REDECORATED) HIOSPIT AL It 3U 44rA6F AL :43 t ki Ir"Wr CLOUDY, SNOW VOL. LVI, NO. 60 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1946 PRICE FIVE CENTS Disagreement on Hop Plans Continues * * * * * * * * * * * * * * AFL Meat Industry Employes To Work for U.S. Congress Told To Get Busy; Ford Co. Announces LayOff "V OPPOSE FEPC FILIBUSTER n Signal Corps Contacts Moon Through Radar Scientists Outline Test's Future Value By The Associated Press CHICAGO, Jan. 24-AFL Union officials tonight ordered 55,000 strik- ing meat industry employes back to work under Government control Satur- day, but no word was forthcoming immediately from a CIO Union which has 193,000 members on strike. Leaders of the AFL Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen Union, tele- graphed President Truman that they issued the back-to-work call as a re- sult of his order directing the Secretary of Agriculture to take over and * Coperate 134 struck plants of 19 pack- ing companies at 12:01 a.m. Satur- day. Informed of the AFL Union's de- cision to return to work, Gayle G. Armstrong, named by the govern- ment to operate the packing plants upon federal seizure,saidC: :>"h>"If the Amalgamated Meat Cutters are ready to report for work, their ac- tion signifies a good spirit of coopera- tion. It is an encouraging develop- ment." The CIO United Packinghouse Workers earlier said its membership had called a meeting Friday to decide whether to work for the government. Exertion of People's Powers Stressed One-Night Dance Approved By Student Affairs Committee J-Hop plans, which have been up in the air thus far, were even more stratospherically inclined after yesterday's meeting of the Student Affairs Committee and the J-Hop Committee. As things stand now, the Student Affairs Committee has approved a J-Hop to be held Fri., March 8 with one of the top bands in the coun- try, a ten dollar ticket charge, and all proceeds going to the University of the Philippines and the Red Cross. Admittedly there would be a great margin of profit on the dance, -' By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 24-The Department announced tonight Army Signal Corps scientists War that had WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 - )- President Truman expressed the view today that there is too much power on both sides in current labor dis- putes and Congress now must exert the power of the people. He appeared to reject the proposal of Benjamin F. Fairless that he call a White House conference of man- agement to consider "what kind of a Wearing placards nominating various senators on the "Dishonor Guard," a group of pickets parades near the Capitol in Washington,' opposing the filibuster in the Senate on the Fair Employment Prac- tices Committee legislation. GAYLE W. ANDERSON ... .,to- operate packing plants AVC Advocates Strong Federal Housing Action Determined action by the Federal Government in coping with the hous- ing situation in the most forceful and prompt manner possible. was strongly urged by the Ann Arbor Chapter of the American Veterans' Committee at a meeting last night. To achieve this action the A.V.C. unanimously endorsed the following resolution: 1. The control of housing prices embodied in the P a t m a n Bill (tR4761). 2. The comprehensive ,approach to the whole problem of housing and its treatment of low-cost housing, em- bodied in the Wagner-Ellender-Taft Bill. 3. Stimulation of production of building materials and further strengthening of the recent Execu- tive Order, Priorities Regulation 33, affording priorities on houses con- structed for sale or rent to veterans. 4. Reductions of the ceiling, now established in Priorities Regulation 33, from $10,000 (or $80 per month rental) to lower levels more consist- ent with the needs of veterans. Neil Staebler, and Russell Wilson reported on the national and local housing shortage problem. Staebler said "In the year 1946, 3,200,000 hous- ing units will be needed, which in- volves one-ninth of all the families in the United States. The Patman Bill is at least a short-range answer to this major problem." Four delegates will be chosen at the February 7 meeting to represent the Ann Arbor Chapter at the na- tional A.V.C. convention. Union Opposes Hoover Terms Will Continue Demand For Vacation with Pay Answering a company advertise- ment headed "The Facts About the Hoover Strike" which has appeared in the Ann Arbor News since Monday, Joseph Clisham, said yesterday that the unit had voted to continue the ten-week-old strike until demands fr. n tuon eeksvacation. with pay Vacation Preview Hundreds of students desiring to go home