482, 749,568,596,718,782,890,000 Prunes G 4 r 0 u immr Exported MEMBER OF THE DISJOINTED PRESSI £IOiehga Datitur ____ .-_-_ - . - - - - , -. - - - , -..e .r -.- . nr.rr m 4 no1 i[IVKT A myyww, - a .. . ..... T[' WTTE 7 iN FOUR PAGES ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 1931 WEATHJER:J.1iOiJl~y EVair rr6luisi r 1 v m VALL14 410 RUT HVE BITESNAKE LARGE Edward Kraus Bares MUTE TESTIMONY RIDICUL MMBER Examination Schedule PRESIDENT GHILLE D MUTE TESTIMONY ON SERPENT ORGY JSLY HUGE FIRMLY DENIES ALL OF THEM [HIS YEAR, Edward H. Kraus. d MARRIA9GE MART SCHEMES BARED:h What This Campus Needs Is A t Good Five-Cent Newspaper. b HOBART, Ind., Aug. 15-(IP)- Wheat, eggs or what have you, ups to the value of $4, can now be ex-g changed for a perfectly good wed- ding. Justice of the Peace A. J. Smith announced he would accept mer- chandise for wedding ceremonies. Northwestern Coeds Demand Smoke Dens EVANSTON, Aug. 15-(DP)-1 Women students at Northwesternt university here demanded at a late hour tonight that smoking rooms be provided for their use. Sorry, People, This Got Here a Bit Late SAN DOMINGO, Oct 11, 1492- (Special Wire Through Ann Arbor Exchange-Christopher Columbus, Genoese seanman, landed here ear- ly this morning with three ships.. Columbus told local authorities he was sailing in the service of the queen of Spain, but local authorities knew damn' well the king and queen had been deposed. "Desa man verry funny," Colum- bus told reporters when he saw the natives. Columbus talked in brok- en English, tinged slightly with Upper Bowery. Ho Hum; Globe Flyers Still MakePage One TOKIO, Aug. 15-(YP)-Climaxing a series of mishaps since they start- ed a projected globe circling flight in NewYork, Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon, jr., American avi- ators were fined by the district court here today for violation of the strict aviation laws of Japan. Each fine was 2,050 yen ($1,025) which the flyers paid. Australia Prune Tamers, Miners, Growers, Or Whatever They Are Jubilant. SOMEBODY TO LECTURE A Prune A Day Is A Friend In Need And Have It Too'- Old French Proverb. SYDNEY, Australia, Aug. 15-(D P)-Prune tycoons here were jubi- ant today when it was learned that 7,482,749,568, 596,718,782,890,000 of he little fellows had been exported During the fiscal year. Sex-Mad Toothbrush SlayerKills Heiress PEORIA, Aug. 15-(DP)-Search or the whereabouts and identity )f little Yvonne Fagan, 3, who was murdered or ran away or some- hing yhen a mysterious stranger beat in her brain with the heavy end of a tooth-brush yesterday, still continued furiously. "Who' is little Yvonne Fagan?" said Police chief O'Murphy, when questioned. "I never heard of her." COY.PUTS KIBOSH ON ICECESSPOOLS' PETOSKEY, Aug. 15-(A')-A state-wide campaign against blind pigs and dives was ordered today by Gov. Wilber M. Brucker as a result of the murder of four persons in Washtenaw county. The executive announced his plan in the address here today. He de- clared he will ask enforcing offi- cers in every county to stamp out such places. The governor said he will confer with Oscar G. Olander, commissioner of public safety, and direct the co-operation to the state police. "I am convinced there are a large number of just such cesspools of vice as that of which this mon- strous crime developed," the gov- ernor said. "I am conferring with Commissioner Olander on this sub- ject today. It shall be my purpose to encourage and assist all of the sheriffs and other law enforcing officers in a concerted effort to stamp out such places. I shall re- quest local officers to go forward with such a program and shall stand ready and willing to co-oper- sate and assist with every agency at the state's command." According to the confessions of the three men who committed the Washtenaw murder, they had vis- ited a blind pig where moonshine was sold and was intoxicated when the crime was committed. The gov- ernor promised to continue a policy of keeping prisoners in prison. Likewise he reiterated his stand in (Continued on Page Seven) ALEXANDER GRANT RUTHVEN STORY A FELLOW TELEGRAPHED US FROM OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA (Editor's Note: Some gent tele- garphed this story collect from Oklahoma City, and are we sore! It cost us $1.53, so it must be au- thentic. Go ahead and read it; somebody's got to get our money's worth out of it.)j OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Aug. 15 -Shot by a carefully constructed, gun trap set in the corn field of ROOEVLT SLTaMS GOTHAm 'G AFTERS 'It Is Hard for an Empty Gift Horse to Stand Upright'- Old French Proverb. . . ALBANY, N. Y., Aug. 15-(A)- Governor Roosevelt today issued a call for a special session of the legislature to convene on August 25 for the purpose of enacting legislation broadening the powers of a committee investigating the New York city administration. The requet for the special ses- sion was