PAGE EIGHT THE MICHI(GAN DAILY THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1940 ----._ Prof. LaRue Describes Nature Of Expedition Tio Bolivian Wilds °I By EMILE GELE Before setting sail Sept. 27 for the jungles of Bolivia, Prof. Carl D. La- Rue of the botany department dis- patched a special message to The Daily explaining his commission to4 represent the Department of Agricul- ture in an expedition for rubber re-c search vital to American defenseI plans. "My mission is to act as chief of the fourth party sent out by the De- partment of Agriculture since July 1 when money was appropriated by Congress for a study of methods of3 establishing a plantation rubber in- dustry in the Western Hemisphere,"I Professor LaRue explained.t Professor LaRue will be joined at Panama by Dr. Karl Butler, a plantk disease expert, and they will proceedt to La Paz, Bolivia by way of Arica,1 Chile. At La Paz Bolivian agricul-, turists and accessory aides will be added to the expedition.} Widely recognized as an authority on rubber, Professor La Rue has de- voted much time to extensive study of "black" rubber which he believes to be superior to any rubber now in cultivation. Black rubber is finer in yield and quantity to the white rubber now cultivated in the Far East, but has never been tried out in plantations. The general purpose of the present expedition is to make a special at- tempt to bring black rubber into cul- tivation. Professor LaRue expressed three specific purposes of the expedition: first, to explore the rubber country with a view to determine the amount of wild rubbersupplies and land suitable for cultivation; second, to collect seeds, seedlings, and bud wood for propagation in Bolivia and the experimental stations of Central and South America.' The third purpose will be the selec- tion of a site for an experimental station and the negotiation of ar- rangements for establishing of such a station with the cooperation of the Bolivian government which has pro- mised all possible aid to the expedi- tion. Since 1920 Professor LaRue has been a member of the botany depart- ment and has conducted research on plant regeneration and tissue culture, and plant growth hormones. "The expedition will drop from the heights of the Andes to the low trop- cal regions to the east which are 'ot much above sea level in spite of hei' great distance inland," Pro- essor LaRue declared. "This region s the native home of the finest wild ubber in the world." "Travel in these regions is slow nd full of annoyances: heat, hu- nidity, sand flies, chiggers, ticks and aosquitos," he noted, "but not re- arded as especially dangerous by xperienced tropical travelers." 'Detroit Town I Haill To Open Schiaparelli Will Address First Series Meeting First in a series of speakers to be presented by the Detroit Town Hall will be Elsa Schiaparelli, European couturier, who will speak at the Fish- er Theatre, 11 a.m., Wednesday, Oct. 16, on "Clothes Make the Woman." A subsequent lecturerhwill be Or- son Welles, actor and director, to ap- pear Nov. 6. He will discuss "The New Actor." Pierre Van Paassen, author of "Days of Our Years" will speak on "The Crisis in Western Civilization" Oct. 23. Some of the other speakers will be McClelland Barclay, Ericka Mann, Gene Tun- ney, William Lyon Phelps and Leland Stowe. Finnish Society To Hold Meeting Suomi, student Finnish group on campus, will hold their first meeting of the semester 8 p.m. Oct. 12 at the International Center. An informal program of social dancing is planned according to the president of the organization, Bill Bielto, Grad. Other officers are Ken Repola, '43, vice-president and Aini M. Kantala, 43,' secretary-treasurer. Mrs. ,Belin To Speak . Before Women's Club The Democratic Women's Club of Washtenaw County will sponsor a talk by Mrs. Elizabeth Belin on the subject "How the Tax Dollar Is Spent" 8 p.m. Friday at the Mary Henderson Room in the League. Mrs. Belin is vice-chairman of the state central committee of the party. Russell To Harvard Post CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 2.-() -Bertrand Russell, English nhilos- opher whose views on social rela- tionships cost him an oppointnent at the City College of New York, be- gan teaching mathematical logic at Harvard University. UMM ASSOCIATED PRESS R Ecnlm NEWS V e This is one of the first pictures to reach America showing ex-King Carol of Rumania with Magda Lupescu since Carol abdicated under pressure from the Axis powers. The couple is shown leaving the hotel at Sitges, Spain, where they were reported to have stayed as they await- ed permission to enter Portugal after the flight from Bucharest. Marshall's ,Daiy 231 So. State Phone 5933 Prices Effective only Thursday, October 3, 1940 Pint RUBBING ALCOHOL 9c "Save at Marshall'" Pint MINERAL OIL "Lowest Possible Prices at Marshall's" s sl When Maxie Baer (above) flattened Pat Comiskey, 7 to 5 favorite in 2:39 of Round One at Jersey City, he broke a lot of Irish hearts, col- lected some $30,000 and put Maximilian Adelbert Baer back in the fight picture. All smiles is Mrs. Bertha Welter, of Elkhart, nd., for she was re- elected president of the World War Nurses during the national Amer- ican Legion Convention. Group discussed the old war, guards against a new one. His sympathy for Nazis brought reward to Vidkun Q'isling, a Nor- wegian. He's been designated sole political leader of German-domin- ated and ocupied Norway. The Books that were out are now completely restocked. New Shipments Daily. NEW and USED Detroit police charged Doris M. Laroue (above) with disorderly conduct and quoted her as admit- ting she threw a waste basket from a hotel window, fracturing the skull of Betty Wilson, 19, one of the crowd gathered to welcome Wendell Willkie. For All Colleges Back in 1865 that breech-loading Springfield .50 caliber pistol made a name for itself in the field of war, but the .45 caliber Colt below has a superior reputation for efficiency-in death. The automatic is the latest type gun used by the U.S. Army. Both are on exhibition at the small arms museum in Springfield. Massachusetts. . . . F L ALL STUDENT SUPPLIES 1 ro Col. Carl Spaatz, of Boyertown, Pa., was a member of a U.S. mili- tary mission lately returned front Britain. He's chief of the plans division of army air corps. 'I I BOOKSTORES - ~ :.: :.:: "---..::.:. :._ :"::.,....... -. :0,:.42...: >._ _,.. ....,.,::, : .::::..:.:........, ::::. :..:.._ :..:. b1F. S E{ a' ., . ::;.