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PAPER TO CONDUCT
PR IBITION POLL
THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1932.
SCHURTZ BACKS BETA THETA PI TAX
EXEMPTION CLAIM; SAYS PACK ERRS
Nnmerous Legal Precedents Aid
Fraternity's Position, Says
Grand Rapids Attorney.
Memorial Organ Recital Is Held
for Founder of Organization
in Hill Auditorium.
GARDEN Is DEDICATED
Hayden Advocates Continuation
.pf American Jurisdiction
Over Philippines.
Addresses by several members of
the faculty, a luncheon at the
League, and memorial services for
the late Mrs. M. E. Thompson, foun-
der of the Institute of Adult Edu-
cation, featured the third day of
the sessions of the Institute which
are being held in Ann Arbor this
week.
At the luncheon, which was given
by the officers of the Southeastern
district, an address was given by
Miss W. K. Mackdici, Grad, of Syria,
who made a comparative study of
the United States and Syria.
Prof. D. H. Hjayden, cf the Poli-
tical Science department, speaking
on the question of independence for
the Philippine Islands, advocated a
continuation of American jurisdic-
tion on the islands on the grounds
that to turn them loose now would
be to refuse to fulfill our obliga-
tions to the Filippino people and to
the world.
A memorial recital was given by
Palmer Christian in Hill auditorium
in memory of Mrs. Thompson, after
which the dedication services were
held for the memorial wild-flower
garden which is being planted in
the Arboretum. Because of the rain,
the dedication services were held in
Hill -auditorium instead of in the
-Arboretum, as had been planned.
The meeting of the Drama sec-
tion of the Institute will be held
tomorrow at 2:30 in Sarah Caswell
Angell Hall in Barbour gymnasium
instead of in Lydia Mendelssohn
theatre as is stated in the program,
it was announced yesterday by Mrs.
' . F. Fraker of Ypsilanti.
Open-Houses, Concerts, Dinners
Will Feature Commencement
Week Activities.
General programs for the alumni
reunions at the time of the eighty-
eighth annual Commencement have
been announced by Wilfred B.
Shaw, director of alumni relations.
A program with numerous special
features and innovations has been
planned, Shaw says.
The general program is as fol-
lows:
Thursday, June 16-Alumni regis-
tration and registration for the
Alumnni university; Medical clinics
begin at University hospital; An-.
nual meeting of Class Officers coun-
cil.
Friday, June 17- Registration;
Medical clinics completed; Class
Luncheon at noon; Afternoon pa-
rade to Ferry Field; Baseball game,
U. of M. vs. M. S. C.; Class din-
ners in evening; Evening song fest
on steps of Angell hall.
Saturday, June 18-Registration
continues; Class meetings; A 11
schools and colleges hold open
house; -alumni luncheon and meet-
i rg in Waterman gymnasium; Sen-
ior Literary Class Day exercises in
evening; President and Mrs. Ruth-
en at home to visiting alumni;
Classadinners in evening; Varsity
band concert in front of Library in
evening; Alumni dance at the
League.
Sunday, June 19-Baccalaureate
address in Hill auditorium in morn-
ing.
Monday, June 20--C o m m e n c e-
ment; Registration for Alumni uni-
versity continues.
Tuesday, June 21-Alumsni uni-
versity opens.
The Dartmouth' Will Attempt
to Determine Sentiment Assailing the stand taken by
on Dry Question. State Representative Philip Pack,
who claimed in a recent article
(Special to the Daily) that the "tax evasion plan" of Beta .
( a h yTheta Pi fraternity would be un-
HANOVER, N.H., May 25. - The successful, Mr. Shelby C. Schurtz,
Dartmouth, student newspaper of Grand Rapids attorney, declared in
Dartmouth college, was to conduct a special statement to The Daily
a poll of the entire student body that legal precedents in more than
this afternoon in an effort to de- half the states, including Michigan,
termine the attitude of the college corporated fraternity is exempt
towards the inclusion of a prohibi- cro atd
from taxation.
