Weather Little Change In Temperature; Scattered Showers JYr £frt 43UU Iat Editoridal The Necessity For Conscription . Official Publication Of The Summer Session VOL. L. No. 32 Z-323 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1940 PRICE FIVE CENTS Axis Reported Making Final Invasion Plan, Massing Men British Minister Announces Blockade Extension To Spain AndPortugal' Windsors On-Way To New York City BULLETIN BUCHAREST, July 31. (Wednes- day).-(AP)-Foreign Minister Mihail Manoilescu expressed today the de- termination of the Rumanian Gov- ernment to oppose with force ay ces- sion of Transylvania and Dobruja to Hungary and Bulgaria. He suggested an exchange of popu- lations with Hungary and Bulgaria as solutions of the Balkan problem. BERN, Switzerland, July 30.-(P) -Reports from France, Germany, Italy and Spain tonight indicated that Germany was making final preparations for an attempt to invade Britain. German and Italian travelers from Spain said that the nationalist gov- ernment there appeared to be prepar- ing to try to grab Gibraltar-a move which it long has been reported may coincide with asGerman attack on England across the Channel. These sources said that troops in small armed boats carrying ar- tillery were concentrated near La Linea, Spain, behind Gibraltar. Reports from France said that the Italians were concentrating bombing planes at their Sardinian bases for an air attack on Gibraltar-another move expected in a coordinated Ger- man attempt to invade Britain. Spain, Portugal Blockaded LONDON, July 30.-(IP)-A vast extension of the British blockade de- signed to close every possible avenue to Germany and Italy and especially to ring Spain and Portugal lest war supplies be transhipped there was announced in Commons today. Hugh Dalton, minister of economic warfare, disclosed the new policy un- der which: 1. Every ship in the Atlantic Ocean will be subject to seizure by the Royal Navy unless its master can produce a navicert-British-approved certi- ficates of clearance-for its entire cargo. 2. Spanish and Portuguese imports will be limited strictly to their own needs, supplies to be permitted to reach such neutrals in "imports ade- quate for domestic consumption, but not for reexport." Britain hopes to "intimidate" a large number of ships which have been plying the Atlantic with cargoes certified only in part by British offi- cials at their points of origin. Windsors On U.S. Ship, Guarded By H.M. Navy LONDON, July 30.-()-Skirting a United States law, guns and tor- pedoes of the British navy will guard the American export liner Excalibur on its way to New York to insure the Duke and Duchess of Windsor-and the ship-against seizure by any en- emy raiders. His Majesty's navy may, however, comply with the letter of the Amer- ican law forbidding American ships to travel in belligerent convoy by keepingat a "non-convoy" distance but still close enough for action if need be. The Excalibur will sail Thursday from Lisbon. The American export lines, in New York, confirmed that the Duke and Duchess had booked passage, to arrive in New York Aug. 9, but said the question of any Brit- ish escort was up to the state de- partment. Supreme CourtIssues Discussed ByDean Bates Legal Expert Notes Lag Between Latest Doctrines, Tribunal's Decisions On Validity Of Legislation By HARRY M. KELSEY There will always be some lag be-' tween the latest economic and social, doctrines of the country and some of the decisions of the Supreme Court' passing upon the validity of legis- lation based upon these doctrines,- Dean Emeritus Henry M. Bates of the law school asserted in a lecture1 last night. Whether the period of lag is great or small will depend1 in large mea- sure upon the ability of the members of the Court to base their decisions wholly upon the existence or non- existence of the authority of the legislature to pass them, to the ex- clusion of any consideration of the wisdom, expediency or efficacy of the statutes involved, he stated. Dean Bates' talk, on "The Funda- mental Law and Judicial Review," was one of the series sponsored by the Graduate Study Program in American Culture and Institutions. The power of the Supreme Court to pass upon the constitutionality of John L. Lewis Denounces Both Major Parties CIO's President Contends Unemployment, Income Problems Were Ignored ST. LOUIS, July 30.