U Weather Generally fair,l ising tempera- ture today; tomirrow fair LL Liz: igrn Abr 'A AL tt 11j, Editorial The Nw Peace BJH VOL. XLIX. No. 119 Z-323 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1939 PRICE FIVE CENTS State Academy Of Educators Begins Annual Meeting Today Convention To Be Devoted To Forums And Talks On Academic Subjects A.F. Boak, President,' To Speak Tomorrow More than 400 educators and scien- tific investigators from the State are expected to attend the three-day ses- sion of the 44th annual convention of' the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters beginning here today with a meeting of the Council in Room 4065, Natural Science Building. Friday's and Saturday's sessions will be devoted to symposiums and speeches in 15 fields of academic work from anthropolgy to zoology. All addresses and section meetings are ]pen to the public. Whipple To Speak Highlights of r riday's program will be addresses by Dr. George H. Whipple, dean of the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, and by Prof. A.E.R. Boak of the history department, who is president of the Academy. Dr. Whipple, guest lecturer, will speak on' "Anemia and the Building of Hemo- globin in the Body" at 4:15 p.m. in the Rackham Auditorium. Professor Boak will give his presidential ad- dress on "The Role of Taxation in the Decline of the Roman Empire" at the general reception at 8 p.m. in the Rackham Amphitheatre. In addition to the regular section meetings devoted to short talks, dis- cussions and exhibitions, several lun- cheons have been arranged for Fri- day's program. The sections of eco- nomics and sociology will hold a joint luncheon at 12:15 p.m. in the Union, at which Harold D. Smith, recently appointed Federal Budget Director, is tentatively scheduled to speak. Dr. Raymond B. Allen, dean of Wayne University's College of Medi- cine will speak on "The Challenge of Our Times to Medical Science" at 12:30 p.m. in Room 316 of the Union.1 Dumond Talks Friday The luncheon ot the section of history and political science at 12:15 p.m. on the Union Terrace will feat- ure a talk by Prof. Dwight L. Dumond of the history department on "Obser- vations by a Layman in London." The biologists and foresters and the psy- chologists will' also hold luncheons at 12:15 p.m. in the League. At the dinner meeting of the Michi- gan Psychological Association at 6 p.m. Friday in the League, Kenneth L. Heaton will present a study of the causes of academic failure in college students. The dinner meeting at 6 p.m. in Room 316 of the Union of the landscape architecture section will feature a symposium of "profession- al practice." The meetings of the Academy, which is the State representative to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, annually at- tract educators and research men from the entire State. Students or faculty men from Wayne Uniyersity, Michigan State College, Hope College, Hillsdale College, Albion College, Western State Teachers College, the Catholic Junior College, Kalamazoo (Continued on Page 2) Students Strike; Want Superintendent Rehired ORTONVILLE, Mich., March 15. -(A')-Approximately 50 1?upils pick- eted the Ortonville school today and notified the school board that they would not attend classes Thursday unless Superintendent Raymond N. Baker was offered a contract for next year. The protesting pupils did not at- tend classes this morning, but re- turned this afternoon at Baker's urg- ing. After school hours they resumed their picketing. They carried signs reading "We Want Baker," and "No Baker-No School." Baker has held his position for nine years and said he was not informed as to why he was not offered a con- tract for next year. The school board met today with a committee of students and after- wards one member said: "We have nothing to say now. We feel that Baker has been with us a long time and now it is time to change." Spivak Exposes Nazi Sabotage And Propaganda In America House Sees i CompromiseHue On Relief Cut A d CI C E lf P011 ci rP Famed Lecturer Attacks World -Wide Espionage System Of Third Reich By JUNE HARRIS Secret armies of Nazi spies ana saboteurs identical with those at work in Austria and Czecho-Slovakia, nowI exist in every civilized country of the world including the United States, stated John L. Spivak speaking yes- terday before a capacity audience in Natural Science Auditorium under the auspices of the American Stu- dent Union. Backing his statements with actual letters written by propaganda men, members of "the fifth column," Spi- vak told how workers for the Rome- Berlin axis are cooperating with na- tive Americans to win sympathizers in this country, to secure military secrets and to gain possession of ter- ritories essential to them in case of war in this hemisphere. Nazi