;I Weather jjj.U~m continued warm, rain in south-LA cast and central part. U~U! Official Publication Of The Summer Session VOL. XLVII. No. 37 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN TUESDAY, AUG. 9, 1938 H I Editorial revi Wines, Tseful Citizen... PRICE--FIVE CENTS Japs Estimate Soviet Losses At 1,500 Men Russians In Full Retreat North From Disputed Chinese Reds Organizing Masses Against Japanese Entire Provinces Of Hopeh, Shansi, Shantung Are Now Lined Up Solidly In Campaign To Organize Chinese In Nationalist Societies CHINESE GUERRILLA HEADQUARTERS, Central Hopeh Province, China (Correspondence of the Associated Press)-Communist agentsiand patriotic students are directing a Chinese mass movement against Japan which is sweeping the towns and villages of North China. The movement is guarded by the machine guns of guerilla armies which now control two thirds of the territory behind Japanese advance lines. The entire provinces of Hopeh, Shansi, and Shantung are now included in the anti,-Japanese movement except for narrow strips along the railways where the flash of Japanese bayonets Corrigan's Befnre Tale Fades Lip! Detector Heights,_Tokyo Claims] Deny Moscow Story Of Japanese Defeat TOKYO, Aug. 8.-&)-The Ja- panese Army tonight listed 200 dead and wounded as its losses in Siierian border fighting since July 29, and estiinated Soviet Russia had lost 1,- 500 men battling for the heights of Changkufeng. Soviet troops were reported by a Japanese army communique to be re- treating north of the disputed heights, dominating a thin strip of territory along the Nvjanchoukuo-Siberia fron- tier, after an unsuccessful assault on Japanese lines near the summit. Denying a Moscow announcement that Changkufeng had been recap- tured and Japanese driven from all Siberian soil, the Tokyo Foreign Of- fice declared the Russians had been repulsed in a "heavy engagement." Hand-To-Hand Fighting Bitter hand-to-hano fighting re-.. stlted when Soviet troops, covered by an intensive artillery barrage, ad- vanced on the four-mile long heights. A Japanese army communique de- clared 100 Soviet tanks had been damaged or disabled since the out- break of frontier fighting and that six Red airplanes had been downed. The Changkufeng sector was said to be quieter today.4 Another communique related state- ments allegedly made by two Soviet infantrymen who surrendered to the Japanese. It quoted them as saying Rted Army morale was very low. They reported a Russian tanks corps commander who planned to surrender his entire unit was ex- ecuted and a "purge," which hither- tW adaffected only officers, now ex-,+ tended to the lowest ranks.7 Coversations Releaed_; The foreign office released a par- tial text of conversations in Moscow between Foreign Comissar Maxim Litvinoff and the Japanese Ambas- sador,hMamoru Sigemitsu, disclos- Ing the diplomats agreed fighting should cease immediately but dis- agreed on the manner of stopping it.i It was expected here Shigemitsu would continue peace talks in the Russian capital attempting to reach a base for arbitrating the border dis- pute which started July 11 when So- viet troops began fortifying the Changkufeng heights which Russia claims as hers under an 1886 treaty defining the border between old Im- perial China and Russia. Bitter fighting broke out July 29 when Japanese forces captured the bills which Japan asserts are part of Manchoukuo. Jap Planes Raid Cantoni CANTON, China, Aug. 9.-(Tues- day)-(P)-Japanese warplanes raid- ed Canton for the second successive day, this morning killing an estimated 200 persons. The greatest toll was taken by three large bombs which exploded in the heavily populated waterfront area, 409 yards frm Shameen, the foreign settlement. The bombs fell in the heart of the zone where thousands of persons have been accustomed to take refuge dur- ing previous bombings, the latest of which killed 39 and injured 50 yes- terday. The concussion from the explosives violently rattled doors and windows in Shameen. Roaring over the city at 9 a.m. (8 p.m. EST), the raiders unloosed their deadly cargoes while rescue workers were completing,an all-night task of extricating victims of yesterday's at- tack. Men, women and children who had sought refuge in the grounds of Can- ton's Catholic Cathedral yesterday were blown to pieces by three bombs exploding within 20 yards of the building. The Cantonese believed they had found a safe haven beside the ca- thedral, plainly marked by a large French flag over the roof. Professor Cissell To Talk On New Mackinac Bridge A talk on theproposed Mackinac Straits Bridge by Prof. James H. is visible. A Chinese leader of the movement, a 26-year-old graduate of Peiping Na- tional University, told the Associated Press: "Our first purpose is to enroll every farmer, his wife, and his children in some kind of