night drafted a ministerial declara- tion promising fresh social reforms to hold support of the old People's Front majority in the Chamber of Deputies. A source close to the Government said the manifesto would promise swift completion of the code for so- cial peace which Chautemps was starting when dissension with So- cialists and Communists caused his previous ministry to fall last Friday. Bills providing for old age pen- sions and agricultural insurance also were designed to maintain socialist and Communist support of the new cabinet which Chautemps succeeded in forming yesterday. The new ministers, formally in- stalled today, will debate their social reform declaration at a meeting to- morrow night before going to the Chamber Friday for the first vote of confidence. The National Committee of the People's Front met tonight for a final study of the political situation. , Most of the delegates favored the more conservative cabinet, without Socialists or Communists but with the People's Front program, as the best way out of the difficulties over labor and- financial troubles. Eighteen of the 20 ministers in the new cabinet are radical-socialists, including Chautemps. Communist support apparently will not be need- ed to keep it intact. Continuation of France's vast armament program seemed assured since Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos and Defense Minister Edouard De- ladier are retaining their posts in the new cabinet. Recurring labor disturbances still kept the political situation tense. The latest outbreak included a demand by Bordeaux municipal employes that the city council increase living al- lowances; Jan. 27 was set as the deadline for completing negotiations before issuance of a strike order. Rising costs of living, attributed to fall of the franc, have been the basic cause of recent strikes.f Medical o-op Drive Opened Spooner Explains Plans For League At Meeting Sentiment for a league to provide cooperative medicine found increas- ing support -last night as Charles W. Spooner of the engineering school, outlined plans before the Ann Arbor Cooperative Society for what is amonga the most progressive attempts at pre- ventative medicine in the country. n Declaring at the meeting in Lane Rosten's This Proud Pilgrimage' Opens Tonight At Mendelssohn Edward Jurist Heads Cast Of 50 In Newest Play Of Scholarship Winner By MARIAN SMITH Norman Rosten's new play, "This Proud Pilgrimage," opens at 8:15 p.m. today with a cast of 50 students in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre for a three-day run under the direction of Valentine B. Windt, director of Play Production. The lead role will be played by Ed- ward Jurist, '38; su'pported by Charles Maxwell,'Grad.; Arthur Har- wood, '38; William Rice, '38; Myron Wallace, '39; Morlye Baer, Grad.; Howard Johnson, '39 and Peter Mark- ham, '39. Feminine leads will be taken by Nancy Schaefer, '39; Evelyn Smith, '38 and Helen Barr, '38. Rosten, who will himself appear in the cast, was recently awarded one of the 1937 Bureau of New Plays scholarships which entitles him to study in any university selected by the Bureau. Theresa Helburn, direc- tor of the Bureau, sent Rosten to Michigan to study playwriting under Prof. Kenneth T. Rowe, of the Eng- lish department. The plot of "This Proud Pilgrim- age" is centered around the incident of the Haymarket riot. On May 4, 1886, in Haymarket Square, Chicago, a bomb was t wown, no one has ever known by whom, into a peaceful{ mass-meeting for agitation of an eight-hour day. Amid fierce public hatred and dubious political-judicial procedure, seven men were finally Tops Players Tonight Business Men TellPresident Economic Ills Administration's Advisory Council Presents Ideas 1o Blast Out Recession Release Of Report Is Expected Soon WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.--(P)--The Administration's Business Advisory Council, including a half-hundred men drawn from many fields of in- dustry, went to the White House to- day to present ideas on current eco- nomic problems. To President Roosevelt the business New Campus Literary Magazine Is Projected Three members of the faculty of the English department began yes- terday an investigation to deter- mine student and faculty senti- ment toward the revival of a cam- pus literary magazine. The three are Giovanni Giovan- nini, Morris Greenhut and Charles Peake. They were selected by members of the English Journal Club, of which they are members, to conduct the investigation. The group will attempt to deter- mine the amount of interest on campus toward a literary