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VOL. XLIH. No. 22 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, OCT. 20, 1932

PRICE FIVE CENTS

Second Year
Women Elect
Cabaret Head
Hilda Kirby Is Named As
Chairman of Committee
For Sophomore Party
Rules For Votes
Strictly Enforced
Only Two Positions Open
To Each League House,
Dormitory, And Sorority
Sophomore Cabaret elections were
held yesterday in the Lydia Mendels-
sohn Theater of the League. Women
of the sophomore class elected Hilda
Kirby for general chairman, Barbara
Sutherland as assistant chairman,
and Mary O'Brien for the post of fi-
nance chairman.
The remaining seven committee
positions were elected in a block, the
exact positions to be determined at
an early date. These women are as
follows: Mary Stirling, Ann Mitchell,
VirginiaCluff, Barbara Bates, Har-
riet Earle Mary Sabin and Virginia
Roberts.,
Margaret Schermack, '33, chair-
man of the Judiciary Council of the
League, conducted the meeting, as-
sisted by other members of the
League Board. Rules governing vot-
ing were announced and enforted.
The women were seated alphabeti-
cally in the Lydia Mendelssohn
Theater. Only two 'positions, a ma-
jor and a minor 'or two minors
were elected from one dormitory, so-
rority, or league house. One ballot
was cast for general chairman, the
woman securing second highest votes
to be appointed assistant chairman,
while the finance chairman was
elected by a separate ballot, and the
remaining seven officers were chosen
in a block.
The meeting was opened by Mar-
garet Schermack, '33, and Miss Ethel
McCormick, social director of the
League, who spoke concerning proper
selection for the various positions.
Libby Demands
indiction In
Reynolds Case
Singer Spurns Suggestion
Of Reynolds' Family To
Drop Legal Proceedings
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C., Oct. 19
-(M)- Complete exoneration of
blame in the fatal shooting of Smith
Reynolds, tobacco heir, was asked by
his accused widow, the former
Broadway torch singer, Libby Hol-
man, through her attorney today as
the latter awaited Solicitor Carlisle
Higgins' reaction to the Reynolds'
family's suggestion that murder
charges be dropped.
Benet Polikoff, the attorney, quot-
ed the defendant as saying that she
wanted the cloud created by her in-
dictment, along with Albert Walker,
Winston-Salem youth, "lifted per-
manently."
Declining to reveal the where-
abouts of Mrs. Reynolds, Polikoff
said he had talked with her by tele-
phone after a letter had been made
public in which W. N. Reynolds,

uncle and co-guardian of Smith, had
written Higgins that the family
would be "quite happy" if the cases
were' dropped.
Higgins said that he had been too
busy with his court duties to give
the suggestion of Reynolds serious
consideration as yet.
Polikoff said that Mrs. Reynolds
wanted the case definitely settled. He
explained to her, he said, that if So-
licitor Higgins should decide to drop
the charge, it could be revived at
any time in the future.
"However," he said, "if the solici-
tor decides upon that action ,there
is nothing the defense can do about
it."
All along he has insisted that Mrs.
Reynolds was eager for a trial as
soon as possible in order to get "vin-
dication" for herself before the birth
of her expected child.
R. J. (Dick) Reynolds, older
brother of Smith, issued a statement
today in which he said he concurred
in the decision of the family, but re-

Ann Arbor Invaded By Army
Of Insects; Relief Is In Sight

By JOHN C. HEALEY
Probably the most heartily disliked
thing in Ann Arbor at present is the
army of small bugs that fill the air
as well as the eyes, nose, hair and
throat of all who are obliged to be
out on the streets. They are very
minute-so much so in fact that one
is usually unaware of their presence
until he is surrounded by a veritable
cloud of them and finds himself the
center of attack.
But there is no reason for believing
that this presages the future dom-
ination of the insect world, or even
that it is unusual for this species to
.be present in such large numbers at
this time of year. According to Dr.
Paul S. Welch, professor of entomol-
ogy, their presence at this time of
year is a very natural occurrence-in
fact it is so common that it is hardly f
worth speculating about.
The insects that are bearing the

brunt of so much criticism are called
Aphids, or common plant lice. The
bugs breed all during the summer
months and sometimes have as many
as twelve generations during the sea-
son, Dr. Welch said. The difference
between these succeeding genrations
is thatallbut the final one are wing-
less and are of the female sex, while
the last generation, which is the one
that is infesting the air at present,
is made up of both sexes and all have
wings.
Consequently, there is relief in
view in the near future for, since
they do have so many generations in
one season, it follows that a single
generation's span of activity can not
be very long. According Eto Dr. Welch
they will begin to disappear soon and
should be entirely gone within the
next week or ten days, until next
summer when they will begin breed-
ing again.


