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VOL. XLII. No. 109 SIX PAGES ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1932.
PRICE FIVE I
JAPANESE CONTROL
SHANGHAI SECTION
AS PEACEIS MOVED
League Considers Proposals for
Ending War; China Seeks
Peace With Justice.
ARMIES RETAIN TROOPS
No Formal Armistice Declared;
Chinese Losses Heavy;
Jap Line Firm.
(By /he Associated Press)
After 35 days of warfare the or-
der to cease firing went up and
down the whole Shanghai battle-
front today from both the Japanese
and Chinese commands. Only an
occasional rifle cracked along the
twenty-mile front ruining from
the Yangtze River to Nanziang on
the Shanghai-Nanking Railway.
The Japanese, successful in push-
ing the Chinese troops well out of
the twelve and one-half-mile zone
around Shanghai, were, consolidat-
ing their positions in order to pre-
sent an unbroken front.
There was no formal armistice,
but each side had orders not to
resume hostilities unless the enemy
attacked.
The Japanese' announced that
since the opening of the major
offensive Tuesday their losses were
700 killed or Wounded. They re-
ported finding 3,000 Chinese dead
in their advance and estimated the
enemy losses at 10,009.
League Meets.'
The second extraordinary meet-
ing in history of the League of Na-
tions Assembly got under way at
Geneva to consider peace proposals.
Chinese and Japanese spokesmen
explained the positions of th ir re-
spective governments.
For China, Dr. W. W. Yen an-
nounced that truce negotiations at.
Shanghai had broken down and
pleaded for "peace with justfice" in
the Far East.
For Japan Ambassador Tsuneo
Matsudaira asserted it had been
necessary for the Japanese to send
troops to S ahnha because of anti-
Japanese agitation and outbursts.
After receiving reports that the
Shanghai' fighting was over, the.
Tokio Government officials de-
clared all troops would be with-
drawn inside a twelve and one-half
mile zone around the city as quick-
ly as possible.--
A special session of the Japanese
Diet was called for March 18 to
pass on a $7,040,000 bond issue to
pay the expenses of the Shanghai
campaign.
The Chinese charged that early
this morning, after the Japanese
order had gone out, there was
fighting--initiated bythe Japanese
--in the region of Liuho and near
Nanziang, but Japanese headquar-
ters announced that the entire
front was quiet..
No Formal Peace.
In the absence of any formal
agreement putting an end to the
fighting, there still was a possibility
that hostilities would flare forth
anew. Foreign military observers
considered this an, outside chance.
The Paoshan forts, on the south-
ern bank of the Yangtze, between
Woosung and Liuio, appeared still
to be in the hands of the Chinese,
but they were hemmed in on the
three land sides and in the river
there were numerous Japanese
ships of war.
The Government at Nanking sent
wbrd to the League of Nations
Assembly at Geneva that the Nine-
teenth Route Army, the unit in-
volved in the Shanghai battle, had
been instructed to cease hostilities
unless the Japanese attacked.
This definite move by the Nan-
king Government was designed, it
was believed, to make possible the
opening of preliminary negotia--
tions for a formal agreement re-
storing peace.
Bulletin for Summer
Session Is Completed
Copies of the complete announce-
ment of the 39th Summer Session
have been completed and may be
obtained at the office of the Sum-
mer Session in University Hall,
DeanrEdward H. Kraus announced
yesterday.
Publication of the complete an-
nouncement at this date is earlier
than in previous years, Dean Kraus
pointed out.
The announcement contains full
Opponent of Fascism
Assocwrea k'res Polo
Fighting broke out between Fin-'
liand's governmenttroops and a
force of Finnish Fascists after the
latter sent a note to President Pehr
Edwin Svinhyfvnd (above) de-
manding that. the cabinet resign
and a new one be chosen.
WOMEN'SVAST
TO DEBATE TONIGHT'
Northwestern Is F6e in Second
Conference Debate on
Indian Question.
University of Michigan varsity
women's debate squad will meet
Northwestern University women's
team in the second conference de-
bate of the season at 8 o'clock to-
night in the Methodist church.
The question to be debated will
be, Resolved: that India should be
granted immediate independence
from Great Britain. Michigan will,
uphold the affirmative side of the
proposition. The women who will.
debate for Michigan are: Dorothy
Davis, '33; Eleanore Maxine Gil-
more, '33; and Alice Gilbert, '36.
This will be the only conference
debate to be held in Michigan this
year. Michigan has two such con-
fereice debates; the, previous one
with Indiana on the same question
having been lost by a judge's de-
cision.;
Northwestern's squad has been'
coached by Professor Paul Does-
burg; the Michigan team, by Mr.
