The Weather Fair, somewhat warmer to- day, with gentle to moderate winds. - mmmmm__-.dw iIE4r A6F A6F lit 4t an ~~Iait Editorials Aiiswcr To The COnstitutional Democrats... Official Publication Of The Summer Session VOL. XLV No. 28 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, AUG. 1, 1936 PRICE 5 CENTS Gov. Brucker Hits Couzens In Local Talk Senatorial Candidate Flays Incumbent For Leanings Toward New Deal Charges Opponent RefusedParty Aid Brucker-For-Senator Unit Is Organized Here By County Supporters By CLINTON B. CONGER Graduate Student Announces Candidacy For State Senator Edward H. Litchfield Runs In Fifth District, Detroit, On Democratic Ticket Edward H. Litchfield, candidate for a Ph.D. degree in the political science department, this week announced his entrance into the race for the Demo- cratic nomination to the State Sen- ate from the Fifth district in De- troit. A former Varsity debater, and win-1 t ner of the National Intercollegiate Individual Speaking Contest in his senior year, Litchfield has been pro- minent in student liberal activities. He was chairman ofthe annual Spring Parley in his junior year, and was elected chairman of the J-Hop. He is president of the campus chap- far of alta 1ziarma ~h naionlfr .iter ofu ea igma Ro, nationa for- Former Gov. Wilber M. Brucker, ensiv society, and has the distinction candidate for the Republican Sena- of having been the first freshman torial nomination, addressed Wash- to be chosen for the varsity debating tenaw county supporters yesterday at team. a luncheon in the Michigan Union In his campaign, Litchfield is work- which resulted in the formation of ming in behalf of two reforms: civil service and social security. He has a Brucker-for-Senator organization been active in supporting the bill in this county. ( which the Civil Service Study Com- Speaking here on his way to Hills- mission has framed here under the dale where he made another cam- direction of Prof. James K. Pollock, paign speech last night, the former and pledges himself to assist in its state executive told his audience that passage and in its later fulfillment. the "Republican defeatist attitude" In the past several years, he has was deid, and that gamblers were addressed numerous local groups on now betting even money on the out- behalf of social security legislation, come of national elections since the the second of the measures to which national convention at Cleveland. he pledges himself. "Landon has taken hold," he told "Civil Service and Social Security his audience, "and he's been well go hand in hand," he stated yester- managed." He praised the presiden- day. tial nominee for his "courageous tele- "The administration of an adequate gram to the national convention," and social security program absolutely re- for his "frank and sincere reply to quires efficient and competent state the heckling of Norman Thomas" on employees. Civil Service will find its the Republican labor plank. greatest fruition in the field of such Ohl aepuba darladedank. ndifficult governmental problams as Only after he had lauded Landon exist in social security. I consider did Brucker mention his own ca myself enlisted in the interests of paign for nomination against Sen- both." ator James Couzens, with a vigorous attack against the incumbent Sen- riI atar and the New Deal Brucker rid In Old charged that he stood for. Bg CouldsApproved By Farley Form MTle He "I would like to call attention to Ovvii e ie the fact that Couzens is enough of a New Dealer to get Jim Farley's-and Beats Senators that means Roosevelt's-stamp of ap- proval," he told his listeners. "How can Michigan Republicans present a'Tigers Return To 4th Place united front to Roosevelt and the New Deal and have at the head of By Downing Washington; their ticket a New Dealer? R gl Goslin Star "When Senator Arthur H. Vanden- _______ berg was having a hard fight for re-election in 1934, the organization DETROIT, July 31. -(-A)-Tommy asked for all the help it could get Bridges, knocked from the box in his for him, and Couzens refused point two previous starts, returned to form blank, saying, 'I have no responsibility today and pitched the Tigers back to the Republican Party.' into the first division with an 8 to 2 "And do you realize that in the Senate now, every time that Couzens victory over the Washington Sen- votes 'yes' and Vandenberg votes ators. 