Y dlw& ~aii4 l 6 REPORT ON McCARTHY See Page 4 Latest Deadline in the State CLOUDY, SNOW BY TONIGHT VOL. LXI, No. 88 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, FEB. 15, 1951 SIX PAGES + . Coeds Future Bright act Daily June Draft May Bring To End Predominance of Men on Staff .. . ALSO EXPERIENCE ON MY HIGH SCHOOL WEEKLY. * * * * * The ratio was still three to one during World War II, but statis- tics favored the men.. Almost three times as many women as men enrolled in the University during the years from 1943 to 1945 and the change made a difference in everything about campus life, including The Daily. * * * * AND WITH MANY male students again facing the draft in June, there is a possibility that a repeat performance of the wartime situa-' tion may take place here in the future. Women who attend today's Daily tryout meeting may attain an increasingly more important status on the newspaper. The Daily situation immediately after Pearl Harbor was pretty much normal for a year since the Army and Navy had set up special programs to allow junior and senior men to continue their college education. But by the fall of 1943 women had really come into their own. The Daily tryout call in that year reminded coeds that the WAACs and WAVEs proved that women need not merely sit at home and knit socks for soldiers during a national crisis. "Opportunities in practical journalism are greater for women than ever before," a' woman reporter wrote. * . * * FROM 1943 ON women were filling most of the executive and understaff positions; The Daily. For the first time in years a coed was city editor and she proved to be one of the best. Coeds were taking over other parts of the campus, too. In 1944 an All-Girl band was formed under the direction of Prof. William Revelli. "Though women have been in the Concert band all along, this is the first time an all women instrumental group has been formed," The Daily reported. Though the prospects of another All Girl Band have not yet appeared, more and more women students will be taking important positions on the paper in the next few years. Today's tryout meetings have been scheduled for 4 p.m. for the business staff and 5 p.m. for the editorial staff in the Student Pub- lications Building, 420 Maynard. All scholastically eligible students, male or female, of second semester or higher class standing may work on The Daily. Oppor- tunities in general, sports and women's news reporting, advertising techniques and promotions work are open to interested students. s Movie, drama, music and book reviewers are also needed this semester. Interested students may contact the editorial director. Health Service Again Offers Free Flu Shots to Students 1New Credit Regulations Announced Control of Food Prices Hinted WASHINGTON-()-The gov- ernment yesterday ordered 50 per cent cash down payments on a vast range of non-residential con- struction in a new credit-tighten- ing move to combat inflation. The Administration also threw out a broad hint that it will soon attempt to stabilize food prices. ERIC JOHNSTON, Economic Stabilization Director, told the House Ways and Means Commit- tee that legislation will be sub- mitted to Congress to "equalize and stabilize" farm prices and in- dustrial wages. Johnston's disclosure capped a series of protests from labor leaders, housewives and others against soaring food prices. The stiff new credit terms for construction were set forth in an order issued by the Federal Re- serve Board, effective today. IT CALLS FOR half cash down payments on construction of new stores, offices, hotels, banks, ware- houses, garages, auto service sta- tions, restaurants, theaters, clubs and "other new structures used for non-residential purposes." The same requirement applies to repair jobs, enlargement, al- teration and reconstruction on existing commercial buildings if the cost of the improvement ex- ceeds 15 per cent of the build- ing's appraised value. The order also requires that loans must be paid up in 25 years, with the principal paid off in in- stallments rather than left for a lump sum payment at the end of 25 years. EXEMPTIONS are provided in the case of schools, hospitals, churches, public utilities and "property constructed for use by the government or any political subdivision." Tax Boost Requested By Johns ton WASHINGTON - (P) E r i c Johnston asked Congress yester- day to enact "tough" new taxes immediately to help him stabilize the nation's economy by mid-sum- mer. T h e Economic Stabilization chief urged