Weather Cloudy today and tomorrow, probably light, snow. SitIga Iait Editorial The Face-Lifting Of The Court,.. -*to t6, VOL. XLIX. No. 85 Z-323 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JAN. 20, 1939 PRICE FIVE CENTS Class Of '42 To Pick Frosh Frolic Heads At Polls Today Literary College Candidater Receiving Vote Majorityt Will Become Chairmanw 29 Enter Contests For Eight Positions Freshmen in the literary and en-I gineering colleges will go to the polls today to elect eight members of the central committee for the first of- ficial function of the Class of 1942-s the Frosh Frolic, to be held in thee spring. This is the last of the fourI class elections this year conductedi according to the new petition sys- tem. Voting machines will be open fromt 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. in Room 231 Angelli HallI for the literary students and from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the lobby ofc the Engineering Arch. Identifications cards will be necessary in order tot vote. 13 Posts Open The official ballot, prepared at thei meeting of Men's Council last night at the Union, was announced by FredI Luebke, '39E, president. In the literary college there are 13 men running for three posts, and sev- en women for two jobs; Robert Al- pern, Robert Besser, William Caru- thers, Robert Shedd, Lawrence Gluck, Thomas Goodkind, William Com- stock, Jack Grady, 9Gerald Rosens- weig, David R. Meer, John Rookus, Richard Scherling and John Hoglund, Frances Aaronson, Carlyn Denfield, Betty Farriss, Agnes Crow, Ruth Par- son, Margot Thom and Ann Withers. Eight engineers are competing for three posts: Robert Hotchkiss, Nor- man Taylor, James S. Martin, Ted Kennedy, Harold F. Wood, Wesley R. Swift, Robe't Imbody and Georget Gotschall.t Council Approves Ballot, t The central Frolic committee willI be composed of three men and twoc women from the literary college and two men from the engineering college. The candidate in the literary college receiving the highest number of votes will be named general chair-l man since an engineer held that postt last year.t The ballot was prepared by the Council on the recommendationst made by the judiciary committee andt the League Judiciary Council, head- 7 red by Sybil Swartout, '39, on the basist of scholastic and activity records and personal interviews.t Shi Canal Bill Causes Debatet Vandenberg And Pepper Rebuke Each Other WASHINGTON, Jan. 19-R--(An effort to sidetrack the Administra- tion's.new drive for the Florida Ship Canal and the Passamaquoddy, Me,, tidal power development caused a rowR today in the Senate. The controversy broke out whenI Senator Vandenberg (Rep-Mich), bit-1 ter critic of Administration policies and expenditures, introduced resolu- tions asking new studies by federalI agencies of the two undertakings, which President Roosevelt asked Con-; gress this week to resurrect. Both the Canal and Quoddy have7 been dormant since 1936, when ini- tial allotments for them were ex- hausted. The Vandenberg 'proposal, consid- ered an attempt to block Congres- sional action, drew fire from Senator Pepper (Dem-Fla) who said his state was represented by two Senators and was doing "fairly well" without help from Vandenberg. He voiced particular objection to a Vandenberg resolution asking new studies by the geological survey, which reported in 1935 that a canal across Florida would have "serious adverse effects" upon the state's underground water supply. Committee Condenses Congress J-Hop Booths The J-Hop Committee announced yesterday that the assignment of five booths to Congress, independent mn~cn cr n - ti - achw 0ho a Swimmers Battle Ohio State In Decisive Meet Here Tonight Two Teams Are Leaders Of Intercollegiate Field; Ohio GivenSlight Edge By MEL FINEBERG , The collective eye of the swimming world will be focused on the Intra- muralBuilding Pool when the two titans of intercollegiate swimming, Ohio State and Michigan, clash at 7:30 tonight. Monarchstof all they survey, the Buckeyes and the Wolverines between them hold every swimming title for which they are eligible with the Col- umbus contingent having an edge on crowns. Ohio State is Big Ten and National A.A.U. champions while the Maize and Blue won the National Collegiate crown. And in addition, Ohio last year did twice what no swimming team had been able to do even once in the preceding eight years-whip Matt Mann's Wolver- ines. Revenge Is Motif So the motif of tonight's clash, the first of the year for both teams, will be revenge. For Ohio, who has "Beat Michigan" signs plastered all over its natatorium, it will be to revenge a one point licking adminis- tered at the Nationals; for Michigan, it will be revenge The teams appear evenly matched with Ohio State, as Matt Mann puts it, "the champions and hence the favorites until they're beaten." And if the Wolverines are to win, itheirhopes revolve around four scphomores who must provide the difference between last year's Wes- tern Conference runner-ups and this season's squad. The four