FOREIGN POLICY See Page 4 Latest Deadline in the State :43 i1jq ff D MORE OF THE §AME : - VOL. LX, No. 138 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1950 SIX PAGES Coast Guard Get House Aid Action Reverses EconomyPolicy WASHINGTON-()-The Con- gressional "economy drive" was jolted into reverse yesterday as the House approved a $279,000,000 Vetrans' Hospital program and a $1,000,000 Coast Guard Reserve training project. ) The members, however, shouted down a proposal to increase the Post Office Department's approp- riation by $22,000,000-an amount which Rep. Larcade {D-La) said would be sufficient to prevent sharp curtailment in postal ser- vices. A VOICE VOTE sent to the Sen- ate an Administration-opposed bill directing the Veterans Ad- ministration to proceed with con- struction of 16,080 additional hos- pital beds for war veterans. RPresident Truman more than a year ago cancelled the 16,000- bed plan the first time Con- gress authorized it. He said the authorized construction pro- gram was adequate and was all that could be staffed by avail- able medical personnel. Today's bill, while not appro- priating funds for the program, directs the Veterans Administra- tion to go ahead arranging it des- pite the President's position. P * * * SEPARATE legislation making available the money will be re- quired if the hospitals-24 new ones and additions to 14 already t built or being built-are erected. Rep. Davis (R-Ws), a World War II veteran, predicted a veto. He called the bill a"political gesture" and said existing fa- cilities are adequate for vet- erans with sexvice-onnected * disabilities. Addition of the 16,000 beds, Da- i fs claimed, lays down the prin- ciple that Congress wants'all vet- erans given medical care regard- * less of how they received their disabilities. THE HOUSE debated the hos- pital bill only an hour before passing it without a roll-call vote. It spentlonger than that before deciding, 93 to 88, to add $1,000,- 000 to an omnibus bill appropriat- ing, the extra money being alloted to the Coast Guard for reserve training. The omnibus bill, ap- propriating a total of $29,000,000,- * 000, finances more than 40 Fed- eral agencies for the fiscal year starting July 1. Pollock Will ASeek. Aid for y.Hoover Plan Prof. James K. Pollock, chair- man of the political science de- partment, will keynote an open i meeting to rally campus support for the findings of the Hoover Commission, at 7:30.p.m. today in A the Union. The meeting will be held under { the auspices of Student Legisla- ture to, organize a campus branch of the huge national "Citizens Committee" formed to back the Hoover Commission's recommen- dations for reorganization of the federal government. PROF. Pollock, who was a mem- ber of the Hoover Commission, will explain the purposes and goals of the local committee and briefly review the program of the national "Citizens Committee." Designed to arouse support for the Hoover Commission's re- commendations, the Committee was established immediately af- ter the Commission findings were made public. It is a non-partisan brganiza- tion which has received support from many of the nation's out- standing business, labor and poli- tical leaders. * * * THE Committee recently es- tablished a "colleges and univer- sities" division to publicize its program on campuses all over the RED AGAIN SLATED PhiiI ps To Speak Here Thursday By DAVE CRIPPEN Communist Herbert J. Phillips will speak once and possibly twice this week in Ann Arbor, it was revealed yesterday as two groups moved to sponsor talks by the former University of Washington professor. Phillips is scheduled to appear in a debate on capitalism vs. communism at 8:30 p.m. Thursday in a State St. cafeteria, under the sponsorship of an ad hoc committee formed to hold the affair. A * * *i AN OPPONENT for Phillips had not yet been obtained, committee member John Sloss, Grad., said 1 one could be obtained. King Seizes West Sector Of Palestine AMMAN, Hashemite Jordan-{P) -King Abdullah yesterday for- mally signed documents annexing western Palestine and the old city of Jerusalem to his Jordan King- dom. He thereby confronted the Arab League and United Nations with direct challenges. The signing came after a stormy session of parliament at which at least five Palestinian members vot- ~ed for delay in acting on the union. The annexation of the 1,600 square miles of western Pales- tine disposes of what is left of Palestine outside Israel except for a small coastal strip in the southwest at Gaza which is oc- cupied by Egypt. Jordan's troops have occupied the annexed area since the armistice ended fight- ing with Israel. The step put squarely up to for- eign powers the question of recog- nition of the annexation. The Unit edNations