ESTABLISHED 1890 Y AL .ART Aloe MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN VOL. XLI. No. 27 EIGHT PAGES ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1930 I PRICE FIVE CENTS CAMPAIGN TO HELP JOBLESS ADVANCEDI BY FEDERAL ACTION National Government Attempts to Create Opportunity for More Work. Creates Grid Row In College Circles WOODS CHOOSES STAFF Voluntary Organizations Begin Functioning to Relieve Local Distress. (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.-T h e campaign to rid the jobless horde of want in the lean winter months advanced with definite strikes to- day as the federal government made plans to create more oppor- tunity for work and outside agen- cies began functioning to relieve local distress. Announcement of the govern- ment's action coupled with reports from different sections of the country of the steps taken by vol- untary organizations greeted Col. Arthur Woods; chairman of the president's emergency committee for employment upon his return late today from New York. Meets With Staff. The members of his staff he re- cruited in New York are to meet with him tomorrow. Dr. Lillian M. Gilbreth, consulting engineer of Montclair, N. J., is to be in charge of the women's activities. John B. Blandford, of Cincinnati, is to work with municipalities, and Bryce Stewart, New York statistician, is in charge of gathering information on unemployment and places where employment may be found. Colonel Woods said he was pleas- ed with the organization by Gov. Frank C. Allen of Massachusetts of a straight employment commit- tee to apply the recommendations of the president's committee for a state-wide campaign for employ- ment. States Will Cooperate. Other states in which no exist- ing organization is functioning, he said, undoubtedly would adopt sim- ilar programs. Plans of the post office depart- ment to place 228,490 additional persons on its payroll during the Christmas holiday season begin- ning Dec. 13 were outlined today by Postmaster-General Brown. In this manner, about $6,720,000 will be distributed to needy persons, President Hoover having previously signed an executive order waiving civil service qualifications of work- men in order to make the widest distribution to the most destitute. Build Hospital Units. The postmaster-general issued specific orders to postmasters throughout the country to deter- mine the financial condition of the applicants to assure that they need work. Gen. Frank P. Hines, administra- tor of veterans affairs, said the vet- erans bureau would award con- tracts within a few weeks for hos- pital units costing $7,000,000, which will provide work for 4,500 men. BLIND POLICEMAN LEAVESHOSPITAL Peter O'Rourke, Bandit Victim, May Regain Sight. Peter J. O'Rourke, New York City traffic officer, who has been a pa-- tient in University hospital since Sept. 17, when he was blinded by bullets from the guns of two ban- dits, yesterday returned to his home in Rockaway Beach, N. Y. The police officer, now totally blind, may regain the sight of his left eye, hospital officials said. Should O'Rourke be permanently blind, he will be retired with full pay, New York police heads an- nounced, and if he regains the sight of the left eye he will be given a clerical position in the New York police department. William Brown, 22, of Detroit, one of the bandits, Monday was sentenced to life imprisonment at Jackson state prison by Circuit Judge George W. Sample, of Ann Arbor, on a charge of robbery armed. Brown's acomplice, Russell McComis, is now serving a life term at the same prison. Associated Press Photo Dr. W. A. Tarr. University of Missouri professor, whose charges against the amateur status of "Jim" Bausch, star Kan- sas back, stirred up a storm in the Big' Six Missouri Valley conference. CANDIDATESFAVOR DRY LAW REPEAL Potential Congressmen S t a t e Their Prohibition Views In Questionnaire. PREDICT STATE FIGHTS (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.