STUDENT APATHY CLUB Y ICFA6 AbF t CLOUDY, WARME R Latest Deadline in the State ^ t VOL.mLVIII, No. 127 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, MARCH 30, 1948 PRICE FIVE CENTS 0 PRICE FIVE CENTS r House Sends ERP Toward Final Stages Substitute Relief Plan Defeated WASHINGTON, March 29-(P) -The $6,205,000,000 Foreign Aid Bill hurdled its first House ob- stacle today and headed toward scheduled passage Wednesday. Opponents were beaten in an y attempt to throw out the whole bill and pass a substitute provid- ing for a private system of relief for Communist-resisting foreign nations. Offered by Rep. Ralph Gwinn (Rep., N.Y.) and defeated by a standing vote of 103 to 60, the substitute was the first amend- ment offered as the House launched -three final days of de- bate. World Corporation It would have set, up a world relief corporation operated by pri- vate organizations, with a $500,- 000,000 cash contribution from the United States as a starter. For military aid to foreign nations, it would have authorized an appro- priation of $1,000,000,000. The vote came after Rep. Ran- kin (Dem., Miss.) asserted that "if every man in this House voted his honest convictions," the entire foreign aid program would be killed. Rankin said the nation could spend its money more wisely on air force expansion and atom bomb production than by "pour- ing it into the rat holes of Eu- rope." Clear Vote The vote on the Gwinn Amend- ment made it clear that the for- eign Affairs Committee, author of * the omnibus aid measure, was in complete control in the House and would drive through, probably Wednesday, a bill substantially identical to the one the Committee wrote more than a week ago. The Committee agreed at a morning session to back an amendment to tighten controls over exports to Russia. The amendment, to be offered prob- ably tomorrow, would give the proposed foreign aid administra- tor power to block exports to Russia or Soviet satellites if he believes they are not in the inter- est of this country. MCAF Rejects Czech Protest Favors Return of MYDA to Campus The local chapter of the Michi- gan Committee for Academic Freedom voted 8-6 last night to withhold approval of last Wednes- day's student rally protesting al- leged abridgements of Academic freedom in Czechoslovakia. Acting on a subsequent motion, the group decided to refer the Czech incident to the State execu- tive committee of MCAF for ac- tion. Meanwhile, MCAF went on rec- ord as unanimously favoring the return of MYDA to campus and requested that the Regents allow political speakers to appear under the auspieces of campus organi- zations. Condemning the alleged use of hearsay evidence in denying MYDA recognition, MCAF passed a resolution to request specific reasons for the group's ban. Participating in the meeting were representatives of UWF, NSA, SRA, AVC, ADA, MYDA, the Student Iegislature, the Ralph Neafus Club and Hillel Founda- tion. Tinef Fined for Campus__Job' David Harris, 23, self-confessed burglar of the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity house, was given a $250 fine and placed on five years pro- bation yesterday by Circuit Court " Judge James R. Breakey, Jr. Harris, who lives at 1013 Cath- erine, admitted using three taxi- cabs in the robbery which took place on March 10. He forced his way into the fraternity and took a cashbox containing $861. Baruch Says Draft, UMT Should Back U.S. Stand WASHINGTON, March 29-(AP)-Bernard M. Baruch said today, this country should decide just what it is going to do in world affairs and back up its stand with the draft, Universal Military Training and "a total plan for industrial and economic mobilization." The financier's views were seconded by Charles E. Wilson, presi- dent of General Electric, who said the nation must mobilize both men and industries to meet "the crisis of this hour." Baruch and Wilson testified separately before the Senate Armed Services Committee. Wilson, former vice-chairman of the war produc- tion board, endorsed both the draft and UMT. But the youth-training Sigler Inspects 'U' Maternity Hospital, Brands Facilities 'Disgraceful to State ' Court Subp-oena O*T * * * Nails John L. Lewis * * * ** * Two Women Enliven Senate UMT Session WASHINGTON, March 29-(AP) --The Senate Armed Services Committee got the "woman's viewpoint" on Universal Military Training today-a belligerent yes and a violent no. Author Pearl