ESTABLISHED 1920 ( P 0 u mmirr i i Irbigani AI i M fEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS J M VOL. XI, NO. 25. FOUR PAGES ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1931 WEATHER: Fair and Warmer. PRICE FIVE CENTS LINDBERGHS FINISH FIRST LEG ON HOP TO JAPAN, CHINA 'ALISON'S HOUSE' TO OPEN T OMORROW NIGHT; DIRECTED BY THOMAS STEVENS First to Stop Washington; Expect Leave for North Haven, Maine, Tomorrow. CONVERSE WITH CASTLE Testing to of Instruments, Japanese Embassy Scheduled. Visit "The original American play which shall best represent the ed- ucational value and power of the stage, is the title which Glaspell's "Alison's House" won when it was chosen the Pulitzer Prize drama for the 1930-31 season. "The play is an absorbing story with tremendous human interests, having to do with the family of Ali- son Stanhope, famous American poetess, who has been dead eigh- teen years," according to a state- ment issued yesterday by Play Pro- duction department, which is spon- soring its presentation here this week. BULLETIN FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, G e r - many, July 27.-(I)-The Graf Zeppelin reached Franz Josef Land at 11:45 p.m. Berlin time (5:45 Eastern Standard Time) to- night, according to advices re- ceived here. WASHINGTON, July 27.-(P)- The Lindberghs tonight had set out on their latest adventure. Off on a vacation flight to Japan and China, their first hop tonight brought Colonel and Mrs. Lind- bergh from New York to Washing- ton. The famous flyer immediately be- gan conferences with acting secre- tary Castle of the State depart- ment, and other officials conversant with conditions in the Orient. May Leave Tomorrow. Late tomorrow, or Wednesday, dependent upon completion of a few details, they will take off for North Haven, Maine, there to say goodbye to their son and Mrs. Lind-; bergh's parents, Senator and Mrs.+ Dwight Morrow. From then until their trim streamline black plane is settled on the harbour at Tokio, they will be flying mostly across barren waste land and deserted waters. Colonel Lindbergh said his itin- erary after completing the visit to the Orient was vague, -but he ex- pects to fly back by a different route. Tonight they were entertained at a dinner by acting secretary Castle. Plane Fully Equipped. Their plane was completely equip- ped with luggage and other para- phanalia for the trip, including blankets and emergency rations should a forced landing be made on any of the wild spaces over which they must fly. Only the testing of a few instru- ments and refueling remained to be done, in addition to making a visit to the Japanese embassy be- fore they are ready to take to the air again. Colonel Lindbergh said as he ar- rived the trip was officially under way and the Washington flight was the first leg. SAYS MOREIWOMEN THAN MEN TEACH Education Lecturer P r e dict s Greater Refinement in Teaching Methods. "Women teachers were only ad- mitted as honorary members in the National Educational Association in 1857 and today women members outnumber the men six to one in the organization," said Dr. Frank William Hubbard, Assistant Re- search Direstor of the National Education Association, speaking to the Women's Education Club at the Women's League building yester- day. "All the new phases of teach- ing work are attracting women teachers," he said. "The NationalEducation Associa- tion has been officially supported equality of payment Ur men and women since1905. This equality of treatment has not yet become a fact," he said. Dr. Hubbard predicted that be- cause of the persistent effort of teachers, greater refinement both in the methods and content of teaching was to be expected. Fordham Observatory Records Earthquakes NEW YORK, July 27.-(A)-The seismograph at the Fordham uni- versity observatory recorded two "fairly violent" earthquakes today about 1,900 miles from New York, probably in the Carribbean. The first shnnk wa t 2:21 a.m. and Real to Estate Professor Be Put on Faculty Frederick M. Babcock, Chicago realtor, will be named research as- sociate in real estate in the busi- ness administration school and will come to Ann Arbor immediately to start work Aug. 1, according to an announcement made yesterday. No action has been taken on the appointment, but the Board of Re- gents is expected to confirm it some time this week. Babcock, a member of the Chicago firm of William H. Babcock and Sons, will conduct studies in the field of real estate valuation. He is now a member of the Chicago real estate board and of President Hoov- er's conference on home building and home owning. To Dedicate Ypsilanti 1 State Hospital Today! The first group of buildings of the Ypsilanti state Hospital, construct- ed near Saline at a cost of $7,500,- 000, will be dedicated today by Gov. Wilbur Brucker, Mayor Newkirk of Ann Arbor, Mayor Max of Ypsilanti, President Alexandier G. Ruthven, Rev. Henry Lewis, and various offi- cials from points in Washtenaw county. Inspection of the Duildings is set for 10 o'clock, and an afternoon schedule, beginning at 1:30 o'clock, will complete an all-day program. Engineer Stops Train, Dies of Heart Attack NEW YORK, July 27.