CITY EDITOR'S SCRATCH PAD See Page 4 Iet IIJtt La test Deadline in the State :43 ti1jj , R q c , COLD, SNOW FLURRIES VOL LX, No. 80 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, JANUARY 14 1950 PRICE FIVE CENTS House Grog Strikes Blov At FairDeal Asks for Power To Bottle Up Bi WASHINGTON-()-A sur move which could wreck muc the Truman Fair Deal Prog in this session of Congress started yesterday in House R Committee-and informed C gressmen believed last night it a good chance to succeed. Southern Democrats and Re licans teamed up to force thro a motion 9 to 2 asking the H( to restore the committee's power to bottle up bills. WORKING TOGETHER, su coalition thus would have life death power over large portion President Truman's legisla program. There was reported to be great deal of sentiment in V House favoring a return of V committee's power which w shorn away last January. The existing rule, permit chairmen of other committee by-pass the rules group and b legislation to the House floor, portedly was adopted for thev purpose of keeping the Tru program from being blockaded ** * HOUSE Speaker Rayburn Texas, Administration leader, peared glum over yesterday s den turn of events but decl comment. The committee's chairm 01 Sabath (D-Ill.) said he assu, the change would go through the coalition of Republicans a southern Democrats prevails.' The rules committee ac came after a wrangle over the1 ministration's Fair Employr Practices legislation. The mo was made by Rep. Cox (D-G foe of the measure which is be the rules group. * * * THERE were two factors lea to the 9 to 2 vote: 1h.Opposition by some of th committee members to the C rights program and to theF Deal program of social legislat 2. A feeling that the commi ought to have more say-so a funnelling legislation to the h( floor for action. Not all those who favor ret of the Rules Committee's p can be classed as opponents Civil Rights bills or the Fair I program. British Sub Disaster Toll Reaches 65 CHATHAM, Eng. - (P) - British Royal Navy said last n 65 men perished in the sinking the submarine Truculent. Hope was abandoned for missing men, believed enton2 in the hulk on the muddy bd the Thames Estuary. Di fought time and tide in vain day for a sign of life in the wr * * * TEN BODIES had been g: up by the sea. Only 15 of the 80 aboard V 1,090-ton Pacific war veter escaped after her collision w the 643-ton Swedish tanker T vine at 7 p.m. Thursday. The admiralty placed an are order on the tanker. She is to held until her owners post to cover the loss of the Trucul A STATEMENT by the adn alty, issued about 24 hours a the accident, said "no hope now be entertained" for anyf - ther survivors. The admiralty first believ 76 persons were aboard. spokesman said last night ar check showed the Trucule carried six officers, 56 enlist men and 18 naval dockya workers. This was the greatest pea time British submarine disa since June 1939, pI wFire Havoc Can 1 I Hit 'U' Students (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first of a series of articles on fire pre- ?u7S cautions in local student boarding houses.) By DAVIS CRIPPEN ~rise Scenes of flaming destruction and death in fires at Kenyon ih of College and the University of Oklahoma could very easily be reenacted ram in a sickening number of the local student boarding houses. was That's the most vivid impression I gained in nearly a week of ules scurrying between officials in the General Administration Building .on- and Ann Arbor's City Hall, checking on what precautions the average had student rooming house has taken against fire. * * * * ub- THOUGH MANY of the men close to the problem with whom I ugh talked were unwilling to be quoted by name, privately they admitted ouse that the situation really has them worried. old Ann Arbor Fire Chief Ben Zahn expressed one of the more optimistic attitudes I encountered when he said, "Not too many ch a lives have been lost in Ann Arbor," but he knocked hard on a and wooden table next to him as he said it. s of But he went on to say, "There are quite a number of houses tive that could be better equipped with secondary means of egress"- that is, such additions as fire escapes or ladders. a** * * the ANOTHER CITY OFFICIAL, an even closer observer of the the situation who preferred to remain anonymous, went further than that. was "I haven't found a student boarding house in Ann Arbor that comes within a mile of fulfilling the minimum state fire precaution ting requirements-and that's not because I haven't been looking," he s to ad. ringadded. v ry cateyDEAN OF STUDENTS Erich A. Walter, commenting on the deli- man cate situation, could only indicate that the situation is not as good . as it might be. "I hope that the city will move into a more strict interpre- of tation of fire regulations," he said. ap- But though both University and City Hall officials are aware ud- "of the graveness of the