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Open M i nds and Closed
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Coating the HigU Tariff Pill.
VOL. XLHI. No. 21 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 19, 1932
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Capone
Will
Condemns Democrats
Begin Court
FightToday
Chicago Gangster Seeks
To Evade 10-Year Term
For Tax Violation
New Petition Goes
Before Underwood
'Scarface Al' Leaves Cell
To File Plea For Writ
Of Habeas Corpus
ATLANTA, Ga., Oct. 18. - () -
Prisoner 40,886 will put aside his
blue-gray denim uniform tomorrow
and "Scarface Al" Capone, Chicago's
erstwhile gang chieftain, will emerge
from the Atlanta Federal Peniten-
tiary to wage another legal battle for
his freedom.
His petition for a writ of habeas
corpus is scheduled to be heard in
Federal Court tomorrow before Judge
Marvin Underwood.
The gangster is serving a 10-year
sentence for violation of the income
tax laws in 1926, 1927 and 1928, and
seeks his freedom on the contention
that prosecution is barred by the
statute of limitations.
Hearing Postponed
The filing of the petition last Sept.
21 gave Capone his first few minutes
in the open since he was brought to
the penitentiary, heavily manacled,
last May 4 to begin his term. He
was taken to court for the filing of
the petition, but Judge Underwood
postponed the hearing until tomor-
row.
William J. Hughes, Jr., of Wash-
ington, Capone's attorney, will cite
the recent decision of the United
States Supreme Court in the case of
one Scharton, a Boston lawyer.
"The Supreme Court held that the
statute of limitations had a period of
three years and that offenses com-
mitted more than three years before
cannot result in conviction," Hughes
explained.
Release Expected
The attorney said that the decision
is "certainly applicable to Capone's
case" and that he expected him to
be freed.
Lindsey said that Capone is basing
his attempt for a writ "issued after
his conviction a n d incarceration,
while the Scharton case was simply
an appeal."
Student Actors
To Give Play
By Elmer Rice
Play Production To Open
Dramatic Season With
'Tb - Adding Machine'
The campus dramatic season for
1932-33 will open on Oct. 28 with the
presentation by Play Production of
Elmer Rice's play, "The Adding Ma-
chine."
The dates of the show were an-
nounced yesterday by Mr. Valentine
B. Windt, director of the production.
"We will open the Friday of the
Princeton game week-end, and run
until the following Thursday," he
said.
Mr. Windt said he believed the
play could stand a run of six per-
formances, because, "the Laboratory
Theatre has such a small small seat-
ing capacity, and because the play
has had a great popular interest
wherever it has been produced, which
should indicate large audiences for
the present production."
"From the point of view of the
actor," he said, "it is good training
to have as long a run as possible
with a play. He learns, when he has
to repeat a performance night after
night, how to hold up the vitality of
his part. This accomplishment which
is so important in a professional's
acting is seldom offered an amateur.
So maybe we are lucky our theatre
is small after all."
The tickets for the show will go
on sale Friday of this week in the
box-office of the Laboratory theatre,
Herbert Hirchman, '33, b u s i n e s s
manager for this production an-
nounced yesterday. All seat will be
50 cents.
Socialist Cluh To He ar
HENRY L. STIMSON
Henderson To
Head Bonstelle
Civic Theatre
Detroit Season
Conflict With
Of Ann Arbor
Will Not
Direction
Festival
Robert Henderson, newly appoint-
ed director of the Bonstelle Civic
Theatre, won't let his duties in con-
nection with the Detroit productions
interfere with the presentation of the
Ann Arbor Dramatic Festival it was
announced yesterday.
As soon as Mr. Henderson's two
week's notice with the producers of
"I Loved You Wednesday," the play
in which he is now appearing, is up
he is expected to return to Detroit
and begin work on "The Animal
Kingdom" by Philip Barry. This play
is to be the first on the schedule of
the Civic Theatre and will open on
Nov 11.
For some time, Mr. Henderson had
been corresponding with Miss Bon-
stelle about taking over the posi-
tion of assistant director and on her
death t h e committee immediately
appointed him to the position of di-
rector.
Henderson is to have full charge
of the plays, policies and actors of
the theatre. He announced yester-
day that he planned to follow out
Miss Bonstelle's program entirely.
