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VOL. LVI, No. 76 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1946
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Senate Bars
Ap ropriation
Amendments
-University AidBill
Nears Final Vote
By The Associated Press
LANSING, Feb. 12- The Senate
beat down today crippling amend-
ments which its finance committee
had attached to building appropria-
tions for the University of Michigan,
ichigan State College and t e State
mental hospitals.
In1 another rebellion against its
leaders,therchamber slapped on the
$3,200,000 supplemental school aid
bill a provision that the entire sum
must go for pay raises for school
employes, being distributed on a per
employe basis.
Nichols Leads Fight
senator Haskell L. Nichols, Jack-
son Republican, led the fight to de-
feat committee amendments which
would save required the college and
hospital building grants to be paid
only out of surplus funds, after op-
erating items had been fully paid.
Nichols and Senator Harry F.
Hjittle, Lansing Republican, told the
committee bluntly their plan actually;
would provide the colleges and hos-
pitals with no building funds.
Senator Otto W. Bishop, Alpena
Republican and committee member,
defending the amendments, declared
that bills now before the appropriate
committees totaled $42,000,000, com-
pared with a surplus currently esti-
mated at $27,600,000. Most of the
non-building -requests are "must"
operational items, he said, contend-
ing the building grants for the insti-
tutions should not be released until
enough additional surplus had ac-
cumfrulated to offset the other grants.
Beat Ci'ty-Aide Bloc
Senate plans to push the appro-
priationi bills through quickly today
toe offset organizational efforts of a
city-=aid bloc seeking :funds for local
governments were upset by more than
three hours of debate on the two
proposals.
Senator George N. Higgins, Fern-
daleRepubllan and sponsor of a bill
givjitig local units sales tax surplus
over $90,000,000 a year, reported he
had-*ecured 17 favorable votes in the
Senate, and would urge the reluctant
finance . oonittee to report the
measure to the floor. .
T I
Sign..for J-Ho p
Tickets Today
Today is the last day for J-Hop
ticket applicatiops, and blanks may
be filed from noon to 4 p.m. at the
Travel Desk of the Union.
Reply cards will be mailed to all ap-
plicants by the end o this week, and
those receiving accepted reply cards
may present them to purchase tickets
Monday and Tuesday, March 4 and 5.
Students who applied for tickets at
the first price of $10 do not need to
reapply. All tickets will be $7.50, and
will be paid for upon receiving them.
Juniors Favored
Tickets will be allotted proportion-
ately by class, with juniors receiving
approximately 900 tickets, seniors
200 and the remainder to underclass-
men. Only one blank may be filed by
each applicant, and identification
cards should be presented when ap-
plication is made. A stamped, self-
addressed envelope must be turned
in with each blank to facilitate quick
reply.
"The Sentimental Gentleman of
Swing" Tommy Dorsey, his orches-
tra, the Sentimentalists, and Stuart
Foster will alternate in the spotlight
at the huge fop, scheduled from 10
p~m. to 2 a.m. Friday March 8, at the
Intramural Building. Navy men will
receive 3 a.m. permission and women,
2:30 a.m. for the event.
Added Attractions
Decoratiops, unusual programs, the
special edition of the J-Hop Extra to
be distributed at midnight, and a
room for refreshments and pictures
promise to make the 1947 J-Hop one
of pre-war calibre.
Private parties for Saturday, March
$, will be approved for the League,
Union, and fraternities, according to
the Dean of Students Office, and din-
ners may be held before the formal
Friday.
Ve t Ork tation
A dvisors Needed
Veteran orientation advisors for
incoming student veterans still are
needed between semesters, Warren
Wayne of the VO announced yester-
Exclhane Needs
St ictd ci t Coll ecto~s
An urgent call for volunteers to
collect books for the Michigan
Union Student Book Exchange
was made yesterday by the Union
and by Nancy Tressel, chairman
of the League which is helping to
sponsor the project.
