The Weather Unsettled, Showers And Thunderstorms. L ~IW zga ~O!Iait Editorials The Ludlow Amendment A Force For Peace... I Official Publication Of The Summer Session VOL. XLVIII. No. 23 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1938 PRICE FIVE CENTS t New Attitude Of Conciliation Shown Soviet By Japanese Protest Of Manchoukuo- Siberia Border Incident WithdrawnBy Tokyo Spokesman Denies Threats Of Force TOKYO, July 22-(/P)-A more con- ciliatory attitude was apparent in Japan tonight following Soviet Rus- sia's rejection of Japan's protest that Soviet troops had yiolated the Man- choukuoan frontier on July 11. The foreign office spokesman de- nied that Japan threatened force to eject Red soldiers who had occupied a bit of land which Moscow insisted was part of Sibe'ria and Tokyo de- 3lared belonged to Japanese-protec- ted Manchoukuo. He said such an expression had not been voiced either in Tokyo or in Moscow. Proposed Troops Withdraw The Japanese Ambassador to Mos- cow, Mamoru Shigemitsu, was said merely to have proposed to Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff that the troops be withdrawn to open the way ,n for "9 general compromise." In statements carried by Tokyo newspapers, an unnamed foreign of- fice spokesman was quoted, however, as having said that Russia's action "must be interpreted as a challenge to Japan." He was reported to have reiterated that Russia must assume responsi- bility for the results of the border incident and declared "Japan is ready and has every right to take all necessary steps." He was silent on what Japan would do next. Present Different Acouint (Japanese Poreign Office spokes- men frequently present a situation in differing lights, depending on whether they are talking to Japanese corres- pondents for home consumption or to foreign correspondents.) The Tokyo War Office officially was silent but unofficially hope was expressed that , diplomatic means could be found to settle "such an un- necessary situation." The Forgein Office declined to say whether fresh instructions had been sent to Shigemitsu or what tack Jap- an now would pursue. The war office would not say whether Manchou- kuoan border guards had been rein- forced. Anglo-French Meet Aims At Lasting Peace PARIS, July 22.-(P)-Now that Royal company has gone home, real- istic French diplomats tonight count- ed two prime results of the four-day exchange ofhamenities with Britain -both of which nurtured hopes for lasting peace in Europe. 1. France and Britain took ad- vantage of the favorable occasion to encourageagreement with Germany to ease Central European tension. 2. Anglo-French military plans for quick, effective cooperation just in case the German settlement doesn't pan out, were further coordinated. The state visit of King George VI. and his Scottish Queen ended at 5:35 p.m. when the Royal party sailed from Calais. A French Infantry band played "God Save The King," warships boomed a salute and thou- sands of spectators on nearby docks shouted "Come back to see us again!" The International situation as it shapes up after the visit will be re- viewed by President Albert Lebrun and the cabinet tomorrow morning. The feeling in governmental circles was that the visit was a decided suc- cess, particularly as a demonstration of Anglo-French unity and as a coun- teraction to Reichsfuehrer Hitler's visit to Premier Mussolini in May. Japs Threaten New Raids On Chinese SHANGHAI, July 22-(M)-Wide- spread bombing raids to shake Chi- nese resistance to the Japanese Yangtze valley campaign were an- Lilienthal Accuses Dr. Morgan Of 'Campaign Of Defamation' Witness States All Three TVA Board Members Often Changed Minutes KNOXVILLE, Tenn., July 22-(P) -TVA Director David E. Lilienthal testified today "unreasoning suspic- ion, hatred and distrust" motivated Dr. Arthur E. Morgan's attack on the administration of the Tennessee Valley Authority. Before a Congressional investiga- tion committee, Lilienthal assailed the ousted TVA chairman for a "reckless campaign of defamation," and denied trying to suppress records by deleting statements from board minutes.