'LEAVE US ALONE See Page 4 cl: r A6P' t r *1 COLD DRIZZLE Latest Deadline in the State VOL; LIX, No. 76 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1949 PRICE FIVE CENTS Chinese Students Alarmed by War U.S. Government May Grant Relief If Nanking Government Collapses. By PHYLLIS KULICK Bewildered Chinese students on campus are watching the disin- tegration of the Nanking government with apprehension, doubtful that the faltering government will be able to continue student financial aid. How seriously they as students would be affected if the National government fell was a hotly contested issue. Some felt that the surrender of Nanking Was imminent while others don't expect collapse for some time. * *' * * MEANWHILE, the Chiang government is taking sure lthat none of its nationals will be stranded in the steps to make United States. Perkins Takes Provost Post At University Former State Budget Head To Aid Adams John A. Perkins, former state budget director, will return to the University to fill the newly-creat- ed post of assistant provost, Pres- ident Alexander G. Ruthven has announced. Perkins, who was secretary to the executive committee of the University Institute of Public Ad- ministration and assistant polit- ical science professor, left the University to become budget di- rector in 1946. * * *Y HE WILL BEGIN his new du- ties at the University as soon as he can complete his work at Lan- sing, where he has also been con- troller of the new state Depart- ment of Administration since Au- gust. II his new post, Perkins will share the administrative duties of 'Provost James P. Adams. E President Ruthven explained that it became necessary to create the assistant provost's position be- cause of the rapid growth of the University's postwar enrollment, now more than double what it was in 1945 when Provost Adams came to the University. * * * PERKINS WILL ALSO return to the political science depart- ment as a professor. He took his B.A. at the Uni- versity in 1936, following it with an M.A. in 1939 and a Ph.D. in 1941. From 1938 to 1941 Prof. Per- kins was a teaching fellow in po- litical science at the University. He was an instructor from 1941 to 1943. IN 1943 HE WENT to Lansing to serve as representative and consultant for the Detroit Bureau of Governmental Research. Raging Storms Rava e Nation; 59 Left Dead WARREN, Ark. - (/P) - Tor- nadoes, exploding chain-fashion across sections of Louisiana and Arkansas, left 59 persons dead and between 250 and 300 injured. A number of communities - a dozen or more-in the neighboring southern states were hit, but the, most violent twister developed in this lumber mill town of 7,500. Y m * THE WARREN casualty list alone totaled 54 known dead, four of whom died of injuries in hos- pals today. More than 250 of the injured were counted in this splintered town. Elsewhere an estimated 8,000 persons were marooned by a rag- ing-mideontinent blizzard. Midwest 'headquarters of the American Red Cross estimated that 8,000 were stranded by snow in southern Wyoming, northeast- ern Colorado, and western Ne- braska. An army troop train was snowbound at Senaca, Neb., its commander reported to Lowry ficient food to last until Wednes- day night. Tejeira Will Speak At Haven Today Gil Blas Tejeira, Panamanian t r aYtc nnt ati*wn n nr r ' tty+lM tst+' 'tf' er[t I , It has assured funds to students who have not completed their de- grees for the coming semester, ac- cording to Dr. Esson M. Gale Counselor to Foreign Students. So far these funds have not been re- ceived at the University. Those who have obtained their degrees or who wish to return to China have been promised passage home by March. If they choose to remain in the United States they will have to rely on private financial sources. If the Nanking government col- lapses within the next few weeks at least 60 of the 190 Chinese students on campus will be strand- ed, Dr. Gale said. * * * ~ POSSIBLE RELIEF may come from a special grant by the fed- eral government, and the National Association of Foreign Student Advisors is applying pressure to the State Department. Many of the students feel that if Nanking falls to the Communists, the National gov- ernment will move south and continue to send student funds. Chee-Sun Mok and Hou Shyi Cheng agreed that the American- educated Chinese students need not fear a Communist purge if they return to a defeated China. Others feared a purge within1 a year or two if the Communists took over. * ' * . Chinese Grad Denies Chiang Fall I mminet "The Chinese Nationalist gov- ernment is not in danger of imme- diate collapse," according to 32 year old William Y. Huang, Grad, who has spent six years as a war correspondent in China for Time, Life and Chinese news agencies Even if the Nanking government falls after a few months, it will move to the south and continue to fight until a satisfactory peace can be arranged, Huang said. Chiang Kai-Shek will not surren- der to the Communist forces un- less they accept, the new demo- cratic constitution. * * * HUANG, who also held posts in the government, has interviewed the