ESTABLISHED 1890 lair t ttu. 'Al- AN M 4) . , t MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVE RSITY OF MICHIGAN VOL. XLI. No. 30 EIGHT PAGES ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1930 PRICE FIVE CENTS f IIOIIIP[ RELA~MINEAT ALSDORF WHERE 248 DIED| IUVLL I IWLULI J 'TSIIN CUENT EVENTS FOR UNEPOE --Y._. .._ r New York Times Holds Annual Tests; Three Prizes Awarded. TWENTY SCHOOLS ENTER Former Winners Ineligible to Compete; Limited to Undergraduates. The annual New York Times Current Events contest will take place either March 3 or 4, Prof. Everett Brown, of the political science department, chairman of the committee in charge of the contest, stated yesterday. "This contest is sponsored an- nually by the New York Times," said Professor Brown, "in the belief that a more comprehensive grasp of contemporary affairs is part of Give Three Cash Prizes. the essential equipment of a college career." Three cash prizes will be awarded winners of the contest at Michigan, a first prize of $150, second prize of $75 for freshmen and sopho- mores only, and a third prize of $25. The winning paper is for- warded to New York for competi- tion in the intercollegiate contest, where the best answers are award- ed a $500 prize. The contest consists of two parts, the first being composed of names, events and places, which the stud- ent is to identify in a few words. The second part consists of com- ments, not less than 250 words long, on five out of fifteen subjects listed. Some names listed in the first part of last year's contest in- cluded Mme. Curie, Streseman, "I'm Alone," Dr. Schacht, Ortiz Rubio, Leon Daudet, Lossiemouth, and Rosika Schwimmer. Rabiowitz Won Last Year. Twenty colleges are permitted to give the. eXaminations. Michigan participated in the first one, held in. 1926, and has continued to do so every year. The contest covers i the news from March 4, 1930 until March 4, 1931. It is open only to undergraduates, and students who have won a first prize are not I eligible to, compete again. Victor Rabinowitz, '31, was first prize winner last year, William Ktiox, '32, won second prize, and Walter J. Hansen, '31, took third prize. Professor Brown stated that any students who wished to ask ques- tions about the contest might con- sult him at his office in Angell hall. Director Announces Cast to Give TwoI Mines Productions The casts fot "Emperor Jones" and "An Episode," to be presented by Mimes on Nov. 3, 4, 5 and 6, at the Lydia Mendelssohn theatre, were announced yesterday by David B. Hempstead, '31, director of the productions. William Hathcock, '33, and Felix Layton, '33, will play the leading roles in "Emperor Jones." They will be assisted by Maxine Nowak, '32, Ruth Walser, '32, Ann Vernor, '32, Lois McGuire, '32, H. Sibley Sedg- wick, '32, and Frederick Dan- ziger, '32. In Schnitzler's "Episode," Mar- garet Copeland, '31, will play Bianca; David B. Hempstead, '31, will portray Max, and R. Duane Wells, '32, will play the role of Anatol. Harry L. Arnold, '32, will be stage manager of the productions. Advance reservations for the per- formances may be made at the box office of the Lydia Mendelssohn theatre by calling 6300.1 Senator Pittman Has One Year of Bad Luck (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Oct. 31-It wasn't a campaign year for Senator Pitt- man, of Nevada, and he looked for- ward to some rest this summer from the long grind of Congress but now he claims a hard-luck role that will overshadow that of any of his cam- paigning colleagues. First, the Pittman residence here hrned onwn twie Then Mrs. Pitt- ;I A.ssoctatea Press Phuo Relatives and rescuers are shown above wai1ng at the mouth of the coal mine in Alsdorf, Germany, where 248 were killed by an explosion. Picture below shows soldiers removing one of the injured. Federal Government Announces Construction -o Cost $1,C(00,000,000. CONTRACTS GIVEN OUT Building Program Includes Civic, Military, and Naval Expansion. (yAssociated [Press) WASHINGTON, Oct. 31. - Con-! centrating on its efforts to lead the country to a solution of the