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VOL. XLIX. No. 90

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ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, JAN. 26, 1939

PRICE FIVE CENTS

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nsurgents Encircle
3arcelona; Flames
lage Through City

Loyalists Refuse To Quit;
Thousands Are Trapped
As Bombing Continues
Insurgents Urge
City To Surrender
HENDAYE, Jan. 25 -(P).-- Shell-
fire and Spanish Insurgent siege
lines within the Barcelona metropoli-
tan area were reported tonight to
have cut off the last overland escape
for hundreds of thousands of refu-
gees and a small force left to cover
retreat of the Government army.
The Insurgents had penetrated
Barcelona proper at its southern out-
skirts. Insurgent siege lines cut across
every highway and railway from the
erstwhile provisional capital-except
the coast road to the northeast.
Since mid-afternoon even that
route had been under fire of Gen-
eralissimo Francos big guns. Hordes
of aged men, women and children
trying to use that exit were turned
back tonight.
Fire In Worker's Section
Bomb and shell-shattered buildings
in the port section were in flames.
Fires licked their way from the work-
ers sections in this old quarter of,
the city toward the crowded new city
section where most of the refugees
were housed.
More than 500 persons have been
killed by aerial and artillery bom-I
bardments in the past three days.
The only means of communica-
tion between Barcelona .and the out-
side world was radio.
Throughout the afternoon a stream
of automobiles, trucks, covered gypsy
wagons and even garbage trucks
rolled through the northeast gate,
braving the Insurgent barrage on the

tfall the shelling be-
se the stream trickled
e Insurgent gunners

Insurgents Drop Leaflets
Insurgent airmen mixed their i
bombs with thousands of leaflets
urging Barcelona's last ditch defend-f
ers to surrender "to avoid useless
bloodshed."
While thousands had fled before
the Insurgents laid siege to this larg-
est city of Spain their places had
been taken by other thousands fall-
ing back from Franco's offensive
across Catalonia.
The Government's rearguard force,
it was supposed from border advices,
was sufficient only to fight a delay-
ing action against penetration al
ready started by Moorish legion-
naires under General Juan Yague.
Several hundred foreigners huddled
at Caldetas, 25 miles northeast of
Barcelona, which has been the seat,
of most foreign 'diplomats.
Cruiser Rescues Americans
The United States cruiser Omaha
and destroyer Badger took Americans
on board. Fifteen Americans of the
180 in the Barcelona area were tak-
en aboard the Omaha through a cur-
tain of bombs aimed at Caldetas.
The Barcelona radio station defi-
antly broadcast the challenge to a
finish fight as the Spanish Press
JAgency in London reported /"that
Socialist and Syndicalist trade union
organizations had decided to hurl the
joint declaration in the face of Gen-
eral Franco's troops.
Although the escape of the 2,000,000
inhabitants, refugees and defenders
was cut off by troops at the southern
outskirts, by converging armies to
the west and to the northwest and
by a curtain of fire that covered the
last coastal highway to the northeast,
the broadcast declared:
"The taking of Barcelona will not
be an easy matter."
Rumanian Plot
Is Discovered
Terrorists Plans To Fire
Capital Caught By Police
BUCHAREST, Jan. 25-1P)--Police
announced today the discovery of a
terroristic plot to destroy many build-
ings of the Rumanian capital by