'no,' that cancels Vandenberg's vote, Bridges scattered eight hits, while so that Michigan has been without his mates pounded Buck Newsom for representation in the Senate for the 13. Billy Rogell, who seemed mired last four years? That's why Roose- hopelessly in a batting slump until velt is so interested in the Michigan yesterday, had his second three-hit senatorial contest. day in succession while Goose Goslin Has Spoken Only Once also contributed three safeties. "In his present primary campaign The Tigers scored in the first in- for the United States Senate Couz- ning on a double by Gehringer and a ens has made just one speech, and single by Goslin. They got two more that when a club invited him to. In runs in the second. Rogell singled that ne asserted that the Federal and Hayworth doubled. Rogell scored government had put up 70 cents of on Bridges' infield out, and Hayworth every relief dollar spent in Michigan. counted on Walker's double. I'm sick of that talk. The Senators got a run in the thid "That 70 cents that the Federal inning when Chapman walked and government puts up is paid by the Lewis doubled, but the Tigers came taxpayers of Michigan, and millions back with two more runs in the fifth. of dollars more, too. The door tax- Walker got his second double and payers of Michigan right now pay scored when Johnny Stone threw more taxes than 15 southern states wildly trying to catch him at second. put together, and that money is spent Burns singled, and reached third on elsewhere. Goslin's single, but was run down be- "It's time that we put a stop to tween third and home on Simmons' this boondoggling spending, and infield smash. Goslin rode home on adopt the real Republican creed of Owens' single. millions for honest relief but not one The Senators got their second run cent 'for foolish waste." He pointed in the sixth, when Joe Kuhel hit a to an example in a 'Copper Country homer into the upper right field county he had visited in his swing stands, but the Tigers closed their through the Upper Peninsula, where scoring with a burst of three runs in $2.000,000 are being spent to move the the seventh. Burns walked, took (Continued on Page 3 third on Goslin's single and again was run down trying to score when Nine Bodies Found Simmons hit to Newsom. Owen singled, scoring Goslin and Simmons, In Lake Tragedy and came on home himself when th bl llal d b tP~ Cha mn' i i Union Gives Regular Weekly Dance Tonight The regular Saturday night dance of the League will be held from 9 p.m. to midnight today in the Union ballroom. This is the second week-end of the Summer Session that the reg- ular dances are being held at the Union. Last summer, dances were held at both the League and the Union while this season the two ballrooms are being used alter- natively. Elva Pascoe is in charge of the affair. Students to assist at the dance are Adeline Alley, Jean Braid- wood, Miriam Carey, Harriet Cochran, Thelma Cooper, Helen Didock, Edith Forsythe, Marian Haines, Katherine Marie Hall, Hope Hartwig, Jeanne Holleybeck, Alice Humbert, Marjorie Jackson, Marjorie Mackintosh. Arlene Milligan, Betty Jean Pence, Eleanor Reed, Emmaj Schmidt, Helen Siefle, Lillian1 Sodt, Frances Thornton, Ona Thornton and Mary Tumlin. The two dances next week-end will be held in the League ball- room. Germany Plays Host To World As Games Open Pre-Olympiad Conference Closes With Award Of: 1940 Classic To Japan BERLIN, July 31.-(IP)-Tokio's victory over Helsingfors in an excit- ing contest for the award of the 1940 Olympics today climaxed a rapid flow of events prefacing the spectacularly- planned program opening the games of the eleventh Olympiad at the Reich sportsfield tomorrow. While dress rehearsals paved the way for the world's biggest and most elaborately staged sports show, the frock-coated diplomats of the Inter- national Olympic Committee decided the next games would go half-way around the world four years hence, voting 36 to 27 in Japan's favor on a secret ballot. The spirited two-day debate and electioneering, marked by a Finnish appeal to return the classic to "Spar- tan simplicity" ended in a much more decisive vote than had been expected. The United States delegates, Wil- liam May Garland, of Los Angeles, and Avery Brundage, of Chicago, to- gether with a virtually solid block of North and South American countries plus British Empire support helped clinch the decision for the Japanese under extraordinary circumstances. The sideshow aspects and the ex- pressed fears of many athletic chief- tians that the games were getting "out of hand" as well as topheavy, divided nationalities into two dis- tinct camps. Thus Finland acquired support not only from sources disturbed by such ceremonial pomp as the Berlin games are witnessing but also from Europ- eans motivated by political or ec- onomic reasons. The glamour, as well as the prac- tical terms of Japan's offer, however, outweighed other considerations. Pollock Hits Practices Of State Payroll Preliminary Report Shows Embezzlement Possible In Present $,t-Up Timiekeeping Caled Loose Procedure Payrolls Are Padded With Names Of Non-Existent Persons, Professor Says Payroll padding, embezzlement by the use of pay checks issued to ficti- tious employes, even if not practised on a wide scale, is continuously pos- sible in the state government because of inadequate timekeeping and pay-j roll procedure, Prof. James K. Pol-I Slock's