-(JP)-When an Albany to New York express of the New York Central railroad pulled into Grand Central terminal early today, few of the 300 passen- gers knew that Tom Galvin, the en- gineer, had died of a heart attack after bringing his train to an un- scheduled stop at Beacon, N. Y. Train attendants removed him from the cab and the firemen brought the express to this city on time. Weather, Not Finances, of Interest to Morgan SOUTHAMPTON, England, July 27.-(/P)-J. P. Morgan, here at the end of a speedy crossing from New York, in his yacht the Corsair, to- night was willing to talk about the weather and his vacation plans, but he admitted the Morgan tradition of silence regarding the financial situation in Europe. "You may ask me as many questions as you like on that sub- ject," he said, "but I must tell you before you start that I shall not answer them." South Australia Cats Fall Down on Job ADELAIDE, Australia, July 27.- ()-Australia is suffering from a plague of mice. In some parts o: 'south Australia traffic on the high- ways is hampered. Some farmers findine it hnnle tn tr t nn. "Alison's old home, rich in tradi- tion and filled with memories, is about to be sold just at the close of the nineteenth century," the state- ment continues. "Her sister, her brother, and her brother's family gather in the old house to take their last farewell and to share in the distrbution of the precious be- longings, which have been preserv- ed by Agatha, her good sister. As the old century is about to pass on, she, whom the author symbolizes as the old life, passes on with it, leaving a secret which she has guarded faithfully since Alison's death. The secret is embodied in a series of manuscript poems which reveal the inner life of the poetess; and in seeking to keep this from the eyes of a new and prying gen- eration, she nearly destroys the house itself." "Miss Glaspell has used this ab- sorbing story as the basis of an ex- traordinary human study," the statement concluded. "Alison's House will be staged by, Thomas Wood Stevens, visiting di-~ rector of the Repertory Players. It will open tomorrow night at the Lydia Mendelssohn theatre. SCHOOLS NEGLECTI CULTURE, IS CLAIM1 Dean Jones Says Education for; All' Ideal Reduces Chance ; for Super Pupil.; "Students with a capacity for cul- tural reaction to life are neglected," declared Dean Lydia I. Jones of' Ypsilanti Normal School, in an ad- dress at the University High school yesterday afternoon. This is done while the battle for some education' for all the children is fought, the' speaker stated. Dean Jones said tnat "one of the most difficult problems facing the high schools today is how to give culture to those who have the cap- acity for it. Life will not be endur-. able eventually for any of our wide- ly different types of people if leis- ure created by machinery is not' used for more cultural ends by those with superior mental endowment." "This is a very large order for our high schools," the speaker went on. "The teachers are in many places very much overworked as it is. Cultural attitudes are given largely through sympathetic radia- tion and informal contacts. These take time, for which little provision is made. Cultured teachers are not given opportunity to share their culture with their students. The schools are retarded in their pro- gram of culture by the use made of commercial amusements." "Schools are retarded by the 'mucker pose' of educated adults," the dean said. "The schools are re- tarded by those parents who wish an education for their children merely because it puts a better1 REED SEES CHANGE IN MICHIGAN LOCAL GOVERNMENT UNITS Political Scientist Says State Will Increase in Power or Counties Will Unite. CITES FINANCIAL LOAD Land Reverting to Government Because of Unpaid Taxes, He Points Out. "A real revolution is in prospect in our State; either the State will exercise greater power to the detri- ment of local