I The Weather Cloudy, little change in tem- perature and northerly winds. L 1~rfr iga jDatt Editorials For Art's Sake ... The Human Element .. . Official Publication Of The Summer Session VOL. XLVI. No. 38 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, AUG. 11, 1937 PRICE FIVE CENTS Weary Senate Celebrates As Revised Court Bill Is Passed Judiciary Committeemen Shake Hands As Final Passage Is Effected Measure Is Shell Of First Proposal WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.- (P) - The bill to alter procedure in the Lower Courts won the final OK to- day of the Senate, which appeared glad to get rid of the six-months controversy about the judiciary. The legislation, a mere shell of the original court revamping proposals of President Roosevelt, was embodied in , conference report signed earlier in the day by House and Senate con- feres. Only the routine approval of the House is necessary before the Bill goes to the White House. That the issue is not permanently settled was demonstrated, however, by the appointment of a Senate com- mittee to study the more controver-I sial problems raised by the original1 Roosevelt bill. This committee was directed to study all of the proposals for Legis- lative action or Constitutional amend- ment included in the President's bill, or suggested as alternatives for that measure. Chairman Ashurst (Dem., Ariz.), of the Judiciary Committee, will head the inquiry. Only 14 Senators were on the floor when the bill went through today. Many of them smiled at each other, and members of the Judiciary Com mittee shook hands. The bill followed closely the agree- ment reached by Senate leaders when the Roosevelt bill was side-tracked. It contained four points: Direct appeal from lower courts to the Supreme Court in cases involving the constitutionality of acts of Con- gress. Protest Brazil's Leasing Of U.S. Vessels Of War Argentine Press Expresses Fear Of Upset Of South American Naval Power BUENOS AIRES, Aug. 10.-(/P)- The Argentine press tonight protested strongly against the projected streng- thening of neighboring Brazil's fleet 'by the leasing of six obsolete United States destroyers. A storm of unfavorable comment was raised by Secretary of State Hull's letter to the Senate Naval Com- mittee asking congressional author- ization for the navy department to lease over-age war vessels to South American republics. Though the Argentine government maintained silence, the belief was current that Argentina was opposed strenuously to the addition of North American warships to, South Amer- ican fleets. The influential newspaper La Na- cion expressed fears such leasing would upset the balance of South American naval power and said Hull's letter "reverberated as an alarm signal." (The League of Nations 1936 arm- amnents yearbook listed the gross naval tonnage of the three great South American powers thus: Argen- tina,5101,049; Chile, 70,180, and Bra- zil, 54,166 with an additional 5,400 under construction). Brazil's expressed fears that un- identified foreign aggression was a menace to her valuable raw materials (Continued on Page 2) Roosevelt Demands Crop Control Laws WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.-(A')- President Roosevelt declared today that Congress must give him a stronger promise of new crop control legislation before he will approve Federal loans to bolster sagging cot- ton prices. Despite a threat of Congressional' action to compel the granting of loans and "parity payments" to cot- ton farmers, the President said at his press conference that he guessed G. F. Bush Of Psychology Dept. Is Appointed To Parole Board Assistant And John Eliason Given State Posts; Both Michigan Graduates LANSING, Aug. 10.-(/P)-Governor Murphy today appointed Gerald F. Bush, of Ann Arbor, and John Elia- son, of Ludington, as members of the State's new parole board. Bush is an Assistant Psychology Instructor at the University of Mich- igan, Eliason a former Mason County prosecutor. The appointments completed the Board's membership. Bush and Elia- son will serve under M. Hubert O'- Brien, chairman.. The Governor, asserting there has' been "Some complaint of favoritism and privilege on this subject," (the Spanish Rebels Lose 1,500 Men In 3-Day Fight Insurgents Say Loyalists' Attempt To Divert Forces Unsuccessful HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish Fron- tier, Aug. 10.