PAGE SIX THE MICHIGAN DAILY SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1934 Germany Seeks To Manufacture Own Gasoline Production Ordered By Government Regardless Of Its Cost BERLIN, Oct. 5. - (P) - How far Germany is prepared to go in her des- perate fight for self-sufficiency was disclosed today in a government order for peat and coal operators to pro- duce gasoline, even thought it costs four times the world price. Mining interests were told to raise a common fund to perfect experi- ments now under way. One of these, it is claimed, is a signal advance over previous gasoline production methods in that extensive pressure apparatus is eliminated. Concurrent with this work there is a frantic effort to uncover oil deposits in Germany. Newspapers herald each attempt with enthusiasm, for the reich imports great quantities of oils. A qualified foreign source said com- pletion of the gasoline production pro- gram might mean a severe blow to American oil interests, even though the German synthetic product would cost four times the imported gaso- line. The government command, the first of its kind, is especially noteworthy because it involves the large central Germany soft coal industry, famous nitrogen and chemical works and Germany's determination to "hoe her own row" in an effort to conserve her dwindling foreign exchange and develop industries against future un- certainty. Ruhr coal operators and Ig Farben (the dye trust) negotiated earlier this year for a state guarantee enabling them to complete the experiments but without success. Now, however, off i- cials of the Ig Farben experimental works anticipate success with the im- proved Bergius process for distilling gasoline for coal. The Ruhr Chemical companies, em- braciig about 80 per cent of the Ruhr mines, will build an experimental method which was described as "very promiing. In 1921 Germany used 2,375,000 tons of motor fuel and only 713 tons were produced domestically. It was estimated there are 6,000,000,000 tons of available coal in Germany suitable for distillation and there is no danger of exhaustion of natural supplies. About 125,000,000 tons of peat coal are now mined in Germany annually, about 40,000,000 of them suitable for distillation. American Society For Metals Meets The Detroit Chapter of the Ameri- can Society for Metals will hold its sectional meeting tomorrow in Ann Arbor, and a program ofaactivities for the day will be terminated by a dinner at the Union, it was announced by Prof. Clair Upthegrove of the chemical engineering department yesterday. An inspection tour of the engineer- ing research laboratory in the East Engineering Building is planned for the morning, and tickets have been secured for the football game in the afternoon. Dr. Randolph G. Adams, director of the William Clements Library of American History will speak at the dinner on "Literary Forgeries." In addition to the talk by Dr. Adams, Prof. A. E. White, director of the de- partment of engineering research will address the group on "The Trend of Engineering Research Activities at the University. President To Address' Cosmopolitan Meeting The Cosmopolitan Club will hold, its first meeting of the year tonight at 8:00 p.m. in Lane Hall. Pres. Alex- ander Ruthven will address the Club., All foreign and American students are cordially invited to be present. Richberg Is New Leader In Reorganized NRA Unit Leon C. Marshall A. D. Whiteside -Associated Press Photos In President Roosevelt's reorganization of the NRA, Donald R. Richberg (center) emerged as the new top man in the industrial recovery drive. He heads a new industrial emergency committee of six which will outline the policies for the revamped NRA. Members of the NRA's new administrative agency, to be known as the national industrial recovery board, include Leon C. Marshall (upper left), former Johns Hopkins law professor; Clay Williams (lower left), North Carolina tobacco manufacturer; A. D. Whiteside (upper right), publisher of financial data; Sidney Hillman (lower right), president of the Amargamaied Clothing Work- ers' Union. Pro gram For1 Motion Picture Reform Urged' Federal Law To Correct Faults Is Advised B y Research Group NEW YORK, Oct. 5. -- (P) - Ad- vocacy of a program of national pol- ivies with regard to motion pictures, including the abolition of compulsory blook-booking and blind-selling, is announced by the Motion Picture Re- search Council on behalf of 35 na- tional organizations which interested' themselves in the matter., The council urged these practices abolished by Federal law, and a legal committee be appointed to submit a bill to Congress in January. The 35 organizations also plan to encourage the teaching of "film appreciation" in high schools and voluntary groups, help in establishing a national film institute, and inform the public re- garding "the effects of unsocial mov- ing pictures in personal and commu- nity life." As a further