PRESS MONOPOLY THREAT See 'age 41 Y Latest Deadline in the State Daii TOTFAIR, VOL. LVI. No. 152 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1947 PRICE FIVE CENTS Planning Group Hits Election Machinery Of Village Council (aioumittee Claims Stright By-passed Tllem; Blasts 'Non-Representation' Six members of the now defunct Willow Village Government Plan ning Committee sent a report to the new Willow Run Council last night, charging William Stright, the committee's chairman and the Council's temporary president, with having by-passed the group in set- ting up machinery for the recent Council election. * The report was an outgrowth of widespread criticism based on non-representation of the West Lodge dormitory area in the Council. It was submitted jointly by Mrs. Lou Northam, the committee's secre- tary, Rev. J. Edgar Edwards, Elliot Mischler, Walt Hoffman, Lee Bow- man and Allen Weaver. Original plans drawn up by the committee called for the desig- nation of each of the dorms, which house 1500 University students, as one of the Village's eleven districts, thus entitled to two Councilmen. -__> At the election held April 27, * no representatives of the dormi- S x irom U tories were chosen. RayburnSays" Further Labor Curbs Rejected HELEN TRAUREL ... to sing here Set To Attend NSO Meeting Campus To Elect Three Delegates The Student Legislature appro- priated $300 last night to pay the expenses of six delegates to the National Student Organization's constitutional convention, to be held next fall at the University of Wisconsin. It provided that three of the delegates, as well as three alter- nates, be elected from within the Legislature and that an equal number of delegates and alter- nates be chosen in a campus-wide election Wednesday. Registra- tion fees for the alternates will be paid by the Legislature. Jim Risk was appointed chair- man of the election committee, which will also conduct the vot- ing for six Union vice-presidents. Delegate Requirements Candidates for the delegateships will be required to submit peti- tions with 200 student signatures, 50 word qualification statements and eligibility cards from 3 to 5 p.m. tomorrow through Monday in the Union Student Offices. Tom Walsh, chairman of the Legisla- ture's student organizations com- mittee, asked that students inter- ested in becoming delegates, as well as representatives from camp- us organizations, meet with his committee at 4 p.m. today in the Union. c NSO Set Up The NSO, a non-partisan stu- tend group, was set up by dele- gates from more than 300 col- leges, including four from the University at the Chicago Stu- dent Conference in December. The Legislature also voted to send its president, Harvey Weis- berg, and its vice-president, War- ren Bovee, to President Ruthven to ask for a statement of the "specific charges brought against MYDA" and an "accreditation program" which would establish l standards for recognition and withdrawal of recognition of campus organizations. Both these points were included in the Leg- islature resolution backed in the student referendum April 29. Quad Station To Go on Ai"r lualguiral Banquet Planned for Tonight The West Quadrangle Radio Club will go on the air tonight as station W8ZSQ after an in- augural dinner. Twenty quadrangle radio en- thusiasts will broadcast thereafter on the 20 and 75 meter-bands. Bruce R. Weinert, president and electrical engineering student, said that the club will use surplus army equipment to broadcast from the "ham shack" near the West Quad tower. E. B. Holden, club sponsor, Till throw the switch tonight to put station W8ZSQ on the air. Guests at the opening nigh ceremonies include Dean=Ene i- tus Edward H. Kraus of the lit- erary college, Erich A. Water, director of the office of student affairs, Jack Cline, instructor in electrical engineering, and Peter A O(gfefi r .ipf vrprif nriiori Stright accounted for this by stating that no one had petitioned for candidacy from the dorms. Ac- cording to the committee's re- port, however, Stright had not suf- ficiently publicized the election in the West Lodge area, nor had he notified the committee of proceed- ings. Only Two Present The report went on to say that Stright had called a meeting of the group for April 13, with the only notification being an item in the "Willow Run Around," Vil- lage weekly, of which he is editor. Many of the members of the com- mittee had been on vacation at the time and other than