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VOL. XLV. No. 26 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1934

PRICE FIVE CENTS

Fitzgerald
Speaks At
RallyHere
Says Members Of Faculty
Here Might 'Play Part'
In Determining Policy
Attacks Sales Tax
On All Necessities
Lacy, Democrat Nominee,
Talks At Party Meeting;
Picard Stops Here

Republicans' Hope

Cabaret HeadI
Is Chosen By
Merit System
Maryanna Chocley Will

Be Sophomnore Project
Chairman
Entertainment Will
Be Held Dec. 14, 15
Central Committee Is Also
Appointed Under Newly-
AcceptedRegulations
Maryanna Chockley will act as gen-
eral chairman of this year's Sopho-
more Cabaret, it was announced yes-


FRANK D. FITZGERALD

By PAUL J. ELLIOTT
That University faculty members
may play an important part in the
determination of State policy if Frank
D. Fitzgerald, present secretary of
state, is elected governor was indi-
cated last night by the Republican
gubernatorial nominee in an address
to more than 400 enthusiastic mem-
bers of the party gathered in Ma-
sonic Temple.
Arthur J. Lacy of Detroit, his Demo-
cratic opponent, and Frank A. Pic-
ard of Saginaw, United States Sen-
atorial nominee running on the ticket
with Lacy, also appeared in Ann Ar-
bor yesterday afternoon.+
Lacy spoke at a brief rally held on
the Court House steps. He has already
made one major speech here and his
appearance yesterday was only a stop
during his trip to Jackson County for
evening meetings.
"The new era is going to be com-
plex," said Fitzgerald, "and if elected
I shall confer with members of the
legislature and representatives of spe-
cial groups in an effort to work out a
legislative program." He later ampli-
fied the term "special groups" by
saying that he would "seek the advice
of University of Michigan faculty
men," who, he thought, might aid him
in various fields of the State's pro-:
gram.
"Business Uncertainty"
Fitzgerald further pledged himself
to legislative sessions of not more than
90 days. He stressed "the uncertainty
which business feels when any legis-
lative body is in session, whether it be
the legislature of the State of Mich-
igan or the Congress of the United
States."
The sales tax will undoubtedly be
retained if he is elected, Fitzgerald
stated. He characterized it as one of
the two chief sources of State rev-
enues (the other being liquor taxes).
"However," he said, "drastic changes
must be made in the sales tax set-up.
It must be changed so that the neces-
sities of life are not taxed."
Although he did say that liquor
taxes were one of the two chief sources
of revenue, Fitzgerald promised a
thorough check-up on the State
Liquor Control Commission together
with the abolishment of many State
liquor stores, whose operation he crit-
icized as "throwing money down a
rat-hole." In place of these stores he
would substitute sale by "reputable
merchants, under strict State super-
vision, however."
Throughout his speech the Repub-
lican nominee made barbed references
to both Lacy and Picard.
Refers To Opponent
He referred to Lacy anonymously
several times, identifying his opponentf
as "an attorney who, while in the
service of the State, drew heavy law
fees from money which should have
gone to depositors in closed banks."
Both Fitzgerald and State Senator
Andrew L. Moore of Pontiac, who is
the Republican nominee to succeed
himself in the Senatorial district
which includes Ann Arbor, caustically
described the accounting system of
the Liquor Control Commission,
which, they said, does not show how
much money the board has realized
from liquor taxes. Since Picard was
chairman of the commission until his
Senatorial nomination, their con-
demnation of the accounting system
was interprted by the partisan au-
dience as an indirect slap at him.
Placing much of his emphasis upon
a reorganization of State finances for
education, Fitzgerald said he con-
sidered the University budget of prime
importance in State financial affairs,
and added that he would give it his
earnest consideration.
Council Will Meet
In Union Tomorrow
The entire membership of the Un-
dergraduate Council will meet at 5
p.m., tomorrow in the Union for the
purpose of completing the organi-
zation of class elections, according to

