BOOK BURNING See Page 4 13w rguu ai4 CLOUDY, MILD . . ....... . ........ . . .................. . .. .... . ......... .. . ................. . .. . ---. - - . . . . . . . ..... .............. - . .. . .. . ................. . ..... - - t- - . I t --r MA VOL. LVI, No. 147 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TiUR;D AY, MAY 23, 1946 PRICE FIVE CENTS . . ........... ...... . .......... . .. . . . ................ . . . . .................. . ... ........... . ... . ... ...... .. ..... PRf~T C. 1 T L!' % Lr,\ k UN C4 Truman Rail Strike Offer 'Unfavorable' Unions To Answer Proposals Today By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, May 22-President Truman offered a solution to the railroad dispute tonight which the carriers and 18 brotherhoods accep- ted but which the engineers and trainmen held "unfavorable." The two brotherhoods which have called a strike for 4 p.m. tomorrow withheld their acceptance or rejec- tion for the night. Their leaders are to give their answer to Mr. Truman tomorrow morning, The proposal is "less favorable than the recommendation of the fact- finding board" which the brother- hoods previously rejected, declared A. F. Whitney, head of the train- men. It provides, he said, for a wage in- crease of 182 cents an hour - as compared with 16 cents awarded by the board - but withdrawal by the unions for one year of 45 changes they seek in working rules. These rules changes, involving overtime and various other extra pay- ments, would yield more money to many of the workers than the basic WASHINGTON, May 22-(P)- The Senate rejected tonight by a 40 to 12 vote a proposal that it go on record as favoring the estab- lishment of industrial health and welfare funds. wage rise. The fact-finding board said it would take "months" to de- cide these questions and made recom- mendations on only a few, remanding; the rest to further negotiations. The question whether the railroads, now under government operation, are to be crippled by a strike tomorrow or whether the administration has weathered another grave labor crisis with its 18% cent wage rise formula thus remained uncertain tonight. The President conferred late into the evening with representatives of all 20 brotherhoods and the carriers. His secretary, Charles G. Ross, an- nounced afterwards that a proposition had been made by Mr. Truman, the details of which would be made pub- lic tomorrow. Whitney and Johnston prepared to return to Cleveland, planning to send their answe from there. Lewis Is Silent On Coal Strike Krug 'Hopes' Miners Will Remain at Jobs WASHINGTON, May 22-(/)- With the number of idle soft coal miners growing rapidly despite gov- ernment seizure of the pits, Secretary of Interior J. A. Krug could express tonight only a conditional "hope" that a complete shutdown next week would be averted. Striving for a bargain with John L. Lewis to keep coal flowing, Krug, the government mine boss, said he still had no assurance from the United Workers chieftain that a full- scale work stoppage would not occur. "It is very possible," Krug told a news conference, "that the govern- ment's position on all the principles (involved in a new contract) can be decided before Saturday night. The execution of a contract within that time would be very difficult. "I hope that if an accord on the things that make a contract appears certain, the workers can be kept on the job." Saturday night marks the expira- tion of the present two-weeks' truce, which was called after a 42-day strike. Candidates To Talk At AVC Rally Today Three Michigan congressional can- didates will present their platforms at 8 p.m. today in the County Court- house in a "Know-your-government Rally" sponsored by the campus American Veterans Committee. Wayne Saari, Democrat; Henry Vander Velde, Republican, and Wil- liam R. Kelley, Democrat, will speak uncil Refuses Campus Famine Relief Drive To Be Held Today3 Funds for 'Their Daily Bread' Will Be Collected, Turned Over to UNRRA for Food Shipments To Drop Ian . . . The all-campus Famine Relief f Drive, sponsored by the University Famine Committee, will seek $5,000 in a tag-day collection today. Funds collected in the drive will be turned over to the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Admini- stration, which has asked for money to help accelerate shipments of food overseas to famine areas which in- clude one-third of the world's popu- lation. Collection Posts Collections will be made at ten posts on campus, where "Their Daily Bread" tags will be distributed. In addition to the tag='day campaign, funds will be collected in all student residences until the end of the term. At UNRRA Director Fiorello H. La Guardia's request, Food Collection Drives have been organized through- out the country. Partial returns to the Ann Arbor Famine Emergency Committee from local schools yes- terday totaled $900. Friedkin Directs Drive The campus drive is being con- ducted under the direction of Mary Elizabeth Friedkin, secretary of the Famine Committee. Edith Dobbins and Lorraine Rolandson have been in charge of poster publicity, and Carl Kaufmann, Morrison Ismond. Ralph Willongbly and Carrol Karko- litz have supervised distribution of tags and setting up of collection booths. Committee Treasurer R. L. Wester- velt, assisted by Paul Powilson, Ray Wynn, Ronnie Bleaker and Frank Peak, will be in charge of