T fH MT~TC N : 16xIE TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1936 Travel Cinema Is Planned Ly German Circle To Show Sound Pictuires Of Tour By Members Of U. S._Colleges The Deutscher Zirkel, through its faculty adviser, Mr. Otto Graf, has announced the presentation of a German sound film, to be given at 4:15 pm. Thursday in Natural Sci- ence Auditorium. Admission is free. The film is the official record of a party of American university aca- demicians who toured Germany dur- ing the summer of 1934 at the invi- tation of the Karl Schurz Foundation of Philadelphia, an organization de- voted to dissemination of German culture. The film is rich in archi- tectural and scenic beauty and pre- sents an ideal itinerary of sights in Germany, Mr. Graf said. Among those present on the project were Prof. James K. Pollock, of the Department of Political Science, and Clarence S. Yoakum, vice-president of the "University. The tour begins in Bremen, pro- ceeds east to Berlin and to East Prus- sia, thence to Saxony, Weimar and Jena: The birthplace of great men of Germany are visited nand the tour ends with a trip up the historic Rhine. Court Of Pardons Denies Bruno Hauptman's Plea -- ~-. --Associated Press Photo. In a secluded room of the state house annex, New Jersey's court of pardons denied clemency to Richard Bruno Hauptmann, who must die Jan. 17 for the kidnaping and slaping of the Lindbergh baby. Part of the board is shown on the way to the scene of its deliberations. In the foreground is W. D. Hatfield. Behind him is .I. B. Wells (left) and George Van Buskirk. Behind them are Gov. Harold Hoffman (left) and W. D. Wolfs=Kiel. i U.P.A. Film Corp. in Germany -and copies of the film were presented S uer asi to the universities of this country by the German government. Recommendei Plan3 tatos Department Of Landscape ForFi rst Aid Design Conducts Survey In Loeal Area11n Washtenaw County By F. CLAYTON HEPLER Speaking Sunday before a state- Cooperation between the local of- wide recreational institute meeting fices of the Red Cross and the safety here, Dr. Henry S. Curtis recommend- cdmmittee of the Automobile Club ed that every child should spend of Michigan have resulted in plans from three to four summers at camp to create and maintain three emer- and an equal amount of time on a gency first aid stations designed pri- farm. He based his conclusions on a marily for injuries sustained in traf- survey conducted by the landscape fic accidents in the county, it has design department carried on with been announced. A committee of six the aid of federal relief workers. has been appointed to select the lo- Camp life is extremely valuable to cations of the new stations. every child, Dr. Curtis said, as it in- A conference with Michigan state structs one in communal living. Life police is expected in the near future on the farm is beneficial to the by the committee, and their aid will youngster because it gives him an in- be sought in determining the most ad- sight into a different social system vantageous spots in which to place and teaches him to be more tolerant. the branches. Businesses which are Both forms of recreation teach him open all night will be asked to vol- a love of the out-of-doors, he said. unteer Itheir services and stands. Ann Arbor Survey Complete Training and equipment will be sup- The survey upon which Dr. Curtis plied by the Red Cross. based his remarks was pointed at Members of the committee include finding out how major summer rec- M. W. Strickland, manager of the reation activities rank with 5,000 Automobile Club, as chairman; L. E. children in the city schools. When Ayres, Red Cross chapter chairman; the survey is complete it will cover Sheriff Jacob B. Andres; Dr. E. C. all the 13,000 school children in Ganzhorn, county coroner; Mrs. Jean Washtenaw county. At the present 'D. Noble, executive secretary of the however, only the compilations for Red Cross here; and Kenneth Hellen- Ann Arbor are complete. be'k, county road manager. Continuing his comments, Dr. Cur- Similar stations have been estab- tis said that those few fortunates lished in many southern and west- who were able to attend the more ex- ern states, it was said, and it is pensive private camps enjoyed their hoped to increase the number in this vacation no more than did those who county in the future. Plans for attended the cheaper camps such as1 'emergency stations in other counties those sponsored by the Boy Scouts, of the state are already under way, the Y.M.C.A. and the Y.W.C.A. This would indicate