The Weather Snow flurries Thursday; much colder at night; Friday cloudy. lop. I~~Afria att Editorials The Townsend Plan ... No Discrimination Against Women... -A--!- VOL. XLV. No. 85 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1935 t PRICE FIVE CENTS Convicts Captured After Break From California Prison O - Guards Retake Prisoners After Two-Hour Fight At ValleyFord Warden Near Death As Result Of Beating Six Men Are Kidnaped In San Quentin Prison Outbreak SAN QUENTIN, Calif., Jan. 16--(P) - Four c o n v i c t s escaped from crowded San Quentin prison today by felling the warden and kidnaping six men, ran wild for two hours; and were captured after a running fight in which their leader was perhaps fatally wounded. The 63-year-old warden James B. Holohan was beaten so badly he was not expected to live. Frank B. Sykes, chairman of the state board of prison terms and paroles, one of those taken captive, was shot in the hip. All four convicts were hurt. They were taken to the prison hospital upon being re- turned from the scene of their des- perate las4 stand at Valley Ford, 54 'miles north of the prison. In possession, of 45 caliber auto- matic pistols and much ammunition obtained from unascertained sources, the four prisoners - "bad men" - stormed the warden's residence, beat Holohan mercilessly and rolled out of the great walls with their host- ages. Besides Sykes they captured War- ren Atherton, Stockton attorney, and J o s e p h Stephens, Sacramento banker, both members of the board; Mark E. Noon, board secretary, and Harry Jones and C. L. Dose, guards. Into a single state automobile they* crowded the hostages and them- selves. State and city police and even two fighting planes from Hamilton field, the army's newest bombing base nearby, joined in the pursuit. High- ways were blocked, drawbridges hoisted, and every peace officer in northern California was called. Shots whizzed back and forth along the picturesque redwood highway. Two deputy sheriffs and District Attorney Albert E. Bagshaw of Marin county, the latter a former assistant United States attorney, made the capture. The felons -made their last stand in a creamery building after their car had been disabled by shots. One showed his face through a window and was met with the charge from a sawed-off shotgun. The four then gave up. Rudolph Streight, 35 years old, Alameda county robber, was the leader. The others were Alexander MacKay, Los Angeles robber, Joe Crristy, 26 years old, Los Angeles kidnaper, and Fred Alenders, 27 years old, sent up from San Fran- cisco for robbery and assault. All had records as bad prisoners. Three-County Gun Battle1 Features Illinois Robbery LA SALLE, Ill., Jan. 16- (P) - A sheriff, a bank cashier and a bank robber died and three men and a boy were wounded today in a series of gun battles that raged through three \counties. Three pitched engagements, fought with guerilla savagery by 65 partici- pants, took place along a thirty-mile line as four gangsters sought to blast their way to freedom after they had been beaten back in an attempt to loot the Leonore (Ill.) State Bank. The lives of Charles Bundy, 54 years olda bank official, and Sheriff Glenn Axline, of Marshall County, were killed by the gunmen's bullets. Howard Meyer Is j Winner In Contest Howard Meyers, '37. was awarded first place in the fifth annual extem- poraneous speaking contest held at 4 p. m. yesterday between the 11 sec- tion of speech 31. Meyers spoke on "Hitler and World Peace," and will be awarded the Oratorical Association medal for ex- cellence in speaking. Tn t - ln.- na fii nain -y-up Michigan Warden To Clean House At Jackson JACKSON, Jan. 16. - ) ))- "We're going to clean up that sort of thing at once," declared War- den Charles B. Shean, when in- formed of Smith's statement about drinking by inmates. Warden Shean formally took over the management of the prison at noon. "Only an organization of in- mates can make such a situation possible," he declared. "Of course," he added, "with so many trusties outside such tings are always possible. Liquor has been made in- side the walls from potato peelings and on the farms from ensilage, but these things can and will be stopped." Open Mystical Play At Lydia Mendelssohn Stars Of 'Double Door' And 'The Royal Family' Have Roles "Outward Bound," a supernatural drama by Sutton Vane will be pre- sented at 8:30 p. m. today in Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre for a three night run, as the fourth and last