THE MICHIGAN DAILY

Hoover's Arms
Proposal Gets
ColdReception
Senate Approval Appears
Unlikely; Fish Attacks
President's Message
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.-P)-
Congressional rejection of anotheri
recommendation by President Hoover
-with one dealing with arms em-
bargoes--..today appeared extremelyc
likely.1
The chief executive asked that the
long-pending international arms
conference be ratified or .that he be
given authority to declare munitionsl
embargoes as a means of preventing
military conflictrs..
But as the Senate foreign relations
committee was called together to;
take up the request, Chairman Borahj
recalled that the convention, signedj
in Geneva in 1925; had been put{
aside by the committee withoutj
action years ago!
From a Republican representative
-Fish of New York--came a sharp1
attack on Mr. Hoover's special mes-
sage. Ile described it as the "weak-)
est and vaguest" of all the papers the
President has sent to congress and
predicted no such legislation would1
be approved.
Secretary Stimson, in a memoran-;
dum attached to the message, men-j
tioned without calling names the un-
declared wars in South America and
in the far east as reasons for con-.
trolling shipments of arms.
Borah has opposed the convention
plan for six years. Most of the oppo-
sition has been centered on the idea
that it would not interfere with the
bigger countries but would discrim-
ihate against small nations.
Already this session the President
has been turned down on a sugges-
tion for creating a war debts com-
mission.
Robbers Hold
Up Two Gas
Stations, Flee
Thugs Escape Cordon Of
Troopers And Deputies;
Obtain $50 In Robberies
Three men who robbed two gas
stations on the North Territorial
Road Tuesday n i g h t, escaping
through a cordon of state troopers,
sheriff's deputies and city- police,
have not yet been caught.
The robbers held p the station of
Perry Doah, located near North Lake,
at 9 p. m., taking $25 from the pro-
prietor. A few minutes layr they got
$25 from Isaac Farley's gas station
at the Intersection of Whitmore Lake
and North Territorial Roads. Sheriff
Jacob Andres, who was informed of
the robberies by telephone immedi-
ately after they had occurred, called
state, Detroit, and Ypsilanti police.
He had them patrol all roads in the
district, but the robbers were not
Maught. How they escaped, whether
.hey had a car or not, and where
they went remain unknown to the
police.
Speculation at the police depart-
nient yesterday was inclined to be-
lieve that the bandits were from Ann
Arbor or Ypsilanti rather than De-
troit.
Neither Noah nor John Paddock,
attendant at the Parley station, was
able to give police a very accurate

description of the men. The man
who -held him up, Noah said, was
rather short and slender, and had a
mustache. Paddock could not give
any description,
Skating, Skiing Party
Planned By Outing Club
The University Outing Club, in
formation on the campus, will hold
its first excursion Saturday afternoon
and evening.
With facilities of the University
and the Presbyterian Church prop-
erty at their service, the members of
the club will leave at 1 p. m. Satur-
day in University trucks for Highland
Lake, where a 'cottage of the church
Nwill be turned over for their use.
The afternoon and evening will be
devoted to skating and skiing, pro-
vided the weather is suitable. After
a late supper, the party will return
to Ann Arbor.
Miss Ethel A. McCormick has asked
that all interested make arrange-
ments with her at the League.
OF INTEREST
TO STUDENTS
FREE MANICURING
FREE GUESSING CONTEST.
on all Big Ten Basketball games

Einstein Goes Back To School
With Jesuit Priest As Teacher

PA.9ADRhNA, Calif., JTan. 11 -(ff'-
The story of how the earth as a com-
paratively little ,eck fell out of the
line of march of the expanding uni-
verse and thus became a habitat for
human beings was the first lesson for
Prof. Albert Einstein as he returns to
school today.
This makes the Berlin scientist's
forty-seventh year in school, for
while the world of scicnce regards
him as one of its distinguished think-
ers, he smilingly chooses to regard
himself as a student.
Today's teacher, some 20 years
younger than Einstein, is the Jesuit
priest whom has won fame by ex-
pounding the Einstein theory of rela-
tivity, Abbe Gorges Le Maitre of
Universit-y of Lou vain, Belgium,
While Einstein still regarded the
universe to be static, and unclang-
ing, the Jesuit professor did some
pioneer thinking with the principle
of relativity and was perhaps the
first to declare the universe to be ex-
panding and ever-changing.
Le Maitre's discussion of the ex-
panding universe was the topic for
the day of the Journal Club at the
library of Mount Wilson observatory
here.
The abbe figures the universe and
the earth to be two billion years old.
That far back all matter in space he
says was a primordial atom, of a
temperature of millions of millions
of degrees. It started expanding, and
by observations of Astronomer Ed.-

win Riubble he-re appearsstill to be
expanding, with explosive force.
Old Mother Earth got -out of step
in the early days of the expansion.
If this had not happened it would be
an expanding mass of atoms, hence
no human life. This is explained in
scientific language by the abbe as
follows:
"While the universe is everlasting-
ly expanding since that primordial
atom burst, material in certain parts
does not have the property of passing
the equilibrium point, hence col-
lapses and condenses.
"If the density is not perfectly uni-
form, a small change in density to a
different type forms regions that do
not continuously expand, but collapse
or condense and thus form the
nebulae.".
These nebulae are island universes,
of which Dr. Hubble estimates there
are some :0,000,000 in the observable
regions of space. The earth is one of
these island universes, known as the
milky way galaxy, and this comprises
some 30,000,000 stars, many of which
are vastly greater than the sun.
Russian Industrializat on
To Be Subject Of Talk

