MINORITY CONTROL SEE PAGE 4 LwItIt~~ 743 i1 SNOW FLURRIES Latest Deadline in the State VOL. LVI_, No. 62 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1947 PRICE FIVE CENTS Molotov Asks For Separate Treaty Drafts Bidault Opposes Delay Involved By The Associated Press LONDON, Dec. 3--Soviet For- eign Minister Molotov surprised the Foreign Ministers' Council to- day with a proposal that each o the Big Four powers prepare their own drafts of a German peace treaty and submit them to the council in two months. The suggestion brought from French Foreign Minister Bidault the quick observation that if the council accepted the idea of a two-month delay it might just as well go home now. The proposal startled mystified diplomats and apparently fore- shadowed some new move in So- viet tactics. Meanwhile, shortly before the meeting, it was learned that U.S. Adviser John Foster Dulles would leave for France tomorrow on a "personal" trip to study the French situation in relation to current foreign policy and report to Secretary Marshall. The foreign ministers had been plodding from disagree- ment to disagreement on pro- cedural matters without solving any major problem when Molo- tov suddenly took the floor. He made a long speech on the necessity of a German peace treaty and then made his pro- posal that each government pro- duce drafts of a German treaty within two months. Bidault, who was presiding, asked: "If preparation of a peace treaty is not envisaged under these items, why have these items been adopted for the agenda? Congressman Cites Menace Of Red Army WASHINGTON, Dec. 3--A)- Chairman Eaton (R.-N.J.) of the House Foreign Affairs Commit- tee declared today that Russia is out to conquer the world, andhis committee produced figures to show that the Soviets have an army of 4,050,000 to help in the attempt. Eaton appeared before the House Rules Committee to get clearance for the opening of de- bate tomorrow on a bill author- izing $590,000,000 in emergency, stop-Communism aid to France, Italy, Austria and China. The rules body recommended that the bill be opened for amend- ments after 12 hours of. debate, which will take place tomorrow and Friday. "What could stop Russia from taking over all of Europe in 24 hours?" asked Rep. Cox (D.-Ga.), a member of the rules committee. "Not a thing," Eaton replied. Many Alumni Will Gao West rinsPlanes Set For Rose Bowl Trip Few are the students who would turn down a chance to follow the team to the Rose Bowl. Michigan alumni--forever students at heart -are no exception. Such has been the demand from that important segment of the Michigan famiy that two special trains and some airlines flagships have been set aside for the trek westward later this month. One train will leave Detroit, the other Chicago, on Saturday, Dec. 27. A four-day stop-over in Los Angeles has bees arranged for all ticket-holders, including hotel ac- commodations and game seats. Jack A. Tomkins, an alumnus and airlines official, has planned the flagship flights. In addition to the general alumni specials, a plane has been assigned to "M~ men exclusively. Explosion Shakes Candy Shop Here White, Negro Group Hits Anti-Segregation Laws Southern Civil Rights Committee Proposes Education, Not Legislation, as Chief Hope By The Associated Press ATLANTA. Dec. 3 - Southerners, White and Negro, meeting around a common table recently agreed that Federal legislation is not the solution to the problem of racial segregation. They-the directors of the Southern Regional Council-there- fore took exception to the report by President Truman's Committee on Civil Rights. This Civil Rights Committee recommended, "The elimination of segregation based on race, color, creed or national origin, from Ameri- can life," through "the conditioning of all Federal grants in aid and other forms of Federal assistance to public and private agencies for Koussevitsky Will Conduct Concert Here Boston Symphony To AppearMonday The Boston Symphony Orches- tra, under the direction of Serge Koussevitsky, will present the fifth concert in the current Choral Series at 8:30 p.m. Monday in Hill Auditorium, Conductor of the orchestra since 1924, Koissevitsky has lived in Germany, France and England,, and has become closely identified with the musical culture of each country. In the years that have followed, America's composers and musical points of .view have become equally familiar o hlinl. Koussevitsky spends his sum- mers at the famous Berkshire Music Camp near Lenox ,Mas- chusetts, where he conducts a school for musicians. Students at the camp are care- fully selected on the basis of ap- plications, and concerts- which drew music lovers from all over the country are presented weekly throughout the season. Thor Johnson, former conduc- tor of the University Choral Union, was one of Koussevitsky's prize. students. At present, Johnson is conducting the Cincinnati Or- chestra which will appear here next March. The program to be presented Monday includes Mozart's "Diver- timento in B-fat Major for String and Two Horns"; "Daphnis et Chloe" Suite, by Ravel; and "Har- old in Italy," Symphony with Viola Solo, by Berlioz. Fewr Tickets Still Available For'Hessiah' Tickets foi"The Messiah," the University Musical Society's an- nual Christmas season produc- tion, are still available in the So- ciety's offices in Burton Memorial Tower. Two performances of the Hlan- del oratorio will be given: at 8:30 p.m. Dec. 13, and 2:30 p.m. Dec. 14, in Hill Auditorium. Four American artists, Frances Yeend, soprano; Mary Van Kirk,1 contralto; Harold Haugh, tenor; and Mark Love, bass will sing the solo roles. Miss Yeend and Love will maket their first Ann Arbor appearance this year. Love has appeared in ther bass role more than 250 times. A special 60-piece orchestra and1 300 members of the University1 Choral Union will form the back-1 ground for the soloists, with Frieda Op't Holt Vogan as organist. 