STABLISHED 1890 I r AOW AAhr MIR p 'I'V tr t an x l MEMBER ASSOCIATED I PRESS Vol. XXXIX, No. 171 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1929 EIGHT PAGES PERS DRY1 ONNEL OF NEW ENFORlCEMENT ANNOUNlCEDI Selects Wickersham As Leader Oft Machine WILL HAVE ASSISTANCE. Commission - Members To Receive No Pay (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, May 20.-AttoL7 ney George W. Wickersham, attor- ney general in the Taft administra- tion, has been selected by President Hoover as chairman of the national law enforcement commission, and Will have associated with him nine other lawyers and one woman rep- resenting all of the major geograph- ical divisions of the country. In announcing the personnel of the commission late today, White House officials said Mr. Wickers- ham will call the group together here late in the week to map out a preliminary program for the work + which is expected to last upwards of two years and which is regarded by the chief executive as the most important task concerning his ad- ministration. Heading the list of members of+ the commission is Newton D. Baker, secretary of war in the Wilson ad- ministration, and chairman of the national crime commission. The+ other members are: Frank J. Loesch. vice-president of the Chicago crime commission; Roscoe Pound, dean of the Har- vard law school; William I. Grubb, federal judge for the northern dis- trict of Louisiana bar association. William S. Kenyon, -Ijwad;United Mtates circuit judge; Kenneth R. New Glee Club Leader Chosen At the election of officers held last night by the Varsity glee club, Gil- bert B. Saltonstall, '30, was chosen president for next year, Roland D. Severy, '30, secretary, Clifford B.' Wightman, '3Ed, treasurer, and Roland A. Yaeger, '30A, representa- tive to the board. Lawrence Good- speed,'31, will continue as student manager." Robert A. Campbell, treasurer of the University, is fac- ulty advisor. The first appearance of the ge club in Ann Arbor this year will be at 7:30 o'clock Wednesday night, May 29, in Hill auditorium. This will be a request concert, with Theodore Harrisondirecting. Tickets will be priced at 50 cents. The club will assist at the senior sing tomorrow night. STOCKCOMPANY OPENS LONG RON "The Green Goddess" Is First Play Of Series Playing William Archer's melo- drama, "The Green Goddess" a stock company directed by Robert Henderson opened last night at the Lydia Mendelssohn theater for a three weeks' run. Reynolds Evans, who played here in "TheVikings," is cast.in the role of the. Raja of Rukh. He is sup- ported by Suzanne Freeman who has been appearing the past sev- eral months with the Wright Play- ers in Flint. Other persons in the company include Arthur Kohl, El- berta Trowbridge, Ralph Menzing, and Edward Everett Hale III. Performances of this vehicle will be given tonight and tomorrow matinee and night. Thursday mat- inee and nigght and Saturday mat- Inee and night; GeorgeBernard Shaw's "You Never Can Tell" will ta 83'eted "'9rdtitsfor te' l next two eks nclude "Nightstick"? Anda "The Spider." Seats for all performances of the company may be reserved by -call- Ing the box office of the - Lydia Mendelssohn theatre. Tickets are priced at 75 cents for the night per- formances and 50 cents for the matinees.! Proceeds from the three weeks' run are to be used to help repay a pledge that the Alumnae council made to the construction fund of the Women's League building. LEGUE EXPLAINSE OU Outlining the policy of the new Lydia Mendelssohn theatre, Mrs. W. D. Henderson, the executive chair- man of the Alumnae council of the Women's League, explained yester- day that the unit was constructed primarily for the young women of Michigan. Student dramatic or- ganizations are to be given next preference in the theatre, and then all other University activities will be privileged to use the house. "We also hope," said Mrs. Hen- derson, "to bring in some fine art and dramatic work when the the- atre is not occupied by a student organization." Such presentation as the Cleveland players and a stock company directed by Miss Jessie Bonstelle will be planned for the theatre. The Lydia Mendelssohn theatre does not take the place of the pro- posed Campus theatre which will be constructed some time in the near future and designed to house a larger production than can be accomodated in this new house. The theatre is designed for campus productions, University lectures, il- lustrated talks, and School of Music, concerts, Mrs. Henderson explained and is to be used to serve