lemma', ESTABLISHED 1890 Lwt x j 1'% ' 4,l a11i MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS Vol. XXXIX, No. 114. ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 1929 EIGHT PAGES MEXICAN DFICIAU aa ASSUME OFFENSIVI IN RBLURIN ALMACAN TAKES FIELD AGAINS' REVOLUTIONARY FORCES AT VERA CRUZ CALLES IN CHARGE OF NORTHERN DRIVI Report Heavy Fighting In Vicinit Of Monterey, Strategic Railway Center In Leon (By Associatc rrss) MEXICO CITY, March 5.-The Mexican government got into ae- tion today with its counter offen- sive against the revolution. Former President Calles took over command of the government forces which will campaign against the northern insurgents in Sonora while General Almacan took the field against the rebels at Vera Cruz. Heavy fighting was reported from' the vicinity of Monterey, im- portantstrategic railway, center in the state of Nuevo Leon, where a battle beginning yesterday was still in progress. The rebels claimed to have cap- tured Monterey, but this was denied by General Cerevra in command of the federal forces at Matamoras, who said that the city had not fallen, Federal troops were reported to have driven in some of the out- posts of the rebels in Vera Cruz. Direct advices from the city of Vera Cruz stated that the ships of the Mexican navy stationed there had declared for the rebel cause. No fighting had been reported there and the city was stated to be quiet although entirely isolated from the rest of the country. The government, in addition to its military offensive, struck an- other blow at the insurgents, an- nouncing that all the property of rebel leaders would be forfeited. WASHINGTON, March 5.-Mex- ico's revolutionary o u t b r e a k prompted today the first important policy pronouncement of Herbert Hoover's administration as presi- dent. Mr. Hoover, aftgr he had twice conferred with Secretary Kellogg, stated that he saw no reason for a change in the policy under under which the constitutional government of Mexiconhas been permitted to purchase arms and war materials in the United States despite the five-year general em- bargo on such exportations to! Mexico.- "In The Next Room" Will Be Mines' New Mystery Melodrama Theatrical Effects Will Intensify Illusion Of Mystery That Haunts Audience In response to numerous re- quests for a mystery play at Mimes theater, "In The Next Room," a mystery melodrama by Eleanor Robson and Harriet Ford, is be- ing produced by Mimes for a run in the near future. E. Mortimer Shuter, director of Mhues, has been asked a number of times to produce a mystery play among his presentations for the current season and selected "In The Next Room" for its remarkable adaptability to the stage. No an-' nouncement has been made re- garding the personnel of the cast. Many novel features are planned in connection with the presenta- tion. The entire house is to be dark at all times in a concentrated effort to maintain the illusion of mystery.. In addition, the regular Mimes theater orchestra will have their faces whitened in order to add to the effect. During the in- termission, the musical number to be played will be Chopin's "Fu- neral March." The ushers will use searchilights to conduct the pat- trons through the completely dark house. In fact, everything will be done to bring out the mystery idea. MICHIGAN MEN! HONOR CALLS YOU FOR SUPPORT AND VINDICA TION! This afternoon five students appear before a disciplinary board of the University, charged with a serious of- fense. They stand responsible for the malicious destruction of property to the extent of more than eight hundred dollars. but, even worse than this, they stand charged with the rowdy- ism of a vast mob, composed of Michigan students, and a party, directly or otherwise, to the crimes committed last night. Upon their five heads will fall the punishment which should more properly be dis- tributed over a very large group. The Michigan Daily feels that there is enough inherent good sportsmanship on this campus to defend these five students, and to make what lit- tle atonement is possible for the student body. The money to pay the damage must be obtained, and it seems fitting that it should come from the vast body of students. who were present at the scene of destruction. It will 1e a vindi- cation in some actual sense of the square-dealing of the Michigan student body. To make five students suffer for the acts of a large group of the student body is highly un- sportsmanlike, and The Daily calls upon all members of the student body to assert their manliness in making a con- crete demonstration of their willingness to accept, as a body, the responsibility which has fallen upon them by reason of rash and destructive actions. The editors of The Daily dis- cussed early yesterday morning a plan whereby the student body could be called upon to make some fair settlement as a body. While they were still in conference the following let- ter came into the office accom- panied by a check for one dol- lar: "The student body of. Michi- gan deplores the rowdyism and depredation indulged in by an unrepresentative group of its members on Monday evening following the Wisconsin game.' The vast majority of students neither indulged in nor con- done the acts of the minority, for whose behavior the entire University must suffer in repu- tation. In the hope that those who engaged in vandalism may realize how their acts must be regarded by the student body as a whole, I suggest that The Daily sponsor a