organization, whether it be a farmers' union, chamber of com- merce, women's association, or the 'Little Vanguards,' (formerly the Boy Scouts). We can spread anti-Japan- ism through these societies." "The drama is our most popular form of propaganda. We call a mass meet- ing at a county seat of 20,000 popula- tion. After a few political speeches, our 'under fire dramatic troup'i stages three or four hours of anti- Japanese plays, demonstrating the atrocities committed by the Japanesei and the ways iii which farmers can1 help the guerillas in fighting the in-I vaders" This correspondent attended sever- al of these programs. The centrali theme of everything' was, simple anti- Japanism. Communism was taught a few ronths ago, but has beeni dropped.I The village newspaper and news bulletin are other important propa- ganda media. The bulletins are posted at almost every village and, cross- roads, and the guerrillas are publish-; ing 38 daily newspapers in Central Hopeh alone with a total circulation; of 26,000. By far the most pemanent formI of propaganda is the ass education movement. Dull Student Aid TopicOf Curtisj Gives Practical Suggestion To Teacher Audience Some practical suggestons for the teaching of dull-normal students was the subject of a talk given yesterday at the University High School As- sembly by'Prof. Francis D. Curtis, of the School of Education. Professor Curtis declared that dull students differ from bright students only in degree, not in kind; that is they can do the same things bright students can, but the difference arises in the quality of the work. Practical experience m the hand- ling of dull students has resulted in the formulation of certain principles which Professor Curtis believes will show positive results when applied. Acquisition of the confidence of the student, the necessity for proceeding slowly and steadily, careful lesson planning and frequent changing of classroom activities were listed by Professor Curtis as definite aids in dull-student teaching. Toy,Fitzgerald Criticize H/rphy's Expenditures DETROIT, Aug. 8.-(A>)-Criticism of state expenditures was leveled at Gov. Frank Murphy and his Demo- cratic administration in addresses Frank D. Fitzgerald, tw of the three candidates for the Repub'aran guber- given tonight by Harry S. Toy and natorial nomination.' Speaking at Flint, former Governor Fitzgerald declared that when he was in office in 1935 and 1936 he Wiped out an inherited deficit of $5,800,000 and built up a balance of $8,775,000. Roosevelt Prepares For Georgia Trip ABOARD U.S.S. HOUSTON, Aug. 8.-(W)-(Via -Naval Radio)-Presi- dent Roosevelt, nearing the end of his vacation cruise aboard the crusier Houston, began work today on the two addresses he will make Thursday in Georgia. The Houston late today had less 1,178 Student Loans Granted Here In '37-'38 $134,876 Total Is Greater Than Previous Amount; Recession Caused Jump Student loans granted 1,178 stu- dents last year totalled $134,876.65, Boyd C. Stephens, University cashier, announced yesterday. Gifts totalling $16,839.39 were made to the fund. This amount is $2,566 more than the amount loaped kin 1937 while 32 less students than last year shared it. Of the total amount loaned, $1,304.00 was labelled "Uncollectable." With the advent of the Recession in the latter half of the academic year, Mr. Stephens said, the number of loans jumped -considerably over the first half which had been about the same as last year. There was one $5,000 endowment received by the University last year. Since the establishment of the Stu- dent Loan Fund in 1897, a total of $1,488,827.39 in loans has been grant- ed to students. Of this amount $10,- 271 has been uncollectable. The amount available for loans in the Student Loan Fund dropped from $523,315.52 in 1937 to $519,771.03 last year: This decrease, Mr. Stephens pointed out, was due to a transfer of several funds from the Loan Fund to endowments, on which only the in- terest and not the principle is loaned. The total amount in the endowment fund to date is $401,866.60. In .1897, the year of the Fund's establishment, $75 was loaned. The largest amount was loaned in 1935-36 when $147,352.89 was given out. Labor Decries MaytagAction Non-Partisan League Says Kraschel Forfeits Aid WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.-(IP)-La- bors' Non-Partisan League, headed by John L. Lewis, declared tonight that Gov. Nelson G. Kraschel of Iowa had "forfeited the backing of labor throughout his state" by using the National Guard to force a settlement of the Maytag strike at Newton, Ia. E. L. Oliver, Executive Vice-Presi- dent of the League, issued a state- ment asserting such use of armed force "should be a warning to the American people" and declared Con- gress would have to deal with the problem. The League did not deal with what it called "the basic problem involved at the clash between Federal and State authority" at Newton resulting BOSTON, $Aug. 8.