Weather +nw and wider. 1 VOL. XLIX. No. 83 __A________Y____ VO.XX o 3Z-323 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 18, 1939 Editorial Arms For Democracy.. PRICE FIVE CENTS Speech Post Will Be Filled By Densmore Davis Is Named Assistant Literary College Dean By Board Of Regents Densmnore Awarded Full Professorship Passamaquoddy And Ship Canal May Receive New Appropriations Prof. Gail E. Densmore has been appointed chairman of the speech3 department in place of Prof. Henry ,A. Sanders, who reaches the official7 retirement age of 70 at the end of this semester, the executive committee of the Board of Regents announced yes- terday., At the same time it was revealedi that Prof. Charles M. Davis of thef geography department has been ap- pointed assistant to the dean of the literary college. He replaces Miss Horatia J. Corbin, who resigned re-I cently because of ill health and the fact that she desired to pursue stu-c dies in the field of library science. Davis To Handle Transfers At the same time that he was named chairman, Professor Dens- more was promoted from an associate to a full professorship. In his hew position, Professor Da- vis will have charge of admissio of students with advanced standing to the literary college. He will give up his present duties as an academic ad-_ viser. Previously the executive chairman of the literary college had authorized appointment of a faculty committee of five members which is expected to restate the procedure to be followed /in 'the admission of students on ad- vanced standing and to which stu- dents seeking advanced standing may have the right' to petition Professor Davis will serve as chairman of this committee,. To hange Department Name When Professor Densmore assumes his duties as chairman of the speech , department the official title will be changed' from "Department of Speech and General Linguistics" to "Department of Speech." Changes in the scope of the de- partment's work have been agreed upon, it was announced. Professor Dentmore graduated from the University in 1922, winning his A.M. here in 1924. A member of the faculty since 1922, he has been executive secretary of the National Association of Teachers of Speech! since 1922. He is also business man- ager of the "Quarterly Journal of Speech," "Speech Monographs" and, the "National Directory of Teachers of Speech." For some years he hass directed the Michigan High School Debating Association.1 Talks On Press, To Be Offered Noted Journalists To Give Eight Lectures Here A series of lectures by outstanding newspapermen from Michigan and Canada on practical and professional' problems in newspaper work will be presented during the second senester, it was learned yesterday. The lectures, sponsored by thef journalism department, will begin Feb. 15. According to Prof John L. Brumm, chairman of the department,1 they will enable students to meet and] consult men active in the journalism1 profession., A tentative list of speakers and topics includes: Lee A. White, "Pro- fessional Determination for Journal- ism"; Ray Baker, "Specialized Re- porting"; Stuart Perry, "The News- paper and the Courts"; Arthur W. Stace, "Pictures and the Public Press"; "The Newspaper and Public Opinion"; Miss Helen Bower, "Wom- en in Journalism"; W. Webb McCall, "The Business Side of the Weekly Press"; Louis A. Weill, "The News- paper and Advertising"; Schuyler Marshall, "The Future of the Weekly 7 Press"; Ellison Young, "The Cana- dian and the British Press"; Ben East, "Outdoor Pages"; and Philip Adler, "Foreign News."' Fitzgerald To Speak At Conference Here Cov. Frank Fitzgerald will be the~ chief speaker at the 1939 Highway Conference which will' be held from Feb. 15 to 17 in Ann Arbor, it was President Demands Funds For Project After Long Lapse In Construction WASHINGTON, Jan. 17- P)- An- other row over spending appeared in prospect tonight after President Roosevelt asked Congress to revive the Florida Ship Canal and the Tidal Power Development at Passamaquod- dy Bay, Me., two New Deal projects which have been comatose because of the legislators' refusal to provide funds. Mr. Roosevelt made his request in letters to Chairman Mansfield (Dem-Tex) of the House Rivers and Harbors Committee and Chairman Bailey (Dem-NC) of the Senate Com- merce Committee. He urged the $200,000,000 canal on the basis of "commercial and military needs." For Passamaquoddy, estimat- ed to cost $37,000,000, he proposed an appropriation for continued tests and a small experimental plant. Both undertakings were discon- tinued three years ago. They had been' started with presidential allocations of relief money. This word from the Wlite House, sought for months by friends of the hotly disputed projects, was followed by indications of another clash on Capitol Hill. Senator Vandenberg (Rep-Mich) said the request was "final proof" that the President has "joined the bootstrap lifters who be- lieve in spending themselves out of debt." Senator Bailey wrote to the Presi- dent suggesting that both questions be referred again to the War Depart- ment for investigation and report. He recalled that the ship canal UAW FactionalA Showdown .set For March 20 Homer Martin Will Seek Re-election At -Special Convention In Cleveland DETROIT, Jan. 17.