Jr 411 r4 ttt MEMBER, ASSOCIATED a PRESS SIX PAGES ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1932 WEATHER: Cloudy; Probably Snow PRICE FIVE CENTS I I . .* , Council Vote Thrown Out Afe Disclosure of Fraud )O Illegal SHAW, KALONIK WIN Trometer, Felker Go to Finals' in Middleweight Class; Wayland Victor. By John W. Thomas. Jack Slater won the heavyweight boxing championship of the cam- pus last night in the Intramural building before more than 600 fight fans that crowded into the avail- able space around the ringside. He easily defeated Bill Kupfer ofI Bridgeport, Conn., in the principal match of the card of 10 bouts. Harvey Bauss won the right to meet Jack Kirby for the light- heavyweight title next week, by outclassinghJohn Bolock. Unlike Slater, Bauss failed to let up after he had clinched the bout, and kept after the- Chicago fighter through- out the three rounds. Slater will be fighting in the A. A. U. meet in Detroit on the night. of the All-Campus finals, so the heavyweight eliminations were ad- vanced so that the title bout could be fought last night. Jack started out fast, using straight left to Kup- fer's chin to pile up points. Jack Scpres Hard Blow. Late in the first round, Slater hooked a left to the side of Bill's face and followed with a terrific short right that landed just above the button. The blow dazed Kupfer and clinched the contest for the champion. Slater then gave a bril- liant exhibition of defense as he kept Kupfer from scoring one clean blow for two rounds. Three exhibition bouts opened the semi-final show. Dave Golden defeated Howard Bressler on the newspapermen's decision by using his 15-pound weight advantage to win. Bob Custor out-weighed Har- old Hirata and won a close unoffi- cial decision. His long experience told in the third round although, Hirata surprised Bob with a start- ling overhead right that scored frequently for the Hawaiian. Les Newman won the newspaper- men's decision over Bergtorf in the third exhibition match. Bergtorf clowned his way through a tough spot in the second round and gain- ed needed rest to recover from a stiff right hand blow that he had stopped with his chin. Wayland Defeats Verberg. Eugene Wayland won an unpop- ular decision from Charles Verberg in the lightweight division. Ref- eree Sam Hennessey said after the match that Wayland hit hard clean blows throughout, while Verberg devoted his efforts to slapping, which detracts from his point col- umn. All three A. A. U. judges were unanimous in the decision. Lee Shaw easily won the welter- weight decision from Ed Elliott, hurting him with body blows. Sol Bolner surprised the fans with a close bout, losing to the outstand- ing favorite, Andy Kalonick, in the other welterweight fight. Gus Trometer won handily from Fred Kaiser, although the latter was not conceded much of a chance against the middleweight champ- ion, he put up one of the best fights of the evening. H. W. Felk- er out-reached Robert Sumner to win the other bout in the middle- weight decision. Sumner gave Felk- er three inches in reach and three more in height and could not over- come these advantages. Babe Ruth Signs One Facsimile of Fraudulent Plugger I,, I ii I 1 1 1 { } INEPNDN 1 t 1 1 11 '1__________!-- We.,Machlb 13 Th'bvei n xc1epoutino tefk1Saestet"pugr aditdydsrbtdb1tlat n fteWst~a addtsI an efottIpi h tt tetvt.Tedsoeywsmd olw in anivsiainb7h al.Th diso a aebfr h tir tdn!oni atngt hi rcieo pugr ae a benrsre1oi rviu lcin-b ebeso1ohpris u tis sth isttm1cnrtepof!a ee.otand !tnn r rii A I ,RRIr~ ERLTY LNEgA Aillntin i Ballots Found; to ULMUUHIIIIU VUILI Returns From 1120 of 2235 Pre- cincts Indicate Majority for New Yorker. MURRAY COUNT HIGH France Wins Republican Polling E Over Coxey; Maintains Steady Lead. FARGO, N. D., March 16.-(iP)- Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York: apparently received a majority of# the North Dakota presidential pre- ference vote in Tuesday's primary election, returns from 1120 out of 2235 precincts in the state indicat- ed tonight. A second Republican slate was uninstructed as to individuals, but was told by its Non-partisan League sponsors to support a "Progressive." Non-partisan leaders said its rep- resentatives would not support Hoover. France and Coxey had! no delegate candidates. The primary brought Roosevelt, who already has 48 pledged Na- tional Convention delegates, and! Murray, who has 22, into their first contest. Murray's name came di- rectly before voters of the Nation for the first time since he an- nounced his candidacy. The Associated Press election bureau, the only agency in the state to tabulate election returns before the official count is made, gave Roosevelt 28,736 votes. His opponent, Gov. William H. Murray, of Oklahoma, received 16,610. Former Senator J. I. France of: Maryland won the Republican pres-I ident preference race, defeatingI "Gen." Jacob S. Coxey, mayor of Massilon, Ohio. France maintain- ed the lead fro~n the outset. dReturns available were incom- plete tabulations from almost ev- ery county in the state. Admission of several un- known men that they had been involved in the frauds perpe- trated in the Student Council elections yesterday exonerated the members of the Council of all connection with the stuffing of ballot boxes. These admis- sions were made at a special meeting last night, attended by 11 council members and 21 men connected with the election.j