r -E WEATHER ETTLED; PROBABLY COLDER TODAY L s it4b xii Section One XXXIV. No. 86 TWENTY PAGES ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, JANUARY 20, 1924 TWENTY PAGES PRICE, FIVE . . . . I EXIlCNS GRANTED 9HT OF PASSAGE U S. TERITORY EGON'S TROOPS TO CROSS ARIZONA, NEW MEXICO AND TEXAS} ERICAN WAR VESSELSs DERED TO VER A CRUZ TheWeek's News In Brief The following column is a sum- mary of the news of the world during the past week. An at- tempt has been made to present the most important happenings as briefly and concisely as possible. NATIONAL The military defenses of Panama Canal were theoretically smashed tc pieces in the mock maneuvers being held by the United States navy and! the marines in order to determine the strength of the canal fortifications The defense isr said to be "woefully weak". Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania said that he "knew of no scandal in our history to compare" with the way in which our government is falling down on the job of prohibition en- forcement. BALCONYI RI I BREAKS, INJU RING 300 SPECTATgORS EASTERN HIGH SCHOOL BOYS ATI ARMY TRACK MEET FALL 12 FEET 0 FLOOR CATASTROPHE CAUSED BY CROWDED STUDENTS Christian To Palay At Organ Recital YPalmer Christian, University organ- ist, will make his second public ap- pearance in Ann Arbor, at the twi- light organ recital at 4:15 o'clock this afternoon in Hill auditorium. The re- cital was postponed from Wednesday because of Mr. Christian's absence from the city. The program, whichI follows, promises to be of particular interest. Sonata in G minor, Opus 28 Elgar Allegro raestoso; Andante expressivo Pantomine Jepson Toccata and Fugue in D minor Bach The Swan Saint-Saens Rhapsody Cole Liebestod (Tristan and Isolde Wagner Thie concert if, free tf fhn rblit MELLON OPPOSES DEMO0ATIC TAX REDUCTION PLAN DECLARES THAT GAR'NER'S PLAN IS "POLITICAL AND NOTE. ING ELSE" SURTAX RATES CAUSE DIVISION OF SENATE Senator Couzens Challenges Personal interest of Secretary of Treasury The Day's News At The Capitol With the senate in recess the house devoted the day to consideration of the interior appropriation bill. Henry Ford notified chairman Kahn one of the house military committee that his muscle shoals bid "still stands". Representative Sherwood, demo- crat, declared the prohibition enforce- ment situation a menace to society. Secretary Denby and other navy de-, partnent officials gave details of the poposed polar flight to the house Nava.] enmmitt,++a VARSITY DEFEATS HAWKEYEQUINTE BY 23-18 SCO1 CAPACITY CROWD SEES MICHIC FIVE KEEP CONFERENCE SLATE CLEAN KIPKE IS HIGH SCORER, COLLECTING 10 POIN' Haggerty and Cherry Play - St4 Game for Victors; Funk Stars for Io'wa in View of Rebel Occupation City and Danger to Yankees of Physicans, Surgeons, and Rushed to Scene from Hospitais Nurses Washington, Jan. 19-(By A.P.)- The governors of Arizona, New Mex-. co, and Texas were informed by sec- -etary Hughes tonight that the feder. d government had granted the re- uest of the Mexican government for he passage of Obregon troops from laco, Arizona, to Elpaso, Texas, and hence into Mexico. In his telegrams to the officials of he three states tonight, Secretary 4ughes asks that they provide any ransportation oir other facilities pos- ible requested by Mexican officials o expedite the troops' movements. Naco, Arizona, Jan. 19-(By A.P.)- 'he arrival of 350 volunteers from outhern Sonora today swelled the >rce of federal troops awaiting per- ilssion to cross to the American side 0 1,750. Between 600 and 1,000 cavalary roops from southern Sonora, are due o arrive in Naco, Sonora, late to- ight. to Washington, Jan. 19--(By A.P)-- he cruiser Omaha and a half dozen estroyers have been ordered from anama waters to Vera Cruz. The xpectation is that the war ships willf roceed immediately to the Mexican ort, which is headquarters for the e la Huerta rebels. There they will join the ' cruiser j ichmond.f It is assumed that in ordering the hips to Vera Cruz the Washington >vernment acted in view of the rebel ccupation of the city, and the alwayF resent 'possibility of harm to Amer- an nationals. or their interests. Elpaso, Texas, Jan. 19-(By A.P.)- lproximately 1,200 Mexican federal oops enroute to the interior are 'due Elpaso tomorrow morning from Na- o, Sonora, and will be transferred tc .arez immediately according to ad- es received here today. Mexico City, Jan. 20-(By A.P.)- overnment airplanes will bomb the bels at la La Tiedad de Cadadas to- I orrow, according to orders given by: resident Obregon after an Inspec- } on of the machines at Iratuato. New York was selected as the place j of the next democratic national con- vention, to be held June 24. This i, the first time in more than 50 years' that New York has entertained the national delegates. More than 200,- 000 persons will probably attend. The city offered $255,000 for the conven- t tion. tion. * * * . The Senate undertook the investi- gation of the Bok Peace plan, pre-} sumably to see whether it was intend- ed as League of Nations propaganda Other cases of alleged political pro-' poganda involving the bonus andI world court issues will be considered by the investigating committee. ; New York, Jan. 20.