TWO" THT9 MMIT!XN DIILY WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1939 Twa WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 30, 193~ British Airman To Deliver Two Speeches Here Featured By Theosophical Societies; Student Club Elects Officers Capt. Sidney Ransom, noted Brit- ish theosophist, will deliver two ad-. dresses here Friday in Natural Science Auditorium under the auspices of the Ann Arbor Theosophical Society and the Student Theosophical Club. The first lecture, "The Great Or- derly Plan," will be given at 4:15 p.m., and the second, "Theosophy, the Science of Life," at 8 p.m. According to Dr. Beunaventure Jimenez of the Medical School, presi- dent of the society, the general pub- lic is welcome. Captain Ransom, who served in the Royal Air Forces during the World War, has been connected with the International Theosophical Society for many years, Dr. Jiminez said. He has been an engineer in South Af- rica and a Liberal member of Parlia- ment as well as an editor for many years. The lectures are being sponsored in part by the Student Theosophical Club which recently reorganized, electing W. Allen Fisher, '37, as its president. Other officers are Judith Jimenez, '36, vice president; John Lisher, '39, secretary; and Liliane O. del Valle, '37, treasurer. The club has announced as its ob- jectives: "To foster brotherhood with- out distinction of race, creed, sex, caste or color; to encourage the study of comparative religion, philo- sophy and science; and to bring in- ternational speakers to promote these two objectives." Wonder If They've Heard About Dewey At Manila? -Associated Press Photo. The depression was just a rumor so far as it concerned Big Prairie, O. Only two families are without automobiles and every available adult has a job. The main street of the town of 200 is shown as it appeared on a Saturday afternoon. Vincent To Address' Engineers Tonight The second meeting of the year of the mechanical division of the stu- dent branch of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers will be held at 7:30 tonight in the Union. E. T. Vincent, chief engineer of the Diesel engine division of the Contin- ental Corp., will be the principal speaker. Mr. Vincent's talk, illustrat- CLASSIFIED DIRECTORY WANTED WANTED: Graduate couple who would like warm housekeeping apartment in private home near East U. and Greenwood Ave. $20 month to right party, including, heat, light, gas and phone. Ad- dress, P. O. Box, 123. 91 NOTICES TEACHER of popular and classical piano music. Helen Louise Barnes. Call 8469. 2x LOST AND FOUND OXFORD GREY SUIT COAT in Union recreation room, Saturday afternoon. Call Roldel, 6738. 90 FOUND: If you miss a bathtub, look in the back yard of the Student Publications Building. This is a large, four-legged affair. 89 LAUNDRY STUDENT HAND LAUNDRY: Prices reasornable. Free delivery. 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The differences in de- chanical and aeronautical engineer- sign and construction between gas ing and members of the faculty are and Diesel engines will be reviewed. invited to attend both the dinner and A dinner preceding the meeting will I the technical sessi6n. Noon Whistle Just One Detail Of University Fire Equipment Corn Husking Champs Await National Mee JI Nine Corn Belt Sta To Send Thousa Bangboard Battl ates Are nds For e ATTICA, Ind., Oct. 29.---(P) - America's ace corn huskers, starting at the firing of a pistol and shucking at high speed for 80 minutes, will compete for the national champion- ship here in Fountain County, In- diana, November 8. Preparations are being made to take care of many thousands of corn husking fans who will watch com- petitors from nine corn belt states. Thirty-five churches in the county will help feed the crowd. National guardsmen, state police and county officers, will supervise parking and traffic, while 330 farmers have been deputized to keep spectators the prop- er distance from the huskers. Six rows are allotted each contest- ant who is penalized three pounds of corn from his load for every pound he leaves in the field. Wagons with rubber tires, equipped with bang- boards of the same weight, are sup- plied each entrant. Farm periodicals of the midwest sponsor the contest. Men from South Dakota, Minne- sota, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Mis- souri, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio will come to this county on the banks of the Wabash to take part. Carl Seiler of Oneida, Ill., holds the. world's corn husking record. In 1932 at Galva, Ill., he husked 36.9 bushels in 80 minutes. Last year Ted Balke of Redwood County, Minnesota, won the national championship. The winner of first place, gets a prize of $100. Second and third place men also receive prizes. LOOK OUT, FUNNY MEN A warning of severe punishment to destructive Hallowe'en pranksters was issued by Chief of Police Lewis W. Fohey yesterday. Scout cars will be on duty to curb the destructive activities which have already begun and to watch for future offenders, he declared. SPECIAL SHOWING!I ART CINEMA LEAGUE presents "UNFINISHED SYMPHONY" Featuring FRANZ SHUBERT'S [MMORTAL MELODIES INTERPRETED BY Vienna Boys' Choir vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Gyula Horwath's Gypsy Band Martha Eggerth European Operatic Star Lydia MENDELSSOHN THEATRE Friday and Saturday November 1-2 at 8:00 Tickets 35c--A/ll seats reserved Also- TWO SHORT SUBJECTS At exactly 12 noon on Saturday nearly the whole town of Ann Arbor echoes and re-echoes from the whistle blasts of the University power plant. The immediate significance of these blasts is the official closing of the University for the week. A deeper significance, however, can be traced to the fact that the power plant's huge whistle is the front-line trench in the University's war against fire, and its weekly blasts are periodical reassurances to students and faculty members that every effort is being made to reduce fire hazards in the University buildings. Elaborate precautions, with the gi- gantic whistle as an integral part, have been developed in the event of a fire breaking out somewhere on the University's property. A test tube spills in a laboratory of the chemical engineering department, inflam- mable material ignites, and the room is soon filled with smoke and crack- ling flames. The laboratory assistant rushes to the phone and informs the operator at the University exchange of what has happened. The operator immediately pushes