THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1930 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE )NGi L~ ifu L IN SHOR7I ~CSSJON BATTLE ON FARM DROUGHT AID, POLICE Quiz MAN CCUSEO OF PLOT' TO EXTOR61T GIPLI )NRS~ GNSORTS'SONBTTLrE ON FA-RM DUGHT AD, TAX DEIIPOHBTOAND MAY MORTANT MOENPSLE Wealthy Has Ceicgo Soc cty G;r1 Been Th.eatened by Letter. MESSAGES ASK $25,000 Police Use Typewriter as Chee to Arrest of Broker's Employee (By Associate Press) CHICAGO, Dec. 10.-Th fanta- tic story of an all:egd cxtOrti-m plot against Miss Marian Wrig . 18-year-old society girl, unfoldd today following the arrest cf Wil- liam Kuhn, 23, brkehr's clerk, ac- cused of sending threatening let- ters. He denied their authorship. One of them, police said, mention., cd "poisonous darts which would be dispatched noiselessly 3,000 feet." "Hdw would you like to meet zilch a fate?" police quoted from one of the letters, after they had booked Kuhn Tuesday night on a charge of attempting to extort $25,000 from Miss Wright under threat of death to her or her fath- er, An executive of the Edgewater Steel Co. Kuhn's brother, Wendell, a broker, characterized the matter as a "mistake" and posted bonds for the accused man's appearance in felony court today. Five Letters Are Sent. Kuhn was arrested by detectives co-operating with agents of the "secret six" under-cover investiga- ting committee of the Association of Commerce. Five letters were the basis for the arrest. Detectives said an inspection of the office where Kuhn is employed revealed one typewriter corresponding with type of the threatening letters. According to Miss Wright, who has appeared in Junior league dra- matics and who is to make her so- cial debut next Saturday, she and kuhn were friendly until recently, when they quarreled. 'At that time he said, Kuhn remarked that he Niculd "get even." A week later, she said, the first of the letters, directing that the money be sent by general delivery, was received. It bore the signature "Kester Mc- Kay" and described the author as the head of a narcotic ring. Her father then turned the matter over to the "secret six." Other txtortions Reported. Other alleged extortion p lo t s rmeanwhile were under investiga- tion, with Walter G. Walker, attor- ney for the Employers' association, and Chief of Detectives John Nor- ton in charge. Neither would dis- close the names of families report- ed to have been threatened. The Chicago Tribune said the ex- tortion racket had become so seri- ous that several families were re- ported to have sent their debutante daughters to winter homes while others were employing private de- tectives as guards. 0. J. Campbell Accepts rllander Advisory Post Prof. O. J. Campbell, head of the English department, has accepted an appointment as faculty advisor for the Inlander, campus literary publication, it was announced by Edmund Glavin, '32, who has been named editor recently. The next number of the Inlander will appear shortly after Christmas vacation, Glavin said. Any student manuscripts to be submitterl for publication should be left in the English offie or sent to the office of the Inlander in the Press build- ing on Maynard street. cds Score \te , Annihilating 20,000 Provincial Troops :Hupeh District. , I ' H"nK<'VW, Chinia, Dec. 10. - Ch a% 1~Ai som 0. Commun- y r' 2 to be gaining despife all eorts of the 4 _a t)nub curb this newcst i A"s"socia"ed "irss rP"t With the opening of tne snort session of the 71st Congress at Washington, several of the more prominent representatives posed in front of the capitol building, here, with Nicholas Longworth (fourth from the right), they htcnd to straighten out the tangled problems of farm relief, prohibition, Muscle Shoals, and a thousand others which have crGp ed up c'er :n e the opening of the Hoover administration. Longworth retained his place as speaker of the House by a two-vote margin out < 434. The result was long in doubt following the recent congression l iandslide for the Democratic party. pata~ rcecei2 here todayj fr n rtliest Hupeh province, where, Si?- _a,.* advices said, 20, - C00 Reds virtually annihilated aa itlar numberof provincial troops, in icated that Communist activities wer' i .reasig catly throughout tt area. Advice; paid the tenta- ci.s of C(amnism were spreading iaidly in:U southeaswern Honan provInco, where bandits were re- pLortccl CO Q e a reign of terror. Dispa1chs described orgies of .kiilirm, looting and burning in Honan. One message said the Reds, furious against the Kuomintang (political party behind the Nation- alist government) publicly boiled in a pot of oil its representative in an obscure village. Many tax offi- cials of Honan province were re- ported to have been executed.. Communist depredations a 1o were continuing in Hunan province, advices from Changsha indicated. Dispatches said Reds occupied the town of Siangyin, north of Chang- sha, for one day. When they de- parted they left the city a heap of ashes. Changsha lives in constant fear of another ,Red attack similar to that which left many portions rF ta city in ruinslu last summer. Lindsey to Blame Rioting on Manning NEW YORK. Dec. 10. - Ben B. Lindsey plans to heap upon Bihop William T. Maniing the bla-e for last Sunday's disturbance when he goes to trial Friday. Lindsey discloscd today that in defending himself on a disorderly conduct charge he would contend that the bishop incited a riot in the Cathedral of St. Johin the Divine. "Bishop Manming;," he said, "wil- fully and withoat cause provoked a breach of the peace by slander- ing me in the pulpit and trying to mnake his clergy black and me blacker. "Bishop Manning's false state- ment about me and what I stand for not only incited me to do what I did but it inflamed the mob spirit in his own congregation, so that I was very fortunate to c: ape the honor of being burned at the stake or lynched at the cathedral." The bishop declined to comment on this line of defense or to say whether he would be represented by cousel at the trial, to which he has been subpoenaed as a witness for the defense. The split among Episcopal cler- gymen over the controversy opened wider as Dr. Bernard Bell, profes- sor of religion at Columbia uni- versity, resigned from the New York Churchmen's association. TYPEWRITER REPAIRING All makes of machines. Our equipment and per. sonnel are considered among the best in the State. The result of twenty years' careful building, 0. D. MORRILL 314 South State Phone 6615 - V%* r r Greenville Organizes the First 'Roosevelt for iden So cty. (By s1 socialrd Pr;ess) FORESTRY SCHOOL IECEIVES WOOD Loftiest Mountain FROM TROPICS OF SU' TH AMERICA - S -- - ---- ---- in 'pain Conquered, Utilization Laboratory to Test University in cooperatiion with the --- fo hsiaChma ropical Plant PResearch founda- (CPS Associated IPress) for Physical, Chemical IT rrLONDON, Dec. 10.