ESTABLISHED l10 It Air 4 A60 all 34a 1 g MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS Y EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRICE FIVE CENTS Y VOL XLI. No. 98 EIGHT PAGES ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1931 PRICE FIVE CENTS ASIATIC EXPEITIONI UNCOVERS SECRETS,1 OF PARHIAN RAE Professor Waterman, Leader' of Group, Returns From Work. PALACE IS UNEARTHED Characteristics of Civilization in Ancient Mesopotamia Brought to Light. Significant additions to the his- tory of the Parthians, an ancient Asiatic race which has long been covered with a comparative obscur- ity, have been made by his discov- eries in the season just past, ac- cording to Prof. Leroy Waterman, head of the Univesity expedition to Mesopotamia, who has just re-" turned from the site of Seleucia- on-the Tigris, where the work is being carried on. The season of 1930-31 is the fourth in which the work has gone on. The expedition is being financ- ed by the Toledo and Cleveland museums of art, which are privileg- ed to select for their collections from the material brought back. Excavate Palace of Noble. The University provides the per- sonnel, and takes care of publica- tions. Professor Waterman, who is head of the department of Oriental languages, is in charge, and spends the first semester of each school year at the excavations, leaving just after the close of the Summer Session. The recent work has been a con- tinuation of that of previous years, the excavation of a palace, evident- ly that of some high noble, which. shows signs of great wealth. It is about one block square, and con- tains 250 rooms. The various ob- jects total #bout 4,000, double the rgest nimber vert= be obtained before in one year. bnaddition to a number of doc- Utents in Greek, Pehlevi, and Cuneiform, which constitute t h e most valuable portion of the finds, a large amount of pottery, metal instruments and decorative objects, jewelry, and coins were found. Valuable Jewelry Found. Evidences 9f a rather high de- gree of civilization were shown by the art work. Many figurines of terra cotta, stone, and marble in a well-preserved state were discover- ed. Especially outstanding was the jewelry, worked il gold and semi- precious stones, with pearls. The material accumulated is be- ing shipped to Ann Arbor. It is ex- pected to arrive in about o n e month, when an exhibition will be made of it. Professor Waterman said. State Bulletins (0 Asor ar1 Jrr') February 20, 1931. Bay City-Five guarantors today signed bonds totaling $100,000, Bay City's share of $300,000 to be ad- vanced to the federal government for immediate improvement of the channel of the Saginaw river. The signers of the bonds, which will be taken to Detroit for the approval of the war department district en- gineer, were James E. Davidson, Guy H. Moulthrop, Charles Bige- low, Leslie P. Kesgen, and William H. Reid. Saginaw banks and the American Steamship Co. of Buffalo will share equally in advancing the, other $200,000. Grand Rapids-The annual meet- ing of the Michigan League of Home Dailies opened here today drawing numerous editors from small town papers. Officers for the ensuing year will be elected. Jackson-It was announced herel today that manufacture of an im- proved oil burner, will be started in Jackson in about six weeks. The Combustion Products Corporation, which is moving its plant here from Columbus, 0., will be located in the plant of the Knickerbocker Manu- facturing Co. Clarence M. Day of Jackson, is president and general manager of the concern, which was known in Columbus as the Perfect Combustion Burner. STUDENTS FREED ON LIQUOR COUNT The 79 students ordered to ap- pear at 10 o'clock yesteray morn- ing in the justice court of Bert E. Fry, following raids on five campus fraternity houses at which liquor was found, were informed by Prose- cutor Albert J. Rapp that no charges would be pressed against them. iThe students were forced to miss classes toiattend the hearing at which Rapp informed themd that formal charges had never been pre- ferred against them. No complaints, he said, were signed against the individuals. They were merely held for investigation. Rapp stated that he held the University responsible for the ac- tions of the students, and that it was up to that institution to see that they behaved properiy. "As far as I and the olice are concerned," ihe said, "it is a closed incident." All afternoon the members of the fraternities, whose doors v e r e locked last night, tramped the streets seeking rooming houses and moving their belongings to new quarters. Many were unsuccessful in obtaining suitable rooms, and had to take quarters far inferior to those in which they had been living, they said. Several students were indignant at the condition of many of the rooms approved by the University. HOSPITAL ADDITION WILL1BE__ERECTED $330,000 Appropriated by State for New Psychopathic Building. Appropriations for the construc- tion