.Weather Fair, somewhat cooler today. Tomorrow fair and cooler. VOL. XLIX No. 30 Z-323 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, OCT. 29, 1938 I , Eiditorial Homecoming- Return To Campus. How To Win Friends And Influence Electors PRICE, FIVE Newsmen Are Unprej udiced In Their Copy Speakers Hold Five Authorities Address University Press Club On Foreign Coverage Mo-ning Session Has Three Talks Newspaper and radio correspon- dents in Europe are overcoming stub- born handicaps of governmental cen- sorship and undependable communi- cation facilities to bring ' American readers the most complete and unbi- ased reports of world news in the his- tory of journalism; five speakers told delegates to the 20th annual Univer-, sity Press Club at yesterday after- noon's session in the Union. Representatives from the Associat- ed Press, United Press, and from the National and Columbia broadcasting systems blasted at the "violent par- tisanship" of the European press and declared that the United States col' rPaV~aYn A 0 e n t, atin ate D -ff*4 .1 ' Ripping Pants Sound Funeral Dirge Of Outnumbered Sophs New Dealers M' ew P Make Peace With Utilities Sudden Ch.nge In Policy SThought Defense Move ; Washington Is Surprised Great Expansion In Activity Cited' WASHINGTON, Oct. 28-UP--Amid a display of friendliness which left the capital guessing, the Roosevelt admin- istration and 14 large utilities an- nounced today a far-reaching pro- gram to strengthen national defense and stimulate industry by expand- ing private power facilities. Utilities executives pledged them- selves to place immediate orders for equipment to add some 1,330,000 horsepower to existing generating capacity. They estimated that the "first stage" alone of the expansion program would mean an outlay of $2,000,000,000 in the next two years. This, they said, would double the recent annual rate of capital expendi- tures by the industry. The government's share in the un- dertaking-the first concrete develop- ment frnm PrPCi A d1 t D anr.nynl t' Alumni Throng To Towi For Homecoming Game Michigan Slight Favorit Day's Crowded Program Includes Dinner, Class Games And Conferences Suppers Planned By Fraternities Approximately 10,000 homecoming alumni will come back to Ann Arbor today to watch Michigan and Illinois elevens battle in the Michigan stadium and take part in homecoming fetes in campus fraternities, it was estimated by T. Hawley Tapping, secretary of the Alumni Association. Weekend rooming accommodations in the Union and League were report- ed booked to capacity, and downtown hotels were said to be jammed as re- vived interest in Michigan's football fortunes led officials to predict a record homecoming crowd. G Frosh Raid League, Union; Seven Of Class Of '41 Get Chilly Plunge In Pool Fifteen hundred freshmen and sophomores (but mostly freshmen) fought their traditional Black Friday: Memorial Hall for more fighting, fire- crackers and over-ripe tomatoes. Freshman fought freshman in the darkness, and class calls were both challenges and calls for aid. Spurred on by the mockings of a junior who shouted to the crowd that the freshmen had never yet failed toj (Continued on Page 2) to write unprejudiced accounts in their dispatches home., Edward R. Murrow, director of the European staff of the Columbia Broadcasting System during the re- cent war-tension, stated that in none of the broadcasts from the various contineptal capitals was any effort made to color or distort public opin- ion in the United States. "What we tried to do," he said, "was to bring the sound of history as it was being! made." Prefer Interpretationf To a Daily reporter at the confer- ence Murrow said that lettei-s to the Columbia Broadcasting System of- fices in New York have indicated that, in times of stress, listeners pre- fer conclusions and interpretations to straight factual reporting. Persons who claim that the stan- dards of "old-time" journalism were higher than present-day standards ;~e rsred, by J...3.f'uray, .vice-i president of the United Press. "The real days of lusty and violent jour- nalism are right now," he maintained. Furay explained that the work of! the news bureaus in obtaining cover- age of the war crisis b7egan many months ago, when Hitler first marched into Austria. "It was quite obvious then," he said, "that there would be excitement soon in Czecho- slovakia. News bureaus were streng- thened immediately in all key cities on the continent, and when the an- nexation was begun our correspon- dents were ready." Affirms Statements William J. McCambridge, assistant' general-manager of the Associated Press, affirmned Furay's statements and declared that "the reason our news coverage has improved in Eu- rope is because today we have ten times as many newsmen stationed across the Atlantic as we did several d lpnar,+inlxtT ~tle last night with lun-. J Hungry