Radioactive Fall-Out Serious Bomb Effect See Page 4 Ci , C. lflzrn Dai4b rrrriwruuri rrnr Latest Deadline in the State PAR TLY CLOUDY, COLDER VOL. LXV, No. 98 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1955 SIX PAGES , t J D em ocrt.*.*N*...... r k Tax Move Rocks House Much Name-Calling; Outcome in Balance WASHINGTON ..M) - A Demo- cratic drive to cut income taxes rocked the House with name-call ing debate yesterday and the out- come apparently hung by a hand- ful of votes. # : { .... "Blackjacking . .. cheap poli- tics .. monkey business cruel injustice" -these were ther, epithets flung in an old-fashioned party-line scrap between Repub- licans and Democrats.0:.r{J:.hh.::<:.:...:n..,g. of th . uden Pbcain Building, . ih . h Speaker Sam Rayburn (D-Tex.) w c" f:.. and his lieutenants voiced strong ? confidence that in showdown vat- ing, postponed to this afternoon, .. they would push through their plan for a $20-a-person tax cut ERD DAY REVOLT OVER-Discouraged, defeated, the survivingx starting next Jan. 1. fe oterfg fteSuetPbiain uligwt h 7 But Republican Leader Joseph Martin (R-Mass.) said Pres. ground is one of the many casualties of yesterda y' bloody battle. Dwight D. Eisenhower's strong /' personal fight against the cut was J./ having a tremendous impact." Republican le ad e rs generally EDRvl _p showed growing optimism they could kill the tax-cutting move. _____ Would Provide $20 Cut By MARY ANN THOMAS steps of the Main Library. Wav- The Democratic bill would pro- A mass revolution swept the ing their green banner, the $7.00 vide a $20 annual tar cut for each campus yesterday complete with faction countercharged and cap- taxpayer and each dependent- hangings, guillotinings and burn- tured a $6.50 man before he could $100 for a family of five. It would ings at the stake. escape. slice about $2,200,000,000 from fed- Indications that the strange Dragged Around Campus eral revenues over a full year. struggle was to occur were circu- Finishing off their screaming Asst. Republican Leader Charles lated around the campus with the Halleck of Indiana said he didn't question "What is ERD Day?" But captive y dragging him around like to use such harsh words, but the long-awaited advent of En- the Dag from a bicycle, the Democrats plainly were guilty of a sian Revolution Day took every- group then snatched another care- "blackacking operation." body by surprise. less opponent only to be dragged He referred to the fact that the A pitched battle broke out at 11 from the fray, thrown to the tax cut was wrapped into a pack- a.m. yesterday on the Diag between and run over by the black age bill also carrying out Eisen- two factions of the yearbook or- sedan o $7. ion er. dower's request to postpone about ganization. In what some suspi- Although near heartbreak, the three billion dollars in corporation cious onlookers interpreted as' a $6.50 faction kept fighting until income and excise tax cuts, now set staff rebellion, supporters of a 50 their leader fell to the onrushing for April 1. To kill the reduction, cent raise in Ensian prices battled mob and was hung from the neck. Eisenhower would have to veto the the status quo group in a brief Upon seeing their leader slain be- whole bill but bloody exploratory attack, fore their eyes, the group made a Democratic Leader John Mc- Off And On Battle full-scale retreat to the Student Cormack said Halleck was "an Publications Building to make a able master of blackjacking-we're The wearied combatants declar- last stand. only copying a page from your ed a truce in order to catch up on book." their eleven o'clock classes but the Ends With Annihilation 'Unpardonably Irresponsible' fighting broke out again at noon. However, when they reached the Rep. McCormack referred to the The $6.50 faction heatedly Publications Building they found fact that Congressional Republi- fought to keep 'Ensian prices at the entrance barricaded by mem- cans last year tacked a billion dol- the present price but they were up bers of the $7 group who had an- lars in excise tax cuts onto an ad- against overwhelming odds. Be- ticipated this move. The battle ministration bill continuing other fore the fighting reached its cli- ended with the complete annihi- excise rates. max at noon certain members of lation of the $6.50 group. Rep. McCormack also took note this faction were liquidated by After the dust had settled, the of repeated GOP accusations that tactics never before seen on this $7 group decided to reward the Democrats were "unpardonably ir- campus. valiant efforts of the $6.50 faction responsible" in trying to cut taxes The revolution began with a by extending the limit on the low- in, the face of an estimated federal charge by the $6.50 group toward er-priced 'Ensian one week in deficit of $2,400,000,000 for the their opponents entrenched on the their memory. fiscal year starting July 1. Altogether, he said, Republicans OWNERS COOPERATING pushed through three billion dol-OW E SC PRA IG lars in tax cuts last year when the - deficit was estimated