-(P)-A "lie detector" tonight showed that Douglas Corrigan was fooling when he said he "certainly" start- ed for California ion the flight which ended in Dublin. The "lie detector" was applied on the good natured Corrigan at a dinner honoring him by Dr. Wil- liam Moulton Marston, New York psychologist. "Because Douglas may have de- ceived himself in his flight across the Atlantic, we are offering this test of self-deception," Mayor Maurice J. Tobin said. The instrument records blood pressure in the form of a graph. A truthful statement, Dr. Marston said, was recoiided as a normal curve. 1 "Did you really start for Cali- fornia?" Dr. Marston asked Cor- rigan. The crowded hotel ballroom was hushed. "Certainly," Corrigan replied, but his voice was feeble. Dr. Marston looked at his chart. "I'm really sorry to say there is a slight rise here," he said. The crowd roared. Speech Class Debate Teams To Meet Here Six High School Teachers To Discuss British-U.S. Alliance Tomorrow Six high school debate coaches will participate in a debate at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Lecture Hall of the Graduate School. The question will be: Resolved, That the United Sta es and Great Britain Should Form an Alliance. The affirmative will be upheld by: Kenneth S. Wood, Coach of Debate at Pontiac High School; Russell V. Anderson, Coach of Debate at Ft. Thomas, Ky., and Robert G. Turner, Coach of Debate at Normal, Ill. This team will represent Prof. Carl G. Brandt's class in the Teaching and Coaching of debate. The negative will be upheld by Maurice S. Fall, coach of debate, Jackson High School; M. Harold Mikle, coach of debate at Ionia High School, and James E. Latture, coach of debate at Plymouth High School. This team represents Prof. G. E. Densmore's class in the Teaching of Speech. The question for debate is the ques- tion that will be used in the Michigan High School Debating. League for next year and is also the National High Spain Settled Renaissance Ideas' Conflict Professor Keniston Holds Spain Found A Median Between Varied Forces Cervantes' 'Quixote' TypicalOf Period' By CARL PETERSEN The capacity for achieving a syn- thesis of conflicting values was seen yesterday as the distinguishing mark of the Spanish people at the time of the Renaissance by Prof. Heywarct Keniston, speaking in conjunction with the Graduate Conference on Renaissance Studies. While the rest of Europe was locked in a terrific conflict occasioned by what is believed to be the irrecon- cilable nature of humanistic and ec- clesiastic beliefs, Spain was engaged in finding a median where these two principles each could exist in har- mony. Characteristic of the trend in that period, Professor Keniston said, is Cervante's "Don Quixote." In it are pictured two characters of opposite extremes-Quixote, the impractical mystic and Sancho Panza, the down- to-earth toiler. As Cervantes made these opposites work together, Pro- fessor Keniston said, so the Spanish, people made the opposite beliefs of humanism and ecclasiasticism work. together. The so-called "Polyglot Bible," assembled in Spain in the 16th century he indicated as an ex-, ample of the tendency. The Span- ish people put their new-found knowledge of classical languages to use in putting together the religious colossus. The devotion of Spanish artists in the early period of the Renaissance to the "Cult of Form" was cited by Professor Keniston as a characteristic of the Renaissance which was also common to the rest of Europe. Span- ish poets so worshippeduat the alter of form inr that period, he pointed out, that their work became merely mean- ingless imitations of early Italian poets. This form worship, however, he emphasized, was alienable to the' Spanish temperamentiand did not endure. Later Spanish art broke away from this practice which led only to "confusion and meaningless- ness." A second characteristic of the Ren- aissance which found its way into Spain, Professor Keniston said, was fertility of invention. The Spanish people especially concentrated this fertility in the five fields of science, religion, idealogical speculation, lit- erature and drama. In science great strides were made in physics, botany and medicine. The order of St. John of the Cross and Company of Jesus formed by St. Ignacius gave an outlet breaking away from the ancient ,for new religious expression without Catholic faith as Europe was doing at the time. The Chivalrous Ro- mance and the realistic and pastoral novel were developed by Spanish au- thors at that time, Professor Kenis- ton pointed out, and originality of plot characterized all theatrical pro- ductions of the period. LapeerMayor Dead LAPEER-(1)-funeral services will be held here Wednesday for