Generalissimo and his famous wife along with Communist lead- ers. He has been studying interna- tional relations at the University during the past year. "If the Communists lost a decisive battle they may accept a coalition government which would be liberal-leftist with the right wing expelled," he de- clared. "But while the Commu- nists are strong they will not settle for a coalition or anything short of complete surrender." "The mass of the poor people want peace at any cost," Huang continued. "They are not swept away by Communist doctrine." "The National government must be purged from within," the Chli- nese student said. Lawrence Named as- Other Orchestra Not Yet Chosen Elliott Lawrence, 23-year old pianist, and his orchestra, rated tops at college proms by numer- ous polls, have been engaged to play at the 1949 J-Hop, the com- mittee announced yesterday. Lawrence, who has sky-rocketed to top name band status in three years, provided "what the cus- tomers ordered" at 89 college dances last year, surpassing all previous dance favorites in terms of number of engagements played. * * ' ACOMPANYING Lawrence will be vocalists Rosalind Patton and Jack Hunter. Announcement of the other name band hired to share the bandstand during four and a half hours of continuousl J-Hop music will be made soon, the committee promised. Sale of tickets will begin to- day in the new Administration Building for holders of accepted applications only. Sales will continue tomorrow and Friday. Tickets will be sold at last year's price of $7.50. Students will be re- quired to present return accept- ances. UPPERCLASSMEN and grad- uate students who neglected to make application before vacation may purchase tickets Friday. They are reminded to show ID cards at the time of sale. Any remaining tickets will be put on open sale Monday and Tuesday for the benefit of late- comers and lowerclassmen, an- nounced ticket chairman Jack Hayward. Truman To Give State of nion essa et 8st Conress So Was F DETROIT-P)-"Was I sur- prised," commented the hus- band of Mrs. Rose Bennick, 39, after his wife gave birth to a seven-pound daughter unat- tended. fd"Sowas I," smiled Mrs. Ben- nick, who had had no idea that she was expecting. She had left her job not feeling well. Her husband thought she had a cold and put her toy bed. The child arrived shortly. Mr. Bennick described his wife as short and plump. GOVERNOR SWORN IN-State Chief Justice Edward M. Sharpe (left) swears in Gov. G. Mennen Williams at Lansing, Jan. 1. Gov. Williams will ad Iress the Republican-controlled Legislature for the first time tomorrow. BUILDING .FUND ASKED Leg Islature T Consider 11'Request Arrangements have been madeI with the League and the Union toP serve breakfast to J-Hop goersI after the dance, the committeeI announced. * * TICKETS for the meal will be on sale at last year's price of' $1.05 at the same time as dancef tickets. Breakfast will be served' Friday, Feb. 4 in the Union andI Saturday, Feb 5. at the League. In line with past tradition, the humorously satirical J-Hop Extra will hit the stands Monday, Feb. 7, according to committee and Daily plans. This year's issue will cover the bright spots of both J-Hop and the newly established Winter Carnival. The Extra will be sold for the benefit of (he -March. of Dimes drivet SL Will Elect. New Cabiniet The Student Legislature will elect a new cabinet for next se- mester at 7:30 p.m. today in te Grand Rapids l?,oom of 01 1- League. The new officers will take of- fice immediately and guide the Legislature through what retiring President Blair Moody called the most important semester in ST history. Unofficially, the race for the job of president is shaping up into a contest between Bill Gripman, Jim Jans, Don Rothschild and John Ryder. No official announce- ments have been made. Besides a new president, legis- lators will elect a vice-president, treasurer, corresponding and re- cording secretaries and two mem- bers at large to the cabinet. All Legislature meetings are open to the students. State lawmakers will roll upI their sleeves and go to work todayk in Lansing as teI L eg isiatIue convenes its 1949 session. Upwards of five months of labor lies ahead for the Republican- controlled legisla tive body, includ- ing consideration of the Univer-C sity's recquests for building and op-t erating funds for the next two1 years. THE UNIVERSITY has asked $8,275,000 for 1949-50 to con- struct four new buildings. A re- quested budget of $12,500,000 hast also been submitted to cover op- erating expenses for that period. Included in the operating budgt ire funds to add 73 full- tim: faculty members, Univer- sity vice-president Marvin L.. Nichuss has revealed. The additional faculty members and the new buildings would speed along conversion to normal educa- tional processes in handling what he called the University's perma- nently swollen postwar enroll- ment. EVENTIUALALY, the University' must add 400 new faculty mem- bers, he declared. "It is unfair to faculty and students to continue indefinitely lrown ,Lauds Hou se Rules Change To Expedite Legislation