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i 1 I. A 'i VU NO. 260, THE DAILY MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1931. IHAHATHA WILL TAKE PART IN CONFERENCE, India, Aug. I M6hatma Gandhi has agreed to I takfe Bftrt in the second round table conference and will sail I for England Saturday, It was of- I liciaUy announced today.

I 'The announcement that loahdhi would attend the con- Iference came after a talk he I had with Viceroy Wlllingdon morning. It was said lo have 'been highly satisfactory land that the conclusions would be Issued in communique form. I Gandhi is leaving at once for I Bombay. I The Mahatma had previously he would not attend the unless the viceroy an impartial arbitration board to hear his charges that duress had been used in revenue taxes from peasants. he has waived that de- Imand, accepting the viceroy's I assurance that the government Will try hi the future as it has tried in the past to observe every clause of the Delhi truce.

Mahatma's decision brings a sudden end to protracted disputes between himself and the government and It means that all the political groups in India will toe represented at the London confer-. 'When Gandhi emerged from the viceregal palace he waived 1 his hand to the cheers of the crowd waiting outside, then gathering his homespun shawl him, set off afoot over long mountain road to his owrf dwelling. I jndbergti Predicts Air Line Over Pacific As Future Possibility TOKYO. Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh expresjscdon 1 here that an air line across the Pacific is a possibility of the future.

"But," said the colonel, "the I sceme would require much more study. It Is entirely feasible pro- I vided traffic demands justify it. The route, I should say, would i further south than the one s- followed." "Besiege dby 35 reporters uport reaching the residence of Dr. B. Teusler, where they will reside while here, Colonel and Mrs.

Lindbergh received them and a group of photographers. The colonel was wearing a crumpled white linen suit and Mrs. Lindbergh wore a white jacket suit edged with black and had shoes to match. She occupied a fan-shaped marilla chair and the colonel stood at her side. In front of them were 10 flood lights and, an operator brought from 1 a theater for the benefit of the photographers.

Season for Hunting Ducks Is Shortened One Month by Hoover WASHINGTON, Aug. i-The hunting season on ducks, vhose numbers have been seriously depleted by drought, was shortened to one month Tuesday by a proclamation Issued by President Hoover. The'proclamation also, applies to geese, brant and coots throughout the United States and Alaska. Canadian authorities are expected by the biological survey to take similar action soon. In the northern part of the United States, except Alaska, the season, under the new regulations, will open Oct.

1, and close Oct. 31. In the south the season opens Nov. 18 and closes Dec. 15, except in Florida, where it will begin Nov.

20, and continue until Dec. 19. The Alaskin season dill be from Sept. 1 to Sept. 30.

'The seasons on jack snipe, sora, woodcock and doves have not been changed. Couzens Is 59 Today. DETROIT, Aug. (IP) James Couzens today celebrated his 59th birthday by coming to work early at his Birmingham office. Forty Big Rapids Golfers to Play at Lincoln Hills Forty Big Rapids golfers will invade Lincoln Hills golf course tomorrow in an effort to repeat their victory over the locals early this season.

it will be the first time a Big Rapids golf team has visited this city. Sunday Lincoln Hills golfers entertain Manlstee in a return match on the local grounds. DESTITUTE SHANGHAI, Aug. Authoritative estimates of the death toll from floods in central China still were lacking today, but unofficial figures placed the loss of life at 25,000 to 200,000 in Hupeh province alone. An area of many thousands of square miles 'between Nanking and the tri-cities of Hankow, Wuchang and Hanyang is submerged, only the tops of hills rising above the murky waters.