the feasibility of es- tablishing similar camps financed by_ B em n-Wie the 'public at a low cost. Bem ent W rites The survey showed that the great- est amount of the summer vacation Textbook tor me 371/2 per cent was spent of va- cations at the farm. Practical edu-# jai. cational features appealed to the Frencli Course children thus spending their out-of- school period, who spent on an av- In "Cours de Revision" a book for erage of three weeks in the rural French students written by Dr. New- areas. ton S. Bement, Instructor in the Playgrond Rates Low French department and published by Playground activity, which would1 Harper and Brothers of New York, the seem to attract the majority of city faculties of many schools have dis- children during the summer months,' covered a fill-in for a definite gap rated surprisingly low, Dr. Curtis that has always existed in the teach- pointed out. More than twice ast ing of elementary French. many AnnArbor school children go In 1934, under the chairmanship of on trips as use the public play- James P. Tharpe of Ohio State Uni grounds. In addition, more than versity, a basic word list of 2,752 twice as much time is spent on farma items, including idioms, were or- vacations as is spent on the playt iled, based on research of the rela- grounds. Attendance of pupils ofr tine frequency in the use ofhFrench University High and Angell schoolss Words. Dr. Bement was the first to averaged only one and one half use the findings of this study in a minutes a day, while the average of1 book. In "Cours de Revision" the the city schools as a whole was onlya first 2,000 of these words were em- 18 minutes per student. Althoughv ployed in texts designed to bring out this is an extremely low figure, Dr.r their living environmental usage. Curtis pointed out that the average According to reports from sec- amount of time spent by those whon ondary schools all over the country actually used the playgrounds wast this text serves as a first review course one hour and 18 minutes a day. with enough range to take the stu- Altnough farm visits proved them-t dent through all tne syntactical ma- selves to be most popular, a distincte terial he should ordinarily need. desire for travel evidenced itself ind the questions asked by the survey.f MISS AYRES MADE EDITOR Trips by the children average ap-t Miss Beatrice Ayres, a student last proximately 550 miles apiece with' summer in the magazine writing course of Donal Hamilton Haines, instructor in the journalism depart- ment, has been appointed managing editor of The New Philadelphian, it e was revealed in a letter received re- W i cently by Mr. Haines. ____ ____I LUNCI Last______ T imesrl ,,L T'naxn, _________ Farm Vacations S. L. Rothafel d By Dr. Curtis Succumbs To most individuals going 50 miles orart Attack more. Almost half of the children contacted by the survey went on at Was Celebrated As Pioneer least one such trip. Questions as to the mode of travel Of Elaborate Productions showed that over 85 per cent of the OnStae And Screen travel was made by means of auto- mobiles, only one hiking trip being N recorded. Not a single trip by bi- NEW YORK, Jan. 13. -(I) - cycle was made, reports show. Samuel L. Rothafei, motion picture Boy Scouts demonstrated the pos- producer known to thousands of sibilities of travel for school children theatre goers as "Roxy" died today of when they conducted truck trips of a heart attack in his rooms in the 10 days to two weeks organized for groups of 20 or more, Dr. Curtis stat- Hotel Gotham. ed. Expenses were computed at 29 "Roxy" was celebrated as a pioneer cents per pupil mile for each bus of the elaborate stage production, load of children. adding pretentious shows to the pic- Boys were 281/2 per cent more active than the girls, statistics for farm va- ture program. He also was one of cations, camp vacations and play- the first of the well-known showmen ground activity show. Of the 84 va- to present his stage show on the cation days, boys and girls spent an radio. "Roxy and His Gang" was one average of 12 days in the aforemen- of the first nationally-known radio tioned recreational pursuits. ___________________ acts. - ( At the height of his career he or- Negative Atom ganized a building company which erected the huge Roxy theatre in New York, a structure with a seating ca- pacity of 6,221. Rothafel, believed to be in the late S a~ Sietitsti Sta e cl*-fifties, was born in Stillwater, Minn. From 1900 to 1907 he served in the United States marine corps, retiring Discovery Termed One Of with the rank of major. Physics' 'Mssing Links'; He entered the motion picture busi- ness in the Pennsylvania coal region, Atom May Be Smashed operating theatres in various cities. He went to Minneapolis, where he de- COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 13.