of- fering of the Play Production group. Names of the students playing principal roles in the play were an- nounced last night by Valentine B. Windt, director of the production. The role of Mrs. Midget, a char- woman, will be played by Hattie Bell Ross, Grad. Miss Ross has appeared in a number of Play Pro- duction offerings, notably as Shirley Kaplan in "Street Scene." Jean Cur- rie, Grad., is making her debut in the role of Mrs. Cliveden-Banks, a society matron, and Claire Gorman, '36, is also making her debut as Anne. Tom Prior will be portrayed by Frank Funk, '35, who was com- mended by many for his work in "Double Door," Charles Harrell, '35, the Tony Cavendish of "The Royal Family," will play the role of the Rev. Duke, Carl Nelson, '36, is cast in the part of. Lingley, a business man, while Goddard Light, '35, will play the role of Henry. Scrubby, a mysterious old steward, will be played by Daniel Goldman, '36, and James V. Doll, '35, will por- tray the role of the Rev. Thompson. The scenery for the play was de- signed by Oreon Parker, Grad. The other members of the production staff are Virginia Frink, '35, cos- tumes, Eleanor Heck, Grad., proper- ties, Frank Rollnger, '36, sound ef- fects, Virginia Chapman Goetz, '36, book holder, Harriet Kesselman, '35, box office manager, and Ruth Le- Roux, '36, and Dorothy Ohrt, '36, head ushers. The plot of the play, according to Mr. Windt, is based on a strange company of shipmates, mystified by a vaguely appresive feeling of un- reality a n d uncertainty, who sud- denly discover that every last one of them is dead. Five Cagers Ousted From Varsity Team Failure To Remain Within Training Rules Is Cited As Cause Of Benching Capt. Al Plummer Is Among Number Deposed Players Will Not Make Champaign Trip With Rest OfSquad By ARTHUR S. SETTLE Failure to stay within the train- ing rules prescribed by Coach Frank- lin Cappon resulted yesterday in the benching of four regular Michigan cagers, including Capt. Al Plummer, and one second team player. The men benched are Capt. Plum- mer and George Rudness, guards; Chelse Tamagno and John Jablonski, forwards, and Jack Teitelbaum, sub- stitute forward. Plummer, Teitel- baum, and Tomagno have previously earned letters in the sport, while Jablonski and Rudness were regulars last year, until they were declared ineligible at the end of the first se- mester. Cappon asserted yesterday that no one- of the five would make the trip to Champaign for the Illinois game Saturday, but may win their berths back by the time Northwestern comes here Jan. 21 if they can prove to Cap- pon that they will conform to his training standard. "They had individualistic ideas about training which differed from mine," was the reason given by Cap- Pon for benching the men. During the past two days, these five benched veterans have been giv- en no part in the drill supervised by Cappon, but have been confined to shooting baskets. With the task of filling four holes in his starting lineup, Cappon has been working the 11 remaining mem- bers of the squad on offense, trying to determine which five will take the floor against Illinois Saturday when the Wolverines will be seeking their first victory in four Conference games. Ten of these 11 cagers will make the trip to Champaign. Matt Patanelli is the only member of the recent starting quintet who will be available. Although Cappon will not decide definitely upon his new lineup after today's scrimmage against the freshmen, it appears that Patanelli, center; Ford and Joslin, forwards; Rieck and Meyers, guards, have the edge. Dick Evans and Russ Oliver, guards; Harry Solomon, Bob Hill, and Chris Everhardus, forwards; and John Gee, center, may become regu- lars if their performance today war- rants it. Ferris Jennings, guard, who injured his knee in practice Tuesday, will also enter the fight for a position, when he returns in several days. CARNEY TO SPEAK{ Claude S. Carney, '96L, chairman of the Michigan Department of Labor and Industry, will address the junior and senior engineering classes on the subject "Workmen's Compensation Law of Michigan" at 7:30 p.m. in Room 348 West Engineering Building. Mr. Carney is a past president of the State Bar Association, and is pres- ent director of that organization. He has been an outstanding member of his profession, practising for many years in the Kalamazoo Circuit. He has been much interested in the aspects of the ethics and disciplinary processes of the legal profession. State Exposes Hauptmann s