State Civil Service Study Com- mission revealed yesterday in a pre- liminary report. "Timekeeping procedure in the state government is largely non-exist-t ent, except in the case of hourly and daily wage workers," the commissionj reported, "and in most cases pay-; rolls are copied from the last pre- vious roll, subject to such changes as are verbally reported by the agency1 head, with all employes being cred- ited for ful time work." Some Agencies Approved 1 The report issued by the commis-f sion said that some agencies keepc time records, posted from attendance reports and one or two use time( clocks. The preliminary report of the1 commission said: ...All payrolls are prepared by the individual agencies and then sent via the accounting division of the State Administrative Board to the, Auditor-General for payment. Thej Auditor-General merely checks the footings and extensions on each roll, and then proceeds to pay them, feel-; ing or having no responsibility for seeing that the persons shown weres actually employed and at the ratesi indicated.4 "In the case of all of the depart- ments and one or two institutions, he draws individual checks in favor of each employe and sends them to the' department for distribution. In the' case of the rest of the institutions, he draws one check covering the total of each roll in favor of the institu- tions bank account. The institution then pays its employes with its own checks, after making deductions for insurance premiums, commissary purchases, etc. All departments and one or two institutions pay salaried employes semi-monthly; the rest of the institutions pay monthly. Looser Procedure Impossible "Looser procedure than this could hardly be devised. Most employes are paid straight salaries, whether they work or not, so long as their dis- missal has not been ordered. In many agencies it would be easily possible for a discharged employe to continue to draw pay indefinitely if the agency head forgot to tell the payroll clerk to drop the employe's name. "Since there is no form of check upon the departments and institu- tions, payrolls could be padded at will with the names of non-existent per- sons. Several cases of embezzlement by payroll padding have been dis- !Contlnued from Page 1) NYA Salaries Are Assured For '36-37 Final Specifications Not Yet Received; Program Likely To BeUnchanged Sociailly Desirable Work IsSpecified Prospective Supervisors Of Projects Are Urged To Submit Plans Early President Alexander G. Ruthven has been unofficially notified that the National Youth Administration will continue part-time student employ- ment during the 1936-37 school year, he announced yesterday in a bulletin urging prospective project supervisors to submit their plans as soon as pos- sble. Although final specifications for the grant have not yet beenreceived, Presiden't Ruthven said, the program will be administered on practically the same basis as last year. According to the specifications of last year's grant students will be paid Federal funds only for "doing so- cially desirable work, including the sort customarily done in the institu- tion by studets who are working their way through college, such as clarical, library and research work." Regular class instruction shall be excluded, the bulletin reads, but stu- dents may be assigned to extension, adult education and "other activities that increase the usefulness of the ollege community." "Inasmuch as the principal objec- tive of using relief funds for student aid is to increase the number oft young men and women in college," President Ruthven said, "funds al- lotted shall not be used to replaceY college funds available for student aid. Ordinary maintenance work) about the college, waiting on table in 1 dining halls and other routine activ- ities that would have to be carrieds on anyway shall be financed from the1 usual sources, not from federal relief funds." Student applications will be re- ceived in the office of the dean of stu- dents, Room 4, University Hall, but the committee in charge of "NYA Ad- ministration here must pass on their eligibility to receive aid. Members of the administration1 committee, which will be under the, direction of President Ruthven, are Prof. Lewis M. Gram, head of the civil engineering department, Dean Joseph A. Bursley, and John C. Christensen, controller and assistant secretary of the University business office. Five Negroes Drown In Flint Boat Upturning FLINT, July 31.- (/P) -Five Ne- groes, attending a Sunday school picnic, drowned late today when a motorboat carrying nine passengers overturned in Potter's Lake. Four of the victims were children. The dead: Kenneth Oden, about 35, under- taker and operator of the motorboat. John Black, 8. Vervat Vanvandt, 9. Lewis Williams, 12. Foster Hawley, 12. All were from Flint. Everett Bowers, 12; Calvin Black, 12, brother of John, and a boy who was not identified were rescued. Joe Hogan, 12, swam ashore. The tragedy occurred within sight of most of the several thousand per- sons attending a union picnic of the 16 Negro Sunday Schools in Flint. Sheriff's officers who investigated said the motorboat was overloaded. Tear Gas Used In Oregon Prison Riot SALEM, Ore., July 31.