DISAPPEARING Y A6F A& 411 t r t A an A6V 742 a t tly a - BOOKS See Page 4 FAIR AND MILD Latest Deadline in the State VOL. LVII, No. 67 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 11, 1946 PRICE FIVE CENTS 1,60 Vets Still Without Fall Checks VA To Recheck Local Complaints The Veterans Administratior survey of "checkless" student vet- erans revealed that up to 4 p.m yesterday at least 1,360 University veterans still have not receivec their September and October sub- sistence checks. A part of state-wide complaint hearings, the local survey was con- ducted by a special team of VA training officers and contact rep- resentatives headed by George Beauchamp, Acting Assistant Chief of the Regional VA Rehabilitation and Education Division. Beauchamp said, "I had not ex- pected that the complaints would be so heavy." Names To Be Checked All of the names taken yesterday will be checked by the VA Re- gional Rehabilitation and Educa- tion office in Detroit, according to Beauchamp. Those applications which are ok'd after the recheck in Detroit will be forwarded to the Treasury office in Cleveland and checks will be mailed from there. If for some reason the applications are not in order, student veterans will be notified of the fact, Beau- champ stated. This was the third survey taken by the VA since Nov. 1, the date originally announced by th' VA as "payday" for the University's 11,- 030 student veterans. Due Here Nov. 15 Later the Detroit regional of- fice of the VA announced that all checks were due here by Nov. 15, which was 26 days before the VA discovered that 12.3 per cent of the University student veterans were still without checks. An unofficial survey of campus post offices made by The Daily on Nov. 17 disclosed that less than 25 per cent of University veterans had received subsistence payments, two days after the announced "dead- line" of payments., Three days later, these figures were denied by J. Frank Campbell, Chief of the Regional VA Rehabilitation and Education Division. Speed Up Plan A plan to speed up subsistence payments by having district dis- bursement officers pay by vouch- er, which was advanced in a Daily editorial on Nov. 19, drew fire from a Treasury official who said that the present check system "can't be beat." "There is no delay in our out- fit," E. J. Brennan, Chief Dis- bursing Officer of the Treasury Department told a Washington re- porter in commenting on The Daily proposal. Many of the 1,360 veterans whose checks have been delayed have already secured loans from the University. Hill Will Speak On Lynching Camipus Groups Will Begin Petition Drive Rev. Charles Hill, president of, the Detroit chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, will address the campus-wide anti-lynching rally to be held at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Union ballroom. Following Rev. Hill's speech, University students will be urged to sign petitions and postcards supporting the enactment of na- tional anti-lynching legislation, the ouster of Bilbo and Federal prosecution of lynchers. These petitions and postcards will then be forwarded to each student's representative in Congress. The local drive which is part of a national effort is being sponsored by the Campus Anti-Lynching Committee, which represents Wil- low Village and Campus AVC, IRA, MYDA and the Lawyers Guild. Med Students To Graduate In the last graduation under the wartime speed-up program, one hindrdryn nP T e,+din oan1 o'ahnn Local Hotels Shown Free of Fire Hazards Russia Consents to Inspection Inspection Reveals 4 Owners Ordered to: By BOB HARTMAN Visitors to Ann Arbor can con- sider, themselves fairly safe from disasters like the Winecoff hotel fire while staying in any of the local hotels overnight. A survey conducted by The Daily yesterday among the downtown hotels found that no fire hazards CIO Leaders To Demand Wage Boosts Plans Will Include Set Annual Wages WASHINGTON, Dec. 10-(A)- The CIO girded today for an at- tempt to obtain a second round of pay increases in major industries -and -a guaranteed annual wage for its 6,000,000 members. Now that John L. Lewis is sty- mied, the CIO is stepping out to become the wage pacemaker just as it did in the first postwar pay adjustments earlier this year. Meetings Called CIO leaders are grasping at their opportunity in a series of meetings this week and next, out of which may come a demand for a 25-cent hourly raise. That is the figure many CIO leaders have been talk- ing about. Lewis reportedly had been seeking a 50 per cent increase for his AFL United Mine Workers union. Studies Form Basis As groundwork for their de- mands CIO leaders are depending on two separate studies: 1. An economic analysis pre- pared for the CIO by Robert R. Nathan, former deputy director of the Office of War Mobilization, now a private economic consultant. This report is to be made public tomorrow. 