-The As- sociation Against the Prohibition Amendment announced today that 371 replies to 823 questionnaires sent to Congressional condidates to as- sert their prohibition views showed 265 for and 99 against repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. . Henry H. Curran, the president of' the association, added that "Sca- tering answers favoring modifica-, tion of the Volstead Act are putting the question of repeal up to the popular vote of the people and a few candidates evaded the question entirely." The questionnaire, Curran said, asked: "Do you favor repeal of the Eigh- teenth Amendment?" He said 265 replied yes, and "only 99 asserted their support of the amendment." "T h e replies," he continued,! "showed the candidates in the northeastern seaboard and Great Lakes states to be strongly against the amendment with a total of 162 for repeal with 25 for retention of the dry law. "The answers from states west of the Rockies showed 13 for repeal against nine for retention. "Similarly the mid-western states showed a preponderous protest with 78 answers for repeal to 26 dry replies. "On the basis of replies received repeal or anti-repeal fights will be staged in 34 of the 48 states." 'Big Bill' Thompson Returns to Yachting (By Associated Press) CHICAGO, Oct. 28.--Mayor Wil- liam Hale Thompson has gone back to yachting, a sport he engaged in before he plunged into politics, but which he had practically abandoned in recent years. Announcement that he had pur- chased the Doris V 165-foot steam yacht, from William A. Hofnauer was made Monday. The purchase price was not revealed, but reports placed the figure at $100,000. Boy Scouts Thwart Fire Menace; Save Film Stars' Homes (By Associated Press) BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Oct. 28. -As a composite good deed for the day, Troop 17, Beverly Hills Boy Scouts, thwarted the menace of fire in, Benedict Canyon, in which are situated the homes of Douglas Fairbanks, Charles Chaplin, Har- old Lloyd and other celebrities. HUGE DISTRIBUTION OF IDENTIFICATION CARDS ANNOUNCED More Than 9,000 Student Pass- ports' Will be Issued Starting Thursday. USE OF CARD EXPLAINED Not Compulsory but Convenient to Carry Cards, Dean Bursley Says. Identification cards for more than 9,000 University students will be is- sued beginning either Thursday or Friday of this week, it was stated yesterday by Dean J. A. Bursley. Members of Dean Bursley's office staff have been working for several weeks in order to get the cards ready by the end of thus. week, and announceerients of the time and place for distribution will be made in the Daily Official Bulletin on the morning selected. Used for Identification. Dean Bursley stated that the pur- pose of the cards is to enable the student to identify himself should he need such identification to cash a check, remove a library book, or in other ways proverhis connec- tions with the University. Carrying of the cards is not compulsory, but their issue is merely a courtesy to students in order to serve purposes which have been found for such identifications in the past. Distribution of the cards will be spread over a period of several days, with announcements to be printed in the bulletin governing the alpha- betical division of the identifica- tions. Students in every school and college of the University have been listed alphabetically in the files now nearly complete. Persons w h o s e names begin with letters between A and will probably be taken care of on the opening day, with suc- ceeding groups distributed before the middle of next week. Cards will be issued through the windows be- tween the office of the dean and the registrar's office in University hall. Cards Not Compulsory. Use ofrthe cards, which include photographs of students along with their names, addresses and year on the campus, will be comparable to passports and need be carried only at the student's discretion. In case 6f withdrawal from the University, however, the card must be present- ed along with the treasurer's receipt before refund can be made. PHARMACISTS TO ELECTOFFICER Juniors, Sophomores, Freshmen to Name Class Heads. Juniors, sophomores, and fresh- men of the Pharmacy school will hold class elections at 5 o'clock to- morrow afternoon in room 303 Chemistry building. The two lower classes will elect their four officers, and the juniors will settle a tie for the vice-presidency and elect a Junior-Hop representative. Perry Cook and Thomas Samuels have tied twice for the office of vice-president. Each obtained six votes at the regular election and three at a run-off vote Monday. The sophomore election was post- oned f-ronm Mv nda ba1usef,.. r.u an r RESCUE CREWS TRY TO REACH P28CMEN Workers Fight Through Debris and After-Damp to Save Blast Victims. Rescuers Believe Speedy Action May Enable Them to Free Trapped Men. REPORT pui 1 l mluayJ y,,,,al(73,tAssociated Press) insufficient number attended the McALESTER, Okla., Oct. 28. - meeting at that time. Fighting deadly