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Free Beer
WASHINGTON -(A)- The
Army yesterday accepted 1,-
200,000 cans of beer from brew-
ing interests as a gift to fight-
ing men in Korea.
The Army said the offer of
free beer was made some time
ago after there had been some
4 complaints from servicemen
that a ration of one can a day
to front line troops had been
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Louis Loses
In Grueling
15 Rounder
Fails Comeback
After Retirement
YANKEE STADIUM, New York,
-(P)-Ezzard Charles, a much
greater fighter than the world
thought he was, -battered Joe
Louis, the old champion, into a
bloody, helpless defeat last night
to prove once again that they
never come back.
At the close of 15 savage rounds
in Yankee Stadium the once peer-
less destroyer was so badly beaten
that it appeared doubtful he could
have answered more than another
bell or two.
THE UNANIMOUS DECISION
of the two judges and referee Mark
Conn was only a formality after
k the two weary warriors had em-
braced at the finish. The Assoat-
ed Press score card credited
Charles with 12 rounds, gave Louis
only two and called one even.
Louis trying to regain at 36
See LOUIS, Page 3
11ruman Signs
Huge Def ense
Appropriation
Authorize $17 Billion
To Aid U. S. Allies
WASHINGTON - (P) - Presi-
dent Truman yesterday signed the
$17,099,902,285 bill to strengthen
defenses of the United States and
its allies.
He penned his signature to the
huge appropriations measure with-
out ceremony at 10:20 aM. in his
oval room White House office.
THE BILL CARRIED $4,000,-
00a,000 for military aid to friendly
nations and includes a mild ban
on economic help to nations which
send military materials to Russia
or its satellites.
A direct outgrowth of the
fighting in Korea and the step-
ped up program to strengthen
American military might, the
bill provides more than $15,-
000,000,000 for direct military
purposes.
In addition to the $4,000,000,000
for military aid to friendly nations,
it appropriates approximately
r $11,000,090,000 for the Army. Navy
and Air Force, $260,000,000 for
the Atomic Energy Commission,
I $598,637,370 to stockpile strategic
materials, $30,000,000 to adminis-
ter the defense production (wages
and price control and other do-
mestic curbs) act, and $47,500,000
for aid to schools in areas with
abnormal school expenses due to
1government activities.
* * *
SMALLER ALLOTMENTS for
miscellaneous non-military- pro-
grams comprise the balance.
There was little quibbling in
Congress over the money items in
the emergency measure, but a hot
fight developed over a proposed
baki or. giving economic aid to
foreign countries that send mili-
tary material to Russia or her
satellites.
r Ford Offers 'U'
Grant, Paper Says

TO TALK TURKEY:

Decision on Thanksgiving Make Largest
HolidayPlan Imminent 'GrupCa-n
By RICH THOMAS
Whether University students will get their long sought Thanks- Four Houses On
giving weekend holiday or not should soon be decided by the Univer-
sity deans, Dave Belin, '51, SL cabinet member-at-large, told Legis- Social Probation
lators last night.

Since last winter, Belin 'has been working on the Thanksgiving
problem for the Student Legislature. He has steadily progressed in
his efforts to get the SL plan adopted by University officials.
* * * *
IN ESSENCE, the SL plan is this:
The two class days lost by the University by granting a
a Thanksgiving weekend holiday would be made up by holding
classes on the Saturdays Immediately preceding the Christmas
and spring recesses.

12 Atlantic
States Okay
Onte army
NEW YORK-(IP)-By unani-
mous and unprecedented peace-
time decisions, the North Atlantic
Council last night approved the
creation of a combined force to
preserve the Atlantic cqmmunity,
and Western Europe especially,
from Soviet aggression.
The council called for the or-
ganization of this force as speedily
as possible and decided that all
available manpower and produc-
tive resources of the 12 pact coun-
tries should be used fully. -
* * * .
PRESIDENT TRUMAN already
has pledged the United States to
send more divisions to the defense
of Western Europe if other coun-
tries interested will make com-
parable contributions.
The council decisions carried
the President's idea a step fur-
ther and pledged the other
members of the North Atlantic
Pact to share in the organiza-
tion of the first such combina-
tion of forcest in peacetime.,
The council left to the defense
ministers of the 12 nations the
question of how to use German
manpower, a hot issue during1
nearly two years of secret con-
versations,4
In the conferences, the Big
. Three, the United States, France
and Britain also decided they will
end their state of war with Ger-
many as soon as constitutional
requirements of the three coun-
tries will permit.
State Officials
To Highlight
Meeting.Here
Speeches by Lee Thurston, state
superintendent of public instruc-
tion, and State Senator Don Van-
derWrp will highlight a confer-
ence of Michigan school board
members and school officials to be
held on campus today.
The two men will speak at the
meeting's opening session which
is scheduled for 10 a.m. in the
Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre;
Thurston will talk on "Implica-
tions of the Present Crisis for
Michigan Schools" while Vander-
Werp's speech will be titled "Fi-
nancing Michigan Public Schools."
Following lunchean in the
Union, the conferene will break up
into eight discussion groups to