Stright, only Mrs. Northam was present. Plans were approved then to set up one election booth in the West Lodge and another in Stright's office, 1711 Stamford. However, the "West Lodge member of the committee was never notified of this plan by the chairman and, consequently, no booth was ever set up at the Lodge on election day," the report continued. The statement alleged, further, that election petitions were hand- led solely by Stright, counter to provisions drawn up by the com- mittee. Counting Votes "The committee was never asked to participate in the work of mak- ing up the ballots, ... registering the voters, or even in counting the votes," the report said. "Rev. David A. Blake, Jr. ( a member of the committee) did help count the votes, but not until twenty-four hours after the booth was closed. ... Mr. Stright did not announce the results until six days later." The report urged the Council to avoid such .abuses in the fu-{ ture by immediate enactment of by-laws providing for open meet- ings of its sessions and full re- porting of its activities 'Chan ce rs,' Call Dates! All men who have bought tickets to the AVC mixer-type "Chance Dance" to be held at 9 p.m.rtomorrow at Masonic Auditorium are urged to get in touch with their dates imme- diately, social chairman Charles Drayton announced yesterday. Invitations have just been sent out and Drayton claimed, "The girls are on pins and needles waiting for the phone to ring." Meanwhile, last minute tick- et sales will be continued today at the Union, University Hall, and the Engine Arch. Those who get their tickets today will have to call their dates right away to let them know what time they will come for them. All- Wagnerian Concert Opens May Festival Traubel, Ormandy Begin Music Series Excerpts from the "Ring" operas and "Tristan and Isolde" will be presented by Helen Traubel and the Philadelphia Symphony Or- chestra, under Eugene Ormandy, in the all-Wagner program to open the May Festival at 8:30 p.m. to- day in Hill Auditorium. Miss Traubel, who specializes in Wagnerian roles, will sing the aria, "War es so schmarlich" from "Die Walkure" and Brunnhilde's Immo- lation and Closing Scene from "Gotterdammerung." Born in St. Louis, Miss Traubel is one of the few American born and trained Metropolitan opera stars. Although she made her first public appearance at the age of 12, she refused to appear at the Metropolitan until 1939 after she had prepared herself with suffi- cient training. Miss Traubel made her debut at the Metropolitan as Sieglinde in "Die Walkure." She has since ap- peared in numerous Wagnerian roles and is particularly noted for her performances of Isolde in "Tristan and Isolde," and Brunn- hilde in the operas of the "Ring Cycle." Among the honors which have been received by Miss Traubel is the Nordica Brooch, which was worn by the first great American born soprano, Lillian Nordica. The Philadelphia Symphony, which is making its 12th consecu- tive May Festival appearance, plays more symphonic programs on the road than any other musi- cal organization. Although it has been in existence for only 46 years, See FESTIVAL, page 6 Wallace Talk To Be Mday 15 At least five campus and city organizations will sponsor the May 15 appearance here of form- er vice-president Henry A. Wal- lace, Lorne Cook, chairman of the campus AVC; said yesterday. The organizations include AVC, Inter-Racial Association, Sigma Delta Chi, Student Town Hall and the Ann Arbor chapter of Progres- sive Citizens of America. Other organizations may be added to the list of sponsors, Cook said. Wallace, now editor of The New Republic, will speak at noon in Hill Auditorium on his program for world peace and his recent trip to Europe. Following the speech, he will be the luncheon guest of Prof. Theo- dore M. Newcomb, of the sociology department. Wallace will deliver a speech in Chicago Wednesday night and will arrive in Detroit Thursday morn- ing. UN Impotent' Against Reds' Greece, Turkey Aid Nears Vote By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, May 7 - Dem- ocratic Leader Rayburn of Texas declared in the House today that the "United Nations is impotent" to handle the matter of aid to Greece and Turkey to combat communism. Rayburn spoke as the House neared the end of debate on the bill to put American military ad- vise and $400,000,000 at the dis- posal of Greece and Turkey. Program Foes Foes of the program fought hard to switch the whole matter to the United Nations. Rayburn pictured Russia as moving on from Greece and Tur- key to the other lands around the Mediterranean and in Europe and said: "God help us, if we do not ac- cept our responsibilities- to help countries that do not want to be smothered by communism. If $400,000,000 will help us stop that thing, I for one am willing to appropriate it." Need It Now "If Greece and Turkey need help, they need it now, not 60 days from now, not 90 days, or a year from now. It might be too late." The House took the bill up to the point where amendments will be in order tomorrow when Rep. Wadsworth (Rep.