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Congress o Back Administration!
May Ask
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Chiang's Trip
May Decide
China Peace
Prohlem Seen
On Changchun
By The Associated Press
NANKING, May 24-Generalis-
simo and Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
flew to Mukden today in General
Marshall's personal plane amid hints
that peace for warring China might
depend on the outcome of their trip.
Government and Communist
spokesmen could not agree on whe-
ther the government's recapture of
Changchun yesterday had improved
or weakened prospects for a peace
settlement, but these was a new
flurry of negotiations looking towards
compromise between the rival fac-
tions.
Peace Talks Foreseen
"Now we can begin to talk with
the Communists," said one high offi-
cial of the Kuomintang Government
Party who declined to permit use of
his name.
The Communists had just notified
General Marshall, special mediator,
that they were willing to accept in
principle a peace plan proposed by
the third-party Democratic League
on April 29.
New Problem Arises
This proposal, however, was based
on both sides staying out of Chang-
chun, and a Communist spokesman
said the government's seizure of the
Manchurian capital was "regret-
table" and had "complicated" the
situation.
"The key is not now in our hands,"
said this spokesman, Tung Pi-Wu.
"We shall see what Chiang Kai-
Shek will do."
Tunkg added that everything hing-
ed on Chiang's return from Mukden.
This lent support to speculation that
the sudden flight of the Chiangs to
Manchuria might presage peace.
Counselors
For Fresh Air
Camp Needed
A few positions on the counseling
staff of the University's Fresh Air
Camp are still open, William C. Morse,
camp director, announced yesterday.
A combined program of work and
study yields six hours credit to grad-
liade and advanced undergraduate
students of sociology and education.
For the eight week session, students
serve as counselors half the period
and attend classes during the re-
mainder. Specific courses offered are
in the areas of group behavior and
the mental hygiene of childhood and
adolescence.
A week's orientation course pre-
ceding the camp session is required
for all counselors.
Students accepted for the program
are given assistantships in the Uni-
versity Summer Session, and receive
a stipend equal to their tuition and
room and board for the nine weeks.
Both men and women are eligible.
Further information may be ob-
tained from the Fresh Air Camp of-
fices in Lane Hall, the sociology de-
partment offices and the office of
the School of Education.
Berry Supports
Workers' Party
The only means of overturning the
relationship between employer:' and
worker, in which the capitalist de-
pends upon the poverty of the mas-
ses, lies in organizing labor as a poli-
tical organ, Abner Berry, educational
director of the Communist Party in
Michigan, declared at an Inter-Co-
operative Council meeting yesterday
at Stevens House.
aThe working class is destined to
carry society to the next stage of
advancement," he said, for they have
learned through the teaching of
Marx that the truth of society is
Officials See Dwindling
Food Supplies in State
By The Associated Press
DETROIT, May 24 - State and municipal officials kept a close watch
on Michigan's dwindling food supplies tonight as the railroad strike contin-
ued almost 100 per cent effective in the state.
Faced with a virtually complete shutoff of rail shipments, public offic-
ials moved speedily to conserve supplies of food, gasoline, oil and other vital
necessities.
Governor Harry W. Kelly announced late this afternoon that he has
Committee To
Collect Famine
Funds Monday
Returns To Be Made
In Lobby of League
The first collection of funds from
student residences for the Famine
Relief Drive will be made by the Fa-
mine Committee from 8 a.m. to noon
Monday at a special table in the lob-
by of the League.
Every house on campus has been
requested by the committee to or-
ganize collections from all student
residents in order to increase the
student body's contribution to fa-
mipe relief abroad. In a letter to
house presidents in which she ex-
plained directions for the collec-
tions, Mary Elizabeth Friedkin,
chairman of the drive, suggested
that each resident be asked to make
a weekly pledge to the campaign.
The committee's speakers' bureau,
which now has 18 members, will
eontinue to visit residences to ex-
plain the committee's conservation
program and the need for immediate
fund contributions. Several members
of the All-Nations Club have vol-
unteered their services to the bur-
eau and will join the group next
week.
A suggestion that a portion of the
fuds received by the committee
from the house collections be ear-
marked for relief in India will be
considered by the group's steering
committee at its next meeting. Since
UNRRA food distribution does not
include India, funds for that country
would have to be submitted to ano-
ther relief organization.
Parking Metersi
To Be in Monday
Police Chief Issues
Violation Warning
Students and faculty members
parking near campus where new
parking meters are installed should
be warned that the system will be
put into effect Monday morning, and
violators will be ticketed, Chief of
Police Sherman Mortenson said yes-
terday.