alumni were urged to eat an precedented fervor and determination Tr restudy of national defense needs- early lunch if they wished to see the with victory going to the class of '42. TokyO W arns will be to extend aid where needed in opening kick-off as local restaurant The sophomores held reign for the *efinrcin suitne throghthowners recalled the crowds who taxed first five minutes of the fracas that A E !I h1 Reconstruction Finance Corporation, their service beyond capacity in for- raneet Whether this display of coopera- mer years. Last year many were forced lasted from 8 to 12 p.m., but were i -Ur tion might lead to a truce in the to choose between going hungry or swamped by a howling horde of fresh- Exports fierce struggle which the Administra- an sm missing the game. men who came running across the tion and some utilities have waged in All homecoming alumni were urged campus from Washtenaw where they the courts, in Congresst and elsewhere to register before the game. A desk had been trying to rout sophomores Paris Denies Accusations was not stated. Questions whether the will be maintained for that purpose out of fraternity houses. They clashed , i development indicated better feeling in the South lounge of the Union behind the Alumni Memorial Hall By Japanese Militarists were waved aside by Floyd L. Carlisle, from 10 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. today. and after completely'_outnumberingCes Shi nt* a utilities leader who participated in f. .. the pantless sophomores, the fresh- t noday's announcement. First of today's many alumn activi- man made their first attempt to TOKYO, Oct. 28.--(P)-Japan pro- An Administration power survey teprese tatives conference beween "crash" the Union. group stressed that the primary ob- They were rebuffed at the Union tested to France against alleged ship- jective was to increase power facilities gan Alumni clubs and University door by Fred Luebke, '39, who, with ment of arms to China and warned of manufacturing centers which in Rence, scheduled for 9 Smith. Thisconfer- I ene shedued or a~m toayis club in hand, warned them not to of possible consequences unless the war time would be called on for a try anything. Cries of "sophomores!" traffic was prohibited immediately, heavy output of munitions. designed to facilitate coordination in turned the mob at the crucial moment In Paris, the Foreign Office ,denied At the close of the World War, the and they surged back to the Alumni there was any such traffic and ex- study disclosed, munitions manufac- and preparatory schools in their co- building, for another short affray with pressed surprise Japan should pro- turing at some of these was near a Imunities y breakdown because of a thetee Immediately following this at 10 the class of '41. test again after representations early rsorathreatened a.m. Alumni Council representatives After several abortive starts for in the year in which she "was unable power age. from clubs throughout the country the river, the League and the Union to substantiate her charges." will convene. again another battle took place with A Japanese Foreign Office spokes- Varsity Team The annual meeting and luncheon reinforcements for both sides pouring man at the same time said the Gov- of the Michigan Athletic Managers onto campus. The class of '42 wearing ernment would reply soon to the T * Club is also scheduled for 11:45 today identification tapes across their fore- United States note of Oct. 26 insist- IDebates U mon in the Union. heads fought a pitched scrap with the ing upon maintaining the open door Alumni who wish to recapture the outnumbered sophomores. Seizing one in China. spirit of their undergraduate days 5iapless, pantless, breathless soph they The newspaper Asahi predicted W ith Eng la I may view the annual class games started for the river in earnest, tried that the government would attempt1 which the freshman and sophomore instead to storm the Michigan "to induce the United States govern- International Meet Is Held classes will wage at 11 a.m. today on Theatre, the Majestic, and the Parrot, ment correctly to recognize the new , Ferry Field. in turn' but warnings from cautious Far Eastern situation" which, it said, With Western Ontario At 1:30 p.m. the band will begin its freshmen, bearing President Ruth- had modified the Nine-Power Pact Squad On Affirmnativf customary parade down State Street yen's ultimatum about damaging pri- system. to the stadium where the kick-off is vate property in mind, turned the Meanwhile from somewhere in the " Contending that the United States slated for 2:00 p.m. crowd for the League. vast interior of China, beyond the should establish an alliance with After the game most of Michigan's Here the gang found little Jiffi- lines of Japanese encroachment, Great Britain, the University of Wes- fraternities have planned buffet