POINTED PEN +I Y 01wF41 jIattis PARTLY CLOUDY, WVARMi See Page 4 Latest Deadline in the State VOL. LIX, No. 26S ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1949 PRICE FIVE CENTS Democratic. Senators OK Slash in ECA Prevent Passage Of Other Changes WASHINGTON - (AP) - Demo- cratic Senate leaders agreed today to slash $419,820,000 off the funds asked by President Truman for the Marshall plan's second year. They fought other changes which they claimed would "crip- ple" the European Recovery Pro- gram, however, and won 41 to 37 in their first Senate test on this Issue. THE VOTE came on a proposal of the Senate appropriations com- mnittee to cut $74,000,000 off the pending appropriation for the Eco- nomic Cooperation Admiiiistra-: tion, in addition to the general 10 'percent slash to which the Democratic leaders agreed. Paul Hoffman, the ECA Ad- ministrator, had allocated the $74,000,000 amount during the final quarter of the year which ended July 1. Sen. McKellar (D-Tenn.), chair- man of the appropriations com- mittee, told the Senate Hoffman had no legal right to allocate this amount. He said Congress was not morally obligated to vote the sum just because Hoffman had made his plans. McKellar also predicted that, if the fund were granted, it would set a precedent which would "return to plague the Senate" in later years. *~* * BUT SEN. Vandenberg of Mich- igan, Republican supporter of the bi-partisan foreign policy, came to the ECA's defense. He said Hoffman had had every reason to The Senate held a night ses- sion, but it did not get around tp voting on this question, or even to debating it. It called the calendar of routine legislation, which required more than three hours, and then recessed until today. think the $74,000,000 would be available because the appropria- tions committee had not challeng- ed the item in the appropriation passed by the House. Vandenberg said the appro- priations committee had cut out the sum without any hearings on, the question and without giving Hoffman a chance to testify about it. Vandenberg urged the Senate not to "reach back into the last quarter of the last year" to reduce European recovery funds. He said Hoffman had not actually spent the money but that he had plan- ned in advance on getting that sum, with every reason to believe he would get it. SEN. FERGUSON (R-Mich.) supported McKellar's argument. The vote cleared the way for the Senate to take up another controversial amendment tacked onto the bill by the Senate appro- priations group. This amendment would pre- vent ECA from using about $1,- 500,000,000 and the Army about $500,000,000-for anything but surplus U.S. farm commodities. Hoffman has told Senators this amendment would threaten the entire recovery effort and support Communist claims that America is trying to use Europe as a dump- ing ground for surplus farm pro- ducts. The decision to accept the ap- propriations committee's general 10 percent reduction in the ECA fund asked by the Administration was made by the Senate Demo- cratic policy committee. Majority Leader Lucas (D-Ill.) said the co'mmittee had decided to "go along" on the 10 per cent cut voted by the appropriations committee in the $4,198,200,000 fund asked by the Administration for the second year's operations of the Marshall plan. A big groep of Republican Sen- ators has demanded a major whack in the foreign aid appro- priation. Canadian To Lecture Today "Development of Natural Re- souirces of Canaida" will be the Republicans Plan Cut mI Arms Bill Sen. Vandenberg Doubts Present Aid Bill Could Pass Congress WASHINGTON-(P)--An "economy size" substitute for President Truman's history-making program of military aid to non-Communist nations was reported taking shape arong Republican supporters of the bi-partisan foreign policy yesterday. Senators Vandenberg of Michigan and Dulles of New York, to- gether with Representatives 'Vorys of Ohio, were reported working on a plan to start the new program of military assistance with $602,000,000 in cash and existing arms originally worth $450,000,000. * * * * The cash outlay they were said to have in mind compares with $1,450,000,000 asked by the Chinese Reds Ordered To Take Canton Communists Push Forward in Hunan NANKING- ( ) -The Chinese Communist high command has or- dered its armies to capture the Nationalist provisional capital of Canton before Aug. 15, it was re- ported authoritatively yesterday. A general Red offensive in South China is rolling forward despite widespread floods which are ham- pering the advance. Red