V TABLISHED 1890 it Zr 43tfl 4 t1113 MEMBER I ASSOCIATEDI PRESS VOL. XL. NO. 131 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1930 EIGHT PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS ____ GRIDIRON BANQUET DECORATION MOTIF Stock Sales at Gridiron Banquet Will Decide Oil Can's 1930 Recipient. GRIEVANCES TO BE AIRED Publicity Seeking Congressmen First to be Presented with Lubricator. Paraphernalia of a stock ex- change will transform the ball room of the Union into a trading mart when, on the night of Sigma Delta Chi's gridiron banquet, April 9, stock will be bought and sold in several newly organized corpora- tions. Each corporation will repre- sent a faction that is touting a can- didate for the post of loquacious lubricator, and the corporation which sells most stock to the ban- cueters will see its candidate awarded. the oil can, which since 1923 has been given annually to the faculty member who in the judg- ment of the gridiron banqueters most deserves recognition as a pub- licity seeker and hot air artist. The stock market was selected as the theme of this razz fest, chair- man Edward L. Warren, Jr., '30,, said yesterday, because the recent crash is stfll of unusual interest in Ann Arbor, since it affected things as far removed from business, in the cloistered quiet pf college, as students' allowances. Every walk of life will be represented at the banquet, and in the fortunes of the stock market will be found a topic of interest to all the classes of peo- ple who will be represented. .University students, professors, - editors, politicians, statesmen, bus- tress men, and publishers will all rub elbows at the banquet, and each will be given an opportunity to get off his chest grievances of! 12 months standing. The gridiron banquet is a razz fest, at which all the banqueters are given an op- fortux1ity to see themselves as oth- t--fortnqk Gridiron banquets originated in Washington, P. C., where they were first held by members of the na-; tionail press club who after having, reported Congressional speeches for almost a year, relieved themselves of their resentment at the loquac- iousness of some Congressmen by inviting them all to a banquet and then razzing them all, and present- ing an oil can to the most loquac- ious. The congressmen had to like it, since they all needed publicity. Later, the banquets became so well' known that they were copied by other press clubs, and have now come to be an accepted tradition of the national professional journalis - tic fraternity, Sigma Delta Chi. After the razzing at this year's banquet has reached its conclusion, the runners who have been in charge of posting on the black-! boards the latest quotations on the stocks of the various quotations, will determine which stock is lead- ing, and the corporation which has' been most successful in its concen- trated panning of some individual' will be able to announce the man1 who is to hold the Ann Arbor oil 1 can for the next year. .Fielding H. Yost, director of the University's athletic plant, was awarded the oil can last year on the strength of his clean speech' campaign. He refused to make any predictions yesterday as to who de- serves the oil can this spring. Damage in Toledo Fire Estimated at $280,000 (By Associated Press) TOLEDO, March 31.-More than $280,000 damage was done by a spectacular fire which swept the loading docks of the Willys-Over-1 land company this arternoon and burned more than 100 new cars, 311 boxkcars, and a 700 foot loading dock. The majority of the cars burned were Willys Knights which had been loaded in the cars for ship- ment or were waiting loading at thendock. The 31 freight cars were valued at an average of $5,000 of a total of $155,000. Britain Refuses Plea for Island's Freedom (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, March 31-The Island of Cyprus, a crown colony, of Great Britain, has recently ask- THE INLANDER', STUDENT LITERARY PUBLICATION, GOES ON SALE TODAY Combining well known outside now poetry editor of Midland, and! talent with that found here in the has appeared both in the Ameri- University, the April issue of the can Mercury and Poetry and Inlander, which will be on sale to- Palms. Her verse is unusually good. uy at variouts readers ontmerous Other features of this month's features of unusual and varied in- Inlander include two articles on dif-a terest. ferent phases of humanism: "Sur- A frontispiece by Rockwell K vey of American Humanism," by entitled "Two Lovers" is partic-LarneRKli ad "Wtr ularly attractive, having been made Lawrence R. Klein and "Walter from a wood engraving in the Lippmann: a Humanist," by Wil- Wevhe Galleries. Two woodblocks liam J. Gorman. "Mrs. Trent's JAPAN FAVORS NE GLIDER TOW LINE HOLDS UP FLIGHT PARITY RATI NITF(Iy