ESTABLISHED 1920 ,I P 'ummr r iJEtirhiga n il MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS I I VOL. XI. NO 34. FOUR PAGES ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 1931. WEATHER: Warm, Thunder Showers PRICE FIVE CENTS I _ - - - I.I _ NEW CORPOR ATION RAIOM11 191S HERE 1SOON Local Business Men Forecast Improvement in City's Job Situation. WORKERS TO REGISTER Employment Exchange Proposes to Distribute Positions Among Needy. With the announcement that a midget radio receiver, capable of both long and short wave reception, is soon to be manufactured here by the International Radio corpor- ation, a new Ann Arbor enterprise, some change for the better in re- gard to the local employment situ- ation was forecast by leading busi- ness men of the city. Not Hiring Now. Although employees are not at present being hired by the com- pany, it was announced that a date of registration for all trained radio workers would be released soon and that the corporation would at- tempt to cooperate to the fullest extent with Mayor Wirk W. New- kirk's unemployment exchange which will carefully check all ap- plications in the endeavor to dis- tribute the positions opened among as many families as possible. The new corporation, headed by Charles A. Verschoor, of Ann Ar- bor, as president and listing as vice president Earl Cress, of Brown and Cress, local investment bankers and as treasurer J. C. Fritz, vice presi- dent of the Ann Arbor Savings bank, is capitalized at $50,000. It will occupy part of the four story brick building at the corner of Fourth and Williams streets, the quarters of the old Arborphone Radio company. As the corporation expands, it is expected to utilize the entire building and to add certain structural improvements. Uses Latest Principles. The new receiver, which incor- porates all the latest principles of radio engineering design, obviates the necessity for intricate tuning either in change from high to low wave length operation or in the regular selection of stations within the standard and low wave series. A farseeing policy also provides for connection with future television equipment which may be offered to the radio owners. ELECTRICITY SEEN ASCIVILIATION AID Bailey Maintains It Has Been Potent Factor in Growth of Modern Life. "Electricity has been a potent civ- ilizing factor only for the last fifty years, and in this period its con- tributions to modern life have been little short of marvelous," declared Prof. Benjamin F. Bailey, of the electrical engineering department, in an illustrated lecture yesterday. Professor Bailey, one of the pion- eers in the electrical field for the last thirty-one years, said the reason progress of inventions in ancient times was slow was that there was little reward for the in- ventor in those days. He attribut- ed the modern growth of invention to the fact that "men devoted to research are rewarded for doing the thing they most like to do." "One of the most unexpected uses of electricity," Professor Bailey said, "is in electrical ship propulsion in ocean liners. Some of them have as large a generating plant as the cities of Grand Rapids ,or Indian- apolis. "How immeasurably small must have been the power that a radio rciving set in Australia received from a seven and one-half wat transmitter in Ann Arbor when we Sealize that this power was dis- persed into space equally in al possible directions. That is why transmission of power by radio i not feasible at the present time," Professor Bailey declared. DO-X in Brazil; Will Fly to United States Assooated Press Photo The mammoth passenger plane DO-X, shown above, arrived at Bahia, Brazil, Wednesday after a flight from Rio de Janeiro. It had previously crossed the Atlantic with ten passengers, under the com- mand of Lieut. Clarence H. Schildhauer, U. S. N., and is on its way to the United States. DETROIT AVIATORS FLY TO GREENLAND ON WAY TO EUROPE Cramer, Paquette Mapping Way to Denmark Along Great Circle Route. ICELAND IS NEXT STOP Survey Being Made for Airline Corporation in Cleveland; Relief Planes Ready. COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Aug. 6. -(iP)-Unheralded and without benefit of fanfare, Parker Cramer, American aviator rested in Ang- magsalik, Greenland, today after a flight from Detroit. Dispatches from Greenland said he landed at the southern tip of the island Wednesday and would con- tinue on to Copenhagen after a brief survey of the terrain, to map a trans-Arctic air route from Amer- ica to Europe. The Exchange Tele- gram agency said he had flown across the north Atlantic from Can- ada. Cramer is understood to have de- posited $1,000 with the Danish gov- ernment to be used for the relief of his expedition in case of emer- gency and to have obtained permis- sion to land. A supply of gasoline Edison Expects 10 More Years of Life WEST ORANGE, N.J., Aug. 6.