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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
TIYRSD9AY, MARCU15, !?45
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Senate Passes State Aid
Bill for Michigan Cities
Democrats Oppose Measure as Republicans
Warn : 'You Better Take This, or Nothing'
By The Associated Press
LANSING, March 14-A new 10
per cent tax on packaged liquor,
keystone in a legislative program -to
provide -state aid for local units of
government, passed the Senate today
with only five Democratic senators
opposing it.
The measure, estimated to bring in
$10,000,000 on the basis of this year's
liquor sales, would return the money
to counties, cities and villages on a
population formula,
Democrats Oppose Bill
Beating off attempts by Democrats
State Officials
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Agree ToWor
Onl Slo'w tin
Iove To Stop Aid to
Istitutions on EWT
. By The Associated Press
LANSING, March 14-State offi-
cials agreed tonight to go along with
the legislature in turning the clocks
of all state departments back an
hour to slow time at midnight Sat-
urday, regardless of whether the city
of Lansing remains on Eastern War
(fast) Time, as an apparently ill-
starred move got under way in the
legislature to withhold state aid from
schools which do not comply with
the time change.
Rep. T. Jefferson Hoxie, St. Louis
Republican, introduced a concur-
rent resolution seeking to have the
legislature request the auditor gen-
eral to withhold all state aid pay-
ments to school districts failing to
go on slow time, and to withhold
appropriations to any state insti-
tution staying on fast time.
The resolution was referred to the
House Resolutions Committee whose
chairman, Rep. William Kirk, Vas-
sar Republican, said he was convinc-
ed it would be unconstitutional. He
said he "could not see" how a reso-
lution would have any effect upon the
constitutional and statutory 'school
aid grants or appropriations.
The State Administrative Board
endorsed the recommendation of
the State Board of Auditors that
all state agencies, no matter where
located, should operate on the slow
time schedule which the legislature
made mandatory in an act that will
become operative at midnight Sat-
urday.
The Lansing City Council voted
Monday night to turn Lansing back
to slow time, but Mayor Ralph W.
Crego vetoed the resolution, and sug-
gested that the matter be submitted
to referendum of the people April 2.
Grads To Elect
Officers Today
Temporary officers for the Grad-'
uate School's Student Council will
be elected at a coffee hour to be held
from 7 to 8 p.m. tonight in the sec-
ond floor lounge '(west side) of the
Rackham Bilding.
.Students from all branches of the
Graduate Schools, especially new
students, will be given, an opportun-
ity to get acquainted with each other
and to meet the members of the
staff. Dean and Mrs. C. S. Yoakum
will be present to greet the students,
and Miss Helen Wiley and Mrs. Carol
Sullivan will pour.
The officers elected tonight will;
represent all the graduate schools,
including the professional depart-
ments, and will sponsor an all-grad-,
uate party which is to be given Fri-
day, March 23. After April 1, each
department will elect permanent of-
ficers to the Student Council.
The coffee hour and election will
be followed by the regular Thursday
evening record concert.
Dr. Cheo Speaks on
Chinese Dentistry
Dr. Eric S. W. Cheo, secretary and
department head of the Dental Col-
lege of the West China Union Uni-
versity, spoke Tuesday evening be-
fore the Xi Psi Phi dental fraternity
on the subject, "Qualitative Analysis
of Chinese Dentistry."
Dr. Cheo, who is taking courses in
the School of Dentistry here, is dir-
ector of the Five Universities' Youth
Center and president of the West
China Dental Association.'
The lecture is one of a series on the
educational program of the dental
fraternity.I
Dog Quarantine To
Start T omorrow
A county-wide dog quarantine willr
to delay the bill for a week, Senator
George N. Higgins, Perndale Repub-
lican and sponsor of the tax, said
flatly "there's not going to be any
money for the cities from the sales
tax. You'd take this, or you won't
get anything."
Senator Stanley Nowak, Detroit
Democrat and labor union spokes-
man, attacked the bill, declaring "if
we passed a decent intangible tax bill
and then found we did not have
enough revenue I would vote for this
liquor tax. In my opinion, as soon
as we pass this bill we will be told
we don't need any more revenue and
so there will be no need to revise th
intangible tax."
Nowak Against Bill
Nc wak accused the legislature of
being quick to acid new taxes to the
"poor man-the average man who has
no lobby, no way to pressure this
body. So we put the tax burden on
him,"
1e charged that for four legislat-
tive sessions a strong intangible tax
bill has been defeated "because it hits
the people who have money, the or-
ganized, powerful and influential."
Senator Robert J. McDonald, Flint
Democrat, declared the Republican
majority was passing new tax legis
lation before it knew what the state's
and the cities' fiscal needs were.
Resolution 'To
Lo'wer Voting
Age Is Tabled
By The associated Press
LANSING, Mar. 14.-A resolution
proposing a constitutional amend-
ment to lower the minimum voting
age from 21 to 18 has been tabled,
the House committee on revision and
amendment of the Constitution an-
neunced today, but it has agreed to
release to the House soon another
which would deny public office for-
ever to any public official convicted
of taking a bribe.
Rep. Loomis K. Preston, St. Joseph
Republican,. chairman, said a sub-
committee was instructed to re-
phrase the latter before it is released
to the house floor, and in the re-
writing to insert language also bar-
ring bribers of public officials from
holding office. Preston said the com-
mitte agreed with Rep. Elton R.
Eaton, sponsor of that joint resolu-
tion, that disclosures of the Carr
Grand Jury of graft in government
showed a need for such legislation.
The chairman said the committee
tabled the voting age bill joint reso-
lution for several reasons, chiefly
because the members believed that
if 'teen-ages had the right to vote
they aIso would demand other privi-
leges of adults including the right
to purchase intoxicants.
