ESTABLISHED 1890 , AV4 I ait MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN VOIL. XLI. No. 129 EIGHT PAGES ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, MARCH 29, 1931 PRICE FIVE CENTS HE APS TO 0ISCUSS DEAT'H PUNISHMENT1 IN LENTENSERMON Student Meetings Discontinued in Favor of Human Relations Parley Banquet at Union. MRS. FISHER TO SPEAK Seamen Carry Viking Disaster Victim to Rescue, Ship Foundation Franklin, on Trip to St. Johns I .-.---- - - - --. ----. -7777-7-77- COMMITTEE MEETS' TO DISCUSS SPRING HOMECOMINGPLANS Registration Headquarters Will be at Museums Building, League, Union. Severinghaus to Preach Sermon for Rededication of West Side Episcopal Church. Ann Arbor's churches will today4 commemorate Palm Sunday and the ministers will preach sermons appropriate to the day. Student I meetings will be generally discon- tinued today in favor of the final banquet and meeting of the Human. Relations Parley to be held in the ballroom of the Union., I thclsn adrofteLenten series of sermons at the First Congregational church, Rev. Allison Ray Heaps will speak today on "The Cross and Capital Punish- he first photo of the Viking d ment." thence telephotoed to Chicago, sh The discussion comes at a time Foundation Franklin, which is tak when the problem of the death- penalty is in the fore throughout the state. After a long fight in the [1110 ~vIding -capital punishment for first C ll F[T NT M$ate legislature, the Foster bill pro- dn 'cptl u is m tfo frt degree murderers, will come before flf the people of the state on April 6 Fu P SIOIW E for a referendum vote. Rev. Heaps'O will discuss the question particular- ly as it pertains to reigion an to OUtOf-TOWn Speakers Will Talk the Cross. o~ pekrsWllTl Anderson Will Speak. at Daily Union Services; At the First Presbyterian church Capelli to Sing. this morning, Rev.-Merle H. Ander- son will take for his sermon "Who Passion week in the Ann Arbor is This?" in connection with the churches will be commemorated by Palm Sunday ceremonies. There union services at 7:30 o'clock each Will be no evening student meeting. night beginning Monday and last- "Victory" will be the subject of a ing until Friday when a three-hour liscussion this morning by Dr. service will be held from 12 until Frederick B. Fisher, of the First 3 o'clock in the afternoon Methodist Episcopal church. It is Out-of-town spealers have been the second of a series of three secured for most of the meetings which will be concluded next Sun- and through the efforts of the com- dy twrth"Resurrection°"There will '-mittee- ihrge, Mar i Capelli be no student meeting but at the Italian-American tenor, has been 'eyening service, Mrs. Fisher will engaged, as soloist for the week. speak on "Kagawa and' Modern Arrangements for the union serv- Japan." Mrs. Fisher spent several ices have been rmade by the Ann years In the Orient. Arbor Ministerial a s s o c i a t i o n The West Side Methodist Episco- through a committee composed of pal church will be rededicated at a Rev. Merle H. Anderson, Rev. R. special service tonight. Rev. Charles Edward Sayles and the Rev. Allison Severinighaus, superintendent of Ray Heaps. the Michigan district of the Metho- , Monday's service will be at the dist church, will preach the sermon. Church of Christ and Rev. John To Present Cantata. Silling of the West Side Methodist In addition to the regular serv- church will preside. Rev. Allison ices at the St. Andrew's Episcopal Ray Heaps, of the Congregational church, the cantata "Olivet to Cal- church will preach the sermon. vary" will be presented by the On Tuesday Rev. Frederick Cow- church choir at 4:30 o'clock this in, of the Church of Christ will afternoon, preach at the Baptist church. Rev. At ,the Liberal Students' Union Alfred L. Klaer of the Presbyterian tonight, Prof. Burke Shartel, of the church, will preside at this meeting. Law school, will lead a discussion Wednesday's services will be at the on "Pros and Cons of Capital Pun- First Presbyterian church, where ishment." The morning sermon by Rev. Sayles, of the Baptist church Rev. H. P. Marley, will be "The will preach. Rev. Andrew E. Kurth, Trials of Jesus and Socrates." of the Calvary Evangelical church Milford Stern will speak this will preside at this meeting. morning in the League chapel un- Friday's union services will be der the direction of the Hillel foun- (Continued on Page 3) dation on "Alleged Substitutes for -- Religion." At the evening open Problems Will Face forum there will be a discussion HrUp Retu lead by Rabbi Ephraim Rosen- HooverUpon t ur sweig on "Art and the Jew Through WASHINGTON, Mar. 28.