ESTABLISHED 1890 Jr Asp, tr . . .................. . . . ...... . ... . ...... - ----- - .... . ..... ... ....... . . .. VoL XXXVIII, No. 4. ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1927. JEFFRIES 'ANNOUNCES UNION APPOINTMENTS FOR PRESENT YEA TEN APPOINTEES ARE PICKED TO FILL MANY CLASS C lIAIRRMANSHIPS PLAN FRESHMEN GROUPS Reception Committee to Have Charge of Arrangements for Alunil at Football (A6mnes EUROPEAN CONFIDENCE DESPITE ,. INSTABILITYIMPRESSES LITTLE Speaking of the general conditions until September 2, he was in attend- in England and Scotland as he ob- ance at a conference in Geneva con- served them during his recent Euro- cerning the problem of world popula- pean trip, President Clarence Cook tion, to which 300 delegates were ex- Little declared in an interview, "I was tended invitations. President Little impressed with their stability and the pronounced the conference a success complete confidence of the people." in creating the 'fabric of an interna-! The conditions of poverty and the evi- tional organization. dences of dire need, especially in the Among the spots of interest visited large cities, he thought was shocking. by President Little was the Isle of: He believes that in view of these con- Skye off the coast of Scotland, which ditions, the United States are not he characterized as very lovely. An adopting a humanitarian point of view, unusual feature of the island, which in collecting the payments on the is 30 or 40 miles long, is tie type of English war debt at the present time. cattle there. They are long-haired' Despite the signs of poverty, the animals with tufts of hair falling fabrications necessary for strength in down over their eyes, altogether dif- the nation are present, in the opinion ferent from kthe usual short-haired cat-, of President Little, and thjere is no tle, said President Little. danger of any internal upheaval in President Little was most impressed England or Scotland. with the Faroe Islands where he and1 President Little spent the summer his family spent several weeks. At from July 2 to September 9 touring the sea-shore of these islands are1 extensively in England and Scotland precipitous cliffs rising more than and the Faroe -Islands, which are 2,800 feet above sea-level with alter- about half-way between Scotland and nate layers of rock and grass. Th-ou-1 Iceland. In addition, from August 19 sands of sheep are pastured on the GIGLI TO OPEN SEIEIS OF CONCERTS AT HILLI AUDITORIUM OC. 7 .lAMRASC[, CIAILIAPTN, JIOFM ANN, AND OTHERS TO APPEAR ON REGULAR SERIES -TICKET SALES ARE FAST Rosa Raisa and Rimini Appear in First Concert here on October 28 to Omen Extra Concert Series Little more than two weeks remain befor'e the opening concert of the Choral Union series, October 7, when Beniamino Gigli will sing in Hill Auditorium. Tickets for both the regular and the extra concert series are reported to be selling fast by Charles A. Sink, president of the Choral Union and evidences show a greater support than ever before for the musical venture. (Gigli, who is a member of the Met- Appointments to Union committees for the year were announced yester- day, by William V. Jefferies, '31L, president. The appointments were1 made at a meeting of- the appointment committee composed of Jeffries, Paul Buckley, business manager, W. Roger Greenie, '28, recording secretary, and Prof. Henry C. Anderson, of the de- partment of mechanical engineering. Those picked for positions are as follows: reception department com- mittee, Milton iMcCreery, '29, chairmanI and William E. Nissen '29, assistantt chairman; house department com- mittee, Donald B. Fleming, '29, chair- man and John Ruswinckel, '29, assist- ant chairmau; underclass department committee, Justin C. Weaver, '29, chairman, and Lewis H. Goddard, '28A, assistant chairman; publicity com- mittee, Albert Roesch, '28, chairman, and Eugene Waring, 29E, assistant chairman. William H. McMullen, '29,, and Kenneth Schafer, '29, were ap- pointed assistant recording secretaries. All chairman and assistant chair- man will be on the executive com- mittee of the Union. Each chairman will' make appointments to his own committee. The house departmcnt deals with, the Union dances, running off of bowling, billiard, and bridge tourna- ments, the tap room, the lobby, and swimming. The reception committee takes care of lists of rooms, Father's day ar- rangements, receptions to guests, the= library, and general entertainment. l The committee will start work soon compiling a list of rooms which may be rented by alumni and others for them stay-. ciL.41 Athbor .for fo$tbaLI games. A complete list of rooms will be obtained and a registry of alumni1 will be kept at the game with Ohio j COOLEYWILL RETIRE BEICAUSE OF ILLNESS Dean Hands In Resignation To Re- gents at End of 47 Years in Service Of University of leltgan. HAS HELD HIGH POSITIONS Dean Mortimer E. Cooley, of the College of Engineering and Architec- ture, has handed in his resignation to the Board of Regents, which will be effective June 30, 1928. The dean is now on a leave of absence which will extend until that time. Ill health is given as the cause of his retirement. He is now recovering from sinus trou- ble in the throat and ear, and plans to stay in Ann Arbor until treatments have been completed. Upon being questioned as to his fu- ture plans, .Dean Cooley replied, "Be- ginning next year, I shall probably spend my winters on my farm in grassy layers, while hundreds of thou sands of sea-birds make their homes among the rocky layers. President Little explained that these birds are Scottis Techn New R Prof. P. M Cambridge, m head the I Michigan is 'and, due to a gration laws ProfessorJ post left vacs Prof. Fred N been doing g versity of Ca years. Previo structor at A The immig anyone ente have been en :hih he is t two years. U Jack has be come to Am duties in t here. So the( unguided. M university to have so far fessor Jack predicament. FLIERS IN CONi T'ne Requirc to beM hav MESSAGE: (By A FELTS Fl Sept. 22.