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SOUTHERN
DAI LY
CALIFORNIA
TROJAN
United Pre** World Wide New* Service
Volume XXVII
Los Angeles, California, Tuesday, March 31, 1936.
Number 1 10
Bruno Doomed Committee Lauds To Die Tonight Thelma Woodruff,
Dance Vocalist
For Kidnapping
Court of Pardons Rejects Appeal for Clemency; All Barriers Gone
Mrs. Hauptmann Collapses
Convicted Man Confident Though New Evidence Is Not Credited
TRENTON. NJ., March 30 — OLE) —Bruno Richard Hauptmann will walk 30 paces from his cell at 8:20 p.m. tomorrow and be electrocuted or the murder of Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr.
At dusk today the court of pardons rejected his application for mency, and tonight Attorney eneral David T. Wilentz said that tually the last barrier to Haupt-ann's execution had been remov-
What Wilentz was referring to was
hat, although Hauptmann is doom-en, another man—Paul H. Wendel
mm
Bruno Hauptmann
. . . will die tonight
te ta Mercer county jail here arged with the crime for which uptmann is going to die.
Wendel has repudiated a confes-ion of the kidnaping he made, anci ilentz said nothing in this strange ast-minute development would pre-lt the execution of Hauptmann. Mrs. Anna Hauptmann, the wife ho has been battling for her hus
Thelma Woodruff, soloist, will sing with Bill Fleck’s orchestra during the A.S.U.S.C. elections dance Friday night at the Riviera
Elections Affair To Take Place At Riviera
“Winsome, charming, broad-smiled and daintily lovely” are the adjectives used to describe Thelma Woodruff, “the girl with the voice as golden as her hair,” who will sing with Bill Fleck’s orchestra when it furnishes music for the elections dance at the Riviera country club Friday night.
This was the statement issued by members of the committee that chose the orchestra for the all-university affair, after completing arrangements with Bill Fleck and his musicians.
Also Screen Actress Thelma Woodruff’s talents have x not been confined only to vocaliz-
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country club. Miss Woodruff has ,
been a featured actress in M-G-M motion pictures.
Visiting Dean Will Address Graduates
‘Vocational Opportunities’ To Be Topic of Talk By Dr. Knudson
Featuring as guest speaker Dr. Verne O. Knudsen. dean of graduate studies at U.C.L.A., the associated graduate students will hold a luncheon today at 12:25 p.m., in the Cottage Tea Room.
“Vocational Opportunities for Graduate Students” is the subject of his talk. Dr. Knudsen is well j nd's life for more than a year, j qualified to speak on this subject,
med to realize that Wilentz was lling the truth. She collapsed in or hotel suite and a physician j&s summoned. He said she was iffering from fatigue and over--ought nerves.
Hauptmann was not informed im-ediately that the law had meas-ed his life down to one day, but U through the morning and after-he was calm and bouyant.
“I have reconciled myself with
for he is an educator and experimentalist.
Dean Knudsen has been experimenting for many years on intricate problems of acoustics and sound engineering. During his work in this field he wrote “Architectural Acoustics,” the most complete treatise on the subject that has been wiiiten. He has also acted as acoustic consultant in the motion picture industry and is largely re-
he told his spiritual adviser, sponsible for sound-carrying de-
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inal Meeting (or Sinclair Is Held
vices in such structures as the Hollywood Bowl. He was the organizer and president of the Acoustical Society of America.
As a physicist, he conducted experimental research on the absorption of sound in gases, and in 1934 was awarded a prize of $1,000 for the results by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His experiment was designed as the most outstanding scientific contribution of the year.
All graduate students and faculty members have been invited to attend the luncheon by Dr. Rockwell D. Hunt, dean of the Graduate School. Reservations may be made in the graduate office.
Bringing her campaign for the of-of secretary of the associated dents to a close. Ruth Sinclair eld her final meeting at the Phi ppa Tau house last night.
Two prominent students spoke to e crowd on the merits and qualifications of the candidate. They also pointed out the various activities in which Miss Sinclair has participated since her comming to school.
Ben Franklin, president of inter-fraternity council, pointed out that in the candidates career on the campus of Southern California she has worked in a great many extra-curricula activities and gained the experience necessary for the office.