Tens of millions of persons are absolutely destitute, and it is feared many more thousands must perish before the waters subside. Although the Yangtse river at 'Hankow continues to subside from its record high level, its still boiling current carries away ts daily quota of more than 1,000 bodies. 'Human Personality' Subject of Address By Bishop Monday New Nbn-Partisan Government Is Preparing to Cut 1 $600,000,000 from Budget (Platform Is Virtually Same as That on Which Labot Government Fell. LONDON, Aug. Ramsay MacDonald.

became, in a manner of sneaking, a British dictator today as he presided over the first cabinet meeting of the new non-paiti- san government which is preparing to cut $600.000,000 from the budget expenditures. Charged by. the king with forming the emergency government, the prime minister holds his post of power as an individual but not as representative of organized labor which is now marshalling solid opposition to itri former leader. Little Change in Platform. The program which he laid out ftir his ministers today was not much different from that which he and Chancellor Philip Snowden tried to force through with the labor government.

The platform of the ne.w ministry virtually the same as that on which the labor government split and fell. It is proposed that the greater part of the money needed to balance the budget be made available by reducing expenses instead of bv increasing taxes. Probably the largest economy will be made by cutting the weekly unemolovment dole bv 10 percent. Another (Continued on Page 3, Col. 3.) as his subject "Increase Human.

Blshdp Robert Nelson Spencer of Epworth Heights and Kansas City delivered a stirring address to members of Ludington Exchange club Monday, following their luncheon at Lincoln Hills. Bishop Spencer declared there are but two great things in the universe, the Makerof universe, and human personality. He centered his talk about the book written by Rev. Lloyd Douglass of Montreal, Quebec, "The Magnificent Obsession." From this fictitious story of great surgeon Bishop Spencer drew many lessons. The speaker was introduced by H.

F. King who, with E. C. Hardy, had charge of the program. Joseph Sahlmark and J.

W. Beiger will have charge of next Moni day's program, luncheon again to be held at Lincoln Hills. Detroit Salesman, Iowa School Girl Win Trapshooting 'Commodore' Mercereau, 50 Years In P.M. Service, Will Retire September 1st PRICE THREE CENTS raDEBANZA GREETS LINDBERGH AND ANNE AT TOKYO The Weather. For Ludington and vi- cinity: Partly cloudy to cloudy tonight, becoming fair Thursday; not much change in temperature; gentle to moderate winds, mostly east to south.

Veteran; Marine Authority to i X-i'-ii-''. -r- 'i i i i T'' be Succeeded by L. H. Kent, Now Chief Engineer. W.

L. Mercereau, superintendent of Pere Marquette carferry fleet for the past 31 years, will retire from active service Tuesday, Sept. 1. He will be succeeded by Leland H. Kent, chief engineer.

These changes in personnel of the Ludington terminal were ap- Mashes of (By The Associated Press.) federal Investigation Seen in Bond Case LANSING, Aug. (ff) suggestion that a federal investigation of the Federal Bond Mortgage Co. of Detroit to i -possibllity of an alleged mall fraud was laid before Gregory H. Frederick, assistant United States district attorney in De-. troit, today, by Prosecutor John be Wendell Bird of Lansing.

i Bird has been engaged in the One trouble with.me is that grand jury investiga- I've got a funny face and am £ion of the company in the Ing- reC gniZed eaSUy have been remarKea. nofc vioiations of our state Walker New York, would like to Haroun Al Raschid. VANDALIA, Aug. An 18-year-old Iowa school girl and a Detroit automobile salesman stood today at the head of the amateur trapshooting ranks of America. Karl Maust, Detroit, who sells automobiles as a vocation, shot his way out of a four- way tie to capture the men's North American clay target championship in the feature event Monday of the 32nd Annual Grand American Trapshooting tournament of the Amateur Trapshooters' association.

To Jeanette Jay, 18, of Waverly, went the North American woman's crown. Miss Jay, a student of Wartburg college and Iowa state champion, shaj- tered 191 pigeons out of a possible 200. Maust gave one of the most remarkable and brilliant exhibitions of shooting ever to grace the Grand American. In the shoot-off Maust shattered 150 consecutive targets. Bank to Reorganize.

BIG RAPIDS, Aug. A meeting of depositors was to be held here tonight with banking officials to effect a plan of reorganization for the Citizens State bank of Big Rapids, which closed its door Friday. Closing of the bank was credited by its officials to continued heavy withdrawals that endangered the interests of depositors. ft) Vaudeville Night at Rainbow Gardens Thursday Night, August 27. Several Clever Acts from Epworth Heights and Ludington.

