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THTE MICHIG7AN DILTY
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1946
Steel Price Boost Probable;
Increase For Meat Discussed
U
Walkouts Scheduled
In Major Industries
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8-President
Truman today said a price increase
on steel probably would be granted,
but he would not guess whether it
would avert the imminent nationwide
strike of steelworkers.
Price boosts also were being delib-
erated for meat packers, another
coast-to-coast industry due to be hit
Kaiser-Frazer
Contract Will
Start Jan. 10
By The Associated Press
DETROIT, Jan. 8 - The wage
agreement between Kaiser-Frazer
Corp. and the CIO United Automo-
bile Workers with its unprecedented
no-strike bonus payment provision
will become effective Jan. 10, the
management indicated today.
The agreement provides for a basic
hourly wage rate of $1.19, to be retro-
actively adjusted later to match any
increase agreed upon between the un-
ion and General Motors Corp., and
the setting up of the trustee bonus
fund. The agreement was hailed to-
day by the union as "the best contract
ever drawn in the automobile indus-
try," and by the management as pro-
viding an incentive plan to "insure
uninterrupted maximum production."
Union negotiations with the Ford
Motor Co. are to be resumed Thurs-
day. Those with General Motors are
in recess pending announcement of
the findings of a fact-finding com-
mission named by President Truman
to study the wage dispute. There was
no comment today from these two
companies or from Chrysler Corp.
concerring the Kaiser-Frazer agree-
ment.
Rousmg...
to over 500 veterans planning to en-
ter the University in the spring. "The
-University isn't going to paint a rosy
picture of the situation," she said.
Housing Difficulties Surveyed
Other developments in the student
housing situation :
Several fraternity houses now used
as women's dormitories will be turned
back to the fraternities next semes-
ter, thus alleviating the problem of
housing for single men students but
aggravating the problem of housing
for women;
Grant of the University's request
that eight FHPA dormitory units be
moved here will further aid single
men's housing;
Buses for Transportation
Delivery date for two new buses for
transporting students in Willow Vil-
lage is uncertain because of the strike
in the automotive industry;
Many single rooms are available
in Ypsilanti, but apartments are more
scarce than in Ann Arbor;
Some students are living in trailers
in a park on Packard St.
Mrs. Griffin said that many stu-
dents undoubtedly were unable to re-
main on campus this semester
through failure to find living ac-
comrnodations and that this situa-
tion would probably be repeated in
the spring.
by CIO's scheduled "one-two-three"
strikes involving 1,100,000 workers-
steel next Monday, electrical manu-
facturing workers on Tuesday, pack-
ing house workers on Wednesday.
A ray of optimism was seen by
some officials. They said the govern-
ment evidently was willing to carry
into the settlement talks some clear
statements on permissible price
changes which could provide a basis
for wage compromises.
But steel industry sources heard
that OPA Administrator Chester
Bowles, while willing to permit up to
a $2.50 per ton price increase on steel
products, would go no further toward
meeting the industry's long-tanding
request for $7.
President Truman affirmed his be-
lief that impartial fact-finding, ac-
companied by a compulsory 30-day
cooling off period, was the way to
prevent strikes. To eliminate the
cooling-off plan from his proposed
fact-finding law, as some legislators
had suggested, would not accomplish
anything, he said.
Meanwhile, officials hoped for a
counter-offer from United States
Steel Corporation, the industry bell-
wether, to CIO's $2 a day wage in-
crease demand. But "big steel" kept
mum, and the presidential fact-find-
ing board did not set a date to start
its hearings.
Top presidential advisers have met
with Reconversion Director John W.
Snyder. On high authority it was
predicted that Concilition Director
Edgar L. Warren would open concili-
ation meetings in Chicago tomorrow
prepared to tell the packers just how
much price increase the stabilization
program can stand.
Dutch University
Renews Contacts
Indications that the.world is be-
ginning to right itself are becom-
ing more numerous.
Yesterday The Daily editorial
staff received the following letter
from the University of Leyden
(Holland) daily publication:
"It is for the first time again
that we are able to renew our
international contacts, the Ger-
man oppressor having put an end
to all our activities for five years."
"The editors of the "Leidsch
Universiteitsblad" consider it a
great pleasure to send their best
wishes."