Associated Press) TUCSON, Arizona, March 31 - !Gusty winds held Capt. Frank T H ~R E E P D IN E R P L A s ate pi g o s-t - o s Hawks, transcontinental flyer, who is attempting a coast-to-coast gli- Announcement of Formal Reply der tour, in Tucson tonight. to British-American Plan The flyer enroute from San Die- Expected Friday. go, California to New York, was forced to ride currents back to Tuc- PLENARY SESSION SOON1 son this morning when the cable broke and parted his cabin glider Hope Still Held for Five Power from its tow plane 10 miles east of t Pact That Has Deadlocked here. He anounced that weather PacsThat-CasDealced conditions were too hazardous for Present 'Conference. a hop with an emergency tow line B k Kto Lordsberg, New Mexico, tonight. By Frank H. King, His schedule had called for an over- A. P. Staff Writer. LONDON, March 31. - Advices night stop at El Paso, after refuel- . ing at Lordsburg. received in London today from' TomorrowgCapt.Hawks ilat- Tokio regarding the Japanese ans- tmoo apt.bhawkspwia wer o te Aerian-ritsh ro-tempt to take off behind his power wer to the American-British pro- plane piloted by J. D. Jernigan, Jr., posal has convinced Americans, ' San Diego aviator, on the hop tot i Varsity Tankmen jVanquished b]EI* Swimmers, 41 to 2 CAPTAIN AULT AND BOLDT TAKE ONLY FIRST PLACES OF WOLVERINES; RELAY LOSES BY YARD. (Special to The Daily) NP;W iHAVEN, CONN., March 31.-Michigan's heretofore lun- beaten swimming team suffered a decisive 41-21 defeat at the hands of Yale's Eastern Intercollegiate champions in the final appearance of the season for both teams. Undefeated in si Xconsecutive seasons of intercollegiate swimluming Yale won five fist places tonight to outscore the Western Conference swimmers. Captain Ault of the W olverines won the 440 yard swim J while his teammate, Clarence Boldt, by Jean Paul Slusser of the College of Engineering and Architecture yae been included as the second reproduction of a series of his work. Ruth Lechlitner, '23, has contri- buted a poem, "Naked as Adam", which is one of the features of this issue. Miss Lechlitn~er, who grad- uated from Michigan is 1923, is REEVES DESCRIBES CONFERENCE WORK Political Science Head Writes That International Parley Has Begun Task. OPENING RITES FINISHED Dean John R. Effinger of the lit- erary college yesterday received a letter from Prof. Jesse S. Reeves, of the political science department, who is representing the United States in an international confer- ence on the codification of interna- tional law, now being held at the Hague.i Professor Reeves said that all the opening ceremonies have been for- gotten, and that the conference has been divided into three sub-com- mittees for the actual accomplish- ment of the task before the dele- gates. The work is very confining, he says, but because of its technical nature receives little publicity. The American delegation is ob- serving a 30-day period of mourn- ing for the death of former Chief JusticerWilliam I'U. Taft, and is ac- cepting no formal invitations. French is the most generally used language at the conference, Pro- fessor Reeves said. Besides those to whom it is native, English has been spoken by delegates of only one other nation, the Danish. VICTORY LOOMS IN RADIO FIGHT State Wins Advance in Time of Hearing on License. (By Associated Press) LANSING, March 31.-The state won what was claimed as a partialj victory in its controversy with the Federal Radio commission today when word was received that the. date for a hearing on Michiga'kI application for a wave channel has been advanced to April 22. The original schedule was May 15th. Governor Green revealed that i the, commission refuses to allot a wave channel for the proposal State police radio station, the fight will be carried into Congress. He inti- mated that members of the Mich-. igan delegation in Congress had expressed a willingness to seek leg- islation to permit the installation of the State police station. The Governor has insisted in several statements that the May date for a hearing was too late to be of benefit because if it resulted in denial of the State's application, there would be no time to press the matter in Congress. Daily Illini Prohibition Poll Shows Wet Vote Drinking among men students at the University of Illinois is more prevalent than abstemiousness, ac- cording to the results of a three day poll taken on the Urbana cam- pus by the Daily Illini, student newspaper. A majority of the wo- men voted that they did not drink.. A total of 3,992 votes were polled on the question, a vote considered fairly representative of the 10,000! students enrolled in the 'university. A total of 1,372 fraternity men de- clared that they drink, while 744 as- serted that they did not. Among sorority