between semesters may be stranded here if a threatened nation-wide railway paralysis ma- terializes. The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen served notice Wednes- day that a strike will be called in three and one-half weeks unless the railroads act on the Brother- hood's demand for a 25 per cent wage increase. If the threat is carried out, the strike will be called around Feb. 16, opening day of exam week. wage increase the economy of this country can endure." Fairless, pres- ident of the U. S. Steel Corporation, made his suggestion in a radio speech last night. The best thing Benjamin Fairless can do, the President concluded, is send word: I accept. This was in reference to the Chief Executive's proposal that the steel dispute be settled with the wage increase of 181/2 cents an hour which the Presi- dent has recommended: the CIO- United Steelworkers agreed, but the company refused. Steel Strike Causes Work Slow-Doen DETROIT, Jan. 24-(P)-The Ford Motor Co. announced today that 15,- 000 employes would be laid off tomor- row night "due to the steel strike which has resulted in curtailed manu- facturing operations." Ford added the present curtailment of production "threatens a ,complete shutdown" unless the steel strike is settled. An additional 25,000 Ford work- ers will be affected a week from now, M. L. Bricker, vice-president in charge of manufacturing, said in a statement. At the same time General Motors Corp, denied charges of unfair labor practices filed by the CIO United Auto Workers and asked the National Labor Relations Board to specify the acts, words or needs of the corpora- tion which frustrated and avoided bona fide bargaining. The NLRB is to hold a hearing or the union's charges at Detroit Mon- day. High School Classes Sched id for Vets Student Group Accepts MYDA's New Affiliation The Student Affairs Committee ap- proved yesterday a petition for Mich- igan Youth for Democratic Action to affiliate itself with American Youth for Democracy. A request for permission to col- lect food on campus for the families of strikers in the General Motors dispute was, however, refused. MYDA will now request admission to AYD, which is a national organi- zation with chapters on 58 college campuses besides numerous non-col- lege groups. An officer of the organi- zation said yesterday that this re- quest would probably be granted im- mediately. The Student Affairs Committee ex-I plained its refusal for the food drive request saying that it would present the University as taking sides in an industrial dispute. MYDA intended to follow a national program being set up so that hunger should not be decisive in the strike, but that its settlement should be based on the issues of the dispute. Organized late in 1943, MYDA has carried out a program of ex- pressing opinion and acting in See MYDA, Page 2 500 Vets Expected In Refresher Work More than 500 veterans are ex- pected to register today for the four- week refresher course scheduled to begin here Monday. Dr. Clark Hopkins and Clark Tib- bitts of the Veterans' Service Bureau will speak to the group at 9 a.m. to- day at Rackham. No degree credit will be given for the course, but vet- erans may receive assistance under the G. I. Bill, and classes will be taught by regular members of the faculty. Only students who have al- ready been accepted for the spring term are eligible to take the course. Sports Fans," Attention Michigan sports fans have a busy day ahead of them if they wish to take in all three varsityY sports events scheduled for Sat-f urday afternoon and evening. The Wolverine swimming team I will lead off the day's athletic pro- ceedings, meeting Purdue at 3 p. m. in the Sports Building pool. Saturday night, a double attrac- tion has been arranged. The Mich-f igan - basketball team will play1 Ohio State at 7 p.m. in the Field House. Immediately afterward,{ the Wolverine wrestlers will go to the mat with Purdue. The hockey team, only other Michigan squad in action this weekend, will be out of town, hav- ing a pair of games scheduled with Toronto University Friday and Saturday. Faculty Dimes Sought in Drive All faculty members who have not contributed to the annual March of Dimes campaign being conducted throughout the nation should turn in their donations today and tomor- row at the Social Director's Office in the League, Jean Gaffney announced. Coeds are being urged to sign up in the Undergraduate office at the League to pass collection boxes in the 'local theatres to aid in securing funds for the annual drive carried on by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. The Wishing Well, which