The Weather Lower Michigan: Fair with rising temperature today; to- morrow increasing cloudiness. L -AL A6W 4y rl s t an ti Editorials A Student Reaction To Teacher Organization . .. Official Publication Of The Summer Session VOL. XLV No. 34 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, AUG. 8, 1936 PRICE 5 CENTS Zioncheck Makes Five-Story Plunge To Suicide Death r+ Congressman Who Kept Washington In Uproar Dies In Seattle He Hoped 'To Cure An Unfair System' Playboy Leaps To Death1 Among Crowds; Killed Instantly SEATTLE, Wash., Aug. 7.-(P)- Before the eyes of his bride, Rep. Marion A. Zioncheck, Seattle's play- boy congressman, died tonight in a five-story plunge which the coroner expressed belief was suicide. A note found in the fifth floor room of the Arctic building and apparent- ly written by Zioncheck was quoted by Coroner Otto Mittelstadt as read- ing. "My only hope in life was to im- prove the conditions of an unfair economic system." The body was taken to the county morgue where Mittelstadt, after a brief investigation, said he believed the congressman had committed sui- cide. When police, called by witnesses, rushed into the room Mrs. Zioncheck had collapsed. She was taken to a hospital in an ambulance. 'Coming Young Man' Persons who saw the 34-year-old congressman fall from the window said he apparently was killed in- stantly. He fell soon after 6 p.m. (9 p.m. E.S.T.) while the streets were crowded. Zioncheck had announced his withdrawal from themcongressional race last Saturday but Monday had filed his declaration o candidacy on the Democratic ticket. He returned here recently from Washington after a series of es- capades involving accusations of dis- turbing the peace and arrests for speeding. Elected to represent the first dis- trict in Washington, including Seattle, in the Roosevelt landslide, he came to the national capital with a reputation for being a "coming young man" and an advanced liberal. Asidenfrom hisvcongressional ac- tivities the past year, he was in and out of jail and court several times on speeding charges; married Miss Rubye Nix, a WPA stenographer, af- ter a whirlwind courtship; was con- fined to Gallingher hospital for men- tal observation; and escaped from the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hos- pital at Towson, Md., by jumping over a wall. Gives Roosevelt Beer Bottles He was taken to Gallinger hos- pital for observation after he had climaxed previous escapades by ap- pearing at the White House with a satchel filled with empty beer bot- tles-a present for President Roose- velt. On the same day he was charged with having speeded down crowded Connecticut Avenue in his new road- ster, driving on the wrong side of the street and on the sidewalk. Speeding charges before that had caused his arrest here and in nearby Alexandria, Va., just as he and his bride left on a honeymoon to the Caribbean. Prior to his final detention, Zion- check had also become involved in legal difficulties with Mrs. Benjamin Scott Young, a magazine writer, who had sub-let her apartment to him when she left for an extended trip. Upon her retun she charged that Zioncheck and his bride had "ruined" her apartment and sought to have them thrown out. The Zionchecks refused to move and Mrs. Young at- tempted to take possession. 'Zioncheck Zipper' Mrs. Young claimed to have been injured during a midnight scuffle in .the apartment and swore out assault warrants against the Representative and his wife. Zioncheck's motor car is still held here by the United States Marshal's office in connection with the damage suit. The Zionchecks spent their honey- moon in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands and created as much excite- ment there on fishing and dancing parties as they had in Washington, Next To Last Dance To Be Held Tonight The regular Saturday night dance of the League will be held from 9 p.m., to midnight today in the League Ballroom. Al Cowan and his orchestra will play. Tickets for the dance will be on sale at 25 cents each at the entrance on the second floor. The .dance is not restricted to couples. Students to assist at the dance are Eleanor Reed, Reva Derby, Mi- riam Carey, Helen Vidock, Kaythern Furgeson, Kathryn Marie Hall, Elea- nor Welsh, Margaret Sinclair, Thelma Cooper, Ona , Thornton, Frances Thornton, Betty Jean Pence, Mary Coulter, Ann Coulter, Helen Ziefle, Mary Tumlin, Ruth Pobany, Jean Braidwood, Marjorie Mackintosh and Hope Hartwig. Elva Pascoe is in charge of the arrangements for the dance. This is the next to the last Saturday night dance of the Summer Session. Plan To Take Prisons From Polities Devised Head Of Michigan's Prison Commission Offers Plan To ReliefStudy Group LANSING, Aug. 7.