LY rers aud slightly cooler. Official Publication Of The Summer Session 4:3att Editorial Exile Of A Paintin ... . ...... No. 46 Z-323 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, AUG. 18, 1939 PRICE FIVE CENTS itestants Kuhn Says Un-American Probe Will Cost Dies Political Future'. in Hopwood 3tion, Essay, 'etry Prizes 1 Of $500 Is Given r Summer Awards; Thous Is Repeater as, Hale Collect p Contest Honors thy Arms and Harriet Hale off top honors in the 1939 er Hopwood Contest when the y excellence of their entries ch a $75 award. al of $500 was given to 11 con- s yesterday afternoon in Dean I H. Kraus' office. Arms, who is from Detroit, itered in the essay division. [ale, of Hillsdale, competed in - I uble winner was John , of Fayetteville, Tenn. $25 prize in the essay seated the feat in the he poetry division were: nla Thoma, Toledo, Banta, Franklin, hnson, Wyandotte, $25 i, Baltimore, Md., $25. ard-Adams Humphreys apids was the other fic- winner, receiving $25. %y division others receiv- re: [uston, Ann Arbor, $50. 'feifer, Tiffon, 0., $50. green, Ann Arbor, $25.. r the contest's fiction e Prof. Karl Litzenberg, Davis and Dr. Abraham >se for poetry were Prof. Y, Prof. Bennett Weaver German - American Bund Leader Gives G r o u p Session Of Conflict WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.-(P) - Fritz Kuhn, stolid Fuehrer of the German-American Bund, gave the Dies Committee a session of almost constant conflict today and finally left its witness chair spouting defi- ance and predicting the committee's investigation would "cost Mr. Dies his political future." After two days of Kuhn's testimony, Representative Dies declared the committee. had made it clear that the Bund was working with agencies of the German government and prob- ably was getting advice from them. And, the lanky Texan added: "I'm not interested in my political future." Kuhn, whose tides of anger were still running high after the hearing had adjorned, hotly told reporters that the committee "did not show any proof that we are un-American or have any connection with Ger- many." % "It was all a loss of time," he sput- Traff icSafety Award Given To Alger Malo 1939 Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. And Traffic Fellowships Send Seven To Yale Alger Francis Malo, a State High- way Department draftsman, was an- nounced yesterday as one of seven engineers selected from a nationwide list of several hundred applicants by the award committee for the 1939 Al- fred P. Sloan, Jr., traffic safety fel- lowships. Malo will receive a $1,000 scholar- ship in addition to full tuition for a year's study in the Yale University Bureau for Street Traffic Research. The seven engineers selected from highway departments are: Charles Richard Gallagher, California; Henry Ashworth Standring, Colorado; Wal- ter Bamford McKendrick,sDelaware; Robert Dove Dier, Illinois; Wilfred William Davis, Iowa; Alger Francis Malo, Michigan; and John Exley Upham, District of Columbia. Twelve police fellowships in North- western University Traffic Institute also provided by Mr. Sloan were an- nounced on Aug. 2. Members of the Sloan Award Com- mittee are: Paul G. Hoffman, Presi- dent, Automotive Safety Foundation, chairman; Franklin Bliss Snyder, vice-president, Northwestern Univer- sity; W. W. Mack, president, Ameri- can Association of State Highway Officials; Miller McClintock; director, Yale Brueau for Street Traffic Re- search; and Don F. Stiver, chairman, Enforcement Section, International Association of Chiefs of Police. The committee selected Ann Arbor for its 1939 award meeting because of the sessions here of the National Institute for Traffic Safety Training and the desire of some committee members to participate. .G Roosevelt Still In Fog ABOARD U.S.S. LANG, Aug. 17.- (P)-President Roosevelt, steaming through fog-ridden waters aboard the naval cruiser Tuscalossa, arrived at Bay of Islands, Newfoundland, late today, completing a 225-mile run from Sydney, Nova Scotia. tered. "I mean a waste of time." And, he said there was one thing that had "hurt" him very much. "I had to breathe the same air that Metcalfe breathes." He referred to John C. Metcalfe, a former committee investigator, who once joined the Bund and wore its uniform for a year to obtain material for a series of newspaper articles. Kuhn's testimony was given be- tween indignant protests that the committee was unfair, assertions that his time was "too valuable" to be wasted on the committee, and de- mands, which were ignored, thatshe be provided legal counsel. The last came after he said he had "catched on too late" to the inference con- tained in questions put by Represen- tative Starnes (Dem., Ala.), who yes- terday threatened him with fisticuffs. (Starnes was asking questions which implied that Kuhn encouraged his followers to listen to German ra- dio broadcasts).