1 PAGE SIX THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1935 Macon Disaster Inquiry Opened By Naval Court Commander Wiley Tells Story Of Crash; Two Officers To Testify SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 14. -- (P) - A step toward ascertaining the cause of the mysterious jolt which started the dirigible Macon on its plunge into the Pacific Ocean was taken to- day by a naval court of inquiry. After hearing Lieut. Commander Herbert V. Wiley's story of the great sky queen's erratic tumble into ob- livion Tuesday off Point Sur, 125 miles south of here, members of the Naval Court said that two officers who were in the airship's stern would be called to testify. Their names were withheld. Except for a remark interpreted by some as indicating a possible struc- tural defect in the Macon, Wiley's story before the Naval Court on board the U.S.S. Tennessee was substantially the same as his first account of the smashup yesterday. Meanwhile at Sunnyvale, home of the Macon, and elsewhere efforts were begun to keep the $5,000,000 dirigible base in use some way. The Macon's young but gray-haired skipper told in the inquiry today about the failure of the Macon to respond properly when he ordered the control man to "left rudder." Asked where the greatest strain occurred in executing the "left rud- der" operation, Wiley said that most of the strain was applied to a point forward of the two helium cells which had collapsed almost at the outset of the trouble. "It was the failure of these cells, in the stern near the elevator fins, that caused the airship to rear up- ward at the bow," he said. "My general impression of the weather was that there was no great turbulence. "Passing through the clouds there was considerable turbulence, however, which caused us to drop from 2,700 fectto 1,700 feet. "A few minutes later we hit a second mass of rain. It was when I gave the order 'left rudder' that the first vibra- tion hit the ship." "It seemed to be connected with the elevator wheel or cable. I asked the elevator man if the elevator cable was broken. He replied the wheel had slipped out of his hands." Lr. Mason To Give Camping Lectures Here Widely -Known Authority Will Present Talks For Counselor Course Dr. Bernard S. Mason, nationally- known authority on camping, will deliver eight special lectures in con- nection with the course on Problems of Camp Counselors being given this semester in the School of Education. Dr. Mason is the editor of "The Camping Magazine," official publica- tion of the Camp Directors Associa- tion of America,.and is also the au- thor of "Camping and Education," which received the Red Book Prize Award for Camping Literature, and co-author of "The Theory of Play" and "Social Games for Recreation." He also has written frequent arti- cles on wild life, woodcraft, and camping in many magazines, includ- ing The- Red Cross, Country Gentle- man, American Boy, Parents' Maga- zine, St. Nicholas, and Boys' Life. The lectures will be given from 9 to 11 a.m. Saturday, between Feb. 16 and April 27, in Room 2432, Uni- versity Elementary School. Visitors are 'invited to hear the talks, the titles of hich are "The Objectives of Or- ganized Camping," "The Content of An Educationally Acceptable Camp Program, and The Leadership Staff -Its Selection and Organization," "Educationally Acceptable Methods of Camp Programming," "Motivat- ing the Program," "Planning With Instead of For, and the Project Way," "'The Varied Program -Peaks and Plains, and Constructive Use of the Evening Hours," "What a Director Expects of a Counselor, and Ethics of the Camping Profession," and "The Road to Romance" Inquiries Expected To Probe Cause Of Macon's Crash - - - - -- -~ Koelz Begins Classification Of Priceless Oriental Shawls Dr. Walter N. Koelz, the Univer- 15 years to complete the weaving of sity's noted explorer, began yester- one of the shawls, the explorer pointed day an attempted classification f out. The hundreds of figures, some so more than 50 priceless Oriental ancient that they go back to vegetable shawls, hundreds of years old, which forms, wind in and out to form veri- he termh "unquestionably the most table labyrinths of designs. The "fire wonderful art treasures to be found jewel" of antiquity runs commonly -Associated Press Photo. Numerous inquiries by the navy and congress were expected to seEk the cause of the third major disaster to overtake navy dirigibles -the sinking of the Macon off the California coast, after one of her 12 gas cells burst, nosing the craft skyward just before it landed stern-first, and sank. Most of the 81 survivors were brought ashore by the cruiser Richmond (below). Lieut.-Ccnumdr. Herbert V. Wiley (upper right), skipper of the $4,000,000 queen of the skies and a survivor of the Akron disaster, gave the world its first reports of the Macon crash. All officers of the Macon survived, including Senior Officer A. T. Clay (upper left), and Lieut.