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Editorials
Disarmament Conference
And Existing Imperialism .

VOL. XLIV No. 177 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1934

PRICE FIVE CENTS

Sectionalism
Is Attacked
By President
Roosevelt Sounds Note For
National Solidarity In
Memorial Day Speech
Thousands Attend
Gettysburg Talk
Roosevelt Is Greeted By
85 -Year - Old Woman
Who SangTo Lincoln
GETTYSBURG, Pa., May 30. - (A)
-President Roosevelt, standing today
on a field that once ran with the blood
of warring Americans, consecrated
the Nation to brotherhood "in a new
understanding."
Sounding the "doom of sectional-
ism," he atteked those he called chis-
elers and those who seek to "build
animosity by the distortion of facts."
His Memorial Day address, at the
site of the greatest battle fought on
American soil, culminated in a plea
for a "consolidated nation.' '
Thousands massed in the sunshine
about the rostrum, not far from the
spot where Lincoln spoke, in the cen-
ter of the broad semi-circle of more
than 3,000 soldier graves.
21-Gun Salute
In this vast amphitheatre of the
dead, the first Democratic President
to observe Memorial Day here was
greeted by Mrs. M. 0. Smith, 85
years old, of Hanover, who sang to
Lincoln and who has greeted three
other presidents - Theodore Roose-
velt, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert
Hoover - at the same spot.
A salute of 21 guns by the Twelfth
Field Artillery, of Fort Hoyle, Md.,
greeted the President as he entered
the cemetery.
The President beamed on the frail
little woman who clasped his hand.
Shortly after his arrival, the chief
executive saw children strew flowers
on the graves, each one marked by a
tiny fluttering flag.
Must Have Consolidation
"Washington and Jefferson and
Jackson and Lincoln and Theodore
Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson
sought and worked for a consoli-
dated nation," Mr. Roosevelt said.
"You and I have it in our power to
attain that great ideal. We can do
this by followihg the peaceful meth-
ods prescribed under the broad and
resilient provisions of the Constitu-
tion of the United States."
Reviewing conditions before the
Civil War, he stressed the develop-
ment of sections, which had inade-
quate means of intercommunication.
Most of the railroads, he said, were
"local and sectional."
"It was a chartless procedure," he
added. "People were not thinking in
terms of national transportation or
national communication. . . . The
tragedy of the Nation was that the
people did not know one another....
Sees Three Hindrances
"We are all brothers now in a
new understanding," he continued.
"In our planning to lift industry
to normal prosperity, the farmer up-
holds our efforts. And as we give
the farmer a long-sought equality, the
city worker understands and helps.
All of us share in whatever good
comes to the average man.
Mr. Roosevelt saw three elements
hindering progress, but these, he de-
clared, "grow less in importance with
the growth of a clearer understand-
ing of our purposes on the part of the

overwhelming majority."
"These groups," he said, "are those
who seek to stir up, political ani-
mosity or to build political advantage
by the distortion of facts; those who,
by declining to follow the rules of
the game, seek to gain an unfair
advantage over those who live up to
the rules; and those few who still,
because they have never been willing
to take an interest in their fellow
Americans, dwell inside of their own
narrow spheres and still represent the
selfishness of sectionalism which has
no place in our nationl life."+
Gov. Gifford Pinchot, of Pennyl-+
vania, introduced the President. ;
Rolph Reported
'Desperately,
Ill- Fear Death
SAN JOSE, Calif., May 30.-(')-
Gov. James Rolph, Jr., was desperately;
il nt +kg3 T.inf -fln vth Y a.Y"hr