account- ing and banking. More than 100 students, chiefly members of the Famine Committee and Michigan Christian Fellowship, are working on the drive. Senator'sWife, Newswoman To Talk tit Reunion Alumnae Sigrid Arne, Associated Press correspondent, and Mrs. Ar- thur Vandenberg, wife of Michigan's senior senator, will be principal speakers at the Alumnae Luncheon to bo held Friday, June 21 as part of the Victory Reunion. The topic of both discussions will be international affairs, Karl Lit- zenberg, general chairman of the Victory Reunion Committee, said. The first full-scale alumni re- union since 1941 is expected to bring more than 6,000 alumni back to cam- pus between June 20 and 22. Mrs. Lola J. Hanavan of Detroit will preside over the luncheon, which is being planned by an Alumnae Com- mittee headed by Mrs. Mary Brom- age. Announcement of plans for the Victory Reunion Dinner will be made today, according to Litzenberg." AN EDITORIAL: Hungry Millions Need Your Aid In Drive Today We will all be approached today for contributions to the Famine Re- lief Drive now being conducted by the Famine Committee. The committee has set $5,000 as the minimum amount which should be collected in this drive. Nickels and dimes will not be sufficient. A maximum sum from each of us will be required to make this student body's contribution to immediate food relief commensurate with the needs of the starving third of the world's population. This is the time for each of us to show, by the generosity of our contributions, our willingness to assume the responsibilities of de- mocracy and our obligations to hu. manity. The "Their Daily Bread" tag on your jacket or blouse today will show that you have responded to the calls of suffering of 800 million starving persons. -Mal Roemer Hill Says Negro Does Not Fear Ku Klux Klan "The Negro no longer fears the Ku Klux Klan," the Rev. Charles E. Hill, state director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, told the Inter-Racial Association last night. Pointing to the fact that many Southern Negroes had decent meals, beds and a chance for education for the first time in the Army, Mr. Hill said that Negro veterans are willing to fight fascism and reactionism at home as well as overseas. "We have depended on being patient and quiet too long," Mr. Hill said. "Our voices must go beyond the conference room if America is to have real freedom." Mr. Hill said that the Negro is often unjustly judged by the condi- tions under which he is forced to live. He suggested that requiring landlords to furnish proper living conditions would do more to end riots than any riot squad. Racial tension in Detroit at the present time, he warned, is as great as it was during the recent riot. He advocated less discriminatory em- ployment practices as an essential means of easing the tension. NEW WOMEN'S DORMITORY-Located on Observatory St., the new women's dormitory "may be completed in about a year," Universityofficials estimate. Male veterans willoccupy the building during the housing crisis. Overflow Pan4lellenic, Assembly Ball Planned An "overflow" Panhel - Assembly Ball will be held in the League ball- room tomorrow night for those who cannot obtain tickets for the "Heav- enly Daze", Dean Walter B. Rea said last night. Remaining tickets for the Intra- mural building dance will be on sale at 11 a.m. today in the Social Direc- tor's office at the League. Indentifi- cation cards are necessary, since the sale will be limited to University women. To Get Band The "best band available at this hour" will be secured for the over- flow dance, Dean Rea said. No price has yet been set for tickets, but he predicted they would be less ex- pensive than those for the regularly scheduled dance. Formal dress, standard attire for women at the IM building affair, will be optional at the League. Women may apply for tickets to the League dance in the Social Direc- tor's office after noon tomorrow, the dean said. They will probably be ready for sale Friday morning. Late permission until 1:30 a.m. has been granted to women students for both dances, which will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Raymond Scott and his orchestra, with Dorothy Collins as vocalist, will play for dancing at this third annual Panhel-Assembly ball, which replaced Panhellenic ball in 1943. 'Secret Seven' Scott, who with the Scott Quintet and a new organization, the Secret Seven, has just completed a stand in Detroit, is on a nation-wide tour with his recently organized 15-piece band. He is composer of such novelties as "Toy Trumpet", "Mr. Basie SRA Chooses New Officers Legters Is President, Carneiro Made Editor Lyman Legters was elected presi- dent of the Student Religious As- sociation, and Robert Carneiro was chosen editor of Insight at a meeting of the SRA Council last night. New members of the SRA Execu- tive Committee include Keitha Har- mon, secretary; Carneiro, publica- tions chairman; Barbara Stauffer, public affairs chairman; Beverly Ket- cik, social chairman; Art Lloyd, pub- licity chairman; Allene Golinkin, co- operation committee chairman; and Betty Lou Zwemer, library and study chairman. Tom Walsh was named assistant editor of Insight. The annual installation banquet will be held June 1 at Lane Hall. Legters and Carneiro will succeed Joyce Siegan, '46, as president of the Association and editor of Insight. Goes to