forces are driving through the rich rice bowl province of Hunan. Though it runs the mainline railway from Red-held Hankow to Canton. * * * NATIONALIST garrison head- quarters in Canton meanwhile proclaimed martial law in the ref- ugee capital, effective Wednesday. The proclamation-along with a strict midnight-to-5 a.m. curfew- came as the government military situation in Huan admittedly was deteriorating. Communist leaders are delay- ing organization of a new na- tional government pending occu- pation of Canton. A political consultative conference is sched- uled to be called into plenary session shortly after the provi- sional capital falls. This conference will set up a Communist - sponsored "coalition government." * * * THE COMMUNISTS hope to or- ganize their national government within 60 days after the confer- ence. This will make possible for the first time diplomatic recog- nition of the Communist regime. Until that time the Nationalist government will continue to have the only legal claim to recogni- tion. Under dominant Red influence the new government will include such minor Chinese parties as the Kuomintang (Nationalist Party) Revolutionary Committee and the Democratic League. MOOSA reported most foreign- ers in Canton think that city's life expectancy as the Nationalist capital is six or seven weeks. Their opinion is that the time depends upon Communist intentions - whether the Red armies press di- rectly down on Kwangtung prov- ince, where Canton is situated, or invade neighboring Kwangsi prov- ince. World News Round-Up By The Associated Press WASHINGTON-A House armed services subcommittee voted unan- imously yesterday to order an im- mediate stop to "special order" sales of luxury merchandise through Army post exchanges and Navy ship's service stores. * * *.« QUITO, Ecuador - A revolt against the government of Pres- ident Galo Plaza Lasso flared and died in a matter of hours here early yesterday. Commented the President: "I am witnessing a demon- stration of the national sport." TARACON, Spain - Twenty- five men, women and children were killed early yesterday in an explosion at an army amnui- tion dump here. More than 50 others were ser- president. The amount of exist- 0 ing arms that would be turned over to "free nations" under both the presidential and re- ported Republican plans would be the same. These are the arms which the state department says are "ex- cess to the mobilization require- ments of the United States." Of- ficials say they include no very heavy bombers, big warships or atomic weapons. SENATOR Vandenberg disclos- ed to reporters that he has told the State Department "the facts of life"-that it can't get Congress to approve Mr. Truman's full pro- gram in its present form. But he said he will withhold a decision; on the amount of arms to be sup-; plied foreign nations until depart- ment officials give details of the1 President's proposal to Congres- sional committees. The idea of the Republican supporters of the bi-partisan foreign policy was said to be that long-range outlays on arms for Europe should wait until the North Atlantic defense council' is formed, probably in Septem- ber, and determines overall' needs. Administration officials prepar- ed to support the President's full program with information about Russia's huge army, which the State Department calls "the great- est peacetime army the world has ever seen." * * * ADMINISTRATION officials have already told reporters that Mr. Truman's program is designed to bring 1,500,000 fighting men in five European countries up to fighting strength. These countries are Britain, France, Belgium, the Nether- lands and Luxembourg. In ad- dition to bringing their troops - up to combat strength, officials said, the President's program is intended to strengthen the com- bat effectiveness of relatively small forces in Norway, Den- mark and Italy. The U.S. would continue also to send arms to Turkey, Greece and Iran. The 1,500,000 men in the armed forces of the five-nation Western; European Union compare with a reported Russian military strength of more than 4,000,000 men. 29 Dead as Typhoon Hits Shanghai 200,000 Wifhout Homes in Flood SHANGHAI - (P) - Typhoon- lashed Shanghai yesterday was clearing streets of silt, mud and wreckage left by the worst storm since 1915. The toll: 29 dead, 23 injured, possibly 200,000 homeless. The typhoon churned in across the East China Sea Sunday, the day after it raked Okinawa. Shanghai was deluged with 3.94 feet of rain in 25 hours. Water up to six feet deep surged through the