-(P)-Warring Span- iards fought today on three fronts but failed to make headway in the civil war now in its thirteenth month. Insurgents reported their foe lost nearly 1,500 soldiers in a three-day series of attacks in north Spain de- signed to divert Insurgent offensives against Santander in the north and in the Teruel sector in the East. The attacks, launched by Govern- ment militiamen and Asturian min- ers, were made in the Oviedo sector west of Santander. The Insurgents said the push failed to make any changes in the lines. Rebels Plan Drive The main force of Insurgents mean- while was described as "waiting only for good weather" to press an of- fensive against Santander, west of Bilbao and key city in the tiny patch of northern coastal Spain still held by the Government. Rain and low-hanging clouds, In- surgent reports said, had confined operations against Santander to oc- casional air raids and heavy artillery shelling of Government lines. Other positions were focused on the western front of Madrid and in' the Teruel sector where the Insurgents seek to cut through the strategic Madrid-Valencia road. West of Madrid, Insurgents re- newed their attack on Villanueva de la Canada in was apparently was the beginning of a new attempt to re- capture the territory Government forces seized early last month. Government reports said the at- tackers were repulsed. Press Eastern Offensive In the east, Insurgents pressed their offensive south of Albarracin, 118 miles east of Madrid, on the Univer- sales Mountains which divide the Cuenca, Teruel and Valencia prov- inces. Government forces launched a pin- cers strategy in two counter-attacks but Insurgents said the moves met a stonewall. The first attack was based on the Frias sector, southwest of Albarracin and 26 miles west of Teruel while the second was launched in the Celadas region north of Teruel. Insurgents said the attack north of Teruel appeared to be designed to force the withdrawal of Insurgent forces from the Albarracin lines to rush aid to defenders of the ap- proaches to Zaragoza. granting of paroles) requested the Board to undertake immediately a careful survey of the case history of every inmate of the state's penal in- stitutions. The new parole board was created under a corrections law adopted by -the 1937 Legislature. It abolished the office of Parole Commissioner, and transferred the officer's duties to the Board, members of which are to serve under life-term appointment at a salary of $5,000 a year. Board mem- bers can be removed only for cause after formal hearings. Hilmer Gellein, Corrections Com- missioner, said the appointment of Bush and Eliason left only the posi- tions of psychiatrist and psycholo- gist attached to the state prisons to be filled. The corrections law placed under a single directing head for the first time in Michigan the administration of pardons and paroles, the prisons and mental hospitals. Bush, born in Delton, near Kala- mazoo, is a former Assistant Super- intendent of nPublicInstruction. He served in that position from 1924 un- til 1937. He also is a former super- intendent of schools at Algonac and Charlevoix. Already holding a Mas- ter's degree from the University of Michigan, he now is working for a Doctorate in addition to his teaching duties. Eliason served as Mason County Prosecutor from 1932 to 1936. He was a candidate forelection to Con- gress at the last election. He also is a graduate of the University. Results Given In Intramural Session Sports LeAnderson Beats Olson In Badminton; Squash Eliminations Announced' Nearing the end of one of its most successful summer seasons, the In- tramural department yesterday an- nounced the final results of some, and standings in other competitions. Robert LeAnderson beat out S. W. Olson in the finals of the badminton tourney, while in squash R. D. Barnes and G. Duffy are meeting in the final elimination to decide the victor. Eaton and Panzarella meet Thomp-' son and Livers in the tennis doubles finals, Randolph Webster announced,1 while in the last golf competition A. Graham and Walter Welty will fight it out for the crown. In horseshoes A. C. Williams up- set Bandlow, 21-15, 18-21, and 21-15 for the title. T. B. Estep won the handball finals by virtue of his 2-0 victory over Bishop. Table tennis standings are not as complete as other sports-J. Key has reached the finals while M. A. Pan- zarella and Abe Stantsky will meet to decide his opponent. In tennis singles Eaton will battle with the winner of the Kinsly-Edmonds match to decide the title-holder. Bill Mor- genroth was an easy victor in the swimming events. DORAIS COACHES STARS CHICAGO, Aug. 10.-(P)-Charles Emile (Gus) Dorais of the University of Detroit, will head the 1937 College All Stars coaching staff for their battle against the National Profes- sional Football League champion Green Bay Packers at Soldier Field, Sept. 1. Editing Dictionaries Knott's Topic Today Prof. Thomas A. Knott of the Eng- lish department will give the next lecture in the Summer Session series at 5 p.m. today in Natural Science Auditorium. The topic for the lecture is "Editing Dictionaries." Professor Knott, a well known au- thority in the field of dictionary work, was the last general editor of Web- ster's "New International Diction- ary." At the present time he is work- ing in the compilation and editing of the Middle English Dictionary.. Claim Scribes Were