LITTLE CLUB See Page 4 Latest Deadline in the State t t r CLOUDY; WARMER VOL. LXI, No. 119 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1951 SIX PAGES CIO-AFL Meat Strike Postponed Walkout Threat Remains Serious By The Associated Press Threat of a double-barreled !AFL-CIO Meat Handlers strike Monday that could shut off the flow of meat to American dinner tables was averted yesterday after AFL President William Green urged a delay, The AFL Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butchersworkmen, representing some 100,000 pack- inghouse workers, said flatly "No AFL strike Monday." * * * BUT WHILE the CIO United' Packinghouse Workers, represent- ing 120,000 workers, set no strike date, it did leave "the timing of a strike" to its strike strategy, committee. Both unions had threatened to walk out in plants across the nation M o n d a y in protest against governmental refusal to' approve a 11 cent hourly wage increase they negotiated with the major packers. Although a possibility of a CIO strike Monday was not definitely ruled out, both unions have been acting together in this dispute. A CIO walkout alone would crip- ple but not paralyze the nation's meat packing and supply machin- ery. Green sent his "peal to both unions. * s ELSEWHERE on t h elabor front, a union proposal to settle a two-year-old railroad wage dis- pute failed when the carriers re- jected it. The answer was given to the Senate Labor Committee in Washington which is investi- gating the long-standing dis- agreement between the nation's rail carriers and the four bigI operating unions. Chairman Murray (D-Mont) had urged the lines to accept the U.S. Airrne nitStr Cose Re d etreat Highwa _____ n -Day-Jack Bergsti on FORMAL ATTIRE-Clad in their caps and gowns for the first time, senior women march to the League to take part in the annual festivities of Senior Night. Senior Women See JGP, SEnjoy Annual Festittes By MAD DAVIS Although senior women began their parts in the traditional Senior Night in full control of the situation, they succumbed to the power of good entertainment, and finished the evening with high praises for the juniors' production, "It's The Payoff." After a dinner at the League, complete with songs, laughs and fond memories, the coeds marched to Lydia Mendelssohn to view the Alert Forces I n French t"- *-I *w-",b. new proposal, put forward through him by the Brotherhood of Rail- .UI road Trainmen. Although it di- rectly affected only the trainmen, PARIS-()-The French Murphy believed it would lead to A gov a settlement with all four unions. ernment cancelled police and r L .Y 1~c vPa .yQUeSuat y d 5 lrs first perf snance of the 1951 Junior Girls' Play. Clad in their caps and gowns, the seniors impatiently waited for the curtain to rise. However, they passed the time by singing num- erous college songs and clapping their hands in the best "staid old senior" style. amo* * * DURING THE first act of "It's The Payoff," the coeds made life miserable for the cast. Using their prerogative of asking for a repeat of any part of the play, the coeds had lines and production num- bers repeated over and over. With cries of "Roll 'em up!", the audience persuaded the ac- tresses who were playing men's roles to roll up their trousers before sneaking a word of dia- Mobilization Investigation To BeCalled Maybank Orders PublicHearings WASHINGTON -(P)- Chair- man Maybank (D-SC) of a Sen- ate-House "Watchdog" Committee yesterday ordered a broad investi- gation of the nation's mobilization program. centering on wage-price controls and charges of favoritism. Mav ank said public hearings will 5tart about April 4. THE St NATOR told a news con- ference that officials of "at least 50" Fcdcial agencies involved in the multi-billion-dollar defense program will be called as witnesses. . Senator Capehart (R-Ind), a member of Maybank's Senate- House Committee on Defense Production, told newsmen: "The inquiry will try to find out why they are not controlling prices, not controlling wages, not controlling anything." Aside from controls, Maybank said the committee wants to look into charges of favoritism in granting tax benefits to some in- dustries to enourage defense pro- duction. He said Federal officials will be called on to explain why tax con- cessions were made to certain com- panies while others in the same industry failed to get benefits. Under the 1350 Defense Pro- duction Act-the master chart of the whole mobilization program - a company may be permitted to write off as much as 20 per cent a year, for tax purposes, on the cost of