BORDER-LINE CASE See Page 4 Y Latest Deadline in the State ~Iui41 -47 CLOUDY, WAMNER VOL. LIX, No. 130 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1949 PRICE FIVE CENTS I I Russians Hit Atlantic Pact In New Note Charge Former Treaties Broken LONDON-(AP)-The Soviet Un- ion charged yesterday the North Atlantic treaty is "openly aggres- sive", is directed against her and breaks five international agree- pents. The official Soviet news agency Tass said the Russian position was transmitted to the seven sponsoring nations of the treaty in a memorandum yesterday. * * * THE SOVIET Foreign Ministry through its ambassadors gave these conclusions to the United States, Britain, France, Belgium, Canada, The Netherlands and Luxembourg: 1. The Atlantic treaty has an openly aggressive character and is directed against the Soviet Union. 2. The treaty runs counter to the United Nations charter. 3. It violates the Anglo-Soviet treaty, the Franco-Soviet treaty and the Yalta and Potsdam agree- ments. In Washington the Russian protest against the Treaty was received at the state depart- ment late yesterday. It came as foreign ministers from the North Atlantic region gathered to sign the pact next Monday. ** * THE QUESTION of whether the pact might prove a possible] "intitement" to some aggressive action by the Soviet had been raised last night by Senator Taft (R-Ohio). He said that if Russia regard- ed the pact as an offensive threat it "might become an in- citement to war and make it nore probable instead of less." The formal 'expression of Rus- sia's objections to the regional defense arrangement was not ex- pected to have the slightest effect on the western powers in signing the treaty and in going through with the defense arrangments, in- cluding rearmament, for which it will form the basis. State department officials would say only that the message had been received from the Soviet embassy. U.S., Britain Begin West Europe Parley Officials Confer on Germany, Greece WASHINGTON - (A) - Secre- tary of State Acheson and British Foreign Minister Bevin began yes- terday what may be a final and successful effort by the Western Powers to agree on plans for the future of western Germany. The plans include creation of a separate German government. * * * IN A TWO hour conference in Acheson's office at the State De- partment, the foreign policy chiefs of America and Britain also re- viewed the situation in Greece. At the end of their session, Acheson went into another con- ference with Dutch Foreign Minister D. U. Stikker, who, like Bevin, has come here to sign the North Atlantic Treaty next Monday. Both Bevin and Acheson were understood to be confident that the German issues can be worked out and they expect success in meetings which they will hold next week with French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman. WHH. . ArM *.nI *- mpt-nn IRA DISCISSIOiNV: 'U' Students Hasten Homeward Intermarriage Can By JOAN WILLENS Racial and religiousintermarriage can work, an anthropologist, psychologist and clergyman agreed last night at a discussion spon- sored by the IRA. The speakers, Martin L. Hoffman, of the psychology department, Lynn E. Howard of the anthropology department, and the Reverend David Blake, Jr., of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, said that intermarriage can work if the partners are willing to make many adjustments. * * * * HOFFMAN DECLARED that the problem of intermarriage is a problem of society and personality. When considering intermarriage 4', * * * * * * * * * the persons involved should de Straw Vote Picks GOP Incumbents By AL BLUMROSEN Republicans Alfred B. Connable and Vera R. Baits topped their Democratic "opponents in a straw vote for the two Board of Regent positions conducted by The Daily. Daily Roundup reporters talked to more, than fifteen hundred stu- dents before they were able to get voting answers from some 700 stu- dents. The others saicl they did not know enough about the candi- dates or the election to vote. * * * CONNABLE TOPPED the slate of candidates with 370 votes in the poll. Mrs. Baits ran second with 315 votes, edging out Democrat Joseph E. Arsulowicz who re- ceived 291 votes. Fourth choice of students quiz- zed by reporters was Mrs. Roa Falke (Dem.) who polled 263 votes. THE PROGRESSIVE candi- dates, Georgina K. Fields and Ruby Sweetman received 40 and 34 votes respectively. The poll, fourth of a weekly series, does not have a scientific basis. Election for the Board of Re- gents will take place Tuesday dur- ing the University vacation. Two candidates of the six running will be elected for terms of eight years. BOTH REPUBLICAN candi- dates, Connable and Mrs. Baits are incumbents. Deeocratie can- didates Arsulowicz and Mrs. Falke are fighting to break into the all- Republican Board of Regents. Backed by organized labor and a party machine which elected Gov. G. Mennen Williams last Novem- ber, the Democratic candidates have spent the last months stump- ing the state for support. Republican candidates have also been waging a speaking campaign. University students heard three of the candidates, Connable, Ar- sulowicz and Mrs. Falke, who spoke here within the last two weeks. Last Daily Today With this issue The Daily suspends publication for the Spring vacation period. The next issueg will appear Tuesday, April 12. cide whether their motivation is healthy, he said. He stressed the need of avoid- ing unhealthy motivations, cit- ing the example of a white girl at social functions, who delibe!