- (IP)-Buoyed up by the continued improvement in his condition, Thomas A. Edison predicted to- day that he would live 10 more years-long enough to celebrate his 94th birthday. Mr. Edison told his physician Dr. Hubert S. Howe, he based his estimate on a theory that, if a person lived to be 72, he would live 10 years longer, and that, if he passed the 82 mark, he would have still another decade of life. Edison cited John D. Rocke- feller as an example of his the- ory. Dr. Howe said today Mr. Edi- son was stronger than at any time since his return from Flor- ida eight weeks ago. He added that Edison had demonstrated more vitality and "come-back" than most younger men under similar conditions. FLYERSWill TRY TO CROSS PAIFI Herndon, Pangborn to Compete With Two Other Aviators for $25,000 Prize. TOKIO, Aug. 6.-(P)-Losers in an attempt to break the record for an airplane journey around the world, Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon, Jr., American flyers, an- nounced their intention, today to compete with two other Americans in an effort to make the first non- stop flight across the Pacific. A prize of $25,000 was offered by a Japanese newspaper. The other competitors are Don Moyle and C. A. Allen, California pilots, who arrived here by steam- ship. They planned to use the monoplane "City of Tacoma" in which Harold Bromley and Harold Gatty failed last year, and Thomas Ash, Jr., failed this year in similar attempts. No date has been set for the flight of 4,500 miles over water from Japan to Seattle. The shortest air route lies past the volcanic Kurile Islands of Japan, over the foggy, stormy, north Pacific ocean in a great circle that crosses the Aleu- tian Islands of Alaska. Pangborn and Herndon arrived :e e at 6:16 p.m. (4:16 a.m. Ann Arbor Time) today after a 950 mile flight from Khaborovsk, Siberia. There they had given up their at- tempt to beat the record around the world of 8 days, 16 hours, and 51 minutes, established early last month by Wiley Post and Harold Gatty. A wing damaged in landing August 3 and bad weather ahead made further efforts to lower the record futile, for the plane was al- -eady many hours behind sched- ule after having traveled 9,250 miles from New York. Lindberghs Held at Aklavik by Cold Winds, Fog, and Rain AKLAVIK, N. W. T., Aug. 6.-(4P) -Cold winds, fog and rain rip- ped up the waters of Peel channel in the delta of the Mackenzie river (oday, holding Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh and his wife in this far northern trading post. They had planned to leave today for Point 3arrow, Alaska, 536 miles north ind west. Colonel Lindbergh an- nounced this afternoon he would not take off from here until Friday unless the weather shows immedi- ite improvement. The storm came up soon after they landed yesterday, preventing radio communication to the south or 16 hours. Meanwhile the Lind- berghs were given an opportunity t'urther to explore this "metropolis >f the Arctic" where the pictur- esque figures of fur traders and rappers, Eskimos and Indians, and nounted policemen mingle. The t visited several of the Eskimo homes While the aviators planned t I 7o on to Point Barrow, they wil t not find the fuel supply there whict e they had expected the United State - Coast Guard Cutter Northlan 1 would bring. The vessel was pre- y vented by the ice pack from reach s ing the little settlement and if of Icy Cape, some 150 miles south an west. 'SCOTTISH AVIATOR I SETS NEW RECORDi Mollison Cuts Two Days From Australia to England Flight Time. CROYDON, England, Aug. 6.-(P) --A young Scottish airman, James A. Mollson, landed at Croydon air- drome tonight after having cut by. more than two days the Australia to England record. His time from Wyndham, Aus- tralia, to Pervensey bay, Sussex, where he first touched English soil, was officially given as 8 days, 21 hours 25 minutes. This compares with the previous record, made by C.W.A. Scott, of 10 days, 23 hours. Mollson's flight was one of the most grueling in the history of long distance aviation. Through- out it he averaged only two hours' sleep a night, and then, thoroughly worn out, he had to face extremely bad weather in the first stage from Rome to England. FINAL TERM PARTY Students, Faculty Members to Be Guests at Annual Summer Session Dance Tonight. The annual League party of the