itinued warm with local thundershowers L Aigu a-ttu Editorials Business Starts Uphill Again ... The' Democratic Ideal In The University,. Official Publication Of The Summer Session VOL. XLVII. No. 30 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN SUNDAY, JULY 31, 1938 Ii PRICE FiVE CENTS Clipper Hopes Dim As Army Flyer Locates Tell-Tale Oil Search Continues Despite Lubricating Oil Found On GiantShip's Route 1500 Foot Circle Found On Surface MANILA, July 31-(Sunday)-()P) -A huge and significant oil "slick" discovered on the ocean surface left searchers with scant hpe today of finding the missing Hawaii Clipper and its 15 occupants. But the forlorn hunt continued. The big oil patch was found yester- day by the army transport Meigs on the course the transpacific flying boat was following between Guam and Manila when it, vanished Friday (Thursday night, Pacific time). Samples dipped up by the Meigs for scientific examination showed the "slick" contained lubricating oil and gasoline. It was about 1,500, feet in circumference and it lay only 50 miles west by southwest of the spot where the plane last reported its position. Aviation circles generally regarded the find as evidence that the clipper plunged into the sea,,but officials of Pan-American Airways refused to give up .hope of rescue. They con- ceded ,the slick was "significant, but not conclusive." The spot in question, however, was not on any ship or air route and ex- perts concluded there could have been no other craft in that area to have caused it. on many occsins the navy has Sdiscontinued searching for its own lost planes upon finding the telltale oil spot on the water. The Meigs, nearest vessel to the Clipper when it made its last radio report, searched the slick for possible traces of wreckage but in the first attempt found none. Some Pan-Afnerican fficials sug- gesidthe Ilo ehthaae been made by the voluntary dumping of "anchor oil"' from the plane preparatory to an unscheduled landing at sea,. and that the strongly built 26-ton plane might have taxied or drifted away thereafter. The plane presumably carried a large supply of "anchor oil" for use inrquieting turbulent waters in the event of a forced landing. This oil is poured on the ocean surface about the craft to be protected. Because it is lighter than ,water, it remains on the surface and causes choppy seas to "break" before they reach the hull of the ship. This decreases the pounding of the waves against the vessel. Local Churches, Feature Varied Services Today. Rev. J. A. Gardner Is Guest At Presbyterian Church; Haatvedt Discusses Bible The Rev. John A. Gardner of Mid- land will be the guest speaker at the morning worship services at 10:45 a.m. in the First Presbyterian Church of Ann Arbor, The Rev. W. P. Lem- on, pastor, announced yesterday. His topic will be "Moody, Modern Dis- ciple." Prof. Healy ,Willan will be at theconsole and directing the choir. There' will be the usual supper for Summer Session students at 5:30 p.m. Weather permitting a program will be held in the out-door theatre. Prof. Howard Y. McClusky of the School of Education will speak on "The Psychological Approach to Religion." Services of worship will be held at 8 a.m. with Holy Communion in St. Andrews Episcopal Church with the Rev. Frederick P. Leech making the address. The student group will leave at 5:30 p.m. by car to attend a picnic at Saline Valley Farm. The First Church of Christ, Scien- tist, will hear a sermon on the subject of "Love," and Sunday School will be at 11:45 a.m. The Christian Student Prayer Group will hold its meeting at 5 p.m. today in the Michigan League. Rounding out the day's church ac- tivities, worship services will be held in the Trinity Lutheran Church at 10:30 a.m. with a sermon by The Rev. Henry 0. Yoder who will talk on Labor-Employer Issues To Come Before Supreme Court In Fall Questions Resulting Under Wagner Act To Receive Attention Of Tribunal WASHINGTON, July 30-(0)-Is- sues vitally affecting relations of American workers arc4employers un- der the Wagner Act) appear headed for Supreme Court review this fall. They spring from these three sources: 1. The three-year old schism in the ranks of organized labor. 2. The conflict over the legality of the sit-down strike. 3. Dispute over the right of work- ers to break an anti-strike agree- ment and still claim protection of the labor board. In the Federal appellate courts an- other, batch of labor relations ques- tions probably will be brought up for tests in the coming months, predomi- nantly involving the rivalry of the Committee for Industrial Organiza.