-(iP)-Governor Fitzgerald's Welfare and Relief Study Commission heard a suggestion today for removing the prison administra- tion from possible political influence. Leslie P. Kefgen, chairman of the State Prison Commission, advanced a proposal for the appointment of prison commissioners for terms ex- piring at different periods to prevent control by a single administration. Kefgen's suggestion was made at a conference between the study com- mission, of which Harold D. Smith, of Ann Arbor, is chairman, and heads of departments now connected with the State Welfare Department. The study commission was appointed to seek means of consolidating all wel- fare agencies. Study commission members ap- peared settled on a consolidation which would place all agencies in three major departments and under the control of a single commission. The three divisions would supervise corrections, mental cases, and wel- fare and relief. Smith said he would appoint a sub- committee to study reorganization of the prison administration and the pardon and parole department. "The whole program is being dis- cussed and no agreement has been reached," Smith explained. Jobs Are Open In Elementary School Posts Many openings for teachers are available in the elementary school ranks, especially for those who have had the proper training, Dean James B. Edmonson of the education school said yesterday in an interview. This statement was evoked in an- swer to the question regarding the frequent charges that the teaching piofesson is overcrowded, "I am re- liably informed," Dean Edmonson said, "that there are a considerable number of openings for teachers in the elementary schools, especially those who have had some training in the field and who rank well in per- sonality." I have conferred with Dr. T. Luther Purdom, director of the University Bureau of Appointments and Occu- pational Information," the Dean ad- ded, "and he has assured me that there are a number of unfilled calls for elementary school teachers. It would appear that there are a con- siderable number of former elemen- tary school teachers who are enrolled in the Summer Session who desire po- sitions." E.skimto Envoy Gets 60 Days In Cooler For Drunk Driving Ambassador extraordinary and min- ister plenipotentiary to the United States from Alaska, the Arctic Cirle, and points north-that's what Chee- ket Katuni-Unket was, but right now, as an Eskimo in the "cooler;" he's Sheriff Jacob B. Andres' star boarder until Oct. 7, with 60 days to serve that Judge Harry W. Reading gave him for drunk driving. Cheeket cheekily told the judge. how he had been commissioned by Washington to address Kiwanis, Ro- tary, and other clubs on his native homeland, but even the possibility of diplomatic complications didn't save the prize luncheon lecturer of the tundras, whose temporary address was--until yesterday-103 Vineyard Ave., Battle Creek, from a sentence giving him the alternative of $59.95 fine and costs, or the two-month jail sentence. (And that, according to Cheekat's pecuniary status, was hard- ly an alterna ive.) Officers Ben Ball and Clark Earl had already told the judge about find- ing the Eskimo, most extraordinary and plenipotentially drunk, last night in his car, on the rear window of which was plastered a sticker which read: "If you drive, don't drink." President May See Landon At Drouwlit Parley. Nominee Called To Meetr By Man Who Evaded Bil From Hoover In 1933r HYDE PARK, N. Y., Aug. 7.-(P)-- A meeting with Gov. Alf M. Landont of Kansas at a conference of drought state governors was projected tonight by President Roosevelt. Completing the general outlines of a trip through Mid-Western drought regions to begin August 25 or 26, the_ President announced at a press con- ference that he would invite the gov- ernors of Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri to a drought discussion probably in Iowa early next month. He enjoyed obviously the stir cre- ated among reporters assembled in the tiny study of his home as he inserted Kansas casually in the list. He added that all the governors would be invited and wanted to know; "why not?" Landon, the Republican presiden- tial candidate, has been taking an ac-7 tive interest - in drought conditions in recent weeks and his speaking trip through the East apparently will be; finished in time to permit him to sit; in on the conference with the Ffesi- dent if he desires. "If there is any meeting, anywhere at anytime of benefit to Kansas, I will attend as governor of Kansas. "Kansas has cooperated