ESTABLISHED 1890 Jr Ahr Ar att MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS VOL. XXXVIII, NO. 177. ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1928. EIGHT PAGES FARMERS' AiD AGAIN VETOED BY{PRESIDN 'OVERRIDE' POLICY SURE TO BE FAILURE (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, May 23-President Coolidge today vetoed .the McNary- Haugen farm relief bill. Thus for the second time in as many years Mr. Coolidge has disapproved a farm plan embodying the equaliza- tion fee machinery for surplus crop control. Whether there will be any farm re- lief enacted this session now is up to Congress. The house and senate have a chance of repassing the bill with- out the equalization fee, in the hope of winning presidential favor, or of attempting enactment of the measure as it stands by over-riding Mr. Coo- lidge's veto. There is much doubt that the latter course would prove successful. "Prejudicial To Policy" The president vetoed the bill on the grounds of constitutionality and be- cause the "so-called equalization fee and other features of the old meas- ure are still prejudicial in my opin- ion to sound public policy and to ag- riculture-" The veto draws the issue between the president and the farm group in congress more tightly than it ever has been and unless some further action is taken at the capitol, will place the agricultural question before the coming presidential conventions as an outstanding controversy Frank 0. Lowden is one of the bill's most outspoken champions. Vice president Dawes favors it and Senator Curtis of Kansas and Senator Watson of Indiana, have voted for it. Secretary Hoover has been regard- ed as standing with the president on farm relief. The senate would have to muster a two-thirds vote to pass the bill over Mr. Coolidge's veto. This session the senate passed it by a vote of 53 to 23, or slightly more than the necessary two-thirds. in the house the measure was approved 204 to 121, or slightly less than two-thirds. Its consideration in both houses was enlivened by a discussion of its possi- l SUMMARIZES OBJECTION The objections of the piresident were summarized by him under ( these six headings: I "First:' Its attempted price fixing policy. "Second: The tax characteris- tics of the equalization fee. - ( "Third: The widespread bur- eaucracy which it would set up. "Fourth: Its encouragement to profiteering and wasteful distri- bution by middle-men. ( "Fifth: Its stimulation of ' overproduction. "Sixth: Its aid to our foreign I agricultural competitors." ble effect on the forthcoming presi- dential campaign, the names of Low- den and Dawes frequently being in- jected into the debate. Mr. Coolidge said in his veto mes- sage that this year's McNary-Haugen bill is in some respects an improve- ment over the one he vetoed last year but nevertheless contained "new and highly objectionable provisions." The bill,'he said, "essentially con- sisted of stimulation of the price of agricultural commodities and products thereof by artificially controlling the surpluses so that there will be an ap- parent scarcity on they market." New "Objectionable" Items The veto ended with an expression of hope that farm legislation "along the lines suggested in May last an- nual message, with which many pro- visions of this bill are in harmony, may be enacted." Mr. Coolidge wrote a twelve-page printed pamphlet outlining his ob- jections to the bill and included with it another pamphlet of equal size giv- ing the views of Attorney General Sargent on the legal phases of the measure. In addition, he declared that "these topics by no means exhausted the list of fallacious, and indeed, dan- gerous aspects of the bill- "In conclusion," Mr. Coolidge de- clared, "if the measure is enacted one would be led to wonder how long it would be before producers in other lines would clamor for similar 'equal- BUTTERFEL'S GRATIS MOVIE is ANNOUNCED Showing On Saturday Night Will Mark First In Nature Of Athletic Triumph Celebration PICTURE NOT YET CHOSEN Students of the University are in- vited to attend a free movie to be given at 8 o'clock Saturday night in Hill auditorium as the guests of the Butterfield theater management in cel- ebration of winning the Western Con- ference baseball championship, it was announced yesterday. Announcement of arrangements for the movie was made yesterday by Paul J. Kern, '29, following negotia- tions with representatives of the thea- ters which have extended over the past three days. The picture has not been selected as yet but will be se- lected by the Student Council from among those now showing in the local theaters, according to the announce- ment. The entertainment being furnished Saturday night will mark the first time that the arrangement as it was made by the theater representatives more than a year ago has been put into effect, and is in accordance with the policy of the Butterfield theaters of giving a free show in Hill audi- torium each time that Michigan wins a major athletic championship. This policy was adopted in the spring of 1927 following a series of incidents which included a number of attempted raids by students upon one or the other of the local theaters fol- lowing the winning of important con- ference victories. The affair was brought to a head the night of the Michigan-Iowa basketball game in which Michigan earned the undisput- ed Big Ten basketball title. BLAST WREAKS TOLL IN VIRGINIA DISASTER Only 23 Miners Able To Escape Death; Rescue Crews Search In Vain For Other Bodies REGAIN THIRTEEN BODIES (By Associated Press.) BLUEFFIELD, Va., May 23.