publica- tion and the number of persons willing to contribute to it. Mem- .bers of other departments will be asked to contribute to the maga- zine. Persons willing to submit their writings and to work on the staff of such a publication have been asked to contact one of the three. The campus has been without a literary magazine sirpce the failure ofCnempory v o resume nubli- 4 EDWARD JURIST hung, the indictment of anarchism replacing the murder charge. ' One man, Parsons, was a speaker at the meeting. He could have escaped, but surrendered himself to the law believing that by his in- (Continued on Page 6) I Haber Claims 163,000 Fired Since Last July 7,000 Still Fail To Report At Summons To Work On New WPA Projects The tide of receding business washed about 163,000 persons off pay- rolls in Michigan between July 15, 1937, and Jan. 15 of this year, Prof., William Haber, of the economics de- partment, former state relief director, told the senate unemployment com- mittee yesterday, according to the Associated Press. . Professor Haber estimated that the total number of unemployed on the latter date was 376,000, or 18 per cent of the states' gainfully employed population. Michigan Hard Hit The home state of the automobile ndustry had been hard hit, he said, not only by increases in unemploy- ment in the manufacturing plants, but in other lines of business as well. Employment, he pointed out, drop- ped 25 per cent in October and No- vember, reversing a trend that had seen the number of jobless decline from a peak of 592,800 in 1932 to an average of 255,200 in 1937. On the other hand, Louis Nims, Michigan Works Progress Adminis- tration director, said 7,000 of approxi- mately 20,500 persons called to WPAI jobs since Dec. 1 had failed to report. Chairman Byrnes Astounded When Cha~rian Byrnes (Dem.,- Put- Death Toll At 47 In Quebec School Tragedy, More Victims Are Reported Nearing Death; Mystery Fire BringsInvestigation ST. HYACINTHE, Que., Jan. 19.- lP--Officials tonight listed 47 per- sons dead from the swift fire that trapped students and teachers in the 'College of the Sacred Heart early Tuesday. Twenty-two charred bodies lay in the morgue of this small Quebec town, but only four were officially identified. Dr. Paul Morin, district coroner, opening an inquest into the early morning tragedy, listed as dead the 25 others missing in the belief their bodies were buried under the frozenj wreckage of the school. Fears were expressed the death toll might mount much higher. Five of the most seriously injured were re- ported close to death. They were ad- ministered the last rites of the Ro- man Catholic Church. Twenty-one of those who escaped the flaming structure were hospital- ized. Some were injured by leaps into the snow. Almost all were clad in night clothes.- Dr. Morin announced the four iden-, tified were Brother Jean Baptiste, 64, Sherbrooke, Que., who died of in- juries, and three students, Deus Rich- ard, 15, Jean Noel Vincent, 15, and Lucien Leclerc, all of St. Hyacinthe.I men carried a statement of ti eir cation last fall. viewpoint, drawn up at a preliminary meeting. For the time being, it was withheld from publication, but thereU.S. Oil Tanker were indications that it would be re- leased later.IB Document Attracts Interest Is a t r d B Much interest is attached to the R document, for the Council has, on some occasions, found material for R criticism in Administration policies. Although today's meeting was ten- Ship With American Crew tatively scheduled several months ago, Wa En Route To C Secretary Roper told reporters it as Eataian fitted, in as an integral part of the Capital With Russian Oil series of discussions Mr. Roosevelt has been conducting recently with various PARIS, Jan. 19.-()-Authorita- groups of business leaders. Live sources tonight reported that the Suggests Production Control While formulating a message to f American tanker Nantucket Chief had Congress, the President has urged a been captured by two Spanish In- Uystem under which the leaders of an surgent gunboats off Barcelona Tues- industry would meet, estimate the day. prospective demand for their output, These sources declared that the and adjust production accordingly. capture occurred while the American Sub-committees of the advisory tanker was attempting to run Insur- council met throughout the morning. gent Generalissimo Francisco Fran- Stephen T. Early, a presidential co's blockade of the eastern Spanish secretary, said Mr. Rosevelt told the coast. business leaders comprising the coun- The tanker, formerly namedthe cil he was working with other groups