t 4 A61 MEN ASSOC PR ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, ,FEBRUARY 20, 1932 PRICE FIVE C _ s s i PS C :. { {, A.:. . .y i, 4 BIG D Rl 1' ti Select 'Robin Hood' Cast; Brown, Torbeson Chosen for Leading Roles Changes Allegiance From a wealth of vocal and dra- matic tryout material, the final cast for the Mimes Union opera has been selected and work which has been underway for a number of weeks has brought the operetta, "Robin Hood," almost to the point of dress rehearsals. The names of those selected are strongly reminiscent of campus musical and dramatic offerings of past years. The production will bring before the public a number of voices that have achieved a dis- tinguished record of accomplish- ment over the radio. DoretheatTorbeson, '32SM, has been selected to play the feminine lead, :Raid Marion. Miss Torbeson is a titian blonde, whose home is in Cadillac, She hassung in a num- ber of Music school recitals here and has a record of many dramatic and musical performances in Cad- illac.' Selected to play the male lead of "Robin Hood" is George D.eBrown, '34L. Brown took his undergrad- uate work at Mt. Union college,' where he studied voice and broad- cast frequently over WADC, Akron.! His activities there include not only, continuous service in the glee club, but work on the football and tennis teams. He played football against Michigan three seasons ago. Other parts will be taken by Hel- en VanLoon, '32SM, who will play Annabel; Herman C. Skoog, Spec., who will take the part of Little John; Francis (Billie) Johhson, '33, will do Dame Durden, while the part of Alan-a-Dale will be taken by two actresses who *ill each ren- der the part on two successive nights. Among the male roles, H. C. How- Name Dr. J. B. Scott Graduation Speaker Dr. James Brown Scott, prom- inent authority on international law and secretary of the Carne- gie endowment for international peace, of which he is also a trus- tee, was named yesterday as commencement speaker at the University exercises to be held June 20. One of the United States dele- gates to the Pan-American com- mission of jurists, in Rio de Ja- neiro to r prepare codes of public and private international law in 1927, Dr. Scott is president of the American institute of interna- tional law and of' the American society of international law. ard, director of the production, will play the sheriff. Howard has done this part with DeWolf Hopper's company for more than 10 years. He has played in the Mikado and a number of lother light opera in which field he has specialized ex- clusively. Friar Tuck will be taken by Leon Snyder, '32A, and Sir Guy will be played by Emmett Leib, '33. Extensive preparations are under way for the rebuilding of the Hill auditorium stage which will be made to conform to the require- ments of the stage of a legitimate theatre, according to a statement from William Tippy, '32, who is chairman of the general committee for the opera. se ve .r an ex ta..o n ozc re uI :. The measure, bearing the promise of leaders of both parties to speedI America dn an upward economic swing, already has passed the House. It will become a law next week. The Senate went a stdp-farther than the House and voted to make Action Causes Upward Move- the life oT the bill two yea rs instead,, of one. This is one of the few dif- ment in Securities, But Trend ferences between the House and Is Short-Lived. the Senate which must be composA ed before the legislation goes to WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.-('P)- President Hoover. Close on the hedis of action by the A shout of "aye" met the call forN.c.o phssage in the Senate late today. New York stock exchange to lmit No demand was made for a record the activities of bear raiders, Presi- vote. Sen. Frazier (Republican, dent Hoover today struck again at North Dakota), briefly assailed the short-selling. measure as a "banker's bill," offer- The chief executive reported that ing no hope for agriculture. in numerous conferences with stock exchange officials the government Dr. Larson to Debate had aided in inspiring the various anti-short rulings. He then char- Prof. Orlando Norris acterized continuing bear activities as "not contributing to recovery of Dr. Martin A. Larson, '21, will de- the United States." bate tomorrow night with Prof. Or- Only last night the exchange im- lando 0. Norris, Michigan State posed the latest of its series of Normal college, on the subject: curbs. Officials ruled that after "Resolved, That the emancipation April 1 members would not be al- of the working class\depends upon lowed to lend to the bears securi- revolution, and not reforms." Dr. ties held on margin without the Larson will uphold the affirmative. written consent of the owners. The debate, to be held at 8 The move precipitated a sharp o'clock in the auditorium of the upward swing in security quota- Ann Arbor High school will be held tions today as the shorts rushed ;under the auspices of the Marxian to cover, but later profit-taking put Labor college of Detroit, and will brakes on the upward trend. As be the