,STABLISHED 1890 . 'g. Sit an 4 at MEMBER. ASSOCIATED PRESS .. . . . . ....... . . . VOL. XXXVIII, NO. 40. ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1927 EIGHT PAGES COMMITTEE 0 N WAS AND MANS CONSIDERS DIRECT INCOME TAES WOMEN WITNESSES ADVOCATE LOWERING OF RATE FOR SINGLE PERSONS CLAIM SURPLUS T00 LARGE Say Married Man Now Has 130 Per Cent Better Position Than Be- fore War In Exemption (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Nov. 3- For the first time in years, the House ways and means committee devoted prac- tically an entire session today to con- sideration of the 'direct tax on indi- vidual incomes without a single wit- ness advocating reduction on the lev- ies, although a recommendation was received that the exemtion granted single persons should be increased from $1500 to $3500. During the writing of the last two revenue laws, the indivaua ncome rates, which directly affect the pock- etbooks of millions of taxpayers, were the center of the days, and today was in marked contrast with the meet- ing two years ago when the levies were being considered The move for increased exemption for single persons was sponsored by the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's clubs, re- presented by Lena M. Phillips, of New York, Martha L. Commole, of East St. Louis, Illinois, and Cornelia Adair of Richmond, Va. Their appearance marked the first time in the memory of committee clerks that women had testified before a committee of Con- gress on revenue matters. Asks Exemption' Miss Commole argued that the av- erage married man or head of a fami- ly now enjoys a 130 per cent better position in the matter of exemptions than during the war, and about 20 per cent better than before the war, while the exemption allowed single persons Na only one-half of what it was before the war. "The injustice done single persons is emphasited by the fact that the Treasury has each year unnecessarily collected about $600,000,000 over and above the government's needs," she said. The witness also held that a num- ber of single persons contribute to the family's support in some way, and argued that most of them came with- in the lower incone levels. About 2,000,000 single persons pay an income tax, Miss Phillips testified and their average tax does not ex- ceed $2. "It is obvious that it costs more to collect this tax than it brings to the government," she said, "None of what they pay goes into the federal treasury and we think that this should be considered In bringing about a more just and fair exemption for this class of taxpay- ers." Desire Questions After Miss Commole and Miss Phillips had completed their testi- mony, the former asked the commit- tee if it had any questions. When none of the members spoke up Miss Phil lips insisted that, "We' want some questions," and then Miss Commole spoke up, to say that if the commit- tee did not ask any questions she would feel that no attention would be paid to ther testimony. ""We assure you that we won't let you alone if you do that," she warned. Issaac Frank, Pittsburgh, advoca ed that all incomes devoted by per- sons to philanthropic purposes be ex- empted from taxation. "At least ittwould be more just,', he said, "to increase the present; exemption on charitable donations up to 50 per cent of the income -instead of 15 per cent."I JUNIORS TO HOLD SECOND ELECTION Juniors of the college of architec- ture will hold a second class election at 4 o'clock this afternoon, it wa announced yesterday by Ellis Merry, '28, chairman of the Student council elections committee. T'e election will be held in room 301 of te Architec- tural building. The only class officer to be chosen at this time is the representative of the class on therJ-Hop comittee, since the first man elected to this post has been declared ineligible. 'Therother class offices will hold their positions regularly, and the election itself will be in charge of the class president. N THREAT LOOMS ANEW Report Revolutionary GeneralFerera Is Allied To Liberal San dino in Interior Warfare NATIONAL GUARD ON DUTY 1 (By Associated Press) MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Nov. 3 e- ports have been received here from Honduras that the famous Honduran revolutionary general, Francisco Fe- rera, has decided . to aid the former Liberal, General Sandino, who hasj been carrying on guerilla activities in th interior of Nicaragua ever since the establishment of peace between the Liberals and Conservatives. 