Gulflight, was en route to the Cat- who have already conferred with him alan capital with a cargo of Russian and still others to come towards cre- oil. ating simple machinery with respect The 'capture was witnessed by to policies. French warships which declined tb w__ _interfere., They reported the incident to the French Navy Ministry, how- 1Jo s rever, thesame sources said. N vy The Nantucket Chief was flying the American flag and carried an Amer- Islan ., F rces ican crew. French reports said the tanker was last seen being escorted by the In- W1I LI)M Plane.S surgent vessels to Palma, Mallorcan island stronghold of the Insurgent sea and air forces. Greatest Mass Flight Made. Lloyd's shipping registry lists the In Record Time From 5,189-ton tanker Gulflight of Port Arthur, Tex., as owned by the Gulf Oil California Naval Base CoI rtin. . Corporation). HONOLULU, Jan. 19.-UP)-The - Navy strengthened Hawaii's aerial de-,JHop Tickets, Af ter fense today by landing 18 more of its I L A long-range patrol bombing planes on Survivin g Air Trip PalHarbor after a non-stop flightt in record time from San Diego, Calif., On Sale Tomorrowv 2,570 miles away. The planes, carrying 127 officers and men, completed the flight in 20 Preferential sale to Juniors of J- hours, 12 minutes. Hop tickets will begin at 1 p.m. to- It was the Navy's greatest mass morrow, Jack Wilcox, '39, ticket chair- flight and brought to 42 the number man, said last night. of big naval planes thus transferred The sale was originally scheduled here from the mainland in the last to begin yesterday, but was delayed year. Altogether, 48 naval planes when the plane on which they were have participated in formation flights being flown from Chicago to Detroit from the California coast-all in the was grounded.k past four years. Tickets will be sold to Juniors, who It also brought unofficial estimates must bring their identification cards, of the number of naval planes in from 1 to 5:30 p.m. Friday; from 9:30 Hawaii to 75. Counting army planes,|to 11:30 a.m. and from 3:30 to 5:30 reported to include 40 bombers and I p.m. Saturday, and from 1 to 5:30 100 pursuit craft, it gave the Islands l p.m. Monday. The time of the gen- Fraternities DenyAttenit To Block Foo Repudiate Anti-Dormitory Dance, But Refuse Aid In DispensingOf Tickets Council Continues Support Of Dorms Leaders of 28 of the campus' 41 general fraternities denied any con- nection with the Poo on Foo dance it a special meeting of the Interfra- ernity Council last night but at the name time refused to participate in 9 campus-wide sale of tickets for ther iormitory committee's Foo dance to. be held tomorrow. Heads of Greek letter groups in- iicated that refusal to sell tickets to* the dormitory dance did not mean that they were opposed to the dormi- tory movement. Discussion in the meeting revealed that they are in, favor of dormitories if and when the University clears up certain points regarding eating and other require- ments of the dorms. . Criticism Brings Action 1 The action denying any connection with the Poo on Foo dance came1 after criticism had been leveled at1 the fraternity group because of the anti-dormitory dance. Poo on Foo was started a short .ime ago by Walker Grahm, '38, and a group of fraternity men, who, through an advertisement in yester- day's Daily, advised affiliated stu- dents not to "knit your own noose"] by supporting the Foo dance. As a means of combatting thec dance, this group arranged for the Poo on Foo, to be held in the Armory at the same time as the dormitory dance. Allen-Rumsey Controversy Announcement of the Poo on Foo capped opposition to the dormitoryt movement which began when the ad- ministration was alleged to have i "double crossed" fraternities by mak- I ing freshmen who live at Allen-Rum-. sey eat all their meals there. Although most fraternity men at last night's meeting were strongly in1 favor of dormitories, the fear was ex- pressed on the part of some that fra-j ternities would be pushed into the' background and eventually off the campus unless some provision were made to protect affiliated groups as new dormitories came in.1 Urge Support Of Drive - Leaders of other Greek letter] groups saw no reason to fear the1 abolition of fraternities and urgedc the whole hearted support of the dormitory drive. The statement of the Council con- cerning Poo on Foo and issued by its president, Bud Lundahl, '38, follows: "At a special meeting of the In- terfraternity Council last night it was unanimously passed that Michigan fraternities will not support and have not supported the Poo on Fooedance. This action was taken to clear up misunderstandings which arose from an article in yesterday's Daily." Try To Block 1Anti-Lynch Bill J a Ps, Bri tis h Avert Clash As Chinese Claim Further Gains Peace Endangered When Tokyo Requests Chinese Guarded ByiBritish Lines Chinese Claim Key Position At Wuhu SHANGHAI, Jan. 20.