TRUMAN'S BUDGET DEFICIT See Page 4 Y Latest Deadline in the State Datt*bj rI~ 'I. CLOUDY AND WARMER VOL. LX., No. 78 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1950 PRICE FIVE CENTS Rampaging Water Rises In Midwest Blizzard Moves On to Rockies By The Associated Press Emergency sandbag squads braced weakening dikes last night awaiting the surging crests of turbulent rivers in Indiana and Illnois. More rain was expected. In the nation's northwest, the weather bureau said the furious blizzard which whipped the area with crippling effect Tuesday and yesterday whistled over the Rock- ies. BUT FROST was expected in California after a heavy rain hit Los Angeles. Sandbag crews worked to plug a leak in the Wabash River levee at Russellville, a town of 224 population -on the Indiana- Illinois boundary line. Sandbags 4 were rushed by boat and truck from a supply station about nine miles away. John Ritter, assistant Illinois state police chief, called the Rus- sellville and Maunie levee areas "danger spots." Maunie, a village of 525 population, is about 25 miles west of Evansville, Ind. \But breaks there would add but a few .more persons to the hun- dreds of refugees in the water soaked region, Ritter said. THE WABASH was expected to crest at Vincennes, Ind., yester- day. Vincennes has a population of 20,000. Army engineers said they had men and equipment on hand to cope with a 30 foot top. A maxi- mum of 27 to 272 feet was ex- pected. In 1943 a 29 foot crest gnawed It the levee banks. At 16 feet, the river is considered at flood stage, overflowing bot- tom lands. Telephone crews went out from Vincennes in boats. They attempt- ed to restore communications with Lawrenceville, Ill., across the.river. Farm families and livestock moald out of the way of the White Riv- er's path at Orrville, Ind., 25 miles southwest of Vincennes. A washout of U.S. highway 41 was expected. This happened dur- ing the record 1937 flood. Tuitions Rise Third Time In Three Years University students will face the third tuition increase in three years when they register for class- es next semester. Under the new rates announced, by the Board of Regents last July Michigan residents will pay $75 for the spring term-$5 more than at present. ' And outstate students will pay an extra $25-making their total semester tuition fee up to the $200 mark. THE INCREASES were necessi- tated when the State Legislature slashed the University's $12,500,- 000 budget request to $11,436,315 last June. Even with the increased tui- tion revenue, University officials last summer predicted a tenta- tive budget deficit $214,842. Previously, tuition fees were raised from $120 and $240 to $140 and $300 in September, 1946. Two years later it jumped another $25 a semester for outstate students, making their yearly tuition $350. * * * EACH TIME University officials have said the increases were made "reluctantly." President Alexander G. Ruth- ven termed last July's tuition boost the "one step that the Regents and the University hoped to avoid." "We trimmed our budget as far as we possibly could and yet con- tinue the high quality program expected of the University," he said. Phi Eta Sigma Elects Officers Alvin Green, '53, was elected president of Phi Eta Sigma, fresh- man honor society for men, at the fraternity's banquet and initiation held last night in the Union. Stricken Steamer SHELLED FREIGHTER-The American freighter Flying Ar- row was shelled by Chinese Nationalist gunboats Jan. 9 off Shanghai. Capt. David Jones of Chicago pronounced the ship no longer seaworthy after inspecting damage from between 30 and 40 hits. * * * * 'Flying Arrow' Ordered To Cease Shanghai Run' Italiais To Ha ve New Government Gasperi Coalition To Resign Today ROME-(P)-Premier Alcide De Gasperi's coalition government de- cided last night to resign today, clearing the way for a reorganiza- tion he has planned since last October. The decision came, by coinci- dence, after a day in which Com- munists demonstrated by the thousands against Italian police for the slaying of six foundry workers in a riot at Modena Mon- day. Communist spokesmen threatened a new anti-govern- ment campaign. These demonstra- tions did not precipitate the cab- inet crisis. * * * DE GASPERI, 68-year-old' Christian Democratic chieftain, is to submit his own resignation and that of his ministers this morning to President Luigi Einaudi, who presumably will then ask him to form a new government. The Premier's party has an absolute majority in the Cham- ber of Deputies and control of the Senate. He has run the country lately with a coalition of Christian Democrats, Liber- als (Conservatives), middle-of- the-road Republicans and Inde- pendents. Though the Commun- ist party is the second largest in both the House and Senate, it is barred from the cabinet. De Gasperi hopes to form an- other coalition, but a strong fac- tion within his own party is ex- pected to demand a government made up solely of Christian Dem- ocratic ministers. * * * THE PROPOSAL for a shakeup dates back to the resignation of Vice-Premier Giuseppe Saragat and two other Labor Socialist ministers from the cabinet three1 months ago. Internal differencesl Back T o ork NEW YORK - (/') - The