Carl Hilty, '35, president. All mem-$
V~va*m ..i rroi nA hP kanr.v~n t_

iNew Yale Seen terday by the League Council. This
is the first time the new Merit Sys-
tem has been applied to the choice
s M enaeTt 1 of class project officers.
The other members of the central
E Fs committeeinclude Margaret Annis,
Eli F atern tiesassistant chairman; Elsie Pierce, pub-
licity chairman; Jean Gibbs, finance;
Dorothy Geldart, decorations; Mary
Social System Will Right Potter, entertainment; and Billie
Self, President Angell Faulkner, hostesses.
Miss Chockley, who is from Detroit,
Says In Speech is affiliated with Delta Gamma soror-
ity, and is a member of the women's
NEW HAVEN, Conn., Oct. 22-(/P)- staff on The Daily. She was presi-
+ The new Yale is knocking ominously dent of the Students' Council at
at the foundation of the junior frat- Noruwestern High School, where she
ernity system, for nearly a century Petitions Submitted
the cornerstone of the undergraduate Miss Annis, also of Detroit, is a
social structure on the campus. member of Alpha Phi, and was vice-
The decision of Alpha Delta Phi president of the freshman class last
not to elect new members for the time year. Miss Potter and Miss Pierce,
being and the resignation of Psi Up- both of Ann Arbor, are affiliated with
silon from the Yale Interfraternity Gamma Phi Beta and Delta Gamma
Council and the national organization respectively.
brought the prediction from many Miss Geldart, Floral Park, N. Y., is
quarters, including the Yale Daily a member of Delta Delta Delta sor-
News, that the fraternity system ority, and Miss Faulkner, Jackson
would crumble before the march of Heights, N. Y., is affiliated with Chi
a nwe social order being built around Omega. Miss Gibbs is from Oak
the year-old college plan. Park, Ill.
President James Rowland Angell, All women who desired positions
however, expressed the belief in a submitted. petitions. The Judiciary
speech that the fraternity question Council considered the petitions, in-
would "solve itself with reasonable terviewed each applicant and made
rapidity." recommendations to. the Leaguei
"The fraternity problem," he said, The choice was based on a consid-
"is the one outstanding problem left ments yesterday.
over from old Yale. Its answer is not The choice was based on a sonsid-
easy. But the fraternity has in past eration of the candidate's leadership,
years served as a very necessary part efficiency, activities record, and schol-
of Yale's social life and I am confi- arship record. Henceforth, officers of
dent of a solution when we have made all class projects, including the Fresh-
sufficient adjustments to the changed ; man Project, Sophomore Cabaret,
conditions which are a result of the and Junior Girls' Play, will be chosen
advent of the college plan. in accordance with this system.

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Piccard Bag
Inflated Prior
To Taking Off
Begin To Fill Balloon At
10:45 P. M. Yesterday;
Set Flight For 5 A.M.
Weather Conditions
Reported Favorable
Must Have Wind Under 5
Miles Per Hour; Mrs.
Piccard To Pilot Bag
BULLETIN
(Special to The Daily)
FORD AIRPORT, DEARBORN,
Oct. 23. - Inflation began at
10:40 p.m. last night, was sus-
pended at 10:52 p.m., and was
begun again at 1:45 a.m. today.
The ascent of the huge balloon
will take place about 5 a.m., of-
*ficials stated.
FORD AIRPORT, DEARBORN,
Oct. 22.-- Preparations for their long-
delayed stratosphere ascension were
begun once more by the Piccards late
this afternoon. Weather reports' from
the area within a radius of 300 miles
indicate that all influencing factors
should be favorable for the ascension
tonight, and unless an unpredicted
change takes place, inflation will
begin at midnight.
Chief cause for indecision is the
wind velocity. Should it be greater'
than five miles an hour at the hour
set, it will once more be necessary
to postpone the flight indefinitely.
The huge gas bag has been spread
on the field ready for inflation, and
attached to the gas tanks. The ground
crew of 200 CCC men under Edward J.
Hill, winner of the 1927TGordon Ben-
nett Balloon race, has been ordered to
stand by for orders at the airport.
Decision at 1 a.m.
The final decision will probably
be made before 1 a.m., and the take-
off will be made betweerI, 3 and 4 a.m.
The proposed Piccard stratosphere,
ascension is described by Ralph H.
Upson, 1913 winner of the Gordon
Bennett Cup race and four times
winner of the National Elimination
race, as for investigation and for rec-
ord ascension. In the coming flight
the Piccards will make no attempt to
break the Russian record of more
than 72,000 feet as their ceiling with
the gas-bag they are using is not more
than 60,000.
The purpose of the flight, however,
is the study of the cosmic rays in the
stratosphere, which begins above the
troposphere at an altitude of about
45,000 feet. Thus the 60,000 foot ceil-
ing will give Dr. Jean Piccard, an ex-
pert organic chemist, ample oppor-
tunity to make his observations.
Trial Balloons Used
Trial balloons sent up some time
ago indicated that the balloonists
might land in Virginia, but the de-
pendability of these trials was ques-
tioned by Mr. Upson, who pointed out
that the small trial balloons could
bounce for long distances over the sur-
face of the ground, and that their dif-
ference in size, along with probable
recent changes in wind currents, made
the results unreliable.
The balloon will be piloted by Mrs.
Jeannette Piccard, the scientist's wife,
who only recently received her bal-
loon pilot's license.
TECHNIC ON SALE TODAY
The first issue of the Michigan

fTechnic will be placed on sale today
in the West Engineering Building. It
was announced that the sale will be
continued tomorrow and Thursday.

A LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT
October 19, 1934
Professor Henry C. Anderson
221 West Engineering Building,
Campus
My dear Professor Anderson:
Some weeks ago The Michigan Daily published a series of
rules having to do with student conduct with a statement that these
had been adopted by the Board of Regents. I would like to have
you fully informed on this matter.
The minute adopted by "the Board to form a part of the By-Laws
of the University is as follows:
"Students should realize that their enrollment in the
University carries with it obligations in regard to conduct,
not only inside but also outside the classroom, and they are
expected to conduct themselves so as to be a credit both
to themselves and to the University. They are amenable to
the laws governing the community as well as to the rules
and orders of the University, and University officials, and
are expected to observe the standards of conduct approved
by the University. Whenever a student, group of students
society, fraternity or other student organization fails to
observe the principles of conduct above outlined or con-
ducts himself or itself in such a manner as to make it
apparent that he or it is not a desirable member of the
University, he or it shall be liable to disciplinary action."
The recommendations and regulations published in The Daily
were standards adopted by the Faculty Committee on Student Con-
duct and not by the Regents. The Committee endeavored, as I
understand it, to state in formal terms some of the requirements
insisted upon by the National Fraternity organizations and the
alumni of Michigan Chapters. I have not been with the Committee
in its deliberations, but I feel sure that it does not care to take any
responsibilities for the activities of the fraternities which the or-
ganizations will assume.
It would seem to me that the situation at Michigan now presents
a remarkable challenge to the fraternities. The Regents are con-
tented to .say that a man should, while in the University, behave as
a gentleman and a scholar. The Faculty Committee on Student
Conduct has full power to change its rules and regulations as the
conditions warrant, and if the fraternities can take an active part in
directing student conduct within their chapters, rules and regulations
should prove to be unnecessary. In other words, the fate of frater-
nities, which is just now concerning all of the colleges, may be
settled at Michigan by their preservation if our chapters will seriously
attempt to develop in their members the self-discipline and sense of
social responsibility expected of good citizens.
Yours very sincerely,
ALEXANDER G. RUTHVEN.

The college plan, in effect, has be-
come a competitor of the fraternities.I
Inaugurated in the fall of 1933, it1
provides for tyre division of the un-
dergraduate body into small groups,
each assigned to a college. The Uni-
versity also requires students to eat
a certain number of meals in the
dining rooms of their respective col-
leges, thus depriving fraternities of
an important source of revenue.
British Fliers
Lead Air Race
in Final Statoes
With Only 786 Miles Left
Dutch Pair Trails By
Large Margin
PORT DARWIN, Australia, Oct. 23.
- (Tuesday) - (P) )- Roaring down
across Australia's wasteland, C. W. A.
Scott and Campbell Black landed
their big red plane at Charleville, last
control point before the finish of the
London to Melbourne air derby, at
8:40 a.m. today (6:20 p.m. Monday
E.S.T.).
The British team streaked over the
1,384 miles between Port Darwin their
land fall in Australia, and Charleville
in 7 hours and 45 minutes to stay,
safely ahead of their dogged Dutch
pursuers, K. D. Parmentier and J. J.
Moll, who reached Darwin at 8:46 a.m.
(6:26 p.m. E.S.T.).
The entries from Holland roared
safely across the Timor Sea, after
landing at Rambang and Kurang in
the Dutch East Indies, to keep the*
distance between them and the lead-
ers approximately unchanged.
Only 786 miles lay before Scott and
Black as they tore on over the last
lap on the nearly 12,000 mile race.
Barring trouble, their triumph was re-
garded as certain.
Prof. White Will Give
2nd University Lecture