Belin reported that he had,
"conferred privately with 10 deans
whose schools represented about
two-thirds of the student body.
"Not one of the .10 disapproved
the plan, and several deans were
strongly in favor of it," Belin
said.
Belin has also, at the request of
the SL cabinet, visited President
Ruthven and discussed the entire
Thanksgiving situation with him.-
"I FEEL THAT in the very near
future I will be given the oppor-
tunity to appear before a deans
conference called primarily to dis-
cuss the Thanksgiving Holiday sit-
uation," Belin said.
He intimated that the deans
would probably reach a decision
oni the SL's plan during that con-
ference.
Aft,^r hearing Belin's report, the
SL moved to postpone for one week
decision on whether it should con-
duct a drive for student signatures
for the Crusade for Freedom scroll.
"The Crusade For Freedom
scroll," Tom Walsh, '51, initiator
of the proposal, commented, "is
the American counterpart of the
pink-tinged Stockholm Peace Ap-
peal."
Medic Parley Will
Open Here Today,

By FLOYD THOMAS
The toil, sweat and tears Uni-
versity students poured into their
studies last year raised the grade
average a mere .01.
The undergraduate grade level
for 1949-50 was 2.57, tying the rec-
ord set in 1944-45 and 1947-48. In
1948-49 it was 2.56.
* * *
ALTHOUGH fraternities as a
group rose .04 to 2.5, the largest
group gain, eight fraternities fell
below the required 2.4. Four of
For breakdown by residence
See Page 6
these had also missed the scholas-
tic boat in 1948-49 and had been
put on warning, and have now
been put on social probation.
They are Alpha Tau Omega,
Delta Sigma Phi, Zeta Psi and
Chi Psi.
The other four which did not
make 2.4-Phi Sigma Kappa, Chi
Phi, Phi Kappa Psi and Tau Delta
Phi-have been put on warning of{
social probation.
The sorority average rose .03 to
2.67, a new record.
COEDS HAD it over the men in1
the brains department by the score
of 2.62 to 2.55. Each sex increased
its average .01 from the previous
year.
Women's cooperative houses
repeated their last year's per-
formance to lead the general
groups with an average of 2.82,
a drop from last year's record
2.88. Men's cooperatives fell
from 2.68 to a still comfortable
2.62.

"TIME CAPSULE" - President Alexander G. Ruthven and
Vice President Robert P. Briggs do the honors at the unearthing
from the University Mall cornerstone of a small copper box
containing papers placed there when the stone was laid in 1871.
'Time Capsule' Opening
Marks End of 'U' Hall'

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By CHUCK ELLIOTT
A group of assorted dignitaries,
workmen, and a large crane jarred
the limestone cornerstone of what
was once University Hall from its
eighty-year resting place yesterday
afternoon and extracted a bat-
Allies Uncover*
New Red Plot
In Germany
BONN, GERMANY-(P)-Allied
and German officials said yester-
day they have discovered secret
Communist plans to ignite a series
of "blitz meetings" in 10 or more
major Ruhr cities beginning this
weekend.
Serious clashes with the police
are expected if hardened Com-
munist youths, especially trained
for the task, attempt to go through
with their new "hate the West"k
campaign.
German officials said about 30,-
000 of these youths, trained in
Eastern Germany in methods of
agitation, creating disturbance
and battling police, have been in-
filtrating into Western Germany
to spearhead a new "national re-
sistance" fight. Many were said
to have boldly ridden interzonal
trains with false identity papers
supplied by Soviet authorities.
Socialist Party headquarters an-
nounced in Vienna last night that
Austrian Communists had decided
to call off their strike after two
days of widespread disturbances
and sporadic interruptions of rail
traffic.