The Misses Evelyn Livingston and Hester Holmes of Detroit in a feature dancing act. Vaudeville from 10:45 to 11:30 Dancing before and after. Admission S55c his many medals and decorations in public. "I wouldn't them on my nightshirt," he confided to a girl interviewer, "but I don't believe in parading them around by day." BUTLER, soft wood won't hurt so much. Anyway the school board has issued specifications for paddles to be used on the school kids.

Prosecutor The paddles must be made of soft pine and not more than one-quarter inch thick. defraud and possibly violations of other federal statutes," Bird wrote Frederick. "It has occurred to me that you may wish to begin a federal investigation by grand jury or otherwise for the purpose of determining such violations as may come within the jurisdiction of the United States courts," the The Herbert Hoover, largest Diesel- powered towboat built, has been put In service at New Orleans. The craft A regulation paddlp was or- i ls 21S feet lon nucl 43 5 feet wide with dered after a teacher was haled 2 20 horse owpr to court for using a heavy one. The death of Isaac N.

Gamertsfelder, automobile resulting accident from an near the Nickelson corners Tuesday morning, is like the shattering of a sturdy oak in the prime ot its strength by a bolt from the blue. Dr. Gardner, State College Expert, Declares Fruit Outlook Is Good. Successful Orchard Tour Is Held Under Direction of Harold J. Larsen.

TOKYO, Aug. Col, and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergtt today reached the official minus of their 7,132 mile flight from New York to Tokyo, ing amid a thunder of cheers atf Kasumigaura naval base, 50 miles form here, after a 613 mile, hop from Nemuro. Bringing their piane to the, surface of the naval base lagoon The orchard tour conducted Tuesday under direction of Harold J.

Larsen, county agricultural agent, and the Mason County as- sqciatlon, started at 10 o'clock In the morning at the R. J. Fitch horticultural farm with a number of interested fruit men and a few ladles In the company. They tramped over the orchard, following the fruit spe-, cialists, R. V.

Gardner, head of the horticultural department of Michigan State college, and Donald Cation, assistant in that department of the college" extension bureau, and were intent upon their comments on trees in the- great orchards. Picnic Dinner Enjoyed, The next visit was to Fred Peterson orchards. there they "went' SummiVESWn- ship park, where Wesley Hawley had preceded them With a company of women who had prepared a sumptuous dinner. Grace was said at the dinner by Rev. Stephen Herban.

After dinner all gathered on the hill where Mr. welcomed everybody and suggest- Family and are stun-led, as a means of extending the benefits of these tours and of ned and dazed by the suddenness of it and cannot yet realize that this beloved member of their group is gone. Was Born in Ohio. Izaac N. Gameresf elder was born 62 years ago in county, and there grew to manhood and was married in 1890 to Miss Emma Oswaldt, who survives.

For a time they lived on the parental 'farm where he had spent his boyhood. They then Mason county and set- farm inRiverton power. came to tled on a near where is now the West and also near the farm homes of his brothers. That was 30 years ago (Continued on Page 3, Col. 3.) SUPT.

W. L. MERCEREAU. proved by R. J.

Bowman, vice president of the line. Announcement was made Tuesday afternoon by Mr, Mercereau on receipt of the official bulletin from the Detroit office. Remains in Advisory Capacity. Mr. Mercereau, the bulletin reads, will be retained by the Pere Marquette In an advisory capacity.

He will continue his residence in Ludington. Two years ago Mr. Mercereau asked to be retired, but now, after spending nearly a half cen- (Continued on Page 4, Col. 7.) Mate Won't Start in Saratoga Race SARATOGA Aug. SPRINGS, N.

-The race which was to settle the question of turf supremacy for 1931 is off so far as Mate, one of the three contenders, Is concerned. A. C. Bostwick, owner of the year's leading three-year old, announced Tuesday that Mate would not start against Twenty Grand and Sun Beau in the Saratoga Cup race Selpt. 5.

