er; increasing nd warmer. Y Official Publication Of The Summer Session jIaiti Editorial Prejudice In A Democracy ,.' No 13 '-323 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1939 PRICE FIVE CENTS .r wws, ; .i i Is Told d Plans. Ancbnymous Manuscript Promises New Light On DaVinci's Theory Poles' essary Sends Note' The Defense )rt Of Danzig ates Britain's 'iner Promise. July 10.-(IP)-Prime amberlain told Fuehrer today, through a care- statement he read in f Conmons, that Britain alongside Poland if neces- nt Germany from taking ltic port of Danzig back Prof. Panofsky Hints WorkI May Be That Of Son Of Old Master's Pupil S By HARRY KELSEY Recently purchased by the Morgan Library on the recommendation of Prof. Erwin Panofsky of the Prince- ton Institute for Advanced Study, an anonymous manuscript of about the year 1570 promises to throw a good deal of light on Leonardo Da- Vinci's theory of movement in art, Professor Panofsky revealed in an interview yesterday. The document, which the ,Prince- ton professor suspects is the workcof the son of one of the great master's pupils who had access to DaVinci's papers before they were dispersed, contains copies of many of his draw- ings with transliterations of his texts. The originals of 17 of these have been lost. The unknown author has also de- veloped some of the principles as Leonardo would have, had he gotten around to it, Professor Panofsky said. He hopes to publish the results of his studies of the manuscripts next year in London. The history of this most valuable document as told by Professor Panof- sky is an intriguing tale, as the work has twice disappeared for over a centtfry. Where it went after leaving the hands of the original artist is not known. It turned up, however, in S Shakespearian Comedy Opens On Wednesday Two Gentlemen Of Verona Will Be Given To Msic By Repertory Players by name, that the .vance by as written to to is Poland's ic, and that g),is there- zx< was generally in- un's acceptance o C ;hat Danzig is vital dence, which Brit- di. s who insisted that r fight for Danzig," ying to discouirAge believing she can to the Reich with- war, Chamberlain London in 1690, but there is no clue as to the method or route of its Journey there. In that year it was bought by Constantine Huygens, broter of the famous Dutch physi- cist,, who was at that time secretary to William III of England. Huygens believed the work to be that of Da- Vinci himself. Evidently the manuscript was tak- en back to Holland by Huygens, for at the end of the nineteenth century it came to light once more, this time in the library of a Holland gentleman. Later, it found its way to New York, and recently a dealer in that city, still thinking the document to be Leonardo's, offered it for sale to the Morgan Library. It was then that Professor Panof- sky had his first glimpse of the elu- sive work. Finding Dutch notations on several of the papers, he identified the work, mentioned in letters that had previously come to his attention, as not being DaVinci's own. Prof. Hopkins Speaks Today On Ruined City Will Describe Excavations At Seleucia In Lecture At Rackham Auditorium The story of one of the world's greatest cities of many centuries ago will be ,told by Prof. Clark Hopkins of the Greek department at 5 p.m. today in an illustrated lecture on "The University of Michigan's Exca- vations of Seleucia-on-the-Tigris." Seleucia, which is 25 miles south of Baghdad, was discovered by a group under the direction of Prof. LeRoy Waterman of the department of Ori-' ental Languages which was searching for an old Assyrian city of Opis. Be- cause of the similarity of the topo- graphical formations around Sele cia and those looked for at Opis, it is believed that the old Assyrian city may lie below theruins of Seleucia, ,a city of a ater'cu date The excavations at Seleucia are important because they have dis- closed the culture of a period little known in Mesopotamia, that pf 150 B.C. to 200 A.D., when the western culture brought by the Greeks was coming into contact with the Near- Eastern culture of Mesopotamia. First founded in 312 B.C., Seleucia became a Greek center and then in the period around 140 B.C. was settled by the Parthians, a branch of the Persians. At this time Seleucia was one of the great trade centers of the Near East and was second in impor- tance only to Alexandria in Egypt. Shortly afterwards the Parthians be- gan developing a new city, Btessi- phon, across the river, and Seleucia declined in importance. After 226 A.D. it became extinct. Prof. Hopkins has visited Seleucia and is an authority on the history and culture of its period. Welfare Head Named LANSING, July 10.