ESTABLISHED 1890 Jr t t alt MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS VOL. XXXVIII, No. 75. ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16. 1927 e ~ S Wh EIGHT PAGES LITTLE DECLINES OPPORTUNITY AUTO BAN LIFTED PCIAGO IEWS FIRST TO JOIN WITH CHICAGO MAYOR TEMPORARILY AS HOUSE______si VACATION BEGINS!O I w w N-W ",oft A-k V*% " ^ A O-V A jr a T H E S C O K E A A IPV ________WLY PTTFV NEW TAX BILL1 0 VR PROTESTS COMIBINATiON OF BOTIl HPARTIES LAND)SLIDE MEASURE BY RECORD VOTE REPEALS AUTO SALES TAX Three Amendmeis Added To easure Fought By Republican Leaders; Bill Called Radical (By Associated Press) WASIHINGTON, Dec. 15.-With a Democratic-Republican coalition hold- ing the whip hand, the House early to- night passed the tax bill with three major amendlments which were vig- orously opposed by the Republican party. On a final showdown, however, only 24 Republicans were willing to go on record against the measure after exhausting every parlimentary means to eliminate the three contest- ed amendments, among them one for repeal of the sales tax on automobiles. The vote on the passage was 366 to 24. Sent to the Senate within 10 days of the time Congress convened, the bill as approved calls for an estimated an- nual cut of $289,770,000 in treasury revenue compared with the $232,735,- 000 reduction proposed to the ways and means committee which whipped the measure into shape before the start of the session. Its total is $64,- 770,000 above the $225,000,000 suggest- ed by Secretary Mellon as a safe max- imum, and many of its provisions dif- fered radically from treasury recom- mendations. Adopt Amendments. The three amendments which Re- publican leaders sought to knock out of the bill at the last minute had been adopted earlier in the week under rules which prevented roll-call votes. Two, relating to corporations, were sponsored by Representative Garner, of Texas, ranking Democrat on the ways ind means committee, Xhile that calling for repeal of the automobile sales tax levy was championed by Rep- resentative MacLaughlin, of Michigan, a Republican on the committee. Just before the bill came up for final passage, however, a rll callc were in order, and when the House, by record votes, refused to reverse itself on the three changes, the Republican lead- ers made a move to send the bill back to the committee. But a majority of the membership wanted it passed, and the motion to recommit, offered by Representative Bacharach, Republican, New Jersey, was rejected by a wide Mar-gin. Many Suported Proposal. The roll, call vote today on the Mc- Laughlin amendment to repeal sales tax on automobiles was 245 to 151 with Democrats and about a score of Republicans supporting the proposal. The bill as it reached the House from the ways and means committee, pro- posed a reduction of the present three per cent to one and one-half per cent. One amendment proposed a bracket of lower tax rates for corporations with net taxable incomes of $15,000 or less instead of the flat rate of 11 and % per cet recommended by the committee, whil: the other would re- quire corporations and their subsi- diaries to file separate instead of affil- iated returns. The House by a vote of 212 to 181 sustained the lower rate proposal and then adopted 210 to 187 the joint tax return plan. The last minute move of Bacharach, to send the bill back to the ways and means committee instead of passing i along to the Senate would have un- done all the werk the House had ac- complished on the bill and the motio was defeated 301 to 93. Chairman Green was included among those op- posing this move. The Weather (By Associated Press) teplying to mayor william llde tion t comTnh t occ h suttI L V V 11 U Tonghtat o'loc, the student Thompson's request that he join the and yesterday morning sent a replyI "America First Foundation," Presi- as follows: (dent Clarence Cook Little yesterday "Mr. William Hale Thompson, dispatched a letter to the Chicago President, The America First mayor acknowledging the receipt of Foundation, his literature and declining the op- Chicago, Illinois. portunity to become a member of his Dear Sir: auto ban will be lifted for the first time since its inauguration in Sep- tember. It will not go