men in their first year of competition are Charley Barker~ Bill Beebe, Bill Holmes and Jim Welsh, with at least one member of this quartet in every event except the breast-stroke and the dive. Sophomores Standout There will probably be two of these sophomores in the first event of the night, the 300-yard medley relay. Either Barker or Beebe will swim the backstroke, Johnny Haigh the breast- stroke, and either Capt. Tom Haynie or Bill Holmes as the free-styler. Any combination that Mann selects will be good but so will any trio that Ohio coach Mike Peppe puts in the water. His most likely, trio will be Harold "Curley" Stanhope, Olympian Johnny Higgins and all-American Billy Quayle swimming in that order. In the 200-free-style Welsh and Capt. Tom Haynie will be counted on for a first and second. Ed Hutchens may swim here instead of either Welsh or Haynie in an attempt to save the displaced man for later events. Walt Tomski's ineligibility will hurt in the 50- free-style, but here again Wolverine sophomores are expected to carry the brunt of the attack. Either Beebe or Barker (depending on which one swims in the medley) and Bill Holmes will swim against (Continued on Page 3) Heller Resiogns Post As Head Of Local Hillel Director Intends To Stay In An'n Arbor, Devoting More Time To Writing Rabinowitz Named Successor To Job Wace Blames Fall Of Sparta On Militarism Historical View Of Decline Of Greek City Culture Given ByArchaeologist A definite relationship exists be- tween the initiation in Sparta of a totalitarian form of government and the decline of its cultural activties, Prof. A.J.B. Wace, Laurence Professor of Archaeology at Cambridge Univer- sity, declared in a University lecture yesterday. At the end of the sixth century, B.C., when Sparta, in order to keep its position at the head of many small cities of Greece, inaugurated an ex- tensive system of military training for all groups of the population, its cul- tural activities stagnated, excavations there now indicate. Professor Wace refused, however, to draw the moral that, since Sparta's widespread mili- tary activities resulted in a set-back to its intellectual development, it was an unfortunate step. For who, he asked, if not powerful Sparta would have preserved the cultural contribu- tions of Athens from destruction by invaders in later centuries? Contrary to popular belief, Profes- sor Wace declared, Sparta was not always a state which had no use for culture. Extensive excavations, per- formed by the British School of Arch- aeology at Athens under the direction of Professor Wace on the site of ancient Sparta, have proved that be- fore the sixth century and the in- auguration of the militaristic system, Sparta flourished in many lines of cultural and intellectual endeavour. Many relics of jewelry, especially those done in ivory and inlaid in am- ber, indicate that the culture of many countries was represented in Sparta (for the only amber known at that time came from the Baltic region) and that the Spartans had time for some of the frivolities of life and did not concentrate only on blood and thunder. Calverton To Talk On Modern Novel V. F. Calverton, editor of "Modern Monthly" magazine, and book critic for "Current History" magazine, will speak on "The Modern Novel and So- cial Change" at 3 p.m. tomorrow in the Union. Mr. Calverton will also speak informally at a luncheon to be held in the Union at 12:15 p.m. to- morrow, it was announced by Jack Sessions, '40Ed, chairman of both affairs. In addition to editing several an- thologies in the fields of literature, sociology, and anthropology, Mr. Cal- verton has written a number of books, among which are "The Liberation of American Literature," and "The Passing of the Gods." His appear- ance here is sponsored by the Young L..rl ._ - - 1c+ To , - . France Grants Trans-Atlantic Ai-linePermit Six Months' Time Given; British Action Expected On Former Agreement WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 -(P)- A preliminary step for a commercial airline between France and the United States was taken today when France granted a six months' permit enabling one or more American transport lines to begin such service. Informed observers said this de- velopment, announced by the State Department here, might have the ef- fect of jolting the British into action on an agreement reached with the United States in December, 1935, for transatlantic service. Britain has not yet signified her readiness to carry out her part of this service, and the agreement specifies that both sides must start simultan- eously. Even if Britain holds back, Ameri- cans will be able to fly between here and London by way of France. The United States promised France she "would be willing to enter into negotiations with the French Govern- ment for the conclusion of a recipro- cal air transport agreement," the State Department announced. Chamberlain's Son ImperiledBy Blast LONDON, Jan. 19 -(m)- Frank Chamberlain, only son of the British Prime Minister, escaped harm today from a