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Official Publication Of The Summer Session
VOL. XLVIIL No. 11-
ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, JULY 9, 1938
PRICE FIVE CENTS
U.S., Britain
Reach Accord
For Treatment
Of Nazi Exiles
Anglo-American Scheme
Would Make London
Capital Of New Group
Consider Creation
Of Branch Offices
EVIAN-LES-BAINES, France, July
8.-(fP)-The United States and Great
Britain were understood to have
reached a tentative agreement re-
garding a permanent international
committee to assist refugees from
greater Germany.
The Anglo-American plan, it was
said in well-informed quarters at the
32-nation Intergovernmental Refu-
gee Conference in session here, would
provide:
1. That the headquarters of the
organization would be in London in-
stead of in Paris, as first suggested.
2. That it remain free of close af-
filiation witn existing refugee groups
organized under auspices of the
League of Nations.
3. For an American head, provid-
ing Washington's permission could.
be obtained.
4 Nations Represented
The United States, Great Britain,
'rance, Argentina and Brazil would
be represented on the permanent
committee.
Possibility of creating branch of-
fices in the various European capi-
tals also was under consideration,
especially in those where the refugee
problem is serious or likely to become
$o.
Approval of the Anglo-American
plan by the Intergovernmental Con-
fernce, which was called by Presi-
dent Roosevelt, would pave the way
for possible negotiations with Ger-
many to hasten and systematize em-
igration of German and Austrian
Jews, it was said.
The delegates reported that Ger-
man officials had tentatively offered
t6. allow Austrian Jews to leave with
20 per cent of their goods as an in-
ducement to speed up emigration for
more than 50,000 planning to quit
Austrian Germany before the end of
the year.
McDonald Is Mentioned
James G. McDonald of New York,
chairman of President Roosevelt's
committe for refugees, was mentioned
in conpmitte circles as a possibility for
director of the proposed London or-
ganization. McDonald from 1933-35
was League of Nations high commis-
sioner for refugees from Germany.
Anglo-American agreement on
London as headquarters for the pro-
jected permanent organization was
reported to have followed a desire by
French delegates to limit France's
participation because her financial
outlay for German, Austrian and
Spanish refugees already was enor-
mous.
British Peace
Moves Balked
By Arab Strike
12-Year-Old Girl Charged
With Bombing Of Bus
Filled With Arab Folk
JERUSALEM, July 8-G)-A wave
of Arab strikes spread through Pales-
tine today, complicating the prob-
lem of British authorities endeavor-
ing Ito'crush a'bloody outbreak of
Jewish-Arab guerrilla warfare.
A spontaneous strike movement be-
gan immediately after a new incident
in a swift series of outrages-a bomb
explosion at Jerusalem's Jaffa gate
in which four Arabs were killed and
36 wounded.
Three Jews and a 12-year-old
schoolgirl were arrested following the
explosion. Arab bystanders alleged
the girl threw the bomb, which tore
apart a bus filled with Arab country-
folk.
The blast brought total casualties
in nine days of rapidly mounting
terror to 37 killed and 150 injured.
It was the gravest outbreak in recent
Palestine history.
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Scientists Safe
At Lee's Ferry
Will Start Second Leg
Of JourneyToday
LEE'S FERRY, Ariz., July 8-P-
Six death-defying adventurers, their
food supply exhausted, sailed into
this outpost of civilization today-
victors over 300 turbulent miles of
that 'menacing river called the Colo-
rado.
Two women botanists and foui
men, tired but determineo, rested
here tonight-in beds for the first
time in 18 thrill-filled, dangerous
days of sailing from Green River,
Utah, to this Northern Arizona ham-
let in untried, homemade, motorless
boats.
Tomorrow the battle against twist-
ing currents and rapids will begin
anew with their ultimate goal Lake
Mead, behind Boulder Dam in Ne-
vada, 666 miles from Green River.
Women Say 'Swell'
To bespectacled Alzada Clover, 40-
year-old University of Michigan bot-
anist, and her tall, athletic-type as-
sistant. Miss Louise Jotter, 25, the
voyage to this point was "exciting"
but "swell."
They belittled such nerve-wrack-
ing experiences as:
Losing a boat.-;
Spending a chilly night alone on
the river bank.
An overturned craft which shot
one of their number into the flood-
stage stream.
Wild animals crying weirdly at
night.
Guiding frail boats over foaming
rapids which pounded against tower-
ing cliffs.
Watching a food supply dwindle to
virtually nothing while traveling
through an uninhabited wilderness.
"We had swell time," the women
chorused as they stepped to shre
here, ending several days of eager
watching by a handful of persons.
Men Are Jubilant
The men, Riverman Norman D.