agents, who do not have mere propagandizing as their real purpose, but aim at sabotage and espionage, arrived in this country about five years ago and have spreaa their net- work throughout the county, the newspaperman declared. The names of German-American members of the Bund are available but the names of native-born American sympathizers are kept in code at the German con- sulate, he added. As an example of how Americans work with Nazi Spivak described some of the ties of Henry Allen who has criminal record of some 29 native agents activi- had a years. Prof. Florence Will Discuss Co-opsToday English Professor Couples Knowledge Of Industry With Economic Theory Prof. P. Sargant Florence of the University of Birmingham, England, will lecture on "The British Coopera- tive Movement" at 4:15 p.m. today in the Graduate School Auditorium. Professor Florence is recognized as one of the foremost British expon- ents of cosmopolitan and realistic studies of industry, balanced by inti- mate acquaintance with theoretical economics. He has published numer- ous articles and books, among the lat- ter being "Economics of Fatigue and Unrest," "The Statistical Method in Economics and Political Science" and "The Logic of Industrial Organiza- tion." Since his college days when he was a member of.the Fabian Society, he has been on intimate terms with liberal elements active in British political and social affairs., He has recently collaborated with several other distinguished British economists in an exhaustive study of cooperation in England, "Consumers Cooperation in Great Britain." Locations For Meetings With Untermeyer Changed Louis Untermeyer, American poet in three weeks residence at the University, will attend a special cof- fee hour at 4 p.m. today in Room 308 (Quadrangles Room) of the Unioni instead of the North Lounge as was previously announced. The weekly poetry class which he is conducting at 7 p.m. each Tuesday during his stay here has been moved from the North Lounge to Room 319 of the Union. Liaison man between the West coast fascists,hthe Mexican Gold Shirts (which he helped to organize) and Italians in Washington, Allen is at the present sinvolved in a scheme to establish a Nazi armed force in this I country, he said. To substantiate I this statement Spivak read a letter 1 to Allen from James True which in- dicated that plans for the secret army were complete to the last detail. It reads in part: "If your friends want some pea shooters, I have con- nections now for any quantity and at the right price. They are United States standard surplus." This letter which constitutes clear evidence of treason was turned over to the Dies Committee investigating un-American activities, Spivak said, but the committee has taken no ac- tion upon it. This constitutes only one of numerous instances where this group has surpressed- evidence of Nazi activities, he added. He cited the case of three suspect- ed spies taken from the Brooklyn (Continued on Page 6) Severest Storm Of Year Strikes North Michigan Deep Snows Block Roads; Two Passenger Trains Stalled InHeavy Drifts (By Associated Press) The most severe storm of the win- ter whipped across Northern Michi- gan last night and early this morn- ing, piling up huge drifts of snow, paralyzing traffic, and marooning two passenger trains. A relief train carrying hot food was held at Negaunee until the exact whereabouts of the Iron and Copper County Express could be determined. The train, with between 15 and 20 passengers aboard and no dining car, was between Cascade Junction and Partridge. Section foremen were at- tempting to break their way through to the train on foot before the relief train was sent out. It was feared that the stalled train's engine 'might be trying to break the drifts and would collide with the relief train, which was made up at Negaunee. The ex- press was drawn by two locomotives when it left Escanaba at 6 a.m. yes- terday. The Ashland Express, which left Milwaukee last night, was stalled a few miles east of Ironwood. Both are Chicago and Northwestern line trains. A Northwestern freight train became fast in a drift after leaving Quinn- esec. The engine later reached Iron Mountain after uncoupling 15 of its 19 cars. Schools were closed generally throughout the storm area. Snow plow crews were fighting to keep one-lane paths clear on the main trunk roads, but high winds made the task almost impossible. All secondary roads were plugged tight. Numerous roads were blocked effectively by stalled auto- mobiles and trucks. City schools were closed in Mar- quette, Manistique, Newberry, Calu- met, and Escanaba. The northern section of the Lower Peninsula also received snow, while high winds and rain were general in Southern Michigan. In Antrim Coun- ty State Police on snow shoes rescued a group of children when their school bus stalled in a drift. Ensian Editrial Tryouts All students interested in trying out for the Michiganensian Editorial staff are to attend an important meeting at the Student Publications Building at 4:30 p.m. today. Democratic Economy Bloc Questions Relief Head; Republicans Are Silent Harrington Supports Request For Increase WASHINGTON, March 15.