Brazil Abolishes Its Initerior
Toll To Help National Trade

RIO DE JANEIRO, May 30.-P)--
Brazil's Constituent Assembly has
wiped out an old system of inter-state
tariffs which has hampered national
trade since Colonial days.
In approving the article on distri-
bution of tax revenue and taxation
privileges fostered by OswaldoAranha,
Minister of Finance, the Assembly
wrote into the new constitution a de-
cisive victory for the provisional gov-
ernment, which has campaigned not
only against inter-state tariffs, but
also against state export taxes.
Because many states are largely
dependent upon export taxes for rev-
enue, the government, was not able to
put over its program completely, but
did succeed in obtaining a clause that
limits state export taxes to 10 per cent
ad valorem.
This limitation, with abolishment
of interstate tariffs, will enable Brazil
to speed its economic development,
Minister Aranha said. Mustering as-
sembly strength for the article as
approved was one of his last jobs in

Rio De Janeiro before going to Wash-
ington as ambassador:
The system of state tariffs grew up
in Brazil when it was a colony of
Portugal, and the Portuguese crown
divided the vast territory into "Cap-
taincies." Executives of each region
established local tariffs for revenue
purposes, and the system grew more
complicated until it embraced not
only interstate import duties, but also
taxation of goods in transit. Even
municipalities adopted the system.
One of the last examples of how the
system works came in southern Brazil,
where Rio Grande do Sul, desiring to
aid its tea producers, placed a heavy
import tax on the product. The tax
was a heavy blow to Parana, Brazil's
principal tea state, which without
state tariff barriers to hurdle, can out-
1 produce and undersell Rio Grande do
Sul in the latter's territory.
The article on revenue gives the
federal government the exclusive right
to income, consumption and import
taxes. The states, however, retain
theirsexclusive privilege to levy death
duties.


Graduation
Band Includes
50 Musicians
Hall, Dreifuss Are New
Officers; Senior Week
Staff Announced
Names of 50 men whb will make up
the Commencement Band were an-
nounced last night, together with the
staff for the Varsity Band for 1934-35.
George N. Hall, '35, president of
Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity, presi-
dent of Alpha Epsilon Mu, national
honorary musical fraternity, and
member of Druids, was named man-
aged for next year, to succeed Ken-
neth O. Campbell,''34E. Maurice Drei-
fuss, '36, will be librarian, succeeding
Wellington B. Huntley, '34.
Campbell, who has been manager
of the Varsity Band for one and a
half years, will manage the Com-
mencement Band. Huntley will con-
tinue as librarian and. Donald A.
Strouse, '35, as drum-major. Hall,
the manager-appointee, and W. Stod-
dard White, '35, will be members of
the Commencement Band staff. The
roster is as follows:
Flute and piccolo: Edwin M. Stein,
'35SM, and Pope Benjamin, '35SM;
oboe: Charles Gilbert, '37SM; clai-
net: Kenneth Kincheloe, '35M, Al-
vin N. Benner, '35SM, Benjamin
Goldberg, '37, Cecil Ellis, Grad., Sey-
mour Golden, '37, Richard Hershey,
'37, David Mather, '37, William Ol-
sen, '37E, Kenneth Bovee, '35SM,
Robert Taylor, '36E, Donald B. Stew-
art, '36E, Earl Morrow, '37, Maurice
Dreifuss, '36, Steven Rice, '35, and
Bernard Hirsch, Grad.
Saxophone: Frederick Buchanan,
'37, Laurence Lipsett, '37, and William
Van Winkle, '37E; cornet: Everett
D. Kisinger, '35SM, Donald Bachelor,
'35, Owen Reed, '37, James Salisbury,
'35SM, Kenneth Sage, '35, Robert Al-
len, '35, J. C. Hall, '36, and Robert
Byrn, '37.
French horn: John Budd, '36SM,
Donald Parry, '37, R. M. Stevens,
'36E, and Frederick Baessler, '35A;
trombone: George O'Day, '36, Jack
Russell, '35, and two others to be
named; baritone: Frank Suda, '35,
George Hamm, '36, Floyd Sweet, '36E,
and Howard Hathaway, '36SM. +
Bass: Richard Warner, '34P, Carl
Ward, '34, James Curtis, '34E, and
George Heibein, '37F&C; percussion:
Clarence House, '36, John H. Wilson,
'37E, E. A. Scott, '34SM, M. Alvin
Mortensen, '35, and John Hays, '37.
Revised St e el
Code Approved
By President
WASHINGTON, May 30. - (A) -
President Roosevelt today approved a
drastically revised'steel code and en-
deavored to stave off the impending+
general strike in the steel industry.+
The code changes removed the last
vestige of authorized price-fixing;i
rearranged the multiple basing point
system of pricing to meet inequities
perpetuated or developed under the+
old code; made the eight-hour labor
day unconditional throughout the in-
dustry for the first time; gave the
Administration power, which it has
not had heretofore, to review and dis-
approve acts of the code authority;
and reduced the code expense burden,
nn-,ema mm mil ihmt. ntina +hai