Buck vigorously opposed military training f or America's youth-and was accused of telling a "lie" by Mrs. Leslie Wright of the General Federation of Women's Clubs. This bit of feminine flurry en- livened the committee's hearing after weighty testimony from Ber- nard Baruch and Charles E. Wil- son, former vice chairman of the War Production Board. Mrs. Buck read a statement saying: "At eighteen the boy needs the influence of good homes, good women, good girls, more than at any other time of his life. . . Under 4program can wait, he said, until: 1-We have "an Army, Navy and Air Force fully staffed with thoroughly trained personnel." Nothing else, Wilson said, "could be adequate at this stage of world events." 2-We back up our expanded' armed forces by mobilization of industry, stockpiling of critical materials, and scientific research. The white-haired Baruch, ad- viser to several presidents, called for "standby" laws-to be used if needed-to mobilize America's factories and to bring back wage and price controls. We must mobilize for peace now, he said, or we will be forced to mobilize for war later. Wilson said the "dramatic and drastic" turn of world events has "all but demolished our hopes for an early return to the normalcy of peace."' He said the national security re- sources board should be given vir- tual wartime powers to control the American economy if defense spending rises to $20,000,000,000 a year. The present military budget for 1949 is $11,000,000,000 Pres- ident Truman is preparing to ask Congress for another $4,- 000,000,000 or so. In a dig, which he later under- lined, at present American for- eign policy, Baruch said: "The greatest single necessity in the world today is for America to make up its mind where it stands, so that the other free peoples on earth will know where to rally. Miner Chief To Account for Strike Attitude Labor Leader Given Summons in Home WASHINTON, March 29-(0) - A Federal Marshal tonight served a summons on John L. Lewis commanding him to appear in court and explain why he should not give a Presidential Board the miners' side of the pension dis- pute. The summons called for Lewis or his lawyers to appear in Federal District Court at 11 a.m. tomor- row morning. The court order was finally handed to Lewis after the miners' chief had scorned a subpoena from the inquiry board set up by Presi- dent Truman. The board has been delving into the issues involved in the two weeks old soft coal strike. Dramatic Game A dramatic game between the representative of the U. S. Mar- shal's office and Lewis late today sent photographers and reporters from the UMW headquarters to a midtown hotel and then to the Lewis residence in Alexandria. The writ finally was served un- der flickering hall light in Lewis' colonial home. In issuing the summons for Lewis the court acted at the Gov- ernment's request after he had paid no attention to the board's papers. Order Explained H. Graham Morison, Assistant Attorney General who obtained the court order, said: "If the court should hold the subpoena was wrong, that ends the matter. "However, if the court holds that permanent military ... he will be exposed type of woman, and often see his officers, teachers, consorting women. "It will be taken that he will need I conscription to the worst he will too who are his with these for granted prophylaxis against venereal disease, because it will be taken for granted that he will consort with promiscuous women." EARLY HOURS HELP: Freshman Class Outsmarts Predecessors, Grades Show The present freshman class in the University is setting a higher scholarship record than' any pre- war freshman class, Prof. Arthur Van Duren, chairman of academic counselors, declared yesterday. Prof. Van Duren based this view on the 4500 five week grade cards his office has just finished mailing to freshmen. "Not more than 25% of these cards had unsatisfactory grades, while in pre-war years 33% was not unusual," he said. Prof. Van Duren declared that the present freshman class is the first really civilian class since the war, containing less than 2% vet- Glee Club Will Smg Tonight The University Women's Glee Club,in cooperation with the ma- jor dance classes of the physical education department, will give a concert at 8 p.m. today in Hill Auditorium. The program will consist mainly of light and semi-classical music, including such songs as "Great Day" by Youmans, "Only