Weather Rain, and cooler. L A& Air tilt 4ti a r n AdW Adw -,.- VOL. XLIX. No. 21 Z-323 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 19, 1938 Women'Jailed As Dope Ring Climax Nears Reports That Morphine Supplied To Students Asserted To Be Absurd Suspected Doctor AdmitsDrug Sale Federal, state and local authorities climaxed a two-month investigation yesterday with three arrests which it is believed will smash a dope ring operating in Ann Arbor, Jackson and other Michigan cities. However, reports which appeared in a Detroit newspaper to the effect that the ring had been supplying mor- phine to University students were termed "vicious and absurd" yester- day. "There is absolutely no connection between the sale of dope and the University of Michigan or students of the University," Prosecutor Albert J. Rapp declared. "The story is a fabrication and an insult to the in- stitution." "We know nothing about students using dope," Dr. Warren G. Forsythe of the Health Service said. "Several years ago there were rumors that a man in one of the orchestras was sell- ing marijuana cigarettes but we could never trace it down. We haven't h1nard of or treated any drug cases here." Man Arrested , In the third arrest of the round- up, police late yesterday seized Roy Duede, 33 year old Ypsilanti die setter. Held in county jail, he was charged with violation of the narcotics act. The two persons first apprehended after the expose were Mrs. Katherine. Underwood, alias Parks, 29 years old, and her sister, Mrs. Pearl Bowzer, 42 yearsold, both of Jackson. Warants were out for several other persons. An Ann Arbor physician, whom police declare supplied the drug, has not yet been formally charged pend- ing determination whether he should be taken into state or federal court. FVirst hints that the ringwas oper- ating In Ann,;Arbor came almost two months ago whel Prosecutor Rapp received information that a known dope addict was being regularly sup- plied with the drug. State and federal narcotics officers were notified'and a watch was kept on the suspected physician's office. Police Suspicious Becoming suspicious at the daily calls from the Jackson women, police had their homes watched. The denouement came when Rapp, Grier Ivory of the Michigan State Board of Pharmacy, and a U. S. Treasury Department officer con- fronted the physician. Under the pressure of questioning he admitted selling morphine and turned a list of his sales over to police. According to Prosecutor Rapp, the records showed sales of about 100 one- quarter grain morphine tablets had been made daily to the two women during the past month. One person named in an unserved warrant had purchased 22,000 tablets in the last nine months. Another had been sold 11,143 tablets since May. Value of the tablets is between 6 and 10 cents, Rapp declared, while addicts will pay up to $1 for them. One source estimated the value of the dope which the gang handled at $22,000. Agents are at present checking the means by which the physician pro- cured such large quantities of dope. The charge brought against the Jackson women carries a maximum sentence of four years in prison or a $2,000 fine or both. 60 To Compete For Senate Seats 16 Vacancies To Be Filled By Contestants Polling in the Student Senate elec- tions Friday will be conducted from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. in the League, Union, General Library, Engineering Arch, Angell hall and from 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. in the Law Club, Edward Magdol, '39, director of elections, an- nounced yesterday. Sixty students remain in the race for the 16 vacancies in the Senate since Irving Gerson, Bud Gerson, Elliott Maraniss and Robert Emerine have withdrawn their candidacies. The election will be by the Hare system of proportional representation with the single transferable vote. Magdol described the system briefly u n . "A , ,i,, .h.r fihi New Czechoslovakian Regime Assuming Fascist Characteristics 4 1 Uncensored Report Relates Army Staff Dominates Prague'sOfficial Policy PARTS, Oct. 18-The increasingly stern military control of Czechoslo- vakia under the Soldier-Premier Jan Syrovy has assumed some authoritar- ian characteristics of the German and Italian regimes, an uncensored ac- count received by messenger from a reliable and independent source in Prague said today. Domination of all official activities by the army general staff is considered necessary by sources close to the government during the transition period .when the country is trying to adjust itself to trying conditions, this account said. Among changes necessary are a reorganization of the government and revision of the constitution. Nevertheless, the necessarily dicta- torial methods are leading to some dissension among ordinary govern- ment functionaries whose roles are being taken over by military authori- ties. (Dispatches from Prague