second debate between the the president addressed newspaper two men on this subject. It is open correspondents there was spread to'the public, out on a table behind him an ex- The Marxian Labor college is a tensive c h a r t labelled "security workers' educational institute. prices affected by short sales." TOLSTOY'S DAUGHTER WILL LECTURE HERE ON HER FATHER FEBRUARY 28 The world's outstanding authority on the life and works of Count Leo Tolstoy-his daughter and secretary, Countess Alexandra Tolstoy -is to speak here on her father Thursday evening, February 25, in Hill auditorium. The topic of the countess's lecture will be "Tolstoy and the Rus- sian Revolution." iThe' Women's League is sponsoring the appearance in Ann Arbor of Countess Tolstoy, who is making a lecture tour of the United States. During the Russian revolution Countess Tolstoy was put in prison by the Soviet company' for her insistence that governmental measures involving the use of force were unjust, which was in accordance with the doctrines to the propagation of which her father devoted his life. The Soviet government desig- nated her action as "coun- t e r-revolutionary plotting." Sometime I a t e r Countess Tolstoy went to Japan, where she remained until August 1931, when she came to this 12 Selected Following Tryouts; Six Members to Be Chosen for Varsity Teams. Members of this semester's Var- sity debating squads were selected yesterday, after tryouts on Thurs- day, by James H. McBurney, coach and member of the Speech depart- ment. Out of more than 20 candi- dates 12 men were selected to,com- prise the squad. From this group the six members of the individual Conference teams will be picked. For the affirmative side of the question were selected Saul M. Fer- man, '34, Myron R. Gerson, '34, Nathan Levy, '34L, Nathan A. Lipps, '34, Victor Rabinowitz, '34L, and Howard Simon, '32L. This group will meet for organization with Mc- Burney ht -10 a. m. o'clock Monday, in room 4003 Angell hall For the negative side McBurney selected Gilbert Bursley, '34, Erle A., Kightlinger, '33, L e o n a r d L. Kimball, '33, James D. Moore, '32, Samuel L. Travis, '34, Jacob I. Weissman, '34. Organization into working form of this group is plan- ned for 10 a. m. o'clock, this morn- ing in room 4003 Angell hall. Although the majority are inex- perienced in intercollegiate debate, Coach McBurney -Said, prospects for the success of the last half of the debating season are promising. Only two debates, with two more in prospect, are scheduled. The Conference debates with' the Uni- versity of Iowa here, and the Uni- versity of Illinois there, will take place March 17. A dual debate with Northwestern Uhiiversity is be- ing arranged for the week preced- ing the Conference debates. All the Varsity debates of the season ,will take place on the offi- cial question: Resolved: That All W o r 1 d War Intergovernmental Debts and Reparations Should Be Cancelled. Assoc*at* Pre*s *Phto Gen. Mah Chan-Shan, a few months ago the defender of Man- churia and China's national hero, is now the governor of one of the "three eastern provinces" of Man- churia under Japanese tutelage. CAGERS ENCOUNTERH ILLINOISIO9N IGH T Wolverines Play Mediocre Indian Team at Urbana; Line-up Remains Unchanged. By Sheldon C. Fullerton. Michigan's basketball team finds itself in a queer predicament at Champaign tonight, where it clash-, es with 'the University of Illinois' cagers in the second game of a home-and-home series o n t h e hardwood court. Already victorious over the Indians in the first game of the series by a 28-16 score, the Wolverines find themselves facing an Illini quintet that h s just add- ed the scalp of Minnesota, conquer- ors of Michigan, to its belt.- On the occasion of the first Mich- igan-Illinois cage battle, the pro- teges of Craig Ruby had just suc- ceeded in throwing the Western Conference race into a turmoil by taking a hard fought decision over the highly touted Purdue Boiler- makers. But against'Michigan tl Illini looked like anything but the. mighty court aggregation they were supposed to be. Their style of five- man defense had absolutely no power to stop the Michigan attack,j and in spite of the attention they focused on him the Indians were powerless to keep Captain Norm' Daniels from dropping in 16 points during the evening. Since that time the Illini have played mediocre basketball, drop- ping their second game of the year to the Ohio State cagers, who could make no kind of an impression on the Wolverines, and then turning around to hand a 23-15 lacing to Minnesota, a. team that defeated the Maize and Blue in their last encounter. All of which leads an outsider to wonder what is going to happen tonight. Michigan's lineup will remain the same as that which faced Iowa here Monday. The sharp-shooting Norm Daniels will pair with Whitey Eve- land at the forward posts, Lanky Ed Garner will jump center, and Hank Weiss and Ivy Williamson will start as the guards. Petrie and Al- tenhof are likely to see some serv- ice before the game is over. Chinese Front Lines Are Heavily Manned