-4 Dr. Morgan sat nearby, his face flushed under the blistering attack. Earlier, the investigators impound- ed board minutes and all legal opin- ions by TVA counsel with reference to changed entries, after a witness testi- fied to numerous alterations. Charles Hoffman, assistant secre- tary to the board, testified yesterday changes in the minutes were made "mostly by Lilienthal." Under questioning today, Hoffman asserted all three directors including Arthur Morgan, made revisions in the minutes, the; bulk of them in the rough drafts. Opening his defense, Lilienthal as- serted he and his associate Harcourt A. Morgan, "feel that Dr. Morgan's accusations, charges and innuendoes must be answbred before we can, get to theymore constructive phases of this investigation." Hoffman testified that after a con- ference last Sunday with Dr. Morgan and his attorney, committee counsel Francis Biddle asked him to make a report "on our confidential inter- view" and suggested that "I talk with Mr. Fly (James Lawrence Fly, TVA general counsel), about the material which we had discussed." He said he discussed with Dr. Mor-l i Youngest Saves Roosevelt Dad A Ticket PHILADELPHIA, July 22--(,)- A traffic violation, a minor matter between two proud fathers went disregarded today - and City Policeman Elmer Steward got to see President Roosevelt's three- day-old grandson. Steward halted an automobile driven by Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., for a minor traffic infraction and, when the driver introduced himself, asked: "How about seeing the baby, papa?" "Why not," Roosevelt replied, grinning, and took Steward to the Pennsylvania Hospital. While a secret service guard looked on, a nurse wheeled the baby from the nursery. "A fine lad, Mr. Roosevelt," beamed Steward, himself a father.. "That," Roosevelt agreed, "is what I keep saying." Steward did not give Roosevelt a ticket. gan therevisions in the board's min- utes. On one occasion last December, he said, Fly criticized as "dishonest and skullduggery" his supplying Dr. Mor- gan (then chairman) with minutes of the board meeting. Hoffman testified Fly instructed him to clear such requests through his office although "such a rule did not apply to the others." He accused Fly yesterday of ordering him not to "have any contact" with'Dr. Mor- gan or his friends. Time and again, Lilienthal main- tained there was no ulterior motive in altered minutes and that it was done openly with full approval of all directors. Relief Is Bid For 3rd Term SaysHamilton Claims That People Want Private Jobs, Will Vote Again Roosevelt Plans WASHINGTON. July 22.-('P)- John Hamilton, the Republican Na-. tional Chairman, charged today that the Roosevelt Administration was in- creasing relief rolls and failing to stimulate private industry in an ef- fort to obtain a third term for the President with relief clients' votes. At the same time the Republican leader expressed the conviction that the American people would repudiate "this shameless conduct" at the polls this fall and in 1940. "Indeed, it is very doubtful wheth- er even those on the Federal relief rolls would vote for Mr. Roosevelt again," Hamiltonsadded in a state- ment to the press. "What these people'want are self- respecting jobs in privateeindustry. They are growing tired of being made wards of the Roosevelt Administra- tion. They know there is neither a comfortable livelihood nor any future whatever in a job on relief. Yet that is the only thing which the New Dealj today offers the country." Hamilton's statement was oc- casioned by the declaration of Harry L. Hopkins, the WPA Administrator, that he believed 90 per cent of the 3,- 000,000 persons on work relief rolls favored the Roosevelt Administra- tion. The G.O.P. Chairman said that Hopkins' remark, made at a press conference yesterday, "looks like the, launching of the Roosevelt third term movement by the man who might be termed the largest employer in the nation." "In view of this development,", Hamiltoncontinued,s"reasons become clearer for the constant increase of the Federal relief rolls-now reaching a new high record-and the failure of the Roosevelt Administration to take steps to stimulate private indus- try. "None need be surprised at the brazenness of Mr. Hopkins. In view of the refusal of the Democratic lead- ership to permit punishment for those playing politics with relief and in view' of Mr. Hopkins' intervention in the Iowa primary election and what has happened in Kentucky and other states. it is to be expected that the S. Timoshenko' Discusses Lab Work In Talk Engineering M e c ha n i c s Researches In Europe Is Director's Subject By BETSY ANDERSONj Speaking on the subject of "Engi-1 neering Mechanics Research in Eur- opean Laboratories," Prof. Stephen3 Timoshenko, director of the engineer- ing mechanics Symposium being held here this summer, gave a report on the work being carried out in labor- atories which he visited in Germany, Switzerland and France last year in a special talk given yesterday after- noon in the West Engineering Build-i ing. Fatigue testing on full-size speci- mens of railway axles and structural steel forms, carried out in German laboratories connected with the state railroads, was one of the first topics he discussed. He also spoke on pul- sating load testing machines, which are now