ON SECON THOCUGHT See Page 4 Y Lw 43 l * i SNOW FLURRIES VOL. LVI, No. 78 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1946_ PRICE FIVE CENTS No S.L.O. Bottleneck For Vets Housing Shortage Is Eased by State "Sorr, no room" and S.R.O. no- tices to applying veterans need be in vogue no longer here after ap- proval by the State of appropriations for the University. Many qualified veterans who earlier were refused admission be- cause of lack of housing accomoda- tions can now be admitted if they renew their applicatioiis, it was an- nounced yesterday. "Availability of additional apart- ments for married veterans and dor- mitories for single men at nearby Willow Run, will enable the Uni- versity to admit several hundred more veterans for the Spring Term, opening March 4," President Alex- ander G. Ruthven said. Favorable action by the State Leg- islature and the Governor on the University's proposed building pro- gram gives assurance, Dr. Ruthven said, that badly needed classroom and laboratory facilities will be avail- able within 18 months. Meantime, he said, the University will extend its class schedules and use temporary facilities in order to serve the next term's increased num- ber of veterans, estimated at 5,000 or more. Six hundred married student vet- erans now live at Willow Run in Federal Public Housing Authority apartments. These apartments-two and three rooms in size-are equip- ped with necessary furniture, a re- frigerator, and coal heating and cooking stoves. One dormitory for single men is now occupied by students at Willow See No S.R.O., page 3 W'aggonerWillW Receive Award From Hershey' Dr. Taymond W. Waggoner, chair- man of the Department of Psychia- try and director of the Neuro- psychiatric Institute, will receive a' citation from Selective Service Di- rector Gen. Lewis B. Hershey at 11:30 a.m. today at the School of Public Health. As advisor in psychiatry to the director of Selective Service, Dr. Waggoner served under Gen. Her- shey during the war. He spent sev- eral months in Washington during the summer of 1943 and has made regular trips to the capital in ful- fillment of his position. Dr. Waggoner said last night that he did not know which award he will receive. He has been informed, however, that it will be the same citation Gen. Hershey awarded President Truman for his services to Selective Service while he was a senator. Besides carrying on his regular duties at the University, Dr. Wag- goner retains his post in Selective Service. A.rmy T o Relax Draft Standards 4-Fs Face Induction Under New Ruling WASHINGTON, Feb. 14-(IP)-The Army today lowered its physical standards for draftees and asked for 125,000 in April. The regular monthly draft call has been 50,000, but that rate has not been met since V-J Day. The War Department said it hopes by this means to get the full 250,000 men the Army needs from Selective Service in the first five months of this year. This number is required in addition to enlistments to provide replacements for men discharged. The Army asked draft boards to induct immediately those 4Fs-men previously disqualified for physical reasons-who can meet the lowered standards. About 35,000 men are being ac- cepted each month under present physical standards. This is 15,000 short of requirements. Marine, Navy Point Scores Lowered WASHTNGTON, Feb. 14-tAP)-The Higher Wage-Price Policy Set by Truman * * * 4- * * A: * * * * * cFreed; Sigler Faces Fund Probe State Senate To Investigate Committee Will Seek Accourrting o Cots By The Associated Press LANSING, Feb. 14-Coming on the heels of the acquittal of Frank D. McKay, the Senate today ordered an investigation of the Ingham County grand jury's expenditures from a $442,000 state grant for what proved to be a sensational inquiry into charges of official corruption. Adopting a resolution by Senator Frank Heath, Bay City Republican the Senate created an investigating committee composed of Senator Ivan A. Johnson (Rep.) of Mt. Clemens of Mt. Clemens, chairman Senator Har- old D. Tripp (Rep.) of Allegan, and Robert J. McDonald (Dem.) of Flint. 