Henderson Finds
Boys Don't Want
To Play Soldier
It seems that pacifism has made
gigantic strides in Ann Arbor, even
to the extent of precluding students
from playing soldier.
Robert Henderson, director of the
Dramatic Season, is thus confronted
with a dilemma of major propor-
tions. He cannot find men to play
soldier in "Macbeth," even to the ex-
tent of a Shakespearian army.
So Mr. Henderson has issued an
urgnt call for 12 men to be used as
a chorus of soldiers with Florence
Reed and Ian Keith, the stars of the
production.
These men, says Mr. Henderson,
appear as a constant background for
Macbeth himself and thus are im-
portant for the spectacular effect of
the production.
Short men, even though they be
military sergeants, are out, according
to Mr. Henderson. The men must
be around six feet, and "since they
play warriors they must not be too
young in type or physical propor-
tions."
All who are belligerently inclined
are asked to report to Mr. Henderson
at 2:30 p.m. today in Lydia Men-
delssohn Theatre.

Geneva Hears
Fiery Speech
ByBarthou
Foreign Minister Informs
Peace Conference That
He Fears German Traps
Address Dissipates
All Early Optimism
Sarcastic Outburst Is In
Answer To Proposal By
Sir John Simon
GENEVA, May 30.-O-P)-A plea by
Great Britain's foreign secretary at
today's session of the disarmament
conference that France and Germany
bridge the gap separating them drew
from a French spokesman the rejoin-
der that "France is (willing to bridge
the gap but will take care not to fall
through hidden traps into the water."
The fiery address by Louis Barthou,
French foreign minister, in which he
replied sarcastically to the plea of Sir
John Simon and lambasted Germany
dissipated whatever optimism was felt
as the result of the talks yesterday by
M. Litvinov, Soviet commissar for
foreign affairs, and Norman H. Davis,
United States ambassador at large.
Sir John stressed the German posi-;
tion in past conferences that she1
would not insist upon any armament
reductions by other powers for five;
years and had urged the British draft,
providing partial re-armament of the
Reich, as the only practical basis forJ
an international agreement.
The British spokesman severely
criticized Litvinov's security pacts
proposal, declaring that if the con-
ference is changed into machinery for
devising security plans "no disarma-
ment is possible."
Barthou charged that Germany is
openly confessing Violation of the
Versailles Treaty by publishing a mili-
tary budget which ingicated re-arma-
ments, especially in the air.1
"I refuse to adoptj an attitude of<
complacency," he said "and keep
silent in the face qI 'this grave se-I
quence' to Germany's bolt from thet
League and the disarmament confer-
ence.
The withdrawal, he declared, meansc
that Germany is not bound by regula-t
tions binding other nations.
May FERA Checks1
ReadyNext Week'
The payment of FERA checks for1
May will be made Tuesday and Wed-
nesday, June 5 and 6, it was an-1
nounced by the buildings and grounds1
department yesterday.
The checks for June will be ready
June 20 and 21, FERA work in the
University being suspended June 15.
Students who can prove they are go-
ing home before June 20 will be paid
prior to that date, officials said.
Eighteen hours are allowed for
June, with a possible over-time max-
imum of 25.
Students signing for their May
checks next week will have an op-
portunity to sign a petition express-
ing their appreciation for the aid re-
ceived from the FERA, it was an-
nounced.
ELEVEN INJURED IN BRAWL
SAN FRANCISCO, May 30.-(P)-
Eleven persons were injured today as
police battled a crowd of 700 men and
women, identified by authorities as
Communists, in a riot on the San
Francisco waterfront.