{ Kuhn returned tonight to his col- leagues in New York's German com- munity after informing the com- mittee that: Attorney General Murhpy - to whom he referred as "the general attorney, that Murphy"-once ad- dressed a Bund meeting in Detroit. (Through the justice department, Murphy issued a statement which said: "As far as I can remember I never addressed a Bund meeting as such. During the campaign of 1936 I addressed many meetings each dy. At any one or several of these meet- ings Bund members may have been present. I always attended German meetings because of my high regard for the German people.") Labor Board Seeks Peace From Unions Rival Union Challenged To Settle Their Battle Over Power Company, LANSING, ' Aug. 17.- (P) -The State Labor Mediation Board today challepged rival labor unions fight- ing for the upper hand among Con- sumers Power Company employes to "point the way to industrial peace in Michigan" through proportional col- lective bargaining. Chairman Arthur E. Rabb present- ed an ultimatum to the two groups to accept not later than Monday an agreement to be worked out by the labor board "that will be fair to all concerned." "If you fail to grasp this opportuni- ty to settle this thing and point the way to industrial peace in Michigan, you are not going to have another opportunity for many a long day," he admonished the gathering, adding that he would carry his fight to the public if either or both of the rival unions blocked the plan. The assertion was received with openly voiced misgivings by delega- tions jrepresenting the Utility Work- ers Organizing Committee (CIO) and The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (AFL). The UWOC has served notice of intention to strike unlessdan amicable adjustment is ar- ranged of its demands for exclusive recognition as collective bargaining agency for the company's employes, and also has filed with the board charges that the Consumers Power Company has discriminated against it and favored the IBEW. Prof. Albert H. Marckwardt, Prof. Burton D. .Thuma and Dr. Wilfred B. Shaw judged essays. With this issue, The Daily sus- pends 'publication until the fall semester. Good bye. Detroit Old-Timers Mourn Approaching Loss OfGehringer CHICAGO, Aug. 17.-( P)-A stocky,' bow-legged blond youngster named Benjamin McCoy is just about ready to stake a full tine claim on that De- troit box score line fans have been reading for more than a decade- "Gehringer, '2b." Charles Leonard Gehringer, gen- erally ranked as one of the finest second basemen in baseball's history, is nearing the end of a brilliant ca- reer with the Detroit Tigers. At 36 years of age and in the 15th season with the Bengals, he's taking things easier now-watching and helping a 23-year-old youth who apparently has everything it takes to give De- troit another long stretch of fine second basing. Like Gehringer, McCoy also is a Michigan product. Gehringer came from Fowlerville's fair grounds to stardom which saw him electod to every American League all-star team and compile a lifetime batting aver- age of .327 through 14 seasons. Mc- Coy, a genial friendly youth with a faculty for making friends easily, lives near Grand Rapids and has the whole southern section of the state pulling for him to make good. It looks as though he will. In 27 games he hit .336, with many of his safeties extra base blows. Train Wreck Probe Begins Tomorrow RENO, Nev., Aug. 17.-(P)-A for- mal inquiry by the Southern Pacific Company into the train wreck which killed 24 persons in central Nevada was set today for 10 a.m. Saturday at Carlin, near the scene of the tragedy. A. D. McDonald, Southern Pacific president, said the inquiry board would include executives of the Southern Pacific, two Elko, Nev., businesn.and n rnesmentatives nof Victory Seen In Six-State Petrol Strike Oil Producers Hope Large1 Companies Will Follow Lead OfIndependents Michigan Considers Limited Production OKLAHOMA CITY, Aug. 17.-('P)- Mid-Continent oil producers claimed an initial victory in their six-state shutdown war against collapsing crude prices today as two independent com- panies rescinded 20-cent per barrel1 reductions. They were the Bell Oil and Gas Co. and the Danciger Refineries, Inc., both of Tulsa. .- Heads of the major purchasing companies whose price cut put into effect last week were responsible for the current crisis gave no indication whether they would follow the twoa companies' lead. Announce Reduction A third independent-the Caddo Crude Oil Purchasing Co. of Shreve- port, La.