JI Latest Deadline in the State a'I V: j WARMER Page 4 . 88 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 12, 1947 PRICE FIVE C t Orders Vets Fsence Reports its To Be Deducted from Leave; eportingy Will Be on. Honor Basis Veterans Administration has ordered all student veterans to ly absence reports, effective immediately, Robert S. Waldrop, of the Veterans Service Bureau, announced yesterday. e reporting will be on the honor system, since at present iversity does not plan to take roll in all classes to cross- the veterans' reports, Waldron said. report, which is to be filed each Monday before 5 p.m. for during the previous week, is necessary in order that the VA e adequate basis for paying subsistence and granting leave, said. When no report is on file, leave cannot be approved quntil a statement from the insti- Press Wil *der Vets Is Plan Proposal Advanced By Daily, Local AVC te plan for paying student vet- s by on-the-spot disbursing ers, first suggested in the edi- ,I columns of The Daily and recommended to the VA by University chapters of the , is now before the House inittee on Veterans Affairs. Le proposal is the substance of 1108, written by Representa- Edith Rogers of Massachu- chairman of the veterans nittee, after hearing testi- , by Chat Paterson, national Lative representative of the e bill provides for establishing sury checking accounts in the e of educational institutions, for the appointment of dis- ng- oficr to pay student ans from those accounts. The irsing officer will not be paid ie VA, ilv ity officials made no nen on the proposed plan. - e results of the localAVC poll adent veterans financial prob- , made last December, formed e part of the testimony made aterson when the House cQm- se was drawing up H.R. 870, b. provides foran increase in ans subsistence payments and rg of veteran income ceilings. ~ts' Checks port Urged 1@et veterans who are not vin subsistenceallowances Id report to the Veterans Ser- Bureau, Rm. 100,. Rackham, rrow, Robert S. Waldrop, di- r of the VSB, announced rday. r students who cannot report rrow, the deadline will be ex- d until noon on Friday, Wal- said. "Cooperation of all ,ns will assist the VA regional a in Detroit to review all cuent subsistence accounts" rop stated, or Society SDrill T odav cabbard and Blade Co Initiate Pledges enty- eight fati gue-clad es of Scabbard and Blade, nal honorary military society,, parch across campus today as of a revival of the Univer- chapter after four years of me inactivity. e pledges-designated as res" by their older brothers 1 "fall in" for close order every noon and evening for alance of the week at the foot ;e University flagpole on the where a tablet was placed byI harter members of the chap-i hen it formed on the cam-4 ;n 1923. e "squires" will be taken to oy Scout Camp on the Huron Saturday where informal tion ceremonies will be held. 'mal initiation rites will be1 at 2 p.m. Sunday at the .C. Rifle Range. ,bbard and Blade initiates are nn for high academic standing leadershin ability, based on1 tution is obtained by the student certifying the amount of absence charged to him. Every veteran must file a re- port each week, whether or not he has missed any classes dur- ing that week. The number of days a veteran is absent fromclass will be deducted from the amouit of leave due him, according to the VA ruling. VA officials would not say as to whether or not absences would cause a cut in regular subsistence payments, Waldrop said. Leave time under both PL 16 and PL 346 (GI Bill) accrues at the rate of two and a half days per month while the' veteran is in training but no more than 30 days can be taken at one time. Veterans -in school under, the provision of PL 16 may get an ad- ditional 30 days of sick leave, but GI Bill trainees will lose part of their regular leave if they miss their classes because of sickness, Waldrop said. The amount of leave taken by a veteran is deducted from his to- tal training time under both laws. Student veterans are to pick' up the forms at their convenience and file them before 5 p.m. each Monday in the following places as designated- -#y the respective schools and colleges: Literary college-Corridor; U Hall; engineering college-Rm. 225 W. Engineering Bldg.; gradu- ate school-graduate school office, Rackham Bldg.; law school-Rm. 304 Hutchins Hall; architecture college-Rm. 207 Architecture Bldg.; pharmacy college-Rm. 250 Chemistry Bldg.; business admin- istration school-Rm,. 108 Tappan Hall; dentistry college-Secre- tary's office, Dentistry Bldg.; edu- cation school-Rm. 1433 Univer- sity Elementary School; forestry school-Rm. 2045 Natural Science Bldg.; music school--Rm. 101 School of Music Bldg.; nursing school-Rm. 2036 University Hos- pital; public health school-In- formation Desk, School of Public Health Bldg.; medical school--Rm. 123 W. Medical Bldg. Support Given To Lilienthal WASHINGTON, Feb 11.-().