after-damp and Candidates for offices must have handicapped by debris, rescue crews proof of their eligibility. continued efforts tonight to reach lower levels of the Wheatley No. 4 mine where a blast last night en- tombed 29 men and killed William Donley, working at the mine mouth. Leffie Rosso, working with Don- ley, was injured when he was hurled against the tipple. John Moore, a gas rescue worker, was taken to a McAlester hospital in an uncon- Vice-Presidency Won by Elinor scious condition. Locke; Eileen Woodbury Sixty-one Workers Aid. Loce;Sixty-one men, most of them Elected Secretary. from neighboring mines, formed the rescue party. Several were over-, GARDINER WINS OFFICE come by the gas. Workers who ventured too far in- Ivan Williamson with 214 votes to the mine were driven back, chok- out of a total of 397 cast, was elect- ing, to better air. ed president of the sophomore lit- A report that reached the engine house late today that bodies of four erary class yesterday afternoon, men had been sighted on the 16th Ile defeated John Root, who re- level were discounted tonight. ceived 183 votes, for the position. Gas Still Dense.j By a margin of 32 votes, Elinor A chance that some may have es- Locke won the vice presidency caped the terrific blast, which was Lock wonthe iceheard two miles away, and the coal from Jane Rayen. The respective damp that followed, led workers to vote was 215 to 183. The class sec- redouble efforts to break through retaryship went to Eileen Woodbury rock falls, restore ventilation and with 209 votes, while Margaret reach the level where the men were ' trapped. ONE CASUALTY Murphy Criticises Action of Big Ten Conference Heads (By Associated Press) DETROIT, Oct. 28.-Mayor Frank Murphy today critised Western Conference officials for their failure to sanction the playing of the Northwestern- Notre Dame game at Soldier's Field, Chicago, as a means of paving the way for the propos- ed charity game ,between the University of Michigan and the University of Detroit. The mayor branded the atti- tude of conference officials as "inconsiderate and selfish." He added that if negotiations for the proposed charity game are unsuccessful he would person- nally seek to arrange a game between Notre Dame and the University of Detroit for Thanks- giving Day in the Michigan stad- ium at Ann Arbor, or would at- tempt to have the Michigan State-U. of D. game transfer- red from Nov. 22 to Thanksgiv- ing Day and have it played in the Michigan Stadium. In either game, he said, the proceeds would go to the relief of the De- troit unemployed. FISH GIESSPEECH ON SOVIET, RUSSI"A Congressman Says Recognition by United States Would Harm America. STATES TRADE FIGURES Schermack with 187 was the other' candidate in the race. The last position, the treasurership went to Jo. B. Gardiner who polled 2081 votes as against the 186 received. by Duncan Shepard. Class officers were also selected at the elections of the freshmen medical class. J. Mack LaBerge was elected president; Robert Jen- nings,'vice-president; R. L. Schill- ing, secretary; and J. G. Roid. treasurer. All officers were elected by a unanimous ballot. The junior law election, which is scheduled for this afternoon, will start promptly at 4:15 in room C of the Law building. Class officers as well as a representative to the, J-Hop committee will be choseni SENATORIAL RACE at this time. HAS NEW ANGLE Glee Club Will Meet Chicago's Republican Mayor For Practice Tonight Supports Democrat. Because its first concert will take (By Associated Press) place next week, the men's glee CHICAGO, Oct. 28.-The Illinois club will hold a special rehearsal senatorial race, a battle of person- tonight at the School of Music, alities that has engrossed the coun- Gayle Chafln, manager of the or- try, nears the Nov. 4 balloting at- ganization announced yesterday. tuned to a new pitch of interest About 70 men will comprise the over eleventh-hour developments group which will sing, the largest in the struggle for Cook county number on record for the club. votes. Aside from concert next week, nu- William Hale Thompson, Repub- merous concerts are planned for the lican mayor of Chicago, with the winter season and it ius expected political showmanship for which he that the club will make several trips is noted, set new forces in motion to neighboring towns. by engaging in a duel with Con- gresswoman Ruth Hanna McCor- Revised Rates Sought mick, Republican candidate for the by Western Carriers