AMERICAN ISOLATIONISM See Page 4 r I'll Latest Deadline in the State 1a3 ai4 CLOUDY, COOLER VOL. LX, No. 150 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1950 SIX PAGES I Red Policy In China Hit By Truman U.S. Recognition r Predicted Far Off By The Associated Press President Truman yesterday ac- cused the Communists of starving . China to help feed Russia. In a move interpreted as a sign that this country will not soon recognize the Communist Gov- ernment of China, the President said the fate of the Chinese people is "tragic." BUT HE MADE it clear that the United States, working through private agencies still in China, will do what it can to feed hungry peo- ple there, irrespective of thei form of government. The President's blast at the Chinese Communists, made in a speech aboard his train prepared for a University of Wyoming au- dience at Laramie, topped a day in which Truman made major speeches at Casper and Che- yenne, with whistle stops in be- tween. Asserting the Chinese Commu- nists have been "heartlessly in- different to the worst famine which has occurred in China in 100 years," Truman declared. "THEY HAVE even sent to the Soviet Union food which is desper- ately needed by the Chinese Peo- ple." The President made no men- tion of the Communist-in-Gov- ernment charges made by Sena- tor McCarthy (R-Wis.) and some Democrats have charged they were inspired by what they call the "China lobby." Promising that his country will keep on trying to get food into China, Mr. Truman said that else- where in the world the goals of stability and peace are "clearly within our reach." Oppenheimer Repudiates Red Charges Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the nation's top atomic scien- tists, said last night he has never been a Communist Party member and never attended a party meet- ing "in my home or anywhere else." His denial came in answer to Mrs. Sylvia Crouch, ex-Commun- ist courier, who claimed she recog- nized Oppenheimer's picture when shown to her by government agepts as that of a man she had seen for the first time at a Com- munist meeting held on the Berk- ely campus. HER TESTIMONY, given before a state senate Communist activi- ties probe, tended to back an in- vestigator's contention that the Communist meeting was held in Oppenheimer's own home in the Berkely hills. Dr. Oppenheimer said he does not remember any meeting ever having been held at his home that could reasonably have been mistaken for a Communist Party session. He acknowledged in a statement that he formerly knew many per- sons "in left-wing circles" and himself belonged to several left- wing organizations. But he said the government has known about that ever since he started work on the atomic bomb project. The testimony against Oppen- heimer caused an immediate stir in scientific circles, where Dr. Op- penheimer's standing is high. His name never before has been pub- licly connected with possible Com- munist Party membership, al- though his brother has admitted being a party member. Name Junior 'UnionOfficers Members of next year's Michi- gan Union Junior Executive Coun- cil were named yesterday byJer- ry Mehlman, '51, Union president and Hal Sperlich, '51E, recording secretary. Campus Groups, Branded Red' Two Wayne campus organizations, the Young Progressives of America and the Labor Youth League, which have branches here were blasted yesterday as Communist front organizations by Wayne student Glen Irving, former Communist on the Detroit campus. Leaders of both local groups, reached last night, expressed no surprise at the charge, but denied that they were front organizations. Irving said that the main work of the two groups at Wayne is infiltration. * * * * AT THEIR MEETINGS, the organizations members discuss cur- rent affairs, proposed legislation a SL To Hold Debate COn Speaker Ban An all-campus meeting designed to discuss the speaker problem re- ceived a go ahead signal from the Student Legislature cabinet at a special meeting yesterday. Tentatively scheduled for May 25 at Hill Auditorium, the meet- ing would feature three speakers on each side of the question as to whether all viewpoints and speak- ers should be heard on campus. Each side would be represented by a student, a faculty member and an outsider. Plans for the affair received the unanimous approval of the SL cabinet. THE legislature plans to secure the sixspeakers within a few days, according to Quentin Nes- bitt, '50 BAd, SL president. The list of speakers will then be sub- mitted to the University Lecture Committee for approval, since outside speakers would be involv- ed. "We plan to do all this so that the Student Affairs Committee can consider the matter at its next meeting on May 18," Nes- bitt explained. The all-campus meeting could not be held with- out SAC approval. Three speakers have already ,been secured for the proposed meeting. DEAN HAYWARD Keniston of the literary college and Student Legislature vice-president Adele Hager, '51, will speak in favor of hearing all speakers and view- points, if plans for the meeting are approved, while Tom Roach, '51, will speak for the