....... i The Weather Cloudy, showers Friday; scat- tered showers Saturday. P, -_-Iqqllimlmpr at r IRMNENPP- Ar XLlF AAW 'Aw Nl = Ar\ m utr4t V46VWI'&l 11 9 attij Editorials I O'Brien's Assertion And Laird's Apathy VOL. XLHI No. 172 N ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1933 PRICE FIVE CENTS New Morgan List Reveals Stock Favors Robinson Asks Ouster Of Davis And Woodin For Dealings With House ExPres. Coolidge Named In Probe McAdoo, Lindbergh, Sloan Among Others Buying Stock At Low Price WASHINGTON, May 25.-()- Amid disavowals and demands aris- ing from previous evidence, a newl list of famous personages to whom J. P. Morgan & Co. sold stock at prices below their market quotations brought the name of Calvin Coolidge into the record of the Senate Bank- ing Committee today in its investi- gation of the activities of bank- ing house. From Senator Arthur R. Robin- son, Indiana Republican, there came a demand for the withdrawal of Nor- man H. Davis as ambassador-at- large for America and the asser- tion that Secretary William H. Woodin had outlived his usefulness. Davis Received Loan Davis was disclosed yesterday as having received a loan from the Morgan company and Woodin was on a list of customers to whom stock 1 was sold at a reduced price several years before he became Secretary of the Treasury. A little earlier Sena- tor -William G. McAdoo, California Democrat, had disclaimed that he was one of the Morgan preferred customers and said that he lost money on his stock transactions. The introduction of the name of the former President into the rec- ord brought a buzz of excitement in the crowded committee room. Mr. Coolidge was shown to have pur- chased 3,000 shares of stock at $32 a unit, in the summer of 1929, after he left the Presidency. The stocl opened in the fall at a listed price of 40 7-8. Includes Many Celebrities Other celebrities on the list in- cluded Secretary Woodin, 1,000 units; S e n a t o r McAdoo, 1,000; Charles A. Lindbergh, 500; Gen. John J. Pershing, 500; John J. Ras- kob, 2,000; Bernard M. Baruch, 4,- 000; Norman H. Davis, 500, and John W. Davis, Morgan counsel, 5,000. Other major developments in the day's inquiry included: A statement on behalf of the Mor- gan House that it had participated in marketing $6,024,444,200 of secur- ities since Jan. 1, 1919, without high- pressure salesmanship and favored legislation to require full publicity on profits from marketing stocks and bonds. Testimony by George Whitney, a Morgan partner, that he made $889,- 000 on a single transaction in 'the stock of Johns-Manville Corp., but denial that he profited from inside knowledge as a director of the com- pany. Morgan Explains Taxes Explanation by J. P. Morgan that he paid income taxes in England in 1931 and 1932, when he paid nothing in the United States, because of a difference in the laws. A statement by McAdoo that though he made $4,900 in 'one stock purchase from Morgan, his net on three such purchases was a loss of $2,565, and an assertion that he was not a "preferred client." Submission of letters from John J. Raskob and others thanking the Morgan house for offering them stock at below market levels, and the ex- pression of hope by the former chairman of the Democratic National Committee that he might someday reciprocate. Agreement by the committee to decide tomorrow whether to make public the closely-guarded partner- ship agreement of the House of Mor- gan and the list of individuals who have deposits of $10,000 or more with the firm. A suggestion by Ferdinand Pecora, the committee counsel, that the Mor- gan firm lost a possible profit of $8,- 623,000 by selling Alleghany Corp. stock to a special list for $20 when its price was many dollars higher. Mystic Order Of Druids Initiates Twenty-One Twenty-one novices were initiated On Favored List -Associated Press Photo William H. Woodin, newly named secretary of the Treasury, whose name is among those on the J. P. Morgan & Co. below market price stock purchasing list. Plans For N'ew Council To Be Released Soon Revised Form Of Student Government To Be Made Public Next Week Plans for a new form of student government to replace the defunct Student Council are being drawn up by a committee of leading seniors and will be announced some time next week, according to Edward S. McKay, chairman of the committee. The other members of the com- mittee are Barbara A. Braun, Charles R. Racine, Edwin T. Turner, Byron C. Vedder, Ivan Williamson, and Alli- son B. Evans, Grad. The interest which the women on the campus are taking in the new plan is as gratifying as it is unusual, McKay said, last