t VOL. XLII. No.21 EIGHT PAGES ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1931 PRICE FIVE CT Reminds Belligerent Nations of Obligations Under Kellogg. Anti-War Treaty. TO BOTH Japanese Stand Firm on Settling Manchurian Question for Selves, Unhindered. (By Associated Pi'ess) The United States reminded Jap- an and China Tuesday of their ob- ligations under the Kellogg-Briand anti-war pact to effect a peaceable settlementof the Manchurian dis- One thousand freshmen yesterday put on their Sunday suits, their company manners, and went out to take part in the Interfraternity council's "noble experiment," the open house. Four hundred fraternity men from 21 houses located in geograph- ical group one were busy through- out the day raking lawns, waxing floors, and thinking up new meth- ods of entertainment. Perhaps the record for entertain- ment goes to one house which dis- tributed fake money to all the pros- pective pledges and then staged a roulette game. In the meantime, more athletically inclined freshmen were entertained with the manly sports of ping-pong and backgam- mon. Bridge was the most popular time waster. More than 2,000 rubbers were played yesterday in group one fraternities. Actives smiled pleas- antly when the freshmen trumped their ace. There were a few cases of mis- understanding about the rushing rules. Several freshmen showed up at houses without invitations. They said that they understood you could go to.as many houses as you want- ed and stay as long as you liked. Several freshmen were found who had twelve invitations for Wednes- day. They said that it was almost impossible to eat a buffet supper at all of the houses. Open houses continue today and tomorrow. Today it is group two and tomorrow group three. Then peace will descend on the campus for another four weeks. things some day-go marlin fishing Action of the American govern- and see Ellsworth Vines play tennis. ment in dispatching notes to Nan- McCormack will open the fifty- king and Tokio followed that of second annual series of the Choral five other powers and announce- Union concerts tonight in Hill audi- ment that Japan had withdrawn torium. The program may be found its objections to American partici- on Page 4. pation in Manchurian discussions of the council of the League of Na- tions at Geneva. Local Woman Finds Geneva Awaits Word. A'PWhile Geneva awaited word from AnnArbors Police Tokio on the flexible peace pro- Plenty Ineffishient posals of Aristide Briand, the coun- cil chairman, Japan gave no mdi- It was Friday, to all intents, in cation of receding from its attitude the Common council chamber at that the Manchurian problem was the lastmeetione to be solved between China t meetg. and Japan without outside inter- The fish were there, borne by Mrs. vention. A. F. Sayer, 1330 Wilmot st., to- Although the Chinese delegation gether with a complaint about the at Geneva submitted evidence of efficiency of the local'police force. further Japanese military activi- ties in Manchuria, news dispatches A certain fish peddler had been from that country told only of ac- in the habit of cleaning his waresftat coysrytldors. under her window, she said. She tivites by separate leaders. had complained to local police, who One of these, a former Empire investigated to no purpose, Mrs. official in Manchuria, was seeming- Sayerasserted. ly preparing for an active military Finally she called state police. campaign against the, remnants at They drove the fish man away. Mrs. Chinchow of China's. Manchurian Sayer collected the evidence and' governMrnt. wrapped it up in newspapers. Last President Chiang of China told -night-,she- delivered the package' to'members-ef the institute of Pacific the council, tdgether with quite al 1dTations a "small minority" of na-' statement.'""A line kettle of fish,, tions still adhered to the old poli- Mrs. Sayer said. cies of war and brute force, al- The conmnlaint was referrei to though the world tendency was to- Flier Edison's Old Friends Mourn Beside His BodyI WEST ORANGE, N. J., Oct, 20.- (P)-The last caravan is organized -Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Thomas A. Edison-and it will travel tomorrow to Mr. Edison's grave. The two cronies of the famous inventor, who with him formed a# triumvirate of travel and compan- ionship which became a symbol overf the world, arrived late today. They, with the first lady of the< land will be among the close friends to join the family in a private1 funeral service at 2:30 o'clock to-( morrow afternoon. President HooverI will be unable to attend because of the press of public business inI Washington, but Mrs. Hoover will leave for West Orange tomorrow on a regular morning passenger train. Accompanied' by Mrs. Edison, Mr. Ford and Mr. Firestone went to the library of the laboratory where the' inventor's body lay. The long line of men and women, running into thousands during the last two days, was halted as the party entered the buildin . _ State' Oulletins (By Associated Pes) October 20, 1931 ESCANABA-Fire destroyed the mill df the Bonz Manufacturing Co. at Masonville near here today, with a loss of $50,000. Forty men were thrown out of employment. ST. JOSEPH-The Berrien coun- ty board of supervisors adopted a resolution Tuesday asking Gov. Wilber M. Bruckur to call a special legislative session to revise the tax laws. GRAND RAPIDS-The Kent county board of supervisors went on record Tuesday as opposing a yr nnial cascinreof +h i.rl 4rp t Hopkins Denies Charge. Prof. Louis A. Hopkins, newly elected secretary of the council, said last night that the committees affected had previously been re- sponsible to the University senate, and that the move was an attempt to systematize University commit- tees by bringing them under the1 supervision. of the council.1 Prof. Edzw R. Sunderland, busi-1 ness manager of the board in con- trol of student publications, said last night that though