Nevills of Mexican Hat, Utah, the
leader; Eugene Atkinson, University
of Michigan geologist; Don Harris
of Soda Springs, Idaho, a U. S. Geo-
logical Surveygemploye, and artist-
photographer W. C. Gibson of San
Francisco, were jubilant that the first
leg of the journey was successful.
Miss Jotter spent one cold night
alone on the banks of the river, hem-
med in by precipitous cliffs.
After 120 miles of calm sailing
down the green river, the craft were
caught in an eddy at the junction
with the might Colorado.
Beached after a terrific fight
against swift currents and whirlpools,
one empty boat broke away. Leaving
Miss Jotter on shore the other ad-
venturers rowed after the wayward
craft.
The boat was retrieved at night-
fall, but the party spent the night
in groups of two, three and one-Miss
Jotter.
Dr. Hu Shih
Traces Rise
Of Literature
Scholar Ends Stay Here
By Describing Evolution
Of' Chinese Language
Calls Chinese Most
Developed Tongue
By ELLIOT MARANISS
The living, spoken language of the
Chinese people is not only the most
rational and highly developed in the
world, but has also served as' the
basis for the Chinese literary rennais-
sance which broke through the ar-
tificiality and incongruity of classical
Chinese to create a vital and sincere
literature, Dr. Hu Shih said yester-
day in the fourth of a series of lec-
tures being given in conjunction with
the Institute of Far Eastern Studies.
Dr. Hu concluded his stay here by
delineating the effects of the Em-
pire and the recent contact with
foreign influence, the two major
themes of all his lectures, upon the
language and literature of the Chi-
nese people. In his previous lec-
tures Dr. Hu had outlined the in-
fluence of the great philosophers of
China's period of intellectual ma-
turity upon the political organiza-
tion of the Empire, the traditions of
unity and nationalism that Empire
engendered for 21 centuries, and the
resurgence of those nationalistic
feelings, as well as a newer demo-
cratic passion, that intercourse with
modern civilization fostered.
Although classical Chinese had
become dead by the Second Cen-
tury B. C., Dr. Hu said, two forces, a
united Empire which needed one lan-
guage for official communications,
and a unique system of civil service
examinations which required a mas-
tery of classical Chinese as the sole
qualification for public service, en-
abled the apparently dead language
to linger for the 21 centuries of Em-
pire life.
Yet throughout this entire period,
Dr. Hu maintained, while the pedants
and grammarians still gnawed at the
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Angell Hall Observatory
Open To Visitors Tonight
The Angell Hall observatory will
be open from 8 to 10 p.m. tonight,
when, weather permitting, persons
interested will be able to view the
moon through the telescopes.
The elevator will be running from
the ground floor to take thenvisitors
to the fourth floor and observatory.
Other dates when the observatory
will be open are: July 16 and July 22
when Venus and the stars will be
visible; Aug. 5 and 6 when the moon
will be visible; Aug. 13 when Jupiter
will be visible.
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Japan Uses Frugality
To Mark Anniversary
TOKIO, July 8.- (/') -J a p a n
marked the first anniversary of hos-
tilities with China by war-time fru-
gality today. Special lunches cost-
ing 12 sen (three cents) were eaten
throughout the empire. Even Cab-
inet members and highest military
and naval officers made their re-
past of one ball of rice about the size
of a grapefruit with a sour pickle
imbedded in the center, and drank
water instead of tea.
Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye
had an extra pickle, and remarked
he "extravagantly" spent 131/2 sen
for his repast.
Another phase of the day was the
"one-family, one-donation" duty to
which the government called the
people. Each household was re-
quired as a patriotic rite to give the
government one piece of metal-no
matter how small or of what type.
Throughout the day, thousands
made solemn pilgrimages to military
shrines where, according to the Shin-
to belief, still live the souls of men
killed in battle.
500 Attracted
B yDr. Cook's
Cancer Lecture
Coal Tar Research Trials
Revealed By Authority
In TalkYesterday
By BcTSEY ANDERSON
More than 500 attended the lecture
on "Cancer-Producing Compounds
and their Chemical Relationships"
given yesterday afternoon in the
large amphitheatre in the Chemistry
Building by Dr. J. W. Cook of the
Research Institute of the Royal Can-
cer Hospital of London, England.
The results of experiments to iso-
late from coal tar the compound re-
sponsible for the cancer-producing
action and the effect of a host of com-
pounds subsequently synthesized and
tested on mice was the subject of 'Dr
Cook's lecture. The entire lecture was
illustrated by slides and blackboard
diagrams.