-N.Y.), closed two days of sharp debate by de- claring "if democracy is to live it must rise up on its feet and defend itself." Split Ranks The closing hours of general debate found the question of Rus- sia's reaction to the move dominat- ing a discussion which has: (1) split Republican ranks wide open, (2) revived the cry of "isolation- ism," and (3) brought bitter pro- tests against the strategy of the measure's supporters. Not until tomorrow willcome the first tentative tests of the ad- ministration's $400,000,000 bill. These center on proposed amend- ments to shift the burden to the United Nations, to eliminate mili- tary aid for Turkey and to trim the amount in the bill. A vote on final passage is un- likely before late tomorrow at the earliest. The Senate has voted 67 to 23 for the program of back- ing up a stop-communism policy with American money, material and limited military missions. For the greater part of the day, members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and supporters of the bill held the floor to dis- pute the oppositioncontention that the proposed action would mean the end of the United Na- tions and would lead to war tvith Russia. Wa ie Protests Unprecedented Retrial of Lifer Following criticism yesterday by Prof. J. B. Waite of the Univer- sity's criminal law department of his unprecedented freeing from a life sentence of a convicted slayer of a Detroit Jurist, Wayne County Recorder's Judge W. McKay Skill- man suggested that Prof. Waite "study the Michigan criminal code of procedure." Judge McKay last month re- opened the case of Herbert Davis, who was originally sentenced by the judge following conviction on a first degree murder charge, and reduced the charge to second de- gree murder and a suspended sen- tence. According to the Associated Press, Prof. Waite said in a letter to State Attorney-General Eugene F. Black: "If you or the Supreme Court should hold Skillman's action a high-handed flouting of the law and an illegal release of a criminal with whom he happens to sympa- thize, the people know what to do about it." Judge Skillman answered the charges in a letter to the attorney-, general in which he said in part: I am surprised at Prof. Government Of ficals Join Conferences Strike Negotiations Enter Final Stages By The Associated Press WASHINGTON. May 7-Indi- cations of an imminent agreement in the long-distance phase of the telephone strike piled up tonight. But no one close to the nego- tiations would predict flatly a set- tlement before the night ends. Two of the Labor Department's top labor trouble-shooters, assist- ant Secretary John W. Gibson and Conciliation Director Edgar L. Warren, joined the conferences. Observers took this to mean that the negotiations had reach- ed the final stages. And two typistsdcame back to work tonight and began put- ting into writing those parts of a proposed settlement in which both sides were ready to concur. As negotiators went into the night session, the Long-Distant Union and the A.T.&T. long-lines department were reported near an accord on a wage increase of about 11 cents an hour, plus other ben- efits for the workers. Government conciliators were optimistic over the possibility of agreement before the night ends -an agreement that might go far to wind up more than 30 strikes against Bell System com- panies across the country. Government conciliators placed reliance on the long distance ne- gotiations to cut son e sort of pat- tern for the pa c liwork settle- ments expected to result from un- ion abandonment of efforts to reach an overall national agree- ment. The long lines reach into 42 states. State Strikers HeT'arReport Of Members DETROIT, May 7--(/A1->-Lead- eDr of 18.000 striking Michigan telephone workers today heard a first hand report from two of their members who returned from Washington this morning after