Floyd K. Riley, Instructor in Speech
in the university. The judge for the
debate is to be Miss Anne E. Lind-
bloom, coach of women's debating
at Western State.
Sigma Delta Chi Dance
Postponed to April 22
Plans for the first annual Grid-
iron Dance, to be sponsored by
members of Sigma Delta Chi, pro-!
fessional journalistic society, were
temporarily a r r e s t ed yesterday
when it was announced by Beach
Conger, Jr., chairman of the ar-
rangements committee, that i t
would be impossible to have the ed-
itorial rooms of the new -publica-
tions building ready for the dance
by April 1. Committee members
immediately procured permission
from University authorities to hold
the affair, which is to be formal,
on Friday evening, April 22.
According to members, 'it is the
purpose of Sigma Delta Chi, which
in the past has sponsored the an-
nual Gridiron Banquet, to have the
dance act as a substitute for the
latter function, which it was voted
to discontinue this year. t.
Revenge Motive Cited
'in OhioKidnapping
HOUSE BILL VOTES
FREE FARM BOARD
WHEAT FOR NEEDY
Only Two Votes Placed Against
Measure Which Combines
Congress' Ideas.
SENATE MUST CONSENT
40,000,000 Bushels of Grain
May Be Distributed by
Red Cross.
WASHINGTON, Mar. 3.-(A)-
With an overwhelming rush of
"ayes" the House today broadcast
to the nation's needy word that
40,000,000 bushels of farm board
wheat probably will be available for
them soon.
Only two House mem.bers voted.
against the Senate's proposal to
turn the wheat over to the Red
Cross, while 344 favored it. Since it
combines two measures adopted by
the Senate, the bill g'oes to confer-
ence to adjust differences.
Meanwhile, the Senate, in argu-
ing over the agricultural depart-
ment's appropriation bill, likewise
looked into the relief question. It
overrode the action of the appro-
priations committee in striking
from the bill a Hoise provision pro-
hibiting sending federal road funds
into states using convict labor. Op-
position to removal of this provis-
ion was based largely on the stand
free men would be deprived of
needy jobs and the Senate agreed
to restore the House clause.
A pathway was cleared for a sen-
atorial investigation of the stock
exchanges. The banking committee
unanimously approved the inquiry
resolution prepared by a subcom-
mittee and sanction of the senate
is considered certain.:.
Despite the drag of details .onits.
new revenue bill, the House ways
and means committee heard from a
Canadian that the manufacturer's
sales tax system as planned was
superior to the successful method
in use in the Dominion. G. W. Jones
of Ottawa, a canadian government
tax expert, said the plan would be
simpler to administer and that as
industries of the two nations were
very similar, it should be satisfac-
tory.
Rushing Notice
Each freshan who has re-
ceived a bid fi om one or more
fraternities will have a list of
the niames of all fraternities de-
livered to his room between 7
and' 10 o'clock tonight. Those
receiving lists; should number
the fraternities in the order of
their preference and deliver
them, to Roomn2, University
Ball before noon Saturday.
Monday's mail will bring a
card to each first year man
whose choice has been honored
by a fraternity notifying him
to report at that fraternity
house 'at 6 o'clock the same
evening to be formally pledged.
No further contacts are to be
made between Fraternity men
and freshmen until pledging.
Second Warning
Hints Baby's Lit
in
Grave, Dani
Message Postmarked 'New York Demands $50
Llndberghs Make Appeal to Kidnapper!
Over Eastern Radio Network.
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PARENTS OF KIDNAPPED CHILD
BULLETIN
NEW YORK, March 3.-A national radio appeal, which br
casting officials said was authorized by an intimate friend of
Charles A. Lindbergh tonight said:
"Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh not only wish but hope that who
is in possession of the child will make every effort to communi
with them."
The statement was broadcast over an NBC-WJZ networ
9:45 p.m.
HOPEWELL, N.J., March 3.-()-A second ransom i
fixing $50,000 as the sum to be paid' for the return of Charles
gustus Lindbergh, Jr., and a postcard stating that the "baby will
were studied tonight as the nation-wide search continued for
kidnapped son of the famous flying colonel.
The ransom note, postmarked New York, and unsigned,
compared by police with the one left behind when the kidnap
took the 20-months old boy from his crib Tuesday night. The
note has never been made public, but it is understood also to :
asked for $50,000.
The postcard was similar to one mailed in Newark, N.J., ye
day. Both were'addressed to "Charles Lindbergh" and there
similarity in the crude printing. The second one was dropped
the 'mail in South Orange, NUJ. Its prediction of death was q
different from the message on the first, which was to the effect
ransom arrangements wouldabe made.