Margaret King, Amazon and mem- Can you paint a backdrop, or sew ber of Mortar Board, a^o spoke on ] f ^ume. or act the villainT^CaU the qualities of the candidate.
Entertainment for the evening, was introduced by George Hill, campaign manager, who presented Peggy Mullholland and Walt Schuman.
J completed a picture with Grace , Mtoore, opera star, and Jackie Coo-| gan at M.GM. studios.
Movie experience also is one of the claims of Fleck’s orchestra, which is now in production on “Sky Bound,” a picture featuring Eddie Nugent, Grant Withers, Lona Andre, and Lloyd Hughes.
Good Music Promised •
“All In all, this should convince Trojans that first rate rhythm will be suppied for the elections dance,” stated Jack Warner, orchestra committee chairman.
Site of the dance, at which election winners names will be announced, is to be the beautiful ballroom of the Riviera country club, located on a high bluff overlooking the rolling greensward of the golf course below, near Brentwood Heights.
After completing a 30-weeks engagement at the Cafe de Paree, night club located across from Westlake park. Fleck and his orchestra toured the Pacific coast, playing for student dances on many university campuses. The aggregation previously fulfilled a year’s appearance at the Beverly Hills hotel and another lengthy run at the Grand hotel in Santa Monica.
Orchestra Distinctive
His orchestration style is characterized by the amplified guitar, filling in rhythmical airs to the syn-chopation of the eight-piece orchestra.
Bids for the dance are on sale at the University book store cashier’s office and may be obtained from a crew of 25 ticket-sellers, headed by Coalson Morris, for the mere pittance of un dollar y cincuenta centavos, un dolar et demi, unway ol-larday anday Iftyfay entssay, or, in plain old English, a buck four-bits.
Foreign Award Will Be Given To S.C. Friday
University To Be Honored For Promoting Peace Among Nations
Mayor Shaw WiU Attend
Annual Prizes Previously Won by Institutions In Eastern U.S.
Elections
Calendar
Rated as outstanding among the universities of the United States for work in promoting international goodwill and friendly understanding the University of Southern California will receive the award of the Federation Interallie des Anciens Combattants Friday morning at a special assembly to be held in Bovard auditorium.
J. Ray Murphy, national commander of the American Legion, will present the award which was voted at the congress of F.IDA.C., held in Brussels last September. The American Legion is the American branch of this organization, which has headquarters in Paris, with membership of 8,000,000 allied world war veterans of 11 nations.
Among those who will attend the presentation ceremony are Mayor Frank L. Shaw, Frank A Bouelle,
Today
8	pjn. — Foy Draper, candidate for president, will hold his final meeting on the tennis courts of the Alpha Delta Pi house, 919 W. Adams street. Walt Schuman’s orchestra, Jimmy Tolson, KFWB singer, and Camille Sorae, from Sardi’s will offer the entertainment. Refreshments, cigars, cigarettes, and talks.
Tomorrow
7:30 p.m. — Norm Johnson, candidate for president, will hold his final meeting on the greensward between the Alpha Chi house and the Phi Psi house, weather permitting. Details later as to entertainment and speakers.
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9	p.m. — Jim Krueger, candidate for president, will hold his final meeting in the social hall of Elisabeth von KleinSmid hall, 866 W. 36th street. Plenty of political
House Hits at Opponents of New Levy Bill
Corporation Chief Revealec To Have Salary, Bonus In Losing Company
Business Firms
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Tax Revisions Will Fail To Meet Demands, Warns Revenue Executive
WASHINGTON, March 30 — (HE) —The house ways and means com mittee today “cracked down” on business opponents of the administration’s new tax bill disclosing that the president of a Boston corporation received $3,442.71 in salary
speeches by students, and enter- and bonus in 1934 although the
tainment furnished by Buster Crabbe. Refreshments, cigars, cigarettes, and talks.
Dramatists Will Gather Today In Touchstone
Persians Recall America Consul
WASHINGTON, March 30—<U.E>— The Iranian (Persian) government has Informed the state department that It te withdrawing its diplomatic and consular representatives in the United States, the United Press learned tonight.