Washington", "In a Magic Garden" and "Enchanted Forest," and has been featured on the Lucky Strike Hit Parade. He also conducted a program of his own over a national hookup. Corsages will be given to women who attend the dance at the IM building. Whether they will also be given at the League has not yet been decided. Panhel-Assembly ball is the only girl-bid semi-formal affair of the year. World News At A Glance Subsidies Voted Down WASHINGTON, May 22-(P)-The Senate Banking Committee voted, 14 to 2, today to end all Government subsidy payments May 1, 1947 and hold them to ;1,100,000,000 in the meantime. The subsidies are paid to hold down costs to consumers or to spur pro- duction of needed articles. Car Prices Raised WASHINGTON, May 22-(AP)- OPA today raised retail price ceil- ings for 16 makes of new automo- hules by from $33 to $167 to offset higher costs for steel, other mater- ials and parts. The increase range from four to eight per cent above present ceil- ings, OPA said, the average being about $75. Therincreases apply to cars built by Chrysler, Ford, General Motors, Hudson, Nash, Packard and Stude- baker. China Fighting MUKDEN, May 22-(iP)-Unop- posed Chinese Government troops were reported within 28 miles of Changchung today and their com- mander expressed hope the Com- munists would surrender that capi- tal of Manchuria to spare it further destruction. Military dispatches said the Chin- ese First Army-one of the govern- ment's finest-had sent vanguards racing seven miles beyond Kung- chuling, Communist citadel 35 miles southwest of Changchun. Cortrizrht's Bid For Congress Seat Is Refused Members Reject Jury's Verdict on One Count The Student Congress last night by a vote of eight to seven refused to seat Richard Cortright as a mem- ber of the Congress, as a result of a student jury verdict given Monday night. The jury returned the indicated answers to the following three ques- tions: 1. Was Richard Cortright guilty of intentional fraud in the election for members of the student Congress on April 30 and May 1, 1946? No .. ; 6. 2. Was Richard Cortright guilty of a violation of the rules'govern- ing such election? Yes . . . 4. No ... 2. 3. Do you consider Richard Cort- right a suitable person to sit as a member of the Student Congress? Yes...6. The Congress accepted the ver- dict of the jury on the first two ques- tions, but rejected the third because it were merely a recommendation and was incompatible with the second question. The injunction against Henry Kaminski, who became a mem- ber of Congress when Cortright was disqualified, was suspended. Ray Davis, president, and Bob Tay- lor, vice-president, will present the majority and minority opinions, re- spectively, on the case in The Daily Sunday. The Congress will convene at 5 p.m. today in the Union to finish the remaining business on its agenda. IFC Will Hold Issue Ala Contends Reds Continue To Interfere Discussion of Case Will Await Request By The Associated Press NEW YORK, May 22-The United Nations Security Council refused to drop the Iranian case today after hearing Iranian Ambassador Hus- sein Ala express doubt that all Soviet troops had left the country. Ala, called to the council table in a move to clarify the confused situa- tion, told the delegates he did not feel that a message received last night from Premier Ahmed Qavam was " a categorical statement" that the withdrawal had been completed. Soviets Interfere He also declared that he believed Soviet elements continued to inter- fere in the internal affairs of Iran. The council voted unanimously to adjourn the discussion but keep the case on the agenda indefinitely, with the understanding that the discus- sions would be re-opened upon the request of any delegate. The official transcript showed that the vote was 9 to 1. However, report- ers tabulating the count observed that Polish delegate Oscar Lange, who had urged the case be dropped, raised his hand belatedly after he found himself alone in opposing the proposal of Netherlands delegate Eelco Van Kleffens. The council then rejected a pro- posal by Lange that the council send the Iranian government a telegram asking "a straight yes or no answer" to the question as to whether it was satisfied with Soviet withdrawals. Gromyko Absent Only Alexandre Parodi of France, president of the council, supported Lange in this proposal. As the council debated the contro- versial question, which has been be- fore it since Jan. 19, the seat of Soviet delegate Andrei A. Gromyko was vacant. This was the second time Gromyko had boycotted a council meeting. He also had walked out of one meeting. U.S. delegate Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., and British delegate Sir Alexan- der Cadogan made it clear from the outset that they were opposed to dropping the case on the 'basis of Qavam's message which was re- ceived last night. Qavam had said that he had re- ceived a report from a commission he sent to Azerbaijan province and that their report said "no trace what- ever of Soviet troops, equipment or means of transport was found, and that according to trustworthy local people, "all Soviet troops had left Azerbaijan by May 6." Franco Hearing To Begin Today UN Committee Gets Additional Evidence NEW YORK, May 22--()-The United Nations sub-committee inves- tigating Spain today received three more documents condemning Gen- eralissimo