BARNABY W- Latest Deadline in the State ~uti4 1' HOT See Page 2 rrrtr rrw wr,, noo e _ I VOL. LIA, No,. 28 Warns of Red Danger to Weak Nations Acheson Urges Arms for Europe WASHINGTON-UP) -Secretary of State Acheson opened the arms- for-Europe battle in Congress yes- terday with a warning that failure to bolster non-Communist coun- tries may invite a military thrust by Russia. Acheson declared that the Ad- ministration's proposed $1,450,- 000,000 program is urgent for our own security and is the minimum amount "which makes sense." * * * CALLING ATTENTION to Rus- sia's huge forces, Acheson de- clared we cannot ignore "the pos- sibilities of direct military aggres- sion." When a totalitarian regime fails in political aggression it is often tempted to try military means when no effective resistance is possible, Acheson said. The Secretary went before the House Foreign Affairs Commit- tee with a point-by-point de- fense of the arms program in the face of a strong Republican attack which built up even be- fore the legislation was pro- posed. Acheson bore down heavily on the principal objection-that the program should be held to a much smaller figure until North At- lantic Treaty nations have a chance to outline their own de- fense strategy. * * * IT IS ONLY A one-year pro- gram, the secretary said; "A pro- gram in future years will be de- rived from recommendations" made by the defense organization set up under the treaty. "The amount requested is ur- gently necessary in the interest of our national security," he said. "It is the minimum Amount required to enable the recipient nations adequately to guard against internal subversion and to begin to undertake" their roles in a coordinated defense. Committee members questioned whether the ' European nations which would be given the arms would cooperate. Acheson replied that nations of the Western Un- ion had been working for a year on a program of mutual cooperation. These nations are Britain, France, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg-all Atlantic Treaty members. Acheson said this would lead to a strategic plan for common de- fense. * * * REP. RICHARDS (Dem., S.C.) questioned the amount involved "when we have no definite assur- ance these nations will take con- certed action." Acheson said that when the treaty is a reality within a few days committees will be set up to go to work on a strategic plan for mutual help. "The forces of these nations are not sufficiently equipped and unless they are equipped the stra- tegic plan will be just a plan," Acheson said. OF THE $1,450,000,000, Atlantic Treaty members would receive about $1,100,000,000 assistance Acheson said. Other funds would go to Greece, Turkey, Korea, the Philippines and other nations which the Administration might deem of strategic importance in the fight to beat back Communist aggression. The Administration would be given a free hand in allocating arms to individual nations on the basis of putting it where it is most needed. This power has drawn considerable criticism against the plan. Acheson told the committee: "Every bullet, every bit of radar equipment is planned because there is a practical' need for it somewhere and we will know ex- actly where it is going." The committee will receive in private session a breakdown of the planned shipment of arms and equipment, together with the amount of aid intended for each nation. "A country does not go Com- munist by conviction," he said, "it goes Communist by force of an army either directly in the coun- try or across its border." ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1949 PRIC E1VIe C i t .- _ i %., jr, IN 1 p w Minority Groups Survey Studies Inter-Group Dating (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the second of seven articles on the Survey Research minority group report. Clip them-they will serve as the basis for student and administrative action in the fall.) By CRAIG WILSON (Co-Managing Editor) The second section of the University Survey Research Center's report on "Campus Attitudes Toward Minority Groups," deals with inter-group dating. "Inter-group dating" was not specifically defined, and probably meant different degrees of social contact to the different students interviewed, Prof. Angus Campbell, director of the Center, explained. * * * * "STUDENTS ARE SOMEWHAT less favorably inclined toward dating members of minority groups than towards rooming with them or living in the same house with them." What is your attitude toward dating a Negro, Jew, Oriental, Latin-American, white non-Jew? (Answers of members of one group towards dating within their own group have been omitted.) Latin White Negro Jew American Oriental Non-Jew Would like to ........ 