Weather Rain today-, tomorrow so~mewhiat t6lder. C, r MwF igmi latt~ VOL. L. No. 58 Z-323 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, DEC. 1, 1939 PRICE FIVE CENTS Chrysler Men Reopen Plant; Eight Weeks' 19 Idleness Ends CIO Head Wires Approval Of Final Agreements; Management Is Satisfied Regular Production ExpectedMonday DETROIT, Nov. 30.-()-For the first time in eight weeks automobiles rolled off the final assembly lines of a Chrysler Corp. plant today as 60,- 000 of the company's workmen start- ed to return to their jobs following ratification of a new CIO-United Au- to' Workers Union contract with the management. With a huge bank of orders piled up as a result of the labor dispute which kept the company's plants idle for' 55 days, the Chrysler management was making every effort to bring pro- duction to full swing by Monday. By that time all of the 60,000 Chrysler workers and a majority of the 90,000 employed in allied industries are ex- pected to be on the job again. Ends Long Dispute Settlement of the dispute between the UAW-CIO and the company was reached Tuesday night and ended the longest period of enforced idleness in the automobile industry. In a telegram to R. J. Thomas, UAW-CIO president, John L. Lewis, CIO president, said: "CIO members nationally will rejoice at the success- ful outcome of the protracted strike." Lewis urged acceptance of the con- tract which was ratified Wednesday night by union members. K. T. Keller, president of the Chrys- ler Corp., described the new agree- ment as "a good contract for the com- pany and, I believe, a good contract for a responsible union." The dispute itself he called "one of the most baffling and unjustified strikes in the history of American industry." Wage Increases The contract grants wage inreases and sets up a grievance procedure in the event of a dispute over the rate of production. All Dodge main plant employes ex- cept those in car shipping divisions returned to work today. De Soto plant final assembly workmen are due to report for work tomorrow morning while the actual turning out of com- pleted automobiles will begin at the Plymouth division on Monday. All Dodge truck employes were on the job today. The Briggs Manufacturing Co., which is dependent on the Dodge plant for body parts, will resume work as soon as a sufficient number of these parts are available, it was an- nounced. Company officials said that Briggs would probably be in full oper- ation by Monday. Roll Call Nears Expected Goal Galens Hold Tag Sale For Crippled Children Honorary Medical Society Continues Its Traditional Campus Sale Today In Special Campaign To Offset Curtailment Of State Aid Finnish Capital Aflame As Soviet Army Crosses Border; 0 Negotiations By LAURENCE MASCOTT An intensified two-day drive to raise funds for the University Hos- pital's crippled children will be con- ducted today and tomorrow by Ga- lens, junior and senior honorary medical society. Continuing a long tradition of the organization, members, armed with tin pails, will be stationed at various strategic positions on the campus and the downtown area, ready to ex- change small tags for voluntary con- tributions. State Funds Curtailed Galens, emphasizing that curtailed State funds for these crippled chil- dren make a successful drive a virtual necessity this year, will devote the proceeds of their drive to the or- ganization's Crippled Children's Workshop, maintained in the top floor of the University hospital, and to the regular Christmas Party for these children. This will be the 11th annual drive conducted by Galens for their work- Varsity Team Debates Illini To No Decision Bowers And Olson Uphold Government Ownership Of RailroadSystem Government ownership of the rail- roads was the topic of discussion at the semester's initial home varsity debate against Illinois yesterday in the North Lounge of the Union. R. Erwin Bowers, '41, and Karl Olsen, '40, upheld the affirmative of the question, "Resolved: That the Federal . overent Should Own and Operate the Railroads" against the negative University of Illinois squad of John Anderson and John Maki in a non-decision contest. Michigan's affirmative contended that the railroads today are operat- ing at a loss. This loss is a long term trend and private industry can't continue to operate the railroads un- der these conditions, so it is expedi- ent that the government take over the roads, the team said. Moreover, government ownership will effect the economies of consolidation by eliminating the duplication of facili- ties, providing lower interest rates, and promoting the general welfare of the people rather than that of the stockholders. The negative refuted these argu- ments, arguing that the situation was due to the depression, that they are making a profit today, and that competitors of the railroads, such as trucking, receive federal subsidies. They presented a plan for a consist- ent policy for all forms of trans- portation and for cooperation of the 48 states with the federal gvern- ment to solve the problems that face industry today. Charles A. Kerner, '41E, was chair- man for the debate. Northwestern will meet a local squad here next Wednesday. shop-a project, characterized by the organization, as a instrument for the teaching of vocational therapy. "It is a general vocational shop supervised by a regular instructor in ocassional arts, Percy J. Murphy, '41M., publici- ty director, explained. "The shop affords a medium of expression, giv- ing