]UNITED JEWISH APPEAL See Page 4 Li L Latest Deadline ini the State DaiI CONTINUED COLT VOL. LVII, No. 153 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1947 PRICE FIVE CENTS Willow Run Council' OperiS tars, Long Distance Operators End Strike President Election Counters Charges To Perform As Other Telephone Unions Stay Idle; Stright Calls Allegrations 'A n Attempt To Cover Up Apathy of Villagers' By BEN ZWERLING Countering charges of having surpassed his authority in setting into motion the mechanics of the recent Willow Run Council election, William Stright, temporary president of the young Council, declared last night that such assertions are "an attempt to cover up a com- plete apathy" on the part of Villagers in regard to Village government. His remarks came in response to a report sent to the Council Wed- nesday by six members of the Village Government Planning Com-; _ mittee, of which Stright had been Mssa Solemnis A t T K11To Be Presented A uma lnD fae Four Metropolitan Opera starsttm tT Kilru a PanD f te May Accused Of GivingDraft Deferments Is Charged Also with Accepting War Bribes WASHINGTON, May 8-(P)- The government spranga court- room surprise today with testi- mony that ex-congressman An- drew J. May tried to get wartime draft deferments and military service favors for an acrobat and some 40 other friends and relatives of munitions-makers. . Col. Clarence J. Hauck, Jr., army liaison officer with the House I Military Committee when May headed it as chairman, was the witness. He said that May "balled me out for my apparent lack of sympathy" on May's deferment re- quest to prevent a "hardshipin breaking up the acrobat's troupe of three. Hauck's testimony topped the day's developments at the trial of May and three others on war bribe charges. Murray and Henry Garsson, heads of a $78,000,000 arms-manufacturing empire, and Joseph F. Freeman, Washington agent for the Garsson brothers, are charged with paying the for- mer Kentucky house member more than $50,000 for officials favors. Before Hauck took the stand the prosecution traced two $1,000 checks to the 72-year-old May de- spite his earlier threat to take the stand and tell "the whole story" about Democratic contributions to the 1944 presidential campaign if prosecutors brought up the matter. Hauck said May interceded to help arrange a transfer for Free- man's son, Army Sgt. Albert Free- man, from the Pacific fighting zone back to the United States. On another' occasion, Hauck said, May asked him to intervene in pending court-martial proceed- ings in Europe against Murray Garsson's son, Capt. Joseph Gars- son. In all, the witness recalled, Mur- ray Garsson and Freeman spoke to him about 15 or 20 times in be- half of the army service of 40 or 45 individuals, with former Rep. May attending most of the meet- ings. The acrobat in the case was identified only as "Lee." 13 Nlominated To Union Posts The Union's nominating com- mittee selected 13 students yester- day as candidates for the Union vice-presidents election from among those who presented state- ments of qualifications. Other students desiring to run in the election next Wednesday can do so by presenting a petition containing 200 signatures of men from their own school, a 50 word statement of qualifications and an eligibility card to the student of- ficesdof the Union before 5 p.m. Monday. Candidates nominated from the literary college are Richard Cort- right, Louis LaPierre, Phillip Mooney andTom Walsh; Medical School: Ross Hume; Dental School: Robert Laidlow; Law School: Robert MacRitchie; engi- neering and architectural schools: Howard DeMallie and C. Wm. Nis- seler; the combined schools: Charles Hills, Jerry Comer, Charles Kerner and Al Warner. Summer Engineers Must T .., Cl . , , . chairman. 'Manipulated Publicity' The report declared that Stright had undertaken to handle candi- dates' petitions, register voters, care for the ballot boxes and count the votes without consulting the committee members. Included in the report, too, was ,~charge that Stright had manipulated public- ity of the election so as to keep the West Lodge dormitory area from being represented. Stright, inthis statement to The Daily, said that the work of the committee had become, in effect, a one-man job not because of his usurpation, but, rather, because of the lack of interest and absence of cooperation on the part of the committee members. Saw Job Through "I was out to see the Council formed and functioning," he con- tinued, "and I saw the job