CIO, AFL Detroit
Workers End Truce
DETROIT, Jan. 8-()-The CIO's
Municipal Workers Union today end-
ed its wartime truce with the AFL
which had kept the peace since 1942
in the city's transportation system.
An open letter to street car and
bus operators announced the union's
action, which terminated a truce
achieved at the behest of the War
Labor Board after the last trolley and
busmen's walkout.
The city's department of street rail-
ways has been a jurisdictional battle-
ground of AFL and CIO unions. An
AFL contract as "sole and exclusive
bargaining agent" is in force until
April 1.
CONSERVATION:
Allen Describes New
Advances in Forestry
"From the many things war taught us have come two recent develop-
ments in the field of practical forestry which are carrying over into the
peace, reducing sharply the traditional waste in harvesting forest products,"
Prof. Shirley W. Allen of the School of Forestry and Conservation said in
an interview yesterday.
Prof. Allen, who was elected president of the Society of American For-
esters last month, explained that shortages of labor and raw materials
brought about by heavy wartime use have resulted in experiments at "re-
logging" on the logged-over areas in'i
PLANE CRASH INJURES EIGHT - Eight persons were injured, three seriously, when this Pennsylvania Cen-
tral Airlines plane overshot a runway at the Municipal airport at Birmingham, Ala., and crashed into a creek
bordering the field, while attempting to land in murky weather.
PEACE PROMOTION PLAN:
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"By making the vanquished pay a
bigger penalty for their criminality
than has ever before been demanded,
we may be -able to prevent anothert
war," Brig. Gen. Edward C. Betts,
judge advocate general for the United j
States forces in the European theatert
since 1943, said in an interview yes-j
terday.
Charged with the especial responsi-
bility of investigating, prosecuting
and punishing war criminals in Ger-
many, exclusive of the 21 major crim-
inals that are being prosecuted at
Nuremberg under Mr. Justice Jack-
Highlihts
On Campus
Meeting Cancelled ...
The meeting of the SOIC executive
council, which had been scheduled
for today, has been cancelled.
Modern Poetry Club
Prof. Jce Lee Davis will address
the Modern Poetry Club at 7:15
p.m. today in Rm. 3231, Angell
Hall.
He will discuss the poetry of
Thomas Hardy.
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Time of Movie Changed
The Spanish movie sponsored by
La Sociedad Hispanica originally
scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. today
in Lydia Mendelssohn, will not begin
until 8:30 p.m. today.
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Fraternity Heads...
All fraternity house presidents
are urged to attend a House Presi-
dents' dinner at 6:30 p.m. today at
the Zeta Psi Fraternity, 1443
Washtenaw. A regular business
meeting will follow.
* * *
Education in Russia
Mrs. Lila Pargment, who is in
charge of Russian studies, will speak
on "Education in Russia" before a
meeting of Pi Lambda Theta which
will be held at 8 p.m. tomorrow in the
West Conference Room at Rackham.
Women of the faculty will be guests.
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LAN itir TrTNEAr~f
son, theater judge advocates have
called upon some 700 special investi-
gators of all ranks. The general said
that many of these investigators had
given up promotion opportunities in
order to do this work. "We consider
it a privilege to accept this opportuni-
ty for public service to help prevent
future war," the general said.
Calling attention, to the deterrent
value of punishment, thedgeneral
said that two results are sought
through these trials: to punish the
guilty for the retributive value and
to inform the German public of the
evil things that have been done in
their name.
"The greatest pains are being taken
by military authorities to assure ac-
cess for the German public to the
trials either through personal attend-
ance or through the German press
and radio," General Betts said. "The
fact that the trials are conducted
fairly," the general continued, "is at-
tested by the cases that are ac-
quitted."
General Betts is assigned to tempo-
rary duty in this country after which
he will return to his theater head-
quarters in Frankfort, Germany. His
theater office is responsible for ad-
vising the military authorities on legal
questions regarding the administra-
tion of military establishments in for-
eign countries; international law
questions and the administration of
military justice in the theater.