-(By AP)--Dur-r ing the running of an event in the annual junior and senior track and field tournament in the 13th coast defense army, Brooklyn, a 100 foot of the balcony railing collapsed this afternoon, throwing 300 cheering boys to the floor 12 feet below. Six of them were seriously injured and 60 others were hurt. All the spectators on the side of the balcony where the railing broke were boys ranging from 14 to 17 years ofi age, students at the Utreht Commer- cial and Eastern district high schools. Crowded to Balcony The running track was beneath the balcony. To see the results of the 440 yard run which was being con- tested the boys rose ina mass and leaned against the railing. It gave away as the runners crossed the fin- ish line. The balcony was made of iron, but. fastened to a wooden base which gave way against the surging of the boys and those packed against the railing; . 30 o lt.~ I lkU L e pup c with the exception of small children. It will begin promptly and the doors Washington. Jan. 19-(By A.P.)- will be closed during numbers. secretary Mellon fired a broadside at the democratic tax reduction plan to- night as the house ways and means committee concluded its public hear-j ing on tax revision and prepared tci start work Monday on new rates scheduled. The secretary branded thel SPONID OF, 0.G plan advanced for the democrats byl IU1Representative Garner of Texas as a1 substitute for his own program of tax InxeineHndcp'ast reduction as "political and nothing Inexperience Handaps Orslty nelse" (cutest Ag t 'Olt At the same time house democrats hands" served notice that they would accept! no compromise on their plan in the DOTY SCORES MOST POINTS committee and would carry the fightl OF MEET FOR WOLVERINES to the floor where republicans have j admitted they are on the defensive} Michigan's inexPerienced wrestling' because of recent changes in house team bowed to defeat at the hands of rules. Purdue .last night in Yost Field house Meanwhile lines were being formedj in the Senate which indicated a re- by the score of 20-6.' 1newed fight on the surtax rates of the' Coach Barker's men showed flash- secretary of the treasury. While Sen- I es of real scientific wrestling at ator Couzens, republican, Michigan times but experience was sadly lack- renewed his campaign against Mri Mellon's surtax rate proposals in an- ing i o cother letter to the secretary, Senator1 the Boilermakers was the first ex- Ladd, democrat, Virginia, and a for- perience on the mat for most of the mer secretary of the treasury predict- Wolverine grapplers, while most of ed that congress would accept the the Purdue performers were ol principal of the Mellon plan as to a e. Displaying the best brand of 1 Senator Couzens called on Secretary ketball seen in Ann Arbor this y Mellonto reveal what effect the Mel- Michigan's Varsity five nosed out I llon tax plan would have on his own last night by the score of 23 to lom tax. awoSuperb passing, fast footwork, and eye for the basket gave the Wolh ine team the victory. mitee concude hearings o the t The Yost field house, where the g: itte cwas played, was filled to capacity __ill_ fore the opening whistle was ble The cruiser Omaha and several de- Mre than 10,000 people saw the stroyers at Panama were ordered tc Harry Kipke opened the scoring Cz the cruiser Richmond at Vera the game when he dropped in a p crux. ty basket after. he had receive( short pass and dribbled beneath Wolverine basket. He dropped i foul shortly afterward, giving M igan a lead of three points before 3 Iowa scoring machine opened up. Iowa Scores Schick made a foul good for "point for the Hawkeyes, after wl Deng, receiving a pass, broke aN Parliament Adjournment Until Non. from the man guarding him and di day Called Wp.se ot ped in a basket, increasing the Mi Time igan lead to four points. Janse, 1 --- ky Hawkeye center, scored from EFFORTS TO FORM REACTION neath the basket, bringing the Ic IN FAVOR OF BALDWIN FAIL total to within two points of the 'V verines, the closest that they London, Jan. 20.