night, in discussing the work of the committee. Hitherto, women- have not shown much interest in student, govern- ment, he said. Harlequins To Play For Friar Danee Tonioht Pietro Brescia and his Harlequins will play for the Black Friar's dance to be held tonight at the League, coming direct from a run at the Mark Hopkins Hotel in San Fran- cisco and a string of engagements in Hollywood, where they played in a number of films. It is the second appearance of the orchestra here this year, the band having previously played for the Frosh Frolic. In the opinion of the largest bookers in the country, the Harlequins are among the coming bands in the country. All lounges and fireplaces, the en- tire second floor and the grillroom will be open to guests of the party, it was announced. The dance will be held in the main ballroom, Senate Passes Banking B1ill In Four Hours Revised Last Session Bill Designed To Prevent Financial Emergencies Has Provisions For Deposit Insurance Hucy Long, Opposer Of Last Session Glass Bill, Supports This One WASHINGTON, May 25.-()-A banking bill designed to prevent a recurrence of such a financial emer- gency as rocked the country on March 4 was passed today by the Senate with less than four hours of debate. Revised considerably from the form in which it held the Senate in prolonged dispute and filibuster last session, the bill passed without the formality of a record vote. It carries provisions for both emer- gency and permanent insurance of bank deposits and calls for the sur- veillance of banking and investment business. Like the bill of the last ses- sion, it bore the name of Sen. Carter Glass (Dem., Va.), who led the long fight for the legislation. The measure will go into the hands of a conference committee, which will reconcile differences between the Senate bill and the one passed by the House Tuesday. The two are sim- ilar except for slightly different de- posit insurance provisions. While the legislation has not been made part of the Roosevelt program, its backers hope the President will see his way clear to sign it. Sen. Long. (Dem., La.), who led the long filibuster against the Glass measure last session, said he favored the new one because it contained "protection for the little bank which the Glass bill didn't have." An amendment providing for the insurance of deposits in all banks for one year, beginning July 1, after which time the Glass permanent in- surance fund would begin to operate, was put into the bill at the request of Sen. Vandenberg (Rep., Mich.). It also was approved without a roll call. It provides for the insur- ance of deposits up to $2,500 in Fed- eral reserve member banks and state banks certified by state authorities to be solvent. Man Hurt In Accident Reported As Doing Well Henry Millage, R. F. D. 6, was taken to the University hospital 'at 6 p. m. yesterday following a colli- sion at the intersection of Tappan and Monroe Streets. Millage's car collided with one driven by Mrs. James Schiller, 737 South State St., with such force that both cars were badly damaged. Hospital authorities last night re- ported that Millage suffered minor lacerations of the head. His condition i is not serious. Dramatic Season Director Appeals For A Black Cat An urgent appeal has come from Robert Henderson, director of the 1933 Dramatic Season, now being presented at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre, for a coal black cat. Evi- dently Mr. Henderson is not bur- dened with superstitions, for he claims he must have the loan of a black cat for the production of "Springtime for Henry," Benn Levy's gay comedy whcih opens as the sec- ond production of the festival season this Friday matinee and night, May 26, in the Lydia Mendelssohn Thea- tre. In the last act of "Springtimeefor Henry," he explained, Henry Dewlip, as played by Tom Powers, finds a coal black cat lying on the quilt on his bed in his bedroom. Gingerly he brings in the comforter with the cat peacefully sleeping on it; and finally he deposits the cat outdoors. Mr. Henderson requests that any- one owning a black cat, and who is willing to loan it to the Dramatic Season for the run of "Springtime for Henry" communicate with the box office in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre by telephoning 6300. The cat must be solid black and motherly looking; Tom Powers requests that the cat also be of a friendly, amiable disposition. Thieves Enter 4 Fraternities; Money Stolen Police Records Disclose Losses Of One Cent To $20; No Arrests Made Thieves entered and ransacked four fraternity houses Wednesday night, police records