LENGTHENING SHADOW See Page 4 l Ofrr Dtiit6F CLOUDY, COL AIR Latest Deadline in the State VOL. LIX, No. 86 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 9, 1949 r PRICE FIVE CENTS Russia Demands U.S. Atomic Bomb Count Staffer Makes Good DAILY SUCCESS STORY-Stan Swinton, '40, (left) former Daily City Editor checks assignments with Associated Press writers in Singapore where he is Associated Press chief for southeast Asia. Swinton is only one of many former Daily staffers who have secured top-flight newspaper jobs as a result of experience gained on The Daily. . * I Dail1y Issus Call For Tr Outs_ Toda Students interested in the writing end of the newspaper game will attend the first meeting of The Daily's spring tryout staff at 4 p.m. today in the Student Publications Building, 420 Maynard St. Another tryout meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow for thOse who can't make it today. TWICE A YEAR, The Daily opens its doors to new staff members. These people form the backbone of the paper. In two years, students who try out for The Daily today will be sitting in the senior editors' office running one of the nation's top collegiate newspapers. Work on The Daily, besides giving practical journalism experience, is a proven springboard for newspaper jobs after graduation. Former TRYOUT MEETINGS Editorial, sports, womens' staff ....................4 p.m. today or 7:30 p.m. tomorrow Business staff ........................ . ........ 4 p.m. tomorrow Gargoyle ......................................4 p.m . tom orrow Daily editors, like Stan Swinton, '40, City Editor of 1939 and '40 (see photograph above) are now holding down top newspaper posts all over the world. FIRST SEMESTER staff members will learn the fundamentals of headline writing, proofreading and reporting. They will work once a week on night desk and help put out the paper. Students who wish to write sports copy will learn the writing and makeup style of the sports staff and begin reporting in the spring. Women's staff tryouts will begin writing within six weeks. Pros- pects for advancement on the women's staff are unusually good this year. AFTER A YEAR COVERING beats and reporting, promising members will be promoted to paid junior staff positions. From the junior staff are selected half a dozen students each year to form the senior staff of The Daily. The Senior staff directs the policy of the paper and has charge of all its activities. * IN ADDITION, this year The Daily is on the lookout for music and drama critics and student columnists. Anyone interested in this phase of writing should contact editorial director Naomi Stern at The Daily, 2-3241. Students interested in news photography should contact Leon Jaroff at The Daily. Business Staff Tryouts .. . The first meeting for new business staff members will be held at 4 p.m. tomorrow at The Student Publications Building. No experience is necessary. Students will learn the fundamentals of advertising, finance, layout, promotion work and office manage- ment. WORK ON THE BUSINESS STAFF provides an excellent general business background. whether or not students are interested in news- Dewey Asks GOP'Middle Road' Course Bans Extremists, Hits New Deal WASHINGTON - (P) - Gov. Thomas E. Dewey plotted a mid- dle of the road course for the Re- publican Party and called upon those opposed to "liberal and pro- gressive" policies to leave the GOP. 13e told an overflow Lincoln Day audience in a broadcast address that it would be fatal for the party to follow an extreme path in opposition to all social welfare measures. IT WOULD BE equally fatal, the New York governor said,, to embrace the entire New Deal re- gardless of cost and consequences. Somewhere in between, Dewey said, the Republicans must guide their fortunes down the road of "social progress" and freedom and thus heal what he called the "wide open split" in Republican ranks. Not a vacant chair was seen in the Mayflower Hotel ballroom where the New York governor made his first major speech since he was defeated for the presidency last November. DEWEY WAS frequently ap- plauded, especially in his opening remarks when he good-naturedly referred to the fact that he was coming to Washington only as "an occasional visitor" instead of for a longer stay, as he had thought last November he would. The GOP, Dewey said, should "stop bellyaching about the past." Instead, he advised his party to dedicate itself to forward-looking social programs without trying to "outbid the Democrats with the public money." HE RECALLED that the last GOP platform expressed whole- hearted belief in unemployment insurance, increased old age as- sistance, broader social security generally, slum clearance and