Is- brandtsen"Co., Inc., said last night it is abandoning its efforts to get its ship, the Flying Arrow, into nationalist-patrolled Shanghai. The company said in a state- ment that the ship has been ord- Hiss Defense Psychiatrist Questioned NEW YORK-(flP)-In a biting cross examination, the govern- ment yesterday turned its own mental X-ray on the psychiatrist who called Alger Hiss' accuser ab- normal. But the witness, Dr. Carl A. L. Binger, remained unshaken in his stand that Whittaker Chambers is a "psychopathic personality" and a seasoned liar. * * * ASSISTANT Prosecutor Thomas F. Murphy dug deep into Dr. Binger's own personality at times to try to counter the attack on his star witness, Chambers. Chambers is the chief witness at Hiss' perjury trial. At other times Murphy went, into recorded history to try to show that great men of the past have acted not unlike Chambers- and never been called crazy for it. POINT by point, Murphy took up where he left. off Tuesday in his examination of what Dr. Bin- ger called Chambers' peculiarities. Stealing was one of them. "Did you ever steal a towel?" Murphy asked Dr. Binger. "I could not swear that I did or did not," said the witness. Chambers admitted taking news stories from columns of the New York Times and rewriting them for the Communist Daily Worker, when he once was employed on the latter. Dr. Binger had cited as unus- ual Chambers' use of a hollowI pumpkin to hide some of the pur- ported evidence against Hiss. ered to Tsingtao, which it called the nearest safe port. TSINGTAO also is Communist- held. However, the company said it did not anticipate any opposition by the Nationalist government to the Flying Arrow's docking there. The Flying Arrow was- heav- ily shelled Monday as it tried to make its way into Shanghai against the objections of the Nationalist government. "In view of the unexpected and unwarranted attack (upon it) we do not consider it justified to ex- pose the vessel and crew to fur- ther lawlessness," the company said. THE COMPANY did not say whether other of its ships, poised for an attempt to reach Shanghai. would be similarly diverted. The statement said only: "We are not, however, aband- ing or interrupting our regular services to Hong King and other Chinese ports which we have maintained for years and intend to maintain." (In Washington, the Navy said orders to two U.S. destroyers to stand by the Flying Arrow had been withdrawn, and that the ships were directed to leave the Yangtze estuary. The destroyers had helped the Flying Arrow make repairs. The Navy said the order to the two destroyers to withdraw fol- lowed receipt of word from the Flying Arrow that it had been re- paired and was seaworthy for a voyage to any port not farther away than Hong Kong, which is about 800 miles from the Yangtze estuary.) Isbrandtsen said the Nationalist patrol of the waters off Shanghai never was recognized as a legal blockade. Therefore the company branded as "loose talk" any at- tempt to characterize its efforts to reach Shanghai as blockade- running. Furthermore, the company add-; Id"Our vessels are not now and never have carried contraband or combat material to China." Lewis Orders Coal Miners -Daily-wally Barth J-HOP BOUND-Janet Dewey, '51, left, sells J-Hop tickets to three eager students. Left to right they are Herb Ailes, '52E, Bob Herhusky, '51A, and Dick Frank, '52A. J-Hop is scheduled for Feb. 10 and 11 at the Intramural Bldg. REPLIES TO CHARGES: C Bias join U',Bitg 'Ten Sports LONDON-()-Ronald Uns- worth Stocks had a system for breaking up the drab routine of his life in Dartmoor prison, Authorities said Stocks, by swallowing forks, spoons and needles, had managed to make six trips to hospitals for opera- tions since 1946. Last week doctors removed a fork he had swallowed. He died from shock after that opera- tion. The coroner's verdict yes- terday was: "death by misad- venture." Taft Blasts Policy %..ont Far East WASHINGTON--(P) - Senator Taft (R-Ohio) yesterday loosed a scathing attack on the adminis- tration's handling of foreign af- fairs, particularly in China where he said a "left-wing" group in the State Department has defied the general policy Congress laid down. The Senate Republican policy leaden flatly accused President Truman of following an inconsist- ent course in extending armed aid to Europe to balk Communist ex- pansion, while refusing similar as- sistance to anti-Communist forces in China. * *,* TAFT made these charges in a 1,400 word speech to the Senate where foreign policy has been the No. 1 topic since Mr. Truman an- nounced last weekdthat this coun- try will not provide arms to help Chiang Kai Shek's forces defen; the island of Formosa against the Chinese Communists. Senator Vandenberg (R-Mich.), long the chief GOP foreign policy spokesman in the Senate, joined with Taft in urging that Congress be given an expert appraisal of the place Formosa holds in the Paci- fic military picture. The Ohioan took the Senate floor as Secretary of State Ach- eson was giving members of the House foreign affairs committee a general review of United States foreign policy in a closed door session. Acheson said that the State Department in sticking to its' position that the