The Weather Fair and slightly warmer today. Tomorrow partly cloudy and warmer. Y II~~Afr gi Iati r"*WA"N" Editorials The Summer Session.. I VOL. XLIV No. 157 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1934 PRICE FIVE C _ _ Students To Have Part In Homecoming Will Have Same Chance As Parents And Guests To See Campus Displays, Tours To Fea tuire Week-End Ann Arbor Is Again Mecca For Famed Stars Of Music World __ Brucker Will Give Talk As Leading Feature Of Program In order to make Spring Homecom- ing this year as much a student event as one for parents and guests, plans for the three days are largely cen- tering around the theory that it will present to those now enrolled in the University an opportunity to see their own campus. This aim is in addition to the prin- cipal motive of the celebration - that of welcoming and entertaining the visitors who will come here over the week-end. Homecoming begins Fri- day and will end Sunday. McCormick Is Chairman Edward W. McCormick, '34, general chairman of the Homecoming com- mittee, said yesterday that members of the group feel students here often fail to take full advantage of the opportunities which the numerous di- visions of the University offer. "There are many parts of the University which students ordinarily may fail to see under normal conditions," he said, "and it is for this reason that we are attempting to make the open houses, displays, and tours as much for them as for their guests." Along the same principle of open- ing the University over the week-end, plans call for receptions in nearly 4l1 units of the campus. On Frida parents and visitors will be admitted to such classes as they may wish to attend. Reservations for the Family Ban- quet are being made rapidly and it is expected that it will be the largest individual event of the week-end. Julie Kane, '36, assistant chairman, said that sororities and all indepen- dent women are showing unusual in- terest in the entire program, and are particularly enthusiastic about the banquet. Program Is Diversified Wilbr M. Brucker, frmer governor of the State, will deliver the principal address Numerous other features will be included on the program for the ban- quet and will be announced tomor- row, Miss Kane said. An effort is be- ing made to secure a great deal of diversified talent for the entertain- ment to be a part of the program. Sunday will see culmination of Homecoming, with many special plans made in honor of mothers. It will also be the first day of senior activities and those in charge said that seniors will carry the canes designating their class for the first time on this day. Enoland Opens lowT Trade War On Japan Imports U. S. Tariff Policy Enters World Trade Debate In House Of Commons LONDON, May 7.-W)P)- An open trade war with Japan was declared today as the British government an- nounced an "intensification" of com- merce within the Empire. The House of Commons applauded as Walter Runciman, president of the Board of Trade, outlined concisely his government's decision to take what- ever action "the government believes necessary" to halt Japanese competi- tion with British goods, particularly textiles, within the British empire. He hinted that the "battle" might waged in other parts of the world as well. In the debate following Mr. Runci- man's announcement, J. H. Thomas, secretary for dominions, replied to at- tacks by Sir Herbert Samuel, liberal leader, by reiterating the govern- ment's empire free trade policy and declaring that every effort will be made to intensify the exchange of products among dominions and col- onies. Mr. Thomas sharply attacked the American economic defense policy. Sir Herbert had praised Secretary Ann Arbor, for the forty-first time,! has become the mecca for musically- minded individuals in all parts of the country, and with the arrival of May Festival week, hailed by critics throughout the land as a period of supreme importance, the world's greatest stars are again turning to- ward "the big little town in the mid- dle west." Chase Baromeo, who once knew Ann Arbor as a home, was the first of the May Festival stars to reach here. He arrived Sunday afternoon. Formerly a University student him- self, it is only fitting that he should spend a longer time on the campus than his contemporaries whose visits will be of a strictly musical nature. Yesterday, possibly urged by the ar- rival of Ann Arbor's belated spring, Jeannette Vreeland, Paul Althouse, and Coe Glade put in an appearance. Miss Vreeland, soprano, and Miss Glade, contralto, will not appear on the program until Thursday, but, like Mr. Althouse, tenor, they un- doubtedly wished to be on hand for the Festival opening Wednesday Inight. Rosa Ponselle, who will present the opening program, is expected to ar- ilve sometime this afternoon from New York. Eastbound trains will at the same time bring Frederick Stock and Eric DeLamarter from Chicago. Wednesday morning, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, with