the House Ways and Means Committee to approve $10,000,000,000 in new levies now and take another look later on to see if still more taxes are needed. The new taxes, he said, should be retroactive to last Jan. 1. Warning that delay would hin- der the government's effort to curb inflation, Johnston told the lawmakers: "There's no mistaking that the days ahead are going to be tough and rough for all of us. We're all going to take a cut. "Wages won't run as high as workers think they should. Profits won't run at the rate business thinks they should. The farmer won't get all he wants-and all of us as consumers will have to get along with less." But Johnston said he believes the present controls of wages, prices and production can be lifted in two or three years, "bar- ring a full-scale attack." He said the main task now is to protect the soundness and sta- bility of the dollar. LLIES R E LLY i TO S I CHI ESE DIVISIO S n. 18-Year-Old Draft Bill Satconed WASHINGTON-(P) - A draft of 18-year-olds plus extension of all service terms to 26 months was approved unanimously by the Senate Armed Services Committee yesterday. Those are the immediately con- troversial sections of a long-term program of Universal Military Training and Service which the Committee recommended to the Senate, 13 to 0. * * * ' The measure is essentially the same as the plan rewritten from Defense Department proposals by a preparedness subcommittee headed by Senator Lyndon John- son (D-Tex) When the Senate will act was not immediately sure. Present plans are to hold it up until the troops-for-Europe controversy is out of the way. The most optimistic guess on when that may come up for action is a week from today. The fighting is by no means over yet, even in the Senate, and the House Armed Services Com- mittee is showing signs of pre- senting its own different version of the plan to meet immediate manpower needs and provide guards for the country's future. THE CENTRAL feature of the Senate Committee's plan, as it concerns the lowering of the draft age limit from the present 19 years, is a priority schedule for inductions. It puts the 18-year- olds at the bottom of the list, to be taken only if needed after all non-veteran men without chil- dren-including those qualified only for limited service-have been taken from the present 19 through 25 age bracket. When the draft cuts below 19 those nearest that birthday must go first. The battling in the committee yesterday was over the lowering of the draft age and the extension ,of service beyond the presently required 21 months. Senator Johnson said the vote was 12 to 1, with only Senator Morse (R-Ore) opposing, to bring the induction age down to 18. Morse wanted it set at 18 and one- half. World News Roundup By The -Associated Press LONDON-The British steel in- dustry became Government prop- erty officially today and Prime Minister Attlee's regime now owns all Britain's basic industries. Last night, however, Winston Churchill introduced a "no con- fidence" motion in the House of Commons challenging Labor's abil- ity to carry out the British re- armament program. * * * WASHINGTON- The senate Foreign Relations Committee estimated last night that Russia and her European satellites have a total armed force of 5,000,000 men compared with 4,500,000 men for all the Atlantic Pact nations. LANSING - A group of state educators yesterday urged a state- wide program to encourage high school boys facing the draft to enroll in college for as long as they can. KALAMAZOO - Joe Mattheis and Raymond Lee Olson must stand trial in Kalamazoo County on charges of kidnapping and strangling2co-ed Carolyn Drown last Nov. 26. WASHINGTON-Secretary of NEW HELL WEEK-A new twist was added to the Delta Tau Delta hell week as puzzled pledges found themselves being donated to charity. Olof Karlstrom, '54, and Ed Gavney, '54E, tackle the job of putting a badly-needed coat of paint on the walls of the Thrift Shop, a humanitarian enter- prise. SH e - Acceleration In Programs Not inSight The University has received no request from the government to speed up its academic program similar to the one announced by Michigan State College yesterday. The Michigan State plan would arrange the school year so that a student could graduate within three years. a * * * "AN EIGHT WEEK summer program was first offered about 1909 and since that time a student wishing to speed up his education could normally obtain a degree in three years by attending four summer sessions and six regular semesters," Prof. Harold