1 Tickets are on sale from 9 a.m. to noon and from 1 to 5 p. Mon- day through Friday, and from 9c a.m. to noon Saturday. uany purpose on the absence of segregation and discrimination." Agreed with Committee The council agreed with the committee that elimination of segregation was a thing greatly to be desired, but took issue on the proposal that federal aid be de- nied states which failed to do so. It commended the President for his action in appointing it but withheld unqualified endorse - ment. After the directors' meeting council president Paul D. Wil- liams of Richmond, Va., vice pres- ident of the textbook publishing IRA announced last night that four barber shops will be picketed from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. thus beginning its "Opera- tion Haircut." firm of Mentzner and Bush, am- plified the council's stand in a speach next day to the general membership. Long Been Answered "The question of segregation," he said, "has long been answered by the Southern Regional Council. It has been answered not only in words, but more important in deeds. We have only to look at our executive staff operating in true Christian, democratic fash- ion day in day out, to seek the an- swer. "The questions before us," Wil- liams continued, "is not whether segregation is right or wrong - God knows and we know the an- swer-the question is whether we can convince other Southern- ers that the way of life lived by the council is so contagious that others are brave enough to fall in line. Price Ceilings On Meat Seen As Essential House Group Hits Anderson Talk By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 3-Secre- tary of Agriculture Anderson pre- dicted today that meat price con- trols will be needed soon to avoid "distress everywhere" in living costs. Unless demand drops, "I don't see how we can go through the spring" without meat ceilings, the Cabinet officer told the House Banking Committee. He got a cool reception. Rep. Cole (Rep., Kans.) told Anderson there are some things worse than high prices, and one of them is regimentation, ex- cept in an extreme emergency. Anderson and Secretary of La- bor Schwellenbach appeared again on Capitol Hill to back up Presi- dent Truman's 10-point program for controlling inflation. Anderson said tonight in a sep- arate statement that more than 600 persons, following "novel" trading and accounting proce- dures, are using the commodity futures markets to avoid income taxes on profits from commodity trading or other sources. The Secretary, while not pass- ing on validity of the opera- tions, said they should be stopped. He said it has contrib- uted to more speculative trading in grain and other commodities while markets were soaring. Anderson told the Committee that the present upward trend in meat prices "need not continue, but it looks like it will unless something is done." He pointed out that the per capita meat sup- ply next year is estimated at 146 pounds, compared with 156 this year, but still is above what the nation consumed before the war. He oberved that if a shortage develops in the spring, "fantastic prices" might result. Anderson informed the Com- mittee that rains in the south- west have given wheat pros- pects a boost, and that with rea- sonably good weather 1948 might produce 1,200,000,000 bushels. This year's output was 1,400,000,000. Schwellenbach, who preceded Anderson before the Committee, was accused by Rep. Smith (Rep., Ohio) of "asking for political con- trol of labor." But Schwellen- bach, supporting Mr. Truman's re- quest for modified' wage control authority, replied that he will of- fer Congress a set of standards by which it could limit any wage con- trols it authorizes. Arab F * * France Communists Register Only Negative Votes Industrial Sabotage Results in New Law By The Associated Press PARIS, Thursday, Dec. 4-The French National Assembly ap- proved Premier Robert Schu- man's anti-sabotage and strike control bill early today after more than five days of bitter debate on the instrument designed to arm the government against a growing wave of industrial strife. An official count showed the Assembly approved the measure 403 to 183. Only the chamber's Communists voted against the bill. The vote came as mass demon- strations and damage to indus- trial equipment grew to alarming proportions throughout the Na- tion, while leftist-inspired strikes appeared to be declining. The whole bill was approved by approximately the same majority as each of its five component ar- ticles and dozens of amendments which were put to individual votes during 126 hours of debate on the controversial law. All of the non- Communist members of the As- sembly present at the session voted approval and there were only a few absentees. Under