'No Accounting' Says Heath "We've appropriated something like $400,000 and I think it's up to the legislature to find out where the money has gone. There has been no accounting at all," Heath said. Kim Sigler, the grand jury's spe- cial prosecutor, when he heard of the proposal, said, "We've been expe- riencing that kind of opposition ever' since the investigation started. When we're through we'll make a full and complete accounting." . In Jackson, Judge John Simpson ordered the acquittal of McKay and four associates on liquor graft charges, declaring that "In the en- tire evidence presented in the case there was no testimony that the de- fendants did one single criminal act as we know that term." Sigler Refuses Comment On Ruling Special Prosecutor Kim Sigler said he had "no comment" on the Judge's ruling. He had contended in the course of the trial that the defendants "by threats and intimidations" had conmpired to control purchase and distribution of liquor by the State Liquor Control Commission to favor "certain distillers in which they were interested.". Sigler, who suffered his first major defeat since he has been special pros- ecutor of the Ingham County one- man grand jury investigating state government, said: "The one-man grand jury investigating illegal acts in recent state administrations is not through by any means." "It is significant that there are no records in this case to show any dis- crimination; nor are there and rec- ords to show that distribution was not properly made," the Judge de- clared. Infa11le Drive aises $1,938 Student Contributions, Daily Sales Anmounced A total of $1,938.21 was -collected in the University division of the thirteenth annual March of Dimes drive, Jean Gaffney, head of the women's committee on campus, an- nounced yesterday. Coeds contributed $208.76 in dor- mitories, cooperatives, and auxiliary dormitories; $130.20 in sororities and annexes; and $238.66 in League houses, it was announced by Janet Young who was in charge of dis- tributing dime boxes to the resi- dences. Barbara Raymer collected $152.86 from University offices. The men's committee, headed by George Spaulding, collected $437.62 from fraternity houses, the Union, the Wishing Well, and from local stores. Funds raised from the special dime Daily amounted to $770.11. v Bowles Is Stabilizer, f By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 14-President Truman tonight gave the nation a new, higher wage-price policy and named hold-the-liner Chester Bowles to run it as stabilization administrator. Government approval will be required for any wage increase which might lead to higher prices, the White House announced, and industries granting permitted pay raises may seek price adjustments at once. At pres- ent they must wait six months to establish a record of need. In the shakeup of his economic high command, Mr. Truman named OPA Administrator Bowles to succeed John C. Collet in 'the economic sta- bilization post. 'THEY SHALL NOT PASS'-A picket line of 200 CIO- United Steel Workers thwarted an attempt of 30 em- ployes to reopen the Crawford Steel foundry plant, in Bucyrus, O., closed three weeks by the strike. Pickets encircled the group and they didn't get through the line. Board Policies For West uad Protests of 'Inequities' Answered by Shiel Students now living in West Quad and working outside the house for meals will be offered similar work in the Quad dining rooms or room as- sgnments in Fletchei; Hall. .wiere no. meals will be served, for the spring term, Francis C. Shiel, acting direc- tor of University residence halls, an- nounced yesterday. Trhe announcement was made in answer to student protests that the Board of Regents' ruling requiring residents of University houses to board in the house was working un- due hardships on students now work- ing for meals outside the Quad. Reluctant To Leave Jobs As no meals have been served this term to civilians living in the Quad, many students work for their board. Some of the jobs, particularly those in fraternities and sororities, pay higher wages or have more conven- ient hours and better working condi- tions and jobs in the University din- ing rooms, and students having such jobs are reluctant to leave them. The new arrangements, designed to eliminate any hardships students might suffer by being forced to give up either their present board jobs or rooms, c1o not apply to students who are not living in University resident halls at the present time but who ex- pect to live there next semester even if they would prefer to earn their board outside the hall. Application May Be Made Students now living in West Quad who are interested in room assign- ments in Fletcher Hall or jobs in the West Quad dining room should apply for them at once in Rm. 201, West Wing. Students with outside board ;jobs who do not wish to live in Fletcher hall or work in University halls will be released from their room con- tracts. Today's Daily is the last issue to be published during the Fall Semester. Publication will be re- sumed at the beginning of the Spring Term, Tuesday, March 5. UNO OK S Site, Urges Action To Avert Famine J 1 By The Associated Press LONDON, Feb. 14-The first as- sembly of the United Nations com- pleted the business of its historic first session tonight by approving unanimously the Westchester-Fair- field area of New York and Connect- icut as the neow permanent