WOMEN'S JUDICIARY See Page 4 :1 Latest Deadline in the State tii CLOUDY, WARMER ANN ARBOR. MCHIGAN FRI AV.'r'FP ta nu~T17.10 _,. aa-a au-a aanca IL 1 H . SIX PA( Power of the Press ti 4 =Daily-Burt Sapowitchl BACK WITH TALENT-Daily Managing Editor Leon Jaroff, with his back to the camera, surveys the result of the annual call for tryouts. Some men also came out for the paper. Jaroff was, to put it mildly, enthusiastic. Editor's Appeal for 'Talent' Attracts Big Tryout Group By AL BLUMROSEN Today, Leon Jaroff is a firm believer in the power of the press. The tall, soft-@poken Daily Managing Editor saw the results of yesterday morning's story when more than 75 students poured into the conference room of the Student Publications Building to join the tryout staff. Jaroff took one look at the mass of would-be reporters huddled in the. room, grinned happily and exclaimed: "We're set." He took another look and hastily added: "Gad, What Talent!" For among the neophite reporters were an as yet uncounted num- ber of women students, who looked to Jaroff's experienced eye as if they might make good "talent." These coeds, along with the male side of the .new tryout staff, heard Associate Editor George Walker give them the lowdown on what to expect in the way of newspaper work for the coming semester. Any interested student who did not get to yesterday's meeting is cordially invited to attend a similar session to be held at 4 p.m. today at Th.e Daily, 420 Maynard St. At the meeting, Walker described the tryout training program. He told members of the new tryout staff how they would learn the fundamentals of proof reading, headline writing and reporting during the next few weeks. Then, they will be assigned beats as "legmen" to work under more experienced staffers covering city and campus news. After that, Walker explained, comes the regular reporting job, then the Junior staff posts where the Night Editors actually put out the paper and finally, the Senior Staff, with the responsibility of making the Daily tick. Walker talked to students interested in: Reporting Photography Sports Writing Women's page writing Political writing Reviews He will hold a repeat performance again at 4 p.m. today for all those who missed yesterday. Jaroff looked on joyfully as Walker explained about The Daily, then climbed the stairs to the Senior Editorial office, happily an- nouncing, "Boy, have we got talent!" For the second time in two days, Jaroff sighed, and leaned back in his swivel chair. Male and female, The Daily would survive another semester. STRESS FIRE DRILL Local Officials Continue Fire Prevention Campaign China Lost As an Ally --F fimenco By VERNON EMERSON The signing of a 30-year alli- ance by Russia and China means that the United States can cross China off the list as a possible ally in the future, H. Marbury Efi- menco of the political science de- partment, said yesterday. Efimenco blasted 1 longstanding hopes of many Americans that the government of Mao Tze-Tung will become another Yugoslavia as im- probable. * * * "THE UNITED STATES has hoped ever since the triumph of the Communists in China that Iao might turn into another Tito," he explained. "The new pact seems to show an opposite situa- tion." Contrary to most opinions,. Efimenco thought that Mao Tze-Tung, not Stalin, was in the driver's seat at the 60 day meet- ing. "The Russians themselves may fear that the Chinese Communists will turn against them as the Yugoslavs did. They realize that because of her size and popula- tion China will never be a satel- lite to Moscow." FURTHERMORE, Efimenco em- phasized the fact that the Chinese Reds owe nothing to Russia for their success. "This is shown by the fact that no Chinese who lean really heav- ily to Russia made the trip to the Russian capital," he pointed out. The result is an agreement ap- pears completely favorable to the Chinese and points the way to a parallel and complementary pol- icy on the part of Russia to China, he said. However, Efimenco qualified his interpretation of the future effects of the treaty by saying that secret clauses favorable to Russia may have been included in the nego- tiation. Efimenco called for new plans on the part of the United States in dealing with Southeast Asia; an abandonment of the "watch and wait" attitude. He suggested direct aid be extended to this area. Truman Hits GOP Charge Of Socialism Termed 'Insult' To U.S._People WASHGTON-( -Prresident Truman told 5,300 cheering Demo- crats last night his party's ob- jective is to advance-not restrict -freedom, and the Republican cry of "Socialism" is "an insult to the intelligence of the American people." He warned against election of "another do nothing 80th Con- gress," opposed a general reduc- tion of taxes, and said he would cut federal spending at every op- portunity but not at the expense of national security or endanger- ing peace. * * * "THE Democratic Party is going right