-(A)-State police equipped with tear gas were sent to Oregon Penitentiary here to- day after a 50-year-old convicted murderer was killed and two prisoners were critically wounded as inmates rioted in protest against a court ruling refusing freedom to a prisoner. Warden James Lewis was believed preparing to drench the prison yard with gas to force surrender of the 'The Old Maid' Closes With 2 Showings Today Two performances today, a special matinee and the regular evening showing, will close the run- of Zoe Akins' Pulitzer Prize play, "The Old Maid," presented this week at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre by the Michigan Reper- ' tory Players under the direction of Valentine B. Windt. The matinee will begin at 3 p.m. and the evening performance at 8:30 p.m. Seats, are entirely sold out for tonight, but there are still n tickets available for this after- a noon's performance, Carl Brandt,'t business manager of the Players, announced yesterday. BalconyIs seats are priced at 35 cents, and1v all main floor seats at 50 cents, t he said. Institute Holds o 0 o Conference On to Linguistic Atlas o in Professors Kurath, Crane p And Hall Will Discuss r Project TodayS it Prof. Hans Kurath, of Brown Uni- i versity, visiting professor of linguis- tims here this summer, Prof. Verner t W. Crane of the history department, f and Prf. Robert B. Hall of the geog- t raphy department will speak at the conference on methods of making a o Linguistic Atlas of the Middle West, t to be sponsored by the Linguistic In- m stitute from 9 a.m. to noon today in g Room 2003, Angell Hall. e Professor Kurath, who is in charge .a of work now in progress on a Linguis- tic Atlas of the United States, has t completed the New England section, a which is now being published. Data for the section on the South has beenS collected. Professor Kurath will give the first paper of the Conference on "The Linguistic Atlas of the United States and Canada." Professor Crane will speak next, his t topic being "Sectionalism in thew United States." The last paper of i the Conference will be given by Pro- i fessor Hall, who will speak on "The Concept of the Cultural Landscape." After the formal lectures there willw be a round-table discussion by thev group on ways and means of con-t structing such an atlas for the Middle West. The discussion will be led by Professor Kurath, Prof. Leonard Bloomfield of the University of Chi-a cago, president of the Linguistic So-C ciety of America, who came to Ann Arbor for the week-end to lecture toc the Linguistic Institute last night, andd Dr. Guy Loman, who was director oft the work of the atlas for the South. An exhibit of materials gatheredi for both the New England and the e Southern states atlas is now on dis-" play in Room 4001, Angell Hall. Final Tour Of Summer Term Is Next Week The tenth and final excursion ofC the Summer Session series will bel held next Wednesday when a group will take a boat trip to Put-In-Bay, on Lake Erie.t Buses will leave for Detroit at 7:15 a.m. Wednesday for Detroit from thel east entrance of the Natural Sci- ence Building and from Detroit the party will board a steamer, which leaves the docks at 9 a.m. The party will be back in Ann Arbor approxi- mately at 9:30 p.m. Wednesday. Res- ervations for the excursion must be made before 5 p.m. Tuesday, August 4 in Room 1213, Angell Hall. The total expenses for the trip, in- cluding meals on the steamer, will come to slightly under $5.00. Put-In-Bay is one of a group of islands located at the western end of Lake Erie, about 60 miles south- east of Detroit. Prof. Ralph L. Bel- knap of the geology department is ....... ... ;". L.,..- - - - - -r v r ^.n :r~ Americans Leave Safely As Critical Battle Draws Near Ninety-Two Evacuate In Haste As Aerial Fray Begins At Palma Americans Leave Madrid Embassy U. S. Nationals Wishing To Leave Madrid Have Done So'-Wendelin WASHINGTON, July 31.-(- arrow escape by 92 foreigners from n aerial bombardment of Palma in he Spanish Balearic Islands, and the afe evacuation of all Americans who ished to leave Madrid were reported o the state department tonight. Many of those who were saved from ossible death or injury under a rain f bombs at Palma-a new theatre f war in the rebellion-were believed o be Americans. No names of refugees or details f the aerial bombardment of the sland, a favorite resort in the Med- terranean off the Spanish coast, were ncluded in the state department's re- 'ort. The American embassy in Madrid eported the evacuation of United tates citizens from the Spanish cap- tal in a message filed at 7 p.m. Span- sh time. Up to 5 p.m., the report said, 106 americans had been taken by train o the Mediterranean seacoast and ive more were expected to leave on onight's train. Eric C. Wendelin, charges d'affaires f the embassy, reported the Spanish :overnment had authorized the addi- ion of four extra coaches to the horning train leaving Madrid on Au- rust 1 for Valencia to evacuate for- igners but that "very few Americans ire expected to go on this train." "Practically all Americans wishing o leave Madrid have done so," he added. Spanish Fascist Troops Close In On Madrid MADRID, July 31.