the Campus. M A DA AAL11 I WINS FRTPLACE IN BLACKCONI[SI Boesche Places Second; Urist Takes Third BASED ON NEW TESTAMENT Prof . Hollister Pleased With Interest Shown Culminating several weeks of pre- liminary drill and contest elimina- tion, final judging in the Thomas E. H. Black oratoricals resulted in a victory for Chester C. Bennett, '29, Sundayrevening, at the First Methodist Church. The winner's oration on "Life More Abundant" netted him $100 as first prize, with the addition of the Black medal, presented by Thomas Black, found- er of the contest. Second place was won by Fenelon W. Boeshe, '31, who used "The Crossroads of Christianity" for his subject. The award for runner-up was $50. Carl H. Urist, '31, won a fine edition of the Bible in recognition for third place. Five Reach Finals Bennett's oration was based on a quotation from the New Testament, and its theme and development were of sufficiently high character to warrant a first place among the stiffest competition in the history of the award. Five survivors from the elimination contests made ora- tions for the final judging. Profesor R. W. Hollister, in charge of the competition, was pleased over the interest which has been I shown in this year's contest, when interviewed, following oine Sunday evening orations. He stated that each successive year has seen keen- er cmeiif~frth 10i prizes, and that an attempt will be made in the future to begin earlier In the season, in order to give the' 'contestants time to revise portions of their orations before the final judging., Large Crowd Present The judges for the Sunday con- test were Professors Thomas S. Trueblood and James M. O'Neill, and Dean Edward H. Kraus. A large crowd attended the final try- outs, which were held in a church building rather than on the campus because of the nature of the con- test. All orations entered were aither based on or concerned with the New Testament, according to specifications of the donors of the awards. CAUSE OF CLINIC DISASTER FOUND MICHIGAMUA ON WARPATH; SEEKS . NEW PALEFACES1 When from out the paleface wigwam From behind the staring moon-j f ace Come the slow and solemn five I booms Telling that the Evening spirit Wanders over woods 'and meadows, Lights the campfires of the heavens, Then the Michigamua warriorsj In their feathers and their war- paint Soon will gather 'round the oak tree 'Round the oak tree called the Tappan There to greet the trembling paleface. Many in number wait the bid- ding Of the loud rejoicing redskins, For before they take the long trail To the home of Michigamua Many trials and many tortures First must prove their strength and courage 'Ere the red man bids them wel- come, 'Ere he calls each paleface "Indian," 'Ere the peace-pipe smoke goes skyward.3 Activities Will Center Around Bandstand At Flagpole Donned in cap and gown, tradi- tional senior garb, members of the class of 1929 in the various schools and colleges of the Universir will gather under the Campus flagpole tomorrow night to lift voices in the annual senior sing. Arrangements Sfor the event are,hnow complete, ac coringto Herbert Palmer, 29. chairman of the, committee in c harge: The Varsity band will be present in full uniform to furnish music for the occasion, it is promised, and the Men's Glee club will aid them by leading in the singing. A large illuminated stand has been erected on the campus at the base of the flagpole for the accommodation of I the band and glee club. It is ex- pected that Theodore Harrison, of the School of Music, will be on hand to direct the mass singing, according to Palmer. The purpose of the annual senior sing, say officials, is to give grad- uating students an opportunity to gather for a final get-together at a time when the campus is more beautiful than through the rest of the year. Senior sing has a certain informality and joyousness they as- sert, which properly is lacking at Swing-out and which is not ap- proached in Commencement. Besides the traditional Michigan songs, such as "Victors," "Yellow and Blue," "Varsity," and College Days," a number of other songs of popular or comical nature, such as are sung at the dinner tables of fraternity and sorority houses will be on the program, Palmer says. co that copies be made for distribu- aiy In tion to European scholars. Copies 1924 As Part Of were made by covering the surface >f the stone with printer's ink, and Colcto then laying upon it a sheet of paper which was rolled with india-rubber Forgeries are sometimes valuable, rollers until a good impression had