- tion and the American Federation of Labor. Two cases already are on file in the Supreme Court. One is. that of the Consolidated Edison Co., of New York, involving board invalidation of an AFL contract. The other is the Colum- bian Enameling and Stamping case, which poses the question of workers' rights to strike in violation of a no- strike agreement and still retain the status of employes. A third and highly important case likely to reach the Supreme Court is the Board's order to the Fansteel Metallurgical Corporation of Chicago, to reinstate discharged CIO sit-down strikers. The Circuit Court ofrAppealssin Chicago threw out the order and sus- tained the corporation's contention that participation in a sit-down strike should preclude reinstatement. The Board is considering an appeal. The Consolidated Edison case raises the question of whether the board had jurisdiction over the utility, and whether it could invalidate an A. F. of L. contract covering some 28,000 employes. The board held the contract void on the grounds the company "imposed" the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (AFL) upon its employes and opposed the CIO's Uni- ted i Electrical and Radio Workers Union. In the Columbian Enameling case. the Board has petitioned the Supreme Court to hold that workers on strike in violation of an agreement do not forfeit either their status as employes or protection of the Wagner Act. The Board's case against the Thompson Products Co., of Cleveland, brought by the CIO's Auto Workers' Union, is another likely to land in the Supreme Court. Here, too, a circuit court of appeals bverturned the board's findings of Wagner Act viola- tions. 'Linguists End Meet With Talk On Dictionaries Prof. Thos. A. Knott Tells Inside Story Of Work On Modern Word Books "Professional dictionary editing," Prof. Thomas A. Knott told members of the Linguistic Society of Americai yesterday afternoon, "is the most dangerous, exciting, puzzling, fascin- atin{, and, generally, the most exas- perating and satisfactory form of ad- venture open to a scholar . . ." Professor Knott, former general edi- tor of Webster's New International dictionary and now an editorial ex- ecutive of both the Middle and Early Modern English dictionaries being, edited here, appeared as one of sev-' eral speakers on the concluding ses- sian of the first summer convention ever held by the Linguistic Society of America. Attracted by the pro- gram of the organization and of the Linguistic Institute, language schol- ars gathered here yesterday and to- day from many institutions in the East and Middle West. Explains Dictionary In explaining to these visitors why dictionary editing is so satisfactory, Professor Knott detailed the variety of unusual problems the editor is constantly confronting, described the ideal editor as a combination of fac- tory worker, scholar, diamond-cutter, and violinist, and outlined the many technical and practical aspects of the actual process of editing the two his- torical dictionaries with which he is now associated. Three other speakers occupied the afternoon program, two of them pre- senting papers with mutually sup- porting theses. Dr. George Bechtel of Yale University defended the "Hypo- thesis of Reduced Vowels in Indo- European" which recently had been attacked by Prof. Walter Petersen of the University of Chicago. In reply Dr. Bechtel argued particularly for the existence of the reduced vowel called "schwa secundum" as a requi- site to explain numerous phonetic changes and argued that this theory is superior to that of Petersen, who would explain them on purely ana- logical grounds. Hits Petersen Dr.\Ruth M. Bechtel, also of New Haven, then complemented this dis- cussion with her paper on "The Re-1 duced Grade of Original Short Vow- els in Greek and Latin," in which she gave evidence , for their existence again in answer to the criticism of Professor Petersen. In a discussion of "Two Spanish Words in Chiricahua Apache" Dr. Harry Hoijer of the department of anthropology of the University of Chicago told how this Indian tribe, despite two centuries of contact with the Spanish language, had borrowed only slightly from it and, with the UAW Purge' Tr ial Almost Ends In Fight Additional Charges Filed Against, Hall; Threaten Violence Against Sugar DETROIT, July 30-{AP)-A recess in the executive board trial of four suspended officers of the United Auto- mobile Workers was enlivened today by reports that the trial almost ended in a fist fight and the filing of addi- tional charges against Ed Hall, sus- pended vice-president. There was no mention in the new charges of the other defendants, Wyndham Mortimer, Richard T. Frankensteen and Walter N. Wells. Defense Attorney Maurice Sugar declined either to affirm or deny published reports that he was threat- ened with violence Wednesday night in the trial chamber when he made reference to defense counter-charges, one concerning an insurance deal and the other that an Executive Board member was a "stool pigeon." According to the reports, Sugar had