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VOL. LVIII, No. 66 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1947
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Record Vote
Is Expected
In SLBattle,
Campus Groups
To Proctor Polls
A record vote is expected in the
election tomorrow for 32 members
of the Student Legislature, Dick
Kelly, chairman of the Legisla-
ture elections committee, declared
yesterday.
Polling booths, manned by vol-
unteers, and proctored by mem-
bers of campus organizations, will
be open from- 8:45 a.m. to 5:30
p.m. in front of Angell and Alum-
ni Memorial Halls, behind Haven
Hall, on the Diagonal, at the Wil-
low Run bus stop, in the Engine
Arch and in Hutchins Hal.
Student Service
Campus organizations, in an ef-
fort to "aid the student in his
choice" have panned several
"student service" functions, Kelly
said.
A committee of the Young Pro-
gressive Citizens of Michigan is
compiling a pamphlet which will
contain candidates' opinions on
various controversial campus is-
sues. They will be distributed to-
morrow. "Stump" speakers from
YPCM have also canvassed dormi-
tories to "get out the vote."
A reception will be held at 4:30
p.m. today at Lane Hall for all
present members of the Legisla-
ture, all candidates and all stu-
dents interested in meeting the
candidates.
Students are reminded that
they must bring identification
cards in order to vote, Kelly em-
phasized.
Discrimination Action,
He also declared that student
violation of election rules will en-
tail' "strong" disciplinary action
by the Men's Judiciary Council.
Election rules include prohibi-
tion of campaigning within 50 feet
of the polls, or of the affixing of
campaign literature on campus or
in University buildings. A city or-
dinance prohibits campaign liter-
ature on trees, Kelly added.
Cramp Drive
Begins Today
Campus Groups Are
fAsked To Contribute
A pre-Christmas drive to "help
send the kids to camp" will get
underway today.
Planned by representatives of
major campus organizations, the
fdrive will solicit contributions
from sororities, fraternities, dorm-
itories and other campus groups.
Proceeds will be used to send un-
derprivileged boys to the Uni-
versity Fresh Air Camp this sum-
mer.
All soliciting will be done di-
rectly by the cooperating organi-
zations which include Panhellenic
Association~ Assembly, the Union,
the League, West Quad Council
and Interfraternity Council.
Affiliated groups and organized
houses will be urged to put the
camp at the top of their Christ-
mas lists and mail in their gifts to
make it a merry Christmas for the
underprivileged.
Checks should be made payable
to the University of Michigan'
Fresh Air Camp, and may be sent
or brought to Miss Ethel McCor-
mick in the Social Director's Of-
fice in the League.
Only 50 per cent of the cost of
operating the camp is provided by
groups such as the Council of So-
cial Agencies. If the camp is to
operate, the remainder must be
collected at the University.
The children attending the
camp each summer are chosen by
local social agencies, and are us-
wally those from nine to thirteen
years of age who are not making
acceptable progress in school, or
who are suffering from poor
health, because of the unfavor-
able environment to which they
have been subjected.
rFicket Ref unds To
End Iolmorrow
Tomorrow is the last day stu-
dents, faculty or staff members
in v rxn,. rptir nn Px , Rw
Reserve Travel Tickets
Now, Students Are Urged
Train, Bus, Plane Officials Announce Extra
Facilities for Christmas Holiday Crowds
Students planning to travel home for Christmas by train, bus
or plane who have not already bought tickets or made reservations
were urged to do so immediately in a statement made yesterday by
Associate Dean of Students Walter B. Rea.
Meanwhile, transportation officials announced special arrange-
ments for the home-for-Christmas rush.
Should Stick to Plans
"Because local transportation facilities will be taxed more severely
this season than ever before, students should indicate their plans when
Strikes Must End
By
Wednesday,
Schuman Asserts
Action Follows Union Setback After
Workers l g noe New Walkout Call
By 'Fi Associated Press
PARIS, Dec. 8--Premier Robert Schuman's government demand-
'ed tonight that the wave of strikes crippling France end by Wednes-
day.