disclose. Mem- bers of Phi Gamma Delta, Pi Kappa Alpha, Trigon, and Delta Upsilon were robbed of amounts varying from one cent to $20.00. No arrests have been made as yet. Phi Gamma Delta, 717 Oxford Road, proved the most remunerative, While most of the occupants were asleep on the third floor, robbers sys- tematically went through the rooms of nine men. Warren Mayo, '33, who discovered the robbery in the morning when he found his wallet in the wrong pocket, was the heaviest loser at this house, missing $12. Other losses were: Ver- non Bishop, '33, $10.40; John Stokely, '34E, $6.00; Herbert Breyfogle, '33' $2.00; Charles Darner, '33, a white cameo ring; James McCollum, '35, 50 cents; Earle Kightlinger, '33, 25 cents; Lawrence Clayton, '35, 25 cents; Cyrus Huling, II, '34, seven cents. Raymond Latta, '33, lost most at the Pi Kappa Alpha house, 1812 Geddes Ave. Thieves took $20.00 but were considerate enough to leave him ten cents in change. Arlo Darcus, '33, and Robert Weinhardt, '33E, were robbed of two dollars. Edward Thayer, '34BAd., lost a Canadian penny. Entrance was made through a rear window. In the Trigon house, 1617 Wash- tenaw Ave., seven men reported losses. They were: Walter Courtis, '35E, $7.00; Clinton Sandusky, '34, $5.00; Ward Parr, '33E, $2.30; George Lawton, '35, $2.00; Donald Norton, '35, $1.50; Kenneth Luce, '34, $1.00, and Donald Adams, '34,.50 cents. Only two men reported losses in the Delta Upsilon house, 1331 Hill St. They were Val Saph, $7.50, and Horace Hess, '35, $2.00. Betting Dispute Brings H ouse LobbyProbe LANSING, May 25.-(AP)-As an aftermath of the passage of a bill backed by Floyd Fitzsimmons, former fight promoter, legalizing betting on dog races, the House today ordered a legislative investigation of lobbying activities. A resolution by Rep. Harold C. Bel- lows (Dem., Bay City), directing the Speaker to name a five-member in- vestigating committee, was adopted by a vote of 70 to 22. Some of the teeth were pulled from the measure before it was ap- proved. Originally an inquiry directed exclusively at the alleged lobbying activities connected with the dog bill was proposed. Rep. Gus T. Hartman (Rep., Houghton), secured the adop- State's Ruling Fails To Alter Beer Situation Faust Says He Will Not Change Vote; Stores Must Go To Courts RaLing Against Ban Received By Laird Letter Replica Of Opinion Given Rep. Pack; Wine Makes Appearance Despite the fact that City Attor- ney William Laird yesterday receiv- ed the 'official ruling' he requested from Attorney-General P a t r i c k O'Brien declaring the East Side beer ban void, the prospect of beer in the campds area without an appeal to the courts appeared lost. Ald. William Faust (Rep., 6th Ward), who on Monday night told the Common Council that he would vote for the granting of licenses to the State Street restaurants if the attorney-general ruled such a grant legal, last night asserted that he had been misunderstood, that the city could not grant the licenses until a court had given it the power to do so in an official verdict. "We are in a peculiar situation," he said. "If the provision were merely an ordinance it would be entirely different but it is a charter provision and, therefore, can only be altered by the legislature or the people. The attorney-general may be perfectly right in saying that it has been repealed but it is up to a court to decide the point." He hinted that, if the merchants won their fight in the Circuit Court, the city would appeal to the Supreme Court. The ruling which Mr. Laird re- ceived from the attorney-general's office was the same one which Mr. O'Brien gave to Rep. Philip Pack a few weeks ago and which the council had refused to recognize as 'official' because it had not been addressed to the city. -Neither the attorney-gen- eral of Mr. Thomas Ward, assistant attorney-general in charge of liquor cases, had any record of a letter from Mr. Laird requesting an opinion on Tuesday when J. Edgar Dwyer, attorney for the State St. stores, conferred with them. Mr. Ward said, however, that he would investigate the matter further. Wednesday night, Mr. O'Brien told The Daily that he had not found the letter. The reply which Mr. Laird received yesterday came from Mr. Ward's of- fice, indicating that the latter had found the lost letter and, without the attorney-general's knowledge, had sent the opinion to Mr. Laird as an official ruling. 