these children, boys and girls, an opportunity to develop and prove their self-confidence," he said, First Conrtibution i Galens deposited their first con- tribution to this Workshop in June, 1928. The funds, according to the organization, have procured neces- sary equipment for the shop itself and provided for the maintenance of such instructional service as was justified by resources and numbers. Originally, the group claims, the pur- pose of the Workshop was to estab- lish a place where "crippled children could do the things they wanted to do along their own interest lines, learning as they performed and creating with their own hands, work- ing alone or together on objects, simple or complicated, for themselves or for others." The number of children taking ad- vantage of the faciliteis of the Work- shop have varied each year with the number of children in the hospital. Woodworking, one of the first sub- jects to be emphasized, was institut- ed because it was felt that this craft was susceptible to social study and alignment as well as valuable infor- mational material. At present, chil- dren using the Workshop perform al- most all the operations in metal and wood craft. Cancer Expert Will Describe Roosevelt Sends Humanity' Plea To Soviet, Finnish Governments WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.-(Friday) -(IP)-President Roosevelt called on Russia and Finland today to pledge that they would not resort to the "in- human barbarism" of bombing civili- an populations from the air. The President's message, delivered by American diplomatic representa- tives in Moscow and Helsinki, came after reports of a Russian air bom- bardment of Helsinki. It was almost identical with messages dispatched recently to Germany, Great Britain and France. The President said: "The ruthless bombing from the air of civilians in unfortified centers of population during the course of hos- ilities which have raged in various quarters of the earth during the past few years-which has resulted in the maiming and in the death of thou- sands of defenseless men, women and children-has sickened the hearts of every civilized man and woman, and has profoundly shocked the consci- ence of humanity. "If resort is had to this form of inhuman barbarism during the period of the tragic conflagration with which the world is now confronted, hun- dreds of thousands of innocent hu- man beings who are not even remote- ly participating in hostilities, will lose their lives. "I am therefore addressing this ap- peal to the Soviet government (Fin- nish government in the message to Helsinki), as I have to governments which have been engaged in general Possible Cures hostilities publicly to affirm its de- termination that its armed forces shall in no event, and under no cir- Women's Group Sponsors cumstances, undertake the bom- Doctor Bauer's Lecture bardment from the air of civilian populations or of unfortified cities,! In Educational Drive upon the understanding that these Cancer-long an enigma to medi- cal men-and its possible cures will New Fuehrer be the subject of an address by Dr. - William W. Bauer, director of thej To Lead Bund American Medical Association's Bu- reau of Health and Instruction, at 4:15 p.m. today in the Amphithear!e unze Calls Organization's of the Rackham Building. Dr. Bauer is also an associate edi- Funds For Appeal tor of Hygeia, the AMA's health magazine and director of "Your -NEW YORK, Nov. 30.-- ')-Fritz Health"-the AMA's radio program. Kuhn's "successor-elect" declared to- His lecture is "Cancer Is Often Cur- right that the jailed "Fuehrer" still able?" under the auspices of the heads the German-American Bund Ann Arbor District of the Women's and initiated a drive for funds to fi- Field Army for the Control of Can- nance an appeal from Kuhn's con- cer. viction yesterday of forgery and thefts Keeping the spirit of its slogan froKu e adddtreasury. members of "Cure Cancer By Knowlege," the the Bund at a meeting in the Bronx Women's Field Army is presenting while a closed Bund meeting was held same rules of warfare will be scrup- tuously observed by all of their op- ponents. "I request an immediate reply." The message was transmitted to Laurence A. Steinhardt, American ambassador in Moscow, and H. F. Ar- thur Schoenfeld, American minister in Helsinki, for transmission to the Russian and Finnish governments. The message was drafted after Mr. Roosevelt consulted with Secretary of State Hull late yesterday afternoon. Hull was closeted with Mr. Roosevelt for an hour and a half and left the White House without disclosing the nature of the conference to reporters. Faculty Names Winter Parley Panel Leaders Rule Restricting Rackham Building To 'raduates Changes Site To Uunion A tentative list of 20 faculty par- ticipantsin discussion2groups for the Winter Parley to be held the weekend of Jan. 5, 6 and 7, at the Union, was drawn up at a faculty continua- ions meeting, Robert Reed, '41, gen- eral chairman, announced yesterday. The meeting place for the parley which was previously announced in The Daily as the Rackham Building, has been changed to the Union due to a recent ruling by the committee on rooms which restricts the use of rooms in the Rackham Building to Graduate School activities, Reed said. Faculty leaders who will discuss the relation of Civil Rights to peace are Prof. Harold J. McFarlan, Depart- ment of Engineering, Prof. John P. Dawson, department of law, and Prof. George S. Benson, department of political