TH tSDAN. JUTfY 30, 1931 T88 SUMMER MICWGAN DAILY lh 11 THUrvfl .aYJULY.3.193 _ ESUMUR M .. d .iLYPM I I RALRAS ANED WAGE REDUCTIONS WILL BE__OPPOSED Pressure of Depression Should Not Be Used as Excuse for Lower Standard, Claim. RAIL LABOR ORGANIED Appeal for Increase in Freight Rates Referred to Interstate Commerce Commission. WASHINGTON, July 29.-(P)-A warning that organized railroad labor would resist to the utmost all efforts to reduce wages was issued late Tuesday as the administrative reaffirmed its policy of opposition to a lower wage scale. The Railway Labor Executives association declared in a statement that agreements existed between representatives of employers and employes and the government "not to permit the pressure of a busi- ness depression to be used as the excuse for breaking down the American standard of living." The statement was made in con- nection with the application of the railroads for a 15 per cent increase in freight rates in order to meet exigencies occasioned by reduced revenues during the depressed eco- nomic situation. The railroad labor executives said the petition of the railroads should be considered by the interstate commerce commis- sion on its merits. Advice Not Lacking. "The commission will not lack in-v formation, advice and assistance int determining whether railroad rev-@ enues can be, and ought to be in- creased through freight rates," thep statement said. "We are in favor of increases in instances where ther facts disclose that such increasesc are justifiable." "Unfortunately," it added, "the iuestion of the reasonableness of railway wages has been injected into the pending proceeding, firstI through its discussion in the rail- road petition, and then through ob- jections to the rate increase offer- ed by various protestants claiming that instead of increasing freight rates the roads should reduce wages. The injection of this issue into the rate hearing is unwar- ranted." The labor executives added that railroad wages were not high and that several hundred thousand rail- way men had been out of work for more than a year and others had been employed only part time. The nation-wide depression, they ex- plained, had been caused "by low wages, the excessive profits of the few and the underpayment of the many." Two Days of Debate. The statement was issued after two days of debate and almost sim-3 ultaneously with the restatement of the administration's views on the wage situation. After the cabinet met with Presi- dent Hoover, the White House re- leased a statement declaring: "No member of the administra- tion has expressed the view or holds the view that the policy of the administration in advocating maintenance of wages should be changed. It has not been chang- It referred to the discussion of a letter written by Secretary Lamont to Representative Condon, Demo- crat, Rhode Island, which said some industries had been forced to reduce wages or shut down and that the government should not in- terfere in such cases. Condon has called the commerce department chief's attention to a wage slash in the textile industry in his state. Sports Woman Youthful Trainer PLANE PROGRESSES WITH MAP SURVEY IN UPPER MICHIGAN Robot Eye Replaces Mathematician in Solving Difficult Problems at University of Arizona Federal and State Departments Clyde Beatty, Youthful animal trainer, who will appear with a display of more than 30 Bengal and Siberian ti- gers and African lions when the Hagenbeck - Wallace circus plays here next Monday. No other Amer- ican trainer has appeared with so many ferocious beasts, circus offi- cials say. OIL WAR STILL ON; Combine in Photographing Two Counties by Air. OTHER AREAS CHECKED Lack of Funds Blocks Continued Topographic Mapping for Lower Peninsula. (Special to The Daily) LANSING, July 29.-Two addi- tional upper peninsula counties, Marquette and Dickinson, are being photographed from the air this summer by the United States Geo- logical survey and the Michigan Highway and Conservation depart- ments. The photographs will be used to form base maps on a two inches to one mile scale. Early this sum- mer the army airplane used to take the photographs completed Delta county with the photographing of about 800 square miles, finishing, Work started last year. The plane is now working over Marquette, county and will begin Dickinson as; soon as that area is completed. Ground Crew Checking. While photographing is in prog- ress in Marquette and Dickinson counties, a ground crew is checking over the area photographed last year in Mackinac, Schoolcraft and parts of Delta. Using preliminary maps made from the photographs' the ground crew is making accurate identifications, and is sketching out parts missed by photographs such as borders of swamps and parts of' small streams hidden by forest growths. When the checking is finished the final maps will be pre- pared and printed. It is expected that the first of these maps will be ready for public distribution in a few weeks. Each of the maps will