a Rose" by Friml, "Clap Your Hands" by Gershwin and "On a Streetcar" by Pervis. Additional selections chosen by the Glee Club are "Flower of Jesse" edited by Bell, "Festival," by Haubiel; and "Cloths of Heav- en" by Dunhill. The dance classes, under the di- rection of Juana de Laban and Newton Loken, will perform a square dance. The Glee Club and dance classes together will give the "Shvanda Polka" by Wein- berger. Lewis should appear before the erans, as compared with 90% vet- fact-finding board, it will then or- eran ratio in the 1945-46 freshman der his appearance before that class, board." More Stable The board issued the subpoena "Copettio wth tudntsoffor Lewis to testify under the Competition with students of Taft-Hartley Act. This law pro- their own age, maturity and back- vides that contempt of a board's ground has made this year's fresh- subpoena, if the subpoena is men more stable and productive backed by a court order, is punish- than were the freshmen in classes able by fines up to $5,000 or a year immediately following the war," he in jail, or both. said. - Prof. Van Duren believes that the regularity of hours enforced on Festival Ticket women students is responsible for the slight edge in grades the fresh- Tr men women consistently boast over the men. Commenting on the relative merits of large and small high Concert-goers will get their first schools, Prof. Van Duren declared chance at individual May Festival there is no necessary correlation tickets Thursday, when approx- between the size of preparatory imately 900 tickets for each of school and college achievement. six concerts will go on sale at of- Varied Preparation fices of the University Musical Emphasizing that five week Society in Burton Tower. grades are not official grades, but Tickets are being placed on sale only indications of a freshman's before spring vacation this year progress, Prof. Van Duren urged to give students a better chance any freshman with one or more at them, Charles A. Sink, Music failing gra 'es to make an appoint- Society director, pointed out. He ment immediately in Rm. 108 Ma- added, however, that no special son Hall to see his academic coun- preference will be shown for stu- selar. dents in the ticket distribution. Most of the 900 seats remain- Radio Club Plans ing after season-ticket sales are completed Wednesday will be lo- Gatherin Today cated in the upper balcony, with e.in only a few scattered seats remain- A planning session of the new ing on the main floor and first student Wired Radio Association balcony, Sink said. Top balcony will be held at 7:30 p.m. today in seats are priced at $1.80, includ- Rm. 325 of the Union. ing tax, with the last two rows, Projects for the rest of the se- on a level, going at $1.50. mester will be outlined at the Past seasons have shown that meeting. Auditions for acting and students prefer the high-altitude announcing will be held April 12, location both for its low prices Dean Barnard, '49, organizer of and for listening quality, Sink do- the group, has announced. clared. JOHN L. LEWIS subpoenaed in the gloaming Funeral Rites For Dr. May To Be Today Funeral services will be conduct- ed at 3 p.m. today at the Muehlig CRapel for Dr. George A. May, professor of physical education, and wellrknown campus figure who died Sunday at University Hospi- tal. Familiar to Michigan freshmen for the past four decades as direc- tor of the compulsory gymnasium classes, Dr. May was a graduate MD who abandoned a medical ca- reer to teach athletics at Michi- gan. An excellentrathlete in his own right, he served as trainer and medical examiner for the University football team during World War I. Dr. May put his own teachings to practice by personally main- taining throughout his life a daily program of physical exercises. Born in Philadelphia, July 8, 1872, his prowess in competitive sports in athletic clubs won him an offer to instruct at Yale in 1896. He combined his teaching with study in pre-med and in 1901 ob- tained his MD at Yale Medical School. It was also in that year that Michigan offered him an ap- pointment to teach gymnastics, which Dr. May accepted and therefore gave up a career in medi- cine. The body will lie in state at the chapel until 1 p.m. Tuesday. Burial will be in Forest Hill Cemetery. Wallace Group Hears She pard Professor Discusses U.S. Foreign Policy The United States foreign policy seems to be to find