t ft; z A "-I itr A6F r DAY AND NIGH SERVILE ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, MARCH 24, 1918. PRICE TI Y SHELLS FRENCH CAPITAL OM DISTANCE OF 74 12 I TAKE GHAMPlINSHIP W"5TLRN MEET TOPPING' INSECOND PLACE, -42L-22i WITH 16 POINTS, ILLINOIS FOURTH WITH 'T[ WITH 7, NORTHWESTERN SIXTH NDIANA SEVENTH WITH 4 ZES RETURN TO BIG TEN [G IN 9 OF 10 EVENTS ENTERED tying Conference Records in 50 Yard .Dash and es, Also Beating Best Conference Offers Zoelin Finished Second in Sprint Existence of Gun Shooting 74"iles Doubted by Engineering FacultyMen Professors of engineering and ballistics of the University are highly skeptical as regards the possibility of the existence of a gun that will shoot a projectile 74 miles, such as has been reported that the Germans are using in bombarding Paris. "A gunt to shoot 74 miles, would have to be a 74 inch bore and more than 290 feet in length," said Dean Mortimer E. Cooley of the engineering college late last night. "All known modern guns have an effective range of one mile to each inch of bore. The length is figured from the bore. The study of gunnery is a highly technical subject, and the opinion of us lay- men out here in the backwoods is worth nothing, but my personal view is . that no such gun exists. "Aerial torpedoes have been mentioned before, but again it seems im- probable that a self-propelled projectile could be constructed that would be effective at such a distance. The only two possibilities that I can see are that the bombs are dropped from airplanes or that the Germans have advanced farther than we know. The latter supposition also seems im- possible, for an advance of 30 or 40 miles in three days is unimaginable." Professors John C. Parker of the electrical engineering department, and John W. Bradshaw, professor of ballistics were of the same opinion as Dean Coo ley. PHJECTILES REACH CAPITAL AT IINTERVALS OF QUARTER OF HO1 10 PERSONSKILLE15 WOL BERLIN CLAIMS FIRST STAGE OF GREAT BATTLE IN F ENDED WITH DEFEAT OF CONSIDERABLE PART ENGLISH ARMY HAIG REPORTS STRONG NIGHT ATTACKS IN NEIGHBORHOOD OF JUSSY RE Pieces of Shells on Examination Were Found to Bear Rifling 3 Proved They Had Not Been Dropped, But Had Bee Fired From Cannon BULLETIN Paris, March 23.-According to the latest report, the long di non which bombarded Paris this afternoon was firing from a about 74 1-2 miles, and was located about 12 kilometres beyond front. Paris, March 23.-The Germans have been firing on Paris range guns. Since S o'clock this morning shells of 240.millimetres have 1 Ing the capital and suburbs at intervals of a quarter of an ho about 10 persons and wounding about 15. The shortest distU Paris to the front is more than 100 kilometres (62 miles). The announcement that Paris was being bombarded was mad this afternoon. Measures for counter-attacking the enemy's cainnon are uaw YANKEES IN GERMAN PRISONS "'-"ing Washington, March 23.-An official list of 200 Americans now prisoners in in the German camps made public tonight by urdles, the state department, records the a each, death of Charles Hemphill shot while "PHORMIU"IIST CAMPUS PRODUCTION FROM LATIN FOOD HEADS ASK MORE WHEAT CONSERVATION DESIRE TO STRETCH SCANT SUP- PLY TO MEET ARMY NEEDS USE winning tne an r meet by a iicago came in nual Confe score of 4 second wit e Wisconsi i tally of 1 ' attempting to escape in September, 1917, and the death of Andrew Camp- ig bell Murtroy, an aviator brought down er in 1917. d The only American officer in the list is Lieutenant Willis, of Massa- chusetts, an aviator captured at Ver- dun in August 1917. He has been in- I n erned. Evidently he was an officer in the French service. r- The list reported by the Royal 2 Prussian war ministry and transmit- h ted by the German government; n through the state department to thej 6 Spanish embassy in Berlin and the! Spanish legation in Berne, contains the names of Americans captured in r trench raids, crews of captured ships. al and survivors of captured ships. - The list also includes the names of r_ American engineers caught in the - German turning movement at Cam- brai. Terence's "Phormio," the-play sel- Washington, March 23.