PAGE TWO 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: S eCPtN i "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. * * '- 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. * * * 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. Buy Victory Bonds! Continuous from 1 P.M. Weekdays 30c to 5 P.M. 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. 11 CLASSIFIED ADVERUFTISING LOST: Brown zippered billfold, Tues- CLASSIFIED day night. Contains money, im- portant cards. Contact Sanger RATES Westphal, 508 Monroe St. Reward. $ .40 per 15-word insertion for LOST: Brown billfold with initials one or two days. (In- V.F.B. Contains valuable cards and crease of O yc for each papers. Call Virginia Borders, 9300 additional five words.) after 5:30 p.m. Reward. Non-Contract dLOST: Jeweled Kappa Phi pin, ini- $1.00 per 15-word insertion for tialed I. R. Y. on back. Call Iris three or more days. (In- Yoder 2-4561. Reward. crease of 25c for each Lo additional five words.) LOST. Alpha Omicron Pi sorority pin Contract Rates on Request Saturday night at or near Union. Engraved. Dorothy A. Robertson. Call 7992. Reward. FOR SALE HELP WANTED FOR SALE: Girl's new alpaca-lined WANTED: Part time fountain help. coat, size 18. $20.00. Telephone Calkins-Fletcher Drug Co. 324 5491. South State. FOR SALE: New Tuxedo, size 38. WANTED Also new navy blues, size 38. 3152 WANTED: Sewing. Will make two ---- _--worn sheets into one good one. Also LOST AND FOUND do refitting of formals or date dresses and any refitting except on LOST: Single strand pearls Dec. 31 black material. Miss Livingston, on campus. Reward. Call Olive 315 S. Division, 2nd floor front. Chernow 2-3225. WANTED: Roommate, veteran to LOST: New Year's Eve Dance, Lady's share apartment. Rent $25 per Gruen watch, silver case and strap. month. Call 1110 Judson Ct. Reward. Call 2-5553 Rm. 217. 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