', WEATHER I FAIR AND CONTINUED COLD TODAY YI4 3kP 41 E tl ASSN4 LEASED WESTERN C EDITORIALA __ VOL. XXXIV. No. 72 EIGHT PAGES ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1924 EIGHT PAGES PRICE, FIVE - * +\ |J FLOOD SPREAD IN SUBURBS OF PARI CITY ,OFFICIALS OPTIMISTIC WHILE PEOPLE WATCH ANXIOUSLY ELTFOR'IV:LLE SUfFRS SERIOUSLY FROM MARNE Miss Ethel Mae Tuel To Lead. 1925 J-Hop With Slaughter,'25E .. . j ! .. _ 1 Authorities Using Every Effort Aiding Marooned People To Find Shelter. In Ethel Mae Tuell, a senior of the nis champion of the city, having held University of Louisville and a native1 this position for several years. She yearas te prtne of ~ophas, been runner-up for the women's of that 'city, will lead the 1925 J-Hlop atb en t u e ofthyeat sywlla the 12 state tennis tournament for the past thispartner of Edliff R three years as well. Slaughter, '25E, general chairman. During the time that Miss Tuell has The Hop will be held on Friday, Feb. been in college, she has taken active 8, in Waterman and Barbour gym- part in other athletics as well as nasiums. tennis. She has been a member of Miss Tuell is one of the popular so- the university basketball team, acting cial leaders of the southern city, hav-' as captain of the team that won tl}E. ing taken. a leading part in the ac- state championship among similar tivities of that nature for the past few teams years. She is a graduate of the Girls' Ticket applications for . the Hop high school of Louisville. During her must be returned to the ticket com- period in that school she was also a! mittee by. Monday in order to receive leader in social and class activities. consideration. The committee, con- In .addition to being one ofIthe most sisting of- William Kerr, '25E, as prominent of the younger set in a chairmian, and of Charles Merriam social way, Miss Tuell is one of the '25E, and Ray Billington, '25, will act foremost athletes in Louisville. At! upon the applications at this time, re- the present time she is women's ten- turning them within a few days. .DY TOSPEAK-DEANS WILL HONOR H.E NEXT MONDAY.VISITIN6 ENGINEER CONGRESS RETURNS FRODM REGCESS FOR HOUSES EXPECT TO HIT STRIDE WHEN COMMITTEES HAVE COMPLETED WORK ELECTION OF COMMERCE CHAIRMAN UNSEI"TLED Revtling For Interstate Head Leaves Smith And Cummins Still Practically Tied , Retires ParIs, Jan. 3.-(By AP)-The ra- ages of the Seine floods are becoming more tragic in the suburbs, though the city officials remain optimistic as concerns Pari. Their optimism is not shared by many thousands of per- sons crowding the bridges who are watching anxiously as the water line creeps closer and closer to the high mark of 1910.. The most serious situation is at El- fortville, just east of Paris, where the swollen river Marne is sending down a rush of water that is carrying away embankments and flowing so swiftly through the streets adjacent to the river that the residents are unable to get away without the help of boats. Means to succor these floodbound people were insufficient tonight and calls for help were heard from houses where anxious faces at the windows gazed distractedly at the inpouring torrents. The authorities. {re using 'evey effort to 'aid the marooned people but many will have to spend the night in ho.uses where the ground floors are well awash. There is some comforting news fromthe basin of the Seine, whence comes the biggest part of the flood; it is to the effect that the affluents of the river are subsiding, though further off there are still great-quan- tities of snow, which unless the weath- er grows colder, will continue to melt rapidly, again swelling the streams that pour Into the Marne and the; Seine. PR POSE LLTO BC M RCIIATION1 Washington, Jan. 3.-Chairman Win- slow of the House interstate com- merce committee and Secretary Hoov- er, with the advice of the aviation experts, are engaged In drafting a new legislative proposal designed to' increase the efficiency and use of com mercial aircraft. The main purpose Mr. Hoover said today, is to establish a federal system of airplane inspec- tion, which would give some guaran- tee of security to the public as to the safety of machine and appliances for passenger carriages, sport, or ex- hibition. MAanufacturers of aircraft generally are anxious for such a federal policy Mr. Hoover added, pointing out that a bill brought forward by Senator Wadsworth, Rep., New York, for a sim- ilar purpose passed the Senate last year' but failed of enactment in the House. FOLOWING BREAKDOWN Reports received at The Daily of- flice late yesterday indicated a gen- eral improvement in the condition of Howard A. Donahue, '24, man ging editor of The Daily, who is confined to his home in Lansing by a general breakdown. Donahue was found in an uncons- cious condition near his home Tues- day 'night, and an early diagnosis in- dicated pressure on