FACTIONALISM VS. SL 1I Y Latest Deadline in the State &z3,ti4 e \ N CLOUDY, SHOWERS See Page 4 iI VOL. LX, No. 23 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1949 PRICE FIVE CENTS V i i No Strike Action Due By Truman President Awaits Direct Settlement WASHINGTON-(P)-PFresident Truman said yesterday he has no present plan for intervening in the coal-steel strikes or for seiz- ing either industry. The President told a news con- ference he is depending on current conciliation efforts to spur a di- rect settlement among the disput- ants. But what if mediation efforts are unsuccessful? He'll cross that bridge when he comes to it, Mr. Truman told a questioner at his news conference. * * SO FAR, Conciliation Director Cyrus S. Ching has concentrated on trying to settle the steel strike. He hasn't taken a direct hand yet in the apparently deadlocked coal negotiations. This is the status of the two big strikes: Steel-Ching issued a statement yesterday saying the steel strike situation "is not hopeless" after New York conferences with rep- resentatives of the U.S. Steel Cor- poration. * * * HE ADDED, "we do not want to create the impression that there is a basis for optimism. But the situation certainly is not hopeless and we are continuing our confer- ences today." Ching had said earlier in the day that he would issue no statement and there would be no news conference. The talks are being held at an undisclosed spot in New York. The office of Philip Murray, CIO and Steel Workers chief, an- nounced the signing of the first contract ending a strike in the steel dispute. It is with the Cop- perweld Steel Company, Glassport, Pa. The firm employs 1,100. A six- cent non - contributory pension ' plan recommended by the Pres- idential Fact Finding Board was included, the union said. * * * COAL: THE SOUTHERN coal operators held out some hope for a settlement with John L. Lewis, but Northern and Western opera- tors said contract talks are getting nowhere. Speaking for the North- West segment of the industry, George M. Love told newsmen that continuation of the talks about a new contract is "fooling } the miners, the consumers and the public." The pinch of shortages brought new curtailments of industry. J. I. Case announced it would put through a shorter work week at its farm equipment plants in Rock Island, Ill., and Bettendorf, Ia. Some 4,200 workers are affected. Truinan To Ask More Taxes in '50 WASHINGTON-(P)-President Truman, saying he is unhappy about deficit spending, made it plain yesterday he will ask Con- gress for higher taxes next year. He told his weekly news con- ference that he will recommend ways to prevent the government operating in the red, and if there is any other way to do it than by increasing taxes he would like to know it. * * * REPUBLICANS and some Dem- ocrats immediately responded with a call for a reduction in expendi- tures rather than a tax raise. Questioned about the prospec- tive $5,000,000,000 deficit for the year ending next June 30, the President said it was not his fault. He added that the Republican 80th Congress passed a rich man's tax cut bill and there are what he called fixed charges of $35,- 000,000,000 in the budget which must be met. HE DID NOT elaborate on what he included in the fixed charges. Presumably he counted defense, foreign aid and other appropria- Acheson Terms Russia Aggressor 'Imperialist' Soviets Seen Trying To Extend Dominion, Spread Chaos NEW YORK-(AP)-Secretary of State Dean Acheson tonight branded Russia "the aggressively imperialist power of our times." The Soviet Union, he said, is trying to "extend its dominion" wherever it is able and to spread "confusion and disintegration" in those parts of the world beyond its grasp. ACHESON DISCUSSED foreign policy problems in a speech pre- pared for the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation dinner here. He came to New York in late afternoon and returns to Washington to- morrow. The foundation is a Philanthropic organization, incorporated in 1946, designed to "perpetuate the ideals of Alfred E. Smith by raising funds to aid the poor, the sick and the underprivileged." Acheson appealed for popular understanding on great foreign policy issues. He said it is the American citizens, "acting directly through public opinion and through the Congress, who decide the contours of our policies and whether those policies shall go forward -hrwaver and stop." UN Security Council S eat Is AWarded to Yugoslavia \1 Soviet-West ,+" _ Rift Widened French Pick Rene Mayer As Premier PARIS - (.P) - Rene Mayer, a moderate political leader with a background of business experience, was confirmed last night as the new Premier of France. (The National Assembly gave Mayer, a member of the Radical Socialist Party, 341 votes. This was 31 moretthan he needed to get the nod from the Assembly for the complex job of trying to solve* France's pressing wage-price prob- lems. There were 183 votes cast against