-(P)-. the Ages." -An accumulation of foreign and domestic problems will confront State President Hoover when he returns B i l the White House tomorrow night from his Caribbean trip. (By Associated Press>° The most important demand is Saturday, March 28, 1931 for an extra session of Congress.1 BAD AXE-Construction work on' VcT vniy71? flI!N i MAY 8 IS OPENING DAY Program to Feature Cap Night, Father and Son Banquet, Musical Concert. Mcmbers of the Spring Home- coming committee met at noon yes- terday to discuss plans for the .hree-day program which will be- <-gin Friday, May 8. Registration for the homecoming will be at the Uni- versity Museums building, t h e League, and the Union, it was an- I nounced yesterday. :: ! The event has been arranged so : "" that friends and alumni of the Uni- Assouatca IressIhoto. versity as well as prospective stu- isaster, rushed from Horse Island, Newfoundland, to Boston by airplane, dents will have an opportunity to ows seamen carrying one of the explosion victims to the rescue ship see the campus in its regular rou- ng them to St. Johns, Newfoundland. tine. - The program arranged at yester- day's meeting will begin in the Orators Will Speak morning on May 8 when engineer- Wednesday; O'Neill I wilbe open to visitors. Displays in Direcs Co petiioS all departments portraying the Directs CompetitionHLIIUSU HL progress being achieved' in the var- S5ious branches will be featured. At Final competition for the right to the architectural college special dis- represent thle University in tethehelarchif tetlwolegert s ectds- Northern Oratorical league contest Round Table Interprets Religion; playsoften t work art objects at Madison, Wis., will be held at Dinner at Union Will End isitors, while the Clements library 7:30 o'clock next Wednesday in the Conference Sessions. will present a rare collection of Adelphi room, on the fourth floor papers and items of particular in- ofAngell hall. Religion is an attempt to under- teregt in a special display. Cap Original speeches of from 1,500 to stand oneself, his neighbors, and Night, traditional annual event, will 2,000 words are required. The win- the universe, Prof,. Roy Sellars, of be held in Sleepy Hollow Friday ner will compete with the best from the philosophy department, stated evening at which time the fresh- the other five universities of the yesterday in summarizing the day's men burn their pots and awards of league May 8, when the successful discussions of the Human Rela- "M" blankets are made to graduat- orator will receive a prize of $100. tions Parley in Alumni Memorial ing athletes. The second prize is $50. Frank O. hall. Athletic Events to be Held. Lowden, of Chicago, is the donor. Asked the questior "What is re- A reunion of all graduates in the Prof. J. M. O'Neill is in charge of ligion?" members of the faculty at J school of business administration the competition at Michigan. Ilth h ound table, who were leading-1 and exhibits, including =:aJapanese. expects about 15 to enter the local the discussions gave individual in- ( art exhibit at Alumni Memorial tryouts, which are open only to terpretations. 'hall, sponsored by the Ann Arbor bonafide undergraduates. No per- "Religion is a totality of condi- I art association, will be on Saturday son before entered in the intercol- tions adjusting one to life," Prof. morning's program, while the only legiate finals may compete. Nathan Howard Y. McCluskey, of the psy- home track meet of the outdoor Levy, '31, represented Michigan last 'chology department, agreed with season is scheduled for the after- year, at Northwestern. Dr. Everett Clinchy of New York, I noon events when Michigan faces director of the National Conference Minnesota. A:golf match between LITERARY SCHOOL of Jews and Christians, and chair- Northwestern and Michigan on the SOPIOI ORE DIES man of the parley. new University course will be open Answering student inquiry seek- to visitors, while swimming exhibi- ing to learn how to develop such tions will be given by members of William 0. Rhamy, Son of Fort emotions