M. Dorr, director of the summer session, remarked. However, the University is giving study and making plans for a three term program which would enable a student to com- plete degree requirements in two years and eight months. "This program is in the blue- print stage but could be put into. immediate effect when and if the situation demands," a University official said. The University is encouraging high school seniors to enroll in the coming summer session by making it easier to start at that time. Special provisions which will be put into effect this summer for the first time include an orienta- tion program, a counseling pro- gram, special changes, special housing for freshmen and a phy- sical education program. Horowitz Concert Set for April 18 Vladimir Horowitz will appear in a concert in the Choral Union Series, April 18 at Hill Auditor- ium, Charles A. Sink, Union Chor- al Society president announced yesterday. The concert, previously sched- uled for Jan. 19, was postponed because of illness of the pianist. * * * *. Delta Tau Delta Initiates Undertake Charity Work Social service rather than sad- ism has become the motif of the Delta Tau Delta hell week. Instead of sending bruised, be- wildered pledges on a fantastic scavenger hunt this semester, the Delts put their neophytes to work for a charitable cause. * * * The pledges spent the better part of last night scrubbing, Taft, Douglas May Debate4 Ear East Here The Michigan Forum may be a party to a debate on the topic of American Far East policy be- tween Sen. Paul Douglas (D-Ill.) Democratic majority leader, and Sen. Robert Taft, (R-Ohio), Re- publican wheelhorse, in the near future, if plans now underway mature properly. One - hundred - seventy - five dol- lars was appropriated to the For- um by the Student Legislature last night, to cover expenses for the proposed debate. According to Audrey Smedley, '53, an attempt will be made to get these men, and if this is impossible, others of comparable standing. TOM WALSH, SL Human and International Relations Commit- tee member, announced that his committee will try to bring a top State Department official, per- haps Secretary of State Dean Acheson, to campus to speak on American foreign policy in gen- eral. Other business discussed by SL in last night's meeting included a report on the results of the Dean's Conference action on ap- plication blank discrimination. The SL voted to endorse the seven recommendations listed in the Conference report. Robert P. Briggs, retiring vice- president of the University, was voted a formal message of thanks for his many contributions by the SL on behalf of the student body. scraping, and painting the interior of the Thrift Shop, an enterprise which collects old clothing and similar articles and sells them at cost to the poor. About 65 local ladies donate the time to operate the store. The 13 pledges were con- fronted with a room measuring approximately 20 by 100 feet; coated with an ancient, pallid yellow substance. But undaunted by the vast ex- panse of paintable wall, they set to work applying a tasteful pink. The job was supervised by several benevolent actives, armed with paint-cans. * * * Dick Tinker, '52T, originator and director of the project, said that he had gotten the idea while attending last year's National In- ter-Fraternity Conference as the Michigan delegate. "Fraternities on other campuses are far ahead of us in social serv- ice," he said. Tinker went to Dean of Men Erich A. Walter to get suggestions for a good charitable project. Walter steered him down to the Thrift Shop. The offer to paint their shop caught the Thrift ladies com- pletely by surprise. The shop badly needed the paint, but there was no money to do it. "We hope this will be an ex- ample to the campus to channel off some of the destructive hell week energy into a worthwhile project," he asserted. Meeting to Explain RushingSystem A meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. tonight in the Natural Sci- ence Auditorium for all rushees and house rushing chairmen, to explain the rushing system, the IFC announced. Students interested in spring rushing have until Saturday to register 'with the IFC in the Union Lobby. Red Central, West Korean DriveHalted Enemy Suffers Record Losses TOKYO-(P)-A hard-fighting Allied division today claimed vic- tory "as of this moment" over elements of nine Chinese divisions which tried to break through the central Korean front. The Allies, after shattering four enemy shock divisions, still