LYNCI qGS I1 I !1 * i Y rh11i FAIR WARMER See PAGE 4 VOL. LVI, No. 188 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1946 PRICE FIVE CENTS All-Civilian Atom Board Approved Congress Votes to Eliminate Military At Top Level in Vital Control Agency Faculty Gains' 15 New Members; Board of Regents Accepts $49,000 WASHINGTON, July 26- (AP) - Congress finally sent a bill for all- civilian domestic control of atomic energy to President Truman today and the White House said it was "one hundred per cent in line" with the President's views. Charles G. Ross, White House press High Command Inspects Atom Bom> Damage Jap Battleship 'Nagato' On Verge of Sinking Aboard U.S.S. Appalachian, Bikini, July 26-(P)-The high command of the atomic bomb test took a quick, perilous ride through the target fleet today and found that the Japanese battleship Nagato might soon be added to the toll of major warships sunk by Thursday's underwater ex- plosion. Vice Adm. W. H. P. Blandy, com-- mander of the joint crossroads task force, toured the fleet in a gunboat with top members of his staff and a small group of correspondents. He found these results apparent: No trace whatever of the battleship Arkansas and an oil tender, both of which were sunk almost instant- ly-; Oil and air bubbling up from the grave of the aircraft carrier Saratoga, which sank seven and one-half hours after the blast; An increasing list to the 32,720-ton Nagato, which was tilted only two de- grees yesterday but had increased to eight by noon today, and was at a much sharper angle by sundown; Transport Fallon, 15-degree list; one. tank-landing craft, previously reported sunk, found floating bottom up, another found adrift; Destroyer Hughes, beached to pre- vent sinking, No survey of submerged submar- ines, five of which were previously reported on the Lottom but about which Blandy later expressed some doubts. OPA Officials Busy; Sen. Taft Predicts Rise WASHINGTON, July 26-()-Re- born OPA today poured out price or- ders in large batches, raising or re- moving ceilings on thousands of items and making its first day of new life the busiest of its turbulent career. A prediction that food price rises which have occurred in the 25 OPA- less days are likely to become perma- nent was voiced by Sen. Taft (Rep., Ohio). He termed the new bill "far more inflationary" than the one Mr. Truman vetoed on June 29. t "The net result of the President's action has been to bring about the very inflation he pretends to abhor," said the Republican author of one of the original OPA amendments to which Mr. Truman objected. Taft also demanded an immediate announcement that beef and grain ceilings will not be restored. These, along with dairy products, cotton- seed and soy beans, are to go back under control Aug. 21 unless the de- control board rules otherwise. Other Senators cr acked back sharply at the President's warningj last night that the bill may prove in- adequate and that he may later call Congress into session to write sterner price rules and boost taxes to com- bat inflation. Congress Approves Own Pay Increase WASHINGTON, July 26-(IP)-- A raise in pay for the nation's law-s makers and sweeping changes in their methods of working became virtual-; ly assured tonight as a congressional reorganization bill was sent to Presi-i dent Truman.4 The bill, on which the Senate com- pleted congressional action this after-, noon, would raise pay of Senators and1 House members from $10,000 a year1 to $12,500, plus a $2,500 tax-free ex- pense allowance.7 The Senate had originally voted for a traniaht $5.000 salary increase. hut secretary, reported the chief execu- tive "is naturally highly gratified" and will sign the measure promptly when it actually reaches his desk. Ross called reporters' attention to a letter Mr. Truman sent Feb. 1 to Chairman McMahon (Dem., Conn.) of the Senate special Atomic Com- mittee, outlining principles on which he believed domestic development and control of the new power should be centered. The main item in that list was a control commission "composed ex- clusively of civilians" but without bars against former military per- sonnel. Such a commission is pro- vided in the bill as passed. The House put its fnal stamp of approval on it today after a fight in which critics cried in vain that it represented "ap- peasement" of "potential aggressors." The Senate ratified it a short time later. The "appeasement" cry was raised in protest against the all-civilian character of the board. The House had voted for at least one military member, and not more than two. It set up a five-member Civilian Control Commision; gives the gov- ernment, through the commission, a virtual monopoly on investigations and patents in the field of atomic en- ergy; provides the death penalty for major violations of security with in- tent to injure the United States, and directs that a member of the armed forces head the division of military application under the commission. The vote that approved the com- promise was far from unanimous, but no one demanded a roll-call. * * * Russia Clings To Atomic Outlaw Plan NEW YORK, July 26-(-P)-Russia today reiterated its demand that the production and use of atomic weapons should be outlawed almost immedi- ately by an international convention- as a first step toward setting up world control of atomic