Summer Session will be held to- night in the Women's League build- ing under the direction of Kather- ine O'Hearn, president of the League and generral chairman of arrangements for the affair. All faculty and students of the Uni- versity are invited to be guests. There will be a reception committee to introduce guests to one another in the Grand Rapids room. Dancing will be in the ballroom from 9 to 1 o'clock, admission for which may be secured by the men presenting treasurer's receipts at a table in the concourse on the second floor. At 9:30 a bridge party will be- held in the dining room of theY building, for which prizes are to be given, one lady's and one gentle- men's prize. Lena Brammer as- sisted by Elizabeth Landress, Helen Swineford, and Gladys Baker are to be in charge of this part of the entertainment. Chaperones and committees for+ the party as announced yesterday+ by Miss O'Hearn include: chape- rones, Dean Edward H. Kraus and Mrs. Kraus, Ethel McCormick, Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Wells, Janice Gil- lette, social chairman; and the re- ception committee to assist Miss Gillitte, Prof, J. R. Sharman and Mrs. Sharman, Dorothy Brown, Bet- ty Campbell, Alice McCully, Enid Bush, Dorothy Wilbur, Virginia Mc- Manus, Mariam Cartright, Mary Boyles, Mary McClure, Dorothy Peterson, ane Brooks, Thomas Tan- dy, Donna McCaughna, Harmon Jones, Carl Marty, Neil Warren, Harmon Wolfe, Anthony Pearson, Kenneth Mahl, Harrison Taylor, George Hummel, John Neal, and Reed Orr. Hobbs Is Advocate s of Cramer's Route B t Prof. William H. Hobbs, headt of the geology department andR perhaps the outstanding author- ity on the Greenland ice cap, yesterday reiterated his state- l ment of long standing that the route over the great circle, takenA by Parker Cramermand Oliver Paquette, is the most feasible air route to Europe, despite the fact that it touches the Arctic 1 regions. He pointed out speciallyq that the flight over the Green-d land cap minimizes the danger c of fog, the major obstacle of mostA Atlantic flights. This flight is the fourth thatt has been made over the ice capr and the longest, Professor Hobbsr declared, the distance traversedr by Cramer and Paquette overa Greenland to get to Angmagsalik having been roughmly about 350 miles. Admiral Byrd made the first flight over the cap in 1925, traveling about 40 miles, while two flights were made this year in the search for the missing observer, Courtauld. One of these was made by the British air route party under Colonel Watkins and the second by Capt. Albin Ahrenberg, of Sweden. Professor Hobb's party, sta- tioned at Mt. Evans on the west coast of Greenland, rescued1 Cramer and Bert Hassel when the two flyers cracked up in the City of Rockford in 1928. The1 Michigan faculty man was also consulted in connection with the attempt made by Cramer, Robert Gast, and Robert Wood to fly from Chicago to Berlin in the1 Chicago Tribune plane, the Un- tin' Bowler, in 1929. recently was cached at Angmagsalik for use of his survey., CLEVELAND, Aug. 6.--()- Of- ficials of Transamerican Airlines corporation today confirmed re- ports of the charting of a new trans-Atlantic airmail route, in the course of which Parker D. "Shorty" Cramer landed his Diesel-powered monoplane Wednesday at Angmag- salik, Greenland, after crossing the Greenland ice cap. Oliver L. Paquette, radio oper- ator with Cramer, who was loaned by the Canadian government radio service, kept in communication with the Transamerican officials during the flight. COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Aug. 6. -(P)--Shortly before the news of Cramer's departure from Green- land, the Governor of Greenland received the first official informa- tion of Cramer's arrival at Angma- gsalik. The information was coupl- ed with a statement that he pro- posed to start for Iceland. HER MYMINSTERSa Bruening, Curtius Will Complete b Long Trip to Pay Visit to Mussolini. t c (See Story on Page Three) h ROME, Aug. 6.