as love and friendship, the Varsity team, Conference cham- Wayne Physician, Succumbs. Dr. Frederick B. Fisher, of the pionsd _ .Methodist Episcopal church claim- The annual fathers and sons ban- William O. Rhamy, '33, of Fort ed that they could be built from quetat the Union will feature Pres- Wayne, Ind., died yesterday at the ' attitudes of the mind, Rabbi Bern- ident Alexander Grant Ruthven Health Service after an illness that ard Heller, of the Hillel foundation, and Arthur G. Poorman as speak- began last Monday. Death resulted countered by saying that habitua- ers, and will be followed by aPrec- from a complication of pneumonia tion will accomplish emotional re- ture at Hill auditorium by Prof. and peritonitis aggravating a heart actions, while Professor Shepard Laurence M. Gould, member of the weakness of long standing, Dr. War- applied a psychological point of University faculty and recently ren E. Forsythe, director of the view in asking that people be made head geologist on the Byrd expedi- Health Service, said intelligent in order to appreciate tions onessuhe tin.Concerts Are Planned. Rhamy entered Michigan last such emotions. Sunday Mothers' Day, will in- fall as a sophomore in the literary The concluding svssions of the uday, o the wlgan colege Hi fist earof ollgeparley will be held at 2:30 o'clock elude the opening of the new legal trolleg;:. His first year of collegepaeywl hdat23o'ok research library between 1 and.. in work was taken at Chicago univer- today in the west gallery of Alumni reearlia, bn 1 and sit. 1us athr i a hyscia inMemorial hall, at 6 o'clock tonight, the afternoon, and a joint band sity. His father is a physician in Mmra al t6ocoktngt and glee club concert in Hill audi- Fort Wayne and came to Ann Ar- when a dinner in the Union ball- ard ge 'cl k.oncer radi- willrecde he ina dicus 'torium, at 3 o'clock. The traditional bor immediately when he heard of room will precede the final discus- Cane Day for Senior men will also l-.ia mirs ' lln , c DI.h mvY mnfa- sions.f SWIMMERS TAKE NATIONAL TITLE Michigan's Varsity swimming team last night won the National Intercollegiate championship at Chicago with a total of 28 points. Johnny Schmeiler won gMichi- gan's only first by taking the ZO-yard breast stroke in 2:34.6. Carl Dougovito, star Wolverine wrestler, lost the national 175- pound championship to Conrad Caldwell of Oklahoma A. and M., Complete Sports on Pages 6 & 7 HOUSE COMMITTEE RECEIVES TAXILL State Legislature Refers Pack Bill to Committee on State Affairs. The bill introduced into the State legislature by Rep. Phillip C. Pack, of Washtenaw county and publi- city director for the Athletic asso- ciation of the University, aiming to prevent property from becoming tax exempt through deeding to the University, yesterday was referred to the House committee on state affairs. This committee willihear argu- ments for and against the propose bill, eventually reporting back eith- er favorably or unfavorably to the House. The committee consists o ety, first district); Charles Cheeney (Saginaw county, second district) Charles Bartlett, (Wayne county first district) ; Vincent P. Dacey (Wayne county, first district); Da na H. Hinckley, (Emmet district) John Van Brocklin, (Marquett county); Frank B. Wade, (Genese county, first district); Fred Wade (Allegan county); a nd Willianr Wreford, (Wayne county, first dis- trict). CAMPBELL PLANS TO GIVE READING " Barrets of Wimpole Street' Will be Read Today. h Continuing with the fourth w' the series of readings which a being sponsored by the League lib rary comitee, Prof. 0. J. Campbell acting head of the English depart- ment, will speak at 3:30 o'clocl this afternoon in the Grand Rapid room in the League building. Pro- fessor Campbell will read frorr "The Barretts of Wimpole Street' by Rudolph Besier. Tea will be served following th( program, and an invitation ha been extended to faculty membes and townspeople, as well as to al students. Economist Will Speak on German Insurance "unemployment Insurance an- Its Effect on the Economic Position of Germany" will be discussed by Dr. F. S. L. Paut, noted political economist from Hamburg univer- sity, at 4:15 o'clock tomorrow after- noon in Natural Science auditor- ium. Dr, Plaut is the author of "Ger- man Commercial Policy," "Th In- fluence of the War on the English Money Market," and a number of other important- books, F IECHILREN IE oF EXPOSURE WHEN BUS IS MAROED 18 Survivors Rushed to Hospital by Planes After 36 Hours In Colorado Blizzard. DRIVER BELIEVED LOST Rancher Discovers Bus Stalled in Snowdrift; Little Hope Held for Rescued. TOWNER, Col., Mar. 28.