ANGRY IMPROVISATIONS Y Latest Deadline in the State i1 CLOUDY, SHOWERS See Page 4 VOL. LIX, No. 162 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1949 PRICE FIVE CENTS Reds Dazed By German Vote Upset Communist Win Below Estimates BERLIN-(IP)-About a third of the Germans voting in the single ticket zonal elections behind the Iron Curtain have upset forecasts and dropped a big "no" in the bal- lot box, official Communist figures disclosed today. A total of 4,080,272 votes was- registered in opposition. BERLIN'S COMMUNISTS ap- peared dazed by the results of the Sunday and Monday election of 2,000 delegates to a "People's Con- gress," a Soviet-model parliament which they had expected would show an almost solid "yes" vote. A thick wrapping of official secrecy had covered the results for nearly 24 hours after the polls closed when the Soviet Zone Election Bureau finally is- sued these figures: Eligible to vote, 13,533,071. Total vote, 12,887,234. Percentage of eligibles voting, 95.2. Valid ballots, 12,024,221. Total "yes" vote, 7,943,949. Percentage, 66.1. Total "no" vote, 4,080,272. Percentage, 33.9. * * EVEN THE FIGURE 66.1 per cent voting "yes" appeared not en- tirely correct. The Election Bureau apparently counted the more than *800,000 invalid ballots to reach that percentage figure. Actually, only slightly more than 60 per cent of those voting cast "yes" ballots. In Eastern Berlin, the result was even more emphatic. There 41.9 per cent voted against the ticket, 58.1 per cent for it. The conditions of the voting had led observers to expect a 90 per cent or better "yes" vote. There was only one list of candidates, all screened by Communist organi- zatidris a The voter could not write in his own preference. * * * AT THE TOP of the ballot was this statement: "I am for the unity of Ger- many and a just peace treaty. Therefore I am for the follow- ing candidates." But at the bottom was a place to vote "no," and a place to vote "'yes."~ Although the election was held only in the Russian-occupied zone, some Communist organizations from Western Germany had nom- inated 500 candidates so that the government could be described as representing all Germany. 'Patience' Not Losing Money, Says President Jim Schneider, '49 BAd, presi- dent of the University Gilbert and Sullivan Society, last night vigor- ously denied statements appearing in yesterday's Daily which indi- cated that his society went into the "red" with their recent pro- duction of "Patience." "Although all bills have not yet been received, it appears that we can cover our costs with the in- come from the show," he said. The Daily article said that at- tendance for the Friday and Saturday performances "fell off sharply" from the Thursday at- tendance. "Actually, attendance increased each night, with the largest aud- ience seeing the Saturday show," according to Schneider, He added that "Patience" did suffer from the heavy competi- tion of the recent weekend in that audiences were much smaller for this show than for past Gilbert and Sullivan Society productions. Schneider stressed the fact that the society has a comfortable sur- plus of past profits which could be used to meet any expenses that might not be covered byrevenue' obtained from "Patience" ticket sales. Ruthven Will Give Education Lecture FAMILY TRADITION: Roosevelt Captures Congressional Seat NEW YORK-(/P)-Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. won a seat in Con- gress tonight in a triumphant battle with Tammany Hall which his father fought early in his political career 35 years ago. The lanky, handsome young scion of one of the nation's famous political families was the first of the late president's five children to run for office. * * * * HE PILED UP SUCH a commanding lead in the 20th Congres- sional District special election that his Democratic foe conceded defeat' an hour after the polls closed. A' Economic Bloc Beaten In Senate WASHINGTON-(P)-The Con- gressional economy bloc suffered a major defeat yesterday when the Senate passed a $2,400,000,000 appropriation bill after cancelling a previous order to cut it. The bill, passed on a voice vote after a series of rollcalls, now goes back to the House for action on Senate changes. * * * BY A 43 TO 41 rollcall, the Senate voided its action of nearly three weeks ago sending the bill back to the Appropriations Com- mittee with orders to pare about $11,000,000 off the total. The Ad- ministration was aided by the fact there were a number of Repub- lican absentees. Then it rejected, 44 to 41, a substitute reduction proposal which would have called for a slightly smaller cut. The motion to recall the meas- ure from the committee again was made by Sen. Green (Dem., R.I.). The bill carries funds to run the Labor Department and the Fed- eral Security Agency during the year starting July 1. *' * * THE ORIGINAL reduction or- der called for a five per cent cut in the operating costs of the two agencies. It would not have ap- plied to such items in the bill as state-aid grant programs. Approval of Green's motion brought the bill before the Sen- ate in the same form it bad been before the April 28 vote sending it back-leaving intact floor amendments which added $13,500,000 to the amont the committee approved earlier. Sen. Ferguson (Rep., Mich.) then made a new proposal to trim operating funds in that total by five per cent. The original econ- omy order called for a five per cent cut in the operating funds voted by the Appropriations Com- mittee. THIS NEW MOVE, which would have required a slightly smaller money cut, was rejected 44 to 41 on the second roll call. At the other end of the Cap, itol, meanwhile, Rep. Mills (Dem., Ark.) proposed a "pain- less" boost of $5,000,000,000 in government revenues to balance the government's books in the new fiscal year. It would require corporations to pay all their 1949 taxes six months earlier than usual. Mills said he evolved the plan after conferring with Secretary of the Treasury Snyder. Roosevelt, running on the Lib- eral and Four Freedoms Parties tickets after Tammany denied him the Democratic nomination, garnered 41,146 votes in the 20th District's 179 voting districts. Municipal Court Justice Benja- min H. Shalleck, wh had the Tamany nod, received 24,352 votes. * * * WILLIAM M. McINTYRE, Re- publican, won 10,020, Annette Rubenstein, American Labor, trailed with 5,348. The bitterly fought contest, which kept Manhattan's West Side in an uproar for a month, was for the seat of the late Sol Bloom, veteran Democrat who won 13 successive terms in Con- gress. Roosevelt assailed Tammany throughout his campaign but at the same time he announced his support of President xruman's Fair Deal program, with &nphasis on housing and civil rights. * * * HE DESCRIBED himself as a 100 per cent Democrat and told a reporter yesterday he would serve as a Democratic Congressman. "I have always been a Demo- crat and I will continue to be a Democrat," he declared. It is up to the House of Repre- sentatives majority leadership to accept the new Congressman as a Democrat and give him commit- tee assignments on that basis. Washington observers were sure such acceptance would be forth- coming promptly. * * * ROOSEVELT'S TERM runs un- til the next regular election in No- vember 1950. * *.* THE DEMOCRATIC National Chairman, U.S. Sen. J. Howard McGrath, put the national ad- ministration behind Shalleck in the campaign. State Democratic Chairman Paul E. Fitzpatrick fol- lowed suit. But many top Democratis, in- cluding old New Dealers promi- nent in New York State politics, supported young FDR. The defeat was a sharp blow to Tammany, which is facing a city election next November snubbed by Mayor William O'Dwyer. Tam- many also is smarting from a drubbing in an important Man- hattan surrogate fight last year. Tammany spokesmen attacked Roosevelt in the election battle, calling him "Junior," a playboy, immature and an interloper in the 20th district. Freshman Honor Society Initiates Phi Eta Sigma, freshman hon- orary society, last night initiated 92 new members. Officers elected for next year were: president, Donald Nelson, '52; vice president, Ernest Brook- field, '52; secretary, Samuel Lu- borsky, '52; treasurer, Robert Hor- witch, '52; historian, Deil Wright, '52. [ay Remove Photos from Applications Smith To Make Recommendation Registrar Ira M. Smith agreed yesterday to recommend that re- quests for photographs be drop- ped from freshmen applications to the literary college. At the request of the Committee to End Discrimination, he said he would submit his recommenda- tion to the nine department facul- ties of the literary college and Michigan high school principals who make up the application forms. * * * THE PROPOSED action was agreed upon at a conference be- tween seven CED representatives and six University officials yes- terday. Representatives from the edu- cation, graduate, and law schools agreed to consider re- moving questions of race, reli- gion and nationality, as well as photograph requests from ap- plications. However they said they could not promise anything without first consulting their faculties. THE DEANS agreed that such questions could be used for dis- criminatory purposes. But they emphasized that they were not used for those purposes. The education and graduate school applications and those for advanced literary college standing did not contain ques- tions which the CED contended could be used for discriminatory purposes. Present at the meeting were Erich A. Walter, dean of students, Dean James B. Edmondson of education school; Dean Hayward Keniston of the literary college; Associate Dean Peter Oeklburg of the Graduate School; Secretary Russel A. Smith of Law School and Registrar Smith. * * * IN DISCUSSING the general admission policies of the school represented, the deans explained why application blanks questions were included. Student photographs "help the counselors get acquainted with the student before he ar- rives," they said. The place of parents' birth is asked so that the registrar will obtain a "better over-all picture of the student's background." Students present at the meet- ing were Leon Rechtman, '50, CED president; Flo Bacon, '49 PubH; Barry Driggers, '51; Dave Frazer, '51; Blyden Jackson, Grad.; Ed- win R. Lewinson, '51; and Calvin Lippitt, '49. AL Leaders Believe Party SystemDead CLEVELAND - (P) - The AFL leadership yesterday expressed the opinion that the two party system in Congress is dead. It its place, the labor bosses said, there is "a tug-of-war