-Seven- teen miners were listed tonight as victims of an explosion in the number one mine of the YukonPocahantas coul company at Yukon, McDowell county. Thirteen badly mangled bod- ies had been recovered. Forty men were in the workings at the time of the blast and 23 escaped to the mwain entry. Those killed were loaders and outters, nine white and eight negroes. The explosion occurred last night, as members of the night shift were ontheir way to their posts under- ground and rescue efforts were handi- capped for a time by the presence of gases. The crews, however, erected briattices as they pushed their way for- ward and before many hours most of the bodies had been found. The state rescue squad as well as those from 'nearby mining operations were hurried to the mines. The 'state crew from Matoaka was preparing to leave for Kentucky, where another mine explosion tool place near Hiar- land, when they were advised of the Yukon blast in their own territory. They immediately changed their plans and went to Yukon. (By Associated Press.) MATHER, Pa., May 23.-Rescue work in the Mather mine, where more than 190 miners met death in disas- trous explosion, was suspended today, and tonight the mine was being well ventilated thoroughly in preparation for the official investigiation of the blast by state aind national mine in- spectors and county authorities. The !list of recovered dead stood at 164, with some 30 miners still un- accounted for. DOUGLAS FIGHTS SWING IN HOUSE (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, May 23.-Two of the opposing leaders in the Boulder canyon fight-Douglas, of Arizona, and Swing, of California,-were pit- ted against each other in the House today in an oratorical battle over the merits of the Swing-Johnson bill. The measure was laid aside in the Senate temporarily, but Senator John- son, Republican, California, gave no- tice that when the body resumes con- sideration of it tomorrow, he will ask Seniors Do Some Mock And Some Not So Mock Class "Electioning" By Three Star Just to show how that much-agi- Imocking, he of the not so misogynist- tated merit system of elections would work,fa committee of 17 supposed seniors did some mock electioneering of their own, at least they call what they did "electioneering." Now inasmuch as a colyum of book reviews took the place of the Rolls that are toasted, and seeing that we must work every day to earn our daily Daily fare, we, decided, upon re- quest of the big boss. to report what happened. Paul Cook they elected their most bashful boy, to which we might add "bad." He who is generally known as C. Cathcart Smutz, alias Courtland C. Smith, was chosen class baby. And the bluffer is William C. Pusch. "Mary Lou" Murray, if we may speak of that fair femme in the same paragraph with the foregoing unholy three, was named class handshaker. Robert Leland, affectionately known by many other titles, was named "in not such a mock manner class poli- tician. But, and this is much more NORTHENERS REGIN KOININCHILI WAR Nationalists Om ntiue In Baetingsu Offensive In Grand Effort To Maiintain Advantage REPORT VIOLENT FIGHTING (By Associated Press.) LONDON, May 23. - Stung by the steady drive of the Nationalists on Peking, the Northerner's struck des- perately iat the .Southern army in eastern Chili today, recapturing the key city of Hokien and pursuing Seng Yu-hsiang's forces to the south, while the Nationalists continued their of- fensive at Eaotingsu, important center on the railroad to the northern capital. Advices received in Tokio reported violent fighting in the vicinity of Hokien, 100 miles from Peking; the city first was captured by Feng Yu- hsiang who drove out a Northern bri- gade and then changed hands again when an army of 160,000 men under the command of Sun Chuan-fang, the northern leader in Shantung, opened a terrific offensive. Faced with the critical situation caused by the loss of Hokien whaich broke the Taotingfu- Hokien-Ts:angehow defensive line, the Northerners drove out the Southern- ers. Further to the west at Taotingfu, 80 miles south of Peking, a Nationalist aeroplane bombed the city, dropping a bomb at the railway station in the vicinity of a Northern military special train and at other places causing great confusion. With the rumble of fight south of Peking steadily growing stronger as the Northerners turn on the Nation- alists, the foreign circle in Peking are stated in Reutter's dispatch to be growing more and more interested in the' attitude of the United States regarding possible trouble there. GOLFERS DEFEAT BUCKEYE SQUAD (Special to The Daily,) COLUMBUS, May 23.