PAGE FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1931 PAGE FOUR THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1937 Red Execution Total Mounting In New P urge Lags In Industry Bringing Soviet Clean-Up Aimed At 'Trotskyists' MOSCOW, Aug. 11.--(1)-Death of 72 alleged railroad wreckers before firing squads today brought to 320 the reported executions in Russia's far eastern campaign against "Trot- skyists." The Irkutsk newspaper East Siber- ian Pravda reported the shooting of the 72. It described the band as rightist terrorists who operated along the Siberian railroad for the Japanese secret service with the aim of weak- eningSoviet transportation in case of war. Charged With Wreck The accused were charged with causing a train wreck in which 14 persons were killed and many in- jured among workers and their fam- ilies who were en route to settle the new town of Komsomol. Concurrently, the drive continued against "wreckers" held responsible for failure to meet production sched- ules in various branches of Soviet economy. Soviet production continues to in- crease in volume each year, official figures show, but it fails to keep pace set for it and with the needs of the union's many millions. Tle Pacific Star, one of the leading provincial newspapers, in reporting a shakeup in the lumber industry, de- clared it was "full of enemies of the people." Camp Managers Held Tarred And Feathered N ions Start Advance Near Nankow Pass 39th Division Of Nanking Army Bombed As Heavy FightingIsBegun (Continued from Page 1) on the outskirts of Shanghai "mean that Japan's navy in China must 'be increased." The Domei (Japanese) news agency said Japanese artillery set{ Nankow aflame after the Chinesel 89th division from Shansi province clashed with Japanese troops. This report said the Japanese oc- ,upied positions in the environs of Nankow but Chinese continued stub- bornly to hold their main entrench- ments. Report Japan Defeat Unconfirmed Chinese reports per- sisted that the Japanese had suffered disastrously near Nankow pass in an engagement with heavy Chinese forces. A mechanized Japanese col- umn, equipped with tanks, was re- ported to have headed for the sector yesterday. Japanese wharves here tonight were loaded with equipment and sup- plies for the newly-arrived reinforce- ments. .. Japanese authorities stated 12 de- stroyers and three light cruisers con- stituted the additional force which arrived today but foreign port offi- cials said they counted 20, compris- ing 15 destroyers and five light cruis- ers. Unconfirmed reports said that in addition two aircraft carriers were off Woosung, near where the Whang- po0 flows into the Yangtze. Fleet For Protection Rear Admiral Rukuzo Sugiyama, chief of staff of the third Japanese' fleet in China waters, issued a state- ment that "the increases in naval ef- fectives at Shanghai does not denote a change in the policy of a judicious and calm attitude but recent events in Shanghai constitute a threat to Japanese residents." Settlement of Monday's incident Cubs Lose Their Spark plug, Collins Eyes Of Nation Fixed On Coach After Fine Record At Nebraska Herbert Harris, 41, of New Ha- ven, Mo., was tarred, feathered and dumped out of an automobile at Dallas, Tex., after he had shown films pleading the cause of organ- ized labor. He is shown holding his clothing in his right hand. Pilot Of Airliner Jim "Rip" Collins, first baseman and sparkplug of the league-leading Chicago Cubs, suffered a fractured ankle in the first inning' of the opening game of the Cub-Pirate series. Dr. John F. Davis, team physii- cian, said Collins might be out "one month or more." This picture shows the play in which Collins was hurt as his spikes caught as he started to slide into home plate. Todd is the Pirate catcher and Sears the umpire. Pittsburgh won the game, 6 to 5. AUSTIN, Texas. Aug. 11.- (P) - Eyes of the southwest and of the na- tion will focus this fall on the Univer- sity of Texas, where the veteran Dana X. Bible will endeavor to continue his habit of turning out conference grid- iron champions. Nearing hid 46th birthday, "D.X." has returned to the section where he first gained fame-as head football strategist at Texas A.&M. In 11sea- sons at A.&M., which is Texas' par- ticular athletic enemy, Bible molded five Southwest conference cham- pionship teams. Definitely on the spot-Texas is known far and wide for the frequency with which it changes coaches- 3 Killed, 7 Injured In Building Failure NEW YORK, Aug. 11.- (M) -At least three persons were killed and seven injured when two frame dwell- ings standing side by side in New Brighton, Staten Island, collapsed al- most simultaneously tonight, trap- ping their occupants in debris and deep water. Police at the St. George station said the heavy rains, which flooded the cellars' of the two houses, were believed to 'have undermined the foundations, causing the structures to fall. They could not determine immed- iately if, others were trapped in the wreckage. Fire equipment was be- ing used to pump out the cellars. Several persons in the two houses, each of which was occupied by one family and possibly some roomers, were believed to have escaped with minor injuries. TYPEWRITING MIMEOGRAPHING romptly and neatly done by exper&- .nced operators at moderate pri-s. 0. D. MORRILL 314 South State Street Bible gives no indication that he is worrying. "I'm not thinkingeabout champion- ships this early," he claims. "But if the school, the alumni, the coach, the team and its supporters all work to- gcther the. rewards will follow." Friends of the university believe almost to a man that the school's pigskin fortunes are on the upgrade. For long the usually mediocre or poor showing of gridiron representatives of one of the largest of state univer- sities has been a source of acute dis- satisfaction. They aren't expecting Bible to work wonders this season, but they look for steady improve- ment. They expect squads worthy of any foe in the next few years. Bible's last stop was the Univer- sity of Nebraska, where he produced six conference titlists in eight years. The material at Nebraska was excel- lent, but the baldheaded mentor be- lieves a school with the standing of the University of Texas likewise should attract topflight gridddrs. LENTHERIC PERFUMES' * SHANGHI * NUMERO 12 ! TWEED * GARDENIA ! DE TAHITI ! MIRACLE * LE PIRATE * ASPHODELE MILLER DRUG STORE 727 North University Phone 9797 The manager of one camp was ar- rested for failure to improve working conditions, a personnel manager be- cause he "went to pieces" and a hiealth officer because he failed to "liquidate" an epidemic which caused many deaths among lumbermen's children. Retarded production was reported in the automobile industry. The Gor- ky plant at Molotoff turned out 56,- 000 trucks and 5,727 cars in six months, against a schedule of 63,000 trucks and 9,500 cars. One reason for Russia's production troubles, said "For Industrialization," is that it apparently takes two or three Russians to do the work of one American. M PUC Hears Trucking Line Rate Demands LANSING, Aug. 11.