The Weler T Fair, somewhat warmer today, tomorrow showers and cooler. Official Publication Of The Summer Session VOL. XLVIII. No. 32 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN WEDNESDAY, AUG. 3, 1938 Editorials Border Incident Or Great War? F.E. PRICE FIVE CENTS Nevills' Party Ends Colorado River Journey Two University Women Demand Powder Puff, Order Victory Dinner Descent O Gorge Endured 43 Days Local Support Granted Drive For Spain Aid Relief Ship Bearing Cargo Of 5,000 Tons Ready To Sail In Autumn Ann Arbor students, faculty mem- bers and townspeople inaugurated local support today. of the first or- ganized national effort to aid the destitute and war-ridden people of Spain. The war in Spain appears destined to enter its second winter, and the national sponsors of the drive to pro- vide relief for 10,000,000 women and children victims of the intense and bitter struggle, are anxious to allevi- ate the increased suffering that will inevitably come with the cold weath- er. BOULDER CITY, Nev., Aug 2-(A) -Two University of Michigan women faclilty members, who sailed 666 miles down the treacherous Colorado River past rapids and whirlpools, patted their copper-tanned cheeks with a powder puff today and ordered a victory dinner of rattlesnake steak. The only women in history to com- plete the perilous voyage from Green River, Utah, to Boulder Dam, Elza- da Clover, forty-year-old University of Michigan botanist, and her assist- ant, Lois Jotter, 25, arrived here with five men companions last night after 43 days in the jagged gorges of the Colorado. Launch Met Scientists Their food supply had run low when a Boulder Dam launch met them, but they scoffed at the hard- ships in traversing one of the most perilous river routes on the continent. "I'm going to take a hot bath," was Miss Jotter's comment as 'the boats docked at the Boulder City pier after a day of .13-degree heat. All insisted they had' the time of their lives-eating heartily, sleeping soundly and working har. .' Dine On Rattlesnakes Miss Jotter said she was going to the California Institute of Technol- ogy at Pasadena, for a visit before re- turning to Michigan. First, however, the two women promised to dine on rattlesnake. The expedition caught a rattler last Sun- day-the only live memento of the voyage-and brought it to Boulder City to be skinned and cooked. Final Excursion' Leads Tourists To Put-In-Bay Over 80 Persons Expected To Comprise The Party; Trip To Begin 7:30 A.M. Put-in-Bay will be the final ob- jective of the University Excursion Series when the party leaves at 7:30 a.m. today, bound by special bus and steamer to the island located about 60 miles southeast of Detroit, in Lake Erie. Prof. Irving D. Scott of the geol- ogy department will be the guide-lec- turer on the excursion and he will conduct the party expected to num- ber about 80 people through the un- derground caves, a particular point of interest at Put-in-Bay. Perry's monument, a granite shaft 352 feet high, commemorating Com- modore Perry's naval victory in 1813; Perry's cave, largest of the four island caves, showing clear evidence that it is different from the usual limestone, cave, and Crystal Cave, with its unique almost 'perfect celestite and strontium sulphate stalagmites, will be other points of interest to be in- spected. Geologically, the tour will be sig- nificant because it will enable the party to view the effects of the gla- ciers on the rugged limestone shore, the caves and the surface.1 The party will return to Ann Arborf at 9:30 p.m.- Army Group ] Attends School Ordnance Officers Meet; In 2-Week Session Here To obtain advanced study, 35 of- ficers of the ordnance department of the United States Army are now at- tending the officers' school being held here for two weeks. These officers have been selected from all over the United States. The faculty for the school, which provides advanced instruction given by the army in this field, consists of. Lieut.-Col. John S. Worley. Maj. 