Leaders OfTNazi Group 'Pinafore' Will Open Tonight To Full House Complete Sell-Out Hoped; Music School, Players Collaborating Wil lHold Matinee; Some Tickets Still With a complete sell-out an- nounced for all but one of the five, performances, The Michigan Reper- tory Players in their third collabora- tion with the School of Music will perform Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera "H.M.S. Pinafore" in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre at 8:30 p.m. to- day. Tickets still remain for the added' matinee at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, butl they are going fast, according to Morlye Baer, publicity director for the Players. The demand for tickets has been unprecedented during the summer. In previous summers the Reper- tory group has presented "The Choc- olate Soldier" and "Pirates of Pen- zance," while six other collaborations between Play Production and the School of Music have been presented during the regular school year. Alternating in the leading role of Ralph, the hero, will be John Elwell and Harold E. Koch, while other voices familiar to Ann Arbor au- ..:.,.... - 7 - I . 1 .. ... .C9'~.....31 Italian Seaplane Is Reported Overdue SEATTLE, Aug. 10.-(I)-A big Italian-made seaplane, bearing seven personson a new commercial airline to Alaska, was overdue and unre- ported tonight, more than 24 hours after it left on a flight of approxi- mately 750 miles to Ketchikan. Stormy weather prevailed in the Ketchikan area, where no immediate alarm was felt for the ship. Fliers expressed belief Pilot Tony Schwamm, inaugurating his Seattle- Alaska service, had been forced down en route. Coast guardsmen said they had no immediate plans to start search for the ship, the course of which lay northward along an island-dotted route off the Canadian coast. Under ordinary conditions the flight would require less than eight hours. The plane left here at 3 p.m. yesterday, with cloudy weather and light breezes prevailing along the course. Five Injured, Four Killed As Plane Crashes Newly Erected Power Line Cause Of Catastrophe; Will Investigate DAYTON BEACH, Fla., Aug. 10.-, (o)-Four men were killed today and Chinese Claim Minor Victory As Temporary Cession Is Seen Charge+ Direct Office German's ( From F In Berlin Orders oreign LONDON, Aug. 10.-(,JI'r-The Daily I Herald said tonight that three ex- pelled German newspapermen headed a Nazi organization here and worked under control of the German For- eign Office, and added that the Home Secretary is considering expulsion of other Germans. Scotland Yard investigations, the newspaper said, may result in the possible additional expulsions. The three whose working permits already have been suspended, the Herald asserted, had established their Nazi group with headquarters in the Bays' Water district of London. Have Left London They are Werner Crome, corre- spondent for the Berliner Lokalan- zeiger; Franz Otto Wrede and Wold Dietrich Langen, employed by a Ger- man news agency specializing in news of Germans abroad. The latter two already have left London. The Herald said information was sent daily to Berlin recounting social and political activities of friends of Germans living in England. An esti- mated 500 Nazis were said to be operating in the country. The number of Germans resident in England, including refugees, is estimated at about 20,000. The Her- ald added that "it is understood that the principal count against Langen was that he intimidated his fellow countrymen in order to use them as informers." diences will include those of Mildre __ - -five other nr si-ir yte B ch Berlin Retaliates Scotland Yard refused to discussj whether investigations such as de- scribed by the Herald were under- way. The Herald account followed warn- ings in Berlin by Nazi newspapers that foreign newspapermen who per- sist in writing critically about the third Reich might be expelled. Berlin has acted in retaliation for the expulsion of the three German newspapermen in London by giving' the London Times two weeks in which to replace Correspondent Norman Ebbutt in Berlin. Union Is Ready For-Ford Visit This Afternooni DETROIT, Aug. 10.-(P)-Officials and members of the United Automo- bile Workers Union went forward Tuesday with plans for the distribu- tion of that organization's literature at the gates of the Ford Rouge plant at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday. Gov. Murphy at Lansing said that state police would watch the distribu- tion and see that there was no dis- order. He did not believe a large body of men would be necessary to keep the peace. The union announced that Mrs. Cornelia Pinchot, wife of the former governor of Pennsylvania; represen- tatives of the La Follette Committee; representatives of the Conference for the Protection of Civil Rights and others would attend as observers. The union said that 1,000 persons had volunteered to