held firmly to Chipyong and Wonju and the 20 miles of mountain line between them, a field dispatch reported. * * * ANOTHER ALLIED victory-on a smaller scale-was claimed on the western front against a North Korean division which had hoped to smash the Han River line around Seoul. Ground action along the en- tire Korean front yesterday in- flicted 10,593 Red casualties, a U. S. Eighth Army officer said today. This brought the total to 96,894 since Allied forces jumped off Jan. 25 in a limited offensive. Yesterday's bag of dead, wounded and captured was the biggest for one day since that drive started. "As of this moment, we have a victory. It remains now to consolidate it and we hope to do it today." "We are still holding our main positions and we have our freedom of movement," said the division's commander. * * * SOUTH KOREAN Marines yes- terday staged a spectacular Com- mando-tye raid on Wonsan, east coast post 90 air miles north of the 38th parallel. While General MacArthur pre- viously ruled out any sustained U. N. drive north of the old poli- tical boundary as "purely acade- mic" at this time, he made an exception of patrol actions and Commando like forays. The Republic of Korea Marines occupied two islands off the Com- munist supply port and drove to the Wonsan city limits under the protective fire of Allied cruisers and destroyers. Also United Nations naval ves- sels shelled Kyongsong, on the northeast Korean coast 65 miles south of Russia's Siberian border. Navy headquarters said "A couple of other places between Sinpo and Kyongsong were hit also." It did not name them. Accusations Mark House PolicyDebate WASHINGTON - ( ) - The House jumped into the debate on foreign policy yesterday, with Rep. Laurence H. Smith (R-Wis.) accusing the Truman Adminis- tration of "conjuring up another war." From Democratic Leader Mc- Cormack (Mass.) came the as- sertion that much of the criti- cism of the President's policy was caused by political jealousy of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. * * * THE EXCHANGE was touched off by the introduction of a "de- claration of policy" backed by a large group of house Republicans. It demanded full partnership for Congress in a complete over- haul of U.S. foreign policy. Pre- sent policy, it claimed, "in large part has been a costly failure." And in the Senate, the combin- ed Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees squared off for a batte In sa tidav on the Health Service doors will reopen at 8 a.m. today to students, fac- ulty, student wives and University r employees who wish to be vaccin- ated against influenza. Students may get free shots in about 10 minutes by entering the Union Opera Hunts Talent Union Opera director William Holbrook yesterday issued a call for an "eccentric" dancer and a harmonica player to fill specialty roles in the forthcoming Opera. Men adept at tap dancing or other specialized steps are urged to try out for the dance part, Hol- brook said. Men interested in joining the Opera cast have been asked to make an audition appointment from 3 to 5 p.m. some day this 1 week at the Opera Office on the third floor of the Union. The Opera will be presented March 28, 29 and 30 in Ann Ar- bor and during Spring Vacation in Detroit, Bu~ffalo, Toledo and Flint. State Civil Service System Blasted north door of the Health Service from 8 to 11:30 a.m. and 1 to 4:30 p.m. today and tomorrow and from 8 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday. Students must present their iden- tification cards. Faculty, student wives and Uni- versity employees may enter the south door. They must pay $1 for a shot. Recent outbreaks of influenza in Buffalo and Texas make it urgent that all students be in- noculated, according to Dr. Warren Forsythe, director of the Health Service. "The concentrated housing of students would make an outbreak of influenza here especially dan- gerous," Dr. Forsythe said, urging all students to be innoculated. Budapest String Quartet To Perform Tomorrow The Budapest String Quartet will present the first of three con- certs in the Eleventh Annual Chamber Music Festival at 8:30 p.m. tomorrowat Hill Auditorium. Two other performances will follow, one on Saturday at the sent: "Quartet in D minor, K 421" by Mozart; "Chaconne" by Pur- cell; "Movement, Opus posthu- mous" by Schubert; "Concertino" by Stravinsky; and "Quartet in C-sharp minor, Op. 131" by Bee- thoven. LAST RITES FOR AUTHOR: Local Tribute To Douglas Scheduled Public nmemorial services for' L_. - .L__