ESTABLISHED 1890 Air A& :411 t1p MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN VOL. XLI. No. 122 EIGHT PAGES ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1931 PRICE FIVE CENTS (TfhhE PINERSRIO T, SE T DINING ROOM W4T1HM9N ABLAZE IN ILLINOS PENITENTIARY ON CONTRIBUTI ONS Of IRQ' EXPEDITION, T ( ( ||T 0 "| (' FORMER ASSOCIATE E AUE BOY NAMED PRES PEAK AT MEETJoslin Is First Newspaper Man to be Selected for Post !ON UNEMP Y F T WA """" in Modern Times. WASHINGTON, Mar. 20.-(IP)-A former Associated Press office boy, Murphy, Dexter, McBroom Bare who became one of the leading po- Question Before Meeting litical writers of the country and who was to have been as close to Arranged by Ministers. President Coolidge as any other --Washington correspondent, is the GOVERNMENT ATTACKED new secretary to President Hoover. Theodore Joslin, 41, good hum- Dexter Declares Religion Must ored and a prodigious worker, is Strive to Prevent Returns .thefirst active newspaper man to Latest Findings Have Enriched World's Knowledge of Parthian History.! AIDED BY AIRPLANES After First Level Uncovered Found 200-Room Palace of Ancient Noble. Contributions to the w o r 1 d's knowledge of Parthian h i s t o r y made by the University of Michi- gan-Toledo Museum expedition in Mesopotamia were outlined yester- day in a general lecture to the Michigan Academy of Sciences by Prof. Leroy Waterman, of the Sem- itics department, the leader of the expedition. The expedition, in its fourth sea- son of research at Seleucia-on-the- Tigris, made discoveries which have added significanty to the formerly obscure history of this Asian race, Professor Waterman said. With the aid of an airplane survey, the ex- cavators selected what seemed to be an important section of the site at Seleucia, and uncovered a pal- ace, evidently that of a noble, he declared. Found Ancient Palace. On the first level, the palace cov- ered an entire 'block and had 2001 rooms, Professor Watermansaid, but on digging down to the second' level, the excavators found a struc- ture that had been in use about the first century, A. D., which contain- ed 250 rooms, and gave up a very valuable collection of pottery, metal instruments, ornaments, and coins, which evidence a high degree of civilization. Remarkable jewelry, worked in gold and set with semi-preciousM stones, was discovered, as well as a wide selection of Parthian pottery,; he said. In the second level palace,j b r i c k s bearing Nebuchadnezzer's stamp were discovered. Professor'Waterman pointed out that, in earlier days, excavators went after certain kinds of mater- ial and neglected other discoveries. I Often the Parthian sites in Mesopo- tamia were overlooked, he said, be- cause they were in remote places.{ Built Over 3 Civil zations. 3 Seleucia, however, is built over the remains of three other distinct] civilizations; and the site has been that of an important center under each one, he said. Possibly the old- est Sumerian city-state was located1 there, and following it was a dom- inant Babylonian city, he declared. The place was taken over by Se- leucia and made a powerful city,1 he said, later emerging again under the Parthians. Parthian domina- tion made Seleucia an important1 center of trade with India and, China, he declared, and also devel- oped it into a meeting place for Parthian and western culture, since Ctesiphon, the Parthian capital, was located across the river from it. I veseecuu ya 1A tl1w11 1 UU fW~. The above picture shows the di prison set on fire following a riot b previously set the chair factory of1 were called in folowing the fire-riot JULIET AU Civil Service Foisted Crooked1 Personnel on Him, Hill Tells Legislators. JOLIET, Ill., Mar. 20-(A)--Fight- ing for his reputation as a prison executive before a legislative invest- igating committee, Warden Henry C. Hill today "damned" civil serviceI as foisting "crooked guards" upon him, and placed part of the blame upon them for unrest which led to last Wednesday's prison riot and $1,000,000 flre.j Prisoners in ce1l house "F" at Stateville, while the warden was testifying, sought to stage a riot and to escape. The riot was short- lived. to prisoners were released. The disturbance consisted princi- pally of breaking of glass in the cell block and yelling and cursing. At the hearing, Warden Hill, pointing to his questioner, Roger