him. * * * IN 1932 MAYER was a vice! president of a French Railway Company. When the French rail- roads were nationalized he became a member of the directing com- mittee. Mayer, 54, will now proceed to form a cabinet to succeed that of Henri Queuille, which re- signed Oct. 6 unable to resolve domestic wage and price issues. France has been without an op- erating political command since that date. During that period Socialist Jules Moch was confirmed as Premier but was unable to form a cabinet because of political dif- ferences among his supporters. Mayer MaIy, Form New Governmen t By BOB VAUGHN Rene Mayer, former finance minister may succeed in forming a French coalition cabinet, ac- cording to Manfred Vernon, of the political science department. "The Assembly' should give Radical Socialist Mayer a better vote than it gave Socialist Jules Moch who failed in a previous attempt to establish a coalition government,"Vernon said. "Moch's failure resulted from his inability to find men who' would accept cabinet positions." * * * "THE French Moderates seem to feel that they must succeed in establishing a coalition in order to prevent new elections," Vernon continued. "New elections might mean the advance to power of the right- wing supporters of General Charles de Gaulle." Historical fear in France of "strong men" is responsible for the opposition to de Gaulle, ac- cording to Vernon. "NEW ELECTIONS would prob- ably mean a considerable loss to the Communists because of the recent general trend away from Communism among Western Eu- ropean Political Democracies," Vernon said. "The major problem in France today is economic," Vernon commented. "Workers need higher wages but there is an element in the govern- ment that feels that stabilization THE STATE Department, he said, must be close to the people, giving them the facts they need to form their judgments. "It must not be afraid to tell the truth when that is painful and unpleasant, as it was in the China white paper," Acheson said. "It must not be afraid to recommend and fight for courses which are hard and long when any other course would be a de- ception and a fraud." Acheson said that Al Smith's conception of the conduct of gov- ernment rested on two basic prin- ciples-first, that any course of action "must be deeply rooted in popular understanding and popu- lar support"; second, that the ad- ministration for carrying out a policy must be "simply designed so that responsibility and authority coincide and so that knowledge is mobilized and brought to the point of action." Pep Parades RallyToday Union Schedules 'End Feud,' Eisenhower TellsChiefs Says Unified U.S. Can 'Lick World' WASHINGTON-(/P)--General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower told the nation's quarreling mili- tary chiefs yesterday that a uni- fied America "can lick the world" -and he counselled them to stop ''name calling."~ Setbacks must be expected in unification as in war, Eisenhower said, but he declared with great earnestness: "I just believe that from this moment on we can make unifica- tion work." * * * TOP NAVY ADMIRALS have accused the Army and Air Force of "ganging up" under the unified defense setup to deprive the Navy of its offensive power. Generals in turn have lashed back at the Navy leadership. Testifying swith Eisenhower before the House Armed Serv- ices Committee yesterday, Gen. Mark Clark urged the "ruthless elimin tion" from the nation's military establishment of those who do not believe in unification of the Armed Forces. "We may lose the next war," Clark warned, "if we don't settle this unified command business." WITH TEMPERS growing ever shorter in the House hearings, chairman Vinson (Dem., Ga.) turned his fire against Secretary of Defense Johnson. Vinson accused the civilian de- fense chief of putting the cart be- fore the horse in working out mili- tary budget requirements in an "arbitrary" manner dangerous to national defense. Petitions for SL Elections Swell to 64 Student candidacy petitions have swelled to 64 with 16 applied for yesterday, according to SL elec- tions chairman Bill Clark. J-Hop Committee claimed 12 petitioners, while four picked up petitions for Student Legislature, he said. One petition has already been turned in, he added. CLARK EXPLAINED that Board in Control of Student Publications and J-Hop petitions require 50 signatures and SL petitions 150. Petitions will be handed out from 3 to 4:30 p.m. daily through Tuesday in theAdministration Building lobby. They will be due Wednesday at the same place, he said. J-Hop committee petitioners were: Bill Wells, Bart Grimes, James Foster, Robert Halbrook, Diane Faulk, Patrick Ross, Jean Dickie, Renee Pregulman, Ellie Van Waggoner, Jean Schutt, Rog- er Garfink and Marion Maier. NSA Radio Panel Representatives of the National Student Association will hold a panel discussion at 8 p.m. today over WUOM. Dick Hooker will be chairman of the discussion. Speakers will be Dorainne