the brain. Sub- sequent examination proved this de- cision to be incorrect, and the phy- sician in attendance expects that Don- ahue will be able to return to the University within two weeks. DEANWHITNEY TTENDS STATE TEACHES MEET Dean Allen S. Whitney, of the Uni- versity School of Education, attended the Michigan state Teachers conven- tion at Lansing and presided at the dinner given last Thursday at the con- vention. Professor Calvin O. Davis, of the School of Education, spoke on Dec. 27 at a meeting of the Ohio state teach- ers convention held at Columbus. His topic was "The Training of Secondary, Judge is Well Known Lecturer and Authority on Delin. quency WILL BE SIXTH SPEAKER ON ORATORICAL LECTURE SERIES Judge Ben B. Lindsey, of Denver. well-known lecturer and world au- thority on Juvenile delinquency, will speak at 8 o'clock Monday night in Hill auditorium on "Experiences with Kids". Judge Lindsey is being brought to Ann Arbor by the Oratorical as-' sociation and will offer the sixth num- ber of the ten which comprise the lecture course. The speaker has appeared in this city once before on the Oratorical lecture course, two years ago. At that 1 time l he was said to be one of' the most popular speakers of the year In addition Judge Lindsay las spoken in Detroit several times recently. Fame was first gained by Judge Lin- dsey through his work as judge of the Juvenile Court of Denver. He became judge .of that court in 1901, and his inspiration has led to many other courts, based on the Denver court. being founded over the country. He has been, for years the leading pro- mter of the juvenile court system and was the originator of many of its features. Judge Lindsey has not only been recognized In this country but holds a world-wide reputation in matters1 concerning the court. Many European nations have sent delegation to Den- ver to learn his methods, and Japan even went so far as to take pic- tures of the court room in order to reproduce it exactly. Several books touching the prob- lem of the children of today have been written by the man who is to speak here Monday. Monday night's lecture will be the sixth number on the Ora- torical association course. Tickets for the address are one dollar. Union Production Praised By mby Letters of comendation on the re- markable success of the 1923 Michi- gan Union Opera, 'Cotton Stockings" are being received by Mr. E. Mort- imer Schuter from many prominent men who witnessed the production in the cities in which it payed during the holidays. One was from Mr. Ed- win Denby, secretary of the Navy, who was present when the opera made its Sappearancein Washington, D. C. "I had the pleasure last night of attending the Michigan Opera with some friends," said Mr. Denby, "and we were all perfectly delighted with the show. How it is done I do not know, but you have succeeded in pro- ducing an entertainment equal to any- thing profesional I have ever seen. You may be sure my pride in Michi- gan lost nothing of its intensity on ac- count of this fine, 'clean and attract- 4ve entertament.", Mr. Denby graduated from this in- stitution with the class of '96L and saw the opera in Washington with many other government officials of prominence. SANTA CLAUS Has replaced the old for the new. What are you going to do with the old? To someone it will be as good if not better than the new and besides there is the least, posdibility that the 4money ob- tainabh will nm in hand.U se Luncheon Will Be Held Today Union For W. E. Wickenden At GUEST TO SPEAK TOMORROW I BEFORE ENGINEERING FACULTY Deans of the University will gather this noon in room 319 of the Union for a luncheon tendered by Dean Mortimer E. Cooley of the engineering college in honor of Mr. W. E. Wick- enden, who has recently been placed in charge of a national investigation of engineering education in the Unit- ed States being conducted under the auspices of the Carnegie Foundation, and the Society for the Promotion of, Engineering 3iducation. Mr. Wicken- , den will arrive in Ann Arbor this morning. The visit to the University of Mr Wickenden will mark. the beginning. of a comprehensive survey of the en- gineering schools of the country which is being conducted by the ex- ecutive board of the S. P. E. E. He will investigate the curricula, build- ings, and equipment of the local coll-1 ege and will confer with the local1 committee composed of Prof. J. Ral- eigh Nelson of the department of en- gineering english, chairman; Profm Louis Hopkins, secretary of the engin- eering college; Prof. W. E. Hoad, I head of the department of .sanitary engineering; Prof. J. H. Cannon, of the electrical engineering depart- ment; and Prof. James Aairey, direct-1 or of th engineering shops which has been cooperating with the national board by an investigation of conditions .here in the University. At 6:15 o'clock tonight members of