back into ef- fect until 8 o'clock on the morning of Tuesday, Jan. s3. gDVANCE TICKET SALE REPORTS All students, acording to J. A.F l BEATS MICHIGAN i QUINTET, 49-38 organization. "My chief detailed re- gret in looking over the literature," the letter concludes, "is that Wash- ington's Farewell Message and not yours is enclosed." President Little received on Wed- nesday numerous pamphlets, litho- graphs and certificates from "Bill Bill" urging him to respond with $10 and receive forthwith a membership in the "America First Foundation." Included in the collection were speeches by Washington and Lincoln, a book of sayings of Benjamin Franklin, and a "Manual of Citizen- ship," whose sub-title proclaimed it to be "A text-book of American citi- zenship." The President declined the invita- LiNDBERGH CAPTURES HEARTS OFMEXICANS Mlakes Official Visits In Company With Ambassador iAorrow; Inspects Famous Plane CONSULTS WITH CALLES (By Associated Press) MEXICO CITY, Dec. 15.-Mexico coquetted with America's bashful beau today, giving him a reception that im- ",ncnrlhimm~nn tan nv thr hP The various publications, certifi- cates, facsimiles, and other commun- ications from your America First Foundation reached me today. I believe that America today needs hard, quiet, creative work rather than flamboyant advertising of the cheap- est sort. There is' no shorthand meth-I od of attaining true patrio;sm by paying $10 and joining any associa- tion or foundation. It seems to me personally that it is harder on Washington, Lincoln, and Franklin to use their words for advertising your plan that it is to write books about ihem which tend to show that they were normal hu- man beings as well as divint ly in- spired. You object to the latter pro-- cedure and are urging all people who want tq pay you $10 to support the former. That kind of 100 per cent Americanism makes no appeal to me. My chief detailed regret in looki N over the literature is that Washing.- ton's Farewell Message and not yours was enclosed. Sincerel vours. Bursley, dean of students, who have not already done so should obtain ap- plications from the office of the dean of students sometime today if they wish to re-apply for automobile per- mits for the coming year.1 These blanks should be properly filled out and either mailed or brought to room 2, University hall, before Dec. 27, 1927. Plates and permits will bej ready for distribution on Dec. 30 and 31 and on Jan. 2. DENIED BYSENATORSi Borah, Hefilin, Lafollete And 'Norris Juqn1alifiedly Deny C'laiis Of MexicanI Document% PAPERS GENUINE---HEARST ([By Associated Press) WAT-ITNGTON. Do,.c 15-Mexican1 R V JC ' MR UO' Ct11CAGO THEATER SOLID OUT DUROIT SECOND ON TRIP Four Michigan Cities Besides Detroit 11111 See "The Same To You" Union Orchestra M alies Trip I- 1 "The Same To You," 22nd annual Union Opera, will make its out-of- town debut in formal fashion tonight when it moves into Chicago for an appearance at the Auditorium thea- ter. The reception which will be granted the opus is partially guar anteed by the remarkable advance ticket sale. Early in the week the en- tire lower floor of the theater, which is one of the largest to be played during the tour, was sold out through applications obtained here at the Union. The Chicago trip will afford little time for anything other than the performance, since the special grain, leaving here at 1 o'clock today, will WOLVERINES CRUMBLE BEFORE PANTH ERFORAY AFTER IEADING, 17.8 HYATT LEADS INVADERS Lapses In efen se Permits Easterners 1j oA mass teord Score Agai'T st Pittsburgh's clever Panther sharp- ;hooters humbled Michigan's em- Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh )ryonic basketball team wit out ado Renowned aviator whose reception last night in Yost field house, rambi- in Mexico at the present time, as a ing out of the East of which they are result of his successful non-stop flight { ers, and tamed the Champions of from Washington to Mexico City, is the West, running up a record score said to be second to none. I a, d DRAMA I WILL BI Choose "Hell pressedn im more t1an any o tere e Next Pub has received at home or abroad. Play P "Vivas" flags and bunting in the capital of the southern republic vied TO HOLD with 'New