'Weather Rain today; Fair & warmer tomorrow. pr of OOOF Ar ait g Editorial Michigan Academy Arrives Today . VOL. L. No. 119 Z-323 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1940 PRICE FIVE CENTS - Senate PasseQ $5,000 Limit On Party Giftc In Hatch Upse Supporters Of Anti-Politic Bill Admit That Cou May Endanger Measur Proponent Of Act Hits Amendmen WASHINGTON, March 14.-('P)-~ In as striking a display of razzle dazzle as the Senate has seen i years, foes of the Hatch "Anti-Pol- itics" Bill put that measure in jeo- pardy today by amending it to pro- hibit campaign contributions of mor than $5,000 from any person or cor- poration. Some supporters of the measur ruefully acknowledged that the cou had seriously lessend its chances o: passage at this time, when campaig chests are being stocked up for th political wars just ahead. Althoug saying that Senate passage was as- sured, they expressed fear that iit might be shelved in the House Opponents Pleased Opponents of the Hatch Bill, un- der which the existing ban on po- litical activity by Federal workers would be extended to an army of state workers paid with U. S. funds. almost chortled when the $5,000 campaign fund restriction was ap- proved, 40 to 38. "It will have more effect on the Republicans than on the Democrats," beamed Senator Bankhead (Dem.- Ala.), who had offered the amend- mnent. Only one Republican-Frazier of North Dakota-voted for the Bank- head amendment. However, Minor- ity Leader McNary (Rep.-Ore.) said that the Republicans would continue to support the Hatch legislation de- spite the amendment. G.O.P. Sen- ators, joining with a minority of Democrats, have saved the legisla- tion on several previous tests. Hatch Votes Against Bill Senator Hatch (Dem. N. M.), au- thor of the Bill, voted against the Bankhead amendment because, he said, "Its real purpose was to an- tagonize the Republicans who have been supporting my bill." The subject of campaign contribu- tions has been the center of recent controversy between Democratic and Republican party leaders. Democrat- ic Chairman James A. Parley cited sevgral large contributions to the 1936 Republican campaign, while Re- publican Chairman John D. M. Hamilton replied that the largest single contribution, $104,500, was made to the Democratic campaign by Walter A. Jones, Pittsburgh oil man. Dies To Probe Soviet Police WASHINGTON, March 14.--(-)7 Hinting that unnamed "people in government circles" were involved, Chairman Dies (Dem.-Tex.) said to- day that his Committee on Un- American Activities had uncovered a "lead" on far flung Soviet secret police operations in the United States and would hear testimony soon from "the head ofrthe OGPU" in this country. The Texan, who cut short a Flor- ida vacation to return here and ar- range for the inquiry, declined to give out the witness' name or tell how the Committee got in touch with him. It was indicated, how- ever, that the alleged Russian agent had been arrested by the FBI in connection with, its investigation of espionage. ASU Election Is HeldToday Balloting Will Be Held In LibraryLobby Votes for the election of officers for this semester of the American Stu- dent Union may be cast from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. today in the lobby of the General Library Carrell Leuchtmann, '43, chairman of the elections com- mittee, announced yesterday. Slated for presidential nominee is Ellen Rhea, '40, in whose favor Robert Kahn, Grad., and Elman Service, '41, Fascism Is Possibility In U.S., Thomas Warns In Talk Here Totalitariaisn Of War, Unemployment Listed As Threat To Nation By HELEN CORMAN Fascism in America is a livifig possibility:-it may start through the rigid totalitarianism that war could bring, or-it may spring from the fa N- ure of democracy to solve critical problems of mass unemployment and poverty, socialist presidential nom- inee Norman Thomas warned more than 400 students and faculty mem- bers last night in his address, "Does Democracy Need Socialism?" The national chairman of the So- cialist party confined his address sponsored by the League for Liberal Action to a plea that the United States remain aloof from Europe's war and harness her energy to pro- mote "cooperative democracy" here. "Democracy's light will go out if America goes to war," Mr. Thomas warned. "War for the United States will inevitably mean a military to- talitarianism as alien to democracy as anything in Europe. If we engage in war, the battle of democracy is O'Hara Seeks Policy Leader 5In Graft Case Detroiter Sought In Wayne County Gambling Probe; McCrea To Be Queried DETROIT, March 14.