The scratching of Mate leaves Twenty Grand, the Kentucky Derby winner which lost two out of three decisions to Mate, and Sun Beau, Willis Sharpe Kilmer's six-year-old veteran which has, raced impressively this year to become the world's greatest money winning horse, as the N. The champion lemonade makers hereabouts are boys. A team of six boys won over as many girls at the Mer county fair when a third judge callf.d to break a deadlock decided that the girls' concoction was too sweet. PHILADELPHIA Grove Cleveland Alexander, manager of the House of David baseball club, has a clause in his contract calling for 25 cents a day for a shave. He sees that he gets both the money House and the of David shave.

The players are known by their luxurious beards and unshorn locks. grand piano, radio, harmonium, syinnet and records are all combined in a new musical instrument which Prof. Walther Nernst, winner of the 1920 nobel prize in chemistry, helped design- The sounds are produced electrically and amplified through a loud speaker. ST. LOUIS From Connie Mack comes a hot and very definite tip on the world series.

"Two teams have an excellent American Girl Becomes Disciple Of Mahatma, Leads Life Of Service By JAMES A. HULLS, (Associated Press Staff Correspondent.) AHMEDABAD, India, Aug. 26. (JP) the pleasures of the world, Miss Nilla Cram Cook, daughter of the late George Cram Cook. American poet and playright, has joined Mahatma Gandhi's movement for the liberation of India.

She is the first American to be admitted to his "Ashram" or model colony, conducted by India's holy man on the banks of the sacred Sbarmati river. She arrived recently from Greece where she played prominent- parts in the Delphic festival and where her father died among the shepherds of Mount Parnassus. Spends 2 Years in Convent. For two vears Miss Cook, who is only 21, has lived in a convent to prepare herself for the life of asceticism, sacrifice and service leading contenders for the cup. of the city chance "he said "Mv club and which she will lead as a member chance, My club and Gandhi slst She will have as a companion Miss Madeline Slade, the Mahatma's English attendant, and disciple.

She speaks Sanskrit and other Oriental languages as fluently as she does English, having been educated by the king's tutors in Greece. She is a girl of striking beauty and classic Greek mold and she dresses in graceful, flowing robes of ancient Greece, wears sandals and goes bareheaded. "Jt is for the ideals of Gandhi, master Yogi of the world." she (Continued ou Page 5, Col. 3.) the Cardinals, MOSCOW Soviet archaeologists, with the aid of divers, have discovered the ruins of an ancient city beneath the waters of the Black sea. The wall, towers and houses are believed to be remains of the City of Khersoness, which existed between the fourth and second centuries B.

Sinking of the shore on the southwestern extremity of the Crimean peninsula is believed to have caused the disappearance 5,082,025 Persons of Foreign White Stock in New York WASHINGTON, Aug. (fP) The census bureau today announced that the total number of persons of foreign white stock in New York City April 1, 1930, was 5,082,025, comprising 2,293,400 foreign -born white persons and 2,788,625 native whites of foreign or mixed uarentage. The whole number of foreign born white persons in New York in 1930 was 15.2 percent greater than the number (1,991,547) in 1920. The bureau also announced that in the state of New York in 1930, there were 3,191.549 for- eien-born whites as comoared to 2,786,112 in 1920. Of the 1930 foreign born whites, 1.750,939 were naturalized, 305,873 had their first citizenship papers and 1.020,782 were aliens, while 113,955 were unclassified.

For the city of New York, Italy led in 1930 white stock in the number of with 1.070,355 persons, of whom 440,250 were foreign born and 630,105 were native born whites of foreign or mixed parentage. Russia was second with. 945.072, of whom 442,431 were foreign and. 502,641 were native born. Germany came third with 600,084 of whom 237,588 were foreign and 362,496 were native born.

the horticultural association, that invitation to these meetings be extended to all who have fruit on their farms even just a few trees. Mr. Hawley introduced Donald Cation, research plant pathologist. Mr. Cation expressed his pleasure at being with this group of intelligent fruit growers.