- Secretary .of War Patterson made an unheralded appearance before a Senate committee today to en- dorse David E. Lilienthal as chair-I man of the Atomic Energy Com-I mission 'amid a controversy that threatened to erupt into an his- toric fight.c Patterson declared. that Lilien- thal was qualified "by character, ability and loyalty" for the post.I The War Department, he added,I "has a strong interest in phases of atomic energy development" and the commission posts are "of1 extreme importance."i Legislature Meets Under New System Policy Meeting Slated for Today By MARY RUTH LEVY The Student Legislature meets today under a new role-that of a Committee of the Whole. Under a new system brought into play because of the Legislature's increased membership and activi- ties, the group will convene at 7:30 p.m. in the League for a "policy meeting," voted last semester for the consideration of a fool-proof election system. Bi-Weekly Meetings Such meetings, according to the new plan, will be held every other week, with the entire Legislature voting only on questions of gen- eral policy (for example, the es- tablishment of a Legislative Rec- ord) and leaving specific projects (like the investigations of the League and the Union) to the Legislature's 14 standing commit- tees. Tonight's meeting, called be- cause of the senior class elections Mar. 5 and the Legislature elec- tions Mar. 18 and 19, is an exam- ple of the extrassions which will be called for discussion of special questions. Election ma- chinery providing for a single poll- ing place under the constant su- pervision of Legislators and mem- bers of Alpha Phi Omega, national service fraternity, will constitute the main business of the evening. Steering Committee The function of steering com- mittee for the new legislative sys- tem will be performed by the Leg- islature's cabinet, which includes the president, Haskell Coplin; the vice-president, Robert Taylor; the recording secretary, Ruth Klus- ner; the corresponding secretary, Rae Keller; the treasurer, Terrell Whitsitt, and two representatives- at-large, Tom Walsh and Virginia Councell. Meeting at 7:30 p.m. every Monday, the Cabinet will decide which of the projects and investigations are to be brought to the attention of the whole group. This arrangement marks a new step in the growth of the student See STUDENT, page 6 Probe Asked At Wayne VU Senator Reports on Communist Rumors LANSING, Feb. 11 -G)- State Sen. Matthew F. Callahan, Detroit Republican, today asked an inves- tigation of "rumors" of Commun- ist activity at Wayne University in Detroit. "We are heaing rumors of Com- munist activities at the universi- ty," he declared. "There is a proposal that the state take over the administration of Wayne and I feel we should have some definite information before we consider the matter." His suggestion for an investiga- ting committee was taken under consideration by the legislature. Meanwhile, in Detroit Dr. David D. Henry, President of Wayne, re- leased a report on the American Youth for Democracy chapter at the institution which was forward- ed to the Detroit Board of Edu- cation. The student activities commit- tee at the university "reports that the group has not been subversive in action or intent," Dr. Henry wrote. AYD has been attacked in Lansing as including Communists in its membership. Votes Cut in Truman's New oal Strike Is Threatene Welf are Fund * Gist of Labor..... Eisenhowe Controversy Counsel Says Lewis, Congress Hold Reins By The Assoja ted Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 11-The National Coal Association warned tonight a new bituminous coal strike is "inevitable" by July 1 un- less John L. Lewis agrees to give up the miners' welfare fund or Congress passes a remedial law. Forney Johnston, counsel of the association; gave that view of the situation to a reporter after testi- fying before the House Labor Com- mittee. Fund Cannot Continue He said the bituminous co.al in- dustry, or at least a substantial part of it, both North and South, "cannot agree" to continue the fund which was set up by the gov- ernment after it seized 2,300 mines last May. The government is le- gally obligated to return the mines before July 1. Johnston also said it would be "difficult" for Lewis to retreat on the issue. Therefore, he said, it's up to Congress. Remove Federal Laws He had given the coal associa- tion's view of the future in some- what less positive terms during his testimony, in which he asked Con- gress to remove the protection of federal laws to all strikes over welfare funds, closed shops, or other "improper objects." Appealing for action against strikes "contrary to public wel- fare," he proposed that the bene- fits of the Wagner Labor Act, and the Anti-Injunction Law, be with- held from workers walking out in disputes over anything except wages or working conditions. Un- der his plan even strikes over those issues would be "improper" if the public welfare were at stake. "Congress should understand," Johnston told the committee "that a large proportion of the coal in- dustry, if not the entire industry, on relinquishment of federal con- trol, cannot agree voluntarily to a collectivist pooling of the mine la- bor of 2,000 unrelated mines for the levy of a tonnage tax by the mine workers for any such blind pool." * * * England's Fuel Drive Failing LONDON, Feb. 11.