of the new $330,000 addition to the State Psychopathic hospital which will be erected on East Cath- erine street were released from Lansing yesterday,and bids for the new structure will be received im- mediktely, Pt . Albert MV. Barrett, psychiotrist and director of the present hospital unit, reported. last night. Construction of the new unit will be started some time in April, Pro- fessor Barrett stated. No estimate of the number of men who would be employed in the work could be obtained. The building will be erected di- rectly in front of the present unit and will face on Catherine street. The plans which were prepared for the project by Fry and Kasurin, Ann Arbor architects, call for a two-story brick structure w h i c h will be in harmony with the present building. The appropriations from Lansing cover cost of the equipment for the new unit and are the result of re- quests which have been placed for the last several years, Professor Barrett said. The present unit is inadequate for the amount of work which must be done, he explained. The building of this structure will make the second hospital addi- tion to be built this year. Work is progressing rapidly on the $280,- 000 addition to the University hos- pital. Railroad Manual Goes to House Committee (C v Assiatrd Pss> ) WASHINGTON, Fe. 20.-A man- ual of American railroad ownership was laid before Congress today by the House interstate commerce committee, with a recommendation for legislation to put under federal control those holding corporation engaged in acquiring domination over operating railroad systems. Chairman Parker summarized the findings of the long investigation by declaring that 14 railroad groups, some of which are unified 1railroad groups, control 210,000 miles of a 260,000 of first class rail- roads in the country. HOO ER TO V BILL N EXT ~E Senator Reed Announces That President Will Return Bill to Congress. OPPOSITION CONFIDENT Legislators Predict That Act Will be Passed Over Veto by Required Majority. (8 31Assciad Iess) WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. -- Presi- dent Hoover sent word to the de- fiant Congressional advocates of the veterans loan bill today that he would return it- to Congress next week with a veto. Flushed with their overwhelming victoryin bothhSenate and House, sponsors of the legislation confi- dently predicted tonight that it would be enacted over the veto, a move that requires two-thirds ma- jority. Hoover's intentions were relaye 1 to the Senate by Senator Reed, Re- publican, Pennsylvania, after Sen- ator Couzens, Republican, Michigan, had undertaken to block enact- ment of other legislation until the president had acted. Couzens Fears Pocket Veto. Couzens expressed iear of a poc- ket veto which would kill the legis- lation without a chance for Con- gress to vote on the presidential objections. With this assurance of the White House, the Michigan sen- ator ended his campaign. About the same time Reed was informing the Senate that a veto would come next week, the Presi- dent made it known at the White House that he would announce his decision next week. In his regular press conference, the president said he would act on the measure next week. He did not specify to the correspondents what .has ;c iaU-wU d. _be. Reed Makes Statement. Senator Reed in his brief state- ment to the Senate said: "The president has authorized me to say that his intentions is to re- turn the bonus bill to the Congress in the middle of next week and not in any event later than Thursday of next week with a message giving his reasons for a veto of the bill. The Pennsylvania senator who opposed the measure which would allow veterans to borrow up to half the face value of their bonus cer- tificates explained to the Senate that he had telephoned to the White House when he noticed the filibuster against the naval appro- priation bill. He added, he had "neither the right nor the desire to pose as the spokesman of the president in this body." Congressional action on the mea- sure was completed today when Vice-President Curtis and Speaker Longworth signed it. The bill was 'approved by the House by a vote of 363 to 39 and in the Senate by 72 to 12. BHUCKH nnIS Iicr GO VERNOR SPEAKS! ROAD BANQUET EIN HIGHWAY WOR KH,. BILL PROPOSED TO RESTRICT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RATES; ALLEGE EXCESSIVE CHARGES Advocates County Absorption of Township Roads in Conference Talk. Representative Measure it Fred Holbeck Introdu e s i State Legisiature; Will WOULD SLICE TAXES Conduct Own Investigation. Favors Reissuing of Driving Licenses for Removing of Poor Drivers. Advocating the absorbtion of township road systems by countyt systems, Gov. Wilber M. Brucker told the members of the Michigan, --- State Highway department, at the Wilbur M. Brucker, seventeenth annual conference on Governor of Michigan, who last highway engineering, held last night addressed the seventh an-- night in the Union, that