-A dispatch Properties. thanical Engineers,an S n Amer to the London Daily Mail from cancimporter sDar-es-Salaam, Tangayika, today' Eleven tons of tropical woods can importer._said that Kilima-.Njaro, the highest h j b r v r omountain in Africa, had been have just beenren all Ju s ascended for the first time by a' America at the wood utilizat ion, lone climber. laboratory of the School of Forestryr to IGdAnua za adosvtnThe climber is a young Spaniard and Conservation. GREENVILLE, Ga., Dec. 10.--On At 8 o'clock on the evening of{ the eve of his return to Naw York, Six species are represented by -December 1 hJ r s tev hisnk eturn o the 100 logs from which test-piece D b , the Junior class at day night told members of a blanks have been manufactured. Couzens hall will hold thei annual "Roosevelt for president" club ten- This shipment supplements a for- bazaar. The affair will have all thej dering him a game dinner that "a mer one and brings the number of color and gaiety of a French streett lot of water munt pass under the tropical species received by the de- scene and many are the wares bridge before any candidate is partment to a total of 26. .I. ,.s named and it may be someone "All of the new woods will li which will be sold at the little shopst whom no one has thought of." tested for certain physical and along each side of the thorough- Gov.-Elect Richard B. Russell of chemical properties to see how fare.< Georgia said "this is the fnrst they compare with hard woods The patrons wil find everything Roosevelt for president club in the available in North America," states for Christmas including the tree, nation and Georgia; is proud to Prof. William Kynoch, "because with all its decorations, candles and' have Roosevelt as an adopted son." limited importation xill be necess- holders, candies, and all kinds of MentioAing his familiarity vith ary to bridge over a certain sho t- gifts. There will even be presents what he termed the vastly differ- age while new American hard wood brought from Japan as well as the ent economic problems of Georgia forest are being exploited." usual needlework, pottery and and New York, Gov. Roosevelt said ' A feature of the new shipment brass-ware. no single yardstick can be used in of wood is their unusual colors, For the entertainment seeker,t Washington that will fit the whole ranging from a pale yellow to a the famous "Midnite Sun's Quartet" nation. dark purple. Part of the specimens; and the Couzens Hall choral club "Each state m u.workout its came from the Amaz:on valley ,xare furnishing music arid a short Ewn m ajort7ple mus in itk ownwhile another part came from skit will be presented entitled "The I way," he 'said. mPeru. Impudence of the Creature." Dur- Gov. Roosevelt was introduced The testing is supervised by the ing the evening, refreshments will by Judge J. R. Terreil of Green- be offered in true French cafe stle. ville as "the man who has done Economics Club Hears more for Merwether county than Grgs Conines Work any man in Gee,1' Address by Copeland er Colerd P.ad "He is our job in 1;:2 and Roose- velt is the man in whom there is Prof. Morris A. Copeland, of the Prof. Earl L. Griggs, of the Eng- no guile," said Judge Terrell. economics department, spoke on lish department, who was awarded Judge C. E. Roof of the Cowetta "Economic Theory and the Natural the Lloyd fellowship for last year judicial circuit said Owen D. Young Science Point of View" at the Union by the Graduate school, is in Lon- had been mentioned Os a possible Tuesday night before the Econo- don at present conducting a re- presidential eandidaaein 32,but?:nies club. search on the life of Samuel Taylor that he (Young) could not be He argued the application of na- Coleridge. spared from h Eurouean work, tural science methods and of the He is working on a biography of With Young occ-upyng an import- evolutionary point of view regard- Coleridge and has been authorized ant position on the continent and ig important modifications in the by the present representatives of Roosevelt as president, Judge Roofoder body of economic theory. He the Coleridge family to publish his said the Atlantic ocean will van- summarized the chief changes in letters. Professor Griggs' research ish and peace and unity will rule economic theory caused by recent will carry him later to the island throughout the world." economic hanges and by a iore of Malta, where Coleridge spent matter-of-fact attitude. ' two ,ears of his youth. Andres Espinosa of Bilboa. Previ- ously never fewer than two at- tempted the ascent of the moun-. tain but Espinosa started alone without carriers fnd guides, but taking an ice-pick and a haversack with tinned food. He spent nine days wandering in the snow and was obliged to pass three nights in a cave at a height of 18,000 feet before the weather allowed him to reach the summit of the mountain. He returned to Moshi, a town at the mountain's foot, with all the records he could find left there by earlier climbers as proof of his achievement. Kilima-Njaro is 19,710 feet high. Prof. Heber D. 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