ESTABLISHED 1920 &Ijr 'ummer f~lrbga il4 MEiMBEiR OF THE ASSOCIA TED PREiSS VOL. XI, NO. 23. FOUR PAGES ANN ARBOR, MICHIGANSATURDAY, JULY 25, 1931 WEATHER Generally Fair PRICE FIVE CENTS FLETCHER TO QUIT POST AS GCHAIRN OF FEDERAL BOARD Noted Pennsylvania Man Plans to Finish Three Decades of Government Service. TERM WAS SIX YEARS Tariff Commission Head Notifies Hoover He Will Resign at End of First Year. WASHINGTON, July 24.-(I)- Henry P. Fletcher will retire Sep- tember 16 from his post as chair- man of the tariff commission. He said today he had informed Presi- dent Hoover that although he was appointed for a six-year term be- ginning last fall, he desired to be released at the end of his first year in office. It was understood, Fletcher said, at the time the ap- pointment was made, that he would serve only during the reorganiza- tion period of the commission. The Pennsylvanian, who has spent 30 years in the government service, haid he had no definite plans for the future. Questioned as to reports he intended to run for the senate, Fletcher denied he was quitting the commission to enter politics. Started as Rough Rider. The genial, 58-year-old chairman has long been a personal friend of President Hoover. He accompanied the then president-elect on his good will tour of Latin-America in 1928 to make available his wide knowledge of Latin-American af- fairs acquired while he was am- bassador to Chile. Fletcher first entered the govern- ment service as a Rough Rider un- der Theodore Roosevelt. Since then he has occupied a number of government posts under various presidents, including ambassador to Italy and undersecretary of state. He indicated last year, before going on the tariff commission, that he wished to remain in this country and did not seek another diplo- matic post. Friction Denied by Fletcher. In announcing his forthcoming retirement he pointed out that every commission report adopted under his chairmanship received a unanimous vote, and he denied that friction between himself and the president or other members of the commission had precipitated his resignation. Every report sought by congress will be read for presentation De- cember 1 he said, except that deal- ing with agriculture, which is be- ing deferred until the 1931 crop figures are available. BRUCKER DEMANDS M1ILK PRICE PROBE Will Ask $5,000 Appropriation for Commission to Study Spread of Rates. LANSING, July 24.-(P)-A state investigation of milk prices was or- dered today by Gov. Wilber M. Brucker. A commission embracing members of a Detroit committee which is now inquiring into the spread between prices paid to pro- ducers and paid by consumers, members of the legislature and state officials was named. The gov- ernor announced he will ask the state administrative board to ap- propriate $5,000 for the commission. The special commission will be headed by Herbert E. Powell, state agricultural commissioner. The governor's action followed a recent conference with a committee which claimed to represent 15,- 000 milk producers. Spokesmen at the conference specifically request- ed on behalf of the farmers, that the inquiry be conducted by others than the state commissioner of agriculture or the attorney general Ed Goble, Milan producer, censured the governor for not making an LADY AST OR, SHAW PROFESSOR'S W Receive Appeal by Cablegram; Soviet Officials Unable to Give Aid. MOSCOW, July 24.-(')-George Bernard Shaw and Lady Astor have interested themselves in the undisclosed difficulties in Russia of the wife of a professor of Yale university. At a reception in Shaw's honor at the British embassy they receiv- ed indentical cablegrams, signed by Dmitri Krynn, a professor at Yale, and reading: "In the name of humanitarian principles please help my wife in CHILEAN STUDENTS LEAVE STRONGHOLD' Make Peace Late in Day After Troops Fire on Building; Two Known Dead. (See Story on Page Four) SANTIAGO, Chile, July 24.-(R') -Students who had been barricad- ed in the University of Chile for two days in protest against the gov- ernment left the university under a truce late today after soldiers had fired on their stronghold. Two were known to have been killed and many wounded, includ- ing a number of women in the streets, in continuous firing and sniping during the afternoon after fighting at the university. Police and students blamed each other for starting the battle. Troops made three separate at- tacks on the university building.t More than 3,000 shots were fired there and in other parts of the downtown area. All business was suspended and stores, offices and banks put up steel shutters. ' Isaac Marcosson, magazine writer, his wife and Miss Seeley, New York1 newspaper woman, with others es- caped injury when they were caught in a doorway by charging lancers. They shouted that they7 were visitors. ' GRAF OPENS CRUISE1 TO ARCTICREGIONS Arrives at Airport in Berlin,; Completing First Flight; Carries 46 Men., BERLIN, July 24.