Many Clues Are Traced.
Another postcard, this one saying instruction for the re
would be made Saturday, was mailed in Auburn, N.Y. All ir
while Col. Lindbergh and his wife kept their sorrowful vigil at'
home here, hoping as they waited,police twere busy with hundr
of communications. Each clue was traced down, some being
carded after investigation.
While still prepared and willing to pay the ransom demar
Col. Lindbergh let it be known he would press his active sup
of the national police network to recover the baby boy and apprel
the abductors.
As a 15-hour period during which the famous flier had expe
some word from the kidnappers came to an uneventful end at n
Gov. A. Harry Moore concluded a conference with the Lindbei
Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh, whose infant son, Charles
Jr., was discovered missing from his crib in the Lindbergh home
Hppewell, NJ., Tuesday night, are shown above in their familiar role
fliers.
A.
a
as
SLIDE RULE, DANCE
Jack Spencer, General Chairman,
Announces. Committee
Appointments.
I
Daily and
Tryouts
Gargoyle
Will Meet
All first year men and women
wishing to try out for the Edi-
torial Staffs of the Michigan
Daily and the Gargoyle are re-
quested to /report to the Press
Building offices, at 3 o'clock,
Tuesday, March 8.
ANGRY MOB ENTERS
GOVERNOR'S HOME
Protest Against Tax Proposal
Sponsored by Kentucky
Governor.
FRANKFORT, Ky., March 3.-()P)
-A crowd of-more than 100 men
and women forced their way into
the executive mansion, frightened
Imembers of Gov. Ruby Laffoon's
The third annual Slide Rule'
dance of the engineering college
will be held Friday evening, April
1, in the Union, Jack L. Spencer,1
'32E, general chairman, announced
yesterday.
Spencer has appointed the fol-
lowing committee for the dance:;
Bazely W. Johnson, '32E, programs;
David M. Hannah, '32E, music; Nor-
man E. Knapp, '32E, floor commit-
tee; DeElton Carr, '33E, tickets;
John J. White, '32A, decorations;'
James Lenney, '32E, publicity; and.
Jack S. Beechler, '32E, accommoda-
tions.
The dance is sponsored by the
Michigan Technic, engineering
magazine. The Pubications Board,
composed of four faculty members
and three students, selects the gen-
eral chairman.
Arrangements are now being
made( to secure the tap-room -and
the Pendelton library of the Union
for the uhe of those attending the
dance.
'Alfalfa Bill' Murray
Reunited With Brother
FARGO, N. D., March 3.-(A))-
Two former Texas boys who ran
away from home before their first
whiskers sprouted, were reunited
today after a separation of 34
years.
Their salutation echoed down the
aisle of a sleeping car and with a
brisk handshake, .George T. Mur-
ray, of Berthold, N. ,D., farmer,
welcomed his younger brother, Wil,-
liam E. (Alfalfa Bill) Murray,
Governor of Oklahoma, to North
Dakota.
Only a moment was spent in
greeting and old memories. They
sat down at once to plan on gain-
ing a more majestic goal-how to
win the White House forBill.'
University Poll
Calls Wet Issue
Most Important
Prohibition was selected as the
outstanding current political issue
in a recent poll conducted by Prof.
Everett Brown, in his National Pol-
itics class.
The Sino-Japanese policy was
second, followed very closely by un-
employment and financial recon-
struction, Other leading issues, in
the opinion of the students, were
war debts and reparations, disarm-
ament, and the League of Nations.
Outside of these outstanding
problems the class was divided in
their opinion of what con4tituted
issues. Philippine independence, the
tariff, the gold standard, govern-
ment economy, railroads, free, sil-
ver, farm relief, all came in for due
consideration.
One student thought that the war
between religion and science should
receive the attention of the politi-
cal parties, and another stated his
belief that they should take definite
stands on the race problem.
SCORE: 5 tol1
Jack Comes Out Second Best
Against Faculty Men.
Railroad Jack came out second
best in an informal skirmish with
two members of the history depart-
ment yesterday. Dr. Karl Freiherr
von Reichenbach a n d Leonard
Manion, travelling incognito on
Main street, proved to be his nem-
eses.
Approaching Jack, who was at
the time enjoying his evening meal,
they offeredhim 25 cents eachrif
he could identify one of three
names. Manion cited Aneas Syl-
vius Piccolomini, Gerhart of Aur-
hilac, and Narses. Unfortunately
these names didn't click with Jack,
but he got the quarter anyway.
Reichenbach thereupon mentioned
Queen Christine of Sweden, Count
Tilly, and August the Strong. The
first one was ducksoup for Jack and
he pocketed another quarter.
