WOMEN'S HOURS See Page 4 Ci r Lw yra Latest Deadline in the State *41 ait ,; 7., c! SUNNY BUT COOL VOL. LIX, No. 160 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, MAY 15, 1949 PRICE FIVE CENTS Government May Step Into Ford Dispute Reuther Says No Settlement Near By The Associated Press Cyrus 'S. Ching, director of the .Jederal Mediation and Concilia- tion Service, yesterday said he would enter the production speed- up dispute at Ford Motor Co. un- less it were settled within a "rea- sonable period." The CIO United Auto Workers earlier asked Ching to step into the dispute. UAW president Wal- ter Reuther in a telegram said the dispute was "no nearer settlement than on the day the strike began." * * * THERE WAS NO immediate comment from Ford. Company officials had turned down a union peace bid to open wage and contract talks imme- diately, two months before the present agreement runs out. "We have given careful consid- eration to the union's proposal and we cannot accept it," said Ford vice-president John S. Bugas. THEN, PRESENTING a com- pany offer to the union, Bugas said: "Should this fail, we are pre- pared to continue negotiations until we reach a solution to this dispute." * ~* * UNION NEGOTIATORS said their proposal would have set a constant speed on Ford assembly line production geared to "nor- mal work practices." This, said Bugas, was "similar to propositions the union has made across the bargaining table both before and after the strike began." Ford said in a statement that the union's proposal would "create a basis for the practice of 'feather- bedding' which the company would not countenance.", * * * IT INSISTED that the speedup dispute be settled by arbitration. The Union has refused to submit the issue to an arbitrator. Ford said the union proposition "definitely limits the company's contractual rights to establish and enforce production standards." The UAW had counted on the Ford negotiations to spearhead its industry wide 1949 demands for pensions, medical care plans and undisclosed wage boosts. The walkout of 65,000 Ford workers was called 10 days ago over a union charge of a "speed- up" on the assembly line at the Rouge Plant. The union com- plained that production speeds were unfair. Ford denied the charge. CIO Demands Higher Wages, SocialBenefits PITTSBURGH-(IP) -The CIO United Steelworkers yesterday for- mally asked for a fourth round pay boost for 706,000 workers. The demand for an unspecified -wage increase - plus social se- curity benefits including pensions -was made in letters to 835 steel companies. The letters said the union "desires to negotiate." AS THE LETTERS were sent out, industrial and labor execu- tives waited for reaction from U.S. Steel Corp., and other steel industries. What happens in steel often provides the answer to what happens in industry generally. The demands of the steel- workers are the first formally served on industry for a fourth- round pay boost. However, other big CIO unions are falling in line and John L. Lewis, head of the independent United Mine Workers, has served notice he wants more benefits for his half-million soft coal diggers. Philip Murray, president of both the CIO and the United Steel- workers, hasn't indicated just what wage increases heswants. And he hasn't specified just what TWins Morton Award TOPS GRID ASPIRANTS-Don Dufek, a junior fullback, won the Meyer Morton Trophy for the most improved player in spring practice as the national champion Wolverines climaxed drills yesterday with a hard scrimmage on the Ferry Field turf. * * * * Dufek Wins Morton Award For Spring Grid Progress By PRES HOLMES Husky Wolverine fullback Don Dufek was selected for the Meyer W. Morton award yesterday, given annually to the most improved gridder in spring practice. The 185 - pound, five - foot - ten Chicago lad had a perfect atten- dance record at practice, but it was his industry, sincerity, and consistent hard work that really won him the trophy, according to backfield coach George Ceithaml. * * * . DUFEK FIRST reported for var- sity practice last fall and saw Hodes ,Concfe1rtK Will Feature Dfixieland Jazz Seven-Man Combo To PlayHere Tonight Dixieland Jazz, considered by many experts as the best means of musical expression, will be fea- tured by Art Hodes and his All- Stars in a concert to be presented at 8 p.m. today in Hill Auditorium. An extremely "free" type of mu- sic, Dixieland Jazz was inspired. by the New Orleans style, which, in turn, was influenced by the African congo beat, French opera and spirituals. * ~* * AS JAZZ PROGRESSED up the Mississippi River, the ensemble playing of New Orleans jazz was transformed into a series of solos which is the predominant char- acteristic of Chicago or Dixieland Jazz. It is two beat music played by a seven-man combo, consisting of piano, clarinet, trumpet, .trom- bone, bass, guitar and drums. The high point of Dixieland Jazz renditions are the improvised solos, usually provided by the clarinet, piano or trumpet. Appearing with Hodes, keyboard wizard, will be Pee Wee Russell, clarinet; Wild Bill Davison, trum- pet; Brad Gowans, trombone; Herb