'Several communications from Fe- rera to Sandino have been Intercept- iied. The Nicaraguan national guard, funder command of American marine officers, will take over the policing of the important towns of Len on Nov. 15. National guard patrols have been sent to the coffee district to pre-, serve order during the coffee-picking season when workers flock to the plantations for the high wages and good food. Coffee is a most important crop in Nicaragua and means either prosperity or failure for the contry. There Is a General Gregorio Ferre.- 'ra of Honduras who is widely known as a revolutionary leader there. bhi Honduran dispatches make no refer- ence to a general Francesco Ferrera. General Gregorio Ferrera, who i a j former minister of war in Honduras, was last reported in 1926 as starting a revolution, wi discontented army ir so rgents Two more engagements with the Nicaraguan irregulars have been fought by the force of American ma- rines and Nicaraguan national guards- men, engaged in searching for -the two missing marinencorps aviaters. One marine was wounded, being cut by flying glass from a bomb hurled by the bandits, while two guardsmen were killed. Ever since early October when the aviators, Lieut. E. A. Thomas and Sgt. Frank Dowell, engaged in bomb- ing the followers of the rebel general, Sandino, crashed to earth, the com- bined American and Nicaraguan troops have been engaged in the search. Combat patrols have scoured the reg- ion near Chipote, in the department of Nueva Segovia. UNION COMMITTEE ARRANGES ROOMS Students or others who have guests coming for the Navy-Michigan game are asked to see the rooming com- mittee of the Union if they desire 1 rooms for the week end. There will be a member of that committee in the lobby of the Union at the main desk from 3 to 5 o'clock tomorrow. i Any Ann Arbor ,householders who have extra room available for this week end are asked to inform the rooming committee at the Union. DATE IS SET FOR PRACTICE DEBATE The practice debate between the University of Michigan and the Uni- versity of Minnesota will be held Dec. ? 8, in Hil auditorium instead of Nov CON ES\NAL AR NOTED ALUMNUS RODD TO LECTURE 'B N ES SIU L RE TO BE GUEST AT I LEIC BOARD WILL HERE ONTUESDAY EGIN INVESTIGATIONS l[lR PI VRNAVY GAME HERE; - ENTRTIN NAY EN The Old and Te New Dipomacy s O EE iESWR by Sir Fennell Rodd, next Tuesday LOWDEN'S__CANDIDACY ON DAY OF CONTEST SRodn hN S most distinguished men in the Brit- ONE WESTERN GROUP PREFERS IiCHFON WILL BE GIVEN AT ish diplomatic service from 1885 un- SEEK EVIDENCE TO I)IRECTLY SENATOR NORRIS OF UNION FOR VISI11NG til the close of the great war. le has CONNECT SlNCLAIR NEBRASKA OFFICERS held various positions as an attache WITH DAY of the British agency at Zanzibar and t r AGREE FARM IS PROBLEMI Oiponents of Illinois Governor PointI To His Expense Record Before The 1920 Convention (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.-The split in the ranks of Congressional farm leaders over the prospective prsdnj tial candidacy of Frank O. Lowden of Illinois, was accentuated today with' expressions of conflicting views at the Capitol. Representative Dickenson, Republi-1 can, Iowa, in a statement said that the mere suggestion of the farm problem pointed out to Mr. Lowden's name and 1 that the "proper alignment of agri- cultural states in a common cause Edwin Denby should dictate a united support for a Who will be among the guests at single candidate." tho luncheon being given by the Board At the other end of the Capitol, Sen- in Control of Athletics to naval offic- ator Nye, of North Dakota, one of the jals and other visitors on Nov. 12 when group of Western Independent Repub- the Navy comes to Ann Arbor. A lican senators, supported the candi- graduate of the Law School of the dacy of Senator Norris, Republican, University of Michigan in the class of] Nebraska, revived the ghost of cam- 1896, he was Secretary of the Navy. paign expenditures raised against during the Harding administration Lowden in connection with the Re- and during part of the Coolidge ad-] publican national convention at Chi- ministration. cago in 1920. Formerly Denby was a member of Nye Corresponds. the Michigan State Legislature and a Without mentioning the former Illi- lawyer in Detroit. nois governor by name, Senator Nye, in a letter to the Farmers' Union Con-n vention at Jamestown, North Dakota, YP TI A ,Pf[1rR1w ONLY 