-(P)--Wayne County's widespread graft-gambling inquiry, from which a half dozen actual and potential court cases have sprouted, developed an extradition fight today as an added legal tussle. Chief Special Prosecutor Chester P. O'Hara of the grand jury an- nounced he had been informed offi- cially from Illinois that Everett Wat- son, whom he has named as a former "policy racket king," would fight ex- tradition from Chicago. The dapper Detroit Negro, named in a grand jury warrant in connection with gambling, and his wife Ida have been held in Chicago on a fugitive warrant for nearly a month. O'Hara said that Gov. Henry Horner of Illi- nois would conduct an extradition hearing probably next week. Extradition of Watson, prize fight manager and owner of a country home near Detroit, was asked in papers signed yesterday by Gov. Lur- en D. Dickinson of Michigan. , The grand jury seeks him for questioning. Examination of County Prosecutor Duncan C. McCrea and co-defendants on gambling conspiracy charges con- tinued today and Circuit Judge Ho- mer Ferguson meanwhile set March 20 for examination of McCrea, Sher- iff Thomas C. Wilcox and others accused of protecting vice and other illegal operations. Grad Students Form Cabinet Yoakum Approves Effort For Organizing Council A temporary central cabinet of six graduate students headed by Abraham Rosenzweig was formed yesterday at a meeting in the Rack- ham Amphitheatre to make a new attempt at organizing a Graduate School Council. Dean Clarence S. Yoakum, of the Graduate School, expressed his ap- proval and desire to cooperate fully with the movement in a talk pre- ceding the business meeting, and ac- cepted the position of advisor. The purpose of the council will be to pro- mote beter relations between grad- uate students and faculty members, and to identify the students in the school as a collective unit, according to Dean Yoakum. The other members of the cabinet which is to submit an election plan for counsel membership to all of the Graduate School departments, are William Cargo, Loften T. Hayes, Jean Brown, Frances Elstein, Harriet Smith and Richard N. Hall. Angell Will Speak On Eliot's Work Prof. Robert Angell of the sociol- ogy department will review T. S. El- lost, that is why we must remain aloof, not because we see no guilt by certain nations abroad." Mr. Thomas accused Russia of be- ing a military "totalitarianism" not much different than NIazi Germany and he branded Russia for its inva- sion of Finland. America's task today, Mr. Thomas pointed out, is to build a cooperative democracy based upon the principle of socialized ownership withreal popular control. Ultimately world peace will be accomplished through an international organization of co- operative democracies, he added. We must eliminate the outworn beliefs that "life, -liberty and the pursuit of happiness" are America's divine heritage which will be with us always, he asserted. A Declaration of Independence does not assure the perpetuity of democracy, Mr. Thom- as warned. We still have nine millions of un- employed. According to Fortune Magazine's figures, 23 percent of our population is, "outside of the going economic order." Wage levels are still extremely low in proportion to the technological facilities and re- sources we have, he added. Socialist Party Is A Needed Goad, Says Leader By ROBERT SPECKHARD Commenting on the American po- litical scene, Norman Thomas said in an interview yesterday- that al- though he could not see the remotest possibility for a successful third par- ty movement this year, there must nevertheless be a Socialist Party po- litical campaign to enunciate clearly the vital issues facing the country today. Both major political parties are substantially the same this year, and both are obscuring such fundamen- tal questions as peace, employment, (Continued on Page 6) IFC Sponsors 'Greek Week' Panels, Talks .* x National And Local Ment Will Lead Discussions In Fraternity Prograin Arts Academy Opens Section MeetsToday Convention To Be Devoted To Forums And Talks On Academic Subjects Guthe, Untermeyer Will HeadProgram Bringing to Ann Arbor the cream of the state's intelligentsia, the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters will convene today and tomorrow to discuss the latest devel- opments in various cultural and sci- entific fields. Unexpected feature of the 45th Annual Meeting which is open to the public will be a talk by Louis Unter- meyer at 9 a.m. today in Room 160 of the Rackham Building for the guest section on Michigan Folklore under Prof. Ivan H. Walton of the College of Engineering. Mr. Unter- meyer is expected to discuss the rela- tionship of folklore to art. Other featured events on today's program include