The plan of the theatre from now
on will be much like the policy of
the dramatic season in Ann Arbor. It
will no longer be a stock company
but will shift players continually as
he is able to obtain headliners tem-
porarily at liberty.
Plays will be chosen and then a
suitable star engaged to fit the play
or vice versa. He plans to divide the
year into four-week periods until the
middle of March. Each period will
be made up of four different plays.
After hearing of the death of Miss
Bonstelle last Friday, Mr. Henderson,
boarded an airplane in New York
after the show in which he is playing
was over Saturday night and arrived
in Detroit in time for the funeral
services on S u n d a y. Following a
meeting of the committee after the
services, he again took a plane and
arrived back in New York in time for
a rehearsal Sunday afternoon.
'Diagonal' Finds Favor
At Alpha Nu Discussion
Holding that the Diagonal column
published earlier this semester by
The Daily was an innocuous and in-
teresting method of humanizing the
news of a university which is already
burdened with too much sophisti-
cated snobbery, Alpha Nu, men's
honorary speech society, last night
approved by a decisive majority the
colunin, which was recently discon-
tinued.
Opposition minorities viewed the
feature as lacking the dignity which
is expected of a University publica-
tion.
Two Youths Arrested
At Cavanaugh Cottage
Two Detroit youths, arrested at the
Cavanaugh lake cottage they had
broken into Sunday, were sentenced
to 20 days in county jail yesterday
by Justice Jay G. Pray, sheriff's de-
puties report. Three girls, all minors,
who spent the greater part of two
davs with them after running away
Stimson Flays
Recklessness
Of Roosevelt
Secretary Of State Says
Roosevelt Lacks Definite
Measures For Recovery
Garner Accused
Of Weak Support
Hoover's Reconstruction
Program Commended
At Republican Meeting
NEW YORK, Oct. 18.-(P)--Secre-
tary Stimson told the National Re-
publican Club tonight that Franklin
D. Roosevelt by an "incredible reck-
less misstatement of facts" and the
Democratic House by acts of "reck-
less irresponsibility" had delayed eco-
nomic recovery.
The Secretary of State said Roose-
velt had "dealt a blow" at recoveryI
by an attack on President Hoover'sI
economic measures and the Recon-
struction Finance Corporation in his
speech on "the forgotten man."
Criticizes Garnerc
Turning to t h e vice-presidential1
candidate on the Democratic ticket,
Stimson said President Hoover did
not have Speaker Garner's "willingE
support"in balancing the budget. He
added that the activities of thet
House "set back the cause of recov-s
ery at the most critical period of lasts
spring."
Roosevelt, Stimson said "has told
us of King James' ferry boats and
Alice in Wonderland and Humpty-
Dumpty, but upon specific questions
upon which more than anything else
the economic recovery of this nation
depends . . . he has said nothing."
Roosevelt has remained silent on
the bonus, he said, when "every dayc
of silence was a blow to the credit ofr
his government and the restorationa
of business."
Attacks Governor
Asserting the Democratic nominee,t
as governor of New York, had done
nothing to correct speculative abusest
which he now criticizes, the cabinett
officer said: "The people of thisb
country might well ask of Franklint
Roosevelt that before he sought ton
be 'ruler over many things' he might
better show himself 'faithful to thep
few.' "o
Stimson said at the outset the na-C
tion was facing an election in manyI
ways "more critical and importantt
than any which this country has
faced since the Civil War."t
Music Grad In Debut s
Receives High Praised
Dalies E. Frantz, graduate studentk
in music here, made his debut as ah
professional pianist at Town Hall in
'ew York City Monday night. He
was received with great enthusiasm,I
receiving high praise from the music
critics of the New York Evening Sun
and the New York Times.
The New York Sun review, it wass
said, was a sheer eulogy.t
Frantz received his bachelor's de-o
gree here two years ag and is nowd
working on his masters' degree. He
was awarded the privilege of playinga
in Town Hall by gaining first place b
in a national contest in which 172n
students participated. Frantz is av
pupil of Prof. Guy Maier of thed
Music school. A
Extent Of America
Gives Inspiration,
Says Robert Frost
"The size of America gives person-
al confidence to every citizen, and
out of that confidence comes an in-
spiration for poetry," declared Robert
Frost, addressing a large audience at
a reading of his poetry yesterday in
Lydia Mendelssohn theatre.