Bonus Position
Is Defined By
Gov. Roosevelt
Reaffirms Stand Of Last
April When He Op-
posed Payment
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 19. - (P)-
Franklin D. Roosevelt tonight pledg-
ed himself to a program of govern-
mental economy, pointed to a beer
tax as a method of avoiding new
levies, and said his views on the bon-
us question had not changed since
last April.I
Referring in a speech at Forbes
Field to the recent declaration by
Calvin Coolidge that an early word
from the Democratic presidential
candidate on the bonus question
would have steadied business, Mr.
Roosevelt said his views on the sub-
ject had been given last April and
had been widely quoted since then.
Repeating the April statement, the
governor added:4
"I said 'I do not see how as a mat-
ter of practical sense a government
running behind two billions dollars
annually can consider the anticipa-
tion of bonus payment until it has a
balanced budget, not only on paper,
but with a surplus of cash in the
treasury.' " "Mr. Roosevelt accused
the administration of "concealment
and vacillation" which he said had
prevented Congress from balancing
the budget.
In his exposition of his views on
governmental economy, the candi-
date said:
"Before any man enters my cabi-
net he must give me a two-fold
pledge of:.
"Absolute loyalty to the Democratic
platform and especially its economy
plank.
"Complete co-operation with me,
looking to economy and reorganiza-
tion of his department."
Continuing, he said he hoped that
it would not be necessary "to increase
the present scale of taxes, and I call
definite attention to the fact that as
soon as the Democratic platform
pledge is enacted into legislation
modifying the Volstead Act, a source
of new revenue amounting to several
hundred millions of dollars a year
will be made available toward the
balancing of the budget."
"I refer specifically to a federal tax
on beer which would be raised
through the sale of beer in those
states and those states only which
by state law allow the sale of beer.
"At the lame time I reiterate the
simple language of the Democratic
platform which opposes return of
the saloon."
Mr. Roosevelt said the budget was
not balanced at the present time"
"and the whole job must be done over
again at the next session of Con-
gress."
"No one who will take the trouble
to read that speech (the recent one
by Speaker Garner) will doubt that
the patriotic determination of a will-
ing Congress to balance this budget
at any cost was frustrated by the
same kind of concealment and vacil-
lation that produced the staggering
deficit of the year ending June 30,
1931 and 1932," he said.
Drys Plan Revival Of
Carrie Nation Tactics
PINE BLUFF, Ark., Oct. 19.-.()-
A spokesman for the Women's
Christian Temperance Union warned
today that its members will use the

Wife Of Dean
Cooley Dead

At Aoe Of

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Resident Of Ann Arbor
Since 1881; Graduate
Of Elmira College
Mrs. Carolyn Mosely Cooley, 77,
wife of Dean Emeritus Mortimer E.
Cooley of the Colege of Engineering,
died about 8:00 p. m. last night at
her home at 1045 Hill Street. She
had been ill for a year.
Mrs. Cooley was born Sept. 19.
1855; in Fairfield, N. Y. She has been
a resident of Ann Arbor for 51 years.
She graduated from Elmira College,
Elmira, N. Y., and was married to
Dean Cooley Dec. 25, 1879.
Four children, three daughters and
a son, survive. They are Mrs. Wm. O.
Houston, Jackson; Mrs. Burton A.
Howe, Greenwich, Conn.; Mrs. Har-
vey F. Cornwell, Birmingham, Mich.;
and aCapt. Hollis M. Cooley, U. S.
Navy, at Washington, D. C.
Mrs. Cooley was a member of the
Baptist church, the Daughters of the
American Revolution, Delta Gamma
sorority, and the Michigan Historical
Society.
Funeral services will be held at
4:00. p. m. Friday at the residence,
Rev. R. Edwards Sayles, pastor of
the First Baptist Church, officiating.
Further services will be held at Can-
adaigua, N. Y., at the home of Jus-
tice Robert M. Thompson of the New
York supreme court. Burial will be
in Woodlawn Cemetery, Canadaigua,
F or d Favors
G.O.P. Ticket
In Radio Talk
Motor Magnate Declares
That President Carries
A Tremendous . Burden
DETROIT, Oct. 19.-(P)-Henry
Ford said in a radio campaign ad-
dress tonight that "if Herbert Hoover
were a Democrat, with his record
during the last four years, I should
have to support him."
"Mr. Hoover," he said, "is carrying
a greater burden than Abraham Lin-
coln carried-and he is carrying it in
a way that places him beside Lincoln
in sacrificial service."
Disavowing any attention of mak-
ing a "party speech," Mr. Ford said,
"I suppose I am like most Americans
-we never bother about politics un-
'til it means something to us. Party
politics have never meant anything
to me. And they mean nothing to
me tonight."
The a u t o m o b i 1 e manufacturer
spoke from the engineering labora-
tory building of the Ford Motor Co.,
in Dearborn. He was introduced by
Gov. Wilber M. Brucker, Republican
candidate for re-election, to whom
he also gave his support. He said that
'every act of the President has been
in the interest of employment," that
he "kept his head when others lost
theirs," And that "no act of his has
been dictated by panic or politics."
"And the result," he continued, "is
that we are now beginning to feel the
lifting power of his well-thought out
program."