opposition., A special student-faculty com- mittee made the original plans for the affair. This committee includ- ed several members of the stu- dent-faculty committee which ar- ranged the recent off-campus de- bate between Prof. Preston W. Slosson of the history department and Communist Herbert Phillips. McClusky Given EducationTrophy Prof. Howard McClusky was chosen last night by the Michigan Education Club to receive the MEC honor trophy., The trophy is awarded for con- spicuous service as a teacher in the School of Education. Presen- tation of the award will highlight a member's banquet scheduled for May 19 in the Union. nd political developments and how f they should be interpreted accord- ing to the party line, Irving de- clared. , Then, Irving went on, the members go out and try to sell the line, by infiltrating into the top posts of other campus or- ganizations and winning sup- port for the Communist pro- gram. Irving said his assignment was to infiltrate Wayne's Newman Club, an organization for Roman Catholic students. * * * GORDON MacDougall, president of the Young Progressives, stated that he did not desire to yield tc current pressures by denying forthright that the YP's were a front! He did state, however, that the group is not being run for the benefit of the Communist Party platform rather than for that established by the National YP. There is a definite difference be- tween the Communist Party and the Young Progressives, he said. "They are two different parties with two different platforms. MACDOUGALL labeled Wayne student Irving as a product of the present Communist hysteria brought about by the world crisis. Hy Bershard, chairman of the Labor Youth League, denied that the local group was a front or- ganization, but admitted that there were Communists in the chapter and that "the closest fraternal relations" were main- tained with the Communist Par- ty. He added, however, that inas- much as the members do not mask their affiliations the group is not a front organization. Floods, Fires Cause Havoc By The Associated Press A devastating flood in South- eastern Nebraska and a raging fire that wiped out half of a Canadian town are the latest developments in havoc caused by destructive weather in the United States and Canada. In Nebraska, flash floods hit at least a dozen towns yesterday to leave at least 14 persons dead or missing. IN DEWITT, Nebraska, the en- tire population of about 500 per- sons faced the prospect of leav- ing a town with a reported pollut- ed water supply and a town cov- ered with two feet of water. In Lincoln, where President Truman yesterday gave a ma- jor speech of his current West- ern tour, the flooding was des- cribed as the worst since 1908. In the Canadian town of Cab- ano, Quebec, a roaring fire is now reported to be under control after destroying half of the town yes- terday. U.S. Agents Bargain For Rail Truce Crippling Strike Seems Probable CHICAGO- (A)-Federal med- iators worked against time yester- day in an effort to avert a crip- pling strike of firemen at 6 a.m. today on four major rail lines. But the national (railway) med- iation board gave no word of peace progress and the four rail lines announced immediate cuts or planned curtailments of service. * * * HOWEVER, i n Philadelphia,x Walter S. Franklin, President of: the Pennsylvania Railroad, told stockholders, "there appears still a reasonable hope of settlement." "I don't believe the irailroadsr will give in to the demands of the Brotherhood for a third man' on diesel locomotives," Franklin added.r The Santa Fe today canceled} four trains operating between Chicago and California, but did not announce its other opera- tion plans in event the strike$ materializes. * * * Tuman War MVobilizatic Offers THE New York Central said that in event of a strike it would provide skeleton train service for essential passenger, mail and freight traffic in the midwest. It added a walkout' would compel cancelation of 125 daily passenger trains and approximately 300 daily freight trains forcing some 50,000 workers into idleness. The Southern Railway System clamped an embargo on long- distance freight and passenger traffic and said a strike would halt its operations. The Pennsylvania said it would halt operations on its passenger and freight trains west and north of Harrisburg, Pa., tonight. Committee Vetoes Postal Service Cuts WASHINGTON -(P) - The Senate Postoffice Committee voted 9 to 0 yesterday to direct Post- master General1Donaldson to can- cel the cuts in mail service he ordered in a recent economy move. Before twice-a-day home mail delivery could be reinstated and other postal service reductions set aside, both the Senate and House would have to agree to the two bills and a resolution ap- proved by the committee. Donaldson ordered the cutbacks in service April 18, explaining they must be put into effect to prevent another big deficoit in postal operations. * * * POSTOFFICE expenses in the present fiscal year are expected to run above $2,240,000,000. Don- aldson asked a $2,235,607,000 ap- propriation for the next fiscal year which starts July 1. Con- gress