-Micrigian golfers defeated Ohio State, the Wol- verines winning nine and one half l points out of 12 in the singles match- es. The playing of the doubles match- es originally scheduled for afternoon I were postponed bcause Michigan had I won sufficient point's to cinch the meet and also that they might rest. before the two days of the Conference tourn- ament to be played here today and to- morrow. Tournament will be based on medal play of teams and individ- I uads. ic tendencies, James Hughey, uph, ughy, and ugh, was named class wd- man hater. It is rumored that she and he, Dor- othy Herrick and William Campbell, chosen as the best students, each need 17 hours of A to graduate. They'll get their titles again next year. It was almost a tie, boys, but Ellis Merry vanquished Vincent Wall for the place as the best athlete. But sim- ply by changing Vincent to Vi, the Music and Drama personage (we must use a vague word), our traditional eyesore, was dubbed most "booful" girl, William Ramsay of Mimes chor- us, almost won over Wall here, but Music and Drama could not be denied. Ruth Moore, Edna Balz, and Sophie White, to finish the women honored (?) were named best vamp, most basp ful, and most popular, respectively, but not so respectfully. Dapper Frank Harrigan will have the opportunity to scoff at the other pictures of sartorial perfection with his new title (he is a senior finally). Fred Duffield may now puff with just pride when John Gilbert, also hand- some, passes on the screen. Gordon Packer, as class Apollo, gets some- thing to paste in his memory book. Jo Chamberlin, class dumbbell, Rob- ert Shambaugh, of the best line, all hail! ]JESUIT INDIAN PRIEST L.LR E Veteran Missionary Of Ojibway Has Worked Among Indians For Many Years LANGUAGE WILL BE TOPIC This afternoon at 4 o'clock, the Rev- erend Father William F. Gagnieur, a priest of the Order of Jesuits, and the last missionary among the Ojibway Indians will speak in Room 25, Angell hall on "The Ojibway Indians: Their Language and Literature." For the past 30 years Father Gag- nieur, who is over 80 years of age, has served these Indians, branches- of the Algonquin Tribe located in the Upper Peninsula. He knows the Ojib- ways as probably no other man in the world knows them, and he speaks the three Ojibway dialects fluently, and correctly, being the only living man who can claim this distinction. Records Will Be Mfade In spite of the fact that the Indians themselves have combined these three distinct dialects into one tongue Father Gagnieur has succeeded in keeping them separate in his own mind and while here will preserve them on (dictaphone records. Brought here largely through the plans and efforts of Prof. Eric W. Wal- ter of the rhetoric department, Father Gagnieur will make these records Fri- cday morning in the laboratory of the rhetoric department under the direc- tion of Prof. A. R. Morris. Father Gagnieur will also record at that time the songs and chants of the tribes so that they may be compared with those of other nationalities. Dr. Morris plans also to record, by means of a microphone and a dictaphone, this afternoon's lecture. Is Beloved By Indians Among the Ojibway Indians Father Gagnieur is loved more than any other white man. He lives in their cabins, eats the same food they do, and often has to subsist on eggs alone. When he goes out on his missionary trips he carries a small altar and his vest- ments with him in a suitcase, and con- ducts his services in log cabins and schoolhouses. He has traveled by sail- boat, canoe, dog teams, and on foot many thousands of miles since he be- came a missionary. Many times his life has been endangered by the bit- ter cold of northern winters, in cross- ing unsound ice, and during storms on the lakes over which he travels in small boats. GALE ACCEPTS PLACE' ON CALIFORNI STAF& University Professor Will Succeed Potts As Head Of Department Of OrientalI Languages NAMED TO AGASSIZ CHIAIR Another Michigan man wa's added to the faculty of the University of California when Prof. Esson M. Gale was chosen to head the department of Oriental languages at the Berkeley institution. Professor Gale will suc- ceed Prof. W. S. A. Potts, well known in the fields of Chinese language and political science. Under the Agassiz found'aition the University of California provides a complete department devoted to the study of Far Eastern civilizations, in- eluding both elementary and ad- vanced courses in the Chinese and, Japanese languages.j Professor Gale, who resides in Bay City, hias been a member of the Uni-: versity of Michigan faculty for some time. For five years he specialized here in ancient and modern languages, and also in medieval European his- tory. In 1908, when he was appointed to the United States foreign service in the Orient, he began his Chinese stud- ies at the American legation at Pe- king. Subsequently, as an official in the Chinese ministry of finance, he travelled extensively inm China (and Manchuria,. From time to time he