MIDST OF INFLATION See Page 4 L Lwr40 Dalili FAIR, WARMER Latest Deadline in the State VOL. LVII, No. 154 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1947 PRICE FIVE CENTS Greek-Turkish Aid Bill assed I Tax ProblemNew Department Head Italian Treaty Delays Action Appointments Expected WinsVote Of On 'U' Funds Journalism Chairman Will Retire in Fall; Senate Two Others Ask Release To Do Research s i I Appropriations Bills Are Stalled e Two University appropriatio bills-for current operating ex penses and building construction -were stalled in the Legislature yesterday pending clarification of the present state tax picture. With sales tax diversion still the Legisiature's number one problem, neither bill is due for imminent action, the Associated Press re- ported from Lansing. $8,570,000 for Operations A Legislative grant of $8,570,000 (the amount requested by the Uni- versity) for current operating ex- penses appears likely. But the University's request for $13,210,000 to complete buildings now under construction and to erect other buildings faces an uncertain fate at this session. The operating expenditures bill is now in the House Ways and Means Committee awaiting consid- eration by the House. Building Appropriation A building appropriations meas- ure, introduced by Senator Otto W. Bishop, of Alpena, is now in the Senate Finance Committee. The bill would provide $3,200,000 to complete University buildings now under construction. The University, on the occasion of the House Ways and Means Committee's visit here in January, requested $6,360,000 for buildings now. under construction and an additional $6,000,000 to erect ad- ditions to Angell Hall and the Gen- eral Library. Extension of the power plant and heating system and construction of a fire station accounted for another $850,000. Cost Increases Cost of the University's program of five educational buildings was originally estimated at $8,000,- 000, but rising prices have boosted the estimate to $11,160,000. . The Legislature, apparently, will follow the policy established last. year when $4,800,000 was appro- priated to start the then $8,000,000 program. Passage of Senator Bishop's bill would bring the total amount ap- propriated up to $8,000,000, leav- ing the margin for increased con- struction costs to be appropriated by the 1948 Legislature. M urray Offers Bill on lLaborw Truman Suggestions Met by Democrats WASHINGTON, May 9 -('- In a stormy night session of the Senate, a group of 11 -Democrats tonight introduced a complete substitute for the union-curbing bill the chamber has been debat- ing two weeks. Senator Murray (Item.-Mont.), offering it on behalf of himself and ten colleagues, said it meets President Truman's suggestions on labor legislation and covers other matters as well. But he did not specify that there was any Presi- dential agreement to accept it, nor indicate whether Administra- tion officials had a hand in its preparation. Murray said one section meets Mr. Truman's recommendation that machinery be p r o v i d e d "whereby unsettled disputes con- cerning the interpretation of an existing agreement may be de- ferred by either party to a final and binding arbitration." He said another provision would carry out a recommendation of the President's labor-management conference that the U.S. concilia- tion be strengthened within the Labor Department. The pending bill would create a new mediation { agency apart from the Labor De- partment. Before this controversy, the Senate had adopted amendments' to make unions liable for dam- ages in jurisdictional strikes and cfarnlam.v nvn++tc a n r.. Rapidly accumulating evidence indicates that the appointments of two new departmental chairmen in thetliterary collegelast month Iwere the first of several similar appointments to be made befoe the fall semester opens. The Regents in their meeting of April 25 named Prof. William C. Steere to be chairman of the bot- ~~_-~ ~- ~~- ~- - ~- -~---~ ~~ Weatherman Promises End Of Cold Wave Sunday Top of 60° Forecast for Area Shivering students, who cold- shouldered their way through a fourth day of unseasonable weath- er yesterday, have been promised a little heat for the weekend. The Detroit Weather Bureau said last night temperatures may ' limb to 60 in southern Michigan by this afternoon, thus ending the cold snap that has forced cancel- lation of picnics and other outdoor activities here. Local music lovers had bpen ar- riving at May Festival concerts- traditionally held