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NIVERSITY COMMENCEMENT IN FULL SWING
ioctal Stage Is All Set Fbr Commencement Week
if ®i b it l
If 111:, HIS
III UNIVERSITY
BY JACK FROST
Pretty girls, young “Old
Irads,” and boys from the
of 1873, will be on
and here this week to
loin the senior class of
in the festivities to
Ibe given during the next
few daj^s honoring this
year’s graduating class.
Since Frlday WIimini of the Uni
versity have been arriving in Ath
ens In order that they might be
hre io share a hand in the regular
line of social activities being
staled,to give.the seniors a live.
!y send-off and now with the ap
proach ot the time set for the litl
to be pulled from the annual so
ck! *- —> "anin..’ 1
ping it* ” fi | ’•
With the ctoso of examinations
lumbers oFThe terflor y&W" left
lbs Classic City for points tin-
known, in orilfr that they might
lit s few day;; 0 t rest before the
lime set for tl)o commencement ex.
e on a start. Some
r respective homos,
homo lltli friends.
- .. out In conquest of
Jobs, or positions as they choose
to call them, while others have
been spending the time fishing.
Maying golf, or just amusing them-
Hires its any old way possible
In >n effort to recuperate from
tbe Pulrd (grind oftlio examina
tion. of the .past week before'the
beginning of, the exercises that
sill mark their last appearance aa
students of tbe historic old Uni-
Terelty.
Bui late Saturday afternoon ac
tion with a look of relief and dig-
nlty on their- meMr could be aeon
•rdvlng in the city from all dl-
fecUons and Blinday momiog.when.
they meet at tho Academic Build.
CANCEL ALL ENGAGEMENTS FOR 6:30
O’CLOCK MONDAY AND HEAR DR. CLARK
S. NORTHUP DELIVER PHI BETA ORATION
Preaches Today
At The University
Chape], 11 A. M.
Distinguished Scholar
Famous Scholarship So- !T0 BID A GREATER
ciety. Will Be One of the
Big Events of Com
mencement.
DR. ft&Aiem. n..u.
Pastor Independent Presbyterian
church, savannah, who delivers
the baccalaureate sermon at the
chapel this morning, .•
PLATFORM BREAKS
El
(By Dan Maglll)
If 'your commencement date
book Is crowded already and you
have an engagement for 6:30 Man.
day evening, by all means cancel
It and arrange to hear Dr. Clark S.
Northup deliver the Phi Beta
Kappa Oratton at tnat hour. Dr.
Northnp will speak in the Chapel
on the subject, "Stars And Folk
ways”. Now, don’t get the idea
that his address wfll be a techni
cal discussion of astronomy.
The address will deal with as.
tronomy and go further back to
astrology, which Webster's dls-
tlonary defines as the “parent of
present day astronomy.” But Dr.
Northup will not confine his ad.
dress to a discussion of science.
He will, of course, of necessity dis.
cuss science and modern know
ledge. and how science. Is reveal
ing the professes of creation.
Having had a look at, an advance
copy of the address, I am confi-
BLACKMER STILL
IS MUM ABOUT
INDICTMENTS
HERE
PARIS — (AP) — Henry M.
. Blatkn-.er, mining witness in the
| Teapot Dome case, maintained
his customary silence, Saturday in
| the race of the indictments hand
ed down in D:nver. charging him
with perjury and evasjon of tho
income tax laws.
He ta living in a hotel In tha
Champs El,see quarters.
Recommendations that the group ft I• 1 tit' ..
Insurance plan for members of the L001IU26 Vf lfCS
faculty of the University of Geor
gia he adopted by tho Board of
Trustees; that the plan of Chan
cellor c. M. Spelling to establish
n Bureau of Business Research he
approved, that a progressively in-
creasing maintenance fund bo pro.
vldod tor the University; a state;
Educational Survey bo made and a
building and equipment fund oust
least 15,000,000 bo set up, are
made In the report of tho Board
of Visitors of the institution
which was submitted to the Trus
tees Saturday. s* -•»
Tile' Board of Visitors comprises.
H. B. Carreker, Decatur; (A. G.
Cleveland. Valdosta; Bright Me.
Connell, Augusta; Turner Quiliian
Gainesville and C. H. Wilcox.
Romo. " V
Investigate Needs
Tho Board ot Visitors began its
Congratulations To
Senator Curtis
SUPERIOR, Wife — (UP) —
President Coolidg; has endorsed
tha nomination of Senator Curtis
senate, as the repul
sidentia) candidate.