150 Are Received'
More than 150 petitions were sub-
mitted, according to Kathleen Car-
penter, '35, chairman of the Judiciary
Council. All women who submitted
petitions and did not receive an ap-
pointment will be placed on the com-
mittees in which they signified an
interest.
Maxine Maynard, '35, president of
the League, in commenting on the'
Council's appointment, said, "I feel
that the choice has been in every case;
excellent, and that the women ap-
pointed will prove the success of the
new method." 4
The Cabaret will be held on Friday1
and Saturday, Dec. 14 and 15, this1
year. The traditional entertainment
of the sophomore women, it usuallyj
takes the form of hostess dancingI
with floor show and entertainment1
features. Last year the League Fair
was held simultaneously with the
Cabaret.
'Pretty Boy' Is
Killed By U. S.
Agents In Ohio
EAST LIVERPOOL, 0., Oct. 22. -
(AIPI--Charles (Pretty Boy) Floyd was
shot and killed today by Department
of Justice agents.
Melvin Purvis, head of the Justice
Department investigators here, said
that the agents found Floyd on Mrs.
Ellen Conkle's farm, eight miles north
of here.
In Purvis' party were ten Federal
agents and four other officers.
When Floyd was cornered, the
agents opened fire, the shots finding.
their mark in Floyd's body.
The body was brought by the agents
to a morgue here.
Purvis said that he and the agents
were cruising through the woods when
they spotted Floyd talking to two
farmers north of the Conkle farm.:
Floyd, Purvis said, was trying to in-
duce these men to take him to
Youngstown.
At that moment the Federal men

Favorite Arias And
Songs Featured In
ProgramOfArtist
Rosa Ponselle, Metropolitan Opera
Company star, will be heard in a
program of favorite arias and songs
when she opens the current Choral
Union concert series tomorrow at
8:15 p.m. in Hill Auditorium.
Possessing the happy gift of sing-
ing to, not at, her public, Miss Pon-
selle has established for herself a!
following second to none in the con-
cert field. Her audiences hail from
all walks of life, from the 'student
of music to the "tired business man."
The reason for the colorful so-
prano's success is not hard to find.
For in her programs is found the
necessities of a well-balanced concert
program, artistry and diversion.
It must not be thought, however,
that diversion necessarily implies that
the artist should do a Hopak dance
or conjure a rabbit from a silk hat,
in order to entertain. The "tired busi-
ness man" likes songs in his own
language that are simple and well-I
articulated, and in a Rosa Ponselle
program, he is not overlooked.
Georgia Tech Game Is
Reviewed By Alumni
The Ann Arbor chapter of the
Amalgamated Drugstore and Curb-
stone Coaches played "Monday Morn-
ing Quarterback" yesterday noon at
the Union.
A post-mortem of the Georgia Tech1
game was held with Head Coach1
Harry G. Kipke performing the au-
topsy. Harvey Whitney, University
Hospital pharmacist, was chairman.

Lower Classes
Prepare For
Black_ ,Friday,,
Sophomores H o I d First
Meeting; Freshmen Will
Convene Tomorrow
Definite steps in preparation for
Black Friday and for the fall class
games to be held Saturday morning
will be taken this week with the meet-
ing of both underclasses for the pur-
pose of choosing captains and organ-
izing any incidental forays which
might be contemplated.
The sophomore class, the first to
hold its meeting, will convene at 7:30*
p.m. today in Rooms 323-25 at the
Union. A mass meeting for all male
freshmen, regardless of what school
or college they are in, will be held
at the same hour on Wednesday night
in the Union ballroom.
Members of the Union Executive
Council will be on hand at both meet-'
ings to help in the'organization. It is
also expected that either Carl Hilty,
'35, president of the Undergraduate
Council or Allen McComb, '35, presi-
dent of the Union, will address the
freshman group on the history of the
games and upon theypart which they
will play in them.
Upperclassmen in charge of the
games have reported that more spirit
has been shown in preparation for'
the games than has been evidenced
in many years.
An unofficial organization already
exists in the sophomore class, and
members have indicated that a plan
has been worked out whereby even a
small number of sophomores can
"handle the frosh." It is expected
that there will be a large turnout for
both class meetings, however.
Roosevelt Asks
Co-Operation In
National Relief
WASHINGTON, Oct. 22. - (AP) -
President Roosevelt called upon the
people of the nation tonight to lighten
the load of government expenditures
for unemployment relief through the
1934 mobilization for human needs.
In a radio address opening a cam-
I paign for private charities, headed by
Newton D. Baker, of Ohio, Mr. Roose-
velt said the government counted