3.2 wine appeared in the city for the first time yesterday, with a Main Street grocery store selling the bev- erage. The wine being sold was made of white grapes. Attorney Dwyer last night said that no legal action has, as yet, been planned by the State Street mer- hants. Aged Woman Is Throttled At Murder Farm F WTill Appear Today Central Agency' Interfraternity Selected For New System Is Violet Heming, who opens today in "Springtime for Henry," her third consecutive seasonal appearance in Ann Arbor, at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre.t Second Show t Of '33 Season OpensToday 'Springtime For Henry,' With Four Stars, Has Matinee Performance < Benn Levy's gay comedy, "Spring- time for Henry," opens this after-1 noon and evening at the Lydia Men-T delssohn Theatre as the second pro-1 duction of the 1933 Dramatic Sea-< son under the direction of Robert Henderson. The matinee perfor- mance begins at 3:15 p. m. and thet night performance at 8:15 p. m. 1 The cast for "Springtime for Henry" includes four distinguished stars. Robert Loraine, the leading English star, is cast in the role of Mr. Jelliwell, with Rose Hobart of stage and screen fame as his wife, Mrs. Jelliwell. The title role of Henry Dewlip is taken by Tom Pow- ers of the New York Theatre Guild,4 while Violet Heming will make her first appearance of the season as! Henry's prim but beautiful secretary, Miss Smith. "Springtime For Henry" also introduces Miss Peggy Hoven- den, ingenue of the Dramatic Sea- son, in the role of Miss Jones. "Springtime for Henry" is now current at the Booth Theatre in New York City. In it, Miss Heming will appear for the third consecutive sea- son in the Dramatic Festival. She is " the only artist to be returned so frequently, her first appearances be- ing in "Arms and the Man" and "Private Lives,"while last year she was starred in John Van Druten's "There's Always Juliet." Miss Hen- Ing will also have the leading role of Gilda in Noel Coward's "Design for Living," which follows the produc- tion of "Springtime for Henry." "Springtime for Henry" is by Benn Levy, distinguished English author, who has also scored heavily in New York with such successes as "Art and Mrs. Bottle," "Mrs. Moonlight," and "The Devil Passes." Jane Cowl was the star of the first; Edith Bar- rett the featured player in the sec- ond; and by further co-incidence, Robert Loraine scored an extraor- dinary triumph as the minister in the third. All three artists are being starred in the Ann Arbor theatre festival. Geoffrey Kerr, one of the stars of "Design for Living," arrives in Ann' Arbor today to begin his final re- hearsals in the role of Leo in Cow- ard's successful comedy. Dean Edmonson Off Today For Washington Dean Will Help Plan Of Council Dean Of Students Office Is Chosen Student Committee Takes Recommendation Of 4 National Secretaries The office of the Dean of Students was chosen as the "central agency" to act as a clearing-house for the re- ports which each fraternity on cam- pus must submit in accordance with the plan passed at the last meeting of the Interfraternity Council, it was announced last night by Maxwell T. Gail, '34, chairman of the committee created by the council to set up the agency. The committee, according to Gail, went into the matter from many angles, consulting with alumni and students interested in the new system and came to the conclusion that the dean's office was the proper body to administer the plan. Although the committee was given power to act on the matter without any qualifications, the judiciary com- mitee of the councilyesterday ap- proved the move of setting up the dean's office as the central agency mentioned in the report of the com- mittee of national fraternity secre- taries which met in Ann Arbor and recommended the plan which was later adopted by the council. A report will be sent out to all fraternities in the near future, ac- cording to Gail, who is also secre- tary-treasurer of the council, which he asked house managers to fill out and return as soon as possible. "If. this report is filled out prop- erly, we will not need to have an audit of chapter accounts for this semester," Gail said, "but we will have to look into the books of those fra- ternities whose reports are incom- plete." The employment of a full- or part- time adult secretary for the Interfra- ternity Council is being considered by officials of the council, it was learned last night. Such a man would work with the office of the dean to supervise the system. No definite announcement was made last night. House Adopts Procedure Bill By Slight Marin Rules For Public-Works Control Measure Pass As Democrats Shift Vote WASHINGTON, May 25.