Dr.Cook and his co-workers at the
Royal Cancer Hospital started with
the clues that workmen exposed to
coal tar, especially in the case of
chimney sweeps, were apt to develop
cancer. They examined certain frac-
tions of oils in coal tar production
and found they possessed characteris-
tic fluorescene spatia.
Using this fact as a guide, they in-
vestigated the structure and synthesis
of carcenogenic compounds. For the
most part they found these com-
nounds to be inert hydrocarbons and
Labels are numbered chronologically.
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Japan Protests
Anti-Japanese
Bombing Raid
Military Officials Demand
Preventive Action Fron
International Settlement
SHANGHAI, July 8.-VP)-Japanese1
military officials today demanded
that the Municipal Council of the
International Settlement "immed-
iately undertake steps to prevent a
recurrence" of anti-Japanese terror-
ism which resulted in death of two3
of their nationals.t
The protest was delivered through1
the Japanese consul general and was
the second to be lodged by Japanese
following yesterday's outbreak of
shootings and bomb throwings as the
Chinese-Japanese war entered its sec-
ond year.
More than 15 bombs were thrown
in the guerrilla attacks within the
settlement and two Chinese, besides
the Japanese, were killed.
Setttlement authorities rounded up
nearly 1,000 suspected Chinese in an
effort to suppress the terrorist activi-
ties and instituted a stringent patrol
by troops, police and foreign volun-
teer corps.
Military forces marked time on
most fronts. Japanese said their na-
val forces were conducting mine
sweeping operations below Kiukiang,
135 miles from Hankow on the Yang-
tze River, preparatory to a fresh
thrust at the Chinese provisional cap-
ital.
Six Chinese bombers attacked Ja-
panese warships on the river near
Nanking late today. According to
Japanese accounts one of the bombers
was shot down and the others flew
away.
Chinese guerrillas, however, raided
Japanese lines far and wide.
City Team Wins
First Matches
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Japan Warns
Powers Ships
Are In Danger
SHANGHAI, July 9-(Saturday)-
()-Japanese authorities warned the
United States and other neutral pow-
ers today that neutral vessels and
citizens along an 80-mile stretch of
the Yangtze river were endangered by
spreading warfare.
The warning, in memoranda sent
to diplomatic representatives of the
neutral powers, stressed the "desir-
ability of voluntary evacuation" along
the Yangtze between Pukow, opposite
Nanking, and Wanghsikong, halfway
to Hankow, China's provisional capi-
tal.
In particular it cautioned against
remaining in the 80-mile stretch
above Kiukiang, 135 miles down-
stream from Hankow.
The announcement referred to pre-
vious communications asking evacu-
ation of river stretches, which Amer-
ican and British authorities had re-
jected, and declared Japanese "re-
gretted" the replies which pointed out
the neutral naval vessels had their
flags painted on awnings.
The statement said such identifi-
cation was insufficient and contained
an element of danger.
The memorandum repeated prev-
ious requests that foreign powers
paint their vessels in special colors.
In Shanghai itself disturbance
broughthanother source of friction
with Japanese.
VibrationAired
By Den Hartog
New Dealers'
Candidacies
Are Indorsed
By President
Bulkley, Ohio; Barkley,
Kentucky; Get FDR's
Blessings For Election
President Unveils
Monument In Ohio
ABOARD PRESIDENT ROOSE-
VELT'S TRAIN ENROUTE TO
OKLAHOMA CITY, July 8-(P)-
President Roosevelt indorsed today
the candidates of New Deal Demo-
cratic Senators Bulkley of Ohio and
Barkley of Kentucky in speeches be-
fore cheering crowds in the two
states.
In the first speech of his cross-
coutry tour in the morning at Mari-
atta, O., he twice mentioned the name
of Senator Bulkley and gave a clear
indication of his preference. Bulkley
is opposed by former Governor
George White.
At Covington, Ky., in mid-after-
noon the president had strong words
of praise for Senator Barkley but
tempered them with compliments for
Gov. A. B. Chandler, opposing Bark-
ley in the August 6 -primary.
Later at Louisville from the rear
of the train Mr. Roosevelt gave Sena-
tor Barkley a verbal pat on the back
but didn't mention Chandler's name.
He said he wanted to express appre-
ciation of Barkley's efforts in helping
the Administration to meet national
problems. He said that "we need
men of a national experience" to
meet these problems.
Surrounded by thousands at Mari-
etta at the unveiling of a monument
to pioneer settlers of Ohio, he told his
listeners he was "pushing on" like
the pioneer to find a solution to social
and economic problems and express-
ed the hope "you will push on with
me."