was con- structed by Andrew Poledor, will re- main at the Arcade on State St. to receive contributions through Mon- day. Boxes distributed to fraternity houses should be turned in at the Student Offices in the Union today, George Spaulding, chairman of the men's committee, announced. nade radar contact with the moon in an experiment which promises 'valuable peacetime as well as war- time applications." The tests were carried out at the Evans Signal Laboratory, Belmar, N. J. The first contact with the moon was made Jan. 10 and has been suc- essfully repeated several times. Special Equipment Using specially designed equip- ment, pulses of very high frequency energy were shot into space at the speed of light-186,000 miles per sec- ond-and the echoes detected some 212 seconds later. The moon is about 238,857 miles distant, on the average, as both.it and the earth move around the sun. "The Signal Corps experiments have valuable peacetime as well as wartime applications, although it is impossible i at this stage to predict with certainty what these will be," the War Department said. Radio Control One of the possibilities is the radio control of long-range jet or rocket propelled missiles, circling the earth above the stratosphere. The German V-2 missiles were believed to have reached an altitude of 60 miles. Maj. Gen. Harry C. Ingles, Chief Signal Officer, said the primary sig- nificance of the achievement is that for the first time scientists know the certainty that a very high frequency radio wave sent out from the earth can penetrate the electrically charged ionosphere which circles the earth and stratosphere. The several layers of the ionosphere start about 38 miles above the earth's tsurface and extend to approximately 250 miles. String Quartet To Open Sixth Festival Today The Budapest String Quartet will mark their second consecutive ap- pearance in the annual Chamber Music Festival today and tomorrow in Rackham Lecture Hall with se- lected quartets by Hindemith, Mil- haud, Piston and Schubert. Presenting the sixth annual series of chamber music concerts, the Quar- tet will open its program at 8:30 p.m. today with the E-flat major quartets of Hindemith and Beethoven and Haydn's "Quartet in D minor, No.2.' The programs for tomorrow are as follows : Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Quartet in F major, K.590......Mozart Quartet No. 12 ................ .Mlhaud Quartet in G. major, Op. 161. ... Schubert Saturday, 8:30 p.m. Quartet in A major, No. 5......Beethoven Quartet .............................Piston Quartet in E-flat major...........Dvorak The Quatet which made its Amer- ican debut at Cornell University ir December, 1930, is composed of Jose Roismann and Edgar Ortenberg, vio linists; Boris Kroyt, violist; an Mischa Schneider, violincello. A limited number of tickets will b available before each performanc in the Rackham lobby. but it was felt by the Committee that the provision that profits should go to charity justified the price of tickets. But the J-Hop Committee, which was chosen in a recent all campus election, felt that it would be unfair to ask students to pay as much as ten dollars for a modified J-Hop of this kind. According to Charles Helmick, chairman, the Committee plans to attempt to show that at least two dollars less (eight dollars) could be charged for tickets and still leave ap substantial margin for charity. e Name of the band which it is hoped d can be obtained for the dance cannot9 be officially released at this time be-a cause final contract terms have notc yet been determined. The Student Affairs Committee flatly refused the J-Hop Commit-1 tee's original request for a two-c night, three band, pre war J-Hop t with provision for house partiest and breakfasts afterwards on the grounds that it was too elaborate ar dance to be held at this time. < Originally the dance was scheduledr to be held the weekendof March 1,4 but the date of the dance was moved up because a better orchestra will beI obtainable at that time. If the Hop is1 held March 8, permission has been granted to hold the dance from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. in the Sports Building. Members of the Student Affairst Committee are Dean Joseph A., Bursley, Dean Alice C. Lloyd, Dean] W. J. Emmor.s, Dean E. A. Walter, Prof. L. C. Anderson, Prof. R. C. Hussey, Prof. E. V. Moore, Prof. E. S. Wolaver, Ruthann Bales, Nora MacLaughlin, Sanford Per- lis, Charles Walton and Ray Dixon. J-Hop Committee members are Helmick, William Lambert, Dick Roeder, Pat Hayes, Lynne Ford, Betty Smith, Collee Ide, George Spaulding, Harold Walters and Roberta