the terms of the law, which Schuman presented to the Assembly last Saturday, he will have a new weapon against the rising incidence of sabotage. The law probably will be put Into effect later today. As finally approved, the new law raised the maximum prison sentence for sabotage from six months to 10 years and fixes fines .as highasu1,000,000 francs ($8,- 000). The use of fraud, threats or violence to start strikes, keep them going or spread them will be punishable by maximum five-year prison teris and fine up to 500,- 000 francs ($4,000). A Government communique said French troops in northern Fance had been fired upon by strikers but that the troops had not fire back The communique said the sol- diers stood the fire calmly "re- sisting the pressures of many hundreds of strikers." Rescue workers dug through- out the day in the debris of the Paris -Lille express, derailed near Arras in what two cabinet ministers said was sabotage. Moch announced that 20 per- sons had been killed in the wreck and 40 injured, The derailment, announced in the Assembly 15 minutes after it had passed the second article of Premier Robert Schuman's strike- control law, raised a furore in the legislative body. Engine Council Rules ons ie Bruce Lockwood and Hugh Ken- nedy will share the office of pres- ident of the junior engineering class, the Engineering Council de- cided at its meeting last night. Junior class votes were split evenly between Lockwood and Kennedy in the engineering college election last week. The Council passed a by-law clearing the way for John Howell to accept the office as secretary of the senior engineering class. The by-law states that if there are no candidates for an office, the candidate for senior class pres- ident receivingthe second highest number of votes will be asked to accept it. * * Passes Anti-Strike Bill HIS LONELY HOURS WERE EASED-Galens, honorary medical, society, have helped through their workshop to ease the lonely hours of recovery for this young University Hospital patient and hundreds like him. The Society's annual Christmas Tag Day to raise funds for the continuation of their work will be held on campus Friday and Saturday. * * * * . CHRISTMAS SPIRIT: Galens Will Initiate $4,000 Tag Day Drive Tomorrow orces Plunder, Murder * * SL Approves 61 Candidates For Election The Student Legislature last night announced approval of 61 candidates' petitions for the Dec. 10 election in an orientation meet- ing designed to explain legislature activities to the candidates. Election rules do not prohibit intensive campaigns, Dick Kelly, election committee chairman, said, clarifying the regulations. Although no posaers are allowed on campus or, by local ordinance, on trees, lamp-posts or telephone poles, other types of publicity a re encouraged, Kelly said. There are 32 open positions in the election, and of the 61 candi- dates 25 were present at the ex- planatory meeting: Elinor Abrahamson, Raymond Alm, William A. Brown, Betty Clark, Patrick Daoust, Norris Do- mangue, Norm Gottlieb, Dick Hait, Gladys Hammond, Jo Hill, Jean- nie Johnson, Lloyd Jones. Beth Klaver, Al Maslin, Bill Miller, Joe Miller, Alfred Millstein, Blair Moody, Jr., John A. Pflug, Arlynn Rosen, Donald Rothschild, James Sakai, Walter W. Shaffer, Michael S. Sherman, Norman V. Steere, Catherine Tillotson. Names and statements of all candidates will appear in The Daily next week. World News At a Glance By The Associated Press ARRAS, France, Dec. 3 - At least 17 persons were killed and 40 others injured today in the dreck of the Paris-Lille night train, which two French cabinet minis- ters said was caused by sabotage. Rescue workers at the scene said they thought three other bodies were buried beneath the de- bris. (Interior Minister Jules Moch, a Socialist, told the French National Assembly in Paris that 20 persons, including women and children, had been killed.) ** * KEY WEST, Fla., Dec. 3- Key West put on its best holiday attire today to give a cheering welcome to President Truman on his third visit to Florida since becoming the nation's chief ex- ecutive. FRANKFURT, Germany, Thurs- day, Dec. 4-The United States Air Force said early today it had received what it believed to be its "best clue" to date in the six-day- old se 'rch for a missing C-47 transpoi t plane with 20 persons aboard. Officers at air rescue headquar- ters said a 30-foot-long "oil fire" had been sighted in a valley in the French zone of Germany near Berschweiler, 11 miles northwest of Kaiserlautern, late last night. HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 3-A res- olution prohibiting and Commu- nist from holding office or serving in any executive capaci- ty in the Screen Directors Guild was adopted by the membership, By HERB MADALIN With only three weeks remain- ing until Christmas, traces of holi- day spirit are beginning to fill the children's ward in the University hospital. Responsible for a large part of this joyous mood is the Galen Honorary Medical Society, which supports the Galen Shop, the Ga- len Library, and the Fun Fund by means of money collected in its annual Christmas Tag Day Drive. This year's drive will take place tomorrow and Saturday, with con- tributions being collected by the 24 medical student members of the Society. A goal of $4,000 Aas been set. The Christmas spirit usually fills the