This action came after the Communist-dominated General Con-
federation of Labor (CGT) faced a rank-and-file revolt which de-
veloped as the central labor body apparently failed to increase the
paralysis in the nation with a 48-hour walkout of public service
workers.
Later, the government told strikers they would receive no pay for
Notre Dame
Ranked First
In PressPoll
Nets 107 Top Votes
To Wolverines' 25
NEW YORK, Dec. 8--(P)-Un-
beaten Notre Dame was selected
as the outstanding college foot-1
ball team of 1947 today, winning
the honor for the second straight
year in the final poll conducted by
the Associated Press.
Coach Frank Leahy's Fighting
Irish put the finishing touches to
their first perfect season since
1930 by crushing Southern Cali-
fornia, 38-7, Saturday and left
little doubt of their superiority in
the minds of a cross section of
sports writers from coast to coast.
Wolverines Second
Among the 146 experts who par-
ticipated in the last poll of the
year, 107 of them plaed Notre
Dame at the head of the list while
25 handed first place to Michi-
gan's all-victorious Big Nine
champions and four split their
ballots to call it a tie between the
two Midwestern powers.
As could be expected, however,
Michigan polled 94 second-place
votes against 32 for the Irish and
received enough additional back-
ing to finish only 121 points be-
hind Notre Dame in The final
tabulation.
Total Votes
On the usual basis of ten points
for a first-place vote, nine for sec-
ond, and so on, the South Benders
wound up with a total of 1,410
points while the Rose Bowl-bound
Wolverines accumulated 1,289.
Southern California skidded
from third to eighth place, en-
abling Southern Methodist, Penn
State, Texas and Alabama to move
up a notch in that order.
Seven of the remaining ten
first-place votes were awardednto
North Carolina while the other
three were divided among Penn
State, Alabama and Oklahoma.
Last Year's Leaders
A year ago, the top ten included
Notre Dame, Army, Georgia,
UCLA, Illinois, Michigan, Ten-
nessee, Louisiana State, North
Carolina and Rice, in that order.
The Irish, who drew 100 first-
place votes to 48 for Army and
nine ties last year, landed in first
place in the first 1947 poll, lost
it to Michigan for a week or two,
and then came back to hold a nar-
row margin until their perform-
ance of last Saturday sent them
well in front.
New U' Nt mer
The telephone number of the
University switchboard will be
changed tomorrow from 4121 to
3-1511, Herbert G. Watkins,
secretary of the University, an-
nounced yesterday.
Athey buy or reserve tickets, and
then stick to those plans," Dean
Rea said.
"This is the students' chance to
help train, bus and plane com-
panies plan ahead in order to give
them good service," he said, add-
ing that "a last-minute rush will
mean a good deal of aisle-stand-
ing."
Extra Facilities Announced
Two extra trains have been
scheduled for Friday, Dec. 19, ac-
cording to Earl J. Smith, railroad
ticket agent, and extra coaches
will be added to all trains Dec. 17
throsugh Dec. 20 inclusive.
Extra bus and plane sections
will be added as needed, accord-
ing to bus and plane terminal of-
ficials, who asked students to buy
tickets or make reservations as'
soon as possible.
'Train Times Given
The extra westbound train to
Chicago will leave Ann Arbor at
1:15 p.m. Friday, Dec. 19, officials
said, and the extra eastbound for
New York and Boston will leave
at 3:10 p.m.
Both extra trains will include
reclining-seat coaches but neither
will have sleeping-car service. Only
the eastbound train will carry a
diner.
No campus-wide survey of stu-
dent travel plans will be made
this year. Dean Rea said, because
so few students signed up for last
year's survey that it was of little
help to the railroad in planning
for extra trains and coaches,
Railroad Fare
Hike A pproved
To Affect Western
Passenger Prices
Rose Bowl bound students and
alumni who have their budgets
all figured out may have to start
revising them.
Prospective spectators who have
not yet bought their train tickets
but who intend going the pullman
or tourist sleeper way, will find
that ticket prices have been upped
about six per cent.