distribute litera- ture. The distributors will meet at 1 p.m. at the headquarters of the U.A.W. Ford local, 8844 Michigan Ave. Maps showing public property lines in the vicinity of the Ford plant are to be given the distributors, according to a union official. The distributors are to be stationed at 29 points, 12 of which are inside the City of Dear- born. Improved Crop Yield Predicted By U.S. Board Olson as Josephine, Frederic Shaff-l master as the Captain, Marguerite1 Creighton as Buttercup and Vernon Kellett as Sir Joseph Porter. Other soloists are Sherrod Towns, Bernard Regier, Wilbur Nelson and Inez Mussen, while one of the fea- tures of the presentation will be a chorus of 30 voices, including both men and women. The story of the show is typical of the Gilbert and Sullivan collabora- tions. Josephine loves Ralph, a com- mon sailor on her father's ship, the Pinafore. She can't marry him be- cause of his inferior birth and instead is supposed to wed Sir Joseph Porter, boss of the Queen's "nahvee." Ho'w- ever, Buttercup, a fat old nurse, dis- covers that Ralph is really of very high, birth and Sir Joseph is of the common variety, fixing everything up and leaving hero and heroine to- gether in the traditional comic opera manner. As usual performances will run Wednesday through Saturday with the special matinee added on the last day. Local 'Gangsters' Are Held For Bond Justice Harry W. Reading yester- day bound over to circuit court the five Ann Arbor youths who, police say, composed one of the two gangs which have been operating in the city. Charles Pettibone, 17, and Jack Steele, 17, were remanded to county jail upon failure to furnish $10,000 bond, while Sam Sayer, 18, alleged gang leader; LaVerne Casterline, 18; and Charles Cotton, 18; were held in default of $2,500 bond each. Early trial of the quintet is expected. The other gang which police be- lieve to be active here continued op-, erations Monday when $200 worth' of medical instruments were stolen from a car on Shadford Road. It was the fourth burglary of an au- tomobile on that road in the last two days. p1uulu .uivism e uy ue crasn of an Eastern Air Lines plane into a power line erected overnight near the Daytona Beach Airport. Two crew members and two pas-1 sengers died in the wreck, the first fatal accident in the history of the company. Heading from Chicago to Miami, the big Douglas airliner struck a pole of the power circuit in taking off southward at 4:40 a.m. (E.ST.), hurtled over a clump of pine trees and dropped in the sand of a scrub palmetto thicket. Flames flared momentarily as mo- tors were torn loose, but they went >ut without igniting the cabin. The Commerce Department, The State of Florida, the Air Line and the Florida Power and Light Company moved swiftly to investigate. The dead were: Capt. Stuart Dietz, 33, of Baltimore, the pilot. Robert Reed of 'Miami, co-pilot.. J. F. Phillpotts of Kingston, Ja- maica, passenger. W. G. Marian (or J. Triana) 241 Ainares St., Mexico City, passenger. (Hospital attendants said his papers bore the name of Triana). Records of the injured: E. W. Phillpotts, 10-year-old son of J. F. Phillpotts, bruised and suf- ering from shock. H. M. Hamilton, Detroit, shock and bruises. F. M. Thompson, Greenville, S.C., concussion of the brain and possible skull fracture. C. V. Dunlap, Chicago, fractured hip. Bryan Merrill, 24, steward, fractured ribs and possible spinal injury. Pete Dygert, airport manager, said he was "Sure the pilot did not know the (power line) hazard was there." "I was not notified last night of the new line being strung," Dygert said. "This morning I was informed that the line was placed there to give service to a small area to the west which had been interrupted when an underground cable failed." Scene Of War Shifts To Mountains Northeast Of Peiping British And French DisputeJap Move NANKING, Aug. 11.-Wednes- day--(P)-The Chinese military said today a Javanese plane was shot down near Paotingfu, south- west of Peiping, and the pilot killed. T h e plane's observer escaped. The ship was on a reconnoit- ering flight, presumably to check on Chinese troop positions. TIENTSIN, Aug. 10.-(P)-Action n thedundeclared war in North China shif ted today to the entrance to the :ountains northwest of Peiping. Unconfirmed Chinese reports said a Japanese army detachment had been wiped out in a clash in the vicin- ity of Nankow Pass, 30 miles north- vest of Peiping, Japanese officials here, however, ninimized these reports and asserted action was limited to slight skirmish- ing. The version in Japanese headquar- ers was that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, Nanking Government Pre- nier, had ordered the Chinese hold- ing the Great Well pass at Nankow o attack Japanese forces in the area. Fear Jap Aerial Bombs The Chinese troops feared Jap- anese aerial bombardments, however, the Japanese said, and answered