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VOL. LVIII, No. 44 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 12, 147

PRICE FIVE CENTS

G.I. Benefits
Not Inclusive
Of Families
Grants Linited
To School Fees
By JOE FREIN
Current provisions of the G.I.
Bill of Rights do not provide for
the extension of Health Service
benefits to the families of student
veterans, a University spokesman
declared yesterday.
Under the present law, proposed
use of a part of veterans' educa-
tional and training benefits to re-
compense the University for the
added cost, of providing Health
Service facilities for the wives and
-children of veterans is not au-
thorized, he pointed out.
Limited Specifically
'He explained that the maximum
of $500 per academic year allowed
the student veteran for educa-
tional and training benefits by the
Federal Government under Public
Law 346 is specifically limited to
payment for tuition, books, lab-
oratory fees and other charges
customarily required of all Uni-
versity students.
Replying to statements by Dr.
Warren E, Forsythe, Health Serv-
ice director, Ed Shaffer, chairman
of MYDA, pointed out that MY-
DA's proposal is not limited to
veterans' families alone, but ex-
tends to the wives and children
of non-veteran students and
teaching assistants.
MYDA believes that the exten-
sion of Health Service benefits
to the families of students is with-
in the basic function of the Uni-
versity he declared.
t Not Filly Effective
"Inasmuch as the basic purpose
of the Health Service program is
to provide low cost medical care'
to protect the health of students,
we feel that such a program can-
not be fully effective unless the
families of students also receive
these services," Shaffer said.
He conceded that Health Serv-
ice facilities were overtaxed, but
expressed MYDA's belief that ar-
rangements for out-patient dis-
pensaries in student dormitories
and the use of excess University
Hospital beds would help alleviate
the situation and provide more
facilities for students' families.
Taft Believes
Marshall Plan
Too Expensive
WASHINGTON, Nov. 11-(A3)-
Secretary of State Marshall today
recommended spending $2,657,-
000,000 on foreign aid between
now and next July 1, and Senator
Taft (R.-Ohio) quickly opposed
the sum as being altogether too
large.
After Marshall had placed his
proposal before the Senate For-
eign Relations Committee, Taft
told a news conference: "I would
be absolutely opposed to any such
addition to this fiscal year's ap-
tpropriation."
The Ohioan, who heads the
Senate Republican Policy Com-
mittee, declined to set any figure
on the amount he would approve.
But he said he did not believe
there should be any increase in
the rate at which this activity
now is being carried on.

Taft has said the outlays for
foreign economic help and for
relief total about $4,500,000,000
for the fiscal year ending June 30,
1948.
He told reporters he wants to
go ahead with an appropriation
for interim aid to Europe, but
that he believes too large expen-
ditures are proposed both in it and
the long range Marshall Plan for
European economic recovery.
But Chairman Vandenberg (R.-
Mich.) also called on Marshall for
a "total balance sheet" of pro-
posed expenditures for foreign aid
by this government during the
remainder of the fiscal year, end-
ing June 30, 1948.
Marshall then dgscribed the
overall program, which totals
$2,657,000,000, including $60,000,-
000 for China. He also called for
restoration of the German econ-
omy, which he called "vital."
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Daily Takes Initative in
Newspaper Convention
Facts, Figures, Problems To Be Discussed
By College Representatives Meeting Here
By FRED SCHOTT
Plans for a college newspaper convention to be held here Febru-
ary 21-22, the first of its kind in the country, have been worked out by
members of The Daily's business staff and approved by 10 invited pa-
pers at present.
Purpose of convention will be to "compare notes" on operating
procedure, for the mutual improvement of each paper. Invited papers
have been requested to send detailed publication facts, figures and
problems for discussion to The Daily. A discussion agenda, subject to
change, has already been prepared.
Business managers and managing editors have been invited to
_-attend. It is hoped that this con-