building a plant. * * * Johnston Calls Country Too 'Complacent' WASHINGTON-(A)--Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnston last night issued a warning that "too much complacency" over inflation is un- dermining the mobilization effort. "Inflation is already sabotaging our oefense just as surely as if It carried the Red flb of inter- national communism," Johnston declared in an address over the CBS network. .Johnston said last September's $4,500,000,000 tax increase already has been eaten up in the higher price the government must pay for weapons "and military equipment. The public must expect higher taxa2,. because a balanced Federal budget is vital to conquer infla- tion, he said. Credit controls must be tightened to end the "spree of easy credit since last June." He said the country "simply can not afford to let the rate of profit go on shooting upward." But D. P. Loomis, representing the railroads, announced at the committee's public hearing that management would not go along with the union plan. The settlement proposal dif- fered in two respects from a com- promise reached Dec. 21 at the White House between the four unions and the railroads. The compromise collapsed when local union officials turned it down. Good Friday' Observances amy Leaves yes erdaay as strikers halted nearly all railway traffic in France. SThe1government-owned Nation- al Railway Company was trying, to keep a few trains running on the main lines. s n *, -AP News Photo EMPHATIC POINT-Former mayor of New York City, William O'Dwyer clenches his fist as he makes a point during testimony before the U.S. Senate crime committee which is now investigat- ing the relationship between politics and the underworld at New York. * * * Kefauver Group Questions O'Dwyer on Tax Evasion To BeVaried A variety of Good Friday ob- servances are scheduled to take place throughout the city today. The Protestant Churches will join together from noon to 3 p.m. at the MethodisthChurch: State and Huron, for the Community Good Friday services. Sixteen min- isters will take part in the service, which will be centered around the seven last words of Christ. The service has been arranged so that students and townspeople can come and go at their conven- ience. ** * IN ADDITION, two protestant student guilds will carry on spe- cial or regular Friday worship. The Congregational, Disciples, Evangelical and Reformed guilds will hold a chapel service at 5:10 p.m. The Methodist Wesleyan Guild will sponsor a dramatic re- cital, "The Story of the Lamb," at 8:30 p.m. in Pattengill auditor- ium. An Episcopal service will be held at St. Andrews Church, 306 N. Division, from noon to 3 p.m. also. There, The Rev. Elsworth Koonz will deliver several ser- mons and lead the meditations. A supplementary service for those who cannot attend the aft- ernoon vigil will be held at 8 p.m. at St. Andrews. Student pastor, The Rev. Bruce Cook, will lead +t hit' . ary I EXTRA BUS routes and planes I Logue were scheduled, but the Easter "tge.s travel snarl promised record head- "It's The Payoff" is the story aches. of four young women who "must Individual requisition orders pay the rent," and in order to do had gone out to about 40,000 so must produce play. They key railwaymen-nearly a tenth finally manage to do it, with the of the total force. Refusal to help of a friendly ghost and obey could mean a five-year jail drunken janitor. sentence, but some were report- ed refusing. JOAN STREIFLING, who wrote The strike is due to end at mid- the script, managed to make near- night today, but there was a ly every line a laugh, and Mar- chance that the pro-Communist garet Strand and Patricia Joy, General Confederation of Labor, singing and dancing chairmen, re- which had not formally called out spectively, had their chorus timed its 300,000 supporters, would not to perfection. tell them to go back to work After the curtain had fallen either. on the finale of the play, the The strike was officially called seniors admitted that this JGP by non-Communist unions which was the best. Cathy Sotir, gen- command only about 130,000 rail eral chairman, and Mickey Sa- workers. ger, director, were called on the stage to take bows for their parts in the production. Ar n sBeaming with pride and happi- ness, Miss Sager stated, "They By Phoenix wanted production numbers-we gave them production numbers. And I guess they liked them!" Co to0 'hirteen JGP will be presented to the campus at 8 p.m. tonight and to- Thi , f h morrow, and at 2 p.m. tomorrow. r 1 By The Associated Press I Congressman leveled