Bruce Lockhart
Talks Tonight
At Auditorium
Noted British Journalist
Will Discuss Current
EuropeanDiplomacy
By ELLIOTT MARANISS
R. H. Bruce Lockhart, noted British
diplomat, journalist and author, will
talk tonight on the current European
diplomatic and political scenes in the
fifth lecture of the current Oratori-
cal Association Series. Mr. Lockhart's
lecture' is scheduled for 8:15 p.m. in'
Hill Auditorium.
Best known in this country for his
book "British Agent," in which he'
delineates his experiences in the cha-
otic state of revolutionary Russia dur-
ing the World War, Mr. Lockhart is
equally well acquainted with other
aspects of European history. His
book "Retreat From Glory," deals
with the intrigues of post-war Middle-
Europe, and his most recent book
"Guns or Butter," is a comprehen-
sive account of the problems besetting
the various European countries.
Theinteresting thing about "Guns1
or Butter" is that it was finished be-'
fore the Munich crisis, yet so acute
were Mr. Lockhart's observations that
the subsequent turn of events ap-
peared in the nature of a prophecy
fulfillment. Most American reviewers
of the book have expressed the opin-
ion that it is even keenr and more'
penetrating than "British Agent."
Senates Vote
On Relief Bill
W111 Be Close
President's Appropriation
Request To Be Decided
By Five Or Six Votes
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.-(P)-In
the opinion of Senate leaders the
question whether the Senate would
sustain President Roosevelt in his re-
quest for a work relief appropriation
of $875,000,000 rested tonight upon
the votes of some five or six members.
So close was the expected vote,
that both sides, claiming victory by
a narrow margin, nevertheless re-
doubled their efforts to swing hesi-
tant Senators to their way of think-
ing.
Less than two hours were devoted
to debating the subject, the brief dis-
cussion producing reiterated charges
of mistakes in the estimates of relief
needs submitted by President Roose-
velt and Col. F. C. Harrington, head
of WPA.
Senator Barkley (Dem.-Ky.), the
majority leader, replied that he had
received letters from Harrington and
the budget bureau "confirming" the
figures presented, and clarifying
what had been described as a dis-
crepancy of $292,000,000 between the
books of the Treasury and of WPA.
He said he would disclose the con-
tents of the letters tomorrow.
The issue before the Senate was
whether it should appropriate the
$875,000,000 asked by the President
or $275,000,000 voted by the House
and approved by the Senate Approp-
riations Committee. The money is in-
tended to finance WPA from Feb. 7
to the end of the fiscal year, June 30.
The Senate Committee's bill provides
that not more than five per cent of
the present WPA enrollment shall be
dropped before April 1.

The debate found Senator Pepper
(Dem.-Fla.) and Senator Byrnes
(Dem.-S.C.), a leader in the battle
for the committee's bill, engaged in
a controversy over how many WPA
workers would have to be laid off
under the lower appropriation. Pep-
per estimated the number at some
two million, Byrnes at about half
that amount.

Martin Quits
CIO Board;
Scores Lewis
Lewis And Hillman Reply;
Announce Martin Firled
From Both Positions
Former UAW Head
Turns To Workers
NEW YORK, Jan. 25-(P)-Homer
Martin, storm center of a fight with-
in the United Automobile Workers of
America, charged tonight that CIO1
chieftain John L. Lewis was adopt-
ing the methods of his "Stalinist
allies" and splitting the forces of
labor by "dictatorial policies."
His personal broadside at Lewis was
included in a letter to the presidenti
of the Congress of Industrial Organi-
zations, in which Martin resigned
from the CIO executive board because,1
he said, he could "no longer subscribe1
to the policies and tactics to which
you and your representatives have-
resorted."
Martin, "deposed" yesterday by the
CIO as president of the Auto Work-,
ers Union, insisted he was still presi-
dent of the International Union and
said an "overwhelming majority"-i
300,000 or more of the 400,000 mem-
bers-were behind him in his fight
with the "majority clique" of the
UAW executive board.]
Martin's attack on Lewis brought;
a prompt reply from Hillman and
Murray, who declared in a joint
statement that his letter of resigna-
tion was "further indication of the1
haphazard, irresponsible methods he1
had employed in his relations with;
the members of the UAW, with thee
officials of the CIO, and with thet
automobile manufacturers."
"He reveals the same dictator-;
mania," the statement added, "which
was responsible for the contract vio-
lations which have occurred at times;
and for the almost continuous bick-
ering in the official family of the
auto union.
"It should be clear that the UAW
is not severing its relations with the
CIO, but only that Homer Martin is;
deserting both the UAW and the CIO.
Of course, he cannot resign from
the executive board of the CIO. He
is no longer a member. Seventeen
members of the UAW board, acting
under their constitution, have sus-
pended him from office and divorced
him of the right to call himself a
spokesman of the auto union."
Amendments
To Labor Act
MeetSupport
Senate Will Consider 16
AFL Suggestions For
ChangingWagner Act
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 -M)-
Signs developed in Congress today of
widespread support-and some op-
position-for an American Federation
of Labor proposal to give employers
and craft unions more rights under
the Wagner Relations Act.
Congressional critics of the Labor
Relations Board and of the CIO gen-
erally applauded the 16 Wagner Act
amendments introduced for the AFL
by Senator Walsh (Dem.-Mass.).
For at least one of the proposals,
providing that employers as well as
employes might petition the Labor
Board to conduct elections for the

