INDIAN FREED)OMV Spe Page 4 Y i ito Daii4 AFTERNOON SHOWERS1 ;1c VOL. LVI, No. 120 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 1946 PRICE FIVE CENTS Franco Probe Likely To Win UN Approval Council To Discuss Proposal Next Week By The Associated Press, NEW YORK, April 20-Australia's proposal for an investigation of Franco Spain by the United Nations Security Council appeared tonight to be headed toward almost certain ap- proval when the council resumes dis- cussion of the Spanish question next week. Strong support of the proposed in- quiry was assured when it became apparent that advocates of an im- mediate world-wide diplomatic break with Spain were lining up behind it. Mexico First The first nation to announce pub- licly that it would support the motion of Australian delegate W. R. Hodg- son was Mexico, one of the most ar- dent backers of the Polish move for a diplomatic quarantine of the regime of Generalissimo Franco. Mexican Foreign Minister Fran- cisco Castillo Najera said in Wash- ington that the Australian proposal was a "good compromise" and an- nounced that Mexico would support it. I. I - - PilotlessAircraft Course W ,q rn T T q, n-f MiAi*Aa Tl , Given for AAF cers Engineering College Trains 13 Teiichnickians 5 Per Cent W heat Products Cut; In Un imie A ern-Dvnamin Pn r-yruim --- vaaaa.l"' 1 ll.'i "'P.7 litill. tl4.. !. A. 11 2. 4111 Polish Delegate Oscar Lange, spon- sor of the original resolution calling for an immediate break with Spain, was reported earlier to have assured Hodgson of Poland's support. Others Silent Russia and France, the other two advocates of a diplomatic break, re- mained silent on their plans, but ,it was believed they would support the Hodgson compromise. Under this plan, a five-man com- mittee would be appointed to deter- mine whether the Franco regime was a threat to world peace. The com- mittee would be required to report back by May 17. While some of the delegations would not commit themselves, pend- ing further study of the proposal, the plan was generally well received. There was no immediate opposition from any quarter. The Spanish question, which al- ready has been subject to two days of bitter debate, was not expected to come up before Wednesday. Ahead of it on the agenda is the controversial Iranian question which will be taken up when the council re-convenes Tuesday. Cost of Homes Reduced, More Will Be Rented WASHINGTON, April 20 - (A) - The government tonight ordered new, reduced cost ceilings for the bulk of new dwellings and directed that one- fourth of them be built for rental. The National Housing Administra- tion order will steer, by priority ac- tion, most of the country's residen- tial building materials into homes well under the present $10,000 sales and $80 rental limit. Announced by Housing Expediter ; Wilson W. Wyatt, the order directs that:l One Fourth Rental One-fourth of the dwellings hence- forth authorized in any city must be built for rental; and of these, at least half must rent at or below ceilings' which range from $40 monthly in New Orleans to $65 in New York. Half of all homes built to be sold must come below a new price line which also varies from city to.city; $4,500 in New Orleans, for instance, and $9,000 in New York. It will be the job of Federal Hous- ing officials over the country to in- duce builders to undertake the low- cost and rentalhousing projects. Withheld Priorities They must account for over 60 per cent of authorized dwellings. The government's whip is the with-I holding of priorities on scarce lum-] ber, materials and supplies. Other houses may range in price upl to the $10,000 sales and $80-a-month rental limits already fixed for the veterans' housing program but1 Wyatt said that the new "channel- ing" order will immediately "increase by 50 per cent the homes built undert $6,500" in April, May and June. AVC State Council1 Elects OPA Official Mennen Williams, deputy district OPA chairman for Detroit, was elect-.. ed president of the American Veter- ans Committee Michigan Area Coun- By DORIS WEST EDITOR'S NOT: By arrangement with AAF Public Relations, Wright Field, Day- ton, Ohio, the information contained in this article is being released for the first time. A course in pilotless aircraft, the first and only course of its kind, is now being offered by the College of Engineering. The pilotless aircraft course is part of an extensive program being carried out by the Army Air Forces to use exisiting educational institutions to train a nucleus of technicians among the officer ranks. Courses For Officers These courses are being made avail- able to officers of all grades with a view