3% 14% 6% 23% 50% Would be willing to ...11 53 30 49 29 Would rather not ....35 25 40 19 13 Would refuse to ......48 5 20 6 4 "When men and women are studied separately, no difference is found in their willingness. to date members of other racial and relig- ious groups than their own." * * * * "A MAJORITY OF STUDENTS report that they have dated members of other religious groups. "Inter-racial dating is much less common." Data was compiled on the basis of having dated members of other religious groups. There were not enough in the racial minority groups to form a stable base for analysis. I have dated: Jew Catholic Protestant Jew ................................- . 66% 53% Catholic .............................74 - 94 Protestant ...........................83 93 Negro ............................... 7 15 3 Oriental .... .... ...................11 25 16 Latin American ......................35 44 30 The figures indicate whether or not the individual had dated members of other groups but did not determine how often. "It is likely that many students, while dating members of other groups occasionally, have the bulk of their social contacts with mem- bers of their own group." NEXT: The attitude toward different minority groups on the part of other groups is studied in "Campus Attitudes Towards Minority Groups." EDUCATION ISSUE: Catholic Congressman Defends Mrs. Roosevelt WASHINGTON-(I)-A Roman Catholic member of Congress, Rep. Andrews Jacobs (Dem., Ind.), last night defended Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt who has been denounced by Francis Cardinal Spellman, Catholic Archbishop, of New York for her stand on federal aid tt education. The issue, whether federal money for helping public schools should also go to parochial andp rivate schools, has created a bitter controversy. CARDINAL SPELLMAN said Mrs. Roosevelt, who opposed use of tax funds for private and parochial schools, had a "record of anti- -Catholicism . . . unworthy of an Steel Unioni Asks 12 Cent Pay Rise Other Demands Increase Total NEW YORK - (P) - President Philip Murray of the CIO Steel- workers yesterday presented to the presidential fact-finders in the steel industry dispute a demand for a 30 cents an hour package. The demand includes a 12% cents an hour fourth round wage boost. * M BESIDES THE fourth round wage increase, Murray asked 11.23 cents an hour for pensions and 6.27 cents for social insurance. Murray said the steel industry was amassing profits of about a billion dollars a year and should grant the Union's demand in the national interest. He led off testimony before the three-man board which the Presi- dent named to avert an imminent strike by the 900,000 steel workers last July 16. THE BOARD must make its recommendations, which aren't binding on either side, to Mr. Tru- man by Sept. 1-15 days before the Union's new strike deadline. The Union has eight days and the 64 steel companies an equal per- iod to present their case. Earlier, the fact-finders agreed to hear the Union's pen- sion demands although the steel companies contend that the re- opening clause in their union contracts does not permit pen- sions to e brought up. Chairman Carroll R. Daugher- ty said, however, that no recom- mendation would be made on the pension question if the board finds it cannot properly be raised at this time. HE SAID steel workers' wages increased from an average of 84.5 cents an hour in 1939 to only 96.6 cents this year, in terms of 1939 prices, although the productivity of the average worker rose nearly 50 per cent in that period. Under the newly - proposed pension plan each worker would get $125 a month after retire- ment at the age of 65. The Union's demands also would provide group life insur- ance equivalent to a year's pay; a $1,250 death benefit policy; $31.50 a week in sick or accident benefits; and hospitalization for workers and their families. Eugene G. Grace, chairman of Bethlehem Steel Company, said the Union demand for a 30-cents- an-hour package increase would add $10 to $12 a ton to his com- pany's cost of producing steel. He commented on the Union de- mand while announcing the sec- ond quarter operations of the na- tion's number two steel producer. Great Lakes Freighter Safe MUSKEGON -(P)- The Great Lakes coal freighter Norman J. Kopmeier, grounded in Lake Mus- kegon here, no longer is in danger of capsizing. Chief boatswains mate Elmer Richter of the Coast Guard maid late yesterday that pump crews had saved the 510-foot ship, load-F ed with 8,400 tons of coal, from rolling over.-. Divers also are checking over the 25 feet of bow resting on the bottom in an effort to locate the damage. The ship was enroute to Mus- kegon from South Chicago when it struck an underwater obstruc- tion and was damaged. It man- aged to proceed five miles through Muskegon Lake before being beached. Pump crews from a marine con- tractor and the Muskegon Coast Guard Station worked desperately during the morning and afternoon, seeking to keep the ship fromt taking in any more water. Clark Appointed To Fill Vacancy Cabinet Post Awarded ' -Daily-George Lee MIWABEAU'S RIVALS-Mirabeau has nothing on these cats, owned by Sylvia Miller of Algonac, Michigan. But Mirabeau's real distinction is being the only "official" "M" mastt of the University, and he plays his part to the