York ticket tape, and thef bouquets and medals of Washington, "Hell Bent1 Paris, and London in acclaiming Col. tic success of Charles A. Lindbergh as the darling and a product of the people wherever he goes. been selected President Calles, who hugged the its next publi American flyer on his arrival yester- will be give * ' h1 beginning Jar day, put the official seal on the na- length of the tion's welcome by a half hour conver- announced. sation with him in his private office. "Hell Bent The aviator left Chapultepec for an Imatization ofF ligious fanati afternoon of sight-seeing and other mountains, an entertainment, to be followed by a tics to be a v fete in his honor arranged by the cast for th pr foreign office at one of the city's from all-cam { largest theaters. all this week Lindbergh said at his reception, "I part are req have never been so impressed by any Fleischman im of my receptions anywhere as that The playc in Mexico, and I am very grateful for 'test productio the warmth and spontaneity of the ex- oratory of P pressions of good will." versity hall,, The young flyer made a series of of- other vehicles ficial visits in the morning after a 12- again constru hour sleep at the American embassy properties, as and then went to Valbuena air field to mantic Young see the famous airplane that carried in the latter him from New York to Paris, over praise for th( virtually the entire United States on Direction fo a tour, and eventuaffy from Washing- ven" will be ton to Mexico City. Fleischman, s Ambassador :Dwight W. Morrow ac- monk'. companied his youthful guest on the "The Romai official calls. Several hundred per- Martinez Sier persons had gathered at the gates of day run lastr the American embassy when Col. ter. It wast Lindbergh and Mr. Morrow left it for works of Pl ,the foreign office. The crowd shout- this year, an ed, "Vivi!" and Lindbergh responded laboratory wo with his usual quick smile and a wave to be conside of his hand as Ambassador Morrow mester inclu beamed with pleasure. "Mr. Pim Pas 511 ley y u z, C. C. Little"d )F KENTUCKY~l Bent Fer Heaven" As lie Presentation Of I roduction Groupz TRYOUTS TODAY I Fer Heaven," a drama-l f the last few seasons, of Hatcher Hughes, has by Play Production for c presentation. The .play at the Mimes theater n. 17, although the run has not yet been Fer Heaven" is a dra- a situation involving re- icism in the Kentucky ad has been said by cri- ery powerful work. The oduction will be s~lected pus tryouts today and end. All those wishing a uested to see Ea nmediately in his offlce. was recently given a in in the workshop lab-. lay Production in Uni- along with a series of . Stagecraft classes will ct all of the scenery and. in the recent "The Ro- g Lady." The sets used play drew considerable eir conception. )r "Hell Bent Fer IHea- iin the hands of Earl! upervisor of the depart- ntic Young Lady" by rra, concluded its threeI night at the Mimes thea- the first of the public ay Production attemptel d was chosen from class irk as was the last. Plays ered for the second se- de "The Silver Cord," ses By," and "Icebound." NAGE RUINS LD 33 BODIES Associated Press) Dec. 15.-The ice-sheeted pice St. Charles orphan- today had given up theI children who perishedj destroyed the structure Twenty-one others still VVL1 11I k1 i, 1V . .0 M I il documents of disputed authenticity saying that $1,215,000 have been set aside by the government of Mexico to Senators Borah, Heflin, LaFollette, and Norris were laid before a Sena*e committee today and were answered immediately with unqualified denials by all of the principals involved. The documents were submitted by William Randolph hearst, in whose newspapers they had already been published in parts. The publisher told the committee that while he had reason to believe the papers genuine, he had no evidence that any of the money was paid. Three of the four members named! arrive in Chicago about 6:30, and will leave directly after the show. The company. will return to Do- troit and will make its ueadquarters at the Statler hotel until Wednesday. The Detroit performances will be given at Orchestra hall. Toledo wilti be played on Wednesday, and addi- tional affairs have been arranged for the entertainment