WATCH FOR STAEN See Page 4 Y 4%F 40P A, Ike, m -4 lw .Alt t pqppr- w r g n Drn iij (COUDY, COOL Latest Deadline in the State VOL. LVII, No. 151 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1947 PRICE FIVE CENTS House Sends Greek Aid Bill to Floor Marshall Urges Passage of Plan By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, May 6 - The $400,000,000 Greek-Turkish aid program got over its first hump in the House today, even some of its foes voting to send it to the floor for debate. A standing vote of 168 to 22 ac- cepted a procedure calling for nine hours of debate and unlimited at- tempts at amendments. This was no test of the bill's ultimate fate, but if it had been the other way around the effect would have been to bar the bill from immediate consideration. 'Greatest Urgency' In a letter, Secretary of State Marshall advised the House that the "greatest urgency" for aiding Greece and Turkey had been made "even more positive" by the recent Moscow conference of foreign ministers. His opinion was read to the House by Chairman Eaton (Rep., N.J.), of the foreign affairs com- mittee as debate opened turbulent- ly on the bill to bulwark the two southeastern European countries against Communism. Eaton himself referred to the bill as the most important piece of legislation to reach the floor in 100 years. He called on his col- leagues to accept resolutely the "great risks" of protecting Greece and Turkey from Red totalitarians. Positive Policy Marshall wrote that the bill "would enable the United States, in this crisis, to support the Unit- ed Nations by pursuing a positive policy in behalf of Greece and Turkey. I am convinced that it will be in our own interest and in the interest of world peace." ,He told the House that he had helped formulate the program be- fore leaving for Moscow, that he approved of amendments inserted by the Senate, that he and Under- secretary of State Acheson "were in constant touch" during his ab- sence and all moves were "fully co- ordinated." Spposition Strategy Foes of the bill early served no- tice of their strategy-based pri- marily upon an attempt to substi- tute a resolution to send the Greek-Turkish issue to the Unit- ed Nations. Not until tomorrow, at the earli- est, will a decision come--first on a series of amendments and sub- stitute proposals, then on the bill itself. House Republicans obvi- ously were split wide open. On the Democratic side of the aisle, there appeared less opposi- tion. Trunman Will W thhold View On Labor Bills WASHINGTON, May 6-Q)- President Truman has decided against stating his position orr any particular labor legislation before it reaches his desk, it was report- ed today as the Senate Republi- can leadership pressed for a tougher bill and a quick final vote. The Republicans, with consider- able Deocratic help, swamped a move to delay further considera- tion of the pending measure for 10 days, and Senator Wherry (Neb.), the Republican whip, told a reporter sponsors would try for a decision by Thursday. The report on Mr. Truman's si- lence plan came from a spokesman for the Democratic National Com- mittee. He said Cyril Bevan and Carl V. Rice. national committeemen respectively for Michigan and Kansas, brought the matter up at a conference with the President. The President declared, t h e spokesman said, that he will have nothing to say until a bill is on his desk for signature or veto. Several politicians, including Harold E. Stassen, GOP presiden- tial aspirant, have suggested that the President and Republican leaders get together to see whe- ther a bill acceptable to both par- ties could be agreed upon before Congress finally acts. Bevan told a reporter he in- formed the President that the democrats of Michigan are oppos- ed to "bitterly restrictive anti-la- h~nr lartic.Inf".nr " Hope Abandoned for National Settlement of Phone Truman Acts To Save AIR GUARD-Eight of the twelve University students who are members of the Michigan National Air Guard pose in front of one of their A-26 attack bombers. Standing, left to right, James 0. Murcklen, William E. McCappin, James B. Moore, Carl J. Ally, George K. Anderson. In front, W. C. Jennings, Don A. Michela, John L. Clark. Jews, Arabs Will Receive Equal Hearing Resolution Passed Over Boycott Treat LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., May 6 -(P)-The- political committee of the United Nations assembly vot- ed 40 to 0 tonight to hear the Jewish agency for Palestine and the Arab higher committee on equal terms despite an Arab threat to boycott the Assembly's deliber- ations on the Holy Land issue. The Five Arab states, plus France and India, abstained on the committee vote. Invited to Give Views, The resolution permitting the Jews and the Arabs to be heard specifically stated that they were being invited to give their views on "constituting and instructing" the inquiry body which is to be established. Delegates said there was noth- ing in the resolution to say that the Arabs and Jews were being in, vited to discuss the merits of the Holy Land issue. American Plan Rejected However, some delegates believ- ed that even though the political committee rejected an American proposal to state specifically that the Arabs and Jews could not dis- cuss the substance of the issue, the door was left open for these two groups to discuss the heart of the problem. The political committee then adjourned until 11 a.m. tomorrow, when it will begin work on