participating in month-long na- tional negotiations to end the walkout. The two, Miss Florence Karp of the traffic division and Lloyd La Chapelle of the plant workers, were ordered back here Tuesday night by the top policy committee of the National Federation of Telephone Workers. They were directed to make a full report to the Michigan Federa- tion, an affiliate of the NFTW, on negotiations with the American Telephone & Telegraph Company. Spokesmen for the Michigan Federation said no additional counciliation sessions have been scheduled as yet on a state level with officers of Michigan Bell Telephone Company and federal and state labor conciliators. They conceded, however, that some new proposal for~a settlement of the strike might come out of to- day's union conference. Aleman Back in Mexico MEXICO CITY, May 7-(A)- President Miguel Aleman, return- ing from a nine-day tour of the United States, landed here at 10:45 p.m. CST tonight in President Truman's personal plane, "The Sacred Cow." The President was greeted by roar ing cannons sounding a 21-gun salute. By Senate in Surprising Upset; Long Distance Accord In View ALAN FARNSWORTH . . . new Union secretary HONORS AWARDED: EUGENE SIKOROVSKY ... new Union president * * * New Union Officers, Council Feted at Installation Banquet The newly elected officers and Executive Council of the Union were guests of honor last night as the entire Union staff dined in regal splendor at the Annual In- stallation Banquet. Deans Walter B. Rea and Joseph A. Bursley were special guests at the banquet, as well as the retiring Union Executive Council and the retiring Board of Directors. Eugene Sikorovsky, '48E, was of-j ficially installed as president ofI the Union, and Alan Farnsworth assumed his duties as secretary. Appointed To Council The nine men appointed to the Union Executive Council for the 194748 school year were Chuck Bailie, Bob Holland, Loyal Jodar, Keith Jordan, Bob Olshefsky, Pete Pfohl, John Quimby, Bill Tater- sall and Merlin Townley, Keys were also presented at the banquet to men who have done Clothin- Drive Collections Set Plan Booths at Union, League, Lane Hall Students may leave their con- tributions to the clothing drive being held this week by the Uni- versity Famine Committee at the residence halls main desks or at the collection booths to be set up tomorrow and Saturday in the League, the Union and Lane Hall. The clothing will be distributed, overseas by the Save the Children Federation to child war victims in France, Holland, Belgium, Finland and Sweden. As part of its pro- gram, the Federation has found American sponsors for approxi- mately 1,000 European schools. Included in the shipments which the Federation made to Eturope last year were more than 50,000 pairs of shoes which made itpos- sible for .many children to attend classes who would otherwise have been kept at home in bad weather. The Federation has advised Ada Davis and Madeleine Calingaert, co-chairmen of the drive, that wearable clothing of all types, in children's and adults' sizes, blank- ets, sheets and other bedding can be used. They have requested that the clothing contributed be clean and in fair repair, although a workroom is maintained in New York City to prepare the clothing for shipment overseas. outstanding work on the Union staff. Board of Director keys were received by Talbot Honey, Charles Kerner, Ralph Kenyon and Thomas Walsh. Duane Heilbronn was awarded an Executive Council key. Staff Keys Presented Staff keys were presented to Douglas Parker, Frank Swartwout, Haldon Smith, Ralph Loomis, Loyal Jodar, Russ Shields, Bob Shrock and Jack Harlan.' Staff keys also went to John Hubbard, John Kruse, Lamar Kishlar, Robert Mark Wenley, Jim Smith, Richard Hitt, Carleton Griffin and Jim Chipman. New Political T rend Noted By Prof. White Formation of larger political units with increasing governmen- tal control was described as the trend of social evolution by Prof. Leslie A. White, of the anthropol- ogy department, yesterday. Pointing out the expanding so- I cial organizations which developed throughout the history of man as the cultural level rose, Prof. White declared that the number of great, countries will continue to dimin- ish as they draw the smaller na- tions into their orbit. Greater Control Within the nations themselves, greater governmental control of everything will be necessary to in- tegrate various parts of the social structure," Prof. White said. He