UAW REJECTS See Pag 2 ,JqaUt i*1 ICLOUDY, LIGHT SNOW V ^ VOL. LVI, No. 76 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1946 PRICE FIVE CENTS i i 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