energy. Andrei A. Gromyko, Soviet dele- gate to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission, told a committee of the group in explaining his plan that "one of the first steps toward realization of control over atomic energy is ,the prohibition of the pro- duction of atomic weapons." This viewpoint clashed with the Baruch plan which calls for such out- lawing only after adequate safe- guards have been set up. "We ask why nations should pro- duce stockpiles of atomic weapons if we all agree that atomic energy should be used only for the bene- fit of mankind," Gromyko said. The Soviet delegate said he could see no serious obstacles to his sugges- tion "for the destruction within three months after its conclusion (theein- ternational convention) of all stock- piles of atomic weapons and of un- finished atomic weapons." r Austria Rebuffs Soviet Claims On Industries > r~ t To Seek UN Backing h. Of Parliament Vote Largest -Grant Will Promote Cancer Study Professor Emeritus Titles Given to Four VIENNA, July 26-(P)-Parliament defied a Russian warning today by voting to include some Soviet-claim- ed industries in an Austrian nation- alization program, and decided to seek United Nations aid to uphold the Potsdam-promised integrity of Austria as a nation. The parliament unanimously ap- proved nationalization of 81 key in- dustries, including some claimed by Russia as German reparations. A Russian note had warned the gov- ernment against interfering with these, among them the Zistersdorf oil fields in Soviet-occupied territory. It also voted to ask the UN for permission to send a delegation to its next meeting to put the country's case before that body. At stake, Austrian sources said, was whether the Russians will leave enough of eastern Austria to make a nation, and whether the drain of steadily increasing ,claims will en- able her ever to achieve industrial recovery or actual independence, as promised at Potsdam. The parliament vote repudiating the Soviet claims came three hours after Chancellor Leopold Figl had read a Russian note which declared: /The German properties in eastern Austria are at the disposal of the Soviet military command, and any infraction of its (the command's) orders and regulations in connection with these properties will be prose- cuted vigorously by the same." The Russians had claimed 13 in- dustries in that area, including the great Zistersdorf oil fields, the Dan- ube Shipping Company, and banking, mining and manufacturing compan- ies. Senators Introduce Anti-Monopoly .Bill WASHINGTON, July 26 - (R) - Eight senators introduced today a sweeping anti-monopoly bill which would require annual presidential re- ports to Congress on progress of a "consistent and coordinated" anti- trust program. Senator Morse (Rep.-Ore.), one of the authors, said the bill would out- law cartels, eliminate discriminatory frieght rates, ban use of patents for monopolistic purposes, provide credits for small business, expand Federal Trade Commission anti-trust pro - ceedings, increase funds for the Jus- tice Department's anti-trust division and generally coordinate anti-monop- oly actions. DECORATED--Gen. Alexander Papagos (right) of Greece congratulates U.S. admirals Ernest J. King (left) and Chester W. Nimitz after they received a high Greek award. Prof. Reve l To Conduct Band in Annual Summer Concert Tuesday The University Summer Session Band, under the direction of William D. Revelli, will present its annual summer concert at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday in Hill Auditorium. 110 musicians from 22 states, in- cluding many veterans and band di- rectors who are studying here, com- prise the personnel of this year's band for its only incoor summer concert. The program will include sym- phonic, operatic and modeftl works. Included are Alford's "March Dunedin,' Bach's "Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring," Gagnier's Over- ture to La Dame De Coeur," Tan- eiev's "Entr'acte from Orestes," Curzon's Spanish l arch Bravada, Darcy's "March of the Free Pea- ples," and the first movement from Borodin's Second Symphony. Modern works will also include the premier band performance of the "Symphonie Moderne," by Max Steiner, who wrote the music for "Gone with the Wind." "Newsreel," by William Schuman, president of the Julliard School of Music, and "Tropical," by Morton Gould. The percussion section of the band will be featured in "Per- cussion Melee," by Ganz. Soloist of the program is Kenneth Snapp, cornetist, who will present "Stars Delay Foreseen In Washtenaw Gambling Case Efforts of Washtenaw County's one- man grand jury investigating an al- leged million-dollar gambling racket to secure the extradition of Wilson C. Haight, 38, local cigar store owner, on gambling conspiracy charges, are apparently due for further delay. In Toledo, o., yesterday, Judge Thomas J. O'Connor of common pleas court, denied a writ of habeas cor- pus to Haight, but the alleged gamb- ler's attorney immediately announced that they will appeal the decision to the Ohio Court of Appeals. If neces- sary, they said, the case will go to the Ohio state supreme court. Special Prosecutor William C. Brusstar, who appeared in the Toledo court in an effort to return Haight to Ann Arbor, had previously announced that the United Cigar Store, 118 E. Huron, of