Prof. Warren E. Blake of the Greek been made. department and Prof. James E. One copy thus made fell into the! Dunlap of the department of Latin hands of a native, who guessing; and Greek are coming to believe what it was attempted to make a since their solution of the mystery "fake" antique by copying the let- of the Michigan "Rosetta" mirror, ters, as best he could, on the mirror which turned out to be a forgery Being unable to read, the forger of an antique which is now wellon copied the characters inrtheir re- its way to becoming an antique in verse form, as they were on the its own right. lithograph. The entire inscription The mirror came to the University forms exactly the first line of the in 1924, part of a collection which Rosetta stone: thus its fragmentary had been gathered during a period nature. of years by an American medical The results of the study of this missionary resident in Egypt. He stone, are published in the current rarely made any purchases through issue of "Art and Archeology." the regular channels, but received various objects from time to time as tokens of appreciation from the na- thus supposed that all the objects OHOSS A A tives whom hie attended. It was given him were genuine antiques, since it is commonly assumed that I even native Egyptians would not be likely to cheat a man when giving 1 him presents. But a forgery the mirror turned out to be. After puzzling long over Planes Will "Bomb" its reversed characters and the ap- Two Seaboard parently meaningless fragmentary 1 inscription contained on the mirror, I Points Professors Blake and Dunlap de- cided that the true history of the ( 'nc'ciated Press) mirror was something like this. WRIGHT FIELD, DAYTON, Ohio, When Napoleon heard of the May 20.-New York, Atlantic City Rosetti stone, he ordered it to be! and other easteri points, will get a taken to Cairo and placed in the glimpse of Ohio's war in the air to- Institute National which he had re- morrow night and the rest of the cently founded, and commanded country will hear about it first hand when a giant Keystone bom- ber accompanied by a plane equip- pod for radio broadcasting, will set out from here to "bomb" the two coast cities iTeplane is scheduled to make a non-stop refueling flight, speeding to New York to drop imaginary bombs on the metropolis, taking a side trip to Atlantic City, and then ~eturning to Wright Field. Th Contains Five Best radio broadcast plane, an army Plays In Contest -transport, will fly with the bomber and broadcast its -activities ontwo Last Winter rwavelengths, 1150 ieters and 80 {meters. "Michigan Plays," a book contain- To Be Refueled Twice ing the five best plays 'entered il A refueling plane will also ac- Play Production's one-act play con- company the bomber. At Bolling test of last winter, will appear on Field, Washington, the bomber will the campus this morning, it was an- be refueled from the accompanying nounced yesterday I plane and it will receive another Bound in blue and black, the book stock of fuel while aloft at Bolling will'be illustrated with photographs Field on the return trip. of significant moments in the pro- I Uncle Sam's war game came duced plays. Lee Blaser has drawn down to earth tonight as 800,000 Scartoon to illustrate "Puppet," the imaginary soldiers "dug in" along wich beau of techfnical inns the shores of Darby Creek, near Co- which buIlumbus, in preparation for the ties was not produced. Ijoint air-ground maneuvers which George Wahr has published the start tomorrow. new book. Its exact price has not The maneuvers thus far lave yet been announced, but it was m- consisted solely of air tactical ex- timated last night that this would ercises, but at midnight tomorrow be someplace between $1.50 and hostilities will be resumed in which $2.00. An introduction has been both air and ground forces will co'- written by Prof. Louis A. Strauss, of ! ordinate. They will be preceded to- the English department, which sets morrow by observation flights, forth the idealism behnd the book through which the attacking blue and discusses the historical aspect army, with headquarters here, and this step in the progress of the Uni- the defending red army, with versity. The book was reviewed in headquarters at Columbus, will at- Sunday's Daily by Prof. Erich A. tempt 'to locate each other's dvi- Walter, of the rhetoric department. sion headquarters and other sta- The authors whose work is pub- tions of ground troops. lished in the book include Dorothy Country Has Military Aspect Ackerman, R. Leslie