-(i)-A hear- ing on an application by Michigan truck line operators for an increase in motor freight rates to allow the operators to meet demands of their drivers closed today before the state public utilities commission. The hearing was rushed through in two days to give the commission time to reach a decision before expiration, Aug. 17, of a 30-day truce that halted a statewide strike. Glenwood C. Fuller, chairman of the commission, asked the Michigan Interstate Motor Tariff Bureau to prepare a report on the type of emer- gency relief they would desire. The request was taken by some witnesses to indicate the commission was leaning favorably toward truck- er's requests for a minimum charge equal to first class freight rate on 100 pound shipments and a five cent pick- up and delivery charge for every 100 pounds on all shipments of 3,000 pounds or less. still was not in sight. The Japanese who were killed, Sub.-Lieut. Siao Oh- yama and Seaman Yozo Saito, were promoted posthumously today. Japanese consular officials coun- seled Japanese residents here to "maintain a calm attitude while au- thorities seek a settlement." The incident occurred at the en- trance to the Hungjao military air- drome. Chinese charged the Japan- ese officer opened fire while Japanesel asserted Chinese guards fired without provocation. Evacuation of Japanese from the Yangtze Valley continued. The de- parture of consular officials marked complete withdrawal from HankowI while Japanese in communities closerI to Shanghai, including Soochow andI Hangchow, joined the rush to this city en route to Japan. Simultaneously with reports of hostilities at Nankow Pass, Chinese charged Japanese regulars in South- ern Chahar were moving toward Sui- yuan, province to the east of Cha- har, and alleged that Japanese south of Tientsin had "suffered reverses when they sought to move to the south." Vernacular newspapers insisted there was little prospect of negotia- tions settling the North China con- flict but Japanese Ambassador Shi- geru Kawagoe continued to work be- hind the scenes. Authoritative sources said he, was establishing contacts with Chinese known to be associated closely with the Nanking government. "Report Me and My Cause44 Capt. Steward Dietz, of Balti- more, was pilot of the-Eastern Air Lines plane which crashed at Day- tona Beach, Fla., as it took off. The plane tripped over a newly erected power line. Dietz, and three other persons, were killed in the crash. Detroit, Chicago To Play Doubleheader DETROIT, Aug. 11.-(M)-The De- troit Tigers and the Chicago White Sox, k'ept idle today by rain, will play a double-header at Navin Field to- morrow, continuing their fight for third place. The Sox, in third place, are a half game ahead of the Tigers, but the leaders, the New York Yankees, gained a whole game on them through today's double victory over the second place Boston Red Sox. Roxie Lawson, Bengal hurler, will seek his 14th victory when he faces Merritt "Sugar" Cain in the first game. Tommy Bridges, after his 11th win, will oppose Chicago's Vernon Kennedy or John Whitehead in the series final. St. Louis will come to Detroit Fri- day for a four-game series - their first visit since Sunny Jim Bottomley supplanted Rogers Hornsby as man- ager. They will play two games Sat- urday. It Took Eight Years To Finish New Dictionary, Knott Asserts By STAN SWINTON It took eight years and the ex- penditure of $1,140,000 to finish the 1934 edition of Webster's New In- ternational Dictionary, Prof. Thomas A. Knott of the English Department said yesterday in a regular Summer Session lecture at Natural Science Auditorium on "Editing Dictionaries." "Our problem \ was to collect and select, organize and find as many new words and meanings which have crept into the language since 1907 as was possible," Professor Knott stated. "We couldn't read all the material printed since that mate, of course, so we had to devise a system to make our work as efficient and economical as possible." Describing the method used in the work, Professor Knott told how 50 magazines were subscribed to. Of these all but ten proved useless, pulp magazines yielding "absolutely no words." "We started to review all contem- porary books but soon limited our- was Sears, Roebuck's catalogue. Quotations were cut from the mag- azines and typed from the books ex- cept where a large number were to be used from one source. 3,000,000 clip- pings were made, 1,665,000 being lit- erary quotations and not scientific or technical. Two hundred editors contributed to the finished volume but many of their offerings had to be rewritten and sent back to the authors for final consideration, Professor Knott con- tinued. Slang was omitted, he said, unless it had either survived a ten- year trial period or been included in a book which would still have "an appreciable number of readings twenty years hence." Etymology proved a not difficult part of the work, Professor Knott stated, but words which popped up after a 600 or 700-year lapse in usage proved a problem. Also, of course, many words had acquired different connotations and meanings. "Webster's has had a nearly com- plete revolution every edition," the speaker pointed out. Radical changes . . . so spoke the dying Hamlet These words sum up the ardent desire of every man to be fully and accurately represented before his fellow men. To report every cause aright is the task of The Associated Press. 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