unem- ployment p-oblem, the federal gov- ernment announced today its cur- rent construction projects would' cost approximately $1,000,000,000. Contracts Total $938,416,000. Contracts under way and pend- ing aggregate $938,416,000, it was disclosed at the White House. Al- ready the building program, iaclud- ing public works, naval and mili- tary construction, and ships built through shipping board loans, to- tals $557,756,000. Other contracts to be let as soon as possible aggregate $370,660,000. These projects are exclusive of the $10,000,000 naval and military ai'rcraft contracts. Although ,the program was provided for at the last session of Congress, instruc- tions were issued to all departments to expedite their plans in order to relieve as many jobless as possible. As a result of the construction I programs, employment directly at- tributable to government work was placed at 1,033,000 persons on Oct. 1 as compared with 990,000 persons last January. However, this 'figure includes all army, navy, and coast goard personnel, as well as those in the civil service. It does not, how- ever, include those making govern- ment supplies. Train Regulation Set Aside. As reports were received by chair- man Woods of the President's emeir- gency commirteefor employment, telling of the progress in industrial areas towards finding employment for the jobless and keeping other employees busy under the stagger plan, the interstate commerce com- mission set aside for the first time its regulations on raillroad account- ing. The action will permit the Chi- cago and Northwestern railway 'to use $500,000 in Chicago and other northwestern cities in employealg 1,700 of its former mechanics and shopmen during November and De- cember to repair locomotives and rolling stock. I'Olympia' Will Appear COUHT OF INDUIRY HEARS TESTIMON1iY ON D101_DISASTER Four Survivors Tell Experiences During Accident Before Investigators. COOK TELLS VIVID TALE Had Anticipated Trouble When He Noticed Containers Near Bunk Surging Heavily. (By Ass''ociatedIPres~s) LONDON. Oct. 31.--Four men who escaped with their lives from the inferno of the dirigible R-101 when she crashed and burned on a hill- side near Beauvais, France, today recounted those terrifying moments just before the wreck at the court of inquiry investigating the dis- aster. TO APPEARH ERE 'SERVICES SUNDAY Japanese Troupe Will P Third Attraction at Mendelssolin. resent Rit CZECH PRESIDENT REPORTED AILING :s for Eminent Radiolo Will be Held at Detroit Methodist Church. gist TO GIVE SONGS, DANCES The Ongawa Japanese Players will present the third attraction on Nov. 8 at the Lydia Mendelssohn theater, .a week from today. Mr. and Mrs. Michitaro Ongawa are the stars of the company. Mr. Ongawa does the swordplay, and Mrs. Ongawa does the dances. The first part of the program consists of Japanese songs and dances, while ,the second part ifaa mystery play, "The Fox Woman." "This program is something very novel and unusual," stated Amy Loomis, director of the theater. Various organizations in Ann Arbor have tried to bring the company here several times before, b~ut have not been able to secure dates. For- tunately, due to a cancellation, we were able to book them." Mr. Ongawa is a Sumarai of thej Tokugawa clan which guided the destinies of the Japanese empire for nearly 300 years, and his boyhood days were spent in practice of the two-handed sword and the .long bow. His father, Ogawa Yoshiyasu, had the honor of being ordained the first minister in Japan. Judge's Dollar Siggns Mare Deaf Mute Speak (By Associated Press) PITTSBURGH, Oct. 31. - Percy Johnson, Negro, was in court today charged wl'bh violating an ordinance against peddling on the streets. The cards he was selling gave instruc- tions for use of the sign language. When the Magistrate addressed a question to Johnson, he motioned toward his mouth, indicating he couldn't speak except by signs. So the judge with one eye on the cards, began to spell wkYh his hand: "What for?"cried the astonished Johnson ina voice that showed no signs of impairment. BULLETIN (See Story on Page 3 ) (By Associated Press) OKLAHOMA CITY. Okla.. Oct. 31.