-(/P) -The long-awaited showdown in the CIO United Automobile Workers ' fac- tional warfare was set tonight for March 20. Executive board members of the UAW called a special convention to convene in Cleveland at 10 a.m. on that date to elect "All international officers, including all members of the, International Executive Board," and "To make such changes in the con- stitution as the convention deems necessary." Homer Martin, UAW president who has been at odds for more than a 1 year with a union faction he has charged is controlled by Communists, has indicated he will seek re-elec- tion as a vote of confidence in his handling of union affairs. His opponents,-controlling the ex- ecutive board, are led by Richard T. Frankensteen, vice-president, 'and four other International UAW offi- cers who were suspended by Martin' last summer only to be reinstated by a decision of CIO mediators. The convention call came a few hours after Martin had urged quick return of board members to their as-1 signed duties in order to facilitate negotiations on the union's contracts with automobile manufacturers. Martin charged that because of the special meeting of the board "Nego- tiations with General Motors Corp. have been interrupted and at last sus- pended." had been reported unfavorably in 1937 by the department's River and Harbor Board. Thisfinding, however, was reversed by Maj.-Gen. Edward M. Markham then Chief of Engineers, who recom- mended the canal's completion. Bailey said Congress had received no word from engineers about the Passama- quoddy project. Bailey indicated a willingness to introduce bills to authorize both pro- jects, but said he thought these meas- ures should be referred to engineers. Mansfield said hearings probably would be demanded by his committee, but he added that he would try to put the projects through. Representative Brewster (Rep-Me) said he would introduce a bill to authorize the Passamaquoddy investigation. Senator Pepper (Dem-Fla) said he believed the nation would agree with the President's assertion that the canal would be of military importance. "Few other projects," Pepper said, "have the value to the whole nation which will flow from the construction of this canal from the Gulf to the Atlantic Ocean." Fans Applaud First Campos Boxing Show' Program Called Successful As 600 Turn Out; Siegel Wins Bout On Forfeit By HERB LEV Despite the failure' of Paul Lovett, Detroit Negro, to appear for his scheduled three round bout With Don Siegel last night the first annual Con- gress boxing show was acclaimed an unqualified success by the 600 clam- oring ring enthusiasts who sat through three punch-laden hours of pugilism at the Yost Field House. Siegel, state Golden Gloves cham- pion, bpasts a record of 10 victories in 11 starts including eight knock- outs, and securing an opponent for him has always been a burden for matchmakers. Although the fans missed a chance to see Siegel, they witnessed several exceedingly promising performers in the course of the nine-fight card. In a feature battle, Tommy Root, Gold- en Gloves middleweight champion last winter, was pressed to the limit in eking out a hairline decision over Chuck Kravolec, freshman football star. Kravolec exhibited an excep- tional amount of poise and stamina' for a beginner as well as a terrific wallop, but Root's greater experience told the tale in the end. Harry Wicker, a little colored fresh- man, gave a masterful exhibition in another three rounde, as he took a hard fought verdict from Joe Murray, 125 pounder of the Detroit Briggs Athletic Club. The first two rounds were even up but the faster Wicker gained the nod in a slam bang third. Bob Trowell, a senior, gained re- (Continued on Page 3) Groups Urged To Submit J-Hop Booth Applications Organizations planning to have booths at the J-Hop are urged to get in touch with Roberta Leete, '40, J- Hop committee member, it was an- nounced yesterday by James V. Halli- gan, '40F&C, Hop pubicity chairman. The number of booths is limited, Halligan said, urging that those planning to establish booths get in touch with Miss Leete before Friday. French Refuse To Be Spain's Lone Backer Bonnet States Conference With English Designed To Effect Compromise Insurgents Slowed By Loyalist Troops PARIS, Jan. 17-()-France ap- parently decided today to stay clear of the Spanish war. The Government said it would not give aid to the Spanish Government unless Britain did, and Britain was determined not to intervene since risk of a European war was considered too great. Government leaers wrestled with the problem throughout the day and at one point considered the advisabil- ity of taking the bull by the horns and acting on their own, but the old' bugaboo of a war in which France might find herself alone seemingly was too much. Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet wound up the day by announcing that France would revise her policy of non-intervention in Spain only if Britain did. He was careful, how- ever, not to close the door too tight- ly on the hopes of a considerable por- tion of the French Parliament, which was demanding help for Spain's Gov- ernment. France and Britain, he said, were conferring on a betwixt and between solution which might end Italian and German aid to the Spanish Insur- gents without risking war. The nature of the plan was not dis- closed. Word fromLondon was that the British Government did not look at all favorably on the idea of open- ing the French frontier, which had been closed to shipment of arms to Government Spain since last spring. Loyalists Stiffen Resistance HENDAYE, France, Jan. 17-(P)- Spanish Government forces in moun- tain strongholds stiffened their re- sistance. to theisteady Insurgent ad- vance toward Barcelona today amid general expectations that the two reinforced armies were preparing for a battle which might decide the out- come of the civil war. The Insurgent offensive against the Government capital slowed down slightly. Only in the center of the three-pronged drive into Catalonia did the Insurgents report any real advance, this by capturing another position on the highway to Barcelona through Igualada. The position was roughly 30 miles from the capital. (Just south of this region, uncon- firmed reports said, Government troops' unloosed counterattacks and re-took Santa Coloma de Queralt, the first town the Insurgents occu- pied after entering Barcelona Prov- ince.) Government forces were believed increased to approximately 400,000 men by regulations of Jan. 5 under which boys not yet 18 were called to defense lines. Military observers esti- mated Insurgent Generalissimo Fran- cisco Franco could put 500,000 men into a conflict for the possession of highways fanning out westward 35 miles from Barcelona. Hillel Players Give The Pot Boilers' "The Pot Boilers," a one-act play by Alice Gerstenberg, will be pre- sented at the regular meeting of the Hillel Players at 7:30 p.m. today at the Hillel Foundation, it was an- nounced yesterday by Madeleine Betty Meyers, '39, president of the group. The performance will be open to the general public. Included in the cast are Harold Goldman, '40; Mitchell Mandeberg, '40: Hugh Kopel, '39; Jane Sanger, '40; Lorraine Mantler, '39; Edmond Harris, '40; and Martin Schechter, '39. The play is under thedirection of Doris Wechsler, '41. MisstMeyers ahro announced that '"Hospital. Hill," an original play by Harold Gast, '39, has been selected as the major production of the year to be presented in March. Casting for the play will begin immediately and tryouts will be held next Mon- day, Tuesday, and Wednesday. Board Of Regents To Vote On University Acceptance At MeetingOn Jan. 31 The announcement by the Civil Aeronautics Authority Monday that 20 students at the University may be taught to fly by the Federal govern- ment next semester was received here enthusiastically. The proposal is part )f a preliminary test for the plan to ,rain 20,000 reserve pilots annually. Acceptance of this offer of the Civil Aeronautics Authority awaits the action of the Board of Regents which meets Tuesday, Jan. 31. The University was chosen along with 12 other schools as testing grounds for the mass pilot training program, that was prepared in secrecy by the CAA and announced by Presi- dent Roosevelt Dec. 28. The CAA an- nounced that the plan was designed to "meet the aeronautical crisis now facing the country," and that empha- sis would be placed on the civilian as- pects of the program. "If the results obtained at the chosen demonstration centers con- Federal Proposal Will Prepare Students For Peace-Time Flying N; firm the Civil Aeronautics Authority belief in the soundness of the pro- gram." a CAA prospectus explained, "the training pattern developed be- tween now and next June will be ap-, plied on a wide scale in several hun- dred colleges and universities during 1939-1940." The first aim of the work will be to provide experts for non-military aviation in peace time, it was an-' nounced, and the "cream of thosej trained would become available for military service if they so desired." Students will be given 50 hours of dual and solo flying experience, which will be sufficient to qualify them for private pilot certificates. Fr nkf urter And Murphy Are Accepted By TheSnt Sen. Vandenberg Included Among Small Minority Opposing Confirmation Republicans Unitin To Oppose Hopkins 'Petrified Forest'] To Open Tonight A nnAt M endelssohn Play Production Presents{ Sherwood's Famed Play; Jurist Has Leading PartI The curtain will rise at 8:30 tonight on Play Production's "Petrified For- est," opening a four day run at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. A 2:30 matinee will be given Saturday. Edward Jurist, '39, campus favorite and veteran amateur actor, will play one of the largest parts,-that of Duke Mantee, a fugitive gangster, and chief element of melodrama in Robert Sherwood's play. Humphrey Bogart played Jurist's role on stage and screen. James Barton, and Karl Klauser, '39, will alternate performances of he part originally portrayed by Leslie Howard-Alan Squire, a de- spondent, down-and-out. intellectual, who falls in love with Gabby Maple, played by Nancy Schaefer, '39, and