bomb blast apparently aimed at him in Ireland as authorities in Britain and Northern Ireland drafted thousands of police reserves to com- bat terrorism attributed to the out- lawed Irish Republican Army. On a vacation in Tralee, Ireland, 25-year-old Chamberlain was jolted from his sleep before dawn when a terrific explosion at the rear of his small hotl tossed several neighbors from their beds, splintered hotel walls and tore a hole in a nearby retaining wall. Hundreds of windows in the area were shattered and police immediate- ly undertook an intensive hunt through the Dingle Peninsula, long a hotbed of anti-British Republican- ism on the far western Irish coast. Norwegian Ship Split In Mysterious Accident NEW YORK, Jan. 19-(')-A sud- den and unexplained accident in mid- ocean which terrifyingly halved the 489-foot Norwegian motor tanker Jaguar was reported today in a radio message which said 37 members of the crew were saved. The steamer New Orleans of the Roosevelt Steamship Company sent word of the wreck to the Mackay Radio Company, but gave few details of the rescue and did not say whether Dr. Bernard Heller, director of the University Hillel Foundation since 1929, tendered his resignation yes-1 terday,- to become effective Feb. 1.r Dr. Isaac Rabinowitz, present associ-3 ate director, has been named to suc- ceed him. Dr. Heller annunced that his duties at the Foundation prevented him from devoting sufficient time to his writing. He is at present working on two volumes, "Stoicism and Spin-1 oza" and "Odyssey of a Faith." Several invitatiolls to occupy pul- pits havealready been offered him, but he has made oo plans for the immediate future, other than to con- tinue residence in Ann Arbor. Dr. Heller, in his letter of resigna- tion, addressed to Dr. Abram Sachar, national director of the B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation, said: "Despite this step, I wish to assure you that I still consider the Hillel Foundation an instrument of great importance and promise for the de- velopment of generations of informedt and inspired Jewry. I shall be very happy to lend to it and to you any assistance which I am capable of giv- ing. " During Dr. Heller's administration, the Michigan Hillel Foundation out- grew its old quarters, moved in its present building at 1102 Oakland, ac- quired a modern chapel, and the well- equipped Weiss Memorial Library, containing a supplementary collec- tion of books for University courses. Dr. Heler inaugurated many newE institutions, most outstanding of which is the Student's Executive Council, chief governing body of the Foundation. Last year, under Dr. Heller's direction, the Foundation col- lected the unprecedented sum of $2,500 for the national campaign con- (Continued on Page 6) Public Utilities Commission Hit By Fitzgerald Governor Makes Threats Concerning Legislative Action To Abolish Body LANSING, Jan. 19.-(IP)-Governor. Fitzgerald threatened tonight to have the Legislature abolish the Public Utilities Commission and create a new agency with similar duties after the Democratic Commission rejected his invitation to resign. The Governor himself has no au- thority to oust state officials during a session of the Legislature. "I'm going to broom out this Com- mission that has not been doing its work," Fitzgerald announced angrily after a conference at which Commis- sion Chairman Paul H. Todd had politely, but firmly, defied his au- thority. He added that, should the Legisla- ture refuse to meet his wishes, "I'll remove Todd 12 hours after the Leg- islature adjourns." The Governor said he would recom- mend that salaries of the proposed new Public Utilities Commissioners be fixed at $5,000 a year, as compared with the $7,000 the members now re- ceive. Informed of the Governor's an- nouncement, Todd replied simply: "We still are not going to resign." At a conference with Fitzgerald he told the Governor it would be im- possible to meet his demands for re- trenchment in payrolls. He said salary lists already have been reduced $30,000 annually, and that further cut would prove costly to the state by diminishing efficiency. Fitzgerald said Todd had rejected his suggestion that a Republican Secretary of the Commission be ap- pointed, offering a counter sugges- tion that the Republican be given some other job in the Commission with a salary of $5.000 a year. In answer to numerous in- quiries at the business office of the Michiganensian in the last C - . , - fE. , 7...T .1 .,.. Inn . Gophers Rout Hockey Team By 6-0 Score Michigan Sextet Outplayed By Opponent's Superior Speed And Stick Work Packed Coliseum Cheers Rough Play By BUD BENJAMIN Their defense cracked wide open by the sheer power and clever thrusts of a doughty Minnesota hockey crew, Michigan's weary and oft times wary sextet suffered a 6 to 0 trouncing last night at the Coliseum while a near capacity crowd hissed, booed, shrieked and audibly groaned. Outfought, outskated-in a word, outclassed-the Wolverines fought back sporadically, but the Gophers were so