The Weather Continued warm; possible showers tomorrow. C, 1 40 r mit igan :43att . Editorials Remedying An Old Problem ... I Official Publication Of The Summer Session VOL. XLVI. No. 43 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, AUG. 17. 1937 PRICE FIVE CENTS Friction Starts Over Black's Confirmation To HighCourt Dietrich, Burke Almost Reach Blows In Bitter Senate Quarrel Committee Favors Nomination, 13 To 4 WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.-()-A fist fight almost broke out among Senators today when critics of Sen- ator Hugo L. Black's nomination to the Supreme Court began a vigorous, but concededly hopeless, battle to prevent Senate confirmation. Tempers flared to white heat in the Senate Judiciary Committee be- fore that group voted, 13 to 4, to ap- prove the nomination without the public hearings demanded by the op- ponents. Senators Clash A clash between Senators Dieterich (Dem., Ill.) and Burke (Dem., Neb.) culminated when the latter charged physically upon the bulky Dieterich, only to be restrained by other Sen- ators. Burke had proposed that the com- mittee summon Black before it for questioning on his Constitutional views, and about his seizure of private telegrams when he was head of the Senate lobby investigators. Angrily Dieterich, without men- tioning names, had declared that committee members had attempted to "besmirch" Black in the news- papers by trying to link'him with cer- tain organizations. There had been reports that Senators might seek to determine whether Black was once supported by the Ku Klux Klan. Fight Is Renewed After the committee session, the fight was renewed on the Senate floor where opponents declared that Black cannot legally sit on the Su- preme Court bench. They argued that Congress, in passing an act under which Justice Van Devanter retired (but still remains a member of the Court), really created a tenth justiceship. Black cannot fill that post, they argued, because the Constitution for-, bids a member of Congress to take a position he helped to create. Black's supporters strenuously disputed this contention. Leaders of the opposition publicly admitted defeat in advance. Never- theless, they clung to their plans for a series of speeches when the nomination actually comes before the Senate tomorrow. They predicted one to two gays debate before a vote is taken. Republicans Won't Wait Meanwhile, three Republican Sen- ators, Steiwer of Oregon, White of. Maine and Bridges of New Hamp- shire, declined to wait until the nom- ination is brought up formally, and, a few hours after the committee had acted, began expressing their oppo- sition on the floor. White and Steiwer expressed the view that Black is legally ineligible. Bridges was unsparing in his crit- icism of the judiciary committee for not holding hearings. "We are not considering Senator Black as a United States Senator but as a nominee to the highest judicial tribunal in the nation," he said. "His public record, his public acts are a matter of public interest and the public has a right to be heard." Senator Barkley (Dem., Ky.), ma- jority leader, joined other Demo- crats in questioning Bridges. Mar yanna Chocidey, Now Policewoman, Loses Her First Case Maryanna Chockley, '37. of Delta Gamma sorority and now a Detroit policewoman, was one down in her flight against crime today, despite her training as chairman of the League Judiciary Council last year. Appearing in Recorder's Court yes- terday to testify that Mrs. Colla Kra- mer had told her fortune for a $5 fee In the Temple of Light, at Led- yard St. and Second Blvd., she heard Judge John P. Scallen rule that the act did not constitute a violation of the state law. Only when the fortune teller, uses cards, tokens or goes into a trance does he violate the law Judge Scallen Witness Describes Feelings Of Americans At Shanghai Scene (EDITOR'S NOTE: In 1931 Elizabeth Lantry, a Kansas City, Mo., girl, mar- ried Morris J. Harris and went with him to China, whore he is Associated Press Shanghai bureau chief. Today she boarded the first tender of the S. S. President Taft with 200 Amer- ican women and children refugees. Before the tender started it was under fire. Mrs. Harris took the round trip and sent home this story.) By ELIZABETH LANTRY HARRIS SHANGHAI, Aug. 16.