Jjtorial Office.
14111, Sta. 227 . PR-4776
gru
SOUTHERN
CALIFORNIA
TROJAN
United Press World Wide News Service
Egxxvjj
egress Acts Resolution
'or Neutrality
(lation Will Curtail H'ar Supply Exports To Hostile Area
R. Approval Expected
L Favorable by 80-0 'ount; House Agrees
With 404-1 Vote
ISHINGTON, Jan. 6.—
L-Congress today hur-L rammed to enact mont a [resolution forbidding war I with revolt-torn Spain, acted just too late to the first shipment of and supplies to loyalist |
Los Angeles, California, Thursday, January 7, 1937
Number 61
Senate Figures
Ed by President Roosevelt to L American neutrality, thc t Wd the house approved an koon export ot munitions to land imposed penalties for its ion
fcident Room velt is expectcd b it as soon as he receives
the capitol.
than an hour before the tis able to begin consldera-a resolution making it un-■ to export arms to Spain and
Union, Industry second Rcdtai
Officials Open Strike Farley
(uture exports, the Spanish Mar Cantabrico left her York dock, passed quarantine, leaded out to open sea.
Speed Is Used Ii houses acted with extra-juy speed The senate passed Joint resolution at 3:25 p. m. vote of 80 to 0. The house at 5:05 p. m.
it unofficial house vote was
P 1
It dissenter was Rep. John T. >rd. F.-L. Minnesota.
[ii a new comer to congress, rman Key Pittman, Demo-Nevada, of the senate foreign |ons committee called up thc soon as the senate lit 12:30 p. m Listing the lot the Spanish civil war in a I ot “whereas'’ clauses, it con-
Resolution Given berefore be it resolved that K the existence of the state of wife It shall be unlawful to
Workers Ask Legislature To Oust Judge Black For Misdemeanor
| Employees Stay in Plants
James Dcwcy, Conciliator, Offers Plans to Heads Of Two Factions
DETROIT. Jan. 6.—(UP) — Leaders of the United Automobile Workers and General Motors executives began discussions tonight through a federal intermediary in an attempt to find a basis on which they could negotiate over the strike that has taken 54.100 of the corporation’s employes out of their jobs.
These three-cornered parleys began at the end of a day which saw the union petition the Michigan legislature to impeach Judge Edward D. Black of Genesee county for “corrupt practices and misde-The formation of the new Philippine commonwealth is meanor" on Saturday. Black unique in that the United States is trying to declare ii-s ii. :le- granted an injunction forbiddin
pendence of the Philippines rather than the Philippines try- it*/l0WIi -slnkers 10 occupy two
Fisher Body company plants—sub-i sldiary of Oen
S. Bogardus, dean of the School of Social Work, in the Wed-, Flint, Michigan. The union con-nesday lecture series yesterday afternoon. tended Black owned $219,000 worth Speaking on ‘New Social and*---, of Oeneral Motors stock and there-
P resented This Morning
The second of the new informal morning organ recitals to be pre-! sented throughout the second semester, will be given ftoin 10 until 10:20 a. m. today during assembly period in Bovard auditorium. Archibald Sessions will play Saint Saens* prelude to the "Deluge;" Beethovens andante from the Fifth Symphony; and Wagner's Introduction to act three of 'Lohengrin.”
Students may come and go during the program, but the request has been made that they do so only between selections. The program will be concluded promptly at 10:20 a. nv. five minutes before classes convene.
French Troops, Junior Council
Supplies Move Meeting
I tii 7 Is Postil,
Into War Zone
itponed
Sen. Key Pittman (left) <1 nd Sen. Gerald P. Nye yeslt </,;y />/<(}-ed an important part in the formation oj the new resolution joibid-ding trade in war munitions with Spain. Pittman called rip the resolution as soon as the senate opened. Nye jatored Sen. Champ Clark's proposal that the resolution be made to apply to all cml war nations and not Spam alone.