tion plank in the platforms of the Pack claimed in the article that
two major parties for the presiden- "the recent action on the part of
tial campaign of 1932. the local chapter of Beta Theta Pi
Members of the staff were to dis- fraternity in incorporating for the
tribute ballots to all places where purpose of evading payment of real
students reside, and collect them' property taxes... will avail the
three hours later. Besides the pur- fraternity exactly nothing. l
pose of finding the attitude on a "My own opinion," Pack said in
plank in the party platforms relat- his article, "was upheld in a con-
ing to prohibition, the referendum versation I had with Gov. Wilber
hopes to reveal the sentiment of M. Brucker and the attorney-gen-
the undergraduates in regard to a eral of the state. Whatever fears
solution of the present problem. local taxpayers have that fraternity
Six other colleges in the east are may be removed from
conducting similar polls this week. properties ay be e fro
The initial stimulus for the move- our city tax rolls should be set at
rest."
ment came from the Daily Prince- rScrtzsas on the contrary, "I
emption, and stil retained the right
to sole occupancy of their houses.
At Northwestern university and
other colleges sections of the tax
exempt dormitories are frankly
alloted to the various fraternities
and sororities.
In 12 other states fraternities are
tax exempt as construed by the
courts. Several states exempt fra-
ternities by the common ,consent
of the taxing officials, without any
statutes an dwithout court deci-
sions."
Citing cases in Michigan, Sch rtz
said, "I found in Webb academy v.
Grand Rapids, 209 Mich., 523, that
the Supreme court of Michigan had
held Webb academy to be tax
exempt. Another case which Mr.
Schurtz pointed out was that of
Peo v. Pommerening, 250 Mich., 391,
in which the Supreme court of
Michigan held that the taking of
private property for a golf course
was an 'educational purpose.' "If
that is so," he asked, "is not a
fraternity as a dormitory for stu-,
dents just as much for an educa-
tional purpose as a golf course?"
In conclusion 'Schurtz said, "I
think the recent reincorporation of
Beta Theta Pi will entitle it to tax
exemption; if not there is' a con-
stitutional amendment to be voted
on in November which will fix a
limit of $15 per $1,000 of assessed
valuation of real estate, which will
save more than half of all frater-
nity tax assessments."
Illinois national guardsmen were called out after 300 World war veterans in a "bonus expedition" had
held 30 freight cars nearly 12 hours near East St. Louis, Ill., after they were refused free transportation. The
"box car delegation," shown above, was enroute from Portland, Ore., to Washington, D.C., to urge a cash
bonus bill.
SOCIALISTS FIGHT AS WET PLANK \in
IS INSERTED IN PARTY TPLA TFOR 0
Norman M. Thomas, James H.'
Maurer Chosen at Third
Party Convention.
Heywood Broun, New York news-
paper man, Mayor Daniel W. oan
of Milwaukee and Oscar Amerin-
ger of Oklahoma City Okla
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MILWAUKEE, Wis., May 25.-(/4')
-A wet plank lay nailed today in
the Presidential campaign platform
of the Socialist party.
Adopted late Tuesday in the wan-,
ing hours of the national Social-
ist convention here, it demands not
only repeal of prohibition laws but
government ownership and opera-
tion of breweries, with only one.
concession to dry sentiment-a pro.-
vision for state option.
The convention adjourned short-
ly before midnight Tuesday after
four days of arduous work during
which Norman M. Thomas of New
York'was chosen the party's can-
didate for President and James H.
Maurer of Harrisburg, Pa., his run-
ning mate.
The platform, in addition to the
wet plank, was fashioned of others
demanding $10,000,000,000 appro-
priations for relief activities, rec-
ognition of Soviet Russia and so-
cialization of the nation's princi-I
pal industries.I
Thrice the Socialist delegates
voted on the prohibition issue and
each time the wet bloc held firm-
ly to steer through the wettest of
four proposals. Its authors were
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Detroit Eand Leaders
to Play at Sand Lake
Del Delbridge and Ray Gorrell,
Detroit orchestra leaders, will ap-
pear in person with their orchestra
at Sylvan Gardens, located at Sand
Lake in the Irish Hills, on Saturday,
May 28. Ray Gorrell and his or-
chestra furnished the music for the
Gridiron dance, which was held in
the new press building on April 22.
Delbridge and Gorrell will be as-
sisted by the Frohne sisters, N.B.C.
radio artists. Both Delbridge and
Gorrell have appeared on WJR
radio programs.
PLAN GEOGRAPH Y,
GEOLOGYSESSION
Six Weeks of Field Work to Be
Held Near Mill Springs, Ky.
Enrollment in the class of 16
which will spend six weeks this
summer in the University geology,
and geography camp has been com-
pleted, the two departments an-
nounce.