has formal- ly gone on record for the interna- tionalization of Jerusalem, includ- ing the old city. The Arab League, at its last meeting in Cairo April 13, declared the annexation of any part of Pal- estine by an Arab country should be a violation of the League char- ter and subject to sanctions. (Israel, in an official statement, said the annexation was a "unila- teral act" which it was not re- cognizing. The status of western Palestine, the statement said, is subject to final settlement in a peace treaty.) Truce Averts Rail Walkout WASHINGTON--MP)-The gov- ernment won a two-week truce last night in the strike originally set for Wednesday by locomotive firemen against four major rail- roads. The new strike deadline is May 10. Chairman Francis A. O'Neill, Jr., of the National Mediation Board, said that an effort will be made in the meantime to settle the issue. THE DISPUTE centered about a demand by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen for an extra firement on big diesel engines. Embargo orders barring long- distance passenger service and western freight service had al- ready been issued by the Penn- sylvania. These were immediately lifted. t night, but he was confident that Prof. Philip Wernette of the School of Business Administra- tion, who plann ed to oppose Phillips in a similar Michigan Forum debate before it was can- celed by the University Lecture Committee, declined to take part in the Thursday night program. "I wouldn't want to participate in a debate that wasn't officially approved by the University," Prof. Wernette said. THE second appearancedby Phillips would be made at a closed meeting in the Rackham Building of the Acolytes, society for stu- dents taking philosophy courses, if the affair is approved by Uni- versity officials. Because of the previous ac- tion of the University Lecture Committee, Bernard Poll, Grad., club program committee nem- ber said that the club was be- ing especially careful. "There's no question here of our trying to buck the University," he de- clared. Club leaders will meet with. Dean of Students Erich Walter today to find out what procedures they must go through to get an okay on Phillips. IF THE meeting is okayed it will be held at 7:30 p.m. tomor- row in the East Lecture Roomof the Rackham Building, when Phillips will speak on the topic "Some Problems of Philosophy." Thea d hoe committee to sponsor Phillips Thursday night was formed by graduate stu- dents, John Sloss, Art Cuch- binder, Francis Crowley, and Chuck Bisbee. Late last night the group is- sued a statement which said: "We the undersigned students and fac- ulty of the University of Michi- gan feel that it is of the utmost importance that Prof. Phillips and his opponent be heard in open debate. We therefore unite in the sponsorship of this event at the Club 211 on Thursday evening, April 27 at 8:30 p.m. We regret that the decision of the University Lecture Committee makes it impossible for students to hear this debate on the campus where it should have been held." THOUGH? pressed, Sloss de- clined to say who had signed the declaration, but claimed that 29 signatures had been obtained and that two hundred would be on It by Wednesday. From one who attended the meeting, however, it was learned that Prof. Preston Slosson of the history department, Prof. Emeritus of Psychology John Shepherd, and SL member Ed Lewenson were among those present. The debate will be moderated by Adele Hager, 51, SL vice-presi- dent. ation Hit by Phone Strike *****. Equipm ent CampusrSet for Election Union Calls Walkout Cahmpanysingningluio t Phone Service To End with f..ere StillUnaffected Final lu ys equipment workers went on ethe "jnamming"1 stnriikee", 4 from coast to coast yesterday. No settlement was in sight at. xy4+ . :ryf'0'"x y [,x'a' nightfall. Their top officials adjourned Expec to 000l4 day-long negotiations overnight FoL IG t Peols gwithout any sign offa solution to t ,:rRthe deadlock. By JIM BROWN There were no immediate re- Ninety-two student candidates . . . .ports that phone service was af- will plunge into a flurry of last ssfetd in any way. minute campaigning today befo ee I C IGO, wevr Union Eue rs oevringnon' toen c amps ond dayes h plt- Secretary-Treasurer Paul M. Wil- morrowtnd Tu rsdas, or the lams ordered members to beg d semi-annual all-campus elections "jamming" long distance lines. The campaign parade will get TThe union en wystold t underway at 5 p.m. today with agd pmthIt Beln Thepuion meratol - candidates "open-house" at Mo-Eerm anpnad Telegrwih Co. sher Hall, according to Betty Brid- ytsdcdhctd sshanTs ' sr p rgsmtHeEh " ges, '52, of the Student Legislatures"y. emte citizenship committee J Edwin T. Breen, first assistant * * * * * wilt"be" ittlem.reath.nf..b,."d