of the company, including a get-together with alum- ni at the University club and a tea- dance there in the afternoon. The performance will be at the Rivoli theater. In Michigan Thursday The Michigan tour will be begun Thursday with Lansing. A supper dance has been provided for at the , came before the committee voluntar- Olds hotel after the show at the, ily and made their denials undei' Strand theater. From Lansing the oath. Borah, of Idaho, who chair- company will go to Grand Rapids, man of the Senate committee whiichwhere the performance and a ball deals with international relations, will be held in the Regent theater said he had never been-approached. and ballroom. Flint will entertaIne , "either casually, directly, expressly "The Same to You" company on or impliedly, in any way, shape of Saturday with a tea (lance and ball form." Heflin of Alabama declared lie at the Durant hotel before and after had received no money in connection the show. with Mexico except from ministers, 1 The state tour will be concluded Ku Klux Klansmen and others for Monday with a showing at Saginaw, expenses for his lectures on Mexico but Christmas will be spent at the and demanded that the committee Winona hotel in Bay City. The com- make an example of those responsi- pany will be entertained at the Sag- blefor the charges. aFollette, of Wis- inaw club before the performance consin described the attempt, to l1 k and a ball will be held afterwards up his name with this matter "'lj at the Saginaw auditorium. infamous and cowardly fraud." { Tuesday the company will take the Norris, of Nebraska, confined to his attraction to Cleveland, where the house by illness, rose from his sick Opera will be given at Masonic audi- bed to prepare a statement saying i torium. with ball and entertainment Ithat lie "never had an offer or any at the University club of that city. intimation that anybody contemplat- The Consistory at Buffalo will house ed offering me anything." the performance and the dance fol-- Denials Heard lowing, on Wednesday, while enter- During its two sessions and a third tainment will be provided at the Buf- tonight the committee also heard de- falo Athletic club. nials from others who were nailed To Phay Ph ilidelphlia in the documents. Among the wit- iPhiladelphia will mark the furthest nesses was Dudley Field 1alone, tie point east at wich the Opera will New York lawyer, named inm the arrive this year, andI xilil1be playedi Spanish text of the document as the on Thursday. No events will be held pay-off man in this country. He said 1 after the show in Philadelphia b lie never had any connection what- cause the special train will leave iii- ever with such a project, and de- mediately after the performance for scribed signatures purporting to be Cincinnati, the place of the las: reg- lhis as forgeries or copies. ular showing. The Emery auditorium Arturo M. Elias, the Mexican con- and the Sinton ihotel will be the sul-general at New York, also tool; I places of the performance and the Ithe stand just before the long after- ball respectively. Saturday the t in session of the committee adjourned, will return to Detroit where a spec- Iand flatly denied the references made ial demand performance has been ar- to hint"and the mysterious .bcu ranged for New Year's Eve at Or- nlents. lie volunteered to be sworn clhestra hall. The company wvill dis- before he told his story despite the band immediately after this presen- fact that the Mexican embassy had tation.; taken the position that he need not The Union dance orchestra will appear at all if he preferred to plead !play for all but a few of the dances diplomatic immunity. during the course of the trip, since itj The Mexican government several is being used during the course of times has denied the authenticity of the show on the stage. This was not the documents, but both Hearst and done during the Ann Arbor perfor- several of his employees said on the mances. A few other alterations in stand today that they had been as- the routine of the show have been sured the papers came from the oic-h completed during the last week, and lal files of the Mexican governmlent.f the performance as it xwiil be given Some of them, it was testified, were