In a telgram sent Senator Cur
tis st Topeka late Saturday, the
JVesident praised Curtis’ long
public service and wished him
success in his new office.
The message-said:
AS DATE
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HOUSTON, Texas. — (UP) —
There was a hustle and a bustle
Jn Houston Saturday which fore
told some extraordinary event.
Name* that spell poiJtJra) power
in the ranks of the democratic
party are on hotel registers and
more are being added dally.
A man In a brown derby draws
many eyes as he mingles In the
throngs on the streets.
Campaign Literature, banners
and buttons made their appearance
In preparation for another politi
cal convention-
With Clem Shaver, chairman of
CURTAILMENT OF
COTTON BEING
, PLANNED
of'Kansas, majority leader, ot tho' the democratic national commit-
senate, as the republican vice pro- tee. duo to call the party a quad.
rennial confab to order within a
dent that-—
outstanding events of the. present m ,a e
University your. v Jfliy and Slate College of Agifc
Dr. Northup- la Professor of CB )t nre g^d interviewed tho Chan-
SYRACUSE, N. Y. — (AP)-
Scnator. Thomas Heflin, of Alaba
ma, escaped injury Saturday night
when a temporary platform from
which he was addressing a crowd
of 10.000 in a suburban field col
lapsed, .1KMSW*
tiny persons were on th3 plat-
possessed by few. To the gral
English' in Cornell and I. one o£|Miiw"nr*Ml"a.”other"members ‘ u f® T' IdTmv* bL*°wi!!hoi
tho most prominent English spec. 0( i t8i -(tCulty for the purpose of .™ s, J5r’-25r .#
tallits in America. f 'ascertaining tbe needs-of tbe In-
Dr. Northup hat been for the gtitutlons -and locating any other
past eighteen yeart a member of i <j e flc!ence*.
tho Senate of the United States of Among the other Important rec-
Phl ’Beta Kappa, the governing ommendatlons made by tho Board
board of the Society, a “", of Visitors Is an append for more
thor of a Bibliography of Phi Beta j fuodB {or the University Library
Kappa, and^ editor of and adequate support of tho Qrad-
uato School. It points out that the
University of Georgia now is In
the third group of tbe Institutions
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fortnight, Houston Is checking up
on her plana for entertaining the
delegates and visitors who aro ex
pected here.
When Shaver talk9 for piibllca-
. tJon—as he did Saturday—bJs aud.
Tin report has iu*t renched ience here awaits his words with
me of your, nomination for Vico J expectancy. Tbe national politl-
Prcsident. Your long puMic ser- cal war this year, ssld tho dem-
„ vice, which has made you the re-* ocratic leader, will be fought cauipmau pt#u» **un »»*» ’uou’s World and Word’ >
a -IPubTiciU> leader of the! senate^haa [ along new lines because of the , ven tlon manager, Wilbur. Good, ot j hna R lam . c i rcU i at ion and
tTgircn you * tynwiviym* t ~ iorajkfckeeUTnan-Mt-wan
Hoover and Charles Curtfs,
NEW YORK — (AP)— Plan;
tken practically completed
to bring a'DOut a curtailment of
cotton mil! production for
week beginning June 3 and con
tinuing until July 9. •
Tho report of production, and
sales ot cotton cloth in May show
ed a ratio of sabs to production
of 77.3 per cent, an Increase of
stock of 6.3 per cent and a de
crease in unfilled orders of 15.G
per cent. « .
HOOVER PUTSINA
FULL DAY AT
HISDESK
WASHINGTON—(UP)—Herbert
Hoover worked ten hours Satur
day, autographed a baseball for
an admirer, conferred on farm re
lief with Senator McNary and wont
homo Saturday night to play with
his radio.
Sunday he will attend church
with - Mrs. Hoover at tho Little
■Friends’ Mooting Houso and hold
a family re-unlou, as his son, Al
len, la scheduled to return from
Kansas City.
Monday f Hoover will tako up
campaign plans with his pre-con
Dr. Nqal L. Anderson,
pastor of the Independent
Presbyterian church of
Savannah, will deliver the
baccalaureate sermon of
the 127th commencement
at the University of Geor
gia" in the chapel this
morning at 11 o'clock.
The public is invited.