-Further re- ected for presentation by the Classical duction in the consumption of wheat 'arrell's squad of 14 me it it was composed of star son leading as the principa [e gathered three first, mak of 15 points for the Wolver he pole vault, Cross of Mich d the bar at a height of 1 ies. Sedgwick was beate mile run by Otis of Ch e Donnelly, Michigan's cap ied fourth. Y for the events are as fo L. n I- P- 1- (C), first; Aden{W),1 Sedg- third; Smin- !4 OF ENGLISH VERSION CHANGE IN POLICY OF CLUB IS -Johnson (M), first; ond; Carroll (Ill.), d.), fourth. Time five >ss (M), first; Kief- c; Lang (I11.), and >r third. Height, 11 .), stein (C), Forbes ), fourth. first; (M), Time onds. hurdles-Johnson (M), (W), second; Andrews ellin (M), fourth. Time nds. n--Otis (C), first; Den- nd; Crump (W), third; fourth. Time, 10 min- seconds. - Johnson (M), first; second; Haigh (M), d Williams (W), tieda ght, 5 feet 10 inches. [auser (Minn.), first; :nd; Nash (W), third; urth. Time, 2 minutes, LANDIS DECIDES AGAINST I. W. W. Chicago, March 23.--The plea of counsel for the I. W. W. for the re- turn of papers seized by federal agents in the nation-wide action against members of that organization under the espionage act, was denied by Judge Landis in the United States district court late today. At the same time Judge Landis or- dered the trial of the 166 members of the I. W. W. under indictment for alleged conspiracy against the gov- ernment. The trial was set for April 1. BROTHER OF ANN ARBOR MAN RECEIVES FRENCH WAR CROSS Charles B. Cummings, brother of Dr. H. H. Cummings of this city has been recently decorated with a croix de guerre for conspicuous bravery in transporting wounded over heavily bombarded roads after having him- self been asphyxiated by gas. The translation of the original cita- tion which is in French reads: "Charles B. Cummings, conducteur, has proven since his arrival at the front a great deal of courage and bravery, at the scene of evacuation on frequently bombarded roads, after having been asphyxiated by gas on Nov. 13. He transported wounded un- der fire when he himself should have been evacuated to a hospital." The permission to accept the cross came from his commanding officer in a letter as follows: "In care of Chief of Service U. S. A. I request permission to be given Charles B. Cummings a member of my command to accept the cross of war and a cita- tion from General -(censored) of Division of the French army to which we are attached." club at 8 'o'clock Wednesday night in University Hall, holds the distinction of being the first Latin production to be staged on the campus in "English. Having demonstrated its ability to handle classical drama in both Greek and Latin in "Menaechmi" and "Iphi- genia Among the Taurians," the Clas- sical club has changed its policy this year, and will bring "Phormio" before the public in English, in order to in- crease the students' interest by doing away with the objection to drama in a foreign tongue. The translation to be used has been prepared to meet the demands of both modern stage and audience. Follows Original Stage Business This change was made with the pur- pose of demonstrating the acting qual- ities of the play, and Terence's mas- tery of stage craft. The handling of the stage business in Prof. J. Raleigh Nelson's version of the production contains nothing original. Speaking of his translation of the play yesterday, Professor Nelson said, "I have merely subjected the play to the same sort of study which I would give to any play to be presented on any stage. The action and the stage business are not indicated in the an- cient text, but no one can attempt to interpret the lines by dramatic action without discovery that the stage busi- ness is unmistakably suggested by the text itself. I resent being accused of modernizing this little masterpiece. I have tried simply to interpret it, to reconstruct the original purpose of the master." (Continued on Page Six) was asked by the food administration tonight in order that the scant supply available before the next harvest may be stretched to meet the needs of the army, domestic consumers, and the allies. Every American is requested to cut his average ration of wheat by 50 per cent which would reduce the total normal consumption of 42,000,000 bushels a month to 21,000,000. This would give a ration of not more than one and one-half pounds of wheat products weekly. Flour sales will tion. The wheat content of baker's bread will be reduced to 75 per centeon April 14 which increases by 5 per cent the amount of substitutes that must be used. Sacrifice in the wheat ration