hilt. M' Cat Gets Proposals. Cornpeotition as Mascot By PAUL BRENTLINGER Mirabeau, the local kitten with the 'M' on his forehead, has received two proposals of marriage. The proposals came in the form of letters from the proud owners of other 'M'-bearing kittens. However, the letter writers seemed to be slightly confused about Mirabeau's sex-both proposals came from male cats. * * * * "ALLEY OOP," A FOUR-MONTHS old 'alley cat' from Monroe, was the first kitten According to to indicate his owner, 36 New Polio Cases Reported LANSING-()-Reports of 36 new cases of Infantile Paralysis were received yesterday by the State Health Department. The total now is 306, a new record high for this date. This compared with 59 cases for the same date last year. Dr. William Rottschaefer, Chief Resident Physician at the Uni- versity Hospital reported 11 cases of polio from all over the state were being treated at the hospital Wednesday. He added that the number of cases in Michigan have almost reached epidemic proportions. The state health department said unofficial reports showed 18 deaths to date. Only eight deaths were recorded at this time last year. Nine of the new cases were from Wayne County, four of these from Detroit. Other counties with Polio reports included: Berrien, 4; Mar- quette, 3; Monroe, Isabella and Muskegon, 2 each, and Bay, New- aygo, Osceola, Macomb and Go- gebic counties with one each. American mother." Jacobs did not mention Card- inal Spellman by name in a talk prepared for broadcast, but said: "The inflammatory language used toward her will bring no good to either my church or my coun- try. I regret it exceedingly." ' * * * "I EXPRESSED the same opin- ion as Mrs. Roosevelt," Jacobs added. "Such opinion resulted from careful consideration of fact and principle. Chairman Lesinski (Dem., Mich.) of the House Labor Com- mittee said in the meantime that aid to education legislation "has no chance" at the present ses- sion of Congress. A House bill, providing aid for public edu- cation only, has been bogged down because of the controversy over church schools. But a showdown may come in the committee today when both Reps. Steed (Dem., Okla.) and Sims (Dem., S.C.) may try to force a vote to take up an aid bill. But other committee members did not regard the prospect as very hopeful. In defending Mrs. Roosevelt's stand, Jacobs said: "It is distasteful to me to dis- agree with so high and distin- guished a prelate of my faith." world News .Round-Up ByTihe Associated Press WASHINGTON - Veterans will start receiving cash dividends on their, wartime insurance premium payments by Jan. 1, 1950, Rep. Ford (R-Mich.) said yesterday. NEW YORK-Federal Judge Harold R. Medina, who has been presiding at the Communist conspiracy trial for more than six months, wearily told wrangl- ing attorneys yesterday that he is "physically and mentally in- capable of going through much more." "I must take a recess now and lie down for a minute," he said. He walked off the bench and was gone for 10 min- utes.- HONOLULU - Senate and House agreed yesterday on terms of a bill to put Hawaii into the stevedoring business and try to reopen the islands' strikebound ports. The territory would set up its own stevedoring operation in- stead of seizing struck firms. This government entrance into a strike- bound industry without seizure is believed without precedent here. WASHINGTON-The Senate yesterday accepted the terms of a compromise bill tightening the military unification law and set- ting up a new money-saving budget system for the armed services. The measure, approved by a voice vote, now goes to the House for the final legislative step. *. * * WASHINGTON - The govern- ment on Aug. 4 will return to de- ficit financing for the first time in more than three years. Deficit financing means borrowing cash to meet current bills because out- go is larger than income. t matrimonial interest in Mirabeau. Vrs. Ardith M. Lawrence. "Oops -? would make a fine husband, and perhaps some little 'M's' would ensue. Mrs. Sam L. Barret of F"lint has a Persian kitten, one of a family of four with 'M's' on their heads, whom she recommends as "a good match for your Mirabeau." * * * THESE LETTERS of proposal were sent to Prof. William H. Burt of the University museum, who once suggested that a strain of 'M'. kittens be bred as mascots for the University's football play- ers. Mirabeau first caught the public's eye when his picture decorated The Daily's front page May 26. , Shortly afterward, Mirabeau ap- peared in a Detroit paper and Life Magazine. This publicity set off a barrage of letters to Prof. Burt and The Daily, most of them from owners of other 'M' kittens. THESE LETTERS plus more ob- servation of cats by Daily editors indicate that cats with block 'M's' on their foreheads are not so rare as experts thought at the time of the Mirabeau discovery. In a letter to a Detroit paper, Dr. A. B. Snow of Saginaw went so far as to declare that "every tiger cat has" an M' on the forehead. The Encyclopedia