0, 4 P #'um mr ESTABLISHED 1920 Ifrbia il MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS I XI. NO. 33. FOUR PAGES ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1931 WEATHER: Warm, Thunder Showers PRICE FIVE CENTS GERM\NY IS CALM' AS BANKS REOPEN PUBICOPTIMISTIC Just an Ordinary Day,' Declare Bankers in Both Urban and Rural Areas. CONFIDENCE VICTORIOUS More Money Paid in Than Taken Out; Interest Rate Is Eight Percent. BERLIN, Aug. 5.--(P)-The opti- mists were right after all. In Berlin and in all banking cen- ters throughout Germany the first- day of the resumption of full bank- ing facilities was marked by extra- ordinary calm. Calamity-mongers until late last night had conjured up visions of wild crowds bursting through bank doors and surging to the counters. Nothing of that sort happened.1 Business Usual. "It was just like an ordinary day," many bank officials said, not only in Berlin but also in the prov- inces. The calmness of the public was taken as an indication that, de-1 spite clamor by the opposition tol the contrary, there still was con-1 fidence in the present government,1 especially in Chancellor Heinrich Bruening whose dmonitions to meet the situation with fortitude had a salutary effect.< Interests High. Everywhere more money wasE paid in than taken out, the incen- tive being the high rate of inter-I est, upwards of eight per cent on deposits, and banks found they had7 currency enough and to spare. Many bankers returned to the, Reichsbank large amounts they had held in reserve in expectation of a large demand.' New York Bankers Approve - Plan for German Credits NEW YORK, Aug. 5.-()- New York bankers agreed today upon a plan of making effective the Luther proposal for maintaining the vol- ume of outstanding foreign credits in Germany. The plan advanced by the New York bankers, how- ever, involves certain modifications of the proposals of Dr. Hans Luth- er, president of the Reichesbank. EURICH DESCRIBES MINNESOTA TESTS Tells Educators Students Keep Only One-Half Percent of Facts Memorized. "Students who possess the covet- ed Bachelor of Arts degree have only taken the requisite examina- tions and have attaind a certain standard," stated Prof. Alvin C. Eurich in the regular weekly con- ference of the school of education yesterday. "Some students have attained higher rank than others. A few have made Phi Beta Kappa or Sigma Xi. These few are singled out at commencement with such honors as magna cum laude or summa cum laude. The majority, however, graduate with out distinc- tion of any nature. Nevertheless, all the honor students as well as the average recipients of the de- grees are classed as college gradu- ates on a common level." Professor Eurich said it would be difficult to test the graduates for their retention of knowledge. "It would hardly be feasible," he said. "In order to obtain information as to the retention of knowledge it is necessary to test the student in particular subjects." Such a plan he stated, is employed at the Uni- versity of Minnesota. The plan as described by Profes- sor Eurich in operation at the Un- iversity of Minnesota covers cer- tain subjects. In the field of bot- any advanced students were given final examinations similar to the examinations they had taken in elementary courses. "The rating showed that after three months the students retained less than one half of one per cent of what they had learned," Eurich stated. Marquis of Reading Will WedSecretary- LONDON, Aug. 5.-(JP)- TheI Marquis of Reading, 70 years old, former Viceroy of India, and for 20 years an eminent figure in British politics and Miss Stella Charnaud, known as "the most remarkable woman in London," will be married tomorrow. The announcement of the en- gagement was made today. Miss Charnaud, who has served as his secretary for several years, is 37. "I am still going to be the per- fect private secretary," she said today. Her perfection has been com- mented on for years in the im- portant business and political1 circles. REPORTS ON WORLD CIACERSCONFRiCT Pang born, Herndon May Still Bec in Siberia; Radio Tellsd of Pacific Hop.a (By Associated Press) f Conflicting reports left in doubt i last night the whereabouts and i plans of Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon, Jr., American flyers who hopped off from New York July 28 i in an effort to set a world-circling5 speed record.V The Nome, Alaska, radio station i of the United States Signal corpst reported yesterday it had intercept-t ed from an unidentified Siberians wireless station a report that theb pair had hopped off from Khabo-r rovsk, Siberia, at 3 p. m. Monday,E Eastern Standard Time. The report was generally discre-r dited in aviation circles because it, conflicted with other advices. ' Rengo news agency dispatches int Tokio said Pangborn and Herndonf were still grounded at Khaborovsk, undecided whether to continue toI Nome in face of adverse weather. Their headquarters in New Yorks reported