self-government or the county governments will have to unite making a unit sufficiently large to be self-sustaining," declar- ed Prof. Thomas H. Reed, Director of the Bureau of Government, in an address to the Men's Education- al Club at the Michigan Union yes- terday. County unit of government was organized w h e n transportation from the average farm to the coun- ty seat did not have the benefit of the automobile and the hard sur- face road, Professor Reed explained. The county was large enough so that a farmer could return home after transacting business at the county seat the same day in his and buggy of fiftyaand more years ago. Today no such small unit of government is needed, Professor Reed said. "Republican government will have come to an end if the power is vested in the central government at Lansing because governmental ser- vices must be performed in all cas- es," he said, "and most counties of the state today do not have the fi- nancial ability to bear the tax bur- den imposed by too many officials." "One sixth of the area of the State is in the hands of the State or in the process of coming to the state because the general property tax is not being paid," Professor Reed said, and in some cases people are preferring to let the land revert to the state instead of paying the property tax." Professor Reed emphasized the necessity of teaching citizenship to public school students. "I do not see what other reason there could be for taxing the citizens of the state for education if the purposes not be to make good citizens," he said. STUDJENT SLAING REMANS__MYSTERY Eight Suspects Released While Officers Seek Columbia Coed Murderer. Hoover's New Aide Lieut J. L. Monahan, United States army officer, who was recently appointed military aide to President Hoover. POOR HOME DEATH TOLL REACHES 40 Inquiry Launched to Determine Cause of Fire; More Than 100 in Hospitals. PITTSBURGH, July 27.-(I)- Little Sisters of the Poor, still stun- ICGKERSHAM FLAYS AMERICAN PRISON SYSTE'M IN flEPORT Commission of Law Enforcement Calls System Antiquated, Inefficient, Cruel. EDUCATION IS NEEDED Method of Punishment Declared Failure; Ideal Substitute Outlined to President. WASHINGTON, July 27.-(P)- The Wickersham law enforcement commission today condemned the nation's prison system as inade- quated, inefficient, failing to re- form the criminal or protect so- ciety, and as using brutal discipli- nary measures without justifica- tion. Submitting its seventh report to President Hoover, dealing with "penal institutions, probation and parole," the commission advocated the creation of a new system in which iron bars would play but a small part and education would be uppermost. Conditions "Incredible." Much of the report was a de- nunciation of prison conditions, characterized as "almost incredi- ble," under which men were im- prisoned in overcrowded cells with- out sufficient light or fresh air or benefit of modern plumbing. It lashed out also at the system of prison discipline described as "traditional, antiquated, unintelli- gent and not infrequently cruel and inhuman." Asserting these methods "contribute to the increase of crime by hardening the prisoners," the commission urged they be banned by law. Punishment Denounced. Among the punishments recall- ed, many of them visited upon prisoners for slight offenses, were the shackling of men to doors for 12 hours a day, whipping, placing them in straight jackets, lashing them down under streams of cold water, confining them in cages so small that movement was impos- sible, and keeping them in com- plete darkness for days at a time on a ration of four ounces of bread every 24 hours. . I ned by the fire which destroyed their home and took the lives of two scores of their aged charges; weary from long hours spent in searching for the missing and re- assembling those who survived,4 joined today in the inquiry into the1 disastrous blaze. The death toll had reached 40 today, there still were more than 100 injured in hospitals. Ten un- identified dead lay in the morgue, i and their identification, officials believed, probably would erase the list of 10 reported missing. Many of those in hospitals will die, psysicians said as they battled to prevent pneumonia and to stave' off death from shock. Meanwhile, many of the aged and infirm who were removed to temporary quarters, were being taken to another home maintained by the Little Sisters of the Poor. The city, county and state cen- tered an inquiry on the twisted, charred four-story building, which late Friday night became an in- ferno from a cause still undeter- mined. Residents of Barbour Dormitory Offer Tea All faculty and student members of the University are cordially in- vited to drop in sometime between 4 and 5:30 o'clock this afternoon at the regular weekly tea being giv- en by the residents of Betsy Bar- 1 .1 t i :i coat on their backs. Such parents are embarrassed by expressions in WHITE RIVER APACHE RESER- bour house. their children of fine emotional at- VATION, Ariz., July 27.