-(P)-A com- promise arrangement today plac, d Walter F. Gries, of Negaunee, in the chairmanship of the new State Wel - fare Commission, a political hot snot, despite his protests He is a Re-- publican. Lending Bill Nears Snag In Congress Republican Leaders Claim Enough Votes To Beat New Measure In House Representatives Fear 'Dictatorial Powers' WASHINGTON, July 10. -(p)- President Roosevelt's lending pro- gram, reduced to writing and intro- duced in Congress, aroused such ex- tensive opposition today as to leave the fate of the measure in doubt. The bill, presented by Senator Barkley (Dem.-Ky.), the Democrat leader and Chairman Steagall (Dem.- Ala.) of the House Banking Commit- tee, called for loans totalling $2,800,- 000,000 through the RFC and the Im- port-Export Bank, for the purpose of revitalizing business. Self-Liquidating Projects Sponsors of the measure said the advances would go for projects which over a period of years would pay for themselves, and thus reimburse the Government. The money would be raised through the sale of bonds by the RFC to the public. In that way it was planned that the entire oper- ation should be kept apart from the regular budget of the Treasury. While Administration men said the pro- gram would not increase the deficit or national debt, their critics dis- puted this. While it was planned that both. House and Senate committees should start work on the measure this week, the immediate battlefield and danger spot for the bill appeared to be in the House. There, Republican leaders were privately claiming enough votes to defeat the program in the Bank- CIO Blocks Police Move On Picketers Strike Of Skilled Workers Spreading To Distant General Motors Plants Union Charges Plot To Sabotage Strike DETROIT, July 10.--()-Solidly massed CIO pickets withstood efforts of police to clear them from entrances of the Pontiac, Mich., Fisher Body plant today as a strike of General Motors skilled workers spread to cor- poration units in Cleveland, O., and Saginaw, Mich. The CIO United Automobile Work- ers assembled the pickets to block what union leaders said was a cor- poration attempt to organize a "back- to-work movement!" although pickets and police both carried clubs, none were used. R. J. Thomas, president of the U-AW-CIO which called the strike to enforce a demand for an agreement covering tool and die workers, engi- neers and maintenance men, said today, "the corporation will find, larger and just as solid picket lines in Pontiac and Detroit tomorrow morning." The union claimed that 700 skilled workers at the Fisher Body plant in Cleveland were on strike, halting "all work on 1940 body dies for Chevrolet cars. The Saginaw steering gear plant which supplies 85 per cent of steering gears for G.M. cars also was affected. The union claimed 75 tool and die workers struck; plant heads said. only 40 joined the walkout. Pontiac city officials said approxi- mately 450 pickets at the Fisher plant rushed 50 police and 10 sheriff's deputies from sidewalks at the Fisher Plant there. One man was arrested after the smashing of a window in an automobile in which an employe sought to go to work. Latin Institute To Meet Today Lectures And Roundtable HighlightProgram' Lectures, roundtable discussions and a concert have been planned for members of the Institute for Teach- ers of Latin who will convene for their second session here today. The institute, sponsored by the University's Latin department to modernize the teaching of Latin in Michigan high schools, will meet daily through Saturday. Tomorrow's session opens with a continuation of Prof. J. G. Winter's lecture "North Africa Undetr the Romans" to be delivered at 11:10 a.m. in Room 2003 Angell Hall. A roundtable discussion will high- light the afternoon program. The discussion will begin at 3:30 p.m. in Room 2003 Angell Hall. Delegates may then attend the Summer Session lecture at 5 p.m in the Rackham auditorium where Prof. Prof. Clark of the Greek department, will speak on "The University of Michigan's Excavation of Seleucia- on-the-Tigris" (illustrated). WPA Strikers Kill Policeman AsNew 7-W Wage Scale Pends Watch Out Washington, The Dollar's Blown Up CAMP DAVIS, Wyo., July 11.