the aviators telegraphedt they had abandoned their attemptC to break the record of Wiley Post and Harold Gatty and decided to try a non-stop flight from Tokio to Seattle. Prof. Walter Limns f Methods of Bennett "Arnold Bennett, one of the most prolific writers of modern times, invented the phrase of living on twenty-four hours a day and did," said Prof. Erich A. Walter of the English department in a lecture at the Natural Science auditorium yes- terday. "A writer of short stories, poems, playwright, novelist and reviewer, his output was about 500,000 words a year and that was what Arnold Bennett considered the most effec- tive use of one's life," Professor Walter said. Arnold Bennett when beginning his novels had a main plot his chief characters, a few episodes that he intended to incorporate and the general field of the novel, Professor Walter explained but he never al- lowed his characters to dominate the creation. "Arnold Bennett pos- sessed a minute knowledge of hu- man character and the wonder of existence never grew stale for him and his romantic curiosity sent him adventuring into the human mind," Professor Walter continued. Bennett had the inordinary gift of seeing beauty andhtragedy in the tcommonplace and he believed that man's greatest achievement is the ability to be kind and that friend- ship was the least dispensable of man's needs, Professor Walter said. Meanwhile a $1,058.50 judgment -against the flyers was entered in Superior Court in Alameda county, California. NEWSBOY IMPROVED William Taylor, aged State a street newspaper vendor, who e was knocked down Tuesday aft- i ernoon by shock when a bolt of g lightning struck a tree on the e campus, left St. Joseph's Mercy - hospital yesterday in improved y condition. REPERTORY PLAYERS GIVE PLEASING PRODUCTION OF SATIRICAL COMEDY LINOIPEfGSREACH t b ti Complete Thousand Mile Flight n Over Treacherous Land P of Northwest.P ' p ALASKA IS NEXT STOP re w Blocking of Supply Ship in Ice t May Prevent Landing at c Point Barrow. a w AKLAVIK, Northwest Territory, P Aug. 5.-(YP)-Canada's "metropolis of the Arctic" was host today to c Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh se as they rested here on their aerial F: vacation jaunt to the Orient. M Colonel Lindbergh set his glisten- te ing low wing monoplane on the v calm waters of Peel canal, in the fo delta of the Great Mackenzie river, g at 6:05 a. m. Eastern Standard in Time, after an overnight 1,100-mile t flight from Baker lake over some of p the most treacherous and uninhab- o ited country on the continent. a Cutter Delayed. t The next point on the Lindbergh te itinerary is Point Barrow, Alaska, d: 536 miles west and north, but there i was some question whether the fly- er ing vacationers would stop there as si the United States coast guard cut- t ter Northland, carrying a gasoline in supply for their plane, was blocked s by fogs and the Arctic icepacks T near Icy Cape, 150 miles beyond o Barrow. f Aklavik's entire population, the natives and traders from many ti miles around, were waiting on the a muddy banks of the channel when A the Lindberghs came into sight a from the east. w The flight from Baker lake took v eleven and a half hours. The ti Lindberghs had flown through the short Arctic night in a land where the sun at this season drops out of sight for only a few hours. Are Inside Circle. Aklavik is 130 miles inside the Arctic circle. The most northerly point on the flight itinerary is J Point Barrow, northernmost tip of 0 Alaska, like Aklavik, a trading post C for a wide a rea. h The Lindberghs' flight from Bak- 1 er lake, on Hudson's bay, was the t longest ever made over the lake- G dotted tundra country of northern 6 Canada. Arrival at Aklavik marked the n completion of 3,000 miles of their h journey. C F BLAES DEVASTaE FORESTS__IN IDAHOb F IC Eighteen Families Forced Fromt Homes by Huge Fires in Dry Timber., SPOKANE, Wash., Aug. 5.-(P)-s Flames were sweeping the Priestr river valley of north Idaho todya, after 18 families barely had es- caped death in the fire-torndarea. The valley was the main battle- front for 2,500 men fighting more than ,200 fires in the northwest. Women, exhausted by flight< from the flames which destroyedI their homes and property, werea billeted with their children in the Odd Fellows hall at Priest River,I Idaho. Citizens of Newport, Wash., and other towns sent food and clothing to the fugitives. A thousand fighters were work- ing desperately to drive livestock out of the territory in the blaze's path. Winds kept all the northwest's major fires in rich timber. Char- red trees were blocking almost all roads under the smothering cov- er of smoke in Priest river valley. Communication from the fire fronts to the outside world was haphazard. The Associated Press report to north Idaho newspapers was being transmitted on a fire- fighter's telephone line, because the regular lines were burned down. The Moscow Star-Mirror, Sand- point Bulletin