-(ByAP)-With proached during the entire game. parliament adjourned from Friday af- Haggerty came back by mal prliamentiadjonedayfromeF ia good on two fouls before Funk too ternoon until Monday, the political pass and with a short dribble, dr pot has been left to simmer over the ped a basket. Kipke took a prE week end. Many politicians are com- pass under the basket and added t menting on the "needless waste of more points to the Wolverine to 'All that is needed for world peace: is for the. United States and the Brit- ish Empire to agree not to supply food or money or to sell munitions to any country which contemplates or at- tempts to start war," said Sir Charles Higham. tumbled as the others rushed to but a few a great cataract. Most of of the 5,000 spectators exits in a mad, scramble onlookers went to the aid * * * The State department gave ObregonI permission to send his troops across the states of Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas to enter Mexico at a more ad- vantageous point, provided the states were willing. Arizona and New Mex- ico acquiesced, but Texas objected. * * 4' The State department will "protest most vigorously" against the block- ade of Tampico which has been in- stituted by the revolutionary forces It holds that Mexican politics has nc? right to interfere with commerce. Dr. Lowell, president of Harvard stuck a pin in the educational bal- loon when he advocated further lim-< itation of enrollment in his university The progressive insurgents in the Senate exploded their greatest bomb- shell-a flat proposal for government ownership of railroads. They want two trunk lines criss-crossing the country from California to the Atlan- tic seaboard. Capital of the govern- ment corporation to be $5,000,000,000 V n tho B kl h of the injured. Doctors Rush to Scene Two physicians assigned to watch after the athletes were among the first to extricate those scrambled on the floor, but in a trice 400 physicians and surgeons with 30 nurses arrived from five neighboring hospitals al- most simultaneously with 250 police reserves from five precinct stations and 30 firemen from two engine companies.I Many of the fallen untangled them-I selves and limped off, since the major- ity were only stunned, but ascore or so were unconscious and were taken away in ambulances. PREIUMINARY CONVENTION ARRANGEMENTS COMPLETE] New York, Jan. 19.-(ByAP) -De- claring they had laid the foundation for the most successful democratic national convention in history, party leaders today turned over to the local. citizens non-partisan committee the job of completing preliminary ar- rangements for tie big June session. ,"It's going to be the biggest attract- ion we ever staged-the biggest show ever pulled in Madison Square Gar- " said Cordell Hut cha'irman of bands at the game. In the 115 pound match, Doty scor- ed the only fall of the evening for the Maize and Blue. The Wolverine I maximum surtax rate of 25 percentI He declared, however, "it was alto- gether unreasonable to imagine that congress should feel obliged to ac- cept a treasury plan of taxationE ! w hn t " r, a cnxxh + v.1 lightweight required but 45 seconds te I "witnoutHnyJc'angewhat so ever." time" involved in the insistence of Senator Couzens challenged Mr. Mel- i secure a half-Nelson and then a wrist- Ion to inform the country how much the liberal leaders on postponing the lock on Kiltzpatriek and send the he would benefit personally from the vote on the labor motion of "no con- highly touted grappler from Purdue reduction of income surtaxes which fidence" in the government which they to the canvas. Too much credit can- he has proposed in his plan. say might just as well have been tak- not be given to Karbel of Michigan whc en on Friday, as originally planned. fought Turner to a draw in +the 12, The delay, however, Is not unwel- pound class. Turner was conference IlB Ocome to the labor leaders, 'for while champion at one time and is respect- ,It has disapc ne hoeo h con- ed throughout the West as a polished ; ldiTappointedlthoseIofDtheservatve party who hoped for "some- performer. With a 2 minute, 40 sec- VU LBU SJ i Rir thin;" to turn up" to save the Bald-! ond advantage, the next match went win government, it has given Ramsay ; to Miller of Purdue .who was given ad MacDonald the prospective victory tough scrap by Red1 Gillard, Bark-i est is being displayed in te proi- and his assistants a valuable oppor- er s best bet in the 135 pound divi- tion straw vote sponsored by Jason tunity to lay their plans for the fut- sign. Iue Probably the match of the evening Cowles a few days ago in his humor llefforts to form a dissenting was the one between Rose and Dye column, if stories metropolitan ction in the liberal party to vote papers are any proof. Cowles started , the latter winning for Purdue by r the vote after reading of a similar af- against the labor "no confidence' decision. Both of these men were the fair promoted by the Harvard Crim amendment appear to have faileA, and best bets on their respective teams ,it is likely that the Baldwin ministry and the match had all the color of r A request was received fron the will be defeated by a majority of professional affair. One minute, 2C Yale News late Friday night for tele- about seventy in the commons. seconds, decided the match in favor of graphic reports on the results of the the Boilermaker. Grubb put up