this would nual conference of the state high- nghtly indeUnian th atndhis woudway department at a banquet held greatly decrease the road expendi- in the Union. tures of the state. -_ - -- Money Wasted-Spent Small Units nri He explained that the building of roads by towns was wasteful be- O [r, cause the money was spent in small units. If the county was in charge 1191 of this construction, he said, the TOE PO R M contracts for building would be- - much larger and materials could be bought in larger lots. This would Tickets for International Night result in an economy that might to be Placed on Immediate save over 50 per cent of the present Sale, Jacobs States. expenditures, and would conse- quently cut down the individual Plans are progressing rapidly and taxes a i must begradual the program has been nearly com-s This absorbtionmstb gradual,pltfotheghhnnaItr- Governor Brucker stated, because pleted for the eighth annual Inter- with the adoption of only two road national Night to be held Mar. 10 systems, the state and the county, under the direction of the Cosmo- local officials will lose their jobs. politan club, William Jacobs, Grad. In discussing economy, Governor F&C, announced yesterday. Brucker again declared his policy General ticket sale for the affair of applying the principles of busi- will be begun immediately, Jacobs ness to the principles of govern-said ment. "I believe that there must be! sa, and tickets may be obtained a consolidation of all of the func- at anf othe booktecb tions of government if rigid econo-- at any of the bookstore. my is to be reached," he .said. A program of particular interest ley, i sthoub itreached,"lie said. i (Hy .Associated Pres s) LANSING, Feb. 20.-Alleging that excessive rates are being charged by the University of Michigan hospital for the care of indi- gent patients, Representative Fred C. Holbeck, of Long Lake, said today he is preparing a bill to place restrictions on the rate at the institution. An independent investigation is being made by Holbeck into the hospital charges. Several instances have been uncovered, he Shot Misses King, t But Kills Adjutant (P AsO ociePess) e in VIENNA, Feb. 20.-King Zog of Albania, one of the most closely I guarded monarchs of Europe, t whose life has been p 1 o t t e d is against many times, was fired at T tonight by would-be assasins, but a escaped injury. t The bullets missed the king, t but his adjutant, Major Topolai, e fell dead. According to one re- c port, King Zog owed his life to Major Topolai who sawsthe as- sassin take aim and dashed in front of his royal master. V 'fl e( H0 MUSCL E SHOA1LSL rr President Will be Given Wide d Powers to Negotiate Lease for Nitrate Plants. R C r C k 1 Y 1 t . . ;! 3 s r a t tE t a 3 Education Committee z to Hear President Sink Dr. Charles A. Sink, president ofx the School of Music and chairmant of the Michigan Teacher's Retire-l ment Fund association, has accept-{ ed an invitation to address the committee of 100 on retirement al-j lowances of the National Educa- tional association at their meeting 1 Monday afternoon in Detroit. The report of the Michigan com- mission which was recently sub- mitted to the governor and the legislature, has attracted consider- able attention on the part of Mich- igan educatorsand school men in- terested in retirement allowances throughout, it was said at the School of Music in making the an- nouncement. Ibeoning pi epared zor urepre t a iu-- i LceseSystem. Wantsl w ic ac Sytem. i t~,Jacobs stated. AloughI no(1'Ascatdre) Ie also showed very clearly that specific information could be ob- WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.-Only a >rs driving licenses. This would not tained, it is understood that it will flimsy te barrier stood to nightc >nly remove some of the people who consist of a number of acts by the between iscle Shoals legislation he favored the reissuing of operat- foreign student groups on the cam- and the White House. are not capable of driving automo- pus supplemented by the importa- Sped to the Senate by a vote of biles from the road, he said, but, at. tion of several acts from Detroit. 216 to 153, its advocates looked con- a charge of one dollar per person, The setting for the presentation fidently to adoption of the meas- would enable the establishing and this year was prepared by Alan ure there. A similar measure has maintaining of an adequate road Handley, '32. been approved by the Senate in patrol. In connection with the program, the past. the Cosmopolitan club held their The Democratic House minority annual Oriental program last night joined by 87 Republicans and Rep- in Lane hall. Three of the groups resentative Kvale, Farmer-Laborer, of the Oriental students presented Minnesota, in favor of the report. acts at the meeting and it is under- Three Democrats opposed it. They stood that at least one of the acts were Representatives Douglas, Ari- will be given on the International zona; and Linthicum, and