2. An interim report to the Of- fice of War Mobilization by Mur- ray Latimer, former chairman of the National Railroad Retirement Board. This government report recommends the guaranteed wage plan as a means of maintaining a stable employment and purchasing power. Houses May Apply for J-Hop Ducats If you want your entire house, fraternity or independent, to attend the J-Hop on the same night, here's what you have to do: Hand in a list of the men's names together with their aca- demic status to the 'U' Hall ap- plication booth no later than Sat- urday noon; List your affiliation or group name on the application card, (Independents will have to create a name). The J-Hop Committeermakes no guarantees that all requests will be granted, but'it will make a sincere effort to grant as many as possible, Committee chairman Dennis Youngblood said. He urged all houses to register as soon as possible. Registration will be held tomorrow through Saturday.; Only Minor Infractions; Make Needed Changes of a serious nature exist. The sur- vey was corroborated by Fire Chief Ben J. Zahn who has just finished his quarterly inspection of Ann Ar- bor buildings. In response to the public con- cern over three major hotel fires within the last week, all Ann Ar- bor hotels were checked by a Daily reporter to ascertain whether they conformed to the State and city building regulations concerning emergency exits. One Flaw Noted One major divergence from the codes was found during the sur- vey: none of the hotels have stand- pipes (built-in hydrants) installed on their property as is prescribed. But all hotels were within 60 feet of a fire hydrant. Minor infractions were found in several hotels: refuse on the fire escape; holes in the walls; exit signs damaged or pointing either the wrong way or to locked doors; drop cords and incorrect or ex- posed wiring; high-step' fire es- capes; and doors swinging the wrong way or not outfitted with panic (safety-bars) hardware. The majority of these infrac- tions were in the process of being fixed yesterday or were unable to be fixed due to the material and labor shortages. All of them were noted by Department of Labor in- spectors who have instructed the owners to eliminate them gefore March 1, 1947. One Fire Checked The manager of one hotel said that a fire occurred in the hotel three months ago but was extin- guished by the hotel personnel ten minutes after its discovery. All the guests had been herded into the lobby within four minutes after the start of the fire. If Atomic Re ports World News Roundup By The Associated Press NEW YORK, Dec. 10 - The United States and other great powers were assured a permanent direct voice in the management of Trieste's economic affairs today when the Big Four Foreign Min- isters Council agreed on the crea- tion of 12-nation commission to keep check on the operation of the free port of Trieste. MILWAUKEE, Dec. 10-Gov. Walter S. Goodland was asked today to send troops into sub- urban West Allis to maintain law and order at the gates of the vast strikebound machinery works of the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company. * * * TEHRAN, Dec. 10 - Four col- umns of government troops began an invasion of Azerbaijan today in what may prove to be a chal- lenge to Russian influence, and unconfirmed reports said Mianeh, 80 miles from the Azerbaijan capi- tal, had been captured in a swift advance. BARCELONA, Spain, Dec. 10- A noise bomb exploded today as marchers, said by semi-official sources to number 150,000 to 200,- 000, passed Barcelona's vice regal palace in a demonstration against "foreign interference" in Spanish affairs. Kelly Cites Needs Of Veterans On ACampuses Says Cut Will Create 'Ghost Structures' By The Associated Press LANSING, Dec. 10-Govenor Kelly beat down today a proposal by the state postwar victory build- ing board to order the University of Michigan and Michigan State College to sharply curtail their campus construction programs. A. N. Langius, state building director, said the order, if it had passed, would have halted all construction at MSC and virtually stopped that at Ann Arbor. Rep. Victor A. Knox, Sault Ste. Marie Republican, ad- vanced the proposal, asserting that the two major institutions should complete only those structures for which they have sufficient funds, and wait for further legislative grants to complete the rest. Knox asserted the state's pre- sent financial distress, resulting from passage of the sales tax di- version and veterans' bonus amendments had upset the pre- vious plan to have the 1947 Legis- lature provide sufficient funds to complete the projects, mainly classroom and dormitory buildings required by swollen enrollments. "It would be better to have two or three buildings complet- ed than five or six ghost build- ings," Knox said. Kelly retorted "you are not faced with ghost buildings, but you can create them at this meet- ing. You can't