vastly superior that there was never a doubt of the outcome. For Michigan, the shut-out was the first suffered on the ice in two years. While the vocally belligerent crowd divided their attention between the game and the bad man hiistrionics of John Mariucci, the Gophers' mili- tant defenseman the visitors scored once in the first period, three times in the second, and twice in the final stanza to win with consummate ease. Rough and ready John, who has added several of Ernie Shore's tactics to his repertoire, acted generally ram- bunctious throughout the evening and huge swathes of tape across his face lent a pronounced poignancy, to his1 character. He bounced Michigan men on their posteriors with a sadistic glee, crashed the Wolverine defense with a rapier like rapidity, and only when he received a pair of resound- ing jolts in the final stanza were the customers satisfied. Mariucci, who doubles as an end on the Gopher football team, added two goals and an assist to his colorful performance to get a "plus" rating in versatility for the evening. He opened the romp after 18:04 of the first period had elapsed by picking up the puck in front of the Michigan goal. for an easy score. Mariucci had circled behind the goal (Continued on Page 3) Anti-New Deal Senators Attack Harry Hopkins Reed, Davis And Iolt Rap Former WPA Chieftain During All-Day Session WASHINGTON, Jan. 19-(/P)-Two Republicans and an anti-New Deal Democrat poured condemnation up- on the head of Harry Hopkins in the Senate today while Administration leaders quietly awaited a vote which none doubted would result in confirm- ation of his nomination as Secretary of Commerce. Senator Reed (Rep-Kas), making his first Senate speech, Senator Davis (Rep-Pa), a Senate veteran, and Senator Holt (Dem-W. Va.)occupied the entire day's session with a denun- ciation of political activity which, they said, was rampant in WPA while Hopkins was head of that, organiza- tion. Reed asserted Hopkins had been elevated to the Cabinet to "remove him from the line of fire" directed at WPA. Davis demanded a complete investigation of politics in relief. Holt, bluntly declaring he did not believe statements Hopkins had made in his own defense, contended he was "un- fit" for the post of Secretary of Com- merce. Only Senator Barkley of Kentucky, the Democratic leader, came to Hop- kins' defense-and to his own as well, in connection with charges of politi- cal irregularities in the Kentucky Democratic primary last summer. He said both he and Hopkins had been cleared by the Senate Campaign Ex- penditures Committee of any know- ledge of the incidents in question. Symphony To Make Wide Concert Tour The University Little Symphony's concert tour this year in, February and April will cover 19 states and the District of Columbia, according to itineraries released yesterday. The orchestra. composed of stu- Jury Ponders Heavily; Plaintiff Gets Six Cents A circuit court jury broke one record and set another here Wednes- day when it awarded damages of six cents in a $25,000 accident suit, after deliberating for nearly three days. In awarding the plaintiff this stag- gering amount, the court tied the record set in an alienation of affec- tions suit in 1933 for the smallest amount of damages ever granted in Washtenaw County. In deliberating three days, the jury was out longer than any other local jury in the last 15 years. The "damages" were awarded to Morrell Kasdorf, of Lapeer, against Harry E. Palmer and Louise B. Pal- mer of Ann Arbor, whose car collided with Kasdorf's near Imlay City, Dec. 14, 1937. Spanish Rebels Press Search For Transports Fate Of 60,000 Loyalists Depends Upon Success Of Insurgent Blockade HENDAYE, France (At the Span- ish Frontier), Jan. 19.-(P)-Spanish insurgent warships shelled at Cata- lonian coastal defenses today and pressed a grim search for transports reported carrying 60,000 fresh ,.sol- diers to the defense of Barcelona. Thee gunboats of the Insurgent blockade steamed back and forth across the route which would have to be followed by troop ships in any transfer of manpower from the south- ern part of Government Spain to the Government's seaport capital. The gunboats shelled shore posi- tions northeast of Insurgent-held Tarragona. The fate of the transports said to be skirting Generalissimo Franco's widening eastern Mediterranean sa- lient with the vanguard of 60,000 re- inforcements from the Madrid front remained in doubt. Barcelona authorities kept silent on the reported mass movement which would be imperiled also by Insurgent bombers from Franco's Balearic base, Mallorca. The reinforcement, if executed, would give Barcelona's defenders a tremendous numerical superiority over the estimated 300,000 Insur- gents striving to lose in on the me- tropolis from the west and southwest and at the same time trying to shear off its connections with the French frontier. Before a recent drastic mobiliza- tion which brought to the colors all Catalonians from 18 to 55 years old, Catalonian defense forces were esti- mated at 300,000, as against a similar number in the ranks of Franco's northeastern armies. It was not known how many men were gained by the mobilization. Gould Judged Best Speaker Interdepartmental Contest Won By Sophomore r.,..R..,... rel.... '41 wa jd eaod the Roosevelt Hits Tax Exempted Federal Bonds And Incomes Revenue From Securities And National Salaries Would Net 300 Million Congress Ordered To Act Promntly WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.