-(P)- Racing against time, darkness and death, two cabin monoplanes late today sought to carry to the Lamar, Col., hospital 18 children who were stricken by pneumonia or frost bite after being isolated for 36 hours in a snowdrift when a school bus be- wame marooned. Five other children died from' freezing and exposure and ittle - .ope was entertained for the 18 xho survived the -ordeal in the howling blizzard of Thursday and Friday. Five of those afflicted with pneu- nonia have been taken to the La- mar hospital. Pilots of the ship planned to con- tinue the flights until all were in- the institution, Teacher is Safe Tedriver of the bus, Carl Miller, was missing and believed to have ost his life in seeking aid for his :harges. Miss Maude Moser, teacher of the 'leasant Hill school, which the -hildren attended was reported afe today. She found shelter in i farm house after starting to walk o her home after the children left n the bus.- Mary Miller, the bus driver's laughter; Orlo Untiedt, Louise 3teonebraker, Robert Brown and ,enneth Johnson, ranging in age. rom eight to 14 years, were the ictims of the sudden zero weather. Had Lost Food. Millerleft owes hol a .0:30 o'clo a ursa rn ng when the school was closed be- ause of the storm. Less than three niles away the driver was unable :o see ahead in the snow andat- empted to turn back Hs bus hit fence post and stalled. Until early ,esterday morning Miller remained vith the children and then started ut afoot to get help. Snow covered ip his tracks and he never reached i telephone. During the day three children lied of exposure. Others became iysterical and one boy accidentally :nocked out a window of the bus. Tn an effort to keep. warm, the :hildren burned up the seats in the us. They had lost most of their :ood when the bus stalled against he fence and when exhaustion )vertook them they huddled to- ;ether and fell asleep ~HINDENBR RE Officials Can Suppress Radicals, Newspapers, Personal Liberty by]Decree of President. BERLIN, Mar. 28.-()-Millions of German citizens tonight were studying in their evening newspap the pavingof the seven-mile stretch FOR ANNUAL G of M-53 between Kinde and Poirt F RA NU L ' Austin is under way. It is expected to be finished in July inasmuch as I Sigma Delta Chi Mcmbers Will the grading was done last fall. Award Oil-Can to One of MENOMINEE-Car ferries num- Three Candidates. ber four and five of the Ann Arbor .~- railroad were ice bound today in Mystery again surrounds prepara- Green Bay. The number four was tions for the ninth annual Grid- caught first and number five be- 'iron banquet, to be held April 8 came ice-bound when going to the at the Union yesterday, Joseph aid of her sister ship. Russell, '31, sports editor of The Daily and chairman of the func- HOLLAND-Rev. Winfield Burg- I tion, announced that a prominent graff, of Milwaukee, will succeed speaker, known in national politicsC Rev. John E. Kuizenga, on the chair and recently famous for an abnor-' of systematic theology at Western mal amount of publicity, would be Theological Seminary. on the banquet program. Russell -- would not, however, divulge the JACKSON-Three damage suits name of the speaker, although he totalling $65,000 were filed here intimated that his national prom- against William Friermuth, whose inence would attract considerable automobile figured in an accident attention to the annual "razz" fest. in which three persons were inj ur- The presentation of the Oilcan, .. 1 -*..A.4 4F -__ Tr- I4.. T f _ ' __- r t_ __ _ __. .. .