-announced a 10-cent re- duction in the top price of crude in the Shreveport "back-yar" field. Nevertheless, observers expected the stoppage of 68 per cent of the Nation's crude production to bring re- sults shortly. Meanwhile, Arkansas authorities called upon their state police to en- force a state oil and gas commission order shutting down all wells in that state's controlled fields. Gov. Carl E. Bailey sent Chief Gray Albright and ten members of the state police department to Eldorado upon the request of Sheriff Grady Woolley, who reported the Lion Oil Refining Co. was the only producer defying the shutdown order. Bailey said he anticipated no disorder. Shutdowns Continue Meanwhile, as Texas , Oklahoma, ouisiaa, Kansas, Arkansas and New Mexico continued to enforce oil field shutdowns holding 2,536,800 barrels of crude ;off the market daily, these developnients interested the "black : gold" industry: 1. Secretary Ickes declared present conditions would necessitate legisla- tion giving the Federal Government partial control of oil production. 2. The Lion Oil Refining Co. chal-I lenged in court the right of the Ar- kansas Oil and Gas Commission to shut down the state's oil fields. 3. The Oklahoma Stripped Well Association charged in an open letter to President Henry M. Dawes of the Pure Oil Co. that present "chaotic conditions" were caused by unbridled production in Illinois. Bell's price increase involves 3,500 barrels purchased daily in Texas and Oklahoma. State Oil Advisory Board Considers Proration Cut LANSING, Aug. 17.-(P)--The State Oil Advisory Board contemplated a further restriction of crude oli pro- duction in Michigan today as a result of curtailments invoked in Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma. P. J. Hoffmaster, supervisor of wells, said the board would meet here to- morrow to consider the feasibility of, a revision of proration schedules that went into effect July 1. He intimated the board probably would issue an emergency order to reduce production still further, declaring that excessive withdrawal of oil leads to premature abandonment of wells. He explained that the order, if it were issued, would be in the interest of sustaining production, rather than an attempt to avert a collapse of prices. "Michigan produces less than two per cent of all crude oil in the United States," he continued. "To shut down our wells would have little, if any, effect in boosting the indus- try's price structure." 39 Gullible Foresters Shave For Blind Dates (Special to The Daily) CAMP FILIBERT ROTH, Aug. 17. -Ten weeks is too long a period for a forester to live without even having a chance to succumb to petticoat fever, so 39 of the student foresters at Camp Filibert Roth got themselves blind dates. Some even went so far as to give up the beards they have been culti- vating for the past seven weeks, neni inr ntth Pfrra w mean+t inus State Police Asked To Hit At Gambling Dickinson Orders Nearly- Entire Force To Seek Evidence On Violations 'Flying Squadron'k May Be Revived I LANSING, Aug. 17.--(IP)-Gover- nor Luren D. Dickinson, 80-year-old crusader against vice and "high life" drinking, aimed a blow at organized gambling in Michigan today. He ordered virtually the entire state police force of several hundred of- ficers to seek evidence of gambling violations, arrest operators of illegal' gambling devices and confiscate the equipment. Action Follows Threat Dickinson's action followed a threat by the Michigan Liquor Control Com- mission to revive its "flying squad- ron" if necessary to prevent gamb- ling or operation of slot machines on premises of licensed liquor sellers. Murl H. Defoe, Liquor Commission member, charged recently that slot machine operators had become active in an attempt to "besmirch" Gover- nor Dickinson's state administration. "He has preached against gambling and slot machines for years," Defoe said today. "Activity by the slot ma- chine men and resort proprietors cer- tainly is an embarrassment to the administration and they know it as well as any one else." Recurring Problem Gambling has been a recurring problem in Michigan since last Janu- ary when charges were made that "wide open" gambling was resumed shortly after Democratic Frank Murphy, now attorney general of the United States, left office as governor. The late Frank D. Fitzgerald, Re- publican who succeeded Murphy as governor, answered the charges by ordering the state police into action, much in the same manner as Dick- inson also a Republican, acted today. In addition Thomas Read, state at- torney general, served notice he would prefer charges against any local enforcement official who failed to enforce the laws against gambling. France, Britain Hold Air Battle In London Sky Onie Killed In Mock Fight; Claim French Forces Were Badly Outclassed LONDON, Aug. 17.