that bodyt was separately incorporated, under the authority of the Board of Re- gents, it had always made reports to the Senate. This situation arose at the time of incorporation, about 10 years ago, previous to which the board in control had been a committee of the Senate. Since then the board has continued its annual reports. In effect there will be no change under the new arrangement, Pro- fessor Sunderland said. Aigler Accedes.' Prof. Ralph W. Aigler, chairman of the athletic board, said when asked the new plan, "So far as I know, *there will be. virtually' no change under the new arrangement. Although the board in control of athletics has always been under the Regents, with a separate sub- sidary incorporation, it has report- ed to the Senate' annually. We shall be glad to report to .the Coun- cil instead if it so desires." Pres. Alexander G.' R u t h v e n, chairman of the council, and Prof. Henry C. Anderson, newly elected vice chairman, could riot' be reach- ed last night for statements re- garding the purpose of the moves Gilmore Gives Talk 'in Alpha Nu Meeting In a scientific talk on "The Early Indian Cultural Differences," Dr. Melvin R. Gilmore, curator of eth- nology at the museum of anthro- pology, told members of Alpha Nu of Kappa Phi Sigma, last night, that the various nationalities of the American Indians were as varied as the nationalities of Europe. Tryouts for pledgeship in the so- MANCHURIA, CHINA MAY SEVRBONDS' h it ]. ield last night in the chapter room in Angell hall. Those who were admitted after giving tryout speeches were: John W. Bellamy, '35, Keith C. Billman, '35, David W. Cannon, Grad., Arthur J. Carr, '35, David L. Gallup, '33, John T. Gamon, '35, Thomas Hes- sion, '33, Alexander Hirschfeld, .'35, Lloyd V. Marlette, '33, Archibald W. McMillan, '34, Myron M. Ruby, '35, Arthur Shapiro, '34, Richard L. Shook, '35, Philip C. Shorr, '34, Nicholas M. Spoke, '35, Joseph Su- dow, '35, Gordon T.'Wilder, '34, Win- field L. Willkite, '35, Herbert Wool- ner, '33, and Abe Zwerdling, '35. Next week will be the last oppor- tunity this semestersfor new men to tryout for membership in the so- ciety, E. Jerome Pettit, speaker of the society stated at the meeting. Chinese Allege That Separationd Is Being Sponsored by f Japanese.n SHANGHAI, Oct. 20.-(AP)-Move- 1 ments under Chinese, Mongol and Manchurian authorship to separate t the vast area of Manchuria from the rest of China were reported to- day developing spontaneously in various parts of the "three eastern provinces." Exact information, however, still was lacking. The news dispatches reaching here were from Japanese sources, since the Chinese no longer control the Manchurian communi- cation system. Chinese officials continue to al- lege and Japanese spokesmen to deny that the movements for Man- churan autonomy are encouraged by the Japanese government. Concerning the cities of Mukden and. Kirin there is no argument. There the Japanese have openly set, up municipal governments to re- place those which collapsed as the provincial regime of Gov. Chang Hsueh-Liang gave way a month ago before .the rifles and machine guns of Japanese infantry. But elsewhere, for the observer at this distance, the situation is ex- tremely confused. The Japanese admit the presence in Manchuria of Japanese adven- turers and'volunteer empire build- Student Life inRuss Has Its Hardships. (This article, a general one university. Considered as "ausbeu- etc., of the factories. To it is grant- about Russian students and the ter" are former members of the ed the right to study without, how- life they lead, was written by a nobility, the whole pre-revolution ever, many actually' being able to Greek student, who spends his administration (down to the simpl do so. It so happens that applicants time between Russia and Ger-amnsrto(dwtoeinp- of this group' are accepted' only many. It was written especially est policeman) and their descend- when the state is .sure that there for The Daily. No part of it is to ants. That these, enemies of our is no longer hope of filling their be reprinted without special per- class, should study at the state's places with laborers. In general, an mission.) expense only afterwardsto use their official's son only can expect to be learning against it, is of course a accepted when he has given some .The life of our studying youth is humane explanation. special service tor the soviets-for in no respects similar to that led In striking contrast to the "aus- instance a war record-or has pur- by students in other countries. This beuter" aspirants to education is a sued. the 'following course: =having is above all 'best to be explained as second group to whom, generally finished all secondary school re- a result of a quite different social speaking, great privilege before the quirements to study at a university, composition than one commonly law 'is accorded and for whom the he works for one or two years as meets in the universities of capital- way' to knowledge is smoothed by a simple laborer in order to convert istic countries. the government. T'his group draws himself to the proletarian condi- The bare possibility of studying is its members chiefly from the fac- tion. not at all easily accessible to many tory working class and to a lesser Thus, from 70 to 95 per cent of in the Soviet Union. What is per- extent from the lowest stratum of today's Russian students come from haps characteristic there is this: peasants. In short, this group repre- the least cultural surroundings. A that it is not the material side- sents the much-touted proletariat. workman who wants to study, more money-which determines entrance No means are overlooked in the often than not cannot even write or refusal of the right to study, but attempt to attract it to the univer- properly. For that reason, he must .1i -n .Aif c,,~,+ c+ +tm T+ e- , f. i.re fenmr entranee re- I firt enroll in a necin1 school for