-Paul (Cowboy) Rothwell, a geology stu- dent, isn't an expert on monetary in- flation, but he can tell you all about blowing a dollait up. It happened during the celebration of Independence Day last week when Rothwell experimentally placed a firecracker under a silver dollar to see how far a dollar would go nowa- days. He .didn't find out immediate- ly however, as a searching party con- sisting of most of both the surveyors and geologists failed to find the miss- ing coin. Today the experiment showed re- sults, though The dollar, blackened and hardly distinguishable from the black dirt it was on, was found be- hind a cabin and some 80 feet away from the spot where it had been blown into the air. Hummel Talks * Fil 1 . On Far Eas' s Science Today Opens China Series Here With Two More Lectures To - Follow This Week The first in a series of three lec- tures on Far Eastern science will be given by Dr. Arthur W. Hummel, director of the division 'of Orientalia of the Library of Congress, Wash- ington, D.C., at 4 p.m. today in the Amphitheatre of the Rackham Build- ing.- Dr. Hummel, who is the foremost American Sinologist and the Dean of American Chinese scholars will speak on "Why Science Did Not Flourish in China." After taking his Ph.D. at the Uni- versity of Leyden in the Netherlands, Dr. Hummel. taught in Japan from 1912 to 1914 and in China from 1915 to 1927 While in China he was lec- turer in the Yenching School of Chi- nese Studies in Peking. In 1932 he was director of Far Eastern Studies at Harvard. Dr. Hummel will speak on "Adven- tures with Chinese Books" tomorrow and "Some Contributions China Can Make to the West" Thursday. Deutscher Verein .Plans Picnic To day, The Deutscher Verein, under the direction of Walter Bierberick, presi- dent, will hold a picnic today on the Isla'nd for members of the club, stu- dents of the German department, and all interested in speaking German. The group will meet at Deutsches Haus, 1315 Hill Street at 5:30 p.m. Admission to the picnic is free to members of Deutscher Verein To others it will be 50 cents including transportation. i _ Heart Attack After Beating Held Cause Of Death In FightAtMinneapolis Opposition Looms For Wage Revision WASHINGTON, July 10.-(P)-An outburst of violence on WPA picket lines led to the death of a Minne- apolis policeman today while legis- lation to revise the strike-provoking wage regulations of the new Relief Act was being presented to Con- gress. A physician attributed the police- man's death to strain on his heart from excitement after a beating by demonstrators. The officer was Patrolman John B. Gearty, 40, who was beaten on the head and shoulders, companions said, as he and another officer escort- ed non-striking WPA workers from a sewing project in Minneapolis.' KOthers in the police detail were pelted with stones, broken glass and other missiles. Patrolman Paul Larson, his com- panion, said Gearty was pummeled over the head and shoulders by at least a half dozen men as they tried to put Frank Fischer, 45, WPA work- erq on a street car for home. Thirty traffic police were escorting a hundred or more women and men from a sewing project at Second. Ave. North and Second St. when the fight- ing broke out. Repeal Introduced In Washington, Representative Sa- bath (Dem.-Ill.), chairman of the influential Rules Committee, intro- duced the first bill for repeal of the new wage regulations. His meas- ure, which would restore the former requirement that WPA workers re- ceive the prevailing local wage for the type of work on which they are engaged, was followed by similar measures introduced by Representa- tives Keller ' (Dem.-Ill.), Bradley (Dem.-Pa.) and O'Connor (Dem.- Mont.). It wa sapparent, however, that no change would be made in the law without overcoming) stubborn opposi- tion. Representative Woodrum (Dem.- Va.) chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee which handled the Re- lief Bill, indicated his opposition and predicted the House would not agree to any change. Other developments .included,: William Green, President of the American Federation of Labor, said that if Congress did not revise the law there would be "strikes and strikes." .The Congress of Industrial Organi- zations, in a statement, renewed its demand for revision of the restric- tions: ed to give our the case of a independence vital to re- forces, and to carry out he fact that independence established in ed, block Po- and so exert ary strangle- Shakespeare's earliest romantic 3. Britain is alert for action by Germany to encourage an uprising in Danzig which would force Poland to take action against the Free City r and thus make Poland seem an ag- gressor. 