tax eva-4 sion and income tax inquiries at Ambassador William O'Dwyer yes- terday because of a reported $10,- 000 cash handout from an AFL union leader. Both his Kefauver Crime Com- mittee and his personal tax af- fairs were placed under scrutiny. THE TAX inquiry also took on O'Dwyer's long-time aide, James J. Moran, who, during the day, quit under fire his cushy $15,000 a year lifetime job as City Water Commissioner. But O'Dwyer stood firm un- der attack, denying any plans to step out as U.S. Ambassador to Mexico. Sen. Kefauver (D-Tenn) said in Washington there are grounds for World News Roundup, By The Associated Press BUENOS AIRS - Dr. Alberto Gainza Pax, editor Hof the govern- ment-seized independent newspa- per La Prensa, was declared a fu- gitive from justice by the Peron government yesterday. PARIS--The Big Four Deputy Foreign Ministers will meet in their first closed (secret) session today to decide, according to informed sources, whether to continue their deadlocked ef- forts to Arrrpge a meeting of their chiefs. NEW YORK-Alger Hiss, one- time trusted adviser to President Roosevelt, was whisked off to jail yesterday to begin serving a five- year perjury sentence. possible perjury charges in testi- mony about lavish cash gifts by John P. Crane, president of the AFL uniformed Firemen's Asso- ciation of New York. * * * IEFAUVER asked the Justice Department and the U.S. attor- ney in New York to go over the entire record of the New York hearing-a record in which Crane swore he gave O'Dwyer $10,000 in cash and Moran $55,000. Another Congressional sub- committee set the internal rev- enue agents to combing the for- mer Democratic mayor's tax af- fairs. The agents were direct- ed to see if he evaded payment on the $10,000 Crane claims to have handed him in 1949, in the midst of a mayorality campaign. Rep. Kean (R-NJ), told re- porters: "Somewhere in there, there may be a gift tax which should be paid, or if the money was given for services rendered or to be rendered, it should be reported as income." O'DWYER denied under oath ever taking any political contri- butions from Crane, a supporter of his last mayoralty campaign. However, Crane swore to the Kefauver Crime Committee that we handed O'Dwyer $10,000 in cash in a red manila envelope in October, 1949. He said the money was evidence of the fire- men's support for O'Dwyer's re- election as mayor. Meanwhile in Washington, com- mittee members decided to lift the contempt action it had voted against James J. Carroll, long- time St. Louis betting comnrnis- sioner who had refused to testify before TV cameras in St. Louis. Carroll talked for some length be- fore the committee. Night Plight While the seniors are away, the underclassmen will play. And play they did. Pedestri- ans on Hill Street last night were startled to see several yards of women's unmention- ables, neatly tied together and strung from the balcony of the Alpha Xi Delta Sorority anryex at 914 Hill Street. Taking advantage of the ab- sence of the seniors, who were busy with Senior Night, the younger w o m e n snitched clothes belonging to their older sisters and strung them in front of the house for all to see. Inter-A rts, Festival To Open Today Dean Hayward Keniston of the literary college will speak on "Art As Transformation of Experience" today in the League Ballroom as part of the first program of the Inter-Arts Union Student Arts Festival. The program will open with the playing of two student-written quartets at 8 p.m. Dean Keniston's address will follow. "QUARTET IN G" by George Wilson, '51SM, will be played pub- licly for the first time. The other work, "Quartet in B flat," by Rob- ert Cogan, '51SM, was played here at the Composer's Forum last No- vember. The work, however, has been revised and edited, since that time. Part of Cogan's quartet ap- peared in the last issue of "Gen- eration." Both quartets will be heard at the Mid-West Student Symposium in Cincinnati and the Student Symposium at Northwestern Uni- versity. S. e PROF. ROSS LEE Finney of the music school said yesterday that both quartets show "maturity and remarkable form." "They are concerned with the problem of abstract form in mu- sic composition that can be trac- ed from Beethoven and Haydn down to Bartok," Prof. Finney said. In Wilson's work there is an interesting romantic urge, expres- sed, but it is not 19th century ro- manticism, he added. At last year's Festival "String Trio" by Wilson wa-performed. The Festival will continue to- morrow and Sunday with other ex- amples of student effort in the area of creative