Colby Scores
Ford's Stand
For Hoover
Democrat Denounces His
'Threats' To Influence
His Workmen's Support
Attacks Republican
Tariff, Relief Plans
Says Only Rich Profited
From Policies Of Last
G.O.P. Administration
Henry Ford did a "dull, visionless,
and un-American" thing the other
day when he urged his workmen to
support the re-election of Herbert
Hoover for President of the United
States, in the oinion of Hon. Bain-
bridge Colby, prominent Democrat,
who spoke at the Union yesterday.
Blaming Mr. Ford's action on his
"limitation of mind and thinking,"
Colby went on to say that if he were
a man of delicacy and of sensitive
Americanism, "he would have re-
frained from doing something so out
of character for a true American as
attempting to influence his workmen
to support, under a very thin veil
of threat, the candidate that appeals
most to himself."
"Franklin D. Roosevelt was fash-
ioned by fate to take over the reigns
of government at this critical time,"
Bainbridge Colby said in, speaking of
the fitness of the Democratic nomi-
nee for president.
"When Roosevelt was assistant
secretary of the navy during the war,
he was one of the pillars of the navy,
one of the backbones of the national
defense," Colby continued. "I can re-
member back in the twenties when
he was battling with Tammany Hall
over the government of New York
and winning those battles.
"Forced Into ~oven'shlp"'
"Later Roosevelt was literally forc-
ed to accept the governorship of New
York and after one term was swept
into office for the second time by an
overwhelming majority."
"The Republicans have been in.
power for three administrations
now," Mr. Colby continued, "and
there seems to be now in their ranks
a sort of hectic irritation that any-
one should presume to contest their
authority. There is a sort of indig-
nant surprise in their attitude. I,
however, refuse to concede their sac-
erdotal qualities. I fail to understand
the blasphemy and sacrilege that
they indicate.
"Hoover Botched Job"
"Mr. Hoover has botched the tariff
and the unemployment situation, and
has adopted a method of treatment
of foreign relations that has made us
universally disliked. In foreign rela-
tions he has pursued a provocative
and meddlesome course while at the
samehtime reducing our defences be-
neath the point of safety.'
Mr. Colby attacked the relief poli-
cies that have been fostered by the
last administration as aiding only the
rich. The small store-owner, he said,
has. gotten absolutely no help from
those measures.
"We are not swapping horses in
the middle of the stream, but slip-
ping our feet out of the stirrups of
an old nag who is fast drifting down-
stream and giving ourselves a chance
to reach the shore," he said.
Mr. Colby was introduced to the

meeting by Horatio J. Abbott, Dem-
ocratic National Committeeman from
Michigan. He was entertained before
the talk by the Washtenaw County
Democratic committee.
Lecture Tickets Go On
Sale At Wahr's Today
An over-the-counter sale of sea-
son tickets for the Oratorical Asso-
ciation lecture series will begin this
morning at Wahr's bookstore, it was
anhnouced yesterday.
Prices for all six lectures, as a re-
sult of .the reductions voted upon
this year, are as follows: Orchestra
seats, $3.00; balcony, $2.75 and $2.50.
There are also available a few seats
for single lectures, selling for 75 and
50 cents.
Lowel Thomas, radio personality
and travel writer, will speak on Oct.
29 as the lead-off lecturer. His sub-
ject will be, "From Singapore to