in balmy weath- 'r-in winter coats. Thermometers will hit 65 Sun- day, the weather bureau said, with skies clear until late afternoon, when scattered showers will move into the state. The Associated Press reported Michigan fishermen,. and fruit growers were perhaps the hardest hit by the cold wave. At Lansing the Conservation De- partment said fishermen reported only spotty luck angling in swol- len streams. Fruit growers in western Michi- gan reported some frost damage to sour cherries, but said the lack of warm temperatures had retarded budding and kept the damage to orchards light. Elsewhere in the nation, the Army's chemical center at Edge- wood Arsenal rushed 300 new-type smoke bombs to one large western Maryland orchard, but most at- tempts to protect crops were un- availing, an Associated Press dis- patch said. In the central Pennsylvania fruit. area, where the mercury dropped as low as 21 degrees, apple, peach, cherry and strawberry blossoms were turning black. World News Roundup By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, May 9-Presi- dent Truman asked Congress to- day for $24,900,000 to investigate the loyalty of government work- ers. Civil Service Commission would get $16,160,000 of the money, and the Federal Bureau of Investiga- tion $8,740,000. The fund would carry the inquiry only until June 30, the end of the current fiscal year. WASHINGTON, May 9-Legis- lation to authorize construction of the half billion dollar St. Lawrence Seaway and power development- and make it pay for itself through tolls-was introduced today in the House and Senate. LAKE SUCCESS, N, Y., May 9 -The Arab Higher Committee latetoday called onthe United Nations for an independent state of Palestine immediately. The Jewish agency countered with a demand for free immigra- tion that would build up a Jew- ish home in the Holy Land first. The clash pivoted around the question of immigratian, with the Arabs insisting that all en- try into Palestine be halted im- any department, replacing Prof. Harley H. Bartlett, who resig-ed March 15. Prof. Lewis G. Vander' Velde wa; named chairman of the history department. He had been acting chairman for nearly a yoar following the resignation of Prof.} A. E. R. Boak.l Also slated for a new chairmanx is the journalism department.x Prof. John L. Brumm, present chairman, will go on retir-mentt furlough next fall. Two other departments, whose1 names cannot be disclosed at this t time, will also undergo an ad- ministrative shuffling. The pres- ent chairmen of these depart- ments have indicated a desire to, spend more time on research pro- jects than is now possible with present administrative duties. t it is not known at this timet whether the new department heads will be drawn from presentt departmental faculties or will bet brought here from other univer- sities. The Regents, who have the fin-' al word on appointments, will hold their next meeting May 30. Liong Distance t Phone ..Service Still 'Spotty Satellite Pacts Also Approved By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, May 9 - The' peace treaty for Italy, tagged "too harsh" by many Italian-Americans but upheld by U. S. officials as theI best possible, won 13 to 0 ap- proval of the Senate Foreign Rela- tions Committee today. A like vote also sent to the Sen- ate the peace treaties for Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria. A two- thirds vote is necessary for Senate ratification and President Truman has urged immediate action. Final approval by all the big powers would mean the withdrawal, of occupation troops except for communications forces linked to# the Russian zone of Austria. Oppose Demilitarization Main opposition to the Italian # treaty, which was hammered out by Big Four foreign ministers in Paris and New York, centered on its demilitarization clauses. Critics say that this virtual' scrapping of Italy's army and navy olus de-fortification of her north- arn boundary would open the stra- tegic peninsula to the same sort of communistic encroachment President Truman opposes in Greece and Turkey. However, Mr. Truman told the Committee through Secretary of State Marshall that he does notf share this view.c SHOPPING IN RUSSIA-Residents of Moscow purchase unra- tioned caviar and fish.at the Gastronom Market on Gorki Street, which deals in goods other than those obtainable from state stores. The fish is priced at 20 roubles per pound, about $3.77 at the official rate of 5.30 roubles for $1. Fish is one of the most plentiful foods in the Russian capital. ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN: AVC Novelty Mixer Scores Hit As Dancers Ask Encore By House Attempts To Bar Troop Use Killed Measure, Passed 287 to 107, Differs Only ii Minor Detail from Senate Bill By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, May 9 - A precedent-shattering $400,000,000 measure to bolster Greece and Turkey against Communist domina- tion was passed by the House tonight, 287 to 107. On the final roll call, 127 Republicans and 160 Democrats voted for it. Against the measure were 93 Republicans, 13 Democrats and Rep. Marcantonio (AL-NY). Congressmen of both parties guarded it successfully from all attempts to deny the administration the right to use troops and mili- tary material in the effort. Other attempts to limit the program also were defeated. - ~~~ Approval Follows Violent Debate Final approval followed four Comm ittee In days of turbulent House debate dominated by angry legislative re- Senate O . s action to Russia's postwar activi- ties, opposition cries that Presi- dent Truman's program might TaX Cut Bill mean war, counter claims that it would stabilize peace.aT The strength of those support- Plan Income aX ing the measure was apparent Slash Effective July 1 from the ease with which they beat back the amendments. AnC WASHINGTON, May 9-( )- at the end, a motion by Rep. Holi- The Senate Finance Committee field (Dem.-Calif.) to send it back voted today to cut income taxes to the Foreign Affairs Committe by 10.5 to 30 per cent next July 1. for changes were shouted down Over a full year's operation, Holifleld could not even obtair ommittee experts estimated, the a roll call vote on his motion - Aill would save individual taxpay- he needed one-fifth of those pres- ,rs $4,000,000,000. They would ent to support his request for f :eap only half of that saving, how- roll call, and could muster onl3 aver, in the last half of 1947. 47 votes of more than 300 present The smallest taxpayers will get Measure Goes to Senate ;he biggest percentage reductions The measure returns now to th( if the bill clears the Senate, gets Senate, where it originally passe ;he approval of the House and April 22 by a vote of 67 to 22, foi :resident Truman, and goes on the action on minor changes made b law boos. The big taxpayers, of the House. If the Senate refuse: ourse, would gain the biggest In- to agree to the House changes lividual dollar benefits. the bill will go to a conferenc ro Take Effect July 1 committee for adjustment. In either case, there appeare kNew withholding rates would no reason for any further ma- aefec y1. terial delay. But already the bil The bill approved by the Senate is a month and a half past th =ommittee is an amended version deadline the administration wat f House ill No. 1, introduced by reported originally to have set fo thairman Knutson (Rep., Minn,) its passage. >f the Ways and Means Commit- With official reports that th ee, and passed by the House, plight of Greece particularly i: Chairman Millikin (Rep., Colo.) growing more acute daily as dol mnounced the vote was 8 to 5. lar credits are used up and Brit The principal change from the ish aid tapers off, the State De- neasure passed by the House is partment already has made plan: .he effective date-July 1. The to start the American assistanc( louse had voted to make the re- flowing as soon as Mr. Trumar luction retroactive to Jan. 1. signs the bill. dew Reduction Bracket Defeat Amendments The Senate committee inserted A move by Rep. Lawrence Smitt thnew reduction bracket giving (Rep.-Wis.) to refer the matte .ersons with net incomes between to the United Nations and permi 79,728 and $302,396 a tax cutof American action only if the Ur 57per, cent rather than 20 per cent failed to move within 60 day: is provided n the House bill. collapsed on a standing vote o 137 to 65. Opponents of the mea . This scale of reductions is set up sure had concentrated t h e i r ] the measure: strength on that. 30 per cent for persons with net And another proposal by Smit nomes (after exemptions and to trim the $400,000,000 authori- leductions) of $1,000 or less. zation by half was snowed under A flat $67 "notch" reduction for 121 to 49. iet incomes between $1,000 and The House also crushed all at- $1,396. By JOHN NEIMAN You couldn't possibly have been a wallflower last night if you at- tended the Willow Village Ameri- can V e te r a n s Committee's Long distance phone service Other Objections "Chance Dance" at the Masonic across the country remained James F. Byrnes, former secre- "spotty" today, while further ne- tary of -state, and Senators Van- gotiations were scheduled to end denberg (Rep., Mich.) and Con- U' Com m ittee the 33-day old strike of Michigan nally (Dem., Tex.) all told protest- 1 Bell Telephone Co. employes, ac- ing representatives of Italian- Cnn i rhiea Driv cording to an Associated Press dis- American societies that aso patch. gates to the peace conferences, Expressing guarded optimism on they did all they could to keep T' the outcome of the negotiations, Italy's punishment down and suc- Ix.oflU Federal Conciliator E. M. Scon- ceeded in softening stronger Rus- T yers said that the Michigan work- sian demands. f The University Famine Com- ers and the company were "getting: teaching fellows in the economics mittee clothing drive will be down to business and making an department, will lead the panel brought to a close today. licnest effort to settle the strike." on economics, to be held at 3 p.m. Collected for the benefit of chil- Change Positions Saturday in the Union. dren and young people in war- "Both sides have changed from The general theme of the par- stricken countries of northern and former positions," he added after ley is "Implications of the Atomic, western Europe, the clothing will meeting today with company ne- Age." be distributed in France, Holland, gotiators and leaders of unionized------ -Belgium, Finland and Sweden by traffic and accounting employes. KFT the Save the Children Federation. Further negotiating sessionsEcato As part of its program, the Fed- were scheduled between the com- cration has found American spon- pany and traffic unionists, repre- To Be Deb ted sors for approimately 1.000 Eu- senting- the largest group of the ropefn schoolsx t strikers. IAccording to Ada Davis and The federal mediator indicated Spring Parley Also M delcixe Cal ii ,'co-cai the main point of difference was F rirTofAlie diveAerke, wearable between company insistence on a I Featues Atom Talks clothing of all types. especially sliding scale of wage increases asi "What's Wrong with Education shoes, is needed. opposed to the union's demand for at the University?" will be one of t The clothing will be picked up an across-the-board pay boost. the questions discussed by the at the main desks of residence The American Telephone and panel on education of the halls Monday and Tuesday. Stu- Telegraph Co. reported that only Parley at 8 p.m. Friday ingth dents may leave their contnu- 1,500 of the 20,000 striking long Union. tions at the collection booths in lincs nion members resumed work Dean Hayward Keniston of the Lane Hall, the League and the despite a settlement of their dis- literary college, Prof. John ArthosU pate. of the English department, and Prospects Uncertain Robert Taylor will lead the dis- l The AT&T., parent Bell System I cussion of this panel. Other topics' concern, said an effort would be to be stressed are "The Atom and * made to provide service as nearly ; the Ivory Tower" and "What Stage Strike normal as possible over Mother's1 Should Be Required in a Modern Day weekend. normally a period Curriculum?" BERLIN. May 9 - --Trade of heavy long distance traffic, but The panel on government, also unionists in Hamburg quit their the prospects appeared extereme- to be held at 8 p.m. Friday, will be I jobs at noon today and with their ly uncertain. led by Profs. Harold M. Dorr and supporters massed more than 100,- In announcing a reluctant ap- Joseph E. Kallenbach of the politi- 000 strong before a red-draped proval of the long lines settle- cal science department, and Sam- balcony at union headquarters to ment last night, the executive uel J. Eldersveld, instructor in po- protest food shortages in the board of the American Union of litical science. Topics the panel British-occupied zone. Telephone Workers, representing will consider are "Will Atom Poli- The demonstration occurred as long distance employes, declared cies Lead to Increased Decentrali- German newspapers reported the the union's members would not zation of Government?" and "Is daily ration in one city in the cross picket lines maintained by the Atomic War Scare Leading to Ruhr had dropped to 650 calories strikers still out. Increased Militarization?" daily-far below the 900 to 1,100 The union and company repre- Prof. Gardner Ackley of the eco- ration once handed out by the sentatives will meet again tomor- nomics department, anu