Cranbrook Trip
Will Be Made
This Afternoon
Group Of 45 Scheduled To
Visit Cranbrook Schools
In Suburban Detroit
Upwards of 45 people are expected
to make the University excursion to
the Schools of the Cranbrook Foun-
dation in Bloomfield Hills residential
section north of Detroit this after-
noon.
The Cranbrook Schools, begun two
years ago, were opened to the public
in May of this year, and are
called the "most beautiful group of
private schools in the Middle West."
The school buildings, five in num-
ber, are the Cranbrook School for
Boys, the Kingswood School for Girls,
the Brookside School for Children,
the Cranbrook Academy of Arts, and
the Cranbrook Institute of Science.
The schools were built through a gift
from Mr. and Mrs. George G. Booth
of Detroit. Mr. Booth is the head of
the Booth Syndicate newspapers.
The schools are named after a simi-
lar group of schools in England.
Noted in particular for the excep-
tional beauty of their surroundings
the Cranbrook Schools will be the ob-
jectives of this fourth excursion to be
conducted by the University this sum-
mer.
LANSING, July 8.-(P)-New rulesi
and regulations for the application of
the sales tax were announced today
by Draper Allen, managing director
of the State Board of Tax Adminis-
tration. Major changes covered com-
mercial advertising, laundries and dry
cleaners, and lumber dealers and
building and trade contractors.
Under the new rules, Allen said,
printed and lithographed material,
signs, billboards, posters, commercial
photography and Neon signs adver-
tising a particular product are ex-
empt from the sales tax except when
used for identification purposes. Pre-
viously, printing and lithographed
material produced upon special order
of the customer obtained the only ex-
emption.
Desk calendars, pencils, key rings
and similar advertising matter which
have an intrinsic value are taxable
now on the intrinsic value alone.
Magazines and house organs pub-
lished to convey sales promotion news
and employe information are exempt
only when produced upon special or-
der of the customer.
Sales of coal, power, soap, blueing
and starch to laundries and dry
cleaners were previously }exempt but
Allen said a recent court\ ruling had
held these items taxable.
The new rule on lumber dealersE
ing work. Contractors with a regu-
larly established retail store who are
also engaged in contracting are liable
to tax on all sales, although allowed
certain deductions. Contractors en-
gaged solely in contractual work are
not required to procure a sales tax
license or make a monthly tax return
but sales to them are taxable.
Westinghouse Men
Will Lecture Here
R. E. Peterson of the Mechanics
Division of the Westinghouse Elec-
tricity and Manufacturing Co., Stew-
art Way from the Research Labora-
tories of the same firm, and R. P.
Kroon from the Experimental Divi-
sion of the same firm will be the lec-
turers to speak today before the third
weekly meeting of the engineering
mechanics Symposium on the Proper-
ties of Metals, being held here this
summer under the direction of Prof.
Stephen Timoshenko of Stanford'
University.
Mr. Peterson has chosen "New De-
velopments in Fatigue Tests wtih Ap-
plications to Machine Design" as his
subject. Mr. Way will discuss "New
Developmgnts in Fatigue Tests with
l Applications to Machine Design,"
Special Lecture
On Elimination.
Is Given
Devices
"Recent Developments in Dynamic
Wayne
Are
And River Rouge
Teams Defeated
Vibration Elimination Devices" was
the subject of a special lecture given
by Prof. J. P. Den Hartog of Har-
vard University yesterday afternoon
in ' the West Engineering Building.'
Professor Den Hartog, who is here.
in connection with the Symposium on
the Properties of Metals, being held
this summer by the department of
engineering mechanics in the College
of Engineering, discussed vibration
and the methods of removing it.
His talk mainly concerned the three
torsion vibration dampers. The first
type he said is a mass or a spring
attached to another spring, which
can be' tuned to have a natural fre"
quency equal to its disturbance field.
This device absorbs all disturbance
AnA krane the motion nf the machine
The Ann Arbor tennis team, now
entering into its third week of com-
petition in the Southeastern Michigan
Tennis League, captured its first two
matches by downing Wayne, 7-2, and
River Rouge, 8-1.
Six cities, Wayne, River Rouge,
Monroe, Wyandotte, Ypsilanti and
Ann Arbor, have entered teams and
these six clubs will engage in 10 home
and home matches. Each team will
DeWitt Clinton Railway ,
Model Exhibited Here
A small model of the De Witt Clin-
ton Railway, claimed to be the first
railway in the country, was recently
lent to the Transportation l4ibr'ary by
Frank H. Smith, it was announced
yesterday.
Mr. Smith, a native of Fayettesville,
Ark., who was enrolled in Wayne
University during the school year,,
built the, railway himself in exact
replica on a smaller scale at a cost
of $1,000. The train will be on ex-
hibition in the library this week.
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