described totalitarianism as "a very high degree of integration." Cultural history further demon- strates that "all profound politi- cal changes come through war- fare," Prof. White said: "Because of international competition, pa- per agreements will never give se-. curity," he continued. New Energy of Culture Prof. White said that atomic power will be the new energy of culture which will create a world state providing the winner of the third world war itself escapes de- struction. He named the two re- maining great powers of Russia and the "Anglo-American Empire" as having "apparently irreconcil- able" interests, "but with the es- tablishment of a world state, there will be at last an end to wars.' AXmendment Curbing Union Power Killed Party Lines Bolted By 16 Republicans By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, May 7 - In a surprising upset for its Republi- can leadership, the Senate today rejected, 44 to 43, an attempt to toughen the general labor bill by writing in curbs on industry-wide collective bargaining. The amendment, which would have outlawed recognition of na- tional unions for bargaining pur- poses, with some exceptions, was backed by Senator Taft of Ohio, chairman of the Republican pol- icy committee. Senator Wherry of Nebraska, Republican whip, had predicted its passage. But on the showdown, 16 Re- publicans i n c 1u d i n g several "freshmen," bolted the party lines and lined up with 28 Dem- ocrats against the amendment, For it were 31 Republicans and 12 Democrats. Still pending is another amendment by Senator Ball (Rep.-Minn.) to outlaw Indus- try-wide strikes by making them subject to the anti-trust laws. The vote was preceded by a heavy drumfire of criticism from foes of the amendment, who de- scribed it as a "buzz bomb" which would smash national unions, Senator Morse ,(Rep.-Ore.) said the proposal would leave "only a shell of labor's rights to collective bargaining." Senator Ives (Rep.-N.Y.) told his colleagues that by adopting the amendment "we can accom- plish little that is good and we may do much that is harmful." The New Yorker declared that big-scale bargaining makes it possible for small employers to "protect themselves a g a i n s t large unions by meeting them on terms of approximate equal- The bargaining limitation amendment was sponsored by Senators Ball (Rep-Minn.), Byrd (Dem.-Va.), Smith (Rep.-N.J.), and George (Dem.-Ga.). It would have 1. Prohibited national uniqns from dictating contract terms to their locals.. 2. Forbade recognition of na- tional unions for bargaining pur- poses, except on a company-wide basis or where competing em- ployers are located in the same county or metropolitan area. Concentration Talks Continue The political science depart- ment will sponsor a concentration advisement meeting at 4:15 p.m. today in Rm. 231, Angell Hall. The conference is the fifth 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 political science conference will include Prof. Jos- eph Kallenbach, who will discuss political science as a field of con- centration; Prof. John Lederle, who will speak on political science as preparation for government service; Prof. Lawrence Preuss, who will talk on political science as preparation for foreign serv- ice; and Prof. Lionel Laing, who will discuss teaching opportunities in political science. Next meeting of the series will be held by the chemistry depart- ment at 4:15 p.m. tomorrow in Rm. 35, Angell Hall. Drive tp$1,850 For Hayden Fund The Hayden Memorial Library Fund topped $1,850 yesterday with additional returns still to come in, World News at a Glance By The Associated Press LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., May 7-The United Nations Assembly on; Palestine in an unprecedented extraordinary session approved by a 39 to 1 vote late today a face-saving compromise giving the Arab Higher Committee equal status with the Jewish Agency before the UN. 'i * a WASHINGTON, May 7-Levin H. Campbell, former army ordnance chief, testified today that ex-Congressman Andrew J. May exerted "pressure" for the Garsson Munitions Makers during the war and that this tended to hamper the Army munitions pro- gram. ** RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, May 7-The Brazil Supreme Electoral' Tribunal today ruled the Communist Party illegal by a two to three SPONSORS PUT ON SPOT: Programs Need Psychologists_-_Abbor It is the sponsor of children's part on a panel on the subject, myth."