-(L)-The Graf Zeppelin arrived at Staa- ken Airport on the outskirts of Berlin this afternoon, complet- ing the first short leg of her arctic cruise from Friedrich- schafen. FRIEDRICHSCHAFEN, Germany, July 24.-(IP)-In glorious weather and before a field jammed with well-wishers, the dirigible Graf Zeppelin took off for Berlin today on the first leg of her cruise to the Arctic. The take-off was made at 9:51 a.m. (3:51 a.m.), just 16 minutes after the huge ship was taken out of her hangar. In a brief broadcast from the dirigible, Dr. Hugo Eckener, the commander, said he regretted he was starting out at a time when Germany was in such dire distress, but he felt the flight would serve to increase confidence in the Fath- erland. Aboard the dirigible were 46 men, 12 of whom are Artic experts or scientists. There are 30 mem- bers of the crew, three newspaper men and a special Russian operat- or named Krahnkel. To Repeat Excursion to Airport, Village Last Wednesday's Summer Ses- sion excursion to Greenfield village and the Ford airport will be repeat- ed next Wednesday, it was an- nounced yesterday by Carlton F. Wells. Unusual interest was shown in the first trip, and all reservations ASKED TO HELP IFE HELD IN RUSSIA Moscow." Lady Astor immediately sought out Maxim Litvlnoff, Soviet com- missar for foreign affairs, who was present, and knelt before him. "I come to you as a peasant be- fore a czar," she said, and offered him her cablegram. As Litvinoff read it high Soviet officials and other guests crowded about. "Such a matter is not in my province," the commissar told La- dy Astor. It was suggested that the politi- cal police were the people to see. Lord and Lady Astor, Shaw and an attache of the embassy left by motor to talk to the police. On the way they stopped at their hotel, made an unsuccessful attempt to straighten the matter out by tele-' phone and then fell to packing their bags, as they were leaving for Leningrad. Whether Lady Astor will push the matter when she returns in two days remained uncertain. The nature of the difficulties of Mrs. Krynin was not explained. HOT WAVE STRIKES ROCKY M OUNTAINSI Extreme Temperatures Kill One; Heat to Reach Middle c West Soon. KANSAS CITY, July 24.-()-c The Rocky Mountain states were< the prey of scorching temperaturesl again today while the midwest re-z freshed itself with a cooler breathl or two against renewed blasts of oven heat promised by the fore- casters. Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and the c west slope of Colorado bore theI brunt of the sun's sizzling onslaughtc which previously had been concen-1 trated against the plains of Kan- 1 sas and Oklahoma. 1 One elderly man died and 30 persons were prostrated at Salt Lake City during a pioneer parade. The mercury touched 103 degrees i shortly after noon, an all-time rec-1 ord. In Colorado the mercury jumped to the century mark for the thirdE successive day at Grand Junction where an all-time record of 1041 degrees was established yesterday. The blazing sun has dried many of the state's streams for the first time in history. The wilting heat of yesterday was unabated in Wyoming and in9 Montana. BASEBALL SCORES American Leaguea New York 6, Detroit 5. Chicago 3, Boston 1. Athletics 2, Cleveland 1 (6 innings rain). Only games scheduled. ' National League Pittsburgh 8, Brooklyn 7. Cincinnati 5, New York 3. Chicago 3, Boston 1. St. Louis 10, 7, Phillies 0, 2. Bishop Anderson Will Speak Here Tomorrow Bishop William F. Anderson, of Boston, will deliver the sermon, "What Is Your Life?" in the First Methodist Episcopal church at 10:45 o'clock tomorrow morning, it was announced yesterday. Dr. Anderson is well known to Ann Arbor audiences, having visit- ed here a number of times. Bulgaria Asks Nations to Return Payments ATHENS, July 24.