FOR BETTER HEALTH See Page 4 i 4p- t r Latest Deadline in the State 4E aJiti CLOUDY, WARMER VOL. LIX, No. 116 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1949 PRICE FIVE CENTS I Compromise Ends 15-Day Senate Tie-up Knowland Plan Breaks Filibuster WASHINGTON-(AP)-The 15- day Dixie filibuster in the U.S. Senate ended with dramatic sud- denness late last night as South- ern Democrats and Republicans got together on a compromise plan. Then the Senate recessed until tomorrow when a drive will open to put the plan through the Sen- ate. Its sponsors felt certain of success, since they had 52 sena- tors-more than the required ma- jority-already signed up. rt * ' r BUT THE PLAN was subject to debate, and Truman Democrats may have plenty to say before a vote can be taken. They want a change in the Sen- ate rules so that a two-thirds ma- jority of those voting can end fili- busters on any question. They want this as an opening wedge for the passage of Civil Rights legis- lation, such as anti-lynch, anti- poll tax, and anti-discrimination bills. The compromise plan, spon- sored by Senator Kowland (Rep., Calif.) provides that two- thirds of the whole Senate (64 out of 96) can limit debate-on anything except motions to take up future proposals to change the Senate rules. The Southerners, apparently feeling confident that 64 sena- tors never could be persuaded to limit debate on Civil Rights bills, went along with the plan. They also liked the proviso about un- limited debate on motions to take up future rules changes. This would enable them to filibuster against any proposal to end fili- busters by majority rule. THE MOTION the Southerners had been filibustering against since Feb. 28, was one by Senator Lucas of Illinois, the Democratic leader, to take up for considera- tion the Administration's curb- the filibuster plan. A group of Truman Democrats joined Republican senators Morse of Oregon and banger of North Dakota in assailing the compro- mise plan. Mine Walkout Causes New Rail Layoffs By The Associated Press Railroad layoffs mounted yes- terday in the two-day old coal mine shutdown as the New York Central Railroad laid off an addi- tional 5,225 workers. In Jersey City, the Central Railroad said that an "unesti- mated number" would be idled in the next two weeks as a result of John L. Lewis' order for a two- week work holiday stoppage. LEWIS issued his stop-work or- der last Friday as a protest to the appointment of Dr. James Boyd as Director of the U.S. Bureau of Mines and as a tribute to dead and injured miners. Speculations rose over the possibility that the 400,000 soft coal miners would not return to work for another four or five days after the scheduled March 23 date in order to celebrate John Mitchell Day, April 1, a recognized UMW holiday. It was not expected that the 70,000 antracite miners would be affected by this delay, however, since they observe the same holi- day in October. Mitchell, an early UMW leader, is credited with win- ning the eight-hour day for the miners. * * * ouse Passes Nw Rent Control Bill In T Truman Seeks Rail Strike End By The Associated Press President Truman acted last night to end the strike of 3,500 Wa- bash Railroad employes. The President signed an order calling for a fact finding board, which would delay the work stoppage 60 days. * * * * SOME 500 EMPLOYES of the Ann Arbor railroad quit work yes- terday morning, tying up freight shipments on the line throughout this area. (The Ann Arbor road is a subsidiary of the Wabash.) Union Finance Report Shows All-TimeHigh Manager Stresses Improvement Aims A complete financial statement, barring details of income and ex- penses, has been issued by the Michigan Union. The statement, now posted in the Union, is the first complete public financial report in the Union's history. More money entered the Union's cash registers in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1948 than ever be- fore, according to the report. But rising costs of operation whittled the net income down to $56,369. * * * IN EXPLAINING the report, Franklin C. Kuenzel, General Manager of the Union, emphasized that the Union is a non-profit in- stitution. "Many students think the Union makes lots of money; it doesn't," he said. "Most of our net income this year will go for improvement of the Union." The building fund now totals more than $612,000. The value of Union property was diminished this year by $8,821 when the old Mimes Theatre was torn down. Total property value is now $2,106,000. * * * KUENZEL