Ward, bass; Tony Sbarbaro, drums and Brownie McGhee, guitarist and folk ballad singer. enough action to win a letter. This spring he has been groomed for the offensive fullback spot because of his prowess as a spinner. Head Coach Bennie Ooster- baan stated, "Dufek's improve- ment has been remarkable, but his fine spirit and his willing- ness to work with everything he has is even more remarkable. He is highly deserving of the honor." There was some doubt earlier this spring as to whether or not the award could be made since the, fund seemed to be tied up in legal complications after the death of Morton. The last two winners, Leo Koceski and Al Wistert, had not received the actual award because of this complication, but the diffi- culty has now been straightened out. * * * MORTON LEFT a provision in his will for the award, which has been renamed in his honor from the Chicago Alumni award. The trophy has been awarded annually since 1925 and the list of winners includes such out- standing Wolverine players as "Kip" Taylor, head coach at Oregon State, George Ceithaml, who is now coaching on the Michigan staff, Merv Pregulman, earning a living in professional football ranks, and Bob Weise, a former pro with the Detroit Lions. Spring practice was officially closed yesterday as the varsity team piled up six touchdowns in an intrasquad scrimmage. Dufek accounted for one of the six tallies. Three of the scores came as a result of passes, one of which was the most spectacular play of the day. Quarterback Bob Van Summern pitched a scoring pass to end George Sutherland on a play that covered a total of 60 yards before reaching pay- dirt. Several hundred spectators were on hand to watch the final work- out session. No effort was made to dress up the affair, it was just another scrimmage as far as the players and coaches were con- cerned. Ceithaml stated that the coaches were very pleased with the after- noon's proceedings, which was one of the "best and most encourag- ing scrimmages we have had in a long time." Cinder Team In Close Win Over Illinois Visitors' Skein Broken, 67'12-64 . By BILL CONNOLLY The Michigan track team hus- tled off Ferry Field yesterday with its first dual meet victory over Illi- nois in five years, as they beat the highly-favored visitors by a score of 672-64%. This was only the second loss for the Illini in over four years. Their last loss was in 1947 to Southern California. PICKING UP unexpected points in the field events, the Wolverines were behind all the way in the meet. Victory was not within sight until the results of the broad jump were announced just before the relay was run. The mile quartet, composed of Jim Ackerman, Bob Sergeson, Rod Warren and Herb Barten gainedrtherneeded points in the final event as Barten overcame a two-yard deficit on the anchor leg and sprinted in 15 yards ahead of the Illini anchor man, LeRoy Vranek The closing phase of the meet kept the fans glued to their seats as they awaited announcement of the field results. Trailing by al- most twenty points, the Wolverines picked up encouragement in the pole vault, where Ed Ulvestad and Russ Osterman tied for first place with Illini men Don Laz and Sam Stotlar * * * WHEN THE public address sys- tem boomed the fact that Michi- gan had counted eight points in the discus to one for Illinois, with Pete Dendrinos and Al "Brick" Wahl placing one-two, respective- ly, the fans began to stir. Var Baydarian took five first- place points and Eck Koutonen counted for another with a third place leap in the broad jump, tf.d Michigan had 57/2 points to Ill- nois' 59%, going into the relay.. ACKERMAN, running the lead- off leg of the mile relay, was step- for-step with Illini Hank Gilbert- son as he passed the baton to Ser- geson. Rod Warren, who got the stick from the Wolveriie number two man, lost about two yards to Illinois' fastest sprinter, Bill Buster. See HIDDEN, Page 6 World News Round-Up By The Associated Press SHANGHAI-A Chinese Com- munist drive on nearby Woosung has been beaten off with 5,000 Red casualties, a garrison communique said early this morning. INDIANAPOLIS-A section of a grandstand collapsed beneath the weight of Indianapolis Motor Speedway fans yesterday, causing serious injury to one Indianapolis man and cuts and bruises to 28 others. ** * CANNES, France-The Com- munist mayor of Villauris has been asked to perform the wedding service for Moslem Prince Aly Khan and Hollywood actress Rita Hayworth May 27, the city clerk disclosed yester- day. * * * WASHINGTON - Experts who advise Congress on taxes figured yesterday that the government will run up a $3,000,000,000 deficit in the next fiscal year which begins July 1. * * * WASHINGTON - Senator Hickenlooper (Rep., Iowa) charged yesterday that the Atomic Energy Commission let a $3,600-a year science scholar- ship go to a student after its own investigation showed he was a Communist. DETROIT-Next week has been proclaimed by Gov. Williams as "Michigan Safety Week," to con- cur with the 19th annual Michigan Safety Conference here May 17- 20. DKE Recognition -Daly-Waly Barth NOT ACCORDING TO HOYLE-Jim