hospital in an ascending tempo. First indication of it is in the type of projects the children select to work on in the Galen Shop. Gifts for relatives become the popular thing to make for about a month before Christmas. The Galen Shop is well equipped for such work. Three jigsaws, a drill press, a lathe, sander, and cir- cular saw, as well as numerous hand tools may be used in work- ing on projects. Instructors in the shop report that children fre- quently play Christmas carols as well as other records, borrowed from the Galen collection, while they are working. Samples of the Children's handiwork may be seen at a State street bookstore as well as at the Ann Arbor Trust Com- pany Building. Highlighting the festive mood is the annual Christmas party, us- ually given a few 'days before Christmas so that the children who may go home for the holi- day will be present. At the party, which comes as a surprise to the children, Santa Claus, with his huge bag on wheels, passes gifts to the children. The surprise and delight expressed by the boys and girls on receiving their presents is well worth seeing, hospital per- sonnel report. For the childrer whose condition does not allow their going home, a second part: is given 'on Christmas day, wher I additional gifts are distributed. These gifts are all made possibl( See TAG DAY, Page 2 'Plan To Test, Truman's Civil Liberties'Plan AVC's campus chapter initiater plans last night to present thi' recommendations of the Presi dent's Committee for Civil Liber ties before Ann Arbor's city coun cil, as a "positive means of meet ing violations of basic rights." The chapter will urge that thi community serve as a provin' ground for the validity of thI Committee's report and sugges tions. Full details of the mean, for implementing the report it Ann Arbor will be drawn up by E committee headed by Max Dean who sponsored the proposal. (Presented by a 15-man grout appointed by President Iruman the report is the result of a lonf study of civil rights and theim violations in this country.) The proposal came at an AVC- sponsored meeting on civil rights Prof. Wesley H. Maurer of th, journalism department, presidec at the discussion which dealt witl the question of racial and reli. gious prejudices in the South anc throughout the United States. Included in the Report to th, President are specific suggestion,, for strengthening machinery t( protectrcivil rights, for strength. ening the right of citizenship anc its privileges- and for furtherint the "right of freedom of consciene and expression." Seven Dead, Hundreds Hurt In Skirmishes Palestine Partition ViolenceSpreading By The Associated Press JERUSALEM, Dec. 3 - The flame of hatred against those who played any part in the United Na- tions' decision to partition Pales- tine burned fiercer and hotter through the Arabian world tonight and reports from Alleppo to Aden brought news of new bloodshed, destruction and pillage. Palestine alone counted its dead at 31-17 Jews and 14 Arabs by unofficial tabulation- and its wounded in the uncount- ed hundreds for the past two days as Arab mobs and Jewish defense forces, backing up Brit- ish police and troops, skirmished in all quarters of the Holy Land and fought a major hand gre- nade and machinegun battle on the "borders" separating the all- Jewish city of Tel Aviv and all- Arab Jaffa. In Cairo, "Queen City" of the Middle East, Egyptians stormed through the streets smashing win- dows and laying waste foreign property. Policemen used their clubs in beating back demonstra- tors before Egypt's royal palace, reports from Cairo said. British and Russian property appeared to be the main target of the Cairo mobs. The fighting in Palestine con- tinued tonight following the bloody battle on the Tel Aviv- Jaffa border and the night's oper- ations indicated also the Arabs were out to inflict property dam- age wherever possible. A large,. Jewish-owned lum- beryard adjoining a ShellOil Company tank farm in Haifa was destroyed by fire and short- ly afterward a small Arab shop in the same area was burned. Sporadic gunfire was heard in Jerusalem. Special Jewish police beat off an attack on four bus convoys on the Tel Aviv-Behovoth road. One drvier was wounded and wo attackers were believed to have been wounded by gunfire, At least two concrete move- nents to turn the anti-Jewish dis- )rders into a Jihad (holy war) were reported in the Arab world. In Baghdad, Iraq, demonstrators carried banners demanding a "Ji- had foia Palestine" and in Cairo Ashar University formed two com- mittees to organize "a Hihad to drive the wolves from Palestine." UN Looks for British Order In Holy Land LAKE SUCCESS, Dec. 3--(P)-. A top United Nations Official in- dicated today that the UN was looking to Britain alone to main- tam order in Palestine as long as the British continue administer- ing the Holy Land under their League of Nations mandate, This view was expressed by As- sistant Secretary-General Arkady A. Sobolev, a Russian national, at a news conference where Secre- tary-General Trygve Lie said he was considering a visit to Pales- tine early next year by himself or one of his chief aides, Lie announced the appointment )f Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, an Amer- can Negro formerly with the State Department, as principal secretary to the five-nation commiss