ENTHUSIASM? 'dY ,tC43U~ 41P a t CLOUDY CONTINU aED COOL Latest Deadline in the State VOL. LIX, No. 55 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 24, 1948 PRICE FIVE CENTS IFC Backs New Election Organization Block Voting End Seen in Proposal By JOHN DAVIES A move to kill block voting in campus balloting in future elec- tions gained momentum last night as the Inter-Fraternity Council threw its weight behind the pro- posal of a campus citizenship committee to promte better Uni- versity elections. Many independent leaders also backed the promotion of such an organization. But apparently the machinery behind fraternity and dormitory slates had gone too far to stop block voting in next week's election. THE INTER-Fraternity Coun- cil urged its members to continue pushing the election of the fra- ternity slate in their houses, and the AIM and Assembly are spon- soring a rally for independent can- didates on Monday. Besides the elimination of block voting, other aims of a t campus citizenship committee would be to change the method of campus voting and establish more positive criteria for candi- dates, according to Joe Wim- satt, who gave the report to the FC. He is credited with being one of the first promoters of such a body. IFC President Bruce Lockwood, AIM President James Kailman, West Quad Council President Ray- mond Okonski, East Quad Coun- cil President Jerry Ryan and former AIM President Norris Do- mangue all expressed support for killing block voting and the estab- lishment of the committee. "I AM DEFINITELY opposed to block voting because it under- mines getting the better candi- dates into office," Kallman report- ed; At the IFC meeting, results of a conference with independent leaders were also discussed. One is tihe providing of sleeping quar- ters in the residence halls for fraternity men during J-Hop week ' end. MacArthur Okays Death For Japanese Appeals May Bloek Some Executions TOKYO-(A)-General Douglas MacArthur today affirmed the ruling of Allied justice that Hideki Tojo and six others must die and 18 co-defendants go to prison for leading Japan into war. To his statement on review of k the sentences, MacArthur added an inusual request. He asked peo- ple throughout Japan to pray on the day of execution-"to seek divine help and guidance," he said, "that the world keep the peace lest the human race perish." * * * . AND HE GAVE a prayer of his own-that the sentences become a symbol "to summon all persons of good will to a realization of the utter futility of war-that most malignant scourge and greatest 'sin of mankind-and eventually to its renunciation by all nations." There was no indication when Tojo, who ordered the attack on Pearl Harbor as premier; Koko Hirota, another former premier, and five generals will march up to the gallows to die as war criminals. Then, too, appeals may block the executions temporarily. At least five of the 25 defendants are arranging to appeal to the United States Supreme Court. TOJO WAS NOT one of those seeking clemency. He was repre- sented as wanting to get the hang- ing over with quickly. The charter for the Interna- tional Military Tribunal, which convicted the ex-Japanese leaders of plotting and waging aggressive war, designated MacArthur as the sole reviewing officer. He was giv- en power to reduce but not in- crease the sentences. Photo of Lawyer Wins in West Quad Holiday Causes Student Exodus By DOLORES PALANKER The increasing vacancies in classrooms and over-crowded trans- portation facilities indicate the annual Thanksgiving exodus won't leave too many students on campus to take part in the holiday festivities. Although University residence halls will consume approximately 4,700 pounds of turkey and 2,200 pounds of chicken at their regular "best dinner" Thursday noon, most of the sororities and fraternities are "closing shop" for the long weekend and the five or six members remaining in each house will have to ferret out the proverbial drum- stick on their own.. * A * HOUSES EXPECTING to be empty over the weekend are cele- brating ahead of time and many of the dorms will entertain foreign students at the traditional dinner. For Acacia Fraternity, tomorrow is one of the biggest days of the year. Following a Thanksgiving breakfast, the members and pledges will hike to a 60 foot high water tower out Geddes Road, climb it, and return-if they can-for the big noon dinner. The annual skit in which the pledges satirize the actives and a football game, featuring a flexible goal line and an uphill path for the pledges will complete the afternoon. Martha Cook will play hostess to 12 foreign students and other guests at tomorrow's dinner, which will precede a musicale featuring talented women from the dorm. HELEN NEWBERRY, Betsy Barbour and the Law Club are each entertaining six foreign students. East Quad, which houses approxi- mately 40 Latin American students, will serve its regular "meal of the year" and West Quad has arranged to entertain all foreign students not invited elsewhere. Alpha Xi Delta will entertain one foreign student and other guests at the Thursday dinner and -Sigma Delta Tau will be hostess to six students from the International Center Friday eve- ning. The three men's co-op houses are playing host to the women's co-ops with approximately 40 pounds of turkey being devoured in each house. .