H. R. Easton, Mayor of Lapeer, who died Monday of a cerebral hemorrhage, Easton, who came to Lapeer in 1927 from Dryden, was elected mayor last spring after serving for eight years as a member of the Lapeer County Commission. He was 59 years old. Women's Education Club Offers Play The Women's Education Club, or- ganization for women Summer Ses- sion students, will present a, play, "If The Shoe Pinches," at 7:30 p.m. today in the Alumni Room of the League. In the cast of characters for this comedy presentation written by Bab- itte Hughes will be Jean Ramsay playing the part of Veronica Pell, and Ethel Clark as Veronica's sister. Dr. Dodge, the woman physician in the production will be portrayed by Mrs. Isca Morton, while Mary Jordan will be cast as Princess Olga. Mrs. Ethel D. Hamilton will give several readings in the course of the program and Mary Nicholas is in charge of the music. Mrs. Hamilton directed the play which will be open to the general public. General chair- man of the affair is Edith L. Steele, and advertising manager is Mrs. Connie Jones. French Consul To Be Honored By French Club Invite Rainguet To Attend Banquet Closing Club's Activities For Summer Activities of the Summer Session French Club will be closed with a banquet to be held at 6:30 p.m. Thurs- day in the onion, at which M. M. Rainguet, French Consul 4t Detroit, will be the guestof honor, Mr. Charles E. Koella, of thecromance languages department, director of the club, an- nounced last night. Members of the faculty of the ro- mance languages department will speak and Mrs. Koella and Didier Graeffe, Grad., will offer musical selections, and French songs will be sung by the members in honor of the Consul's visit. Mr. Koella will act as toastmaster. A complete French menu and French decorations have been ar- ranged for the affair under the direc- tion of., Mrs, .Koella, and .it is, ex- pected that more than 70 persons will attend. "The French Club this summer has enjoyed an exceptionally successful season," Mr. Koella said last night, pointing out that the attendance at the meetings has averaged between 50 and 60 persons. Players Plan Supper Sunday Affair, Open To Public, Concludes 10th Year In celebration of the conclusion of the 10th anniversary season of the Michigan Repertory Players, there will be a Sunday night supper served in the League at 5:15 p.m. next Sun- day. All of the participants in the plays of this summer will be present on this occasion and an informal enter- tainment is being arranged. Students, members of the faculty, and Ann Ar- bor residents who are interested in the work of the Michigan Repertory Players are invited to attend. Tickets for the supper are 65 cents each and may be obtained at the main desk of the Michigan League or at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre Box office. Please secure your tickets as early as possible. Egypt Excavations Peterson's Subject Enoch E. Peterson, director of University excavations, will give an illustrated lecture on "University of. Michigan Excavations in Egypt" at 4:30 p.m. today' in the Graduate School Auditorium. .Mr. Peterson, who received his mas- ter's degree from the University, be- gan his work ,in excavations under Sir William Ramsay, eminent Scotch scholar from the University of Aber- deen. He has directed excavations in Asia Minor and Egypt. Kipke Has Margin In All-Star Voting 1 CHICAGO, Atig. 8. -(P)-A Tw " coaches who have monopolized rank e ing positions virtually throughout the . college all star football coaching poll Traffic Parley Deleeates .See Drop n Street Mishaps In '38 Dr. McClintock Advances Seven Point Program To Reduce Auto Deaths Today's Program Considers Roads By HARRY L. SONNEBORN With reduction of traffic accidents as their objective, 125 members of the first National Institute for Traf- fic Safety Training opened a 12-day session here yesterday to hear open- ing day speakers unanimously predict that loss of life on streets and high- ways in 1938 will show a major de- crease from last year's total. Dr. Miller McClintock, director of the Yale University Bureau for Street Traffic Research, declared that 25 years of experimentation had de- veloped a tested technique for re- ducing traffic accidents. The tech- nique, he said, is embodied in a sev- en-point program which includes education of the public in safety practices; adequate administrative agencies for registration, licensing, inspection and enforcement; legisla- tion based upon sound social cus- tom and intelligent engineering prin- ciples; enforcement which seeks to guide rather than to punish; engin- eering based upon operative as well as constructive features of highways, and research which aims at a safe, convenient and economical environ- ment for the modern automobile. With regard to technical training in the field of highway