The Weather mostly cloudy Thursday and Friday; somewhat colder on Thursday. C, 4r it ga Iatt Editorials Thanksgiving Interlude... Almiost jTime For A Purge .. . VOL. XLV No. 58 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1934 PRICE FIVE CENTS Find Body Of Nelson Iii A Ditch Shots Of Slain Federal Agents Cause I[eath Of. Gangster Aides Of Dillinger - Follower Escape Authorities Believe Male Companion Of Mobster' Killed Officers CHICAGO, Nov. 28 -(I)- George1 "Baby Face" Nelson, public enemy number one, died today, a posthumous victim of two gallant Federal agents who lost their lives in an -attempt to capture him. The bullet riddled body of the crimeI successor of slain John Dillinger was found in a muddy ditch this after- noon near suburban Niles Center. Wrapped only in a blanket, his diminutive form was stained with; blood from 17 bullet wounds he suf-, fered in the vicious battle in which two ace government agents, Samuel E. Cowley and Herman E. Hollis, were ;lain. His Career In Crime Is Ended Students Are Addressed By C. D. Hurrey Appeals For International Understanding Made By Secretary. Foreign Students Master Technique Avenge Colleague The Federal men had died, not knowing their aim had been true and that they had brought down the GEORGE "BABA most widely-sought criminal in the country, the slayer of their fellow- officer, W. Carter Baum, last spring. Br ' Authorities at first believed that hitiii r s in yesterday's battle at Barrington, not far from the Niles Center prairie Reich To Drop where Nelson's body was discovered, Nelson fell before the fire of the men he had slain. A But at least one official, police s commissioner Ambrose Brod of Niles , Center, asserted he believed Nelson Baldwin Says England Is had not killed the officers. Their" trigger fingers were too quick, he WatcfuNot Panicky said, and Nelson had fallen before Over Present Crisis they went down. He said he believedt Nelson's unidentified male compan- LONDON Nov. 28 -(A)- A govern- ion fired the shots which killed the ment statement before Commons government men. made by Stanley Baldwin, lord presi- See Hamilton In Battle dent of the council, in which he urged# Various authorities have named i Germany to abandon her isolation John Hamilton, surviving partner of ! and secrecy concerning arms was the original gang, Tommy Touhy of communicated prior to the debate to the notorious Chicago gang, and Alvin the United States, Germany, France Karpis, one of the accused Bremer and Italy, Sir John Simon, foreign kidnapers, as the gunman with Nel- minister, told the House tonight. son in the battle at Barrington. Baldwin, speaking for the govern- He and the woman companion, ment in reply to Winston Churchill supposedly the widow of Nelson, ap- and other critics of the government's parently had made good their escape defense program, asserted Britain was tonight through the widespread lines watchful but not panicky over the of government, state and local police European situation. He said Britain thrown out in a huge net to cover all would not expect inferiority to Ger- highways in this region. many in the air. The department of justice at Wash-- The communications to the foreign ington said there was no doubt that governments, Simon said, constituted the nude body was the mortal re- a new development and created a mains of the 25-year-oldcriminal new situation in which this govern- who had dipped into almost every, ment had taken the initiative. vestigation made i "pinerprt in- Churchill, former chancellor of the The Department's statement added exchequer, demanded that the na- that Nelson, who has served one term tion's security from attack by air be in Joliet, Ill., prison for bank rob- assured by an increased air force, bery, has been a criminal since he and Baldwin replied with the asser- was 13 years of age, and had joined tion that the government considered the Dillinger gang after Dillinger pan on foot for strengthening the made his "wooden gun" escape from air force adequately. He also said the Crown Point, Ind., jail last spring. the prevailing atmosphere of nervous He had been identified as one of tension could be removed if Germany the two machine-gun robbers who abandons her isolation and secrecy. stole $32,000 from a Brainerd, Minn. bank in Oct., 1933, as a member of NOTED GEOLOGIST DIES the gang that robbed a Mason, City, f CHAPEL HILL, N. C., Nov. 28 -(P) Iowa, bank of $52,000 and as the -Dr. Collier Cobb, professor of geol- slayer of Theodore W. Kidder in ogy in the University of North Caro- Minneapolis-last March 4, the Depart- lina and renowned for his work in ment officials said. geological research in various parts of the world, died here today at the Band To Entertain age of 72. At Annual Dinner Students Are Am -Associated Press Photo T FACE" NELSON Monday Will Mark First AppearanceI OF Popular Szigeti When Olin Downes in the New York Times first described Josef Szigeti as "a violinist whose art is more than the episode of a season," he foresaw what a lofty, almost isolated, position this "patrician artist" was to reach in the musical life of this country. Ann Arbor concert-goers will have their opportunity to hear Szigeti when he makes his local debut Monday in Hill Auditorium. The