-(P)-Great Britain's desperate campaign to build up its dangerously low' coal piles proved a failure during the first 24 hours of its operation and the Fuel Ministry announced gloomily tonight that the public response to the appeal for power and coal conservation was "not so good." The Fuel Ministry, fighting to ease the coal shortages which have shut down thousands of industries and thrown more than 4,000,000 persons out of work in 38 of the 64 counties in England and Wales,, said the semi-voluntary coal and electricity savings scheme had failed to augment coal stocks at power stations in those counties. Power Usage Higher In the remaining 26 English and Welsh counties, the Ministry add- ed, coal supplies dwindled. Although Prime Minister Clem- ent R. Attlee chief of the Labor Government which nationalized Government which nationalized Britain's entire coal producing in- dustry on Jan. 1, appealed to Britons Monday to use as little coal, power and light as possible, today's electricity usage was near-I ly 500,000 kilowatts higher than; Monday, the Ministry said.- Freezing Weather STALIN AND MOLOTOV CAST BALLOTS - Russian Premier Josef V. Stalin (left) casts his bal- lot as Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov (right) waits his turn at Polling Station No. 1 of the Lenin Constituency of Moscow, (Feb, 9) where V. I. Dikushin, a corresponding mem- ber of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and Doctor of Technology, sought a seat on the Su- preme Soviet of the Russian Federation. Joint Congressional Committc Budge 51 MEMBERS: Academic Freedom Group Is Joined by Faculty, Students By CLAYTON DICKEY The Committee for Academic Freedom, organized to combat abridgement of civil liberties in Michigan's public schools, gained its 51st member yesterday. Members Commit Themselves Haskell Coplin, president of the Student Legislature and one of the original members of the commit- tee, emphasized yesterday that the members were committing "only themselves," not other groups to which they belong, by joining. Faculty members of the commit- tee include Dr. Edward W. Blake- man, University Counselor in Re- ligious Education; and Professors Claude. A. Eggertsen, William Clark Trow and Harold Y. Mc Cluskey, of the education school; Frank L. Huntley, Norman f. Nel- son and Morris Greenhut, of the English department; Amos H. Hawley, Theodore M. Newcomb, Arthur Evans Wood and Peter Os- tafin, of the sociology department. Faculty Members Preston W. Slosson and Lewis G. Vander Velde, of the history department; Roy Sellars and Wil- liam Frankena, of the philosophy department; John L. Brumm, of the journalism department; Abra- ham Herman, of the Romance lan- guages department; John F. Shepard, of the psychology de- partment; Alfred H. Stockard, of the zoology department; Erich H. Rothe, of the mathematics depart- Bus Subsidy Is Approved for Vets A Detroit subsidy of DSR bus service for veterans to Willow Vil- lage for six months has been ten- tatively agreed to by Mayor Jef- fries and Common Council ac- cording to the Detroit Free Press. Under the mayor's proposal, the one-way fare for veterans would be 10 cents. ment; Melville B. Stout, of the en- gineering college; and Dr. Frank- lin H. Littell, Director of the Stu- dent Religious Association. Student Members Listed Student members include Has- kell Coplin, president of the Stu- dent Legislature; Lorne D. Cook, chairman of the University chap- ter of AVC; Paul Harsha, man- aging editor of The Daily; Milton B. Freudenheim, editorial direc- tor of The Daily; Clayton Dickey, city editor of The Daily; Ray- mond S. Ginger and Paul Sislin, of the Board in Control of Student Publications; Walter Hoffman, chairmat of the Willow Village chapter of AVC; Morton Leitson, chairman of the University chap- ter of the Lawyers Guild. Lyman Legters, president of the Student Religious Association; Harriet Ratner, membership chair- man of MYDA; William Resnick, president of the University chap- ter of the Inter-Collegiate Zionist Federation of America; Robert L. Taylor, vice-president of the Stu- dent Legislature; Tom Walsh, vice-president of the Union; Rich- ard Roeder, president of 'the Un- ion exevutive council;' Harry Jack- son, president of IFC; Bill Hay- don, president of Veterans Organi- zation. Anne Dearnley, president of the Women Veterans Association; Ellen Hill, president of the League Council; Jean Claire, president of Assembly; Margaret Gage, presi- dent of Panhellenic Association; Terrell Whitsett, president of In- ter-Racial Association; Lewis W. Towler, SRA Public. Affairs chair- man; Talbot Honey, president of Men's Judiciary Council; Jean Louise Hole, president of Wom- en's Judiciary Council; and Stuart Goldfarb, president of Hillel Foun- dation. Also members of the committee are Ralph W. McPhee and William T. Brownson, of the Washtenaw Post-Tribune, and Rev .Edward H. Redman, of the Unitarian Church. Larger Supply Eases Strain In Bookstores Jammed bookstores-the usual sign of a new semester--were very much in evidence Monday and yesterday, but the ratio betweeni supply and demand was reportedly better-balanced than at the start of the fall semester. A Daily survey of store man- agers yesterday revealed that bookstores are now able to