-(U)- Compromise talk was heard faintly in the House today in connection with the quarrel between members of Con- gress and President Roosevelt over the latter's desire for an immediate supplemental appropriation of $150,- 000,000 for work relief. It came, to the surprise of some, from highly placed Republicans, who predicted that such a solution would eventually become necessary, but ad- vanced no specific proposals as to the form it might take. Produces Figures Meanwhile Col. F. C. Harrington, the Relief Administrator, appeared before the House subcommitteenwhich is studying the relief problem and presented arguments to back up the President's request for more money. He produced figures to show just how the relief rolls would be cut in each state unless the additional appropri- ation were granted. Harrington was asked many ques- tions, principally by Democratic mem- bers-most of the Republicans ar leaving the Opposition for the present to Democrats of the economy bloc. One of the queries produced a sug- gestion which obviously had possi- bilities of affording a compromise basis later. It was that work relief be "staggered," that is that needy persons be given employment for two or three weeks out of each month instead of for the full period. Suggests Rotation Plan A committee member said that Harrington "frowned the suggestion down," and asserted that if any stag- gering were to be done he would pre- fer a "rotation system," under which workers who have been on the rolls for long periods would be laid off and their jobs given for a time to people who have been certified as in need of relief, but for whom no place on the rolls has been found. The day also brought what some thought was an Administration coun- ter move to the resolution introduced yesterday by Representative Cox (Dem.-Ga.) of the economy bloc, call- ing for a thorough investigation of WPA by House Appropriations Com- mittee. It was a resolution by Repre- sentative Healey (Dem.-Mass.) tha the mayors of cities and officials of towns of more than 5,000 be polled on their relief needs and the extent of unemployment in their localities. Hospital Ilill And JOP Today Prevues of "Pig in a Poke," current, JGP production, and the Hillel Play- ers' "Hospital Hill" will be heard in 15 minute skits from 3 to 3:30 p.m. today over WJR from the University Broadcasting studios at Morris Hall. Scenes, music choruses and solos from "Pig in a Poke" will be present- ed at 3 p.m. The play, written by ' Richard McKelvey, Grad., includes in its cast for the broadcast Alberta Wood, Barbara Bassett, Betty Bald- win, Jane Jewitt and June Madison. Solos will be sung by Barbara Tell- ing and Carolyn Rayburn. Directing and editing of the script were done by Enora Ferris and narrator will be Helen Ralston. At 3:15 p.m. the Hillel Players will present several short scenes from their production this year, "Hospital Hill," written by Harold Gast, '39, and S.H.S. Dann. The program for broadcasting has been arranged and produced by Margery Soenksen, Grad., with the assistance of Gast. In the cast for the broadcast are Douglas Morgan, '40, Ben Wampler, '39, Doris Wechsler, '41, Nathan Git- lin, '39, Norman Oxhandler, '41, Ed- ward Stern, '39, Samuel Grant, '40, and Samuel Sheplon, '41. Narrator will be Gast. The Hillel play will be presented at 8:15 p.m. tomorrow and Saturday in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. "Pig in a Poke" will be given Wednes- day through Saturday March 22 through 25 in the Lydia Mendels- sohn Theatre. Tickets for both pro- ductions are now on sale at the the- Prime Minister Is Jeeredt By Laborites; Eden Asks For A Coalition Cabinet LONDON, March 15.-(IP)-Prime Minister Chamberlain replied to Adolf Hitler's swift liquidation of Czecho-Slovakia today by excluding Germany, for the present, from Brit- ain's drive for conciliation through trade. Beforena tense, uneasy House of Commons the Prime Minister de- clared, "I bitterly regret" the Ger- man Fuehrer's action, which he de- scribed as a "shock to,confidence all the more regrettable since confidence1 was beginning to revive." In grave tones both Chamberlain and Foreign Secretary Viscount Hali- fax noted that Germany, in taking over Bohemia and Moravia, was for the first time effecting military occu- pation of territory populated by non- Germanic peoples. Halifax spoke in the House of Lords{ and made the same reference as; Guidance