Philippine Problem Is Told By Dr. Emory S. Bogardus
Dr, Mattson Fails To Meet Kidnaper
Mystery Trip by Father Is Unsuccessful; Word Of Return Denied
TACOMA, Jan. 6—(U.R)—Dr. William W. Mattson, showing plainly the lines of fatigue and worry In his face, came back to his home
^Tern4nirUeadyaUisued ‘"g to secede from American jurisdiction, declared Dr. Emory ^	tonight from a mysterious four-
Economic Developments ln the Philippines,” Dr. Bogardus asserted that sugar was one of the main reasons why such prompt action was taken on the Philippine bill In congress.
After the Philippine independence has been In operation five
Legal Fight Looms Over College Song
| fore was unqualified to sit in thc I case. The Flint sit-down strikers | ignored the injunction and still I occupied the plants tonight.
James F. Dewey Acts j Immediately after dinner James j F. Dew'py, federal labor conciliator,
! began shuttling between union
years, a prohibitive' tarif‘f“on‘sugar 'Bow Down to Washington' will go into effect that will end importation of the most important source of revenue of the islands.
Dr. Bogardus said. This will enable Cuban interests controlled by Americans to have a virtual monopoly on the field. The tariff will throw 2.000.000 of the Island's 14 -
000.000 inhabitants out of work. ,	a..	: ers from pltnU return for
Other obstacles to the success of officially who wrote the university s Gr,ncral Motors’ drom 1st not to re-the young commonwealth are; the anthem, "Bow Down To Washing- QeneraI Molors proml8e n“ to concentration of wealth and land ton."
in the hands of a few' and the | Wilson claims he wrote thc song, large well-organized radica! group I He said he attended the Wash-
Authorship Is Claimed By Two Writers
SAN DIEGO, Jan. 6—U'.RI—Les-
'e/,Jo,aWi!S?n'	I ‘he United Press that one proposal
of 1918 at the University of Wash- I Dewey WRg carrying c!illcd the
union to remove its sit-down strik-
ington. tonight announced he had | “consulted an attorney" to find out
iUc JL Qiltlll Ur 1111IH W1111 LU	®	| .	n.A , •	■ > , i_ •«	, _ i I ikllUl llvl L/l UU\ati1|, It n i«o ottlllt W C*0
arms, ammunition, or im- I	and the unem-	that General Motors would agree
s of war from any place ln Jnlted States to Spain or to tier foreign country for transient to Spain for use of either >e opposing forces in Spain. Ictnses heretofore issued shall, I ill future exportations there-p ip60 facto be deemed to be
■ resolution carried maximum ties of five years In prison or 1 fine, or both, for violations.
Clark Speaks [jumped Sui. Bennett Champ i Democrat. Missouri, one of munitions committee senators Save their own ideas on neu-legislation. He inquired J*r it would not be better to fu the 1935 neutrality law to I ill civil wars.
pen the senate met again Sen. F P- Nye, Republican. North r* Joined Clai k in taking the applying the ban speclfl-Li j, * mlSht invite charges njudlce.
I ,„W‘Uiam E Borah, Republi-IMaho. scented passible coop-with European powers in
I —_
ployed in cities, Dr. Bogardus stated stated.
Dr. Bogardus was unstinted in his praise of Manuel Quezon, president of the Philippine commonwealth, who will guide the destinies of the young country, drafted by Quezon and his asso elates is modeled after the Ameri
can document with changes, he said.
IS
20
Oxford Degree Of Letters Is Awarded Smith
the Rose Bowl in Pasadena New Year’s day, and when a curtain call was made for the author of the song, rendered by a chorus of 120 voices, Wilson clambered down to receive the plaudits of thc root-
The constitution j *n8 section.
Embarrassment Caused
He said he was ’ greatly embarrassed” when Sam Armstrong, movie songwriter and also a graduate of Washington, was announced over the loud speaker as author of the song.
Wilson said he brought the matter to the attention of Ray Eckmann, graduate manager of the Husky football team, but Eckmann told him it would be "too awkward" to make a correction.
So Wilson hired Attorney C. M Monroe, who, he intimated, will find out whether it will be more
hour absence on which he apparently failed to contact the kidnaper of his 10-year-old son Charles.