The withdrawal constitutes a partial break in relations between Iran and the United States. Iran took the step in protest over allegedly discourteous remarks in the Amer- j ican press after detention of Iranian Minister Ghaffar Djalal in Elk-ton, Maryland, some months ago on charges of speeding.
Relations with Iran will be maintained through the American diplomatic mission in Teheran.
North China Line’s Ship Is Reported in Danger
MANILA. Tuesday, March 31 — (CJ?)—The S.S. Peian is aground and in need of immediate assistance, according to radio advices reported by Radio Corporation of America todsj.
The vessel's position was given as tude 20.08 north and latitude
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is being issued for scenic artists, play directors, actors, costume designers. property managers and makeup artists by Isabel Hanawalt, play productions manager, to meet with the Touchstone Drama Shop this afternoon in Touchstone theater at 3:30.
Work will begin on eight one-act student-written plays competing for production in the annual Apolliad. Main leads for the plays have already been chosen, and will be announced at this time.
Members of the playwright division who will do the directing of the student plays are Dwight Garner, Marian Chaise, Cecile Webster, Maxine Harris. Bob Eddy, Elaine Gottleib, Peggy Smith, and William Paulson.
Grace Libby Ends Election Campaign
Closing her campaign as a candidate for the office of student body secretary, Grace Libby stressed her two-point platform at the final meeting last night.
One plank of the platform advocated the publication of the minutes of the legislative council in the columns of the Daily Trojan to inform the students of the progress being made by the governing body of student organization.
Secondly, Miss Libby intends to coordinate the work of the secretary of the student body with the work of the secretary to the president. To accomplish this the candidate stressed the necessity of a worker that knows the organization of student government.
Chi Phi fraternity, through Wilbur Brown, president, read a letter pledging 100 per cent support to the campaign of Miss Libby.
Mayor Shaw
. , . will attend
superintendent of the Los Angeles city schools; Herbert Legg, chairman of the board of supervisors of Los Angeles county; Francis Evans, British consul; F. B. Janovsky, consul from Czechoslovakia: and the Rev. Hugh M. Duce, president of Loyola university.
The jury of award, appointed by last year’s American Legion commander, Frank N. Belgrano Jr., included the Rev. Robert J. White of Washington, D.C., American vice-president of F.I.D.A.C.; Gen. L. R. Cignilliat of Culver Military academy, Culver, Ind.; Dr. Lindsey Blayney, dean of Carleton college, Northfield, Minn.; and Dr. Frederick P. Woellner, U. C. L. A.
Baseball Squad Will Have Early Voting
“In order that athletes leaving for the baseball games this weekend do not lose the opportunity to vote in the student body elections. they will be permitted to vote tomorrow.” Tex Kahn, commissioner of elections, announced.
“A ballot box will be stationed in the student body office in the Student Union, and two Amazons will supervise the balloting.” he explained. Athletes who wish to avail themselves of this privilege should come to the office between 2 and 4 p.m. tomorrow.
Four Pledged by Alpha Kappa Psi
Alpha Kappa Psi, national professional commerce fraternity, held a formal pledging ritual yesterday at 3:30 p.m., in the men’s lounge on the third floor of Student Union.
Dr. Benjamin Haynes, secretary of the department of administration at S.C., Arnold Anderson, Chester Winbright, and Lowell Martin were named as pledges to be initiated, according to Ed Yale, president of the fraternity.
These pledges will be initiated In a formal affair to be held near the end of the present semester, Yale continued. Plans are being made to hold the ceremonies in conjunction with those to be held at U.CL.A., and to have a formal dinner dance afterward, he concluded.
Soviet Soldiers Seize Japanese Military Agents
Copyright, 1936, by United Press.
TOKYO, Tuesday, March 31—(HE) —The tense situation between Japan and Soviet Russia in the “no man’s land” between western Man-chukuo and outer Mongolia, was further complicated today by the reported seizure of three Japanese military agents by Mongol-Soviet
L.A.S. Will Gather Tomorrow Morning
Cullenward Calls Assembly To Nominate Officers For Coming Year
Calling for nominations for officers of the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, Nelson S. Cullenward, president, will call to order the official student body meeting at 10 o’clock tomorrow in Bovard auditorium.
