THIRD PARTY POSSIBILITIES See page 6 CJT r Lw1 46Fuz aii4 PARTLY CLOUDY, MILD VOL. LVI, No. 105 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1946 PRICE FIVE CENTS Housing Bill Released for Senate Debate Measure Provides Subsidies, Ceilings WASHINGTON, April 3-(A")-The administration's emergency housing legislation emerged from the Senate banking committee today carrying two key provisions-$600,000,000 for building material subsidies and price ceilings on existing houses. Both were rejected by the House although President Truman called the subsidies the "very heart" of a program intended to bring about con- struction of 2,700,000 homes in 1946 and 1947. The Senate committee voted un- animously to send the measure to the Senate, but only after a Repub- lican effort to halve the subsidy fund was beaten down 12 to 6. Seeks Fund Cut Senator Capehart (Rep., Ind.), who sought to cut the fund, said he would renew his effort when the bill comes up on the Senate floor, probably early next week. Democratic Leader Barkley of Kentucky told reporters he intended to call the measure up just as soon as the pending minimum wage bill is out of the way. He said he hoped that would be Monday. Close behind it will follow legisla- tion for a long-range housing pro- gram embracing continued federal aid for low-rent housing and help for cities to redevelop "blighted" and slum areas. This is the so-called Wagner-Ellender-Taft bill, on which the banking committee scheduled ac- tion tomorrow. Capehart Loses Capehart lost on two other at- tempts to change the emergency housing bill. An 11 to 7 vote defeated a motion to strike out a section permitting Housing Expediter Wilson Wyatt to guarantee a market for new types of building materials and prefabricated houses. A similar vote beat an attempt to set June 30, 1947, instead of Dec. 31, 1947, as the date when ceiling prices on existing homes will expire. Committeemen For Senior Ball Are Announced The Senior Councils of the literary and engineering schools have appoint- ed the following seniors as Senior Ball committee chairmen: General chairmen: Dick Ford, lit- erary school, George Abbott, engi- neering school; tickets: Gloria Mc- Elroy, Bliss Bowman, literary school, Fay Ajzenberg, engineering school; building: Bob Snell, engineering school, Tom Hayes, literary school; decorations: Cam Fisher, Pat Abel, literary school. Music: Bob Goldman, Jean Gaff- ney, literary school; patrons: Virginia Garrett, literary school; publicity: Rita Auer, Margery Wilson, literary school, Jim Artley, engineering school; programs: Norma Johnson, Bob Morrison, literary school. Commenting on the chairmen, Pat Barrett, president of the literary school senior class, said, "The new ideas and exceptional interest and enthusiasm of the seniors interview- ed indicate that the dance will con- tinue as one of the University's out- standing traditions." DSR Strikers To Meet Today DETROIT, April 3-(A)-Leaders of 5,200 AFL trolley and bus opera- tors today scheduled a Thursday morning mass meeting -to discuss the possibility of ending a city-wide transit strike. Following a five-and-one half hour session between international offi- cers and leaders of Division 26, Amal- gamated Association of Street Elec- tric Railway and Motor Coach Em- ployes, the 10 a.m. meeting was an- nounced. "Undoubtedly the back to work is- sue will be discussed," O. J. Mischo, an international officer, told report- ers. "I don't know whether or not there will be a vote on it." Mischo said the conference today discussed the possibilities of ending the three-day tieup which has par- alyzed the Detroit railway system. Jack Storey, president of Division 26, said leaders, at tomorrow's meet- ing, will "renort nrogress nr lak of SecondPanel on Student Government To Be Held Six Members To Discus Congres-Cabinet, Council-Forum Campus Constitutions Today Crisis I Assure 11 UNO Ends As Russians Withdrawal from Iran; The second of two panel discus- sions on student government will present arguments for the Congress- Cabinet and Council-Forum consti- tutions at 7:30 p.m. today at the Un- ion. Six panel members plan to present a more thorough discussion of the two constitutions than will be pos- sible at the all-campus rally at Hill Wave Disaster Causes Death Of 82 persons Toll Still Mounting On Pacific Islands HONOLULU, April 3-(/)-Hopes dwindled today for the safety of 82 persons - including 50 children - missing in the wake of Monday's tidal wave disaster from which possi- bly 176 persons were dead or missing in the Pacific Ocean areas. The recovery of the body of a four- year-old boy on Maui Island and finding of two more bodies previously listed as missing on Kauai brought the known dead toll in the islands to 82. Territorial Gov. Ingram M. Stain- back estimated the final total might reach 100 or 150. Twelve other per- sons were drowned elsewhere in the Pacific, with still others missing or yet unaccounted for. Pestilence Threat Eased Meanwhile, the threat of pesti- lence eased on the stricken island of Hawaii, and the steady flow of foods and clothes mitigated conditions in the city of Hilo. (An Associated Press dispatch from Tahiti said Monday's triple