Many men who have attended the
Judge Advocate School at the Uni-
versity subsequently served under
the general. "My object in coming
here is for the purpose of mlaking
known my appreciation for the sub-
stantial and outstanding contribu-
tion this school has made to the
service rendered by the judge advo-
cates during the war," the general
stated.
A native of Alabama and a gradu-
ate of the University of Alabama Law
School, General Betts has been in the
Army since 1917 and a member of the
judge advocate department since
1928. He addressed classes of the 27th
officer class and 15th officer candi-
date class yesterday.
the Douglas fir country of the North-
west, which had looked so hopeless
from the standpoint of another crop.
Securing the bigger, heavier logs by
cable logging with powerful yarding
engines has necessarily destroyed a
good deal of the younger standing
timber of considerable size.
"One might almost say," he contin-
ued, "that what an eastern saw-mill
man would call a saw-log has fre-
quently been left on the ground in
the Northwest. Much of this waste
material is badly broken, but is mixed
with occasional very large logs or fall-
en whole trees which were partially
decayed."
Salvage Experiments
A number of operators have gone on
experiments to these areas to salvage
the waste material which they for-
merly attempted to burn to eliminate
fire hazard or simply abandoned as
necessary waste connected with the
logging of heavier material. Modern
tractor and truck logging works well
in getting this sort of waste material,
he said.
"Furthermore, pressure for material
already down and therefore not re-
quiring the labor of fallers has shown
the salvage crews that several thou-
sand feet per acre of merchantable
lumber is there, ready for the taking.
Thus," Prof. Allen said, ."the result
is not only the removal of what con-
stitutes a severe fire hazard but also
the harvesting of otherwise waste ma-
terial."
WPaste Used
The second development, he stated,
is in another part of the country
where a shortage of ragstock and
other fiber materials has driven the
roofing people to the use of felts, of
hardwood tops and other waste mate-
rial left from logging, for the course
fiber in roofing. Even the bark is
included in the process by which this
material is produced but the quality
of the roofing product is entirely sat-
isfactory.
"There is, however," Prof. Allen
warned, "a danger in this that the
demand may become so heavy that
immature hardwood trees mayhbe
sought rather than just salvage mate-
rial, but so far results in reducing
wood waste and curtailing fire hazard
have been encouraging. National for-
est officials and private operators in
the Ozark regions hope to cut down
the forest fire problem considerably
by pushing the utilization of these
waste hardwood materials," he said.
At the saie time, he concluded,
better silvicultural practice will be
possible on these great timber-grow-
ing areas as well as on privately
owned lands.
Funds Sought
For New State
Mental Hospital
By The Associated Press
LANSING; Jan. 8- A long-range
$20,296,000 construction program to
provide facilities for Michigan's men-
tal patients was outlined to state leg-
islators today by William J. Norton,
Mental Health Commission chairman.
The plan includes $6,000,000 for a
new hospital in the Detroit area and
$1,119,000 to supplement $2,920,000
appropriated by the 1945 Legislature
for new buildings. Norton said the
latter was inadequate because of in-
creased construction costs.
A total of 4,315 beds would be add-
ed, broken down into 2,908 for the
mentally ill, 990 for the mentally de-
fective, 287 for the epileptic and 130
for the criminally insane.
Charles F. Wagg, executive secre-
tary of the commission, estimated op-
erating costs at $1.50 per day per pa-
tient, or approximately $2,350,000 per
year, if the program were carried to
completion.
Norton and Wagg appeared before
a joint session of the State Senate
Finance and Appropriation Commit-
tee and the House Ways and Means
Committee.
Filipi~nos Attest
U' Grads' Help
Documents attesting the aid given
by two University graduates to the
Philippine underground during the
Japanese occupation have been re-
ceived by the War Historical Collec-
tion- office.
Winifred O'Connor Pablo, '21, and
her husband, Manuel Pablo, '23, were
caught at the University ofthe Phil-
ippines when Manila fell to the Jap-
anese. As Mrs. Pablo is considered a
Filipino national, neither she nor her
husband were interned. Using what
freedom they had, they devoted
themselves to helping the under-
ground fight the invaders.
Adams To Give Talk
Dr. James P. Adams, provost of the
University, will speak on "Some Spec-
ulations on the Functions of Educa-
tion" before the Muskegon Rotary
Club at noon, Thursday.
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