Six weeks are to be spent in the
camp in the hills near Mill Springs,
Ky., where numerous problems in
the fields of geography and geology
will be studied, and two weeks will
follow on a reconnaissance tript
eastward across the Cumberland
plateau, the Great Valley of East-
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The convention was a bedlam of Einstein Ridicules Conference
lisorder when the first vote was at Geneva; Says Character
taken and the wet plank won.
Bickering as to the manner in Lacking in People.
which the vote was cast produced -.-.- -
a second ballot on which 81 voted GENEVA, May 25.- Prof. Albert
for and 71 against. Einstein expressed the impatience
Dry strategists discovered a par-E
liamentary loophole and catching of anti-war leaders today with the
the wet bloc off guard, obtained 77 international disarmament confer-
votes on a third ballot. But the ,ncc by urging that pacifist peoples
wets cast 80 and their victory was Of the world demand direct and}
decisive. "This," observed Broun, total disarmament within the next
"is like a tennis cup. You have to fivrc years.
win it three times to get perman- Lord Arthur Ponsonby of Great
ent possession.'' Britain joined with the eminent
"Bread, not booze, is the issue," German physicist in condemning to
shouted young William Busick, dry athering of newspapermen from
extremist from California during all parts of the world the current
the arguments. Busick reflected the debates here which are being car-
sentiments of many delegates who vied on by people that he termed1
voted on the dry side. A number "so-called experts."
of them said they were opposed to "There is plenty of- intelligence at
prohibition but voted dry to go be- the arms conference, but little evi-
fore the people this fall with a dence of character," Professor En-1
platform of purely Socialistic issues. stein said. The methods used at
Among the last acts of the con- Geneva would be amusing if they]
vention was the addition to the were not so tragic.
party constittution of a provision
allowing Socialists, upon sanction EngineerinJ Professor
of the executive committee, to take Rests After Operation
part in the political movements of _tf r pi
labor. ,Prof. C. Upthegrove, of the chem-
ical engineering department, is
esting comfortably in St. Joseph's
ST9T1Mercy hospital after an emergency
tI m i l d 5 .operation late Tuesday night for
n serious streptococcic infection.
TIALy0r CURT ISForestry Researcher
Returns From Midland
HOPEWELL, N. J., May 25.-(/P)-- o-t----n
The state laid plans today to rush Don Winters, Pack foundation re-
the indictment and trial of John search assistant of forestry conser-
Hughes Curtis of Norfolk for his vation, returned yesterday from
hoax negotiations in the Lindbergh Midland where he had gone to train
kida ngotists imen in the supervision of planting
His case will be called before the in the Midland municipal forest.
grind jury Thursday morning. Al- The Midland municipal forest, a
grn jury Thrdy monn.A-project of 520 acres, has arroused
though authorities hope to avoid poserabof52ntares, haslate as a
calling Col. Charles A. Lindbergh consde mplyinterest of late as a
as a.witness, the flier will not hesi- means of employment for needy
tate to testify at the trial if Cur-
tis is indicted and such testimony
is requested, it was made plain.
Prosecutor Anthony Hauck, Jr.,
decided to proceed at once againnst
Curtis after conferring with Col.
H. Norman Schwarzkopf, head of
the state police.
"I believe the evidence justifies
indictment and that it will be pos-
sible to try Curtis in June," he said.A
Dr. John Grier Hibben, friend of j
Col. Lindbergh, spurned the idea
the flyer's dislike for publicity
,night prevent his appearance a
the trial.
"He will certainly not seek to
avoid his responsibility as a citizen
in any way," Dr. Hibbon said.
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tonian, at Princeton university, and
it is through them that results of
the canvass at Dartmouth, Prince-
ton, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Smith,
Vassar, and Wellesley will be for-
warded to the national conventions
of the Democratic and Republican
parties in June.
'WIISCON'SIN EDITOR
Senatorial Candidate Demands
University President Leave
Socialists. The annual spring dinner-dance
and social gathering of the Mathe-
(Special to the Daily) matical club was held last night at
MADISON, Wis., May 25. Johu 6:30 o'clock at the Huron Hills
B. Chapple, itinerant attacker of country club. Fifty-four members
Pres. enn rank nd th Un 0er of the Maithematics staff and their
,rs Glenn Frank and the Univer- wives attended.
sity of Wisconsin, today promised Prof. Vientd.
towihrwrm h Wscni Praf. Vincent C. Poor and Prof.
towithdraw from the Wisconsin oi C. Karpinski each gave aI
senatorial race if Frank would takeL short after-dinner speech. rhe re-
four steps which he demanded. mainder of the evening was spent
Chapple, editor of the anti-La indancing and playing cards.