purpose of settling union represen-
tation disputes, extended to the ranks
of strong Adin mistration backers.
Senator Pepper (Dem.-Fla.), who
was renominated last year with
Roosevelt support, told reporters he
was inclined to favor this amendment
and would give very careful study
to the other proposals.
From Senator Thomas (Dem.-
Utah), Chairman of the Senate Labor
Committee and generally an Admin-
istration supporter, came a state-
ment that hiscommittee would con-
duct hearings upon the legislation if
Walsh desired them.
Snow-Laden Gales
Hit Coastal States;
Several Lives Lost
(By ,Associated Press)
Gales driving inland from the At-

Dr. Fishbein
Hits Federal
Health Plans
Dr. John Peters Declares
Organization Of Medics
Obstructs Cooperation
Conflicting Views
Voiced By Leaders
CHICAGO, Jan. 25.-(AP)-Conflict-
ing views on the social aspects of
medical care were voiced tonight by
two leaders in the field of medicine.
Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the
Journal of the American Medical As-
sociation, declared:
"America cannot exist with its
medical profession enslaved to make
a politicians' holiday."
Dr. John P. Peters of Yale Univer-
sity-secretary of the Committee of
Physicians for the Improvement of
Medical Care, a group which once
accused the A.M.A. of "standpatism"
-asserted:
Middle Class Needs Attention
"Some method must be devised by
which the great mass of our middle
class population may secure the medi-
cal attention they require without be-
ing subjected to indignity."
He said organized medicine "Ac-
tively combats attempts of physicians
and laymen to experiment along new
lines for the organization of medical
services on a ,cooperative basis."
Their addresses were prepared for
delivery before the Chicago Hospital
Council two days after the Interde-
partmental-Committee's report-pro-
posing compulsory health insurance
among other things-was sent to
Congress by President Roosevelt for
careful study.
"Compulsory sickness insurance,"
said Dr. Fishbein, "must inevitably
result in a deterioration of the qual-
ity of medical service," and prove a
step toward a "fascistic or communis-
tic" system,
Retain Initiative, Fishben Says
"Compulsory insurance," said Dr.
Peters, "is damned on the basis of
European expgrience without mention'
of the fact that in almost every in-
stance it was adopted only after
bitter experience with voluntary in-
surance. I admit that immediate
nation-wide imposition of compulsory
insurance would probably be unwise.
But I have no faith at all that volun-
tary insurance would solve our prob-
lems."
"We have made progress by retain-
ing individual initiative," Dr. Fish-
bein maintained. "If that initiative
is destroyed, progress will cease and
the dry rot and deterioration inevit-
ably associated with jobholding under
political domination will set in."
"To suggest that those who receive
salaries work less efficiently than
those who receive fees for service is to
slander 80 per cent or more of our
population," opined Dr. Peters. "It is
a travesty upon the ideals of medicine
to insist that the cdremony of direct
transfer of cash from patient to
physician preserves the sanctity of
persona relations."
Flight Training
Plan Explained