two buttons on the switchboard, and then proceeds to call the city fire department. One of the buttons starts an emergency pump in the basement of the West Engineering Building, which is capable of build- ing up in short order more than 150 pounds of pressure for the 50 hy- drants scattered around the campus. The other button connects with the power plant and sets off the whistle. If the fire is located east of campus, four short blasts, sound- ed close together, will be heard throughout the city. If the fire had started north of the campus, one blast would be sounded, and corre- sponding signals have been arranged for other points on or near the cam- pus. These blasts, while sounding a gen- eral alarm, also have the specific purpose of calling out all the fore- men of the various divisions of the Buildings and Grounds Departments. These men round up their assistants and rush to the scene of the fire. Having arrived, the men find an exhaustive array of equipment which can be used to put out the fire. The University possesses three reels of fire hose, each 600 feet long, located in strategic places on campus. There are 800 two and one half-gallon fire extinguishers for putting out general fires, and over 400 special- ized extinguishers for checking chem- ical, electrical, and oil fires. Edward C. Pardon, superintendent Football Is Lauded In Yost Radio Talk Fielding H. Yost, director of ath- letics, was interviewed on the ques- tion of athletics, by Prof. Waldo Ab- bot of the English department yes- terday in the third of the "Michigan, My Michigan" series over Station WJR from Morris Hall. The interview consisted of a group of questions pertaining to the de- velopment and the benefit of sports in the University and in the state and to Michigan's record in Big Ten football and other sports. Asked what sport he considered best in developing youth, Coach Yost replied that "as a game for those who like it I cannot see anything better than football." To the question of whether he thought the "old Michigan spirit" was dead, Yost replied that "if you think the Michigan spirit is dead or dormant, by all means attend the pep meeting next Friday night." of the Buildings and Grounds De- partment, directs all the Univer- sity's fire-fighting equipment. As- sisting him are Irving W. Truettner, inspector, and Walter M. Roth, en- gineer of the department. Two major factors are attributed by Mr. Truettner as underlying the efficiency of the University's fire pre- vention facilities. One is the "no smoking" ordinance, which has al- ways been rigidly enforced. The other is the constant inspection of the University buildings. Several trips nightly are made by the night watchmen, and once a year Mr. Treuttner conducts a special search of the buildings to discover and eliminate possible fire hazards. The last serious fire, Mr. Truett- ner reported, occurred more than 11 years ago, when a unit of Univer- sity Hospital burned down. Since then only minor outbreaks, such as the fire in one of the heating tunnels in September of this year, have oc- curred, and these have been checked before such damage had been caused, Mr. Truettner stated. Accident Kills Man And Hurts Three Others Tragedy Befalls Woman Who Has Suffered From Many Traffic Accidents The spectre of death in traffic ac- cidents, which has followed her for 20 years, yesterday left Mrs. Minnie Dietz, 55, and her mother, Mrs. Louise Letts, 80, both of 1012 Michigan Ave., in the Plymouth Sanitarium suffer- ing from serious injuries following an automobile collision in which one man died and two others were in- jured on Plymouth Road Monday. Stephen G. Tarpley, 36, Detroit, whose car collided with Mrs. Dietz', died instantly and Jesse Booker, 40, Plymouth, and Evelyn Prance, 26, De- troit, are in University Hospital with severe external injuries. Mrs. Dietz' first husband, Fred Brown, died in 1915 when his car crashed through a bridge railing at Whitmore Lake. Her second hus- band, Oswald Dietz, was killed when struck by an automobile on an Ann Arbor street in 1928. Only last Sunday Mrs. Dietz, while driving slowly in Detroit, struck a 13-year-old boy, police said, but did not severely injure him. It was after routine questioning about this inci- dent that Mrs. Dietz was struck by Tarpley's automobile. Uncle Sam Is Biggest Advice Giver In World Thousands Of Pamphlets Offered; Printing Office Largest On Earth WASHINGTON, Oct. 29. - OPf) - Uncle Sam is the biggest advice- giver in the world, donating and sell- ing to his citizens in a year some 60,000,000 publications offering guid- ance on 65,000 topics. These publications - pamphlets, leaflets, booklets, books - cover al- most every conceivable factual sub- ject, there being 65,000 kinds of them. The government printing office at its latest inventory had on hand for sale more than 3,500,000 copies and held an additional 15,000,000 for the vari- ous government departments, to be mailed out from time to time at their instructions. The office takes in about $650,000 a year in gross sales and the pamphlets it sends out, at fees of 5 cents or up, are only about one-fifth of the number sent out through the departments. The procedure generally is this: If a citizen wants information on an agricultural subject he can get it - frequently free - from the depart- ment of agriculture, or he may write direct to the printing office and re- ceive it for a small charge. Many requests for publications are cleared through members of Congress. Officials of the printing office say that not only are its operations the biggest by far on earth, but that its government library is perhaps the most comprehensive ever assembled. Now, 665,760 different publications are at hand - extendingsback to the time the government was founded - and to these are being added an av- erage of 37,000 new publications year- ly. Agriculture, which distributed 17,- 671,000 publications in the fiscal year recently ended, heads the depart- mental parade in giving out printed information. Its list of publications includes some 14,000, although most of these are not in the 'popular' class, and it requires a 113-page volume, printed in small type, merely to cata- log the available issues. c SSA 5AJ\ J'. yf} at'o£~ J2sic FOR SALE TANDEM bicycle in good condition for only $20. 617 Ashley. 83 PROFESSIONAL SERVICES MAC'S TAXI-4289. Try our effi- cient service. All new cabs. 3x Wa 4tches THE TIME SHOP 1121 S. 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