- (P) -A veloped his talent for stage shows and pair of youthful Ohio State University was eventually summoned to the scientists peered into the depths of Strand Theatre in New York, one of an electron microscope today and the first "de luxe" cinema houses on found one of physics' "missing links" Broadway. - beams of negatively charged hy- There, permitted free rein in the drogen atoms. staging of his "presentations," Roxy Fellow scientists hailed the discov- became the best known exhibitor in ery as opening up a broad field of the country. Theatres throughout fundamental research, and possibly the country made use of his idea and furnishing a new weapon in the long- added stage presentations to their drawn battle to smash the atom, programs. which is hypothetically the smallest- - particle of an element capable of DAILY 15c to 6 - 25c after 6 existing alone into something even smaller.° Paul Darby, a student who se- lected a search for the "missing link" CONTINUOUS 1:30 - 11 P.M. as his graduate problem, and Dr. Wil- CNO :- .M lard H. Bennett, young university NOW physics professor, shared honors for 2 First-Run Features the discovery. BEN LYON They began the hunt eight months HELEN TWELVETREES ago, assembling delicate equipment FR I SCO and working with currents and fac- tors so infinitesimal as to be recog-W nizable only with the aid of extremely and sensitive scales and meters. RALPH BELLAMY For 30 years laboratory workers "DANGEROUS have created positively charged atoms and made them perform almost at I N T R I G U E" wilL But until now, scientists said, Extra research has failed to discover sim- Comedy - Cartoon - News ilar bodies negatively charged, and many physics experts have doubted their existence. "Our discovery will have little at- - traction at present for industrial engineers who transform laboratory developments into practical objects - for general use, but it may have a far-reaching effect on future studies 1' yl, E E . f ;l WPA To Bring State Classified Directory SaeVillaoes_______________ College Work, LAUNDRY CLASSIFIED STUDENT HAND LAUNDRY: Prices reasonable. Free delivery. Phon Several Departments Plan ADVERTISING 300 .rd yP Extension Courses For P ace advertisements with Classified dvertising Department. Phone 2-1214. LAUNDRY 2-1044. Sox darned. Educational PrograTheclassifiedcolumns close atfive Careful work at low price. 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W ecs eseli Sociology and mechanical drawing in are available from the home study I Dream Too Much" department of the Extension Division ASTORIA, Ore., Jan. 13. - (P)- but are not acceptable for freshman Thirty-four men were counted lost Matinees Daily 21 credit. Additional courses are being today as the wild Pacific hurled six 200 and 3:30-2 c contemplated. battered bodies upon the shore from Nights 7:00, 9:00 - 25c, 35c Henry J. Ponitz, assistant director the wrecked intercoastal freighter gts_7:__ ,_9:_0_-_25c,_35c of the Michigan WPA, has been work- Iowa. TUSA ing with the Extension Division for Coast guardsmen said none of the THURTAY several months in arranging the crew of the 410-foot vessel could have ON STAGE project. survived the pounding seas that N PE RSON Dr. Fred G. Stevenson, a graduate smashed the freighter into wreckage of and former teacher in Muskegon Sunday after a 76-mile an hour hur- High School, who was later a prin- ricane tossed it upon Peacock Spit, cipal of Saginaw High School and a Davy Jones' locker for many another summer school instructor in the ship. School of Education of the University, The furious storm also threatened has been appointed State Supervisor several other vessels as coast patrols of Co;respondence Study Centers for sought bodies of other victims. A M A T E the Michigan WPA. An even greater loss of life was averted narrowly when the coast ATTORNEY SLAIN IN COURT guard cutter Onondaga veered toward --- - CHICAGO, Jan. 13.-(P) - A dis- Peacock Spit and was barely able to gruntled lawyer shot and killed At- inch away from the danger zone, un- torney Christopher G. Kinney in Cir- able to get close enough to shoot a suit Court here and then fired at life line aboard the doomed Iowa. Judge John Prystalski, presiding. 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