'U' Conserves
As Fuel Needs
ExceedSupply
Winter Requirements
Only Partially Filled
By ART HIGBEE
University people will be able to
keep warm this winter, but fuel
conservation measures will have
to be taken; a survey made by The
Daily reveals.
Walter L. Bulbick, University
Purchasing Agent, said that the
University. nearly all of whose
buildings use coal, has enough coal
on hand to last into February.
Contracts with five mine opera-
tors, Bulbick said, "give us every
reason to believe that, barring
strikes or a serious coal car short-
age, enough coal will be delivered
to last through the winter."
Full Supply
Most fraiternity, sorority and
league houses using coal have al-
ready laid in a full winter's supply.
Those using fuel oil hold contracts
which they expect will be filled.
Local coal dealers said that their
supply will be adequate, but pre-
dicted a shortage of certain types
of hard coal because of European
shipments and a shortage of rail-
road coal cars.
Fuel oil dealers said that they
could give their old customers "as
much as they got last year," but
that "we're turning down new cus-
tomers every day."°
'Worse Than Last Year'.
The fuel oil outlook is "worse
than last year," one dealer re-
ported, because of a shortage of
tank cars and a 40 per cent fall-
ing-off in Michigan fuel oil pro-
duction.
The local gas company reported
that they would be able to supply
all gas furnaces which were or-
dered installed before April 15,
1946.
No installation orders have been
taken since that date because of a
natural gas shortage which will
continue until a pipeline can be
laid to tap the Texas supply.
House managers said that they
intended to take the usual fuel
conservation measures, such as,
controlling heat by thermostat,
and keeping windows closed or
radiators turned off.
Special Ad Rates
Low-rate advertising in TheI
Daily for student organization af-
fairs has been provided for in at
contract which The Daily has
made with the Office of Student
Affairs.r
Publicity chairmen should clear
advertising through Dean Walter1
B. Rea before submitting it to
The Daily.t

vention will inaugurate a series of
annual conventions.
Papers accepting The Daily's in-
vitations include, at present, all
Big Ten dailies except Indiana,
the UCLA Daily Bruin and the
Harvard Crimson. The Indiana
Daily Student and the Colorado
Daily have not yet replied. Several
other representative papers will be
invited.
The present two-day agenda
schedules separate and combined
meetings of the represented staffs.
Topics to be discussed by busi-
ness managers will include:
1. Advertising policies, and pro-
motion, payrolls, staff organiza-
tion, plant equipment.
2. Public relations, student par-
ticipation, faculty supervision,
subscription campaigns and sup-
plements.
The editorial staff is scheduled
to discuss the following topics:
1. Systems of campus news cov-
erage.
2. Editorial page policy.
3. Staff salaries, incentives out-
side of salaries.
4. Training programs, organi-
zation and promotions.
5. Relative play of local and na-
tional and international news.
In addition, four combined staff
meetings will be held at the Stu-
dent Publications Building pend-
ing representation of as-
sociated sports' and women's staff
members this completes discussion
agenda.
The convention will be climaxed
by a dinner and address Feb. 21 at
the Union, featuring a well-known
newspaperman speaker.
Other details will be announced
later in The Daily.
French Movie
To Be Shown
Film Is Comic Satire
On Decadent Royalty
"The Barge-Keeper's Daugh-
ter," new French comedy, will be
presented by Art Cinema League
at 8:30 p.m. tomorrow through
Saturday at Lydia Mendelssohn
Theatre.
Josette Day, who appeared in
"The Baker's Wife" and "The
Well-Digger's Daughter," shown
on campus last year, again is cast
as the wayward woman.
Louis Jouvet portrays a school-
master charged with finding a new
heir to the throne of "Silistria,"
mythical Balkan kingdom.
Elvire Popesco is cast as the
prince, who prefers to chase a
commoner, rather than, take over
the throne.
Based on Maurice Donnay's play
"Education du Prince," the film is
a satire on decadent royalty.
Reserved tickets for "The Barge-
Keeper's Daughter" will go on
sale at 3 p.m. today at the thea-
tre box office in the League.