engineering, Dr. McClintock said, "One of the most outstanding examples of university activity in the traffic safety field is to be found here in the University of Michigan." "The Seven Point Program is.an unbeatable combination," Dr. Mc- Clintock said in summary. "With each point adequatelydeveloped andall points, coordinated, the scourge of traffic deaths and accidents, and in my mind, the equally important scourge of congestion and waste will disappear." A prediction that the traffic toll this year would be the lowest since 1928 was made by D. D. Fennell of Chicago, president of the National Safety Council, who spoke on "What Is Safety?" "These substantial reductions in deaths on the streets and highways cannot be attributed to decreased highway travel," Mr. Fennell said. "During the past six months there has been, if anything, a slight in- crease in gasoline consumed and miles traveled. . "We have excellent reason, then, for believing that the motor vehicle problem is being solved today in many communities, and I see no reason why it cannot be solved in every American community when we extend over the whole of the ceuntry the same methods and the same aggressive persistence in safety lead- ership that we have used hereto- fore," he pointed out. "Safety on the highway," Mr. Fen- nell said, "depends on the three E's-- engineering, education, and enforce- ment. It means giving the motorist and the pedestrian the safest highway (Continued on Page 3 German Club BanquetToday Event Concludes Summer Session's Activities The final event on the program of the Peutscher Verein's summer ac- tivities will be a banquet at 7 p.m. tomorrow in the Hussey Room of the League. Admission will be one dol- lar. All students of German, members of the faculty and others interested in German are cordially invited to attend. It is requested that reserva- tions be made by Tuesday noon with Miss Shabin, secretary of the Ger- man department who can be reached on University extension 788. Included on the program are Miss r Ruth Nelson, Grad., who will render a group of violin selections; Mrs. o Otto Graf, pianist, who will play a - Bach suite; Mr. Vernon B. Kellet, e 'Grad., who will offer a group of mod- , em/ German songs and Prof. Henry School question. The public is cordially attend, and there is no charge. invited to admission Japanese Steamer Joins Search For China Clipper TOKYO, Aug. 9.-(Tuesday)-()')- The Japanese steamer, Canberra Maru, reported today she was pro- ceeding to a point 150 miles northeast of Douglas Reef following currents which might have carried the Hawaii Clipper, missing in the Pacific. The Japanese vessel said she cruised five times around Douglas Reef, 800 miles south of Japan, without finding a trace of the Clipper which disap- peared July 28 while flying from ;I from the Governor's closing of a Na- tional Labor Relations Board inquiry i; I - I ( into the strike. "The revelations of the perversion of the National Guard function at Canton, Cleveland and Massilon on+ the orders of Gov. Martin L. Davey of Ohio, now being developed by Sen. Robert M. LaFollette before the Sen- ate Civil Liberties' Committee, are merely' a, few of the glaring ex- amples." By his use of armed force to settle the Maytag strike, the League con- tinued, Governor Kraschal "classified himself automatically as an instru- ment of the financial interests which had become alarmed at the pro- longed, successful stoppage of opera- tion of the Maytag plant through the strike." Wines Funeral Yesterday At Forest Hills Cemetery Funeral services for Levi D. Wines, nt~n ivtr -- A" d - -rMf".iu o" Guam to Manila with aboard. 15 persons) Largest Cast In Mendelssohn's History Offers Wagabond King' l 1 i 1 i 3 The largest chorus and cast of writer of slanderous poetry and po- principles ever assembled on the tentate of the Paris slums, through Lydia Mendelssohn stage will swing his adventures after a price has been into action at 8:30 p.m. Thursday to set upon his head for penning same present the opening performance of a poetic libel about King Louis XI of six-day: run of Rudolf Friml's op- France. The light opera has seen eretta, "The Vagabond King." various Broadway productions; not- The performance comes as the ably the one in which Dennis King appeared as Francois Villon a few grand finale to the 10th anniversary years ago. season of theRepertory Players, di- Hardin Van Duersen of the Music rected this summer by Whitford School, will take the role of Villon in Kane and Valentine B. Windt, who the current production. Mr. Va will be in charge of this performance. Duersen sang in the recent May Fes- The music for the production will tival production of "Paul Bunyan.' be supplied by the University Sym- Other members of the cast will b nhnnv under the direction of Henry Burnette Stahler. Mildred Olson