condition, their efforts to improve it are ned hamstrung by the lack of money and men to carry out the necessary inspection program. jed CITY ENGINEER George Sandenburgh told me that even if the "if 'nd city did have the personnel and the money to handle the inspection ~d of rooming houses, it would need a list of what to inspect. "We don't even know of all the places in town that have tion roomers," he declared. ad- The crowded conditions now current in campus rooming houses tion present another obstacle to effective enforcement of fire precaution la.), regulations. fore * * * * "SUPPOSE," one University official said, "we could force an overcrowded rooming house to cut down the number of students, ding where would the students go?" (Tomorrow: What is wrong with the fire precautions in student e 12 boarding houses?) Fair ion. SUPPLY DWINDLES: ttee bout ouse Report States CoalShortage urn MayBring Some Hardships wer of 4 Burford, 'M' PuckmenNip Princetonsix Ace Scorer Nets Four in 8-5 Win By JIM PARKER (Special to The Daily) PRINCETON, N.J.-Gil Burford went on .a one-man scoring ram- page here last night to pace the Michigan hockey team to an easy 8-5 triumph over the Princeton Tigers before about 1700 fans at the Arena. The talented Wolverine right- wingman pulledathet"hat trick" with four goals and three assists. enter Neil Celley also reached the coveted three-goal level with a trio of markers and one assist. THE WOLVERINES piled up - 4-1 lead in the first period, bu visibly tired as the game pro- gressed due to the long tiresome trip. Celley got the first goal at 8:06 on a short shot from about five feet with assists going to both Burford and Wally Grant. In the next 3 minutes the Wol- verines really poured it on with three more goals. Burford snared a loosed puck in front of the net and poked it in at 9:59. HE FOLLOWED a little later at 10:46 with a fifteen footer on a rebound. Grant had hit the post with a shot and received an assist on the play. Michigan's second line got in- to the act at 11:11 with Bob Heathcott converting a pass from Lennie Brumm from about ten feet in front of the net. The Tigers got their only goal of the period when John Ryan rifled a long one past Goalie Jack McDonald at 16:43. Celley didn't wait long to rack up the fifth Michigan score in the middle session, when he faked out the Tiger goalie at 0:28 and netted the disc easily. Burford helped on the play. WINGER ERNIE Montgomery got one for the Tigers at 4:21, but Burford countered that one on a breakaway at 13:39. Ross Smith got an assist. McDonald Mathey made it 6-3 at 16:12 of the period with Montgomery setting up the play. Celley ended the period's scor- ing at 19:50 when he hit the left corner of the net on a pass from Burford. Burford tallied on a solo effort at 7:47 of the final session to end the Michigan scoring . With two Wolverines in the penalty box Mathey beat McDon- ad at 18:45, and with the visiting sextet one man short Weedin end- ed the scoring with a short poke at 19:05. The Wolverines complete their Eastern swing tonight against the Yale Bulldogs in New Haven. Chairmen for Phoenix Drive Listed by Trio Appointment of 13 men and women to the Student Executive Committee of the Michigan Me- morial-Phoenix Project was an- nounced yesterday by Mary Lu- beck, '51, chairman of the stu- dent campaign. The appointments were made by a committee of three from petitions submitted before the Christmas holidays. tmmonSDefense Chiefs .For Formosa Testimony FIRST INTERNATIONAL HOUSE-This structure on Oakland Ave. has been purchased by the Committee for International Living for use as hoine for students from all parts of the world, Bill Miller, committee chairman, announced last night. It is planned to have it in use by the beginning of the second semester. * * * * International House Planned - i The campus' first international house will be opened next semes- ter, Bill Miller, Grad., chairman of the campus Committee for In- ternational Living, announced last, night. A three-story structure at 915 Oakland has been purchased, clearing the last major obstacle in the way of getting the organiza- tion on its way, Miller said. 1 * * * . PLANS CALL for 34 men to live7 in the house, with the number divided evenly between foreign and American students. In addition, there would be an effort to draw the foreign stu- dents from as many parts of the world as possible, according to Miller.1 "The house will be run on a semi - co-op basis, like. Adelia Cheever, where the house hires a cook," Miller went on. DeWitt C. Baldwin, director of Lane Hall, will serve as resident adviser for the house. Henry Van Dyke, Grad., has been selected to be house parent. BALDWIN HAS had long ex- perience with this type of project through his founding the Lisle fellowship. The next project on the group's schedule is an interna- tional house for girls. "There's a good chance that this may be