will entail no hardship, is the opinion of the food administration, because the supply of potatoes, corn, oats and milk is ample to maintain health. Music School to Give Summer Course Practical music, theory and history courses will be given during the sum- mer session of the University School of Music. The courses will be equiva- lent to a full semester's work. Albert Lockwood, Theodore Harri- son, and Earl V. Moore, heads of de- partments will be in charge, and the following associate teachers will as- sist: Mrs. Byrl Fox Bacher, Frances Louise Hamilton, James Hamilton, Nora C. Hunt, Otto St. Stahl, Ada Grace Johnson, and Nell B. Stockwell. be cut to one-eighth of a any country consumer. I barrel forI Four Nationalities Mootet in Debate Four nationalities were represent- ed in the debate held by the Cosmo- politan club last night in the First Methodist church. The question was: Resolved, That women students should be admitted to the Cosmopolitan club as regular members. The decision was given to the affirmative, argued by F. C. Liu, '18, of China and L. Itz- kovich, '19E, of Russia. The negative team was made up of H. G. King, graduate student of Ann Arbor, and P. J. Klaphaak, '20, of the Netherlands. A. M. Elkind, '19E, was chairman of the debate, and the mem- bers of the society acted as judges. Following the debate, there was a general discussion of the question, which is being agitated as a measure of the society, but action was post- poned for the present. Plans for the third annual spring trip of the society were made -and it is expected that a large number of the members will make the trip. The next meeting of the society will be Friday night. MICHIGAN WINS FOUR OUT OF SIX POINTS IN DEBATE MEETS Michigan more tnan split even Fri- day night in the fourth annual Mid- west debate, although the negative team which met Illinois at Champaign lost by a 2 to 1 decision. By getting an unanimous decision at home, and one vote at Illinois, the total points for Michigan are four out of a pos-, sible six. The contest at Champaign was very close, according to a telegram receiv- ed from Prof. R. K. Immel yesterday morning, and the debate was unusu-j ally interesting. Odessa Doesn't Like to be Occupied Washington, March 23.-The muni- cipal council of Odessa has sent a dis- patch to the Austro-German authorit- ies to protest against Odessa's occu- pation, according to official dispatches Unless the Germans have s invention, no such range as is conceivable. The most guns in action heretofore ha able to hurl their project 20 miles or thereabouts. The caliber of the shells Paris, 240 millimetres, is eq to about 9 1-2 inches. Th German siege pieces fire shells. Berlin via London (Official 23.-The official statement fi eral headquarters this evenin; "The first stage of the gre in France is ended. We have engagement near Monchy, St. Quentin, and La Fere. A erable part of the English beaten. "We are fighting approximx a line northwest of Bapaun onne and Ham. HAIG REPORTS STRONG N ATTACKS NEAR JUSSY S London, March 23.- The continuing with the greatest on the whole front of the Scr er, Field Marshall Haig's re night says. "South and west of St. Que troops have taken up their n tions and we are engaged wit emy. "During the night strong ho tacks in the neighborhood c were repulsed with great los enemy. "Onthe northern portion of tle front the enemy's attack h pressed with the utmost deter and regardless of losses. Ot have maintained their positio greater part of this front afte: and prolonged struggle. "Great gallantry has been sl the troops engaged in thefig this area. The 19th and t divisions distinguished thems one sector. Six hostile kttac beaten off by one of our infan ades." The official announcement that Paris is being bombarded n unexplained until further details have been received. The stat dispatch that the shortest distance from Paris to the front is o metres indicates that there has been no breach in the battle line such as would permit of bringing up guns to within what has viously regarded as the extreme range of heavy pieces. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Huron and Division LEONARD A. BARRETT speaks 10:30 A. M-The Imperial Christ Noon Student Class--How we Got Our Bible Wesleyan Guild Lecture JAMES A. BU RfN'S "Burns of the Mountains" TONIGHT e.hTONIGHT 7:30 e oc 7:30 e British in passage of 'the stream