at almost five To this, Leadler Martin asked: C iy Bid n f i i l billion dollars. iy V1i id1i i i l "DO two wrongs make a right?" CtF re McCormack snapped, pointing a quivering finger at Martin: "Then you admit you were wrong last year!" Block by block, Ann Arbor's multiple unit dwellings are experi- encing a thorough investigation by the Building and Safety Engineer- ing Department. DAC To Glue More than 150 houses have been inspected since an accelerated program began the first of the year, according to John E. Ryan, direc- Two One-Act tor of the department. A backlog of complaints ha been cleared up, allowing the depat- Tmet to make a systematic inspec- s tion of the city's multiple dwell- P TNd jings. "We inspect about four or The comic situation which W orNew s five a day," Ryan said. arises when the entrance of a Getting Cooperation strange man disrupts the plans of R oundu "We're getting good cooperation a recluse widow was capitalized #Pfrom property owners," Ryan re- upon by both Christopher Fry, in By The Associated Press ported. "People are thinking about his play "A Phoenix Too Pre- I bringing their houses up to stand- quent," and Anton Chekov in "The .on2g re'sswn7a& alaries ards.>" Boor." WASHINGTON (A) - Senate The 60-day period allowed for Thus unified by a similar theme, and House conferees yesterday correcting violations will be com- the two one-act plays will com- agreed on a $8,750 salary increase pleted for some owners shortly, mence a three-week end run 8:15 for members of Congress, includ- Ryan said. "But we don't expect p.m. today at the Dramatic Arts ing a new $1,250 tax-free expense any trouble." Center. allowance. So far, there have been no court Fry's comedy takes place in an The agreement would raise the cases on violations of housing ancient Grecian tomb and stars annual pay of Senators and Rep- codes. Only one warrant was sworn Rica Martens as Doto, Irma Hur- resentatives from $15,000 to $23,- out, but the owner decided to im- ley and Dyamane and Ralph Dris- 750, including the tax-free allow- prove his property rather than run chell as Teagus. ance, effective March 1. It is sub- the risk of being fined, Ryan said. Action in "The Boor" is located ject to ratification by both houses. Faulty Wiring in the livingroom of a Russian es- They are expected to act today. Most frequent violation encoun- tate. The production stars Miss** tered by the department has been Martens as Madam Popovai Dris- Turkish-Iraqi Pact faulty electric wiring. chell as Luka and James Coco in BAGHDAD, Iraq (R) The "Almost every one we inspected the role of Smirnov. Turkish-Iraqi Mutual Defense had poor wiring," Ryan comment- The double playbill will be pre- Pact linking a key country of the ed. Second most frequent viola- sented each Thursday to Sunday Arab world with the West was tion has been inadequate means of through March 13. The presenta- signed here yesterday. exit from second and third floors. tions will close with a 2:30 p.m. Egypt, a leader in the Arab Besides the department's sys- matinee March 13. Admission is League, recently threatened to tematic approach, answering of $1.65, with a student rate of 99c. withdraw from the Arab collective complaints that come in once in a security setup but several Arab while keeps inspectors busy. A a I1.states were more agreeable to the Abandon Isle action than Egypt had expected. VIV, Th A ** IHC. Defeats New Opposing Rent Increase Move South Quad Petition Hits IHC Action Levy Says -Daily-Dick Gaskilli members of the $6.50 supporters 7.00's hot in pursuit. In the fore- (He's a $6.50, of course.) ets Diag I s 1 L 1 Emphasizing that no more price extensions would be given after Thursday, the $7 group announced that the Ensian will be sold from. 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday on the Diag, at Engine Arch, the Union and women's dor- mitories. The yearbook also may be purchased any day at' the Student Publications Bldg.j Misrepresentation (claimed by Residents By BOB JONES Indignant South Quad residents expressed their resentment toward Inter-House Council's handling of a proposed room-rent increase by formulating a petition yesterday protesting the raise. At the day's end it contained more than 500 signatures. The petition claimed IHC had misrepresented the quadders in passing a motion approving a $50 per year room-and-board hike for quad residents. A spokesman for the group which originated the paper, Larry Levine, '56, said: "The IHC told us that quad residents' feelings would be reflected in its decision on the matter of increase." Planned Similar Motions Levine, an IHC representative from South Quad. said he had previously planned to make a mo- tion similar to two alternatives mentioned in the petition, but he wasn't given a chance to do so. "Before I could make my mo- tion," Levine said, "IHC's motion Protesn Protesting the room and board raise, a group of South Quad res- idents last night collected a number of the cube steaks served for dinner and presented them to the dietitian