a good I election here. m.o/ooden Soldier fight against Borden in the 158 pound The votes have come in slowly so: o d n o a e class, but the Wolverine was unable tc far, 23 single votes being the total. cope with the speed of his opponent One fraternity has sent in a vote, ; iris W in A1I- going to the mat in 3 1-2 minutes however, which, when confirmed, will Rosnusser scored a fall in the next amount to 25 or 30 more. It is! Costume .Party1 match over Ferenz of Michigan. Pal- thought that students are not taking mer, representing the Maize and Blue the campaign seriously because it be-; Practically every sororty and league in the heavyweight division was nc gan in the humor column, whereas it ss natch for Hawkins, who outweighed is really a genuine attempt on the e o the apus as represent- himn, and in a little over six minutes part of The Daily to ascertain the ge at the nl eny Lessu pat the Wolverine's shoulders were flusi' campus opinion on the matter. Igiven by the Women's League last with the mat. The wets are leading up to this The prizes awarded for the best point in the competition, 19 men fav- j oring beernand light wine as against group costume went to, first Alpha College Athleticj 9 who do not want it. The pluralityr Omicron Pi, represented as wooden Schick and Laude made three poin on a foul and a basket. Haggert with a pretty run and an overhea oass from beneath the basket brougt the, Michigan total to 11, adding point on a foul a moment later am dropping in a long shot for two mo: points after a few minutes of play. Half Ends 16 to' 8 Cherry made his first score of t game on a fast dribble the entir length of the floor as the half ende with Michigan leading 16 to 8. - Iowa opened the scoring of the se ond half with a foul shot by Fun Kipke dropped a long shot from ti side of the floor, repeating from a most the same position a few mi ments later. In the meantime, tt Hawkeyes had added two to their t( tal on fouls shot by Funk. Fun scored again by the same proces Cherry added a point on a foul, an Janse tossed a basket. Schick sco ed on a pretty dribble. A foul apie( for Doyle and Kipke ended the gain Wolverines Keep Lead Thurougihout ,Although Michigan was never in a tual danger and always had a fe I points in the margin to her credit, tl Wolverine five was forced to work its utmost to maintain its supren I acy. In the last half, with but a fe moments to go, the Wolverines ope f ed up one of the finest stalling sy tems ever displayed. . Complicat I passing that kept the ball from o of Iowa's hlands made the Hawkey helpless. Haggerty showed up well for Mic igan. Kipke and Cherry also show( well. Funk played well'for Iowa. MICHIGAN tary Ball Date Set Apr. 25 votes on Te "ox ec nnv General arrangements for the 192E ) ilitary Ball are being completed at been averaging eight for the plan tc rapid rate. According to an an-: ag* * ouncement made last night, Friday. pril 25, has been set for the date for General Dawes, chairman of the .e event, which, it was thought, would committee to examine Germany's re- e the most satisfactory for all. sources, denounced "the incessant mis- Plans at present include the use of representations and the intolerable tree orchestras, one to be located in interjections of those foul and car- te Barbour gymnasium, and the re- rion loving vultures-the nationalistic aining two to supply the music for demagogues of all countries"-in oth- aterman gymnasium. A special er words the 100' percenters. He said irprise feature is to be incorporated it was our business to help Germany . the programs, although no an- get well. ouncement concerning its exact na- re has been made. The decoration' William Jennings Bryan came out e to be of a military character, and j with the announcement that he would the design use has been made of support Dr. Murphree, president of the te colors of not only the University University of Florida, for president in id the United States, but of the al- the next convention. Dr. Murphree is es as well. one of those who don't believe man The Military Ball is an all-campus! sprang from monkeys. 'fair, and invitations are to be ex- * * * (~, Mtt -V l~lnl, a~uuU the democratic national committee. Norman E. Mack, chairman of the sub-committee will remain here with ,i George F. Mara,dassistant to Mr. Hall and on Wednesday will open offices adjoining Tex Ricard's in the famous garden tower where Sanford White was slain by Harry K. Thaw in 1906. Although theWaldorf-Astoria hotel has been chosen for national com- mittee headquarters, the national democratic club in this city will be! used for the purpose until June. This, it was decided today, would materially lower the preliminary con- vention expense and enable the nat- ional comimttee to spend just that much more on the delegates when they arive. WOMAN'S DEATH CAUSED 0 Y PECULIAR ACCIDENT Results Chicago, Ill.