Franco and then prepar- ed for its first public session to hear Jose Giral, premier of the exiled Re- publican government, support charges that the present Falangist govern- ment is a threat to peace. The meeting is scheduled for 11 a.m. tomorrow. Coming from Mexico City on in- vitation of the committee, Giral said he would offer 160 additional pieces of evidence. The premier, who will be the first witness heard directly in the month-long inquiry, already has sub- mitted voluminous material contain- ing broad charges against the Fran- co regime. The sub-committee has only a little more than a week to go before its May 31 deadline on a report to the Security Council. IFC Elects Jackson As New President Harry Jackson, member of Delta Upsilon social fraternity, was elected president of the Inter-fraternity Council at a meeting last night in the Union. Jackson replaces Fred Matthei in the presidential nost. 'Sing' Tonight Reviving a pre-war tradition, fif- teen fraternities will compete in the first Inter-Fraternity Council Sing since 1943 at 7:30 p.m. today on the steps of the General Library. Chairs have been provided for the audience, and a loud speaking sys- tem will be used in addition to a lighting system. First and second prizes will be awarded to the groups who are chosen most outstanding by the judges. Prof. Marguerite Hood, Prof. Earl V. Moore, both of the School of Music, and a third person not yet announced will determine the winners. NEV CAREERS: Public Service Is Now Open To Social Scientists -- Perkins A NEW METHOD! Liberal Arts Honors Program Concentrates on the 'Individual' Opportunities in the public service are opening up for college graduates trained "solely in the social sciences," Prof. John A. Perkins, secretary of University's Institute of Public Ad- ministration, declared yestreday. Social scientists are a "new pheno- monon" in government, Prof. Per- kins said, adding that until recently opportunities in public service had been limited to "every other conceiv- able profession." 'Quality' Jobs Concerning the extent of oppor- tunity in public administration, Prof. Perkins said the available jobs "run to quality." Despite the widespread opinion that there are too many people in government, the demand for per- sonnel is "bound to increase" as de- mands for more governmental ser- vices increase, he said. He reported that there are now more people on the Federal payroll than .at certain times during the war because of problems of reconver- there for people who are willing to get them," he said. The University's Institute of Public ,Administration, which will begin its program with the summer session this year, will train a "small, select group for administration as such," Prof. Perkins said. Public Service Benefits He listed steady employment, pen- sion plans and the opportunity to "serve" as advantages of a public service career. According to Prof. Perkins, the fol- lowing government jobs are available to public administration degree- holders: administrative assistants, administrative analysts and research assistants. Opportunities also exist in private research bureaus, he said. The literary college lecture series on career opportunities will con- tinue today with talks by Dean Wells I. Bennett, of the College of Archi- tecture and Design, and Dean Ivan C. Crawford, of the College of En- The degree program for "Honors in Liberal Arts," which will be re- sumed in the literary college this fall after a four-year lapse, will bring the benefits of intensive individual HT H d development to a mass educational Henion.To e system. Modeled after the famed Oxford ROTC Jnit and Cambridge plans, the honors program is based on individual work under the direction of a tutor. Col. Karl E. Henion, infantry offi- Develops Individual cer, will assume duties as comman- According to Prof. Stanley D. dant of the University ROTC Unit Dodge, director of the Board of Tu- June 30, it was revealed yesterday. tors, the honors program "does not He will replace Col. Reginal Mil- train for particular jobs but devel- ler, former commandant of the Unit. ops the individual per se." Col. Henion is currently attending Students enrolled in the program ROTC officer's course at Ft. Ben- will attend no classes but will meet ning, Ga., in preparation for the periodically with their tutors. Text- duties he will assume here. books will be unknown to the honors During the war Col. Henion was student, since he will be reading di- Chief of Staff of the 15th Army in rectly from the sources of know- Europe. ledge-the "Great Books." He will direct the fall reactivation Nor will the honors student take lateral fields and in his senior year will submit an essay on a subject se- lected by him in consultation with his tutor. Cites Advantages As outlined by Prof. Dodge, the honors program offers the following advantages: 1. Individual work in the student's own line of interest. 2. Work in close association with a tutor. 3. Marked intellectual stimulus. 4. Opportunity for real leadership in the future and in various organiza- tions now because the student will learn how to see issues clearly. Another advantage of the honors program described by Prof. Dodge is the doing away with the "course- ification" of knowledge where there is little continuity from course to course and little connection from depart- ment to department. i .I I ', I