Today will be the final day for
registration of volunteers for the
first phase of the University-
sponsored exchange which will be
concerned with collection of books
within the houses.
Collection will take place during
the week of February 16-22 at
League houses, dormitories, soror-
ities, fraternities and co-ops.
Leaders of the project stressed
a particulartneed for students
whose cars will be available be-
tween semesters for the collection.
Volunteers are asked to sign up
from 3 to 5 p.m. at the League
undergraduate office and at the
Union.
Orientation for League Book
Exchange volunteers will be held
at 5 p.m. Friday in the Garden
Room of the League, Miss Tressel
announced. At that time the op-
eration of the exchange and its
policies will be explained..
Schrabel Wl
Perfo rmToday
State Department's 'Blue Book' Denounces
Argentina as Predetermined Nazi Refuge;
New York City's Closing Order Is Revoked
More Fuel 1il
Now Available
For Metropolis
Services of Additional
Tugs Also Assured
By The Associated Press
NEW YORK, Feb. 12-Mayor Wil-
liam O'Dwyer late today revoked the
order which shut down all but essen-
tial business and virtually paralyzed
the city's activity.
The revocation is effective as of
6 p.m. eastern standard time, tonight.
Schools will remain closed.
Officials Broadcast
As the announcement was made
by the mayor's office, O'Dwyer and
Health Commissioner Ernest L. Steb-
bins went on the air from police head-
quarters to give the public a report
on the current fuel supply situation
resulting from the nine-day-old tug-
boat strike.
Stebbins said he was rescinding
the order closing all places of busi-
ness because 2,600,000 gallons of fuel
oil were brought into the city today
and he had been assured of the ser-
vices tomorrow of several additional
tugs by the Office of Defense Trans-
portation.
All city employes not used in emer-
gency duties were summed to "report
for your usual duties tomorrow with-
out fail."
The fuel supply on hand will be
distributed only to essential services,
Health Commissioner Stebbins said.
Stebbins said there were only a
half million gallons of heavy fuel
oil in the city last night-"less than
a fourth of the daily needs."
ODT Assures Tugs
The ODT has assured the city 16
more tugs tomorrow, he said, "so that
there may be enough oil for essen-
tial uses. We also have been assured
additional tugs for solid fuel.
The mayor said: "We still are ex-
erting every effort to bring the tug-
boat operators and workers together.
These efforts are continuing and will
continue."
Hope for a settlement of the strike
rose tonight when the employers wage
adjustment committee asked the
union to resume negotiations in or-
der to determine what issues should
be arbitrated. The union agreed to
arbitration yesterday..
Industrial Life Stalled
For a day the city's industrial life
was brought to a standstill.
The mayor's proclamation-'-more
drastic than any wartime restriction
imposed on this great metropolis-
permitted operation of only public
utilities, hospitals, clinics, restaur-
ants, infants institutions, homes for
the aged and milk and food plants.
Churches were lft with open doors,
but by official order even they were
forbidden to receive future fuel de-
liveries for duration of the mayor's
edict-in effect until further notice.
The loss to business was expected
to run into millions of dollars.
PROPOSED GENERAL SERVICE BUILDING-First of the new buildings to be constructed in the Univer-
sity's "emergency" program, the General Service Building will house administrative offices. Site of the new
building will be on State St. across from Angell Hall. Funds for the building were appropriated by the 1945
session of the state legislature.
Airport Use Requested
By Many Departments
ARTUR SCHNABEL-.
Artur Schnabel, internationally
known pianist, will present the ninth
Choral Union concert at 8:30 p.m. to-
day in Hill Auditorium.
His program will consist of the fol-
lowing selections: "Toccata in D ma-
jor;" by Bach; "Rondo in A minor,"
by Mozart; "Sonata in E major," by
Beethoven; "Sonata in C minor," by
Mozart, and "Sonata in D major," by
Schubert.