'Humanitarian Drive' Bishop Francis J. O'McConnell, Professor Albert Einstein, Dr. Walter ,B. Cannon, the American League for Peace and Democracy, and the North American Committee for Aid to Spain, national sponsors of a na- tion-wide effort to load a Spanish Relief ship that is expected to sail from New York in September with a cargo of 5,000 tons have repeatedly stressed the fact that this drive is fundamentally a hum'anitarian one: relief of suffering humanity is the only desideratum, and on that basis the Ann Arbor committee also ex- pressed the belief that universal re- sponse here would be forthcoming. To Start Today Local leaders of the drive announced yesterday that the first part of the campaign would consist of the print- ing and distribution today of 3,000 letters explaining the nature and ur- gency of the effort. On Thursday, Friday and Saturday afternoons a truck donated by the University Storehouse Department will call at 2,500 Ann Arbor homes, soliciting contributions of any sort. Canned milk for the Spanish children, warm clothing, and tools with which to re-' build a nation of shattered homes, are the greatest needs, the committee said. Canned foods, sugar, coffee, flour, blankets, and medical supplies are the next most essential commodi- ties. Money contributions, it was pointed-out, may be addressed to Prof. John F. Shepard, Natural Science Building. A Town Meeting, to be held to- (continued on Page 3) Final German Picnic To BeWednesday The final picnic of the year for' persons interested in German will be held Wednesday on the banks of the Huron River, Prof. Henry W. Nord- meyer, chairman of the, German de- partment, announced yesterday. The group will leave from the park- ing lot by University Hall at 5 p. m. and will be under the leadership of" Vernon Kellett, Grad., and Herbert Birkman, Grad., of Deutscher Verein. The menu for the picnic, as an- nounced by Professor Nordmeyer, in- cludes wieners, potato salad, rolls,{ coffee, watermelon and ice cream.+ Reservations for the picnic must be+ made at the German department of-+ fice, 204 University Hall, before noon; Tuesday. Cressey Says Soviets Meet, Peoples' Need Russia's Leaders Feel Any Means Are Justifiable To Reach 'Great Ideal' Rapidity Of Change Confuses Foreigner Whatever one may think of the political and social consequences of the Soviet regime, it is abundantly clear today that the Russian Govern- ment has the capacity to get things done for the material betterment of its citizens, Prof. George B. Cressey, of the University of Syracuse, said yesterday in the second of his four talks being given here in connection with the Institute of Far Eastern Studies. The leaders of the Soviet Union have been captured by a great ideal, Professor Cressey declared; they are determined to achieve the first social- ist state in history, and any means that can help in the attainment of that end are deemed justified and necessary. It is undoubtedly a totali- tarian state in the sense that indi- viduals exist only for the furthering of the interests of the Soviet Fath- erland, Professor Cressey said, adding that he believed a vast majority of the population supports the govern- ment. In Professor Cressey's opinion the most perplexing aspect of Soviet Russia, as viewed by foreigners, is the bewildering rapidity of the changes that have taken place in the country. The fundamental change in the politicaLideology of the country's leaders is, Professor Cressey stated, the most arresting example of the dynamic and startling nature of the U.S.S.R. World-wide revolution, ad- vanced by Leon Trotsky as the only dependable defense of communism in Russia has been discarded, Prof. Cressey explained, and in its place the Stalinist program of developing and trengthening the internal re- sources of the country, has become the official governmental and party (Continued on Page 3) Water Molecule Is TalkSubject Structure Of Particles Told By Prof. Dennison The water molecule was the item discussed by Prof. David Dennison of the physics department before a bi- weekly meeting of the physics col- loquium held last night in the Rack- ham Buiding. He first spoke on the forces that keep the molecule together and its configuration. The experimental work done to sho wthe absorption of char- acteristic frequencies, which includes computing the movement of elec- trons, the vibratnig and the rotating for their frequencies and also their different amounts was his next topic. Going into the theoretical fiei, he discussed the calculation of frequen- cies and intensities for the molecule and explained that the yields were constant. f mANCHOUKUO ' !!5lN~lN~iVLAOIVOTOKZAl PElPlNG -TOKNOS 0 l020300400S00 ' MILES 711 SOVIET RUS S7IA 4 CHANW UFENG YUK -4- Map Shows Disputed Territory Under Fire where Jap-Soviet Forces Clash On Border f c- " Y. L-14- Jv ! ""J span=eaz 0 50 l00 ,. . ..,..,.cz,.c A 11 Fifty Soviet airplanes were reported to have inflicted slight damage on railways near Changkufeng, Man- choukuo (1) and raided the area about Yuki (2) in one of the latest incidents of the Russo-Japanese diffieul- ties. The cross marks Changkufeng Hill, reported to have been recaptured by the Soviets. The shaded area on the AP map shows the location of border territory involved in the dispute. * * *