-(P)--I took a round trip today on the tender which carried the first 200 American women and children refugees out of Shanghai. It was a frightening, war- time journey. Before the tender started, several splinters of shrapnel pierced the deck and fell into a cabin crowded with refugees, but luckily no one Was hurt. We had been awaiting the arrivall of a naval guard when seven Chinese planes swooped down and sent us scurrying to the cabin. Anti-aircraft guns crashed and bombs exploded so terrifically that they seemed to be al- most upon us. The women, some of whom carried tiny children, were frantic. They cried, but none of them screamed. As soon as the bombardment was over, sailors from the U.S.S. Augusta arrived and ordered all women and children to go down two decks, where we were virtually shut in. Then the boat got under way. Throughout the trip downstream we heard continuous firing. To keep us calm, sailors handed out sand- wiches and apples and talked cheer- fully. When we arrived at the Pres- ident Taft we were greeted with lusty cheers. Near the steamer, there were four- Signals Spur Hunt For Lost Russian Plane teen Japanese warships. One group of refugees boarded the President Taft. Among them were a few men. I waved goodbye to my nephew, who was on his way home to America. Off Woosung, five Japanese vessels lined up in a row were shelling con- tinuously in the direction of the Chi- nese civic center at Kiangwan. The shells started a number of fires. From reports we had heard in Shanghai I had expected to see the Whangpoo River front virtually in ruins, but there appeared to be com- paratively little damage. Instead of being destroyed, the Chinese Jukong docks were scarcely harmed. One Japanese mill was practically destroyed, but a deserted summer- house colony was seemingly intact. There were only a few passengers on the way back-mostly Chinese returning to Shanghai from Hong- kong. Summer Band Concert Held HereToday Hill Auditorium Event Is To Start At 8:30 P.M.; Public Invited The University of Michigan Sum- mer Session Band, under the direc- tion of Prof. William D. Revelli, will give a concert at 8:30 p.m., Tuesday, August 17, in Hill Auditorium, to which the general public is invited. They will open the program with the overture "Holiday," by Leidzen, to be followed by "Suite" by Handel. Its movements are: "Sarabande," "Minuet from Sonata No. 2," "Bou- ree," "Lascia Ch'io Pianga," from "Rinaldo,"and "March from Sonata No. 4." "Russian Sailor's Dance," from "The Red Poppy," by Gliere; and "Second Norwegian Rhapsody," by Christiansen, will follow. "Woodwind Quintet," by Onslow, will be played by Lee Chrisman, flute, Charles Gil- bert, oboe, Arthur Suchow, clarinet, Vlasta P. Shumate, bassoon, and Jo- seph White, French horn. The move- ments of the quintet are Allegro non troppo," "Andante," and "Allegro Spirituoso." The hest of the program consists of "Cachucha," from the suite "In Malaga," by Curzon; "Nocturne," from "Two American Sketches," by Griselle; "Mardi Gras," from- the "Mississippi Suite," by Ferde Grofe; and "Manx Tone Poem; Mannin 'Daughters Of Atreus' Opens Here Toni*4rht Turney's Condensation Of Cycle Is Players' Last Summer Offering Agamemnon-Elektra Tragedies Are Basis The Repertory Players will present the final play of their ninth Summer Season, Robert Turney's condensa- tion of the Greek tragedies of the Agamemnon-Elketra cycle, "Daugh- ters of Atreus," starting today and continuing through Thursday in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. The play will be presented only three eve- nings instead of. the usual four. Cur- tain will be at 8:30 p.m. Turney's drama retells the entire story of the eight fate plays com- prising the cycle, from the sacrifice of Iphegenia to the murder of Kly- taimnestra by Orestes. The view- point of the author is one of sym- pathy for the women of the House of Atreus, chief of whom is Kly- taimnestra, the devoted mother who turns assassin when her husband al- lows the sacrifice of their daughter, Iphregenia. Orestes, her son, re- turns from the. Trojan war, however, to confront his mother with her crime and to slay her in turn to revenge his father, allowing the fiery words of his sister Elektra to outweigh the pleas of Klytaimnestra, who desires to save him the remorse she knows will overtake him. The author rationalizes the whole great tragedy, presenting the famous figures of the Greek original in real- istic and sympathetic light. Claribel Baird will play the part of Klytaimnestra in the Repertory pro- duction, while Sarah Pierce will en- act Elektra. Others in the cast will include Nancy Bowman as Polymia, William Rice as Agamemnon, Mary Pray as Iphegenia, Charles Maxwell as Orests, Ralph Bell as Achilles, and Raymond Pederson as Kalchas.i "Daughters of Atreus" will bring to a close the most economically suc- cessful season in the Players' history. Out of 29 performances, 26 have been completely sold out, accordingi to Prof. Carl G. Brandt of the speech department, business manager for the Players. State Veterans Not Split Over Labor - Capital DETROIT, Aug. 16.