-(IP)-The Bank of International Settlements in- formed the Greek government to- day Bulgaria had announced that, in view of adoption of the Hoover moratorium, she does not intend installment for June and further to make payment of the repairations has asked restitution of payments made in April and May. The notification caused some sur- prise here and brought from sev- eral quarters the assertion that the R ECTOR DISCUSSES 'CURES FOR CANCER; CITES HUGE COSTS Losses Due to Disease Approach $800,000,000, According to His Estimate. DESCRIBES SYMPTOMS No Social Stigma Is Attached to Development of Cancer, Field Worker Says. "In the United States the cost of cancer is estimated at $800,000,- 000 annually," said Dr. Frank L. Rector, field representative of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, in a lecture to the fourth Public Health institute yesterday. "For the death of women between; the thirty-fifth birthday and the forty-fifth birthday cancer is the chief cause as it is for men between; the forty-fifth and fifty-fifth; birthdays. At the most productive period of their lives these men and women fall victims to cancer," Dr. Rector continued and the social loss to society cannot be counted in money. Sees No Social Stigma. "There is no social stigma in be- ing attacked by cancer and people have the wrong idea if they believe that their sins are being visited on them if they have it," Dr. Rec- tor said. Although there are no serums and no immunization vac- cines for cancer, the disease is cur- able if an early diagnosis is made. For prevention two measures are necessary, one is improved personal1 hygiene and the other is the pre- vention of persistent irritation, he said. Cancerous condition remains un-. detected chiefly because cancer is not accompanied with pain. If we could have painful cancer the num-. ber of deaths resulting from neg-,. lect would be cut to less than half, Dr. Rector stated. "But cancer has unmistakable symptoms. Any persistent unnat- ural lump in the body, particularly in the breasts, a sore that does not heal within a normal periodof two to three weeks, and any unnatural discharge from the body orifice, especially if it is blood, should call attention and a medical examina- tion taken," Dr. Rector said. Second Death Cause. "Cancer now occupies second place as the cause of death, hav- ing risen from sixth place since 1910,rand, according to Dr. Welch, it threatens ascendency over all other causes of death," Dr. Rector continued and according to Dr. Clarence Cook Little, who is en- gaged in cancer research in Maine, cancer is not an invasion of a for- eign substance and is not to be treated as an infectious disorder for it is less acutely pathologic and more of a constitutionally biologic disease." According to Dr. Rector, more than twenty five years of research during which Dr. Maude Slye of the University of Chicago has made autopsy on more than 100,500 laboratory animals of cancer cases, she is convinced that there is a hereditary factor in cancer inci- dence. Dr. Rector said that neither plants nor lower animals are im- mune from cancer although it has been shown that people of dark skin and those living in moist and hot climate are less susceptible. Program for Today. The special Public Health insti- tute will be continued today with Dr. Glenadine Snow, of Michigan State Normal college, speaking on "Methods and Materials in Health Education" at 9 o'clock in the WestI Medical building. "Urban Sanita- tion" will be the subject of F. Gard- ner Segg, sanitary engineer, depart- ment of health, Detroit, at 10 o'clock. Dr. Clyde C. Slemons, state commissioner of health, Lan- sing, will speak on the subject of "Communicable Djisease Control." "The American Red Cross in Dis- aster Relief" will be the subject of an address by Albert Evans, assist- ant director of disaster relief at 2 o'clock. Dr. Frank L. Rector, of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, will speak on the "In- terests and Activities of the Amer- Urges War on Japan c Chiang Kai-Shek, President of the Chinese nation-_ alist government, is reported to be1 urging the insurgent Cantonese p government to join forces with his i armies in a war against Japan. He p seeks reprisal for the killing of nu- merous Chinese in Korean riots. .' c ROOSEVELT, SMITH WILL MEET TODAY s Long Island Parley Is Expected t to Crystallize Sentiment on Democratic Choice.b NEW YORK, July 24.-()-State and national political figures will s meet tomorrow at a Long Island h luncheon at Canoe Place inn, a Hampton Boys, which may prove to be a factor in crystalizing senti- o ment for a Democratic presidential candidate in 1932. This will be the s first meeting of Governor Franklin r D. Roosevelt and former Governor t Alfred E. Smith, nominal leader of F his party, since the return recently t of James A. Farley, state Demo- t cratic chairman, from an observa- s tion tour of western states. It also will be the first time Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Smith have sat down together in in the past several . months during which the former's ( name has been mentioned frequent- ly as the next presidential candi- r date of his party.f x BOMB DISCOEED't INI PRISON SEARCH r Joliet Authorities Also Uncover Knives, Saws, and Files; Break Is Foiled.f F (See Story on Page Four) JOLIET, Ill., July 24.