science. Discussions on economics and the war will be led by Prof. Arthur Smithies, Prof. I. L. Sharfman, Prof. Robert Horner and William B. Pal- mer of the department of economics. Faculty leaders on United States military preparedness are Lt. Col. Basil D. Edwards and Lt. Col. Leon Fox, of the department of military. science. Prof. Mentor L. Williams, of the department of English, Prof. Lowell J. Carr, department of sociology andl Arthur Stace editor of the Ann Arbor News will participate in discussion on press and propaganda. The origins and character of the war will be analyzed by Prof. Dwight L. Dumond, department of history. The Flying Cadet Board which is in Ann Arbor to interview stu- dents who wish to enlist in the United States Army Air Corps has changed its place of meeting from the ROTC Building, as was previ- ously announced, to Rooms 454 and 452 of the Union. The Board will meet from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. each day (except Sunday) through Dec. 4. Russia Broadcasts Threatened Destruction Of Capital City Unless An Agreement On Territorial Demands Is Reached By LYNN HEINZERLING HELSINKI, Dec. 1.-(P)-The Finnish Government, its capital bombed and aflame, with the Soviet Russian army swarming across its frontier, resigned early today despite an unanimous vote of confidence in Parliament. The cabinet, which for weeks had negotiated vainly with Moscow on Russia's territorial demands on the little republic, stepped aside after a Moscow broadcast threatened annihilation of Helsinki unless an agreement was reached by 3 a.m. today (8 p.m. EST, Thursday). Although no announcement was made regarding a new government, it was believed a new cabinet would be formed before tonight. Mentioned as probable new premier was Vaino Tanner, finance minister in the old cabinet, who took part in the unsuccessful conferences in Moscow. (The resignation was seen in some circles as a move for an armistice. Reports were received in Copenhagen that Tanner probably would attempt to restore diplomatic relations with Moscow and would seek cessation of hositilities.) Word of the government's resignation, which came less than 24 hours after the first Red troops crossed the border, was forwarded to Moscow by a representative of the American Legation. It was expected the American embassy would communicate it to the Kremlin. Before the cabinet resigned, Russia's troops were marching into Fin- land at points along the 800-mile frontier from the Isthmus of Karelia, near Leningrad, to Finland's narrow corridor on the Arctic Ocean, 200 miles above the Arctic Circle. The Russian air force bombed Helsinki, setting fire to buildings in the southwestern section of the capital. Newspapers here estimated the dead at between 106 and 200 persons. (After the extraordinary session of parliament last night, the Finnish cabinet decided tentatively to move the seat of government to Nikolainkaa- _ -- punki (Vaasa), a western Finnish port on the Gulf of Bothnia, it was War News Summary stated in advices received in Copen- .m hagen. From World Capitals (A Finnish defense ministry broadcast heard in London said Rus- PARIS-Daladier wins decisive sian troops "were all repulsed this parliament victory, decree powers afternoon. There was lively artillery extended for duration of war; French* fire on the border and two Russian report "successful" attack on 'Ger- tanks were destroyed."). man submarine; usual. jfl action on Western Front.' Announces Hostilities WASHINGTON-President Roose- (Another broadcast heard in Lon- velt confers with Secretary Hull, Fin- don, from Moscow, announced the nish Minister Procope. beginning of hostilities against Fin- LONDON-British Parliament hears land and said the Soviets began to Chamberlain condemn Russian attack march after three new border inci- on Finland; Finnish broadcast says dents Thursday morning.) Russian troops "repulsed"; Moscow The Red fleet steamed westward in broadcast asserts Russia marched the Gulf of Finland and seized the after fresh border incidents; air min- Finnish Island of Seiskara and be- istry announces German plane gan shelling Viipuri (Viborg), and downed Wednesday; mine sinks other coastal cities and towns. British steamer Sheaf Crest off south- Viipuri, a city of 75,000 popula- eastern coast. tion, was, like Helsinki, set afire by repeated bombing attacks from the Filn ' Debt *)air. Finland s Debt aThe Russian air fleet made its ,. first appearance over the capital at is Still Unpaid 9:20 a.m. (2:20 a.m. ESTS) and re- turned several times during the day. The attacks began on Malm Airport Nation Owes $5,656,598 on the outskirts but spread to the .Of Original_$8,233,157 city proper. By nightfall the sky over south- WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.