girls 267 declared that they drink while 531 do not. Of inde- pendent men, 430 drink compared with 408 who do not; 36 indepen- dent women drink while 114 do not. The totals of all students show that a total of 2.10 5 tnrnts drink. Husband" was contributed by Eliz- ab eth W. Smith, Spec., who had two plays considered in the One Act Play contest and one of them selected to be presented in final competition in the spring. Outside talent has been recruit- ed in addition to the local writers who have written for this number.' E. Merrill Root, John Becker, and Guy B. Johnson have contributed stories, poems, and features. Twelve of the latest books have been reviewed by students on the compus to complete the edition. The Inlander will be sold today{ for 25 cents, and may be obtained after today at the Inlander offices' in the Press building. LOOMIS, HENDEIRSON TO APPEARH IN PLAY1 'Her Cardboard Lover' to Run at Mendelssohn Theatre Week of April 21. PROCEEDS GO TO LEAGUE Announcement was made yester- day of the production of Jacquesi Duval's "Her Cardboard Lover," to be presented the week of April 21 in Lydia Mendelssohn theatre. The comedy is adapted from the French and was recently played at the Belmont theatre In New York, and on tour by Jeanne Eagels and Les- lie Howard. The present cast of "Her Card- $oard Lover" will include Miss Amy Loomis in the leading role of Simone LaGorce, played orig- inally by Miss Eagels. Lewis Mc- Michael is being brought on from New York for the part of her hus-, band. Robert Henderson will have Leslie Howard's part of the gigolo., Other players will include Minna Miller as Simone's maid, and John1 Connolly who has just closed in the New York production of "House Party." Large blocks of seats have al- ready been taken for the produc-] tion of "Her Cardboard Lover" by the several organizations that are meeting in Ann Arbor during the week of April 21. Six performan- .es are scheduled for the week. The play will run every night with the exception of Friday, April 25, when the Lydia Mendelssohn theatre will present the Orchesis program. . matinee is planned for Saturday.! April 26. Prices for the evening perform- ances are placed at $1.00 on the main floor and 75 cents in the bal- cony. Seats for the Saturday mat- inee are priced at 75 cents for the. British and Japanese conference L-- s-- g.Theg-d-rp--t---d-e circles that a three power naval tLordsburg. The glider pilot said he agreement will save the London expected to benable to make up the negoiatonsfrom thefaiurelost time between here and New negotiatiathons from the failure York. He is due in New York City which stilll threatens the European next Sunday. aspect of the parley. nextSunday. But five power agreement re- mained still the goal of the dele- I gates, even through hours of ad- versity. Prime Minister MacDon- N IN ald assured the House of Commons of this today, while Secretary Stim- on and the American delegation vN continued presistent efforts toward O that end. 'Romeo and Juliet' to be Given Japan's reply has been drafted R a u t n o and should arrive for formal an- I by lay Production for nouncement on Friday. Four Nights. Advices from Tokio today said Japan would make a reservation CLASS BUILDS SCENERY regarding her demand for 70 per ^ent of American strength in large Tomorrow night will mark the cruisers, yielding on this point opening of the first production o'I when the purpose of a five year Shakespearean drama by a campus working agreement on construction dramatic group for several tsea- program, rather than surrender sons. Play Production will present the ratio which her naval experts "Romeo and Juliet" for a four are convinced is necessary to se- nightrun at the Lydia Men- cure naval parity. delssohn theater. While the conference in general Seats for therperformances are prepared for Friday's plenary ses- all priced at 75 cents. They are on sion, which is expected to mark the! sale at the box office of the Lydia trend either toward speedy ad- Mendelssohn theatre. The box of- iournment, or along the present fice will be open today from 11 painstaking sttdy 'of the European o'clock to 5 o'clock, and from to- political problems, Foreign Minister morrow through Saturday will Briand and Foreign Secretary H-en- stay open until 9 o'clock. son of Great Britain continued ' ull d reeaka their discussions of' France's se- -A lull dress rehearsal with therdicsions omake-up was held last night at the curity problem. theatre and another one is sched- The British official spokesman uled for tonight. while unable to announce any pro- Scener for the . .s gram in the diplomatic game of y production is hunting a formula which will sat- nearing completion. The set for the isfy Great Britain, France and other scenery will