public housing, public develop- ment of water power, and farm price supports. Further, he said the plat- form called for "vigorous pro- tection of the rights of labor." "Those who disapprove of these principles and want to fight thei aught to go out and try to get elected in a typical American community and see what happens ;o them," he said. "But they ought not to do it as Republicans." Prof. Pollock Cornmends hoover Report The work of the Hoover Com- mission is the most stupendous and thorough-going survey into :he operations of the Federal Government the United States has ever had in its history, ac- cording to Prof. James K. Pollock. Prof. Pollock, chairman of the political science department, is one of the 12 men on the Commis- sion on Organization of the Ex- ecutive Branch of the Government headed by Herbert Hoover. * 4 * THE COMMISSION submitted the first of 15 reports to Congress Monday. The report resulted in House passage of a bill to give the President power to re-organ- ize 1,800 governmental agencies. "If the Senate passes this bill, it will give the President the power to organize the ad- ministrative branch of the gov- ernment so that it is perfectly clear who has the power to do what," Prof. Pollock said. "At present we not only have big government, but we have un- controlled and chaotic govern- man+ . " ha Pns ~~ vote. Elimination of discriminatory clauses in fraternity and sorority national charters was stressed by many IFC members as the most effective means of fight- ing prejudice. It was pointed out, however, that approximately half the affil- iated groups have no such clause in their national constitutions. * * * ACTION ON THE PART of campus fraternities, it was em- phasized, -is limited to exerting pressure on the national frater- nity committees to eliminate the discriminatory passages. The committee's findings are expected to'influence the pas- sage of an anti-discrimination clause on a countrywide basis, such as was proposed at last year's National Interfraternity Council meeting. It will take a number of years to eliminate discriminatory clauses from national fraternity charters, IFC members pointed out, because a number of the national councils meet only every two or three years. Many national fraternities have large numbers of chapters on Southern campuses, making the problem more acute, one IFC member pointed out. Acheson Steps In To Speed TreatyTalks WASHINGTON-GP)-Secretary of State Acheson took personal charge of North Atlantic treaty negotiations while aides sought answers to a series of knotty questions posed by Norway. Acheson met with the ambassa- dors of Canada, Britain, France, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg in a conference called primarily to speed the regional security project into final draft- ing stages. THE SESSION lasted for two hours and 15 minutes. It was thus one of the longest since the nego- tiations started last summer. When it broke up, British Ambassador Sir Oliver Franks told waiting reporters it was "one of our usual meetings." He declined to say whether Nor- way's position had been dis- cussed. The question which the confer- ence was reported to have had up for discussion is how soon to make public the specific points of the proposed treaty. * *' * THE NETHERLANDS envoy, Eelco Van Kleffens, replied when a reporter asked when the terms would be made public: "I don't know that the pact is ready, for that is what your question implies." Baron Silvercruys, the Belgian ambassador, said the negotiators plan to meet again "in the fairly near future." He declined to say specifically when. SAC OkaysQ Musicia s %ons titutionl The Student Affairs Committee granted approval yesterday to the Music School Assembly (MSA) Constitution-officially extending student government to 529 music concentrates. Members of the temporary council which set up the success- ful MSA Constitution will meet Saturday to map putting the fledgling government into opera- tion, Thomas E. Wilson, Grad SM, announced. THE CONSTITUTION proposes "to further the best interests and desires of its members-all stu- dents working toward degrees in musi;-professionally, culturally and socially." "Specific objectives" include: "Maintaining academic free- dom and students' rights. "Stimulating and improving democratic student government. "Developing better educational standards, facilities, and teaching methods. "Fostering cooperation and un- derstanding among faculty, and teaching methods. "GUARANTEEING all music students equal rights and consid- e'ation regardless of sex, race, re- ligion, political belief or economic circumstance. Faculty advisor for MSA will be Prof. Oliver Edel, of the School of Music. U.S. Claims