with the rec- ommendation: "Shoes for Ko- rea." s I 4 J 6 +i 4 R E CSP Supports Three SGC{ ]Post Aspirants The Common Sense Party voted last night to support Janet Neary, '58, Donna Netzer, '56, and Bob Leacock, '57, in the coming Student Government Council elections. CSP also passed a motion to send a representative of the Interna- tional Student Association to SGC as an ex-officio member. Foreign Student Integration According to CSP members the reason that "foreign" students have not a's yet been successfully "integrated" into American stu- dent life is that they have not received realistic recognition as a group. CSP believes that this group deserves to be represented as much as the League, Union, or any of the larger and more recognized student groups. Janet Neary emphasized that this new proposal is not designed to make students from other coun- tries feel "foreign" or "separate" from the remainder of the cam- pus; this plan will only give them a "fair share of representation." Accept 'Ideal' Debate followed a motion by Sue Levy, '56, that the party elim- inate the platform proposal which says: "We believe political and economic beliefs should not be cri- teria for the hiring and firing of a faculty member, so long as he does not attempt to influence others through his position as a teacher." To the objection that this state- ment is too "idealistic" for a plat- form, other party members gen- erally agreed that the "ideal" would be a working basis for pos- sible future legislation. --Daily-Dick Gaskill PROTEST PETITION--Larry Levine (left) watches while Jesse Myers, 4right) collects names for the South Quad petition in pro- test of the proposed $50 residence hall room and board raise. PRESENT BRIEFS: Reactivation Bid Made For Local TEP Phi Ep By JOEL BERGER National executive secretaries of Tau Epsilon Phi and Phi Epsilon Pi last night gave arguments for re-activating chapters here during an Interfraternity Council executive committee meeting. Also during the meeting, the Student Activities Committee refu- sal to allow Sigma Chi fraternity to hold an all-campus dance May 21 was discussed, according to IFC President John Baity, '55. Representatives Speak Phi Ep's executive secretary, w yer Tells Harvey Greenstone, and the exe c-j.LaW er1J18 utive secretary of TEP, Sidney Suntag, presented briefs on their Role In Labor- respective ch a pte rs ' alumni 1 strength, quality of potential Ne oo pledges and physical facilities gotiations available should they reactivate. Other alumni of the fraternities The role of an attorney is "sel- were also present, Baity said. dom on the side of the union in was presented, voted upon and passed, 30-14." He said pamph- lets containing the IHC motion were passed out before the meet- ing began. "The IHC plan contains some seeming concessions which make, the document look more palatable to residents," Levine continued. "From what I know of IHC, thosej concessions won't be passed. ButI the rent hike will." True Quad Question j Petitioners feel the two alter- native proposals mentioned in their paper are a better expres- sion of South Quad feeling. These would see the $300,000 needed for the new constructionl levied from the whole student body, or obtained by the Univer- sity through a loan. "Spreading the $300,00 over the whole campus would lower the amount per head to about $15,"' Levine stated. "We don't see why those students living in residence halls should have to make up the whole amount." Levine and four other Taylor House residents drew up the peti- tion Wednesday night. It was circulated through lunch-lines in all four South Quad dining halls during yesterday's meals., Quad Polling Inconclusive Abo Urge Status Quo 0On Women in Quads By HARRY STRAUSS I A motion to rescind last week's "reluctant acceptance" of the proposed quad rent rise was roundly defeated at yesterday's Inter-House Council meeting, 33-6. The IHC also passed a resolu- tion opposing immediate change- over plans for the return to men's housing of Tyler Prescott and Chicago Houses. After this motion was accept- ed a lengthy and heated debate on the pay hike was begun. Ask Phrase Deletion Dick Snyder, '57, read a letter which said in part "the phrase indicating, or implying that -this action (of acceptance) is repre- sentative of the attitude of the men of the residence halls be struck out." Joe Collins, '58, then proposed the rescinding motion, since "the men should not be responsible for carrying the brunt of paying for future housing." Taylor House representatives presented a proposal noting that "distinct misrepresentation of stu- dent opinion" had occurred and showed petitions bearing over 580 names of South Quadders oppos- ing the approval. The silence of the other quads was noted but Larry Levine, '56, said that the names had been col- lected in a short time today "with no time to go to other quads." Would Accept Anything Stan Levy, '55, president of IHC said that he was not surprised at the motions, as they do reflect "a portion of student