the local committee will attend A j dinner in the main dining room of! the Union at which Mr. Wickenden will be the guest; and tomorrow night: the entire faculty of the engineering3 college will be given the opportunity of haring the Mr. Wickenden discuss, his plans at another dinner which will be given in the rooms 318-20 of' the Union. ' . Although Mr. Wickenden has for the past few years held an executive position with the American Telephone E and Telegraph company, he has had a constant association with college men. He has had charge of the in-' troduction into the telephone business of more than 2500 college graduates, 1500 of whom were graduated from engineering colleges. He has theld several important positions with other' large corporations, previous to which he was professor of electrical engin- eering at -the University of WisconsinI and at the Massachusetts Institute ofI Technology. Washington, Jan. 3.-(By AP)- Congress returned today from its holiday recess, listened to several hours of pent up oratory, transacted a few routine details, and then ad- journed until Monday. Next week, with committees at work both the Sen- ate and House are scheduled to get finally into a stride which will carry them up to adjournment, planned for before the national political conven- tions next summer. Discuss Tax Reductions Work on administrative features of the Mellon tax reduction bill was re- sumed by the House ways and means committee, which hopes to bring forth legislation in ten days or two weeks. The first appropriation bill of the session, that for the interior depart- ment, is to be presented to the House next Tuesday, followed by the Army and Navy budgets. 'The Senate today made another in- effectual effort to elect' a chairman of the interstate . commerce committee by taking two more ballots. The vot- ing stood approximately as before, Senator Cummins, Republican, Iowa, receiving 28 and 29 respectively for re-election; Senator Smith; Demo- crat, S. C., receiving 31 'bn both ballots and Senator Couzens, Rep. Michigan, 11: LaFollette Returns Nine insurgent Republicans and the two farmer-labor Senators voted for Senator Couzens, their strength be- ing increased by Senator LaFollette, Republican, Wisconsin, who has been ill and ..returnea to the Senate today: for the first time this session. . A solution 'of the contest is looked for next week, however, discussions today centering upon plans to shelve the fight on the Senate floor and leave to the committee itself, tempor- arily, at least the selection of a chair- man or a temporary presiding officer. Amendment of rules is to be taken, up soon in the House. The rules com- mittee will meet tomorrow to con- sider changes being urged by the progressive and insurgent Republican groups and hopes to bring out recom- niendation for discussions by the House by January 14. E i . Il (; , a. I ' l 3f I r: t F Frank B. Leland Regent Leland who retired from the Board of Regents at its last meeting, will be succeeded by Ralph Stone of Detroit. During his two terms of of- fice he invested and re-invested more than $50,000,000 in trust funds for the University, and though the country passed through one financial panic during this period there never wash a delay in the payment of interest on the University's investments, officials state. HUGHES DEFNDS{ RUSSIAN POLICY State Department Makes Pubii Long Communication From Zinoviez NEWSPAPER IN ENGLISH TO AID MOVEMENT IS BELIEF Washington, Jan. 3-(By A.P.)- Secretary Hughes resumed the ag- gressive today in defense of the ad- ministrative policy of refusing to deal with soviet Russia, while that gov- ernment continued to direct revolu- tionary propoganda in the United States. Tlie state department, by Mr Hughes' direction, made public a tran- slation of a long communication "to American Communists".signed by G Zinoviez and which appeared in the issue of Dec. 141923, of the Moscow Pravda, the translation including the, following note carried by the Moscow! paper in explanation of the article: "Rewritten at the. request of the American comrades for the first num- ber of the Daily communist newspa- per (in English) "Daily Worker" which will appear on Jan. 1, 1924 in New York". Zinoviez is identified in the state department's announcement as "Presi-' dent of the Petrograd Soviet; Presi- dent of the Communists Internation- ale, Member of the All Russian cen- tral executive committee and mem- ber of the federation central execu- tive committee". The article translated hails the ad- vent of a Daily communist's newspa- per in English in America as "a great e'ent not only for the American la- bor movement but.alo for the whole communist international." JONSN OPESOHIO' FIGHT FOR ELECIN Cleveland, Jan. 3-(By A.P.)