Neither of the absentee council men had anything to do with the election. President Ruthven was rout-t ed from his bed at 2 o'clock this morning to attend the meeting which concluded at 3 o'clock. Statements, sworn under oathI but unsigned, and containing only information stating mem- bership or non-membership in the council and admision or denial of guilt in the election frauds, were given to President Ruthven, who opened them and announced the exoneration of the Council and the admission of participation in the fraudulent balloting by "several" of the men present. The statements were then destroyed by Presi- dent Ruthven. "I have always believed in a large measure of student self- government," said the President this morning. "Members of the Council were completely exon- erated. I do not believe this un- fortunate incident will impair the standing of this body or of student government as a whole. I am glad the persons involved manfully admitted their guilt." SHAKESPEARE PLAY- WILL OPENTONIGHTI More difficult than any play at- Stage New Vote Find 88 Tickets Consecutively Numbered on Counting Table; Neither Party Found Guilty. By Beach Conger, Jr., and David M. Nichol The discovery of more than 100 ballots, fraudulently cast in the Student Council elections yesterday, caused the Council to void the results of the election last night and vote for an investigation. The investigation yielded no results other than the discovery of the fact that 88 of the stuffed ballots had never been inside the containers. Another meeting of the Council will be held tonight to continue the investigation. The first hint that the voting had not been regular came when 88 ballots were discovered upon the table, unfolded, all marked for the same candidates and by the same pen. This event occurred after the last box, presumably that which had been in Angell Hall, had been opened. The ballots were momentarily set aside, but after the The following were the results of yesterday's voided election: (This number does not include the 88 ballots found in one group but does include the remainder of the disputed ballots.) LITERARY COLLEGE Richard Briggs (W). ................... .............354 Robert Howard (W). ......... . ....... . ....273 William Bohnsack (S). .............. ... .. .... ...257 Gilbert Bursley (S) ........... ....................... .242 Hugh Stephenson (W)................. .............. 228 Frederick Shafer (-W).................................226 George Lambrecht (S) ................................... .178 R obert Carr (S) ......................................... 44 John D eo (S) ...................................... .. . 29 E dw in D ayton (S) ....................................... 25 ENGINEERING COLLEGE Hugh Grove (W) ....................................332 Charles Burgess (S) ............................. .....256 Votes for the most part did not follow strict party lines. results had been tabulated and the remaining ballots checked over, two more series of :ten each were discovered, either unfolded or folded together and marked in the same manner by the same pen. Neither party in the elections was blamed by the Council. The names on the stuffed ballots were, with one exception, those of the ver OF BIGEXPLOSION~ Plant Near Manistique Ruined by Blast; Shocks Not Recorded Here. MANISTIQUE, Mich., March 16. - /P) - The biggest commercial blast in history was fired at 4:02 o'clock today, when seven miles of fuse set off 430,000 pounds of dyn- amite at the quarry of the Inlandi Lime & Stone Co., near here. The report of the explosion was I heard for several miles and scien- tific interest extended throughout the country. Earthquake experts watched their instruments. The dynamite, placed in 5,000' holes, each 15 feet deep and six inches in diameter was designed to1 dislodge more than 1,000,000 tons of limestone, a year's supply for the company. The dynamite explosion at Man- istique failed to record on local seismographs, according to Prof. Heber D. Curtis of the astronomy department of the University, al- t h o u g h Georgetown university, much farther away, reported ef- fects of the blast on similar appa- ratus. Iv JOE vVUILIVIHIl I a 3 AT PRINCETON! tempted by a campus group so far Washtenaw candidates. Former Michigan Mentor Signs this year is William Shakespeare's The confusion in the Council room, where candidates, members Th Y Co"Taming of the Shrew" which opens and reporters entered and left frequently, created considerable diffi- reeoearEontract tonight with a formal faculty per- culty in establishing who had been near the table when the ballots as Line Coach. Aformance at the laboratory theatre. according to a statement yesterday sdel perd PRINCETON, N. J. March 16.- from Valentine B. Windt, director. The discovery of the large group was made as the count was' (IP)-Elton E. (Tad) Wieman, for-, This will be the first free play beginning on the third and last of the boxes. From evidence received meNoted Explorer Demonstrates which Play Production has put on at the subsequent investigation, it was apparent that the ballots had mer Michigan football player andN d Elo this year and will be open to the never been placed in the box but had been left on the table w'ith' coach and for the last two years Possibility of Submarine general public on Friday, Saturday, I a number of bona fide votes. first assistant to H. O. (Fritz) Cris-- Exploration. Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. F Similarly, the frequency with which councilmen changed sta- ler at the University of Minnesota, Those on the play production pa- ( tions at the voting booths, combined with the fact that no check had has been signed as assistant to, Pictures of the trip by submarine tron list which numbers almost a been kept on the ballots as they were distributed to the members in Crisler in charge of football at ; to the north polar regions, made thousand will be given first choice ain at which time th e had Princeton University. last year by Sir Hubert Wilkins and of tickets. Anyone else desiring to charge, made it difficult to ascertainaleakage The announcement was made to- many eminent scientists, w e r e attend must secure seats from the! occurred. This is the first time this year that no such precautionary day by Dr. Charles B. Kennedy, shown here last night in Hill audi- box office in advance of the per- I measures were taken. The refusal yesterday morning of councilmen chairman of the board of athletic torium by the famous explorer. He formance which they desire to at- { to occupy the posts assigned to them, and the resulting confusion, control, lectured here under the auspices of tend. __ gave some excuse for the omission. Wieman was signed to a three- the Oratorical Association. As the investigation proceeded, a check of the tabulated ballots year contract, as was Crisler as Sir Hubert, at the conclusion of revealed that two more groups of ten each had been marked in num- head coach and will take up his ! his talk, said that he hoped to Congestion Forces erical order with the same pen. One of these groups had been folded duties April 4 when spring prac- again make a similar trip, but oftogether and placed in one of the ballot boxes, while the others had tice begins. when this would take place was im- Removal CamoUS not been folded at all. Ink marks on the reverse sides established the Wieman graduated at the Uni- definite. He attempted to prove, fact that the ballots had been cast together. They correspond to the versity of Michigan in 1921 and re- he said, that exploration of the po- Polln Mechans c mained with the athletic depart- lar regions by submarine was pos- check marks on the ballots next in succession. Several men who had ment there as assistant coach from sible. assisted in the counting left before the investigation began, and, 1921 to 1927 and head coach in 1927 The noted explorer was intro-: Student council members were hence were not available for questioning. and 1928, until he went to Minne- duced by William Herbert Hobbs, "heated up" yesterday when the ' Although a thorough check has not as yet been possible, at least sota with Crisler in 1930. heads of the department of geology automatic voting machine, used in two series of ballots were missing. The sorting of all ballots in Tad was elected captain of the of the University. the all-campus election, had to be numerical order, which will be done today, it is hoped may reveal University of Michigan football The final lecture on the series juggled from its previously an- further clues. team for the season of 1917. will be given March 30 by George nounced place in the entrance of The voting machine was not made available until the afternoon, -- ------- W. Wickersham, former attorney Angell hall to the basement of the general of the United States, who building. and all but 251 of the 1,139 votes were cast on the usual type ballot )WS SIMILARITY will speak on some phase of law j Miss Horatia J. Corbin, secretary Two theories had been advanced last night by those connected ICALL Y REAPPEARS enforcement. He was chairman of to Dean John R. Effinger, told the with the investigation. One was that Washtenaw men, apparently President Hoover's commission on politicians that the dean did not extremely amateur in their knowledge of elections, had attempted accompanied by the merry whack- law enforcement. permit "demonstrations" in Angell to insure their victory in this manner. The other solution advanced ing of oaken paddles and the pite- i hall, and furthermore pointed out was that State Street men, faced with apparent defeat, had adopted ous bleating of the smitten frosh. Prominent Florist that the machine was causing too this method purposely to void the election. They were unable to Some apparently well-informed un- , atmuch confusion in the corridor. decide whether one or either of these theories was correct. FDies a Home Herej Council members, however, want-F dergraduates have even gone so far Another complication resulted from the fact that yesterday as to allege that potless fraternityE ed the voting to go off as schedul-. Aohrcmlatnreuedfmtefcthtysedy yartlg ha experinesd reat-t George R. Flowerday, 78, of the ed and decided in Dean Effinger's morning fake State street "pluggers" had been distributed by Wash- yearlings have experienced repeat- firm of Flowerday and Son, florists, 3'absence to appeal to several deans tenaw men in an effort to split the State Street vote since three can- ed trips to the traditional tub. n A;+.M+o ; +s. 1++n,. -+;c l. f1 fi o , +. ait h,-.4' f FRESHMAN POT SHO TO PHOENIX; MAG The cynical observations of cam- pus calamity howlers to the con- trary notwithstanding, the day of, what was once generally known as the "pot" is distinctly not one of the past. Rup +the mc. r.,,.l ,.sr,.