- ately thrusts herself at Negroes and shuns white men, for the sole purpose of defying social convention and authority. This is an example of discrim- ination, Hoffman declared, be-, cause the white girl is not dealing with the Negroes as persons whom she likes individually, but as a group with which "society" says she should not mix socially. An intermarriedtcouple may find themselves attracting people who relish "oddities" and like them merely because such marriages are something out of the ordinary and therefore appealing, he said. .* * * IN RESPONSE to a question about how a child of a Catholic- Protestant marriage should choose his religion, Mr. Blake agreed that the child should be encouraged to understand the doctrines and rit- ual of both churches and upon reaching maturity he should make his decision. Mr. Blake remarked that the Federal Council of Churches has recently stressed the desirability for getting acquainted with the ritualsand philosophyof all re- ligions, as a means of eliminat- ing intolerance based on misun- derstanding. He charged the law concerning the legal status of a child born of a mixed racial marriage is in- consistent. Mr. Blake explained that according to the law, if the mother is Negro, so is the child, but if the mother is white, the child is considered white. Anthropologists have not found any non-physical characteristics inherited on the basis of race, Howard declared. He said that discrimination is fostered largely by the effect of culture on the individual and the tendency of solidarity between morphological groups. Groups Pledge CED Support, West Quad and Anderson House have joined the Committee to End Discrimination, boosting the or- ganization's )membership to 20 dorms and campus clubs. Decision of the two groups to join was announced at a meeting of the organization yesterday, called to discuss ways of aiding the passage of a state bill against dis- crimination in education. Written by law students at the University, the bill has been in- troduced in both the Senate and the House of Representatives, and was referred to the Senate Com- mittee on Education for further investigation. By MARY STEIN "Operation Evacuation" will be completed today as happy students begin that long-awaited spring va- cation. As they head out of the Uni- versity's small city, they'll leave deserted classrooms, and echoing libraries behind them. * * * THEY'LL ALSO leave hundreds of professors still hard at work, correcting the bluebooks bestowed in liberal quantities this week. The weather man at Willow Run was optimistic about the prospects for those thousands of trips home. He predicted clouds part of today, but no rain. "And it will be clear and warm- er this weekend, although shirt- sleeve weather is not in the imme- diate offing." WHILE THE REST of the cam- pus takes off to all points of thf compass, almost 150 students, many of them from foreign coun- tries, will stay right here in Ann Arbor. Ninety-two men will spend their vacation in Allen-Rumsey House. Betsy Barbour will be home for 51 coeds, who will en- joy an extra half-hour of date- time on vacation week-nights. Students still on campus can keep up with their educational and social activities, too. * * * TODAY AND tomorrow the ar- chitecturally-minded may attend the Seventh Annual Mid-Century Report on Design Progress, which. begins at 9:30 a.m. today at Rackham Amphitheatre. On the lighter side, the In- ternational Center has planned a vacation week program in- cluding trips, teas and bridge lessons. Bridge classes for beginners and more advanced players will be held at 3 p.m. daily. Daly-Ohinger HOMEWARD BOUND-Molly Rogers, foreground, one of hundreds of students who left for home early to avoid the holiday rush, watches anxiously for the train to come around the curve at New York Central's Ann Arbor station. In addition to extra coaches, special buses and airline flights have been scheduled for today and tomorrow to handle the vacation overflow. AT 8:30 A.M. MONDAY a group will leave from the Center to visit the Ford Motor Co. and Green- field Village. The Center