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VOL. LVI, No. 20S

ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1946



Peace

Treaty

Would Strip Axis Satellites

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Contractor's
Check Was
Giftw-Coffee
Committee Hears
Voluntary Report
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON, July 30 - Rep.
Coffee (Dem., Wash.) insisted under
oath today that a $2,500 check from
a defense contractor was a "cam-
paign contribution." He added, in
response to questions, that he had not
listed it in either his income tax re-
turns or election contribution report.
Appearing voluntarily before the
Senate War Investigating Commit-
tee, Coffee sharply contradicted
sworn testimony two hours earlier by
Eivind Anderson, Tacoma, Wash.,
contractor, that he had paid the
money in 1941 for "service."
"Verbal Contract"
Anderson testified that a "verbal
contract" on the payment was reach-
ed in 1941 in a conversation among
himself, Coffee and Paul A. Olson,
then the Congressman's secretary.
He quoted Coffee as opening the
conversation by saying that "I un-
derstand from Paul that you will pay
$2,500 for us to represent you in
Washington." ,
"Yes," the contractor testified he
agreed, "I will be willing to pay $2,500
to have representation in Washing-
ton. That will be all right with me."
He told the committee that his
answer appeared "gratifying to
John," and quoted Coffee as' saying
that "if you do that, you can depend
upon us to look after your inter-
ests."
Check et1ater
Anderson said that he inquired
whether it would be "all right" to
send a check after he returned home
and quoted Coffee as replying:
"That's all right, send it to Paul."
Coffee asserted that Anderson-
"grateful" over asaistance lent him
by himself and his secretary in ob-
taining a million dollar contract to
build a War Department Hospital,
and for previous aid-had offered
him the contribution.
Coffee firmly denied that he had
received the money for "service,"
saying that "there never was any
discussion about hiring me or Olson
as his Washington representative."
AVC Initiates
Plan of Action
Racial Discrimination
To Be Object of Attack
Encouraged by the success of the
two rallies and a parade which, as
part of a nation-wide concentration
of liberal pressure, helped bring OPA
back into existence, the executive
committee of the campus AVC chap-
ter met yesterday to initiate plans
for further action.
Jack Weiss, th chapter's crusad-
ing chairman, declared: "The recent
lynch-murders in Georgia are de-
plorable evidence of the political
lawlessness which now threatens to
terrorize the whole state. Certainly
the Negro veteran, killed along with
three other innocent people, did not
fight for such malicious bigotry.
"The AVC hopes, said Weiss, "that
the Attorney-General's Office will
not rest until the criminal lynchers
are apprehended. Only by punishing
this odious form of intolerance will
the political unrest over "white su-
premacy" be prevented from causing
further violence of this sort."

To translate the AVC's vow to
stamp out racial discrimination into
action, the Georgia case will be
placed before the membership at the
meeting today for their decision on
a course of action to be taken.
Plans for bringing key men in
national affairs to the campus under
AVC sponsorship will also be con-
sidered at 7:30 p.m. today by a gen-
eral membership meeting in the
Michigan Union.
Veterans Protest
Bus Fare Increase
The Willow Village AVC chapter
will join with a group of independent

PEACE CONFERENCE CONVENES -With Charles Bidault, president and foreign minister of France, in
the president's chair (at right on upper dias), the 21-nation peace conference, attended by 1,500 delegates
representing the victorious Allied nations, opens first s ession in Luxembourg Palais in Paris.