4. "If the sequence of events should in fact be such as is contemplated in this hypothesis, the honorable mem- bers will realize * * * that the issue could not be. considered as a put ely local matter involving the rights and liberties of the Danzigers, which in- cidentally are in no way threatened, 'but would, at once raise graver issues affecting Polish national existence and independence." Members rushed from the House of Commons to the lobby as sooni as (Continued on ,Page 2) Excursion Goes To Ford Plant Group Leaves At 5 P.M. On Dearborn Trip Fifth in the series of Summer Ses- sion excursions will be a trip tomor- row to the Ford plant in Dearborn on the River Rouge, a repetition of the excursion conducted last Wed- nesday, held for the benefit of those who were unable to attend last week. Reservations for the tour should be made in the Summer Session office, Room 1213 Angell Hall, before 5 p.m. today. The only expense is the round trip bus fare, $1.25. The excursion will leave Ann Ar- bor from in front of Angell Hall at 12:45 p.m. and return about 5:30 p.m. Excursionists on the first Ford plant tour saw the Rotunda, the va- rious buildings of the plant proper. and were conducted through the mo- tor assembly plant, the testing labor. atories and the final assembly lin Music School Faculty Offer Concert Tonight comedy, "The Two Gentlemen of Verona," the third offering of the Michjigan Repertory Players, will open at 8:30 p.m. tomorrow night in Lydia' Mendelssohn Theatre. Thor Johnson will direct the Chamber Orchestra of the School of Music in furnishing a musical set- ting for the production. The music is taken largely from Mozart. Four- teen numbers will be played. "The Two Gentlemen of Verona" is one of Shakespeare's lesser known works. It has never had a profes- sional New York production and has not been seen in a major theatre in this country since 1903. By the re- peated lyrical passages and the burl- esque parts characterized by lengthy doggerel verse, the play is marked out as one of the bard's first works. Its characters contain the beginning of those in his later "Romeo and Juliet," "Twelfth Night," and "The Mer- chant of Venice." The story tells of two gentlemen, Prateus and Valentine, played by Edward Jurist and Karl Klauser, who believe themselves in love with Sylvia, played by Marguerite Mink, the daughter of the Duke of Milan. The parts of the two servant-clowns, Lance and Speed, are taken by Prof., William Halstead and James Moll. The three level stage and the elab- orate. costumes were especially de- signed by James Doll of the Federal Theatre in Detroit. Prof. Valentine B. Windt will direct the production. Representative Williams (Dem.- Mo.), the Committee's ranking Demo- crat, said that if the Committee should begin consideration of the bill with the idea of reporting it at this session, it undoubtedly would be at least six weeks before any action was taken. Prof. Williams Speaks Today 'Enemies To Of Education' Be Bared Fresh Air Camp Youngsters Ready For Drive Tomorrow By STAN M. SWINTON. (Special to The Daily) PATTERSON LAKE, July 12.-To- morrow's the big day for a lusty band of tan boys at the University of Michi- gan Fresh Air Camp here. Tonight they'll pour into- Ann Arbor, see a movie and get to bed early. Tomor- row they'll arise early and start the sale of tags to townspeople and stu- dents alike, eager to help other under- privileged youths experience the wonders of outdoor life and heaping platefuls of good food. Already preparations are being made for the tag day. The square pieces of paper with the familiar pic- ture of the smiling urchin are ready; the boys instructed. ' In the meantime, life at this amaz- ing camp continues in its normal course. Youngsters dart from one of the 25 buildings on the 180 preserve life. Cooperating social agencies are furnished with complete records by the camp so that each individual case may be. correctly diagnosed and cor- rectly treated. The casual observer would never guess that some of these