United States can best combat Communism in the Orient through an economic aid program for those lands still outside the Red orbit. * * * TAFT, however, insisted that this country should take a direct stand now against a further Red advance in the Far East by send- ing arms help to Formosa. among the Labor Socialists the cause. Los, Angel es were Area Jarred By Earthquake LOS ANGELES-(/P)-A jarring earthquake shook a wide band of southern California at 4:41 p.m. yesterday inland some 75 miles to San Bernardino. There were no reports of dam- age. * * * CITIZENS flooded police and newspaper switchboards with calls in Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, Hollywood, Glendale and other foothill citie§. Prof. Charles F. Richter of Cali- fornia Institute of Technology,; Pasadena, said the quake did not appear strong enough to °have caused much loss, and probably centered "not more than 15 miles" from Pasadena. It didn't feel like a small shock to occupants of tall civic center buildings in Los Angeles, though. "We thought the Hall of Jus- tice was going to tip over," said newspapermen in the ninth floor pressroom. "The building rolled and twisted as it rocked and rocked." * * * ONE REPORTER said it was the hardest jolt he had felt in his 18 years of covering city hall. The quake was felt light in Long Beach, but it apparently was not noticed at Santa Moni- ca. Farther west at Santa Barbaral there were no reports of a quake. San Bernardino which lies close to the San Andreas Fault felt the quake, but El Centro, in the Im- perial Valley, did not. Burn Cross at UOklahoma T' NORMAN, Okla.-()--A group identified as University of Okla-! homa students burned a 15-foot high cross just off the campus here Tuesday night as the Com- munist party chairman in Okla- homa spoke to some 40 persons. The group demonstrated against Allan Shaw's address, which was By RICH THOMAS Discrimination against any ath- lete because of his race or reli- gion is not a policy or practice here at the University or in the Big-Ten, according to Ernie M4c- Coy, basketball coach. McCoy was replying to charges made in a; letter to the Editor of The Daily appearing on page four of this issue which claimed that Negro athletes competing for plac-, es on any teams other than foot- ball and track at Big Ten schools were discriminated against. * * * "TO MY knowledge, as a mat- Drucker Sees More Jobs for CollegeGrads As long as the American econ- omy, technology and population continues to expand as it has in the past 50 years, there will be a great and growing need for high- ly trained college graduates in the industrial world, according to Peter F. Drucker, writer, teacher and eminent economist.I "This need reflects a sound eco- nomic trend," Drucker said. "The elimination of a skill through'the production of machines, which will do more and more of the la- borer's work, requires a tremen- dous amount of skill in its own right." To produce a new machine, Drucker explained to a business administration audience last night, it takes many engineers, design- ers, managers on all levels, sales- men, and numerous other mem- bers of the newly risen industrial middle class. "A phenomenon of the twen- tieth century, this industrial mid- dle class has grown from nothing to perhaps 30 percent of the non- farming population," Drucker pointed out. "Because this class is close endugh to all other groups in the country to be generally accepted," Drucker said, "it has become the leading class and must assume' the responsibility of guiding the massive political-economic struc- ture of modern America." ter of fact," McCoy added, "dis- criminatory practices in Western Conference or University athletics have never even been discussed in or out of official circles." "In, the first place," McCoy said, "Indiana's Negro center, Bill Garrett, who can play ball on a team of mine anytime, is not the first Negro basketballer to play in the Big Ten." "The last three years that the University of Chicago was in the league, they had a Negro athlete playing for them," McCoy said. * * * AS FAR as Michigan is con- cerned," McCoy continued, "there has been only one Negro try out for the basketball team in the ten years that I've been here--- and he was Len Ford." Ford could have been a good basketball player, McCoy indi- cated, but football kept him from reporting till late. He de- veloped many bad habits play- ing unorganized ball which needed a lot of work to erase, and he didn't find the time for the necessary practice." who is good enough will be playing for us regardless of his color." "As a coach," McCoy concluded,' "I can only pick, from the boys who try out for the team, the five who I think will do the best job." You can be sure that any man londay Industry To Retain Three Day Week Some Mines May Work Full Week WASHINGTON - (') - John L. Lewis yesterday gave nearly 70,000 striking coal miners a signal to resume work Monday-but he kept the industry on a three-day work week. This was the second straight week in which groups of Lewis' United Mine Workers stayed com- pletely idle, so industry leaders wondered out loud whether other regional strikes are coming next week. JOHN D. BATTLE, executive vice-president