streets. A TENEMENT collapsed in the crowded Chapei district, killing at least 14 persons. In downtown ,Shanghai a three-story Chinese restaurant and an old hotel caved in. Communist authorities said more than half the huts making up lower residential areas in north side districts were destroyed. High winds ripped dow trees and power lines. Short-circuits started fires in which 10 persons perished. Five were electrocuted by fallen wires. Despite Shanghai's heavy dam- age, it was believed the typhoon's greatest havoc was in surround- ing agricultural areas. Acres of truck gardens were destroyed or damaged. The lower Yangtze val- ley rice crop, within 40 days of harvest time, was hard hit. THE STORM came on top of devastating floods which already had ruined crops, flooded cities and made hundreds of thousands homeless in central and south- central China. The typhoon struck Shanghai after leaving two dead on Oki- awa, big American air force is- land base. Sixteen Americans were injured. Damage to U.S. installations was estimated un- officially at $20,000,000. The U.S. Army in Tokyo made arrangements to transport relief supplies by plane and ship to Okinawa, 300 miles south of Ja- pan. MEANWHILE, another typhoon moved toward Japan after passing Iwo Jima. If it keeps its present direction and intensity, it is ex- peted to hit Shikoku Island in southwestern Japan or the dense- ly populated Kobe-Osaka area of Honshu, farther northeast. The new storm was placed about 125 miles northwest of Iwo Jima last night, moving at 12 miles an hour. Iwo Jima is some 750 miles southeast of Japan. Shanghai's damage toll prob- ably would have been heavier ex- cept for the absence of important shipping in the Whangpoo River. In the storm of July 28, 1915, the death toll was 200 and 26 ships were wrecked. Post Office Area Bill Passes House As South Protests Truman's Civil RIigylits Measure Over First C.oigressional Hurdle WASHINGTON---(A-After an angry debate, the House passed an anti-poll tax bill yesterday, 273 to 116. It would outlaw the poll tax as a requirement for voting in pri- maries and elections in which federal office-holders are chosen. * * * * THE MEASURE, the first item of President Truman's civil rights program to be acted on at this session of Congress, now goes to the Senate. Opponents are confident it will be pigeonholed or filibustered to death if any move is made to Anti-Poll Tax NEW POST OFFICE SITE-Arrow on map of campus indicates the location of the proposed branch post office, to be built on East University Ave., diagonally opposite the Engineering Arch. The new branch is planned to ease the load on the Nickels Arcade branch office. * ' * * Ne Post Office Planned For S. University Area Contracts have been signed for the construction of a new post office on East University Ave. The new branch, which will be located justoff South University Ave., was required to relieve con- gestion at the post office in Nickels Arcade. BEFORE THIS a bank opened a branch office on the south side of campus in order to alleviate congestion at the main campus. branch, also located in the Arcade. A rooming house now located at 615 E. University Ave. will be torn down to make way for the branch office which, it is esti- mated will cost $125,000. The plans for the two story structure, drawn by Albert Kahn and Associates, provides for the post office on the first floor, while the second floor will be rented for offices. * * * BESIDES providing facilities for SL Makes 'Meet Your Regents' Plans Student Legislature last night gave the go ahead'signal to Sum- mer President Quent Nesbitt to renew efforts to install the "Meet Your Regents" program at the Regents' first meeting of the year Sept. 24. SL also passed a resolution of- fering their services to the Univer- sity's Phoenix Project for the com- ing year. AS SL'S GUEST this week, As- sistant Dean of Women Mary C. Bromage told the legislature the functions of her office were to act as a liaison between the Univer- sity and all women students. Its first concern is finding housing and establishing admis- sion for women, she said. Another function is finance - this office acts as a women's loan depot for loans not large enough for the regular University loan service, Dean Bromage explained. "We also keep a 'scholarship notebook' containing on each page complete information on every scholarship available to Michigan women," she added. -* * * THE OFFICE keeps in cont ct with Ann Arbor stores and dormi- tories, the League and the Union where women can get part-time