Reu-therWins
Over Addes,
JAW Faction
Leader Elected
President A ain
By The Associated Press
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., Nov. 11
-Walter Reuther was reelected
president of the CIO United Autc
Workers today and his forces
scored an even more crucial vic-
tory when they knocked out Sec-
retary-Treasurer Geroge F. Addes
Addes, leader of the anti-Reu-
ther faction in the UAW, lost his
job to Reuther-picked Emil Mazey
of Detroit.
Shortly before 8 p.m. (EST)
Mazey had 3,773 votes, more than
a majority in the roll-call vote.
Addes had 2,088, according tc
an unofficial tally.
The election of Mazey to the
Union's second highest post vir-
tually assured Reuther of com-
plete control of the leadershi:
after years of bitter factiealism
Capped Rise
Reuther's overwhelming margin
over two unknown opponents with
no organized backing capped his
25-year rise in the labor move-
ment. That was almost taken for
granted, but the full weight of his
strength was put to the test when
he named Mazey, a militant in-
dividualist on and off the labor
front, to run against Addes.
The latter has held the post for
11 years; he is the only secre-
tary-treasurer the union ever had
and has been opposed only once.
His leadership of the so-called
"left wing" anti-Reuther forces is
seldom questioned.
On the Addes outcome seemed
to rest the fate tomorrow of the
anti-Reuther faction's two vice-
presidential candidates - R. J.
Thomas and Richard T. Leonard,
the incumbents.
Brought Demonstration
For these posts they will be
faced by Reuther-supported Rich-
ard Gosser of Toledo and John
Livingstone of St. Louis.
Reuther's nomination brought a
lively, 15-minute demonstration
by his followers. Hundreds of
them marched around the room
and across the platform while a
band played "Reuther Is Our
Leader." Reuther placards, bal-
loons, noise makers and confetti
added the first real color to the
convention scene.
The 40-year-old Reuther's rout
of his organized opposition came
as he expected after the Addes
faction gave up hope of winning
the top office.
Reuther had the blessing of
CIO President Philip Murray, the
only CIO official who now stands
above him in prestige.
Even Reuther's opponents-and
he still has many-agree he has
come a long way in the labor
movement since he quit high
school in Wheeling, W. Va., at the
age of 15 to become an appren-
tice tool and die maker.
Voice Change
Started Singer
On New Path
When Set Svanholm, who was
holding down a job as choir direc-
tor in Stockholm in between sing-
ing baritone roles in the Swedish

Opera, decided to try a higher
"voice, it was the turning point of
his career.
Conductor Bruno Walter heard
him and invited him to Vienna,
after which he sang in many other
European cities, including the
Wagner shrine at Bayreuth. Since
then he has climbed to heights not
often achieved by a choirmaster.
Ann Arbor Debut
The Metropolitan's 36 year old
tenor will make his Ann Arbor de-
but at 8:30 p.m. Friday, when he
sings in the fourth concert of the
regular Choral Union 'Series at
Hill Auditorium.
Although Svanholm is best
known for his Wagnerian roles
and made his American debut
.singing Seigfried, he has also been
widely acclaimed for his por-
trayal of Radamesr inVerdi's
"Aida."
Trained at Royal Conservatory
He received his formal musical
training at the Royal Conserva-
f- in -, lyhnn , in-v rJnhn

Soviets Reported
To Have Set Off
Test Atom Bomb
Seismological Apparatus Register
Tremors on Alleged Explosion Day
By The Associated Press
PARIS, Nov. 11-The rightist newspaper L'Intransigeant today
printed a copyrighted dispatch purporting to come from Russia which
said the Soviet Union was making atomic bombs and that Soviet
scientists had exploded their first test model in Siberia on June 15.
The story was datelined "Prague," Czechoslovakia, and car-
ried the byline of "John Griggs" which the newspaper explained
was a pseudonym because the writer still was in Russia. The dis-
patch said the information came from "confidential sources" and
carried the parenthetical note, "information transmitted from
Moscow via Prague." L'Intransigeant said the author was "neither
an American nor British."
An Associated Press dispatch from Prague said weak tremors
were registered on seismograph-

EX-HUNGARIAN PARLIAMENT MEMBER HANGED-Dr. Gy-
orgy Donath (left), former member of Hungarian parliament
stands in courtyard of Budapest political prison, shortly before
being hanged following conviction on charges of "plotting to
overthrow" Communist-dominated government. Communists ac-
cused him of being leader of so-called "Committee of Seven"
which was alleged to have schemed to restore regime to Admiral
Nicholas Horthy. Anti-Communists have charged that whole
story of plot in Hungary was "frameup" to discredit small hold-
ers party and advance leftist control of government.
WAR'S AFTERMATH:
Armistice Day Talks Show
SoberView of World Chaos