out what the Russians want and then go the other way in the opinion of Prof. John Shepard, of the psychology department. Prof. Shepard spoke last night before approximately 60 students attending the foreign policy meet- ing of the student group of the Washtenaw County Wallace for President Committee. The meet- ing was also addressed by Irving Richter, former official of UAW- CIO. Prof. Shepard said further: "No one can tell whether the Russians would cooperate if given the chance, but they have never had the opportunity." Richter said that the foreign policy of the U.S. today is actually a "Vandenberg policy," and that Senator Vandenberg is a subscrib- er to the "Hamiltonian philoso- phy." He added that Henry Wal- lace has laid out a compromise program for peace with Russia, and that he is the only American poitical leader to do so. Court Agrees To Consider Labor Cases WASHINGTON, March 29-(P) -The Supreme Court agreed to- day to rule on two of the hottest labor issues of the times: 1. The Taft-Hartley Act's ban on political expenditures by un- ions. A District Court has held the ban is unconstitutional. 2. State laws against the closed shop. With presidential nominating conventions coming in June and July and the voting in November, the time the court takes to make up its mind on Nov. 1 can become nearly as important in immediate effect as the final ruling. No Special Speed The court took no emergency steps toward speed. It set argu- ment for April 26. The appeal was carried up by the government after Judge Ben Moore in U. S. District Court here held the Taft-Hartley section vio- lates the constitutional guaran- tees of free speech, press and as- sembly. In that finding, Judge Moore threw out charges that the CIO and its President Philip Murray violated the law by printing an article in the CIO news endorsing Edward Garmatz of Baltimore as Democratic candidate for Congress last July. In a deliberate test of the Taft-Hartley ban, 1,000 extra copies of the union paper were dis- tributed in Baltimore just before the election,which Garmatz won. Government Appeal In appealing to the high court, the Government contended Con- gress has the right to "surround the entire election process with such rules and regulations as it deems necessary to secure free and honest elections." Russian Atom Plant Blocked Issue To Be Decided By UN Committee LAKE SUCCESS, March 29-(P) -A majority of the United Na- tions atomic conferees lined up to- day behind a move to toss out Russia's atomic control proposals. The move was started by Brit- tain, France, China and Canada in the 11-nation working commit- tee of the United Nations Atomic EnergyhCommission. They were quickly joined by the United States, Argentina, Colombia and Belgium. Britain and the United States demanded an immediate vote, but they dropped their request when Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko asked for more time. The committee will decide the issue Monday. With eight of the 11 delegates already on record as favoring the four-power proposal, its approval appeared assured. Seven votes are needed for ap- proval. The U.S. plan, submitted June 14, 1946, by Bernard M. Baruch, calls for a tight system of inter- national control to be put into effect by stages. GOV. KIM SIGLER ... "hospital a disgrace" Aide Says Ike Will Not Run For Any Party WASHINGTON, March 29-(0P) -The Army's press chief said to- night that Gen. Dwight D. Eisen- hower "under no conceivable. cir- cumstances" will consent to be drafted as the Democratic candi- date for President. The statement was made by Maj. Gen. Floyd L. Parks. Parks said Eisenhower, who is now writing his memoirs, is unaf- fected by the efforts of anti-Tru- man Democrats to ,secure him as their candidate. "T'he"General means his 'no pol- itics announcement of some weeks ago to apply to all parties and groups of voters," Parks said in a statement issued through the De- partment of the Army. "What he said about wanting to have nothing to do with poli- tics applies to the Democrats as well as the Republicans," Parks added. "He has not changed one iota in his position and I do not be- lieve he will do so." To lend emphasis to Eisen- hower's renewed disavowal of po- litical ambitions, Parks authorized the use of his name in connection with the statement. Heretofore he has been identified only as a "spokesman" 'for the former Chief of Staff. Eisenhower has