the actual framing of a committee which will investigate Palestine and report back to the General Assembly next fall. Argentina and t h e United States sponsored the conciliatory move which gives the Jewish agen- cy for Palestine and the Arab higher committee for Palestine equal opportunity to appear before the Assembly's 55-nation political committee here. J ohison, Steward Get Daily Posts Joyce Johnson has been named woman's editor and Betty Stewart. associate women's editor of The Daily for the fall semester by the Board in Control of Student Pub- lications. Newly-appointed women's staff night editors are Mildred Rans- dorf, Margaret Frostic, Mary Alice Cheney and Shirley Meyer. SPARE TIME JOB: 1U' Students, Former Army Aviators, Fly In Air Guard By FRED SCHOTT Twelve University students, former Army combat flyers, are soar- ing through the wild blue yonder these days as members of the air component of the Michigan National Guard-the 127th Fighter Group and the 107th Bomb Squadron. It's strictly a spare time occupation. The flyers in most cases hold the same rank as they did in the Air Force, but they insist "It isn't the Army." Weekly Meeting "All we care about is flying," they said. "We've forgotten all about - -- - - - 4the Army stuff." Bill Introduced To Aid Cultural Relations Plans WASHINGTON, May 6-(EP)-- Legislation to pave the way for financing the State Department's cultural relations program includ- ing the "Voice of America" broad- cast to Russia and elsewhere was introduced today by Rep. Mundt (Rep., S. D.) Under Mundt's bill, Congress would give legal status to these activities. The House appropriations com- mittee yesterday rejected the de- partment's request for $31,381,220 to operate the program during the fiscal year starting July 1. It gave as it main reason that the pro- gram has not been sanctioned by Congress. Hearings Scheduled Indications that steps would be taken to save at least part of the program came from members of the appropriations and foreign af- fairs committees. Mundt, a member of the foreign group, said hearings on his bill may be started next week. Chair- man Taber (Rep., N. Y.) of the appropriations committee told re- porters he would not object to "reasonable financing" of "a rea- sonable program." While Taber indicated no spe- cific fund, other committee mem- bers said they understand $10,000,- 000 would be alloted if the Mundt, bill becomes law.- No Competition Mundt's bill calls for a screen- ing of all personnel by the feder- al bureau of investigation. o It provides also that all inform- ation sent abroad by the state de- partment for the education of for- eigners must be labeled as having emanated from the government, and that the program not competej with private agencies operating the same field. The vets are required to attend one official meeting a week at the former Army Air Field at Romulus, where they receive one day's pay plus "all the flying we can get., On week-ends when there are spare planes, they take off for al brief vacation-sometimes to soak up the sunshine down South or just to practice cross-country fly- ing techniques. Air Guard History The new version of the Air Guard has a short history. It was reorganized Sept. 29, 1946, and provided with A-26's AT-6's, AT 11's and C-47's. Eight P-51 fighter planes are expected to be put into use at Romulus by sum- mer when the Guard will go on ac- tive duty status for two weeks. Two of the A-26's (two-engined attack bombers) are equipped with dual controls for instructional purposes. The A-26 is the same type of plane used by round-the-world record breaker Reynolds last month. Ground School It isn't all loop-the-loop with the flyers. Ground school sub- jects on weather, navigation and operation of the new A-26's oc- cupy part of their time each week. Occasionally they have old-fash- ioned foot drills. A spot check of records shows that the 12 flyers are a well-dec- orated lot. George Anderson, for- See VET, Page 2 Le risi aureToMeet Ot MDA Ban Follow-up action on the camp- us-wide referendum opposing President Ruthven's ban of MYDA on the grounds that it by-passed the Student Affairs Committee will be considered by the Student Legislature at 7:30 p.m. today in the League. The Legislators will also discuss the election of delegates to the Na- tional Student Organization's con- stitutional convention, which will be held next fall at the Univer- sity of Wisconsin. Says Rejection Will Be BlowI ToU.S.Positiol Claims Pact Is Not Too Harsh with Italy By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, May 6-Presi- dent Truman, stepping in to save the Italian peace treaty, declared today that Senate rejection of the pact would be "a heavy blow to our country's leadership in world affairs." The President, Secretary of State George C. Marshall, former' secretary James F. Byrnes and Senator Vandenberg (Rep., Mich.) teamed up against critics who have been saying the treaty is too harsh and would open up a weakened Italy to the threat of Communism. Mr. Truman wrote Marshall that he does not share the view that the treaty's disarmament of Italy conflicts with his policy of bolstering Greece and Turkey against Communism. Marshall read the letter before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at a hearing in which Byrnes testified that rejection of the treaty would bring in Italy "uncertainty which causes dis- content, and discontent beeds Communism." Mr. Truman