However, there was a noticeable lessening of tension around the Mattson home despite the doctor’s denials that the boy was home, that he was expected home tonight, or that the father had received word from the kidnaper.
No Word From Kidnapers
"I have had no word from the kidnapers," the former University of Washington football player, now one of Tacoma’s most prominent physicians and surgeons, said,
"My boy is not home and he ls not coming home tonight as far as I know.”
He was asked whether he had j paid the $28,000 ransom demanded sume production in those, factories , in the note left in the Mattson so long as the strike continues. j home December 27 when a masked Other Proposals	[ and bearded man took the school-
Another proposal, lt was said, was boy away.
“I can’t comment on that," was to negotiate with the union pro- t the doctor's answer to thc query, vided it was understood that the
union spoke only for its own mem- i	family Cheerful
bers and not for othei employes of | He said a report that he already
Loyalists To Receive Aid; Leaders Ponder Over Non-Intervention
Russia Sends Air Weapons
Blockade Against Germany, Italy ls Discussed by Opposing Powers
PARIS. Jan. 6. — (UP)— Thousands of troops and great quantities of military equipment moved from France into Spain tonight to bolster the loyalist armies.
These sinews of war went forward as diplomats in Paris pondered over non-intervention plans and French naval officials grew worried over the massing of German ships in Spanish waters.
Politicians talked of an Anglo-French blockade of Spain lf Germany and Italy do not agree to a rigid program of non-intervention.
Help For Loyalists
Two thousand volunteers of mixed nationalities crossed the Spanish border at Perpignan and entrained for Barcelona to don tht
The junior council meeting that was scheduled for tonight has been postponed until a week from tonight. January 14. at 7 o clock. nt the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house, 2859 Ellendale place, It wns announced last night, Gardiner Pollich, president of the Junior council, said that at that time all reports from the junior prom committees will be due. "It is very important," he added, "that these reports be completely finished by Thursday night, as we want to finish ail the plans for the prom. Every member must be there.”
Pope Knows Death Is Expected Soon
Regret Is Expressed for Unfinished Projects, Prelate States
VATICAN CITY, Thursday, Jan. 7—(U.P)—Pope Plus XI has known for three weeks that death is near and regrets that he must die before completing several of his Vatican projects, a high prelate told thc United Press today.
Tlie Vatican prelate said the Pope became convinced, a fortnight after he was forced to his sick-bed on | loyalist uniform. About 1,300 others , December 4, that his illness was —mostly Poles—went Into Spain fntal and began talking about lt
tors office, carrying proposals and counter-proposals to Alfred P. Sloan, Oeneral Motors president, and Homer Martin, head of the union.
spokesman for one side told
the corporation. The union was reported to have attached several conditions to that proposal.
Union leaders said they expected John L. Lewis, head of the committee for Industrial organization, to come to Detroit soon, but fixed no date for his arrival.
Aok Picture deadline Released
Oxford university has recently
conferred the research degree of _______ ______
bachelor of letters on H. Jeffery | awkward for Washington to with-Smith, instructor in philosophy and I ^old credit or give it. alumnus of U. S. C.	I	Attorney Hired
Holder of a fellowship of the | „Bow Down to Washington” is Kent foundation, Smith attended rec0„nlzed by many to be one of Oxford for three years, 1928-1931. the mosl stirring college fight and returned last summer for the	in America today, Wilson
final oral examination on his dis- C|al^s
sertation concerning the relation	----
between reason and Imagination.	t
which he had completed in absentia. ,T^ j pl/Af In 1929 Oxford conferred on him V^lUSt Ui a diploma in anthropology with
Mrs. Harold W. Roberts Undergoes Appendectomy
Mrs. Alice H. Roberts, wife of Harold William Roberts, director of U. S. C. musical organizations, was reported “doing as well as could be expected" after undergoing an operation for appendicitis at thc California Lutheran hospital yesterday noon.
Sale Announced
It will be Impossible for activity
distinction in social anthropology.