Askren, JeromeI While most of the ground troops MacCarthy, Arthur Hinkley and are imaginary, there are enough Helen Adler. actual flesh and blood soldiers en- - ---ogaged to give the countryside near Forged Antique Mirror Proves Reversed Copy Of Rosetta Stone w the Washington state supreme court; Paul J. McCormick, federal judge for the southern district. of California; Henry W. Anderson of Richmond, -Va., and Miss Ada L. Comstock, president of Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Mass.1 Announcemeilt was made that appointment to the commission had been tendered to Associate Jus- time Harlan Stone of the United States Supreme Court; Charles Evans Hughes, former secretary of state; Owen D. Roberts of Philadel-' phia, of government counsel in the celebrated oil prosecutions. and Benjamin Cordoza, judge of the New York state court of appeals. . In making his selection, Mr. Hoover did not name a recognized leader either of the drys or the wets- of those who had been sug- gested from some of the leaders of the prohibition forces that he do so. In general, the public careers of those names have been identified with either the dry or the wet course. At the outset, at least, members of the commission will serve with- out pay. Congress 4as failed to make any appropriation either for salaries or expenses. The chief executive has conferred with a number of the members of the commission who are familiar with the work he has in mind. This consists of a thoroughgoing survey of the whole subject of law enforce- ment, including enforcement of the' Eighteenth Amendment, with a view toward a reorganization of the whole federal judicial and enforce- ment machinery. Extended hearings will be held on many phases of the general problem with both drys and wets given ample opportunity to present to their chosen spokesmen theirl ,arguments as to the efficiency of the Volstead Act as a medium of enforcing the Eighteenth Amend- ment and other views pertinent to the commission's work. In pursuing its work the commis- sion will seek the cooperation of state enforcement agencies which have been . studying the organiza- tion of state judicial processes and which has prepared a number of recommendations to the state legis- lature. The commissioners also will seek aid- from the American Bar Association. The national crime commission and other bodies have had experience in this line of work. UUAS TO FEATURE ?ESTIVAL PROGRAM Sophie Braslau, Richard Crooks Will Be Soloists SYMPHONY WILL ASSIST Nevada VanderVeer Is To Take Place Of Telva Opening the thirty-sixth annual Jay Festival tomorrow night in Hill uditorium, Sophie Braslau, con- ralto, and Richard Crooks, tenor, ill provide a concert with the Chi- ago Symphony orchestra and Fred- ick Stock, conductor, as back- round. Miss Braslau has won great dis- inction in her former appearances n Ann Arbor, and on this occasion will sing miscellaneous 4rias and hort numbers. Crooks will also ap- >ear in several arias and songs on omorrow night's program. He is a member of the Chicago Civic )pera company, and Miss Braslau is Prom the Metropolitan Opera com- any. Stock Will Conduct Fredrick Stock, who has been with bhe Chicago Symphony orchestra Por twenty-five years, will conduct hat band of players as an accom- )animent to the two soloists. One change in the list of artists who are scheduled to appear was nnounced yesterday. Nevada Va- derVeer,contralto, is to take the lace of Marion Telva, contralto, in he Saturday night concert. Miss VanderVeer's appearance is brougt about as the result of the recent marriage and honeymoon trip broad of Miss.Telva. MisV yande - eewho has nt assumed a stage tame, comes from one of the oldest Dutch families in New York state. Studied Abroad Following her musical training in America, she studied in France and England and made her debut in London. Since that time she has had many major engagements un- der American orchestras-the most outstanding being that with Walter Damrosch. The concerts in the evening are scheduled to begin at 8:15 o'clock and the two afternoon, programs are scheduled for 2:30 o'clock. Pa- trons are requested to be in their seats by the time for the scheduled openings, so that the artists may not be bothered by late comers. ENGLAND FACES NOMINATION DAY (By Associated Press) LONDON, May 20.