ESTABLISHED 1890 .Ott tttt MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS VOL. XLII. No. 104 SIX PAGES ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1932 PRICE FIVE CENTE REVISE CR SYSTEM OBTAINS BOARD APPROVAL Accrediting, Inspecting Will Be Under One Committee. DEGREES GRANTED Memorial Trees Will Be Planted for Washington. By George A. Stauter The Board of Regents yester- day approved a revision in the accrediting system of the Uni- versity which, proponents of the plan believe, will provide a means Soldiers Battle Behind Barricades in Chapei of unified contact between the University and educational insti- tutions of the state and at the same time enable the University to exercise constructive leader- ship in the state's educational policies. Along with this action, the Re- gents gave their approval to the February list of graauates, approx- imately 190 in six schools and col- leges. Of this ,total, the Graduate School had 95, almost twice the number, 50, graduated from the Literary College. The number of other graduates were: College of Engineering, 32; School of Forestry and Conservation, 6; the School of Music, 4; School of Dentistry, 2; School of Architecture, 1. In addi-- tion, 26 teacher's certificates were granted and approved. Approve Tree Planting. Approval of the revised accredit- ing system was the principal item to come before the Regents. They gave their assent to a number of other matters, however, chief of ~. fi as,the plairairg of Wsh- inton Memorilal trees under the direction of the School of Forestry and Conservation. From the funds of the $200,00 George Lathrop Pack Foundation, A list of the February grad- uates in all schools and colleges of the University, approved yes- terday by the Board of Regents, will be found on page 6 of to- day's issue of The Daily. a grove of 1,500 trees has been planted on the Stinchfield farm near Dexter, while at the biological station at Lake Douglas in the tip of the lower peninsula, 12 acres have been set aside for this pur- pose. Under the new accrediting sys- tem, the revision of which was pro- posed by the committee on educa- tional policies, the University com- mittee on accredited schools and the committee on inspection of, junior. colleges are discontinued. They are replaced by one central committee, the committee on co- operation with educational institu- tions, and two subcommittees, the committee on relations with sec- ondary schools and the committee on relations with institutions of higher education. The two com- mittees discontinued had previous- ly directed the work of accrediting and inspecting schools. Division Made Bureau. The personnel of the central committee will be composed of the vice-president of the University in charge of educational investiga- _tions; the registrar of the Univer- sity; the state superintendent o public instruction or his designated representative; the chairmen of the subcommittees; and the four members appointed by the Presi- dent for terms of three years (ex- cept initial appointments, which will be two for two years and two for three years). The chairman of the central committee will be elect- ed annually by the members. The division of University inspec- tion of high schools wil be retained but renamed the bureau of co-oper- ation with educational institutions. Its staff and facilities will be made available to the central and sub-I committees, and the director of the bureau will serve as ex officio secre- tary of the three committees. The value of the plan, it is un- derstood, lies in the fact that the central committee will bring about co-operation with all educational institutions of the state in the de- Jajyanese troops are shown here fighting behind hastily erected barricades in the Char These simplified fortifications were necessary to hold their positions against the Chinese. district. NEWvPEE AR'SeSve to Go Into Action SET Dy CA To day;3t Home Englishman Breaks 5 Kilometer, Seven Varsity teams will swing Kdinto action today in the biggest 1.0Kilometesr and 5 Mile sports day since the start of the Speed Records. year. Three of these teams will be seen in Ann Arbor, while four will DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., Feb. 26 take to the road. -(fP)--Sir Malcolm Campbell, of Headlining the Ann Arbor bill is England, drove his 12-cylinder the swimming meet with Minne- B.uebird racing car to new world's sota at the Intramural pool and ebrd rcinds cr tovew koerd the hockey game with. Marquette, speed records for ive kilometers,> which will be held at the Coliseum. five miles and 10 kilometers on the I The Michigan gymnastics team will Ocean Speedway her today. also appear here against Minne- He raced twice over the course sota. to hang up new records of 242.751 Coach Cappon's basketball quin- miles an hour for five miles; 247.941 tet will be on the road for its see- over five kilometers and 238.669 for ond game with Iowa, to be held at 10 kilometers. .le formerly held the Iowa City. Mea nwhile the track-. records for five kilometers at 241.569 men under Coach Hoyt will be miles an hour and for five miles at completing in their first meet of 211.491. The old record for 10 kilo- the season at Chicago, against the meters was 152.9 miles an -hour, set University of Chicago. The wrest- by M. Borzacchini at Cremone