SAID that the Union has more rooms than any other college union in the country. "The income from our 200 rooms does a lot to counteract the operating losses in some of .our other departments," Kuen- zel said. In the early days of the Union, prior to 1927, students had to pay $50 to become life members. Full time students who attend the Uni- versity for eight or more semesters now don't have to pay anything for life membership, according to Kuenzel. * * * ONLY SUPPORT the Union re- ceives from the University is a $3.75 allocation for each male stu- dent on campus, Kuenzel said. "The Union ciedits more than this toward the life membership of every member," he added. The last train on the Wabash line passed through Ann Arbor at 6 a.m. yesterday. Local men involved in the walk- out number only four men, ac- cording to A. C. Hiitchcock, gen- eral passenger agent of the line. * * * MEANWHILE, freight normally carried by the Ann Arbor line will be rerouted to other roads, Rail- way Express officials reported. Railroad officials were specu- lating on the effect of the strike on operation of Ann Arbor line carferries across Lake Michigan to Wisconsin. Although carferry crews are not on strike, a spokes- man at the ferry headquarters at Frankfort said the walkout would "eventually tie us up." In Washington Secretary Rob- ert Cole of the Board said the agency is immediately advising parties to the dispute of the Presi- dent's action, and asking the men to return. The personnel of the fact-finding board was not an- nounced immediately. John E. Donnelly, vice president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and spokesman for the other brotherhoods, declared the 60-day non-striking period that is supposed 'to prevail after the President appoints a fact-finding board applies only to situations where the men have not already walked out. THE RAILWAY Labor Act does not require them to return to work when they strike before a fact- finding board is appointed, he said. AIM Attacks Diag Dispolays AIM will launch an attack on unsightly diag displays when it submits a report to the SL advis- ing them to call a meeting of pub- licity directors to discuss the prob- lem, it was revealed at an AIM council meeting last night. At the same meeting, the council voted down a strongly worded res- olution against blind block voting which would have forbidden AIM to issue any literature which would distinguish between inde- pendent and affiliated candidates, because previous AIM plans called for a news letter in which any in- dependent man could express his views and qualifications. Home Rule' Act Defies President Williams To Back Standby Measure By The Associated Press The House of Representatives passed a new 15-months rent con- trol bill yesterday that will per- mit each state, county or city to toss out the controls anytime it pleases. The passage of the House bill came as a great blow to President Truman since the administration had been against the "Home Rule" amendment and was fighting for a two-year extension plus greater powers to enforce the controls. * * * GOVERNOR MENNEN G. Wil- liams sided with the President and said yesterday that he would spon- sor a state rent control bill. The governor said that the bill, in- tended as a standby measure, would be introduced into the legis- lature within a few days. The House bill now goes to the Senate where administration men will renew their fight. Ac- tion on a Senate version has been blocked, however, because of the filibuster. The bill passed the Houe by a large majority-261 to 153. Tighe Woods, Rent Administra- tor, told reporters that he does not think it is so bad. He predicted no more than ten per cent of the 1,100 counties with rent control would do away with controls through local option. * * '* THE HOUSE BILL will give the government the old OPA powers to prevent mass evictions of tenants as requested by the President. It also requires the Rent Admin- istrator to set rent ceilings to as- sure landlords of "a reasonable return on reasonable value" of their property and authorizes him to recontrol any rental area de- controlled since July 30, 1947, ex- cept where decontrol was ordered by the Emergency Court of Ap- peals. The amendment also recon- trols rental properties decon- trolled under the 1947 rent act that had permitted landlords and tenants to enter into volun- tary agreements raising rents up to fifteen per cent. Woods said, however, that the bill lacked "two essentials," crimi- nal penalties for landlords