movement among the student body for 1500 one dollar contributions to repay the Michigan Theatre 'management for the property damages wrought. I am en- closing my check for $1.00." The letter is signed by a graduate student. He has set the spirit for the Michigan student body - a challenge which The Daily feels they will take up and carry to a finish. Already the fund has been in- creased by the addition of $15 contributed by 15 members of the upper staff of the editorial department of The Daily. Are you willing to accept the challenge made by this gradu- ate student and The Daily? Do you feel that five students should be made to suffer for the acts of a large section of the student body? Your an- swer may best be voiced by your check-for any amount- made payable to The Michigan Daily "Michigan Student Vin- dication Fund." Starting to- morrow an actual record of the progress of this collection will be published until the amount is Aubscribed and the honor of the student body is vindi- cated. The outcome of th-s appeal means more than any athletic or competitive victory; it is a test which goes to the very heart of the student body and challenges its morale, and the sportsmanship of that vast body of students known to the world as "Michigan Men." Men of Michigan, The Daily appeals to you to uphold those standards which have been upheld bravely for ninety years without blemish! The start has been made. Now it depends on you! Ask yourself what the honor of the student body and your reputation as a Michigan man means to you- and write your answer is fig- ures, large or small. The honor of Michigan calls to you for rnnnhan R NEW GLIDER UNDER BUILlT YSTUDENTSI SHIP EMBODIED STRUCTURAL IMPROVEMENTS WORKED OUT BY ENGINEERS TO LAND AT LESS SPEED THAN PT1 1 Main Dimensions Taken From; Blueprints Of Similar Germanj Built Glider, But Details Supplied Here Entirely student-built, PT2, the second primary training glider ofj the Glider section is rapidly near-! ing completion in the University's aero shops and will be' ready for its maiden flights this week-end. In general design the ship is similar to PT1, the schooling glider purchased from Gliders, Inc., but it embodies several structural im-1 provements that have been worked: out by the student aeronautical engineers who have been instru-I Imental in its construction. The.' over-all weight of the student- built ship is approximately 140 pounds as compared with more than 200 for the Gliders, Inc., ship,j while the same strength has been ! preserved. Larger fittings have also been installed to preclude failures such I as marred the performance of the first ship, and the whole ship has been waterproofed to prevent its gaining weight by soaking up moisture. Following the German usage, the tail is supported by metal tubing instead of a com- I plete wooden fuselage, and the gap left in the Gliders, Inc. ship be-: tween the wing sections where they join the fuselage is being' built up solid to prevent losses in lifting power. It is estimated that the 'landing speed of the new ,Sliip will be1 considerably lower than that of the PT1 which had a theoretical! Jianding speed of 13 mph, but fail- ed to take off from the ice of Bar- ton pond until the towing car' reached a speed of 30 or 35 mph. It is estimated that the new ship: Swill take off at between 15 and 20 mph.' Banquet Committee Burns Midnight Oil To List Invitations Prominent Students, Faculty Men,l And Celebrities From State ! Are Asked To Attcnd FIGHTS AGAINSTI A D D E D FEATURES MEXICAN REBELS'SP A R KLE IN NEW MARCH GARGOYLE Featuring a number of new fea- tures and several new departments, Gargoyle's March issue will go on sale on the campus tomorrow morning. This month's production e * of the humor magazine is a gen- eral number which features sev- cral new departments. The most important of these new entrants is "Campus Talk," a "whimsically se- """*' irious" feature a la New Yorker. This new department deals with C'ii ":"'many local incidents which have been attracting a great deal ofhat- tention among the home town folks of late. Another feature is the "Fly Leaf" a page of short ' poems by Martin J. Cohn, '29. !JerryEllison, '30, has drawn the cover in his usual humorous style, the title for which is "Standard Among the other outstanding Ex-President Cailes contributions this month are a full who has been recalled by the Mex- I page cartoon and an editorial car- ican government in its counter toon done by Maurice Lichten- movement against the revolution. stein, '29. "The Band Assembles Former President Calles took over for Practice," by John S. Marshall, command of the government 1 '32, is a full page story that con- forces which will campaign against tributes much to the contents of the northern insu: gents in Sonora. Gargoyle's latest issue. -IV TO UNIVERSTY BILLNE[ARS 1OT Death Of Avery Hopwood's Mother Measure Will Affect Only State1 Makes Fund Available If Institution If Both Houses Regents Concur Of Legislature Pass It FOR LITERARY PRIZES UNDIERGOES RVISION Through the will of the late J. House bill number 191, known Avery Hopwood, '05, noted play- heretofore as the Darin bill for the1 wright, there will be available to exemption of fraternity and so- the University more than $150,000 rority property from taxation, hasi to be distributed periodically as C been formally introduced before the "Avery Hopwood and Jule j the lower house of the Michigan ]Hopwood prizes" to students ex- state, legislature