The Associated Press dispatch
from Washington yesterday re-
vealed that 73 railroads had been
granted permission by the Inter-
state Commerce Commission to
increase their passenger fares as
the ICC was hearing final testi-
mony of the general railroad plea
for a 30% boost in freight fares.
The permits for the raises went
to 72 Western carriers principally
operating west of the Mississippi
River, and to the New York, New
Haven and Hartford Railway
Company, operating in New Eng-
land.
The carriers estimated that the
new rates, which don't affect
coach travel, would yield an addi-
tional annual revenue of approxi-
mately $7,133,390.
The increases were made effect-
ive on interstate travel generally,
and also on intrastate business in
Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minesota,
Montana, Nebraska, North Da-1
kota, Texas and Wisconsin, where{
such rates are regulated by ICC1
order.1
'MIKADO' CAST-The leading characters of the Gilbert and Sullivan Society's "Mikado" to be pre-
sented at 8:30 p.m. tomorrow and Thursday in the Pattengill Auditorium of Ann Arbor High School
run over the musical score before dolling costumes for dress rehearsal. Front row, left to right.
John Thomson, Dorothy Duncan, Dick Roussin. Second row: Jay Singer. Standing: Archie Brown,
Ann Schubring, Cohleen Jensen, Ruth Campbell and Lester McCallum, the Mikado himself.
'TrIT-WHi LOW, TOPS:
Gilbert's Catchy Lyrics Win
In Bout with Allen's Revision
By HAROLD JACKSON, JR. creed before curtain time tomor-
"The Mikado," which opens a t-ow.
two-night stand at 8:30 p.m. to- Ticket sales for "The Mikado"
morro tPattengilu i twill continue all day today and
will not be jazzed up in any way- tomorrow at the booth outside
and don't let anyone tell you oth-I Rm. 2, University Hall.
erwise. ___ _______
Somehow the rumor got around
campus that special lyrics for a IRA To Hold
song named "Tit-Willow" written
and ma fanous by FncI Alen y
would be included in the score a'SS I C(lt IC'11
the all-student operetta produced
by the University's Gilber and
Sullivan Society, but it's all a i Will isciiss Camnpus,
mistakea according to the Soci('ty', ("momIIIIunity Boycott
president, Jim Ueberhorst.
Can't Touch Gilbert's A plan to establish an effective
"While I admit Allen's lyrics all-campus and community boy-
substituting Petrillo for Tit-Wil- cott against barbershops which
low are clever, they can't touch discriminate will be worked out
Mr. Gilbert's in the long run," at a mass meeting at 4:30 p.m.
Ueberhorst, who has devoted today in the Union, Hanny Gross,
hours of study to the subject, de- president of IRA, announced yes-
clared yesterday. terday.
"The man had a great gift for Miss Gross said that the presi-
writing ('lever and catchy lyrics. deis of every 'ampus organiza-
and I think the Mikado has soinItion have been contacted about the
of his very best worm," he added. meeting as well as representatives
Dress Rehearsal of five civic organizations. Un-
Final preparations for the mu- swerving cooperation with the
sical operetta are almost finished, boycott is essential to the success
Ueberhorst said. The principals, of "Operation Haircut," she de-
the 40-voice chorus and 25-piece clared.
symphony orchestra are p'imed Miss Gross expressed confidence
for dress rehearsal tonight, after that the five point questionnaire,
.which they'll start sawing on the to be submitted to students at
24 hours of sleep directors Ha'rrv electdon booths tomorrow, will
Allen and Rex Wilder havc de- demotistrate thuat campus opinion
is firmly behind the principle in-
volved in "Operation Haircut." She
Sen ate sscs pointed out that several days ago
IRA requeted the Legislature to
D( '1conductisuch. a poll.
e fet.cThis week IRA will picket from
3 to 4 p.m. daily, Miss Gross an-
S r M t nounced, stressing her belief that
'rov~ies O ItlllR adherence to the boycott is the
It ter-Anmericai Aid social obligation of everyone who
is opposed to racial discrimina-
W~rA c-rITTOC( rrN TN-.,' 9 i I tion,
Meeting For
Opera Revival
Will BeHeld
A meeting of all students in-
terested in re-writing and revis-
ing a final script for next fall's'
Union Opera will be held at 4
p.m. tomorrow in Rui. 308 of the
Union, according to Dave Upton,
chairman of the Michigan Union
Opera Committee.