-P)- By a margin so narrow as to cause leaders to fear for the success of the tax program carried in the public works-industry control bill, t h e House adopted a rule of procedure for work on the measure today, and sailed into debate amid cries of "gag" rule and "dictatorship." The huge Democratic majority shifted away from the leaders to such an extent that the rule of procedure was adopted by a majority of only 19 votes. The ballot showed 213 to 194. The rule forbids amendments from any quarter except the ways and means committee but Republican ad- vocates of the sales tax have deter- mined upon a plan to force that issue to a vote tomorrow. Democrat bolters plan to join a majority of the Republicans to sup- port a motion to be made by Rep., Bacharach (R., N. J) to recommit the bill to the ways and means com- mittee and substitute a manufactur- ers sales tax for the $220,000,000 pro- gram to finance the $3,300,000,000 public works bond issue. The present program carried income and gasoline tax increases. Women Uninterested In Campus Politics, League Head States By MARJORIE BECK cerned. She believes that the League "If the women on campus would handles women's affairs sufficiently only realize and use the power which well to render unnecessary the pres- is vested in them through the ence of women on any student League Board of Representatives council which may be formed. If the they could exercise greater campus Union could organize its functions influence than they do now," accord- to include the work which the coun- ing to Catherine Heeson, chairman cil was supposed to do, and which the of the Board of Representatives. League does for the women, then, it The board has great power, but is Miss Allen's belief, the two or- the women are not sufficiently in- ganizations, being parallel, could terested to take an active and con- work more efficiently together. With structive part in running campus af- the League and the Union each a fairs, she said. In regulating wom- complete and highly-concentrated en's affairs on campus, the dean's organization, co-operation between office functions as an impartial the two could be realized to a greater check rather than as a restriction, degree than at present, she said. giving the final O. K. to all measures In her work this year, however, which have previously passed the Miss Heeson has observed that therej ruling bodies of the League. has been more co-operation betweenI With the demise of the old and in- the League and the Union than in efficient Student Council there is an past years. She finds that the men opportunity for the complete reor- are willing and desirous of having ganization of student government. the women's co-operation, and of Ideas, vary among the prominent getting the women's angle on certain Double Killing 12 Ago Recalled As Attacks Burg I Years Thug The Burg farm south of Saline, scene of a double murder in 1921, was the site of a near tragedy yester- day afternoon when Mrs. Lucetta Burg, lone occupant of the farm, was choked into unconsciousness by an unidentified man. Mrs. Burg stated that the man was hiding behind a door when she en- tered the house. Suddenly accosting her, he demanded money, and when she told him that it was in the bank, he seized her by the throat. After re- gaining consciousness, she called her nephew who lives nearby. Her con- dition was pronounced as completely recovered by doctors who attended the case. Sheriff's officers are holding Mike Piska for investigation in connection with the incident. Piska, a Russian, was picked up by officers in Clinton, and answers to the description given by Mrs. Burg. Mrs. Burg's brother and a hired man were murdered on this same farm about 12 years ago. The two l , it Education School Head To Attend Emergency Meeting Of Teachers Dean J. B. Edmonson of the edu- cation school is leaving today for Washington, D. C., where he will at- tend the meetings of the Joint Com- mittee on the Emergency in Educa- tion, of which he is a member, it was announced yesterday. The committee, which is one of several committees of the National Education Association, will meet Saturday and Sunday, May 27 and 28. women on campus as to what course will prove the most expedient. It is the opinion of Grace Meyer, newly- installed president of the League, that, as far as the women are con- cerned, the Student Council should questions. In view of this attitude, Miss Heeson favors the establish- ment of a student council on which the women as well as the men are represented. The presence of the women on such a governing body Employment First Goal, Murphy Tells Filipinos HONOLULU, May 25.-(P)-Frank Murphy, former mayor of Detroit, en route to his post at Manila as ryf'-n-.t .tnnr nra 1 f t+' h li nrinnr.