Little, chairman of the legislative committee, said, "I'm making no general complaint against my guards. When you get 22 men in a prison as guards you are bound to get some disloyalty in with them. "There are disloyal guards here, both in the old prison and in the new one. I don't know who they are. As fast as I locate them I fire them. They come here under civil service and civil service will never give good guards. I wish we could ;et out from under it. "Thcy add to the unrest, I know,' and everyone knows. We don't need to wait for former Chaplain Whit- meyer to tell of such things, nor of the narcotics and liquor here. Lewis' Face Slapped; 'Outrageous,' He Says NEW YORK, Mar. 20.-(iP)-Theo- dore Dreiser ("The Genius") slap- ped the face of Sinclair Lewis ("Babbitt") last night. "It was an outrageous, scandal- ous affair," said Lewis, the only American ever awarded the Nobel prize for literature. Dreiser's comment was twice as long--it contained 12 words: "Rash and unwarranted insults were rewarded with two slaps upon the face." The men, met in a room off the dining room of the Metropolitan club, where they were attending a dinner given by Ray Long, editor of the Cosmopolitan magazine, in hnr o, jf nrq Pinvowk_ R sian of Depression. ern times for a secretarial post. ----His predecessor, George Akerson, Unemployment, in all its nation- had been a Washington correspond- wide ramifications, together with ent, but he left newspaper work suggested cures was given a public to join the staff of Mr. Hoover when siring through the medium of ad- he was in the cabinet. dresses by three leaders in the ApoicawrtrfrTeBsn fields of religion, municipal gov- A political writer for The Boston ernment, and social work at a mass ratednscript for 18 years, Joshln is meeting sponsored by the Ann Ar- tere as onenos the a t bor Miisterial association, which diagnosticians of trends in politics ;s wasrhelditeril ausdcitoiunwhashand of public reactions to issues of wa hheld in Hill auditorium last national importance. Dr. Robert Dexter of Boston From the time Calvin Coolidge brought to the discussion the atti- became president, Joslin has made tude of all organized religion. a special study of White House af- "Religion," he declared, "must fairs. He knew Coolidge intimate- concern itself with unemployment, ly when he was president of the if it is to uphold men's dignity and Massachusetts state senate. When prevent them from being ground Coolidge came to Washington as to powder in the industrial ma-- chine." He mentioned that thei church should concern itself not jonly with providing relief for theJCHURCHESENDORSE pJresent situation, but more par- , - " ; ..ticularly with the greater problem of seeing that periodical recrudes- cences of depression are prevented. ,. .: ..Scores Administration. ....~~~~~~~ Dr. Dexter saw as the underlying Ueo otaetv esrs ning room of the Stateville, Illinois cause of the depression the lack of Use of Contraceptive Measures y the convicts. The prisoners had an equable division of wealth be- Advocated by Protestent the institution ablaze. State police tween capital and labor. He declar- Representatives. to quell the disturbance. ed that the church must influence employers to stabilize their indus- NEW YORK, Mar. 20.--(/)-The tries. "careful and restrained" use of "Our nation is behind every other contraceptive measures to regulate nation on the globe," he declared, I the size of families was endorsed "even in finding out the numbers 3 today by an organization made up of unemployed." He severely con- of representatives of 27 American demned the Hoover administration, Protestant churches having a total asserting that it played politics on I membership of approximately 23,- ia vital human question. D o00T,0. Commissioner of Prison Says: Mayor Frank Murphy of Detroit The endorsement was given in a Increase in Crime Has took up the discussion, telling majority report on birth control What the Community Can Do." Hd Not Been Alarming. also attacked the national admin- submitted after several years of gsrtodclrn"htth iyo study by the committee on marri- Sdeclarigta t thscitm o f age and the hom e of the Federal "Although in the last few years Deroit had alone spent more than Council of Churches of Christ in crime in England has shown a the whole national government to America. slight increase, it is not