-Ea eastern horiz monoplanes c 30 hoursoutc race from Nc perts have es require 24 ho was encounter The""lanes, Schiller, in Windsor, and similar to wild ducks, being mostly of ropolitan Opera company, will consti- two varieties-puffins and murres. tute the first number of the six con- The meat from the birds is very edible, certs planned for the regular series. 'and their feathers are sent all over A tenor, Italian by birth, he is one of the world to be used in the stuffing the few who have divided the popular -1 While in England and ScotlandI President Little also visited numbers of the English and Scotch universities such as Oxford, Cambridge, and the University of Edinburgh. After ob- serving these schools, it is President Little's opinion that American stu- dents haven't any idea of what pa- ternalism is. GREATEST CONVENTION 'O - N Legionnaires Arrive Amidst Warnings,a Leaving With . Embraces And Best Wishes Of Frencha STAFFORD IS NEW LEADER' PARIS,. _Sept. 2.2.--The American ] attention since the death of Caruso. Other numbers of the regular series this year will include Guy Maier and Lee Pattison,. dual pianists who are well-known in Ann Arbor, and who have recently returned from a foreign tour; Josef Hofmann, pianist, who will appear in company with Lea Lub- oshutz, Russian violinist, seen here last spring in connection with the May Festival; Feodor Chaliapin, noted Rus- sian basso; and the New York Sym- phony orchestra on a farewell tour under the personal direction of Walter Damrosch, who retired a year ago. Chaliapin will close the series with his concert February 23. The first number of the extra series will be the dual appearance of Rosa Raisa, dramatic soprano, and Giacomo Rimini, her husband, on October 28. Both singers are members of the Chi- cago Civic Opera company, and neith- er have sung in Ann Arbor before. Rinlni is.an Italian.. lujtone andf southern Georgia, which is located about 90 miles north-east of Tallahas- see. In Georgia, where the Democrats thrive, I will find plenty of sunshine, of which there has been a great de- ficiency in Michigan for a long time, or rather, ever since the Republicans h Immigration cality Detains hetoric Leader . Jack, of Aberdeen and who has been retained to Rlhetoric department at being detained in Scot- t technicality in the immi- Jack, who was to fill the ant by the resignation of . Scott last Spring, has raduate study at the Uni- mbridge for the last two us to that he was an in- berdeen. ration laws provide that ring the country must gaged in the occupation o take up within the last nder this provision Prof. en denied permisson to erica and take up his ie Rhetoric department department is at present any messages from the the government officials failed to extricate Pro- from his embarrassing ARE OVERDUE INENTAL RACE ed for Flight Estimated 24 Hours; Planes e Been Gone 30 S FOUND IN EAST ssociated Press) ELD, Spokane, Wash., ager eyes scanned the on early tonight for two' arrying four men, nearly on a transcontinental air w York. Aviation ex- timated the flight would urs unless bad weather redt. piloted by C. A. "Duke" the monoplane Royal -Eddie -Stinson 'of De- lieved to have been sight- rom their goal by resi- lace, Idaho, late today. was forced down at Mis- a, left his plane there the last stage in a plane E. Deke, of Pittsburgh. n Saltiz, Montana, said a I to be the Royal Wind- ted going westwatd late n. Observers, however, ain of the identification. aiting the arrival of the ft New York yesterday what was intended to be we were entertained by mpers and stunt fliers. had not been sighted the long flight before1 tana, although several pped by Schiller were East. the Spokane air port re- civilians, Marine corps anes as contestants in air meet here. K, Sept. 22.-The "Air' ntry in the New York- stop flight, was back on Roosevelt Field tonight attempt to start in the attempts to get the Air I e race. were made today, acey, of Lomax, Illinois, . Yancey, the navigator,t The last attempt, made noon, ended when the e plane was landed at its with Lacey unconsciousf It. f PECIAL SECTION A block "I" cheering; ining 884 men will be, e University of Illinois an game in the stadium l sED IN AN STUDENT though several of them' condemned studying on1 es if they had permittedI be quoted.I nd enthusiastic crowd he scene of the accidenta 1Pnlic'p eseCrves were ! r i : I i S 1 EtE F Ji) 1 Uat uiveriy. I got the state by the throat. It is the The underclass committee takes land of the pecan, persimmon, 'pos- care of all freshmen assemblies and sum, watermelon and sweet potatQ. group meetings. Arrangements are "I 'will spend my summers at my already being made for the organiza- orchards on Canandigua Lake, the gem tion of freshmen groups and plans for of the Finger Lake region, near where assemblies and group meetings to be I was born and raised." announced soon are being made. 47 Years of Service. Upon being asked if he would re- NANSEN REQUESTS turn to Ann Arbor after his departure, LEAGUE TO GIVE Dean Cooley replied, "I do not know. ARMEN IANS A bad penny always returns. Seri- AID TO AI ously, this has been my home for ~almost fifty years. I do not believe I ( ny Associated Pr~ess) could stay away indefinitely. When I CENEVA, Sept. 22.