be placed in Italy on the security issue indicated front of this set to facilitate quick that the foreign ministers and their changes. Charles Holden, grad., experts would stick to their tasks. has had charge of the construction The heads of delegations met in of scenery. St. James Palace for 15 minutes this morning. The meeting did not de- JONES IN LEAD velop into an important session as had been expected in some quar- AT OPEN MEET ters, but another meeting was call- ed for Wednesday. - fChampion Is Four Up on Field After First Rounds. s Q I f SPEED TRIALS FAIL' TO BETTER RECORDl Silver Bullet 186 Miles Attains Speed per Hour After of Six Attempts. MOTOR FAILS IN TESTS1 1 i ,. L (By Associated Press) DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., March 31 - Motor trouble and a rough beach combined today to thwart the attempt of Kaye Don, veteran British race car driver, to shatter the world's automobile speed rec- of 231 miles per hour over the speedway here. Despite advice from officials that ..i e course was not in condition for a record-breaking attempt, Don sent his giant 24 cylinder Silver Bullet racer across the beach six times, but the highest speed he was able to attain was 186 miles per hour. After his first three runs, made. at a fairly rapid clip, carburetor trouble developed. The fastest speed he was able to attain after the trouble developed was 149. Upon completing his trials, Don towed the maching direct to the garage and set a crew at work ad- justing the difficulty. He said he would renew his attempt tomorrow if the beach is in good condition. Low tide occurs at about 3:14 p. m. but he would be able to make his trials about an hour before that time. Don sent his machine bouncing along the course at a speed of 178 miles per hour on his first trial to- day and then came back at 180 to return a short time later at 186, Despite the rough beach, Don ap- parently had little trouble in keep- ing the giant car under control. Don admitted after his first three runs that the beach was in no condition for a record breaking attempt, but said he wanted to make additional trials in an effort to learn just what adjustments were necessary. BODIES REMOVED. FROM COAL MINE captured first honors in the 150 yard backstroke event. Michigan's. flashy relay quartet of Walaitis, Hosmer, Smith and Walker, recently crowned national champions and holder of the ex- isting mark at the 200 yard dis- tance fell a victim by a yard in a I distinct upset to Yale's free style |combine of Fobes, Butler, Bessimer and Howland, to the time of one minute and 36 seconds. The Michigan natators netted only six places, the two firsts, three seconds and one third. Walker, Wolverine dash ace, placed second to Messimer of Yale in the 50 yard freestyle, and got a third in the dash, giving way to Howland and Messimer of Yale, in that order. Goldsmith missed out to Miller in the breaststroke by a short gap, the latter finishing the 220 yard course in two minutes 40 and two- fifths seconds. SUMMARIES 50 yard dash, freestyle-won by Messimer, Yale; Walker, Michigan, second; Howland, Yale, third. Time 25 1-5 seconds. 440 yard swim-won by Ault, Michigan; Osborne, Yale, second; Leedy, Yale, third. Time 5:6 3-5. Fancy diving-Won~~ y;haO9ggg Yale; aike, Michigan, second; Manuel, Yale, third. Winner's points-73 5-10. 150 yard backstroke-Won by Boldt, Michigan; Casill, Yale, sec- ond, Valentine, Yale, third. Time, 1:46 4-5. 200 yard breaststroke-Won by Miller, Yale; Goldsmith,' Michigan, second; Mercer, Yale, third. Time, 2:40 2-5. 100 yard dash-Won by Howland, Yale; Messimer, Yale, second; Wal- ker, Michigan, third. Time 53-3-5 seconds. 200 yard relay-Won by Yale: Fobes, Butler, 'Messimer, Howland, Time, 1:36. Michigan's team-Wal- ker, Walaitis, Smith and Hosmer. Ryerson Announces Military Ball Plans Preliminary plans for the annual Military Ball to be held Friday, May 2, at the Union under the auspices of Scabbard and Blade and the military department of the University were announced yes- terday by George Ryerson, '31, chairman of the committee in charge. The identity of the orchestra has not yet been revealed, but accord- ing to Ryerson it will be a famous Victor recording band heard at 11 o'clock every night on the radio from a prominent night club. The favors, to be of an entirely new na- ture, have not been decided upon by the committee, but the Military Ball will see the inauguration of a unique method of distribution and one that has not yet been seen up- on the campus. Ticket sale for the ball is now go- ing on at the R.O.T.C. office in the military department building on the Diagonal. There will be a prefer- ential sale until after the spring vacation, but reservations for tick- ets may be filed now at the office. General sale of tickets will begin immediately after the recess. Tick- ets are priced at five dollars. OurWather Man gin.. i i I The Board in Control of Stu- dent Publications will hold its meeting for the appointment of the Managing Editor and Bus- iness Manager of The Michigan Daily, the Michiganensian, and the Gargoyle on May 3, 1930. (By Associated Press) AUGUSTA, Ga., March 31-Show- ing perfect figures for the first two rounds of the $5,000 Southeastern open golf tournament here. Bobby Jones lead the field of nearly 100 golfers with his 144 and showed a ma To ba to tic Ru 9b ion era an in blo wh be G G~r ~ l U /14 1.t04U #t/ lEach liV1cant ( L?"