As a result of the recent ruling of the A.S.U.S.C. Legislative council, there will be no election, as of previous years, of the College of Letters, Arts, and Science council members. This year only the president of this student body will participate on the legislative council.
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The agents, a Manchu and two Lawlessi Hal Kleinschmidt, and
Nelson Cullenward
. . . calls L.A.S. assembly
Election of a vice-president, however, a practice which has been discontinued for several years, will be revived, Cullenward stated.
In addition to nominations received from the floor, Fred Keenan and Bob Norton will be nominated for president. To fill the office of vice-president, candidates are Joyce Rippe, Virginia Schugart, and Aileen Brown. Short speeches will be allowed each candidate by the presiding officer.
Members of the council for this vear included Lucy Ann MacLean, Gerda Boorse, Fred Keenan, Tom
Koreans, were sent into the disputed territory at a point north of Laka Hanka to confer with the Soviet officers commanding Mongol forces in the region. They had not returned today and it was believed they were held by the Russo-Mon-gol troops who hoped to gain information from them about the strength of the Manchu-Japanese forces.
Headquarters of the Japanese Kwantung army in Hsinking. capital of Manchukuo, announced that two Soviet-Mongol airplanes had dropped leaflets announcing they were “closing the border” in the region of Lake Boinor. Later the planes bombed a Manchu-Japanese outpost killing one soldier and wounding four.
Myra Haynes.
“It is necessary for all members of the Letters, Arts, and Sciences student body to attend the annual assembly,” Cullenward declares.
Conferences Will Decide David Lamson Trial Issue
company paid no dividends for five
years.
The Incident occurred after Guy T. Helvering, commissioner of internal revenue, bluntly warned the group that proposed tax revisions fail to meet President Roosevelt’s demands for additional revenue He urged that other sources of cash be tapped and that exemptions be kept at a minimum.
Fight Threatens Party Meantime, the fight over the measure which threatens to cut sharply across party lines, broke on the floor of the house where the bill was denounced by Rep. Arthur Lamneck, D., Ohio. He charged the proposed revisions would “penalize frugality and other business virtues that tend to build and not destroy.” The Ohio congressman offered a substitute proposal which would increase the present corporation taxes to raise an additional $500,000,000 and obtain another $270,000,000 by repealing the present law which exempts corporation dividends from application of normal income tax rates. Lamneck is a member of the ways and means committee and he carried his fight into the committee room where first hearings on the tax measure were in progress.
Atmosphere Is Tense The salary incident indicated the tense atmosphere surrounding consideration of the tax bill and that Democratic members of the committee are prepared to combat every argument against the measure. It developed while Melville F. Weston, of Boston, Mass., director of and attorney for Raymond - Whitcomb, Inc., which operates travels, tours, and cruises, was appearing in opposition to the bilL The corporation, Weston testified, had been reorganized as a result of the depression and had progressed from suffering a $12,000 loss in 1932
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SAN JOSE. March 30 — (IIP)— Conferences to be opened Wednesday by District Attorney Fred Thomas and his aides will determine whether David Lamson must face trial a fifth time on murder charges, it was indicated today.
Allen P. Lindsay, prosecutor in Lamson’s previous trials is due back in his office Wednesday.
Campus Will Be Treed by Back-Biting ‘Yellow Dog’
The “Yellow Dog,” mongrel cur which is released annually from its kennel by pledges of Sigma Sigma to make Trojan candidates and socialites alike quake in fear, will descend
upon S. C. tomorrow.
All of which is a means of saying that the campus junior
men’s honorary will sell its yearly ♦Juergens and Worth Larkin, special
razz sheet edition tomorrow morning being retailed by the 51 new members of the organization, attired in ribald costumes.
Offering assurance that “nothing will be withheld.” Lionel Van Deerlin, editor of the edition, yesterday announced that his staff will offer
L. A. Aids Sufferers
By United Press This city’s fund to aid eastern flood sufferers yesterday reached $23,065, following contributions from the Hollywood American Legion,
There will be no Daily Trojan tomorrow because of the issuance of the Sigma Sigma “Yellow Dog.” Thursday the regular schedule of Daily Trojan will be continued.
the unadulterated truth of the current political campaign.