By The Associated Press
Somber realities of a strife-torn
world more than two years after
the end of World War II were the
dominant themes in Armistice
Day talks throughout the nation
yesterday.
Military leaders, the principal
speakers at most of the solemn
observances, warned that Ameri-
can military strength must be
maintained to guard the nation's
Ex-Romanian
Premier Gets
Life Sentence
BUCHAREST, Romania, Nov. 11
-(A)-A military tribunal of the
Communist-led Romanian govern-
ment today found 75-year-old
Juliu Maniu guilty of high treason
and sentenced him to solitary con-
finement in prison for the remain-
der of his life.
Eighteen associates of the for-
mer premier, head of the National
Peasant Party, received sentences
varying from life at hard labor to
one year in jail. Of four tried in
absentia, two received life sen-
tences at hard labor.
Counsel for Maniu and his as-
sociates lodged formal appeals
from the verdicts.
Maniu, the Catholic leader of
the anti-Communist opposition,
was sentenced to an additional 10
years on other charges that in-
cluded entering into relations with
foreign powers-the United States
and Britain-to overthrow the re-.
gime of Communist Premier Petru
Groza.
Both the United States and
Britain had protested the arrest.
(Authoritative British informants
said in London it was likely Brit-
ain would also protest the sen-
tences.)
Maniu steadfastly denied all the
charges brought against him in
the 14-day trial that opened Oct.
29. Last night in reference to the
more than 40 years he has given of
his life to Romanian politics he
cried out in his last defense:
"I demand proof of these pain-
ful accusations. I, who sacrificed
my life for Romania, cannot plot
or instigate. These calumnes were
wont to be thrown against me by
the gutter press."

security. Some declared ways must
be found to preserve the peace lest
the trust of men who died in two
world wars be betrayed.
Heavy rain fell at the country's
most hallowed Armistice Day
service, held at the tomb of the
unknown soldier at Arlington
Cemetery near Washington.
Despite the downpour, President
Truman stood bareheaded with
others as the National Anthem
was played at this service. The
traditional one minute of silence
then was observed at 11 a.m., the
hour at which World War One
ended 29 years ago.
Gen. Mark Clark, wartime Fifth
Army commander speaking at San
Francisco, coupled his plea for
preparedness with an assertion
that Communists "are making the
greatest efforts of all time to en-
slave the peoples of the world."
In a talk at Philadelphia, Secre-
tary of the Army Kenneth Royall
declared the United States must
adopt universal training because
the world is in a state "which we
cannot sensibly face without ade-
quate military force."
Secretary of the Navy John Sul-
livan said at Arlington Cemetery
"the price of peace will continue
to be preparedness" and added
that "in the months since V-J Day
we have pared" our military
strength "to but a shadow of its
former size."
Panel To Air
TIax Problems
Lt. Gov. Eugene C. Keyes will
present the problems of taxation
as they confront high state offi-
cials, in an AVC-sponsored panel
discussion on "Michigan's Tax Di-
lemma" at 8 p.m tomorrow in
Kellogg Auditorium.
Dr. Keyes will share the plat-
form with economics lecturer
George R. Anderson and Munici-
pal League head John A. Huss.
Anderson and Huss will broach
the problem from the viewpoints
of an authority on tax theory and
that of an expert on municipal
problems arising from state tax-
ation policies.
Lorne Cook, student of eco-
nomics and former chairman of
AVC's campus chapter, will be
moderator at the panel. The meet-
ing is open to the public.