just begun his opening statement to the Executive Board with reference to an "insurance deal sought to. be effected by an Executive Board mem- ber," when several Board members left their seats and gathered around him, shouting angrily that he had no right to make charges against Board members who were not on trial. After a noisy argument, according to the reports, the tBoard adopted a motion to prohibit Sugar from mak- ing his opening statement. A retort by Sugar that he then would be un- able to discuss the defense charge of a "stool pigeon" on the Board was reported to have precipitated another outburst in which Sugar was threat- ened with physical violence. All of Sugar's remarks, were deleted from the record. Duce'-Church 'Relations Cool On Race Issue Smoldering Discord Flares Into Open As Mussolini Answers Papal Criticism Denounces Charge In 25 Heated Words FORLI, Italy, July 30.-('P)-Discord between the church and the Italian state broke out anew today as Pre- mier Benito Mussolini brushed aside papal criticism of the Fascist Aryan race doctrine with 25 scornful words. In the first announcement he has made personally on racial policy, Il Duce characterized as "absurd" Pope Pius' assertion that it was in imita- tion of Nazi Germany. He used 25 words in Italian to tell a group of Fascist party officials in camp at Forli: "You know and everyone knows that on the question of race also we will march straight ahead. "To say that Fascism has imitated anyone or anything is simply absurd." The two sentences from his ad- dress were distributed by Stefani, of- ficial Italian news agency. No fur- ther quotations were made available. The dispute, now in the open after smouldering several months, worried Catholics lest it spread to other mat- ters which, in the past, have been in contention between the church and state. These include activities of Catholic action, lay organization of the church, and Fascist education of youth. The race doctrine issued July 14 by a group of Fascist university profes- sors proclaimed Italians as aryan and a race in themselves. It embodied many features akin to Nazi racial ideas and held that Jews were not a part of "the Italian race." Hinler Greets Ford On His 75th Birthday DETROIT, July 30.-(/P)-Henry Ford took a day off from work to- day to join with his fellow citizens of Detroit in celebrating his 75th birth- day anniversary, but made it clear that it was after all, "just another birthday and that he had no inten- tion of slowing down." This afternoon, in a private office of his engineering laboratory, he was presented with the Grand Cross of the German ,Eagle, by a representa- tive of Adolf Hitler's government. The decoration was presented to Ford on behalf of the .German gov- ernment by Karl Kapp, German con- sul at Cleveland, aided by Fritz Heil- er, German consular representative in Detroit, in commemoration of Ford's 75th birthday and in recog- nition of his industrial accomplish- ments. The citation was very brief, stating merely the pleasure of Chancellor Hitler in awarding the cross. Ford made no formal response beyond thanking his visitors. The decoration is designed for dis- tinguished foreigners. Ford's is the first such award presented in the United States. Charges Steel W'ith 'Worker' CIO Rejection LaFollette Committeee Sees Girdler Officials Behind Alleged Worker Petition Reporter In Pay Of Steel Officers WASHINGTON, July 30.-()-Carl Grimm, lanky, red-headed and pain- fully self-conscious steel worker, told the Senate Civil Liberties Commit- tee today that a workers' petition de- nouncing the CIO originated in the office of a Republic Steel Corporation police official, with some assistance from the plant superintendent. James S. Torbic, personnel super- visor and chief of company police at Republic's plant in Monroe, Mich., gave copies to Grimm and several other workers for circulation through- out the plant, the witness said, and subsequently took this group to Cleveland to present the petition to Charles M. White, operating vice- president of the Corporation. "Mr. White seemed pleased," Grimm observed. "I was," sternly interjected White, who was sitting nearby. All the group's expenses on the Cleveland trip were paid by Torbic, it developed, and none of the work- ers were docked for time lost in the mill. Chairman Lafollette of the investigating committee introduced Torbic's expense account for the trip, showing expenditures for mileage, meals, a baseball game and "setups." Grimm testified after James Max- well, a cocky, self-assured former re- porter, told of receiving contributions of $5,000 on one occasion and $500 on another from Republic for his "indus- trial news syndicate." Between the two payments he took a leading part in the "back-to-work" movement at Cleveland during the steel strike a year ago. Other