and Wallace Press Times were served in this way. A Review. The Kauffman and.Connolly ex- avaganza, "The Beggar on Horse- ack," is still a fairly entertaining ream of jolly derision with a pel- t of caustic nonsense for nearly very American in the audience. nd Mr. Windt still does this play uite well; not so well as last Ime; but well enough to keep ast ight's Americans laughing. The lay will continue to be a good layable play until America so im- roves that it can indignantly and )nvincingly deny that this broad, eckless satire hastanything to do ith America. Mr. Windt can con- mue to play it well since very (early he hasicaught and can the- trically realize the play's pace- hich is the principal source of the lay's force. The present production somewhat ollapses (if you happen to have en another production) about Mr. itzgerald's incompetence as Neil. fr. Fitzgerald hasn't either the chnical security or the technical ariety to make Neil an adequate cus for all the dream scenes. I rant there is nothing in the writ- g to help him. But that is why he part is difficult. The person laying Neil has to depend solely n himself (as a person of presence nd sensitive reaction) to give us he sense that the person all these rrible people are shouting and ancing about is a person of some _ mportance. Mr. Fitzgerald's pres- ice and capacity for revealing sen- tive reactions are so negligible hat last night, the principal mean- ig of the play was merely that houting and dancing are awful. hat isn't quite the whole meaning f the play. But it's quite enough or an evenings entertainment. E The Cady family-which the au- hors have written very Hogarthi- nly about-were done quite well. 11 mob scenes are done with good nimation. The first set is some- hat inexcusable; it nearly pre- i ents that first scene from having he very vivid reality it should have.A W.J.G.P 4. J. Murphy, Detroit p Judge,_Shoots Selft DETROIT, Aug. 5.-(P)-CircuitI udge Alfred J. Murphy, presidentt f the Federal Bond and Mortgage o. since 1922, shot himself at hist ome at 1501 Seminole Ave. short-t y after 8 a. m. today and died wo and.half hours later in Charlesc .odwin Jennings hospital. He wasr 3 years old. In a note addressed to the coro- . ier, Judge Murphy indicated that1 ie had taken his own life because f worry over the affairs of the Federa 1 Bond and Mortgage Co., which have been the subject of a one-man grand jury investigation t Lansing for the past two months. In his note the judge said he had been stunned by the revelations of onditions in the firm, and had been in ill-health ever since last, winter. "Six months of sleepless nights and worried days have sapped my strength and left me useless," he wrote. "I can see no future for me." DO-X Reaches Brazil After Pacific Jump BAHIA, Brazil, Aug. 5.-(P)-The German flying boat DO-X arrived here this afternoon at 4:10 o'clock, ending the first day of its flight from Rio de Janeiro to the United States. The ship, which is on its way to New York 'with ten passengers, landed earlier in the day at Cara- vellas. She is making the trip under the command of Lieut. Clarence H. Schildhauer, U. S. N. There are two women aboard, Mrs. Clara Adams, an American, and Frau R. Claus- brook, wife of one of the German pilots. Hultin Gives Speech to Socialist Group "Surplus value of laborers is the cause of all the trouble be- tween the capitalist and work- ing classes of society and that is because labor is but only al commodity," said Mr. Edwin G. Hultin of the Proletarian party speaking to the Michigan Soc- ialist club at the Michigan Un-R ion yesterday. Surplus value, Mr. Hultin ex- plained is the difference between what it cqsts to produce the commodity labor power the av- F erage price for which it sells in the market and what it the labor power can produce in value. "To improve the tools of pro- S duction has been the historic mission of the capitalist system of society and to reduce the cost of production more than a mil- lion and half of children are _ employed in American indus- in try," Mr. Hultin said. "Produc- c tion has become so efficient that d last year 300,000 tons of grapes 4 were destroyed in California to- f gether with one third of the peach crop, this year they have d been dumping coffee into the t sea in Brazil," he said.m "Socialism is the substitution e of the golden rule in the affairs b of society instead of the rule of gold under capitalism." Mr. Hut- a lin concluded. b e w U., S. WITNHRAAL U FROM HITI BEGINS m] American Minister Gives Native b Government Supervision si of Treaties, a: T PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, Aug. 5. o -(IP)-The first important step f( eading toward the withdrawal of t American occupation of Haiti took Y place at noon today when Dr. Dana G. Munro, American minister, and e Abel Leger, Haitian foreign minis- h ter, signed an agreement transfer- s ing the treaty departments of the m Haitian government, now operated W by