Smith, who has lived in India
and traveled extensively, received ^ ^ ^ ^ _________ ______
ior stnrta", Ms a. B. degree in 1927 when he .	£earers to*gain admittance to
, “™ents "ho have not pre- graduated magna cum laude. In	lomorrow „igtu's basketball game
» m»de appointments for El 1929 he received his A M de-	wUh u c L A un|ess they have
a h., nd*Rown Pictures must gree from U. S. C. He was an in-	(lrst obtained their entrance tic-
ft. 7/,,e Friday, stated Jayt structor in philosophy and psychol-	kelj. m th(. boo^tore office, ac-
eaitor ot the yenroook, yes- ogy at Compton Junior collcge from	cordinK to a release from the grad-
i 1931 to 1932. and since then has	ua^e manager’s department.
^ssary appointments j held the same position on the Troll Ml.....
Wt,w‘!!!idUal f™ternity and
km- . i. — "1111
Pootogr.ipu, r
•ntments are lltetL pleu'd' Br“»'er said ' l“" dollar fee ^nts aPt)Ucat-i°n for I- "e'nit. ,lr l!> n,’lessary only led •• “re made, it was
Gives Address
eiii
p,0r<! Engineers Today
P c‘jalco'ri'11'' 10 thelr vlsit g
P L Chidii a'!dress given I ■» ek. senior engineer rtt JHWUa water district, torro, n,.htm ** 159 Science ctneul
Niton ■ .
P*1 Powe- ? '-'OS Angeles K , No- 1 in San [0! the laW 1K Thls te=t “ 1 Man
*n 6-‘l »>l—A na-
l°day when «h. ; <>n Mud Flats
Grandma Is Winner + * ■*>
Mayor Keeps Her Of/ia
DAYTONA BEACH Fla.. Jan. 6—(UP)—Mrs. Irene Armstrong, graying grandmother muyor who used sub-machine guns to defy the military might of Florida, tonight won her battle to retain control of Daytona Beftch’s winter playground.
Gov. Fred P. Cone, who step-jed into the gubernatorial officc at noon yesterday, tonight revoked an order by which Dave Sholtz, retiring governor of the state, had sought to sweep thc grandmother mayor and her city administration out of office.
The 50-year-old woman who gave up gardening to become mayor of Daytona’s winter wonderland, promptly withdrew the machine-gun armed police who had turned the city h*il Into an armed camp.
She issued a proclamation calling for an “end of all litigation” and municipal business returned to a normal tempo.
The entrance ducats can be procured bv presenting activity cards and paying a 25 cent fee before 5 o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
In anticipation of a large turnout, 1500 seats have been reserved for this opening game of the season which will be held in Pan-Paclflc auditorium. The freshman game is scheduled to begin at 6:15 p. in and the varsity at 8 o'clock.
Honoraries Will Arrange Plans Toaay for Dance To Be Held January 22
Plans for an all-university dance to be held January 22 sponsored by Sigma Sigma, men's honorary, and Spooks and Spokes, women's honorary will be made today at 10 a. m. in 206 Administration building.
The following students are asked by the chairmen to attend this meeting: orchestra, Sid Smith and Virginia Holbrook; bids, Willis Stanley and Mary .Mice Foster; location. Jack Privett and Ellen Holt; decorations. Johnny Parker and Mary Morse; arrangements. Bob Trapp and Jo Swiggett; publicity. , Worth Larkin and Betty Eberhart;
entertainment, Leonard Finch and , Gloria Curran.
had taken the ransom money Into the woods had been misinterpreted by a reporter.
Dr. Mattson said that his wish that the press adopt a "hands off” policy regarding the case had no significance from the standpoint of a “spot” news break.
Mrs. Mattson appeared tired, too. but the family was cheerful and carried on its life around the fireside without a noticeable tension.
Latest clue came from Shelton, Washington, where a department store reported it had sold two pairs of boy’s underwear, a sweater, and a man's sweatshirt last Monday. Sunday night two men approached E. R. Grubbe, Shelton mill watchman, and told him to "notify Dr Mattson in person that all Is well.”
Poles—went through Perthus.
A complete ambulance unit, including one American, was assembled at Toulouse and departed for Barcelona.
Forty Russian antl-alrtraft guns entered Catalonia by way of Cer-bere. Nine truck loads of machln-| ery to be used in a munitions plant went to Albacete.