and his bipartisan foreign policy backers likewise urged early Senate ratification of peace treaties with Bulgaria, Hun- gary and Romania. Marshall said "the world would lose all confidence in our proposals and our leadership" if the necessary two-thirds ap- proval of the treaties by the Sen- ate is not forthcoming promptly. Marx System Is Evaluated- Socialism Curtails f redo --Griffin Although socialism can success- fully fulfill the requirements of an economic system, it would result in a loss of individual freedom of choice and civil rights, Prof. Clare E. Griffin of the business admini- stration school said yesterday. Addressing the Karl Marx Study Club on "Karl Marx on the De- velopment of Capitalism," Prof. Griffin said that socialism would bring the advantages of better discipline of the working classes and would make the importance of production become perfectly clear. However, socialism also brings the "deadening effect" of bureaucracy on progress, he add- ed. Marx expected the destruction of capitalism to come with econ- omic inevitability, and thought so- cialism would evolve naturally when the state had become static, Prof. Griffin said. Marx never answered the question of what was to happen after the revolution and this proved a highly embar- rassing point in Russia, he ex- plained, asserting that as a pro- phet, Marx' does not have a very good record. Psvehology Field To'Be es'Lebed The psychology department will sponsor a concentration advise- ment meeting at 4:15 p.m. today in Rm. 231, Angell Hall. The conference is the fourth in a two-week series of meetings de- signed to assist sophomores and freshmen in the literary college in choosing a field of concentration. Speakers at the psychology con- ference will include Prof. Martha Colby, who will discuss psychology French Cabinet Receives Vote Of Confidence PAIS, Wednesday, May 7-(P) -The National Council of the French Socialist Party decided to- day by a 2,529 to 2,125 vote that Premier . Paul Ramadier's coali- tion cabinet, from which the Com- munists have been ousted, should remain in office. The vote followed a seven-hour discussion climaxed by speeches by Ramadier and former Premier Leon Blum. Both Socialist leaders asked that the present govern- ment be maintained in power. Ramadier said: "If the National Council de- manded I resign, I would sign to- morrow my letter of resignation and submit it to Vincent Auriol (President of the Republic) but in doing so-1 would feel as if I were signing the abdication of the Republic." It was expected that the Social- ists' decision might have far- reaching influence on the policti- cal future not only of France but also of Western Europe. The National Council's vote rat- ified the week-end decision of So- cialist chiefs to drop communists from the cabinet. Many Frenchmen saw the situ- ation much the same as the con- servative newspaper Le Monde, which commented that if the So- cialists "capitulate before the Communists it will be their own end, and we will have in France two opposing blocs like those al- ready opposed to one another in the world." Wallace to Speak Henry A. Wallace will speak at noon May 15 in Hill Audi- torium under sponsorship of a group of campus organizations. >Instead of a cruising ship, a fast raiding ship firing a barrage of big rockets in bombardment of shore points. Intercepter Ship Instead of the carrier, a fast in- tercepter ship with pilotless air- craft to destroy enemy missiles aimed at America. Carriers as known today may be employed as a "coastal defense" several hun- dred miles off home shores. Instead of the destroyer, "an at- tack-killer" ' class which would have high-speed, automatic-firing guns, and plenty of anti-submarine equipment. Submarines may become special- ized for cargo carrying, scouting attack, ice patrol, and atom- weapon launching. (The Navy last week announced proposed conver- sion of existing submarines to car- go and troop carriers and to Arctic pickets.) The Senate today completed congressional action to permit th( Navy to spend $30,000,000 of it, funds on two experimental sub- marines. Radical Changes Also today, W. John Kenney, as. sistant secretary of the Navy, re- ported the planning of radical changes in warship design ant said: "The future ship may hav( few exposed personnel and in- struments. It is quite possible that no man will be in sight at battl( stations underway." It was further disclosed by nava, officers today that development is underway of a 45-foot shipborn( rocket. Navy thinking for 25 years wal directed at fighting the Japanes fleet. The present U. S. fleet, val- ued at $18,000,000,000, was largel3 built with that purpose in mind But the Japanese fleet is gone. Ses battles in the old classical sens( are gone too. Russian Plans The American fleet, still a powerful force, is inadequate foi future wars, its leaders believe. U.S. Navy Department Blueprints New Fleet Future Ships to Be Capable of Attacking Targets Hundreds of Miles from Coast WASHINGTON, May 6-(P)-The Navy Department is slowly un- folding the blueprint for a radically new fleet, designed for attacking cities and land bases rather than fighting other ships. What the fleet will look like some years from now remains to be seen. The best information points to an eventual lineup something like the following: Instead of the battleship, a heavily armoured guided missile ship that can take a pounding to get home powerful attacks on