Jack later on stated that since he
was only obliged to answer one out
of the three, lie felt he had earned
the money by answering only one.
However, he cheerfully admitted
PLAINS COPLTE
FOR MAY_,FESTIVAL:
Gitta Gradova, Famous Pianist,
to be Accompanied by
Frederick Stock.
Gitta Gradova, acclaimed as ne
of the leading pianists in the-world,
will appear on a program of the
May Festival with Frederick- Stock
and the Chicago Symphony orches-
tra, it was announced yesterday by
Charles A. Sink, president of the
School of Music. The signing of
the contract with the manager of
the famous artist concludes the list
of artists and organizations who
will participate in the annual af-
fair. 1
With the piano virtuoso the num-
ber of artists who will appear on
the May Festival programs numbers
twelve including Goeta Ljungberg,
Juliette Lippe and Ruth Rodgers,
sopranos; Gladys Swartout, con-
tralto; Beniamino Gigli and Fred-
erick Jagel, tenors; John Charles
Tohmas and Nelson Eddy, bari-
tones; Chase Baromeo, bass; Gitta
Gradova, pianist; Palmer Christian,
organist, and Gustav Holst com-
poser-conductor. Frederick Stock
will again lead the Chicago Sym-
phony while Eric DeLamarter will
act as his associate and Juva Hig-
bee will lead the children's chorus.
Earl V. Moore, musical director, will
also be one of the conductors.
The choral works will be present-
ed by the Choral.Union and will be
the American premiere of Rim-
sky-Korsakoff's opera, "The Leg-
ende of the Invisible City of Kitej,"
the "Psalms" by Strawnsky and
"Creaton" in commemoration of
the bicentennial of Haydn.
Two Students Honored,
by A.I. Ch.E. Awards
The student branch of the Amer-
ican Institute of Chemical Engin-
eers awarded two honorary certifi-
cates and badges of membership
The aviator-father, he said,
pects something to happen
minute." But the governor qi
ly made it clear that he knee
no foundation for such an ex
tation; that no contact had 1
made with the kidnappers
either police or the Lindber
that investigators had succe
nearly in fixing the approxir
hour of'the abduction and de
ing two persons were respons
"What," he was then asked
the basis for Col. Lindbergh's
pectation that something will
pen any minute?"
"Oh, I guess its just psychic
replied.
However, Col. Lindbergh ref
to consider a suggestion that
spectacular search be called off
an appeal made on a no-quest
asked basis, for the return of
blue-eyed 20-months-old child
was snatched frotn its bed Tue
night.
Letter Valueless.
One of the disappointment
the day was a letter air-mail
Boston by a woman about 60 3
old purporting to tell where
child was held. The directions
valueless. The letter, addresse
Col. Lindbergh, was opened
his permission. Later it was lea
that Henry G. Willson, self-s
clairvoyant wrote it and gave
a woman to mail.
The Lindbergh garage was
verted into a police substation
by nightfall approximately
persons had been led in for
most rigid sort of questioning
a step was being overlooked b3
smoothly organized detective
chinery that might be produ
of some hint, some indication
stole the world's most famous 1
Mrs. Hoover AnxioE
Over Lindbergh Bi
NILES, 0., Marcn 3. - ()P} - A houseoid, and sligniuy U'duita
black-haired mother had almost the furnishings late today during
given up hope here tonight of re- a demonstratioii here against the
ceiving a note from kidnappers de- governor's one per cent general
inanding ransom for her bright- sales proposal.
eyed son, James Dejute, Jr., 11 Some of the intruders sought to
years old, go to the second floor of the build-
Almost 40 hours have passed since ing, but were told by a maid that
the boy battled with the kidnap- no one was upstairs and did not
pers. Officers turned to theories of attempt to force their way up. After
revenge or the work of a fiend -as staying in the mansion for more
motives for the abduction. than an hour, the crowd left. Al-
Vowing vengeance and carrying most every room in the lower part
a gun Dejute, Sr., a n wealthycon- of the building bore evidence of the
tractor , continued the hunt with visit. There were cigarette holes in
police after only a short rest last carpets and on the edges of furni-
night. He raised his offer of a re- ture, littered about the floors, and
ward for the capture of the kid- electric light globes were missing.
nappers from $1,000 to $5,000 today.
Lindy's Former Guard Voorhies to Address
Lmdy's ormer uardpfhods;t StuentR,
GREEN COVE SPI
March 3. - ()- G:
was shown by Mrs. He
today over the fate of t
Lindbergh baby. She
service man ashore
motorship Sequoia to
news of the search.
He telephoned to
and Associated Press