through despite an appalling indifference on the part of the committee and the residents." Challenging the assertion that he handled the election petitions himself, Stright declared that a committee member, Walter Greg- ory, had assisted him and that the reason for non-participation of the remaining members was their apathy. (The report had asserted that Stright seldom gave ample noti- fication to the committee of the time or place of meeting, nor had he kept them aware of his activi- ties in regard to the committee. Such notice as was given, accord- ing to the group's report, had been in the form of notices in the "Wil- low RunAround," weekly news let- ter edited by Stright.) Claims Economic Duress As for the group's statement that Stright had restrained news of the impending election in the West Lodge dormitory area, Stright said that economic duress kept him from full publication or full circulation of the Run Around at election time, and there was no intent of keeping the dormitory students from votir g. This economic c uress, caused largely by the work he had put into the affairs of the Village, had compelled him to ta.e a position and a place to live in Detroit. Thus, "and for no other reason," he would bow out of the Village and Village affairs at the end of the month. No Extra Credit To Reservists-VA Army and Navy Reser re per- sonnel will not be grante addi- tional credit for G.L. schoohng for the time spent in 15-day tra'ining periods, the Veterans Admiistra- tion has announced. The VA has ruled that these training periods do not constitute active duty for entitlement to in- creased educational benefits under the G.I. Bill. This ruling, however, would not apply if the call to duty were for an indefinte period and the vet- eran served for 30 days or more, the VA said. Weather Halts Picnic The picnic scheduled for today by the student chapter of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers has been cancelled due to inclement weather. and the University Choral Union, under the direction of Thor John-T son, will present Beethoven's Missa Solemnis in D in the second May Festival concert at 8:30 p.m. today iIl\ R eferral in Hill Auditorium. Regina Resnick, soprano, Anna Kaskas, contralto, Frederick Jagel, Now Pending tenor and John Gurney, bass, will accompanied by the-Philadelphia Lim iting Notions Symphony Orchestra. US Trained Rejected Twice Born in New York City, Miss Resnick received her training in WASHINGTON, May 8-Hsd-d the United States, and joined the The House batted down, 127 to 37, Metropolitan through the audi- today an attempt to kill Presi- tions of the air, of which she was dent Truman's $400,000,000 pro- the sole woman winner in 1944. gram to aid Grece and Turkey, Anna Kaskas, born Bridge-and likewise defeated two moves d to give the United Nations a great- port, Conn., studied inItalytand er voice in it. Lithuania as well as the United In hot and heavy fighting late States. In 1936, after returning in the day, Rep. Bender (Rep., from study abroad, Miss KaskasJ won the right to sing in the Met- 0.) moved to strike out the "en- ropolitan acting clause" of the bill, which ' . "already has passed the Senate. The only one of the four singers Accepts Challenge who has appeared before in Ann ----------- - ---- Rep. Eaton (Rep., N.J.), chair- Pictures on Page 2 man of the House Foreign Af- fairs Committee who is piloting Arbor, Frederick Jagel, was en- the bill in the House, quickly ac- gaged bythe Metropolitanas a re- cepted the challenge. sult of his successes in Holland in "If you want to kill it, let's get the role of Radames in "Aida." is over with," he told the chamber. Former Athlete A voice vote was then taken and A former college athlete at Bender's motion was swamped. Oberlin College, John Gurney, New Test Ahead bass, turned to music only after he Ahead lay a new test for the bill, posed by a motion of Rep. Law- had begun training at Harvard rence Smith (Rep., Wis.) to with- University Business School. After hold aid to Greece and Turkey un- experience with the American til the United States has referred Opera Company, the Russian "the question of communist ag- Opera Company and other groups, gression" to the U.N. and given Gurney was put under contract by it 60 days to act. the Metropolitan. The house recessed until tomor- Thor Johnson, who will direct row without voting on Smith's the performance, is conductor- amendment. elect of the Cincinnati Symphony Two earlier moves to send the Orchestra. Conductor