Follette Ashland Daily Press, order-g Prof. Ruel V. Churchill had
ed that the president resign his harge o the reservations. Those
position as vice-president of the i charge of the so ran e
socialistic Victor Berger national l mn charge of the social arrange-
foundation and sever relations with. ments were Mrs. Elsie Karpinski,
the American Civil Liberties union, Mrs. A. . Copeland, and Mr. W. D.
publicly renouncing the organiza- -
tion's principles.
In addition he asked the immedi-3
ate removal of all professors and
instructors of the university who 'fl
United States, and that any pre-
sentation of atheism to the student
body be checked at once.
Chapple has recently flooded his
campaign speeches with charges
against the University. Last Satur-mdiht
day, in Racine, he was greeted with
so much opposition from the audi-
ence that it was necessary for him
to be led away under a police guard.
The Daily Cardinal, student pub-
lication, has gone to the aid of6
President Frank. Of the situation
they say: "We have absolute and
definite proof. that the university
is being used as a political football
by John B. Chapple and the Repub-k
lican party officials."°
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fnd upon investigating the attor-
ney-general's report for April0 26,
1928, that Wilber M. Brucker gave
an opinion to Olivet college that
'the land with buildings thereon,
the legal title of which rests in the
college, used and occupied exclu-
sively by fraternities and sororities
I as dormitories for students, is tax
exempt.'
"At the University of Pennsyl-
vania," Schurtz continued, "frater-
nities conveyed the chapter houses
to the university, secured tax ex-
Mathematical Club
Gives Annual Partyl
NOTICE
SUMMER E1MPLOYMENT -Detroit
branch has openings in junior
sales department for three cap-
able freshmen or sophomores.
Excellent training. Guaranteed
salary and traveling expenses to
men chosen. Apply by mail to
Mr. Delaney, 1150 Book Bldg.
633
TYPEWRITING and MIMEO-
GRAPHING promptly and neatly
done by experienced operators at
moderate rates. College work a
specialty since 1908. O. D. Mor-
rill, 314 S. State St. The Type-
writer and Stationery Store. 663
BRAND NEW 1932 PLYMOUTHS-
Just received shipment of all cur-
rent models, coaches, sedans,
coupes. We will sell these at bar-
gain prices. Regular new car
warranty and service policy.
Associated Motor Services, 311 W.
Huron. 22001. 611
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204 North Main Phone 3916
The Tale of a Shirt, "A good, care-
ful, thorough, laundry. 200c
WANTED
WANTED-One ticket for Senior
Ball. Call 7218.
WANTED-Woman wants trans-
portation north over week-end.
Destination near Cadillac. Call
6535. 682
WANTED-Situation by white cou-
ple in fraternity. Had experience
in both fraternity and restau-
rant. Single or together. Refer-
ences. Pohne 7864. 681
SITUATION WANTED-M a r r i e d
couple, no children, will take care
of place for summer for use of
houes. Best of references. Ad-
dress Michigan Daily, Box A37. 680
SITUATION WANTED by exper-
ienced couple for fraternity por-
ter and cook. References. Phone
3235. 679.
TYPING-Grad. theses a specialty,
M. V. Hartsuff. 9087.
626e
FIFTY piano players interested in
playing and selling piano accor-
dion. Apply University Music
House, 601 Williams St. for full
particulars. 64
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APARTMENTS-Summer rates. 2
room apartment for one person,
with refrigerator, $25. 2 room
apartment for two, with refrig-
erator, $30. 3 room apartment
with refrigerator, $47. On cam-
pus. Phone 7561. 683
HOUSE FOR RENT-Furnished or
unfurnished. 1324 Olivia. Avail-
able June 1. 614c
COTTAGE TO RENT-For season
at Portage Lake. Well furnished.
Plenty of room. Leo G. Hoey,
Dexter. 671
NEAR CAMPUS - For summer
months; five room completely
furnished apartment; garage;
yard. Phone 5929. 672
FOR SALE _
GERMAN SHEPHERD PUPPIES.-
Excellent pedigree. Litter has been
registered. Call 9084. 673
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