program will be the fourth on the 1934-35 Choral Union series. Of universal appeal, the Hungarian virtuoso is in demand everywhere and{ by every type of audience -for col- lege courses and for fashionable morning musicales, for specialized music groups and for concerts before popular gatherings, as soloist with the great orchestras to introduce new and difficult works or to revitalize the classic concerti. More and more, in descriptions of other artists, one finds in the press such expressions as "Szigetian fin- esse" or the "Szigeti of some other instrument. These are just another indication that the art of Szigeti has become a criterion, by which other musicians are judged. Former Instructor Takes Life In Ohio The body of Dr. Robert Milligan, 30, former instructor on the neurology staff of the University Hospital, was found in his automobile yesterday near Chardon, Ohio. Officers de- clared he had taken his own life by firing a bullet into his brain. Dr. Milligan left the hospital last July, intending to begin practicing somewhere in the west. He returned for a visit about a week ago, at which time he appeared mentally and physically healthy. He was graduated from the University medical school. Negroes And Orientals Are Rising In Progressive Leadership More than 350 foreign students and members of the faculty and the stu- dent body heard Charles D. Hurry of New York City, general secretary of the Committee on Friendly Relations with Foreign Students make a call for international understanding in the interests of world peace and friendship at the International Ban- quet last night in the Union ball- room.- Before an audience that had come from all parts of the world to attend 3 the University of Michigan, Mr. Hurry, himself a graduate of this school, said "that this is no longer the white man's world, it has been that way long enough," and then went on to say that "the Negro and Orien- tal races are rising up, not in arms, but in progressive leadership and in- telligence." Races do-Operate He then cited the case of four Negro students who were invited by Hindu Universities in India to teach in that country, as an indication of the rapidly growing movement of races to co-operate with each other, at least in the fields of education. Expressing the hope that foreign students would take back to their na- tive country all that is valuable in the United States, Mr. Hurry made the qualification that they should not be- come too Americanized in the process of their education here. I "What this country offers in the way of techniques," he declared, ''your own country can supplement with background and stability." Mr. Hurrey, in his address, paid much attention to the work of for- eign students in America who had achieved success all over the world as well as in their native countries. These people, he pointed out, are forces for greater understanding of American institutions abroad, and are* factors in the advancement of world peace Cites Student Success In respect to this he mentioned W. C. Chen, a Chinese graduate of the University in the class of 1910, now Chinese consul-general of Great Britain; W. W. Chen, graduate of the University of Virginia, now Chinese Minister to Russia; and 0. Matsuoka, who graduated from the University of Oregon, and who is now the chief spokesman for the Japanese govern- ment at the League of Nations. In making what he called an "air- plane tour" of the facilities offered by different foreign universities in the world in his address, Mr. Hurry declared that he "deplored the execu- tion of Carl Beck of the University of Berlin by the present German gov- ernment." The killing of this German internationalist was a "ghastly mis- take," he said. Commenting on the Sino-Japanese situation in respect to the relation between education and politics, he declared that "there were at one time 15,000 Chinese students studying in Japan, but this number has fallen off considerably in the last few years. I am not here ,to debate why this has happened, or who is right or wrong in the present situation, but if a peaceful settlement of the dispute is (Continued on Page 5) Farmer Admits Killing Of Next Door Neighbor Because he wanted to marry Cer- winka's wife, George Hawley, Jr., 24- year-old farmer, confessed yesterday to killing Michael Cerwinka, 36, a farmer of Sharon township. Hawley first shot Cerwinka with a rifle, and then shattered his skull with rocks, according to the details of the con- fession as given out by Prosecutor Albert J. Rapp. Hawley confessed to lying in am- bush for Cerwinka, who was in the habit of visiting his traplines early in the morning, and shooting him in the back. The victim's head was then hstv,'c in wiith rocks ~found scartteredi Informal Rehearsal Ends In Disaster; Cuppy StalowedI Tragedy attended an informal and unofficial rehearsal of a critical scene of the Union Opera, "Give Us Rhythm," held recently by members of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity. It all centered around a gilt-edged edition of the piscatorial realm - a "guppy" who was to have played a very important character in the forth- coming production but one which meant little to the student who, ac- cording to the plot, was endeavoring to hide it in his mouth. The unlucky little guppy was doing a valiant job of "standing in" for the guppy who will play the part of "Challenger" when he found himself caught in an alimentary rip-tide, much to the mutual discomfort of both the careless student and himself. No amount of regurgitating could bring forth the unlucky guppy. Since the accident, guppies have been at a premium for rehearsal pur- poses, but regardless of unceasing vigil by fish fanciers, several other losses have been reported. 