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copper box from the cen-I

The box had been sealed into
the stone when it was laid down by
the then acting president of the
University, Henry S. Frieze, at
ceremonies on June 28, 1871. The
Glee Club was on. hand to cele-
brate by singing an original ode
composed by Michigan Supreme
Court Justice James V. Campbell.
The occasion was a festive one;.
the University of Michigan was
doubling its facilities by erecting
this imposing new structure.
s . sr
YESTERDAY:afternoon, a huge
crane, swinging a heavy maul on
the end of a cable, knocked down
the last remaining bits of 'U' Hall,
once more exposing the top of the
cornerstone and the concrete
patch which sealed in the cop-
per "time capsule."
Workmen cleared away the
few remaining stray bricks
from the stone and stood back.
President Alexander G. Ruth-
ven, wielding an oversize ham-
mer and assisted by Vice Presi-
dent Robert P. Briggs, battered
away the concrete seal, and with
some help from workmen man-
aged to free the box from its
resting place.
Lifted out, the box was found
to be securely welded shut. A few
hours later, in the Regeits' con-
ference room of the new Admini-
stration building, the box was bro-
ken open to reveal, among other
things, newspapers from Ann Ar-
bor, Chicago and Detroit of the
date of the ceremony, many
speeches and documents and the
business card of the man who
constructed the box.

UN Troops
Authorized
To Skip '38'
By The Associated Press
United Nations troops pressed a
giant mop-up of the North Korean.
army around Seoul yesterday,
which was authorized by the UN
to cross the 38th parallel if neces-
sary as a military measure to de-
stroy the power of the fleeing
Communist forces.
This was reported in Washing-
ton yesterday by responsible in-
formants who said, however, that
the longer range political question
of establishing order "in North
Korea and occupying that area of
the peninsula must be decided by
the United Nations.
THUS THE ISSUE of "cross-
ing the 38th parallel," as it is
usuallydescribed, has been divid-
ed into two parts.
On the one hand is the neces,.
sity of defeating the Communist
forces finally and completely.
On the other, is the question of
long term occupation policy.
The decision attributed to mili-
tary necessity was presumably ap-
proved by President Truman and
reviewed by Secretary of State
Acheson with the foreign policy
chiefs of friendly governments at
United Nations headquarters in
New York.
U.S. EIGHTH ARMY strate-
gists considered the back of the
once-powerful Communist army
virtually broken. Final victory was
believed in sight. But hard fight-
ing still lay ahead. And the fight
was still hot in Seoul.
U.S. Marines and infantry-
men threw hot steel from close
range at stubbornly-resisting
North Korean reds barricaded
in buildings in the old capital's
smoking business district. Unit-
ed Nations troops now hold
nearly all the city.
Tank-tipped columns flaring
out from all sides of the old South-
eastern United Nations beachhead
kept up a relentless pressure on
the retreating enemy.
Best estimates at Eighth Army
Headquarters were that a maxi-
mum of 50,000 Communist troops
were sealed off deep in South
Korea by the link-up Tuesday
night of U.S. forces from the

