ONLY ONE WEEK TILL ELECTION! See Page 2 Ci r Lw 43UZX 4bp :43 a t tilts CLOUDY AND COOLER VOL. LVI, No. 104 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1946 PRICE FIVE CENTS By rnes Confers with Cadogan On Iranian-Russian Question UNO Security Council Delegates Still Hope For Satisfactory Statement from Russians By The Assocated Pres NEW YORK, April 2-Secretary of State Byrnes tonight held a last minute conference with Sir Alexan- der Cadogan, the British delegate to the United Nations Security Council, in preparation for Wednesday's meet- ing called to hear Russian and Iran- ian replies to Iran's charges of de- layed withdrawal of Soviet troops from her territory. Cadogan called on Byrnes at the latter's hotel headqiarters in New Soviet Troops Prepare To Leave Iran Evacuation Centered At Bandar Shah Port By The Associated Press TEHRAN, April 2-Thousands of Soviet troops concentrated at the Caspian port of Bandar Shah, 160 miles northeast of Tehran, appeared today to be making busy preparations to leave Iranian soil. A view of the Asterabad Province area from a plane showed much ac- tivity on crowded wharves, in tem- porary bivouacs and in a regular Soviet Army camp. Some 300 Red Army soldiers were aboard a ship early in the day, and in the narrow harbor, three empty 500-ton freighters with steam up waited to enter the single slip and be loaded with cargo or with troops, who stared upward at the circling Ameri- can plane above them. Farther west, a small Russian gar- rison at Sari, however, showed no ap- parent signs of preparation for evac- uation. When the plane dipped over the area, a number of troops were drilling in an open space, and horses were at pasture. The air trip disclosed only one oil well at Bandar Shah-one of the northern cities in which Russian en- gineers have been rumored exploring for the past three years. The well a- peared to be in operation. Hope for Early End in Detroit Transit Strike DETROIT, April 2-()-Mhope of an early settlement of the two-day old transportation strike here was seen late Tuesday following an an- nouncement that a general member- ship meeting of the striking union would be called sometime Wednes- day. As twice the normal volume of au- tomobile traffic jammed the city's main thoroughfares in rush hours Tuesday, Mayor Edward J. Jeffries left his office twice to confer with heads of theeAmalgamated Associa- tion of Street, Electric Railway and Motors Coach Employes of America (AFL). Emergencies from the second meeting, Jeffrieswas asked if he were optimistic. "Let's put it this way," he said, "I'm not any more discouraged than I was." Optimism of city officials appar- ently was based on hopes that union membership would reconsider the city's previous offer of a 5 cent an hour raise, 40 hour week and contract changes doing away with mandatory overtime. Jeffries steadfastly has said the city will not negotiate while the strike is on. As an alternative the city has offered to put the whole un- ion contract up for arbitration. James McGinnity, international AFL representative, in announcing Wednesday's meeting, said it was be- ing called for "morale building" pur- poses and to report to the members. He declared he doubted that a ref- erendum vote would be taken, but added it was possible. American Legion Offers Scholarships The National. Convention and Na- tional Executive Committee of the American Legion have authorized the awarding of 15 National Comman- der Scholarship to sons of deceased veterans of World War One or Two, Wilbur M. Brucker of Detroit, chair- man of the Department Scholarship Committee, announced recently. Any son of a deceased veteran of either war, who is actually in need of York for a 15-minute review of the situation. Officially there was no report of their conference, but diplomatic ob- servers said the two statesmen agreed to keep the Iranian question to the fore of council proceedings whether or not the Soviet reply had been re- ceived by the 11 a.m. EST opening time set for the Coucil Wednesday. Iran Question At a late hour tonight neither the Soviet nor Iranian answer to the council's request for further informa- tion on their dispute had been re- ceived. Byrnes returned from Washington tonight ready to resume his leader- ship in finding a solution of the Iranian question. Slender hope As he arrived by plane in New York, delegates still clung to a slend- er hope that Russia would send a statement in time to avert a show- down. This hope was bolstered by news reports from Tehran that So- viet troops had actually started leav- ing Iran Meanwhile, Byrnes awaited receipt of the requested Russian and Iran- ian statements before determining what course of action he would take. Sources close to the Mexican dele- gation said they understood that the Big Three-the United States, Rus- sia and Great Britain-are seeking to reach an agreement on the Iran- ian case directly. Defer Discussions They were of the opinion that should such an agreement come, the Security Council probably would de- fer discussions on the Iranian ques- tion until additional information be- came available from Russian and Iranian sources. There was no confirmation of these reports from other sources. There still was no indication here, however, whether Russia would send