-I- - - r lis sons lilness. camly wi.6U1tU1 ber of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fra- ternity. The body wassent to the StaiTan- funeral home and was sent last night to the parents' home in Fort Wayne. No details concerning the arrangements for the funeral were announced. DS PREPARATIONS RIDIRON -RAZZ-FEST ner, Waldo Abbot, of the English department, will make the presen- tation speech to his successor. Other events on the program will be skits and monologues concerned with recent campus events and ac- tivities, with especial reference to the liquor raid, the rooming enig- ma, and the "University Spy Sys- tem." All of the skits are being written by members of Sigma Del- ta Chi and will be produced entire- ly by them. Short talks by all of the campus celebrities will conclude the program. Tickets for the banquet are sel- ling rapidly, Edward S. McKay, '32, treasurer of the organization, stat- ed yesterday. The reduction in price from the usual $3 to $2.50 for the 1931 banquet has made the -ticket distrihntion larger than ever. Illinois Criminals Berate Treatment By Joliet Officials ,JOLIFET, Ill., Mar. 28.--(JP)-"Big Shot" and small fry criminals in CARR WILL DISCUSS the twin Joliet prisons hadttheir AS FACTOR IN C1 say today before a special legisla- tive committee. Maddy to Present Radio Lessons All, from Marty Durkin, Chicago in Playing of All Band killer, and Francis Langford, Quin- cy bad man, to less notorious con- Instruments. victs, denounced the treatment of prisoners in solitary confinement, prof, Lowell J. Carr, of the socio- accused the parole board of negli- logy department, will discuss "The gence and told in convicts' argot j Environment as a Factor - in the their view of prison conditions, af- Child's Development" today from ter they were assured of legislative the broadcasting studio as part of protection. t h e Parent-Teacher p r o gram. It was Langford, who held the George Poinar, violinist, will pre- greatest share of attention as the sent the musical program. investigation into Joliet adminis- The Michigan University of the tration and the causes of a week Air program, Monday, will present of riot swung to its sixth day. Prof. Joseph E. Maddy, of the mus- io U. h l Prnf'.J f or Add receiv- I _ ___ers one of the most tar-recing decrees ever promulgated in the ENVIRONMENT young German republic. It was IILDREN'S CULTURE "Father" Hindenburg's ukase for - - - - - - - - - -- - -- s q u e l c h i n g d i s o r d e r T h o s e w h o depatmens o geoesyand ur-read r a d i c a 1 newspapers didn't departments of geodesy and sur- know but that this might be the veying, Wednesday afternoon. Sid- last issue of their paper for some ney Straight, tenor, will be the so- time for amid the drastic provi loist. He will be accompanied at sions of the decrees is one empow- the piano by Grace Snyder. ering the authorities to suppress The fourth book talk to interpret dailies for as long as eight consecu- modern America will be given tive weeks if it is found necessary. Thursday afternoon by Prof. How- Those that belong to such organ- ard Mumford Jones, of the English izations are Adolph Hitler's Brown department. His subject will be Shirt and the Communist Red Front "Art in the Machine Age." Romine did not know whether they would Hamilton, violinist, and Jack Conk- meet with their brothers again, for lin, pianist, will be the musicians under the new decree, their organ- during the broadcast. ization may be dispersed with the Forestry, engineering, . and Eng- stroke of a pen. lish, will be subjects of faculty dis- Furthermore, under the decree cussions Saturday night during the such fundamental rights as free- University of Michigan program. dom of the press, the inviolability Prof. Shirley W. Allen, of the for- of personal liberty, secrecy of pos- estry school, will explain "What a tal, telegraphic a n d telephonic Forester Does." Claude L. Clark, communications may be abdicated research engineer, will speak upon at the government's discretion, the general title "Metals." and Prof. while the decree is in force. fail on Sunday. The only events for which an ad- mission will be charged will be the banquet and the Gould lecture. The others will be free to guests of fac- ulty or students, A maximum charge of $2.50 has been set for the ban- quet and the lecture together. lc scn oo mule&u s V~u~ y r Langford is serving life for mur- ed so many requests to continue the der. But down in Missouri, he said, series of lessons in the playing of he is wanted for slaying a sher- all band instruments, that he has iff, a chief of detectives and a mo- consented to present two more les- tion picture operator. He said he 'sons in the series. The second pro- killed them in rescuing his brother, 'gram will be broadcast April 6. boarding a train enroute from Kan- I " Thni'rijhtinn oftheS tars in 4 1 r {