100 TO BE PRESENT; Denby, Admiral Nulton, Gov. Green, And Commander Ingram Will Abbysinia, and was minister to Swe- THOMPSON IS QUESTIONED den from 1904-1908. During the warrr ___' he was ambassador to Italy and was FuteluiieCne hnFl' a, t.'iusLil I eatLUtothe Leaue of I in part wrote:j "Let us not overlook the fact that one of our friends, now most promin- ently mentioned as a candidate, was defeated at Chicago in 1920 because of the scandal raised over the use of money by his friends in attempting unduly to influence the vote of the Missouri delegation, in which efforts hearings before the Senate committee on privileges and elections disclosed they were caught red-handed." Both Dickenson and Nye, however,! agreed that solution of the farm prob- lem was paramount and -that there should be no compromise or surrender! h. i *o.rmrG nf thh ir nsitinn LII LU1 IUL UI IU 11U Squad Leaves For Chicago Game Froni MA higan Central Depot At 5 O'Clock4 BAND TO LEAVE AT NOON To make up for their poor turnout of a week ago, when a very small crowd of students sent the 'Varsity football team to, what proved to be ° - "- Naions in 1921 and 1923 Be Among Guests a In honor of the visiting officers ofA the Naval Academy the Board in Con-I trol of Athletics will give a luncheon e at 12:15 on Saturday noon, Nov. 12. in TO TIIf Af t the ballroom of the Michigan Union. APPEARoIibUa mUrvey The luncheon will be a comparatively I small affair, with not over 100 pres- Noted Pianists Will Play Duet Concert I Next Week On Choral non i° ent, the great majority of whom will be visitors to the University from the Program Seriesj Naval academy and their guests. Ad- WILL PLAY NEW NUMBERS mission to the luncheon will be by aNW U ER card only. As the second nnmber of the regu-t The committee in charge 'of ar-! T-lar Choral Union series, Guy Maier t rangements is composed of Prof. and Lee Pattison, dual pianists, willt Ralph Aigler, Chairman of the Board appear in concert next Thursday n Control of Athletics, Dr. Frank night in Hill auditorium. Severali Robbins, assistant to the President, numbers and arrangements have been1 and Hawley Tapping, Field Secretary r Uni prepared for them for the new sea- of the Alumni association of then- son, and will make up their loal versity. program.P Among the most distinguished prgrm I Maier and Pattison, known through- guests who will be present are Ad- out this country and Europe for theirf miral Nulton, superintendent of the concerts with two pianos, are espec- United States Naval academy, his wife ially well-known in Ann Arbor, the and daughter, Commander Jonas InI former particularly through his resi- gram, director of athletics at the dence here and his connection with j Naval academy, former secretary of the University School of Music. The the Navy Edwin Denby, of Detroit, two artists are cited generally by and former Senator Truman Newber- critics as excellent examples of syn- ry, each of whom will be accompan- cronization, not only of music, but ied by a party of seven guests, and of temperanent. Their recitals are Governor Fred Green and his wife- marked by range of accent, color andr The hosts will be Clarence Cook taste. Little, members of the Board of Re- During the past season Maier andI gents and their wives, and members I Pattison have travelled more thant of the Board in Control of Athletics 30,000 miles in filling engagements in and their wives. These will be assist- i ed by military officers stationed athcspl n their eighth annual coast the University and their wives, by ,completedthregthana as- Den otiver E. Cndothey, wivgradbytto-coast tour, and then sailed for Hol-~ !Dean Mortimer E. Cooley, a graduate i land, appearing in Rotterdam, Am-I of the United States Naval Academystad, anea gue. fteraA- and one of the older faculty men ot sterdam, and the Hague. Afterwards thndUnneersity, anderneacrltyomethor they played in'Paris, Berlin, and Lon-, the University, and one or two other don before their return. This fall they Sresidents o Ann Arbor, who have have played in many of the larger, navy. time been connected with tI cities of the country in the courset Cadsna bav.iofatourwhich takes them to Hava- Cards of invitation are to be mailedna, Cuba, and afterwards along the out Monday. This luncheon is to be Pacific coast. tioneurn compliment for the recep- The repertoire of the two pianists I ion given by Admiral Nulton to Mich-. (has been a means of creating new