in every instance with the Federal government and -all its agencies dealing with any emergency or relief measures. My work as governor of Kansas comes ahead of anything else I am doing," he said. Prior to his inauguration in 1933, President Roosevelt turned down an invitation to consult President Hoo- ver on anti-depression measures. Before going to the drought belt, the President expects to spend Mon- day through Thursday of next week in Washington, perhaps two days in areas in northern and western Penn- sylvania and southern New York hit by floods last March, and probably a week at Hyde Park. Jeffersonians Abandoned By Gov. Comstoek Democratic Leader Misses Anti-New Deal Meeting After Friends' Pleas Had Walked Out On Dem1ocrats Before May Have Come Back To Party To Give Support To George W. Welsh By CLINTON B. CONGER Under the pressure brought to bear on him by friends and former political allies, former Gov. William A. Com- stock yesterday "took a walk" from the national convention of Jefferson- ian Democrats now being held in De- troit, and apparently will return tof the fold of orthodox state Democrats, after taking an earlier "walk" from the latter group more than five months ago. It was on Feb. 24 that the former governor abdicated from the leader-4 ship of the party whose "angel" he has been for thirty years, with a for-i mal statement that he did not con- sider, himself "a regular Democrat," and would, as the late Horatio Ab- bott put it, "be looking out the win-; dow in the coming election." The immediate reason for his with-, drawal at that time was the appoint- ment from Washington of Arthur J. Lederle to the federal judgeship for eastern Michigan, against the recom- mendation of Abbott and the other recognized leaders of the party in Michigan. Since that time Comstock's friends have repeatedly asked him back into 'he party, but relations with Wash- ington remained strained, and even Because of erroneous identifi- cation, The Daily reported yester- day that George W. Welsh, Dem- ocratic candidate for governor. had attended the meeting of five party leaders in the Union Thurs- day night. The fifth man was Edward J. Fry, state central com- mittee chairman. an attempt by the state Democratic Convention May 22 to draft him for the senatorial primaries failed to bring him back. Yesterday, however, after a mid- night conference with prominent state Democrats, the former governor sent a telegram to Sterling E. Ed- munds, St. Louis attorney who called the assembly of Constitutional Dem- ocrats, to inform him that he would not attend the convention as he had earlier planned to. In his telegram he said: "So many friends and supporters have protested my attendance at the meeting today because of possible ef- fects on the local Michigan situation that I have decided not to attend. Regards to old friends, William A. Comstock."I Coming as it did after a four-hour night session in a private room at the Union with Edward J. Fry, new Democratic state central committee chairman; State Treasurer Theodore I. Fry; G. Donald Kennedy, deputy highway commissioner; and State Highway Commissioner Murray D. Van Wagoner, it became apparent that the four prominent party leaders (Continued on Page 4 Races Under Mile All Taken By U. S. Team Williams Wins 400-Meters As American Decathlon Entrants Forge Ahead Finn Sets Record In 5,000 Meters Slam Of All Flat Distances Through 800 America'sc First Since 1912 By ALAN GOULDg (Associated Press Sports Writer)u BERLIN, Aug. 7.-6P)-California's dusky Archie Williams climaxed thea sepia saga today, winning the 400-1 meter championship and giving the United States her first flat-racingd sweep through 800 meters in thet Olympic Games since 1912. Mean-p while, three western stalwarts exceed- ed Americans' fondest expectations byt occupying the first three places at the halfway stage of the decathlon competition. Bob Clark, of San Francisco, andt Glenn Morris, of Fort Collins, Colo.,p world recordholder, set a record- breaking pace through the first fiveJ events of the two-day battle for all-J around honors. Each captured two events and finished only two points apart at the end of the day-long grind. Their totals wee, Clark, 4,- 194; Morris, 4,192, while their surpris- ing teammate, Jack Parker, of Sac- ramento, was third with 3,888 in the field of 24 survivors. Hoeckert Wins 5,000-Meter On the other side of the picture, the winner of the 5,000-meter whirl is Gunnar Hoeckert, who struck off the distance in 14:22.2, seven andc eight-tenth seconds faster than thea 1932 record hung up by another Finn,d Lauri Lehtinens, who was runner-upa