Installation of the meters, which
began May 6, will be completed to-
morrow, and the new system will
be effective from 8 a.m. until 6 p.m.
every day except Sundays and holi-
days. Parking charges will be at the
rate of a nickel for one hour or a
penny for each twelve minutes.
Meters in the immediate campus
area are being installed on N. Uni-
versity, S. State and E. William.
The city has purchased approxi-
mately 500 parking meters at a
total cost of about $30,000. Most of
these are to be used in the central
shopping area.
basked 20 wholesalers to limit each of
the 15,000 retail food stores in the
state to amounts of food not greater
than their norman requirements be-
fore the strike.
Spokesmen explained that the re-
quest was intended to protect the re-
tailer "who is conscientiously follow-
ing the emergency program in his re-
lationship with his customers and
further assure the public that if they
continue to purchase on a normal
basis, there will be a normal supply
available to meet their requirements."
The Governor, repeating his pre-
vious plea to the state's consumers
to aid in the emergency by purchasing
only the food needed for daily use,
said reports convinced him "the pub-
lic is cooperating splendidly."
War Department officials also dis-
closed that 500 troops had been shift-
ed from Camp Atterbury, Ind., to
Fort Custer, Mich., in what was
termed a "precautionary" move to
place troops "in strategic locations"
in case of need.
Two trains - the New York Cen-
tral's Empire State and the Mercury
-left Detroit during the day. The
former, bound for Buffalo, was
manned by Canadian crews.
Spring Formal
Will Be Held
Today at Uion1
Remaining tickets for the annual
Union Spring Formal to be pre-
sented from 9 p.m. to midnight to-
day, will be on sale today at the main
desk in the Union.
Students at the affair, which is
to be formal, will dance to the music
of Bill Layton and his orchestra. Ela-
borate decorations following the
spring theme have been planned by
the committee
Red suede dance programs will
bear the Union seal and corsagesI
will be presented to all women at-
tending the affair. A program will
be given during intermission and re-
freshments will be served.
Heading the various committees
for the dance are, George Spauld-
ing, Eugene Sikorovsky, and Andy
Poledor, decorations; Milan Mis-
kousky, tickets; Henry Horldt, pro-
grams; Al Boyd, patrons; and Jerry
Comer, publicity.
Sport Schedule
University sports fans will see
action today at Ferry Field, where
the Wolverine baseball team will
face Purdue in a doubleheader,
and the Maize and Blue track
squad will compete against Ohio
State. Both contests will begin
at 1:30 p.m.
Yesterday's rain caused the can-
cellation of the baseball tilt
against the Boilermakers while
the Wolverines were leading 2-0
in the third inning. The downpour
forced the team to schedule its
fourth doubleheader in as many
weeks.
The track meet with the Buck-
eyes will mark the only home ap-
pearance of the outdoor season for
the Michigan thinclads.
House Leaders
Ready To Push
Desired Laws
President May Seek
Draft Age Limit Raise
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON, May 24-Congres-
sional leaders announced their read-
iness to push through any legislation
President Truman might recommend
tomorrow while the Senate drove a-
head with its own labor measure in
a night session.
House leaders declared their cham-
ber would meet after the joint ses-
sion at 4 p.m. tomorrow to act im-
mediately on any Presidential rec-
ommendations meeting fairly general
approval.
Barkley Expects Recommendations
Senate Majority. Leader Barkley
told the Senate tonight that he had
"no doubt" that President Truman
would make "definite and specific"
recommendations to a joint session
tomorow for legislation to cope with
the railroad strike situation.
Chairman May (Dem., Ky.) of the
House Military Committee mentioned
the possibility that Mr.Truman might
request emergency revision of the Se-
lective Service Act to draft men over
30.
"I believe the House would pass
that immediately," May told a report-
er, "and would consent to its consid-
eration without committee hearings."
Senate Night Session
In the Senate, Barkley held mem-
bers in a night session and told re-
porters he will keep on attenpting
to get a vote on pending proposals up
to the hour of the President's appear-
ance,
This suited Senator Ball (Rep.,
Minn.) and others who have been de-
manding a showdown on legislation
to impose a 60-day cooling off period
against strikes and lockouts where a
federal mediation board intervenes.
Similarly, Senator Murray (Dem.,
Mont.) a leader of those fighting this
and other amendments, said he saw
no reason why the Senate should not
go ahead. He added that any recom-
mendations the President may make
will "carry great influence" and could
be expected to be cleared promptly
by Congress.
Misconduct'
Charges Head
Against Rae
The trial of Washtenaw County
Prosecutor John W. Rae on dis-
orderly charges before Municipal
Court Judge Jay H. Payne was ad-
journed late yesterday after eight
prosecution witnesses had been
called.