igan people at Baltimore last year. works for two pianos by some of thec It imade specially significant by the best known of composers. This year combined presence of Edwin Den >they are introducing many new nov-1 and Truman Newberry, men at c4" elties, includig Sowerby's "Synco- time high in the Navy and in close' nata," written specially for them, a connection with this university, and new arrangement of Percy Grainger'sc Dean Cooley, a graduate of the Naval "Turkey In The Straw," done by1 Academy and a noteworthy figure on Maier, a new fox trot by Pattison , this campus. "Prelude and Pastorale," by Richard Platt and many new arrangements of GROUP APPOINTED old classics. FOR NEWCOLLEGE T At the first meeting of the General GROUPS CONVENE University College committee of 60, al ! sub-committee of five members was Freshmen attending ' the regular Ichosenwhich, during the next week, group meetings in the Union last, will appoint all sub-committees of the night heard addresses by two students larger group. This committee will and a professor. John Gilmartin '29E { act with President Clarence Cook Herbert E. Vedder, '29, and Pro.Leo Little. II. Sharfman, of the economics depart- I After the naming of the sub-com- ment, were the speakers. Music will mittees has been finished, actual work round out the entertainment. The on the University college will begin meeting was held in Room 222, start by the general committee, which will ing wao'cok., - hold weekly meetings, and it is hoped i to have the project ready by the open- ing of school next fall. p t KRA US LEA VES TO A The committee of five appointed is A EE ING comprised of Prof. Howard Lewis of the chemistry department, Prof. Ar- Edward H. Kraus, dean of the Sum- ( thur Boak of the history department, mer session, left yesterday to attendI Prof. J. B. Edmondson of the School the convention of the National Asso- of Education, Prof. Alred H. White ofI ciation of Summer Session Adminis- Sthe engineeringing college, and Prof. tratorsato be held at Ithaca, New York D. H. Parker of the philosophy depart- toan omro.Mnydaso Sment.summer schools from all over the country will be there for the meeting. I BROWNE TO TALK - r% T oy Ene tar iers of e r p . Dickenson Sounds Warning their first defeat of the season, a large Dickenson, in sounding warning to number of students is expected by of- Eastern Republicans that the demands ficers of the Student council to be on of the West must be considered, re- - called the slogan used by Lincoln's supporters in 1860: "Listen or lose the West." He added that, "With the ,Democrats led by Gov. Al Smith di- viding the votes on religious and wet and dry issues, in certain places it hand at the Michigan Central station at 5 o'clock, this afternoon, to sendf off the team to the Chicago game. Much more agitation for a real send- off has been in evidence since the Ill- Attorney Is Sent Before Grand Jury (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.-The gov- ernment set about today to bridge the gaps in the trail of evidence touching the activities of Burns detectives in shado\ving jurors in the Fall-Sinclair oil conspiracy trial, as the grand jury investigation went forward. Seeking evidence to directly connect Harry F. Sinclair and A. Mason Day, to whom it is charged the Burns oper- atives reported, District attorneys ob- tained the statement of one witness that he was employed by Day to drive the wealthy oil operator about Wash- ington during the trial. Day paid $371 in cash only last night for his ser- vices. Another surprise element to the whole p'roceeding was furnished when Mark B. Thompson, of New Mexico, one of Fall's attorneys, was sent be- fore the grand jury after a conference with District Attorneyl Gordon. He was questioned about a telephone con- versation he had with Dan R. Jack- son, of El Paso, Texas, a special as- sistant to Attorney General Sargent. Says Talk Was Personal Jackson said his conversation was entirely personal, adding that i.t had nothing to do with the oil case. Thompson declined to discuss it, ex- plaining that he could not divulge what he had told in the grand jury room. This angle of the investigation was opened up when agents of the district attorney found several reports of the movements of another assistant to the attorney general in the papers found by federal agents in the raid of the headquarters of the Burns men at the Wardman Park hotel last Wednesday. Inquiries