Upton terms the meeting "vital
to the plans for reviving the Un-
ion Opera." Present to meet with
prospective writers will be Prof.
Donal Haines of the journalism
department, Prof. Harry Allen of
the architecture school and Prof.
K. T. Rowe, play production.
"We have several good possible
opera scripts now but they need a
lot of work done on them," Up-
ton said. "It is only through the
cooperation of interested students
willing to work them into shape
that we'll be able to have an
Opera next fall."
Houtsing Black
Market Is Hit
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8-(P)---A
report of widespread black mar-
ket operations in critically need-
ed building materials came to-
night from Chairman Gamble
(Rep., N.Y.) of a joint congres-
sional committee on housing.
Reporting on the committee's
hearing in 25 major cities, Gam-
ble also criticized what he termed
the "astonishing confusion of
War Assets Administration poli-
cies" in allocating short supplies.
He said, for example, that un-
der the WAA, surplus 'nails "go
first to the black market, then to
the buiders--or, if the builders
get them first, it is only through
out-bidding the black marketeers."
Gamble said an investigation of
the lumber industry had failed to
produce a "satisfactory answer"
on the high cost of lumber.
Vacation: Dec. 20!
Classes will close for the
Christmas holidays at noon
Saturday, Dec. 20 and resume
Monday, Jan. 5, according to a
University announcement.
days lost during walkouts.
The cabinet offered, however,
to pay a cost-of-living premium of
1,500 francs ($13) monthly retro-
active to Nov. 24 for those work-
ers back at their benches by Wed-
nesday, and said it would not at-
tempt to prosecute strikers under
terms of the new stringent strike-
control law.
Less than 10 per cent of the
workers answered the Confedera-
tion's strike call. Union leaders
themselves admitted the setback.
Show of Force
The government backed its or-
der with a strong show of force.
It began using its powers under
the new strike control law against
strike inciters, saboteurs and per-
sons preventing non-strikers from
working. Eighteeen men were ar-
rested at Montpelier under the law
and were charged with obstruct-
ing workers at an automobile
plant.
In Paris the subway and bus
workers union called off its share
of the projected gigantic walkout
only a little more than two hours
after it had begun. There was
hardly any interruption in serv-
ice.
Government leaders made little
effort to hide their irritation over
the recalcitrance of the CGT,
'They're Fools'
Labor Minister Daniel Mayer
told a reporter: "They're fools.
Three times a lift is offered and
they refuse. Strikers are return-
ing to their jobs everywhere. The
unionists run the risk of a serious
loss of face."
The revolt within the CGT de-
veloped when representatives of
workers in 60 metal factories in
the Paris region answered the call
of a group of railroaders to form
unions independent of the confed-
eration.
Government quarters termed.
the public service strike "a com-
plete setback" for the confedera-
tion. Union leaders described the
transport walkout as a "failure.
Need ID for
First Games
Admission to the first few basket-
ball games will revert to the old
system of presenting University
identification cards at the door of
Yost Field House, ticket manage
Don Weir announced yesterday.
In an attempt to satisfy the
student body last year, tickets for
the Big Nine games were rationed
and distributed according to al-
phabetical groups. The result was
considerable confusion, which
Weir hopes will be avoided by the
time-honored "first come first
served" arrangement.
Temporary bleachers, to be
erected behind the baskets and
on the wrestling balcony, will ac-
commodate at least two hundred
more spectators than in previous
years. Installation of glass back-
boards has facilitated this extra
seating capacity.
As in the past, reserve seats in
the middle section will be roped
off for those holding season tick-
ets.
STaxi' Army
Repels Arab
Machine Guns
Fiercest Battle Yet
Rages Among Races
JERUSALEM, Dec. 8-- .