work, Dean Bromage declared. the mailing of packages and sales of stamps and other postal items, the new ,post office will speed the delivery of mail on 24 city and rural routes which were formerly handled by the main office. The authorization from Wash- ington specified that the building was to be completed in 180 days. However, Fred Ulrich, Jr., presi- dent of the East University Build- ing Co., who was awarded the contract, commented that the time allotted was too short since it would take 60tdays to tear down the present building. Anderson To Offer..New Farm Aid Bill WASHINGTON-(R)-Sen. Clin- ton Anderson (Dem., N.M.), for- mer Secretary of Agriculture, guardedly discussed today a com- promise farm price support pro- gram he said he would offer to- day. All he would say about it was that it entails flexible support pro- gram under which the level of government loans land purchases could be lorered to counteract ex- cessive production. * * .* ANDERSON LET out word of his proposed compromise after his successor, Secretary of Agricul- ture Brannan, reportedly had stiff-armed all proposals for com- promises in his own subsidiary payment plan. Brannan attended a long session of the Senate agri- culture committee, held behind closed doors. Brannan wants to abandon, in large part, the .present system of government loans and purchases which take price-depressing sur- pluses of farm products off the market. Instead, he would let the prices of perishable products go for whatever the market would bring. Then, if the average price the farmers received for their crops was less than a previously calculated "fair return," the farm- er would get government subsidies to make up the difference. The House last week rejected the Brannan Plan, and the Senate agriculture committee has given not the slightest indication it will approve it either. In turning the Brannan Plan down, the House voted to continue for another year the high, rigid wartime price support program for major crops. take it up there. Four times previously the House passed similar bills, only to see them die in the Senate. Southerners fought the bill bit- terly in the House, saying such measures encourage the rise of the Ku Klux Klan. Northerners re- plied that the poll tax disfran- chises large masses of people and enables narrow, bigoted" men to control some southern states. OPPONENTS ARGUED in vain that if the poll tax is to be out- lawed it should be done by con- stitutional amendment. They failed, 266 to 123, to send the bill back to committee so a constitu- tional amendment could be sub- stituted for it. The bill says the imposition of a poll tax as a voting prere- quisite is "an interference" with elections and "an impairment of the Republican form of govern- ment." Virginia, Arkansas, Texas, Mis- sissippi, Alabama, South Carolina and Tennessee could continue to levy poll taxes as they do now. But under the bill's provision, they could not make the tax payment a condition of voting for president, vice president or members of Con- gress. REP.,HOBBS (Dem., Ala.) tried to knockout the reterence to pri- mary elections and make the poll tax ban apply only to general elec- tions. His amendment lost by a vote of 87 to 62. The Klan was injected into the debate by Rep. Sims (Dem., S.C.), 28-year-old freshman, who challenged claims of pro- ponents that the tax disfran- chises millions of potential vot- ers. South Carolina's poll tax of $1, he said, is not cumulative, applies only to adult males and its pay- ment is not a requirement for vot- ing in primaries which in many southern states are "the real elec- tions." * * "THE RISE OF THE Ku Klux Klan 'in the South," Sims said. "is a direct result of President Truman's endorsement of the re- port of his civil rights committee. "By his action, the President has done more to destroy liber- alism in the South than any single man in America." "If you are sincere in your de- sire to enfranchise the Negroes and poor whites of the South," Sims continued, "I urge you to support legislation which will help those on the bottom rungs of the economic ladder. "Extend social security, raise the minimum wage, repeal Taft- Hartley, pass a bill providing fed- eral aid to education, continue the fight for the Brannan farm plan." Michigan Polio Up Four-Fold LANSING-(MP)-Michigan's in- fantile paralysis case count stood at 245 yesterday as 22 new cases were reported. This compared with 58 cases at the same time last year. The state health department said no new deaths were reported today. The death