Mitchell, Michigan hurdler, slides across the finish line in a desperate bid for victory. Judges at yesterday's meet with Illinois ruled that his entire body had not crossed, and the sophomore speedster was denied the win. BIAS SURVEY: Prejudice in Rooming Houses Har oDefine Gravity Foils Hurdler (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the last in a series of seven articles dealing with l the policies employed in student housing facilities, withn rticulart reference to racial and relf!ous fac- tors.) By BUDDY ARONSON The problem of discrimination Eisler Arrested By British; Taken From Polish Ship Forced off Liner by Scotland Yard; Fails in Attempt to Escape U.S. Trial SOUTHAMPTON, England-(AP)-Gerhart Eisler, fugitive Com- munist from the United States, was arrested and carried off the Polish ship Batory last night by four British policemen. The squat, spectacled Communist who jumped $23,500 bail in Ere United States, where two prison sentences are hanging over him, was carried into the tiny cabin of the tender Romsey, * * * * AFTER A SWIFT run from the Batory's anchorage to the Southampton docks, he was taken ashore without undue protest. Hatless and wearing a brown jacket, he was led down the gangplank by Inspector W. E.. Bray of Scotland Yard in an apparently resigned Vital Questions Postpone UN Adj ournment NEW YORK-(/P)-The United Nations Assembly abandoned last night all attempts to adjourn this week-end. It put over until Mon- day the last two hot issues-Spain and the former Italian colonies. The delegates will tackle Mon- day at 9:30 a.m. a Latin American proposal to take the diplomatic wraps off Spain. The disposition of the former Italian colonies will come up when action on Spain is concluded., Late yesterday delegates ap- proved a resolution asking South Africa, India and Pakistan to go into a round-table huddle over the problem of India's charges that South Africa discriminates against persons of Indian origin. The vote was 47 to one (South Africa) with ten abstentions. This was the mildest action so far taken. In two previous as- semblies the delegates have said South Africa violated fundamental human rights in its treatment of Indians. The end of the Assembly de-, pends on how quickly they can decide the Spain and Italian cases. This may not come now until Tuesday. By a 33 to 6 (Soviet Bloc) vote, the assembly early yesterday ap- proved the world's first proposed treaty of freedom of information. Thirteen countries abstained and seven were absent. The pact will not be presented to the nations for signature until the UN works out a broader com- panion pact at the fall assembly. The convention approved by the Assembly would give to news, radio and film correspondents in all countries signing it the rights and privileges they now enjoy in the United States and similar democracies. in off-campus men's housing is a difficult one to define in exact terms. Since such units are privately owned and not under University jurisdiction, admittance policies are a matter of individual discre- tion. * * * ALTHOUGH no scientific sur- vey of bias practiced in off-cam- pus housing is available or per- haps even possible, an overall pic- ture is readily apparent. The Negro is undoubtedly the student most frequently discrim- inated against. One landlady told me that when she adver- tises for roomers, she does not include her phone number be- cause a Negro might phone and say that he'll take the room." frame of mind. He was hustled into a black limousine and sped away. The tender changed docks in a last-minute maneuver apparently designed to shake off newspaper reporters and photographers. They were able to view the scene, how- ever. ALTHOUGH EISLER did not actually resist while being carried off the Batory, it was evident he was being taken against his will. He was not handcuffed when brought off the tender, but In- spector Bray walked sideways holding both of Eisler's wrists. Other policemen surrounded the Communist. A U.S. Embassy spokesman in London said the fugitive would be held in Southampton overnight and then taken to the Bow Street Jail and Magistrate's court in London today to face extradition proceedings to the United States. * * * SOUTHAMPTON police report- ed a slightly different schedule. They said Eisler would spend the weekend in jail at the Southamp- ton civic center and then ap- pear in Southampton Magistrate's Court in London. Bow Street is the only Magis- trate's Court in England em- powered to deal with applica- tions for extradition. The warrant on which Eisler was arrested, police said, was is- sued under the Extradition Act of 1870. Painless Test For TB Now Ready for Use NEW YORK- () -A painless, five-cent test for tuberculosis now is ready for use in detecting persons with TB. A dab of gluey material is put on the skin. It hardens, like nail polish. After 24 hours it is peeled or washed off. If redness and little blisters have formed, it indicates tuberculosis. The gluey material is a new tuberculin, a substance prepared from tuberculosis germ, in a quick-drying plastic base. It now is being produced in quantity, and the