debate this through next March with those G.I.'s going to school out there. You might just as well scrap the whole program in January." Red Deserters Join Poles, S' Audience Told The Polish underground move- ment contains an estimated three million Russian deserters, A. J. Rathnaw, former UNRRA repre- sentative in.Poland told the Uni- versity Polonia Society last night. Pointing out that Poland does not enjoy any of the four freedoms today, Rathnaw said that public meetings can notbedheld without a permit, and that all printing presses are government-owned. High taxes will "put the Church out of business" within five years, Rathnaw predicted, stating that there is still some freedom of re- ligion in Poland. Declaring that he did not spend a single night of the nine months he was in Poland without hearing shots in the street, Rathnaw said freedom from fear is still unknown there. In spite of the improvements in conditions in Poland made by UNRRA and other volunteer or- ganizations since the close of the war, officials of the existing Po- lish government have insisted that they can get along without help from the West, which they believe is inspired by political motives, Rathnaw said. ' Guaranteed; LINER RESTS ON HARBOR'S BED-the French Line's luxury liner' Liberte, the former north Ger- man Lloyd Liner Europa, rests on the muddy bed of Le Havre basin in France after having snapped her moorings in a gale-driven tidal wave and hav ing gashed her side against harbor wreckage. In background is hulk of sunken liner Paris. 'BUNDLE DAYS' Clothing Co'tributions Needed To Insure School Attendance The present condition of many schools in Europe will make atten- dance impossible during the winter months unless the clothing short- age is alleviated, Ada Davis, clothing drive chairman, said yesterday in urging students to contribute to the "Bundle Days" today and tomorrow. Because of the destruction of many schools, students are meeting in inadequately heated, temporary headquarters, Miss Davis explained. Clothing Contributions Clothing contributions to the Bundle Days, which will be sent to students in Europe, may be of any~ type, Miss Davis said. Small ar- ticles, coats, army clothing and zaristAr dresses will be equally acceptable, she said. l Wil Willow Run residents will have 'Generalecp e n h special receptacles in which to place clothing. Containers have e Spek Tday been placed in the center of eachom ry n gmesa dormitory and garments and shoes may also be taken to West General Vicftor A. Yakhontoff, Lodge or Lane Hall, drive head- former Acting Secretary of War quarters. i h usa eesycbnt Residences which have not been in the Russian Kerensky cabinet, contacted by members of the drive will discuss "United States-China- committee also may take their Russia" at 4:15 p.m. today in the bundles to Lane Hall. Kellogg Auditorium. Miss Davis said thatdduring the Recently returned from an ex- drive, materials should be wrap- tensive tour of Soviet Russia and ped, tied and placed in central places for the pick-ups, which will the Far East, General Yakhontoff take place Friday through Sunday. will speak under the auspices of the History Department. Recomt endatin A general at 35, he served for more than two years with the For Regency Told Russian Armies in World War I. As a member of the General Staff, GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., General Yakhontoff was sent by Dec. 10-(A)-Richard Krause, the Czar to England and France Rockford leather goods manu- where he made reports to Lord facturer, was recommended to- Kitchener and Marshall Joffre on night for nomination as Repub- coordination of the Allied spring lican candidate for regent of the offensives of 1916. University of Michigan. He was Following the overthrow of the named by the Kent county Re- Czar, he was recalled to Russia to publican advisory committee. serve as Assistant Secretary of Two new regents will be named War in the short-lived Kerensky in the spring elections. Government. (ills 'U' Construction Cut Ciague Gives Job Success Requirements A sound basic education plus adaptability within a specialized field are the two prime requisites for professional and business suc- cess under present economic con- ditions, Dr. Ewan Clague, U.S.f Commissioner of Labor Statistics, emphasized last night in a speech here., Dr .Clague, who spoke under the auspices of the University Bureau of Appointments, further ex- plained that although at present there is a job "for anyone who wants one," the business cycle, if it follows past performances may lead us into a period of unem- ployment and depression. Technological and other vital changes in all fields will make it imperative for specialized work- ers to constantly adjust them- selves to new, different situations, Dr. Clague continued. "We are not now on such a per- ilous peak as we were before the last depression," Dr. Clague