Work To Be Theme Of JobParley Students To Hear Leaders Discuss Many Vocations; Meeting Starts Monday Vocational analysis, the problem of breaking jobs down to see what they are made of, will be the keynote of the University's annual Guidance and Occupational Information Con- ference which opens here Monday. The Conference is sponsored by the Univeraity Bureau of Appointments and Occupational Information, di- rected by Dr. T. Luther Purdom, in answer to student demand for accur- ate information on problems which they will face after graduation. Foremost among these problems, educators agree, is the problem of. choosing an occupation compatible with abilities and interests. Its solu- tion, they insist, must begin while the student is still in school. Educa- tion, they affirm, must be adopted to vocation. TheBureau will bring outstanding business, industrial and personnel leaders from all over the nation here next week to probe 13 leading voca- tions with students in specific terms. But the Bureau itself maintains an all-year "conference" with daily ses- sions in its offices between students and counselors. Here on the "firing line" of vocational guidance, person- ality kinks are straightened out, career tips dispensed, capabilities and interests determined and curriculums adjusted to meet occupational needs. Closely related to job analysis is self-analysis, Dr. Purdom points out. While the forthcoming conference is designed to analyse the leading voca- tions for the campus at large, self- analysis is an individual matter and must be handled by the bureau in private conferences. Britain Strikes Germany From Its Trade Parleys Chamberlain IsSokd Chamberlain to the "shock to confi- dence." While Germany's forces were marching through the time-worn courtyards of Prague, Chamberlain was taunted by a British Labor Party spokesman with charges of Britain's "humiliation and shame" through the German coup. In addition, Anthony Eden, who resigned as foreign secretary 13 months ago in disagreement with Chamberlain's foreign policy, re- newed his request for an al-party government to "banish from our people haunting fear." After quoting from Hitler's auto- biographical book, "Mein Kampf," which outlines his plans, Eden said the present European situation was beyond party controversy and called for establishment of a coalition gov- ernment of all parties. Chamberlain and Halifax both an- nounced that the projected visits of Oliver Stanley, board of trade presi- dent, and overseas trade secretary R. S. Hudson to Berlin for trade talks would be "inappropriate" now and had been "postponed." Hudson, however,.will go ahead with his scheduled visits to Moscow and other northern European capi- tals. It was understood Sir Nevile Hen- derson, British Ambassador to Berlin, had been instructed to inform Ger- many of this decision and also of the fact that Britain "strongly deprecat- ed" Germany's march to the East which "was not contemplated at Munich." Chamberlain and Halifax foimally announced that Britain, while still convinced she followed the proper course at the Munich Conference Sept. 29 which paved the way for the first partition of Czecho-Slovakia, would no longer be bound by her promise to guarantee. the Czecho- Slovak frontiers established under the Munich accord. UAW Faction Plans Meeting Martin Refuses To Admit Fund Shortage DETROIT, March 15.-(P)-The CIO-supported faction of the United Automobile Workers Union moved a step nearer completion of arrange- ments for its Cleveland convention March 27 with the appointment ci committees on constitution, creden- tials and resolutions today. Meanwhile a spokesman for Hom- er Martin, head of the rival UAW faction which held its convention in Detroit a week ago, denied a report that his office staff had been trimmed sharply. This spokesman said that only two members of the office staff had been discharged along with sev- eral organizers hired on a temporary basis. The CIO group had charged that 10 office workers had been dis- missed and that more were to follow. CIO sources said the alleged dis- missals were made because Martin was pressed for funds. This has been denied by Martin. Military Governs Moravia And Bohemia; Fuehrer To Make Public Speech Hungarians Reach Poland's Border PRAGUE, March 15.