--An army of a half thou- sand men, military and civil, guarded Oklahoma's capital to- night against the menace of a potential fire dragon, a gigantic wild oil well, that roared at the city's edge. Nine units of the Oklahoma national guard were called to assist civil authorities in nro- PALLBEARERS SELECTED Funeral services for Dr. Preston M. Hickey, head of the department of roentgenology of the University, who died Thursday noon i'n Uni- versity hospital will be held at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon in Detroit. The services will be held at the Central Methodist Episcopal church at Woodward and Adams avenues. Two active pallbearers will be from Ann Arbor, Dr. C. B. Pierce, assistant professor of roentgenology at University hospital, and Dr. Samuel W. Donaldson, director of the X-ray department at St. Jo- seph's Mercy hospital. The list of honorary pallbearers, numbering 36, are as follows: Dr. Alexander G. Ruthven, presi- dent of the University; Regents Walter H. Sawyer, O. O. Murfin and J. E. Beal; B. S. Hanchett, a former Regent; Shirley W. Smith, vice president and secretary of the Uni-, versity; C. S. Yoakum, vice presiL dent; Drs. Harley A. Haynes, C. C. Sturgis, A. S. Warthin, D. M Cowie, W P. Lombard, F. A. Coller, W. R.I Parker, R. B. Canfield, C. V. Weller,1 C. D. Camp, H. B. Lewis, Udo Wile, Max Peet, John Alexander, L. H. Newburgh, F. N. Wilson, R. Peter- son, A. C. Furstenburgh, Robert Ge- sell, C. P. Huber and C. W. Ed-, munds; Prof. Ralph W. Aigler, Prof.1 Emil Lorch, Dr. W. W. Bishop, Hack- ley Butler, Rev. Henry Lewis, A. W. Diack and Dean Edward H. Kraus. acott Feted on Tenth Year at Northwestern (By Associated Press) CHICAGO, Oct. 31.-Walter Dill Scott was the toast of business and professional men tonight at a ban- quet, which marked his tenth anni- versary as president of Northwest- ern University. Tribute was paid to him for his 40 years of labor at the institution as well as for his ten years of ad- ministration as its head. Among the speakers were Dr. Frederick P. Keppel, president of the Carnegie corporation, Silas H. Strawn, chairman of the North- western University associates, Ar- thur Andersen, newly elected presi- dent of the University's trustees and himself. When Dr. Scott entered the Uni- versity as a freshman in the col- lege of liberal arts 40 years ago the enrollment of the University Cook Describes Details. So harrowing was the experience that two of them asked the court not to compel them to describe the agonized screams of their com- rades, perishing in the flames and the commission was as gentle as circumstances permitted in ques- tioning A. J. Cook, H. J. Leech and V. Savory, engineers, and Arthur Disley, a radio operator. It was a vivid story Cook told, and the others supported it with I detail. About 2 o'clock in the morning, a few minutes before the crash, Cook had gone on duty as engineer in charge of the fourth unit engine. The commander rang for reduced speed shortly after he reached his, post. The ship dived sharply, then seemed to lunge toward the earth. In a moment she had struck with a terrific jar and seemed to bounce before striking again. Then there was a rendering explosion which split the ship from bow to stern. Speed Ordered Reduced. When he got the order for re- duced speed, Cook said, he felt that something must be wrong, for the craft had ben going smoothly at normal cruising speed for some hours. It confirmed the suspicion he had had earlier when from his bunl near the gas bags, he observed the containers surging about heavily. He had barely time to look over his shoulder to the engine-room window when the ship went into a deep dive. She seemed to recover for a moment, and then headed downward in the sharpest dive he had ever experienced. Then she struck. It was a matter of seconds between the first and second times the craft hit the earth, he said. Cook tried to scramble out of the engine gondola toward the ship when he realized what had hap- pened,but found the mainbody of the dirigible a wall of flame. BRAZILIANS HAIL REBEL PRESIDENT Thousands Watch Triumphant Entry of Dr. Vargas. (By Associated Press) RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct. 31.