"I expect each poem that I write
to have something of that national
assurance in it," Mr. Frost said.
In a number of comments spread
through his reading, he hit with his
customary charming banter at the
cult of disillusionment that domin-
ates contemporary American letters,
carrying out thesattitude shown in
his well known saying that "there
are two types of realist-the one who
offers a good deal of dirt with his
potato and the one who is satisfied
with the potato brushed clean, and
I'm inclined to be the second kind."
Mr. Frost deprecated the tendency
of the intellectuals to tout Europe as
immensely superior to America.
"When Huxley- the great Huxley,
not the two minor Huxleys-spoke in
America some years ago he said that
he was not impressed with our size,"
he continued. "The answer I should.
have liked to give him was: 'You
should be' or perhaps, 'Look about,
and you will be.'"
"The inspiration for my poems
comes from four or five different
places in the United States and from'
two or three different walks of life
with which I am familiar-farming
and teaching and writing," he said.
"Poetry has more to do with belief
than has anything else," Mr. Frost
said. "Belief is the knowledge of
something that is to be.":
'Slatz' Randall To
Play For Annual'
Formal At Union1
"Slatz" Randall and his recording
orchestra will play for the Union for-
mal to be held on Nov. 4, it was
announced last night by John W.
Lederle, '33, president of the Union.
Charles Burgess4 '34E, chairman of
the dance committee of the Union isI
in charge of the arrangements for
the affair. Burgess s a i d yesterday1
that Johnny Hamp, and Randall had<
been under consideration for some
time before the final decision was1
made.1
Patrons and patronesses for the c
party will be the married membersI
of the Board of Directors of thei
Union and their wives, Lederle said.I
The price of the tickets to the func-i
tion this year will be $2.00 again.
This affair in the past has proven
to be one of the most popular of the
Union dances, and, Lederle said, the
prominence of the orchestra secured
should insure a good crowd for the
dance.
Randall and his band are well
known on the campus having played
here for several functions in the past.
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Varsity Band To Play
At Hoover Detroit Talks
More than 90 members of the Var-
sity Band will play Saturday night att
the Olympia, Detroit, on the occasion
of President Hoover's campaign ad-
dress, it was announced last night.1
According to Manager A. Stanley
McGaughan, '33A., the band will take
buses directly from the Stadium im-
mediately after the Illinois game andt
will rush with special police escort
direct to Detroit, returning to Ann
Arbor after the program.+
Colby To Talk
At Meeting In
Union Today
Secretary Of State Under
Wilson Will Address
University Students
To Be Entertained
At Dem. Luncheon
Statesman To Speak Only
Once In Ann Arbor; Is
To Lead Discussion
Bainbridge Colby, Secretary of
State during the latter part of Wood-
row Wilson's administration, who is
to speak at the Union at 1 p. in. to-
day, will be entertained at a lunch-
eon at the Union before the talk, by
the Washtenaw County Democratic
committee, it was announced yester-
day.
Mr. Colby is on the way to Grand
Rapids and is only stopping off in
Ann Arbor for a short time. He will
not speak at any other meetings in
Ann Arbor, John H. Huss, '33, re-
cording-secretary of the Union said
yesterday.
Wants to Meet Students
When approached with the sugges-
tion that he make an address at the
Michigan Union, Mr. Colby said that
he was not only willing but anxious
to meet the students of the Univer-
sity of Michigan.
There will be a discussion period
after the talk in which students may
ask questions of this Democratic
leader, Huss said. The assembly,
however, will be over in time for stu-
dents to make two o'clock classes on
time.
In 1912 Mr. Colby was a member
of the Progressive party and did con-t
siderable campaigning for Theodore
Roosevelt.
Faced Problems .
When Mr. Colby was chsen Secre-
tary of State by Wilson highly im-
portant problems were facing him
such as the Mexican and Irish situa-
tions, the Japanese emigration issue,
and the Versailles Peace Conference.
He is a graduate of the Columbia
Law School. and has practiced in
New York for many years. After the
conclusion of Wilson's administration
Mr. Colby and Wilson formed a law
partnership that lasted until the ex-
president's failing health forced his
retirement in 1923.