any kind of statement by the 11 a.m. (EST) deadline set by the Council last Friay when it decided to seek in- formation directly from the Moscow and Tehran governments. Soviet Ambassador Andrei A. Gromyko continued to maintain sil- ence on Russia's plans. Asked if he would attend tomorrow's session, he said "I don't know." RUSSIA- Cak Kasnoyods= Caspion Tabriz Sea r Khorramdarah i ,Shahrud ;TEHRAN Sultanbad -1 R A N ; Bandar =' _ Shahpur 0 200 STATUTE MILES IRAN MOVES-U.S. sources in Iran said that reports from Tabriz (A) indicated that Russians were making "ostentatious" prepara- tions to evacuate that city. Iranian sources said that self-proclaimed government of Zerbaijan had open- ed a new control station south of its previous frontier post of Khor- ramdarak (B). Shaded area repre- sents approximate extent of origi- nal Russian occupation. Vets To Probe High Living Cost A veteran committee to investi-- gate the high cost of living in Ann Arbor will be appointed at a Veter- ans' Organization meeting at 7:30 p.m. today in Room 318 of the Union. All vets are urged to attend this important meeting. The agenda will include: ratification of the constitu- tion formed by the recent Michigan State Convention of Veterans; re- organization of the local chapter's constitution; and appointment of standing committees. Watkins Will Speak To AVC Thursday Discussion To Feature Panel Talk Will Prelude Rally on Student Government Panel discussions of the Congress- Cabinet and Council-Forum consti- tutions at 7:30 p.m. today and t- morrow in the Union will prelude the all-campus Student Government Rally at Hill Auditorium next week. Designed to provide a better under- standing of the two constitutions, particularly for new students, the panels will feature a moderator andG six student speakers. Short intro- ductory talk explaining each consti- tution will set the stage for a longer informal discussion by panel mem- bers. A final period will be reserved: for questions and discussion by the audience. Student speakers presenting the case for the Congress-Cabinet consti- tution are Barbara Lasha and Ted Morris; Wayne Saari will represent the Council-Forum plan at the dis- cussion tonight. Sheldon Selesnick, Terry Whitsit and Rona Eskin are slated to speak on the panel tomor- row. All students who are interested in participating in the panel dis- cussions on Student Government today and tomorrow are urged to contact Paul hlarsha at The Dailyr by 3 p.m. today. Speaker for the Council-Forum plan are especially needed. Moderator of tonight's panel is John F. Muehl, assistant director of the International Center. Jack Ses- sions of the English department will moderate the discussion tomorrow. Satirical skits, another phase ofc the intensive publicity campaign fort student government, will begin to- .day at campus fraternities, sororities and women's dormitories.- Written by Marcia Wellman, the skits will be given at meal time today, tomorrow and Friday. A troupe of 25 students interested in student gov- ernment will take part. A longer skitr will be given as a part of the Rally program next Monday. Banners publicizing forthcoming rally and election will be posted ont campus this week by permission ofr the University. House-to-house speeches, store displays, radio inter- views and sandwich board advertising are scheduled to start later in the week. The extensive campaign aims at arousing enthusiasm in the student body for the student government measures, which were originated last semester. Osterweil Fund Donations Asked Contributions for the Osterweil Memorial Fund, created recently by faculty and student friends of the1 late Lieut. Harold D. Osterweil, are Lieut. Osterweil, who was killed in action in France, July 31, 1944, ma-i jored in elonomihs at the Univer- sity and was elected to Phi Beta Kap- pa during his junior year in college.c He also attended Harvard Law School for a year and ranked first in his class.1 According to the size of the fund, it will be used to establish a scholar- ship, a loan fund, or an annual prize in economics. Control of the fund will be vested in a University com- mittee to assure its perpetuity.- When enough money has been+ contributed, the fund will be pre- sented to the Board of Regents for+ acceptance. Donations may be sent to Bernard Larner, Michigan Co-op House, Ann Arbor. Checks should be made out to the Osterweil Memorial+ Fund. Energy imited to Military Field ..Vandenberg Proposal Odified by Committee T iaison Board Created To Handle All Military Uses; Civilian Group To Keep Final Direction Army-Navy Control over Atomic TIDAL WAVES WRECK SEASIDE SHOP - Spectators view damage to seaside fishing bait shop struck by tidal waves in El Granada, Calif., about 20 miles south of San Francisco. The giant waves, formed by ! seismic disturbances in the North Pacific, also hit Hawaii and the Aleutians. TIDAL WAVE: eath Toll Mounts Steadily Propertuy DamageIs Great By The Associated Press Immense tidal waves that crashed down onPacific shores from Hawaii to the Aleutians and as far south as Chile took the lives of possibly 152 persons, late reports showed Tuesday night, and left property damage run- ing into the millions. Hawaii suffered the greatest cas- ualties. The latest compilation placed the dead