in Chicago will be slightly different. brought out of Mexico, and some! were taken from Elias' Mexican con- NE W ORGAN SOON sulate in New York. Hearst said they cost around $15,000. TO BE INSTALLED A Work leading to the installation of the new Skinner organ in Hill audi- torium is progressing very satisfac- PRORATIONS INCREASE OVER FORMER YEARS Total Of 305 Probations And Warning':, Shown By Statislies; Only 219 Duirhig Last Year FEWER WARNINGS ISSUED More students y ere placed on warning and probation as a result of the mid-semester grades in the Col- lege of Literature, Science, and the Arts than at the corresponding time last year, it was revealed by statistics released from the ofiice cf the assist- ant dean of the litdrary college yester- day. The total number of both warn- ings and probations was 305, while a year ago it was 269. The number of probations inereased this year over December of last year by 61, being 68 in 1926 and 129 thTis year. The total increase was some- what lessened, however,- by the fact ( Vt that there were slightly fewer warn- ings this year than last, diminishing from 201 to 176, a decrease of almos exactly 12.5 per cent. All of the fig- ures are far higher than those of th( preceding spring mid-semester, sinc in May last spring only 14 student. were placed on probation with 68 placed on warning, and in May of 192( only 17 were placed on probatio while 89 wvere wvarned. The figures for the two precedinl years follow: December, 1925, 23! on wraning and 109 on probation May, 1925, 45 on warning and 9 oni probation; December, 1924, 247 o warning and 66 on probation. The increase in the number of stu dents both warned and placed on pro bation this year is 13,5 per cent. Th number includes only those disciplin ed for scholastic causess and lha niothinlg to do wvith tile (lisciplillar; measures connected with other phase of University activity.. DATE ANNOUNCED FOR OPENING OF LOCAL THEA TEI Gerald Hoag, manager of the Ma jestic theater, announced yesterda that the opening night for the nei Michigan theater would be Thursda nighlt, JIan. 5. Tihreeeiglit-hour shifts- of decora tors are working steadily on the buili ing in order to have tie theater read for the opening night. Backstag+ electricians are at the present tim installing the three-ton switchboar Arrangements for the opening pre gram are not yet complete, but tent tive efforts have been made to secue SIda May Chadwick and her troupe f the opening vaudeville act, Hoag sal otj 49 points while the Wolverines found the basket for 39 counters. While showing flashes of real pow- cr, Mlather's team at times lasped in- to the purely nediere, not a one of the Wolverines but what was a victim of Panther wile. The first half found the two teams fighting on practically j even terms, the period ending 25-23 in favor of the visitors after Michigan had assumed a 17-8 lead. ' P t sburgh Scores First. Within five minutes after the second session began, Pittsburgh took a lead which she never relinquished, the score standing 49-35 at one time. While this half found Pittsburgh con- ' tinning with a great brand of ball, it saw the Wolverines on a decided de- cline. Their shooting was attracious at times as they seemed utterly un- able to find the hoop. 1 The Panthers, on the other hand missed few opportunities. They work- ed throughm tme Wolverine defense - without much difficulty-in fact they , made the Michigan "stonewall" look like pap r mache. Even with all of their shots missed, the Wolverines counted often enough to win under ordinary circumstances. Exceptionally Large Score Circumstances, on the other hand, t were not ordinary. The Panthers ran - up a score almost unheard of in Wolverine history, no matter what the t sport may be, as far back as sport - records go. Another interesting oc- currence was that a school was able e to use an entirely new team effective- s ly against Michigan. Outstanding among the warriors who threw up the Pittsburgh smoke screen were Wroblewski and Hyatt. Wroblewski proved himself a marvel- g Ous shot while IHyatt's floor work 9 bordered on miraculous. He fulfilled all expectations, being an all-Ameri- e can prep school athlete. Captain Reed n was the star of the invaders, with a delicate eye to say the least. Pitts- ~ burgh had a great team; which Michi- ~ gan, suffering lapses at times, could c not cope with. s BOX SCORE Pitt sburgh (49) G FT Iyatt, If...........7 1 Cohen, rf....... 0 0 McMahon, c....... 0 2 Wroblewski, Ilg .... 