I Prt .;;; N -, Browln, f rc r United tats Snator from Mich- igan, lauded new Congressional organization procedures in a lec- ture last night. le expressed the opinion th t the new changes in House Rules' Committee procedure, which en-I able the Speaker to get a bill be- fore the Rol1i:( afte- 21 days in the c('m'mjW W e., wm ill(O'tgreu deal to acexl 'pleg sa ion.'U (ler the old p7"oxediu( ', the conr n ti teeas ble t o st fi fle 1le isia tion indefinitely. control bill which I helped draft would hardly have passed," said Brown, a former director of the OPA. Brown also gave his ap- proval to the housing bill which Taft wrote and backed during sessions of the 80th Congres. The former Senator emphasized the effects and tactics of lobby- ists. Ile said that, in effect, "te President, as head of the govern- Ient, is the most effective and powerful lobbyist in Washington. His governmental lobby generally works in the best interests of the on the present emergency ar- rangement," Niehuss said. "The University must expect enrollment of 20,000 or more stu- dents as a regular event. Steps must be taken to bring the fac- ulty and the educational build- ings into line with this htgher en- rollment." THE REQUESTED building funds would go toward building additions to the General Library and Angell Hall and plans for a School of Music building and a medical school classroom, labora- tory and research building. These four buildings were among the nine major struc- tures placed on an emergency building requested submitted to the Legislature in 1946. Four of the nine buildings a- additions to the East Engineering and Chemistry Buildings, the Business Administration Building and the General Service Building -are now in use. Student Dies~ In Air Crash 'lhe crash of a B-20 Army bomber took the life of University student, Lt. Donald A. Streeter, when the plane cracked-up two miles from Willow Run Dec. 28. Navigating the bomber on a routine flight from Florida, Lt. Streeter was one of four army men killed in the disaster. He had been a student in the engineering college though still in the Army Air Force. Cause of the crash was judged to be icing of the controls. The wreckage was scattered over the field, but did not burn. Living at 625 N. Adams St. in f Ypsilanti, Lt. Streeter is survived by his wife and parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Streeter, of Detroit. Cease Fire Ordered BATAVIA, Java --- (/4) - The Dutch army ordered a cease fire on the island of Sumatra. City Primary t Races Draw aCOSa 51 Candidates Faculty Members Vie for Positions t A total of 51 candidates for nominations are entered in the Feb. 21 city primary election - and the voters will choose 18 off them for offices April 4. HEADING THE slates are the three candidates for mayor, Wil- liam E. Brown, Jr., (Rep.) incum- bent; Leslie A. Wikel (Dem.), local druggist; and Prof. John F. Shep- ard (Prog.) of the psychology de- partment. Candidates for president of the city council are Cecil O. Creal, (Rep,) incumbent; and Richard W. Ryan (Dem.), Four names are entered in the race for city clerk: Fred Perry (Rep.) incumbent; Fred C. Look- er (Rep.) deputy clerk; Lawrence W. Voelker (Dem.), and James Terrell (Prog.). However, Looker has said he will not run against Perry. S* * THOSE ASSOCIATED with the University who are candidates for alderman nominations are: First Ward-Peter A. Ostafin (Dem.), lecturer in sociology. Third Ward-Mrs. John H. Muyskens (Dem.), wife of Prof. Muyskens of the speech depart- ment. Fourth Ward-Robert Holston (Prog.), teaching fellow in psy- chology, Sixth Ward-Prof, Arthur W. Bromage (Rep.) of the political science department and Joseph Bursley (Rep,), Dean-Emeritus o Students Seventh Ward-Lester Beber- fall (Prog.), teaching fellow in the psychology department. IN ADDITION, two wives of faculty members are candidates for County Board of Supervisors nominations : Sixth Ward-Mrs. Samuel T. Dana (Rep.) incumbent, wife of Dean Dana of the forestry school. Seventh Ward-Mrs. Jessie E. Coller (Rep.) incunbent, wife of Dr, Frederick A. Coler, chairman of the surgery department in the medical school, 'U Student Hurt In Auto Accident University engineering student, Donald R. Campbell suffered a broken collar bone and cuts about the face in an automobile acci- dent at Geddes Rd. and Prospect St. Campbell's car collided with one driven by David Tower of Ypsilanti, who told police he stopped at the intersection but failed to see Campbell's car ap- proaching along Geddes Rd. o dar.,I Harmony in Government. Seen in '49 Rayburn Predicts New Labor Law WASHINGTON - (A) - Presi- dent Truman will tell the nation about the "State of the Union" to- day in a 30-minute address before the new 81st Congress-and even some Republicans seem inclined to go along with his program. The President's speech, starting at noon, Central Standard Time, will be carried over the four major radio networks. BUOYED by a smashing victory in their first test of strength on Capitol Hill, administration offi- cials looked for no such obstacles as blocked Mr. Truman's legisla- tive