Arrest Two
For Handbill
Distribution
Police Set To Prevent A
Counter Demonstration
At Memorial Parade
Lawrence Leever
Addresses Meeting
Wood Says Vanguard Club
Was Not Implicated In
Handbill Case
Ann Arbor's police were prepared
yesterday to prevent anything even
faintly resembling a student counter-
demonstration to the Memorial Day
parade, but all the subversive conduct
that they encountered was the passing
of pacifist handbills by two members
of the Michigan League against War
and Militarism.
The two, arrested for violating a
city ordinane which forbids passing
handbills without a permit, gave their
names as Ingo Maddaus and William
Rohn. Maddaus is a graduate student,
while Rohn is not listed in the Uni-
versity directory.
They were held in custody for the
duration of the parade, and were then
released on their promise to appear
today to answer warrants on charges
of disturbing the peace. Police offi-
cials stated last night that no penalty
.would be given them, other than a
severe warning against further of-'
fenses.
Although the University R.O.T.C.
unit was said to be prepared to quell
any hostile demonstration which
might have developed, five patrolmen
were detailed as a special escort for
the parade. The student marchers
were armed with unloaded rifles, pa-
rade style.
Although it was thought that the
Vanguard Club was supposedly inter-
ested in any counter demonstration,
Kendall Wood, '34, president of the
club, said last night that the Van-
guard Club did not officially partici-
pate in any of the day's activities, and
that any of its members who did were
acting under the auspices of the
League against War and Militarism or
on their own initiative. He also denied
that either Maddaus or Rohn were
members of the Vanguard Club.
At the conclusion of the parade,
which also included the University
Band, the Ann Arbor unit of the Na-
tional Guard, the American Legion
Drum and Bugle Corps, and various
civic organizations, Lawrence G.3
Leever, naval veteran and city police
commissioner, made the Memorial'
Day address before a crowd of several
hundred at Courthouse Square.
Watchman Shoots
Robber While In
A Barber's Chair
CHICAGO, May 30.- (A) -Arthur
Steuben, a private watchman, was
sitting in a barber's chair having his
hair cut when a stranger came in.
The stranger asked to be directed
to the washroom, and then attempt-
ed to hold up the shop at the point
of a gun.
From beneath the barber's apron
Steuben fired three shots. The in-
truder fell, mortally wounded, dying
later in a hospital, where he was
identified as Antone Amschlinger, 22
years old, an unemployed saloon por-
ter.

After the shooting the haircutting
proceeded and Steuben stepped from
the chair, carefully powdered and
perfumed, by the time the police ar-
rived.
Dexter Physician Injured
In Automobile Accident
Dr. Max L. Durfee of Dexter suf-
fered severe head injuries last night
in an automobile accident on the
Dexter road when his car collided
with one driven by William Kett, 133
Hill Street.
Kett, who had as a passenger An-
drew Dubronsky, 119 Adams St., was
driving east. Turning out to pass
another car, he met Dr. Durfee in a
head-on collision.
All three are at the University Hos-
pital, but only Dr. Durfee's injuries
are considered serious, sheriff's offi-
cers stated.
UN-AMERICAN GLUE 1
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Hlonest Solitaire Player
Found; Page Diogenes!
That he has played 5,000 games of
solitaire and has only won once is
the proud and determined boast of
Robert C. Keal, '36E, who claims the
unofficial record of being at once and
the same time the world's worst soli-
taire player and the most persevering.
Keal, who neither drinks nor
sm'okes, vows that he will never visit
Monte Carlo.
ADOPT TWO RESOLUTIONS
Two resolutions were adopted by'
the Michigan League Against War
and Militarism in its anti-war meet-
ing last night. The first, addressed
to Toledo strikers, deplored the use
of National Guardsmen and urged
their removal from Toledo; and the
second, to Mayor Frank Couzens of1
Detroit, protested against alleged in-
timidation of Negroes in Detroit.