the presidential ad- dress on "Museums and Education" by Dr. Carl E. G the, director of Uni- versity Museums, at 8 p.m. in the Amphitheatre of the Rackham Build-; ing as well as Mr. Pinsang Hsia's dis- cussion of "Chinese Reconstruction Amidst Oestruction" at 12:15 p.m. in the Union for the benefit of the eco- nomics section. Mr. Hsia is jointl manager of the Bank of China in New York City.; Prof. Jesse S. Reeves of the political science department also highlights today's session with an analysis ofc "The Foreign Policy of the United States and the War" at 12:15 p.m. in1 Room 222 of the Union. Speakers from the faculty, the Uni- versity of Louisiana, Wayne and the University of Chicago are represent-1 ed in the 9:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. ses- sions today of the anthropology sec- tion in Room 3024 of the Universityt Museum's Building. Meeting at 9 a.m. today in Room1 2003 of the Natural Science Building is the botany section. Prof. Elzada U. Clover, Prof. Carl D. LaRue andt many other members of the Universi- ty's faculty together with represen- tatives of Michigan State will speak.r Under the direction of Prof. RobertC S. Ford of the ecenomics depart- ment, the econonics section will con-t (Continued on Page 6)1 Band For Defense Pact, Scandinavian As Finnish Refugees Flee Civilian Army Of 100,000 Leaves Territory Ceded To Russia By Peace Pact Finns Avoid Areas Now Under Reds HELSINKI, March 14.-)P)-A new army was on the march tonight in saddened Finland-an army of 100,000 men, women and children forsaking their firesides in ceded territory to find strange homes with- in Finland's newly-shrunken fron- tiers. By foot, in autos, wagons, and on trains they moved through the snow- clad country taking their pigs, horses and cattle with them. They carried what clothing and family heirlooms they could gather on short notice before their land is turned over to Russia. Approximately 500,000 other per- sons are in refugee centers, having fled there for protection early in the war. About 140,000 of them may return to their homes-what Russian bombs have left of them-but Finland must find new homes and new livelihoods someplace in the rock-bound land for about 460,000. Juho Koivisto, Assistant Minister of Agriculture who is in charge of moving the people, said that no pressure had been brought to force families to leave the ceded areas, but that experience showed practically none of them wanted to live under Russian rule. Most of those to be moved are from the regions north of Lake La- doga since the ceded Karelian Isth- mus was emptied of civilians and turned over to the army almost com- pletely during the war. Only 2,000 persons are remaining in Hanko, the south coast port leased to Russia as a naval base. The state has been paying the entire cost of feeding and sheltering refugees and now will stand the cost of moving them to permanent homes. Koivisto said that an effort would be /made to keep friends and neigh- bors with commontraditions and customs together but that "very grave social problems" are ahead. The psychological shock of moving persons from places where their fam- ilies had dwelt for generations is extremely serious, ne pointed out. Bott Is Elected President Of University Flying Club Alan R. Bott, '42E, Stanford, Conn., was elected president of the Univer- sity of Michigan Flying Club at a meeting last night. Other officers elected were: Leslie J. Trigg, '41E., vice-president; Henry Van Veen, '41A, secretary and Corr- win D. Denney, '43E, treasurer. The Club plans to have an intramural flying meet from 2:30 to 6 p.m. Sun- day at the Ypsilanti airport. Noted Botanist Will Describe Plant Process Homer L. Shantz, internationally famed botanist and zoologist, will discuss "Vegetation, What It Means" at 4:15 p.m. today in Natural Science Auditorium. The talk, open to the public, is a University lecture sponsored by the Michigan Academy of' Science, Arts and Letters. Shantz, a frequent contributor to periodicals dealing with plant phy- siology and natural vegetation, serv- ed in 1918 and 1919 as a member of the special committee to determine natural plant resources and crop producing possibilities of large por- tions of Africa and Latin America for the use of the American Commis- sion to Negotiate Peace. He has also acted as an agricultural explorer for the Smithsonian Institute's African Expendition in 1919 and 1920 and as a member in 1924 of the special detail of the Educational Commis- sion to East Africa, :sponsored by the Phelps Stokes Fund and the In- ternational Educational Board. Shantz has been head of the Di- vision of Wild Life Management of the National Forest Service since 1936. He served previously as an investigator with Plant Industry of of Agriculture. 