Henry E. Voegeli in charge, will arrive at Hill Auditorium, and that afternoon Mis- cha Levitzki, pianist, Guila Bustabo, violinist, and Theodore Webb, bari- tone, will also reach Ann Arbor. Lu- crezia Bori, renowned soprano, will arrive Thursday and will appear Fri- day night. Distinguished musicians from all parts of the state, in the meantime, will be converging at Ann Arbor to attend the Festival and the forty- seventh annual meeting of the Mich- igan Music Teachers Association. Mu- sic critics from many metropolitan newspapers and professional music journals, will arrive early this week and guests from all parts of the coun- try will start arriving Wednesday morning. i Comstock SaysI He Will Stay In State Race Denies Rumor That ie Has Been Approached For Federal Job LANSING, May 7. - (P) - Gover- nor Comstock returned to his desk today, ruffled at what he termed a "revolt" in . Democratic ranks but determined not to withdraw from the gubernatorial race. The governor denied he had been offered a federal appointment as a bait to have him withdraw from the governor's battle. He strongly indi- cated he will be a candidate for re- nomination and election but added his fate was in the hands of the forth- coming pre-primary convention. 'I have not been approaclied as to a fedetal appointment," the Gover- nor saift. "The first I heard about it was in the newspapers. I have no intention at this time of going after a federal appointment and withdraw- ing from the governor's race. "It is all up to the pre-primary con- vention as to whether I shall be a candidate. That is what the pre- primary is for., The pre-primary convention will be held in Battle Creek June 19-20. One candidate will be endorsed by the1 Democrats at that time for governor and lieutenant-governor with a wide- open field for United States senator. The pre-primary leaves no legal bar against other candidacies in the reg- ular primary. The Governor also took cognizance, of reports that.Arthur J. Lacey, De-, troit attorney, and auditor-general John K. Stack, Jr., will run for gov-; ernor. "That is all right," the Gov- ernor said. "There is no reason whyI they should not run if they want to." Astronomers Will Try To Prove That Land Is Not Adrift (By Intercollegiate Press)l EVANSTON, Ill., May 7.- An at- tempt is to be made once and for allE to settle the theory that continents are adrift. Northwestern University astron- omers, in conjunction with the staffs of four other American and two Canadian observatories, will make observations, which are to be checked. against similar observations to be made ten years hence, when, if the drift theory is correct, the continents should be getting narrower. Dr. Oliver J. Lee, director of Dear- born Observatory, said the theory as-I sumed that the crust of the earth had broken open and drifted apart to t form the bed of the oceans in the early days of its formation. In the 1 test to be made the longitude at eachl observing station will be determinedi carefully. Co-operating observatories are to bec those maintained by the government< at Washington and San Diego, Calif., Indiana University and the Lick Ob- servatory, and two Canadian astro- nomical stations. Sunderland Will Attend Meetings In Washington Michigan Men Hold1 Fourth Position In .Mathematics Field According to a study which ap- peared in a recent issue of "School and Society," the University has 33 graduates who have become promi- nent in the field of mathematics, thus ranking fourth in the list of American colleges and universities whose alum- ni have become prominent in that field. Membership in the American Mathematical Society was taken as the criterion of prominence. The University of California shares fourth place in the list with Michi- gan, while Harvard, with 66 of its former students belonging to the Mathematical society, ranks first, the study shows. The University of In- diana is next with 37 and the Uni- versity of Chicago third with 34. Other high ranking universities are Cornell with 30, Brown and Yale with 27 each; Columbia, 24; Wisconsin, 23; and Texas, 21. Trouble With Local Finances Seedm By Solomis! Routine business and admonitions that presage financial embarrassment for Ann Arbor on August 1 marked an unusually prolonged session of the Common Council last night. Ordinances relating to milk, slaugh- ter houses, and liquor sales were passed on their next readings. An or- dinance for the enforcement of the charter provision for the restriction of the sale of beer each of Division, Street, except in drug stores, passed its first reading. It was drawn up at this time because a chain grocery company applied for permission to sell beer in an East-side market; permis- sion will be withheld. Because reduced current and delin- quent tax returns have fallen. con- siderably short of expectations, a $100,000 bond issue which will come due on August 1 will force the city to juggle a few accounts to retain its perfect record