Section One OF iOtt i att xil . MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS I VOTJ. XXXVI. No. 127 TWELVE PAGEI ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1926 TWELVE PAGEN PRICE FIVE CENTS VARSITY DEBATE TEAMSENTER TWO EVENTSTONIGHT AFFIRMATIVE GROUP TO MEET ILLTNI TEAM IN HILL M AUDITORIUM ENGAGE BADGERS Kegative Debaters Compete In Mid- West League Contest On Same Question, At Madison Illinois and Michigan debate teams will compete under the auspices of the Midwest debate league at 8 o'clock tonight in Hill auditorium on the ques- tion, "Resolved: that the tendency to centralize power and responsibility in the federal government should be op- posed." Michigan's negative team will debate the same question tonight with the University of Wisconsin de- baters at Madison. The team which will represent Michigan here is composed of: Al- bert Stern, 27L, Robert S. Miller, '27, and James T. Herald, '28. The Ill- nois team is composed of Elizabeth J. Turnell, '28, Herbert T. Owen, '27.1 and C. Kenneth Thies, '27. The per- I sonnel of the Michigan negative team which left yesterday morning for Madison accompanied by Carl Brandt, of the public speaking department, is: Emanuel J. Harris, '27, Raymond 01- I son, '27, and Hugo Hustad, '26. Paul Blanshard, '14, who is visting here afte. a trip around the world, will be chirman of the debate in Hill I auditorium, Prof. Thomas C. True- blood, of the public speaking depart- mnent, said yesterday. Emerson W. Miller, of Wooster college, Ohio, will be the judge. The constructive spleeches will be 12 minutes with 5 minutes allowed to each speaker for rebuttal. there will be no admission charge. Stern is the only debater of the Michigan affirmative team who has represented his school in Varsity de- bate. He debated in the Central league debates against Northwestern in 1925. Stern was a member of the Adelphi freshman debate team which won the annual freshman cup debate from Alpha Nu. He was a joint win- ner in the extemporaneous speaking 'contest of 1924. Miller has served as alternate twice in the Central league debates. Re- cently he placed in the finals of the Northern Oratorical contests. At pres- ent he is speaker of the Adelphi House of Representatives. Herald was a member of a team which debated the question "Resolved: that the City Manager plan of city gov- ernment is superior to the Mayor plan" before a number of Chamber of Commerce organizations in Pennsyl- vania in 1924. He is a member of the Adelphi House of Representatives. The medals and testimonials for the Midwest debates are made available through tiie generosity of the heirs of John S. Gray, of Detroit. The Mid- west debate league includes the uni- versities of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Illinois. The three debates occur si- multaneously. ID, AUED 3 U DS IN UNCORED CREEK DRIN Harold Dowber, three years old, of 414 Benjamin street, was drowned in the Allen creek drain, at Hill and Division streets, at 2:45 o'clock yes- terday afternoon. Harold and his brother Robert, age six, were playing near the drain when Harold fell in and Robert jumped after him. Harold was dragged into the covered drain, but his brother managed to pull himself out. Mrs. C. Walker heard -the boy's cries and called the fire department. The searchers dragged the drain for an hour and a half before they found the drowned lad lodged under the end of the culvert, 200 feet from where he fell in. He was rushed at once to the hospital, but all efforts to Tesusciate him failed. Harold was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Dowber. CHICAGO.-Fifteen pedigreed dogs, overcome by smoke in a fire which swept a pet stock store yesterday, were carried to safety by firemen and revived with oxygen machines. d T-M~ Te.A 1n Will Be DaTrow 's Opponent Monday LEAGUE ACTS ON U. S. RELATIONSI TO WORLD GOURT CHINESE STUDENTS SL AIN BY GUARDS IN RIOT AT PEKING TROOPS GUARD RESIDENCE OFj SQUAD CHIEF WHOSE MEN FILED ON STUDENTS President's Father Succumbs -r ... ALL MEMBERS WILL MEET GENEVA TO FRAME AMEND31ENTS IN CONVENE ON SEPT. 1 KILL 17; WOUND 16 Russia's Delegates To Disarmament Conference To Be Treated With Equality (By Associated Press) GENEVA, March 18.