Taxi-borne Jewish volunteers Peat
off a two-hour attack by Arab
machine gunners and grenadiers
in Tel Aviv tonight and then took
the offensive in the fiercest battle
between the two racial contenders
since the United Nations voted
Nov. 29 to partition Palestine.
For a time as the spearhead
of Arab fighters knifed into the
Hatikva sector of the all-Jewish
city, wild panic gripped Tel Aviv
and its residents fled from their
houses in blind confusion.
The battle which began in the
Tel Aviv-Jaffa "no man's land"
mounted as violence throughout
the Holy Land boosted the unof-
ficial nine-day death toll over the
100 mark. The fighting began Nov.
29, the day on which the United
Nations voted for partition of the
Holy Land-a move bitterly op-
posed by the Arabs.
* * *
Arab League
Fig'htsDivision
Will Use Force To
Prevent Jewish State
CAIRO, Dec. 8-(P)-The Arab
League announced tonight it was
taking "immediate measures" for
military and other action to pre-
vent creation of a Jewish state
in Palestine.
The representatives of Egypt,
Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Syr,
Trans-Jordan, Iraq and Yemen
held the opening session of a con-
ference here and issued a com-
munique afterwards which said:
"Ihe leaders and representa-
tives of the Arab countries met
'onight to carry out immediate
measures in regard to the Arab
League council decisions taken at
its last meeting in Lebanon."
The League at that meeting
drew up plans for military action
to safeguard the borders of Pales-
tine ,and agreed to supply the
Palestine Arabs with weapons,
money and other assistance."
While the representatives of the
Arab nations were in session, the
Egyptian senate called on its go' -
rnment to fight partition "by
every possible means."
* * *
Britain Asks
Mandate End
LONDON, Dec. 8-(M)-Britain
has recommended to the United
Nations that she terminate her 26-
year-old Palestine mandate next
May 15 and that independent
Jewish and Arab states come into
formal existence two weeks later,
government sources said today.
The British will hold to ther
Aug. 1 deadline for getting the
last of their troops ot of Pales-
tine, but would take no further re-
sponsibility for averting Jewish-
Arab strife after May 15, the in-
World News At A Glance
By The Associated Press
LONDON, Dec. 8--Soviet Foreign Minister V M. Molotov-- listing
part of the price of securing Russian agreement to unification of Ger-
many-called tonight for four-power control of the industrially-
important Ruhr and repeal of the economic merger of the British and
American zones.
** * *
WASUINGTON, Dec. 8-The House turned down by a vote of
136 to 109 tonight a proposal to ban the shipment of any relief
goods abroad unless the United States had more of those goods
than it needed.
'Ihe Senate stampec 72 to 1 ,a-
proval today on the Inter-A meri-
can Defense Treaty, designed to
bring the full force of Western
Hemisphere nations to the defense
of any one of them that may be
attacked.
Senator Vandenberg 4 Re p.
Mich.) of the Foreign Relations
Committee told his fellow senators
they acted at "a significant mo-I
ment to demonstrate the solidar-
ity of this hemisphere."
He also noted that the treaty
provides for no "paralyzing veto"
on mutual efforts to keep ihe
peace.
The lone dissenter to approval
was Senator Millikin (Rep., Colo,
who forced a roll call vote.
Vandenberg, noting that ieas-
tres of economic pressuie may be
imposed by a two-thirds vote of
the nations, declared:
"I think the time has cone
'Seiwtor 1Hits
ROIIUL1ttIart lAct
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8-(P)-
Senator Knowland (Rep., Calif.)
told the Senate today that an
American diplomat recently was
earched at gunpoint by police in
Communist - dominated Ronania
and that the homes and automo-
biles of other Americans there
have been searched.
Denouncing such "police state"
methods, Knowland said in a
speech: "I hope that the State
Department will take vigorous ac-
tion against this type of thing.'
He added that the American
ministe in Bucharest, Rudolf E.
Schoenfeld, had protested the use
of firearms against the American
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