Ellen Rothblatt. '39. Robert Sherwood, author of "The Petrified Forest" also wrote "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" current Broad- way hit, "Reunion in Vienna," "The Road to Rome," and "Idiot's De- light." Sherwood won from Stark Young in the New Republic, at the time the play ran in New York, the applause. "Mr. Sherwood's play de- serves' all the success it has had." The story is set in a gasoline sta- tion in the Arizona desert. This un- asual setting and lack of movement will provide for Play Production's actors an unusual opportunity both for technique and acting. Other students who will appear in the show are: Arthur Klein, '39, Theodore Balgooyen, '40, Stephen Filipiak, '39, Nathan Gitlin, '39, Leah Dooley, Grad., Bernard Benaway, '39E, B. Odom Day, Grad., Henry Huston, '40, Helen Ralston, '40, Vic- tor Cherver, '40SM, Julius Epstein, '39. Harold Gast, '39, Harry Purdy, '40 and Robert Cox, '39. Tickets for all performances will be on sale at the box office at the Lydia Mendelssohn until curtain time. Mead Will Speak Tonight At Joint ASME-SAE Meet Kenneth A. Mead, director of the educational training department of the General Motors Company, will address a joint meeting of the ASME and the SAE at 7:30 p.m. today in the Union on "What Does the Auto- motive Industry Look For in Selecting IYoung Engineers." 3 1 i 1 1 I i i 1 t 1 Instructors, furnished by the CAA, WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.- (A) - would be army and navy fliers, but, The Senate confirmed the nomina- as the President insisted in a recent tion of Frank Murphy for the post of press conference, there would be no Attorney General today by a vote of training in combat tactics. 78 to 7. Senator Vandenberg of Provision is made for "alumni re- Michigan was a'nong the seven dis- fresher-training" periods after the senting Republicans who bitterly pro- -egular college training period to keep tested that as governor of Michigan the young fliers in trim and to main- Murphy had "condoned" the sitdown tain "their value in the national de- strike and "set aside the law" on be- fense reserve." The President told re- half of strikers. porters that probably the best of the Just previously, the Senate ap- college fliers would have an oppor- proved the appointment of Felix tunity for further training in prepara- Frankfurter to the Supreme Court. tion for commissions in the Army and This action, which placed an out- Navy flying reserve. standing liberal and student of the Army Air Corps officials explained law upon the nation's high tribunal, that college-trained pilots would prob- was taken without discussion and ably require only brief post-graduate without a single negative vote. instruction to fit them for war ser- Meanwhile, it became evident that vice. "In an extreme emergency," one Republican Senators were almost a .f them said, "the pick of those with unit in opposing the confirmation of fifty hours' flying experience might Harry L. Hopkins, former WPA Ad- even be sent to the front lines." ministrator, to be Secretary of Com "They should be as well-trained as merce. Administration leaders were nany who went to the front in 1918,"' confident, however, that more than he added. enough Democrats were backing the In choosing the 20 students, Uni- Hopkins appointment to assure a fa- (Continued on Page 2) vorable vote. ----- Hopkins Vote, Due Tomorrow Lack OfF nds SThe Senate Commerce'Committee, which last week questioned Hopkins severely on charges of politics in re- lief, planned to vote on the nomina- tion tomorrow. It was scheduled to reach the Sen"ate Thursday. Relief Ranks The Murphy appointment pro- duced the first roll-call vote of the session, and the first roll call in President Roosevelt Says several years in which the Demo- Milln Will Be Laid Off cratic membership voted as a solid Mlion il e al dOfbloc. By Appropriations Slash The seven who opposed Murphy's confirmation, all Republicans, were: WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 --(P)- Bridges and Tobey of New Hampshire, President Roosevelt said today that Gurney of South Dakota, Holman of WPA would have to lay off a million Oregon, Taft of Ohio, Vandenberg, 3r more relief workers by Junze 1 if and White of Maine. a proposed cut in appropriations is Bridges led the attack on Murphy, -arried through, but hisestimates He asserted that the former governor, were disputed immediately in influen- after swearing to uphold the laws of ;ial Congressional quarters. the state and nation, then proceeded Cto break that oath when the occupa- Chairman Adams (Dem-Colo) of tion of Flint automobile plants by a he Senate Subcommittee in charge Communist-led mob deprived citi- -r the relief appropriation told re- zens of their property and means of orters that the Chief Executive's employment.' He referred to the sit- figures "conveyed an inaccurate im - own strikes of 1937. hression." As a matter of "simple Vandenberg Reflects State Opinion mathematics," he said no more than: Vandenberg had explained that his 300,000 need be dropped from the opposition to confirmation was dic- work relief rolls. tated by