-The council of the League of Nations, before ad- journing its March session this eve- Demonstration Begun In Protest To Governor's Acquliesence To Power's Ultimatum (By Associated Press) PEKING, March h18.-Seventeen stu- dents were killnd and 16 wounded by guards wh> fired on a thousand stu- Dr. Manley 0. Hudson SPEAK ON LEA6UE. Lawyer And Professor To Debate On American Foreign Pplicy Next Monday DEAN CABOT TO PRESIDE American foreign policy, especially the question of membership in the League of Nations, will be the sub- ject for discussion when Clarence S. Darrow of the Chicago Bar, and Dr. Manley O. Hudson of the Harvard Law school meet in debate Monday night in Hill auditorium. The League of Nations Non-Parti- son association, sponsor of recent ad- dresses by George W. Wickersham, Raymond B. Fosdick and Dr. Irving Fisher, has arranged the debate. Dean Hugh Cabot of the Medical school will preside. Each debater will be allowed one hour according to plans, the time be- nig divided as follows: Dr. Hudson, 30 minutes; Mr. Darrow, 40 minutes; Dr. Hudson, 30 minutes; Mr. Darrow 20 minutes. No decision will be ren- dered. Each speaker has had exten- sive experience, Mr. Darrow having spent thirty years in the courts, chief- ly as a criminal lawyer and advocate for labor organizations, and Professor Hudson having devoted much time to championing the League and World Court in lecture and debate. The League is one of Mr. Darrow's strongi aversions, along with fundamentalism, prohibition, and capital punishment, and he has frequently denounced it in recent speeches and in debate with Senator Lenroot of Wisconsin. The debate will commence prompt- ly at S o'clock Monday as Dr. Hud- son must leave immediately after it for Boston. The doors of the hall will be opened at 7:15 o'clock and as no seats are reserved early arrival is ad- vised. Tickets are on sale at the State street bookstores and may also be obtained at the Hill auditorium I box office Monday, during the day and just before the debate. Senior Literary Class Will Meet Announcing the dates for all the Senior events, members of the senior literary class will meet at 4:15 o'clock this afternoon in Newberry auditorium at which time all committee reports will be given. The dates for the ban- quet, Class day, and other Senior functions will be announced. :j t 1 1 1 i 9 z 1 _i I, i ning took definite action with regards dents who were demonstratig before to America's relations to the perma- the cabinet offices. nent court of international justice The demonstration was in protest and disarmament. against the government's acquiesence Ito the ultimatum of the powers, re- On the recommendation of Sir Aus- garding the restoration of free com- ten Chamberlain, British foreign sec- munication between 'eking and retary the council boldly attacking the Tientsin and the sea. difficulties raised by the Senate's res- ! Troops today were guarding the s residence of the chief of the military ervalon totheadheenc ofthesquad which fired on the students. United States to the court, decided tos The powers' ultimatum demaded convoke ;delegates of all the govern-] action by noon today. ments now members of the court as The foreign office memorandum .to! well as representatives of the Wash- the powers, comments on the alleged ingtoni government for a conference lack of patience on the part of the to be held Sept. 1 at Geneva. This diplomats, but assures the powers that conference will attempt to frame a the competent military authorities1 special agreement on the American have been authorized to take proper reservations which is expected to measures regarding the clauses in thej amount to amendments of the court i memorandum of the powers. statutes. The substance of the reply to the As for the disarmament studies to five demands of the powers is as fol- be undertaken by the League the, low~s: council quickly cleared the decks of The Kuominchun will undertake to all misunderstandings created by observe the protocol of 1901, with Russia's threat not to participate 'n the United States, Great Britain, Japan less the meetings are held outsideI andaItaly, which providesforthe dis- .witzerland. This was done by deft- armament of forts at Taku at the nitely deciding that the first meeting mouth of the Pei river, and guaran-' of the preparatory commission on the I tees an open way to the sea. disarmament conference in