-(AP)-Skirt- ing any mention of the coming pres- idential campaign, John L. Lewis, CIO president, declared today both major political parties had failed to face the problems of unemployment and inadequate income for millions of Americans. Lewis said there were 10,700,000 unemployed in the country, includ- ing 3,500,000 young men and women between the ages of 19 and 24, and a national study of 29,000,000 fam- ilies had shown that 19,000,000 "sub- sist on a family income of $69 a month." Speaking at the convention of the United Automobile Workers of Amer- ica, second largest union in the CIO, Lewis said: "That is what is the matter with America-an insufficient national income to permit the popu- lation to consume our own produc- tion." Declaring that the platforms of both major political parties fail to state "what they're going to do about it," the labor leader said: "Some day the people of this country are going to lose confidence in the existing political parties to such a degree that they are going to form their own party." That, he added, was "for the fu- ture to develop." The automobile workers greeted Lewis with a 45-minute demonstra- tion, hammering on tables and trays, with miniature baseball bats and boards until they were warned the plaster was cracking on the ceiling below the convention hall. Lewis denounced proposals for uni- versal compulsory military training and demanded that the government "refrain from giving its business to concerns that deny the rights of labor." legislative acts was established in 1803 in an opinion delivered by Chief Justice Marshall in the case of Mar- bury vs. Madison, Dean Bates said The logic of this case has been justly criticized, he maintained, but the dictum has been treated as sound in all subsequent decisions, and it may be regarded as stating the established law. It is true, he remarked, that the' Constitution does not in terms confer upon the Court authority to declare, a legislative act invalid, but the great majority of scholars hold the view that the authority to pass upon legislation was necessarily assumed and implied in the Constitution. Some definite proposals of setting up special tribunals endowed with this power were made and rejected in the Constitutional Convention, Dean Bates pointed out. The rejec- tion of these, he claimed, was due largely to the assumption by the leaders based upon their colonial experience and their theories as to the nature of constitutional power that the courts were by the very nature of the case given this author- ity. Thus the Supreme Court has had conferred upon it a task and respon- sibility more important, difficult and delicate than courts elsewhere ever' have been called upon to perform, Dean Bates told. It subjects the court to terrific strain and to at- tacks by political parties, economic interests and numerous pressure groups, he said, a strain that is par- (Continued on Page 3) Final Excursion Will BeToday Tour To Leave Angell Hall For Put-In-Bay Island Excursionists will leave Ann Arbor from in front of Angell Hall at 7:15 a.m. today for the last Summer Ses- sion excursion of the season, a .trip to Put-in-Bay Island in Lake Erie. The boat to the island will leave Detroit at 9 a.m., returning at 8 p.m. The group will arrive back in Ann Arbor at about 9:30 p.m. today. A three hour stop-over on the Island is anticipated. Conducting the excursion will be .Prof. Ruel V. Churchill, director of Summer Session excursions. The party will be able to consult Prof. Irving D. Scott of the geology depart- ment, who will accompany the group, concerning the geological formations on the Island. Main points of interest will be the Island's four caves and limestone shore line. First glimpse of the Is- land will be the 352 foot granite shaft of the Perry Monument, constructed in memory of Commodore Peery's naval victory off the Island during the war of 1812. Explosions In Camden CAMDEN, N. J., July 30.-()- Flames touched off by a series of explosions in a paint factory swept four blocks of central Camden to- day, killing at least one factory em- ploye, hiding the fate of seven others, Galsworthy's Play To Open Here Tonight Whitford Kane To Direct And Perform In 'Escape'; Norm Oxhandler In Lead Showing To Start At 8:30 p.m. Sharp With Whitford Kane, noted Irish actor, as director, the Michigan Rep- ertory Players' sixth production of the current drama season, John Gals- worthy's "Escape" will open a four- day run at 8:30 p.m. today in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. A friend and student of Gals- worthy, Kane has appeared in nearly all of the author's dramas including a