visited Korea and Japan, thoroughly acquainting himself with Oriental languages and fiscal and administra- [tive methods. At the present time, Professor GaAe is engaged in gathering further ma- terial for a special study of early Chinese fiscal organizatioin He will assume his new duties at the Univer- sity of California in August.I 'TECHNIC MAKES LAST1 APPEARANCE OF YEAR Dean Sadler Explains Operations Of Newly Designed Speed Boat In Feature Article DUDLEY WRITES REVIEW The May number, the final issue of the Michigan Technic, official mag- azine of the Colleges of Engineering and Architecture, appeared on the campus yesterday. Prof. Herbert C. Sadler, expert in naval design and recently appointed Dean of the Engineering college, is the author of one of the feature ar- ticles, "Crossing the Atlantic in Four Days." Professor Sadler describes the work of a committee of which he is a member in designing a. new type of I fast ship constructed of high tensile steel and driven by high speed tur- bines generating electricity for slow- er speed motors which drive the pro- pllers. The ship is expected to at tain an average speed of 40 miles per hour. "Engineering Teaching As A Pro- fession" is the title of an article by A. D. Moore, Assistant Professor o Electrical Engineering. He points out the advantagesfand disadvantages of teaching as a field for the graduating senior, and mentions the qualifica- tions necessary to enter it. E. G. Dudley, 'ISE, of the turbine department of the General Electric company, reviews the recent devel- opments in installation of turbine el- ectric drives in passenger vessel. In an interesting article entitled "The Antiquity of Recent Inventions," John S. Worley, Professor of Trans-j portation, presents documentary ma-I terial to show that many modern de- vices such as the steamboat, automo-6 bile, submarine, and airplane were an- ticipated by old writers. STUDENTS WILLVOTE TONIGHT ON PROPOSED MERIT SYSTEM, O'F SELECTINGUNION OFFICERS NEED 600 VOTES TO FORM QUORUM; TWO-THIRDS SANCTION REQUIRED TO PASS AMENDMENT Endorsed by representative students and faculty members and having been approved unanimously by the board of directors, the merit system of choosing the president and; recording secretary of the Union will be put to a vote of the male students of the University at an assembly to be held at 7:30 o'clock tonight in the ballroom of the Union. If the proposed amendment is accepted, it will mean that these two offices will be filled next spring by the newly created board of directors which in its organization and expected operation is closely modeled after the system used by the Board in Control of Student Publications. In order that this change may be accomplished, it is necessary under the Union constitution for at least 600 members of the organization to be present and that the amendment SM under consideration receive at least 400 votes, or two-thirds of those cast. The amendment as originallly sug- gested to the boiard is being advoiated by members of the student body in Proihbition Issue Causes Uonmplete the belief that it will result in re- Rout Of New Yoik Governor's moving the presidency and recording Fight For eldlgates secretaryship of the Union from the influence of campus politics; and that MOODY LEADS OPPOSITION it will mean that in the future these two offices will be filled solely on a (By Associated Press) basis of ability and work on Union BEAUMONT, Texas, May 23.-Sup- committees rather than on a basis of porters of Gov. Alfred E. Smith of personal popularity or political back- New York were routed at the Demo- ing. crati convention here late today by As it is now planned, each of the 17 Gov. Dan Moody in a fight for dele- members of the board will under the gates to the national convention after amendment be placed in a position of the Smith and Moody forces had knowing each candidate for office and combined to defeat a demand of the in being personially acquainted with multra-dry faction for specific instruc the work that each individual has to-s ga tin Smith. st done. It is also planned to give each Heedinan appeal by Governor of the'six student vice-presidents who will continue to be elected at the cam- would be in sympathy with tie plank pus elections a more prominent place in the state platform favoring prohi- in Union activities. bition, the convention voted 483 to It is also probable that under the 252 to permit a convention committee proposed plians the president and re- to name the ( nelegates. cording secretary will make written The nmith enead ..waged a fight recommendations to the board giving Thae Smih mengrhsswage district in detail the qualifications and record to have each congressionaldititoeahcndtem hassnw choose its own delegates asserting done by the retiring busines s manag- that if this plan were followed !Smith ers and mjanaging editors of the pub- would win 10 or 12 of the state's 40 lications. votes at lonston. An organization committee consist- When the roll call was taken the pendulum swung to his side with the result that