Dictionaries Attorney Reveals Finding Underlined Words Used In Ransom Notes Lawyers Ready To Take Up Next Step Negro Laborer To Testify To Finding Baby's Body In Thicket FLEMINGTON, N. J., Jan. 16. - (P) --Discovery of English and German dictionaries in the Bronx home of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, with words used in the Lindbergh ransom notes heavily underscored, was dis- closed tonight by Attorney-General David P. Wilentz of New Jersey. Wilentz made the disclosure in an- swer to a defense question raised at Hauptmann's murder trial today - why the same man would misspell simple words and correctly spell the more difficult ones in the ransom letters. "Hauptmann is a dictionary stu- dent," Wilentz declared, "and we will prove it." The state, he added, found two sets of dictionaries in the Bronx house - one German and one English - with E words such as "hazardous," that fig- ured prominently in the ransom notes, heavily underlined. Prosecutors today capped their, handwriting case against the car- penter with the opinions of eight ex- perts that he was the ransom writer, and prepared to begin testimony con- cerning the finding of baby Lind- bergh's hidden grave. Thus the state, intent on sending the carpenter to the electric chair, is ready to show how Col. Charles A. Lindbergh's first-born son lay buried in a thicket while Hauptmann alleg- edly wrote 14 lying letters and snatched the $50,000 ransom in a Bronx cemetery. A Negro laborer, William Allen, stumbled across the baby's shallow grave on May 12, 1932, more than two months after he was stolen from his Hopewell home a few miles away. Allen will testify and then the body, (Continued on Page 2) Anson Weeks' And Art National Student League Outlines Plans For Future Activities For Semester To Include Anti-War And Fascism Demonstrations Diversity and ambition featured the proposals of action for the coming semester outlined by the executive committee and approved by the group at the term's final meeting of the Na- tional Student League last night in the Union. The proposals were grouped under the general headings of anti-war and fascism work, student government, publicity and education, Negro dis- crimination, economic demands, or- ganizational activities, and social af- fairs. Volunteer committees were formed to work on the proposals in each of these sections. The chief part of the anti-war and fascism program deals with a demon- stration to be held April 4 in sym- pathy with student protest strikes be- ing planned for that day in schools and colleges throughout the country. Feb. 24 has been tentatively set for a meeting preliminary to the April 4 demonstration. Another demonstra- tion for the same cause is planned for May 30, National Youth Day. The National Student League's pro- posal for student government, appear- ing in The Daily today, was outlined and plans were made for mustering support for the plan among other campus organizations. A union of University students working on FERA jobs is the most important suggestion to be acted upon by the committee on economic de- mands. Another plan called for ap- plication to University authorities for a non-profit book exchange to be sponsored by the University and to employ students on the payroll of the FERA. Other proposals concerning eco- nomic demands included striving for the abolition of the Civilion Conserva- tion Corps as a means of relief, in- creased FERA jobs and wages, and some form of aid to needy high-school students. Negotiations have been undertaken to obtain as speakers next semester Angelo Herndon, central figure of the famous trial now pending in Georgia, Jane and Herbert Newton, much-pub- licized white and negro couple, A. B. Magill, noted liberal writer, and Sam- uel Patterson, secretary of the Scotts- boro Defense Committee. Further plans include organization of a National Student League chap- ter in Ann Arbor High School, a Hern- don-Scottsboro mass meeting, and asking the support of the local Phi Beta Kappa chapter in a movement to extend the fraternity to Negro col- leges. HITLER OPPOSITION CRUMBLES SAARBRUECKEN, Jan. 16 - (IP) - Adolph Hitler's Saar opposition crumbled completely today and the Saar, in effect, passed into Nazi hands.I Opposes 6' World Court Two Equally Prominent Bands Are Engaged As Was Done Last Year Tickets Placed On Sale At 5.50 Each Decorations Planned. Intramural Building, Maize And Blue For Are Kassel's Orchestras Are Chosen To PlayAtJ-Ho Associated Press Photo SENATOR