He had been impressed, he said, by the freedom of the orchards inspected from many of the diseases one might expect to find. For at 2:09 p. m. (12:09 a. m.

Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergn stepped ashore to receive the first of Japan's greetings from Admiral Abo, minister of the navy. Sailors Hold Crowd Back. The crowd surged forward, hoping for a close-up view ol the famous couple, but sailors held it back. The Lindberghs seemed somewhat shy at first; but after shaking hands with Admiral Abo, W.

Cameron; Forbes, American ambassador, and other officials, and seeing their plane receiving careful attention at the hands of 60 Sailors they appeared at ease. In greeting the Lindberghs Admiral Abo paid tribute to the colonel for his nonstop flight from New York to Paris in adding: "I am heartily glad for the opportunity of meeting ally such a gallant figure Lindbergh in my own country 4 and esoecially in our naval air- 3 port." Then, smilingly turning to Mrs. Lindbergh, he praised her as the first woman to fly across the north Pacific ocean said: "We have the greatest admiration and respect for your cour- age and endurance, Mrs. Lindc bergh, in accompanying fi husband on this hazardou route over which you route over which come." Strengthens Nations' Relations. Referring to the Lindbergh as messengers of peace, the admiral said their visit 'to Japan (Continued on Page 5, Col.

4 Franklin i And Tammany Hall At Parting of Ways ALBANY, N. Aug. strict party of eight to five, the judicK ary committee of the New York senate voted today to; report favorably the two, bills recommended Gpv-, ernor conferring, upon the Hofstadter legis-, lative committee investigating the affairs of the city of New York the power to grant immunity to witnesses. instance there was almost entire absence of apple scab, that Tammany Hall have reached thfe ALBANY, N. Aug.

26, Franklin D. Roosevelt, -democrat tic governor of New York, and bane of the apple grower. This showed careful watching and spraying. He told of an experiment on the college farms where unsprayed trees deevloped scab, demonstrating how serious it may become if not watched. They had found on peach trees examined some infected with the virus diseases of "little peach," "yellows" and "red suture," diseases about which little is known.

Experiments demonstrate that the virus injected Into a healthy tree by budding takes about four years to develop. Whether the same virus produces all of these (Conintued on Page 5, Col. 4.) Won't Hold Inquest Gamertsfelder Death Coroner Ben F. Elms has decided that an inquest should not be held into the death of Isaac Gamertsfelder. Testimony of survivors has shown that the accident resulted from failure to stop at the highway, the coroner states.

Condition of Jacob tt parting of the ways. Angered because the governor Tuesday refused their; request for an 'investigation of graft and corruption in republican controlled cities upstate, Senator John J. anq Assemblyman Irwin Steingut, democratic leaders, said they would "fight to the last the recomendation of Mr. Roosevelt that the Hofstadter committee investigating New York: be empowered to grant immun 5 ity to witnesses. The governor, in his read at the opening of the spec- 1 lal session, confined mendations to the broadening of the power of the Hofstadtej! committee, thus closing the door to any effort by democratic who was feared to have suffered a fractured pelvis, Is reported improved.

Eriksen Sons' Big Wall Paper and Paint Sale now going over fast. Be here tomorrow for some of the. Specials at Unheard of minority to introduce bills ing toward investigations of upstate communities. Under the provisions of the state constitution only such matters as may be recommended by the governor may be considered at extraordinary sessions of the legislature. Raw cabbage rated by the of home economics 4-ianult) and to i orange Juice and tomatoes as one of the richest sources of Vltamlu thfl antiscorbutic vitamin.

Tomorrow morning on opening, to the first customer buying a room size of Wall Paper, Free, One Quart of Flo-Enamel. Eriksen Sons, Tonight and Tomorrow LYRIC "Never the Twain Shall Meet" The dynamic power of Peter fl. Kyp in hte vivid adventurous romance with the tang of thft South Seas. And Comedy and Sound News. Admission 40c and I0c,.