cover about 205 square miles and will be the most accurate maps of these areas ever made. Gogebic County Mapped. About 465 square miles of Gogebic county have been photographed by private interests. Inspection of the photographs has shown them to be very satisfactory for mapping purposes and the state and feder- al governments, by contributing a small part of the cost will be able to obtain these pictures for public use. The area represents about half of Gogebic county. Because of lack of funds no topo- graphic mapping is being done in the lower peninsula this season. It is planned to complete airplane ,mapping of the upper peninsula and then begin work south of the Straits of Mackinac. The western portions of the counties along the west side of the state have been completed. Eventually the entire state north of a line drawn from Midland and Mt. Pleasant and Mus- kegon will be photographed and mapped. Combination of Mirrors, Lenses Works Complex Examples in Few Minutes. TUSCON, Ariz., July 29.-(IP)- University of Arizona has a robot mathematician eye that solves in a few minutes problems over which a mathematician would labor for hours. The eye is a combination of mir- rors and lenses. Its problems are solved by placing them in a beam of light, which reflects them to a scale where the result can be read. These problems are not tables of figures, but the familiar mathe- BUILDING OF PRISON, AWAITED AT MILAN matical symbol known as a graph, or "curve," a plotted line repre- senting such things as the fuel con- sumption rate of an automobile en- gine, or the average distance to 1,000 stars. Especially adept is the eye at discovering in these curves any hidden rhythmic cycles, periods of time when the same phenomenon recurs regularly. Examples are the sunspots cycles or rainfall cycles in a period of 50 years. The eye discloses these cycles readily, whereas the mathematical method reguires working them out by the system of "least squares." The eye was invented by an as- tronomer, Dr. A. E. Douglass, di- rector of Steward observatory, to save himself the tedious compu- tations. It is too large for his obser- vatory space, and he keeps it in the basement of the University Athletic building. He traces the "curve" on a piece of Manila paper about a yard long and then cuts it out with scissors. This gives him a piece of paper whose top edge is a wavy line. The edge is set across the beam of light. The amount of light passing from the beam to the calculator varies according to the shape of the curve. Site for Federal Farm Takes 198-Acre Tract Adjoining Village on North. in MILAN, Mich., July 29.-(i)- Residents of this village today were awaiting official word from Wash- ington as to when work will start on a federal prison farm, which, announcement from Washington said, will be established near here. The site selected, according to dispatches from Washington Tues- day comprises 198 acres, adjoining Milan on the north. It lies along Highway US-23 and has frontage on the Wabash railroad. It is 411 miles from Detroit and 35 miles from Toledo. A. G. Forsythe of Milan, agent for the land owners, said Milan officials had agreed to extend wa- ter mains to serve buildings on the ,new farm. He said the site was one of 150 offered the government in this general vicinity. 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Instruction on finding material, organizing notes, preparing tables, and preparing bibliographies is in- cluded in the manual, which also gives many suggestions to aid in the writing of the reports. A check list to be used by students as an in- ventory of the form of their papers is also given. The check list is in- tended to help students discover deficiencies in their reports before they are submitted to the instruct- or. "Advanced students in education will be expected to follow the in- structions in the manual in the preparation of reports," Dean Ed- monson said yesterday. Murray Threatens Shutdown Oklahoma If Crude Price Continues Low. in OKLAHOMA CITY, July 29.--('P) -A period of watchful waiting, with Saturday night the zero hour, was in store for producers of Oklahoma crude oil today, while major pur- chasers guardedly viewed latest proceedings in the embattled Mid- continent area. The price of oil at the well, now, 40 to 50 cents a barrel after a recent climb from a low of 10 cents must be $1 a barrel or a complete shutdown on all but stripper wells will be ordered, Gov. W. H. Mur- ray declared Tuesday. What is more the governor threatened that if the oil producers do not swing into line peaceably with the proposed shutdown of wells martial law will be declared in the fields to enforce the order. Murray used National Guardsmen over the week-end to hold Red River bridge approaches near Du- rant, Okla., in a dispute with Texas authorities. 0. D. MORRILL 314 South State St. Phone 6615 - %~i. TRY THE DELICIOUS HOME COOKED FOOD at the Haunted Tavern 417 EAST HURON ST. 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