of meeting its debts. The water committee, which was expected to report last night on the. comparative cost of a softening plant for the present system of well water and a system utilizing Huron River water, requested more time to con- sider the problem. Professor's Son Wins Honor At Battle Creek Adrian LaRue, a junior at Univer- sity High School and son of Prof. and Mrs. Carl LaRue, was recommended for a full $250 scholarship to the na- tional high school orchestra camp at Interlochen, Michigan, after partici- pating Saturday in the Michigan State Festival at Battle Creek along with 1,200 other high school musi- cians. The award was made in rec- ognition of his solo work in piano and clarinet. FERA Students To Get Extra Time In June Contrary to a prevalent rumor, extra time will be allowed for FERA workers in June, it was an- New Courses In Radio Will Be Presented University to Give Credit For Work Offered By Speech Department Morris Hall Studio Will Be Classroom Densmore, Abbott, Eich Will Direct Classes Of Varied Type Courses in radio broadcasting, us- ing the facilities of the University Broadcasting Station, will be offered by the speech department in the fu- ture, it has been announced. The new courses will start. in the fall. The series of three-hour courses has been arranged primarily for stu- dents interested in radio speaking and announcing and for teachers who will receive educational broadcasts in their classroomis of the future. The broadcastig studio in Morris Hall has been ,equipped with an amplifier, loud speaker, and a micro- phone, and will be used as a labora- tory for all the classes. It will pro- vide students with an opportunity to become accustomed to the studio atmosphere and receive instruction in microphone tehnique. Eich To Teach Dramatics In a course to Ie known as Speech 131-132, Prof. .ail Densmore will teach pronunciati n, enunciation, dic- tion, and deliver j. This one-semester course will be a jrerequisite for fur- ther study in bro dcasting and will be presented during both semesters aid in the Summer ession. Prof. Waldo Abbott will ass student speakers before the micrphone in the an- nouncer's booth nd Professor Dens- more will criticiz the speeches as re- ceived by classe in the adjoining studio, Speech 136, Radio Reading and Dramatics, will be presented the sec- ond semester by Prof. Lewis Eich and will include a stud of dramatic radi programs, the compositdn of radio plays and dramatizations. This class will be held in the broadcasting studio and finished dramatic presentations may be broadcast over Station WJR. Professor Abbott will co-operate with Professor Eich in these classes and the studio will be available at all hours for rehearsals, auditions, and for the development of essential sound effects. May Hear Own Speeclies Speech 151 will be taught by Pro- fessor Abbott and will include con- tinuity writing, program building, studio management, analysis of radio reception, and a study of education by radio. One section of this course will observe methods of teaching music by radio, under the direction of Dr. Joseph E. Maddy. Course 152, which will be offered the second semester, will consist of a study of program types with particular attention to educational, dramatic, news, and advertising programs. En- rollment in both courses will be lim- ited and all students will be given practical experience in announcing and speaking. Assistant announcers for the regular programs of the Uni- versity will be chosen from this class and students will prepare laboratory programs which will be broadcast over Station WJR. It is anticipated that additional equipment will permit sound record- ing which will allow the student to hear and correct his own speech de- fects. Professor Abbott attended the fifth Institute for Education by Radio held at Ohio State University this past week and arranged with other universities to exchange electrical transcriptions of programs which will enable students to study methods of radio education. Foremost among other universities which now present courses in radio broadcasting are Ohio State, Iowa, Kansas, Wisconsin, and Chicago. Contests Will Open In PoetryReading The preliminaries of the annual University Poetry Reading Contest will' be held at 7 p.m., May 14, in Room 302 Mason Hall. The best readers will be selected to take part in the finals, which will be held May 23. Students who are going to partici- pate are Grace Bartling, '36, Louise Ogens, '36, Constance Myers, '37, Morton Adinoff, '35, Helen Wright, '35, Alvin Schleifer, '35, Janet Nea- Council Will l Select Head, Judicial Body Interfraternity Group To Disclose New Secretary. ireasurer At Meeting nushing Fee To Be Voted On Tonight Will Reconsider Forming Of Board For Hearing RushingRule Violations Delegates to the Interfraternity Council will meet at 7:30 p.m. today in the Union to elect a president and judiciary committee for the coming year. The president will be chosen from