Higher Prices
For Canned
Goods Seen
New OPA Raises
Ceiling on Clothing
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON, July 30-Govern-
ment officials tonight predicted high-
er price ceilings for canned vege-
tables, breakfast cereals, coffee and
possibly bread and other bakery pro-
ducts.
Meanwhile OPA rolled out more
price increases on clothing and laid
the groundwork for still more gar-
ment hikes-perhaps as much as 15
to 20 per cent-under terms of the
new price control law.
As a first step toward meeting
these terms, the agency has agreed to
increase cotton textile prices an
average of 16 per cent, an OPA
spokesman said. Higher prices for
cotton clothing will be based on these
increases.
Industry Asks Increase
Industry representatives who met
with OPA today had asked a flat 20
per cent increase on all cotton tex-
tiles, OPA's original proposal pro-
vided for an increase of about 14
per cent.
Officials who asked to remain
anonymous said the government has
just about decided against restora-
tion of subsidies on coffee and three
major canned vegetables,-peas, corn
and tomatoes.
They said permanent elimination
of these subsidies, which lapsed July
1, will raise price ceilings on these
vegetables.by one to two cents for
number two cans..
Ceilings Would Have Jumped
On coffee, officials~ estimated that
with subsidies out of the picture re-
tail ceilings would have to be jump-
ed eight to 10 cents a pound. About
half of this amount represents an in-
crease which was pending at the
start of this month, when OPA lapsed.
An OPA official told a reporter
there is "complete indecision" on
whether the flour subsidy should be
restored. He said bread prices "will
not be raised" if subsidies are paid
again, but that a price increase is
possible if the payments are. ruled
out.
Bakery industry representatives
have petitioned OPA for a one cent
a loaf increase on bread and a 25
per cent increase on biscuit and
cracker prices.
Price increases for several types of
breakfast cereals, including oatmeal,
were pending when the old price con-
trol law lapsed. These increases, to
be put into effect soon, will be in
hikes previously authorized for corn
flakes, puffed wheat and puffed rice.
Vets Subsistence
> All veterans who are now in
school under Public Law 16 or 346
and who have not yet received
their Subsistence Allowances are
requested to report to Rm. 100,
Rackham Building between 8:30
a.m. and 3:00 p.m. Monday so
that action can be taken to ex-
peditethe payment of the sub-
sistence due.

By The Associated Press
PARIS, July 30- The treaty drafts prepared by the Big Four Foreign
Ministers for submission to the Paris Peace Conference propose to strip
Italy, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary; and Finland of all but a vestage of
their war machines, bill them for $1,000,000,000 in reparations and reshufile
their frontiers. The drafts were placed before the world tonight.
None of these former allies or satellites of Adolf Hitler's Germany
would be allowed any submarines or bombing planes. They also would be
required to guarantee fundamental human freedoms.

U.S. Marines
Hunt Comrades
After Ambush
PEIPING, July 30-(P) - Three'
hundred motorized U.S. Marines
armed with howitzers spread through
a cornfield battleground near Pei-
ping today looking fore an undeter-
mined number of comrades missing
after a clash with Chinese Commun-
ists in which four Marines were killed
and 19 wounded.
The heavily armed patrol, sup-
ported by warplanes, sped out of
Tientsin Monday ' after the first
flashed word that a 100-man truck
convoy had been ambushed 35 miles
southeast of Peiping and was out-
numbered three to one.
Therelief force did not arrive,
however, until the four-hour en-
gagement was over and the convoy
had escaped from the danger zone
in a storm of rifle fire from Chinese
in the corn rows.
Gren. Chou En-Lai, head of the
Communist delegation in Nanking,
asserted the clash resulted from
"marine provocation" and "the com-
munists have absolutely no intention
of unleashing a conflict." He said
the Communists had been provoked
by Marine intrusions into their
areas.
Marine, sources in Peiping said a
Marine patrol recently exchanged
fire with Communist troops in the
area southeast of Peiping and the
Communists probably were retali-
ating.
Marine sources said the four dead
had yet to be identified and that two
of the 19 were wounded so badly they
may die.
Two army men with the convoy,
giving the first on-the-spot account
of the battle, said the attackers op-
ened up with grenades as well as
rifles.

Science Must Discover Practical
Population Controls' --Thompson

"Science still has to search for
practical ways in which to control
both the equality and the quantity of
our population," Prof. Warren S.
Thompson of Miami University de-
clared in a lecture here yesterday.
Prof. Thompson, director of the
Scripps Foundation for Research in
Population Problems, and author of
a recent book on "Population and
Peace in the Pacific," discussed "The
Impact of Science on Population
Growth" in the University's summer
lecture series on the social implica-
tions of modern science.
Population Doubled
The doubling of the world's popu-
lation since 1800 has been due pri-
marily to the application of science
to industry and agriculture, which
has served to reduce the deathwrate
while the birth rate remains con-
stant, according to Prof. Thompson.
"Until very recently," Prof. Thomp-
son said, population increases' were
considered very favorably; but we
have now come to doubt the benefits
man has received from accelerated
population growths. The problem of
how to support an increasing popu-
Careless Chemists
Acetone spilled near a flaming bur-
ner caused fire in an old gas-soaked
laboratory in the Chemistry Build-
ing Monday noon.
A carbon-dioxide fire extinguisher
prevented any extensive damage, al-
though Seward Beacom, instructor in
general chemistry, reported yesterday'
that they were "still trying to clean
up the mess" caused by the smoke
and soot.