ling team will see action at Ohio Italy, Sept. 28, 1929. ' State, while the fencers will engage in a quadrangular meet with the On his twoguns today Campbell Northwestern, Chicago, and Illinois failed by 2.220 miles an hour of teams at Chicag do. equalling his own run of 253.968 for ___s__ Chicag_. _ a mile. He was clocked for that dis- -------T--- I tance today at 251.748. Burglars Enter Theta Kappa Na Fraternity STAFF IS CHOSEN Burglars entered the Theta Kap- pa Nu fraternity early yesterday Richard N. Cogger, '33E, has been morning and escaped with about appointed managing editor of the $25 in cash and a few pens and Michigan Technic for the coming pencils collected from a half-dozen year. The two other members of of the sleeping occupants. They the board of publication are Har- also smashed the windows of a Ford old G. Seamans, '33E, associate edi- coupe belonging to Stanley G. Red- tor, and DeElton J. Carr, '33E, busi- fern and backed the car a block ness manager. down the street, but-were apparent- These appointments were an- ly unable to get the motor started. nounced at a banquet held this Nothing was taken from the car. week at the Union. Other members ------- of the upper staff are Stanley Kil- Mic i an Women Lose lian, '34E, publication; A. J. Brog- gmni, alumni editor; W. J. Bird, '32E, Debate to Hoosiers articles editor; Francis Palms, Jr., '33A, architecture editor; A. H. The Michigan women's debating Messing, '34A, art editor; John E. team lost Thursday night to the Ohlson, '32E, college notes editor; women's debating team of the Uni- G. L. Saunders, '34E, accounts; C. D. versity of Indiana on the India Fiero, '34E, circulation; and F. E., question. Prof. Claude Seiffert, of Magel, '33E, sales and advertising. the speech department at Butler These new officers will assume, University, acted as judge. control immediately. HOOVER WILL SEEK LEGAL REFORMS IN SPECIAL MESSAGE TO CONGRESS COUNTESS TOLSTOY SPEAKS0ON FATHE Relates Incidents to Illustrate His Care for Authenticity, Attention to Detail. Countess Alexandra Tolstoy, In the lecture she delivered before aj capacity audience yesterday after-j noon in Natural Science auditori- um, explained that the fundamen- tal precept followed by her father, Leo Tolstoy, in writing was that "The aim of all art is to transmit to the people the best and loftiest thoughts of mankind." A series of incidents was related by Countess Tolstoy to illustrate the meticulous ,ae for authenticity and minute attention to detail which were exercised by her father in the preparation of everything lie wrote. Frequent and careful revis- ion of everything that came from his pen was his rule. Axiomatic with Tolstoy, t h e Couitess declared, were his beliefs to the effect that One must dis- miss forever the idea of writing anything well at the first attempt," and "No addition can so well im- prove a manuscript as those made with the blue pencil of correction." According to Countess Tolstoy her father enjoyed both the Amer- ican literature that was written in his lifetime and that which had been written before. The Countess doubted, however, if very much of the literature that is being written throughout the world today would be very favorably viewed by Tolstoy. ArnnArbor Is Wet i ?Digest Balloting Ann Arbor cast 1,067 votes against prohibition and 500 for in the Literary Digest poll, it was learned from the Digest radio program last night. HOOVER DSFAORS SCHOOL FUND CUTS President Says Education Budget Should Not Be Cut During Present Conditions. WASHINGTON, Feb. 26- (P) - President hoover has placed his emphatic support at the disposal of educational groups fighting curtail- ment of school funds during the present period of economic distress. The President expressed his views in a brief letter to the department of superintendence of the National Education association at the close of its convention here Thursday. "However, the national economy may vary on whatever fiscal ad- justments may need to be made," he wrote, "the very first obligation upon the national resources is the undiminished financial support of the public schools. We cannot af- ord to lose any ground. That is neither economy nor good govern.- BASKTBALLTEAM TO MEETHAWKEY 1FIVE AGINTONIGHT To Be Teams' Second Encounter; Two Men Will Make Their Last Road Trip. TO PLAY AT IOWA CITY Wolverines Will Fight Hard to Equal Last Season's Mark of 8 Victories. fy Sheldon C. Fullerton For the last time this season Michigan's basketball quintet will take the road, when it meets Iowa's lowly Hawkeyes at Iowa City to- night, in the second game of the year between the two teams. Fighting to equal its record of last season, when it won eight vic- toris against four defeats, the Wolverine basketeers will be forced to overthrow the Hawkeyes tonight to realize their ambitions. Since the two reverses suffered last week-end at the hands of Illi- nois and Northwestern , brought their total games lost to four, the Maize and Blue cagers will have to down the Iowans, and then return to Ann Arbor to gain victories over Wisconsin and Ohio State in order to remain near the top of the Con- ference. Iowa May Be Better. Iowa may be a different proposi- tion tonight than they were at Ann Arbor just after the start of the second semester. For half of the first period in that game the