Josephus Daniels, editor of the
Raleigh News-Ol)3ervcr and for
mer Secretary ot tho Navy, de
clares that Dr. Anderson is “on * -
of the ablest men of the Siuth:
he in a Afaster of Arts of Prince
ton University, wns one of the
founders ol* the National Child
Labor Committee, is author of
God's World and Word,’ which
(at and march «lowly up to tha ! form with the senator »nd. • all
chapel, with' ajfctfce makings of a were plunged several feet to the
;e four.}
REQUESTED FOR
I OPED
— bC Georgia Sum-
•m on Juno 25th. u
day, and on the
WHSmMSlGaprgi Folsom
Cranberry, music director, will be-
tin sctlve 'plans for the opera
PrSgram that will bo the main
ratertainment' feature ot the sea-
»ion, coming.Iato.in July. ,
Four compete operas, all tune-
ral and popular, will be given this
har. They fOmriatt, II Trov-
Vort, Hansel and Gretel, and
Samson and Delilah. Additioiml
dace and beget settings will be
•vailsble this Mr. and the most
•(sbsrstc prssras --•» attempted
kiil be stagem Noted artiste from
-be leading opera, companies of
>be country Will be here to sing
tbe leading role,.,
But Mr. 4canb?ry writes that
*c needs sdree local help—a lot
(Tu^n to Pago Four)
I
soft ground. Nobody wa» Injured
and the meeting proceeded.
The seuetor, Invading the home
state of Governor A1 Smith,' con
tinued Kia fight against “Roman
Catholicism” and the presidential
candidacy of the governor. •
Aa the senator at- pped from
the train here at noon a body
guard of state troopers wa- as
signed to accompany him- in ac
cordance with Governor Smiths
orders.
It was announced that the meet*
ing. Saturday night was under th?
direction of “Province Four.” Tho
nature of thie organisation was
not announced. Heflin.spoke for
more than two hours at the night
ii-esiion, denouncing the Catholic
church, which, he said, was re
sponsible for troubles to the Unit
ed States in other lands. He men
tioned Governor Smith and was
content to dismiss him with this
observatioh: -
“Ajffed cannot be. nominated.
tatlve Phi Beta Kappa Oratlont".
Ho i« tho author of many hooks,
papers and articles, both technical
and popular, on the Ihlglfsh lang
uage and literature, and the edl.
(Torn to nag* fmr.t
FREAK AIRPLANE
ALMOST KILLS
ITS OWNER
ST. AUGUSTINE,. Fla. —(UPl
—Captain George R. White nar
rowly escaped serioua injury hero
Saturday while attempting to fly
in an omlthopter.
The bird-like piano which Jv)
had invented someraeulted while
being towed along St. Augustine
Beach and White was pinned un
der It.
H> was nulled free from the
wreckage. He was slightly cut on ■
tho chest. - ..
A supporting 'stay wire of thj
wing-flcnpiair, foot propelled
contraption, broke, White said af-
tcrwaids. The omithoptcr Was
moving at a . high rate of spe'd
at the time.
White, a former aviation In
structor and technology, aturent,
had been experimenting with his
invention here for six woelcs.
La>t September at Coco Beach,
Florida,'he was credited with an
eighth of a mile flight In an omi-
Ihopter similar to the- one he us'd
Saturday.
for your success in your new of-
fice.". ■ . -
CHILDREN HURT
AS BLEACHERS
BREAKDOWN
FORTY-THREE MEN
OF CREW LOST
FROM VESSEL
GOGOTA, Colombia —(UP)—
Forty-throe' men of a - crew ,'of
about 53 wore missing after a
mysterious explosion that destroy
ed the gunboat Hercules in the
River Magdalena' near Sitto Nuevo
it- waa announced officially late
Saturday, '
Ten men ot the crew, the min
ister of war told the United Press
have been accountd for and most
of those, he said, were gravely
injured. ■’ '
The disaster occurred in S apOt
far from communication and tho
government, had met great diffi
culty in- obteininr.-deteils.
'.Assistance has been sent to the
scene and .the; river hanks are to
bo searched for possible survivors,
the Minister .of War said.
• The Hercules fas one of tho
fastest ships of .the navy; ;
POTTsVlLLE, Pa. —(UP)—
Temporary bleachers, being used
by children in the presentation of
a pageant at tha fair grounds at
Crr.ssona, near here, collapsed
Saturday afternoon, Injuring
about IS children slightly.' -
The seats ware erected on t
stage in front of the fairgrounds
grandstand. (Tha children were
taking part In the annual field day
of the Schuylkill county farmers
when the stand collapsed.
MEXICAN FLYER
POSTPONES
LONG TRIP
DETROIT, Mich. —(AP)— Af
ter receiving reports- unfavorable
weather between Washington, l).
C.. and the Carolines, Jacquin Pa
checo, Mexican. City aviator, an
nounced . Saturday morning that
hi* protected non-stop flight with
Frits Vleler, from Walker Field
near Windsor, Ontario, to Mexico
City, had bora postponed until
Sunday. -
STRUCK' DEAD
SPARTA, Ga. —(API— Mrs.