world peace capital d calling upon all nations to take swift actionagainst global famine. By acclamation, the assembly in the closing minutes of its meeting in Central Hall also voted for New York City as the temporary head- quarters of the world's peace agency. Admits WFTU, ICA, AFL The assembly adopted an Ameri- can resolution admitting the World Federation of Trade Unions, Inter- national Cooperative Alliance and the American Federation of Labor to consultative status within the United Nations Organization. Representing a victory for U. S. Senator Tom Connally (D-Tex.), the American proposal was accepted by a vote of 32 to 6, with 11 abstentions and two absences. It will let all non- governmental organizations, who so desire, to take part in the work of the United Nations' Economic and Social Council. Call for Action on Food One of the final actions of the delegates was to call upon member nations of the organization for "im- mediate and drastic" action to head off starvation in the world. The as- sembly asked the nations to con- serve food supplies and grow all the grain possible. The action on the sites cleared the agenda except for formal cere- monies closing the first assembly. The action on the consultative bodies climaxed vigorous debate in February G rads Receive Dirctiiois Febr uary graduates will assemble at 9:30 a.m. Feb. 23 in Hill Audi- torium for commencement exercises, Glenn L. Alt, chief marshal, an- nounced yesterday. Graduates will be seated in sec- tions 11 and 111 on the main floor, and exercises will open at 10 a.m. For further instructions, see the Daily Official Bulletin, page 4. the Political and Security Commit- tee, where Connally led a long fight to give the American Federation of Labor equal status with the World Federation of Trade Unions and the International Cooperative Alliance as United Nations consultants. The United States had argued that the .AFL should have equal status.wvitl the Congress of Industrial Organiza- tions, which is a subsidiary of the WFTU. The University ban onbstudent automobile driving will be lifted from 12 noon, Feb. 22, to 8 a.m., March 4, the beginning of the new term. The ruling applies to all students except those in the School of Medicine. Freshman and sophomores in that school will not be permitted to drive; juniors may drive from 12 noon, Feb. 16, to 8 a.m., Feb. 25. Fran ensteen Will uit His By The Associated Press DETROIT, Feb. 14-Richard T. Frankensteen, international vice- president of the CIO United Auto Workers, announced today he would not seek re-election at the UAW na- -ticnal convention in Atlantic City next month. Frankensteen said he had conveyed this information to other UAW of- ficials shortly after the first of the year, but that he had delayed public announcement pending partial settle- ment of the UAW's wage demands on the auto industry. The 39-year-old labor leader said CIO President Philip Murray had of- fered him the post of representative of that organization at the World Trade Union Congress, but added that he still was undecided as to "what my future work will be." UAW- CIO President R. J. Thomas said he had been informed of Murray's offer. "The labor movement has been very good to me and I am deeply apprecia- tive of the many honors bestowed upon me," he said in a prepared statement. Paul A. Porter, chairman of the Federal Communications Commis- sion and a supporter of Bowles' firm hold-the-line convictions, was ap- pointed the new OPA chief. Increased Production Sought Mr. Truman in a statement de- clared it imperative that "production in great volume be accomplished" but asserted that under the old stabiliza- tion formula "collective bargaining has broken down in many important situations." "I am now modifying our wage- price policy to permit wage increases within certain lines and to permit any industry placed in a hardship posi- tion by an approved increase to seek price adjustments without waiting until the end of a six months' test period, as previously required." Steel Settlement Expected High administration officials said they expected a steel strike settlement shortly. A Presidential secretary said U. S. Steel Corp. and CIO steelwork- ers' leaders were negotiating. But by the time the White House announcement came, CIO President Philip Murray had retired and efforts to reach Corporation officials were fruitless. .Colet, r'eporedly jplannting to re- turn to his federal judgeship in Mis- souri, plans to sign an order increas- ing steel prices tomorrow, an asso- ciate said. The increase-reportedly around $5 a ton-is designed to pave the way for a strike settlement. Previous Boosts To Be Pattern Wage increases, he stated, must be approved by the National Wage Stabilization