which the Measures taken at Taku were United States will be represented will purely defensive and intended to guar- be held in Geneva May 17. At the antee the safety of Tientsin. They same time the council addressed a will cease automatically when the courteous but expressive communica- danger has been averted.; tion to .Moscow, declaring thatd Ru Provided the powers guarantee that | sin's delegates would be treated on a Fengtien warships retire, thereby re- footing of perfect equality with the i moving the danger to Tientsin, the delegates of other realms and inform- Iiuominiwun will abandon measures ing the Soviet that the initial ses- (beinas sion of the commission would be held i e siga iod s u.o .C i e t G Investigation is urged of Chinese aI oeneva. ord even if the negotia- passengers board all ships as neces- In oterwordseaeniftznerota-dsary to safeguard Tientsin against tions between Russia and Switzerland ;iflrto famdT'ntees ie c rn nweehe u s asinaton o the infiltration of arm ed Fengtieners, like- | concernin thersassiati nely to create disturbances in the city. Soviet envoy Vorowsky at Lausanne The dlemlands contained1 in the uzlti- are not satisfactorily concluded and matuni of the powers were: if Russia refuses to retreat from her hostilities in the channel from the position that she will not send dele- Taku bar to Tientsin mustlbe discon- gates to Switzerland, the disarmament tinuedT pourparlers will be inaugurated with- Mines and other obstructions must out the presence of Russia. be restored and not further molested. I Combatant vessels must remain our- Ancient Sketches side the bar and refrain from iner- Of Dutch Artist Searches of foreignvssels,excent by customs authorities, must be dis- Shown At Library continued. Tokio advices say that Japan has Photographic reproductions of the decided to demand from China an sketches of Johannes Vingboon, a ; apology, punishment of guilty and in- Dutch artist and traveler, are the demnification of the wounded for the subject of the exhibit now being dis- firing upon two Japanese destroyers played at the William L. Clements I by national army troops in Pei river library. The original sketches which I last week, when one Japanese officerI were made by the artist while he was ; was killed and several. Japanese were making a tour of the world, are now wounded. If China fails to accept re-I preserved at The Hague. The group sponsibility, it is Japan's intention to of sketches are from "Monumenta take the matter up before the world Cartographica," a work which in- court. eludes all of Vingboon's drawings, } and edited by Dr. F. C. Wieder.. New Amsterdam harbors, with its galowsprominently in the fore- a ground, is the only picture of any place in the present United States. PR However there is .a view of San Do- (91 mingo, where Columbus first landed I in the new world and where he is I With the demand for seats for the buried. Other cities that are repre- 1 additional performance of "Why sented are Cochin and Canton, China, I Marry?",I the Jesse Lynch Williams' Havana, and Manila. play which Masques is presenting CDL. COOLIDGE DIES AT FARM HOME; PRESIDENT LOSES RACE WITH DEATH . Col. Johni C. Coolidge (By A sspciated Press) PLYMOUTH, Vt., March 18. - Col. John C. Coolidge, father of the Presi- dent, (lied at 10:41 o'clock tonight. t A brief bulletin brought from theE white farm house by Angus Macaulay,l body guard to the Colonel said: "Colonel Coolidge passed away very quietly at 10:41 o'clock." The President, speeding northward on a special train to the bedside of his dying father lost in a hopeless race with death. The presidential traih is due to reach Woodstock 13 miles from here at 6 o'clock tomorrow. Word of the death of Colonel Cool- idge was flashed immediately to the I executive offices in Washington to be relayed to the President's train en- route to Vermont. Ti UNION TONIGHT Miss Dorthea Baclhman Of Detroii And .. Franklin Miller Will Lead Grand March At Frolic (By Associated Press) BALTIMORE, March 18.