Zipperstein, Wym Price and Leonard Wilcox. REBELLION FIZZLES-This sign-carrying group led a parade of several hundred striking students at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, Tuesday, in protest of University regula- tions about the sale of 3.2 beer, coeds riding in cars, and censure of the student publication. The rebellion fizzled after, students and faculty settled their difficulties. KUTCIE? TO SUE FOR JOB: VetChallenoes U. S. Subversive Lists "I am trying to challenge the cialist Workers government's right to call arbi- list. trarily my party or any other po- * on the subversive * * litical party subversive," James Kutcher told an American Veter- ans Committee meeting yesterday at the Union. Kutcher, a veteran who lost his legs during the war, pointed out that he lost his job as a Veterans Administration clerk when Attor- ney General Clark placed the So- "WE WERE treated as though we were guilty even. though we were not permitted a political hearing. Police gathered rumors as evidence for the loyalty board." Kutcher's discharge was based on a section of the Hatch Act "which was designed originally Sweater Dance Judgment Day Near for Homecoming Displays "Beat Minnesota" will be the cry of enthusiastic students at the Homecoming pep rally at 7:30 p.m. today at south Ferry Field. Recruiting students from the distant ends of the campus, the University marching band and the East and West Quad bands will lead students to the Union at 7:30 p.m. * * * THE BANDS will then head the torchlight parade of cheering stu- dents down State Street to the blazing bon fire at south Ferry Field. A "Come As You Are" Dance will be held at the Union after the pep rally instead of the tra- ditional snake dance, which has been discontinued because of the disrupting turn it took fol- lowing the Army rally. During the intermission enter- tainment of the informal sweater and blue jean dance the Vaughan House Trio will be featured. THE STUDENT AFFAIRS Com- mittee granted permission to hold the Minnesota rally on the condi- tion that student enthusiasm would be confined to constructive ends, Al Hartzmark of the Wol- verine Club said. The $AC threatened discon- tinuation of future rallies should students resort to the unwar- ranted pranks of the Army rally, referring to the snake dancing through the women's dormito- ries. The pep rally is sponsored by the Wolverine Club in conjunction with the Varsity Committee of the Student Legislature. Two carloads of judges will tour Ann Arbor tomorrow morning in an attempt to determine which of 90 student displays are worthy of prizes. This year, separate sets of judges will be used for the wo- men's and the men's competitions. ASSOCIATE Dean of Women Mary C. Bromage, Margaret Mor- gan of the League and Marie Hartwig of the physical educa- tion department will view the en- tries of the various women's house groups. Judges in the men's division will be Prof. Donald Gooch of the architecture college, Ivan W. Seniors Get Photo Proofs Seniors who had sittings with the 'Ensian photographers during the first week of appointments began to receive their proofs from the New York photographers to- day. All seniors should have their proofs by the beginning of No- vember. * * * UPON RECEIPT of their four proofs, seniors are requested to bring the proof they want print- ed, along with the three others, to the senior picture office in the publications building as soon as possible. All proofs must be returned to the 'Ensian before Nov. 4. Parker, assistant to the Dean of Students, and Paul Graffius, assistant in the Office of Stu- dent Affairs. "Displays will be judged on the basis of originality, execution and appropriateness," according to Pris Ball, '51, of the SL display committee. * * * HUGE CUPS will reward the artistic efforts of first place win- ners in both divisions. Since these cups rotate an- nually to the houses winning first place, the Student Legisla- ture this year is donating per- manent plaques to winners so that they may retain lasting proof of their achievement. Smaller permanent cups will grace the mantelpieces of those houses winning second and third places in the competition, and miniature cups called "cigareters" will go to winners of honorable mention. * * * ANNOUNCEMENT of the win- ning displays will be made some time during the course of the foot- ball game on the stadium's public address system. All the trophies will be award- ed at the huge Homecoming Dance, to be held from 9 p.