-( P)-The titudes. They prefer that their Spartan-like Apaches, nearly as children keep themselves while in silent as the pineclad white moun-C the high-brow appreciations and tains along which the body of Ehrn- refined emotional enjoyments." In closing, Dean Jones offered rietta Schnerler was found, con- several devices for help in the ad- tinued today to mystify officers vancement of culture. Her plans in- seeking a solution of the killing of, elude: teaching the art of conver- the 23-year-old Columbia Univer- Tillotson Receives N u m e r o u s sation; checks in the school on out- sity anthropology student. Applications for Fall side leisure activities; adult edu- "The Indians seem to be just as Reservations. cation; more informal contacts def-ntrsdaswartoern ho initely purposeful in the minds of interested as we are to learn who teachers.mkilled Miss Schnerler," William Early inquiries concerning appli- _____her__._Donner, white man boss of the res- cations for football tickets are more ervation, said, "but they have given numerous this year than in any us no information; we haven't season since 1927, the year the Y- I RDA found a thing." Michigan Stadium opened, it has With more than a week passed been learned from Harry Tillotson, RESU LTS . since the time physicians fixed for business manager h the athletic the slaying, not a suspect was held. administration. The large number Miss_____________bodywasfoundof requests for blanks is thought American League Miss Schnerler's body was found to presage increased interest in the Boston 13, Detroit 4 on Friday in a ravine back of a sport, based on the success of the Washington 11, Cleveland 7 cemetery, garbed in the dancing 1930 season and the fact that two New York 7, 12, Chicago 8,3 (first dress of an Apache girl. She had popular Big Ten contests, those game 10 innings) been attacked and stabbed. with Minnesota and Ohio State, Athletics 5, St. Louis 4 (10 in- Authorities surmised she was will be played here. nings) waylaid as she went to a tribal Application blanks are being pre- National League dance, several of which she had at- pared now and will be placed in Pittsburgh 8, New York 6 tended in her attempt to learn more the mail August 8. The applica- Phillies 7, Chicago 6 about the life of the tribe. tions for tickets will be received af- Boston, St. Louis, played as part Seven Apaches from a group ter August 20. Those arriving be- of dnh1 header Sunday. which anthnrities deseribed as "law- tween that date and SentemhAr 1 WASHINGTON, July 27.-(P) -The Wickersham commission's condemnation of the American prison system was met today by a statement from Sanford Bates, director of federal prisons, that the government already had put into effect all the major im- provements it suggested. His answer was that under the reorganized prison program in- stituted by the government last July, almost every one of these steps had been or was being made effective. Corporal punishment in feder- al prisons has been banned, he asserted, while improved per- sonnel has been secured by re- quiring officials and guards to enter under civil service and be trained in a school now in oper- ation. After asserting flatly that the American prison had failed as a "business enterprise," and as an educational institution, since men were released no better then when committed, the commission added: "The prison has failed as a dis- ciplinary institution. The riots, the fires, the use of cruel and brutal measures of punishment, the per- sistent recurrence of murder with in the prison, the presence of nar- cotics, the frequent atmosphere of hatred and bitterness, are suffi- cient evidence. Called Vicious Circle. "It is clear at present that the more punishment in prison, the more discontent, the more irrita- tion, the more plotting, the more violation of rules, and the greater need for more severe punishment. The whole procedure is in the na- ture of a vicious circle for which there seems to be no remedy." Outlining what it considered the ideal, the commission asserted seg- rava ann of+ha e nngpi i-