ahead to meet the needs and carry out the aspirations of the American people," he said in a peppery campaign speech- laying the ground work for the November Congressional campaign. The President spoke in a huge armory at a $100-a-plate Jeffer- son-Jackson Day dinner billed as the largest banquet ever held under one roof. In previous years these campaign fund raising af- fairs have been held in two ho- tels with the President having to visit both. The Democrats will gross more than half a million dollars from last night's rally alone. Members of the cabinet, 11 state governors, and party leaders from every state and territory ate Texas grapefruit and filet mignon spread on red, white and blue table cloths and served by 500 waiters from charcoal heated ovens trucked to the hall from two downtown ho- tels. THEY WATCHED a floor show and howled and clapped as the President, Vice President Barkley and other speakers needled the Republican campaign statement of ten days ago. This said the big 1950 issue is "Liberty vs. Social- ism." Barkley drew a big laugh when he said the GOP's issuance of the long-heralded policy- statement reminded him of a quotation: "the lightning flashed and thunder roared-and killed a chigger." The Piresident was interrupted many times with generous ap- plause as he jibed at the GOP, and warned against what he called the "false economy" and "political hypocrisy" of those who want a general tax reduction and deep cuts in fedeiral spending. World News Roundup WASHINGTON - The potato price support program which has cost the taxpayers almost a bil- lion in recent years took a stagger- ing punch yesterday as the Senate agriculture committee voted six to two in favor of cutting out all p- tato price supports until strict controls are put into effect gov- erning both their production and marketing. * * PARIS-France began mobiliz- ing forces yesterday to block a threatened wave of Communist- run strikes aimed at paralyzing the movement of American arms in this country. The immediate threat comes this morning, with a rush hour stop- page scheduled for the nation's entire rail network. * * * WASHINGTON-By a 6 to 6 vote, the House rules committee yesterday refused to clear the hot- ly disputed anti-job discrimina- tion FEPC bill for a showdown on the House floor. Four southern Democtats and two northern Republicans voted to keep the bill "frozen" in the rules committee, as it has been since last summer, while four northern Democrats and two Re- publicans voted to send the meas- ure to the House floor. JACKSON, O.-Damon Grow, bank cashier in this southeastern Ohio community (pop. 7,000) was in jail last night accused of tak- ing $102,000 from the bank where he had worked for 30 years. f": .+ -r 1icr _ n nh i n-t oFf _i More Louisiana Areas Flooded East Central Parts of State Covered By Mississippi, Black Backwaters FERRIDAY, La. - (AP) - Fresh evacuation teams of National Guardsmen, equipped with assault boats and trucks, swept in behind rising ;flood waters as they spread south and eastward yesterday over 400,000 more acres in east central Louisiana. A large segment of Avoyelles Parish (county) went under water yesterday as the climbing backwaters of the Mississippi and Black Rivers pushed out from the main flooded areas in Catahoula and Concordia parishes to the North, while evacuation of families and livestock continued around Ferriday. THE FLOOD PICTURE in Louisiana and Mississippi shaped up this way: 1--All the rivers in Louisiana, where most of the flood is located, are above their natural Eioht Killed In Flaming Dow Blast' MIDLAND, MICH.-(P)--Eight workers were killed and 26 in- jured, three seriously, yesterday' in a flaming explosion at the Dow Chemical Co. Four other workers escaped un- hurt from the flying debris. Earlier reports that three work- ers were missing proved in error when one was accounted for among the dead and two among the injured.. Dow officials, who were unable to determine immediately the cause of the explosion, said dam- age would be in excess of half a million dollars.-. * * *t THE BLAST occurred in a long,1 sprawling structure known as building 414 where latex rubber paint was manufactured. The explosion, at 11:25 a.m., shattered windows for blocks1 around and sent a red ball Uff flame shooting skyward. The roof of the 100 by 400-1 foot building sailed into the air and fell to the ground in tiny pieces. One wall shot outward. Inside the building were 40 maintenance workers, repairing pipes used in the Latex paint pro- cess. While flames shot through the structure, the injured crawled outside.f Trucks, ambulances and privatef cars converged to take the in-c jured to hospitals in Midland andt Saginaw, 20 miles to the south-r east. Hospital Suit Judge Named Circuit Judge James E. Spier ofs Mt. Clemens was picked yester- day to hear a suit to halt construc- tion of a 500-bed Veterans Admin-f istration hospital here.c Circuit Judge James R. Breaky,r Jr., appointed Judge Spier after disqualifying himself on groundsa of previous opinions on property matters.