HIRAM JOHNSON Johnson Offers Opposition To Entering Court Roosevelt's Message Termed First Step Joining League Is In Hugh Johnson Promises Aid To Roosevelt' Former NRA Official Will. Take No Job According' To Radio Address NEW YORK, Jan. 16 -()- Hugh S. Johnson declared tonight he in-' tends to "put everything I have on the ball for what Franklin D. Roose-; velt stands for." The former NRA executive said all the "talk" that he is going to work for "big business" gives him "a pain," adding: "I'm not going to take any job. I'm going to sacrifice another year to do just what I have been doing steadily for the last two and one- half years - put everything I have on the ball for what Franklin D. Roose- velt stands for." "I can do it better out of govern- ment than in, because I don't have to walk any official tight ropes. I coudn't do it at all onany industrial payroll.". The General's address was broad- cast over an NBC network. Saying he had beenoffered some jobs, Johnson said "they all shuck out to rest on NRA publicity and some idea of the pull in Washington and it gives me a faint nausea." In the first place, he added, "it isn't right to capitalize a big noise in public service." "In the second place, I haven't any pull with anybody. Washington fix- ers are selling what they haven't got. Nobody has a pull with this Admin- istration except the depressed part of our people. * * * They have the pull of human sympathy and a whole lot more. " I don't know what particular ad- ministration plans are. I speak for myself alone. But I know that this is the heart of the President's policy and I have always been for it so hard - so viciously, if you like - that WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 -(k)- A burst of opposition oratory, assert- ing that the United States was mov- ing toward entry into the League of Nations, today greeted in the Sen- ate a special message from President Franklin D. Roosevelt urging Amer- ican adherence to the World Court. In a twenty-two-line message, one of the briefest by a Chief Executive on a major subject, Mr. Roosevelt joined his predecessor Presidents - Harding, Coolidge and Hoover -in advocating adherence to the three protocols now pending "In such a form as not to defeat or to delay the objective of adherence." Almost immediately a bristling op- position drive began. Senator Hiram Johnson, of California, ordinarily the President's strongest supporter in minority ranks, took the floor to flay the ratification resolution as "the first step" toward America entering the League of Nations. With a biting sarcasm that kept the well-filled floor and gallaries in rapt attention, Johnson ripped into the Court resolution as an effort to "meddle and muddle in the hysterical internationalism that Europe has and that Europe never will get rid of." So vehement were his words that old observers recalled the League of Nations fight that split the Senate 15 years ago. In his message, read just before, the President had asserted the "move- ment to make international justice practicable and serviceable is not subject to partisan considerations." The orchestras of Anson Weeks and Art Kassell, both nationally prominent dance bands, will play for the 1935 J-Hop, Feb. 8 in the Intra- mural Building. Following the custom of last year two orchestras of equal prominence have been engaged. Formerly one famous orchestra supplemented by a band of lesser importance, have fur- nished music for the J-Hops. Tickets this year are being sold at the same low price of $5.50 and may be obtained from committee members. Until Jan. 19 the sale will be restricted to juniors, but after that date members of all classes may buy the remaining tickets. Plans for the maize and blue dec- orations that will transform the In- tramural gymnasium for the "biggest party of the year" are now in the hands of commercial interior decor- ators and the construction is prog- resisng rapidly. Anson Weeks began his career as an orchestra leader when he was a student in the University of Cali- fornia and rapidly rose in favor. Soon he signed a contract to play in the Peacock Court, Hotel Mark Hop- kins in San Francisco. Last summer he played in the Trianon at Chicago and at present is playing in the Hotel Carter, Cleveland. Bob Crosby, brother of the famous Bing, got his start with Week's orchestra in Chi- cago. Kaye St. Germain is Anson's featured vocalist. Art Kassell, and his Castles in the Air, made their reputations at the Hotels Gibson and