charg- ing over ceiling rents and author- ity toirecontrol apartments in residential hotels. World News Round-Up By The Associated Press WASHINGTON - Denmark's foreign minister strongly indicat- ed that he would urge his stra- tegically located country to be- come the ninth government to join the Atlantic Defense Alli- ance. At the same time, the Portu- guese government disclosed it has started talks with the United States about joining the Mutual- Aid Pact. *k F WASHINGTON - By a 7-6 vote, Senators blackballed Pres- ident Truman's nomination of Mon C. Wallgren, one-time sen- ator and former governor of Washington, for the chairman- ship of the National Security Resources Board. Daily-Pete Mann INSPECTION TOUR--Members of the House Ways and Means Committee enter the Veterans' Readjustment Center on their junket of campus yesterday. In the left foreground are Reps. Rollo G. Conlin, chairman of the education subcommittee, and Harry J. Phillips, chairman of the subcommittee on state hospitals. Other committee members making the tour were Reps. Ural S. Acker, Arnell Engstrom, T. Jefferson Hoxie, James Kirk, Carl G. Lindquist, David F. Morrison, Michael J. O'Brien, Richard L. Thomson, and Joseph E. Warner. RutlivenCites U' Ob iation To Education Stresses Cooperation Between Schools The University has a responsi- bility to the whole educational system of the state to assist the primary and secondary schools, President Alexander G. Ruthven declared last night. Speaking at the .100th anniVr- sary program of Ypsilanti High School, he discussed "The Rela- tionship between the University and the Secondary Schools of Michigan." PRESIDENT RUTHVEN said, "It is regrettable that the state university is often looked upon and referred to as a rather inde- pendent institution, as a competi- tor of other colleges and universi- ties, and as . . . interfering with the work of the high schools." The idea "that this institution is the capstone of the state sys- tem of education" is too widely spread, he said. On the contrary, the University is "a responsible relative in the family of state schools," President Ruthven said. * * * ITS OBJECTIVES include more than the advancement of knowl- edge and the education of a select- ed grouphof especially qualified students, he said. "No state institution of high- er learning should ignore or neglect the real function of pro- viding service to the primary and secondary schools." SL Petitions Revamped To Tax Blank Dimension Petition forms for hopeful. Stu- dent Legislature candidates have been revamped in the tradition of Uncle Sam's elaborate tax forms. The petitions, which will be available in Rm. 1020 until the March 29 deadline, have been ex- onor Report To BeMade A comprehensive report on the Engineering Honor System will be presented to the student chapter of ASCE at 7:30 p.m. today in Rm. 3-S of the Union. The report, gathered from in- formation in 400 questionnaires circulated through civil engineer- ing. classes last week, will reveal student sentiment on the system and decide whether the polling will go through the entire College of Engineering. John M. Hepler, director of the Michigan Department of Health, will speak on "The Place of the Sanitary Engineer in Public Life." Third item on the meeting's agenda will be the first in a ser- ies of "Meet your Professors," spotlighting Prof. Ernest Boyce. NSA TourBureau NSA's travel bureau will swing into its last. two days of opera- tion today and tomorrow. The Bureau, which has applica- tions for NSA summer tours all over the world and information concerning other travel plans, will be open from 4 to 4:50 p.m. in Rm. 1010, Administration Build- ing. panded into a five-sheet bonanza with the addition of information formerly asked ofMens' Judiciary Council candidates. * * * BESIDES WRITING two state- ments on their views on Legisla- ture activities and listing their present and past extra-curricular activities, candidates will also at- tend an orientation meeting at 4:15 p.m., today, in Rm. 3R, Mich- igan Union. Nuechterlein explained the king-size petition forms would be helpful in bringing out merits of individual candidates. He said SL would publicize the state- ments and lists of activities of all candidates. Three things will be asked of all candidates: An eligibility card, $1 and 150 petition signatures. LEGISLATURE COMMITTEE members stressed that students may attend the orientation meet- ing and begin learning SL proce- dure although they may not ac- tually have their 'applications turned