Swell Reported Casualties

City Of 40,000 Destroyed

In

I

Natators Shatter 15 Records;
Squelch Michigan State 67-17

Haynie, Wililams, Haigh
Help Better American
Marks In Mile Relay
By MEL FINEBERG
Michigans swimming team shat-
tered 15 American records and then
went on to give Michigan State a
67-17 lacing in a dual meet last night
at the Intramural Building Pool.
The meet with the Spartans was
important only in that it proyided
en excuse for Matt Mann to point a
gun at records in the breast stroke of
from 800 yards up to one mile and
in the back stroke from 600 yards
up. The Spartans were able to sal-
vage no first place and only one
;econd place in the entire nine events
-and they garnered four points in
'he 100-yard free-style only because
Tom Haynie was the only Wolverine
entrant in that event.
Johnny Haigh started the breast
strokers off in the right direction
when he went his 200 yard lap in
2:27.5, faster than his 200 in the Ohio
State meet last Friday. Johnny Share-
met, a freshman, took over where
Haigh left over by going the distance
in 2:36.3.
Then Tommy Williams, a free-
styler on the frosh squad, made some
record cracking a virtual certainty'
when he negotiated his lap in 2:34.9.
At this point, all Capt. Tom Haynie
had to do was complete his leg in 2:57
to break the American record for 800-.
yards. So Haynie, an all-around swim-
mer who holds the record for the
150-yard individual medley, turned
in a neat 2:33 to pull the 1939 edi-
tion of the Wolverines 21.1 under the
old record.
From there on, Michigan didn't
miss a chance to crack a mark. Var-
sity man Ed Mack did 2;41.4 and the
1000-yard record was bettered by 22.2
seconds. Ed Hutchens turned in a
surprising 2:44.6 leg, brought the time
Ontario Aggies
Rally To -Beat
Wolverines, 4-3
Hockey Team Folds Up As
Visitors Garner Three
Tallies In Last Period
By NEWELL McCABE
Before a crowd that might well
have fitted around one table of an
important chess game Ontario Aggies
hockey team put on a three point
rally in the final period oflast night's
contest to hand the Wolverine sex-
tet their third straight defeat 4 to 3.
Coming onto the ice in the fatal
last period Michigan held a safe 3 to
1 margin, and in the previous periods
it seemed that when the demand was
great enough the Wolverines could
garner a tally.
As the game entered its closing
minutes Coach Eddie Lowrey's hock-
ey sextet folded up. In the course
of the evening the Wolverine defense
had been showing up a slight bit bet-
ter than in any of their former-games,
however they were the first section
to whither away into an unobtrusive
group.
With the game pretty well in the
bag, from everyone's standpoint ex-
cept the visiting team, Smith, on a
pass from Packman flipped the puck
past "Spike" James for the Aggies
second score.
Three minutes later with one man
in the penalty box McCullough and
McGovern put on a power play which
ended in another tally for the Ontario
sextet and at the same time tied up
the game.
Less than a minute after this tying
point was made and still playing a

man short McGovern picked the puck
up in center ice and burned it past
James. This finaly tally changed the
scene from a sure Wolverine victory
to the third consecutive defeat of the
hrMA- ia am_

--Daily Photo By Bogle
Hal Benham, Michigan swimmer,
is shown as he broke the American
breast stroke record for the mile in
a time trial last night preceeding
the Michigan State meet. This rec-
ord was one of 15 in both back and
breast stroke to fall last night.
up to 15:36 and the four year old
mark was bettered by 32.8 seconds,
Freshman Bob Johnson did his 200-
yards in an even 2:50 and the records
were falling like Ann Arbor rain.
Bob Newton erased the 1600-yard
mark when his 2:37.6 lap made the
Wolverines 44.6 seconds under the
old mark and then varsity diver Hal
Benham finished the job with a
2:02.2 160-yard leg to make the final
time for the mile 23:06.4, 57.2 seconds
(continued on Page 3)
Albion Students
Fight Removal
Of Journalist
Staff And Student Council
Resign 'In Battle For
Freedom Of The Press
ALBION, Jan. 25.-(Special to The
Daily)-Members of the Student
Council and the student newspaper
"Tleied" of Albion College resigned
their positions last week because of
the refusal of the school administra-
tion to reinstate George Dewey, ed--
itor-in-chief of the paper, after he
was removed for an editorial criticiz
ing smoking restrictions for women.
More than 600 students petitioned
the Publications Council, composed of
four students and two faculty men,
for Dewey's reinstatement. The board
voted in favor of Dewey, but met with
adamant refusal by school authori-
ties.
Dewey was also deprived of jour-
nalism credit.
Reports from Albion asserted that
motives behind this issue was a de-
mand on the part of the students for
a free press. Reports were prevalent
that the student body would picket
on registration day unless Dewey is
reinstated.
Dewey, the son of a supervisor of
the Grand Rapids Distrtct of Metho-
dist Churches, was removed by Pres-
ident John L. Seaton.
Traffic Course
To Be Initiated
School To Offer Credit
For Class In Safety
The University is planning to keep
in the vanguard of higher education
with the introduction of a full course
in traffic safety training, it was an-
nounced yesterday.
Full credit will be given for the
work, which will be part of the regu-
lar curriculum. The class will prob-
ably have its premier during the 1939
Summer Session.
Work will be especially designed
for regular school teachers returning
for graduate work, education stu
dents and those studying to be traf-