'Students Strike At 'Kindfish's Rule' Of Press Louisiana State Objects To Senator Huey Long's 'Youth Movement' Nelson's Last Victim BATON ROUGE, La., Nov. 28.- (A) - A strike of journalism students at Louisiana State University in pro- test against "kingfish rule" of the campus press formed another snag today for Senator Huey P. Long's "youth movement." Classrooms were deserted at the journalism school as the students de- manded freedom of the collegiate press from the Long censorship that has caused suspension of the "Re- veille," undergraduate newspaper. Recently the Kingfish, riding on the! tide of the state dictatorship he set up through legislative enactment, said the time had come to desert the "old mossbacks" of politics and enlist the support of the youth of the land. He concentrated on youth enlist- ment - many thought it was for sup- port of his presidential ambitions - and headed football caravans to L.S.U. games and ballyhoo exhibitions on the campus.- But a student contributed a letter critical of Long to the college paper' and Long had the "Reveille" presses stopped, killed the letter and invoked a faculty-censorship on the paper. And today the Louisiana Kingfish was called upon not only to halt the rebellious journalism students but to back up the president of the Uni- versity, Dr. James M. Smith, in his suspension of 26 students who prc. tested the gag rule or else accept Smith's challenge to "get a new pres- ident." Student Activity Attack Discussed In Meeting An attack on radical student activ- ities by Frederick Robinson, president of the College of the City of New York, contained in a recent article in the Detroit Times, was discussed at a meeting of the National Student League last night in the Union. The article followed the recent ex- pulsion of more than 20 students from. C.C.N.Y. as a result of disorders attendant upon a visit to the college by a large group of Italian students. Leo Luskin, '35, opened the discus- sion with a review of the course of radical agitation at C.C.N.Y., and the members of the organization then of- fered arguments on questions related to the article. Rare Collection Of William Clements Is Left University Books, Early Given -Associated Press Photo Samuel Cowley, Federal agent who died yesterday as the result of wounds received in the machine gun battle with "Baby Face" Nelson, was the last victim to be sacrificed in the naition-wide man-hunt to 'capture Dillinger's henchman. Joint Holiday Service Is To Be Held Today aThe-customary Union Thanksgiv- ing Service, sponsored by the Ann Arbor Ministerial Association and at- tended by its member churches, will be held at 10:30 a.m. today in the Bethlehem Evangelical Church, 423 S. Fourth Ave. The sermon will be delivered by the Rev. William L. Le- mon. on the subject "Thanks Living." The service will be jointly conduct- ed by the Rev. Theodore R. Schmale, of the Evangelical Church, and the Rev. R. Edward Sayles, of the First Baptist Church, who is president of the Association. The proceeds of the collection will be donated to the Com- munity Fund. "Give Us Our Daily Bread" is the subject for the Rev. C. A. Brauer's sermon in the Thanksgiving service to be held at 10 a.m. in the St. Paul's Lutheran Church. TherRev. E. C. Stelhorn's sub- ject for the holiday sermon, to be given in the service at 10 a.m. in the Zion Lutheran Church, is "Why a National Thanksgiving." New Deal Subject Of Remer Address A review of the New Deal and some of its important problems was given by Prof. Charles F.rRemer of the eco- nomics department in a talk before a meeting of the Michigan Vanguard Club Tuesday night in the Union. 1 Prof. Remer outlined the chief phases of the NRA and raised several questions concerning the interna- tional and monetary complications of the program. Manuscripts American To Library Provisions Of Will Told By Executor Trust' Funds Are Left For Widow And Children Of Late Regent A $400,000 collection of early Amer- ican maps, manuscripts, and books has been donated to the William Clements' Library in a special bequest of the late William L. Clements, Bay City, regent of the University for 24 years, and donor of the William Clements library, it was announced today by the Detroit Trust Co. Mr. Clements died Nov. 6. The Trust company stated that negotiations for the transfer of the collections to the University had been under way at the time of the late regent's death. The negotiations will be continued in order to carry out Mr. Clements' wishes. Mr. Clements was considered at one time to be several times a mil- lionaire. The estate is estimated to be worth approximately $550,000 at the present time. When the terms of the will were made public, it was discovered that the late regent's home in Bay City and the