number of premieres. He originate the role of O'Cleary in "Justice" and played prominent parts in "Strife" and "The Pigeon." He will be seen again tonight as the parson. Leading Player The leading role of the production, that of Matt Denant, will be played by Norman Oxhandler, a Play Pro- duction veteran, who has been seen this summer as Stephen Minch in "The Star Wagon" and as the artist in "Two on an Island." "Escape" reveloves about the char- acter of Denant, an escaped convict, and his attempts to elude capture by the police. Truman Smith, who played the sight-seeing guide in "Two on an Island" and Hanus Wilks in "The Star Wagon" will be seen as the farmer. The various scenes, which are set in England in about 1925, are design- ed to give an air of unreality to the performance. All of the sets are two- dimensional and are painted with an air brush to give them a hazy appear- ance. Supporting Roles Supporting roles in the drama are portrayed by Vincent Jukes as the plain clothes man; James Moll as the fellow convict;' Osna Palmer as the shingled lady; Everett Court- right as the man in plus fours; Ar- thur Klein as the old gentleman; Dorothy Hadley as his wife, and Mary Jordan and Evelyn Smith as the two maiden ladies. Others in the cast include Mary Ellen Wheeler as the girl of the town; Henry Patterson and Robert Link as the two policemen; George Shapiro and Alfred Wilkinson as the two war- ders; Carrie Trombley as the main; June Madison, Neil Smith; Elizabeth Green and Ray Pederson as the four trippers; Richard Hadley as the vill- age constable; Angus Moore and Roy Rector as laborers; Jeanne Court- right as the little girl; Richard Heger as the little boy; George Batka as the bellringer, and Ollierae Bilby, June McKee, Margaret Wiseman and Edith Woodard as people in the park. Senate's Military Group Approves Calling Guard; Havana Conference Ends Three-Point 'Havana Act,' Aimed At Aggression Signed By 21 Nations Cordell Hull Feted As He Leaves Cuba HAVANA, July 30.-(R)-The his- toric conference of Havana, which bolstered the Monroe Doctrine with new bars against war dangers from Europe, ended tonight in a cheering flurry of speech-making and docu- ment-signing. U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull, the quiet, patient man who is credited with pushing through the three-point program of American solidarity, was the first to sign. He was last in the lottery of precedence, but the others deferred to him so he could catch the liner Oriente for Miami. Hull was cheered loudly as he left his seat and stepped to the large table in the Cuban capitol to affix his signature to the various confer- ence measures. He was cheered again a few minutes later when he tried to slip out quietly while Foreign Office representatives of the other 20 American republics were coming forward to sign. The program to which they at- tached their names consists of: 1. A so-called "Act of Havana," definitely declares all the American Republics to be opposed to change or menace of change in the status of European possessions in this hemisphere. 2. Inter-American cooperation to Combat the "fifth column" or other infiltrating subversive elements that may exists or seek to exist in this hemisphere. 3. Mutual effort to maintain eco- nomics in an "American way," with precautions against market disloca- tions caused by the European war, and to guard against encroachment of European barter systems. Education Talks To End Series Will Discuss Health And Extracurricular Work Prof. Edgar Johnston and Dr.'Ma- bel Rugen will conclude this week's lectures in the Summer Session ser- ies sponsored by the School of Edu- cation, in the University High School Auditorium. "Some Critical Issues in the Field of High School Student Activities" will be discussed at 4 p.m. today by Professor Johnston, based on his recent studies of the extracurricular activtiy programs in operation hroughout the state. Tomorrow at 4 p.m. Dr. Rugen will describe "Suggestions for Improving Health Education in Schools" on the basis of the experimental work she has supervised in workshops, in com- munities, in various parts of the State. Alfred E. Smith 'Walks' again, Backs Wilikie (By the Associated Press) NEW YORK, July 30.