-(A)- western Helsinki was red with the Finland's debt to the United States glow of buring buildings. Several amounted to $8,233,157.56 on Nov. 15. apartment houses and the Helsinki The nation has made payments total- Institute of Technology were blasted ing $5,656,598. apart by the bombs. The money was borrowed to finance Several bodies were recovered in purchases in this country, mainly of the streets. foodstuffs. The borrowing began in Danish Report 1919. (The Danish radio broadcast a Finland, the only nation which has Finnish news agency report that paid its war debt to the United States 200 persons had been killed in a raid on schedule, has settled $880,668 of at 7 p.m. (noon, EST). its funded debt's principal, and has The bombing durig the day ap- made interest payments on that debt peared to have been aimed at the amounting to $4,466,615. On the un- Central Railway Station and the founded debt it has paid $309,315, postoffice but the bombs missed both which is all interest, those marks. Tonight a third of the The total Finnish national debt is city was strewn with broken window $67,000,000, of which 20 per cent rep- glass rsents foreign debts. Tentative $4,216 Returns Show Total In Drive Dlr. Bauer as the first speaker in aI series designed to tech the public the causes, determination and pos- sible cures o_ the disease. Dr. Fred- erick Coller, chairman of the Depart- mentof Surgery at University Hospi- tal, is expected.to speak in the near future. With the Red Cross membership drive over, returns have climbed to within $200 of the mark set last year, Dr. Anthony J. J. Rourke, Roll Call chairman and assistant director of jUniversity Hospital, announced yes- terday. The returns of $4,216.73 contribut- ed by 2,355 members are not final, Dr. Rourke said, and there is still a chance that last year's proceeds may be exceeded. Tentative' returns, not including those from outer townships unreport- ed, are special gifts, 90 members, $1,- 137.50; house to house canvassing, 1,388 members, $1,693.83; business and industrial, 219 members, $600.25; group enrollments, 402 members, $450.05; booths and miscellaneous, 132 members, $163.10; and outlying townships, 119 members, $172. Saturday Picture Deadline Is Final Seniors expecting to have their pictures in the Michiganensian who are awaiting an extension of Satur- day's deadline, will be disappointed, said Richard T. Waterman, business manager of the yearbook. Sales of Future Of South American Trade Affected By War, Aiton Maintains in nearby Astorie, Queens. Roosevelt's Dissenters Hold Own Thanksgiving The dissenters from President Roosevelt's early Thanksgiving staged their own celebration of the holiday Thursday. In 23 states which clung to the traditional last Thursday in November despite the President's proclamation of Nov. 23 as Thanks- giving, church services were held, and families sat down around the festive board in the customary observance. It was a "second Thanksgiving" in three other states-Colorado, Missis- sippi and Texas-which satisfied all schools of thought as to which was the proper day by observing both. Yesterday's celebrants were led by Plymouth, Mass., residents, who staged a pageant depicting the first Thanksgiving of the Pilgrims and de- War in Europe has had numerous but not yet clearly discernable effects on South American trade and gen- eral outlook, Prof. Arthur S. Aiton of the history department declared in dn interview yesterday. For example, general barter busi- ness between Latin American na- tions and especially Germany has broken down completely, he ex- plained. Bra2lil, Argenitina, Chile and Mexico have been the principal sufferers from Britain's sea block- ade cutting off trade with Germany, he added, and these nations now are searching for other outlets. Although Britain is permitting trade with Italy, Professor Aiten ob- served, Germany is not benefitting from reshipment from that country. South American ships bound for Ital- ian ports are forced to stop for searching at British Gibraltar, he explained, and any amount in excess obvious outlet for South American exports cut off from Europe, Profes- sor Aiton observed, numerous diffi- culties stand in the way of success- ful trading between these countries. Heretofore, he explained, the low rate of exchange of Latin American money in terms of the American dol- lar has made mutual trade impos- sible. Now, he added, failures to pay off many loans floated through private channels in this country has lowered South American credit. Loans Are Necessary In order to trade with this coun- try, Professor Aiton commented, South American nations would have to float loans through our govern- ment. One $50,000,000 loan has al- ready been made to Brazil, and others' are pending, he added, but Senate opposition to these measures (espec- ially in view of failure of Latin Amer- Ruthven Returns From Tour Of Southwest; Praises Alumni signed to "save the day tation and desecration." from exploi- New Year To End Day Without Liquor LANSING, Nov. 30.- (A) -New Year's eve revels, if they are held in night clubs, hotels and restaurants, will have to be conducted with noth- ing stronger than beer or light wine With nothing but praise on his lips for the alumni groups he had visited, and bringing back a fine western saddle and a ten-gallon hat as souvenirs of his travels, President Ruthven, accompanied by Mrs. Ruth- ven, returned yesterday from a three week tour of Oklahoma and Texas. "We had a kind of seminar every- where I went," Dr. Ruthven said, ex- plaining that he would tell each Uni- versity of - Michigan Club some facts about the University which would provoke questions. "Then the meet- ing would be thrown open to ques- Ruthvens during their stay in Texas. In a wire received yesterday by The Daily, Hillery expressed the feel- ings of alumni of his district, say- ing: Hillery's Wire * "Today when Dr. and Mrs. Ruth- ven return to Ann Arbor they leave in the wake of their visit a revival of intelligent Michigan alumni spirit such as has never before been wit- nessed in such degree throughout the great Southwest. To say that they came, saw and conquered is putting it mildly. This unaffected couple