have re- peatedly reflected the official view that strict discipline by the population was necessary in order to avoid dis- orders and clashes with Germans, Poles and Hungarians which might make the country's position more dif- ficult.) The army general staff, now situa- ted in what is known as the "new war ministry," is directing all activi- ties. All official orders must now be submitted for approval beforepubli- cation or announcement, to the gen- eral staff. Many of these, orders are vetoed "in the interest of the public welfare," while others are changed radically. The general staff has even organ- ized a separate propaganda section known as the "division of military education," which has assumed higher rank than the newly organized pro- paganda ministry. Government censors desiring infor- mation are now instructed to tele- phone the general staff department rather than the foreign affairs or propaganda ministries. The only certain way to leave Czechoslovakia is by airplane. Military authorities say frankly to travelers trying to cross the borders by train, "It (the train) does not go all the way to the frontier. You may have to carry your baggage several kilometers (a kilometer is about five- eighths of a mile.)" The official explanation is that the Czechoslovaks are afraid the Ger- rnan) or Poles may confiscate the rail- road train, as has happened in several instances, according to reports re- ceived in Prague. The trains there- fore are halted before they reach the border. British Troops Rule Holyland After Uprising Martial Law Is Declared As Army Begins Repair And Punitive Activities Soldiers To Clear Old City Of Arabs JERUSALEM, Oct. 18-(N)-A form of martial law to help 20,000 British soldiers crush the uprising of an esti- mated 10,000 Arabs was proclaimed throughout the Holy Land tonight by Sir Harold MacMichael, commander- in-chief for Palestine. Control of the entire country was placed in the hands of an army backed up by planes, tanks and artillery while rebels clung to the Moslem section of Jerusalem's Old City after four days of siege. It was officially announced that British troops would enter the Old City tomorrow to clear it of armed Arabs. The Palestine Police Force was placed under the British military com- mand by the order for martial law. Inspector General of Police Alan Saunders was placed under the direct orders of Maj.-Gen. Robert Haining, general officer commanding British forces. Sir Harold authorized appointment of military commanders to take over the offices of district commissioners. Major General O'Conno, com- manding the seventh division, was ap- pointed military governor of Jerusa- lem. The sweeping measures were taken to quell an already widespread guer- rilla war which has threatened the peace of all the Near East. These were the immediate British objectives: 1. Repair, occupation and control of widely sabotaged railways. 2. Restoration and maintenance of telegraph and telephone communica- tions. 3. Reestablishment of security on all highways. 4. Occupation of the more active Rebel centers and further punitive measures against Arab villages. County Set-up Topic Of Talk By Bromage Second Public Affairs Talk To Deal With Changes In Local Government Prof. Arthur Bromage of the po- litical science department will speak on "Impending Changes in County Organization" at 4:15 p.m. today in the lecture hall of the Rackham building, in the second of a 'public affairs lecture series sponsored by the Craig To Talk On Aircraft Pioneer. Of Use, Forester To Tell In Conservation Roland D. Craig, chief of the Divi- sion of Forest Economics in the Do- minion Forest Service of Canada will give an illustrated lecture at 4:15w p.m. tomorrow in the Graduate School Auditorium on The Use of Aircraft in Forestry." His lecture will be sponsored by the Department of Forestry and Conservation. Mr. Craig is a pioneer in the use of aircraft in forestry. In 1921 he made the first aerial survey of forest areas at Lake Timagami in northern On- tario. The following year he used aerial photographs in connection with forest surveys at Quetico Park, Ont., and since then has been in charge of aerial work 'of the Dominion Forest Service which has surveyed more than 114,000 square miles of timber. Mr. Craig is a graduate of the On- tario Agricultural College at Toronto University and of the New York State College of Forestry at Cornell University. He was with the United States Forest Service in 1903 when he was in charge of reproduction studies in California. Since 1904 he has been connected with Canadian forestry both in the Forest Service and with private lum- bering concerns. He was made chief of the Division of Forest Economics in 1933 following ten years of service as Forest Resource Specialist. Saint Christopher And Rowboat Dock Monster Steamship NEW YORK, Oct. 18-0P)-With the help of a rowboat and, her skip-1 per