Bursley Flays
Fraternities
At Meeting
Says Council Should Clean
House And See That
Frosh Marks Go Up
Houses In Favor
Of Pot Tradition
Proposal To Prohibit The
Establishment Of New
Chapters Discussed
By FRANK B. GILBRETH
Branding fraternity houses as "lit-
tle better than rooming and board-
ing places," Prof. Philip E. Bursley,
director of Orientation Week, last
night told the members of the In-
terfraternity Council that it was
their duty to clean house and see
that the marks of the freshmen im-
proved.
Pointing to statistics gathered last
year, Professor Bursley showed that
the grades of pledges dropped con-
siderably after they became affiliated
with fraternities and that the marks
of men who remained' independents
improved:
When asked how he accounted for
the fact that the general fraternity
average was higher than that of the
independents, Professor Bursley said
that he was not attempting to ex-
plain this, but was interested only in
the grades of the freshmen.
Asks About "Lame Ducks"
"If fraternities are better than
boarding houses," he asked, "why did
they take in the lame ducks that
failed to make their grades during
the first semester?"
The figures given to show the de-
crease in scholarship of fraternity
men were based on the marks of 656
freshmen who received "C" grades or
better during their first semester. Of
this number, 325 men pledged to fra-
ternitles whle - did not.
Of the first group, according to
Professor Bursley's figures, the aver-
age number of hours carried were
15.139, while the average number of
honor points were 23.52. The men
who remained independent carried
an average of 15.107 hours and 22.70
honor points for the first semester.
In comparing these marks, with
those received the second semester,
after the first group had become af-
filiated with fraternities, Professor
Bursley found that the fraternity
men carried an average of 14.489
hours, a decrease of .650 hours for
the group of 325 men, while their
honor points fell to 20.606. The un-
affiliated men on the other hand in-
creased their average number of
hours to 15.213, while their honor
points likewise went up to 24.289.
"Too Many Fraternities"
Professor Bursley stated that he
was not against the fraternity or-
ganizations but wanted to see that
the freshmen received a fair deal. He
pointed out that it would be bene-
ficial to the houses as well as the
freshmen if the grades were improv-
ed. "If the Interfraternity Council
could accomplish this," he said, "it
would be the best thing that they
have done since the World War."
The campus now has more fraterni-
ties that can survive, in the opinion
of Professor Bursley.
In the business meeting of the
Council, a proposal was brought
forthtoeprohibit the establishing of
new fraternities on the campus. Af-

ter an expression of opinions, the
majority highly in favor of the plan,
it was referred to a special commit-
tee to draw up an adequate proposal
to be presented at the next meeting.
In order to permit the Council to
act more efficiently, Edwin T. Tur-
ner, '33, president of the Council,
suggested that regular representa-
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Menefee To Lecture
On 'Religion-Science'
Prof. F. N. Menefee of the engi-
neering colege will speak at 4:15 p.
m. today in Natural Science audito-
rium on the subject, "Religion-
Science." The lecture is the first of
the series on "The Religion-Science
of the Future" being sponsored by
the Tolstoi League.
In his talk Professor Menefee will
give his conception of the nature of
the subject and will elaborate certain
ideas which he presented at the
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Radical Literature TouBe
Sold By Socialist Club
With Monday next week tentative-
ly set as the opening date, the Mich-
igan Socialist Club will start a book-
stand at the corner of State and N.
University, next to the Quarry Drug
Store, for the purpose of selling rad-
ical literature of all kinds, it was an-
nounced last night by John Olsen,
grad., chairman of the committee.
Books by Leon Trotsky, Karl Marx,
Lenin, and Norman Thomas, Social-
ist candidate for President, will be.
sold, and in addition, numerous
pamplets. The Student Socialist, of-
ficial organ of the Socialist Club,
will also be for sale.
The stand will be operated on a
non-profit basis.
County Adopts
Reduced Budget
Of $289,000
Township Taxes Cut
$90,000; Expect $80,-
000 From Delinquents
A total budget of $289,811.33 was
passed by the County Board of Su-
pervisors yesterday afternoon. Of{
this $169,811.33 must be raised by
taxeshdistributed in the various
townships. This is a reduction of
about $90,000 from last year's tax3
levy. Of the remainder, $80,000 it is
estimated will come from delinquent
taxes and the other $40,000 'from2
other sources.
The budget as submitted by thet
finance committee, through itsZ
chairman Harry G. Raschbacher,
was approved except for the County1
Fair Appropriation of $8,348.00 which
was eliminated and several other
minor items.
The budget adopted yesterday
brings the total state and county
taxes for this county up to $572,283
making a total reduction of approxi-
mately $355,000 from those of last1
year.
The board members also voted 20
to 12 that it was the opinion of the
board that the Circuit Judge should
take a $1,000 cut in his salary.
Yost In Radio
Talk Supports
Pres. Hoover
Says Big Reconstruction
Program Is 'Clicking
Most Effectively'
CHICAGO, Oct. 19.-(P)-Fielding
H. (Hurry Up) Yost, director of in-
tercollegiate athletics at the Univer-
sity of Michigan, tonight said in a4
radio address that "the best and saf-
est political road to follow is the one
pointed out by Herbert Hoover."
Yost traced the depression back to
the World War "when from $250 to3
$300,000,000,000 were literally 'shot
up' and the industrial and commer-I
cial activities of the world were
wrecked. _A contributory cause, he
said, was stock market speculation,
for which he adversely criticised
Franklin D. Roosevelt who he said
as governor of New York could have
curbed the markets.
"Herbert Hoover's great recon-
struction program is clicking most
effectively," Yost said, "and it is
bound to go far toward restoring
conditions to a normal basis. If it
had notnbeen for that wise, patient,
constructive, courageous man in the