has not acted finally on the request, but the House appropria- tions committee has recommended that the fund be held to $2,207,- 500,000. In an effort to increase the department's income, Donaldson recommended postal rate in- creases of about $600,000,000 a year. The house voted for a $100,000,000 increase. The Sen- ate has not acted on the matter. Congress, of course, would have to provide additional funds if full service were restored, unless other economies could be effected which would not hit the department's regular operations. Engine Council Calls for Vote Two programs for aiding en- gineers before and during exams will take the acid test today and tomorrow in the Egineering Council's referendum. Two proposals will be up before the voters: a "dead week" before exams in which no bluebooks and exemption for graduating seniors from final examinations. Any engineer can vote. Polls f Unified nPlan [Also Calls -Daily-Barney Lasche ver TRIBUTE TO DEAN WALTER REA-Don Greenfield, '50, chairman of a special committee of 80 students and University personnel, presents Dean Walter Rea with a watch in appreciation of his work for the past 23 years with student organizations. Looking on are Mary Neil Walker, '50, repre- senting women students, and President Alexander G. Ruthven. * * * * * * * * * Students Surprise Honor Dean Rea, . By PETER HOTTON "Bud" Rea was a surprised man last night. Coming from an SAC mee.ting to a dinner he thought was in honor of someone else he was greeted with a rising ovation of 80 students and University personnel led by President Alexander G. Ruthven and Don Greenfield, '50. The occasion was a tribute to his 23 years working with students in the Office of Student Affairs. * * * OTHERWISE known as Walter' Rea, Associate Dean of Students,! he had come prepared to honor Ethel McCormick, social director of the League, who was in cahoots with the students. The honoring committee's plans were almost wrecked when it discovered that Dean Rea had come down with the flu the day before, but worries were over when he showed up at his office "just a little" late. In appreciation of Dean Rea's service as all-around problem solv- er for the students, Greenfield pre- sented him with a watch, inscrib- ed: "To W. B. Rea, with deep appreciation and affection. Your friends of 1950." He also received a "memory" book signed by all those present. THE COMMITTEE represented every organization with which Dean Rea has worked, from Michi- gras to J-Hop, with everything in Faculty Quits At Westmont SANTA BARBARA, Calif--(/P)-- Twenty faculty members of West- mont College resigned yesterday in protest to the firing last month of the college president, James Forrester. A spokesman said the resigna- tions, effective June 15, involve two thirds of the faculty and in- clude the dean, the registrar, li- brarian, deans of men and women, the athletic director and several department heads. Westmont is a 10-year-old lib- eral arts school with an enrollment of about 250. League and Union activities in be- tween. Dean Rea said simply: "This' is one of the many pleasures that I have working with you as students." Al Maslin, '52L, past president Df Association of Independent Men, spoke for the men and Mary Nell Walker, vice-president of Pan-hel-j lenic Association, spoke for the women. Greenfield acted as toast- master. LETTERS of appreciation came from alumnus Ev Ellin, '48E and Peter Ostafin, former faculty member now at Oxford University. County Board Moves To Make Village Housing Permanent The Washtenaw County Board of Supervisors and Washtenaw County Democratic Committee yesterday moved to save a state bill which would enable the coun- ty or Ypsilanti to take over Wil- low Run Village. If the village is taken over by the county or Ypsilanti, perma- nent housing could be built, the Democrats declared. Djefense Bill Faces Final Test in House WASHINGTON - (P) -- The House tentatively approved yes- terday a one-package $29,496,238,-l 008 appropriation bill providing $14,296,487,300 for national de- fense. A final test on the bill may come today after action on a Re- publican attempt to cut its over- all total by $996,000,000. The bill finances almost all federal agencies for the fiscal year starting July 1. The final total agreed on ten- tatively after a month of House debate is $451,207,844 more than the appropriations committee re- commended. Most of the increase was voted today to buy more planes for the navy and the air force and to expand the army's anti-tank warfare program and the navy's anti-submarine activ- ities. The GOP policy committee agreed at a meeting to try slash- ing the bill before final approval. THE PERMiSSIVE legislation, known as House Bill Number Eight, was killed by the House State Affairs Committee of the Michigan legislature after a pub- lic hearing Mvay 2. The bill would authorize cities and counties to set up housing authorities, and would be applicable to Willow Run Vil- lage. The board of supervisors yes- terday passed a resolution say- ing it hoped the permissive leg- slation would be passed by the legislature. And the