the rder by engaging only in small skir- mishes. Japanese officials indicated that so far as they were concerned a lull of two weeks may be expected in the re- gion. This was believed due to dif- ficulties experienced in getting re- inforcements into China because of washed out railways and other brok- en communications. One spokesman, declaring the Jap- anese did not plan at present to push through the Great Wall, warned how- ever that his countrymen would strike swiftly if the Chinese launched a con- certed attack. Japanese Tighten Control Japanese tightened their control over Peiping and Tientsin and com- mercial communication with the out- side World came to a virtual stand- still under the pressure for censor- ship. Peiping's radio and telegraph sta- tions were in Japanese hands but the location of Tientsin's wireless and postal offices in the French and Brit- ish concessions hindered direct ac- tion here. The Japanese, however, control all Tientsin approaches. (Dispatches received in Nanking said the Japanese planned to install plainclothes military censors at post- (Continued on Page 4) Educators Hear Thorpe Develop Teaching Means Almost no one technique in teach- ing English is better than any other in the hands of the right teacher, Prof. Clarence Thorpe of the English department yesterday told a group of educators. Speaking on "Techniques in Eng- lish," Professor Thorpe said that the tendency recently in some places is to have all free reading for students, letting them choose what they want to read, just so long as they read so much in a year. He then told of a modification of this idea in which the teacher watches what's being read, and makes suggestions. "We need to get better results from reading than we have in tlhe past," Professor Thorpe , declared, "and think that the latter method is a help towards that aim. We have to learn ways to lead children to get the most out of their reading." He pointed out that grammar in the, grade school and junior high school is important in these days as a means to an end. "That end," Pro- Substratum Influence On Speech Discussed In Linguistics Talks Mac Clean Says Oriental Prints Have Influenced Occidental Art, By H. B. ALLEN With illustrations ranging from ancient Babylon to modern Pennsyl- vania, four speakers yesterday noon discussed before the regular Linguis- tic Institute luncheon conference va- rious linguistic situations character- ized by substratum influence. The theory of the substratum is, briefly, the hypothesis that in a lan- guage certain changes not consistent with the general pattern of its de- velopment may be accounted for by the influence of another language spoken by a conquered people who lived for many years with their con- querors. India is an unusually rich field for the future researcher into the sub- Edgerton, that numerous features of the Indic Aryan languages, such as the cerebral consonants of Sanskrit, are due to the influence of one of these non-Aryan tongues. Prof. Leroy Waterman of the de- partment of oriental languages and literature turned to Babylon for fur- ther material exemplifying the sub- stratum influence. There, he said, the Sumerians, a highly cultured people, moved into a Semitic area. Before writing developed, these two peoples had lived together for 1,000 years, during which time the Semites increased in strength and gradually became the dominant group. An effect of this contiguity is seen both in morphological change, which N. n. f i iih5ofsutraitu1minflulienre and, One of the greatest sources of graphic art, Japanese Wood Block Prints, was discussed in the illustrat- ed Summer Session lecture given at 5 p.m. yesterday by J. Arthur Mac- Clean, curator of Oriental art in the Toledo Museum. Pointing out that the prints came to the West ,fairly late, Mr. MacLean stated that they were one of the first notes of interest in Japanese art and that the influence of them was plain- ly evident in paintings of the Occi- dent made since the introduction of the prints. However, the prints were not ap- preciated by all Japan, Mr. MacLean continued. Since they were of com- monplace subject matter, some of them being used to advertise in the Clean said.: In describing the process by which the prints were made, Mr. MacLean said that the publisher first bought1 them and then they were sent to the engraver, who produced a black and white outline block. These were then sent to the painter and the colors were put in. Upon their coloring by the painter, the outline was sent back' to the engraver and the color blocks were put in. After the insertion of the blocks, they were sent to the printer, who interpreted not only the color scheme but also interpreted the brush strokes of the artist, Mr. Mac- Clean explained. A paper was then put on the block made by the printer and the image was rubbed off. Thus the print was [1 WASHITNGTON.,Auff. 10.-(A')-I :i