this time. Lehtinen and John Hen-r ry Jonsson, of Sweden, who ran third,' both ran under the former mark while little Kohei Murakoso, of Ja- pan, fourth, equaled it. 8 Louis Zamperini, nineteen-year-i old Torrance (Calif.) boy, who ran af dead heat with Don Lash, of Auburn,a Ind., in the final American tryouts last month, outran the Indianan, tak- ing eighth place in 14:46.8 as Lash came in fourteenth among the 15 fin-f ishers.c U. S. Decathlon Win Sure f The American trio so completelyc overwhelmed the decathlon show thatc there appeared no doubt that theys will keep the title, won in 1932 byt Kansas' Jarring Jim Bausch, as wellt as the world record for the United States tomorrow.I Morris, who set the world standarde of 7,880 points in the tryouts at1 Milwaukee in June, all but closed the1 gap between him and Clark by run-1 ning 400 meters in 49.4 seconds, the< fastest ever recorded in any decathlon competition, in the day's fifth event1 after Clark had turned in a perform-c ance of 50 seconds flat. These feats entrenched the Amer-1 icans so far in front, with Holland'sJ Reindert Brasser, the nearest Europ- ean, trailing by 321 points and Fin- land's mighty Akilles Jarvinen, fifth, 407 points back, there seemed that nothing but an accident or a shotgun1 could halt their sensational scoring flight. J Britain Angered At Shelling Of Ships; Nazis Urging War Merit Plan Invoked On County Officers LANSING, Aug. 7.-('P)-The State 1 Emergency Relief Commission pre-I pared today to test the right of 72 county administrators and 113 ac- counting employes to their jobs. Merit system examinations will be given the employes and administra-I tors at 12 places in the State Sat- urday. The commission has subject- ed 497 clerks and typists to merit ex- aminations and 495 social workers have undergone ability tests. Dr. William Haber, State reliefh director, said Saturday's examina- C tions will complete the list of con- p mission employes except in a few i minor cases. Miscellaneous exam-w inations will be given the remainder e Sept. 1. Competitive examinations for the post of administrator of Calhoun and P Huron counties will be given at Bat- tle Creek and Saginaw Saturday. The u position now is vacant.r Ely Promises it G. 0. P. Nominee Is Urged d As Rallying Point For R Anti-New Dealersg DETROIT, Aug. 7.-(P)-Demo- p cratic anti-New Dealers meeting hereF appointed a committee tonight to n draw up an outline of their views k after southern opposition to an out- i right endorsement of Governor Lan- t don had developed. Chairman of the committee was n Joseph B. Ely, former DemocraticC governor of Massachusetts who earl- s ier had said he would not only sup- p port Landon but speak in his behalfn and had asserted that Alfred E. Smith would make a speech in Boston op- posing the New Deal.r Ely was one of a group of mens formerly prominent in Democraticn circles who furnished the leadership p for today's meeting. When word came from New York, that Smith hadi described his announcement as un- authorized, he reiterated his assertion that the 1928 Democratic presidentialc nominee would make an anti-Roose- velt speech in the Bay State. Another member of the confer- ence's resolution's committee wasp Henry Breckinridge, who opposedt President Roosevelt in several state presidential primaries, and since hasr declared himself for Landon. Other members were Joseph W. Bailey, former Democratic member4 of the House from Texas; Graham Wright, of Georgia, and H. R. Conte Rose, of Baltimore. James A. Reedf former Democratic Senator from Mis- souri, chairman of the meeting, was a member exofficio. Ely at the outset of the meeting, held in executive session, proposed that the conference endorse Landon, his proposal promptly met with op- position from the participant from the South. The conferees devoted themselves, spokesmen said, to shaping an or- (ContinuW on Page 4) G-UMen Search/ For Kidnaper In Kalamazoo KALAMAZOO, Aug. 7.