vigorous youngsters have gone through most of their life without sufficient nour- ishment or incurred the wrath of officers with juvenile delinquences. The opportunities to hike, swim, take part in handicraft activities and par- ticipate in all the other recreations of normal youth completely rehabili- tate them. And, camp officials say, this rehabilitation carries through into the following year in a remark- ably high degree of cases. One of the things which works wonders is the diet. Given 287 boys who're eating 35,481 meals during the camn season and you've got some- Prof. Mentor L. Williams of the English department will speak on "Who Are the Enemies of Educa- tion?" at 4:05 p.m. today in the Audi- torium of University High School. This is one in the regular series of lectures being sponsored by the School of Education in connection with the class in Trends in National and State Education. Prof. Charles W. Sanford, professor of education in the University of Illi- nois, will speak at 4:05 p.m. tomor- row in the Auditorium on "Provision for Individual Differences in the Schools." Paul J. Misner, superintendent of schools in Glencoe, Ill., will deliver the last of the talks in the series fop this week at 4:05 p.m. Thursday, also in the University High School Audi- torium. His topic will be "The Straw Man of Progressive Education." Last Respects Paid To Late Secretary Swanson WASHINGTON, July 10. -01')- With a solmenly impressive state funeral, the great of Washington paid their last respects today to Claude A. 'Swanson, late Secretary of the Navy. President Roosevelt, Cabinet mem- bers, Supreme Court Justices, diplo- mats, high officers of the Army and Navy, and members of the House and Senate attended the brief and simple McNutt Appointment Is Seen As Boom As 1940 Candidate - COLUMBUS, O., July 10.-G'P) -Paul V. McNutt, U.S. High Commissioner to the Phillip- pines, was offered the presidency of Ohio State University tonight. but rejected it because, he said, he will accept appointment as Federal Security Administrator. The offer was made by trustees of the University following a day- long meeting and McNutt was quoted by the Ohio State Journal as replying by telephone from Washington: "The President will send my name to the Senate for the post of Federal Security Administra- tor and I shall accept it. I am deeply grateful for the Ohio State offer, but under the cir- cumstances cannot accept the post." are working actively to make him the Democratic Presidential nominee in 1940. McNutt was said he would not oppose President Roosevelt if the latter should seek a third term.. There were reports that Mr. Roose- velt would announce McNutt's ap- pointment tomorrow. The Indianian told friends on Capitol Hill he al- ready had accepted the job, in which he would have general supervision over the Social Security Board, CCC, National Youth Administration and other government welfare agencies. The new agency is one of the big- gest in the government. The CCC alone has about 30,000 supervisory employes throughout the country, and the Social Security Board about 9,- 000. Senator Johnson (Dem., Colo.) told renorters that accentance of the Drop Theatre Project Col. F. C. Harrington, WPA Com- missioner, announced that the Fed- eral Theatre Project would be liqui- dated by July 31, although Congress which decreed its end, had allowed until Sept. 30 for the last employes to be removed from the payroll. The new wage regulations, pre- scribed by Congress and effective July 1, require a worker to work at least 130 hours a month to earn a "security wage," to be determined by the local cmst of living and amount- ing, at the maximum, to $96 a month, The new regulations, which re- quired. some workers to work twice as long to earn the same amount of money, resulted in the widespread walkouts on WPA projects last week. Thousands still remained away from their jobs today, but reports from some areas' said there wasa back-to-work movement. Green's threat of "strikes and strikes" if Congress did not restore the old rule was made in addressing the convention of the International Longshoremen's Association in New York. 'Lindbergh Backs Research Project WASHINGTON, July 10.-(A)-CoL Charles A. Lindbergh urged Congress today tQ authorize expenditure of $10,000,000 for an aeronautics re- search station at Sunnyvale, Calif., to help develop military and commer-