OAKLAND, Cal., Dec. 5. -- Angered at the selection of Yuki Furuta, a Japanese, as speaker at the commencement day exercises, students of the Oakland high school have officially protested against the selections and threaten to absent themselves from the exercises in a body unless a change is made by the faculty

According to the principal, C. E. Keyes, the girl was selected on her merits alone. Four members of her family are students at the University of California and her two brothers are students of the Oakland High School. She scored twenty-four "ones" and eleven "twos" for work during the past three years, according to Mr. Keyes, a record hitherto unknown in the history of the school.

Investigation into the selection and the subsequent controversy was ordered today by Superintendent of Schools Fred M. Hunter.