-(P)-United States Department of Justice Agents were investigating tonight the kid- naping of Bernard Marthen, Kala- mazoo law clerk, by a fugitive gun- man who forced him to drive to Blue Island, Ill. Police Chief Ralph Chapman and Sheriff O. W. Struble were in Chicago, to question a man suspected of being the thug who wounded Police Cap- tain Dee Williams Wednesday, and then commandeered Marthen and his automobile yesterday for his flight to Illinois. The fugitive's companion, Theo- dAre Brastedt wa killed in thea un Neutrality Proposal Held In Abeyance; Civil War Makes Little Progress Franco Preparing To Transport 4,000 Loyalists Shell Algeciras Twice During Day; Hit British Consulate Britain warned she will fire back if her ships are shelled, Nazis urged German intervention, and an eight- ower neutrality proposal was held n abeyance last night as the civil war in Spain itself made little appar- nt progress. Britain's admonition followed re- orts from Gibraltar that a steam- hip of the empire had been fired upon. Any "accidental" shelling by ebel or loyalist Spanish forces will be met hereafter by return fire, the warning made clear. Germany was aroused over the re- ported execution of four German na- tionals at Barcelona after summary ,ourtmartial. Nazi Press Asks Intervention While the government indicated it till considered possibility of neutral- ty agreement, the official Nazi press demanded intervention to end the Red spectre" and charged Soviet Russia was assisting in the "bolshe- vization" of Spain. Germany's attitude, not yet ex- pressed officially, delayed action on France's proposal for eight-power neutrality and was interpreted in dip- omatic circles as indication the Nazis ntended to keep clear for help to the Fascist rebels as long as possible, And even if the powers agreed to neutrality, it was asserted in French circles, the agreement would bar only shipments of airplanes and arms and permit shipment of petroleum and money to either faction in Spain. MADRID, Aug. 7.-(P)-Spanish rebels tonight battered the loyalist seaport of Gijon and gripped two northern provinces with increasing power, while in the South government warships pounded Fascists forts at Al- geciras with a barrage of death-deal- ing shellfire. Gijon was reported on the verge of collapse after a two-day bombard- ment and 300 were said to have died. The city was damaged heavily. Fascist forces made their first ap- parent major advance in the north with a march in Guipuzcoa and As- turias provinces. A food shortage was reported in loyalist San Sebastian. Franco Prepares Support Dispatches from Morocco, stated Gen. Francisco Franco had assembled 4,000 rebel troops at Ceuta for an- other crossing to the mainland. He was believed already to have ferried 8,000 men across the Gibraltar Straits. The Catalan government at Bar- celona said loyal troops were march- ing on Huesca and had captured sev- eral villages on the heights overlook- ing the town. Leftists from northern Navarre said popular front forces armed with machine guns attacked a rebel sup- ply train and routed its convoy, leav- ing a number dead and wounded. On the southern Navarre sector, Leftists claimed they fought off a rebel attack and captured insurgent arms and other supplies. Valencia dispatches announced transports were taking 3,500 militia on an expedition to rebel Majorca, in the Ballearic Isles. Bombing planes also were ready to take off from Va- lencia to aid the attack. Loyalists Report Advance Loyalists troops reported a 41/2 mile advance against the strong Fascist fighters in the mountains 'outside Madrid. Rebels renewed bombard- ment of Gijon, northern seacoast city. In northern Aragon, government armies claimed new victories at Tar- dienta and Graner. To the south, they reported occupation of Alcolea, three miles from Cordoba and Baena, 37 miles distant from the Fascist- held city. In the 21 days of fighting, posi- tions of the respective forces have remained little changed--except for Prof. Jamison Suggests Labor Strife Might Be Deliberate 'Smoke Screen' Lewis Started Steel Strike Too Soon; Unions Save Hin, Professor Suggests By RALPH W. HURD The probability of the threatened split within the American Federation of Labor being merely a "smoke- screen" to obscure from the public and from steel employers the real maneuverings of labor interests was advanced in an interview yesterday by Prof. C. L. Jamison, labor au- thority of the business administration school. It is widely recognized, he said, that John L. Lewis, leader of the rhellious Committee on Industrial the craft union leaders of the A.F. of L. in all probability may have been precipitated deliberately as an an- swer to this problem, Professor Jami- son believes. Many observers are of the opinion, he continued, that the time to call a steel industry strike would be on the eve of the election in November, when a strong pressure could be ex- erted upon the administration for in- tervention on the side of labor. Labor Power Promising This possibility, coupled with the need of the steel union for more time in which to strengthen its position in the industry, provides a logical ex- planation of this "smoke-screen" clash, he pointed out. On the other hand, Professor Jami- Cnn nheprvni if ppme .:rpahc +n+ I I:.. ..