-Alfred E. Smith, the Democratic presidential candidate of a dozen years ago who1 took his first famous walk out of his party's convention in 1936, declared himself today for Wendell L. Willkie, the 1940 Republican standard bearer, In a formal statement, the former Governor of New York declared that "in my opinion, the recent so-called Democratic convention in Chicago sounded the death knell of the Dem- ocratic Party." As a result, he said, he and "mil- lions of other genuine Democrats throughout the United States will continue to protect and defend true democratic principles and will in no way willingly or silently tolerate any foreign blocs, call them New Dealers or what not." He added that the "thing to do is to :defeat the Democratic Party this year and get rid of the fellows who turned it into the New Deal Party." Dnas Malone, John P. Dawson To Talk_ Today Two Lectures To Consider Future U.S. Achievementr IndividualLiberty Goal Presenting the last of his series of ten lectures for the Graduate Study Program in American Culture and Institutions, Dr. Dumas Malone; director of the Harvard University Press will speak at 4:15 p.m. today on "The Future of American Achi- evement." At 8:15 p.m., Prof. John P. Daw- son of the law school will lecture on "Individual Freedom as an Objec- tve in Government". Both lectures will be given in the Rackham School auditorium'and will be open to the public. A native of Detroit, Professor Daw- son attended the Detroit City College from 1918 to 1920, then taking his A. B. degree at the University here in 1922. He went on to take a J. D. degree from the law school in 1924 and studied at Oxford University in England from 1924 to 1927, taking a D. Phil. degree there in 1930. Professor Dawson became a mem- ber of the faculty of the law school here in 1927, and has been here since. A member of the Michigan State Bar Association, Professor Dawson belongs also to the Research Club of the University, the American Associ- ation of University Professors and the American Federation of Teachers. He is a contributor to professional journals. Committee Hears General Demand Authorization To Augment Defenses FDR Remains Silent On ConscriptionBill WASHINGTON, July 30. -(A)- President Roosevelt's appeal for power to call out the National Guard and Officers Reserve Corps for train- ing-a proposal backed unstintedly by the Army-received today the quick approval of the Senate Mili- tary Committee. Its action came shortly after it had heard Gen. George C. Marsh- all, the Chief of Staff, describe such an authorization as urgently neces- sary and add. a strong endorsement of selective conscription-a proposal apparently bogged down in congres- sional controversy. On the latter subject, President Roosevelt declined- to be drawn out at a press conference-although the committee earlier had engaged in an acrimonious dispute over a Repub- ican demand that he make his views mown. When a reporter asked his attitude toward the pending Burke-Wads- worth bill-requiring all men 18 to 74 inclusive, to register for possible selective training-he said he did not care to go into details. To this, he added the statement that a lot of machines without men to run hem were worthless, and many men without machines were equally value- less. This led some to the conclusion that the President favored conscrip- tion, but at no more rapid a rate than the men called up could be provided with equipment for their training. Marshall . took the position that conscription and calling out the Guard were, in combination, the only method of insuring a sufficient num- ber of men for the nation's security. "We must know what tools we have to work with," he said. "Paper plans will not suffice in this emer- gency. In our judgment, the secur- ity and safety of this country depend on our having an adequate number of men trained and there is no other way to do it except by his method (calling out the Guard) followed by some form of conscription. "I don't think we can afford in any degree at this time to speculate on the security of this country." Marshall's testimony was the cl- mactic event of a day which saw the Committeeembroiled in an acrimon- ious session, involving Republican demands that President Roosevelt state his views on conscription, English Syntax To Be Analyzed By Eugene Nida Arkansas Linguist To Talk Today In Kellogg Hall; Bloomfield To Speak With the summer meeting of the Linguistic Society of America com- pleted, members of the Linguistic In- stitute face not only the customary lecture program this week but also another week-end of activity due to their acting as hosts to the Confer- ence on Research in the Culture of Non-English Groups in the United States. "English Syntax" will be approach- ed from a new point of view by Eu- gene A. Nida in the Institute 'lecture at 7:30 p.m. today in the auditorium of the W. K. Kellogg building. Mr. Nida, a member of the faculty of the Summer Institute for Linguistics at Siloam Springs, Arkansas, is a re- searcher in Mexican Indian langu- ages who has recently brought to bear upon English language study the same objective descriptive technique used in analyzing Indian speech. The regular Thursday noon lunch- nnn nnranea wil be givnn oeto Dragnet Roundup Of Foreigners Accelerated Throughout Japan TOKYO, July 30.