senate. He has announced his support of (By Associated Press) James Hamilton Lewis, Democratic WASHINGTON, Oct. 28. - A re- senatorial nominee; the Cook opening of Interstate Commerce county Republican organization did Commission proceedings calling for not follow his lead and the reper- a revision of western trunk line cussions of those moves have spur- railroad rates was sought today by red public interest anew in a cam- western carriers. paign that has set many political The carriers said while the com- precedents. mission had calculated to increase The dramatic and unexpected en- railroad earnings in the West by trance of "Big Bill" came after $12,000,000 a year by the revision. Lewis and Mrs. Lottie Holman O'- the recent decline in traffic and Neill, independent, had charged altered traffic conditions made this Mrs. McCormick with his support. grant of more revenue unlikely. "The Tammany of Illinois" is the way Mrs. O'Neill characterized the Believe Gang Leader'sI Thompson and Cook county Re- publican organization. Lewis in- Death Brought Bonus veighed against the "city hall crod."(By Associated Press) crowd. )'t. 28.-A bonus of $10,000 was paid to the assassins of Police Hold Suspect Joe Aiello, wealthy gang leader in ia ondShotig slain by machine gunners 1la s t I Thursday, detectivesginvestigating the murder believed today. (By Associated Press) Detective Sergeants Rocco Feletti NEW YORK, Oct. 28-Robert Mil- and William Balzano said they had ler; alias "the Count," sought for facts to support their theory that questioning in connection with the the killers were kept on a gang pay- A group of seven men who went into the shaft this afternoon, re- turned to the surface after three hours to report they believed they! had been within 400 feet of the vic- tims. Walter Tate, one of the rescu- ers, said the gas at that point still was too dense to permit him to go further. CO'MMUNISTS KILL, 90 MORECHINESEI Reds Capture Nanchowting; Fear Safety of Missionaries. (itv Associated Press) HANKOW, Oct. 28.-Communists were reported today to have cap- tured Nanchowting, northern Hu- nan province, where they killed 90 Chinese. The fate of two American missionaries, one man and one woman, stationed at Nanchowting, was not learned. (Bi Associated Press) HONGKONG, Oct. 28.-Fear that Kiangsi province Communists who have occupied the city of Kian Oct. 5 have invaded the southern part of the province was felt here today when efforts to communicate with Kanchow by wireless failed. The local government station's call to Kanchow went unanswered, leading to the belief the Reds had interfered with the Kanchow sta- tion, which is within the walls of the city. Kanchow is a city of 250,000 pop- ulation, poorly defended with only 1,000 troops forming the garrison. The city is four days march from Kian. At the latter city recently Red leaders indicated to Bishop Magnani and Father de Jenlis, Catholic missionaries, that they planned to invade southern Kiang- si. The two missionaries took this information to Kiukiang Kiangsi, when they were released by the bandits to obtain ransom for 14 other missionaries held as hostages. One Killed, Another Hurt in Plane Crash (By Associated Press) SAN PEDRO, Calif., Oct. 28.-An accident during Navy Day man- euvers here resulted in the death of Ensign Glenn Desch, of the U. S. S. Idaho, and in probably fatal injuries to Ensign E. W. Anderson. Their plane, catapulted from the battleship's deck, veered sharply, Naval officers said, and plunged in- to the ocean. Storms belay Arrival of Bulgar King, Queen -(By As so iatvd Press) NEW YORK, Oct. 28.-Represent- ative Hamilton Fish, Jr., chairman of the Congressional committee in- vestigating communist activities, told a radio audi'ence tonight that if the United States should recog- nize Soviet Russia this country would be apt to lose rather than gain. "Russia desires diplomatic rela- tions not for purposes of trade," he declared, "but because it would in- crease its prestige, help stabilize its government, discourage opposition from both within and without, and permit it to intensify its revolu- tionary propaganda throughout the world." He charged a "tremendous amount of inspired propaganda" has been spread throughout the country "in regard to the magni- tude of our trade with Russia, all for the purpose of promoting rec- cgnition of the Soviet government." The conference on the internal and external problems of Russia at the institute of politics at Williams- town, Mass., in