cities and industrial centers hundreds of miles from the coast (the Navy is cur- rently converting two big ships to fire guided missiles.). trike; Treaty Labor Leaders Will Return To Local Unions Bargaining, Strikes Will be Intensified By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, May 6 - Telephone strikers gave up form- ally tonight their effort to achieve a national agreement, going back to local negotiations with a declar- ation that wage differences are narrowing and prospects for "a fair and reasonable settlement are much brighter." Conferees in the long lines ne- gotiations closed out a long ses- sion near midnight without a set- tlement, but government concilla- tors called on them to meet again at 11 a.m. and stay at it until agreement is reached in the 30- day-old walkout. Company wage increase and fringe pay adjustments offered as a possible settlement totaled $4.36 a week or 10.9 cents per hour for the 20,00 long lines ' employes; consilators said. The conciliators said an end of the long lines strike could come "at any hour." George S. Ding, Assistant Vice President of the long lines department, said the 2ompany and union were less than 80 cents a week apart in their con- tract terms. Tonight's change was an- nounced following a ten hour meeting of the strike-guiding committee, by NFTW President Joseph A. Reiue Beirne said the policy commit- tee members, most of them heads f their local unions, will return immediately t their -horme cities to "intensify the strike" and take ;art personally in local bargain- ing . The committee, composed of representatives of 49 telephone un- ons affiliated with the NFTW, vill hold no further meetings. The announcement represent- ed a sudden reversal from op- timism over a quick settlement indicated earlier in the evening by government conciliators. These officials said at a din- ner-time break in negotiations on the long distance phase of the walkout that "only an eye- lash" separated the bargainers. Beirne said that the NFT'W had abandoned weeks ago "our at- tempt to get the American Tele- )hone and Telegraph Company to At down and bargain nationally." Beirne said local unions always have the right to enter into agree- 'nents with companies of the Bell ;ystem but that they still are ex- wected to continue submitting such agreeents to the national fed- eration for "counsel and guid- ince." AJ iWagnerian Op)era Festival Helen Traubel, soprano, and the ?hiladelphia Symphony Orches- ra, under Eugene Ormndy, will pen the May Festival with' an 1l-Wagner program at 8:30 p.m. 'omorrow in Hill .Auditorium. The overture to "Die Meister- inger" and the prelude and Lie- >estod from "Tristan and Isolde" vill be presented by the grchestra. Viss Traubel will sing the aria 'War as so schmalich" from "Die vWalkure" and excerpts from"Got- ,erdammerung." The Philadelphia Symphony will make its 12th consecutive ap- earance in May Festivals when t performs this season. Eugene 3rmandy, conductor, has been with the orchestra since the be- ;inning of the 1938-1939 season. Associate Conductor Alexander Hillsberg will direct the orchestra at other performances during the Festival. Miss Traubel, who also has ip- neared previously before Ann Ar- e bor audiences, is one of the few American-born and trained Met- Thne former vice-president Although the high brass scrupu- said that he plans to discuss his lously avoids mentioning it, Rus- program for world peace and to sia is know to be building verb report on his recent overseas fast submarines, using German journey. plans and scientists. The speech here will be plAadscet. sandwiched between appear- The Amrerican fleet would be ir ances in Detroit, as a part of rea rou were a Wallace's coast to coast speak- super-subs, credited with sub- ing tour. merger speeds higher than the bes U. S. anti-sub boats. World News at a Glance By The Associated Press VENICE, May 6-Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, who master- minded the stubborn German retreat up the Italian peninsula in 1944, was sentenced by a five-man British military court today to die before a firing squad for war crimes against the Italian people. * * * TOKYO, Wednesday, May 7-Authoritative Japanese sources said today General MacArthur assured Emperor Hirohito the United States would guarantee the defense of Japan. LANSING, Mich., May 6-Legislative leaders tonight, in their first agreement on u ethods of solving the state's impending $83,000,000 deficit, came up with proposals only $20,000,000 short of balancing the budget. * * * LONDON, May 6-Hugh Dalton, Chancellor of the Exchequer, declared tonight that the vast debts Britain owes her allies "must be very substantially scaled down." LONDON, May 6-The National Coal Board created by act of the Labor government recruited strike-breakers today to end an unau- WARTIME TECHNIQ UES: Atom Research Aids Medical Work By JOAN KATZ Under a grant from the Com- University scientists are now mittee on Growth of the Ameri- tackling medical problems with can Cancer Society, an isotope re- techniques developed in wartime 1 search laboratory is being estab- research on atomic energy, Dr. lished here to provide facilities for Fred J. Hodges, chairman of the the use of stable and radioactive can be handled, Dr. Hodges said. The assaying and preparation of samples for research work will al- so be carried out at this labora- tory. Ample preparative equip- ment and radioactivity counters