believes, St. Christopher, the huge liner Queen Mary docked suc- cessfully today when unable to obtain the assistance of tugboats due to a strike. Ordinarily it takes 12 of the power- ful little craft, worrying the 83,000-1 ton liner like ants around a big cater- pillar, to bring the Queen Mary to her berth. But with an estimated 2000 tugboat sailors on strike, these craft' were not available.. Commodore Robert B. Irving there- fore sailed the Queen Mary up the Hudson and lodged her gently against the Cunard-White Star line pier un- der her own power. When officials of the line congratu- lated him, Commodore Irving pulled out of his pocket a tiny gold medal of the patron saint of travellers. "I looked at my St. Christopher's medal," he said, "and asked if I could make it. And he told me to go to it, and I did." Aboard the liner were 1,609 pass- engers and $25,000,000 in gold. Pollock In Washington Prof. James K. Pollock, of the po- litical science department, who was' chairman of the state civil service study commission appointed to draft the Michigan civil service bill, is at- tending the Civil Service Assembly of the United States and Canada at Washington. Include Sex Education Course 1 r t 1 l 1 In Curriculum, Say ,Students By MORTON L. LINDER and HARRY L. SONNEBORN Raised at the Spring Parley last year and now up for consideration be- fore the Student Senate is the ques- tion of the feasibility and appropriat- eness of including in the University curriculum a course in marriage re- lationship. As a part of the regular Daily question feature, this subject was presented to the campus-at- large for consideration yesterday. THE QUESTION: Do you think that sex and marriage education are a fitting subject for a course in the University? THE PLACE: Main Library steps. THE ANSWERS: Manuel Slavin, Grad.: "One might th in k th at if a stu - d n i ' k o a dent didn't know a -; sufficient amount about ';these sub- jects before he came to college, it would be about time he learned a few facts. I believe, . however, that a course like this would not be viewed in the proper light by the students. It might very easily develop into a clinic for wisecracks." - , - , .. Lou Carpenter, sented in a purely factual light, wouldj do much toward improving marital relationships." Margaret Cram, '39: "Yes, I do. Sex and marriage edu- cation should be course - in every university. T A e s e two factors form a great part of our life not only at this age but' also later, and most of us have no really . scientific knowledge on the subject. Furthermore, I know that the courses have been given on other campuses and their results have been favorable and profitable." Jay Schafrann, '40: "One of the salient objectives of a university is to provide the student with the instru- mentalities requisite for enabling him ,6 - to meet the prob- lems of life, and any subject ger- mane to the suc- cessful attainment - of this goal would indeed be a subject American Association of University Women. Professor Bromage will deal with recent and impending problems of countygovernment and administra- tion in Michigan, and will supplement his discussion with comparative ma- terial and illustrations from other states. A report concerned with County Government in Michigan that he, in collaboration with Thomas H. Reed, compiled for the Michigan Commission of Inquiry in 1933 will serve as a general background to his remarks. Professor Bromage was recently elected Secretary of the Michigan Commission on Reform and Modern- ization of Government at a meeting of the committee in Lansing, Oct. 13. The Commission, as appointed last August by Governor Murphy, is con- cerned with making a preliminary survey of problems on modernized governmental reforms in Michigan B f i Prof. James K. Pollock will speak By MORTON CARL JAlMPEL. o Jme se K.ion Poloc , will speak -The dramatic work of planning on "The Selection of Judges," Nov. 1, human lives is the work that daily the original date scheduled for Pro- goes on unheralded and unnoticed fessor Bromage's address. I by few people other than those for- tunate enough to receive the services and benefits of the Institute for Insurgent Ranks Human Adjustment, a complex, un- obtrusive organization that has been rngt ed recently given the opportunity for an enlarged program by a donation from HENDAYE, France (at the Spanish Rackham Fund. Frontier) Oct. 18.-(I)-To bolster The Institute was originally estab- Spanish insurgent ranks weakened lished in 1936 when Mrs. Mary A. by the withdrawal of thousands of Rackham donated $1,000,000 for the Italian Legionnaires, the Burgos Gov- purpose of pioneer research in human ernment has lowered its standard for adjustment. A gift of $500,000 last recruits, Insurgent dispatches reach- August made possible the co-ordina- ing the frontier said tonight, tion of the many organizations in -1lnt into a ,idance Prnie,. 4it