-G')-France gave Britain spectacular demon- strations of her air power in two "raids" today and last night in which more than 200 planes partici- pated. Fast British fighting planes en- gaged them in mock battles in the almost cloudless skies over London and a British observer proudly re- ported that "under real war condi- tions, the raiders would have been shot out of the sky." One man died and another was in- jured in the maneuvers when two British bombers collided. One plane crashed in flames near Beal, North- umberland, and the other landed in a field. Other occupants escaped by parachute, one breaking his leg. At the same time, an informant close to the war office said two classes of regular army reservists have been ordered to retain possession of per- sonal wartime equipment until Oct. 15. Informed sources placed the num- ber of men affected at nearly 100,000 in the "A" and "B" classes-troops who have served seven to 15 years in the regular army and who undergo one month's training annually. Hundreds of thousands of London residents saw the French planes- about 100 bombers and 60 fast attack planes-during the afternoon maneu- vers which followed upon a "surprise" raid last night. Both Labor Factions Claim Ballot Victory DETROIT, Aug. 17.-()P)-Both CIO and AFL branchs of the United Au- tomobile Workers Union claimed vic- tory today in the first ballot test of Hitler, Csaky Meeting Hints Military Pact BERLIN, Aug. 17.--(M)-Adolf Hit- ler received Count Stefan Csaky, Hungarian foreign minister, at his Obersalzberg mountain retreat today and semi-official sources hinted that an agreement was being reached for Hungary's cooperation in case of war. Meanwhile, a lull in overt develop- ments in the German-Polish dispute over Danzig was used by the Nazi press to frontpage reports of alleged acts of terrorism against Germans in Poland and of attempts by refugees to reach the Fatherland. Count Csaky, accompanied by Doeme Sztojay, Hungarian minister to Berlin, spent several hours with the German chancellor. Ostensibly, Csaky's visit was to convey official greetings to Hitler in connection with th observance yesterday of the 25th anniversary of the German leader's enlistment as a World War soldier. The fact, however, that Csaky saw German Foreign Minister Joachin Von Ribbentrop at Fuschl Castle yes- terday and today indicated that problems of great gravity are being discussed. CAA Student TrainingPlan Will Continue A Larger Scale Program Seen For University;, Scope Is State-Wide Student flight training sponsored by the Civil Aeronautics Authority, will be continued here ' next year on a much larger scale, according to Col. Floyd E. Evans, director of the Michi- gan State Department of Aeronautics. It is anticipated that as many as 400 students may be given this train- ing at various schools and colleges throughout the State. The authori- zation and appropriation bills for this activity have been approved by Congress, but the complete details of the plan have not yet been announced by the Civil Aeronautics Authority. It is expected that the flight train- ing program here will continue on a basis similar to that undertaken in the spring of 1939. It is not definite- ly known how many students will be trained here during the coming year, but it is anticipated that between 100 and 150 students will be selected. The authorization bill, as passed by Congress, also requires that approxi- mately five per cent of this number shall be non-college men. Bank Is Looted In Philadelphia Thugs Use Shopping Bag To CarryStolen Bills PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 17.:-(P)-In ten minutes, five armed men robbed a bank here today and slipped away in heavy traffic with $33,100 in a nickel shopping bag. First that passers-by and a street corner policeman knew of the "clock- work" holdup at the Wyoming Bank and Trust Company in a North Phila- delphia business section was a bank officer's shout: "Get a cop! We've been robbed!" Directors of the bank announced the amount taken hours after the five escaped. Their first estimate had been $15,000 to $20,000. All paper money in sight was scooped up. The men took no silver. The bank is only a few blocks from the scene of the $80,000 bank messen- ger robbery of 1927-the city's most notorious holdup. A policeman was shot to death. Four men were exe- cuted for parts' in the crime. Despite the precision of the mid- day holdup, police expressed the opin- inn the hank robbers were "amateurs Many Germans Arrested, Some Released; Pass Estate Partitioning Bill Leader Of Minority Held ForQuizzing WARSAW, Aug. 17.