* * * * DELTA TAU DELTA and women of Gamma Phi Beta and their dates will celebrate at a dinner today while the Pi Lambs and Phi Sigs are adjourning to Detroit for fraternity sponsored parties. Some houses have celebrated already, like Theta Delta Chi, which entertained Dr. Ernest F. Barker, chairman of the/physics department, and Mrs. Barker at a turkey dinner last Thursday. Couzens Hall presented their annual Thanksgiving Day Tea from 3-5 p.m. yesterday with the nursing personnel and the Dean of Women's staff among the guests. Residents of Couzens probably will get no great thrill out of choosing their Thanksgiving dinner at the "U" Hospital cafeteria where they get all their meals. JORDAN HALL held its annual Thanksgiving party yesterday with the Jordan Glee Club under the direction of Lynn Brunstein providing the entertainment. And Mosher Hall's junior class project, consisting of a can dinner whereby each girl brought a can of food to yesterday's dinner, will give needy families throughout Ann Arbor something to be thankful with at tomorrow's meal. Kappa Sigma with some married alumni, Phi Kappa Tau, Sigma Phi, Triangle, Trigon and Zeta Psi, the last with their dates, all celebrated Thanksgiving with the usual fare last night, while Alpha Delta Phi served its special meal Monday. One sorority mother has promised to cook Thanksgiving dinner for the few remaining girls, but six forsaken Men from Phi Kappa Tau, like so many others this weekend, are going to combine their culinary skills; to roast what they hope will be a Thanksgiving Day chicken. Pea ke Stresses Importance Of Student-FacultyRelations Liing Cost Drops After Long Climb Decrease First In Seven Months WASHINGTON-(P)-The first decline in living costs in seven months was announced today by the Government. The announcement, made by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, came only a few hours after President Truman named Dr. Edwin G. Nourse, chairman of his Economic Advisory Council, to work out an anti-inflation program for pre- sentation to Congress early next year. :k* * THE COST of living was slight -only one-half of one per cent-- but it broke a steady climb through most of the late spring and summer. Data released by the Federal Reserve Board last night led to some interpretations that the index had declined in Septem- ber also, but today Labor De- partment officials emphasized that this was not so-that the October decline was the first in seven months.) The October index is just be- low the 173.7 July index-so the 338,000 employes of General Mo- tors Corp. whose pay is partially dependent on the index, get neith- er a pay boost nor a decrease. G. M.'S CONTRACT with the CIO provides that workers paid by the hour get a penny an hour more or lose a penny, whenever the Government index fluctuates 1.14 points. On September 1 rises in the index gave GM workers a three cent wage increase to $1.64 an hour. But the change in the latest index is too small, either way, to alter the $1.64 average wage rate. The October living cost de- cline was attributed by the Bu- reau of Labor Statistics to a substantial and general drop in the retail price,offoods. This decline "more than offset in- creases in all other major groups" of consumer cost items, the BLS said. It was the third consecutive month of falling prices of foods. The October living cost index is 73.6 per cent higher than the 1935-39 average. World News Round-=Up By The Associated Press WASHINGTON - President Truman threw overboard the deci- sion of foreign aid administrator Paul G. Hoffman to take the gov- ernment out of the grain export trade. But Hoffman, one of the few Republicans high in the govern- ment came out of the White House conference with what amounted to a vote of confidence from Mr. Truman. * * * VIENNA - The Russian news agency Tass said that Dr. Mar- garethe Ottillinger, section chief of the Austrian Ministry of eco- nomic planning, has confessed the U. S. hired her as a spy. *WI O A n alded meeting of the National Se- curity Council-made up of top officials concerned with defense- was held at the White House. Coming only 24 hours after President Truman and Secretary of State Marshall had reviewed foreign policy, the meeting stirred speculation that the situation in China and Europe was under dis- cussion. Reds Th reaten DefensePlanesGrounded SH~huI * * * * DEVELOPMENTS IN THE CHINESE WAR-The Chinese Com- munists announced capture of Paoting (1) and said that the Nationalist garrison had fled northward from the city. On the southern front, Communist forces were driving hard around Suchow (2) with action centered at Nienchuang and Suhsien. Another source of danger to Nanking was the regrouping of Communist forces at Pengpu (3) north of Nanking. WRIGHT LECTURES: Full Economic Securty ICalled Impossible in U Explosive! CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - W) - Massachusetts Institute of Technology suspended eight students yesterday for planing a "prank" explosion which would have initialed the Har- vard stadium turf during the Yale-Harvard football game Saturday. Dr. Everett M. Baker, Dean of Students, said that a ninth student was placed on proba- tion. He added that the youths also will be required to pay any costs involved. Police said the students planted wires underground and then planned to set off a det- onating fuse during