toll for the year stands at eight. WAYNE COUNTY accounted for nearly a third of the polio count with a case load of 80. Eleven new Wayne county cases were report- ed today. One previously reported case was deducted because it had been mistakenly diagnosed. Meanwhile, New York's city 52- 20 Still Has Backers ---Fishman Michigan Lobbyists Back fromCapital By JOHN NEUFELD Several Michigan Congressmen still favor renewing the 52-20 pro- gram, according to Al Fishman, '52. Fishman was one of seven Mich- igan delegates who traveled to Washington last week to lobby for retention of the 52-20 pro- vision, which expired Monday. Fishman represented the Young Progressives, but the Washington lobby was non-partisan and in- cluded trade union and veterans organizations, he said. * * * FOUR HUNDRED people from ten states p'4rticipated in the Na- tional Lobby To Save 52-20. Each delegation tried to buttonhole the Representatives and Congressmen from its own state. The lobby was originally scheduled for just one day, Thursday, July 21. But the Michigan delegation was deliy. ed by an automobile accident on the way down and had to spend an extra day in Washington. Fishman said that all hope of getting the bill through the Veterans Affairs Committee was abandoned, and instead a dis- charge petition was sought. By getting the signatures of 218 Rep- resentatives and the suspension of certain rules, the bill could be brought on the floor of the House without Committee approval. FISHMAN said that Speaker Rayburn, who holds the key for suspending rules, refused to see the delegation, and used police to eject the members. The Michigan delegates man- aged to see eight of the 17 Mich- igan Congressmen. According to Fishman, one of them, Sadow- ski (Dem.) has already signed the discharge petition, another said he would sign. Two Con- gressmen were reported hostile to the deletation. Other lawmakers said they would support the bill on the floor but they did not want to bypass the Veterans Affairs Committee, which is headed by John Rankin (D-Miss.) Neither of the Michigan Sena- tors was in, but the Senate has been more favorable to continuing the legislation than the House. The Senate Labor Committee un- animously voted on Friday to ex- tend unemployment benefits for, a year. Consequently, it is the House's delay that is holding up the meas- ure. As the 52-20 program entered its final hours, some 650,000 veterans were on its rolls. Greek Play To OpenHere Euripides' "The Trojan Wom- en" will be presented on the steps of the Clements Library at 8 p. m. tomorrow and Friday by the Department of Speech, as another in the series of summer dramatic performances. The Greek tragedy, the first to be held in the unique outdoor set- ting, will be directed by Claribel Baird. Both performances will be op- Third Top Secret Conference To Discuss Sharing A' Bomb WASHINGTON-( P)-Sen. Mc- Mahon (Dem. - Conn.) yesterday announced that a third high pol- icy conference on sharing atomic secrets with Great Britain and Canada will be held in the capitol today. The chairman of the joint Sen- ate-House Atomic Committee said in a brief statement that the-group will meet with Secretary of State Acheson and Secretary of Defense Johnson "to continue its consid- eration of foreign relations in the field of atomic energy." THE FIRST conference was held July 14 at Blair House when Pres- ident Truman called the Congres- sional, military, state and atomic leaders to a highly secret discus- sion of the problem. This was followed by a larger meeting July 20 at the Capitol, the details of which also have been kept secret. The issue of sharing the nation's advances in atomic know-how with Britain reportedly is interwoven with the question of uranium sup- plieo for this country. THE TWO MAJOR sources of uranium now available to the United States are Canada and the Belgian Congo where the mines are controlled by British inter- ests. One member of the joint com- mittee, who asked not to be named, said over the weekend that unless some satisfactory agree- ment is worked out with Britain, this country can't expect to get more than half of the Congo ura- nium in the future. Several members of the com- mittee have come out flatly against sharing the nation's atomic secrets with Britain or anyone else. And Sen. Knowland (Rep.-Calif.) a committee member, has threatened to carry to the Senate floor a fight to block President Truman from giving away information by execu- tive agreement. TEA CHERS' WORKSHOP: 'Papa Is All' To Be Given Tonight _- - - i .. _.