be- tween reactionary forces from both parties on one side and lib- erals from both parties on the other." * * * "ON MANY VITAL issues, the pulling and hauling between these contending forces has resulted in a stalemate," said President Wil- liam Green after a three-hour po- litical meeting of union heads. They were angry at failure of Congress to repeal the Taft-Hart- ley Act after four months. "It becomes clear, therefore, that a sizeable majority for the Democratic Party in the 81st Congress offers labor scarcely any greater comfort than the heavy majority the Republicans had in the 80th Congress," the AFL leaders said. "What organized labor and the country as a whole need is a large majority of liberals in Con- gress, regardless ofrwhat their party affiliations may be." Purchase System Lists New Stores Ruthven Declares Budget Slash May Result in Crisis IDLE FORD PLANT--Automobiles in the early stages of completion stand deserted on an assembly line at Ford's Rouge plant, where more than 60,000 UAW-CIO workers are on strike. The Union yesterday rejected a proposal from Ford that would have returned all but 5,000 of the company's 102,000 workers who have been on strike since May 5. * * * * 4 CIO-UAW Turns Down Ford Plan To End Strike DETROIT-(0P)-A Ford pro- posal that would have sent all but, 5,000 of the company's 102,000 strike-idled employes back to work within a few days was turned down yesterday by the CIO Unit- ed Auto Workers. Ford suggested the union call off its strike in all the sprawling units of the company's key Rouge plant except the "B" building. It also said the Lincoln-Mercury plant here could remain strike- bound. S* * * THE '"B" BUILDING, otherwise known as the Dearborn Assembly Plant, and the Lincoln-Mercury factory are the only units in the nation-wide Ford industrial sys- tem directly involved in the UAW's charge of a production speed-up. They employ 5,000 men between them. To back its speed-up com- plaint, the union struck the en- tire Rouge plant and the Lin- coln-Mercury plant May 5. About 65,000 workers at the two plants walked out and 37,000 other Ford workers have been idled by resulting shutdowns since then. Ford made the proposal as yes- terday's negotiating session got under way. Less than two hours later the union rejected it as "fan- MSC News WillContinue Michigan State News will con- tinue its regular publication sched- ule despite financial troubles, ac- cording to Dave Root, News man- ager. Earlier reports had indicated that the News would be forced to suspend publication for the sum- mer. In a letter to The Daily, Root said that the News would stop publishing June 3 as usual for the summer vacation. "We hope that the summer term paper will come out as always," he said. Root blamed the News' financial troubles on increased printing costs, a decrease in the subsidy granted by the MSC administra- tion, additions to payroll and ex- pansion of the paper. tastic." UAW Secretary-Treasur- er Emil Mazey called it "merely a variation of the old employer trick of divide and rule." * * * MAZEY AGREED that only 5,000 workers are involved in the "immediate dispute." But be said all Ford workers are "directly af- fected by the basic principle of whether or not the company shall have the right to speed them up whenever it wants to." All Ford workers, he added, will "stand solidly together in this strike." WorldlNews Round-Up By The Associated Press WASHINGTON - A Federal judge yesterday ordered the for- feiture of $20,000 in bonds posted by Communist Gerhart Eisler. * * * NEW YORK-The United Na- tions Assembly rejected com- pletely today the Bevin-Sforza plan to divide the former Italian colonial empire among Italy, Britain, France and Ethiopia. WASHINGTON - Four-star General Lucius D. Clay returned to a hero's welcome at the White House and on Capitol Hill yester- day to crown the historic accom- plishments of the Berlin Airlift. * * * FORT WORTH, Tex. - The death toll of flood waters from a 12-inch cloud burst mounted to six last night as the waters slowly receded. The Red Cross said 13,200 persons were homeless. * * * NEW YORK - The United States and Britain made emphatic denial last night to Slav and Arab charges that the Western Powers were by-passing the United Nations on a plan for disposal of Italy's pre-war colonies. * * * WASHINGTON-President Tru- man acknowledged defeat yester- day and withdrew the nomination of nis old associate, Mon C. Wall- gren, to' the $14,000 a year chair- manship of the National Security Resources Board. U.S. Rejects Spanish Bid For Money WASHINGTON - UP) - Spain suffered a second sharp setback yesterday as officials said the United States has turned down Madrid's informal request for a multi-million dollar loan. The development came less than 24 hours after the United Nations Assembly rejected proposals for ending a diplomatic boycott of the Franco government. * * * RESPONSIBLE Administration officials said both the State De- partment and the government's export-import bank have refused to consider-at least for the pres- ent-the loan plea made by a vis- iting Spanish official. The Spanish representative, Andres Moreno of the Banco Hispano-Americano, mentioned the figure of $1,275,000,000 as the amount his country needs to carry out