the delegation to Houston probably will consist of men vifhom the Moody-'Harmony group of Demo- crats endorsed as satisfactorily dry and opposed to Smith. as long as it is possible to oppose him without scratching the ticket. Moody announced flatly against delegates instructed for Smith and supported time resolution of Tom Ball, of Houston, to allow a convention to name the delegates.k He stated frankly that he favored' such a course because he felt the Texas delegation should be in ac- cordance with the prohibition plank in the state platform. DRUIDS INITIATE 18 NEW MEMBERS While staves tapped and torches lit the way, 18 members of the junior lit- erary class groped blindly and pain- fully from the sacred rock in Druid Grove up the long path to redemption last night, when the, Druids, honorary senior literary society, held their an- nual initiation. The latter part of the ceremonies was held in the Union, af- ter which a banquet was held for tl-/ Awenyds. Those from whom the toll was ex- acted were Edward Wachs, Raymond J. Wachter, Rolland W. Taylor, Hor- ace J. Barton, Frank E. Meese, Har- Ian P. Christy, Paul E. Minsel, Ralph E. Popp, John W. Tarbill, Glenn A. Carlson, John D. Whittle, Fenton Ra- ber, Arthur M. Hinkley, Howard K. Kenyon, Morris Quinn, C. Lyman Crane, John O. Bergelin, and Melvin. R. Deo. FROST DECIDES POETRY WINNERS Winners in the Inlander spring poe- try contest were announced yester- day following the receipt of a com- munication from Robert Frost, the judge, naming his selections. First prize of $10.00 offered by George Wahr was awarded to Betina A. Bush, '29 for her poem, "Swamp in Spring." Second prize of $5 offered by the Inlander was awarded, to Alice E. Ford, '29, for her poem, "Notes on North House." The sonnet prize of- THE UNION AIENDMENT (1) Change Article IV, Sec- tion one, paragraph one, to read as follows-The President of the Union and its Recording Secre- tary, to be students, ex-officio, to be appointed by the Board of Directors as hereinafter provided Ifor. I(2) Under Article IV add the following-The Board of Direc- tors shall, on the Saturday pre- ceding the all-Campus elections, appoint, by a majority of vote of the entire Board, a President and Recording 'Secretary of the Union. (3) Under Article XII See- tion I, paragraph two, leave out the words "at least two condi- dates for President and Record- ing Secretary and for each of the 4 Vice-Presidents, five in all." Insert the words "at least two candidates for each of the Vice- Presidents, six in all." j (4) Under Article XII, Section II, leave out the words "may nominate a candidate or candi- dates for any or all such offices" and add the words "may nomin- ate a candidate or candidates for Vice-president." (9) Article XIII, Section I, leave out the words "President, Recording Secretary and five Vice-Presidents" and add "six Vice-Presidents." (6) Article XIII, Section II, I leave out the words "each mem- ber of the Union shall be entitl- ed to vote for one candidate for President, one candidate for Re- Icording Secretary" and add the words, "each student member Ishall be entitled to vote for one candidate for Vice-President for the college or school in which I he shall then be a student. k SINGING OF THE SENIORS SPOILS OTHERWISE PERFECT EVENING EXCEPT WHEN DROWNED OUT BY BAND MUSIC; but it was a rather unsuccessful at-played by the band, but what the By Esidnoe . tempt. Seniors and the rest of the songsters Singing at the top of their voices, Then, after all efforts to locate were singing during its rendition still nearly 100 seniors tried to drown out more members of the graduating class remains a mystery. After that wasi the Varsity band concert at their an- had failed, some auxiliaiy singers over, the vocal chorus sang the4 nual musical get-together held last were enlisted from the lower classes "Drinking Song" from the "StudentI night on the campus. At the time of and put up in the section with the Prince" in chich they displayed real , the opening selection by the band "whiskey tenors" from out on Wash- talent. Encouraged, the band played several academic-looking people, tenaw. They tried the old stand-by, the "Victors," "Varsity" and "The Yel- garbed in caps and gowns were ga- "My Name is Samuel Hall," but be- low and Blue" in rapid succession . thered around the intersection of the fore they could get under way, the while the chorus tried to keep up.1 diagonals wondering what to do next. band had resumed its regular pro- With this the band disbanded, but un- Finally Michigan's major domo as- gram. daunted the seniors sang on. After an- sumed the role of chorus master and "College Days" was the next song other attempt had ben made on "Sam- I i. ing of William V. Jeffries, grad., presi- dent of the Union for the past year; Prof. H. C. Anderson, head of the me- chaniolal engineering department; and Archie W. Diack, '29D, was named from the Board of Directors more than two months ago after student in- terest in the change had been brought to the attention of the board. Change In Original Plan Made