ti- dal wave caused damage on the north coast of that island 2,738 miles south of Honolulu. High waves still whipped parts of the coast of Chile.) The Army's mid-Pacific command said a check showed no loss of life among its ground troops, and the same report was made by the Navy of its personnel. Every effort was being made to rush relief supplies into Hilo. Two LST's left Pearl Harbor today car- rying medical supplies, blankets, food, clothing, and water purifying chemi- cals. Ocean Floor Settles The fear of new violence from the sea ebbed as the uneasy ocean floor off the eastern Aleutians, 2,000 miles to the north, settled back with only an occasional after-shock from the tremendous seismic upheaval which generated the tidal waves. The territory of Hawaii turned swiftly to the task of rehabilitating the 4,000 or more left homeless by the giant waves, which wrecked mil- lions of dollars worth of property. Technic To Be Out Tomorrow A survey of the problem existing between labor unions and engineer- ing organizations by Prof. Robert H. Sherlock of the civil engineering department will be featured in the March issue ofthe Michigan Tech- nic, to appear on campus tomorrow. In the .article, Prof. Sherlock will discuss the attempts of engineering organizations to combat union pres- sure and to secure professional rec- ognition and exemption from join- ing unions. Also featured in the March issue of the Technic, published monthly by students of the Colloge of Engin- eering, will be a report by Henry Davenport, '46E, on the most mod- ern and advanced paving methods using asphalt materials. Auditorium next Monday. The mod- erator will be John Sessions, of the English department. Speaking for the Council-Forum constitutions will be Wayne Saari, Richard Roeder and Ruth Ann Bales, The Congress-Cabinet wil be upheld by Rona Eskin, Sheldon Selesnik, and Terrill Whitsitts. Short introductory talks explain- ing each constitution will be follow- ed by a longer informal discussion by panel members. A final period will be reserved for questions and opin- ions by the audience. The panels form part of a broad publicity campaign designed to edu- cate the student body on the issues Students managing polls at the all-campus elections next week are asked to attend a meeting at 7:30 p.m. today in the Union. involved in the vote for student gov- ernment next Tuesday and Wednes- day. Students will be asked to select one of the two constitutions as the new framework for student govern- ment at the University. Satirical skits, written by Marcia Wellman, began yesterday at campus fraternities, sororities and women's dormitories, designed to illustrate the virtues of the new student govern- ment plan. They will be given at meal-time today and tomorrow ac- cording to sponsors. Scholles, Grede To Open Labor Policies Debate August Scholles, regional director of the CIO in Detroit, and W. G. Grede, president of the Wisconsin Manufacturers Association and a di- rector of the National Manufactur- ers Association, will open the Inter- collegiate Parliamentary Session on Labor Relations Saturday in Rack- ham Amphitheatre. Delegates from the University de- bate squad and Michigan colleges will debate on the proposal of a national labor policy by the NAM, which ap- peared in a full-page advertisement in the Detroit Free Press and other newspapers February 26. The audi- ence, particularly students, have been asked by the debate squad publicity chairman, Harriet Risk, to partici- pate in the all-day session. The NAM plan contains the fol- lowing points: equal responsibility for management and labor; Congres- sional enactment of rules for bar- gaining, free from coercion and viol- ence; safeguards for the public against* jurisdictional strikes; delay of strikes until orderly means of set- tlement are exhausted. The general debate on the entire proposal will be followed by an item- by-item debate with amendment and tentative approval or rejection, caucuses of opponents and propo- nents of the bill, amendment to the proposal as a whole, including al- ternative bills devised in caucus, and a final vote. Fraternity House Presidents To Meet Discussion of pledging procedures, and reports concerning the coming student government elections will highlight a meeting of all fraternity house presidents at 7:30 p.m. today in the Inter-Fraternity Council of- fice in the Union. This meeting will replace the reg- ularly scheduled meeting of April 10, Fred Matthaei, president of the IC, announced. Civilian Production Sets Record Truman Warns Coal Strike Can eelay Progress Output Goes Up Past All Previous Levels By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, April 3 - Presi- dent Truman said today that produc- tion for American civilians has al- ready zoomedrto record-shattering heights, but warned that prolonga- tion of the coal strike would wipe out that progress. The output of goods and services "is still going up" after attaining a level higher "than ever before in the nation's history," Mr. Truman re- ported, employment is "building up steadily" and wage payments have climbed back to near the V-J day level despite strikes. Quarterly Report The President issued