its overall recon- struction program. Moreno was informed, these of- ficials said, that Spain's present financial situation makes her a poor credit risk. * * * THE IMPLICATION was that if Spain put into effect the eco- nomic reforms repeatedly suggest- ed by the United States the bank might change its mind-but not until then. Government officials reported that during the 10 days of con- ferences with him, Moreno made it plain his country would be in the market for big quantities of American cotton, grain, machin- ery, raw materials and consum- er goods if it could get dollar help from the American govern- ment. It is understood Moreno would explore the possibility of getting loans from private banks during the brief time he remains in the United States. Spain was given a $25,000,000 loan last month from the Chase National Bank of New York, with state department ap- proval. The rejection of Spain's bid was clearly foreshadowed several weeks ago by Secretary of State Acheson at a news conference. He said that until Spain made fundamental economic reforms it was a poor financial risk. Fear T uition.......... HikelCutn i Student Body Senate To Act on RequestsToday By JIM BROWN (Special to The Daily) LANSING - The University is faced with the alternative of in- creasing tuition fees or slashing enrollment by 3,000 students, President Alexander G. Ruthven warned yesterday. The disclosure was made before the Senate Finance Committee where President Ruthven and a delegation of University officials made a final plea for their $12,- 500,000 budget request. FOLLOWING THE hour-long hearing, the Committee began de- bate on the question of restoring the $1,500,000 reduction in the ap- propriation approved by the House last week. It's recommendations are scheduled to be reported on the Senate floor this morning. During the hearing President Ruthven told the-committee that, "the University simply cannot car- ry on its work at the figure ap- proved in the House bill." IF THE AMENDED appropria- tion is carried by the Senate, he warned, "the University is faced with only two choices-4ncreasing tuitional fees or reducing enroll- ment by 3,000 students." "I will appose both of these alternatives vigorously," Presi- dent Ruthven declared. Ie a - ed: "Fees are already as high as they should be. As for reducing enrollment, I will absolutely not be a party to any movement to deny education to the people of Michigan." VICE-PRESIDENT Marvin L. Niehuss pointed out that student fees are five times as high as they were in 1929 and asked the com- mittee, "How much should you charge students when the Univer- sity is supposed to be the keystone of free education?" Niehuss said that although the University has allocated every cent possible to faculty salaries, the real income of teachers has declined markedly in the past few years. "As a result, the University is losing its pre-eminent place among great American educational insti- tutions and wealthier schools are 'raiding' our faculty," he said. * * * ALTHOUGH THE debate was still going on last night, Commit- tee members indicated that they were impressed by presentation by the University delegation. They warned, however, that they had agreed with the House Ways and Means Committee to make no substantial changes in money bills without the approval of House leaders. IFC S-g Will e Held Today The twelfth annual Interfra- ternity Council Sing will be held at 7 p.m. on the steps of the Gen- eral Library. Master of ceremonies will be Jim Reiss and the winner's tro- phies will be presented by Bruce Lockwood, retiring IFC president. * * * JUDGES FOR the contest are Prof. Maynard Klein and Prof. Philip A. Duey, of the School of Music, and Lester McCoy, asso- ciate conductor of the University Musical Society. Eleven groups will compete, each fraternity being sponsored by a sorority. Mosher Hall, win- ners of the women's annual "T.Ant-rnA n r l illrin a. WAGE DIFFERENCES: Social Classes in USSR Not Equal Says Bergson: The Russian government has adopted a scale of wage differen- tials which is probably equal to that in the United States toty, stated Prof. Abram Bergson in a lecture yesterday in Rackham Amphitheatre. Speaking on "Inequality and So- cial Classes in the U.S.S.R.," Prof. Bergson cited prewar statistics which showed a 100-1 difference in salaries between the highest paid workers in writing and music and the lowest paid workers in in- dustrial labor. that the Soviets deliberately falsify their figures. Taking up the charge that such discrimination proves Russia is socialistic, not communistic, he stid the question was highly debat- able and summarized the two op- posing views. "DEFENDERS OF Soviet pol- icy," he said, "believe that Marx thought primitive, feulad states such as Russia must undergo so- cialism to reach communism, tshil ifi n i A i WANTED, HUMANITARIANS: Lame Law Student Seeks Assistance 0' Richard Nelson "has his heart set" on entering the University Law School next fall, but it all depends on one or two other stu- dents. two University students who are willin gto help him get around the Law Quad next year. "At each school Dick is met _m.i . i --a - a.is. recently surprised his parents by hitch-hiking to Kent, Ohio, for the Kent State-Woster basketball game.