-Nomination day for the British Parliamentary elections, May 30, anticipated today in seven cases the suffrages of the nation. Four Conservative candidates and three Nationalists, including "Tay Pay" Q'Connor, "father of the House of Commons," were returned unopposed to the next Parliament by the simple act of filing their nomination papers. Conservatives jestingly claimed a "plurality of one' in the new house and took it as an augury of success May 30. Those elected by acclamation in- cluded the speaker of the House, A. E. Fitzroy, Conservative candidate for Daventry, , Northamptonshire and the Nationalist, T. P. (Tay Pay) O'Connor, who will continue to rep- resent the Scotland division of Liv- erpool. He first represented this constituency in 1885. The Conservatives o b t a i n e d through acclamations in northern Ireland were Major Ronald Ross, who was unopposed in Londonder- ry, and Col. T. Sinclair unopposed as a candidate for Belfast (Queen's) University. QurWaher~ L CLEVELAND, May 2.-Nitrogen dioxide formed from the decom- position of the nitro cellulose X-ray films caused the death of 124 men and women in the Cleveland Clinic disaster last Wednesday, Dr. Wil- litm E. Tower,eco-founder of the clinic and one of its directors, de- clared late today. i '! I This was the first oflicial state- ment to come from a director of the clinic regarding the actual cause of the deaths. This statement was given in the oresence of Dr. George W. Crile, founder and director of the clinic. "It was horrible, I still am dazed by the tragedy of it all," Dr. Crile~- said. "I have not had time to de- termine just what the cause was or ( B Associatcd Press) how the deadly gas was generated. . FRIEDRICIISHAFEN, Germany, "There is no one quite so anx- May 20.-Dr. Hugo Eckener, com- ious to get every fact in connection mander of the trans-Atlantic air with the explosion and fire, but we liner Graf Zeppelin, hopes to bring have not had time to investigate. is ship acketoreshafen That must come later. his ship back to Friedrichshafen "When I arrived in front of the from Cuers Thursday or Friday of building and saw the condition of this week. the patients being carried out, it At the same time he told the was evident that they were victims r of gas. What it was I do not know correspondent for the Associated and have had not had time to find Press that a trans-Atlantic journey out." was out of the question until it has ---- --- - -been definitely determined what Senior Invitations caused the failure of four of his five motors last week when the ship Will Be Distributed was well on her way on a second voyage to the United States. "I arrived Sunday night in order Invitations and announcements I to confer with Ludwig Duerr, direc- for Commencement exercises will tor of Maybach Co. (manufacturers' be passed out in return for receipts of the motors), before bringing the MUSIC AND DRAMA EDITOR Columbus a military aspect. These I APPOINTED 1jtroops will manipulate the "panels" According to an announce- that indicate the vast armies in ment made last night, William1 the battle. Detachments of the J Gorman, '31, has been ap- Tenth Infantry from Fort Thomas, pointed Music and Drama edi- Ky., and Fort Hayes, Columbus, tor of The Daily for the coming and of the 11th Infantry,.Fort Ben- year. I' jamin Harrison, Ind., are on the o - --- ------0 front. MICHIGAN TECHNIC APPEARS TODAY; MANY NEW FEATURES ARE INCLUDED Appearing on the campus for the irst time with a colored cover, the /Iichigan Technic will go on gen- ;ral sale today. Many new fea- tures have been incorporated in this magazine, including a numbei >f excellent photographs of inter- Dst, as well as stories written by students and faculty men. The cover design is the archi- tect's drawing of the Ambassador bridge now under construction be- tween Detroit and Windsor, while the first article in the issue, by Edward R. Nell, '30E, discusses the bridge and presents an accuratel descriptions of it. ried out along this line. "The Metal Art--Wrought Iron," by Harriet J. Thoms, '29A, reviews the art of the ancients, while L.! Verne Ansel, '31E, tells of some of' the interesting things to be seen in the new museum in an an article entitled "A Glance at the Neu Mu- scum." Concluding a series of features on books, Prof. J. Raleigh Nelson, of the English department, discuss- es great sea stories in "What Shall I I Read." Conrad, Melvinne, Dana, Lubbock, and others come in for Professor Nelson's praise. "The Collegiate Shavetail," by Patrick E. McCaughey, '29E, tells of some Conterence Bjasebaii (By Associated Press) MADISON, Wis., May 20.-Wis- consin took undisputed possession of second place in the Big Ten 0- n I BlANQUET TICKETS An xit fci ,,nnt. rlic~hir o +n 4nilrof. ii