two candidates whose names will be made, public at the meeting. At that time the ballots for the po- sition of secretary-treasurer which were cast by members of the Judici- ary Committee will be opened and the name of the new secretary-trea- surer will be announced. Other business which will come be- fore the meeting will deal with the' rushing season of next fall, including the consideration of a substitute for the Indictment Board rule which the Judiciary Committee has rejected and proposals to assess a rushing fee and to improve attendance at council meetings. Balk on Faculty Board The rule which the Judiciary Com- mittee has refused to pass called for a bogd composed of the faculty members of the Judiciary Committee to consider evidence of alleged viola- tions of the rushing rules and will be returned to the council with the rec- ommendation that they change the rule to permit any single member - faculty or student - to hear com- plaints and evidence of alleged vio- lations and report to the Judiciary Committee, which would then appoint a special committee to investigate the case before action was taken. The name of the complainant will be kept secret. Whatever action is taken will have to meet with ,the approval of both the Judiciary Committee and the Senate Committee on Student Af- fairs. The attention of the delegates will also be called to a proposal to assess a fee of 50 cents from each freshman who wishes to be rushed, the money so obtained to be used to reduce the dues whicli each house must pay. Will Catalogue Freshmen The committee submitting the rec- ommendation has pointed out that the assessment, while not large enough to act as a definite check on the ability of any freshman to be rushed, will enable the houses to have at their disposal early in the rushing season an accurate catalogue of the freshmen. A committee, under the chairman- ship of Louis W. Westover, '34, is ex- pected to present a report on a meth- od of getting better attendance at council meetings. Estimated attend- ance for the year has been set at slightly more than 60 per cent of all member houses. Members of the Judiciary Com- mittee will be chosen in accordance with groups which were chosen by Tot several years ago. Since the pres- ident represents his own group, four other members will be elected by the members of each respective group. At Last Co-Eds Proved Brighter Than Chorines BOSTON, Mass., May 7- Are co- eds brighter than chorus girls? A positive answer to this question had to be taken for granted until re- cently when it was proved at Boston University. Six show girls from a vaudeville re- vue took an intelligence test with five Boston University co-eds. It was found that the average in- telligence quotient of the chorus girls was 108 and the Boston University girls averaged 117. Membership Of Council WillBe Decided o o n Automatic App oin t ments Remove Positions From Politics, Says Bursley Membership in the Undergraduate Council. foremost student governing organization, is determined at this time each year through automatic appoin'tments, Gilbert E. Bursley, president of the Council, said yester- day, in explaining th body's forma- tion. The leading members of student activities and honorary societies, both men and women, become members of the body without any election occur- ing, he said. Presidents Become Members The presidents of the three senior honorary societies, Michigamua, Dru- ids, and Mortarboard, become mem- bers. Publications are represented by the managing editor of the Michi- gan Daily. Other bodies represented are Vulcans, senior honorary society in the engineering college; Sphinx, junior honorary society in the liter- ary college; Triangles, junior honor- ary society in the engineering college; Tau Beta Pi, scholastic honorary so- ciety in the engineering college; Sen- ior Society, senior honorary society for independent women; and Wyvern, junior women's honorary society. The president of the Union, the president of the League, the presi- dent of Panhellenic Association, the president of the Engineering Coun- cil, and the past presidents of Sphinx, Triangles, and Wyvern are also mem- bers. Give Body Continuity The past presidents of Sphinx, Tri- angles, and Wyvern are kept on the Council, Bursley said, in order to give the body a continuity it might other- wise lack. The constitution provides further that at least two members of the Council must be non-fraternity men. The present manner of forming the Council was evolved at this time last year when elected members of the Student Council, former student gov- erning body, resigned, thereby ter- minating the usefulness of the Coun- cil. The new body was formed with the idea of divorcing its membership from campus politics. Market Thief Gets 15 Years In Prison Within 24 hours of being arrested for breaking an entering the General Market, 113 East Washington St., and taking nearly $200, Robert C. Brown. 