-(Thursday) -(P)--A dispute between British and Japaneseauthorities at Tientsin, al- most ending in a clash of armed forces, was reported today while Chinese said they had made "fur- ther successes" on the Hangchow and, Wuhu fronts. Authoritative British circles said a clash was narrowly averted Wednes- day afternoon when Japanese army officers at Tientsin allegedly demand- ed that Chinese within the British concession be handed over to them. British Refuses Request The British refused, according to these sources. The Japanese then threatened to take the Chinese by force, and the British repliedsthat they would resist. The Japanese let the natter rest there, at least tem- porarily. British quarters also disclosed that the Japanese High Command in Shanghai suggested Wednesday that British forces evacuate their defense lines on. the western borders of the International Settlement, saying Ja- panese troops in adjacent Hungjao could perform the defense duty. The British refused. At Wuhu, 60 miles up the Yangtze river from Nanking, the Chinese said they had gained "a dominating posi- tion over the city" by occupying mountains five miles to the south. Hampered By Weather At Hangchow, 125 miles southwest of Shanghai, they stated their forces were crossing the Chientang river in "increasing numbers" andl approach- ing the city from the southwest. Chinese reported the fighting along the Tientsin-Pukow railway and Shantung fronts had been slowed down by severe weather and snow- storms. A Japanese military spokesman said the Chinese had about 400,000 sol- diers along the Lunghai Railway and in the Vicinity of Suchow, important rail junction north of Nanking, and that they were making desperate ef- forts to prevent th~e Japanese from consolidating their North China con- quests. Fajans Chosen For A.C.S. Tour Will.Give Lectures In East On Chemical Forces Prof. Kasimir Fajans of the chem- istry department has been selected as guest lecturer in the annual lecture tour sponsored and arranged by the American Chemical Society, it was announced yesterday. Professor Fajans, who leaves on his trip Sunday, will lecture in the East, talking at Syracuse, Monday and at Cornell, Union College, Princeton, and Akron in that order. The tour will extend to Feb. 1. The selection is made by the So- ciety on the basis of the amount of investigation done in the man's par- ticular field of specialization. Profes- sor Fajans is regarded as one of the foremost men in the field of electro- chemistry, especially in application to the crystalline structure of solids. He has written numerous works on the subject. Dr. Fajans has chosen the physical nature of the Chemical Forces in the Light of Recent Investigations as his general topic. Today's Gargoyle Uncovers The Seven 'Most Beautiful Men' Gargoyle today presents the seven most beautiful men on the Michigan campus. The Adonises were chosen from photographs by Sonja Henie ("to rhyme with penny") when she appeared in the "Ice Follies of 1938" in Detroit recently. When told that the seven would be shown today, one of the 10 most beau- tiful women on campus, chosen by Gargovle last year. aneried "What's i Hall 2 S.C.) called this "astounding in view enlist under the organization's ban- of previous testimony about increas- ner to make the venture possible, Mr. ing relief demands, Nims said delays t Spooner indicated that effective med- faced by the prospective WPA work- Sente May Probe ical care could be purchased for $20 ers in obtaining State identification .T B per family, numbers may have been a cotibt 1T FodXA tio Summarizing the services which nue contribut- Ford Action b mng cause. would be provided to members. Mr. He said also that many had regis- WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.