-(P)-Officials indicated tonight a sweeping drive would be continued against espion- age and subversive activity attributed to the German minority in Poland. Rudolf Wiesner, one of the leaders of this minority, was released after several hours of questioning, but with the understanding he would be "at the disposal of the Polish attorney general's office." Wiesner was "detained" as part of the general drive which brought about the arrest yesterday of a large number of Germans of Polish citi- zenship and several German citizens as well. 43 Released It was announced tonight that 43 of those arrested had been released A decree- was issued empowering the war or interior inSstry to splt up estates in a belt three to forty miles wide from the nation's boun- daries. The decree was in line with legis- lation enacted in 1920 and 1925 for the partition of estates to aid the peasantry, but it was regarded at this time as having also a definite "national security" motive. Germans own a great number of large estates at the frontirs cially in Silesia and Pumrethe or- ridor). No charge was placed against Wies- ner, .middle-aged;-, ~~ in epn ent of Nazi doctrines and head of the "Young Gemans, Party" in Po- land. So far, several "bureaus" of the Young German's Party and the German Workers' Party in Poland have been closed. Evidence Of sabotage A communique said there was evidence of "an espionage and sub- versive organization having its real headquarters in the German part of Silesia." Foreign observers here regard the present drive as retaliation against alleged arrests and mistreatment of Poles in German Silesia. It appeared also that Poland was seeking to avoid any repetition of the situation that arose in Czecho- Slovakia before that country's dis- solution, in Sudetenland, which was ceded to Germany in 1928, Nazis became powerfully organized. Poland's Commissioner Heets With Danzig Head DANZIG, Aug. 17.-(A)-The Polish commissioner general, Marian Cho- dacki,'returned today from a hurried trip to Warsaw where, presumably, he had received new instructions on negotiations with Arthur Greiser, Danzig senate president. Although nothing could be ascer- -tained of discussions that may have occurred between Chodacki and Grel- ser, the Polish commissioner's return, indicating the talks would be con- tinued, gave rise to some feeling of optimism. In the Free City there were expres- sions of confidence that a peaceful solution might yet be found to the question: "Shall Danzig return to Germany?" While the talks were technically on trade relations Poland controls Danzig customs-none has doubted that, in the light of the Nagi agita- tion they also had considerable po- litical importance. Foreign residents tended to re- gard the Chodacki-Greiser meeting as separate from the daily exhibitions of military strength and preparations for defense of the city. Stevens Will Play At League Dances Earl Stevens and his 10-piece or- chestra will replace Charlie Zwick's orchestra at the regular Friday and Polish Government Continues To Move Agan N S French Visitor Here Is Positive There Will Be.No European War By MALCOLM (PUDGY) LONG In the field of education, M. Sallet "Of course there will be no war in said that there was little propaganda Europe," ius the positive statement of taught in the schools. As a teacher, M. Andre Sallet, for 11 years a teacher he claimed that he has complete free- in the schools of France and now on/ dom to teach what and how he sees a brief visit to this country. fit. Everyone is preparing for another Many of the teachers in France are war, he continued, but it will not socialist, he declares, but this makes come this year. little difference to the ,French pub- As a Frenchman, M. Sallet was able lic who are amazingly indifferent to to give an interesting interpretation the educational system. to French politics. Parliament no longer really exists but the power lies Teachers are well protected in their in the premier. But it little matters jobs, he said. Tenure prevails and to many of the people whether Dala- pensions provide for the teachers old dier is premier or whether it is Blum age. But as to salaries, they earn or La Rocque even. The people still less than cooks and laborers. And think France is a republic, but it is although they earn less money than no more so than Germany or Spain our teachers do, yet they pay almost or Italy, M. Sallet said. the same price for commodities. The - ,. -. - taxes in addition. make living far too