August, he declared, was made an instrument for this propaganda by Ivy Lee, whom he called a "propagandist for Soviet Russia," and Paul Cravath, who he said, "for many years has had a yearning for recognition of Soviet Russia." "What are the facts of our trade with Russia?" he asked. "Back in 1913, when we recognized the im- perial Russian government a n d were on friendly terms with it, our total export trade with Russia amounted to less than $20,000,000, and last year, without recognition of the Soviet government, we ex- ported $86,000,000 worth of goods to Russia." Chicago Voting Booths Offer Grave Problem (By Associated Press) CHICAGO, Oct. 28-thicago's vot- ers are going in for reducing exer- cises and mental gymnastics. They are training to overcome the hazards of the latest in voting ma- chinery - booths just 32 inches square, lighted by a candle, in which must be handled four ballots with a total area of 1,857 square inches containing 199 names and 22 as- sorted propositions and questions of public policy. All these choices and decisions must be made in just five minutes. Fast readers have tried it out and declare 18 minutes are required to read the four ballots. New Y'ork's Society Attends Aida Opening (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Oct. 28.-Wrapped in luxurious furs and velvets, shim- YAR6AS CHOSEN AS REBEL KEAD OF GOVERNMN Revolutionary Leader Succeeds Luis as BrazilChief. RIO STAYS QUIET Banks Function Under Protection of Sailors. (By Associated Press' Rio de Janeiro, Oct. 28-Getuljo Vargas, leading figure in the Bra- zilian revolution which began Oct. 3, was definitely chosen today for the provisional presidency of Brazil. He will succeed Washington Luis, ousted by the movement of military an(d naval leaders last Friday. Choice was made this afternoon at a meeting of southern revolution- ary representatives with the military- naval junta.' Vargas is now the only important rebel leader not in the capital, for Captain Juarez Tavora arrived by airplane late today from the north and was given a wild welcome. Suspicious of Junta. The captain, who organized and conducted the revolution in nine northern states, was reported a few days ago to be suspicious of the Rio junta but said he was willing to co-operate when he learned that Vargas would take the presidency. Thousands crowded the avenues as the northern chieftain motored to his hotel, and sirens and whistles were tooted in welcome. Vargas has ordered his special train made ready by the central railroad and will soon conie north, i is understood, leading a triumphal entry of southern revoltionaty sol- diers into the capital. City Quiet After Mutiny. Rio was quiet today, following the military police mutiny of yesterday, in which more than 100 casualties were reported, and the policing of the banking districts was taken over by sailors. A decree of the junta today permitted all banks to do businessbexcept the discounting of foreign blls, which was left to the Banco do Brasil. The officers of the American con- sul-general and commercial attache, located in the Anoite building, of which several floors were sacked by rioters Friday, have been moved to the American embassy. The former offices were not touched by the mob but the building has been closed to all tenants pending sheriff's adjust- ments. RIGHT WING SEEKS TO OUST BALDWIN Political Sensation Provided by Action of Conservatives. (By Associated Press) LONDON, Oct. 28.-Demands by Conservative members of Parlia- ment for the resignation of former Premier Stanley Baldwin, their leader, provided tonight one of the major political sensations of the year. Forty-four Conservatives present- ed a petition to the chief whip of the Conservative party submitt ng that a change in leadership was "essential to the national inter- ests." Another meeting of the "rebels" is expected to be held tomorrow with a view to giving other mem- bers of the party an opportunity of joining t h e movement against their chief. Though the outstanding names in the party were missing from the petition, the signatures of several well-known members are attached, including those of Sir John Gret ton and Viscount Lymington. Gordon String Quartet to Open Series Today The Gordon string quartet will open a series sponsored by the Chamber of Music society at 8:15 o'clock tonight at the Lydia Men- delssohn theater. The program has been announc- ed as follows: Quartet in A Minor, Opus 51, by Brahms: Allegro nom.