Chillan And Conquenes Are
In Ruins As Airplanes
Rush Help To Victims
Food And Supplies
Desparately Urgent
SANTIAGO, Chile, Jan. 25-(P)--
The "complete destruction" of Chil-
lan, a city of 40,000 inhabitants in
widespread midnight earthquakes
was reported today as military avia-'
tors tried to check other reports that
2,000 were killed in the Concepcion
area.
Official estimates were'that at least
1000 persons were killed and more
than 400 injured, exclusive of the
Chillan casualties which were re-
ported by a Chilean army flier who
flew low over the city.
Cauquenes, a city of 6,500 popula-
tion famous for its mineral springs,
was officially reported largely in
ruins, with the inhabitants camping
in the streets.
Pilot Reports Devastation
The number of victims was not
known, but was believed large. The
ity is 60 miles south of Santiago.
The National Air Line issued a com-
munique, based on a report of a pilot
who flew over Chillan, 220 miles south
of Santiago, which said that only
three houses appeared habitable in
144 city blocks.
The pilot said he could see a large
number of injured lying on the ground
and a house converted into a hospital.
The dead were being buried in large
ditches dug in streets converging on
the plaza where there were several
piles of bodies, he reported.
A decree of the Minister of In-
terior placed all radio broadcasting
stations under military control with
strict Prohibition against broadcast-,
ing any information concerning the
earthquake except official bulletins.
The licenses of a number of ama-
teur stations also were suspended.
Since telegraph and telephone lines
already were out of commission the
order greatly restricted sources of in-
formation.
shocks Hit Along Coast
-Chillan is 220 miles south of San-
tiago, the capital. Concepcion, a city
of 77,000, is 250 air miles south of
Santiago.
The shocks spread panic through a
400-mile strip along the Chilean coast
and eastward 75 miles across the
country. The first of the series of
quakes was felt in Santiago at 11,35
P.m. No damage was done here. In
ether cities the shocks lasted more
than aminute.
The mayor of Concepcion sent the
following message to the government:
"Situation most serious as a result of
the earthquake. Unable to state num-
ber of casualties but many hundreds,
probably thousands. Require food and
medical aid. Desperately urgent."
Three army planes hastened to
Concepcion to survey the damage. All
planes available here were command-
eered for relief and survey work. The
government used trains, boats and
airplanes to rush doctors, nurses and
medical and food supplies to the
stricken area. A form of martial law
was ordered in Concepcion and the
nearby coastal city of Talcahuano.
Communication Lines Down
Officials were hampered by brok-
en communication lines in efforts to
get information on the disaster.
Trains proceeded slowly because of
quake-weakened roadbeds.
President f Pedro Aguirre Cerda,
several cabinet nembers, 40 physi-
cians and 70 nurses left Santiago
aboard a special train. Pan-Ameri-
can-Grace Airways, which serves the
western coats of South America, put
all its surplus equipment in Chile at
the disposal of relief workers. A
Pan-American-Grace plane left for
Concepcion with government offi-
cials and medicines.
(Pan-American-Grace and Pan-

American Airways offices in New
York received messages that 2,000
persons had been killed in Concep-
cion.)
Redlich Will Talk
ITo. Chemists Today

Chile As

Earthquakes

Airport Manager
Before Flying

Speaks
Club

More than 100 students turned out
for the University Flying Club.meet-
ing last night to hear George M.
Downs, manager of the Ann Arbor
airport, explain the CAA flight train-
ing plan to be inaugurated at the
University Jan. 31, pending approval
of the Board of Regents.
The Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor air-
ports submitted a combined bid to
the federal government, concerning
the cost of using these grounds for
the training place for University stu-
dents, Mr. Downs said.
All students in good physical con-
dition, are eligible candidates, Mr.
Downs asserted, except those who al-
ready have private pilots' licenses.
Next year, he said, students who
have received their pilot's license on
light craft, will be moved up to the
heavier machine division, until at
the end of four years they will have
sufficient experience to qualify for
commercial flying or flight instruc-
tion, under the proposed plan.
It is expected that the Board of
Regents will act upon the opportunity
to receive flight instruction -at the
University within the next few days.

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