Palmi- Night program. sano, of Maryland. Insurgents Forced to Disperse Two musical solos were given by For the second time in 10 years members of the Chinese group and a president must rule on govern- as Troops Quell Fighting the Filipino students had prepared ment or private operation of the at Callao. some selections of music and a s150,000,000 project on the Tennes- fencing. A Hindu magician from a a see river in Alabama. Two years Copyright, 1931, Detroit was brought to the meet- j ago a similar bill was given a pock by the Associated Press ing by the Hindustan club. et veto by President Coolidge. The LIMA, Peru, Feb. 20. - A small I Two changes in the officers of thesTheisnopen to Hover. group of soldiers and armed civil- club were also announced yesterday The bill now approaching the ians attempted the overthrow of by Jacobs. Fuimiko Saisho, 32, will chief executive sets up a corpora- the provisional government of Luis replace Margaret Dorman, Grad., in tion to operate the power plant at M. Sanchez Cerro today, but were the office of secretary of the club, Wilson Dam, constructed the Cold forced to flee to Callao, where after and Joe Akau, '31, has been named Creek dam in Tennessee and build severe fighting they were over-- as social chairman. Itransmission lines to carry any sur- powredandtakn pisoers -plus power to purchasers. State Government troops who besieged I Lower House Debates fn loclovernents have the them in the old fortress of Real Employment Measure The president is given wide pow- Felipe at Callao, now used as a ers to negotiate a lease for the ni- customs house, lost a number of (H sI J'car, trate plants. The lessee would be killed and wounded, and several WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.---A con- sole power on the condition that civilians who were watching the troversy over legislation to estab- not less than 85 per cent be used fighting were killed by rebel bullets. lish a national employment system in production of fertilizer. Other The insurgents were said to have was promised today as the House products could be manufactured suffered heavy casualties. judiciary commitee approved an with the remaining 15 per cent but Lima remained calm throughout administration substitute fur the not on government property. the short-lived revolt and while a W agner bill. - - ----- - ------np o e t few shots closed the shutters and Byne, bill. T W- troThe Weather plaza, business generally went on structed Chairman Graham to pro- (By Associated Press) as usualp ose substitution of a bill drafted Lower Michigan: Fair but some While the fighting was in prog- by Secretary Doak for the measure i cloudiness Saturday; Sunday un- hess at Callao, the government de- by Senator Wagner, Democrat, New settled, probably rain in south por- dared a state of siege and provi- York, when the question comes up Itions; slightly warmer Sunday in sional president Sanchez Cerro i in the house on Monday.extreme southwest portions. sued a proclamation declaring that the authors of the attempt would CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IS WITHOUT bepunished severely. The insurgents, numbering about MEANING STATES LAW PROFESSOR 60, were declared by authorities to -- be adherents of Former President Michigan Law Will Not /fecat inumber of crimes committed." Augusto B. Leguia, who was de- Ny Holbeck that he had "uncover- ad" several instances where indi- ;ent patients had been charged none than private patients in other .iospitals, Dr. Haynes declared that specific cases could not be taken as a criterion. "Charges made for care of pa- ients," Dr. Haynes explained, "de- )end uapon the case and the condi- ,ion of the patient. Cases must be reated as they are found. Exces- give charges, such as those pointed ut by Mr. Holbeck, are too general. fhe charges for treatment of a pa- ;lent with appendicitis and a pa- ient with a broken back will bring nut this point, since the care of the >ne will extend over a short period f time, while for the other inten- live treatment must be given for several months and regular treat- :nent kept up indefinitely." As to the specific cases found by Representative Holbeck. Dr. Havnes . k i CAMERAMEN ANGER RAID VICTIMS; STUDENTS SEIZE PLATES, CAMERA - -I- Tires of Car Are Deflated Unknowing Posers Voice Their Disapproval. asI Victims of the recent e a r ly morning liquor raids on five fra- ternities didn't take kindly to the newspaper men who attempted to more than 50 students surrounded and actually snatched the camera from their hands. "There is no law against getting our pictures back is there, Mr. Rapp?" shouted one of the stu-) dents, and the Washtenaw county prosecutor who was watching the affair from across the street only t .I C Hobbs to Give Lecture Law sefool, said yesterday of the bill before the state legislature w-1) n ne,,fre dealoth -nen- the individual deserves that pun- ishment. "The anunefin of deserts." he con- I I