opinion. How- ever, people will sign anything, even if it was an order that the moon is made of green cheese." "This may have been erroneous judgement on the part of IHC. I don't think so. If you talkedto r students, you wouldn't get a third of them to sign." "The action was probably not the thing we should do, but it was the best we could do," Levy con- tinued. He said that two of the proposals added to the IHC accep- tance were already being discussed by the administration. Petitions To Be Forwarded After stating that he would fol- low any decision made at the meeting, he said he would bring the South Quad petitions to the Board of Governors meeting on Mar. 7 (postponed from Mar. 1). Though Levy pointed out that he believed the IHC still to be rep- resented at the Board, it was not- ed that the 'Information to Freshmen' pamphlets, among oth- ers, already have dorm costs list- ed as $750. Development Group Change Gets Approval Student Government Council's steering committee yesterday ap- proved a change for Development Council choosing student repre- sentation. The committee accepted a sug- gestion that SGC recommend student members to University President Harlan H. Hatcher, who in turn would send recopmmenda- tions to the Board of Regents. Presently, appointments to the Council proceed from Student Le- gislature's cabinet to Student Af- fairs Committee to the president. The recommendation approved by the steering committee will be submitted to the next meeting of the Development Council Board of Directors. Regents To Hear Building Report Tau Epsilon Phi operated here from 1922 to 1932, he said, while Phi Epsilon Pi was on campus from 1921 until 1942. The depres- sion and World War II were causes of their deactivation. According to Baity, "the execu- tive committee definitely won't consider it advisable for both houses to be reactivated. Another In 10 Years?'' "During next Thursday's meet- ing of the executive committee, however, the group will have to decide whether either fraternity should reactivate now and if so, which one," he commented. If one of the two houses is re- activated as a result of next week's meeting, Baity forecasted, it will probably be about 10 years before increased enrollment in the Uni- versity may make it possible for the other fraternity to be consid- ered a candidate for reactivation. terms of negotiations," explained Detroit lawyer Richard J. Fritz, '51, in a talk on labor contract ne- gotiations yesterday. Even though there is no compli- cated psychology behind the usual "we want 25 cents" union request, questions like "Is he bluffing?" re- quire a considerable amount of psychological reasoning, he said. Fritz also devotes time to six- week courses in labor-management relations in addition to his regular work. I t t t C 1 i IS I ' it L 1 1 T 4 r NEED ASIAN SOLUTION: l Ask Red China Recognition By LOUISE TYOR 9 Y have never used our literature at Stressing the need for a politi- h e n" us ed cal settlement between the West ><>- the mass level," he added. and Communist China, Justice f r "The great drama is the contestg William O. Douglas of the Su- between India on the one handt preme Court last night called for and China on the other," Justicei American recognitiori of that Douglas said. He commented thatc country. both countries are similar, buti "In Asian eyes we are building that Nehru took the democratici Red China as a martyr" by our solution to India's problems whilet non-recognition policy. He com- IMao Tse Tung took the Commu- mented that the landing of Ameri- nist. can troops on the Chinese main- land would "unite China and all Asia against us. ry ees "Any solution of the Asian prob- lem must be an Asian solution," Justice Douglas continued. Howev- .r V ed leaders in order to promotede- IIndia and Burma are 'sittig in mocracy in the area. He pointed the middle-not as a third force,Y ( «>> .- - --n a e - a Welcomes Questions Throughout the discussion, the second of a series sponsored by the Student Bar Association, Fritz welcomed questions from the au- dience but apologized: "I think I'm going to have a tough time making this impartial." Fritz has had experience working for a un- ion previous to his present em- ployment. Importance of an effective date of agreement of the initial con- The extent of authority of the bar- gaining committee and the at- torney was also pointed out as im- portant. Smaller Follow Large According to Fritz, a certain pattern exists in many of the bar- gainings. Smaller unions follow in, the footsteps of their sister unions' in demanding raises on the basis of an "increase in the cost of liv- ing, production, or technological increase such as in the share of the profits." In answer to some of the ques- tions concerning the experience a student can gain in the field of labor relations Fritz recommended an intensive study of weekly labor relations bulletins and also sum- mer administrative and office jobs with unions. The acquaintance with termi- nology and forms thus acquired is helpful experience, he said.