been working on his book at his quarters in Fort Myer, Va., 'across the Potomac River from Washington. * * * ' ADA To Boost Eisenhower ADA will meet to boom General Dwight D. Eisenhower's nomina- tion as the Democratic presidential candidate at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Union. Bill Leuchtenburg, National Ex- ecutive Secretary of the SDA (stu- dent branch of ADA) and Steve Muller, National Field Secretary, are coming from Washington to address the group. Seymour Zucker, local ADA spokesman, declared that the 200 chapters of the Student Branch are already on record for Eisen- hower's candidacy and that the national organization has called a special national conference for April 19 to draft a candidate for the nomination. Special Probe Finds Building 'One of Worst' Will Ask Legislature To Seek New Solution By FRED SCHOTT and ART HIGBEE Gov. Kim Sigler called the Uni- versity's maternity hospital "a dis- graceful adjunct to the State of Michigan" yesterday and said he would "talk to members of the Legislature and see if we can't find some way to build . new hospital." After a solid hour of inspecting the 50-year-old maternity hospital from attic to stoker, the Governor said he wants some of the State legislators to "come down and see it for themselves." Asked how it stacks up with oth- er State hospitals he's inspected, Gov. Sigler replied "it's one of the worst." Not Much Good He said the hospital is "definite- ly a fire hazard," and that if the outmoded tubular fire escape ever had o be used "they would prob- ably do more harm than the fire itself." The hospital is up to snuff in sanitation, but Gov. Sigler re- marked that he didn't see "how in the world it's kept that way." The "complete inadeguacy of the facilities," he said, "is obvious even to a layman." Accompanied on his inspectimn tour by President Alexander 0. Ruthven and Prof. Norman F. Miller of the Medical School, Gov. It wasn't exactly planned that way, but an eight-pound baby was born during Governor Sig- ler's tour of the University Ma- ternity Hospital today. The parents, Burwell and Elzabeth Ryder, of Detroit, had already decided to name the bay Mark, They agreed,' however, that his nickname would be Kinm. Sigler was shown blueprints of the new maternity hospital. One of the questions now before the special session of the Legisla- ture is whether or not $1,700,000 to complete tie new hosptai should be included in the appro- priation requested by the Univer- sity for construction purposes. Work Halted Work on the new 90-bed hospi- tal-which would be twie the size of the old one-was halted at the foundation stage a year ago by re- quest of the Legislature's finance committee. Committee members said they believed than the State faced a fi- nancial deficit for 1947-48 and that there wouldn't be enough funds to carry construction for- ward. Facilities of the present hospi- tal are so inadequate that the Uni- versity's Medical School is not ap- See SIGLER, Page 4 NSA Petitions Four Tour Due O~~r U Students hoping to join a NSA tour of England, France and the Netherlands this summer must mail their applications in today or tomorrow to beat the April 1 dead- line. The tour, to cost each student $550, will start June 18 at Mon- treal and end Sept. 15, at either Montreal or New York. Cities included on the itinerary are Rotterdam, Paris, Tours, Caen, Grenoble,' Brussels, Amsterdam and -Londgn. One hundred students will be chosen by the national office from college campuses throughout the nation. Petitions can be obtained from Tom Walsh, chairm-An of the Student Legislature NSA commit- tee, whose phone is 5989, and are 'AMBER' STILL ACTIVE-BUT: Serious Books Capture Student Interest CHICAGO, March 29-(iP)-The nation's railroads today accepted the recommendation of President Truman's fact-finding board that engineers, firemen and switchmen be given a 15% cents an hour pay increase. * * * * LONDON, March 29-(AP)-The official Soviet news agency Tass denied tonight that unidentified submarines sighted off the coast of the United States were Russian. * * ': * By DAVE THOMAS Joe and Jane College may paint dinosaur footprints on the Diag- nn. T M -17..t cnnrif'.x7 -'., 'm. nff History" are currently outselling novels and detective stories in Ann Arbor. There is also a brisk She also points to the relatively large sales records of the younger novelists as proof of the town's'