8 0 Reed, rg (capt) .. 7 0 Zehfuss, rf........ 0 2 P 0 1 1, 1 1 i'I'la5 Not Settled. MEXICO CITY, Dec. 15.-Colonel Lindbergh's plans are not yet settled. He does not even know how long he will remain in Mexico City or where he will go from here. One thing he emphatically declares-he will go by air when he does. Invitations have been received from several Central American countries, including Nicar- auga, for a visit there, but these must be taken under advisement before a decision is reached. Lindbergh went to Valbuena field t"is afternoon and made a careful ex- ain ination of the Spirit of St. Louis. He pronounced the plane in perfect condition-no damage whatever in yes- terday's landing or by the crowd. He can start on another flight immed- iately, lie remarked, if necessary. ORPHA YIEI (By QUEBEC, I ruins of Hos age for girls bodies of 33 when a fire i last night. Oosterbaa taiber, I (Chapman, McCoy, 11arrigan Kanitz, I 22 5 7 Mlichigan (39)- 0FT P aii, rf,c .... 6 0 1 f ......... 3 0 0 1,.c...... 0 1 1 ig .........3 0 2 , rg (ca. 4 3 1 if ..... 1 0 'TP 15 0 2 16 14 2 49 TP 12 6 1 11 3 39 17 5 5 were missing. Throughout the day firemen and volunteers combed the tangled wreck- age while grief-stricken parents be- sieged the morgue and hospitalsbin search for their children. Some of the missing, it was believed, had been taken home by friends and relatives 'who had not reported their safety. VARIOUS FEATURES DESCRIBED ON MICHIGAN NIGHT PROGRAMS Snmw flurries and much colder to- day; onorrow mostly cloudy, some snow likely. i I POLITICAL VIEWS RAT HER THAN POLITICAL NEWS NEED OF DAILY,' in commenting upon The Michigan wl Daily in an interview recently, Prof. w P. M. Jack, head of the rhetoric de- it partment, stated the belief that more space and attention should be devoted pr to student views and opinions than is pr the case at present. vi 'IT - A }ha T9S n 1 p "j I + -tq. 1A hich specializes in this field, and interest in literature is not sufficiently extremely well done, ranking witht ill devote more space and details to stressed. More space, he believes, practically any student publication in than The Daily can afford. should be devoted to our dramatic and America. These, he said, are at pres- In place of political news, he would literary reviews. Since The Daily is ent practically the sole means of out- efer that space to be devoted to ex- litrary re vig T Daily is et pi-actideyt ole essions by the students of their not hampered by having to cater to let for student opinions. eew-points upon these same matters. book stores and publishers, it might In commenting upon Toasted Rolls, s he nuts it "Pnlitical views rather by unbiased criticism become one of Professor Jack stated that before he torily, according to Chrales S. Sink, president of the School of Music. The old Farrand and Voty organ which was originally constructed for the World's fair in 1894 has been taken out, dismantled, and shipped away. Construction work for the new With the last Michigan Night radio program until after the Christmas holidays broadcast, a great many top- ics relative to the University and its interests, in addition to a varied mus- ical program by University specialists, have gone on the air, according tIo Waldo M. Abbot, of the rhetoric de- partment, program manager and an- I nouncer of the series. 1 A summary of activities in this re- I spect shows that athletics have been Y treated through the microphone 1y - Fielding H. Yost, director of inter- Aiton and Cross have given radio addresses; political subjects hav been discussed by Professor Reed and Cuncannon; business, by Pro- fcs;or Sharfman; engineering edit- cation by Professor Worley; aviation by Professor Kerber; forestry by Professor Dana; law by Professor S'underland; vocational education, by Professor Myers; topography by Professor Karpinski; and the func- tion of speech education by Profes- organ is well auong, and the real in- otalain o f-p n w ietrn p f wil it