Democratic committee issued a resolution asking that another hearing be held on the bill. . The Democrats claimed that, because of lack of adequate ad- vance notice, only one of the "many organizations supporting the measure" was able to testify at the May 2 hearing. U.S. Requests Ships Return WASHINGTON-(OP)-The Unit- ed States prodded Russia to return two lend-lease icebreakers yester- day amid signs of new action on the long dormant negotiations for an overall settlement of wartime accounts totaling ($11,000,000,- 000). The icebreakers were among sev- eral ships turned over to Russia before V-J day. A note from Un- dersecretary of State James E. Webb to Ambassador Alexander S' Panyushkin asked that they be turned back by June 30 in accord- ance with a Moscow agreement of last year. For Break Up ofRFC a: 60 Days Given Congress to Veto WASHINGTON-(A')-President Truman yesterday issued a new series of government reorganiza- tion plans which, unless rejected by Congress in 60 days, will: 1. Give the country a single bossA, over the planning of all mobiliza- tion for war-W. Stuart Syming- ton, chairman of the National Se- curities Resources Board and for- mer Secretary of the Air Force. 2. Strip from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation its two major- housing duties and put the .rest of that independent lending corpora- tion into the Commerce Depart- ment. ' * * SYMINGTON, Truman propos-. ed, would be solely responsible for organizing the home front against the "eventuality of a future war." His board of seven cabinet officers would become merely advisory to him. Today's action, Truman indi- cated, is meant 'to stimulate NSRB pinning of industrial mobilization, rationing, man- power controls and civil defense. At almost the same time Tru- man's new reorganization plans were being issued, the Senate Ex- penditures Committee reported ap- proval of nine and disapproval of two of the 21 government reor- ganizationPlans which the Pres- ident sent to Congress in March. Unless either the Senate or House disapproves these plans become ef- fective May 24. * * * THE TWO PLANS disapproved by committee would shake up the Agriculture Department and the Interstate Commerce Commission. Previously the committee had vot- ed against two others, reorganizing the Treasury Department and the National Labor Relations Board. The effective date of these is also May 24, unless vetoed by Senate or House. Under today's new White House proposals, Secretary of. Commerce Awyer would inherit RFC and supervise its activities. He, thus would become the gov- ernment's top policy man in charge of federal loans to busi- ness and industry. This runs contrary to recom- mendations of the Hoover Com- mission on government reorgani- zation. A majority of the com- mission, including its chairman, former President Herbert Hoover, thought the Treasury Department, instead of Commerce, should take over RFC. The other Truman plans pro- posed yesterday followed the Hoo- ver pattern. Hoover Says Brilliant Plans BoggedDown NEW YOK- (A1P) -Former President Herbert Hoover said yesterday his plans for reorgani- zation of the executive branch of the federal government appeared doomed because of the efforts of "vested officials and pressure groups." Hoover said his commission made a "brilliant start" with res- pest to the armed services, gener- al services, procurement and ,the State Department. But he added, "nowwe have bogged down again." He told a meeting of the Sales Executives Club of New York that the commission had run into the same difficulties faced AFFILIATED PROBLEMS: Greeks Will End Bias Themselves - War nock The answer to the fraternity discrimination question will be found by the younger members working in the national conven- tions, Dean A. Ray Warnock, said last night before the kickoff meet- ing of the campus' first postwar Fraternity Week. "I don't know what adjustment will be made," Dean Warnock, vice chairman of the National Inter- fraternity Council, said, "but the solution will be found." "The fraternity system has been able to exist for a century and a quarter only because it has made adjustments to social trends," he were kept informed "as to what's going on and what it's all about." Mrs. Strickland dealt with prob- lems faced by sorority women, among them that of time budget- ing. "Quite often," she declared, "a girl finds she has to choose be- tween intense study and intense men." Greeks Feature Panel, IFCSing Fraternity Week will sweep into its second day of activities with a PROF. FIFIELD WARNS: Aid To Bo Dai Regime May Fail By VERN EMERSON American economic and mili- tary aid to the Bao Dai regime in Indochina may turn out to be a complete waste, Prof. Russell Fifield of the political science de- Terming the French spon- sored leader of Viet Nam a weak political figure, Prof. Fifield noted that his close relationship - with the French government is greatly responsible for his un- ternational movement. But Prof. Fifield noted that many of Ho's followers support him because they feel that he is their best means of getting the French out of Indochina.