said. Fussy Printer Delays Garg' Printing difficulties will make it impossible to have the December Gargoyle on campus until 10 a.m. today, the Garg staff has an- nounced. Root of the trouble, the editors claim, is a recalcitrant printer who has so far refused to print the magazine, claiming he won't let his wife read the Canterbury Tales, why should he have. to look at the Gargoyle? Molotov Asks UN For Full Arms Count Soviets Insist Veto Right Be Maintained By The Associated Press NEW YORK, Dec. 10 - Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov agreed tonight to accept a system of international military inspec- tion which would allow agents to make on-the-spot checks within Russia but only on condition that the United Nations demand a full report by Jan. 1 on all troops and armaments including the atomic bomb. Molotov made his statement in accepting a British "verifica- tion" amendment to a world- wide troop census proposal now under debate before the Gen- eral Assembly. Sir Hartley Shawcross of Great Britain, commenting that "this is going to be a historic occasion," then put forth a modified version of the British plan which would place the international inspection body outside the range of the Se- curity Courcil veto and delay armaments' reports pending a set- ting up of the check system. Molotov immediately leaped to his feet to accuse Shawcross of seeking to delay a decision and said the Briton was asking dele- gates 'to undertake a revision of the (UN) charter." Molotov made it clear that inspections could not operate within the framework of the Security Cun- cil without the right of veto pre- vailing. Red Proposal Voted Down By UN Council LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., Dec. 10-(IP)-Soviet delegate Andrei A. Gromyko was decisively de- feated tonight in the United Na- tions Security Council on his in- sistent demand that Bulgaria, Al- bania and Yugoslavia be invited immediately to participate in dis- cussion of a Greek complaint against them. Gromyko's proposal, brought to a vote after more than four hours of procedural wrangling, received only three affirmative ballots- from Mexico, Poland and the Soviet Union. Seven affirmative votes would have been required to carry it. The council then adopted a three-point Netherlands resolu- tion (1) inviting Greece and Yu- goslavia to participate in the dis- cussion; (2) inviting Bulgaria and Albania to make a declaration, and (3) stipulating that if the Council should decide that this was a "dispute" rather than a "situation," Albania and Bulgaria would be invited to participate without vote. ASME Cites Prof. Porter 'Roastee's Honors' Presented at Banquet "Roastee" honors went to Prof. R. Clay Porter, of the Mehan- cal Engineering Department last night at the annual Roast spon- the American Society of Mech- anical Engineers. Prof. Porter was awarded the "Spoofuncup," plus the titles of the "Man Who Can Take It" and the most "popular - unpopular" member of the engineering fanl- OPTIC RESEARCH: Light Perception Tests Show Human Eye's Hidden Capacity By ANN SCHOONMAKER In a darkened room on the third floor of the West Medical Building, a girl sits with an an- swer board in her lap and reports what she sees as lights are flashed on a screen in front of heic. Simple as it may seen, the sta- tistics which are gathered from these observations will prove of great value in determining just what the range of function the human eye has, in the study now being carried on by the Vision Re- search Laboratory of the psychol- ogy department in conjunction with the Office of Naval Research. on the Tiffany estate on Long Is- land, which gave greater safety and accuracy to U. S. submarines, helped save the lives of airmen forced down at sea and gave cews on painting aircraft for bettcr camouf lage. Observer Confidence Some of the facts learned from these and previous experiments are that the human eye can ac- tually perceive objects with a sur- prising amount of accuracy even when the observer has no confi- dence in being able to, and that the attitude of the observer ac- PHYSICISTS ARE SCARCE HERE: 'U' Students Fail To Share Public's Interest inPhysics ---- By NATALIE BAGROW University students apparently do not share in the general pub- lic's change in attitude toward physics, at least where concen- trated study of the subject is con- cerned. The popular notion that "only a genius can be a physicist" has not been appreciably changed be- cause of awakened interest in nuclear physics on the part of ,,ndarLer:3 ,,n Pvraf _ aR f. . "more competition to stay." At present there are about 130 stu- dents in physics on the graduate level, almost twice the pre-war number. Undergraduate concentration in it is an analytical subject requir- ing the learning of a "new lan- gulage," factors which db not appeal to the usually "lazy" av- erage person, according to Prof. Barker.