will hold its weekly tea from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Thursday. When students return from their nine-day vacation, there will be a few changes to be not- ed on campus: Dorm-dwellers will be treated to quarters gleaming from spring house- cleanings. Several score of students will bei seen flashing newly-acquired sun- tans-the products of relaxing hours on Florida beaches. * * * EIGHTY OTHERS will return to Ann Arbor with new knowledge of how UNESCO works. They'll garner that knowledge from a conference they're flying to in Cleveland today. There's a .good chance, though, that one breathlessly - awaited change will not be made. The Plant Department reported that those grass-growing aids may still be around April 11. World News Round- Up By The Associated Press WASHINGTON-Attorney Gen- eral Clark yesterday defended gov- ernment-authorized wire tapping, but said he had dropped a move to legalize the use of wire-tapped evidence in court. * * * WASHINGTON--Rent Chief Tigho Woods went, to work yes- terday on a formula for granting increases under the new rent law-a task which will take sev- eral weeks. Meantime appeals for ceiling boosts will be handled under the old "hardship" rules. * * * OTTAWA, Ont.-Britain's old- est colony, Newfoundland, be- comes Canada'styoungest province at midnight last night. * * * BELGRADE, Yugoslavia - Yugoslavia directly accused Soviet Russia yesterday of put- ting her economic squeeze on this country as part of the com- inform attempt to oust Premier Marshal Tito's government. The charge followed disclosure of a note by Yugoslavia to Bul- garia suspending frontier travel regulations on their border. Bul- garia, a member of the Moscow- led cominform, was accused of "abusing and insulting" Yugo- slav travelers. Truman Says Inflation Still Threat;_Asks BigTax Boost WASHINGTON - (IP) - Infla- tion is still a threat, President Truman contended yesterday as he called anew for standby eco- nomic control powers and a big boost in taxes. Some of his financial advisers have termed current price de- creases a healthy thing pointing to continued prosperity on more stable levels. But Mr. Truman emphasized he still wants Con- gress to pass his anti-inflation program, including powers to put ceilings on prices. . * .* HE TOLD A news conference that the recent price declines are only a temporary let-up in the inflationary pressures. He said one factor in checking the up- ward spiral has been his oft-re- peated request for authority to apply federal curbs when needed. As for taxes, the Presidentj said he does not agree with a contention by Senator George (DGa.) that an increase at this time might set off a depression. The President also spoke out against a Republican-led drive to cut millions if not billions of dol- lars off the flow of American aid to Europe. * * * THE EUROPEAN recovery pro- gram, Mr. Truman said firmly, should not be cut at all. But administration leaders in the Senate, where the issue was being debated, conceded that size- able reductions may be warrant- ed in 1950 if the Marshall Plan nations get "over the hump" year. this bows Perish In Air Crash LONDON, Ont.-OP)-Chemical magnate Willard H. Dow, his wife and three other persons crashed to their deaths in a plane yester- day on a storm-soaked Canadian meadow. The 52-year-old president of the sprawling Dow Chemical Co., one of the world's largest, was flying with his party to attend a gathering in Boston, Mass., when the plane crashed. Dr. Dow, Mrs. Martha Dow, 51; Mrs. Alta Campbell, 44; Pilot A. J. Bowie, and co-pilot Fred Clem- ents, all of Midland, Mich., were believed killed instantly. The only ' survivor was Mrs. Campbell's husband, Calvin, head of Dow's legal department at the company's headquarters in Mid- land. Bowie, a 38-year-old veteran of the airways and a company pilot, was believed at the controls at the time of the crash. Prepare for Stucdent Jam Trains, Planes, Buses To MakeSpecial Runs Local transportation officials have laid extensive plans for to- day's mass exodus of students heading home for the Spring holi- days. In addition to extra coaches on all regularly' scheduled trains, the -New York Central is adding spe- cial trains, which leave for Chi- cago at 1:05 p.m. and New 'York at 6:30 p.m. * * * PULLING OUT of Ann Arbor 16 minutes ahead of the Mercury, a reserved seat train, the Chicago special will make stops at Jack- son, Battle Creek, Kalamazoo, Niles and the 63rd Street Chicago station before arriving at Central Station at 4:35 p.m. Students taking the East bound special will arrive in New York at 8:50 a.m. tomorrow, with the Boston coaches being cut off at Albany and reaching their destination at 12:55 p.m. tomorrow. Local Greyhound officials have also made extensive preparations for the crowds of students who