-Commdr. Jesse L. Kenworthy, shown next to Clay. Only two members of the crew, a radioman and a mess sergeant, were reported missing. And among the enlisted men saved were Richard Deal and Eugene Erwin (lower left), who with Wiley were survivors of the Akron crash of 1933. in the East." The beautiful shawls, most of them about five by nine feet in size, were discovered by Dr. Koelz in his ex- pedition last year through Persia, India, and Tibet. Made of cashmir, the downy fuzz under the hair of Tibetan goats, the shawls firmly hold their many colors in spite of their centuries of use. Colored with vege- table dyes, the exquisite pieces of cloth contain shades, such as the ancient royal purple, that have long since disappeared from use. "The fine weave in these shawls," Dr. Koelz asserted, "is so difficult that no other handicraft excells it.: The elaborate preparation of mater- ials is such that no other art requires such unalterable skill." The art of weaving them no longer exists, hav- ing passed out soon after the decline of the Mogul emperors and the British conquest of the territory. It took a native craftsman usually Debating Team Tryouts To Be February 19th Collective Bargaining To Be Subject Of All Trial Speeches, Coach Says Tryouts for the Men's Varsity De- bating Team will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 19 in Room 4003 Angell Hall, James H. McBurney, debating coach, announced yesterday. All students interested in partici- pating in intercollegiate debating this semester were requested by Mr. MF- Burney to see him during the week regarding preparation for the tryouts. The question on which the spring, debates will be based, and the one on which all tryout speeches will be given, is: "Resolved, That All Collec- tive Bargaining Should Be Negotiated Through Non-Company Unions Safe- guarded by Law." Each student will be expected to give a six minute aigumentative speech, pro or con, on this proposi- tion. The men's debate schedule, as re- leased by the team's coach yesterday, includes the annually held Western Conference Debate Tournament, to be held in Evanston, April 5 and 6, three contests with non-conference schools, all of which will be held in Ann Ar- bor, and participation in the Delta Sigma Rho forensic tournament at Madison, Wis., March 29 and 30. Non-conference debates are sched- uled with Xavier University, March 19, Syracuse University, March 19 and Oberlin College, March 26. through them, and the meaning of many of the patterns have been for- gotten during the ages since their origin. The designs are woven as straight and true as a draftsman's line. Some of the patterns are as large as five feet, winding in and out the length of the shawl. Others are as small as a quarter of an inch. When once the weaver had started a thread, it was impossible for him to withdraw it, Dr. Koelz explained, and said that this nature of the weave made -it so difficult. Dr. Koelz is classifying these in seven groups, according to the size and shape of design, the quality of the cashmir, and the weave. Whether these were made in different villages, regions, or other districts is not known but he believes it is probable that they came from near the famous rug centers of Persia and India. These shawls remained in certain families for generations, Dr. Koelz pointed out. How the highly special- ized art of weaving them arose is only speculative, but it was one of the outstanding contributions of that great Oriental civilization. The shawls were made, he said, for very dressed up wear, and were very expensive. "Now," he believes, "they are abso- lutely priceless because they can never be reproduced." The famous Pasley shawls are but copies of copies of these. It was Na- poleon who first brought the Oriental shawl to the West, following his ex- pedition to Egypt, Dr. Koelz declared. These were copied, producing a gar- ment of inferior quality, and finally in Scotland, the Pasley shawl, made from Cashmir and duplicating the Oriental design as nearly as possible, originated. Geography Men To Aid In U.S..Survey Dr. Charles M. Davis and Dr. Otto Guthe, both of the geography depart- ment, have left the University this semester to join the United State Bio- logical Survey station at Madison, Wis. They are working with the survey in the capacity of associate land ne- gotiators, and their activities will con- sist in identifying sub-marginal land. After their inventory of the land has been taken, the poorer areas of farm land, in whicsh poor soils or hilly landscapes make cultivation unsuit- able for tillage, will be purchased by the government. The Madison project is similar to that now being conducted in Wash- tenaw county. Mr. Davis and Dr. Guthe expect to return to the Univer- sity in the fall. Commissioner Cites Recovery Of State Banks Steady Deposit Increase Shows General Recovery, Reichert Says LANSING, Feb. 14. - (AP) - State Banking Commissioner Rudolph E. Reichert said today - on the second anniversary of Michigan's famous bank holiday - that the state's finan- cial structure has shown a "remark- able recovery." Deposits in state banks, he said, now amount to $402.835.000, com- pared to the $418,072,000 on deposit at the time of the holiday proclaimed by Gov. William A. Comstock during the early morning hours of Feb. 14, 1933. The number of state banks now operating is 360. At the time of the holiday there were 422. Of $440,608,692 tied up in non-re-1 ceivership banks just two years ago, $357,587,007 has been made available to depositors. Of the $83,021,685 re- maining in trust or liquidation, Rei- chert said at least 50 per cent even-I tually would be released. The commissioner said the steady increase in deposits "represents the general business recovery in the state." He expressed confidence that "the banking and financial structure of Michigan has shown such a re- markable recovery that the state can again take its proper place in the general economic recovery of the na- tion. SLOSSON TO SPEAK Prof. Preston W. Slosson, of the department of history, will address the Genesee Club, composed of stu- dents from Rochester, N. Y., at their first meeting of the second semester, to be held at 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 17, at the Michigan Union. The business meeting will be fol- lowed by a dinner, at which time Professor Slosson will address the organization on "A Historian Looks at Life." Officers of the club request all members to be present. Historic Local Church Building May Face Wreckers' Hammers Women Ask Liquor Reforms In State LANSING, Feb. 14. - (I) -- A wom- :+ .A . -c t,, l n's nrianiziition nimin " to haive lm-- Y A-%1m2 OT O OL A