-Associated Press Photo
RAMSAY MACDONALD
British Cabinet
Considers War
Debt Question
Seek To Avoid Default Of
75 Million On June Debt
Instalment
LONDON, May 30.- )-The Brit-
ish cabinet today reviewed the War
debt situation and is understood to
have agreed upon proposals which, if
acceptable to the United States, Great
Britain hopes will lead to a final set-
tlement of the problem.
The immediate objective is to en-
able Great Britain to avoid being
branded a defaulter without having
to pay more than a token on the $75,-
000,000 installment due June 15.
Political circles expected a new
debt note to be dispatched to Wash-
ington tonight in time for the text
to be available at the White House
before noon tomorrow.
This would enable Neville Cham-
berlain, chancellor of the exchequer,
to make a full statement on the debt
question in the House of Commons
tomorrow afternoon, but whether this
schedule will be followed could not
be determined exactly tonight.
Premier Ramsay MacDonald in the
House of Commons this afternoon,
adopted the usual Parliamentary
method of clamping down on discus-
sions of important problems under
delicate negotiations by asking ques-
tioners to repeat their inquiries in re-
gard to debts in a few days.
Whatever transpires during the
next week, no informed observer in
either parlimentary or financial cir-
Iles expects Britain to make any
more than another token payment.
Gunman Who
Shot 'Bo bby'
Kills Himself
Fugitive Caught By Large
English Posse; Commits
Suicide
WORTHING, England, May 30-(IP)
-England's widespread search for a
gunman ended today, 48 hours after it
started, with the suicide of the fugi-
tive, accused of wounding a policeman
with a revolver.
A woman, Mrs. Michael Sadlier,
with two bloodhounds on leash, came
upon the man, Leonard Hill, as he
lay under a tree in the woods.
"There he is!" she shouted to po-
licemen, who ran up to close in.
Hill, trapped and realizing the stern
attitude of British courts toward those
who use firearms, shot himself with
the same pistol with which he had
wounded Policeman Arthur Jex. Hill
died a short time later in a hospital.
The search for Hill, accused of
wounding Jex when Jex and other
officers stopped him for ,questioning,
had attracted huge posses of police
and volunteers. The volunteers in-
cluded members of the British Fascist
group in their black shirts.
Hill was surrounded in the Sussex
woods, where he had fled after the
shooting.
The affair, although Jex was not
seriously wounded, took on the pro-
portions in England of a sensation
even greater than manhunts directed
at murderers in the United States.