regarded Murphy continued to describe the The committee unanimously a- as alarming, and there has been governmental agencies, which have greed that, because of economic no increase in the prison popula- been set up in Detroit to assist De- considerations and, in many cases, tion," Alexander Paterson, British troit's 46,000 destitute families. the welfare of the mother, there i Principal among these was an non- can be no question as to the neces- commissioner of prisons declared partisan employment bureau, which sity for some sort of effective con- in a lecture here yesterday iwas created after a conference be- trol of the size of the family and The principal reason seen for the tween capital and labor. the spacing of children." stationary prison population was McBroom Speaks on Industry. The committee also agreed unan- the fact that British courts did not' F. M. McBroom, director of the imously that, whatever the final regard prisons as a panacea, and Lansing community fund, who has decision of the church may be, "the they have been compelled to find recently completed a survey in church should not seek to impose other means of dealing with thei Michigan, Illinois, and Indiana its point of view as to the use of prisoner. The probation system has towns to determine what they had contraceptives upon the public leg- been put into use for older and done in regard to unemployment, islation or any other form of coer- veteran prisoners, as well as for l spoke on the subject, "What In- cion, and especially should not seek young first offenders. Large fines dustry Is Doing." He enumerated ito prohibit physicians from impart- have been exacted by the courts, the several means of stabilization t ing such information to those' who with a system of extended pay- of production and employment lin the judgment of the medical ments being invoked. Also there which several large firms have used, nrofession are entitled to receive has been a growing disinclination particularly emphasizing a system, it." upon the part of the courts to send established by 14 manufacturers in A minority, however, refused to young offenders, to prison. Rochester, N. Y., which sets up an sanction the use of contraceptive Paterson continued to outline employment reserve fund, by which measures and called upon t h e other characteristics of the British unemployed workers may be sup- church, "when control of concep- prison system. Classification of pri- ported. tion is necessary, to uphold the soners into various categories, he standard of abstinence as t h e mentioned, was one means widely ideal," used in English penal institutions Capital Punishment j The committee agreed, however, to prevent contamination through that "it should be expected that prison contacts, and also to pro- Not Preventative, guidance will find e x p r e s s io n mote the ease of instruction. through the research and experi- " It is only sporting," he said, Says CriMinologiSt ence of physicians and men of sci- "to give consideration to the indi- ence as well as through the cor- vidual characteristics of a prisoner, "It porate conscience of the church." through which we catch him, in "it is difficult to discover how - the problem of training him." many persons arc deterred by the GENERAL STUDENT Other British characteristics which thought of capital punishment, be he\enumerated were the tendency cause the deterred man never goes USE OF TAXIME] to pick the prison administrative to a police court anri publicly an- ___ personnel by careful selection, and nounces it," Alexander Paterson, also to introduce into the prison noted British criminologist, declar- Students Believe That Drivers walls voluntary teachers, for the ed in an interview following his ad- Collect Extra Money purpose of giving the prison more dress here yesterday. "However, for Themselves. of a real life touch and making it those that aren't deterred leave seem less like a mere institution., their record, in a country having By Beach Conger, Jr., '32 Paterson stated that there were capital punishment, in the number Student opinion as to whether only 30 prisons left in England, of murders they commit," he added. taxicabs should be made to carry with the rather low total popula- Mr. Paterson did not believe thatImeters was predominantly in favor tion of 12,000 inmates as com- the thought of capital punishment of