-(A)- Spooner listed medical treatment for tered for WPA jobs before they really E Southern As Stop Senators See It To Legislation '< i theC miajor i innes vii~ts LUoTe were in need of relief, because of a IuThere were indications today that a home within a limited radius, minor mistaken belief that such registra- I special Senate committee might look! surgery, free medicines prescribed by. tion would give them priority. into the National Labor Relations the doctor and consultations and pre- ventive treatment-all without cost. - Board's decision that the Ford Motor The plan is open to all who wish to ! A W Now Provides Company violated the Wagner Act. join, Mr. Spooner said, declaring that The Board recently ordered Ford based upon the risk-sharing principle U T oT - The Miiiut" ito reinstate 29 employes alleged to it provided an ideal form of insurance I have been dismissed because of union against sickness for the average fam- A nti-EuiCion L n 1activities. When the Company failed ily. to comply, the Board asked a Federal: Circuit Court of Appeals in Kentucky DETROIT, Jan. 19. - R) -The to compel compliance. Ames Lecture Date United Automobile Workers' "flying I A Senate Judiciary Subcommittee Erroneously "Given squadron" today visited the home of will take up next week a resolution Ronald Crider and soon bullets were by Senator Burke Dem., Neb.) call- flying. Veterans said it was the worst ing for an investigation of the Board.' The date of the lecture by Sir Her- b e o is f Members said that Burke would bert Ames, Canadian statesman and bloodless shooting in the history of make a preliminary statement to the financial expert, was erroneously an- the police department. 'subcommittee next week, and would3 nounced in yesterday's Daily as Early this afternoon two constables be permitted to suggest board activi- scheduled for today. The lecture will started evicting Crider and his fam- ties which the committee might wish be given at 4:15 p.m. Thursday, Jan. ily, piling furniture on the walk. Soon to review. They added that the Ford 27, in Natural Science Auditorium. between 50 and 75 men arrived in case was one which might come under Sir Herbert will speak on the sub- automobiles. They were the "flying: committee scrutiny, ject, "Does German Rearmament' squadron" which takes a hearty in-j Necessarily Mean War?" He spends terest in evictions. practically every summer in Europe, The moving back process began. stumesThe Custom and attended the Nazi party rally in Then Lagonis appeared at a second- But Foo PooS The Idea Nuremberg as a British Dominions stArv windnw with a nistol in each an unofficial total of 215 fighting eral campus planes. be announced sale, Wilcox said, will llater. Free Text Book Library Here Follows Plan At Yale University WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.-P)- Southern senators said today they would attempt to sidetrack the Anti- Lynching Bill early next week to clear the way for other legislation. Southerners have carried on a fili- buster against the bill for 12 days. The fight has prevented Senate con- sideration of President Roosevelt's legislative program. By BEN MARINO I pointed by President Ruthven and in- Senator Connally (Dem., Tex.) and Michigan's Text Book Lending li- cluding, Prof. E. A. Walter of the other opponents of the bill contended bi ary is patterened after the Loring English department, chairman; Dr. they have been picking up strength W. Andrews Library at Yale Univer- Bishop, Prof. A. D. Moore of the en- steadily. Proponents of the measure sity established in 1882 in honor of gineering college and Dean Edward were expected to oppose any attempt the founder's son, according to the H. Kraus of the literary college, the to sidetrack it. 1935 report of the Yale Librarian, An- procedure is different. The library On the floor, Senator Ellender drew Keogh. here started with volunteer dona- (Dem., La.) continued his long de- The idea of a lending library to tions of books from University stu- nunciation of the bill. Ellender, who benefit students financially unable to dents at the request of the commit- started speaking last Friday, dis- bear the cost of expensive text books tee last May. These books were col-I cussed dangers which he said would ,vas started at Yale with a gift of $1,- lected by the various libraries about result from any "amalgamation." of 000 and subsequently increased with campus, and through the efforts of the White and Negro races. additional grants by the widow of I the main library which organized the _ Loring W. Andrews until the book collection and kept records, they were fund reached the sum of $23,000. concentrated in the Angell Study Ann Hawley Wins Student gifts increased the supply Hall. Recently the book donations of books available yearly, the obso- made by students have been sup- 3rd Sp eec Contest lete books being sold and the proceeds plemented by two alumni gifts to- r used to purchase books in current use. As many as 1,300 books are contribut- talling $1,050.I Most of the books which have beenI Anne Hawley, '40, of Salamanca,