Netherland Plaza in Cincinnati. They next went to the Schroeder in Milwaukee and are now playing at the Bismark in Chi- cago. For the past five or six years i they have been featured artists on the Columbia Broadcasting System. The playing style of the two or- chestras will offer a sharp contrast, while Week's music is fast and "swingy" Kassel favors slow and sweet melodies. Reservations for booths are now being made by fraternities and inde- pendent groups. All women attending the Hop will be given favors. Members of the committee from whom tickets may be obtained are: Robert Speer, Charles Frick, Charles Marschner, Dorothy Roth, Robert L. Morris, George S. Harris, Richard Gerkensmeyer, Irving Levitt, William Dixon, Harold Nixon, Raymond Bunge, Helen Zeck, William Bagby, and Kirk Whaley. Ticket Chainnan Charles Frick last night announced that sales the past week have been heavy. Students Must Renew Permits To Drive Cars All 1935 Tags Should Be Attached Before Feb. 1 AccordingTo Rea All students possessing driving per- mits and who have purchased 1935 plates, are requested by Assistant to the Dean Walter B. Rea, to renew their permits and to obtain their student permit tags. For those who have first semester permits, Mr. Rea announced there will be no additional charge for re- newal. All permit tags will be void on and after Feb. 1, 1935, and any subsequent driving while using per- mit tags bearing 1934 license num- bers will be considered a violation of the automobile regulation and constitute grounds for disciplinary action, according to Mr. Rea. He further stated that those stu- Dr. Heimann Advocates Planned Government Ee By ARTHUR M. TAUB "To save the profits that are made out of private enterprise, big business men of America and all other en- lightened countries must be willing to give up a share of their gains or see the loss of their whole profit as well as the destruction of the economic system in which they live, declared Dr. Eduard Heimann, German econo- mist, speaking before the faculty Economics Club last night at the Un- ion. A planned economic system, based on government control or ownership of the key industries, such as the railroads, steel, coal, finance and nthr frennrs holding strategicosi- onomyMeasures of coal and iron, for instance, by di- rectly controlling the relative amount of capital to be invested in each in- dustry for a given year. The problem of technological un- employment is of primary importance, Dr. Heimann declared, and the gov- ernment could at least make the at- tempt to solve it permanently, follow- ing the course of economic planning. If the unemployed could be given jobs now through a public works program, and if they could gradually be drawn into industrial jobs the problem would at least be closer to a solution. 0tGiven this condition - everyone employed -the government could prevent future technological unem-, ployment by holding back capital to be N.S.L. Plan For Student Government. This is the fourth of a series of proposed forms for a new men's student government, each of which will be printed in The Daily in order to give students an opportunity for expression of criticism on them. Such opinions should be submitted to the Council through The Daily or the Union. ARTICLE I., Sec. 1. The Council shall be composed of the president of the Michigan Union, the president of the Student Christian Association, the editor of The Michigan Daily, the president of the Michigan League and twenty-five representatives of the men and women students, elected by the student body according to a system of propor- tional representation. The officers of this council shall consist of a president, vice-president, and secretary, elected by the Council mem- bership which will likewise elect all committees. Sec. 2. Any group of students desirous of representation on the Council shall meet and nominate a full slate of twenty-five candi- dates. Nineteen of this number shall be general University candidates (from any college), while six shall be designated as specific college candidates: one each from the Colleges of Literature, Science and the Arts, Engineering, Combined Schools, Medicine, Law, and Grad- uate Study. Sec. 3. To qualify a slate of students for a place on the elec- tion ballot, a petition of endorsement, signed by 200 students shall be necessary. Each party shall also be required to draw up a program of aims and purposes, such program to be published in The Mich- -- -- n - -- -1 - --_I -F - - -.E ,