Shipments Listed
Other recent shipments into S Spain Include 70 American tract-I ors, two Pratt and Whitney airplane motors and one observation balloon.
The American liner, President Harding, due at Havre January 9. had aboard eight Vultee planes, and nine other American planes presently are enroute to Carthagena aboard the freighter Hundendal.
Oerman and Italian embassies indicated tonight that their replies to the Anglo-French suggestion for keeping "volunteers" out of Spain will go to London or Paris Thursday.
A* for France, the foreign officc told the United Press tonight that It was ready to agree to any and all measures of non-intervention lf the other powers would do so.
French officials are becoming increasingly t-.larmed over the concentration of German ships off Spain. They are afraid that Adolf Hitler plans to use the Spanish war to secure a firmer position ln the Mediterranean and Africa.
German Goverment To Hold Troops’ Orders
BERLIN. Jan. 6— (UP)—'The German government tonight doclded to workers ln the comptroller’s office
He’s Aiming High
with intimates.
Death Antlrfpatcd "He said he waa sure, as soon as he entered hls eightieth year last May, that his mission would be terminated soon.” the prelate said.
The pontiff’s-fits of depression, a constant worry to doctors, are mostly due to the fact that he never will see several of his pet projects materialize, Including a Vatican City palace for papal conclaves and the new congregation of Catholic action.
The pontiff refused last night to allow a specialist to examine his erratic heart.
Speaks To Doctor “One doctor is sufficient to kill a man,” he told his personnal physician, Prof. Amlnta Milani.
Until a few days ago, It was revealed. the Pope refused t» give Professor Milani his wrist so that the physician might count his pulse. The doctor took out his watch and discrectly watched the j nra. pulsations of the main artery in the , Uwed Pope's neck.
He counted 120 beats a minute.
“You should be careful; your heart Is beating too fast,” thc physician said.
"How do you know?” the pontiff asked quickly, and Professor Milani explained how he had overcome the Pope’s stubborness.
Checks of NYA Employees Are Available T oday
Checks will be available to NYA
hold up dispatch of more troops to aid the Spanish rebels until It answers the Anglo-French neutrality proposal and Adolf Hitler makes his expected statement on German foreign policy.
Two Marooned Families Saved
SAN BERNARDINO, Jan. 8—IU.E) —Two families, marooned for a week with provisions running low. were brought out of snowbound Barton Flats tonight by a highway crew which used a tractor to cut through snowdrifts to reach them.
The marooned group Included four children and two boy scouts from Orange county, who were blocked hi by snow at Camp Roklli last week.
Oeorge Kauffman and Robert Starbuck of ^uilerton. the scouts, suffered frozen hands and faet when they attempted to make their way 16 miles through the snow to open highway and were taken back to the cabin to recuperate.
This neuly der°ned stratosphere balloon, carrying scientific '.leather recording .nslrumenis, will rise to heights of 60,000 feet. The man about to send it aloft is Lout an &. Wood, ueathet expert at tht California Institute oj Technology.
today at 11 a. m., NYA officials said yesterday.
Both graduate and undergraduate pay will be Issued. Students are requested to appear in person to obtain checks.
Time reports for the period of December 18 to January 17 will be due ln the time reports box ln the post office Saturday, January 16 Five reports are requested, one for each of the fololwlng dates Issued by the central NYA office yesterday: December 19, December 26, January 2, January 9. and January IS.
Officials ask that students do not record fractions of hours on time sheets. Oraduates should designate whether they are first year, advanced, or professional graduates.
President Says Legal Revisions Not Immediate
Roosevelt I ells Congress He Sees No Vital Need I-or Amendments
Annual Message Delivered
( hief Executive Declares Nation Demands Freer Views of Laws
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.-(UP)—P r e s 1 d ent Roosevelt told congress today that there is no immediate need for a constitutional amendment to come with economic and social problems and then bluntly warned the courts that America demands a more liberal interpretation of the laws of the land.