-(P)-The thou- ' and-mile dash of Chancellor c 3ruening and Foreign Minister Curtius for a two-day "visit of cour-a esy" to Premier Mussolini at ae ime when their own internal af-f airs are in grave state will be con-_ luded tomorrow. Italian government circles frank- y hoped for big possibilities fromf his renewal of close relations with Italy's pre-war allies. However, he word "alliance" is scoffed at. 1 Officially the Germans are com- ng to thank Mussolini for his quick acceptance of the Hoover warl debt plan, and for a general dis- cussion of European problems. Unofficially it is declared that; Mussolini's conviction that some- thing must be done to put things right in the world and his deter- mination to have Italy play a good role are certain to result in the ex- amination of the tangible solutions. HEALTH INSTITUTE IN FINLSESSIONS: Discussions for Latest Meetings of Public Health Workers Are Arranged. The last Public Health Institute of the Summer Session will begin today at the West Medical building at 9 o'clock. Sally L. Jean, Health Education consultant of the Metro- politan Life Insurance company, will discuss the "Report of the Health Section of the World Feder- ation of Education Associations." "The Interests and Activities of the White House Conference on Child Health and Protection" will be the subject of Dr. F. J. Kelly at 10 o'clock. Maud E. Watson, di- rector of Child Guidance division of the Children's fund of Michigan, will speak on the "Newer Impli- cations of Mental Hygiene in Prob- lems of School Children" at 11 o'clock. Eva F. McDougall, director of public health nursing of Indiana, will discuss "Developing Rural Ser- vices in Indiana" at 2 o'clock. Dr. Howard B. Lewis, professor of phy- siological chemistry of the Univer- sity, will speak on "The Normal Diet-The Water Soluble Vitamins" at 3 o'clock, and Dr. William F. Snow, general director of American .Social Hygiene association, will dis- cuss "The Prevention of Venereal Diseases" at 4 o'clock. BASEBALL SCORES American League Washington 15, Boston 1. Chicago 7, St. Louis 6. New York 5, Athletics 3. Cleveland 4, Detroit 3. National League Brooklyn 7, Boston 3. Philhies 6, New York 4. Cincinnati 3, Pittsburgh 2. JNE DEAD INCAR RASH NEAR CITY 9 OTHERS HURT Mrs. Thompson Killed When Autos Collide on Dexter Road. TWO STUDENTS AMONG INJURED Crushed in the impactof two peeding automobiles which came ogether at the intersection of Dexter road and the Outer drive t 12 :5 o'clockhlast night, Mrs. Dorothy L. Thompson, 41, of Duter drive was almost instant- y killed, while nine other occu- )ants of the two cars were all nore or less seriously injured. The car in which Mrs. Thomp- on was riding was driven by George M. Emhoff of Oakdale irive, Ann Arbor; the other car, ccupied by University students, was driven by Alfred Lee Klaer, ssociate of Merle H. Anderson, Presbyterian minister of Ann Ar- bor. Those in the Emhoff car were he most seriously injured and in- luded Mrs. Caroline Emhoff and her son George Emhoff, jr., as well as Mrs. Thompson. They were all immediately removed to St. Joseph's Mercy hospital where. at an early hour this morning the extent of injuries had not been ully determined. The less seriously injured occu- pants of the Klaer car were re- moved to University hospital where all were found to be suf- fering from minor cuts and bruis- es. They were Richard S.Mc- Creary, of 1345 Washtenaw ave., Richard Becker, 604 East Madi- son avenue, Viola Johnson, a nurse at University hospital, 122 Forest avenue, A. Kyle Brum- baugh, 604 East Madison avenue, and Helen Brittain, of 333 East Williams street, a high school student. (Special to The Daily) Crashing head ona t a com- bined rate of speed estimated to be well over 15o miles per hour, Clarence Horn of Detroit, driver of a light Ford car, and Oren My- rick, 77, Elks Club, Ann Arbor, driver of a heavy Cadillac sedan, were both instantly killed in one of the most completely devastat- ing accidents ever to occur in this vicinity. Riding with Myric were Sam Huesel, 7o, and his son, Fred Huesel, both of Ann Arbor. It was stated at Byers Hospital, Ypsilanti, at a late hour last night that the elder Heusel was not se- riousuly injured but that the son was suffering from a severe skull fracture, recovery from which was most problematical. ST. JOSEPH POLICE Gangster Confesses in Hospital After Fracturing Skull in Smash-up. ST. JOSEPH, Michigan, Aug. 6.- (AP)-Trapped by an automobile ac- cident in which he was seriously injured, Gus Winkler, alleged mem- ber of a gang charged with a dozen murders and as many bank robber- ies in four mid-western states, lay with a fractured skull in Mercy hospital here tonight. Confronted with fingerprints showing him to be Winkler, the in- jured man admitted his identity late today to Sheriff Fred J. Cut- ler and state police. Previously, he had been registered as Jerry Kral, a licensed airplane pilot of Chicago. A man injured in the same ac- cident, identified by cardts in his pockets as John D. Moran of St. Louis, also is under guard in the hospital, and an effort is being made to link him with the same gang which numbered Winkler and Fred Burke, notorious killer, among its members.