-(A')--Carl C. Matheny, chairman of the State American Legion convention resolu- tions committee, denied today the organization was divided in its opin- ion on the labor question. Said Matheny: "The time honored position of the Local Chinese Wire resident IS a And Congress TrosMa oT More U. S. Shins, Ask That Neutrality Act Chinese Not Be Invoked In War In East Japan Withdraws Nye Also Informed of Club's Opinion Consuls Andoses Embassy In China W W I s- By CLINTON B. CONGER Officers of the Chinese Students Club announced last night that they were sending one telegram to Presi- dent Roosevelt, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, and members of Con- gress, and another to Sen. George P. Nye, (Rep., N. Dak.) head of the munitions committee, asking them not to invoke the Neutrality Act in the current Sino-Japanese conflict. "We respectfully request the United States government, that initiated the Nine Power Treaty; to assume the moral responsibility under the treaty and declare the invading power an aggressor," the other message urged. In no place was Japan mentioned by name. Hayden Explains According to Prof. Joseph R. Hay- den, head of the political science de- partment, the Nine Power Treaty, ne- gotiated at Washington in 1922 and including Japan and China among the signatories, calls for peaceful set- tlement of differences between the signatories wherever possible by con- ference of all nine signatories and all other interested powers, rather than: armed conflict. The text of the Nye telegram said: "The Chinese Student Association of North America begs to enlist your support in the cause of justice and fair play. While it is important to prevent the United. States from be- ing involved abroad and munitions manufacturers from profiteering at ;his moment, any action that is likely to injure the Chinese defenders will enrich the warlike aggressor with the vast resources and huge man power of China. The spectacle of a young republic desperately fighting for its existence against a militaristic op- pressor has no doubt won the sym- pathy of impartial friends. To in- voke the Neutrality Act at this mo- ment will seriously affect the Chinese defense and indirectly aid the invad- ers. May we request you, instead of this, to urge upon your government the honest and honorable course of declaring the invader an aggressor. The four hundred million Chinese people in their life and death struggle will feel the bitterest disappointment and grief if the United States should take an action to help the aggressor and injure the endangered China." Telegraph President The telegram to President Roose- velt said in part: "We respectfully request the United (Continued on Page 3) Books Wanted To Aid Needy Students Here TOKYO, Aug. 17.-(Tuesday)-(P) -Japan ordered its embassy at Nan- king closed and its consuls through- out China withdrawn today. Officials said that it was "not yet known" whether this constituted severance of diplomatic relations with China. Foreign Minister Koki Hirota in- structed Change d'Affaires Shinto- kuro Hidaka at the Chinese capital to close the embassy buildings and depart with his staff, presumably for Shanghai, at the first opportunity. The ambassador to China, Shigeru Kawagoe, is in Shanghai. He has not been in Nanking since the Sino-Jap- anese conflict began July 7. Japanese officials withdrawal from Nanking may be difficult since river traffic has been suspended by the clos- ing of the lower Yangtze to all ship- ping by the Chinese and railway serv- ice to Shanghai has been suspended by troop movements. All Japanese residents were in- structed to withdraw at once from Canton, in southern Kwangtung Province, and Tsinanfu and Chefoo, in Shantung. Rebel Advance On Santander Gains Impetus Soviet Government Weak Messages Been Received States Have Loyalist Army Before Bomb Retreats Crumbles Barrage; FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 16.-(') -Threatening weather over the vast Arctic wastes where six Russian transpolar fliers are missing tem- porarily delayed a searching flight today by Jimmy Mattern, American ace who owes his life to one of the Soviet airmen. Mattern, who sped non-stop yester- day over the 2,600 miles here from Oakland, Calif., continued prepara- tions to join the hunt as soon as weather conditions permitted. FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 16.- (IP)-Ice caps of the Arctic echoed the roar of rescue planes today as the search for six Russian fliers gained Veen," by Wood. new impetus from reports that radio signals had been received from their Lindbergh's missing airliner. From both sides of the North Pole, Has BirthdayT aviators converged on the winter- s ridden area in which pilot Sigismund Levaneffsky and five companions WEALD, Eng., Aug. 16.