made by Samuel Seabury, chief counsel for the committee, after the court of appeals ruled that a legislative resolution em- powered the investigators to grant immunity ti a witness was inva- lid. The appeal was inthe case of William F. Doyle, a retired fire de- partment veterinarian, who was sent to jail for 30 days for contempt because of his refusal to testify regarding fees he collected as an attorney before the city bureau of standards. The committee had offered Doyle immunity if he would reveal with who he split fees Itotaling more than $1,500,000 in the past few (Continued on Page Eight) Steve Munzy, local farmer, Olin Godwin, one of two brothers charg- ed with theft of corn from Munzy, today was released from Capital City hospital and arraigned before justice of the peace E. L. Lippert, who set the bond at $500. Godwin, who is charged jointly with his brother, W. J. B. Godwin with the theft, narrowly escaped death from the shotgun wounds, according to hospital authorities here today. Both brothers pleaded not guilty, however, and bond in the case of W. J. B. Godwin was set at $1,000. 'The case evcited a great deal of interest in Oklahoma legal circles because of the fact that lethal traps of the kind have been specifically' outlawed by statute during the ses- sion of the last legislature. Common gossip on the street holds that the court will sustain customs of the country and carry further the extra-legal activities set in motion by Oklahoma's militant governor and presidential possibili- ty, "Alfalfa Bill" Murray. Linderghs, Aviators, Ready for Shrdlu Hop SEATTLE, Aug. 15-(A)-The Japan-bound monoplane of the fly- ing Lindberghs was made ready for an early start tonight from iso- lated Karagin island off the Siber- ian coast for Petropavlovsk, 554 miles distant. Rested after their long 1067-mile flight from Alaska over the Bering sea, Mrs. Anne Lindbergh, radio operator and co-pilot for her cele- brated husband, Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, messaged to St. Paul is- land radio station they would take off tonight. He Was A Beast,' Sobs College Executive, I'm Glad I Done It.' THAT'S NEWS' - DANA It Certainly Was Tough Fight,' Says Reptile, He Beat Me Fair And Square. LNN ARBOR, Mich., Aug. 15-(DP) -Stirred into action by frequent ,eports during the past two sum- ners that he had been bitten by a ,nake, had bitten one, or something Ike that, Alexander G. Ruthven, rominent University president, re- eased the following statement ex- lusively to The Daily. (As a matter >f fact, we had to ask for it). "Iv ery much approve of your uggestion of a moratorium on nake stories. If you cannot es- ablish one, I recommend that very reporter be required to buy copy iof my book on reptiles, vhich may be had from the mu- seum at a cost of one and one-half adopted the newspapers would earn how difficult it really is to et bitten by a snake in Michigan, ut, more important, the sale of 'he book would be stimulated." The statement, Whoosh edition >r no Whoosh edition, is genuine. Ruthven is a locally prominent ducator, administrator, and au- hority on pickled snakes. It is his custom to spend the summer rnonths away from Ann Arbor, and inevitably a rumor develops that he has been bitten by a snake. News- papers play up the stories with lurid headlines, but it seems that othing can be done about the situ- ation. IEERYBODYFIGHTS EXCEPT PRESIDENT This Is Another Story on Cuba, and We're Getting Pretty Tired of It All. HAVANA, Aug. 15-(IP)-President Gerardo Machado continued today his efforts to halt further fighting In Cuba, while General Mario G. Menocal and Colonel Carlos Men- dieta, the two men said to be the chief supports of the revolt, were on their way back to Havana on a gunboat under arrest. Ann Verner Half-Caste? Insurgent quarters said, however, there would be no compromise not based on President Machado's resig- nation. Newspaper dispatches from the north coast of Santa Clara province reported a group of rebel sympa- thizers from the United States had landed between Ganuza and Men- endez beaches. It was near this place that eight men were killed and several wounded in a battle yesterday. Girl Moron Missing. The towns Corralillo and Sierra Morena were in rebel hands, news- paper dispatches said.nBoth towns were reported burning, and all means of communication with them were severed. No confirmation of these reports was authorized by the government, however. Military governors throughout the six provinces today posted proc- lamations announcing the capture of Menocal and Mendieta and call- ing on insurgents still in the field to bring in their arms. BULLETIN LANSING, Aug. 15 p.m. Meetings of the Conservation Com- mission will be held the second instead of the first Friday of each month in the future. The change in the time of the meetings was made so that financial reports of the Depart- ment for the preceeding month would be available.