the game. The explosion would have in- itialled the field with 15-foot- square letters of "M.I.T." U.S. Offers A rub-Israel Pfarley lan, PARIS-(IP)-The United States laid before the United Nations a plan that would leave the final territorial arrangements in Pales- tine up to Jewish-Arab bargaining. * * * U. S. DELEGATE Philip C. Jes- sup spoke before the General As- sembly's 58 - member Political Committee after his statement had been double-checked by President Truman and the State Department in Washington. Under one of the amendments, the Assembly would recommend no speific territorial changes iii Paiestiie but wI.4uld set up a three-nation commission with authority to delimit the fron- tiers in agreement with both Jews and Arabs. Other amendments proposed: That this commission take over the duties of the Palestine media- tor, and that the Security Coun- cil's recent order for Jewish-Arab armistice talks be widened to in- clude talks on political problems. THE AMERICAN delegation was reported in informed circles to feel that today's statement car- ried out President Truman's.cam- paign promise of Oct. 23. He pledged he would not accept any reduction of the territory assigned Israel under the UN partition plan without the consent of Israel. The U. S. amendment provides that the boundary negotiations should be based on provisions of the partition decision of Nov. 29, 1947, plus the Bernadotte recom- mendations. M1~ilitary Men Add Recruits Climaxing a two-day roundup of prospects, Scabbard and Blade So- ciety last night tapped twenty- seven new recruits. The list reads: Paul Brentlinger, Ralph Burton, Jim Butler, Frank Dennis, Jim Ely, Ken Fox, Keith Friedlund, Ken Greider, Arthur Grinnell, Bob Goslow, Clyde House, Bill Katopish, Jim McIl- henny, Thaddeus Miller, Frank Murphy, George Olson, David Pudas, Tom Rector, Don Rippert, Bob Rogers, Rolf Scharenburg, Alan Schmiat, Bob Stratton, Ken Thorp, George Walker, Bill Wise, and Charles Young. Two of the best assets to higher education are discussion classes and student-teacher conferences, according to Dean Charles H. Peake of the Literary College. Lecturing to a group of grad- uate students, he said that the prime purpose for the existence of a college is the relationship be- tween students and professors. Dean Peake described the ideal college situation as students gath- ered around scholars. "If we can give our students a desire for knowledge, we have done something for them," he said. Discussing the place of intro- ductory courses, he said that the professor must realize that the course means different things to different students, and not mere- ly present the subject matter as a foundation for students who are going to specialize in that particu- lar field. He stressed the importance of counseling and vocational guid- ance in helping the student to clarify his aims. By DAVE THOMAS . Complete economic security is an impossibility in a free enter- prise economy, declared Dr. David McCord Wright in a lecture here yesterday. Dr. Wright, professor of econom- ics and lecturer in law at the Uni- versity of Virginia, was the second in the current series of lectures on general economic issues. * * * COMPLETE economic security can be achieved only through a rigidly controlled economy, for in a free economy, technological progress causes normal fluctua- tions in the employment level, he explained. Socialism is undesirable, how- ever, because its bureaucracy produces the triumph of the routine over invention and tends toward cultural ossification, he said. "Moreover, socialism is not as efficient as capitalism, for it is impossible to arbitrarily pre- dict people's demand for goods under varying conditions," he continued, , "Too many left-wingers confuse economic security with individual freedom," he said. There is no parallel between the two as the imposition of a system which will insure static job security neces- sities an elaborate autocracy. "A slave has security but he can hard-I ly be considered to possess free-I dom," Dr. Wright pointed out. * * * CAPITALISM must check its tendency tow a r d monopoistic control if it is to survive as the most efficient method of economic endeavor, he said. This must not' be attempted by trying to beat so- cialism at its own game but rather, by a reform of the system as it stands," he emphasized. Grads DISCUSS Forestry Jobs. In 'Wild'_West. The lure of the West provided the backdrop for the third in a series of forestry conferences, sparked last night by talks from four graduates with summer ex- perience in forest service work. Each of the men recounted tales of the timber, besides discussing, in the following question period, the possibilities and qualifications for summer employment as far as underclass forestry students were concerned. AN AUDIENCE of almost thirty was advised to secure jobs every summer with various forestry branches, so they may choose, upon graduation, the type of work best suited to their abilities. From the informally conduct- ed talks, students were enlight- ened as to basic wage scales for Forestry Civil Service programs. The importance of an all-around education was stressed as req- uisite for positions in private in- dustry. Aspiring foresters also learned that although advancement in for- estry service is not rapid, working conditions are the best, and a good