League To Bring t
Outstanding Films
Of Artistic Merit#
To bring to this campus American
and foreign films of artistic and sci-
entific merit is the purpose of the
Art Cinema League, a new organiza-E
tion which is being started here thisI
year, it was announced last night.
The films that will probably bet
shown are considered by critics asi
masterpieces. "Jean D'Arc," a French
film; "The Cabinet of Dr. Calegari,"
German; "Mother," a product ofE
Russia; and "The Fishing Fleet,"
from England, are among those list-
ed. These films all have English sub-J
titles and are silent.
The Art Cinema League will not
operate upon a personal profit basis.
Any funds accumulated will be used
to further the activities of the organ-
ization.
The films are to be Presented at
the start in the Natural Science
Auditorium, but later the Lydia Men-
delssohn Theatre is expected to be
used.
Another object of the Art Cinema
League is to co-operate with other
campus organizations to initiate oth-
er artistic and intellectual enterprises.
Announce Winners Of
Earhart Scholarships
Winners of the Earhart scholar-
ships were announced yesterday af-
ternoon by Mildred A. Valentine,, of
the sociology department. The Ear-
hart foundation was inaugurated this
fall and provides for 10 traveling
scholarships to be awarded on the
basis of personality, interest and
scholarship, and are open to seniors
or graduate students interested in
carrying on field work projects in the
Detroit Metropolitan area.
Following are the six who won
scholarshins this fall and the nlace
HON. BAINBRIDGE COLBY
Student Council
Plans Features
Of Homecoming
Prizes Will Be Given For
Fraternity Decorations;
Committee Chosen
Plans for the homecoming week-
end to be held on Oct. 28 and 29
got under way last night as Joseph
Zias, '33, president of the Student
Council appointed George Lambrecht,
'34, Charles Racine, '33, and John
Deo, '34, to make arrangements for
the program.
Prizes will be awarded to the frater-
nities that are judged to have the
best decorations. Rules regarding the
points to be judged will be announc-
ed as soon as the judges have been
chosen.
One of the main features of the
week-end will be a pep meeting on
the Friday preceeding the Princeton
game. William Bohnsack, '34, and
Alistair Mitchell, '33E, have been
placed on a special committee to
make arrangements for this rally.
The Council nominating. com-
mittee will meet Tuesday to select
names for the three Council posi-
tions which will be filled by men
from the engineering and literary
schools. The members on this com-
mittee are Joseph Zias, Frank Gil-
breth, Edwin T. Turner, Charles
Racine, Richard Norris, John W.
Lederle, and John Deo. Names of
eligible candidates may be turned
into these men before next Tues-
day.
It was decided at the meeting last
night that the "pot situation" be
taken before the Interfraternity'
Council meeting tonight to get the
opinion of the various fraternities on
the matter.
"If the fraternities want to have
the freshmen wear 'pots' until next
spring, the Council will postpone cap
night until then," Zias said.
Councilmen in charge of the com-
ing elections are Alistair Mitchell,
engineering college; Richard Norris,
medical college; Joseph Zias, Law
School; George Lambrecht, educa-
tional college; Charles Racine, dent-
istry college; John Deo, architectural
college; Charles Burgess, pharmacy
college; and William Bohnsack, Bus-
iness Administration School.
Dr. Poling To
Lead Rally At
LeagueToday
Dry Leader Making Air
Tour Of Chief Cities In
Interest Of Hoover .
Dr. Daniel Poling, chairman of the
Allied Prohibition Council, will be
the principal speaker at a dry rally
at the Michigan League this noon.
Dr. Poling, is making an air tour of
the principal cities of the country in
the interests of the re-election of
President Hoover. He has been a
lifelong advocate of constitutional
liquor prohibition, and in 1912 he ran
as the Prohibition party candidate
for the governorship in Ohio. His
work in the dry cause during the
years immediately preceding the en-
actment of the Eighteen Amendment
was remarkable. He commanded a
"flying squadron" of dry orators and
spoke in 250 cities. He served at one
time as editor of the Christian En-
deavor World, dry organ.
Drne Polnan'stonic willhe"aotriot..