beingused throughout Eur- ope. These machines originated in Germany, however, he explained. He also reported on concrete test-: ing machines b'eing used in the lat- est French cooperative laboratory in Paris. One concrete testing machine in this laboratory can exert a total force of 20,000,000 pounds. The most remarkable fact connected with this testing machine, he pointed out, is the fact that the main frame of the machine itself is made of concrete, probably the first example in the world of a testing machine made of this material. The force and motion measure- ments on railway tracks and parts of moving locomotives formed the ma- terial for some of the interesting ex- perimental work he exhibited. This work was originally carried out by the Paris-Midi Railways in France. Slides of the full scale tests on complete structural panels, which are being carried out in the Technical College in Zurich, Switzerland were shown and explained by Prof. Timo- shenko. Prof. Timoshenko, who teaches en- gineering mechanics at Leland Stan- ford University during the regular ' session, and is here as a non-resident professor in engineering mechanics this summer, is regarded as one of, the foremost American authorities on engineering mechanics. He was a- warde dan honorarv degree of doc- 'Communism' To Be Charge At UAW Trial 4 Suspended International Union Vice - Presidents To Be Tried Monday Accused Of Attempt To Disrupt Union DETROIT, July 22-()-Although allegations of communism were ab- sent from formal charges against four suspended International vice- presidents of the United Automobile Workers of America, President Hom- er Martin indicated tonight such accusations.-would figure in the men's trial. The four-Richard T. Franken- steen, Walter N. Wells, Ed Hall and Wyndham 'kortimer-will be tried by the C.I.O. Union's International Ex- ecutive Board, controlled by Martin, Monday. The charges against them were revealed today for the first time. Suspended June 13 Martin suspended them June 13, saying then they had engaged in "communistic activities," and "con- spiracy to disrupt the union." Martin said in a press conference late today that they would not be tried on charges of being communists but that they conspired to support what he said was a communist pro- gram to disrupt the U.A.W.A. "I don't think these men are mem- bers of the Communist Party," the Union President said, "but recently, it seems, it has been found that the most effective way of advancing that cause does not consist in carrying a Communist card." "I don't think Frankensteen is a Communist and I have never accused him of being a Communist," Martin continued, "but everybody knows that Mortimer has been the representative of the Communist Party on the (In- ternational Executive) Board ad in- finitumyin fact ever since he came on the board. Held Many Conferences "I don't think there will be any denial that there have been not one but many conferences, over many months, since the Communist party entered this conspiracy. "Evidence will be presented of such conferences in the International of- fices of Frankensteen, Mortimer, Hall and George F. Addes (secretary- treasurer who was suspended with the others and later expelled by the Board). "B. G. Gebert and William Wein- stone, Communist Party representa- tives, were almost constant visitors at the offices of these men." Spanish Rebels Batter At Viver Pound West Gate To Open New March To Sea HENDAYE, France (At The Span- ish Frontier), July 22-(IP)-Spanish Insurgents aided by Italian units pounded against the western gates of Viver today in an effort to open the way for a new advance to the Medi- terranean. I Viver is 34 miles north northwest of Valencia on the Teruel-Mediter- ranean Highway which, at Sagunto, joins the Main Coastal Road leading south to Valencia. Having shortened their front by a drive toward Viver from Barracas and the elimination of a pocket of resistance in the Espina Mountain, the Insurgents were able to concen- trate artillery and aviation to punish heavily the Government's militiamen, Nevills Party Begins Last Stretch of Trip BULLETIN GRAND CANYON, Ariz., July 22.