- were believed forced down. Lindbergh, a healthy little l The latest message to be attributed likes to climb trees and wad to their plane was received by the father's pond, was five ye Soviet government radio station at today. Irkutsk, Siberia. The Soviet Em- He spent the day in the r bassy at Washington said that at 3:23 old Kentish house where he li a.m. (EST) today radio signals "of his mother and father an a weak and irregularly working trans- brother. His father was awa mitter" were heard at Irkutsk on the Ever since his parents, sadd lost craft's frequency, and that "there the kidnaping and death of th is strong belief the signals actually son, Charles A. Lindbergh, J came from the plane." to England on the blusteryl No message known definitely to of December, 1935, they have have come from the lost plane has deep seclusion. bee rcevedrsimcehotlaterhes Not even a garrulous trades been received since shortly afte L-day would tell whether little vaneffsky reported at 5:40 a.m. (EST)aywirt ellrepart Friday. He said then a damaged oil townspeople cooperate whole line had disabled one of the plan'es ly with the efforts of the Li four Diesel motors.lth hedpfforty h Jimmy Mattern, noted American to avoid publicity. flier who was rescued by LevaneffskyS after a forced landing in Siberia four Am azing Sag from Oakland, Calif.,-the Russian Unfolded fliers' ultimate goal. Mattern said he would take up the search immediately and remain in the area as long as By ROBERT I. FITZHEr there was hope for the Russians. Fantastic is the story of D A. Vartanian, Soviet representative, T. Bradbury of the Univers took off from Juneau on the second pital whose work with patient leg of a flight from Seattle to Fair- decided sex has unfolded a sa banks, where he will direct the search. akin to the imagery of an H.t Two Russian ice breakers and sev- novel than to 20th centuryI eral planes from Moscow were re- bor. . ported already en route to the area The highly publicized being searched. Others in the hunt Doubka, dapper Czechos included Alaska's far-famed "Mercy" gentleman who once establ pilot, Joe Crosson, and two Alaska woman's Olympic track rec Airways' fliers, S. E. Robbins and Mark Weston, English girl Murray Stewart. who later married a former The U.S. Signal Corps officers in companion, have nothing ont Seattle checked their Alaska stations which University hospital has - 1- - .. i. t -, 1- - .,...1_3 _._ r + trnilr a m on oday -(A)-Jon boy who e in his ears old HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish Fron- tier, Aug. 16.-(P)-The Insurgent Northern war machine drove through crumbling Government resistance' and swept past Reinosa today toward. Santander, about 40 miles beyond. If Insurgent Generalissimo Fran- cisco Franco captures Santander, Northwest of Reinosa and the Gov- ernment's last port on the Bay of Biscay, he will have "completed his campaign in Northwest Spain. Insurgent forces then would dom- inate such ports as Bilbao, Irun, San Sebastian and Santander. They would hold the province of Santander eastward through the Basque prov- inces. Their naval patrol would blockade the remaining Government- held coast, and their powerful North- ern Army would be free to turn to other war zones. Franco's aviation and artillery duplicated today their methods in battering Bilbao's "iron ring" de- fenses, combining in a fierce day- long bombardment of the Govern- ment's concrete Santander defenses. Military witnesses said the rain of projectiles from Franco's massed squadrons ofrbombing planes alone was one of the heaviest of the civil war. Thousands of tons of explo- sives, they said, screeched into the Government lines from the air. War Zone' Start Evacuation Of 4,000 American Nationals Out Of ShanghaiArea Roosevelt Confers With High Officials SHANGHAI, Aug. 17.--(Tues- day) -(P)-- More than 1,000 American and British refugees set out this morning in frail ten- ders for a perilous journey up the Whangpoo River to the sea, endangered by falling shells from embattled Japanese warships. WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.-()- High officials are discussing the pos- sibility of rushing reinforcements to China to protect American Nation- als in the undeclared war there, it was indicated tonight. This word circulated after Presi- dent Roosevelt held an unheraded conference with high-ranking Army and Navy officers. Present at the parley were General Malin Craig, Army chief of staff; and Rear-Ad- miral James O. Richardson, acting chief of naval operations. Secretary of State Hull and Stanley K. Horn- beck, chief of the Far Eastern divi- sion of the State Department; also called at the Executive Mansion. No Comments While none of them would com- ment afterward, it was hinted strong- ly that the question of reinforce- inents was being discussed. Some of- ficials were reported to have contend- ed that to order complete evacua- tion of Americans now without addi- tional protection would mean virtual abandonment of the Nationals be- cause of the great number there and the time required for the operation. Americans in Shanghai number 4,- 000, while there are many in other sections. The American Marines at Shanghai total 1,050 although the number of American soldiers, sail- ors and marines in or near the whole trouble zone has been estimated at about 7,000. SHANGHAI, Aug. 17.