-(IP)-A round-1 up of foreigners throughout the Jap- anese Empire on suspicion of espion- age was pressed tonight by the Jap- anese Army and gendarmerie.X Reliable sources saw the drive as aI new spearhead in the Japanese cam- paign to effect the long-sought "new order in East Asia," by elimination of foreign influence in the economic) zone Japan has called her own. From Korea, on the Asiatic main-c land, came a communique of the Kei-7 jo Headquarters of the Japanese gar-4 rison for Korea and the Korean Pub-4 lic Prosecutor which announced the arrest of "several foreigners who+ have been engaged in espionage." I The nationality of those arrested wa snot disclosed, but the announce- mant rn-ripr by np-_ a nanmap 1 port of Western Japan, and is the center of an important industrial area. Domei also reported the Ministry of Education planned gradual re- placement of 400 or 500 foreigners, now teaching in Japanese schools and universities-as a precaution against espionage. The anti-espionage campaign, in which a group of prominent Britons in Japan has been arrested, was dis- cussed today by the United States and British Ambassadors to Tokyo, Joseph C. Grew and Sir Robert Leslie Craigie. It was understood their conference covered the death of one of the ar- rested Britons, Melville James Cox, veteran English newspaperman, who, the Japanese, say, commited suicide by ieanino- thnunen h a nice sttin Biology Camp Invites Visitors Sunday,Aug. 4 Sunday will be Visitors' Day at the University Biological Station on Douglas Lake, where educational ex- hibits will feature the work done by the camp's biologists in the lakes, bogs, brooks, rivers and forests of the North. From 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. students and faculty members will receive vis- itors, conductthem around the camp, show them the exhibits and discuss any biological problems the visitors may be interested in. Up in the north woods, near Che- boygan, the biology students have plenty of subjects for study. Sugar maple, beech, yellow birch, hemlock and white pine grow in abundance around the camp. More than 1,000 species of flowering plant have been catalogued and 600 species of algae have been found. Birds are studied from concealed elevated platforms, and 51 species of mammals frequent the area, including bats, shrews, moles, muskrats, badgers, coyotes, red fox, wildcats, bears and deer. Pollock Will Discuss Chicago Convention Prof. James K. Pollock of the po- E t v k L Formula For Genius Presented By Dr. Dumas Malone Yesterday Final Vesper Program Will Be Held Sunday Third and final program in the series of Summer Session Vespers will be held at 8 p.m. Sunday in Hil Auditorium under the direction of the Rev. William J. Finn, C.S.P., By MORTON C. JAMPEL A high mentality, good education- al opportunity, an unusual mother, a father who is in a profession, and a fair amount of luck are the ingred- ients that form the answer to the "Riddle of Genius", Dr. Dumas Ma- lone told an American Culture In- stitute audience of 300 yesterday. Basing his prescription for great- ness chiefly on the results of a Stan- ford University study of 500 geniuses of history, Dr. Malone pointed out that while these generalizations can be made, great men have come from every level of life, with all sorts of backgrounds. "And nowhere is it more import-- Surprising as it may sound, Dr., Malone said, in Germany there has been a great amount of freedom with-; in the totalitarian set-up and ap- pointment has been made on ability. But England has been obstructed by rewarding its social aristocracy instead of talent. Claiming that great men must be constructive and not destructive, Dr. Malone called for a more positive approach on the part of democracies. "The answer of democracies to the dictatorships cannot be an indignant denial, it must be a confident af- firmation," he said. Comparing the mere "good" with t- 19rra 0 AN1nn -mcin i a +hp