Board, which shall use as its yardstick "the general pattern" of wage boosts made in the industry or the area since last August 18. Bowles will exempt from this ap- proval requirement any increases which clearly will not *boost prices dangerously. The immediate price relief growing out of wage boosts "must be conserva- tively appraised," Mr. Truman warned, but must "be sufficient to assure profitable operation in the test period" to any industry producing in good volume. "If the expected improvement in earnings should fail to materialize in any industry, OPA will move prompt- ly to review its action. Appropriate relief may be accorded." Cominmittee OK's WASIfINGTON, Feb. 14-(')-A bill estimated to raise the pay of 4,- 000,000 to 6,000,000 persons was ap- proved today by the Senate Labor committee. It would raise the minimum wage required by law from 40 to 65 cents an hour, and it would extend the minimum wage act to many busi- nesses not covered by it now. Senator Ellender (D-La.) of the committee, promising vigorous op- position when the bill reached the floor, told reporters it "would cover all business and industry in the country like a blanket." He said that "about the.only thing exempted was the small corner grocer. [L1. Gen. Smirlii Na med Envoy. T o U. S. S. R. Harriman's Successor May Keep Army Rank By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 - Presi- lent Truman announced tonight that me had accepted the resignation of Averell Harriman as ambassador to Russia and named Lt. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith as his successor. Press secretary Charles G. Ross, who made public the President's an- mouncement, said, that legislation would be asked tomorrow to permit Smith to take the post without af- ecting his military status. The nom- ination .will be formally submitted later. Smith served as chief. of staff for uen. Dwight D. Eisenhower in Eu- rope. Legislation similar to that pro- osed for Smith's army status was Damed veterans administrator. The White House made public a letter to Harriman in which President Truman expressed his' "great reluc- ance" to accept the resignation. Mr. Truman said he was agreeing to it oecause of the "understanding you had with President Roosevelt that with the end of the war you should be permitted to resign." The letter disclosed that Harriman first submitted his resignation in April of last year, but was persuaded y Mr. Truman "to remain for a while longer." The announcement came from the White House less than 12 hours after Iarriman arrived here by plane with George Atcheson, Jr., state depart- ment adviser to Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur in Tokyo. R utiven Refers SR A Petition T'oCommittee The Student Religious Associa- ion's petition for a representative >n the Student Affairs Committee has been referred by President Alexander G. Ruthven to the Committee itself ;or discussion and recommendation, Dr. Frank E. Robbins, assistant to the president, announced yesterday. Joseph E. Burnley, dean of students and chairman of the Committee, said the petition would be taken up at the first meeting of the Committee "early next term." Inasmuch as mem- bership of the Committee is estab- fished by Board of Regents' by-laws, however, the Regents must take final action on the matter. If the request is granted, the num- ber of students on the Committee will be increased from five to six, with the number of faculty members re- maining at eight. SRA represents 17 student organi- zations including Inter-Guild, New- man Club, Hillel Foundation and World Student Service Fund, with over 2,500 active members. And by the terms of the organization's con- stitution, approved by the Regents in 1937, every students is automat- cally a member of SRA, as well as of the Union r the League, which -ae represented on Committee. Entries Due For Llopwood Today SUPER-DUPER NYLON HOSE FOR MILADY? Bartell Perfects Means of Waterproofing All Fabrics Maybe in the future women won't be satisfied with plain, ordinary nylon hose. Maybe they will insist on water- proofed, cold-resisting nylons. ing waterproof and temperature- resistant. The substance used is called Aerobond because it is light- weight and floats. Unlike rubber, it "breathes;" it Garments made with Aerobond will be on the market in a few months, probably available as a quality item. Dr. Bartell pointed out that special Dr. Bartell first revealed the sub- stance to Army and Navy officials in Washington Sept. 30, 1944. He was given an Office of Scientific Research Development contract to ming pool, and limited supplies of boots, raincoats, lifebelts and some other clothing were tested under actual battle conditions shortly before the war ended. ,I