of having staff officers with technical backgrounds in all eche- lons of command. "The purpose of this course is to develop Army Air Force officers cap- Lewis Confers With Truman On Coal Strife 'No Conclusive Result' Reported from Talk WASHINGTON, April 20 - A) - President Truman took a hand in the 20-day soft coal strike today in an unheralded White House talk with John L. Lewis and Secretary of La- bor Schwellenbach. The two had a 15-minute confer- ence with Mr. Truman and Recon- version Director John W. Snyder but the White House said afterward the meeting had been without any "con- clusive result." In Good Humor Nevertheless Lewis and Schwellen- bach left the meeting in obvious good humor and the labor secretary said he intended to get in touch with Ezra Van Horn, Chairman of the Mine Op- erators Joint Negotiating Commit- tee. It was considered probable the President had asked Lewis, chief of the 400,000 idle United Mine Work- ers, to resume joint negotiations with the mine owners. However, Charles G. Ross, White House press secretary, told reporters he could neither con- firm nor deny whether the President had made any proposal. In response to questions Schwellen- bach declared there would be no re- sumption of strike negotiations, either with both sides separately or together, until next Tuesday at the earliest. Lewis Has Date Lewis has a date Wednesday at Hazelton, Pa., to attend the meeting called to form UMW's new contract demands for 72,000 anthracite min- ers. The hard coal contract expires May 31. The bituminous, or soft coal, situ- ation has been at an impasse since April 10 when Lewis walked out of joint negotiations with the opera- tors. He said further talks were use- less. Lewis wants a settlement of his demand for a union-administered health and welfare fund for miners financed by a tonnage levy on coal production, and also for improvedi safety conditions. able of supervising development pro- grams in pilotless aircraft along those lines which will be most beneficial to the military establishment," Col. Wil- fred H. Tetley, one of the 13 AAF officers taking thew couse said Acro-Dynamic Devces Ile added that the Army Air Forces feel that since pilotless aircraft are primarily aero-dynamic devises, the AAF should take theI-ad in develop- ing them for militaryy )urnoses. The development 01 pilotless air- craft and robot bombs envisions the integration of techniques in aero- nautical, electrical and mechanical engineering. The course is designed to emphasize that field in each sub- ject which is most conunon to the guided, missiles l oblern ard not tG make experts in any one line. Practical Work When they complete this one year post-graduate roirse AAF officers will undertake to transate baic sci- entife -research into practical de- vices which can be readily produced by leading manufacturers and can be maintained and operated by sol- diers in the field, The University has taken great pains in cooperating with the engi- neering school at Wright Field in modifying certain courses to insure well-balanced training in the three phases of engineering most vital to this new development. Subjects Included The course includes the following subjects: theory of aviation, elec- tronic tubes and circuits, elect-ronics and radio laboratory, aircraft propul- sion and a review of calculus and topics in advanced calculus. The course is under the supervi- sion of Prof. Emerson W. Conlon, chairman of the Department of Aero- nautical Engineering. Ci les(_.Re(Is Continue Gains In Manchuria CHUNGKING, April 20 -- t/P_ Chinese Communists encircling Har- bin declared today they intended to seize that north Manchurian metro- polis, which the Government indi- cated it would not even try to defend. A Government spokesman said the situation in Central Manchuria was "very grave" now that Communist troops have taken Changchun, the capital, 150 miles southwest of Har- bin. A Communist spokesman warned that the encircling troops would seize Harbin when the Russian army pulls out next Thursday, "if a status of civil war still prevails in Manchuria" That would give General Marshall, special U.S. envoy to China, only five more days to work out a truce first between the warring factions. Marshall was in almost continuous conferences with both Government and Communist officials. He had not scheduled a meeting of his truce committee of three, which earlier this year worked out an armistice for the rest of China outside Manchuria. A Government spokesman charged that Communist irregulars already were 'infiltrating Harbin. He said the Government had no army forces in Harbin-only civil officials.