and has veen re- celling in "dramatic and fiction ferred to the committee on generala writing." Acceptance of this gift taxation for consideration before is conditioned on the action of the being put to a vote of the assem- Regents. bled legislators. The funds became available last After revision of the bill which Friday through the death of the now provides that only fraternityl playwright's mother, Mrs. Jule and sorority property located at Hopwood, to whom the playwright state institutions shall be, tax ex-. left three-fourths of his $1,000,000 empt, only those organizations at estate with the stipulation that the University and 4t the Michi-t one-fifth of the inheritance should gan State College of Agriculture, revert at her death to the Univer- and Applied Science at East Lans-1 sity. ing will be affected by the measure Among Hopwood's better known Ishould it pass both houses of the works are"The Bat" which" he1 legislature. wrote in collaboration with Mary ! The committee to which the bill Roberts Rhinehart, "Ladies' Night has been referred is composed of 1 t s 3 } I E z f PR ES/DENT IS GLAD AT CLOSE OF BUSY, DAY IN NEW OFFICE CONFERS W I T H KELLOGG ABOUT SHIPMENT OF ARMS TO MEXICO PLEASED BY QUICK ACTION OF SENATE Hoover Entertains Former Teacher At First Luncheon In White House (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, March 5.-His first day in the presidency was a mighty busy one for Herbert Hoover, and, for all appearances, a mighty happy one. His days' activities extended all the way from a decision of major policy, that of non-interference with present regulations regarding the shipment of arms into Mexico to reminiscenses of his boyhood days in West Branch, Iowa, with his one-time schoolteacher, Mrs. Mollie Carran, who was his lunch- eon guest at the White House. Between times he touched shoul- ders with the plain folks who called upon him by the hundreds; received members of the Republi- can National Committee in a group; chatted with the governors of several states who were here for the inauguration, and transacted a large amount of public business. Prompt favorable action by the Senate on his cabinet nominations added to the pleasure of his day, during which he not only appear- ed of unruffled by the many inter- ruptions of his work, but smiled broadly during his several public appearances to pose for pictures with some of his callers. Meeting the newspaper corre- spondents at noon in his first press conference as president, he made jocular comments as nearly 200 news writers streamed into his office, jamming it from wall to wall and overflowing around, his desk. The president, wearing a suit -of blue, his favorite color, but with a single breasted coat, told the correspondents that he not only wanted to continue the usual con- tact with them, but wished to de- vise methods by which these could be improved to the mutual benefit of the press and himself. Students May Obtain Tickets For Shows By Play Production Four One-Act Plays To Be Finally Given Before Three Judges In Laboratory Theater Persons desiring to attend any of the first three performances of the four one-act plays to be presented again next week by Play Produc- tion as previously announced should send in a stamped, self- addressed envelope to the Play Production office in University hall at once, it was announced yesterday by Valentine B. Windt, director. The four one-acts will play Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, March 12, 23, 14, and 15. Friday has been set aside for the final judging of these four plays which have s'urvived the original elimination as well as the second contest in which they were produced in the Play Production laboratory. Miss Jessie Bonstelle of the Detroit Civic theater, Daniel L. Quirk, Jr. of Ypsilanti, and Prof. Chester M. Wallace, head of the Drama school at the Carnegie Institute of Technology have agreed to be the judges. The Fri- day night performance will be open only to those who have re- ceived special invitations. The four plays which will con- stitute the bill are "Passion's Progress" by R. Leslie Askren, '29, "Outside This Room" by Dorothy Ackerman '29, "The Joiners" by Arthur Hinkley '29, and "My Man" by Jerome McCarthy '29. Blimps Blow Hard, But Sustain Storm (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON. Marc 5 !.A_ NATIVE ATTIRE FEATURES SHlOW Ancient ahd modern costumes representing many of the principal countries of the world, will fea- ture the presentation of "Human- ity" Thursday night in Hill audi- torium as the sixth annual Inter- national night program. The na- tive dress of China, Japan, India, Egypt, and Korea, and Arabia will be included in the forms of attire displayed in the production, rec- ognized each year as the most spectacular of campus amateur programs. One of the most unusual cos- tumes of the entire group will be that of K. Ando, the Japanese stu- dent who will give an exhibition of sword play. His costume of ancient japanese armor is being brought from New York with a novel, oddly shaped sword. The days of ancient Greece willi be recalled through the use of light, veil like costumes in pastel shades, such as were worn by the Greek maidens of the time of At- lanta. Historical dress will also be worn in the American Indian scene, in which the garb of primi- tive Indians will be used. Costume, or lack of it, will fea- ture the cave scene with which the play opens. The primitive cave people appear clad in