Appearing personally before a Joint session of thc new congress, Mr. Roosevelt appealed for prompt enactment of legislation to embargo .shipments of munitions to Spain, urged conilnuunce of New Deal emergency acts soon to expire, nnd outlined a long-term program to achieve social objectives.
The chief executive said lt ls "patriotic as well as logical” for the nation to prove it '•an meet new national needs wkiiin the framework of the constitution. But, he said sharply, the document clearly was Intended "to receive liberal and not narrow Interpretation.’’
Appeal To Judiciary
After thanking congress for Its cooperation with the White House in recovery measures, the president said:
“The judicial branch also is asked by the people to do Its part in making democracy succcssful. We do not ask the courts to call nonexistent powers Into belnpr. but we have a right to expect that thc conceded powers or those legitimately Implied shall be made effective Instruments of the common good.”
"The process of our democracy must not be imperiled by the denial of essential powers of free govem-ment,” he asserted.
Main Points Listed
In his 2,000 word message oil the “State of the Union” the president:
1. Defended the (JbJectlves of The project has been out-he said, but the problems "are still with us."
2 Blamed overproduction, underproduction, and speculation as tho “three evil sisters” responsible for unsound Inflation and disastrous deflation.
3.	Reiterated that the 48 states are powerless to cope individually with thc problem of maximum hours, minimum wages, child labor and cutthroat competition.
Governments Criticized
4.	Criticized "spectacular” foreign governments without mentioning them by name.
5.	Praised the Buenos Aires peace conference as a meeting which must have a "wholesome effect'’ upon the rest of the world “unhappily thinking ln terms ot war."
6.	Placed upon congress the responsibility of determining which of thc New Deal emergency acts, such
(Continued on Page 4)
Sailor Given Five Years For Plotting Extortion Against Movie Actress
By tinned Prtn.
The United States government yesterday gave James F. Hall. 20- ] year-old navy musician who attempted a “mad-cap” extortion plot against Ginger Rogers, movie actress, five years to "ponder over the j seriousness of hi* offense.”
The five years will be spent ln ! McNeil’s Island penitentiary, near Seattle.
Judge Albert Lee Stephens pro-1 nounced sentence in the curious case, ln wnlch Hall carried out his extortion plot ln spite at the fact that the whole affair had been re- > ported m the newspapers.
O and M Men Toil * * * ♦
Improvements Progress
If Old Mail Weather does not throw his wrench in the machinery too often, as he has In the past few weeks, a new parking lots east of the Foyer of Town and down will be at the disposal of commuting students soon.
Also the short-lived parking space at the Intersection of Hoover boulevard and 35th place, which sprouted a crop of ''No Parking” signs yesterday, will soon be a landscaped park U the weather permits. These are just a few of the changes being planned by the operation and maui-tenance department, lt was disclosed yesterday.
The cement floor, which was left behind when the “Stable" was moved from the corner of University and 36th street, is in the process of being hauled away. Another building tn the same block, facing University, will soon follow suit. Slowly but surely the university will develop a completely landscaped campus, according to Charles K Sims, university engineer.
Music Scholarship Offered by Mu Nu
Applications for the annual tlOO Betty Perkins scholarship ln the School of Music will be accepted until Thursday. January 21, an announcement today from tne music office indicated.
The scholarship consists of a cash gift of $100 to the winning applicant by the Trojan Mu Nu chapter of Mu Phi Epsilon, national musical sorority.
Only women students in the School of Music are eligible for tlie scholarship but they may be second-seinester freshmen, sophomores, Juniors, or seniors, according to the contest rules. Contestants must have a B average In music theory and liberal arts subject* and an A average in upplicd subjects
Application blanks may be obtained from Miss Alice Muclotkey in the School of Music offloe and must be submitted to Miss Annina Mueller at the Hchool of Musto by January 21.
Notices of Scholarships To Be Posted on Board
A bulletin board in front of Bovard auditorium has been assigned to scholarship notices, according to an announcement made by Dr. Frank Baxter, head cf the scholarship committee, yesterday.
Interested student: may find out the requirements for current, foreign and United States scholarships here. Further informaUon about additional prizes and honors may be obtained at all times from Doctor Baxter In the English office in Bridge h»"