34 years old, Detroit was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment in Jackson State Prison by Circuit Judge George W. Sample. Met by patrolmen as he emerged from the market with $199.99 con- cealed underneath his coat, Brown confessed readily to the crime. Jail B( Former Utilities Magnate May Be Asked To Post $200,000_Security Court Lodges Two Formal Warrant Fugitive's Son Discloses Friends Are Prepared To Raise $150,900 CHICAGO, May 7.-()>-High bail or jail face Samuel Insull on his re- turn home tomorrow. Conferring while Insull's guards brought him from New York today, the Federal prosecutors announced through Joseph B. Keenan, special United States Assistant Attorney Gen- eral, that they thought bail of $200,- 000 would not be too high. "Mr. Insull has continuously man- ifested a desire to avoid facing the bar of justice," said Mr. Keenan. "He seems to have been in possession of ample funds, even-" recalling the fallen utility king's flight from Greece, leaving United States officials empty handed - "to the extent of hiring a vessel." Judge To Name Bail What bond the utility operator must put up to guarantee that he will ap- pear for trial on the four criminal charges against him will be up to a "We do not think $200,000 would be unreasonable," said Mr. Keenan, speaking for himself and Forrest Har- ness, assistant attorney general, "especially since the government has been put to great expense and effort in procuring Mr. Insull's return to the United States." Bench warrants for Insull's arrest were issued today by United States District Judge Philip L. Sullivan. They summon him to trial on the two charges which the Federal govern- ment has lodged against him - that he was a party to defrauding investors by mail, in selling paper of Corpora- tion Securities, Inc., and that he mis- handled something like $100,000,000 of that company's funds, after it was hopelessly bankrupt, with the inten- tion of concealing the company's ragged financial condition. INSULL STILL CHEERFUL ABOARD TRAIN ENROUTE TO CHICAGO, May 7.--(P)-Back home to Chicago, back to the courtroom de- nouement of the collapse of his vast domain of utilities, Samuel Insull rode tonight. The fugitive - cheerful in his cus- tody, seemingly in good health, chip- per and spry despite -his 74 years- landed in the United States early to- day, after his two years of flight about Europe, full of fight. Soon after he was taken aboard a Government cutter at down from .he S.S. Exilona, as it lay to the far Ade of Ambrose Lightship, Insull showed his aggressive mood in his first statement: "I am here in America to make the most important fight of my life - aot only for freedom, but for complete ;indication. Calls Mistakes "Honest" "I made mistakes, but they were honest mistakes. They were errors of judgment, but not dishonest manipu- lation." Samuel Insull, Jr., permitted by he government to journey down the ay from New York on the cutter, greeted his father, was at his side most 'f the day and aboard the train to- night discussed the arranging of bail in Chicago. Before the Insull party boarded the rain at Princeton Junction, N.J., after a whirlwind automobile trip across the rolling New Jersey Coastal Hills from Ft. Hancock, where the risoner was landed, young Insull dis- -losed he and family friends were pre- eared to raise bail up to $150,000. Dean Of New York CollegeHangs Self HOUGHTON, N. Y., May 7.--(JP) -Dr. Willard Lavay Fancher, 46 years old, Dean of Houghton College, a co-educational school, hanged him- self in his home today. His wife said he had suffered a Insull To Face Big Scramble For Increased Arms Given Boost By World Policies GENEVA, May 7.-(P)-A scramble for increased arms strength has been given impetus, say observers of the world armament picture by the Fran- co-German deadlock and Japan's far eastern policies. Reports keep coming into Geneva from world capitals of added activity to increase military power. The failure of France and Ger- many to reach an agreement on armaments has proved the major stumbling block to an accord on dis- armament in Europe, while Japan's intentions in eastern Asia have aroused anxiety among leaders in many lands. A survey conducted in authorita- tive quarters has revealed that only two nations, Switzerland and Great Britain show a decrease in army force within the last three years by 65,000, though employing civilians to do work formerly assigned to soldiers. Germany-Increased her 1934 army and navy budget from $268,000,000 tc about $358,000,000 and her aviation budget from $28,000,000 to $84,000,- 000. Russia - Increased her armies from 562,000 to 678,000 since 1932. Japan - Increased land, naval and air forces by 100,000 to 456,000 since 1931. U. S. Builds Up Navy The United States is among the leaders in the building up of navies. Great Britain has built or authorized naval craft up to 94 per cent of treaty strength; Japan up to 981/ per cent. Many nations are looking to the air lanes in building up their defensive forces.