-(En route to Plymouth, Vernioni) - President Coolidge, aboard a special train pass-j ed through Baltimore early tonight gn his way to the bedside of his father believed to be dying. On perhaps the most severe trip a President has undertaken in recent years, with travel by bob sled of snow- bound Vermont roads in prospect be- fore the journey's end, he expects to reach his father's home in Plymouth shortly after dawn tomorrow. The President decided to rush to his Vermont home after . being advised that his father, nearing his 81st birth- day, had suffered a severe relapse in his critical illness and might live only a few hours. The President's train is due at Woodstock, Vermont, 16 miles from Plymouth at dawn. Automobiles will be in readiness to take the party on at least the first stage of the ride over f the snow-piled roads to the cross roads hamlet. Late information was that the road between Woodstock and Plymouth had been cleared for auto- mobile travel although the last mile or two might have to be traveled in horse drawn sled. BA SKETBALL AND SWIMMING TEAMS BANQUI'ET IS FIRST OF ITS KIND IN IIiSTORY OF TWO SPORTS TAPPING SPEAKS Field Secretary Urges Students T4 Catch True Spirit Of College Campus "Loyalty of Michigan graduates for their University is not merely an ath- letic loyalty, as seems to be the pre- valent opinion," declared T. Hawley I Tapping, field secretary of the alumni association, at Michigan's first 1basketball banquet last night at the Union, "It is simply by meansof ath- letics that they express that loyalty. "The gifts of alumni in form of the William L. Clements library, the Lawyers' club, Hill auditorium, and the Union clearly show that their loyalty is not confined to Michigan's success in athletics," continued Mr. ''apping "which affords a sharp con- trast to the graduates of other mid- western universities and their gifts of athletic stadia. Senato Couzens has given more than $700,000 in gifts to the University, though not for ath- letic purposes, and yet he says there is nothing he enjoys more than at- tending a Michigan football game. Athletics simply produce the stimulus for alumni loyalty." William L. Diener, '26, president of the Union, opened the program, fol- lowing an introduction by Frank P. Weaver, '28L, manager of the basket- ball team, acting as toastmaster. Diener welcomed the basketball and swimming teams on behalf of tile, Union and lue Key. Richard Doyle '26, captain of the basketball team, expressed his appre- ciation for the banquet, in speaking for the team, and said he sincerely hoped it will establish a new custom at Michigan. Edward Chambers, i '27Ed, the captain-elect, lauded the work of Coach E. J. Mather during the season just closed, and stated that he was almost entirely responsi- ble for the team's success. "Although we have even a more difficult schedule facing us next year," remarked Coach Mather, "I feel con- I fident that we will be in the same place a year from now in the Con- ference standing, if not perhaps a 1little better." The coach gave his team the entire creditfor bringing Sa championship to Michigan. In re- viewing the season, he said that since Frank Harrigan was moved to the position of running guard at the time of tire Syracuse game he has had no equal in the country. Jack Gow, '26E, captain of the swimming team, briefly sketched the history of swimming at the Univer- sity and told how the team, at the be- ginning of this season, was determined that the sport should become a truly recognized one here. "It is the best team, and the finest bunch of boys I have ever had," stated Coach Matt Mann in commenting upon the swimming season. "We lost the Conference title by six inches last Saturday night, but we had the only team which has ever placed a man in. every event in a Conference cham- pionship meet. It was also the first I team to defeat Northwestern in its own pool in the past six years." Franklin Cappon, '22, assistant foot- ball and basketbll coach, who has been appointed head football coach at the University of Kansas, gave a few parting words to the basketball team and wished them every success in the 1 future. In closing, Manager Weaver ex- s pressed the opinion that the banquet !should be an institution as a testi- monial to two or more teams," which would afford an excellent opportunity _ for the further development of a lin- I dred spirit among the teams honored," ehe said. Entertainment was provided by stu- dents during the program. Philip Culkin, '28, rendered several baritone t solos; Robert Moore, '26, and Donald tI Williams, '28, played a number