his statement in releasing, at a news conference, a quarterly report prepared by Recon- version Director John F. Snyder. Snyder said civilian production had hit a $150,000,000,000 annual rate in the quarter just closed-"unprece- dented in our peacetime history"- and would go "several billion dollars" higher by midyear. He went on: The jobless now number around 3,000,000, will not average more than 3,500,000 in the next three months. This compares with official fears of 8,000,000 out of work by summer. Deficit Reduced The federal budget will show a deficit "several billion dollars less" than the $26,000,000,000 gap fore- seen by Mr. Truman in his January budget message. Some shortages-like shirts-linger because distribution is faulty, Mr. Truman said, and because stocks were badly depleted by war. It takes 32,000 cars, he reminded a questioner, just to give all dealers their show models. TrumniiTerms Reece Election Stassen Rebuff WASHINGTON, April 3 - ()- President Truman today endorsed a view that Rep. B. Carroll Reece's election as Republican national chair- man aids the "standpatters" and re- buffs the Willkie-Stassen element of the GOP. The President referred to an edi- torial-page article in this morning's Baltimore Sun expressing this idea when asked at his news conference for comment on Reece's selection. Mr. Truman mentioned the article, said he had read it and considered it very good, and confined his comment to that. Mr. Truman also disclosed that a conference at the White House yes- terday had just about everything to do with New York politics. He gave that description when he was asked if it concerned the possibility of Sen- ator James M. Mead running as a Democratic gubernatorial candidate in New York next fall. The article on the Republicans which the President commended said that Reece "served 25 years in the House without fame" and recalled that he "voted against revision of the Neutrality Act in the fight in 1939 when isolationists opposed amend- ments designed to permit sale of war supplies to the Allies." TAFT CALM AFTER ROW-A calm Sen. Robert Taft (Rep., Ohio) talks with a reporter in his office in Washington after he engaged in a heated verbal debate-with Sen. James E. Murray (Dem., Mont.) at a committee meeting. Taft stalked angrily from the hearing after Murray threatened to have him ejected. Annual Fellowship, Scholarship Awards Made by? Graduate School Fellowships and scholarship ap- pointments in the Graduate School for 1946-47 were announced yester- day by Assistant Dean Peter Okkel- berg. The awards are granted to stu- dents from universities and colleges throughout the United States and Canada on the basis of high scholas- tic standing on this campus. The awards follow: Horace H. Rackham Predoctoral Fellowships, $1,000: Juan Curet and Robert Hansen, chemistry; Amy Downey, Romance Languages; Sidney Fine, history; Hester Gehring, German; Robert Graham, physics; Stanley Norton, education; William Resnick, chemi- cal engineering; Edwin Spanier and Robert Taylor, mathematics. University Fellowships, $500 to $950: Margaret Bertsch, history; James Boggs, chemistry; Elizabeth Brown, sociology; Arunchandra Chhatra- pati, Sidney Davidson and Paul Kircher, business administration; Ellen Clark, Latin; James Clark and Irving Panush, philosophy; Barbara Coe, Harry Moses, Arthur Nethercot, Jr. and James Riddell, Jr., physics; George Costello and Jesse Exams Advanced To June 13to19 Exam week has been moved for- ward and will begin on June 13 because of the alumni reunion to be held here June 20 to June 22, Dr. Frank E. Robbins, assistant to the president, announced yesterday. Examinations will end June 19, and commencement will be held June 22, Dr. Robbins said. Wright, mathematics; Charlotte Ed- son, German; Jack Elenbaas and James Knudson, chemical engineer- ing; Ruth Flynn, biological chemis- try; Ann Fullerton, David Reed and James Robertson, English; Allan Katcher, psychology; Earl Larrison and Harry Wilcox, Jr., zoology; Malcolm McDonald, for- estry and conservation; Shirley Mil- ler, economics; William Nash, engi- neering mechanics; Ann Pates, bac- teriology; Willis Pitts, Jr., speech; See SCHOLARSHIPS, Page 2 TU, Scientists Endorse Atom Coup romise University scientists last night ex- pressed qualified approval of the more limited military control over atomic energy proposed by the Sen- ate drafting committee. "It certainly sounds like a much better compromise than the original Vandenberg amendment," Prof. Ray- mond Wilder, of the mathematics department, commented. However, it is still "not clear," he pointed out, just how much supervisory power the new Military Liaison Committee would have. Terming the compromise "rather vague," as to powers of the military board, Prof. Wilfred Kaplan, of the mathematics department, indicated that "there is still some danger, since the proposal can be interpreted in a rather broad way." A limitation to the field of miiltary control should be put down "very precisely," he said. Ambassador Ala Approves Soviet Terms Troops Will Leave in Six Weeks - Gromyko By The Associated Press NEW YORK, April 3-The United Nations crisis over Iran collapsed to- night when it was