Houses To
Entertain
Professors
Faculty Members Will Be
Guests Of Fraternities
Tomorrow Night
26 Organizations
To Be In Program
Union Sponsors Dinners
For Bettering Student
And Faculty Relations
I The first in a series of Wednesday
night faculty dinners at various cam-
pus fraternity houses to be. held to-
morrow night marks the resumption
of an extensive program for a closer
relationship between the student body
and the faculty which was begun last
spring.
l Twenty-six campus houses have
aredy indicated their desire to take
part in the program and will enter-
tain faculty members at dinner to-
morrow night. It is expected, accord-
ing to Union officials, who are plan-
ning the series of dinners, that more
fraternities will be added to the list
by the endofdthe week.
Union Student Executive Council-
man William Dixon, '36, a member of
the standing committee on student-
faculty relations, stated yesterday
that an incomplete list of the faculty
members who will be guests of the
fraternities totalled 33.
Fraternities Included
The list of fraternities who are co-
operating in the project includes
Acacia, Alpha Tau Omega, Alpha
Delta Phi, Alpha Kappa Lambda,
Delta Alpha Epsilon, Delta Upsilon,
Hermitage, Phi Gamma Delta, Phi
Kappa, Phi Kappa Sigma, Pi Lambda
Phi, and Sigma Phi.
Theta Delta Chi, Trigon, Zeta Beta
Tau, Phi Sigma Kappa, Chi Phi, Phi
Delta Theta, Kappa Sigma, Phi Kap-
pa Psi, Beta Theta Pi, Delta Tau
Delta, Sigma Chi, Kappa Nu, Phi Beta
Delta and Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
Faculty men who will be enter-
tained at the houses tomorrow are
Prof. Heber D. Curtis, Prof. T.J.C.
Diekhoff, Prof. Louis M. Eich, Prof.
Peter F. Field, Prof. J. W. Glover,
Prof. Carl R. Brown, Prof. Lowell J.
Carr, Prof. Palmer Christian, Dean of
Students Joseph A. Bursley, Dean
Clare E. Griffin.
Eight On Committee
Prof. Carl J. Coe, Prof. William A.
McLaughlin, Prof. F. W. Peterson,
Prof. Carl E. Guthe, Prof. R. B. Hall,
Prof. D. E. Hobart, Prof. Charles F.
Remer, Prof. Robert G. Rodkey, Prof.
Preston W. Slosson, Prof. L. L. Wat-
kins, Prof. Bennett Weaver, Prof. A.
H. White.
Prof. John S. Worley, Prof. Leigh
J. Young, Prof. James K. Pollock, Dr.
Harold M. Dorr, H. K. Gloyd. Donal
Hamilton Haines, Karl Reichenbach,
T. Hawley Tapping, and Stanley G.
Waltz.
The standing committee on stu-
dent-faculty relations, composed of
four faculty men and four undergrad-
uates, is also considering various
other measures as a part of their pro-
gram.
Dixon announced that within a
short time the series of daily "bull
sessions," which was inaugurated last
spring, will also be resumed in the
Union taproom. It is probable, he said,
that student-faculty tournaments in
1various sports will be sponsored.

Smith Shows
Weak Details
In Amendments
Opposes Passage Of First,
Second, Third, Fifth For
'Educational Interests'
Showing weaknesses in all the pro-
posed amendments to the State Con-
stitution except the County Self-Rule
proposal, Harold D. Smith, director
of the Michigan Municipal League
and president of the American Mu-
nicipal Association, spoke last night
at the Union in an open forum.
Mr. Smith said that in the interests
of education the first, second, third,
and fifth amendments should not be
passed.
"Both political parties have signi-
fied intentions of eliminating the
State property tax," said Mr. Smith,

Fear Grips Lower ClassmenI
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By DAVITS G. MACDONALD
Hallowe'en with all its spiritual and
ghostly manifestations holds no thrills
for mature and blase college students,
but tradition has provided for at leasta
half the student body, the freshmen
and sophomore classes, an experience'
of another nature - a chance to un-
dergo each other's dire machinations
on next Friday, the time-honored
Black Friday.
In days gone by, there was some
difference in the true purpose of the
affair. Then it was a period in which
burly sophomores set out to put a
scare into the first year men. Both
classes usually attempted to kidnap

cialty being performed at the behest
of the freshmen in a local "tea and
chat" dive.
Joint meetings were usually held for
the two underclasses before the pep
meeting, and, remarkably enough,
they merely accomplished their pur-
pose of "arousing spirit," and did not
precipitate pitched battles. Joint
meetings are no longer held, but plans
are being made for a pep meeting'
to be held in Hill Auditorium Friday
night.
At the close of the pep meeting held
on Black Friday of last year a fierce
battle was waged for a short time inl
front of the Auditorium. Later it de-
generated into guerilla warfare. Evi-