- The suit, brought by Alfred Lucking, Ann Arbor attorney, is1 scheduled to be heard Tuesday. Sought Guaranteed EMploymen by Miners' banks and still rising, but all' are contained within guard levees. 2-U.S. engineers are not fear- ful at this time of a levee break or failure of other flood control facilities. 3--Possible additional rain is the main point of immediate fu- ture concern. * * * APPROXIMATELY 2,700,000 acres in Louisiana and Mississippi are now inundated. U.S. engineers believe more than 3,200,000 acres will be flooded by March 5 when the Quachita River is expected to flood 500,000 more acres north of the Ferriday area around Monroe, La. Some 1,500 families have been flooded out of their homes and are living in tents or in private homes and hotels. But there has been no reported loss of life. At Cairo, Ill., where the Missis- sippi and Ohio rivers join for their run to the gulf, the water level was falling slowly. After cresting at 55.9 feet Wednesday, the water fell two tenths of a foot. A similar drop is expected in the next 24 hours. The season's most severe floods along the headwaters of Indiana's Wabash and White rivers leveled off in a moderate cold wave. At least 100 families left their flood- ed homes. State Officials Begin School Scandal Check DETROIT-(IP)-Two state of- ficials started last night to take formal statements from students concerning alleged misconduct of teachers at Madison High School in suburban Royal Oak Township. They put over until today and next Monday night, however, ses- sions to hear most of the com- plaints. They asked parents to accompany the students for the interviews. The decision to take individual statements came after the two state officials met with protesting parents and the school board. The school tempest came after a former principal, J. Russell Roe, hurled charges of teacher mis-' conduct. He resigned earlier this month. General charges were made against three unnamed teachers. One allegedly greeted a girl stu- dent as "my sweetie." After the accusations, 13 of the 17 teachers submitted resigna- tions. ^ +y t V t ." Nas. "! ~ SEARCH AREA-Plane symbol locates approximate area where a search is underway for a bom- ber listed as missing since Tues- day. * * * Hopes Rise For Missing Crewmen McCHORD AIR FORCE BASE, WASH.-(P)-Spurred by reports of shouts and shots, searching parties fanned out over a rugged British Columbia coastal island yesterday in the desperate hunt for five men from an abandoned B-36. They found one injured man yesterday orning. Eleven were picked up Wednes- day along the shore of Princess Royal Island. These rescues ac- counted for 12 out of 17 of the men who parachuted from the burning six-engine plane in the stormy darkness early Tuesday. * * * WEDNESDAY night's reports by the Coast Guard and. other search agencies that all 17 were found safe faded with the dawn. The false hope was due to the con- fusing reports from the numerous agencies involved in the large scale joint U.S.-Canadian search. The 12th man rescued yester- day was identified as Lt. Charles G. Pooler, 36 year old engineer of Beloit, Kan. The U.S. Coast Guard at Seattle said he had a broken ankle. Staff Sgt. Vitale Trippodi of Brooklyn, who was injured badly in landing in a cliffside tree, in which he hung head down for 101 hours, was taken aboard the Can- adian destroyer Cayuga during the night. He was picked up by a PBY plane from McChord yester- day. * * * THE OTHER 10 were rescued from the beaches Wednesday by a fishing boat after the fire of two survivors attracted the. fishermen. They told a harrowing story of parachutes snagging in trees, of cold, wind and rain, of prowlingI wild animals and of the frustra- tions of having planes and boats pass them up during their first day. Canadian Naval officials add- ed a bright ray of hope to the search for the others. "The searchers heard shouts and another search team reported hearing shots," a Naval spokes- man said. * * * SURVIVORS who were brought here said they believed the shots would be from Capt. Theodore F. Schreier, of Madison, Wis. He was the co-pilot. The men said he was the only man among the missing group who was known to have carried a pistol. Chlef Conference Negotiations Deadlocked Four Men Shot In Coal Outbreak WASHINGTON --(f)- John L Lewis tossed the idea of guaran- teed work-200 days a year for his miners-into the' soft coal nego- tiations yesterday as the contrac deadlock remained unbroken. Reporting this, David L. Cole Presidential representative, saik the United Mine Workers chief was still "not entirely specific" in his proposals; "there is nothing~ squarely on the table." LEWIS and the major .operators, prodded by federal court and White House, will begin their third day of renewed contract talks at 