+""' 's"°ti "' """ ain floor and 50 cents for the .c r aIfour stroke lead over his rival, (yu' A uutdtu Pres) }cony. sreuested t le sev copie of Horton Smith. KETTLE ISLAND, Ky., March 31 - his letter of application at the It was the second meeting of the -Mine relief squads, no longer C_ Board office inthe Press building year for Jones and Smith. A gal- rescuers, but searcherj for the deadf, lery of two thousand followed them went into the depts of the Pioneer Sale tineS Today useoftheopies, egilfte through two rounds over the dif- coal mine here today and brought ---c s lb ficult par 72 hole course at the out the bodies of six of the sixteen Following today's exclusive sale willbe satisfactoy Eas letter Country club. Smith beat the At- men believed killed in an explo- eninerng students alone, should state the facts as to the engineering f t e a e lide applicant's experience upon the lanta golfing barrister by one sion Saturday. ikets for the revival of the Slide apulicat's eeeeupo thr'stroke in their battle at Savannah With the discovery of the bodies, le dance, which will be held from publication or elsewhere, beao far I' tl d2n, Friy eing in he Urm- as they may have any bearing last February. Had Calamity the experts directing the work ab- until 2 Friday evening in the Un-upon his qualifications for the Jane" been functioning smoothly, andoned any hope that any of the ballroom, will be placed on gen- position sought, and any other Jones would have had even a victims might have saved them- al sale to the general public, an facts which the applicant may greater lead over the field. With selves. nouncemeft by the committee Idfew exceptions his drives were long Tonight squads continued their charge stated last night. The d E. R. SUNDERLAND, and straight, and approaches were efforts and expected to bring out )ck of tickets is limited to 250, of si' -ss Manager, Board in Con true, but he missed about a dozen the last of the bodies by Wednesday ich a majority have already] ro ! sp tunt Bation. outts. On one hole he used three noon. Furthered by the intense en sold; bids are placed at $3. trol of Student Publications. utt_ before he could find the cup. heat which followed the explosion,, - ------ -- --_-decomposition of the bodies had al- T T T eady set in. The squad man said 'ARGOYLE'S TWENTY-FIRST ANNIVERSARY OBSERVED no evidence of fire had been found 1btthe force of the explosion ex- IN APRIL NUMBER TO BE SOLD ON CAMPUS TOMORROW pelled the air amd stopped ventila- tion, causing the normally high temperatures to increase I . I After 21 years of loyal service goyle right on time and decided to will find difficult to recognize, but to Michigan and its public scatter- , ed throughout the nation, Gar- go after the Saturday Evening Post not as the West Physics Lab), an- German Biologist Will goyle comes of age with its April with renewed vigor so that Gar- other of the Central residence for Lecture on Bees Todayi number, which will be put on gen- goyle's founders will not be disap- nurses, and two remarkable futur- eral sale Wednesday. The first is- pointed in their fond hope of put- istic photographs of Angell hall, Prof. Karl von Frisch of the Uni- sue of the magazine appeared in, ting the Post out of commission.i one taken from the ground look- versity of Munich, 'Germany, will 1909 with the avowed purpose of! And the strange part of the ing up, and the other taken from speak at 4:15 today in Natural outselling the Saturday Evening affair is, Gargoyle really has cele- the fourth floor. For the now cus- Science auditorium on "The Sense Post, outwriting it, and finally out- brated with particularly good art tomary photograph of a theatric!and Language of the Bees." His lec- lawing it to prove that Michigan work, several feature stories (illus- celebrity, Roy Hoyer, known to the Iture will be illustrated and though culture conquers all. Itrated) which follow the policy theater as a juvenile of ability and of a scientific nature, will not be Now that Gargoyle is 21, having initiated in the last number. some to Michigan as director of Opera handled in a technical manner. ;I