established by next September," Miller said. The committee plans to con- tinue founding these houses until there are several of them on cam- pus, Miller indicated. He said the house, which will be named later, has not yet been filled. He directed anyone inter- ested in applying for a room to write Don Haskel, c/o Lane Hall, giving his reasons for desiring res- idence. ALL FURTHER choices will be made on the basis of these letters. Most of the vacancies for stu- dents from the Pacific countries and Africa have been filled, but there is room for a few Latin American men and a large num- her of Europeans. The project got its start about three years ago, when some of the veterans coming back to school decided to take a crack at working out the problem of international understanding on a practical basis at the campus level. * * * AFTER GOING into many pos- sibilities they decided an inter- national house was the best way to accomplish what they wanted to do, Miller continued. The group gradually grew until last spring it won recognition from the Student Affairs Commit- tee. The group's main problem, how to finance the purchase of a house, was solved when it received the backing of a Detroit foundation. Vote Comes After Second Acheson Talk Passes Despite ConnallyStand WASHINGTON-P)--Repuli- can critics of the Administration's hands-off Formosa policy scored a point yesterday as the Senate For- eign Relations Committee agreed to call the nation's defense chiefs to testify on the island's strategic value. Over strong opposition fromk Chairman Connally (D-Tex), the Committee voted to summon Sec- retary of Defense Johnson and Gen. Omar Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to give their views Jan. 26 on ormosa's military importance. * *e * THIS action came after Secre- tary of State Acheson had made his. second appearance before the group this week to defend the Ad, ministration decision not to supply any further arms help to Chiang Kai Shek's forces in their last- ditch stand against the Chinese Communists. Senate Republicans , however, have been clamoring for U.S. intervention to keep the 225- mile long island stronghold from falling to the Chinese Reds. They further have been de- manding a first-hand report from the military leaders on how For- mosa figures in this country's de- fense planning. CONNALLY twice rebuffed a request from Senator Knowland (R-Calif.) for testimony by the defense chieftains. But yesterday he lost out when the matter was put to a vote test. Knowland, while not a mem- ber of the Foreign Relations Committee, was permitted to sit in on the Acheson sessions along with three other Republican foes of the Administration's China policy. * * * Soviet Aid To Reds Charged By Nationaihsts TAIPEI, Formosa - (P - The Chinese Nationalists charged last night that Russian advisers were aiding Communist preparations for an invasion of the Chusan Is- lands, important Nationalist air- base. The Nationalist defense minis- try, which made the allegation, said each Red division assigned to the assault had four Russian officers assigned to it. No other details were supplied. The Chusan (Chushan) Archi- pelago, lies about 100 miles south of Shanghai but the nearest is- lands are only seven miles from the mainland. The Communists twice in the last year have attempted to con- quer or neutralize the islands but have taken only two insignificant islets near shore. Pro-Nationalist reports said they were bloodily re- pulsed on the others. Nationalists To Keep UN Seat LAKE SUCCESS - (W) -Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Jakob A. Malik strode grimly out of the UN Security Council again yester- day after losing his fight to kick out Nationalist China's delegation. Malik said he would not come back until the Nationalists headed by Dr. T. F. Tsiang are ousted. He said also the Soviet Union would not recognize the legality of any council decisions made with Tsiang participating. The Russian had walked out Tuesdahv when the council refuse~d WASHINGTON - (R) - A cau- tiously worded report from the Federal Bureau of Mines last night said "some individual cases of hardship" may result from an un- even distribution of coal stocks coupled with consumer demands for certain types of coal. The Bureau reported that coal stocks in dealers' yards on Janu- ary 1 averaged four days supply, compared with a five-day aver- age supply a month earlier. Music Meeting Fetes Students Featured in today's sessions of the Fifth Annual Midwestern Con- ference on School, Vocal and In- strumental Music being held this weekend is a special luncheon ses- sion for University students who plan to become music teachers. Newell H. Long, president of the North Central Division of the Conference, will be on hand at the noon meeting at the Masonic Temple to discuss students' prob- lems. THE REPORT, however, did not take issue with President Tru- man's statement