Canadian Asks
For Surrender
NEW YORK-(P)-Rumors were
current at the United Nations As-
sembly yesterday that the Com-
munist North Koreans have indi-
cated willingness to stop fighting
and accept a U.N. settlement.
There was no confirmation of
these rumors and queries to dele-
gates met only replies that they
knew nothing about such peace
feelers.
Trygve Lie, secretary-genera,
said he knew nothing about the
rumors and had not in fact heard
them.
* * *
SIR BENEGAL N. RAU, chief of
the Indian delegation, denied to
newsmen that his delegation had
been approached by the North
Koreans.
The American delegation said
it knew nothing about the ru-
mors. This was the answer from
the State department in Wash-
ington also.
Soviet deputy foreign minister
Jacob A,. Malik was shown a copy
of one 'dispatch. He shrugged his
shoulders and said he knew noth-
ing of the rumors which he had
called "propaganda."
MEANWHILE, Canada's minis-
ter for external affairs, Lester B.
Pearson, demanded yesterday that
the North Korean aggressors cease
fire immediately and admit defeat
to the United Nations forces. He
called for a united Korea free of
subversive Communist elements
directed from outside Korea.
"It is our hope," Pearson said
to the U.N. Assembly, "that the
people of northern Korea, hav-
ing been forced into a perilous
and disastrous venture by their
Communist rulers, will now
themselves repudiate these rul-
ers and cooperate with the Unit-
ed Nations in bringing to Korea
the freedom and unity which
its people desire."
"This is the time for the ag-
gressors to cease fire, to admit de-
feat."
IN OTHER SPEECHES in the
general debate, India, Israel, Nor-
way and Ecuador suggested that
the East and West start immedi-
ately a round of peace talks to
settle all differences among them.
But these suggestions found
French Foreign Minister. Robert
Schuman saying peace actions by
Russia would talk louder than
words.
There was no doubt that Schu-
man believes a Big Four meeting
now would not be useful.
Gifford Given
London Post
WASHINGTON--)-Walter S.
Gifford, former chairman of the
board of American Telephone and
Telegraph company and a Gov-
ernment adviser in two world
wars, was named ambassador to
London yesterday.
His selection was announced by
the White House immediately af-
ter rtceipt of British approval, a
customary diplomatic step.
Gifford succeeds Lewis W. Doug
Douglas whose resignation was an-
nouncedTuesday, effective Nov. 1.
The new ambassador, 65 years'
old, is an active Republican.
His assignment to the London
Post, in many respects the most
important one abroad In U.S.
Diplomatic Service, is relied on in
some Administrative quarters to
add strength to bi-partisan for-
eign policy.
Rushing Meeting

Time Switched
The fraternity rushee meeting
originally scheduled for 7:30 p.m.


The Medical Alumni Conference,'
which draws doctors from all over Top honors in the residence
the world, will open today in con- halls went to the undergraduate
junction with the University Med- women in Palmer House, with 2.88.
ical School's centennial celebra- Victor Vaughan House topped all
other men's dormitories with 2.71.
A total registration of more A sky-high 2.96 allowed Alpha
than 700 is expected to attend the Epsilon Phi to set a new record
first meeting at 9 a.m. today in for sororities. In the 12 years
the Rackham lecture hall. grade point records have been kept
Following an afternoon of group Alpha Epsilon Phi has copped top
discussions, the doctors will at- sorority grade honors four times
tend a 7 p.m. banquet at the Un-- ,and tied once.
ion. Featured speakers will be Dr. Kappa Nu fraternity's 2.8 aver-
Udo J. Wile and Dean Albert C. age captured the laurel wreath in
Furstenberg of the Medical|Greek scholastic standings, also
School. for the fourth time.
"GREATEST MODERN PROPHET"

southeast beachhead with
coming down from Seoul.
'Ensian Picture
Deadline Nears

those

Famed Japanese Evangelist To Speak

Tokohiko Tkagawa, described by
religious leaders as "the greatest
prophet of modern times," will
give an inside report on modern
Japan at 8 p.m. today in Hill Aud-
itorium.
Famous for his "Kingdom of:
God" movement, during which he.
brought about 65,000 conversions
to Christianity, the Japanesej
evangelist is one of the foremost
figures in his country, having
been a political and economic ad-,
viser, a social worker, a poet, a

He made his first visit to the this mission, he remained in Japan
United States in 1914, when he throughout the war and was ar-
studied at Princeton Theological I rested three times for making
Seminary and worked as secretary statements that were not accept-
of the Japanese Community As- able to the war leaders of Japan.
4 sociation in Ogden, Utah, where " * #
he had experience in settling la- 1 AFTER THE WAR Kagawa was
bor disputes between farmers and prominent in the rehabilitation of
land-owners. Japan as well as the continuation
#'*Jof i1'pvanrraictIrI4U nI1IJiar11

Because the photographers will
be here only four days next week,
seniors and graduates who want
their pictures to appear in the
1951 'Ensian must make their ap-
pointments today or tomorrow,
Clarence Katler, business manag-
er, has announced.
Absolutely no pictures can be
taken after next Thursday, Ket-
lar warned, and late appointments
cannot be made.
All seniors or graduates who ex-
pect degrees in February, June,
or August, 1951 are eligible for the
sittings. Appointments should be
arranged at the 'Ensian office in

AMONG KAGAWA'S achieve-
ments in Japan have been the,
. founding of the first labor school,
the organization of farm and labor

His talk here will be part of
his fourth lecture tour of the
United States in which he is

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