-Chicago's basketball team defeated Indiana, 26 to 6, here tonight in one of the roughest con- tests ever seen on a Chicago floor. Twenty one personal fouls were called as the result of the rough tactics of the teams. mest Point, N. Y.--Army's basket- ball team defeated New York Uni- versity today, 38 to 28. Lake Forest, IlI.-Western State Normal defeated Lake Forest in bas-, ketball here tonight, 25 to 24. not in favor of repealing the 18th amendment, however, as the 16 to 4 tally shows. There is also a small plurality in favor of strict enforce- ment of existing liquor laws as evinc- ed by the 11 to 9 vote on this question. Cowles will continue to run the voting coupon in his column. Players To Give soldiers; honorabe mention, kappa Kappa Gamma, represented as Mah Jong: Delta Delta Delta. represented as Walrus and Carpenter; Sorosis,j represented as cards. Ruth Ver- millyea, '26, was awarded the prize for the prettiest individual costume and "Spark Plug", Theta Phi Alpha. the funniest. A take-off on the Un- U ion opera, with Jane White, '27 as Susanne. carried off the group prize fnrth .facmp FC Haggerty, f ..............2 Deng, f..................1 Boyle, c .................U Kipke, g ................4° Cherry, g ... ...........1 Total..............8 IOWA G F 3 0 1 2 1 7 ed to faculty members, to sever- the most prominent military and 1 officials of the country. It is to all ex-service and R. 0. T C Dr. Coue has returned to this coun- try for another series of lectures on the same old subject. ** * te Center football team re 100,000 fans last fall. "Modern newspapers by presuming p infallibility in their editorial col- umns, and by the publication of sa- lacious news, constitutes a menace," nil Mr Fit n trin k ditn of th Bl al- I 4 i - I LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS PLAN TO ADORN CAMPUS Plans to remove old trees from the campus and replant others and to remove trees that are too close together have been completed by the University landscape architects, Pipkin I a Mott. . I sai d ~zr1[ziia t cK e or r UL e DU timore Catholic review. It was found that 76 of 96 senators and 373 out of 434 representatives are members of some church or other. * * * Senator Borah attacked Fn ce be- cause she has inade no effort to pay interest on her four billion dollar war debt to the United States, and because An autopsy, following the sudden death of Miss Ann Fowler of Ann Ar- bor on Friday afternoon, revealed that she died as a result of a four inch needle having penetrated the skull at{ the base of the brain. according to Dr. E. C. Ganzhorn, corner. Miss Fowler, according to a friend, had been in the habit of leaving; needles in her pillow, and it is believ- ed that in this way the needle entered her skull while she slept. The ab- sence of pain was attributed to the fact that in making its entry the needle avoided all nerves, Annapolis, Md.--Navy defeated La- fayette in basketball tonight 27 to 23. New Haven. Conn.--Yale defeated Cornell. 22 to 19, tonight in an inter- collegiate basketball game. Cambridge, Mass-Harvard won eight of nine events in a' dual relay meet with the Mass. Institute of Tech- nology on the board track at soldiers Field here to day. New York.--Joey Ray, Illinois A. C. star tonight won the special invi- tation mile run at the Fordham uni- versity track meet. His time was 4 Dram a Kennedy'sorcLestra furnished the FG F music. Refreshments were . served Schick, f ... . . ...........1 2 at 10 o'clock. Laude, f...... .......2 0 "Beyond the Horizon," a three-act The patronesses included Mrs. Mar- Janse, c.................2 0 drama by Eugene O'Neill, will be pre- ion L. Burton, Dean Jean Hamilton, Funk, g................1 4 sented by the play productiodi class Mrs. John R. Effinger, Dr. Margaret Hicks, g ......i.......0 0 Thursday in University hall. This is Bell, Mrs. Wilbur Humphreys, Mrs. Kirchner, f.............0 0 the first time that a full length trag- Tobias J. Diekhoff, Mrs. T. E. Rankin, edy of O'Neill has been attempted by Mrs. L. A. Strauss. Mrs. F W Peter- Total..............6 6 a campus organization. The produc- son, and Miss Marian Blood tion is under the direction of Prof R. D. Hollister of the public speak- r THIRD PHARAOH SHRINE ing department. Detroit Sympnony I ROOF REMOVED BY CARTE When the drama made its initial T P e dLx appearance on the American stage ToFly T e da$4 j) Luxor, Egypt, Jan. 19-(By1 A. .I r four years ago, critics acclaimed it the most powerful play of the year. "Be-s yond the Horizon," was awarded the Pulitzer prize for the best play of 1920. The Detroit Symphony orchestra, with Ossip Gabrilowitsch conducting and Arthur Shattuck, pianist, as solo- ist, will give the fourth concert in the P.-The work of dismantling the shrines in the tomb of Tutenkha- men is making good progress. Howard Carter was able today to remove the roof of the third i s