-(A})- President Roosevelt urged Congress today to make all private income from all government salaries and all future government securities subject to the general income tax laws of the Federal and state governments Federal tax officials have estimat- ed that Federal revenue would In- crease, as a result, as much as ,$30,- 000,000 annually. State governments also would benefit by large revenue, increases from reciprocal authority given them to tax Federal salaries and bonds. Would Broaden Taxes (The Federal Government now col- lects taxes graduated upward from 4 per cent on income derived from in- terest on Federal bonds and on salt. aries of Federal employes. States which have income tax laws have re- frained from taxing income from these sources. The President recom- mended subjecting this income. to state as well as Federal taxstion. (States having income tax laws now levy on income from state and local bonds and salaries of state and local employes but the Federal collector re- frains from taxing these forms of in- come. The President's proposal would subject state salaries and bond interest to Federal taxes, too). In a special message Mr. Roosevel also advised Congress that recent Supreme Court decisions had made some state salaries and some state securities subject to taxes. He asked legislation to prevent the persons whose incomes would thus be taxed retroactively from suffering inequal- ties. Will Collect Back Tax I "tpless the Congress passes soie legislation dealing with this situation prior to March 15," Mr. Roosevelti said, "I am informed by the Secretary of the Treasury that he will be obliged to collect back taxes for at least three years upon the employes of many state agencies and upon the security holders of many state corporate in- strumentalities who mistakenly but in good faith believed they were tax exempt. The assessment and collec- tion of" these taxes will doubtlessly in many cases produce great hardship. "Accordingly, I recommend legis- lation to correct the existing inequit- able situation, and at the same timne to make private income from all gov- ernment salaries hereafter earned and fron9 all government securities hereafter issued subject to the general income tax laws of the nation and of the several states. " The President said immunities granted income from government se- curities and employment "are not in- exorable requirements of the Consti- tution, but are the result of Judicial decision." I I. lDougias Uoui ,I, web sugu i best speaker in Speech 31 sections in the second intra-departmental speech contest of the semester' yesterday ir: Natural Science Auditorium. Fordyce J. Hartman, '41, took second place honors. "A diary is something you keep be- cause you have it," said Gould, speak- ing on the topic "Dear Diary.". After quoting from a diary kept by an engi- neer on campus, Gould remarked that if you must keep a diary like this one, throw it on your funeral pyre when you die. Hartman talked on "Relationship- of China and the United States," pointing out that, becausetshe is fur- nishing Japan 54 per cent of all her war materials, the United States i., contributing to her own destruction. Others who competed and theih topics included: Barbara Newton '41, "A Trip Around Cape Cod;'" Richard J. Hainer, '41, "Succeeding With What You Have;" Jack Luxan '40, "Hitler's Scapegoats;" Dr. L. E. Powers, "Modern Up Hair Dress;" and Meribah Ann Leach, '40, "Seeing Ourselves As Others See Us." Mr. Norman Reid acted as chair- man and judges were Prof. L. M Eich, R. D. Hollister, and Mark Bailey of the speech department. Japan Reports Bombing Murphy Speeds Up Wheels Of Justice On Pending Cases WASHINGTON, Jan. 19--(/P)-At- torney General Frank Murphy an- nounced today new efforts to speed up the wheels of justice. *At his first press conference, the few Attorney General said he had lirected all United States Attorneys o report "with suitable explanations :znd suggestions" on all pending cases vhich have been on the dockets for )ver two years. The reports must be :ubmitted within 30 days. In dispatching these letters, the attorney General explained, it was .iis purpose to cut delays and "ar- :ears of business" in the offices of ,he attorneys and to expedite the dis- osition of government civil and crim- inal cases in federal courts. Library Has Examination File For Use Of Students Students have access to the file of examinations in 202 courses offered by the literary college, Lillian Rickel, librarian of the first floor study hall of the General Library said yester- da.