of the Uni- matter to the U. N. were defeated versity Musical Society from 1939 by voice votes. to 1942, Johnson returned to Ann Javits' Proposal Arbor this month to direct the One, by Rep. Javits (Rep., N.Y.), Choral Union in the Festival. would have instructed the admin- istration to lay the problems of Greece and Turkey before the U.N. Gl t n * e but permitted the American as- sistance program to proceed in the , meantime. To H elp Roll The other, by Rep. Helen Gaha- * gan Douglas (Dem., Calif.), would R 1R I~hav6e ohel sup Ameican action fo C allin rropeto act. The lack of sufficient clothing Mrs. Doug1as offered this and shoes makes school attendance amendment afteraan earlier one by in Europe impossible during bad her to insert a specific ban weather, Ada Davis said yesterday against sending any atomic weap- in urging students to contribute to ons to Greece or Turkey had been the clothing drive being conducted defeated on a voice vote. this week by the University Fam- ine Committee. Dr. Howard E. Kershner, who Litte T o recently made an extensive inves- To & v tigation abroad for the Save the Pe Children Federation, under whose direction the clothing will be dis- r tributed, reported that 45 per cent A discussion of the implications of the children of Amsterdam do of the atomic age on religion, by not attend school during bad Dr. Franklin H. Littell, director of weather. Tubercular children in the Student Religious Association, some institutions in Belgium are will be an added topic on the still without sheets and pillow Spring Parley agenda, the parley cases and sleep under very old committee announced yesterday. ragged blankets, he said. The panels on government, edu- The Federation has informed the cation, science and foreign rela- chairman here that all types of tions will be held at 8 p.m. May wearable clothing, especially shoes, 16, and the panels on religion, eco- are needed. They have requested nomics, and a combined panel on that the clothing contributed be social relations and civil liberties 'clean and in fair repair, although at 3 p.m. May 17. a workroom is maintained in New At the final session of the parley York in which the clothes are pre- at 8 p.m. May 17, panels will make pared for overseas shipment. reports on their discussions, an- Students may take their con- swer final questions and formulat tributions to the main desks of the resolutions if they wish. All ses- residence halls or the collection sions will be held in the Union with 'booths which will be set up Friday the exception of the first, to b and Saturday in the League, the held at 4 p.m. May 16 in Rackham Union and Lane Hall. Lecture Hall. U.S. Press Accused of DisortngInterview Reports from Stassen-Stalin Meeting Declared Inaccurate by Moscow Radio I AUTW To Honor Pickets, Delay In Full Service Seen Agreement's Terms Grant Wage Increase Ranging Between Two and Four Dollars By The Associated Press NEW YORK, May 8 - The strike of 20,000 long distance tele- phone workers throughout the country officially ends at 6 a.m., local time tomorrow, but resumption of full service faces delay wherever picket lines are maintained by 250,000 other telephone union mem- bers still on strike. The executive board of the American Union of Telephone Work- ers, which represents the long distance workers, tonight ratified an agreement reached in Washington early today between negotiators for the union and the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. BERLIN. May 8-0P)-Current developments in the Soviet press, radio and stage were widely inter- :G G HELD IN SHOOTING FELLOW LEGISLATOR - Rep. Jimie Scott, 35-year-old former ma- rine, was held for questioning in the shooting 'on the floor of the Oklahoma state senate, of Sen. Tom Anglin of Oklahoma City. * Scott Pleads 'Not Guilty of Intent To Kill OKLAHOMA CITY, May 8-(/P) --State Rep. Jimie Scott plead- ed innocent at his arraignment to- day on a charge of assault with 'intent to kill State Sen. Tom Ang- lin on the floor of the legislature. Anglin, 64, a fellow townsman of the 35-year-old freshman repre- sentative, suffered a bullet wound in the hip. Scottsaid he had fired after the elder man had "threatened to kill me if I didn't stay out of his way." Anglin said he believed the shooting stemmed from a divorce obtained by Scott's wife and han- dled by Anglin's law firm. Anglin's condition was not considered se- rious. Scott stonily avoided his former wife, who has resumed use of her maiden name of Irene Tucker, as