-(P)-AdoLf Hitler took possession of Bohemia and Moravia today, personally fol- lowing his grey-clad Nazi troops into Prague itself with a suddennes that completely. surprised an already be- wildered Czech population. His Third Reich troops received the coldest greeting they have had in any of the territories into which they have gone to fulfill the idea of a Greater Germany. Prague's residents, without fear and contrary to repeated appeals made by loudspeaker set up in the Capital's principal streets, loudly hissed and booed the troops. They threw snow balls at armored cars as they rolled into the city. Fuehrer To Talk Tonight Hitler symbolized his lightning conquest by sleeping in his- toric Hradcany Castle, burial vault of makers of Bohemian history, and more recently the residence of Czecho-Slovak republic presidents. (Exchange telegraph dispatches to London said Hitler was expected to make a public speech in Prague to- morrow before students of the Ger- man university and high schools. The hour of the speech was not set). As the Fuehrer entered Prague the Prussian military already had set up a temporary military and civil government to rule Bohemia and Moravia as protectorates of the Greater German Reich, in which they are to be simply cultural islands. Within an hour of Hitler's arrival his standard was raised over the old castle, towering above the city, in which he slept tonight. There were no cheers, no plaudits, no garlands for the master of Great- er Germany .as there were when he entered "liberated" Austria one year ago and the Sudetenland last Oc- tober. Police Check Mobs Hitler thus carried through what the great "Iron Chancellor," Bis- marck, shrank from doing-taking command of Southern Bohemia. A platoon of Czech police kept the crowds in St. Wenceslas Square from springing at three armored cars and their embarrassed operators. World War legionnaires who fought for Czech independence under the leadership of the late Thomas Ma- saryk and his aide, Eduard Benes, wept without shame, and so did their women-their 20 years of indepen- dence only a memory. Cries of "Pfui! Pfui!-go back home" were heard. German residents, however, pro- vided some cheering for the conquer- ors. On the heels of the Germany army, which crossed the borders at 6 a.m. (midnight Tuesday, EST), came the Gestapo, efficient German secret po- lice. A number of arrests were re- ported to have been made. Wagner Act Is A Guarantee Of Democracy, Lawyer Asserts Rehearsal Of Birthday Party Broadcast To Be Held Tonight By ROBERT PERLMAN Attacks on the Wagner Act are assaults on democracy and on organ- ized labor, one of the strongest bul- warks of democracy, Harold A. Crane- field, attorney for the National Labor Relations Board in Detroit, told the Liberal Lawyers Club last night in the Union. Declaring that the three amend- ments to the Act suggested in Con- gress are attempts to weaken the NLRB's power to protect labor's right to organize, Cranefield went on to outline the education that stems from membership in a union. He list- ed: 1. Acquainting the new union work- being and on his ability to govern, and the holding of popular elections to determine the majority interests that are to be served by government. Conflicting economic classes act on government bodies through pressure groups, he said, emphasizing that the Wagner Act frees the worker from direct political pressure from his employer. Blasting the distortion and sup- pression of news by a majority of the daily press, the labor board attorney said that the treatment given the NLRB by newspapers is a manifes- tation of economic control acting to deprive workers of information nec-I Hungarians Reach Poland WARSAW, March 16.-(Thurs- day)-(P)-Hungarian troops today established a common frontier with Poland, marching across Carpatho- Ukraine and reaching the Polish border at Lavoczne and at Sianki at 1 a.m. The small detachments of Hun- garians, who had fought their way across the eastern tip of demolished Czecho-Slovakia through a raging blizzard, were received into the Polish guard stations and given a warm wel- come by Polish troops. They received food and hot drinks immediately. Final Issue Of Retiring Technic Staff Out Today The March issue of the Michigan Technic will go on sale today and tomorrow in the lobby of the gn- gineering Arch. Final issue of the retiring staff, the By HOWARD GOLDMAN A "dress" rehearsal of the MichiganI Birthday Party broadcast will feature the entertainment program at the annual dinner of the University of Michigan Club of Ann Arbor, to be held tonight in the Union. Only club members will be admitted to the re-' hearsal. Prof. Waldo M. Abbot of the speech' department, program director, and a technical adviser from the Columbia Broadcasting System, which will carry the broadcast Saturday, will make The ticket sale opens today for the Michigan Birthday Broadcast Satur- day. They will be sold at the Union desk, alumni office in Alumni Me- morial Hall and alumnae office in the League. Tickets are priced at 25 cents, and admittances are limited to 309. Plans of various campus organiza- tions for participation in the birth- day celebration are rapidly taking shape, it was announced yesterday by James V. Halligan, '40F&C, Union social chairman. Saturday night's