Hawk- eyes held the Wolverines on even terms, but a swift and accurate assault on the basket by the Maize and Blue sharp-shooters sent the score soaring in their favor. The final outcome of that game was a 40-22 decision for the Michigan basketeers. Norm Daniels ani hank Weiss, two of the sturdy veterans of Wolv- erine teams for the past three seasons, will-be playing theii last road games for Michigan against the Iowans. Daniels will be watched with considerable interest, as his showing tonight at Iowa City may determine to a large extent just how large his chances of landing the Western Conference scoring leadership really are. Daniels at Forward. Daniels will start in his regular berth at forward along with Whitey Eveland. The remainder of the Michigan lineup will also remain intact, with Garner jumping center, and Weiss and Williamson compris- ing the defense duo. Wilamson had also had a great season from a scoring viewpoint, his point total for the year far exceeding his mark of last season. Iowa's attack will be moulded around Howard Moffitt, sensational] sophomore scoring star. Moffitt was stopped dead by Williamson in the first Iowa clash, and if the Wolv- erine guard can perform the trick again a large part of the Hawkeye threat will have been removed. Bennett, at center, is another Iowan that will bear watching. Physics Men to Open Meeting Here Today Addresses by Professors Walter F. Colby and N. H. Williams of the Physics department and Mr. Rev- ans, commonwealth fellow from Cambridge university, England, will feature the winter meeting of the State Teachers of College Physics which opens at 10:45 this morning in the East Physics laboratory. Professor Colby will deliver the first address on "The Corpuscular and Wave Theories of Light," at 10:45. At 11:25, Mr. Revans will speak on "A Simple Theory of the Variable Star," explaining one of the outstanding problems of astro- physics in the light of his own re- searches on oscillating arcs. Lunch at the League will be fol- lowed with a talk by Dr. J. D. Bruce, new vice-president of the Univer- sity in charge of University rela- tions. The afternoon will be given over to visiting and to the inspec- tion of the researches in the East Physics laboratory. Sale of Comedy Seats Will Continue Today Box office seat sale for Comedy club's "Anthony and Anna" will continue today for the final per- formance which will be given to- I (Hy Glee Assoiaed Press) Confronted with a threat by the Japanese to bottle up Kiangwan, the Chinese made a quick short thrust in the darkness of early Sat- urday and took Miaochangchen, northwest of the bitterly contested Kiangwan. They held on to Kiang- wan, too. Shortly before daylight,sChinese batteries within Chapei started a heavy shelling ,of the Japanese po- sitions. The Japanese guns re- sponded but they did not send over nearly as many shells as were com- ing at them from the enemy lines. Further to the north, however, the Japanese were more active. At 7:30 a. m. they started a severe bombardment on the Kiangwan front. Reinforeements Arriving. The North China Daily News printed reports that Japanese re-- inforcements were arriving today. The 11th division would get here first, the paper said, to be followed by the 14th, while three additional divisions are mobilizing in Japan. The Japanese forces here soon will be the largest foreign army ever to set foot on Chinese soil, the Daily News asserted. Commenting on the widespread report that heavy reinforcements were nearby, an official Japanese spokesman said it would be "two or three days before they arrived." The Japanese promised a big of- fensive next week, using bottleneck tactics on Kiangwan, Chapei andt Woosung. Soviets Draw Attention. Meanwhile, the Siberian border d r e w attention internationally when the Soviet government told Japan that White Russians were being supported and protected in Manchuria by the Japanese. Russia demanded an explanation and also asked what was going on in Man- churia and wanted a description of the new Manchurian government. The United States, Italy, Great Britain and France asked Japan to move h e r arships from. ;the Whangpoo river in front of the in- ternational settlement, and urged that no more Japanese troops b landed in the settlement. To Stop Notes to China WASHINGTON, Feb. 26-(P)-A moratorium on notewriting to Chi- na and Japan concerning their con- flict in the Far East was declared today by Secretary Stimson. After a protracted conferece with President Hoover at the end of a day of closely watching de-- velopments in the Orient, the Sec- retary of State declare indirectly the administration felt the Ameri- can position needed no further ex- position. He issued a detailed sum- mary of policy Wednesday. As Stimson left the White House he told newspapermen that his con- ference with the Chief Executive had centered upon the situation at Shanghai. FLOOD AALANCE TAKE FOUR LIES Heavy Rains, High Temperature Cause Heavy Torrents in ! Washington.I SEATTLE, Feb. 26.