Justice of the Peace Evert Cris- more remanded him to jail in de- fault of $5,000 band and set pre- liminary hearing for May 23. The shooting occurred in the Senate chamber just before that body convened yesterday. Eyewit- nesses varied in their accounts but all said that at least two shots were fired. Both Scott and Anglin were armed. r Conc-entration Talls Continue , The chemistry department will sponsor a concentration advise- ment meeting at 4:15 p.m. today in e Rm. 231, Angell Hall. The conference is the sixth in a two-week series of meetings de- e signed to assist sophomores and freshmen in the literary college in choosing a field of concentration. Speakers at the chemistry con- ference will include Prof. Ray- mond"Keller, who will discuss pro- fessional and vocational oppor- tunities in chemistry, and Prof. Byron Soule, who will speak on chemistry as a field of concentra- tion. The complete schedule of con- centration conferences to be held next week will be announced Sun- day in The Daily. 1 r 'i, rojrdI Y[lv rfis preted here today as evidence that1 an organized campaign has beent launched in Moscow against the1 press of the western nations.- The campaign, marked today by a Soviet broadcast accusing thee American press of deliberately dis- torting an interview between Prime Minister Stalin and former governor Harold Stassen of Min- nesota, started during the Foreign Ministers' Conference in Moscow. Newspapers Protest Scarcely a day goes by without the Moscow voices of the news- papers Pravda and Izvestia roar- ing against the journalists or newspapers of the West. The Soviet radio broadcasts these throughout the world and Soviet or Communist-controlled organs outside the Soviet Union echo them repetitiously. The Moscow radio broadcast a Tass Agency dispatch asserting that "a number ofadeliberate al- terations and unprecise points" appeared in the text of the recent conversation of Stalin and Stassen in Moscow. as issued by Stassen, and published by the American press. Praises Press (Stassen, commenting in South St. Paul, Minn., on the Tass charge, said that "the American press as a whole deserves high commendation for its fair and thorough manner" in handling the story of the interview.) The Soviet radio broadcast a lengthy comparison of the texts published by Tass and the English language translation, but the chief differences appeared to be in translations *of words. NSO Petitions Dune Monday Delegates To Attend WisconsinConvention Nominating petitions for the election of three delegates and three alternates to the National Student Organization's constitu- tional convention will be due at 5 p.m. Monday. Candidates may submit peitions, requiring 200 students signatures, eligibility cards and 50 word state- ments of qualification from 3 to 5 p.m. today and Monday in the Union Student Offices. The delegates, who will be chos- en in a campus-wide election Wed- nesday, will join with three Stu- dent Legislature delegates to rep- resent the student body in voting in the NSO's proposed constitution and affiliation with the Interna- tional Union of Students. They will alsodworkswith the Legislature's student organizations committee next fall in carrying out NSO projects on the campus. Delegates' expenses for the con- vention, to be held next fall at the University of Wisconsin, will be paid by the Legislature. Residences or campus groups de- siring speakers on the functions and program of the NSO, a non- partisan student group, may con- tact Tom Walsh, chairman of the student organizations committee. But John J. Mornpeident of the union, said the AUTW washpledged to honor picket lines set up by other striking unions affiliated with the Na- tional Federation of Telephone Workers even though the board ordered the long lines strike officially ended at 6 a.m. to- morrow. Moran said the back-to-work movement "may not result in a substantial return as long as other disputes exist in the industry." However, the long lines strike has been a key part of the na- tionwide walkout and it was believed that its settlement might set the pattern for a speedy end to other phases of the telephone tie-up. Moran said the AUTW member- ship must ratify the board's ac- tion "but that can come at any time later, as the executive board is empowered to call oi the strike." Meanwhile, Frank P. Law- rence, vice-president in charge of- the long lines division of A. T. & T., said in a statement that "with the termination of the strike we will endeaver to restore our