of se- t lections on the banjo; Stanley Lewy, d '28L, gave a soft shoe dancing exhibi- ti on; and George Colburn, '28E, played several numbers on a musical broom. f. e tENGLISH DEBATING TEAM t CHOSEN IN FINAL TRYOUT tl Blanshard, World Traveler, Discusses Soviet Conditions; Introducing the idea that Russia is a direct challenge to us to make an attempt to solve the problem of in- dustrial management by workers, Paul Blanshard, '14, lectured on "Soviet Russia" yesterday afternoon in Nat- ural Science auditorium. He also spoke before Prof. Lowell Carr's class in sociology last night at the Union. His entire lecture, following the trend of his trip through Russia, and particularly his stay in Moscow, wasl filled with comments on the religious, economic, political and social condi- tions of the country. Vrnn ic nt m , c t P- -C in. industry is under government owner- ship. Retail trade is largely operated under private ownership, according to Mr. Blanshard. Criminal justice is dispensed with- out trial by jury, and lawyers are never allowed to become judges, those posts being open only to workingmen. Mr. Blanshard says that divorce and marriage laws are lax, a divorce being obtainable within fifteen minutes if both parties are willing, but he can- not see that it is working any detri- ment to the home or the family. The subject of his talk before Pro- fa , CrVa' scass . ciolo a 1. with an all-campus cast at 8:15 o'clock tonight in the Mimes theater, steadily increasing, Masques has an-j nounced a special matinee tomorrow afternoon at 2:15 o'clock. All seats for the performances originally sched- uled were sold by noon of the open-I ing day. The special matinee will be given in order to enable the members of the cast of the Junior Girls' play to attend the performance, since they would be unable to do so at any other time because of their dress rehearsals. Among those who will attend the performance tonight will be President Clarence Cook Little and Mrs. Little, who will be the guests of Mr. Wil- liams the author. Seats are on sale at the box office of the Mimes thater only, and orders may be phoned in for any perform- ance. The tickets are priced at 50 1275 COUPLES TO ATTEND.O Y EDENIES Led by Miss Dorthea Bachman of 1 Detroit and J. Franklin Miller, '29, general chairman of the affair, the grand march of the Frosh Frolic- the only formal affair of the freshman class during the school year-will Gri e Epidemic Will Not Cause Early take place shortly after the music Vavation, Health Seriice starts playing at 9:30 o'clock tonight head Asserts in the ball room of the Union. Miss -_ Bachman graduated in 19-25 from Pine SITUATION UNCHANGED Manor college in Wellesley, Mass., and is now connected with the boardl of Educaton office in Detroit. In spite of the fact that the grippe Following Miller and Miss Bachman situation was yesterday unchanged, t will be the president of the first-year Dr. Warren E. Forsythe, director of class, Harlan P. Cristy and Miss Thel- the Health service denied the rumor ma Connor. patron and patronesses that he had recommended that Uni- _ will then follow in line, and after versity classes be suspended next them will come the remaining mem- week because of the epidemic. He hers of the Frolic committee. After further declared that the Health serv- I the completion of the grand march ice would not make such a sugges- the assemblage will form at the end tion. of the ballroom for the only picture "In my opinion this step would cost of the evening. lives," he said. "In spite of the fact Following the new appointments of I that we are receiving new cases at the ballroom as outlined by the house the rate of more than 50 a day, and department a few weeks ago, Sammy that there is probably a total of 500 Stewart's Singing Syncopators, the students afflicted, no one is seriously one orchestra playing for the affair, ill. We have had no complications of will fill the orchestra alcove at the any kind and to date only one case side of the ballroom opposite the en- has developed into pneumonia. But trance. This musical organization if school were to close, and the stu- s comes directly from the Sunset inn in: dents now sick to try to go home 0 Chicago where they are playing dur- there would be a grave danger tha . ' vnv fl thorm wouli b dhleVUShn e