are expected to jam the bus de- pot today. In addition to special coaches on the Detroit run, extra sections will be added to every regularly scheduled run leaving the city. * * * FOR THE AIR minded, North- west Airlines and Capitol Airlines have inaugurated a new air coach service to New York. The North- west flight leaves the Willow Run terminal at 2:30 p.m. and the Capitol flight at 3:15 a.m. These student specials are being offered at rates far below the regular plane fare. Meanwhile,' the Ann Arbor Taxicab Owners Association has announced that meters will start ticking in all local cabs today, just in time to catch stu- dents rushing to local train and bus terminals. Replacing the present "35 cents anywhere in the city rate," the basic meter cost will be 25,cents for the first quarter mile and five cents for each additional quarter mile or fraction. A local taxi company has estimated that the new system of cab fares will mean on a trip from East Quadrangle to the train terminal an increase of about 20 cents. Says Russia Out To Rule Entire World MIT Assembly Hears Leader BOSTON - () - Winston Churchill said last night only the atomic bomb in United States hands had stopped Communists from overrunning Europe and bombing London. Britain's war-time Premier bluntly accused "the 13 men in the Kremlin" of "aiming at the rule of the world." * * * HE CHARGED they "fear the friendship of the west more than its hostility." But, he held out this hope: "War is not inevitable." The 74-year-old British states- man spoke in Boston Garden at a mid-century convocation of Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology before a distinguished crowd of 13,900. Some of the scientists who helped develop the atom bomb, as well as diplomats of several na- tions, heard him sound this warn- ing: "I MUST NOT conceal from you the truth as I see it. It is certain that Europe would have been Communized and London under bombardment some time ago but for the deterrent of the atomic bomb in the hands of the United States." Three times Churchill struck at the "13 men in the Kredin" during his hour-long speech. But at the very outset Churchill said "I remain an optimist." And he quickly followed up this assertion with this: * * * "FOR GOOD or ill air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power, and fleets and armies, however necessary and important, must accept a subordi- nate rank." "This," he said, "is a memorable milestone in the march of man." More than 100 pickets parad- ed outside the big arena where Churchill spoke only a few city blocks from historic Fanuell Hall - known as America's "cradle of liberty." Just before Churchill spoke, a message was read from President Truman predicting that Churchill would "give you something his- torical for this meeting." . * * Britain Curbs Export Trade To Russians LONDON - () - Britain put a tight control last night on the shipment of about everything of "potential military value" to Rus- sia and her satellites. This action came with a dis- closure that Britain is planning to lend Russia 9,000,000 pounds ($36,000,000) so that Russia can buy non-military supplies from Britain in the next 12 months. * * * HAROLD WILSON, president of the Board of Trade, announced in the House of Commons a new schedule of raw materials and ma- chinery subject to export con- trols. The items involved might be used as war goods. Listed on the schedule are graphite, mica in certain forms, various other minerals, precision machinery, industrial diamonds, some scientific apparatus, vari- ous chemicals and other items that could be adapted to pro- duction for military purposes. Wilson's statement did not men- tion the Soviet Union or other Eastern European countries by CONCLUDES ORATORICAL SERIES: Fadiman Calls for Spiritual Revival of Individual By JANET WATTS "Only a spiritual revolution within the individual can attack the de-personalizing elements in today's culture," Clifton Fadiman said last night in the last of the dominates much of literature," he said. The contemporary creative writer portrays a world that dis- satisfies him. It is a world filled with the fear that an atomic, hnateriolnozric war will either ity, the New York critic believes. He outlined a decay in re- ligion, the machine age and mass communications the fac- tors in this loss of personality. "Though the formalized religion of chiirches still flourishes we flying you become simply a part of the machine," he said. Mass communication enables more and more people to get facts at fewer and fewer points of information dispersal. And this makes neonle more and "After World War I novels were for the most part anti-war and contained some feeling of hope. But those written after the recent war seem to show an acceptance of war as a normal, activity of man." he said. ' I