at 70, the missing at a mini- mum of 7. Ten were presumed lost in the Aleutians and one in Californ- ia. The heaving ocean floor off the Aleutians, where the spectacular seis- mic turbulence originated, churned a new 40-foot tidal wave which mov- U' Professor Explains Wave Geologist Compares Force to Frisco Quake Commenting upon the Pacific Ocean tidal wave, Professor Armand J. Eardley of the Geology Depart- ment said in an interview yesterday that the size of the waves and the distance traveled indicate that it was an earthquake of major impor- tance, likely to be recorded on all seismograph machines. The tidal wave is really a move- ment of the land on the ocean bot- tom that displaces great masses of sea water. Had the same movement occurred on land, it would be called an earthquake. According to Prof. Eardley, the intensity of the recent tidal wave is comparable to the great San Francisco earthquake of 1906. Prof. Eardley said that the quake probably occurred in the Aleutian trough, about two hundred miles south of the Aleutian Islands. The area is a great belt of active crustal deformation. For such major quakes as this one, there are usually one or two preliminary movements that indicate later movements and major shocks. The first preliminary shocks came about 4:30 a.m. Pacific Time, on April first. The major shock came shortly after. ed slowly through the Gulf of Alaska yesterday. Twelve coast guardsmen and two' civilians were taken from Middleton Island in the Gulf, and women and children were removed from Naknek on the Alaskan Peninsula as the new tide surged toward Alaska. Meanwhile, one of the greatest air- sea rescue operations in the peace- time history of the Mid-Pacific was in full swing in the stricken Hawai- ian Islands, hardest hit by the sea disaster. Planes and ships put out to sea looking for any who might still be clinging to the wreckage of their homes, torn from their foundations when three waves struck Monday. Doctors, nurses and Red Cross di- saster workers converged on the Is- land of Hawaii, largest in the Ha- waiian group, which caught the full fury of waves which thundered in without warning. There still was no report of the fate of ten men carried away and presumed drowned when the north- bound tidal wave engulfed Scotch Cape Lighthouse on Unimak, an Aleutian Island onlyr70 miles from the calculated center of the sub- marine earthquake. Nearby Dutch Harbor, standing at the apex of the navy's defense tri- angle in the Pacific, escaped major damage as did protected Pearl Har- bor at the western end of the tri- angle's base. Alumni Expect Large Reunion Seventy-eight classes have already indicated they will participate in the forthcoming Victory Reunion, June 20 through 22, T. Hawley Tap- ping, General Secretary of the Alum- ni Association announced yesterday. This figure is to be contrasted with the 106 classes attending the 1939 Centennial Reunion, the largest such reunion in University history. The average number of classes participat- ing in alumni reunions is between 50 and 55. WASHINGTON, April 2-Senators drafting atomic energy controls de- cided today to limit the Army and Navy say-so strictly to the military field. The action erased sweeping lan- guage of the so-called Vandenberg amendment which would have put the military's hand upon all atomic energy matters related to "defense and security" and apparently closed a bitter controversy at the capitol. Adopted Unanimously The special Atomic Energy Com- mittee adopted the revision unani- mously. Chairman McMahon (Dem.- Conn.), who had voted against the original, said the alteration removes "most of the objectionable points." Senator Vandenberg (Rep.-Mich.) proposed the substitute. He had of- fered the original provision as com- promise between those who wanted complete civilian control and those who thought the military should have some voice. Would Stifle Research But McMahon and others, includ- ing Secretary of Commerce Wallace and scientists, contended the lan- guage of the ammendment would al- low the "Military Liaison Board" to stifle research on grounds of secur- ity and extend its activities into in- dustrial and other fields never before considered within the military sphere in this country. The new amendment would set up a "Military Liaison Committee" somewhat like the Liaison Board originally proposed. But it would be concerned only with atontic energy matters which "relate to military ap- plications," including specifically the development and manufacture of bombs, allocating of fissionable ma- terial for military research and "ocn- trol of information relating to the manufacture or utilization of atomic weapons." Five Man Commission Control over all atomic energy matters would be vested in a five man civilian commission as originally proposed. The Military Liaison Com- mittee could appeal the Commission's actions when they relate to "respon- Chinese Lack Unity-- Lindsay Party Reactionaries In Control Blamed At the second of his lectures on China, Michael Lindsay declared yes- terday that Chinese unity is being prevented by extreme reactionaries in control of the party machine of the National Chinese government. Lindsay, formerly professor of eco- nomics at Yenching University, Pe- king, maintained that "the