ERP Victory Acheson Emphasizes Work Must Continue WASHINGTON - (P)-The Ad- ministration asserted that Soviet Russia is now clearly losing a "de- liberate and bitter" campaign against the success of the Mar- shall Plan in Europe. But Congress was told that it is vital "to press that success" and carry on the European Recovery Program for at least another 15 months at a cost of $5,580,000,000. This was the picture sketched by Secretary of State Dean Ache- son and his two top recovery aids in testimony before a joint session of the Senate and House foreign committees. Summarizing results of the first year of multi-billion-dollar U.S. aid to Europe, Acheson told the lawmakers: "The outstanding fact is that the program is succeeding. In rapidssuccession, Marshall Plan Ambassador W. Averell Har- riman and Marshal Plan Adminis- trator Paul G. Hoffman echoed Acheson's confident assurance that Russia's drive to spread its own tenets of Communism has met a severe setback. IFC Will Probe Race Prejudice A precedent-shattering blow at race prejudice in fraternities and sororities was struck by the Interfraternity Council last night as a resolution calling for a joint IFC-Panhel committee to investigate discrimination was passed. A formal report on the committee's findings is to be presented at the last IFC and Panhel meetings of the semester, and the com- mittee is to continue until its work is completed. IT IS THE FIRST TIME a University group has spontaneously taken action to combat discrimination in affiliated groups. The reso- lution was passed by a unanimous -- Mindszenty Risks Life in New Appeal Cardinal Given Full Jail Term BUDAPEST, Hungary --/1) (__ Josef Cardinal Mindszenty calmly received a life sentence on a charge of treason and, just as calmly, filed a hazardous appeal. "Yes," answered the Roman Catholic primate when asked if e wanted to carry the case to a higher court. THOUGH the possibility the penalty might be increased to death on the gallows weighed against the possibility of a lighter sentence-the appeal court can decide either way-the voicefof the 56-year old cardinal was firm and clear. The prosecution demanded again that he die. A five-man people's court con- victed Cardinal Mindszenty of treason, seeking to overthrow the Communist government in favor of the Hapsburg monarchy, and illegal speculation in American dollars obtained from the United States and the Vatican. His money was ordered confiscated. ALL SIX codefendants, of Car- dinal Mindszenty's faith, were convicted with him and were sen- tenced to prison terms ranging from three years to life. Appeals also were entered for them ex- cept the Rev. Ondras Zakar, young former secretary to the cardinal, who drew a six-year term. In addition to the prison terms, property of the defend- ants was ordered confiscated. It was generally accepted in the grey brick courtroom that the confiscation in the Cardinal's case would apply only to his private holdings and not the property in his name as spiritual leader of Hungary's 7,000,000 Catholics. (THE VATICAN newspaper L'Osservatore Romano said "the world sees Josef Mindszenty mount his calvary, carrying a cross which is still the world's." Pope Pius XII sorrowfully en- tered his private chapel upon learning of the verdict and knelt long in prayer.) COUPLED WITH the verdict was a court attack on the United States. Presiding Judge Vilmos Olthys declared the U.S. was a supporter of reactionary forces and a meddler in Hungarian affairs. "U.S. Minister (Selden) Chapin had a great role in building up the activities of Mindszenty," he said. World News Round Up By The Associated Press COPENHAGEN-Rescue planes and boats bored through mist- laden skies and fog-swept waters for trace of a missing Scandina- vian airlines plane with 28 per- sons aboard. WASHINGTON - The Na- tional Labor Relations Board's general counsel said dropping of the Taft-Hartley Act's non- Communist affidavit provision would encourage Communists trying to dominate labor unions. WASHINGTON - The govern- ment's chi'ef prosecutor under the Taft-Hartley law told senators that labor unions have "grown up" and "don't need to be babied or petted any more." CARDINAL MINDSZENTY ... makes dangerous appeal Ex-Seaneu Start Draft Fight Here, Exc-merchant marine seamen on campus last night joined the pa- tional fight against the draft bill insert which makes them eligible for peacetime drafting. At the first session of the Emer- gency Merchant Marine Commit- tee, University chapter, plans of action designed to push exemp- tion legislation for Mariners were outlined to men concerned by campus Committee leaders. THEYtURGED members to write lettes to senators and rep- resentatives froin their