the proposition, according to pared to the figures in American could have any preventative effect various representative students in- prisons. He added that this was on the person, who kills in a fit terviewed yesterday by The Daily. partly due to the low average sent- of passion. However, he claimed "Taxicabs," said one s t u d e n t, ence in England, three months, as that it did have that effect for pro- coming from an economics class, compared to three years in the fessional criminals committing pre- "have a virtual monopoly on the United States.,i determined killings, services when the fare is in the - He said that it was difficult to cab, and he has to pay. I think Ann Arbor High School tell in England whether or not that most drivers make a little on there was an anti-capital punish- the side every time they make a Loses Debate Chances ment opinion gaining way, since trip, especially if they think you're the opponents of the death sen- green." meeting of the Michigan Academy Rescue Ship Sinks. of Sciences. At the annual business The sealer Sir William, compan- meeting officers for the ensuing ion ship of the Viking, ended her year will be elected, and resolutions' rescue efforts at the bottom of the and recommendations drawn up. bay. Stuck in a vise-like ice grip, Among some of the papers which she became waterlogged, burst into will be given in section meetings1 flames and sank 10miles northeast are "Some Predictions of Success IofHorse island, but her crew of28 in College from Placement Exam- sae ndre otesae ination Scores," by Prof. Lloyd C. ecaped i dories to the sealer Emmons, of Michigan State col- Ae lege, and "Results of Examinations After bucking the ice fields in Given to Entering Classes in Mich- the hay, a half dozen rescue ships igan Colleges," by Prof. John virtually abandoned hope of finding Everett, of Western State Teachers the 28 missing men from the Vik- College. Both papers will be given ig, including the Americans, Var- in the mathematics section meet-- ick Frissell and A. G. Penrod, who ing, which will be held in room went north to make sound pictures. 1035, Angell hall, beginning at 9 Belief grew that 27 perished when o'clock. theship exploded aend burned. o'clck.racks on th ice led to th fear. In the meeting of the language the other missing en oba and literature section, Prof. Walter droxvned.rissing men probably A. Reichert will talk on "Another Vague Radio Signals Heard. German Hamlet," while Prof. C. M. Friends of Frissell and other pin- Davis will address the members of ned their hopes on an unconfirmed the geography section on "Hydro- radio message picked up by a Nau- graph Reios of Michigan." ggatuck, Conn., amateur operator. In the meeting of the zoology Yesterday the operator heard vague section, which will be held at 9 signalsywi the sigatr he"Father o'clock in room 2116, Natural sig nals with the signature, 'Father 'cloc uding roo 2116, Natul J. Kerwan, Harbor Briton, N. F., Science building, Prof. R. W. Esch- Station VPHJ." Today he succeeded meyer will talk on "Progress Report in raising what was apparently the on the Lake Survey of Michigan, same station and was informed: Prof. John R. Greeley will speak "I told you yesterday Penrod and on "Trout Stream Investigations two Americans were 0. K." A Hali- during 1930," and Prof. Charles W. fax message said the station is 400 Creaser, of the College of the City miles cross country from Horse is- of Detroit, will talk on "Fishes of land the Region of the University of Father Kerwan, however, later Michigan Biological Station." denied he sent out the message attributed to him. ED PRESS OFFICE IDENT'S SECRET ARY vice president, this friendship was strengthened by frequent contact. Joslin's cultivation of a knowl- edge of presidential activities con- tinued through the Coolidge ad- ministrations and the two years that Mr. Hoover has been presi- dent. It is said that his friendly con- nections in the White House ex- tend from the doorman to Mr. Hoo- ver's valet, not excepting, of course, the chief executive himself. Political survey trips have taken him to virtually every state in the union, and he has a wide acquaint- ance with political leaders and with editors, particularly those of Re- publican afilliation. ACADEMY MEETING WILL CLOU'SE TODAY1" Business Meeting of Science Group Will Finish 36th Annual Conference. Six section meetings, a luncheon for the members of the mathema- tics section, a meeting of the coun- cil, and the annual meeting of the entire academy will bring to a close today the thirty-sixth annual 1H TO CONTINUE HUNT FOR MISSING CREW Air Hero, Two Companions to Search Disaster Scene With Airplane. RESCUERS LOSE HOPES Survivors Marooned as Steamer Grounds in Ice Jam; Sealer Burns and Sinks. ST. JOHN'S, Newfoundland, Mar. 20.