in. IBrumm To Give Journalism Talk Professor Emeritus John L. Brumm will deliver the third lec- ture of the current journalism series at 3 p.m. today in Rm. B, Haven Hall. Brumm, former chairman of the journalism department, will speak on "Liberty and the News." A coffee hour will follow the speech. Journalism concentrates and all interested students may attend the lecture. Lawmakers Nix Requests In Visit Here $700,000 Fund Slash Foreseen State legislators dashed hopes for four new University buildings as they made a flying inspection tour of campus yesterday. Administration hopes for the full requested operating budget were also jolted. The House Ways and Means Committee conferred with Univer- sity officials for four hours yester- day afternoon. Although he termed the meeting a "first-rate" get-together, Rep. John Espie, chairman of the com- mittee, reported that plans for new buildings costing more than eight billion dollas are virtually frozen for this year. REP. ESPIE also said he was "doubtful" that his group would approve the University's full re- quest for a $12,500,000 operating budget. He said the final appropriation would be near the figure proposed by Gov. Williams, who slashed the University's request by $700,000. University building proposals are being shelved because "top construction priority must be given the state's over-crowded mental hospitals," Rep. Espie said. "State colleges and universities will have to take what's left over from the mental hospital appro- priations this year," Rep. Harry J. Phillips said. Rep. Phillips is chairman of the Ways and Means subcommittee on state hospitals. ** * PRESIDENT Alexander G. Ruthven had told the committee that additions to the General Li- brary and Angell Hall are needed immediately. "Classrooms of the literary college are terribly over- crowded," he declared. Requests have also been made for Automotive Service Shops and a heating plan addition. Although the committee visited the Veterans' Readjustment Cen- ter and the Neuropsychiatric In- stitute at University Hospital, they lacked time to inspect the pro- posed academic building sites in their two-hour tour. * * * DESPITE the possible cut in the operating budget, University plans for 72 new faculty members next year could still go ahead, ac- cording to Rep. Rollo G. Conlin, chairman of the Ways and Means subcommittee on education. Conlin pointed out that the University can use operating funds granted by the Legislature as' it chooses. The requested budget is an in- crease of $2,750,000 over the amount granted the University this year. President Ruthven told the committee yesterday that more funds are needed to offset a drop in veterans' fees and to make an $800,000 adjustment for present faculty and staff salaries. "THE FACULTY salary adjust- ment is an essential if Michigan is to maintain top educational rank- ing," Pres. Ruthven declared. The Legislature will probably not complete action on the Uni- versity appropriations for more than a month, Espie said. Before coming to a vote, the proposed 3budget must first be approved by both the House committee and the "Senate finance committee. President Ruthven has explained that the operating budget appropriation requested will be "approximately one-third the total budget for the year." The balance will come from student fees, gifts and grants, and from income pro- ducing units like residence halls and athletics, he said. RArmed' Youth SKidnaius Driver STATE PROTECTION: Olmstead To Stress Rule For Michigyan Engineers . * S Prof. C. T. Olmsted, of the En- gineering Mechanics Department, will outline the procedure and exams for engineer-registration at 7:30 p.m. today in the Architec- ture Auditorium. Prof. Olmsted will stress the de-' sirability of the registration, which is designed to protect the engineer and to prevent misuse of his pro- HARD PILL TO SWALLOW: D ag'wood Specials---Stomach Threat The beloved American multi- decker sandwiches and the gentle art of tooth-picking outstrip everything including open safety pins, in the damage they threaten to the average adult's stomach, according to Dr. Henry K. Ran- those which lodge and require surgery to remove seldom do any harm." Not so with toothpicks, one of the most frequent subjects for swallowing by adults, who in pick- ing their teeth or eating "Dag- little dental "broches," Dr. Ran- som added. "A patient may sneeze and in his momentary spasm, swallow whatever's in his mouth. I have yet to find the traditional time- piece in anyone's stomach."