-The' generalissimo of the short-lived Brazilian revolution, Dr. Getulio Vargas, arrived here at 6:50 o'clock tonight to become provisional pres- ident of Brazil and was hailed as a conqueror. Despite an intermittent drizzle during the day great crowds were on hand to welcome Dr. Vargas, who was defeated for federal pres- ident in the election last spring and conducted the revolt beginning Oct. 3. T. G. Masaryk, President of the Republic of Czecho-slovakia, who is reported ill. His advanced age makes the sick- ness a serious one. 1POSTOFFICE P OB Seeks Explanatio -if Senator Norris' Possession of His Letter.I for Last Time Tonight Comedy Club members will pre- I sent the last performance of Ferenc Molnar's "Olympia" at 8:15 o'clock tonight at the Lydia Mendelssohn theatre. Mary Powers, of the Carnegie Institute of Technology, will again play the leading role. Florence Tennant, Grad., was to have taken the role for the last performance. Miss Powers took part in all the productions of the Michigan Sum- mer Repertory Players last summer. Grecian Police Believe Conspiracy Frustrated (By Associated Press) ATHENS, Greece, Oct. 31.-Police believed today that arrest of Gen. Theodorus Pangalos and 27 army officers and civilians had frustrated a plot to depose Premier Eleutherios Venizelos and reinstate Gen. Pan- galos, former dictator. MISSIVE INVOLVED NYE, (By Associated Press) OMAHA, Neb. Oct. 31.-The post- office department was drawn today into Senator George W. Norris',. campaign for re-election.l Thorne Browne, Nebraska direc- tor of the National Electric Light association, asked postal inspectors7 to investigate the manner in which a letter written to him by J. B., Wootan, of Chicago, came into1 Senator Norris' possession,, The letter was read by the sena- tor, opposed by Former Senator Gilbert M. Hitchcock, in an address last night at Blair. The contents of the letter, it was revealed, concerned "wire tapping" abuses against Senator Gerald P. Nye, chairman of the Senate cam- paign funds committee. "How did Senator Norris come into possession of the letter?" Brown demanded of the postal authorities. "Wootan told me he sent me a letter. The letter never arrived at my office. The senator has it. Some place between the office building in Chicago and my office 'in Lincoln, Neb., that letter was abstracted by some one." Senator Norris said: "I would be glad to have them investigate. Their conclusion that some one tapped to'e mails was just as silly as their conclusion that Senator Nye's aides tapped tele- phone wires." Heller to Give Speech on Organized Religion Rab;A Bernard Heller, director of the B'nai Brath Hillel foundation will occupy the pulpit at a service to be held 11 o'clock Sunday morn- ing in the chapel of the Women': League. He will discuss the question "Is Organized Religion Baneful a. IBeneficial?" Several innovations have been an- nounced for the regular Sunday service sponsored by the foundatlon, with the purpose of removing ob- jections and criticisms voiced by students in late years. Music will also be provided by a choral group recently formed at the foundation. The League chapel will be used throughout the year, inasmuch as last year' it proved more adequate than either Lane hall or the foun- tion building. DO-X WILL LEAVE ALTENHEIN SOON German Flying Boat May Leave Amsterdam Tomorrow. (By Associated Press) ALTENHEIN, Switzerland, Oct. 31.