ical apparatus at Strasbourg,
France, Vladivostok, Moscow,
Tashkent and Sverdlovsk in Rus-
sia, Pasadena, Calif., Alma Ata,
Outer Mongolia, and Stuttgart,
Germany on June 15. The royal
observatory outside London, re-
ported the recording of a "very
faint" disturbance the same day,
but none of these recordings coin-
cided with the hour of 10 a.m.
at which L'Intransigeant said the
explosion took place.
(The' report was received in
silence by officials at the atomic
energy commission and else-
where in Washington. Some sci-
entists have reported that tests
to detect atomic explosions by
seismographs and by recording
radio activity in the upper at-
mosphere were not very satis-
factory.
(On a previous occasion L'In-
transigeant printed a startling re-
port concerning atomic bombs. On
July 7 the paper said a new
American bomb had blown a
crater 2,700 feet deep and 11
miles wide during a test in New
Mexico. The U.S. Atomic Commis-
sion called that report "nonsense."
(Several leading American
atomic scientists at Chicago ex-
pressed skepticism. Dr. Edward
Teller at the University of Chi-
cago Institute of Nuclear Studies
declared, today's report "does not
make much sense."
U.S. Opposes
Proposed UN
Action in Spain
LAKE SUCCESS, Nov. 11-(P)-
The United States opposed today
a demand by the Soviet bloc that
the United Nations take all pos-
sible economic action-short of
actual war-to force the fall of
the Franco regime in Spain.
Charles Fahy, American alter-
nate delegate, told -the 57-nation
political committee of the UN As-
sembly that the U.S. was against
any action 'which "would initiate
change by violence." He said in-
stead that the Spanish people "in
due time and in their own way"
will take steps to regain their
place in the family of nations.
Dr. Oscar Lange, Polish dele-
gate who originally laid charges
against Generalissimo Franco in
the Security Council in April, 1946
renewed the fight against Franco
by calling on the committee and
the Assembly-to apply a UN
charter provision for "complete
or partial interruption of eco-
nomic relations" with Spain.
He said there had been no
change for the better in the
Spanish case since the assembly
last Dec. 12 approved a resolu-
tion calling for member coun-
tries to take their ambassadors
out of Madrid and for the security
council to consider "adequate
measures" if a democratic gov-
ernment were not established in a
"reasonable" time.

SAC Extends
Late Approval
For Dances
Criteria for Securing
Late Permission Set
The Student Affairs Committee
yesterday cleared the way for con-
sideration of late permission for
Saturday night dances and, at the
same time, overhauled the list of
dances which will be granted late
permission by the Student Legis-
lature and the SAC.
The new resolution leaves the
final decision on late permission
approval for Saturday night
dances to the discretion of the
SAC. Previously the J-Hop had
been the only dance given late
permission Saturday.
The Committee lengthened the
list of dances approved for late
permission and established cri-
teria under which other dances
may also be given late permission
upon petition.
The new resolution reads as fol-
lows:
(1) Subject to approval of date,
the following dances are author-
ized to continue after midnight:
Assembly, Panhellenic, J-Hop,
Senior 'Ball, Slide Rule, Inter-
national Ball, Military Ball, Soph-
omore Prom. Interfraternity
Council, Crease, Inter-Profession-
al, Caduceus, Paul Bunyan, Bus-
iness Administration, and Prosh
Frolic.
(2) In addition, the following
kinds of dances are eligible, sub-
ject of approval of date at the dis-
cretion of the Student Affairs
Committee, upon petition for late
permission:
(a) The annual function of the
school or college;
(b) The annual functions spon-
sored by the independent men's
organization, the independent
women's organization, the affil-
iated men's organization and the
affiliated women's organization;
(c) All-campus dances spon-
sored by representative groups
for philanthropic purposes.
(3) The scheduing of late per-
mission functions be considered in
relationship to the establishment
of a social calendar for the school
year.
Battle Flares
In Contempt
Interrogation
WASHINGTON, Nov. 11-(P)-
Attorneys for 10 Hollywood movie
figures, accused of Congressional
contempt, pressed a last-ditch
fight today to save them from
prosecution pending a debate in
Congress on the whole issue.
House Speaker Martin (R.-
Mass.) took the case under con-
sideration without giving a direct
yes or no answer to the lawyers'
protest.
He indicated, however, that
once the technicalities have been
met, he may have no choice but
to turn the case over to the dis-
trict attorney.
Defense attorneys Martin Pop-
per, Washington, and Lester MiIl
Levin, New York, voiced their pro-
tests to Speaker Martin in an

World News At A Glance
By The Associated Press
NEW YORK, Nov. 11-Commissioner of Welfare Benjamin Field-
ing said today that Maj. Gen. Bennett E. Meyers told him last year,
that he was offered a commission of $100,000 by Howard Hughes
to bring Hughes' motion picture, "The Outlaw," into New York City.
* * * *
LAKE SUCCESS, Nov. 11-Britain cautioned the United Na-
tions today against adopting any plan which would give the
British government the major responsibility for,' uplementing
the proposed partition of Palestine.
This came from Sir Alexander Cadogan in a statement to a
UN Palestine sub-committee which has before it a Russian-
American plan for putting the partition scheme into effect.
* * * *
BANGKOK, Siam. Nov. 11-The Siamese military command un-

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