Rep. Walter G. Herrick, Hubbards-
ton Republican, introduced in behalf
of the State Tax Study Committee
a gift tax bill.
Laundry Needs
Ferna le Helpers
"Women workers are needed now
in the University laundry," Pat Coul-
ter, personnel administrator, an-
nounced yesterday.
Volunteers whose health and aca-
demic standing will permit are be-
ing accepted for this work and are
asked to put in at least six hours per
week. This may be done by work-
ing an hour every day or by any
other possible combination of hours.
"This is an opptrunity for coeds
interested in contributing to the war
effort to do so by alleviating a help
shortage in a vital University facil-
ity," Miss Coulter said when an-
nouncing the need for help.
Interested students may register
for laundry work by calling Miss
Coulter, 23159. Those undertaking
this activity will be asked to regis-
ter their work at the Office of the
Dean of Women, as is required for
all part-time work.
DAILY OFFICIAL
DIU LLE1TIN
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of the Molecule." The public is cor-
dially invited._
The Lutheran Student Association
is having a Scavenger Hunt this Sat-
urday evening. We will meet at Zion
Lutheran Parish Hall, 309 E. Wash-
ington St., at 7:30. Come and join in
the fun. The regular Association
meeting will be held Sunday after-
noon at 5 in the Parish Hall. A panel
Film Strike
Threatens To
Close Theaters
j Studios Function
With 17,000 Absent
By Tire Associated Press
HOLLYWOOD, March 14-Assum-
ing international aspects with the
threat of a shutdown of thousands
of movie theaters throughout this
country and Canada, the film indu-
stry strike mounted ,in bitterness to-
day and opposing union factions
squared off for what appeared to be
a finish fight.
Defiant of a theater-closing threat
made by Richard A. Walsh, President
of the rival and powerful Interna-
tional Alliance of Theatrical Stage
Employes, President Herbert Sorrell
of the Conference of Studio Unions,
dcclared:
"In the first place, Walsh could-
n't do it, and in the second, it would
wreck his union ifl he tried. This is
a typical Willie Bioff-George Brown
tactic."
Studios Keep Operating
Crippled by the absence of more
than 17,000 employes, major studios
nonetheless managed, to keep oper-
ating in varying degrees today. But
the situation admittedly was grow-
ing more serious.
In newspaper advertisements today
major film producers declared that I
when the National Labor Relations
Board, to whom they have appealed
for a decision in the jurisdictional
issue, decides the case, they will abide
by the ruling "and bargain with the
unit designated" by the board.
Crucial Stage to Cone
A crucial stage in the three-day-old
strike, insofar as determining abil-
ity of the studios to keep going, will
come Friday night, when the Screen
Actors Guild meets to take a strike
vote.
Representatives of the rival studio
conference and the IATSE, whose
fight with the conference's painters
local for control of set decorations
precipitated the strike, were invited
to plead their claims.
Threaten to Close Shows
Walsh's threat to close theatres was
"because of coercive methods of
painters locals and tolerant submis-
sion to such methods by various gov-
ernment agencies." His wire, sent
to New York local and presumably
to hmndreds of others, asked projec-
tionists to stand by for an order to
stop handling pictures made by any
Hollywood studio.
Walsh was reported enroute to Hol-
lywood. His union controls theatre
projectionists, stagehands and many
skilled craftsmen in the studios.
Among later groups to join in sup-
port of the strike were the Screen
Office Employes Guild of 3,000 mem-
bers, and the culinary workers -
cooks, kitchen help and dishwashers
-which meant studio commissaries
closed down.
H ghlights,
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C O L D W Y N-f ,. film pro-
ducer Samuel Goldwyn takes a
drink of water during a press
conference in London where he
was sent by the Foreign EcU-
nomic Administration.
I
NEWS
A I M E D A T T O K Y O-Glowering over the head of a sunbathing sailor, a 16-inch rifle oi an
Iowa class battleshin in the Pacific points toward Tokyo.
BU R MfA l :80Y Wearing
American c othing salvaged from,
the Mars task force, this native
boy carries water in hollow bam-
boo tubes to a bivouac area as
the allies continue their advance
in the central section of Burma,
G ive To
The
Guilds To Celebrate.
Church guilds on campus are com-
bining to celebrate the World Day of
Prayer at 8 p.m. Sunday in the Con-
gregational Church.
Dr. Franklin Littell, director of
the Student Religious Association,
will speak on "Christianity on a
Large Map." The worship service is
being planned by Harvey Anderson
and Susan Thorsch, and the choir
is composed of representatives from
each of the guilds.
Cercle Francais Meeting
At the meeting of the Cercle Fran-
cais at 8 pn, today at the Union,
Prof. Charles Koella of the Romance
Language department will give a
short talk on the role of Switzerland
during the present war.
A social hour of games and songs
will follow his talk.
1o Hold Coffee Your
The first weekly Lane Hall Coffee
Hour of the semester will be held
tomorrow from 4 to 6 p.m. in the
library of Lane Hall, announced
Joyce Siegan, chairman of the social
committee yesterday.
Honored guests will be Assistant
Prof. and Mrs. William A. McLaugh-
lin. Prof. McLaughlin, who is asso-
ciated with the Romance Language
Department of the University, is a
member of the Board of Governors
of Lane Hall.
Arkell Cook Resigns
T' Hospital Position
Arkell B. Cook, assistant director
Red Cross
F I L I P I N O S I N S P E C T P B Y-iilpinos ride out in their outrigger canoes to look over a
Navy PBY after it landed on a Philippine harbor with rescued guerrillas.
M A I L CA LL' AT SEA -En route to battle, a U. S. Navy
aviation ordnanceman seizes a moment's leisure to perch atop one
of the bombs ready for loading into the bomb-bay of a carrier
plane, and reads a letter from home.
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