fill close to 85 per cent of students' text book orders. A few books out of print at the publishers, and books for classes where enroll- ment has exceeded estimates, are now out of stock but managers promise delivery within several weeks. The newly modified system of veterans' book requisitions was lauded by store managers. Under this new system a separate requisi- tion blank is required for each book. Veterans may also obtain their texts at any local store, rath- er than confining their orders to one establishment. "This method is the answer to all the supply problems which beset book stores and veterans during former se- mesters," one manager stated. Bookstore proprietors also re- ported that many student veterans took advantage of the.special vets' charge plan announced last month in The Daily. Georgia Plans To Limit Vote ATLANTA, Feb. 11-()P)-Tal- madge leaders swept aside heated but isolated opposition in the State Senate today and began to push through, section by section, the White Primary Bill under which they plan to close the Democratic Party polls to Negroes in Georgia. Hits Slash inx Army Funds Gurney Says Nation Security Threatene4 By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 - Senate-House budgetary subc mittee voted for a $6,000\000, slash in President Truman's $ 500,000,000 budget today In face of an emergency protest Gen. Dwight D. Eisenho' against cutting Army funds. Just before the final subec mittee vote the Chief of t rushed to the Capitol. Cripple Defense It was learned that he protes that any reduction of Army flu would cripple defense plans. Senator Gurney (Rep., S.D.) J er figured the, armed forces' sh of the cut at $1,750,000,000. One senator said Eisenho agreed that some reductions co be made in Army funds but that wanted Congress to know j: what would happen. Close Army Camps I Certain Army camps must closed and ajlarge number of C activities of the Army engine will be shut down, the general t the Congressional budget mak It was learned also that the duced budget would call for elti nation of about half a million p sons now on federal payrolls., A bitter wrangle over the 'iv tion whether such a slash wo impair the nation's defense p ceded the vote. Gurney Refuses To Vote Chairman Gurney (Rep., S. of the Senate Armed Servi committee declining to join in voting, declaring: "I wouldn't vote for anyth that hamstrings out national curity." Repeal of Tax Plan B locke d Eight Point.Budget Moving in Legislatu LANSING, Feb. 11-(I)-G ernor Sigler's eight-point progr for solution of the state's fin cial troubles already was grind through the legislative mill night, but its central point- peal of the sales tax divers amendment - hit a temopr snag. In a special budget message the legislature today, Sigler cal for repeal of the amendment a asked speedy action by the Leg lature to put it on the Apri b lot. Resolution Introduced A resolution proposing the m introduced last month by R Rollo B. Conlin, Tipton Repul can, was hustled out of commi this afternoon. Efforts to suspend the rules its immediate passage, howe' struck an insurgence of youn representatives who threatex to vote no if they were not given hours to study the proposal, 7 resolution was put over for c sideration at 10 a.m. tomorrow Eight Point Program The Governor, in a calm, r soned address, recommended legislature enact the laws in eight-point program before April election. "In the event amendment 2 (Sales tax diversion) is repea I shall promptly" sign them, raid. World News at a Glance By The Associated Press LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., Feb. 11 - The United States and Soviet Russia clashed over motives in the United Nations Security Council today in a long debate on the scope of a proposed United Nations Arms Commission. Warren R. Austin, U.S. delegate, demanded that the council settle the question "now, once and for all" in a way that would prevent any possible attempt to open up the American ateinic bomb secrets. Andrei A. Gromyko, Soviet delegate, struck at Austin for "stub- born" insistence that the Council specifically keep the functions of the arms commission and the United Nations Atomic Emergency Com- mission separate. * * * * CHICAGO, Feb. 11 - Republican National Chairman Carroll Reece declared tonight that evidence is being uncovered that the New WHO'S CLASS CONSCIOUS? 'U' Official Enrolls in Undergrad Course By NATALIE BAGROW Daily Special Writer Exam-weary students can take a pointer on how to stay young from a 66-year-old University ad- ministrator who is going back to school to "keep from getting stale on the job." Dr. George E. Carrothers, a for- grammar school, high school and college, Dr. Carrothers has since published many articles and pamphlets on educational sub- jects. He feels, however, that ef- fort towards improvement is a never-ending process, and he wants to learn to write "good, clear eager to start work, and has al- ready bought the textbook and be- gun reading and marking it. Looks for New Projects A man of many and varied in- terests, Dr. Carrothers is always on the lookout for new projects by which he can "broaden his out- look and stay young." Several