- (') -Un--l loosened by heavy rains and high= temperatures, flood and avalanche took at least five lives in Washing- ton state today and four yesterday.x Five persons are missing,. George Johnson and his son, Gusta, 10, died when a natural dam broke in High Point Canyon, east of here, sending a 60-feet tor- rent of water, rock and trees down the gorge against their home. Two persons were killed and fivel were missing late today in an ava- lanche at Edgewick, a small town in central King county. An appeal for rescue workers was made after three bodies had been recovered from the snow and debris. The bodies of four men, buried when an avalanche of snow roar- ed down the precipitous side of1 Diablo canyon in eastern Skagit county yesterday, were still sought. Digging parties were threatened throughout the day by smaller slides and huge boulders tumbling upon them. St. Thomas Five Wins China Starts Attack Upon Japan Forcel WOLVEINES WIN HOCKEY CONTEST IN CLOSE FI6HT-1 Only Score of Evening Gives Margin Over Marquette. TO PLAY TONIGHT Sensational Stops by Tompson Put 34 Shots Aside. By John W. Thomas Keith Crossman worked the puck through Marquette's de- fense, drew out goalie Tompson, and quickly passed to George David who easily pushed the puck into the cage to beat Marquette last night, 1 to 0 on the Coliseum ice. Michigan scored its lone goal in the middle of the first period, but goalie Tompson made several sensational stops to push asi4e 34 shots while Tompkins was called on to save only 16. The Wolverines kept up a barrage of shots in the first two periods, keeping the visitors on the defen- sive most of the time. Reid and Crossman worked their clever pass- ing attack to the utmost in order to enlarge their score, but were kept from tallying by the steady def e- sive work of Tompson, who was easily the outstanding player. Coach Lowrey juggled his lineup and two available reserves to give Michigan a winning sextet. Bi91 Williams and Joe Frumkes were or-. dered to bed with serious colds im. The second game of the Michigan - Marquette hockey series will be held over to 8:30 o'clock 'tolgbt on : .coirt of the swiming meet. mediately before the match. Ted Chapman played the best defensive game of his career and made up in part for the absence of the season- ed Williams. Jeff Porte also gave a brilliant exhibition of body check- ing, but didn't make up for the loss of Williams. Michigan passed well and broke into the danger zone many times, but could not score. David's goal climaxed a long series of dashes down the ice to Marquette's goal, but Michigan could not score again although out-maneuvering the d- fense practically at will. In the second period Tompson stopped several Michigan shots by stretching out on the ice. Crossman and Reid worked the puck through the defense and' Reid lofted it In order to get it over the out-stretch*, ed form of Tompson, but the disI hit the iron bar on top of the cage and rolled over. This was Mich- igan's only good chance to score again in the whole game as Tomp- son gave one of the most brilliant demonstrations o f goal-tending seen on the Coliseum ice in several years. He is the only newcomer on the Marquette team. Michigan Line Holds. In the third session Marquette started a series of drives at the Wolverine cage to score just once in an effort to tie the score. The little-substituted front line of Reid, Crossman and David were tiring quickly but Chapman and Porte carried the brunt of the attacks and Tompkins stopped 10 shots a- lone. Marquette used eight spares to Michigan's two and wore down the Wolverines in the later stages of the contest. WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.-(1P)-In an effort to plug loopholes in fed- eral criminal procedure and to close breaches in the bankruptcy laws, President Hoover anounced today he would submit a new special mes- sage to Congress early next week. The document--long awaited as his special law enforcement mes- sage-will contain a long list of hoped-for reforms, aimed princi- pally at creating deterrents to crime through speeding criminal trials and appeals and at the sav- ing of millions now lost by both bankrupts and creditors. The President today cited orally to newspapermnen some of the methods designed to diminish the ease with which certain gangsters and others had escaped justice through the employment of clever criminal lawyers. He is known to feel that the Uni- by grand juries if they wish to plead guilty. 2. Elimination of technicalities in the makeup of grand juries; 3. Simplification of the procedure in district courts; 4. Rightening of statutes con- cerning criminal appeals to higher courts. rhe President asserted the com- mon purpose of these suggestions was "to expedite criminal trials and appeals and thus add a deterrent to crime by diminishing technicalities of which convicted persons can take advantage to produce long de- lays." In still a further move, the Pres- ident said he would recommend the addition of new federal judges to relieve c(ongestions and the simpli- fication of certain questions per- taining to the diversity of citizen- ship in the federal courts. SUMMARY: Michigan (1) Tompkins Porte Chapman Crossman Reid David Pos. G. L.D. R.D. C. L.W. R.W. Marquette (0) Thompson Nicholson McCann Furlong Michigan spares: Artz, Coventry. Marquette spares: Vickery, McIn- tyre, Kircher, Wettlaufer, Peterson, MacDonald, Finkbeinder, Hood. Referee, Foxx, Ottawa. First Period: Scoring, 1, David (Crossman) 12:35. Penalty, Nichol- son. Michigan saves, 5; Marquette, 14. Second Period: Scoring, none; Penalty, Nicholson. Saves, Mich- igan, 1; Marquette, 11.