Witnesses testified that Rae was
in an intoxicated condition after his
automobile had run into a ditch on
Highway US-23 Jan. 12. Deputy Roy
Richter's testimony further charged
that Rae pulled a gun on him while
driving Rae to the sheriff's office.
Sheriff John L. Osburn stated that
Rae was so intoxicated on arrival
that he offered to sign a warrant for
his own arrest. However, testimony
by Detective Lieut. Erwin L. Klager
showed the prosecutor to have been
sober enough to drive his own auto-
mobile home.
After Osburn admitted under
cross-examination that the warrant
for Rae's arrest was not filed until
more than two'months had elapsed
after the incident, Louis E. Burke,
defense attorney, said he intended
to prove the charge was a political
"frame up."
Rae is running for re-election as
prosecutor in the June primary.
Tolandle Trains
President Blasts Brotherhood Heads
For Endangering Welfare of Nation
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON, May 24-President Truman tonight called upon rail-
road workers to return to work and operate the nation's trains.
He said that if they were not back on the job by 4 p.m. tomorrow he
would call upon the Armed Forces to help run the railroads and furnish
protection for those willing to work.
In a nation-wide radio broadcast, he accused the heads of two striking
railroad brotherhoods of creating "terrible havoc."
The President declared it was "inconceivable" that the rank and file
of the striking trainmen and locomotive engineers "realized the terrifying
situation created by the action of these two men."
Opposes Unfair Restrictions~
PRESIDENT TRUMAN
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Mail Deivery
Promised by
Post Off ice
By EUNICE MINTZ
An Ann Arbor post office official
reported yesterday that all first class
mail is going through, "whether by
truck or train, when one runs."
Mail for the East is taken to De-
troit by truck and then relayed from
city to city, the official said. The
same thing is done for mail headed
west, which is taken to Jackson by
truck and then relayed.
No packages are being accepted,
the post office official said, and the
first class mail cannot weigh over
16 ounces if it is to go on the truck
relay.
A spokesman at the train depot re-
ported that one train, the Mercury
going to Chicago, had gone through
Ann Arbor yesterday carrying few
passengers and a lot of mail. But, the
spokesman added, "we never know
if the train will complete its run. It
may stop at some city en route and
not start again." No freight trains
came through yesterday, the spokes-
man said.
A Railway Express official said
that they are shipping nothing but
priority goods. "And they go only
when and if a train conies through,"
he added. By priority goods the of-
ficial said he meant urgently need-
ed medicines or foods.
The Ann Arbor bus station reported
that the buses have been completely
over-taxed. The few extra buses that
are available are being run, a bus
station spokesman reported. "But we
can't nearly take care of oll the peo-
ple who want to take buses now that
the trains have stopped," he declared,
The bus station official said that
the long lines of people waiting to
get on buses have kept the station
flooded all day and night
Buses are continuing to take pack-
ages, the spokesman said, adding that
"as with passengers, we are unable
to make up for the lack of railroad
service"
Hillelzapoppin
To Be Staged
Hillelzapoppin, "a musical, laugh
revue," will be presented by the B'nai
B'rith Hillel Foundation at 8:30 p.m.
tonight in Lydia Mendelssohn Thea-
tre.
The show will include seven ori-
ginal comedy skits, written, directed
and acted by students. Numbers
which will be presented were se-
lected as the best of the skits sub-
mitted for the show earlier this
month.
Tickets for Hillelzapoppin will be
available from 1 p.m. till show-
time today at the theater box-office.
Stressing that he had "always
been a consistent advocate of the
rights of labor," the President said:
I have opposed and will continue
to oppose unfair restrictions."
"But in any conflict between one
particular group and the country as
a whole, the welfare of the country
must come first."
"It is time for plain speaking,"
the President said in his 12 minute
broadcast. "This strike vitally con-
cerns the well being and the very
life of our people."
Names Brotherhood Heads
The President referred to A. F.
Whitney, head of the Brotherhood of
Railway Trainmen, and Alvanley
Johnston, head of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive -Engineers.
These two, he said, rejected his
proposal to compromise their dif-
ferences with the railroad operators
when the 18 brotherhoods accepted
it.
The President, in appealing to the
workers themselves, went over the
head of their two leaders. Expressing
doubt that the rank and file knew
all the facts, he said .he was telling
them now in person.
He declared that Whitney and
Johnston refused his request that
they meet with the operators and
the other 18 brotherhoods "in a joint
conference in the office of the Presi-
dent of the United States," and re-
quired the holding of three separate
conferences. Explaining that 18 of
the brotherhoods had accepted his
own compromise recommendations,
the President declared, "they placed
the interest of their country first."