Daniel B. Nazis in their concentration camps row. Suits and Harold M. Levinson, at Buchenwald and elsewhere. Temple Ballroom. The newest thing in campus social activities, the dance was the brainstorm of Chuck Dray- ton, general chairman of the Willow Village AVC's social com- mittee. Although almost everything hap- pened, including someone losing a five dollar bill, the novel dance was classed a success by everyone interviewed by a Daily reporter, and many expressed hopes that there would be more mixers of this sort in the future. Planned so as to avoid the two greatest disadvantages of a mixer: (1) that women must come un- escorted, and (2) that there are usually too many wallflowers, the affair was attended by more than 150 couples. Johnny Barnes' up- coming eight-piece orchestra was featured, Dates, Dances Mixed Tickets, sold throughout the week, included the names of the men's temporary dates, and the purchasers were supposed to call; them, the committee having noti- fied the women. Escorting their partners to the dance, the men changed hands after the first song by going up to the lottery bowl and getting a number. Meanwhile the women, with numbers pinned on their blouses, were standing under signs on the sidelines indi- cating their numbers, and waited anxiously after each dance for their new partners. The first trouble encountered by the social committee was the fail- ure of a few men to get in touch with their dates. Consequently some girls were left on the string, and some fellows came to the dance stag. Gayle Thompson, committee member and one of the hostesses, said that the girls showed genuine interest in the af- fair during the ticket-selling stage but that a lot of men had to be coaxed, "which seemsnvery funny, considering conditions on cam- pus." In one instance two men called for the same girl, but this diffi- culty was eventually straightened out, and the number of men and women was almost perfectly bal- anced. "Everyone seems to be having a swell time," Drayton said. tempts to bar the use of military aid in the program of helping the two Mediterranean countries re- sist communism. NSO Petitions .Due Monday Students desiring to run as can- didates in the campus-wide elec- tion of delegates to the National Student Organization's constitu- tional convention must submit pe- titions with 200 student signatures between 3 and 5 p.m. Monday in the Union Student Offices. Nominees will also be required to submit eligibility cards and 50 word qualification statements, to be used for publicity purposes. Three delegates and three alter- nates will be chosen in the elec- tion Wednesday and an equal number of delegates and alter- nates will be elected from the Stu- dent Legislature. Delegates' ex- penses will be paid by the Legis- lature. The delegates will travel to the University of Wisconsin next fall to vote on such issues as the adop- tion of the constitution, the es- tablishment of a judiciary and fu- ture representation in the NSO. Delegates will also make final de- 20 per cent for incomes from ,396 to $79,728. 15 per cent for incomes frout $79, 728 to $302,396. 10.5 per cent on all incomes above $302,396. viay Go to Senate Millikin told reporters lie be- lieves the bill can be reported to the Senate by next Wednesday. The House estimated its bill would cut the individual income tax load $3,800,000,000. The Sen- ate set its estimate of the total re- ductions slightly higher. Ford Warns FAA On Strike DETROIT, May 9-- (/P) - The Ford Motor Co. told the Foreman's Association of America in effect today to go ahead with his strike plans May 17 if it wants to, but said the union would "have to take the responsibility for im- measurable harm." John S. Bugas, Ford vice-presi- dent and director of industrial re- lations, made the statement in re- jecting invitations to attend what it called an FAA "strike rally" Sunday morning. MAY FESTIVAL CONCERT SERIES: I TGSi.ar Stern, inrza Will Appear in TwoPrograms Today -r v ___- _ - -- - - - --.:-,.,. tJ~ x i li L.iLi t, EUU I~ 1:uuSern1, V1s111, and L;Zio m Pinza, bass, will appear in twok May Festival programs to be givens at 2:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. today * in Hill Auditorium. Brahms' Violin Concerto will be A ' 4.rn, y cs - i, evening concert today, will sing two numbers, by Mozart, "Qui Sdegno non S'accende" from "The Magic Flute" and "Non Plu An- drai" from the "Marriage of Fig- aro." His first number will be the monologue, farewell, and death 1