learned that Iran- ian Ambassador Hussein Ala had in- formed officials he was prepared to accept a Soviet statement to the Se- curity Council as an unconditional guarantee of the withdrawal of Rus- sian troops from Iran. Meanwhile in Tehran Prince Mo- zaffar Firouz, Iranian propaganda minister, told a news conference to- day that the Iranian government has been "advised that two or three shiploads of Russian troops have left Iran through the port of Pahlevi." Pahlevi, on the Caspian Sea, is 165 miles northwest of Tehran. Virtually complete settlement of the Iranian case was forecast by top U. N. delegates for tomorrow's ses- sion. Key Statement The key statement was contained in a letter from Soviet Ambassador An- drei Gromyko to the council. Gro- myko stated flatly that Russian troops would be out of Iran within six weeks. Ala was reported by per- sons fully informed of his actions to have told U. N. Security General Trygve Lie that he considered that this assurance met Iran's require- ments. His decision was said to have been based on Gromyko's omission of the possibility that "unforeseen circum- stances" might halt the evacuation as well as on his positive statement that the evacuation was not, condi- tional on current negotiation between Iran and Russia over oil concessions and other matters. Feel Crisis Ended The settlement is expected to pro- vide that the case should be kept on the council's agenda at least until all Russian forces are out of Iran. Whether Secretary of State James F. Byrnes will take the lead in pro- posing that the issue now in eff ect be shelved, though kept on the agenda, could not be definitely learned. How- ever, it is known that American of- ficials feel that the Iranian crisis substantially ended today and that the Security Council had survived it with heightened prestige. Iran Will Agree Iranian Ambassador Hussein Ala, after vigorously restating his coun- try's complaints against Russia, said that if Iran could have unconditional assurances of the withdrawal of Rus- sian forces-by May 6-it would readily agree to having the council halt proceedings on the case, though he would like to see it kept on the agenda. By that device he seems to keep the council's influence behind Iran. Speculations among top council delegates is that a settlement will clear the way for the prompt return of Gromyko to the council's meetings, African Negroes Aroused -Miner Comparing racial relations in North Africa with those in the Unit- ed States, Prof. Horace Miner of the sociology department told members of the Inter-Racial Association yes- terday that Negroes in that area are only beginning to realize that they are being exploited. Prof. Miner based his talk on ob- servations made while serving in the Counter-Intelligence Corps in Africa during the war, and on pre- vious extensive study of life in Tim- buctu in French Northwest Africa. He pointed out that until the ad- vent of the two world wars, when natives began to realize that their European rulers could not run their own affairs successfully, little na- tionalism or awareness of their po- sition had developed. Volga Volga' To Be At Rackham Today POLITICAL SCIENTISTS POLLED: Need for Interest 'in Student Government Cited 411 By PHYLLIS KAYE and HARVEY LEVE Eight members of the political sci- ence department were in general agreement yesterday on the desira- bility of student government for this campus but expressed various opin- ions as to the methods of its opera- tion. Questions Asked Questions asked the members in a poll conducted by The Daily yester- day were: (1) Is student government According to Dr. Lester H. Phillips, the actual form adopted is secondary to the desire of the student body to have a government through which they can effectively operate. Paul J. Scheips stated that a constitution, model in all respects, will fail if stu- dent apathy and indifference is prev- alent. 'Seriousness' Needed Prof. Harold M. Dorr declared: "Student government must be under- taken with a sense of seriousness and student government, claimed that it is not a question of what must be done to develop self-government, but how much power without strings, the regents and facuiy will allow the students. PR Favored On the subject of proportional rep- resentation versus the short ballot, the majority of the professors fa- vored proportional representation if properly handled. Dr. Clark F. Norton, howeve. nrn- plan and the representation from each school determined by the num- ber of its votes. 'Valuable Experiment' In the opinion of Prof. John W. Lederle, proportional representation would be justified if only as an inter- esting and valuable experiment. Aside from stimulating student think- ing in the election, it would provide for a more "representative reflection" of student wishes, he said. "Prnnvrtinnl reprnesentation mi it easier to watch one man than a dozen." The professors expressed varying opinions as to the frequency of elec- tions. Although there is a movement now in the direction of lengthening the terms of office, this wouldn't work in a university environment where students are "here today and gone tomorrow," Prof. Lederle de- clared. Differ On Elections