reaction- aries are prepared to go to almost any length to prevent unity. There is al- most universal agreement that the reactionaries are a thorough bunch of crooks." Ho Ying Chin, Chen Li Fu and H. H. Kung were named as reactionary leaders; no mention was made of Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek. Speaking on "The Problems of Chi- nese Unity, Prof. Lindsay said that withdrawal of American military sup- port of the National Chinese govern- ment was the key to the situation. "The National government is too weak alone to fight the Communists in China. Absence of American sup- port would mean," he stated, "the Na- tional government would have to compromise with the Communists in order not to be defeated by them." He indicated that the progressive ele- ments in the National government, the Communists and a third party, the Democratic league, have a "pretty wide agreement on a general pro- gram." Economics Club Will Hol dMeeting Today "Econcentrics," student economics club, will held an organization meet- sibilities of the Departments of War or Navy derived from the Constitu- tion, laws and treaties." Appeal would be to the Secretaries of War and the Navy instead of di- rectly to the President as the original Vandenberg amendment provided. Then the Civilian Secretaries, if they saw fit, could appeal to the President f or final decision. The Committee would consist of representatives of the War and Navy Departments appointed by the secre- taries of War and Navy. The number would be left up to them. Safety Proposal Still Unsettled In Coal Strike Operators, Lewis To Continue Negotiations WASHINGTON, April 2- ()- John L. Lewis and soft coal opera- tors rejected each other's mine safe- ty proposals today but agreed to meet again tomorrow in efforts to reach a contract ending the two-day old na- tional strike. After the breakup of the closed meeting, attended again by special government mediator Paul W. Fuller, both Lewis and the operators held news conferences to relate their sides of the impasse. Lewis, head of the 'AFL United Mine Workers, said his safety reso- lutidns turned down by the operators, were the miners irreducible mini- mum" demand in this regard. Charles O'Neill, spokesmen or the operators, said Lewis was striving "to deprive management of all its power and authority," and added: "We refuse to yield to these." The operators voted down three Lewis resolutions which would : 1. Given the mine safety commit- tees, made up of UAW members, au- thority to remove workmen from places they decide are dangerous. 2. Commit the operators to com- ply with safety recommendations of federal mine inspectors, now purely tdvistory, but make them subject to review of the director of the U. S. Bureau of Mines. 3. Require the operators to furnish pure water and remove unsightly sanitary facilities outside company houses. City Elections See Light Vote Final results in Ann Arbor's city election for alderman and city su- pervisors held last Monday show that a total of 660 voters turned out to the polls, the city clerk announced yesterday. One alderman and one city super- visor. was chosen from each of the -even wards. The results follow with .he alderman's name appearing first: Ward 1, Robert Nichols, Fritz For- sythe; Ward 2, Walter Kurtz, Ernst Harrer; Ward 3, Frank Heed Jr., Fred Williams; Ward 4, Julian Frederick, Edward Schumacher; Ward 5, Edwin Zahn, August Dorow; Ward 6, A. D. Moore, Norman Ottnar; Ward 7, James J. O'Kane, Jessie Coller. Miner Will Address IRA Meeting Today Prof. Horace Miner of the sociology department will address members 4n the Inter-Racial Association at 7:30 p.m. today in the Union. Applying a new comparative method to community studies, Prof. Miner is now teaching a course in race relations and culture contacts with special emphasis on the Negro problem in America. He came to the University this semester following his release from the Army, where he served as a lieutenant-colonel in the NO MORE HIROSHIMA: Atom-Bomb Pilot Describes Mission t. By ALICE JORGENSON "The white cloud that rose over Hiroshima after the atomic bomb was dropped was pretty much like the pictures we had seen from the New Mexico experiment," said John A. Wilson, freshman law student at the University, who piloted the lead' ship in the atomic bomb mission over Japan. Organization Keyed Up "By the time the bomb was drop- ped, our plane was 150 miles from the "After years of preparation for one minute, the whole organization was 'naturally keyed up" about the mis- sion," he added. "A few days later, I flew to the States to pick up another bomb but the war ended and I received orders to stay here, remaining on the alert," Wilson explained. "I heard the first V-J peace rumor in Hawaii," he add- e'd. Volunteers Participated Wilson said that 6 B.29s partici- He said that FBI men followed the squadron to Havanna and even tele- phone conversations were recorded and played back to the men to im- press upon them the importance of what they were doing. Favors Army Control In connection with future control of the force, Wilson said, "Atomic energy is a weapon and weapons be- long to the army." Ultimately, how- ever, he said he favored international control, but not before adequate agencies are established. "In the