testimony dealt with the un- availing efforts of the Steel Workers' Organizing Committee, arm of the C10, to negotiate a contract with Re- public, prior to the calling of last year's strike. Virtual agreement was reached at that time on all points except that of putting the terms of the agreement in writing and affixing signatures to it. From the beginning, the Senate committee worked slowly into the developing labor situations at Mon- roe and the events of a year after the time referred to by Grimm, when vigilantes, armed by the city, dis- persed strike pickets after a bloody pitched battle. Schmeling Defeat Films Not Shown In Germany NEW YORK, July 30-(P)--The Deutsches Nachrichtenburg (German News Bureau) announced today it had received the following cable from its Berlin office: "Regarding the statement of John Roxborough, co-manager of the World Heavyweight Champion, Joe Louis, that a film of the second Louis- Schmeling fight contained scenes of the first Schmeling-Louis fight and therefore gave Germans a wrong im- pression, it is authoritatively stated that the film of the second fight was not shown at all as the film arrived in Germany too late." Rejects Russian Over Clash Of At Manchukuo * * Hopkins Picks Camp Davis As Operation Base Wyoming Site Is Selected For All Out-Door Work In Rocky__Mt. . Region Following a visit and inspection of, Camp Davis at Jackson Hole, Wyo., Prof. Louis A. Hopkins, director of. the Summer Session, announced that the Camp in the future will be made the base of operations for all Uni- versity outdoor research courses in the Rocky Mountain region. Found to be ideally situated and possessing adequate features and, facilities, Camp Davis, now being used only by surveyors and geologists of the University, will be used next sum- mer and following years more exten- sively than it has been, Professor Hopkins pointed out. This means that the Camp maydalso serve thebiolo- gists, botanists, zoologists, foresters, and other groups of the University, as their base of advanced research in the Rocky Mountain area. Professor Hopkins returned from Camp Davis last week where he spent geveral days . surveying the region about the Camp and viewing Yellow- stone National Park under the guid- ance of Prof. Edward Young of the College of Engineering, director of' Camp Davis this summer. Test Theories, Methods Aired At Symposium Dinner Commemorates Galileo Anniversary; Dean Gives Lecture Two lectures yesterday ended an unusually busy weekend of activities for the engineering mechanics de- partment of the College of Engineer- ing. Soviet Confident No Conflict Will Arise TOKYO, July 31.--(Sunday)---()- The Japanese War Office announced today that Japanese had re-taken a Siberian border area which had been occupied by Soviet Russian troops. No details were given. Japan only yesterday had rejected a protest by the Soviet Government over a clash between patrols of the two countries near the junction of Manchoukuo, Siberia and Japanese Korea. The Japanese position was that So- viet forces had invaded Manchoukuo territory. (The first of recent Manchoukuo- Soviet border incidents was on July 11, when a Soviet patrol occupied a hill near Changkufeng which Japan asserted belonged to Manchoukuo). Russia Sure Of Peace MOSCOW, July 30.-(,P)-Russia'Is confident there will be no major con- flict with Japan over frontier inci- dents in the Far East, despite Ja- panese efforts to blame Soviet troops for the most recent border clash. (In Tokyo Saturday Kensuke Horinouchi, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, announced Japan had repect- ed a protest by Russia over a border incident of Friday near Lake Chan- chi. Horinouchi said the rejection was on the grounds that Soviet forces had invaded Manchoukuoan terri- tory). Soviet circles were not impressed by the Japanese stand on the incident at Lake Chanchi, near the strategic- ally important Possiet Bay region at the junction of the borders of Si- beria, Japanese Korea, and Japanese- supported Manchoukuo. According to the Soviet version, there were dead and wounded on both sides before "invading" Japanese de- tachments seeking to occupy a height near the lake were "thrown back" across the Soviet border into Man- choukuo. (In Harbin, strategic northern Manchoukuoan city, both Japanese and Russian authorities expressed confidence no major trouble would arise from the border incidents, point- ing out they were almost a daily oc- currence of concern only to border garrisons). Returns From West Japan Retakes Siberia Border Territory, War Office Reports Protests Patrols Border S __ Star Gazing, Put-In-Bay Excursion Feature Sixth Week Entertainment By MARY HELEN DAVIS The program of extra-curricular ac- tivities fore this sixth week of the Summer Session contains varied in- terests for those with