-(A')-Observers using tele--- scopes stood on the south rim of the Grand Canyon today and saw the three boats of the Nevills ex- pedition conquer the dangerous Monument Rapids soon after the party took off for Lake Mead on the final leg of a 666-mile jour- Vitorio Called Originator Of Nations' Law James Scott Terms Work A Great Masterpiece In International Law Renaissance Group Sponsors Lecture By CARL PETERSEN The principles of international law enunciated by Francisco de Vitorio in the 15th century are no mere scholar's dream but will be the law of nations for the indeterminate fu- ture, Dr. James Brown Scott, secretary of the Carnegie Endowment for World Peace declared yesterday speaking in conjunction with the Graduate Con- ference on Renaissance Studies. Churchman, scholar and jurist, the eminent theological professor, Dr. Scott said, delivered himself of many of his cardinal principles as a result of the discovery of America by Col- umbus. Seeing the mistreatment which the aborigines sffered at the hands of the cruel and overbearing Spaniards, Vitorio presented an alex- io at the University of Salamanca in Spain laying down the principles which should govern a nation in ap- propriating new territories. * Contained War Statement This original alexio of Vitorio also contained a statement of national conduct in war and was termed by Dr. Scott "the first and greatest mas- terpiece of work on international law.". In his teaching, according to Dr. Scott, Vitorio used the French method of dictating to his students and then correcting their noes. This took up so much of his time that he never published 'any books. Much of the knowledge of Vitorio which scholars today have has been gleaned from the notes of his students. .t Presented Three Canons His first alexio, with its rules of war, presented what Dr. Scott termed the three canons of international law. These are justice, good faith and charity. The rules of conduct in war laid down three cardinal principles, he pointed out. Designating a nation or state by the title "Prince," Vitorio said that to begin with the "Prhice" should live in peace with his neighbor and wage war only to secure his de- served rights, he should be humble in victory and should accept all re- sponsibility for damages inflicted in the conflict, for those who prosecute the war do so only out of loyalty to the "Prince" and are not otherwise responsible. Dr. Scott cited 14 extracts from Vitorio's teachings which dealt with freedomof trade, rights of foreigners, rights of missionaries, mandates, con- scientious objectors, who, Vitoro said, should not, if convinced of the in- justice of the war, be forced to fight, sanctions, arbitration by the Pope and many others. 100 Students Visit Milford Test Ground Fourth Term Is What' Governor Phil's After MADISON, Wis., Puly 22.-(P)- Gov. Philip F. LaFollette, co- founder of the National Progres- sives of America, set out today to build his political fences inthe state and nation as a candidate for an unprecendented fourth term.1 Close associates said that to avoid any legal complications over the status of the Progressive party, established in this state in 1934, LaFollettee would campaign un- der the old Wisconsin Progressive label rather than the NPA banner. But.his eyes will be on the na- tional scene. While there have been several three-term governors in Wiscon- sin's history, no one ever has aspired to a fourth. Only two of LaFollette's three administra- tions have been consecutive, how- ever. It was his defeat as a Re- publican primary candidate in '32 that broughty about formation of the new party. NLRB Ruling Reversed For, Fansteel Case Company Need Not Return' 83 Strikers To Positions, Says Court Of Appeals CHICAGO, July 22 - (]') -The United States Circuit Court of Ap- peals, in a 2 to 1 decision late today,. set aside a ruling of the National Labor Relations Board requiring the reinstatement of 83 employes of the Fansteel Metallurgical Corporation who were discharged during a strike in February, 1937. The Labor board's report, accusing the North Chicago concern of violat- ing the Wagner act, was one of the first dealing with the "seizure of property" charge against sit-down strikes. It held the corporation had failed to bargain collectively, had intimida- ted employes, made discriminatory discharges and supported. a so-called company union. The controversy arose from a sit- down strike by workers who took'pos- session of the plant,'repulsed one at- tempted eviction by officers, but were finally driven from the property with tear gas. Judge Will M. Sparks wrote the majority opinion, which was con- curred in by Judge Walter C. Lind- ley. A lengthy dissenting opinion was written by Judge Walter Treanor. 