the fact that Murphy was The controversy arose from the defeated last fall when seeking reelec- fact that the House last week clipped tion as governor of Michigan. $150,000,000 from the $875,000,000 ap- "It is my opinion," he said, "that propriation which the President had the basic issues of the enforcement of requested to keep WPA going from law and order in the recent November Feb. 7, when its present funds are elections in Michigan are the same as Scheduled for exhaustion, until the those now concerned in the appoint- mnd of the fiscal year on June 30. ment of Murphy to be chief law of- Adams, with obviously strong backing ricer of the Federal government. in the Senate, favors the cut. "Since Michigan settled the issue At the close of a day of relief hear- for itself so plainly in the election, I ings, in which he had a run-in with have come to the conclusion that the David Lasser, president of the Work- Michigan popular vote shall and must ers Alliance, Adams explained his control my vote on confirmation." version of what the cut would mean. Senators Brown (D-Mich.), Nor- Noting that it takes $62 to keep' is, (Ind.-Neb.), Barkley (D.-Ky.), Notig tat t tkes 62 o Lgan(D.-Ky.), and Minton (D.- ne relief worker on the rolls for a Logan ) came to Murphy's defense. m1roth, he said that dividing the They pointed to statements made by $150,400,400 cut by that amount and Murphy before' a Senate sub-corn- then spreading the figure over the Murphy 'thtre den te st- four-month period, Feb. 7 to June 1, down strike as illegal at the time, would mean an "average reduction" and that he successfully demanded of some 600,000 workers. d l,,that he s"uc ulry demndeid fi r Donald Marrs To Present Solo At Varsity Band Concert Sunday In answer to continued questioning by reporters, Adamshconceded, how- ever, that if it is the plan to keep the present WPA enrollment intact through the months of February and March. When the University Concert Band swings into its concert, routine at 4:15 p.m. Sunday in Hill Auditorium, Prof. William D. Revelli, director, will have at least one man whom he knows from past experience, will fol- low his down beat to the second. That man is Donald L. Marrs, '40SM, first baritone horn in the band, who will present a solo number at the concert. Marrs is no stranger to Professor Revelli. Back in the days when the Hobart, Ind., High School Band, un- der the baton of Professor Revelli, was winning the National Band Con- test with a regularity which dismayed the judges, the first baritone horn in the band was Marrs. When Profes- sor Revelli's band won the National Contest six years running-from 1930 it 13n--it was finally ruled out of In addition to this, he was first chair in the Wisconsin All- State Band in 1935. According to Professor Revelli, Edwin Franko Goldman and Karl King, famous national band con- ductors, Marrs is the outstanding young artist of his day. He appeared in the 1937 Varsity Night Show and, playing the first baritone horn won the first prize of seventy-five dollars. In addition to his many activities, Marrs is equipment manager of the band. His offering at the concert will be "Debutante," a solo written especially for the baritone horn by Herbert, Clark. The concert is to be sponsored by Michigan's fraternity men, who will attend en masse. Only members of the regular marching band will per- forma n the n noram. no ntinde Hidden City Beckons Students To Indies On Adventure Cruise dItGale Si -Qown l str erS Comply with a court order for their ejection. Frosh Frolic Interviews Are To Be Held Today All prospective candidates for the Fr'osh Frolic committee election Fri- day will be interviewed from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. today in the Union student offices, Men's Council Head Fred Luebke, '39E, announced yesterday. The official list of three to five candidates for each post will be pre- pared by the Council on the basis of petitions submitted up to yesterday and the personal interviews today. It will be announced in Friday's Daily. Chicago Students To Raise Refugee Scholarship Fund CHICAGO (Speciato the Daily)- Tn., f f-ara M e; &. 16A WM * i By PAUL CHANDLER A square rigged, four-masted schooner, manned by a crew of college students and Northwestern University scientists, will leave Miami nexta month on an adventure cruise to the city of St. James, hidden beneath. the waves of the Carribean Sea in' the West Indies islands. One member of the crew will be John E. Callouette, '40E. Twenty stu- dents, many of them who it is hoped I y the nromtirs will he frnm the week when Skipper Robert Hall of Detroit announced the purchase of' the schooner "Doris Hamlin." Cap- tain Hall, 38 years old, will be in command aboard the 260 foot schoon- er. He first explored the vicinity in 1932, and was so impressed by the "mystery" of the submerged city that he made plans to. outfit a sailing expedition to investigate it thorough- ly. St. James was the capital of the islea n f St.Christnnher when it Prof. Dumond For London To Leave University Prof. Dwight L. Dumond of the history department has been invited [iv fhp enmmnnwpat n onriainiiof