were made to ascertain why a detective should have been trailing an assistant to the attorney general and while they were in prog- ress it was disclosed that Thompson and Jackson had been in communica- tion with each other. Edward J. Kidwell, the juror ac- cused of having talked too freely be- fore Justice Siddons ordered 'a mis- trial in the oil case yesterday, was around the court house much of the time during the day. He was ac- companied by his father, Edward J. Kidwell, sr., a barber, who also may be asked to go before the grand jury later. Both of the 'Kidwell's were excused in the afternoon, the young juror be- ing instructed to return to his place of business and hold himself in readi- ness at any time he might be request- ed to return to the court for further questioning before the grand jury. Show Connection Statements designed to show aecon- nection with Day and Sinclair were furnished by Eugene Blaudet, who told Neil Burkinshaw, assistant district at- torney conducting the grand jury in- vestigation, that Day had implored him to drive Sinclair about Washing- ton in a high-priced automobile. The record as it stands in the dis- trict attorney's office is that Day first communicated with Frank T. Hurley, agent here for the Lincoln Motor com- pany, in an effort to hire several auto- mobiles for an indeterminate time. He was referred to Blaudet, who said he went to the Mayflower hotel where Sinclair had his headquarters during the trial, and was directed to a room in which there w"1~e sevral men. He agreed to hire himslf and car for $27 a day. Blauvet told Burkinshaw that he drove Sinclair to and from the court and to the Metropolitan club and va- rious other places; that hie did not go to the home of Donald Woodward, wealthy Washington merchant, where it is charged Day got his reports from the detectives. On at least one occasion, Blauvet said, he changed the license on his automobile, but added that no one had told him to do this; that he had done this because he had had a pri- vate tag on the car and was apprehen- sive that he might get into difficulties with authorities. The rail to Woodward's home was followed by means of Lincoln automo- biles. Reports. reached the author- ities that on several occasions the same car bearing different license tags on almost each occasion had been seen going to Leroy place, which is a short street in a fashionable residential dis- trict. i "will be a sad day for eastern Republi- inois game and only a large turnout cans when they defeat a well-qualified of the student body is needed this af- man for nomination, on the grounds ternoon to make a good showing. At that he happens to be a friend of the least one of the members of the cheer- farmer." leading squad will be on hand to lead The Iowa member also declared that the assembled students in yells and the farm relief principles as embodied songs. Wednesday night, the Student in the vetoed McNary-Haugen bill had council unanimously passed a resolu- not been abandoned and that "there tion urging the student body to be at will be an equalization scheme in a the station to give the team a sendoff new farm bill for an equalization fight to the game with Chicago. in the next campaign." The 'Varsity band will not be pres- Senator Nye in his letter said he ent as they entrain at noon for Chi- wished to express confidence that the cago so as to be present at the banquet Jamestown convention would not in given by the Detroit and Chicago al- "anyway compromise the demands of umni at the Stevens hotel at night. the farmer, which demands have been ! The entire organization is making only for protection on a par with that the trip to Chicago where it will play afforded other industries by our gov- at two alumni dinners and at the game ernment." on Saturday afternoon. STUDENTS WHO INTEND TO TEACH WILL ATTENDMEETING TOMORROW A meeting for those people of all fled. 