as ,Barrage Start. By The Associated Press Deep-throated Japanese guns announced at 8:50 a.m. tod the beginning of the big Japanese push to overwhelm the Chin defenders of Shanghai. A few minutes after the Japanese guns went into action, 1 Chinese artillery replied. Both sides put on a terrific bombardme At 7 a.m. Japan's ultimatum calling on the Chinese army withdraw 12 miles from Shanghai had expired. Japanese scouting planes, sent up a few minutes after 17 clock, brought back word that the Chinese front lines still w heavily manned. Lieut. Gen. Kenkichi Uyeda, Japanese comma: er, announced that "the end of our patience has been reached" a ordered the beginning of the action. Fifty Japanese planes, their motors running, waited orders take off on bombing missions over the criss-cross of Chinese tren es at Chapei and Kiangwan. Hundreds of Americans, taking the advice of Consul General ] win S. Cunningham, scurried out of Hongkew, Yangtzepoo other imperiled areas between the city and Woosung. More tf 100 Chinese patients in Hongkew hospital were carried out in a bulances directed by Dr. J. C. McCracken, once a football star the University of Pennsylvania. American marines and soldiers and American volunteers w placed in a precarious situation on the flanks of the battlegroi in case a pitched engagement should result. They dug in alp a line of machine gun blockhouses and sandbag barricades and ready to observe some action. League Calls Extra Session. The Leagued of Nations -again entered the situation by cal) an extraordinary session of the assembly for Mar. 3 to hear Chir case against Japan. The United States was informed of this act and. the delegates of the combatant nations were abjured. to ce hostilities. The decision was taken by the council after a sharp deb between the Chinese and Japanese spokesmen in which Dr. W. Yen, asserted that Japan was taking the offensive in open war and Naotake Sato retorted that it was beyond the powers of assembly to settle the conflict. ~ The Tokyo press reported that Henry Pu-Yi, the former " emperor" Hsuan Tung, had been elevated to the head of the r republic of Ankuo embracing Manchuria and Mongolia. He " said to be holding out for a royal status and the exact nature of rule was not defined. The Japanese peacefully went to the polls in Tokyo to e a new house of representatives while their government debated advisability of sending. still more reinforcements to China to b up its ultimatum. AMERICANS FLEE SHANGHAI SECTOR'' Greatest' War Battle Since Causes Resid to Flee Area. World lenjts SHANGHAI, Feb. 20-(Saturday) - (IP) - American residents o f Shanghai's International Settle- ment scurried out of the danger zone today as the zero hour ap'- proached for what may be 'th greatest military engagement sinc' the World War. The screaming of shells acros' battle-torn Chapei confirmed fear: of an anxious city that the Chinese definitely had rejected the ultima- tum to withdraw and that the Jap- anese would meet the defiance with the concentrated wrath of their army and navy. Spurts of machine gun fire as dawn came told ministers of the great powers that their efforts to replace warfare with peace had failed. CHIEF rEXECI[ GlIN WA1 Maintain Hope for Secretary Stimson With the Pres WASHINGTON, Fel Data on the intense S uation was laid befo .Hoover again today Stimson at a prolonge but officials were siler the Japanese offensiv Plainly anxious abe Americans in t h e Settlement of the war- port, officials have r hope that a settlemeni Chinese and Japane: reached without grea life. r s"s _ L II DEPRESSION HITS POLYGAMOUS IRAQ NO TES MISS DOROTHEA WATERMAN Although fighting ha on an enormous scale I jection of the Japanes by the defending fore of Oriental bargainin known to Far Eastern the State Department. to the hope that ai found to resume negot There are so many rents in C inese politi a lack o co-ordinati military leaders that policy often are sudden pected. After Secretary Stim, ence with the Presid( newspapermen but beg cused from answering tions concerning the 'ese trouble. He explained that prf es fram China give ac the opposing armies sc ier than the Departr sages, that he is gett his information from ty .- .. ., By Stanleigh W. Arnheim. Back from the excavating expedi- tion at Seleucia-on-the-Tigris, Miss Dorothea Waterman, '32, daughter of Dr. Leroy Waterman who headed the party, described in an interview last night existing conditions in Iraq, scene of the dig. The site of the excavation was, located about 25 miles from Bag- dad, between the Tigris and Eu- phrates rivers in Mesopotamia. is permitted under the Mohamme- dan law, the depression has hit them hard enough' to affect this practice. "Women are tatooed consider- ably and nose-rings are common. Cosmetics consist o f eye - lash blackening and henna finger col- oring." Horseback rides to neighboring. villages provided diversion. On one of these a visit to a, sheik's tent by all members of the staff revealed Ruthven to Deliver Two Week-end Talks Two addresses appear on Presi- dent Ruthven's calendar for the