program, they favor amendment of the anti-trust laws to prevent monopolies and combinations in restraint of trade in the motion picture industry "so far as is consti- tutional." Community control or regu- lation of film exhibition is urged. The organizations also favor, as a "tentative program," the creation of a "scientific, descriptive film service, assuming the abolition of enforced block-booking and blind-selling -this service not to be supported by the in- dustry." Encouragement of local non-the- atrical exhibitions of films for chil- dren, and of a general program of public recreation under local boards, are on the program for the future. Set Date For Trip Planned By S.C.A. On Nov. 2 a trip to Chicago for social study will be sponsored by the Student Christian Association. According to Russell F. Anderson, president of the Student Christian As- sociation, a special train will be char- tered and the approximate cost of lodging and transportation will be $7.50. The trip will include the study of problems of crime, organized vice, unemployment, and of both racial and radical groups. Among the places to be visited are Hull House, Hobo Col- lege, Mexican Colony, Jewish Ghetto, and several flop houses. Dr. Frank Beck, eminent practical sociologist, will direct the trip in Chi- cago and he has made arrangements whereby students may talk to hobos, inmates of jails, and radical leaders. Interpretations will be made by Dr. Beck on the tours. Anderson emphasized the fact that this trip is not limited to sociology students. The complete itinerary will be announced at a late date. TVA Spreads Co-operative Plan T AJd DIf- i F L-f Attorney For Insull Faculty Members Attend Meeting Of Librarians BANNER ELK, N. C. - (P) - While the public reads much about the Tennessee valley authority building $34,000,000 dams to harness raging rivers, the TVA quietly is sponsoring a farm co-operative plan for more abundant living in the southern mountains. The authority is giving attention to: more prosaic activities, even helping housewives to knit socks and can "snap beans." Organized under local leadership in various communities and under- written by the TVA with the help of $300,000 from the federal relief ad- ministration, eight of the co-opera- tives are active. They are designed to reach farmhouses far back in the coves of western North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee. Edgar H. Tufts, general manager of an industrial college, an orphan- age and a rural hospital which his father founded years ago, and Dr. W. C. Tate, a veteran country physi- cian, took the lead in persuading 400, mountain farmers to form at the vil- lage of Banner Elk one of the first units of what the TVA calls the Ten- nessee valley associated co-operatives.E Units have been organized at five other North Carolina mountain towns - Cranberry, G r e e n Mountain, Waynesville, Hendersonville and Mur- phy - and at Soddy Grove, Tenn. During the summer each commun- ity built a cannery that paid out over '3,000 for blackberries and huckle- berries - picked in the neighborhood. Many mountain families were able to buy school books and shoes for the children and pay the taxes with dimes and nickels received for berries. The co-operatives also went into potato growing. At Banner Elk Physical Education Group To Hold Meeting Today The executive committee of the Michigan Physical Education Asso- ciation will hold its first meeting atj 2 p.m. today in the Michigan League. Dr. Mabel Rugen, assistant professor of physical education in her capacity of chairman of the executive com- mittee will preside. The purpose of the meeting is to determine the policy and the proce- dure of the group for the coming year. The constitution will be revised. xI e ar e The annual meeting of the Michi- gan Library Association, Oct. 3, 4, and alone members count on $25,400 ' 5, in Dearborn, has awakened interest, profits from their harvest. in the library science department, Dr. pots fomeirhavest. annWilliam W. Bishop, head of the de- The ownership of each canning and partment, and librarian of the Un- agricultural project is vested solely I versity, stated today. in the local co-operative. But the rVAC administrator, Arthur C. Jack- Papers will be given during theI ;on, serves as supervisor over all. meeting by Prof. C. B. Joeckel and -nd rvs auevr or a, associate Librarian S. W. McAllister, He and Dr. Tate have worxed out both members of the University fac- a diet of canned goods to replace the ulty, Dr. Bishop said. The subjects starchy "fatback" and hominy on were unannounced. which many mountain families de- pend for subsistence. An innovation in the meeting this Deep in the mountains near Ashe- year has been the creation of a col- ville, N. C., the TVAC found house- lege section under the direction of J. wives liked to knit. It advanced funds F. Gourly. Mr. Gourly is director of to build a commercial knitting center book purchasing