-A bit- ter attack on the Republican national committee for its action in increasing southern delegate representation 't the national convention, a big gun bombardment against the administra- tion for supplying arms and' amuni- tion to the Obregon forces in Mexico and a thrown gauntlet' to the Ohio Republican state central committee which indorsed President Coolidge for the Republican nomination marked the opening address of Senator Hiram Johnson, of California, in his canm- paign for the Presidential nomination here tonight. Senator Johnson also. made an at- tack on. the foreign policy of the administration, reiterated his Chica- go speech insofar as it referred to his unqualifiedly favoring a soldier's bon- 'us, cautioned the people to look care- fully in the Mellon taxation plan, al- though advocating a reduction in tax- es in no uncertain terms, advocated help for the farmers by the lowering of freight rates and finished with a scathing . arraignment of those who would have the country join the world court. The Day's News At1 The Capitol Congress convened after the holiday recess and adjourned until Monday. Lower anthracite prices were demand- ed in an address by Representative Treadway, Republican, Mass. Consideration of the administration tax bill was resumed by the house ways and means committee. Lewis Marshall, of New York, at- tacked proposed further immigration restrictions before the House immi- gration committee. Another failure marked the Senate's efforts to elect a chairman of the in- terstate commerce committee. Pedro Guezara, resident commis- sioner for the Philippines, 'advocated Philippine independence in an address in the House. Representative Upshaw, Georgia,' and Blanton, Texas, democrats, in- troduced a resolution to stop drink- ing liquor in official life. A resolution authorizing investi- gation of the election of Senator Mayfield, Democrat, Texas was adopt- ed by the Senate. President Coolidge 'called the shipp- ing board and othersnto the White House for a conference on the Mer- chant Marine problems. The shipping board was asked by the Senate what efforts had been made to forestall decisions of American organizations to travel on foreign ships. Additional' evidence was made pub- lic by the state department in support of its charge that Russian soviet pro- paganda is being directed against this country. POWERFUL NEW X-RY TUBE GLLED SUCCESS New York, Jan. 3-(By A.P.)--De- velopment of a new X-ray tube for cancer treatment with such high em- missive power that the time required for exposure. of patients can be re-. duced from 2 or 3 hours to 20 min- utes was announced tonight by -Dr. Francis 0. Wood, director of the 1Crocker Institute for Cancer research at Columbia university. Dr. 0. T. Ul- rey, research engineer of the Westing- house Lamp company, is the inventor Radiating five or six times as many curative rays as the ordinary tube the new X-ray machine which has been used successfully at St. Luke's hos- pital for the last three months, en- ables specialists to treat a much larg-I er number of persons and to treat them more effectively than at present, said Dr. Wood. I ,_ TROO0P MOVEMENTS IN, DUHR ZONE CONTINUES London, Jan. 3.-A dispatch from Dusseldorf says it is officially. an- nounced that the general staff of the army of occupation will leave Dussel- dorf during the first fortnight dur- ing January .for Mayence. .General Degoutte, however, will maintain 1 his headquarters in Dusseldorf. The I various civil services now in Dussel- dorf will be grouped together and re- main there. Paris, Jan. 3.-A dispatch to the Havas agency from Dusseldorf says the regrouping of French troops in the Ruhr and the Rhineland which began December 28 is continuing. Thus far, the dispatch adds, seven infantry regiments have been with- drawn from the occupied region. ENG1AND ANXIOUS OVER WAR.LOAN REPYMENTS TRAPPED \WORKE KILLED IN 011 ATSTARCH PU BETWEEN 30 AND 40 EMPLOI REPORTED DEAD OR MISSI BY OFFICIALS EFFORTS OF RESCUEB HAMPERED BY WEAT Explosion, Probably Caused by Rocks Country-side With I Violence Pekin, Ill., Jan. 3-By A.P. ward of two score of workers, po victims of an explosion and fire early today destroyed two bul of the Corn Products company here still were missing tonight day the' employment office iss statement listing between 34 a persons as dead or missing, jured in hospitils, and 1 probab ,ally hurt, and 14 injured remov their homes. Superintendent H. B. Lawto night issued a statement to the that he could not tell how many killed as some workmen may left the plant without checking Keep Flames in Control The explosion caused probal dust rocked the country side w yiolence. Tonight the fire whh lowed was still burning. Fli from Pekin and Peoria kept the in check but their efforts add the difficulty of relief workers b ering the debree with a heavy c of ice. A second shift of wr had accomplished nothing at fall except to clear away some debree. Nearly all the dead missing,.a jured are Americans, residents o little town, whose 13,000 people torn with similar grief in 1917 the river steamer Columbia b( Pekin excursionists to ra grave Illinois river. State and federal investigatio the explosion were in sight ton . There were 1,000,000 lbs of sta the buildings destroyed, which Chemist R. .' Shermnan, said tained 12 per cent moisture. starch of this moisture content have produced explosive dust sul to cause the extreme damage do plant, was a thing he added, tb could not explain. Comedy Club To Offer New Plays t N i i OFFER KIPKE COACHING POST WITHMIAMI STAFF Columbus, 0., Jan. 3.