Dr. Liii To Speak Oin
Ch;ina Demo.ccracy3
Dr. Bangee Alfred Liu, former
president of China Training Institute
near Nanking, will speak on the sub-
ject "Democratic Developments in
China Today" at 4 p.m. today in Kel-
logg Auditorium,
A University lecture, Dr. Liu's ad-
dress is jointly sponsored by the
School of Education, the Interna-
tional Center and the -University
Committee on United China Relief.
He will meet Chinese students and
others interested in talking with him
at the International Center from 10
a.m. to noon and from 2 to 3:30 p.m.
on Wednesday.
By DORIS WEST
Pilot training, robot control of
planes, field loading tests on airport
runways, automobile road tests and
photographing of forests from planes
are just a few of the many activities
that will be carried on at the Willow
Run Airport by various departments
if the University's negotiations to ob-
tain the airport are successful.
Most interested in the airport, of
course, is ,the Department of Aero-
nautical Engineering which is badly
in need of facilities to carry on re-
search. The- University plans to ex-
pand this department into an aero-
nautical operational, technological,
research and training center second
to none.
Operate Without Airlines
Asked whether the airport could be
operated at no expense to the Uni-
versity if the airlines, which are ex-
pected to sign up for operational
rights for three years with an annual
option to extend the lease up to three
years, should suddenly pull out, Prof.
Emerson W. Conlon, chairman of the
Department of Aeronautical Engi-
neering, replied in the affirmative.
He pointed out that the airport could
be used for an overhaul maintenance
base and an air freight express ter-
minal.
"The University can use the Wil-
low Run airport to improve its educa-
tional facilities and, through the type
of research which properly belongs
Wayne County
To Wive ight
on Willow Ru
Little opposition is expected fiom
Wayne County and its municipalities
to the University's plans to obtain
the giant Willow Run Airport near
Ypsilanti.
Although the Surplus Property Ad-
ministration has ruled thatvaious
governing bodies in this region moust
waive their rights to the airport be-
fore it is legally available, most of
the organizations have .indicated
they will not stand in the Univer-
sity's way.
City of Detroit officials, through
Mayor Edward Jeffries, have revealed
they will not seek the site, saying its
distance from the Detroit downtown
area is too great to merit considera-
tion.
Although the Wayne County Board
of Supervisors has taken no stand
on the waiver, a spokesman said yes-
terday they had not as yet received
a request for such action.
LeRoy C. Smith, manager of the
Wayne county airport at Romulus
and a member of the county road
commission, gave the venture his sup-
port, saying he thought it would be
"a good idea" for the University to
operate the Willow Run field as an
"experimental station."
Smith warned, however, of consid-
erable opposition among County men
if the airport were to be made a
terminus for air lines, and Detroiters
wr forcedto iride 31 miles to eath
to a University, advance the art,"
Prof. Conlon said. "Everything done
out there should serve the country as
an example of efficient design and
management."
Electrical Engineering
"Since modern aeronautical engi-
neeringdmakes extensive use of elec-
tronic devices and methods," Prof.
William G. Dow of the Department of
Electrical Engineering said, "the air-
por.t will give the electrical engineer-
ing department an opportunity to ex-
pand its activities. This is bound to
include extensive work with robot
control of planes, blind landing fa-
cilities and possibly associated prob-
lems in military aeronautics."
"Important aspects of this work,"
Prof. Dow continued, "will include the
measurement of radio wave propaga-
tion properties in the upper atmos-
phere, the use of radar for aerial navi-
gation, radar height-finding, and el-
ectronic instrumentation of all kinds.
These activities are likely to be of
sufficient importance as to suggest
the use by the electrical engineering
department of part of the laboratory
facilities that will be available at Wil-
low Run. The acquisition of the air-
port looks like a step which will im-
prove instruction in graduate and un-
dergraduate work in radio and elec-
tronics."
Housel Consulted
} Prof. William S. Housel of the De-
partment of Civil Engineering, who
was consulting engineer for the orig-
inal construction of the airport,
pointed out that his department
needs facilities for research and field
testing. One of the investigations
which he has wanted to make for a
long time is the field measurement of
sub-drainage in order to correlate the
actual field behavior with laboratory
tests for permeability of soils and
methods of calculating the under-
ground flow through soils.