Chosen as staff members of the issue are Nelson Cullenward, sports; Jim Kerr, advertising; and Phil
stooge” assignees.
“If you want the real facts on this feud between the baseball nine and track team, just see what I have to say in the ‘Yellow Dog’ tomorrow," warned Cullenward. Proof that S.C.’s undefeated frosh basketball teams bribe opposition in order to secure victories will also be offered, according to Nelly.
“You don’t think I’ve been hanging around the Elisabeth von KleinSmid hall for nothing, do you?” questioned Juergens. "I’ll say not! Boy, I’ve really got the goods on the dorm gals!”
Larkin was more conservative in his declarations regarding the Sigma Sigma journalistic (?) effort. “It’s going to be absolutely the best razz sheet in Trojan history,” Larkin quietly sneered.
Goodwill Banquet Planned for April
Promotion of goodwill, will be the aim of the Latin-American banquet to be held in the Foyer of Town and Gown Thursday evening, April 16.
President Rufus B. von KleinSmid will preside over the meeting, while Leo Carillo, Mexican screen star, has been asked to act as the master of ceremonies.
The entire banquet will be carried out on a Latin-American theme. Food will be prepared by Spanish cooks and each course will be made to represent a Latin-American country.
All consuls from the Latin countries, who are now stationed in Los Angeles will be present and will be introduced individually.
Amazons Choose 31 New Members To Organization
Coeds Honored In Assembly by Group s Leader
Plans Banquet
Tom Beckwith, president of Alpha Delta Sigma, is assisting with the preparation for tomorrow night’s annual banquet to be staged by the S.C. chapter of the national professional advertising fraternity at the Mona Lisa restaurant.	^
Movie Director To Speak on Cartoons
Alpha Delta Sigma To Have Harmon-Ising Executive For Dinner Talk
Official Pledging Ceremony To Take Place Today In Council Room
With Norman Blackburn, well-known motton picture director, as guest speaker, Aipha Delta Sigma, national professional advertising fraternity, will hold its annual joint agency-alumni dinner Wednesday evening at 6:30 p.m. in the banquet hall of the Mona Lisa restaurant, 3343 Wilshire boulevard.
Blackburn has been associated as producing director for 10 years with the Harmon-ising studios, producers of nationally distributed animated cartoons such as Looney Tunes, Oswald, the Lucky Rabbit, and Betty Boop.
He has been connected with various phases of the motion picture industry, chiefly production, direction and recording. Blackburn will speak on “The History and Production of Animated Cartoons,” Illustrating his topic with diagrams and actual animated drawings.
As this te one of the most important meetings of the year, all members of the fraternity are requested to attend,” stated Tom Beckwith, president.
Thirty-one Trojan coeds yesterday were honored by being formally introduced as the newly elected Amazons for the coming year by Ida Mae Compere, president of the organization.
Chosen because of their service to the university in various organizations, campus government, and publications, the coeds were paid the highest honor attainable by women on the S.C. campus.
Official pledging of the coeds will take place in the Legislative council room on the fourth floor of the Student Union at 12:15 p.m. today. Black and white ribDons, the official color of the organization, will be pinned on each new member.
“It will be imperative that each member of the group be present at the meeting,” Miss Compere said.
The introduction of the new members was made yesterday at an assembly following a talk by Dean Mary Sinclair Crawford in which she emphasized the work of the organization as being the coordination of mind and spirit of the coeds on the campus.
Coeds named by the group were Martha Baird, Pauline Berg, Mary Jane Booth. Aileen Brown. Betty Eberhard, Carolyn Everington, Mary Evers, Carmen Fraide, Lucille Hoff. Virginia Holbrook, Ellen Holt, Josephine Kent, Helen James. Grace Libby, Lucy Ann MacLean, Dorothy McCurier Ruth Meilandt, Barbara Miller, Myra Morris, Mary Moore, Eleanor Northrup. Betty Rea. Joyce Rippe, Jane Rudrauff, Ruth Sinclair, Margaret Snyder, Sara Stoke-ley, Jo Swiggett, Freddie Taylor, Peggy Waggoner, Mary Walton, and Ruth Watanabe.