-Threatening to retire next June, I will have been in resign as the League of Nlations com- the service of this university for 47 missioner for Armenian .refugees un-+ years, more than any other man, I be- less the powers really do something lieve. This leave of absence is the only to create an Armenian National home, leave I have had since I went away to Dr. Freidtjos Nansen, the noted the Spanish-American war. Any man Arctic explorer, succeeded in inducing that will work for 47 ears without the Council of the League today to thyatio rzfo 47Tye without makea nw apealto te ntion toa vacation is crazy. Take the word of ake a new appeal to the nations to one who knows. contribute funds to settle on the soil - of the0 Areian epublicsrban e Dean Cooley entered the faculty as r~ professor, of mechanical engineering some 50,000 refugees now scattered i 81 he over different parts of the New East. i181the years after he gradu- Dr. Nansen bluntly told the Council' ated from the United States Naval that the League had failed in its ef- Academy. He has received honorary forts to help the Armenians. degrees from Michigan, Michigan M. Titulescn, Roumanian foreign State, Nebraska University, and Ar- minister, took the lead in appealing to; mour Institute. He has been at one Dr. Nansen not to insist on his resig- i time or the other president of the nation, which the Norwegian delegate American Engineering Council, the eventually kwithdrew on the promise American Society of Mechanical Engi- thatr he would have an opportunity to neers, and the Society for the Promo- air the whole Armenian problem in tion of Engineering Education. In the the assembly. Spanish-American War he was Chief ssemby. Engineer of the Navy, and in the late REPORT F PACT war he was educational director of REPORT ; the Student Army training corps dis- SURPRISES PARIS j trict, including Michigan, Wisconsin, and Illinois. He has held a high posi- (By Associated Press) tion in the Engineering school p'ac- PARIS, Sept. 22.-Surprise was tically ever since he came here in 1881. evinced here today over the reported; both as instructor and dean. announcement of Maxim Litvinoff,. Russian vice foreign minister, in I LTLE TO Moc scow, that a complete agreement llLG had been re*ached by the French and A T FIRST MEETING Soviet delegations studying the ques- OF FOREIGN CLUB tion of the funding of the Russian ! debt to France. President Clarence Cook Little is to aApprently the Fren adelegation give a brief welcoming address to for- eign 'students at the University of anl it isdeclared semi-officially that Michigan as a part of the Cosmopoli- the Letvinoff statement was "far from tan club's program for its first social the facts." meeting of the school year to be held Saturday night at 8 in Lane Hall J 'Auditorium. DAILY TRYOUTS Invitations to attend this meeting have been sent out to every new for- Botlh departments of The Daily, eign student as well as to the old business and editorial, offer ex- members and to members of the fac- ,I .,t n~t n + t ti i c fn andn ti _ __ . _ __ _ t_ _t__ __ _, CLOSE TO DEFEAT IN SEVENTH ROUND, CHAMPION FINISHES WITH RUSH TO SECUREDECISION By AlaniJ. Gould, Associated Press Sports Editor. SOLDIERS FIEDIJ, Chicago, Sept. 22.-Gene Tunney, the mar of destiny, is still heavyweight champion of the world, but his crown came perilously close to being toppled from his head tonight by the gal- lant thrusts of the old warrior, Jack Dempsey in the greatest boxing spectacles of all times. Tunney's hand was raised in victory at the end of a smashing flash- ing battle, but only because he had the courage and fighting power for a sensational finish after being knocked down for a count of nine in the Legion brought its g sn aisa is of Russian-Polish birth. Myra troit, were bel i Hess, an English pianist, will close the ed 90 miles f tion to a gldfrious close today after the {extra serves February 13. In addition dnso a Legionnaires had come again to Paris, oieserhrbr1abth t dents of Wao Leginnareshadcomeagan t Paisto these there will be three other at- Stinson who seen it with eyes nearly 10 years older tractions. the Flonzaley string quar- souri, Montan than when they saw it last, and com- tette, the St. Olaf Lutheran choir, and and continued pletely conquered the French capital. the Detroit Symphony under the direc- piloted by R. The veterans caine with the wai-n- tion of Ossip Gabrilowitsch. Reports from ing that they would be pelted with Mail orders for season tickets to plane believe rotten eggs and assaulted. both concert series will be accepted