Field loading tests on airport run-
ways is another investigation which
Prof. Housel would like to conduct.
Sections of pavement would be tested
by full sized landing gears with wheel
loads up to 150,000 pounds, which
represents the largest planes now be-
ing designed. Investigations of this,
See AIRPORT, Page Gi
Hears VOPln
For Yet Fund
inaialu S11 pplementL
Is Amotig Sugge. +stions
Special to The Daily
LANSING, Feb. 12-Three mem-
bers of the University Veterans Or-
ganization tonight placed a compre-
hensive four-point program before
the state House Military and Vet-
erans Affairs Committee designed to
amend the governor's recent Mich-
igan Veterans Trust Fund proposal.
Aimed at an equitable disposal of
Michigan's $52,000,000 postwar vet-
erans' fund, the VO delegation sug-
gested that the legislators:
(1) Supplement present GI sub-
sistence allotments which now stand
at $65 per month for single vets and
$90 for married couples;
(2) Grant added appropriations to
state educational institutions;
(3) Create an emergency fund for
needy veterans:
(4) Make available funds for home
and business loans.
All three delegates, William Akers,
Warren W. Wayne and Russell Wil-
son, were unanimous in the belief
that present GI allotments are "in-
adequate" in the light of present-
day increased living costs.
Members of the House committee
were non-coiifmmittal on the program,
preferring "to listen" to what the
veterans 'bad to say."
The VO delegation went on record
in favor of letting the "bonus issue"
rest until a "majority of Michigan's
650,000 veterans return to the state.
Mrs. Ward To Be
Mrs. ,Jzlia May Wirid, former Yp-
silanti resident charged with per-
jury, will be arraigned in circuit court
today, accordig to County Prosecu-
tor John W. Rae.
Mrs. Ward was returned to Ann
Arbor Mondixay night from Montana
after Gov. Sam Ford, who had re-
fused two previous requests, con-
sented to her extradition. Rae
charged that Mrs. Ward perjured
herself during divorce proceedings
against her husbandl last September.
U. S. Accuses
Buenos Aires
Of Insincerity
Documents Captured
In German Salt Mine
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 - The
United States warned tonight that
Naziism lives on in Argentina-cam-
oufiaged now, but strong and await-
ing "future opportunity."
Economically, politically and cul-
turally, said a sensational State De-
partment "Blue Book", the Germans
"possess today in Argentina" a base
to rebuild their "aggressive power
during the period when the home-
land is still occupied."
The report charges bluntly that the
situation was plotted in advance by
the Nazis with the connivance of the
present Argentine regime and that
the Buenos Aires government is in-
sincere in its protestations that it ad-
heres to the United Nations cause and
has moved against fascist agents, or-
ganizations and activities.
Captured Documents
The voluminous American findings
are based on Nazi documents cap-
tured in a German salt mine and
other data only now studied and veri-
fied. Their publication comes less
than two weeks before the Argentine
presidential elections.
The Blue Book asserts that Nazi
schools still function in Argentina
along with "singing societies" and
other cultural activities; that Nazi
agents still operate there; that Nazi
organizations still collect funds
there; that Nazi businesses have not
been effectively controlled and still
are powerful in the"Argentine econ-
omy.
It declares that the Argentine gov-
ernment itself is totalitarian and
cites voluminous data on ruthless po-
lice methods, press and radio control
and other activities, including a vast
military budget which amounted to
more than half of the government's
total expenditure for 1945 and was
four times greater than in 1941.
German Named
It named one Ludwig Freude, for-
.mer representative of the German
embassy there who has assumed a
variety .of different roles in the course
of the years, as the leader of "Ger-
mandom" in Argentina today.
The report adds that when Argen-
tina{finally broke off diplomatic re-
lations with Germany later, "Freude
was appointed 'stay-behind' leader of
the German organization upon the
departure of the German diplomats."