contents, except the histor- ical material and a few other items specifically given to other members of the family, were left to the widow, Kathrine F. Clements. The trust com- pany stated that bequests in cash and in trust aggregating $150,000 were provided for a son, William Wallace Clements, New York City, and a daughter, Mrs. Harry S. Finkenstaedt, Detroit, and four grandchildren. A sister, Mrs. Ida Clements Wheat, was given an annuity and the use of a homie in Ann Arbor for life. The remainder of his personal prop- erty was left in trust to pay the in- come to Mrs. Clements, and after her death, to the children of Mrs. Fin- kenstaedt, his daughter. The value of the real estate was placed at approx- imately $50,000 and the value of the personal estate at about $500,000. Harry S. Finkenstaedt and the De- troit Trust Co., were requested to be appointed as executors. A.S.M.E. Group Elects Colwell To Fill Vacancy Engineering Society Votes To Include Aero Branch In Council Lester Colwell, '35E, was elected secretary-treasurer of the student branch of the A.S.M.E. at a meeting held last night in the East Physics Building. The election of Colwell filled a vacancy in the post. Members of the group also voted to include a member of the Aero Branch of A.S.M.E. on the Engineering Coun- cil and supported a move to include the vice-president of the Union from the engineering college as a represen- tative on the Engineering Council if the proposed Men's Council is ad6pt- ed. Approval of this move by all en- gineering societies will place the en- tire college behind the new attempt at self-government, it was said. The announcement of a banquet to be jointly sponsored by the aero and mechanical branches of A.S.M.E. was also made at the meeting. Prof. Floyd A. Firestone of the physics department was in charge of the latter part of the meeting ,giving demonstrations of sound apparatus. He also told his audience about some of the work now being carried on in industry to reduce noise. 'Contemporary' Story Deadline Announced All entries in the short story contest conducted by Contempo- rary, a new campus literary mag- azine, must be placed in the Eng- lish office not later than this Sat- And Maps used At Dean's are For Her Doo The annual dinner and football bust, sponsored by the Detroit Uni- versity of Michigan Club, tomorrow night at the Hotel Statler, will be en- tertained by the Varsity-R.O.T.C. Band. The band will leave for Detroit to- morrow noon, will be entertained by a free show at the Michigan Theater in the afternoon, and will play for the dinner in the evening. A Ger- man band, composed of Varsity Band players, will furnish music and stunts for the after-dinner bust. The football team, coaching staff, and Varsity cheerleaders will also make the journey. The featured speakers of the eve- ning will be Frank D. Fitzgerald, gov- ernor-elect, and Ralph Cannon of the3 Chicago Daily News.n n Tickets for the dinner and -bust, Rules On ( (By Intercollegiate Press) NEW YORK, Nov. 28.- Miss Vir- ginia C. Gildersleeve is a very popular dean of Barnard College, but her stu- dents could not refrain from de- lighted chuckling last week when they picked up the New Yorker, and were told that the dean has the following rules for students she hires to exer- cise Culag, her Cairn terrier: c1. The dog is to be exercised for an hour in the morning, generally from ten to eleven. I allow a few min- utes leeway at the beginning or end of the hour for class purposes, but think he should be out at least fifty minutes. In the afternoon he is to be Modern Dance Compositions To Be Used In 'Give Us Rhythm' other arrangements. Do not send a substitute. "4. If I cancel the engagement for any day, I will pay you for the usual time. If you stay away for any reason of your own, however, you do not get paid. "5. I pay at the rate of 50 cents per hour, which I understand to be the usual rate for taking children out. My secretary, Miss Minahan, settles the accounts. "6. Be sure to keep the dog on the lead while on the streets, because there is very great danger of his being run over. "7. Please take him down into Riv- erside Park, and there let him run The dance work for this year's Michigan Union Opera, "Give Us Rhythm," is to be in accord with the more vigorous forms of modern dance composition, according to Russell McCracken, director of the Opera. "Dancing with a good physical punch is needed in popular musical com- edies," he said, "and the dance direc- tors for the Opera are capitalizing on the fact that they have all male choruses, by stressing everywhere pos- sible in the compositions a strength and vitality of movement," McCrack- en said. "Working along lines and in forms movements will be anything but fem- inine and they will keep to the pace, set by their trousered partners. In one of the ensembles, all the dancers will be costumed as men. In one, the short men will have skirts and the tall trousers; in another, the tall will have the skirts and the shorts the pants." . I The student directors of the dance work in the Opera are Robert L. Slack, '35, chairman; Richard Morairty, '37, and Truman Smith, '35. They have made their dance formations from the mood and dramatic ideas con- tained in the piece of music danced to.