art. SL Makes Final Call forPetitions All petitions for student elec- tions are due in to the Student Legislature Bldg., 122 S. Forest, by 5 p.m. Aoday. One hunced thirty one peti- tions were issued preceding We<- nesday's deadline, according to Spider Webb, '52, chairman of the SL Citizenship committee. They must be completed and returned between 3 and 5 p.m. today. New Attack Puts Troops Near 38th Ridgway Lead', Surprise lWve TOKYO - (A) + Thousands of U.S. parachute troops today drop- ped behind enemy lines north of Seoul and cut the main escape highway for an estimated 60,000 Communists. The day before three Allied di- visions close to Seoul struck along a broad front and ground out gains up to four miles. They were keeping up the frontal pressure on the big enemy force. THE AIRBORNE troops, incluId- ing hard-hitting rangers, spread out along the flatlands near the Imjin. River, which flows about 20 miles north and northwest of Seoul. The second airborne opera- tion of the Korean war landed the Allied troops several miles south of the 38th Parallel. The first drop was made north of the Korean Red Capital of Py- ongyang last fall in the drive toward the Manchurian boun- dary. Waves of B-26 light bombers saturated the area for today's drop with high explosives, napalm fire bombs and machinegun fire. Escorting fighters reported neither air nor anti-aircraft opposition from the Reds. * * * FIELD REPORTS said the air- borne troops cut the main road that leads 35 miles northwest from Seoul to Kaesong. It was a brilliant maneuver, personally led and directed by America's own master para- trooper, Lt. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, U.S. Eighth Army Commander. The troops bailing out of the big flying boxcars caught the enemy completely by surpris. They quickly consolidated their positions. Ground forces only a few miles to the south were hitting the ene- my from positions last reported from five to eight miles north of Seoul. New Program Brings Relief To Reservists WASHINGTON - (P) - A pro- gram to relieve the uncertainty of reservists now awaiting calls to active duty was outlined yester- day by Mrs. Anna Rosenberg, As- sistant Secretary of Defense. She said the Defense Depart- ment hopes soon to announce tha no more inactive reservists will be called unless the world situa- tion changes or the individual re- servist has unusal military quali- fications. Additionally the Department hopes that it will be possible for the armed forces to begin re- leasing reservists now on active duty as soon as replacements aik trained. Inactive reservists, Mrs. Rosen- berg explained, are unpaid reserv- ists, those who do not receive com- pensation for attending drills or other reserve activities. The new policy was outlined at a session of the Senate small bus- iness committee. Ticket Sales for Lecture To End Today is the last day that tick- ets for the marriage lecture series 1r1 WeenUnewiacuLy research grants by the Phoenix Project were announced yesterday by Dean DEVELOPED 'RD Ralph A: Sawyer, chairman of the Faculty Planning Committee. One of the top grants will be, made to Prof. Joseph J. Martin of the engineering college, who is in- vergating how fast gases inter- mingle at high press re. 'To date, researcai sponsored by Prof. Werner E. Bachmann of the Phoenix Project ht-s accounted the chemistry department, an in- for the expenditure r $70,000, and more than $25,000 will be spent on ternationaly known authority in these new grants," Dean Sawyer his field, died of a heart ailment said. "There are also a number of in University Hospital yesterday. other projects in the planning The 49-year-old-chemist, in ad- stage all of which will ultimately dition to teaching at theUniver- be of great practical value to the ditinte achiat scientific world." sity since 1925, achieved great Other studies will be made in fame for his development of an X' EXPLOSIVE: 'Chemist W. E. BachmanDe Award for outstanding work in his field. In addition to his academic honors, he was given the Naval Ordnance Award, the govern- ment's Presidential Certificate of Merit and the British King's Medal. He was a visiting professor at the University of Illinois in 1931, * * # time that process was accom- plished in a laboratory. Prof. Bachmann held member- ship in the National Academy of Sciences American Chemical So- ciety, Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, Phi Lambda Upsilon, Phi Kappa Phi, and Alpha Chi Sigma. He was on the board of editors of five scholarly chemistry magazines. M.v f is orer-stu,.deants _ _ ?