worker can clear $600 a month. Air Terminal Called Object Of New Push Cut Gen. Huang's Army to Pieces NANKING - (VP) - Chinese Communist columns last night struck with renewed fury at Su- chow under a cloud cover, report- edly cutting to pieces an army group covering the government's east flank.. Pressure mounted on all sides- from the south against the rail- way to Nanking, from the north, from the east and from the south- east. The airfield five miles east seemed the objective of the south- east push. THE GOVERNMENT'S air arm, which saved the day in round one of the battle for China's heartland. last week, was all but paralyzed by low clouds. Only a break in the weather could loose it again. . The heaviest assault appeared to be coming from the east, where the first Red drive split on the rock-like resistance of Gen. Huang Po-Tao's seventh army group at Nienchuang, 33 miles from Suchow. It was conceded generally in Nanking that Huang's divisions had been almost blasted into e- tinction. * * * THEY RECEIVED the full shock in that first onslaught two weeks ago. By standing firm then, they lost about half of their effectives. The Communist radio an- nounced "complete "esr#0%o~ of Huangs whole group of divisions. That could, be 100,00 men. A broadcast said the "an- nihilation" was completed Mon.' day. In all, the broadcast added, the government lost 18 divisions from Nov. 7 to Nov. 22. Both sides usu- ally eXaggerate casualties. IThe Associated Press at San Francisco heard the broadcast. THE OFFICIAL Central News Agency said a relief column wgs only about nine miles from Nien- chuang. Other sources said that, even so, there was little hope many of Huang's troops still were able to fight. Another Communist column, estimated at possibly 70,000 men, seized high ground southeast of Suchow in what looked like a drive on Suchow's only air field. How close it was to the field was not clear. A report that planes still were using the field indicated the Reds were not yet so close as they were last week, when they shelled it be- fore being pushed back. OTHER TROOPS of Gen. Chen Yi's Communist armies of east China were moving down against" Suchow's northern defense line. The Communists appeared to be in possession of Suhsien, 50 miles south of Suchow on the railway to Nanking. Grad Council Elects Officers The newly-formed Graduate Student Council last night elected Bill Kerr as temporary chairman and Marie Poliquin temporary sec- retary. Formed with the aim of better- ing the social intellectual and ed- ucational welfare of the graduate student body, the council hopes to foster cooperation between graduate students and the Grad- uate School faculty. The council voted to send Stan- ley Dean to the Varsity Commit- tee to represent the interests of the graduate students on the ques- tions of basketball seating and tennis court fees. Members appointed to a rules committee are John Branch, Larry Linkner and Fred Cook. IT rG m ____ STUDENT APATHY: SL Suspends Hearings On Cage Tickets, Tennis As far as the students are con- cerned, tennis fees are fine and no one cares how tough it is to see a basketball game. That was the conclusion of an open hearing on basketball ticket problems and tennis charges con- ducted by the Student Legisla- ture varsity committee last night. * * * CHAIRMAN Bob Ballou, '49 F&C, two hopeful SL candidates and Barbara Reynolds, head of the WAA tennis club were the on- ly ones at the meeting. "No more hearings will be held unless these issues get n.srirrtrrrr~ cirnn a.1r Ticket manager Don Weir suggested throwing Yost Field House doors open to all comers and locking them when capac- ity is reached, according to Ballou. The group could only suggest opening more entrances at an earlier time, in order to avoid a jam-up at the last minute. * * * NO AGREEMENT was reached on tennis fees, even after Miss Reynolds reported that the charge would slice competition in the WAA tennis tournament from more than 50 down to 25. She said CARACAS, Venezuela-Presi- dent Romulo Gallegos will an- nounce today a new cabinet dominated by men acceptable to the 'moderate" wing of the na- tion's armed forces. This was disclosed by a high ranking army officer soon after Gallegos announced the resig- nation of the cabinet which has helped him rule the country since his inauguration last Feb. 15. * * * BOSTON - A Methodist editor declared that the House Un-Amer- ican Activities Committee listed a non-existent organization when it vesterdav called the Epworth BOOKS GET FACE LIFTING: Library Bindery Rebuilds Old Volumes By MARIAN LARSON Transport yourself into medieval Europe and imagine the monks busy in monasteries tediously sew- ing books together by hand. Add modern machines and pe:'- sonnel, and you have the Univer- sity book binding department. *k * * must all be bound in the same tan buchram with red-and black labels, while all the advertising has to be taken out of the maga- zines bound for the museum li- brary. If the book is from the Clements Library, it may require a special case reinforcement. But most of the time spent in describing what is to be done to it. The card is filed, and the book begins its adventures. After being stripped of old glue and cotton thread, the book is divided into even sections which are sewn together tightly by machine. Then a sample back is picked from the files-