lation always comes with the indus-
trialization of a country, which brings
forth the cry for "liebestraum." ;
Science of Social Control
"We need a 'science of social con-
trol' to cope with the new social con-
ditions confronting us," Prof. Thomp-
son asserted. "Despite the surpris-
ing attitude of some scientists, who;
would exclude human conduct from
investigation, we must establish so-
cial institutions to control the world
of increasing population, else it will
develop into a Frankenstein monster;
which can plunge civilization back
into the dark ages," he concluded.
Enrollment for
Vets Course
Ends August 1
Tomorrow is the final day for reg-
istration in the four week refresher
course which will begin August 15
under the sponsorship of the Uni-
versity's Veterans Service Bureau.
Open only to veterans who have
been accepted for enrollment for the
fall semester, the four week program
will offer the newly returning veteran
an opportunity to accustom himself
to academic study before the regular
semester begins in the fall.
In accordance with Veterans Ad-
ministration regulations, the students
taking the equivalent of a full pro-
gram will receive full subsistence
payments in addition to having their
registration and supply fees paid.
An academic counselor will advise
each student in planning his pro-
gram for the special course. Subjects
taught include: mathematics, engin-
eering, sciences, social studies, Eng-
lish, languages, and business admin-
istration, as well as a special speed
reading course.
During the refresher program the
veteran will have an opportunity to
consult with faculty members and
the Veterans Service Bureau before
planning his regular academic pro-
gram.
Boy Admits Robbing
Campus Residences
After admitting the robbery of ele-
ven campus houses, William Algier,
18, of 727 E. Kingsley, yesterday was
arraigned before Municipal Judge
Jay H. Payne on charges of enter-
ing without breaking.
Arrested Saturdna hv Actinar (Thief

THEATRE THRILLER:
Mure, Cooper, llouwsma
Play Leads In 'An gel Street'

WHISTLE WHILE YOU WORK:
Largest Number of Graduate'
Students Takes Record Tests

By ARTHUR NEWMAN
Shortly before 6 p.m., yesterday,
655 graduate students, the largest
single group ever to be tested togeth-
er in the Graduate School, filed into
the Rackham Lecture Hall to start
the first in a series of Graduate Rec-
ord Examinations administered by
the Bureau of Psychological Services.
"The series which requires ten
hours to give, is divided into three
test periods. The first of these given
yesterday and lasting four hours
-- nn t h f h f of teTet sof

"The test booklet pertaining to
the arts," Dr. Donahue continued,
"contains examples of classical works
and printed music scores. While the
practice is not encouraged, students
often whistle in order to identify
the tunes."
This is the first time that graduate
students on this campus have taken
this form of test and the second
which has employed art reproduc-
tions and music scores.
The examinations are of a "secret

Dorothy Murzek, Hal Cooper, and
Robert Bouwsma, who played leads
in "Papa Is All" will have important
roles in the Department of Speech
RepertoryPlayers' first performance
of "Angel Street," at 8:30 p.m. to-
day.
Miss Murzek, who played Emma
Aukamp in "Papa Is All" will be Mrs.
Manningham in "Angel Street."
Cooper, who was Jake will be Mr.
Manningham. Bouwsma, who was Pa-
pa, will be Rough from Scotland
Yard in this production.
Others in the cast of "Angel Street"
are Judy Greengard, who will be Nan-
cy; Beth Laikin, who will be Eliza-
beth; and Strother Martin and Wil-
liam Davis, who will be policemen.
Miss Greengard appeared in the Re-
pertory production, "Pigeons and
People."
"Ange1 Street" written by Patrick