Curtis To Talk
At Conference
Of Educators
Astronomner To Address
Education Conference
Tomorrow At Ypsilanti
The fifteenth Mid-Year Education
Conference will open Jan, 1" at Pease
Auditorium, Ypsilanti.
Dr. Heber D. Curtis, director of the
astronomical observatory, will rep-
resent the University. He is to ad-
dress the physics group on the total
eclipse of 1932 which will be illus-
trated with lantern slides.
Tar. William McAndrew, '86, who is
now editor of the Educational Review
of School and Society, will speak on
the subject, "What Teaching Does to
Teachers"'
Dr. C. ,S. Boucher, '14, will talk on
"Current Trends in Higher Educa-
tion." Dr. Boucher is now Dean of
the College of Arts, Literature, and
Science at the University of Chicago.
Saturday morning Dr. John Grier
libben, former president of Prince-
ton University, will speak on "Law
and Lawlessness."
In the opinion of Dean J. B. Ed-
monson, the addresses by Drs. Bou-
cher and Hibben will be the high
spots in this conference.
Section programs will start Friday
afternoon at 2 p. m. and will be
followed by department conferences
at 3 p. m. Dr. Hibben will close the
meeting with his speech Saturday
morning.
Among the historic patent appli-
cations in the U. S. patent office is
one issued to Abraham Lincoln in
1849 on a "mode of buoying vessels."

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Krueger An
Toll Collapse
Investigated
Senate Committee Quizzes
New York Exchange On
Losses In United States
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11. - (U) - A
true story of how American investors
got caught when the bhise of cards
by Krueger & Toll came tumbling
down was sought today by a com-
mittee of senators.
Resuming its stock market investi-
gations,' the Senate's banking com-
mittee proved primarily to fix the re-
sponsibility, if any, the New York
Stock exchange had in the flotation
of Krueger & Toll securities in this
country.
Eight witnesses, including officials
of the exchange, brokers who handled
the securities and others were called
before the committee, which, said
Chairman Norbeck, wants to know to
what extent the American investor
has been played for a "sucker."
Through it all ran the name of Ivar
Krueger, the Swedish match king
whose death in Paris was a financial
sensation. To many Americans it
meant the loss of millions.
Among those directed to appear
were loland L. Redmond, counsel for
the stock exchange; Allen Lindley,
chairman of the exchange committee
on business conduct, and Frank Alt-
schul, chairman of the exchange
stock list; Donald Durant of Lee Hig-
ginson & Co., investment bankers,
and auditors of Krueger & Toll.
The committee has employed Irv.
ing Ben Cooper, who has been asso-
ciated with Samuel Seabury in the
investigation of New York City's gov-
ernment, as its counsel to prepare
other phases of the stock market
inquiry.
Old Age Pensions, Tax
Relief Before Legislators
LANSING, Jan. 11.-(A)-Old age
pensions and prompt relief forthose
who have fallen behind in their tax
payments were among the proposals
that had been submitted formally to'
the legislature today. The old age
pensioneplan, which was advocated
by Gov. William A. Comstock in his
message to the legislature, was intro-
duced by Senator Ray Derham, Re-
publican of Iron Mountain. A maxi-
mum pension of $30 a month for per-
sons of 70 years or older, financed
through a head tax of $2 levied
against every resident of the state
who had reached the age of 21, was
provided in the bill.
A measure designed to permit those
who are two years in arrears on their
taxes to pay off the debt on a 10-
year installment plan also was intro-
duced in:the house Tuesd xy by Rep-
resentative Fred Holbeck of Long
Lake.

"The Industrialization of Soviet
Russia and Eventual Russian Com-
petition in International Markets"
will be the subject of a talk by Mr.
A. H. Hoski, '15E; in Natural' Science
Auditorium, Jan. 13, at 8,p. m.
Mr. Hoski has spent two years in a
Moscow automobile plant as superin-
tendent of the cold metal stamping
position. All interested are urged to
attend, said Prof. A. D. Gwiazdowski,
of the engineering school, who is
sponsoring the talk.

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IfYour rowing
More Serious..
about your entertainment . . if you're
demanding the best. . . We'll expect to
see you at THE LEAGUE. A new shell...
a lower orchestra platform . . . and the
League band, directed by MILK FALK,
take care of perfect music. Lounges,
comfortable and uncrowded... Cheery
open fires . . . and, this week-end,
MARY ANN MATH-EWSON, '34, BARBARA
BATES, '35, and LUCILLE LUCAS, '34,
harmonizing . .. are other reasons why
The League is the best .entertainmnet in
town . . . this week-end or any time.
THE
MICHIGAN LEAGUE
BALLROOM
A SURPRISE is waiting for the
holders of these stubs at the
desk of The League: 17931, 17970,
17969, 19045, 19065.

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