proposals in the Republican- controlled 80th Congress during the last two years. House Speaker Sam Rayburn (Dem., Tex.) expressed this view with dry humor to newsmen. The Texan, who relishes under- statement, said he thinks Mr. Truman's recommendations will be received by Congress "with considerable favor." Rayburn declined to predict what President Truman will ask in his annual message to the law- makers. He did indicate, however, some of his own views on the con- troversial topic of the Taft-Hart- ley Law. * * * RAYBURN predicted to report- ers, in his first news conference since he was elected 0o the H9M leadership, that he believes Con- gress will substitute some new leg- islation for that law. I should not think the Con- gress would pass a bill repealing all labor legislation and enact nothing in its stead," he said. Some other speculation on Cap- itol Hill has centered on the pos- sibility of repealing the Taft- Hartley Act and leaving the old Wagner Labor Regulations Law intact. While Rayburn shied at fore- casting any specific points in the President's address, other legisla- tors expected Mr. Truman to throw out a rapid-fire list of rec- 3mmendations-notably including i minimum-wage boost, health, :ducation, anti-monopoly and iousing legislation, farm price upports, and extension of the re- iprocal trade program. Protec- -ion of minority groups against liscrimination may also figure in its proposals. U.S. Requests Israel, Egypt Quit Fighting WASHINGTON - (A') - The United States has urged both Is- rael and Egypt to take no military actions "extending the hostilities" in Palestine. The State Department an- nounced this and said Israel re- sponded by assuring this country that all its troops have been with- lrawn from Egypt. MEANWHILE in Cairo the Min- :stry of War said Jewish troops were attacking forward. positions toward Rafah, strategic Egyptian air base on the Palestine-Egyp- tian air base on the Palestine- Egyptian frontier. At the same time an Iraq communique gave details of the new fighting that has flared in the Sharon Valley sector north- east of Tel Aviv. The Egyptian statement said the attack in the south started at Monday midnight but the attack- ers were repulsed. * * * THE ASSURANCES from Israel set forth in a note received here have been communicated to the British government, a State De- GOP pol scribed' eral thu indicae. "Wit) kSOVI On S'' , u IV ' rec(,l1, figUJ iI ~; I( a ntiLA V - ..,. 001I int V, l tn 1 11 N, shea of the Ilcy commnittee, Brown de- IN AN INTERVIEW yesterday, Taft as much more libi- Brown told The Daily that many x his press notices would of the new members of the Sen- -. ate look especially good, and that bout Tafx's aid, the price the recent election definitely im- -_--_- proved its personnel, He had spe- cial praise for Senators Kerr, Douglas, and Anderson, all new- comners to the Senate. / IBrown, who is now chairman of let Sta li uthe Board of Directors of the De- t roit Edison Company, will de- }de- liver another lecture on Congress at 8 p.m. tomorrow in the Rack- ham Lecture Hal. His lectures are INGTON T e sponisored by the political science States rejected Russia's department, and are open to the on thall th Soviet was public. NEED A LEAF? Restaurateur Plants Patch Of Lincoln-Engrave( Lettue WASI; United ccor1nfnM Victory gardens may be out of season but a State St. restaurant and tradition campus gathering place is growing a "Lettuce Box." The "Lettuce" engraved with portraits of Abe Lincoln on each leaf, will be ready for student har- vesting this morning. Any down- and-out, hdven't - got - a -dine scholar can 'pick' a leaf for a pe- riod of one week. is the name and address of the horrower. Th'le card stays up until the student gets his second (financial) wind. The loans arc officially for one week, without interest. * * 4' THElI 'CATCh' comes at the end of the week, if the fiver has not, bee-n replanted in the L ettuce Box. not bound by a Four-Power agree- ment callin" "for 'case of all G ;ermn 11. war prisoer l by the end of 94t8. T'his rejection lamt??2C, on th l)Vels of a US.k note demantudirlg Ihat Russia a rount for an esti- m ated 443,165 German prisoners previously listed by the Soviet butl as yet, unreturned to their moneg- The Soviet propaganda line -as Mat the deadline of last De-c.. was rPrcnadtcrt on a Ula" of repatriation to be worked iut thirough. the Four-Power rNION-IiAE';E RII grE VIoVAuL: Winter Carnival~~ ~nagr rudo Come February 2 the legendary groundhog who emerges from his hole in the Arboretum will have to dodge skiers and tobogganers competing in the opening Winter Carnival Contest events. 'le traditional winter event is If the sleepy little animal sur- vives skiing and tobogganing in the Arboretum, he may get around to the informal record dance Wednesday night in the "ski lodge." Winter sports clothes will be the order of the afternoon and night. Fancy skat- ing, relays, and novelty acts will be presented in the final event Thursday night at Burns Park if weather permits. There will be competition in fancy skating and the relays.