of the National Coal Association, summed up operator feeling with this comment: "Lewis has set a pattern of sporadic strikes and there is no guarantee there won't be further stoppages." United Mine Workers officials in Rock Springs, Wyo., however, said they had received an order from national headquarters which may put a number of mines back on a six day week. The officials, who did not wish to be identified, said the order specified that mines may return to the six-day week, with time and a half for overtime, with permis- sion of the district 22 (Utah-Wyo- ming) president. This applies only to signatories of the new bitumin- ous wage agreement. CLAMR grew in Congress, meanwhile, for President Truma to step in to restore the normal five-day work week in the soft coal fields: 1. Six Republican senators in- troduced a resolution calling on Mr. Truman to invoke the Taft- Hartley law's emergency provis- ions to restore full production. Mr. Truman has so far contended the three-day week has caused no fuel emergency. 2. Rep. Jacobs (D-Ind.), a labor attorney who favors repeal of the Taft-Hartley law, told reporters the White House should invoke the law's court injunction provi- sions to get full production going again in his home state--plus other midwest states "and any- where else it's needed." * * * , "ANY TIME you shut down an entire industry you've gone too far," Jacobs said. "Many labor men have approved my position. Remember, they burn coal too." The Indiana Congressman said the coal situation was dis- cussed briefly during a visit he made to the White House yes- terday, but he declined to elab- orate. Some 32,650 miners have been on strike this week in Pennsylvan- ia, 17,500 in West Virginia, 6,000 in Alabama, 5,000 in Kentucky, 4,000 in Ohio, 990 in Utah and 250 in Virginia. About 1,000 in Wyoming went on strike yesterday. Engine Senior Dues Payable Senior class dues of engineers i who graduate in February will be collected from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday and Tuesday on the sec- ond floor of the West Engineering Bldg. and the lobby of East En- gineering. Dues of June and August grad- uates will be collected at registra- tion next semester according to Engineering Senior class president Bill Upthegrove, '50E. The one dollar dues will go to cover organization costs of com- mencement announcements, sen- ior ball, class reunions, publica- tions and other class functions put on by the slip-stick pushers. Spending Policies SL Committee Told To "Look Further" into "U' Sports Fees TURNED TABLES:I Students Told To Fiddle While Professors Burn Students of the University. unite! This might well be the rallying cry of overworked students, if they heed the advice of an article ap- pearing in the current issue of a national magazine for "young men." DISCUSSING THE tribulations of professor-plagued students, the article sanctioned student strikes as an appropiriate measure in event of over-lengthy assignments. In a sweeping declaration, the article plays upon smoldering student discontent with the fighting phrase: "Make your teachers work!"1 How to approach this task? First, students must beware of Student Legislature last night set a fire under its varsity com- mittee in that group's investiga- tion of student tennis court fees charged and collected by the Board in Control of Intercollegiate Ath- letics. The Legislature instructed the committee to "look further" into why the University charges fees for sports the students participate in themselves for recreation and exercise, to list students objections1 to the fees and to ask the Athletic Department for a financial report on costs and charges. Ed. Reifel, SL cabinet member, clarified the University's lost and found system. "All articles found velop your deep-seated intellect, the article advises. * * * UNIVERSITY professors ques- tioned in a Daily poll pooh-poohed the possibility of student rebel- lion. "There are ways and there are ways," remarked Prof. Norman Anning of the mathematics de- partment knowingly. "I've never seen the student yet who could- n't accomplish two hours work in 80 minutes. And as for ex- ams--" He then cited a story culled from his younger days about the stu- dent who had his history at hisl fingertips and when the proctorl appeared, put his finger in his pocket. on campus except in the law school, grad school and Union should be turned into the lost and found department on the second floor of the Administration Building," he said. SL approved the following com- mittee chairman appointments by the cabinet: George Roumel, cam- pus action; Dave Belin, citizen- ship; Chuck Murray, cultural and educational; Dorianne Zipper- stein, NSA; Leonard Wilcox, pub- licity and Bob Vogt, varsity. Oth- er appointments were: Howard Johnson, parliamentarian; George Qua, Tug Week chairman and Adele Hager, Student Affairs Com- mittee representative. FOUR FANCY FIDDLERS: Budaopesers To Play .Tomorrow By PHOEBE FELDMAN Playing the first concert in the Tenth Annual Chamber Music the Library of Congress--gener- ally recognized as the focal center of eminent chamber music per- Mischakoff and Emanuel Zetlin at the Philadelphia Settlement School. In 1933, he became con-