free time. The astronomically inclined will be. pleased to note that on Saturday from 8 to 10 p.m. the Student's Ob- servatory will resume its weekly Vis- itor's Night. The elevator is to be in use for the weak-minded who can- not stand the climb up to the sixth floor of Angel Hall. There are to be three concerts during the week. This afternoon a recital on the Charles Baird Carillon is being offered at 4:135 p.m. and another one is going to be given at 7 p.m. on Thursday. At 8:30 p.m. the School of Music faculty is giving a concert in Hill Auditorium. The tenth excursion will leave at cial bus will take everyone from Ann Arbor to the boat dock and will re- turn here at 9:30 p.m. There are to be several lectures this week, the first of which is to be at 4:30 p.m. Monday in the large lecture hall of the Rackham School when Prof. George B. Cressey of Syracuse University will speak on "The Si- berian Landscape." He will talk again Tuesday at the same time on the subject "Man Transforms Siber- ia." Wednesday he will offer a talk on "Challenging the Arctic" and con- cludes the series Thursday at the same time and place with a lecture on "The Soviet Union Faces Japan and China." The other two lectures of the week are both to be Friday. At 4:30 p.m. in the large auditorium of the Rack- ham School Prof. James H. Hanford So much for the purely educa- tional. The entertainment aspect is favorable for the week, the most prominent note being the Michigan Reportory Player's offering of "The Whiteheaded Boy." In speaking of his play, Lennox Robinson has said, "I have conceived the idea of displaying the British Em- pire in the form of a large overgrown family, with Ireland as the youngest child." The play is highly symbolical with Ireland, of course, as "The White- headed Boy" and well meaning but somewhat overbearing father repre- senting Great Britain. It is scheduled to run from Wednesday, Aug. 3 through Saturday, Aug. 6. Social festivities for the week cen- ter about the League which is con- tinuing the scheduled classes in C. R. Soderberg, the manager of the Turbine division of Westinghouse Electricity and Manufacturing Co., spoke on "Plasticity and Creep in Polycrystalline Metals" this morning before the symposium on the proper- ties of metals. An outline of possible theories which can be used to corre- late "creep" test data was the main topic of his talk. The tests, he went on to explain, if put in satisfactory form, would per- mit the use of creep data, taken on rather simple tests to be used in ac- tual design problems of a more com- plex nature. "The Creep of Metals at High Tem- peratures" was the subject of the sec- ond talk of the morning, given by P. G. McVetty of the Westinghouse Research Laboratories. He described all existing test methods for getting creep data and showed some of the more modern equipment being used for multiple summer tests on long time creep action. He also showed how direct tests could be handled mathematically and graphically in order to arrive at va- rious conclusions of direct interest to designers .of machines which operate at high temperatures. Friday afternoon, Prof. S. C. Hol- lister, dean of engineering at Cornell University, gave a special talk to the group on "Design of High Pressure Oiler Drums," outlining the problems met in operating the drums at elevat- ed temperatures. His talk was fol- lowed by a dinner given by the gradu- ates in the engineering mechanics de- partment commemorating the' 300th anniversary of the publication of Initial Concert Of Symphony Offered Today Thor Johnson To Conduct Group Playing Music By Haydn AndDebussy Making its first appearance of the Summer Session, the University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra will offer at 4:15 today as its two major selections the "D Major Symphony by Haydn, and a Suite by the French composer, Debussy., Thor Johnson, instructor in the School of Music, will conduct the orchestra, and his special arrange- ment of the Aria for Stringed Orches- tra from the original' composition by the German composer, Mattheson, will be included on the program. The er, will be the cncluding number of overture to "Die Freischutz," by Web- the afternoon's repertoire. Mr. Johnson will leave early next month to direct the, preparation for the Second Annual 'Mozart Festival at the University of North Carolina in Asheville, where hereceived his Bachelor of Music degree. The first Mozart Festival was organized by Mr. Johnson last summer after his return from a year's' study abroad under such famous teachers as Mikolai Mal- ko, Bruno Walter, and Hermann Ab- endrot. The Festival includes chorus, solo and symphony orchestra music. It is to last three days, Aug. 29 to Aug. 31. Programs of symphonic works, chamber music, vocal selec- tions and the comic opera, "Bastien