for college libraries to encourage the industry. given grants by the Carnegie Foun- The TVA influence was felt again dation._ at Brasstown, N. C. Using the John C. Campbell Folk school as the nu- TYPHOON DAMAGES LUZON cleus, Administrator Jackson ad- MANILA, P. I., Oct. 5 - () - A vanced $20,000 to found a co-opera- typhoon swept northern Luzon Island tive creamery, a savings and loan as- tonight, stopping all communications sociation, which makes long-time and causing heavy nroperty damage. -Associated Press Photo Leading the battery of defense at- torn:!ys for Samuel Insull and a num- ber of his associates on trial in Chi- cago in a federal mail fraud case growing out of the collapse of the In- sull utilities, is Floyd E. Thompson (above). Fines On Monday Fail To Eliminate Shows On Snay MEMPHIS, Tenn., Oct. 5. -- (A) - Although state and city "blue laws" forbid, Memphis downtown theatres open regularly every Sunday. As regularly as every Monday comes, the managers of the theatres are fined $25 in city court. That seems to be all the police can do about it, for the county grand jury has repeatedW refused to indict any of the operators, and city court punishment is limited to fines. Most of the theatres give their Sunday proceeds to charity, hoping to create such a demand for Sabbath entertainment that it will result in the legislature doing away with prohibi- tory laws. Those operating for the benefit of charity insist that existing laws do not prohibit shows in the name of charity, a viewpoint contrary to that announced by City Attorney Walter Chandler. One of the operators, however, con- ducts his show on Sunday as a "movieteria" or "sandwich-movie." The patrons pay 40 or 50 cents for a sandwich and a cold drink in the cafeteria in the lobby and are ad- mitted to the pictures free of charge. The manager, who is testing the case in the courts, says the law does not prohibit shows where no admis- sion is charged. Board Of Appeals To MeetMonday The Ann Arbor board of apeals will meet Monday night to consider mat- ters relative to the building and zon- ing ordinance, officials announced late yesterday. Several complaints have been ru- mored of late, and the board is ex- Pectcd to make an investigation of them. A strict enforcement of the ordinance in the future is predicted by those in charge. It is possible the board may decide on a new time for meeting, individual members having found Monday nights at times inconvenient. The only other meeting next week, according to city hall officials, is one of the finance committee Wednesday for the purpose of preparing its re- port for the council meeting, Oct. 15. Estimates on this report were not released, and the context of the docu- ment will not be made known until after the committee meets. Seek Cross Section Of Business Attitude NEW YORK, Oct. 5- () --A cross- section of the business man's attitude and future relations of government to industry is to be sought by the na- tional association of manufacturers. Characterizing the move as the "first cross section of industry views on this vital point," the association mailed the first 5,000 questionnaires to large and small industrialists and through the co-operation of allied organizations, expect to receive be- tween 50,000 and 70,000 replies be- fore Nov. 15. Recommendations for legislation by Congress in January is the associa- tion's ultimate aim. "The replies received will be used as a guide to the committee in work- ing out a suggested policy for rela- tions between government and indus- try," it was stated by James W. Hook, chairman of the association commit- tee on future relations of government to industry, in a letter accompanying the questionnaire. "This plan in turn will be submitted to members of the national asscia- tions of manufacturers and affiliated and co-operating organizations for their final ratification." Advanced R.O.T.C. Corps Will Be Taught Riding The members of the advanced corps of the R.O.T.C. will be given an equi- tation lesson, Lieut.-Col. Fredrick C. Rogers, commandant of the unit an- nounced today. The instruction will be given under the direction of the Intramural staff, and plans have been made to pick the best horses from the three prominent stables in Ann Arbor. The lessons will be optional, a course of ten being given for $5. The fencing instruction, which proved very popular last year, will again be offered to the advanced corps members. N N U , w.,..,x., avia27 v.aaa , loans .to young farmers, and a guild of wood carvers. At Newport, Tenn., thrifty farmers organized to buy a bankrupt flour mill with the help of ttfe TVA. Mean- while, the TVAC agreed to advance Newport co-operative funds for a fertilizer and seed depot and a cold storage plant.I The loss of life, if any, was not known here. Telephone and telegraph wires were blown down and railroad tracks were washed out. 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