Ames. Martha Cook Boosts Drve Philippine Fund Gets Money from Dance The girls of Martha Cook again boosted the Philippine fund drive yesterday when they decided to con- tribute the $35.46 left over from their Winter Formal. . This supplements the recent pledge for a minimum contribution of one dollar per resident. Several girls are giving up cokes and are doing extra work in order to help the drive. In explaining their support of the t drive, one of the girls said: "We want to do all we can for the drive in the hope that others will follow suit.' The campaign for $7,500 to help re- place books and equipment at the - University of the Philippines will end z tomorrow. f Barbara Stauffer, chairman of the - drive, has urged that all University I residences hold collections immedi- ately. The money must be turned in e to Frances Goodfellow between 2 and e 4 p.m. today and tomorrow at Lane Hall. Constitution of Student Body Is Accepted Affairs Committee Gives Go-Ahead Sign Unanimously approving the pro- posed constitution for student gov- rnment as printed in yesterday's Daily (with minor changes), the Stu- dent Affairs Committee yesterday gave the go ahead signal to plans for a revised student government on campus. All that is necessary to make the Constitution official i ratification by the student body in the next all campus election which probably will be held early next semester. Nine Member Council The proposal calls for establish- ment of a nine-member Student Council elected from the campus at- large which would act as "spokes- man" for the student body. There is also provision for a Forum made up of representatives from every recog- nized student organization on cam- pus which would serve in an advisory capacity to the Council. Major change made by the Student Affairs Committee was to provide that "the Council may call in as ad- visors the Dean of Students and the Dean of Women to serve in an ex- officio capacity at Council meetings." This modified Article III of the pro- posed constitution which had read, "The Council shall call in as advisor that member of the Administration most intimately connected with stu- dent activities (to) serve in an ex- officio capacity at all Council meet-ig . t e h ne p r vd b ings."o Oter change approved bry the Committee were 'minor altera- tions in wording. Council Meetings Open Among the significant provisions of the proposed constitution are that all Council meetings shall be open to the public and shall be held at regular in- tervals, that Council members shall have "held positions of executive re- sponsibility in recognized campus or- ganizations or the Student Govern- ment for a period of at least two se- mesters" and that the Council shall supervise all campus elections. More specific functions have been left for the first elected Council to incorporate in the by-laws of the or- ganization. Conservationists Will Convene Prof. Allen To - Attend Higgins Lake Meeting Prof. Shirley W. Allen of the School of Forestry and Conservation will attend a meeting of the State Committee on Conservation Educa- tion being held today and tomorrow at the Department of Conservation Training School, Higgins Lake. The purpose of this committee is to promote the use in secondary schools of information on natural re- sources and the understanding of how they are administered and conserved, with emphasis placed on local situa- tions. The committee attempts to introduce study of the ways in which people make a living from natural re- sources, of the way the local com- munity gets its water supply and building materials and of the pri- mary natural resource industries. POLL REVEALS Aiierican Occupation Troops Duped by Nazi Propaganda WEISBADEN, Germany, Jan. 24, (A)-A U.S. Army poll, taken last fall of 1,700 men said to represent a cross- section of American troops stationed in Germany, shows that 19 per cent of those questioned believed the Ger- rnnn..r o c w- a nfiinrfin fr c _rf and that it appeared to indicate that the U.S. soldier in some cases had fallen for the propaganda of Germans echoing Joseph Goebbels. It showed large percentages of the soldiers ready to accept German ex- was sharply reflected throughout the poll. Nineteen per cent of the men said they believed Germany had eith- er some or a good deal of justi ica- tion for starting the world conflict and another 11 percent said they were Thirty per cent of the soldiers said they liked the Germans bet- ter than the English or French. On the whole, those questioned like the Germans better than the French, and preferred the English to the Germans. County Clerk Goes SnI I n it er A ft7