-(P)-War-f dei Henry C. Hill said a small makeshift gasoline bomb was found today during search of cellsf in the Stateville penitentiary for weapons which convicts might use in an attempted break. The bomb was composed of a pint oil can with a reinforced metal top and copper coils. It would have been exploded by throwing it into a fire or heating the coils but would not have caused much damage. Authorities began a search of all cells following persistent reports of an outbreak which has failed to materialize. The ventilators, down which convicts throw their contra- band and weapons at inspection time, had not yet been investigat- ed, the warden said. Four knives and a file were found in the same cell with the' bomb, Several saws, sledges, ham- mers and 100 feet of hose, missing 'from the toolshops, had not been located. Search was made for a cache in the prison yard. League to Give Tea for Visiting Faculty Non-resident faculty of the law, education, and music schools will be guests of the League at 4 o'clock Monday afternoon in the second of three teas honoring visiting pro- fessors and their wives. The tea will be in the concourse and Grand Rapids room of the League and Is .In charge of Katherine Noble, so- BRIDGEIWAR NEARS END; TEXAS MAKES FIRST PEACE MOVE Legislators at Austin Approve Bill to Remove Causes of Difficulty. BATTLE SECTION QUIET Oklahoma Guardsmen on Patrol in Martial Law Zone; Rangers on Guard. DURANT, Oklahoma, July 24.- (P)-As Oklahoma National guards- men and Texas rangers faced each other across the Red River tonight, t appeared that the "War of the Bridges" would be short lived and humdrum, from the military stand- point, the law makers of Texas hav- ng acted quickly to re-establish peace. A bill which the legislators at Austin believed would remove the auses of war was passed at Austin and dispatched to Houston this af- ernoon for the signature of Gov. Ross Sterling. The result was expected to be the throwing open to traffic the Deni- on-Durant free bridge, about which interstate hostility has cen- ered. Patrol Martial Law Zone. Meanwhile all was quiet at the battle spot. A detachment of 33 Oklahoma guardsmen patroled a mall martial law zone at the Okla- homa end of the Denison bridge which has been barricaded by W. H. Murray who wants the free bridge pen. Half a mile away on the other ide of the river, five bored Texas angers guarded the south end of he free bridge, which Gov. Ross F. Sterling ordered kept closed un- il lifting of a federal court injunc- Gion against the use of the free tructure. Governor Hurls Defiance. DURANT, Okla., July 24.-(JP)- Armed National Guardsmen of Oklahoma were paraded by Gov. William Henry "Alfalfa Bill" Mur- ray today to show his defiance of :orces which would prevent his blockading a tll bridge across the Red river to Texas, just south of this city. Nearly 300 Guardsmen were held n readiness here for any emergency which might arise, while in detach- neats ofg30 they prepared for an unceasing vigil at a narrow strip of highway leading to the Okla- homa entrance to the toll span. Declaring' a Houston, Tex., fed- eral court action by the Red River Bridge Co., owners of the toll bridge, to have the blocked roadway open- ed would be "an invasion of the rights of the sovereign state of Oklahoma," Gov. Murray proclaim- ed martial law in the immediate- ly affected area Thursday night. Adj. Gen. Charles F. Barret took charge. NEW FIRES STRIKE W YOM ING__FORESTS National Guard Troops Battle Blaze Near Cassa; Dude Ranch Guests Aid. CHEYENNE,Wyo., July 24.--(P) -New fires broke out today in Wyoming a few hours after forest officials said other flames, some of them burning for two weeks and threatening valuable ranch prop- erty, were checked. National guard troops were re- quested to fight a fire that broke out anew today near Cassa, 30 miles north of Wheatland, after smould- ering since Monday. Another new fire occurred in the Toltec region near Laramie outside the Medicine Bow National forest. About 1,000 acres was quickly burned and aid was requested from Denver. A crew of several hundred be- grimed and tired Dude ranch guests had aided forest officials and other volunteers in checking flames on Jockey's fork in the