To Speak This Noon
r
Council May
Impose Limit
On Number Of
Social Houses
Plan To Be Placed Before
Interfraternity Body At
Conference Tonight, Is
Current Rumor
Slifer Says College
Has 20 Too Many
Several Houses Expected
To Be Forced To Close
Through Small Number
Of Men Pledged
A plan for limiting the number of
social fraternities on the campus will
be brought before the Interfraternity
Council at its first meeting of the
year at 7:30 p. m today, it was ru-
mored last night.
It is the general consensus of opin-
ion of campus leaders that several
fraternities will be forced off the'
campus in view of the results of the
recent pledging.
Less than ten men h a v e been
pledged since formal pledging took
place on Oct 11, it was revealed at
the dean of student's office yesterda'y.
Purdue Has 34 Houses
Seger H. Slifer, accountant for sev-
eral fraternities, said that in his
opinion there are 20 more fraterni-
ties than the campus can support.
"Purdue has only 34 fraternities," he
said, "and about the same number
of eligible fraternity men as Mich-
"No house can continue to operate
with less than an average class of ten
men," Mr. Slifer said, "and it is hard
to keep out of the red unless there
are at least 25 men living in the
house. Although some of these houses
that received only a few pledges may
be able to continue through the year,
I don't see how they' can survive.
through next year," he continued.
Approves Movement
"I certainly believe that this move-
ment to limit the number of social
fraternities on the campus should be
carried through the Interfraternity
Council. It is clearly evident that the
campus has too many fraternities."
Professor Philip Bursley, counselor
to new students, will address the
meeting tonight on "The Scholarship
of Last Year's Freshmen." Other
business to be discussed is the Inter-
fraternity dues and the wearing of
pots by freshmen.
Edwin T. Turner, '33, president of
the Council, said last night that he
urged all fraternities to send repre-
sentatives to the meeting as several
matters of business will be put to a
vote.
Sample Willing
To Take $500
Cut Or Resign
$1,000 Reduction Favored
By Supervisors; Cannot
Force Judge To Accept
Judge George W. Sample, presid-
ing magistrate of the Washtenaw
county circuit court, told Supervisor
George Alber, of Sharon, that he
would 'resign his position if requested
to do so by the Washtenaw County
Board. This decision was the result
of a resolution passed by the board
of supervisors at its meeting Monday,
requesting Judge Sample to take a
$1,000 cut in salary.
When asked by the salary commit-
tee if he would accept the proposed
$1,000 reduction on his $11,000 sal-
ary, $5,000 of which is paid by the
county and $6,000 by the state, Judge
Sample stated that he "couldn't quite
stand" that large a cut, but that he
would take $500 less.
Since the state constitution pro-
vides that a judge's salary cannot be
reduced during his term of office, the
county board can.do no more than
"request" t h e proposed cut, and
Judge Sample may refuse to take it.
With the board of supervisors and
the judge both standing pat on their
original decisions, the salary com-
mittee, headed by Alber, thrice in-
terviewed the iudge in an attenant to
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Memorial To DeCou Sent Here
By American Academy In Rome
The arrival on the campus recent-
ly of a bronze replica of a tablet
erected at the American Academy in
Rome in memory of Herbert F. De-
Cou, '88, archeologist, has recalled
the dramatic story of DeCou to the
minds of the Ann Arbor people who
were his friends during his residence
here.
Mr. DeCou took a master's degree
after his graduation in 1888, and
then taught Greek here for two
years, after which he went abroad
and continued archeological studies
in Athens and Rome. He became li-
brarian of the American School of
Natural Studies in Rome, now the
American Academy, and became a
member of an archeological expedi-
tion undertaken by the academy to
Cyrene, North Africa.
Rome and the expedition was indef-
initely postponed.
Although the date of his death
(March 11, 1911) was only 23 years
after his graduation and only a short
time after he became associated with
the academy, his achievements had
been of such a high character that a
memorial was erected in his honor
in the courtyard of the academy.
Friends Secure Copy
Friends of Mr. DeCou in Ann Ar-
bor had long wanted to place a mem-
orial to him on the Michigan cam-
pus, and the suggestion that a copy
of the Rome tablet be obtained was
heartily agreed to.
Librarian W. W. Bishop of the Uni-
versity Library, a close friend of De-
Cou, arranged, while in Rome a few
months ago, w i t h Gorham P.
Stevens. director of the academy