-()-Shrap- nel periled American women and children today as the United States began evacuation of 4,000 citizens from the heart of the gigantic Shang- hai battlefield. Overhead raged the mightiest aer- ial fight the Orient ever has seen. In the harbor Chinese and Japanese were locked in the first naval engage- ment of the War of 1937. On land upward of 150,000 troops were in combat designed by the Chinese to drive the invaders back into the sea and intended by the Japanese as a desperate attempt to change their positions from a peri- lous foothold into a solid base of op- erations. 'Suicide Destroyer' Sunk A Chinese "suicide destroyer" was sunk by Japanese naval guns today after it had torpedoed the big cruis- er Idzumo, flagship of Japan's Third Battle Fleet. Chinese attacked the Japanese fleet in the Whangpoo with everything they had-planes, land batteries, and finally the tiny "suicide destroyers" armored, high-speed motorboats carrying a crew of six and two tor- pedoes each. Extent of the damages to the tor- pedoed Idzumo could not be learned immediately as newspapermen were barred from the vicinity. After the torpedoing she floated a quarter of a mile downstream from her anchorage in front of the Japan- ese Consulate General and was an- chored at Hunt's Wharf at 2:40 a.m. Local Men To Be At Papyrology Meet Several members of the faculty, and other men that have received degrees from the University will take part in the fifth International Con- gress of Papyrology to be held from Aug. 30 until Sept. 3 4t Oxford, England. Prof. Henry A. Sanders of the Latin department and H. C. Utey, research assistant in papyrology, will deliver Legion is to preserve an attitude of yes with strict neutrality in any question in- d baby volving capital and labor. y todayA. n important part of the Legion dened by preamble is the dedication of the or- heir first ganization to maintaining law and r., came order. The 32,000 meipbers of the last day American Legion in Michigan are in- lived in terested solely in seeing that the orderly processes of government are man to- continued in the state and nation. Jon had "No indication has arisen in this y. The convention which would lead to er- hearted- roneous rumors that any difference ndberghs of opinion exists among Michigan Legionnaires." a Of Changing Sex Before Dr. Bradbury Volumes May Be In At Any Of Libraries Turned Branch NRY r. James ity hos- ts of un- ga more G. Wells' Ann Ar- Zdenka' lovakian lished a ord, and athlete r female the cases' s record- for observation. There followed a weird story but the evidence was in- confutable. Medical authorities ex- amined, X-rayed, consulted case his- tories, scratched their heads and fi- nally proclaimed the patient a woman. Another patient, not long ago, came to the hospital for a major opera- tion. Also in the thirties, this indi- vidual had been baptized a female and had worn dresses ever since. Doc- tors soon agreed, however that the patient was a male. Somewhat similar is the case of a nine-year-old child who came under Books to be contributed to the text P a s a B l book lending library for needy stu-F ass Tax Bill dents may be left at any branch of the University library service, in ac- B Unanimous cordance with arrangements made by Dr. William W. Bishop, director of the library science department and Vote In H ouse member of the faculty committee in charge of the project. The text-book library plan was in- G.O.P. Members Criticize troduced last semester by a commit- tee headed of Prof. Erich A. Walter of President Roosevelt And the English department, A number Family of book contributions were accepted during the closing days of the term, WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.-(P)- and the committee hopes that dona- Republican representativs jabbed at tions from students of the Summer the Roosevelt family's tax methods Session will make the library effective today and then joined Democrats in for the opening'of the fall semester. passing administration legislation to Text books of all kinds used in close tax loopholes. University courses are needed for the A standing vote of 170 to 0 sent the library, according to Professor Wal- tax bill to the Senate, where leaders ter. The branch libraries are located planned fast action to dispose of the in nearly every important University issue before next week-end. building, including Angell Hall, Na- Although they supported the tural Science Building, and the En- measure, Republican members of the gineering Building. House made the debate on it an oc- The administration of the library casion for thrusts at Democratic will be done with great care to see spending, at tax methods allegedly that only students in genuine need used by the President and Mrs. are permitted the use of the books. Roosevelt, and at the returns of Loans will be made for one semester. their eldest son. James.