cost of the material is only about a nickel for each test. It1 can be given by a nurse of tech-' nician. The test was developed by Dr. Harry J. Corpor, director of Re- search at the National Jewish Hospital at Denver. Its readiness for mass tests was announced last night at the annual dinner of the free, non-sectarian institu- tion. The test (named "Plastotest") is 80 per to 85 per cent accurate, about the same as the test that uses a needle, Dr. Corpor said. It is quicker than the patch test for tuberculosis, and it doesn't cause skin irritations that can cloud the patch test results, he added. "Not that I against Negroes,x different-that'sa * * have anything but they're just all." * AS A RESULT of the widespread prejudice encountered by Negro students in Ann Arbor, most of them are forced to live in one of the few all-Negro houses in town. West Holding Secret Talks On Germany PARIS--(/P)-Diplomats of the United States, Britain and France imposed a news blackout yester- day on their joint strategy talks for the imminent Big Four Con- ference on Germany. The Western Officials met for two and a half hours in the French Foreign Ministry, then adjourned until Monday. Delegation spokes- men said their chiefs had agreed that no information would be giv- en out, not even the topic dis- cussed. * * * THIS POLICY apparently was adopted in an effort to keep from tipping off the Russians on pos- sible western moves when Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei I. Vishin- sky joins the U.S., British and French Foreign Ministers to dis- cuss the future of Germany her@ May 23. The western representatives are conducting their prelimin- ary meetings in an effort to build up a common three-power front on German issues. A moscow dispatch quoted the Soviet Government Newspaper Iz- vestia as saying the four power agreement calling the meeting "can be the first step on the path of future agreements on basic questions of the German prob- lem." Izvestia charged, however, that certain groups in the West already are trying to discredit the For- eign Ministers' Conference and warned "It would be absurd and naive to suppose that "dictation could be applied in the talks. Crews Clear Rubble from Flolland Tunnel NEW YORK. -(P) --Steel-hel- meted crews removed tons of rub- ble from the blast-seared Holland Tunnel yesterday in efforts to re- open the two-mile long tunnel for its daily load of 46,000 cars and trucks. The underwater artery, linking New York and New Jersey, was re- ported basically undamaged by the fire and blasts that ripped through it Friday, shearing away 250 feet of its inner ceiling. Normal vehicular traffic through the New York-bound tube may be resumed today. The New Jersey-bound tube, now handling two-way traffic, resumed operations Friday afternoon, five hours after a big truck, loaded with a cargo of carbon disulphide, blew up in the East-bound shaft of the tunnel. Sixty-six persons, mostly fire- men and tunnel workers, were treated for injuries. Many of them were overcome by fumes from the blazing chemicals. Sprayed with the flaming.chem- ical, other trucks caught fire and the accident area became a raging inferno of flames and poisonous gas. So intense was the heat, many of the trucks were fused together into an almost solid mass of molten wreckage. The searinr hat mltd som Judging by1 cases reported students rank Negroes in the they meet. the number of to me, foreign second only to amount of bias Orientals appear to encounter discrimination more than any other foreign students. Two land- ladies told me that they would not accept any foreign students, "especially Chinese." In each case the woman declared that she wanted only "good Americans." JEWISH STUDENTS form the See HOUSING, I$age 8 Baldwin Named Head of Lane Hall Dr. Dewitt C. Baldwin, program director of the Student Religious Association, has been named by the Board of Governors of Lane Hall as acting director of Lane Hall. Dr. Baldwin served as a Meth- odist missionary in Burma and India for ten years. He is known to many students on campus as the founder and national director of the Lisle Fellowship. NOTED ECONOMIST: IBergson to Give Two Lectures on Soviet Un ion *4* . AWARDS TO POSTERITY: Senior Class Favors Scholarship Plan Prof. Abraham Bergson, an au- thority on Russian economy on the Political Science faculty at Columbia University, will deliver two public lectures at 7:45 p.m. tomorrow and 4:15 p.m. Tuesday in Rackham Auditorium. Prof. Bergson's first lecture will deal with "National Income and thn Sm i,. +. +f +tha Snt 'n By DOLORES PALANKER Reaction to the suggestion for a senior class memorial consist- ing of a scholarship fund to be awarded to children of its class members reveals a strong major- ity in favor of the plan. cohesiveness' that does not ex- ist?" Allen Parducci asked, while David Firestone said, "Class co- hesiveness is bosh for a group this size." Marsh Lewis, co-chairman of Edgar R. McCleery refused to "support any fund left to ac- cumulate in an Ann Arbor bank at low interest rates." Pointing out that three-and-a- half more students favored the :'za.