Rabbi Heller's Mother

Negotiates War Debt

Workers To

Delay Strike
To Arbitrate
Electrical Union Agrees To
Postpone Walkout And
Discuss Problem
Federal Mediator
OffersSuggestion
Taft Also Claims That The
Automotive Strike Is To
Be Settled Soon
TOLEDO. O., May 30.-() -- A
committee of electrical workers
agreed early tonight following an all-
day series of conferences to recom-
mend to members of their union a
postponement of 24 hours in their
strike which has been scheduled to
begin tomorrow morning.
Charles. C. Taft, Federal mediator,
said that the postponement was ac-
cepted by the committee after com-
pany officials had asked for delay and
after Taft had requested it person-
ally.
If the union at its meeting tonight
approves the postponement, the ne-
gotiators will resumentheir meetings
tomorrow afternoon. If a settle-
ment proposal is not ready by the
conclusion of the conference, the
walk-out will begin at 7 a.m. Friday,
Taft said.
Will Meet With Strikers
At the same time, Taft announced
that he would meet with automo-
tive strikers tonight. What he de-
scribed as a "new lead" to end dis-
putes which were climaxed by bloody
rioting last week at the Electric Auto-
Lite plant in which two were killed
has been developed by mediators, he
said.
Taft said the "new lead" had no
connection with a statement issued
today by C. O. Miniger, president of
the Electric Auto-Lite Co., offering to
submit all questions to the Automo-
bile Labor Board at Detroit. This
proposal has been rejected by the
strikers.
Taft said he talked to Miss Frances
Perkins, secretary of labor, today, and
gave her a report.
To Continue Discussion
With regard to the electricians'
strike, Taft said, "We have been dis-
cussing the questions involved, and
we feel we have made considerable
progress. We will meet tomorrow
noon to continue the discussion."
The mediator-in-chief said the
general strike, approved by 68 of the
103 union locals and the date of which
will be announced at a big labor mass
meeting Friday, was "mentioned but
not discussed" today.
He also said there was no discus-
sion as to whether the Toledo Edison
Co., which with its subsidiaries would
be affected by the electricians' strike,
would carry on despite a walk-out.
WASHINGTON, May 30.- P) -
A general strike in the cotton textile
industry, effective Monday, was or-
dered tonight by Thomas F. McMa-
hon, president of the United Textile
Workers of America.
Federal Jury
To Investigate
Detroit Banks
WASHINGTON, May 30.-Detroit's
Federal Grand Jury investigation of

the closing of the two National banks
-the First National Bank-Detroit
and the Guardian National Bank
of Commerce - will begin early next
week, it was indicated here today, af-
ter plans for the investigation have
been made in conference next Mon-
day by the men who will present the
affairs of the banks to the grand
jury.
Prospective members of the grand
jury have been summoned to report
for duty Tuesday.
Guy K. Bard, special assistant to
Atty.-Gen. Homer S. Cummings, who
was appointed three weeks ago to
handle the bank cases in Detroit, will
leave Washington Friday and will
drive to Detroit.
He is to confer with Gregory H.
Frederick, district attorney, who has
arranged the Federal docket in De-
troit so that no case will impede the
progress of the bank investigation.
Bard, in his study of the case, has
gone over a huge amount of material,
including' the voluminous records


Collection Of Po rtraits Valued
At 300 Million Destroyed In Fire
CHICAGO, May 30-(AP)-The ashesf Gustavus Swift, Nelson Morris and

of a famous collection of portraits are
buried in the remains of a basement at
the Union Stockyards, one of the irre-
placeable losses of the stockyards fire.
Destroyed are 300 paintings, valued
at $300,000, which once formed part
of the charm of the Saddle and Sirloin
Club, a club at which princes rubbed
shoulders with rough and ready breed-
ers of livestock, and liked it.
The Saddle and Sirloin with its Old
England atmosphere was u n i q u e
among the city's clubs and its art col-
lection likewise was different. It con-
tained only portraits, but not of "cap-
tains and kings."
They were principally the likenesses
of oil of men who had made note-
worthy contributions to the field of
animal husbandry - presidents and
vain an .-rofn.ii+ial ,.rn] n ocp farnm-c,

P. D. Armour.
The other was of three almost for-
gotten members of Congress, all of
whom are dead, Senator Justin S.
Morrill, of Vermont, and two col-
leagues, Congressmen Hatch and
Adams. This triumvirate was known
as the "fathers of the agricultural col-
lege."
Senator Morrill introduced in Con-
gress a bill which provided for Federal
land grants for the establishment of
agricultural colleges and universities.
The bill was signed by President Abra-
ham Lincoln in 1861. It was from
these colleges that much of the devel-
opment in American animal hus-
bandry has come for years..
Charles E. Snyder, president of the
club, said that on the guest books were
na m icr,,fnrPCnyin rv rn, vulin fam-