-(AP)-New woes for the rescued and waning hopes for the missing were today's tidings from turbulent White Bay, where the sealer Viking exploded and sank Sunday with a probable loss of 28 lives. Meanwhile, Bernt Balchen, hero of many an exploit, flew into St. John's, New Brunswick, from Bos- ton, Mass,, this afternoon in a plane in which he and two companions hoped to search the disaster scene. Caught in a vicious nor'easter, with snow driving all about her, the rescue steamer Sagona carrying 110 survivors from Horse island was caught fast in an ice jam. Her ar- rival here may be delayed indefi- nitely. State, Bulletins. (0y Aw< flH ress) Friday, March 20, 1931 BIG RAPIDS -Robert Harrison Derby, seven-year-old son of John Derby, burned to death when his father's farmhouse was destroyed by fire today. Two, smaller children were saved by an elder sister, but she said she was unable to reach Robert who was sick in bed. DETROIT-A new radio beacon will go into service en St. Martin's Island in upper Lake 'Michigan when Lake navigation opens Charles A. Parke, superintendent of the light service in the Detroit, district announced today. The Man- istique light radio beacon will also begin its first full season of opera- tion, he said EAST LANSING-In the Michigan State college student elections yes- terday, George Merkle, of Milwau- kee, was elected managing editor of the Michigan State news, cam- pus publication. Arthur Ungren, of Lansing, was named business man- ager. k z t s ti : t C G C C C i Professor McCartney Addre sses Academists Prof. Eugene S. McCartney, of the Graduate school, delivered the traditional presidential address at the close of the annual dinner of the Michigan Academy of Sciences last night. His subject was "Folk- lore Heirlooms." "A large part of our superstitions have a classical basis," he said, "although many parallels may be found in Africa and Asiatic lore." The stork's traditional part in childbirth, he stated, is comparable to early Greek theories that the human species originated in trees or sprang up from the soil. He also discussed omens, especially those connected with birth and death, and the various uses of charms. OPINION FAVORS TERS IN LOCAL CABS E[D ONSON CHOSEN 1 61 A. PRESIDENT Education School Dean Succeeds Merle Prunty as Head of Association. CHICAGO, Mar. 20,-(1P)--J. P. Edmonson, dean of the school of education at the University of Mich- igan, was elected president of the North Central Association of Col- leges and Secondary Schools today, succeeding Merle Prunty, of Tulsa, Okla. J. T. Giles, superintendent of high r,:hools, in Wisconsin, was made irst vice-president, and G. W. Fra- sier, president of Colorado State Teachers College, at Greely, sec- ond vice-president. The new secretary, A. W. Cleven- ger, was ,chosen a month ago by the executive committee. He is high school visitor for the Univer- sity of Illinois. Income Taxes Decline; Predict Rise in Rates WASHINGTON, M a r 20.-(P)- Sharply decreased income tax col- lections for the first quarter of 1930 were visualized today by treasury officials as they studied latest re- ports of receipts from that source. Before them the officials had the report for Wednesday, the latest available, which showed only $88,- 691,515 had been collected that day (,mmn-a wih t91A r A t f - +,n . dent-councillor, "is all right, and would be a boon to Ann Arbor if an equitable and fair flat-rate and regular rate could be worked out. Of course, if a flat rate of 50 cents' were adopted, and after you had gone two blocks the meter jumoed to.75, the situation would be just as bad." ~ On the other side of the question were the arguments of a freshman: "I think the flat rate is best. At least you know how much the ride is going to cost you, if the system 'is operated honestly. Of couirse, this method is favored more by those living quite a way out from the campus." Even the women think the meters should be adopted.