0 Couriles the Bureau of the Department The traditional welcome to new fraternity initiates will take a novel form this year, when the Interfra- ternity Council sponsors a "Greek Week" March 22 and 23, which will include panel discussions, talks by national fraternity leaders and the regular initiation banquet, Richard Peckinpaugh, '41, of the Council, said yesterday. This program will present for the first time, Peckinpaugh said, an op- portunity for fraternity men to dis- cuss mutual problems with faculty and alumni. The two-day program will offer luncheons, discussions, meetings, the banquet and open house at all fraternities for faculty and guests. Four panel discussions will in- clude: Rushing, with a supporting committee of Ganson Taggert, '40E, Robert Johnson, '40, Harold Gold- man, '40, Pat Lillie, '41, Robert Har- rington, '40, Dan Shaw, '40, and Clarence Sahlin, '41. The committee in charge of Finance and House Management includes: Fred Linsell, '41, Edward Tripp, '41, Kenneth Troy. '41, Port Brown, '41,, and George Banta, '41. Scholarship and Cultural Develop- ment will be handled by the follow- ing committee: Harold Spurway, 40, Tom Phares, '40, Sam Grant, '40, Ward Quaal, '41, and Bob Kann, '40. The discussion group in charge of University and Fraternity Relations includes: Charles Irwin, '41, Jim George, '41, Hugh Estes, '41, and Jack Grady, '42. Women Debaters Meet Indiana; End Conference Season Varsity women debaters finished their Big Ten season last night with their third contest on the federal housing administration program question. Two debates were held with In- diana yesterday in the League. In the afternoon, Elizabeth Lightner, '41, and Jane Krause, '41, took the af- I Opera Abandons Tour; Offers $100 For Script All plans to take this year's Union Opera, "Four Out of Five," on tour, were definitely abandoned yesterday following a post-card ballot of mem- bers of the cast, according to Robert Mix, '40, general chairman. An earlier election had rejected touring plans, Mix, said, but many members of the cast had expressed dissention. Yesterday's vote made the decision final. Meanwhile, plans for next year's Opera are being considered by Mimes, honorary dramatic fraternity. An award of $100 has been offered stu- dent writers for a suitable script for the Opera. Natators Meet Revived Wayne TeamTonight Triumph Over Ohio State Features An Impressive Tartar Team Record By DON WIRTCHAFTER An amazing Wayne University swimming team that took only one year to sprout into one of the nation's most feared outfits invades the I-M pool at 8 p.m. today to meet the mighty Wolverines in a dual meet. Undefeated and having success- fully defended its Western Conference crown, Michigan will rule the favorite tonight to march on to its ninth straight dual triumph, but not in the customary Wolverine style. Last year at this time, Wayne had about as much chance against Michi- gan as any grammar school outfit, but things are different now. A New Deal, in the form of Coach Lea Maas, came to the Detroit college, and like the Anderson regime in Iowa's foot- ball, it brought brilliant success in its first season. The Tartars come here tonight with an impressive 1940 record of five wins against one defeat, and that coming at the hands of Yale's dreadnaughts of the East. On the Wayne victim list are such natatorial notables as Ohio State, National AAU champion, and Franklin and Marshall, Eastern Inter- collegiate ruler. Spectacular and most astonishing has been Maas' rise to the top, and especially so since he has done it en- tirely with swimmers from his own area. All the Wayne mermen but two hail from Detroit, and the two ex- ceptions, John White and Gordon Kerr, come from nearby Royal Oak and Windsor, respectively. With Andy Clark, National AAU individual medley champion, and Bill Prew, a member of the National AAU title winning medley team as the nuc- leus, Maas has gathered together a team of sophomores that will make (Continued on Page 3) FBI To Investigate, Detroit Arrest Cases WASHINGTON, March 14.-(A)- Attorney General Jackson announced today that Henry Schweinhaut, chief of the Justice Department Civil Lib- Norway, Sweden, Finland Fear Future; Nazis Ask European Economic Bloc Berlin Asks Soviet To Spare Rumania STOCKHOLM, March 14.