.The 40,000-word Blue Book was
distributed to the other' American
governfiments as part of current inter-
American consultations on t h e
Buenos Aires regime.
cholarships
Available for
15 Veterans
Applications for veteran-scholar-
ships under the $25,000 Bomber
Scholarship Fund will be received un-
til March 9, Dean of Students Joseph
A. Bursley announced yesterday.
Fifteen $100 scholarships will be
awarded each semester to veterans
needing financial aid to supplement
substistence benefits under th G.I.
Bill of Rights.
Dean Bursley said application
forms for the scholarships are now
available in his office.
Under the Bomber Scholarship
Constitution, adopted in 1942, veter-
ans seeking aid from the fund, must
meet these requirements:
1. At least six months service in
the armed forces (time spent in a col-
lege training program not counted).
2. Have completed the equivalent
of two semesters of credit hours in
any undergraduate schools or college
of the University prior to entry into
service.
3. Have insufficient credit hours
for a degree of any kind from the
TTniversity (a dinIoma in nuirsing not
DR. !JUNTLEIY SAYS.:
Democracy for Japan Must
Await Social Reorganization
W . 1 1 . t 171 .1<V
By PHYLLIS KAYE
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first of
three articles on the subject of educa-
tion in Japan.
The social structutre of Japan must
be changed before the educational
system is reorganized in attempts to
democratize that country, according
to Dr. Frank L. Huntley of the polit-
ical science and English departments.
Dr. Huntley, who taught English
at Doshisha University in Kyoto,
Japan, and also at Kyoto Imperial
University for a number of years, ex-
plained that because the social sys-
tem and the educational system were
closely allied, changes in society will
cause changes in education to fol-
low, but not automatically and im-
mediately. In this case, he said, it is
our job to hurry the natural course
of events by giving the educational
system a push.
"A brief history of Japanese ed-
"yrn~i r~l Lal. n~l r i ' nl f i
system goes back farther than the
Imperial Rescript. The early system,
before 1867, was based on the same
Confucian philosophy that is now
prevalent. It embodies the idea of a
system of relationships within the
Japanese society, such as : Heaven
is to earth as the emperor is to the
subject, the father to the son, the
husband to the wife, etc. In this
way, the emotional virtues of loyalty,
filial piety and conjugality are
stressed.
These ideas, of government con-
trol rather than laissez faire, of
group rather than individual, of pa-
ternalism rather than independence,
he said, apply to life outside school
as well as in and are firmly im-
pressed on the mind of the Japanese
child. The purpose of Japanese ed-
ucation under this system has been
to mold good Japanese subjects for
the state; rather than to further
knowledop for its own sakeor for
'STARS IN YOUR EYES':
fU' Astronomers Sur prised
By Exploding~ Heavently Body
V _ _ _ __
By NITA BLUMENFIELD.
The brilliant explosion of a hidden
star in the Northern sky captured the
eye of University Observatory as-
tronomers this week.
Invisible through anything less
than a four-inch telescope for eighty
years, T. Corona, a star in the North-
ern Crown constellation 2500 light
years away, suddenly is pouring off
light of incredible intensity, taking
astronomers completely by surprise.
Only three more cases of such re-
current outbursts are known, accord-
ing to Prof. Dean B. McLaughlin of
the Observatory. A fiery cloud of gas,
the nrofessor said. is shooting out-
i
then dimiinisheld in 1945, and no ex-
plosion was anticipated in this cen-
tury.
The a ppeaarice of this new star is
mnos t imp or tan t ia that it di sproves
the theory that such an explosion
"might happen to any star or even
the sun, accidentally," according to
Dr. McLaughlin. Outbursts have been
attributed to collisions or falling
planets,but hc said that actually they
only occur in partic'uiar types of stars.
''. Corona is identical in composition
and appearance with the outburst of
1866, especially with respect to the
unusual presence of ionized helium.
"Electrons surrounding atomic nu-