2 Bands Offer WASHINGTON, July 22-(-The Republic Steel Corporation and its 4itter foe, the Committee For Indus- trial Organization, reviewed an old ld warfare today in a tense encoun- er before the Senate Civil Liberties Committee. For the CIO, Philip Murray, chair- mnan of the Steel Workers' Organiz- ing Committee, charged thqt no com- pany in the country had "resorted to more reprenhensble tactics against unionization" than Republic. He de- iounced the company as "the foulest industrial cesspool of labor relations in America." For the Steel company, Thomas F. atton, General Counsel, accused the GIO, of interfering with the mals during last year's strike in "little teel."'He added that 23,00 of Repub- 1c's employes demonstrated their loyalty to the concern by staying on the job during that industrial conflict despite "insuperable odds - armed- rnobs, bands of pickets who would not let even food be brought into the plant to sustain life." The. CIO, Murray testified, had pent about $1,500,000 in orgaizing the steel workers, and at present had signed contracts with 80 per cent of he industry's productive capacity. With the rest of the industry there iad been trouble, he said, and partic- ularly with 1epublic. Speaking gen- erally, he said the organizers had 'encountered m a n y difficulties" through "a system of espionage" and through "trailing of organizers by detectives, policemen and finks em- ployed by the steel companies." Organizers were "beaten up" and "arrested many times when they tried to hold meetings," he said. He referred to hearings before the Senate Post Office Committee a yeaf ago at which he made charges against Republic for which the company's chairman, Tom Girdler, called him a "liar." All the charges, Murray said, have subsequently been found correct by the National Labor Relations Board. Replying, Patton said it had been proved that pickets interfered with delivery of mail to Republic. "Pickets for the first time told the post office department when and where it could deliver mail," he said. (Continued on Page 3) Sen. Pittman Warns Mexico Refusal To Arbitrate Issue May Cause Penalties WASHINGTON, July 22.-(P)-A blunt warning that Mexico would be subject to economic penalties if she refused to arbitrate the issue arising from her seizure of American-owned farm land was issued today by Chair- man Pittman (Dem., Nev.) of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. A refusal, Pittman said, would "de- stroy the good neighbor policy as far as the United States and Mexico are concerned. "Mexico," he continued, "then would forfeit all the. financial and other voluntary aid we have given her through our spirit of friendship and desire for peace, prosperity and up- building of that country." This recalled that the United States is the most important pur- chaser of Mexican silver, and that silver sales are an important factor in the Mexican economy. Pittman's statement was a follow- up to Secretary of State Hull's note to Mexico yesterday, protesting Mex- ic's failure to pay for American- owned farm lands seized over a period of years and asking that the ques- tion be submitted to arbitration." Hopes To Induce FDR To Visit Mackinac Spon - . ____ __ t r Committee Reviews' Feud Between CIO And Republie Steel Murray And Patton Renew ,Warfare Both Present Accusations In Senate Civil Liberties Committee Encounter One hundred Michigan students are departing at 9 a.m. today for the Pontiac Motor Car Proving Grounds at Milford, 30 miles north of Ann Ar- bor, on the eighth of the Summer Session excursions. They will return around two this afternoon. At Milford the General Motors Cor- poration has established a 1268-acre laboratory for the carrying out of ex- haustive and scientifically controlled tests on all makes of automobiles. Proving ground engineers, in good weather and bad, are here amassing facts essential to the further im- provement of motor car products. All kinds of roads-mud, brick, dirt, gravel, tar-treated surfaces, and con- crete-are available, even an espe- cially built one-mile stretch of Bel- gian block, designed to reproduce the irregular bumpy condition of badly surfaced highways. At the provingground, after pre- liminary explanations by the en- gineer-guide, the party will board spe- cial proving ground buses for a com- prhensive tour of the roadways. Among the points of interest will be roads of varying grades up to 24 per Concert Sunday' Out-Door Concert Planned For July 29 Here Making their first combined ap- pearance of the current season, the University Summer Session Band and the All High School Clinic Band will present a concert at 4:15 p.m. to- morrow in Hill Auditorium, Prof. Wil- liam D. Revelli, director, announced yesterday. r Victor J. Grabel, first guest con-, ductor of the season, who is noted throughout the nation for his work as director of the Chicagoland Fes- tival and for 'his musical composi- tions, will direct the Clinic Bands in the first half of the program, and Professor Revelli will conduct the Summer Session Band in the second half. Plans for an enoromous out-door band concert with approximately 270 musicians participating are being completed for Friday, July 29, Profes-' sor Revelli revealed. Seats for 10,- 000 are being erected in Ferry Field.