-(P)-Troops of he rebellion announced tonight they were marching against Madrid and t appeared the crucial battle in the two-weeks old revolt was near. Bradcasts from fascist stations as- serted four columns /of rebel forces were converging on the city. One was within artillery range, 15 miles, ready to hurl destructive shell-fire against loyalist defenders. Miners bolstered loyalist troops for a new siege of the northern city of Oviedo, but delayed direct attack to spare the city further damage. The city had changed hands at least twice during heavy fighting of the past three days. Catalan troops thrust at Zaragoza, important northern city held by reb- els, in a series of fierce encounters. "Many casualties," were reported. Gen. Emilio Mola, northern rebel chief, was reported to have left his siege in the Guaddaramas to aid the Zaragoza defenders and march on San Sebastian. Loyalists were reported converg- ing on Cordoba and Granada, south- ern cities. One fascist column, headed by Gen- eral Herrera, was said to have oc- cupied El Pardo, 15 miles from the capital. Another, under Lieut. Col. Garcio, was at El Mola, 25 miles away. The third, under Col. Sanador, cap- tured Navasenada, 20 miles distant, the radio reports said. Gen. Ponte led the fourth, moving from Leon through the mountains, on Pueblo and Guadarrama. A fifth detachment, from Zaragoza, arrivedhat Medino Eceli, 80 miles from the capital, and was moving rapidly to join the others. There was little resistance, the radio dispatches said. Loyalists were said to be withdrawing carefully. Rebels asserted the government suffered lack of properly trained aviation officers, was poorly equipped with bombs, and that most planes were piloted by sergeants and pri- vqtes. Violence was growing in force. l f i' i i i i i 1 1 1 cl Emily Newell Blair Asks County Democrats To Vote Unbiasedly CHICAGO, July 31.-(iP)-Lake Michigan yielded bodies of nine of the .15 men lost early Wednesday in the unexplained sinking of the motor barge material service as calm wa- ters today permitted divers to search the sand boat, lying in 25 feet of water off the South Chicago light- house. Six bodies were taken from the hull and the two divers, who worked in relays, said they had nearly com- pleted a search of the ship's interior. Three other bodies were sighted on Le o3: rouea oeween tnpin~ s legs far into center. field. McClusky Presents First Talk Of Week Prof. Howard Y. McClusky of the education school will give the first of next week's regular afternoon lectures at 4:05 p.m. Monday in the University High School auditorium. His subject will be "The Classification of Pupils- A Review of Part II of the 36th Year- book of the National Society for the By ELEANOR BARC Although election day is still sever- al months away, Emily Newell Blair, writer, lecturer, and a prominent fig- ure in the Democratic party, im- pressed the Washtenaw County Dem- ocrats that the privilege and duty of voting is a serious responsibility. Mrs. Blair, who spoke on "The New Dem- ocracy" at a program in the Masonic Temple last night, stated that the act of going to the polls to cast a ballot was not to be performed light- ly. Each vote, Mrs. Blair said, is effec- tive on one side or the other, and thus, in a way, determines the re- sult of the election. Therefore, she urged, voters should not be motiviat- ed by blind prejudices because of hearsay; criticism, or personal rea- son, but should be alert, and on guard against appeals to their pre- iudices. "The Republican party, on the oth- er hand," continued Mrs. Blair, "is in a different situation. Torn by the defeat of 1932 from attachment of its old leaders, it felt it necessary to pick a nominee unassociated with its past performance. This meant a man whose participation in public life did not go back of 1932, which in turn' meant almost inevitably a man un- known to the public." Therefore, the Republicans have not only had to introduce their can- didate to the public, but also to de- scribe and interpret, and "sell" him to the public, she said. In this respect, Mrs. Blair stated that the old legal phrase "Caveat Emptor"-"Let the buyer beware"-, although no longer considered a proper defense in trade practices, in politics is still good advice to a voter when he is asked to take a candidate "sights unseen."