services to normal as soon as possible. He did not comment on the ef- fect of the operators' pledge to respect other picket lines. The settlement terms give the AUTW members wage increases generally ranging from $2 to $4 a week. In New York City itself, four unions still are negotiating. More than half of the 340,000 telephone workers involved at the peak of the 31-day strike still were off the job. Total of 2,910 Will Graduate Approximately 2,910 students will receive degrees at the Univer- sity's 103rd commencement to be held at 6 p.m. June 14 at Ferry Field. The Honorable Paul Joseph Martin, Canadian&Minister of Na- tional Health and Welfare, will de- liver the commencement address. The tentative list of 2,910 grad- uates will set a new University record, accordingsto Secretary Herbert G. Watkins. There were 1,407 diplomas awarded at the 1946 comineficement. The previ- ous record was set in 1940 when 2,268 received diplomas. The literary college heads the tentative list with 1,021 graduates, followed by the graduate school, 688; engineering, 393; business administration, 233; music, 107; forestry, 106; nursing, 86; edu- cation, 78; law, 77; public health, 65; architecture, 41; and phar- macy, 15. Senate Passes A mend ment To Labor Bill Eight Vote Margin Backs Taft's Stand WASHINGTON, May 8 -i - With the Republican ,leadership back in the saddle, the Senate wrote a toughening amendment into its labor bill today, 48 to 40. The amendment has three pro- visions. It would outlaw: health and welfare funds financed by employers- and controlled by un- ions; what Senator Taft (Rep.- Ohio) described as attempts by Union representatives to "shake down" employers or extort money from then ; and the involuntary checkoff, by which unions prevail on companies to deduct union dues from all workers' pay enve- lopes regardless of the wishes of individual workers. Tables Turned Led by Senator Taft (Rep.- Ohio), proponents of the amend- ment turned the tables on Sen- ator Ives (Rep.-N,Y,) and Morse (Rep.-Ore.), who yesterday played a big part in killing a Taft-sup- ported proposal to curb industry- wide collective bargaining. Both Ives and Morse assailed the ban on health and welfare funds administered s o 1 e l y by unions. Taft defended it, saying that such funds could become "rackets." 14 GOP Votes Against Fourteen Republicans - seven of t h e m freshman Senators - joined 26 Deinocrats in voting against the amendment. For i. were 33 GOP senators and 15 Southern Democrats. Taft told the Senate the amend- ment stems from the efforts of John L. Lewis last year to levy a 10-cent a ton tax on soft coal producers to set up a welfare fund which Lewis wanted the United Mine Workers to administer alone. 'U' Vet Reports From Capitol Special To The Daily WASHINGTON, May 8 -Stu- dent veterans from several states testified today before the sub-com- mittee on veterans' affairs of the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Students from Texas, Florida, Illinois, New England and the northeastern states, as well as Michigan, spent the morning be- fore the committee asking for in- creased subsistence, and in the afternoon met with their repre- sentatives and senators. George Antonofsky, Michigan student, after testifying before the Senate committee, saw Sen. Robert Taft who said that "even though we are committed to econ- omy" he would give due consider- ationto the bill. Antonofsky also talked to .Rep. Edith Nor'se Rogers, sponsor of the bill, and Sen. Jo- seph Ball. Booklet Orders WillBe Accepted WEST QUAD RADIO CLUB: 'Blood Money' To Back Br oadcasters in West Quadrangle. n Using surplus Army radio equip- ment, they have set up shop as a corporation, chartered by the N State. H . N.Y. MEDICAL REPORT New Pain Reliever Revealed For Arthritis, Polio Sufferers By PAUL HARSHA If amateur radio fans in the West Quadrangle are a little pale around the gills this week, it's all to the credit of the West Quad Rnai (1,,s around the country last nighti inaugural broadcasts as statio W8ZSQ. Guest Artists Dean Emeritus Edward I BUFFALO, N. Y., May 8-(IP)- Striking relief from pain in many cases of arthritis, infantile paraly- sis, fractures and other injuries through procaine (novocain) was reported today to the New York phael W. Robertrazzi and Milton C. Peterson of the Reconstruction Hospital Unit, New York Post- Graduate Medical School and Hos- pital. Another effective new use, he as a ,. -4,ini r m in fanri in -. n,. I I Q4--4-A r __-A I F.,rvv ." tt p.vt rin"(11 v Hil s