10 a.m. today without the slight- est indication that the nation- wide strike of 370,000 miners is weakening. Almost depleted coal piles shrank ominously and four men were. shot in a new coal field outbreak. Nevertheless speculation sprang up among observers in the industry that a back-to- work movement may develop next Monday. That is the day Federal Judge Richmond B. Keech will decide whether to issue an 80-day Taft-Hartley injunction against the strike, which began in defiance of an order of his court. In previous court clashes, the union has been fined $2,140,000 for disobeying judicial orders. This time, however, Lewis is in the position of having called on the men to return to work without success, although operators have expressed skepticism about his back-to-work order. S* * * COLE TOLD reporters that re- duced hours of work had been pro- posed in yesterday's talks. He gave no details but elsewhere it was re- ported that Lewis had suggested a '7%/z hour day (37%/2 hours week) instead of the eight hours in the old contract. Lewis also was said to have mentioned raising wages "up to $15 a day" from the present $14.05, and hiking royalty for miners welfare and pension pay- ments "up to 35 cents a ton" from the present 20 cents. This phrasing appeared to sug- gest that Lewis might be willing to compromise these demands. * * * COLE SAID the operators were sticking to their refusal to in- crease coal costs, and that he is reporting to President Truman that the deadlock is unbroken. Lawyer Talkis On New Deal Law Changes The advent of the New Deal created a need in corporations for a legal staff to handle the large number of new problems, Thomas E. Sunderland told law students yesterday in a special lecture here. Sunderland, general counsel for a large oil company, pointed out the increased number of new laws, commissions and court decisions made it expedient for large firms to maintain their own corporate legal departments. The corporate legal practice is more highly diversified than the strictly departmentized law firm, Sunderlond said. The lawyer must handle all types of cases from tax problems to labor relations. In contrast with many other types of law the corporations law- yer practices a preventive law. This advanced planning takes ver- satility, but still must be practical and strictly legal, Sunderland em- By DAVIS CRIPPEN Attempts by University and city officials to keep the cry of "Fire!" out of Ann Arbor continued this: week, as other officials went around town telling house owners what to do in case of a possible blaze. Down at City Hall, the search continued for a qualified man to fill the post of assistant building inspector, while up on Observa- tory Hill, Fire Chief Ben Zahn addressed a meeting of women's house directors on correct fire pre- cautions and procedures. CITY Engineer George Sanden- burgh, commenting on the search for a new inspector, said yester- day that though about eight appli- cations for the position have been received, there have been none from one whom city officials' thought competent. "You just can't put anyone in this kind of a job," he ex- plained. The hiring of another inspec- tor was authorized by the city's discipline for women students- when a fire strikes. "The best fire drills," he de- clared, "can be held where the dis- cipline is good. You might almost say where it is strict." VERBAL BATTLEGROUND: Reborn Student Forum Plans Vigyorous Debate By JIM BROWN1 The long dormant Michigant Forum will be formally launched with a debate between two inde- pendent students and two affil- iated students at 8 p.m. March 8' in Rackham Lecture Hall. The students, who will be sel- ected by the Michigan Forum committee within a few days, will debate the question "Affiliated or Independent: Their Opposing Points of View." * * * PATTERNED after the "Town Mppfincrof the ir" nn, a fnmp-A tunity to join the debate in an open question period. * * * THE MICHIGAN Forum was organized last spring by the Stu- dent Legislature "to provide a medium for the free exchange of views on controversial matters of current interest." Originally it was planned that individual campus clubs and as- sociations would challenge other groups to debate a question of special significance to the parties concerned. Vnt f- r n. hsllnrmnc s.r- - y a FAMED POLISH PIANIST: Maryla Jonas In Concert Tonight (. Polish pianist, Maryla Jonas will give the eighth concert in theI Chorale Union series at 8:30 p.m. today, Hill Auditorium. Miss Jonas replaces Myra Hess who was forced to cancel her en- Miss Jonas has recently record- ed the entire repertoire of Chop- in's mazurkas, nocturnes and im- promptus. Since her sensational New York dpnt,, thrp n rnon Mi arr . nnese Beginning her piano studies when she was 7 years old the Polish prodigy made her debut with the Warsaw Philharmonic two years later. Among her early teachers was Dn-innnie,- 117.- hn . a nVITIAs. ;