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at the Intra- mural building. And huge cartoons satirizing the whole display-building process will help liven up the walls of the IM building for the dance. Tickets for the dance are on sale daily in the Administration' Building and on the diagonal. to protect the worker, not to take his job," he said. "The government admits that I had access to no confidential in- formation. And I could not be a foreign agent since the Socialist Workers party is not of foreign origin," he said.. * * * KUTCHER'S ATTORNEY will take the case to the Federal Dis- trict Court in Washington in a few weeks. At that time the attorney may ask for an injunction forcing the Veterans Administration to re- employ him, he declared. The Kutcher case is based on the first, fourth and fourteenth amendments and is generally a stand for civil liberties, the leg- less veteran pointed out. "This case even concerns aca- demic freedom, for some universi- ties question my right to speak. This kind of questioning leads to witch hunts in academic circles," he said. Bus to Illinois Offers Savinos On Round Trip Thrifty minded students aching to save $10.50 should take the spe-. cial chartered bus to next Satur- day's Illinois game, according to Al Hartzmark of the Wolverine Club. Round-trip bus tickets cost only $12 and the trip takes six and a half hours, which is at least two hours shorter than by train, he declared. THE GREYHOUND buses will leave from the League at 2:30 p.m. next Friday and arrive in Cham- paign at 8 p.m. Returning buses will leave Champaign around noon, Sunday. Bus tickets will be on sale from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. today and all next week at the'Student Ac- tivities Window in the lobby of the Administration building. The Wolverine Club urged stu- dents to buy their tickets early be- fore the ticket supply is exhausted. By Victory Russia Forecasts 'Painful' Results NEW YORK-(P) -The United Nations overrode Russian protests today and elected Yugoslavia to a security council seat that the So- viet Union coveted for satellite Czechoslovakia. Two-thirds of the U.N. nations in effect gave a vote of confidence to Marshal Tito's regime, and re- buked the Cominform. The vote was Yugoslavia 39, Czechoslovakia 19. IT DEEPENED the East-West rift and left Russia to make good on her prediction that "painful consequences" to the U.N. would follow election of Yugoslavia. What those consequences may be probably will' not be clear until the reorganized Security Council meets in January, with Yugoslavia taking the seat now held by the Soviet Ukraine. Three Security Council seats are changed every year by vote of all 59 nations in the General Assembly. U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson said he sees little dan- ger of a rift in the U.N. because Czechoslovakia lost out. In London, a spokesman for the Czechoslovak Embassy said there was no prospect of Pro-Soviet Communist nations in the U.N. walking out as a result of the election. He added :(.No doubt this is what many Western countries would like us to do." * * * AMERICAN SUPPORT was a big factor in Yugoslavia's victory. It was a calculated support-aimed at strengthening Tito in his struggle with Moscow. The vote came less than a day after Yugo- slavia declared that Russia had moved troops into neighboring Cominform countries, toward the Yugoslav frontier. The voting provoked a red- faced outburst from Andrei Y. Vishinsky, Soviet Foreign Min- ister. Speaking in Russian, he said: "The Soviet Union delegation declares with full determination that Yugoslavia shall not, cannot, be considered as a representative of the Eastern European countries, and that the introduction of Yugo- slavia to the Security Council shall be considered by the Soviet Union delegation as a new violation of the (U.N.) charter, undermining the very foundations of coopera- tion in the United Nations." Russia contended she and asso- ciated nations have the right to designate the eastern European delegation to the council. Their choice was Czechoslovakia. Chinese Reds D ear IKWeilin Nationalist Air Corps" Pulling Out of Capital HONG KONG - (/P) - Chinese Communist troops yesterday were believed nearing Kweilin, head- quarters for Nationalist Gen. Pal Chung-Hsi's last ditch defense in Southwest China. The hint came from an an- nouncement that the China Na- tional Aviation Corp. was pulling out of Kweilin, capital of. Kwangsi Province: 250 miles northwest of Canton. * * * A NCIENT MICHIGAN TRA DI TION: Origin of Homecoming Displays Is Unknown A SECOND RED drive against Pai's 200,000 man army rolled up 160 miles southeast of Kweilin The CNAC also pulled out per. sonnel from Wuchow, on the Kwangsi border there. Press dispatches from the Na- tionalist island fortress of For- mosa said the Nationalists in- tended to back up their sea By JIM BROWN Homecoming displays are such an ancient tradition at Michigan that no one knows just exactly test but with the coming of the "roaring twenties" the displays blossomed forth on the mornings of the Homecoming games in ever grandstand of Michigan fans cheering as the Minnesota Gophers were trampled into the ground. * * * immediately above the protrud- ing feet of the Quaker. A subtle way of saying "Penn's Defeat." Women were more or less for- THE CONTEST was abandoned in 1942 as part of the war effort, with the money ordinarily spent