individual home states, and stressed the im- portance of circulating petitions wherever possible The battle between Mariners and legislators stems from a general Marine sentiment fa- voring equal rights with other ex-servicemen. Former Merchant Marine sea- men contend that they suffered a higher casualty rate than any other branch. Moreover, they say service was on a volunteer basis and the wage scale was far lower than either Army, Navy, or Mar- ine payroll plans. REPORTS FROM Washington congressmen were presented the group by a five-man delegation just returned from the capital. For three days, the representa- tives gathered comments from more than 35 legislators, formu- lating them into workable points for their now nationwide cam- paign. Committee members reported that Rep. Carl Vinson (D. Ga.) head of the House Armed For- ces Committee, said that "the matter may be considered if further pressure warrants it." !FC Begins Registration Men may register for this se- mester's informal four-week fra- ternity rushing period from 3 to 5 p.m. today and tomorrow in Rm. B of the Union. Rushing procedures will be ex- plained to the rushees at a meet- ing with fraternity rushing chair- men at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in Rms. R and S of' the Union. Open house will be held Sun- day for those fraternities open to rushees, and men may be pledged to a fraternity at any time during the four-week rush- ing period. Jim Ely is the IFC rushing chairman. Asks for Full Arms Tally By BgFive security Council Gets Resolution LAKE SUCCESS-(1P)--Russia proposed that the United Nations Security Council demand a pub- lic inventory of the United States' atom bomb stockpile by the end of March. The Soviet Union, in a 900- word resolution put before the UN Council, suggested that the five big powers give the United Nations a full report by March 31 on their military strength in- cluding atomic weapons. * * * THE SECURITY Council Presi- dent, Dr. T. F. Tsiang of China, adjourned the meeting until to- morrow so the Soviet resolution could be prepared for discussion then. The proposal was laid before the Security Council by Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Jakob A. Malik. In a formal proposal, Russia also demanded simultaneous treatiesdbanning the atomic bomb and calling for world controls on atomic energy, and a plan by the Commission on Atomic controls for another treaty under which the five big powers would reduce all armaments by one third by March 1, 1950. *1 * * THE RUSSIAN resolution end- ed with a demand for the big five to supply no later than March 31 'complete data concerning their armed forces and all types of armaments, including atomic weapons." The United States Is the only one of the five bi W6i-s known officially to possess atomic bombs. This resolution, if approved, would mean that the U. S. would be called on to divulge one of its top secrets- how many bombs are in its de- fense chest. Russia also brought up indirect- ly and for the first time in the Security Council the projected North Atlantic Pact. * ~** THE SOVIET proposal said that the Council should take note of the increasing burden of arms and what it called an evergrow- ing propaganda for a new war and the creation of groups of countries headed by aggressive circles. Israel Facing Triple Hurdle, Speaker Says Its central position in the cold war, relations with Britain and a "melting pot" population are the three problems the new,$ state of Israel has to face, Rabbi R M. Rosenthal declared last night. Rabbi Rosenthal, religious lead- er of the Temple on the Heights in Cleveland, Ohio, spoke as part of the International Zionist Fed- eration of America's "Know Your Israel Week" program. * * "THE COLD WAR will have its effect on Israel," Rabbi Rosen- thal said. "In its central position Israel cannot be anti-anything, only pro-Israel. "Mr. Bevin has not changed his mind," he pointed out. "By recognizing the state now, Brit- ain later will be able to sit in on negotiations which will not be to Israel's benefit," he said. Rabbi Rosenthal believes the fact that Jewish people from nearly every land in the world are now in Israel is both a danger and a challenge because many of them will never make the neces- sary adjustment to life there. "Yet, despite this danger," he added, "Israel will have the right to succeed through that same di- versiytht, hi ni e m mnk-A~a_ MEN VIE FOR CHORUS LINE: Union Opera Needs Beautiful Girls' "20 - Beautiful Girls - 20" -- that's what Union opera officials a vtn-rl o fin toda n revival of the traditional all male Union opera, begins this some uses. 40 parts in the two chor- There'll be 10 men and 10 "girls" in this chorus too. * A' * I