at his Thursday news conference that there is noj present national emergency in coal. The Bureau showed some op- timism about the spot shortages brought on by the United Mine Workers' three-day work week and a series of wildcat strikes in scattered mines. "As coal production and deliver- ies continue, in most cases the sit- uations can be alleviated," the Bureau said in reporting on its canvass of retail coal dealers for the month of December. * * * IT REPORTED "substantial in- creases" in the amount of soft coal received by householders and oth- er retail consumers during the last four months of 1949, compared with the corresponding period of 1948. This official appraisal of the coal situation came on the heels of a statement by the U.S. Cham- ber of Commerce that a real coal emergency exists. FEDERAL GIVE AWAY: Department of Agriculture To Donate Surplus Products WASHINGTON - (R) - The Agriculture Department is setting up machinery for giving away government stocks of surplus per- ishable farm products. The products can be given to Federal agencies, public and pri- vate relief agencies in this coun- try and foreign relief organiza- tions. HANDLING the give-away job will be the Department's far-flung production and marketing ad- ministration under the terms of the 1949 Farm Act which went into effect January 1. That act authorizes donation of govern- ment surpluses when they can no longer be held without going to waste. So far, no specific commodity has been put on the give-away list. The Department has more than $3,500,000,000 invested in surpluses under farm price support programs. The bulk of these surplus stocks are storable commodities such as cotton, wheat, corn, to- bacco, . soy beans, dried beans, and other grain which can be held for long periods. It is un- likely that any of them will be put on the donation list. Commodixties hextDby the De- partment which might fall even- onor Society tually in the give-away class in- clude: potatoes, dried eggs, dried Jniiaio milk and butter. H as L IEU A AI[ STOWE SPEAKS: Press Hinders Advance Of U.S. Mental Ability How has the world changed in the last 50 years? Where are we heading in the next 50? By RICH THOMAS The average American is at an eleven or twelve year old mental level, and it is being consciously kept there by the U.S. press and radio, Leland Stowe, prominent foreign correspondent and author, told a jburnalism audience last night. Stowe, who will speak again at 10 a.m. today in the Haven Hall News Room, declared that "the THE COMMITTEE consisted of Lubeck, Mary Riggs, president of Women's Judiciary and Robert Shepler, member of Men's Judi- ciary. Jeanne Lange, '51, was ap- pointed vice-chairman; Stanley Weinberger, '52, publicity chair- man; Margaret Kennedy, '51, features chairman; LaVerne Schmitkons, '51, personnel chairman and John Waidley, '51, speakers chairman. * * * THE LIST concludes with Don- ald Boerma, '50E, chairman of other students; James L. Brown, '51, Richard K. Johnson, '51E, and Lois Eisele, '52A, members-at- large. Russian-Germany A11. 3 State Hospital Plans Outlined LANSING-(IP)-A $106,000,000 mental hospital construction pro- gram was proposed yesterday by the state Mental Health Commis- sion. The program, which has the ap- proval of Governor Williams, would add 13,250 beds over a 10- year period. The legislature will be asked for $14,000,000 this year to get the program underway. It is es- timated the sum will add 2,040 new beds as an emergency mea- sure to cut down on the long wait- ing list of mental patients. "Developments in recent his- tory, which have pushed the U.S. into the position of world lead- ership," Stowe said, "have made this need all the more pressing. OUR EDUCATIONAL system has not trained us as leaders, Stowe indicated. Americans do not understand the idea of equal- ity - we generally believe that what is American is best; what is I CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL: Budapest Quartet Gives Concert Tonight Chi Epsilon Fraternity, honor civil engineering society, held its semi-annual installation, initia- tion and banquet last night at the Union. Initiated were Lynn Barber, Raymond Bruggink, Richard Byce, Lawrence Chick, James Dilworth, Gene Ellis, Earle Fleischmann, Stephen Hall, Robert Hanes, Don- ald Hill, Paul Hodges, Nelson Isa- da, Frederick Lamson, Jack Mat- son, Philip McCallister, and Rich- ard Peters. The list continues with Michael Potter, Charles Querio, Otto Schiesswohl, Arthur Schwartz, Thomas Smith, Donald Templin, Madan Uppal, Edward Vallorani, Ralph Vogler, William Walker, Stanford Wiggin, Sanger Westphal and Carl Guse. The Budapest Quartet will play the second of a series of Chamber Music Festival Concerts at 8:30 works brought forth the com- ment, "outstanding of all rec- ords t his seasn." from the New THE RUSSIAN replacement be- gan in 1927 when the second fid- dler left and by 1932. there was i