'hus, a bureau for all positions schools and colleges in the University is conducted and many who are not who wish to register with the bureau prepared for teaching have found em- of appointments for teaching positions, ployment through this source. beginning in February or next Sep- Formal registration with the bureau tember, will be held at 9 o'clock to- will begin next Monday morningdat morrow morning in Newberry auditor- 8 : 30. This will continue on each day m. At this time, talks will be given until Saturday, with the hours of 8:30 by members of the bureau and the to 12 o'clock and 1:30 to 5 o'clock be- ing held open each day. Mrs. Sham- process and advantages of registering ingh, on acg dy Mr S with~ the bureau will be explained. baugh, in charge of the bureau, is The realregistration will be in planning to hold a short personal in- progressat the bureau offices from terview with each candidate in order Monday to Friday afternoons of next to understand the individual needs and week. Any senior, graduate, or und- to better place the candidates. erclassman who, finds it necessary to While the meeting tomorrow is not take up outside work before complet- a formal registration, prospective ing his college course will have per- teachers from any of the schools and mission to register for a position with colleges on the campus are being the bureau. urged to attend, as the knowledge of Last year, the bureau received over the registration procedure will be ex- 900 calls for teachers to fill vacancies plained in full and they will become at high schools, small colleges, and better acquainted with the purpose of universities. This was a great in- the bureau. The registration is en- crease over the number of the prev- tirely free to any student and furn- ions year and a still larger number is ishes one of the best methods of ob- expected this year. From the persons taining employment, according to the who register with the bureau are records at the School of Education. selected the teachers who are to fill ( A fee of $1.00 is charge for late these many positions, if everything is registration. satisfactory. Many cannot be selected I for positions on account of their TO 1)AILY SUBSCRIBERS teaching. curricula or their geograph- ical preferences. During the last year, All subscribers to The Daily 318 personal calls were made by school who have not yet paid their sub- 10 as previously announced, accord- ALL IS UI t Ting to Prof. James M. O'Neill of the CHICAGO BA TTLE department of speech. _I ABA L IThe tryouts for the squad will take (ly Associated Press) p'ace at 4 o'clock, Monday, Nov. 7, in# CHICAGO, Nov. 3-Two of the cen- 'the Adelphi room on the fourth floor! CaIge in .-- the assaultupo n - of Angell hall. This will give the tra1 figures in the assault upon King coaches slightly more than a month to George of England and pro-British work with their intercollegiate debat- propaganda were out of Chicago to- orwihterneclegaedb- daand the a was one of Crestgantfing material before the University of clay and the day was one of rest and M nst omshr. Minnesota comes here. of verbal cannoneering of the Ameri ca First legion. UNATrJION ORGANIZER Mayor William Hale Thompson and U. G. "Sport" Hermann, library di- WILL SPEAK HERE retor, were elsewhere and a pro- Jected battle between the British Red- Arthur E. Rohan, general executive coats and the defendapts of proper secretary of the United Auto, Aircraft,{ recounting of the occurrences of the and Vehicle Workers of America is to Revolutionary era put over until Nov. be the League for Industrial Demo- 17, to which date a court hearing of cracy's speaker at 8 o'clock tonight in an injunction suit to restrain the may- the Union. i , 'I I G .' t S;; I i ; r,, ' { t ON GERMAN 1 Lewis Browne, author, w an open forum address at- Sunday morning under the a the Hillel Foundation, and nection with their services. talk on phases of the life the famous German poet a opher. Browne's latest and ular book "That Man Heine," of the life of this poet. ' Than Fiction," and "This World," which were writter cently, brought Browne his tige as a writer. The program Sunday morn will start at 11:30, is open tc lic. REPORT BURSL MUCH IMPR( POET DANA TO ADDRESS ill deliver!GATHERING TODAY Lane hall Dean Samuel T. Dana of the School uspices of of Forestry and Conservation left I in con- today for' Milwaukee, Wis., where he He will I will address a meeting of Wisconsin of Heine, State Teacher's convention this after- nd philos noon. most pop- is a story EDUCATOR ASSAILS tBelevng SCHOOL PUBLICITY n less re- - first pres- (By Associated Press) PITTSBURG, Nov. 3-Methods of ing which college publiity directors to get "pre- o the pub- pared copy" into newspapers were assailed by Prof. Burges Johnson, di- rector of public relations of Syracuse E Y university, in an address today blefore L ED delegates attending the annual meet- )VED ing of the association of Urban uni- ! II ( i ,! #; ,i. i r?, 4 =i f i' ; I , 1