W. L. Coleman, 70. residing near
< Dvereux, -was killed Friday af
ternoon by lightning, which' struck
a tree under which she was stand
ing in the yard of her home.
jxnt
Bees lu these nominations an
abandonment of the ~east by tho
U. O. P.
“Usually, they carry their fight
from tho cast talc the west, hut
now tho situation Is reversed".
Shaver said-
HOOVER; SEEMS
T0‘ BE SATISFIED
WASHINGTON —(AP)— Sen
ator McNary, republican, Oregon,
co-author of the McNary-Haugon
farm relief Ibill vetoed by Presi
dent Cooildgc, conferred with Sec
retary Hoover, republican pteal.
dentinl nominee Saturday.
McNary, after the conference,
raid he found Secretary Hoover
•‘.sympathetic and anxious to re
lieve tho distress of our farm
population.”
A statement issued by the Ore
gon senator after the conference
was accepted as indicating he was
willing to abandon the equalisa
tion fee of the tarm relief bllL
“In my judgment the enactment
of the bill that pasted the last
session -of congress with the omis
sion of the equalization fee, would
Improve the condition of agricul
ture,” he said. “At least id would
supply the basis upon which help
ful legislation could be fashioned.”
McNary said if the remedy was
tried and found to In ineffective
in his opinion, coneress and the
administration would unite n an
effort to devise a more effective
remedy which would prove sound-.
SECRETARY SAYS
HOOVER TO STAY
AT PRESENT JOB
WASHINGTON — (AP) — An
authorized announcement indicat
ing that Secretary Hoover would
retain his placa in the cabinet for
tho time being, was made Satur
day in behalf of the ropubllcau
presidential notnineo by his sec
retary, George Afcerson.
“For the present Mr. Hoover
will remain Secretary of Com-
ftierct,” Mr. Akerson said. "Ho
will continue hla duties in tho de
partment just aa ho always has
done.” : m
METHODISTS ASK
FLA. DELEGATES
TO FIGHT SMITH
TAMPA, Fla. —(AP)— Florida
delegatoa to tto national demo
cratic convention at Houston were
asked In resolutions adopted hero
Saturday by tbe Florida Confer
ence. Methodist Episcopal church,
Fouth, to “vofc> first, last and all
tho time against Alfred E. Smith
or any other wet candidate for
nomination for the presidency of
the United States.”
, The resolution declared that the
nomination of a “wet candidate,
controlled bv Tammany, would
disgrace and destroy the party.”
The Florida state primary, the
resolution added v showed a 4 to 1
vofo against the Smith Candida-
cies for <l«*legutoi to Houston,
"and even *if the New York gov
ernor gained control of the con^
venttono Methodists pledge them-
s:-lvcs not to support him.”
er and scholar.
Chancellor <
quests that i
University wh<
the procession
front of the
ihink-
M. Snelling re-
officials of the
’ill take part in
o assemble ir.
ademic building
twenty minutes before the hour
of tho exercises. The procession
will form as follows:
The presiding officer with tho
chairman of the Hoard of Trus
tees; the Governor of Georgia
wtih tho orator; the Chancellor
Emeritus with the minister; th*j
Chancellor with the president of
the Hoard of Trustees; the Board
of Trustees; the Faculty; the
Hoard of Visitors; guests o£
boards; student participants.
Undergraduate Exercises
Undergraduate, exercise#- and
meeting fo the Phi Beta Kapp a
Society will be the principal fea
tures of Monday’s commencemept
program. The undergraduate ex
ercises will be held in the chapel
at 10:30 o’clock. The Phi Beta
Knppji oration will be delivered at
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nobilTpIy is
DRIF1
Weither Foreeaet
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HJV. Edmunds Named Dean Of Lumpkin Law School
TRUSTEES CLOSE SHORT SESSION AFFER‘DISPOSING OF IMPORTANT QUESTION; RETAIN FACULTY
IhreMcalac
After holding one of the-
ihortest sessions In recent
vears. the board of trustees of
the, University of Georgia ad-
journed Saturday after the
morning meeting until Wed-
nesday 9:30 a. m. when it will
re-asssmble to complete any
unfinished business and at
tend tbe graduation exercises
that are to be held in Wood--
ruff ball.
„ Matters that came before
the meeting Saturday were
more of-» routine character
than special business and were
quickly dtspo»ed oL Tbe
queetion of group insaranen
for faculty member, wan re
ferred to the Prudential com
mittee with power.to net white
a number of minor ebangn
Involving' recommendations for
1 tbe faculty were approred for
announcement Wednesday.