Americans, to Haitian control. The transfer is to become effec- wl tive October 1, at the beginning of the fiscal year. The departments affected, a statement by the Ameri-S can minister said, are the depart- ment of public works, the technical s service of agriculture and indus- trial education and the public health service. C The agreement provides for thed abrogation of the accord of Aug-a ust 24, 1918, which obligated the government of Haiti to communi-a cate all proposed laws bearing upon objects of the treaty of 1915 to theY representative of the United States before presenting them to the legis-a lature, and also the accord of De- cember 3, 1918, requiring the visa of the financial adviser on orders of payment issued by the Haitian secretary of state for finance. TROOPESO ENORCE GOVERNOR'S ORDE Oklahoma Oil Wells Shut off tot Prevent Further Decrease z in Product's Price. OKLAHOMA CITY, Aug. 5.-Gov. William H. "Alfalfa Bill" Murrayt has carried out a threat to shut down Oklahoma oil wells under martial law in an effort to increase prices for crude oil, He named the "supreme executive power of the state" as his authority. National Guardsmen, called out late Tuesday, invaded the giant Oklahoma City oil field without appreciable opposition and headed new objectives. The governor's or- ders are to close all of the state's 3,106 wells that have a daily aver- age production of 25 barrels or more. The troops, under Adj. Gen. Charles F. Barrett and newly-com- missioned Lieut. Col. Cicero I. Mur- ray, the governor's cousin, prepar- ed to go to the Greater Seminole area today. THOUSANDS DEAD IS HUGE FLOODS NUNDATE CHINA Reports Indicate Fifty Millions Are Hit by Disaster. ?AMINE, DISEASE SPREADRAPIDLY ixteen Provinces Are Hurt as Rivers Overflow. HANKOW, China, Aug. 5.0) -Floods rolled over sixteen prov- ices of China today, and un- ounted thousands were reported rowned; hundreds of thousands ere homeless, threatened by amine and disease. All central China sent stories of istress and appeals for aid. Fif- y million people, the govern- ent's relief committee estimat- d, were affected, or soon would e, by the catastrophe. China's great rivers, the Yangtse nd the Yellow, fed by swollen tri- utaries after torrential rains, ov- rflowed their banks and inundated ide expanses of country. Dead Remain Unburied. Many cities wee flood-swept. nabl to bury their dead in sub- ierged cemeteries, the Chinese al- wed bodies to float down the trea: es. No ta'ly of victims was possible, ut the Chinese press reported se;oral thousand" drowned in the s er cities of Hangkow, Wuchang, nd Hanyang and thei environs. h. se cities, with total population f 1,300,000 including 1,200 white aregners, were partly under wa- er and fighting to keep back the angtse and Han rivers which were ouring through broken dikes. Nearly all of H1ant kow was flood- d, but 200,000 iefugees fled to the igher places, and others were warming daily to railway embank- ents -.nd highways to join them. With p stilential conditions in ref- gee camps, it was feared disease vould strike heavily. New Heights Reached. Nev r in modern tImes has the .angtse reached such heights. hipping was unable to proceed up- tream and car goes could not be anded at docks. Rains had ceased in the Yangtse alley today, and a hot sun beat down, adding to the disease haz- nrd. Melting snow from the tow- ring Himalayas was expected to add to the flood waters. In the north, the old bed of the Yellow river, waterless for 65 years, was. filled with a devastating tor- rent which was believed to have drowned scores in Kiangfu prov- ince, Business Men Urge Body for Slump Aid WA HINGTON, Aug. 5 - (-w) - Some sot of national council or planning board to promote contin- uity in business and employment is favored by business men who have replied to a questionnaire sent out by a national chamber of commerce committee headed by Henry I. Har- rison of Boston. ThC questionnaire, asking if it were considered feasible to set up some permanent body to combat the result of business depression, was sent to 200 presidents of trade associations over the country. Henry P. Fouler, secretary of the committee, said today that about 50 replies had been received and that the great majority were favor- able to some sort of permanent planning board, although they va- ried widely in their view of the scope of the proposed organization. Among the questions asked were Should it be authorized by congress as a purely governmental agency; as a joint effort of government and business; or established and oper- ated by business men without con- gressional authority? Fouler said the replies to the questionnaire would go to the Har- riman committee at a meeting early in September. , BASEBALL SCORES American League Detroit 11, Cleveland 8. Boston 5, 1, New York 1, 4. (Only games scheduled). National League Boston 6, Phillies 3. Chicago 3, Cincinnati 2. St. Louis 4, 16, Pittsburgh 5, 2. (1st game twelve innings).