sup- culty in forcing their way in, but Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek to- tern Ontario debate squad met the pers. Evening radio dances have been Charlie Zwick, taking the situation day proclaimed continued Chinese University debaters in a no-decision arranged for homecoming brothers in quickly in hand, struck up the "Vic- resistance and expressed hope of international meet last night in Angell ' fifty-four campus houses. tors." He made a short speech urging "luring" the enemy into Western Hall. Among the many distinguished the half nude boys to "go out and China. In his constructive speech, Robert alumni expected to return to the get those Sophs," and as he replayed The Generalissimo's message, em- Taylor of London, Ontario, contended campus today were Vernon F. Hillary the Victors for them, the mob anating from unidentified headquar- that the United States and Great |of Fort Worth, Texas, former presi- streamed out. ters, was addressed to the National Britain have much in common. Both dent of the Men's Council in his un- After more fighting on the way People's Political Assembly in session desire to maitain themselves as integ- dergraduate days and now president they returned to the Union and were at Chungkung, provisional Chinese C ral states, both believe in democracy of the Seventh District Alumni Asso- again rebuffed by Luebke and Frank capital now that Hankow is occu- and civil rights for their people, and ciation; Richard M. Woodward of Oaks, of the Union. Back to Alumni pied by the Japanese. 1 both are confirmed that peace is Rivertown, New Jersey, president of desirable and war is possible. I the Second District Alumni Associa- Meeting the issue presented by Mr. ;-ion: Charles Baird, first University Batte On e R ed n ca usTaylor, Robert Rosa, '39, on Michi-|Director of Intercollegiate Athletics; BattleiOtaesRagedeOn Cam pus lresent foreign policy of the United ,first Michigan football team which As Faculty Barred Fraternities States as developed recently by Sedre- attended the Chicago game Oct. 8; tary Cordell Hull would be much Donald A. Thomas of New York, years ago." McCambridge pictured the difficul- ties which correspondents face when they attempt to send news out of many European countries, observing that while transmission between Lon- don and New York only requires one or two minutes, it often takes days for the story to go from Berlin to London. , Radio's chief problem is'that of transmission, A. A, Schechter, direc- tor of special events of the National Broadcasting Company, told the delegates. Static storms over the Atlantic ocean, over-crowded tele- phone wires, and the inevitable "cen- sorship," were cited by Schechter as factors hampering the usefulness of broadcasts from abroad. Stress Foreign News The close co-operation between newspapers and radio chains in bringing foreign news to the Ameri- can public was the theme of the con- cluding address of the afternoon, de- Iujl White. d retor of Hidden in the musty annals which record the University's history is a dramatic story of a "war" between; students and faculty which resulted in the expulsion of more than half the undergraduate body and finally necessitated intervention by the State Legislature. It was in January. 1850, almost a century ago, that the battle reached! its peak. Should the University toler- ate fraternities? The faculty and Re- gents answered with an emphatic "NO!." The students violently dis- ough to over-awe nearly all the col- lege governments of our country; how soon they will have attained among us the despotic power of disorder and savagism rife among their German prototypes, or rather sense and firm- ness of our authority and of the par- ents of Michigan'must decide." Eight specific charges were levied against the Greek letter organizations. First "when detected at their after- midnight depredations, they attempt- ed to overawe the faculty, and have since stood by violating pledges and more practical than an alliance. This policy envelopes the ideas that there must be an independence of decision and active neutrality. If we made an alliance with Great Britain we could no longer consider the best interests of the United States. Visiting Editors Are Arrayed Almost Solidly Against Murphy a I I 1 ti> 1 a pub a with the veict-and the fight breaking laws econd, "these affilia- lBroadcasting System. "We of the ra- was on! tions are a great irresponsible autpor-I dio do not hope to compete with Before it ended, over 50 of the 10% ity, a monster power requiring sub- newspapers in the richness of detail students at Ann Arbor had been ex- mission where there is no obligation." which they can afford. We can only pelled for membership in the secret Third, "they are exclusive and oli- bring history as it happens-and the societies of Beta Theta Pi, Alpha Delta garchic . . . oppressive