the skins of animalsa nrd .with the asistance rescues After an all night session of the' committee on tickets and invita- tions for the seventh annual Grid- I iron Banquet to be held April 3 at the Union, sponsored by Sigma; Delta Chi, national honorary pro- Sfessional journalistic fraternity, the fnal lot of approximately 400 names was completed early this Or "THE VIKING0 morning.thUnvriy10wel The list includes the names of With Thomas Wilfred, Reynolds Iapproximately 200 prominent stu- Evans, Mary Elizabeth Evans and dents in the University, 100 well- the entire cast of principals in the known members of the faculty, revival of Henrik Ibsen's "The Vik- i and about 100 celebrities from the ings" arriving in Ann Arbor this city of Ann Arbor and other Mich- ligan cities. morning, intensive rehearsals for 1 Replies from several men who the production will commence this were invited to speak at the yearly afternoon. The present production, razz fest have been received. Al- which opens an extensive tour of though definite announcement of the middle-west with two peror bhe speakers finally chosen will PCI01no0t be iiiade,-for some time, it isl inances, Thursday and Friday, understood that the committee on March 14 and 15, in Hill auditori- speakers and entertainment has um, has been extensively elaborat- had a goodly number of favorable ed over the experimental perfor- replies from those who were on the first list to be consulted. In mances this summer which played spite of the fact that it was im- to more than 8,000 people in three I possible to ascertain the contents days. of the replies, letters from the Wilfred himself has added mate- United States Senate and 1he Clu-1 rially to his sea effects in the first cago Tribune are known to have act, and the cast is regarded as been in the mail addressed to the definitely strengthened with the chairman of the committee. engagement of Reynolds Evans of New York for the part of the old PROBATION IS LIKELY FOR warrior Ornulf; and of Mary Eliz- abeth Evans, leading member of STUDENT RIOT OFFENDERS{ the Goodman Memorial theatre in i in a Turkish Bath," "The Best Representatives Thomas, of Kent People," "Naughty Cinderella," and ! county, Lewis, of Pentwater, Mc- "Fair and Warmer." These plays; Nitt,. of -Wexford, Netting, of lic-I have been reproduced throughout troit, Snow, of Kalamazoo, Culver, the United States and Canada, in of Detroit, Harnley, of Saginaw, the principle European countries, Warner, of Ypsilanti, and Thomp- and in the Orient. son, of Jackson. For many years Hopwood was a It has been suggested by the lonely wanderer of the world, his committee of the Interfraternity mother accompanied him in some council, which was appointed to of his visits to strange and out- take charge of all business which of-the-way places in the Orient i.might come before students rela- and Europe. Mrs. Jule Hopwood ive to the action taken by the leg- made more than 35 voyages abroad. islat re oaluniwbilthat any s - Mrs. Hopwooa was in the East press their opinions on the matter during the past month to settle the get in touch with one of the men million dollar estate of her noted on the committee, son who met death when he col- As yet no date has been deter- lapsed in the surf of the Miditer- ;mined for the vote to be talkpn n ranean at Nice, France. He died the bill. It is understood, however July 1, and his mother's death oc- that the measure has already met curred just eight months later. considerable opposition. President Little's Hobbies Are His Dogs1 And Fishing, Not Mice And Birth Control "On the contrary, white mice more than a year, having been in and birth control are not my hob- the East in the hands of a pro- bies, as' most people believe" said fessional handler who conditions President Clarence Cook Little, 1 him for the shows. .yesterday. "They are my serious "Scottish terriers are judged just concerns; when I want relaxation, as are other kinds" he said. A I have my dogs and my outdoor standard is set, based on what of- sports-especially fishing." Presi- ficials believe the best type of dog dent Little was soon beguiled into should be; the dogs at the shows telling some of his experiences are graded on a point basis ac- with Scottish Terriers, his especial cording to body, ears, tail, legs, breed of dog, both in the field of coat, and other characteristics. The, ownership and judging. dog that has the highest number "My father was the first man to at the end is the winner. "No breed Scottish terriers in this scissors are allowed on the dogs country," Dr. Little said, "so I soon coat," he stated, "but it is all right became familiar with them. At to scrape the coat. Oftentimes, present, Dr. Little has three ter- inexperienced judges are fooled by riers and a dachshund. Only one the wad in which expert handlers dog however, his prize Ornsay Rab, scrape the coat so as to perfect is participating in the showsin the body lines, such as making the East. bow-legs appear straight." Ornsay Rab, which lie obtained In addition to his dogs, Presi- iiJ 1 ' 1 1 e 1 Chicago, for the important role of Dagny. The cast will agin Include Kath- erine Wick Kelly, leading lady of the Cleveland Playhouse in the featured role of Hjordis. RomanI Rnra. anmarlivi .-v, ,nn of f l-n f' As a result of the riot at the Michigan theater Monday night, five students were arraigned in justice court yesterday morning and a sixth is scheduled to appear; li court today. Justice C. A. Read-