White House, our troubles would
have been infinitely worse."
"There are those who blame the
administration for the debacle. Noth-
ing could have been more unfair,
more unsportsmanlike. These same
people, with the same lack of logic,
are thinking a change in administra-
tion would be for the better."
Number Of Registered
Voters Increases Here
The number of registered voters
in Ann Arbor reached 13,824 last
night when the registration office
closed for the last time. This is an
increase of 2,003 over that of four
years ago and the registration at
that time was a record for Ann Ar-
bor.
In the primary election 12,673
persons voted, which was 3,000 more
approximately than in the last pres-
idential primary. Up until today 648
more persons who had not voted in]

Prohiboitionists
Clash At Rally
When Pittman
Scores G. 0. P
Dry Refutes Dr. Poling's
Praise of Hoover's En-
forcement of Eighteenth
Amendment At Meeting
Poling Agrees With
Wilgus' Manifesto
Says Local Control Has
Failed; Opposes Repeal
Of State Act; Asks For
Non-Partisan Outlook
By GUY M. WHIPPLE, JR.
A prohibitionist rally held in the
Michigan League ballroom yesterday
noon threatened to become adebate
when the pronouncements of the first
speaker, Dr. Daniel Poling, were par-
tially refuted by the second, Dr. Mar-
vin S. Pittman.
Dr. Poling issued an invitation to
the capacity crowd of more than
1,000 that thronged the ballroom to
inspect minutely the record of Presi-
dent Hoover on the question of stern
maintenance of t h e eighteenth
amendment, adding that "Prohibi-
tionists throughout the country are
urged to re-elect the President" in
order to insure the following four
points:
1. The safeguarding of the gains
made under the eighteenth amend-
ment.
2. The improvement of "future
conditions."
3. The defeat of "naked repeal."
4. The establishment of the princi-
ple of national control for a nation-
al problem.
Pittman Refutes Poling
Dr. Pittman complicated the issue
later when he charged that President
Hoover has shown "a lack of cour-
age" in his administrative record in
regard to the maintenance of the
prohibition amendment. He alleged
that the Democrats are "brazenly
wrong" and the Republicans "weak,"
and asked support of "the real dry,"
William D. Upshaw, the Prohibition
party's candidate for the presidency.
Among Dr. Pittman's charges was
one which alleged that the Methodist
preachers of the United States had
"fallen in line" with the present
movement through "coercion" on the
part of a Republican speaker who
had circulated through-certain Meth-
odist groups.
Dr. Poling had left the rally in or-
der to catch a train and so was un-
able to answer the charges publicly
or otherwise.
He had previously stressed the fact
that today the electorate is not deal-
ing with the eighteenth amendment
per se, but rather as a necessary
means to an end-the solution of
the liquor problem.'
"Local Control Has Failed"
"Local option, state control, low
and high license have all failed," he
said, "because liquor traffic overflow-
ed from the wet territory to the dry
territory."
He criticized the repealists for their
failure. to advance any satisfactory
substitute for the present liquor code,
adding that such plans as have been
formulated have never been approvgd
by the splits within the ranks of the
anti-prohibitionists.

Unmitigated admiration for the
President and his statement to the
effect that "there is statesmanship
enough in America to solve the liquor
traffic problem" was expressed by Dr.
Poling. "The same courage," he
maintained, "that was shown in
making liquor illegal is necessary and
will be had in stopping this illegal
sale."
The speaker asserted that New.
YorkCity, which exemplifies present
liquor control problems at their worst,
is "better now at its worst than it
ever was at its best in the 'old
days.'"
Dr. Pittman's contention that the
solution of the problem lay in mak-
ing it a party matter-that is, voting
for Mr. Upshaw-was repudiated by
Dr. Poling, who pleaded for a non-
partisan outlook, embodied in a "cru-
sade that would transcend a 11
others."
Prohibitionists Subdivided'
"This question should destroy all
party littleness," he said, "and should