-(By AP)- Harry Kipke, Michigan's football and basketball star, may become a mem- ber of the coaching staff of Miami An innovation will be offered by the Comedy Club in their third program to be presented Thursday, Jan.10, in Sarah Caswell Angell. Hall at 8:15 o'- clock, consisting of two one-act plays "At the Hawks Well" by William But- ler Yeats and, "The Key"by Franz 4Molnar. Both of these plays are of a type not commonly seen in Ameri- ca and neither of them have been produced before in this country. "At the Hawk's Well", is Yeats most recent play and in his most modern manner. It is an Irish dance drama and tells a weird, fantastic story of man's quest after immortality," thel water of a hidden spring that seldom' flows symobilzes his desire. The old man who has wasted his life in the search falls asleep at th ecrucial mo-' ment, while the young man full of conflence and hope is distracted by the purely physical and sensual beau- ty ofa kawk. Marian Miller, '24, who takes the prominent part of the Hawk, studied 'for some time under Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn, while Gordon Wier '25, is already well known for his un- ique dances. The cast includes I-or- tense Road, '24, Donald Snyder, '25 Robert Henderson. '26, Elwood Fay- field, '25. The cast of "The Key" in- cludes Mattie Proudfoot, '24, and Rhea Schlaak, '24. As a further corroboration of the significance of this program, the Com-. edy Club has been invited to present the plays before the Ypsilanti Play- ers the following day in the Ypsilanti Playhouse. Washington, Jan. 3.-A resolution ,authorizing the investigation of the election of Senator Mayfield, Demo- crat, Texas, was adopted today by thej senate.f Peoria, Ill, Jan. 3.-Between 21 30 men, trapped in the baseme the starch works of the Corn ducts Co. plant at Pekin, Ill., a lieved to have been killed by th plosion which wrecked the bt at 3:35 a. m. today. More tha other workmen were injured, of 20 probably will die of burns, clans said. Rescuers report seeing sever dies in the basement, but the; be unable to reach them unt flames are controlled. The plant employed ,about 80 and it is- estimated that 250 w work in the starch house whe explosion occurred. They were hers of the night shift which w at 11 p. m. Among the victim, were about 25 workers due to at 4 a. m. The cause of the blast has ni been determined, but it is be was caused by a dust explosion blast was so terrific that box alongside the plant were shatte blown off the tracks. The wrecked 'the starching establis table and retable house, and I causing more than $600,000 da' Employee Plays Hero Trapped on the third floor, Lichtweiss, 26 years old, sang follow workers for nearly an b calm them, and when the last was cut off, jumped from the 1 building . Some of his comrade to their death. He did not jur til all the men able to leave th had done so. He was severely and is in a hospital. Fire companies from Peoria a kin responded, but the distant severe cold handicap% d the fir ters and rescue workers. Wate on the ruins and gave an icy to the blackened walls of the house and debris. Five men working in five bc about 30 feet from' the buildi missing, and believed to hav killed, as the cars were destrc the explosion. [University, at Oxford, Ohio, next year, according to word received here. While in Oxford with the Michigan basketball team, recently, it was said, Kipke was closeted with athletic officials of the University and the pro- posal that he become assistant coach there with the possibility of taking over full control later, was made. It was not indicated whether the Wol- verine star would accept the proposal. England Succumbs I Tn VV;.Vnlnon Rsl London, Jan. 3-(By A.P.)-Eng- land is showing some anxiety over the' repayment of the fifty million pounds which she lent to Poland, Jugo-Slavic and Roumania in the war period, and diplomatic inquiries are being made at Warsaw, Belgrade and Bucharest into whether the discharge of these debts will be delayed or prejudiced by the 800,000,000 francs loan which these countrie recently contracted from France. Cappon Injures Kneecap In 1 Detroit, Mich., Jan. 3.--'r Wkoiokty fli ffy" I ________IVV U&Saaa-u LC4'IU&f 'n.T_. t 2 .., 7t Jf2 " T.,« 0 A Le...«n.7 ..