Dr. Gomperez To Address Greeks
Alumni members of Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi, Beta Gamma Sigma, and Tau Beta Pi, have been invited to be guests at a dinner-meeting of the Phi Beta Kappa alumni of southern California, Friday evening, April 17, at 6:30 p.m.
Dr. Heinrich Gomperez. professor of philosophy at the University of Vienna, and visiting member of the philosophy faculty of S.C., will address the meeting, discussing reasons for failure of democracy in eastern and central Europe. Dr. Richard E. Vollrath, associate professor of physics at S.C., will enlarge on recent discoveries in science. and Dr. Ralph T. Flewelling, director of the School of Philosophy, will speak on the “Influence of Scientific Discovery on Modern Thought.”
Victim of Bum Blockade Sues Chief of Police
By United Press The $5000 suit of John Langan, mining man, against Chief of Police James Davis for “bum blockade” activvffs was in the hands of United States Attorney Pierson Hall tonight following Langan’s withdrawal of charges today after alleged police “terrorism.”
Federal Judge Albert Lee Stephens referred the case to Hall after John C. Packard. Langan’s attorney, told the court that the dismissal had been prompted by police threats.	*
In his suit. Langan charges wie border patrol with refusing his entrance into California at Blythe.
Judge Stephens sent the entire record of the hearing to Hall, commenting “if counsel’s information is correct, a most flagrant attempt to obstruct justice has been made.”
Krueger Advocates ‘Service Bureau’
Asserting that the organization of the student service bureau would strike “a happy medium” in the issuance of appointments for student body offices, Jim Krueger held his second campaign meeting on the tennis courts of the Alpha Delta Pi house yesterday.
The organization to be known as the student service bureau, if Krueger is elected, will be composed of four persons, namely the president of the student body, the vice- president, the secretary, and the president of the Women’s Self Government association.
The power of appointment wouid be held by this committee, who, with the approval of the legislative council, would make all selections for student committees.
Entertainment for the meeting was furnished by Jimmy Dorsey and his entertainers from the Palomar. Bid Spicer, manager of the candidate, presided at the meeting, introducing Krueger to the crowd.
Amazons To Aid In Ballot Count
Appointments Due for Dental Clinic Candidates
Candidates who wish to appear before the students of the dental clinic, 16th and Los Angeles streets, should arrange to do so tomorrow at 9:30 ajn., officials of the College of Dentistry announced yesterday.
The only time candidates can appear before students of the dental technic building is at 1:30 pjn. tomorrow it was stated.
Wampus Meeting Called by ‘Fraud’ Editors
Sweeping changes in the Wampus staff were announced yesterday by S. Urquhart Roberts, assistant editor oro tem, who said that Phil Juergens and Worth Larkin had been given the editorial baton for the fraud number, to be issued April 15.
“As usual,” Roberts declared, “a meeting has been called at which plans will be formulated for the forthcoming year. We would appreciate it if Stan Roberts, Phil Juergens, Worth Larkin, Eloise Davies, Bill Roberts, Jack Warner, Ben Brady, Mary Bell, Monica Rice, Helen Mason, Eddie Stones, and Henry Bum-stead will attend. This meeting will be held in the Wampus office at 10 o’clock.’*
Counting of ballots in the student body elections Friday will be under the supervision of Trojan Amazons, women’s service society, announced Tex Kahn, elections commissioner, yesterday.
The Amazons will be supervised by the elections commissioner, counting the ballots in regular order, Kahn said.
Amazons are requested by Kahn to meet with him tomorrow morning at 9:55 in the chamoers of the legislative council, fourth floor Student Union, to receive instructions and make definite arrangements for the vote tabulation.
Representatives Chosen For Women’s Conference
Three Trojan coeds, Eileen Gannon, Elizabeth Dean, and Lucille Hoff, have been chosen to represent the University of Southern California at the western conference of associated women students taking place April 15 to 18 in Boulder, Colorado.
The latter two have also been placed on the national committee for the meeting of the conference which will occur on the S.C. campus in April, 1837.