Lumpkin Law School
At the Friday afternoon .ra
tion tha committee named last
year to make recommendations
on the re-organisation of the
Lumokfn Lew school secured
action on tta report end it was
adopted by the Board.
At the meeting of the board
fn 1837 Sanders McDaniel, At
lanta, O. E. Maddox. Borne, and
Chancellor ,8neUing were
named as a special committee
an the law achoot and tbelr
report called for abolishing of,
tbe office ot president and
election of H. N. Edmunds, of
the .Untrernty ot Booth Caro
lina taw school, m dean and
the retention-of the present
faculty , bat recommended no
tion by the data (that would >
bring the acbool-np to. the re-7
qairements of! the American;
'Association, ot Law Schools. <
These recommendations and
faculty- changes,-- If innyi are
made, are to be submitted an
early as practicable to n spec- -
1st meeting-of the;board,
v The Resolution . ,
Tha reeotntlon • offered' ani
passed by the board,was ns
follow,; ' ; . ~>
1. We recommend that the
noeiUon of - president ot the
Law school be abolished.
2. We recommend that Mr.
H. N. Edmunds be nude dean
in charge ot the taw school.
, 3,* That alt other necessary
steps, betaken, to. quallfytho
taw school a* a clfif* A achoot'
under-the.red'uifoments of-tha
American Association of-law,
schools.
■. ’4- That the. present staff of
the, lair*.school , be continued
as members of tho faculty
thereof at 1 , their-present sal
aries .subject to such, plana ■
for change as.may be approred
.by, this beard, upon the rec
ommendation'of the new dean
and the chancellor. .
..5. We farther recommend
'that tho Chancellor and new
dean report to the Board as
early aa practicable the plan
of reorganisation which they
, may see tit to recommend, in
cluding apeh changes.In tbe
.faculty or addition* thereto, if
any, ts they may deem ad-
vtsabto and the chairman la
requested to call a special
meeting of the board ot trus
tees when •sen Plans have
been formulated 'for, the con
sideration ot the same and ac
tion thereon.
Not Unknown Hero
Prof. Edmunds, who has
been named the new dean, baa
been largely responsible for
bringing, tho University' ot
Booth Carolina taw school‘to
Its present high standing and r
la reported to he splendidly
qualified for the deanshtp. As
an introduction to their rec-
ommeddation Jhe committee
stated that It had searched -
diligently for.a man of tho.
desired type and possessing
the required qualifications and
' found Mr. Edmunds tbe best
available man. He ts not al
together unknown here. For
a number ot yean he has
: been faculty chairman of ath
letic* at. South Carolina and
’. hta represented that lnstltu-
>tlon at vartoua meetings ot tho
. Southern Conference. He was
here three years ago when the
Conference met here.
The law school came up for
healed discussion it last year’s
commencement and, the com
mittee that brought In the
• Edmunds resolution was ap
pointed when members of the
tAlumnt Society addressed a
resolution to tho trustees.
KING’S BAY, Spitsbergen. —
(UP)—As tho fourth week opened
Sunday since the polar dirigible
Italia dived down on the arctic
ico off Northeaatland, General
Umberto Ncbije and five of hlo
crew ot fifteen still awaited res
cue.
Nobile and his companions
were oil a great expanso at Ice
that waa drifting Blowly hut with
increasing rapidity towards open
water and disaster through a
break-up in the ice.
Three others of tho crew were
presumed to bo on the way to
North Cape, Northeastland, pick
ing a dangerous way over the Ice.
Seven members hi ,he crew
were missing an<l grave anxiety
waa ieit tor them, - L-nwmg
MADDELENA DOWN
V4DSOE. Norway — (AP) —
Major •Maddelena, Italian f!ycr,
who hopped off at midnight for
King’s Hay to join in tho Nohik*-
rescue* Work, met with a mishao
Saturday.
He waa forced to come down in
Varancer Fjord.
Hope for the possible rescue of
the Nobile party Saturday by Ma
jor Maddelsna was dashed by hb
mishap. Tho major’s large twin-
motored iSUvoia-Jfarchetti flying
boat, was the First plane expected
at King’s Ba>1 yet to be of suffi
cient *izc to pick up the maroon
ed min.
There are two planes now in
northern Spitsbergen, piloted by
Norwegian flyers, hut these aro
too entail to do much more than
scout.
IT 11
■[O’CLOCK; PUBLIC IS
IITED10 ATTEND