-()- Support for a defensive alliance among Sweden, Norway and Finland grew today out of the ashes of the Russian-Finnish conflict which left powerful Russia strategically poised over all three. Official statements in Stockholm, Oslo and Helsinki drew the issue to the fore following the Russian-dic- tated peace, the Swedish Freign Office and Norwegian Minister Hal- vdan Koht making almost idential announcements that their countries were considering the possibility of such as alliance. Alliance Inescapable' Finland's president, Kyosti Kallio; described a defensive alliance as an "inescapable necessity." Traditionally neutral Norway and Sweden have become distinctly con- scious of possible future dangers as a result of the Finnish peace treaty. Opposition is voiced to any alliance or definite commitment binding Sweden and Norway to give Finland direct military aid but some form of precautionary action generally is expected. Ineboth Sweden and Norway anx- iety is felt that Finland might within a few months go the way of Czecho- Slovakia, bringing a potential Rus- sian threat to the borders of the northern kingdoms. With Finland's attitude clearcut regarding the desire for a pact, the burden of the decision appeared to rest in Stockholm and Oslo, with a formal conference regarded proba- ble in the near future. The main question tonight seemed to be: Will the three countries sim- ply ignore or can they circumvent Article Three of the Russian-Finnish peace treaty with its prohibition of alliances directed against either con- tracting party? Sweden Seeks Confirmation Unconfirmed reports circulated that Sweden had asked Moscow for clarification of certain points of the treaty, especially the provisions for Russian transport privileges across Finland. Informed quarters here do not believe these privileges-regarded here as a potential threat to Swe- den-were included in the original demands which Sweden passed on- to Finland. Reports that Sweden and Norway have agreed to guarantee Finland's security brought official statements that Oslo and Stockholm have so far done nothing more than agree to "discuss the possibilities" of an alliance. To both Sweden and Norway the question of an alliance suggests an almost revolutionary departure from their established policies of inde- pendent action and complete neu- trality. , Nazis Propose Economic Bloc BELGRADE, March 14-(A)-High Yugoslav officials were informed to- night that German Foreign Minister Joachim Von Ribbentrop on his visit to Rome last weekend presented Italy with a Nazi project for erection of an economic bloc of Germany, Rus- sia, Italy and "all small states be- tween these powers." As reported here, the German For- eign Minister painted a rosy picture of the mutual advantages of an economic federation of the three largest totalitarian powers which also would embrace the small Baltic, Cen-' tral European and Southeastern Eu- ropean states. The latter, including Yugoslavia, already do most of their trading with the totalitarian powers. Germany Wants Rumania Spared BERLIN, March 14.-(P)--Ger- many, anxious to avoid a Southeast- ern battlefront and determined to Poet Underlines 'Questioning Attitude' Untermeyer Analyzes Poetry Of 'Old, New New England' By LAURENCE MASCOTT Again emphasizing the "American idiom" before an audience that packed the Rackham Amphitheatre, Louis Untermeyer, noted poet and anthologist, yesterday stipulated "the modern, questioning attitude" as the main distinction between old and new New England. The talk, entitled "Old and New New England" was one of a series sponsored by the English department of the engineering college. An in- formal discussion of this talk will be conducted by Mr. Untermeyer at 4:15 p.m. today in the East Conference Room of the Rackham Building. Defining old New England as the New England of Longfellow, Whit- tier, Bryant and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mr. Untermeyer character- ized the poetry of Amy Lawrence Lowell, Edward Arlington Robinson and, finally, Robert Frost as symbolic of the "new New England, and of they had reached the end of a poem; they always added a moral discourse, a maxim, an apology for their appre- ciation of beauty," he said. "Not that we object to poetry that has a meaning, an explicit message," Mr. Untermeyer interpolated. But, he stressed, the contemporary world maintains that the purpose of "art at its best is not to instruct, not to en- lighten, but to enrich." Untermeyer attributed to modern poetry an im- plicit, "almost 'sub rosa' theme; a critical apparatus and a questioning attitude." "And the poets of old New England not only modeled their art after that of England and the old world, but also aimed at the traditional subli- mation of success." "The distinctive contribution of the new poet is his use of the American idiom and Ameri- can material and his creation of an American form, together with a ques- tioning, realistic attitude."