Deplores Effects on Famine Relief
The President deplored the strike's
potential effects on.shipments of
grain abroad, where it might mean
a difference "between life and death
to hundreds of thousands of per-
sons."
"If the operation of our railroads
is not resumed at once, thousands of
persons both here and abroad will
starve," he said.
"The railroads must resume opera-
tion," he said. "In view of the extra-
ordinary emergency which exists, as
President of the United States I call
upon the men who are now out on
strike to return to their jobs and to
operate our railroads. To each man
now out on strike I say that the
duty to your country goes beyond
anly desire for personal gain."
The emergency is "soacute" and
the issue "so vital" he said, that he
will appear before a joint session of
Congress at 4 p.m. tomorrow to de-
liver a personal message on the sub-
ject.
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Rail Leaders Tell
Of N ew Offer -
WASHINGTON, May 24-(P)-The
striking railroad brotherhoods' lead-
ers said tonight, before President Tru-
man's speech, that the government
had made an improved offer for set-
tlement of the railroad strike.
The union men said, however, they
had been advised that the carriers
"had nothing further to offer" on
their previous stand.
A. F. Whitney, president of the
trainmen, and Alvanley Johnston,
grand chief of the locomotive engin-
eers, said the new proposal had been
submitted to them today at the White
House by Secretary of State James
F. Byrnes and Secretary of Labor
Lewis B. Schwellenbach.
They said the offer was for the 18%/
cents an hour wage increase, pre-
viously proposed as a settlement plan
by President Truman, plus the work-
ing rules changes which had been
recommended by a Presidential fact-
Krug Confers
With Operators
On Coal Strike
Government's Stand
On Issue Is Discussed
WASHINGTON, May 24--AP)-Sec-
retary of the Interior Krug advised
soft coal operators today of the gov-
ernment's position on the issues of
the mine strike.
This led to strong speculation that
he was close to the point of offering
John L. Lewis an actual proposition.
'With all parties- government,
management and workei's - sticking
tight to a policy of silence, the se-
quence of the meeting was the main
supporting evidence on the develop-
ment of negotiations.
The interior secretary's first major
move after he took over the federally-
seized properties consisted of White
House conferences and talks with ex-
perts, obviously to formulate a policy.
Then yesterday he discussed the
issues with the United Mine Workers
chief in a long conference in his
off ice.
This morning was devoted to a
meeting with the operators' negotia-
ting committee.
Earlier in the week, operators said
they expected that they would get a
look at Krug's proposition, before he
made a firm offer to Lewis. While
operators did not expect to be given
a veto on what Krug had in mind,
some of them said they did believe
they would get a chance to join it,
or try to talk Krug out of it, before
he laid it in final form before the
workers' chief.
One report was that yesterday's
conference with Lewis had centered
on a suggestion to compromise the
UMW health and welfare fund de-
mand on the basis of a three and a
half per cent payroll levy, paid by
the operators, with joint union and
management administration of the
resulting fund.
Sudden Stroke
Hits Bankhead
73-Year Old Senator
Rushed to Hospital
WASHINGTON, May 24-V'P)-
Senator Bankhead (Dem., Ala.) ap-
parently unconscious, was carried
from the Capitol tonight in a stretch-
er after collapsing in a committee
room a few yards from the Senate
legislation was in progress.
He was rushed by ambulance to
the Naval Hospital at nearby Beth-
esda, Md.
Bankhead's office said the Senator
was suffering from a "light stroke
on the left side." Dr. George W. Cal-
ver, capitol physician, declined to
offer a specific diagnosis pending
a detailed checkup at- the hospital.
White-clad medical men from the
naval hospital, on the double quick,
hurried the stretcher bearing Bank-
head through the Capitol's marble
corridors while a few score specta-
tors looked on, most of them, un-
aware of the patient's identity.
Spring Perspectives
Is Due Tomorrow
Rnrnrric~ci 1p f a r ,',+ Pam
ATOMIC AGE UTOPIA:
Ogburn Predicts Improved Standards
By NATALIE BAGROW
A future standard of life in which
"wealth would become common" and
working hours would be "immeasur-
ably shortened" was predicted by
Prof. William F. Ogburn, of the Uni-
versityv of fhir'avo sociologv depart~-
industrial plant set up in this con-
nection within two to five years."
Because of the fact that such a
plant would not only require a great
deal of space but also an expensive
and complicated protective shield,
The gradual breaking up of urban
populations in this country was pre-
dicated by Prof. Ogburn as a possible
result of the discovery of atomic en-
ergy. "Although I do not think that
our cities are likely to be broken up
facilitate the movement "back to
the country."
The promotion of a world organi-
zation is another important possible
effect of atomic energy. "Unless we
speak in terms of power we are not