-Germany's great flying ship the DOX, which has carried aloft as many as 169 persons but never has been away from sheltered Lake Constance, is about ready tc leave the nest in, which it wak hatched. PALMER APPOINTS 91OFORANULB L Committee to Include Bennett, Boswell, Crawford, Cory, Deutsch, Klick. ADVISORY GROUP NAMED Personnel of Councils to Lead Other Senior Functions is Selected. Appointments to committee posi- tions of the senior literary class were announced yesterday by Bruce Palmer, class president. Vinial Taylor was named as the Senior Ball chaiman. Other mem- bers of his committee are Keith Bennett, 'Jean Boswell, P alimne r Crawford, Charles Cory, Millard Deutsch, and Albert Klick. Daily Editor Heads Committee. The personnel of the other com- mittees follow: Advisory:t. Henry Merry, chairman, Merton Bell, Elea- nore Cooke, Casper Halverson, and Harold O. Warren, Jr. Athletic: LaVerne Taylor, chair- man, Francis Cornwell, Joe Down- ing, Joseph Russell, and J. Harri- son Simrall. Auditing: Paul Showers, chair- man, Hazel Belcher, Robert Feld- man, and Frederick Faust. Banquet: Donald Cook, chairman, Irving Cooper, and Irwin Newman. Canes: Frank E. Cooper, chair- man, Fenelon Boesche, Raymond Bunshaw, Reed Orr, Montgomery Shick, and Henry Schmidt. Caps and Gowns: Stephen Deni- us, chaitrman, Eugene Jackson, Hel- en Jones, Josselyn McLean, and Roger Turner. Class Day: Edwin Schrader, chair- man, Lucille Cossar, George Dusen- bury, Clifford Murray, and Dorothy Pastoret. Finance: Gordan Dalby, chair- man, William Garrison, Whitfieldi Hillyer, Stuart Smith, and Alfred Stoddard. Invitations: Dean Es'ng, chair- man, Marie Edington, Douglas Ed- wards, Ruth Marshall, Margaret Mix, William Richards, and- John Willoughby. Memorhl: Kenneth MacLennan, :hairman, Leigh Chatterson, Marie wingerle, and Clyde Jones. Picture: Victor Kirschner, chair- man, Jerome Engle, Ann Goldberg, Samuel Goldberg, and Lucille Gross- man. Publicity: G e o r g e Hofineister, chairman, Mary Jane Keenan, Jack Rose, and Mary Stuart. Senior Sing: Lawrence Good- speed, chairman, William Browne, Roberta Red, and Elbert Trail. Social: Stuart Daugherty, chair- man, Margaret Eaman, Williamr 3entry, Robert Gordan, and Kath- erine Wilcox. Swingout: Townsend Clark, chair- man, Vivian Bullock, Eleze Connell, Frank Power, Joseph Roper, and Fred Van Dorn. Engineering School Sophomores Elect ShannonP resident Bruce Shannon was unanimous- ly elected president of the sopho- more engineering class yesterday. Other officers and class represent- atives for the Engineering council and the Honor committee were also selected at the annualelections. Robert Rice defeated Hilbert Horwitz for the vice-presidency by a 104 to 24 vote. Harold Seamans, with 98 votes, was chosen secretary over F. A. Heller, who polled28 votes. The treasurership went to Chester Ogden, who piled up 90 votes to the 31 of his opponent, Jorge Jimenez. Ward Parr will be the sophomore on the council as the result of his victory over George Hertner. Their respective votes were 94 to 24. Both positions on the Honor committee were filled by a unanimous ballot. Paul Rauff was elected for a two year term while Richard Becker was chosen to serve for one year. VJ'Laughlin Will Speak Before Tolstoi Group Dr. Dean B. McLaughlin, of the astrnnomv dnartment muill crh, a i Official quarters minimized im- For hours oefore his scheduledl portance of the plot and the min- arrival, thousands upon thousands ister of war described it as farcical. of spectators surrounded the rail- He said the government had been way station and stood in masses on the track of the conspirators along the avenue, watching the for a long time but regarding the victorious southern troops march- movement as unimportant decided ing through the streets. The sol- not to arrest any one until an op- diers, most of them gauchoes, from portune time, the pampas, of Rio Grande do Sul, --___ - and other southern states of the Brazilian union, arrived yesterday Athletic Directors in advance of their chieftan. to Decide on Gam Even early today there was a fes- tive air in this beautiful capital. The The Board in Control of Atn -Brazilian colors and the state flag eti BordllmetCatonrootdayof Rio Grande do Sul was draped on letics will meet at noon today albilig ntedwtw e- at the Union to discuss the pro- I all buildings in the downtown sec- S htion, while itinerant hawkers were posed Michigan-University of busy selling flags and buttons bear- D e troit post-season football ing the likeness of Dr. Vargas.