which Haight is part- owner, did a $250,000 annual business in horse-race booking. Haight's partner, Vernon Maul- betsch, 32, was arrested and later released on $2,500 bond following ar- raignment on charges of conspiracy to operate a gambling establishment. Both men are expected to figure prominently in hearings for Police Chief Sherman Mortenson and Lieut. Eugene C. Gehringer, who were sus- pended last month following allega- tions that they protected gamblers and accepted graft. S __1 1 n_ 1 11 1 - in the Velvety Sky," by Clarke. Snapp, a graduate student in the School of Music, will assume duties as Director of Instrumental Mu- sic in Clayton, Mo., in September. Prof. Revelli, who will conduct the band, has been director of Univer- sity bands since 1935. He is recog- nized as an outstanding figure in the concert band world and makes many appearances each year in all parts of the country as guest conductor and judge of band gatherings. He serves as an editor of the Etude Mu- sic Magazine, and is president of the National University and College Band Conductors Association. Byrnes Leaves To Attend Paris Peace Parley WASHINGTON, July 26-(A) - Secretary of State Byrnes is sched- uled to take off for the Paris Peace Conference about noon tomorrow. In, response to a suggestion that the capital stage a demonstration as Byrnes departs on the historic mis- sion, President Truman will lead a parade to the airport. Byrnes said that one of his first actions in Paris will be to confer with the American members of the Joint Committee on Palestine and make final decisions about American policy on, the partition plan. The Peace Conference is slated to review Big Four proposals for treat- ies for Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Italy and Finland. Garsson Hits' Smear," Denies Profiteering' HAVANA, Cuba, July 26 - (P) -- Murray Garsson, munitions maker whose wartime earnings are under scrutiny of a U.S. Senate investigat- ing committee, declared in. an inter- view today that "this is a smear cam- paign" and "my company made no millions." "If I were a Jesse James and a Robin Hood in one, I.would still de- serve praise for the accomplishments of my firm in the war effort," dpclar- ed the 56-year-old industrialist as he lay in bed in his Hotel Nacional suite beside a night table covered with medicines. He said the medi- cines were for a heart ailment. Anxious To Recover Garsson declared he was anxious to recover so he could return to the United States to defend himself. He will appear before the Senate com- mittee, he said, as soon as his doc- tors and his attorney, Wayne John- >on, approve. "All talk of war profiteering is ridiculous; my company made no millions, as is charged; our profit was less than six per cent of the in- vested capital," Garsson declared, re- ferring to the Erie Basin Metal Pro- ducts Company in which he said he had an interest of one third. No 'Paper Empire' The Batavia Metal Products Com- pany, also involved in the Senate in- vestigation, made no profit at all, he added. "This is a smear campaign, which is not proving anything in connection with the war effort and again I re- peat that there was no profiteering nor any 'paper empire'," Garsson'de- clared. Fifteen appointments to the Uni- versity faculty and acceptance of $49,090 in gifts was made at the meeting of the Board of Regents yes- terday. The title of professor emeritus was conferred upon four retiring members of the faculty, three of whom are from the School of Engineering. They are: Prof. Lewis M. Gram of the civil engineering department, Prof. John S. Worley, curator of the Trans- portation Library and professor of transportation engineering, Prof. Fe- lix 'W. Pawlowski of the aeronautical engineering department and Prof. Carl Rusfus of the astronomy depart- ment. Cancer Society Donors Largest of the gifts accepted was a grant of $10,000 from the American Cancer Society, New York City, for research in the use of isotopes in me- tabolic studies and also of selective absorption and biological effects of radioactive materials. These studies are to be made by Dr. Fred J. Hodges. Among the other gifts accepted were $3,900 from student organiza- tions as the result of Tag Day for the Fresh Air Camp and contributions amounting to $175 from members of the Varsity "M" Club for its schol- arship fund. Rogers Appointed Included in the 15 appointments to the faculty was that 6. Dr. J. Speed Rogers as director of the u- seum of Zoology and as a professor of zoology. Dr. Rogers has been on the faculty of the University of Flori- da since 1910 and since 1922 has been professor and head of the De- partment of Biology. Other appointments were made in the Department of PIne Arts, the fle- partment of Mathematics, the De- partment of Romance Languages and the Department of Biology, as well as in the School. of Music, the. School of Public Health and the School of Engineering. Other action by the Board of Re- gents included: Approval of the change in name of the Department of Fine Arts in the College of Literature, Science and the Arts to the Department of Art, and approval of $42,000 4n supple- ents and extensions of research con- tracts and $6,000 in purchase orders for the Department of Engineering Research. Jackson Asks Death for 2 Nazi Leaders NUERNBERG, July 26-(A)-U.S. Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson de- manded today the conviction of 22 top Nazis as ruthless conspirators to wage aggressive war, and charged they were just as guilty as Hitler b cause they "put a loaded gun in his eager bands." The British prosecutor, following Jackson in a summation to the In- ternational Military Tribunal, de- manded that the Nazi leaders be put to death as "common murderers." Jackson opened the prosecution's summation for the Allied Nations against Hermann Goering and his 21 co-defendants after eight mionths of trial. He assailed their defentse pleas as "Nazi double talk" and dedlared: "If you were to say of these men that they are not guilty, it would be as true to say there had been no war, there are no slain, there has been no crime." The chief British prosecutor, Sir Hartley W. Shawcross, asserted the prisoners were guilty of "12,000,000 murders"-a band of men who par- ticipated in and directed "the cold, calculated, deliberate attempt to des- troy nations and races ... through murder conducted like some mass production industry in the gas cham- bers and ovens" of horror camps. Letting his eyes rove over the hier- archy of the Nazi regime that Hitler boasted would last a thousand years. EDUCA TION'S TASK: Panel Discusses Three Goals For Educational Development PROF. SLOSSON SAYS: Peacemaking 'More Practical' But Less Liberal' Than 1919 What is the most important task of education in the next few years? Three leaders in education proposed three different answers to this ques- tion during a panel discussion on "Probable Developments in Educa- tion" in the closing session of the University of Michigan Summer Ed- ucation Conference at University High auditorium yesterday morning. The following views were presented. Dr. Eugene B. Elliott, state super- intendent of schools: "We must give the student the tools to make his way. Most important of all are the fundamentals. Then he can develop in society." Prof. Howard McClusky, of the School of Education: "Prevent World War III. You may not know it, but important men in our military machine are getting ready to face another war in five years. We must somehow use educa- tion to prevent this war, or next best, to prepare for it." Prof. George C. Kyte, School of Education, University of California: "Education's big task is the de- velonment of the nersonality of the the United Nations subsidiary as "the implement organization through which the ideals of the organization can be practically accomplished." Early in the discussion, Dr. Elliott outlined plans for reorganization of the state's system of secondary edu- cation. He reported that a move to consolidate outlying districts has pro- gressed slowly, but that with present impetus, the state's 5,800 school dis- tricts should be cut down to 500 in another ten years. "What we need is a union of small districts so that we will have from 600 to 700 students in every high school," he said. "Then we can give the people the kind of education they want." Such a plan will aid youth service agencies throughout the state, Prof. McCluskey said. He predicted that strong local units will soon develop 13th and 14th years of education, a vitally-needed program in Michigan. Prof. Kyte. described the junior college network in California, na- tional leader in this field. "We offer anything the people want. regardless of age. and thus ex- v The peace settlements agreed on after this war have tended to be "more practical," but "less idealistic and liberal" than after World War I, Prof. Preston W. Slosson, of the his- tory department, declared yesterday. Contrasting the situation with 1919, he pointed out that there had been one big peace conference where every- thing was settled even though separ- ate treaties were signed. On the other hand, the Paris Peace Confer- ence which begins tomorrow is one in a string of about 20 discussions that began with the Atlantic Charter. "Today we are making peace piece- meal," Prof. Slosson jokingly added. He pointed out that reparations are being settled "more crudely" now than in 1919, but "more successful- ly." Last time complicated arrange- ments were made for payments in cash to be extracted from Germany over a long period of time. Today matters are being handled much more practically, Prof. Slosson explained. "Russia has merely marched in and and the fact that the United States is a member of the United Nations organization are encouraging signs. "Making peace today without the participation of the United States would be like putting on a production of 'Hamlet' without the Prince of Denmark," Prof. Slosson pointed out. In addition, he stated, the UN Charter is of a more practical and workable nature than the League Covenant. It is less idealistic andl recognizes the existence of force in the world and provides for its use. However, Prof. Slosson emphasized, present peace settlements are not im- provements from the standpoint of mapmaking. In 1919, the boundariesj that were established and existed from 1920 to 1938 followed the prin- ciple of national self-determination as closely as was possible. Today we are moving people to suit boundaries rather than heeding the protests of those involved, he indicated. "An example of this is the juggling of boundaries involving Ger- many and Poland and. on the other