Brittanica seems to support Dr. Snow. Its pictures of the striped manx cat, the tabby cat and the red tabby Persian cat show faint traces of 'M's' on the feline foreheads. * * * ALSO, MIRABEAU'S mother Farnaby has just given birth to two more kittens who wear rusty red 'M's' on their foreheads, ac- cording to Mrs. John J. Dreher, the kitten's owner. "Mirabeau himself is thriving," she said. "He realizes that he is THE Michigan-Minded Mouser, and he acts accordingly." More People No Threat to US* Living Populous Prosperity Predicted by Expert WASHINNGTON - (P) - The President of the Brookings Insti- tution said yesterday the United States has the ability to support a doubled population, 100 years from now, on a plane of living eight times as high as that of the present. Dr. Harold G. Moulton, widely- known economist, is the author of a 387-page report issued by the non-profit, privately endowed re- search organization. ** * DR. MOULTON rejected con- tentions that our minerals and fuels are inadequate, that the country is approaching a "static" condition, or that the government must set up a "controlled econ- omy." He argued that after a cen- tury of phenomenal progress the economic promise of American life remains undiminished. Dr. Moulton placed emphasis on things like this for a great eco- nomic expansion.: Electronics, plastics, scientific agriculture, soil-less foodl pro- duction, new metals, new meth- ods of exploring for minerals, synthetic production of oil, de- velopment of low-grade iron ore. He estimated that on the basis of past spending habits and pres- ent income distribution, a rise in the population to 300,000,000 and an eightfold rise in living stand- ards would multiply the nation's dollar spending as follows: * 4 * FOR FOOD AND nutrition, about 8 times; for shelter and home maintenanceabout 16 times; for attire and personal care, about 20 times; for health and education, about 30 times; and for recreation and travel, about 33 times There are several "ifs" in Dr. Moulton's picture. For example, he said the vast expansion owuld require: 1. A continuing increase in pro- ductivity. This in turn would re- quire constant scientific and tech- nological development, new tools, replacement of obsolete plants, better management methods in- cluding personnel practices, a pro- gressive increase in the efficiency of workmen, adequate incentives for labor and management and in- vestors, and "at least a fair de- gree of assurance with respect to the perpetuity of the private en- terprise system." 2. A progressive expansion of mass purchasing power. Dr. Moul- ton said "'the unfulfilled desires of the masses constitute the great potential markets of the future." Tnw to ehiev ab hroarddistrih- To McGrath Dean, Chairnian To' Think It Over' WASHINGTON-R?) -President Truman announced yesterday tije selection of Attorney General Tom C. Clark for the Supreme Court and Senator J. Howard McGrath of Rhode Island for Clarke's eab inet post. He told a news conference he offered both men theappoint- ments at a private interview this morning and his guess is that both will accept. CLARK INDICATED he would take the new post; McGrath said he wanted the week-end to think it over. If McGrath accepts he will have to resign from the Senate. He also most likely will have to give up the chairmanship of the Democratic National Com- mittee. William M. Boyle, Jr., of Kan- sas City, Mo., paid executive Vice chairman of the National Commit- tee since April 21, probably will be a main contender for the chair- manship in that event. Republi- cans will pick a new chairman here Aug. 4. The President announced the appointments in a most casual manner and in response to a ques- tion near the end of his news con- Terence. Earlier in the conference he fiad read a formal statement about recent secret- meetings on atomic energy. The statement appeared to be a pledge that he will not give the British the latest-atom bomb know-how without the consent of Congress. The President said present agreements between the United States, Britain and Canada pro- viding for cooperation in exchang- ing atomic information and on raw material supplies are "limited in scope and duration." * * * "WE, THEREFORE, intend to explore with the United Kingdom and Canada some of the basic questions underlying any deter- mination' of long-range policy in this field," he said. He said these questions requir- ed further consultations with Con- gress after the exploratory con- versations. These conversations do not involve making agreements with or commitments to the Brit- ish and Canadians, he said. In these consultations with the Congress," he added, "we shall have to decide together what course of action it is wisest to take." Truman said Clark and Mc- Grath were so surprised that they didn't answer, but promised to do so in a few days. He said Clark was very much surprised. Since Justice Murphy was a Catholic, speculation had been that a Catholic probably would be named as his successor. When asked about this Mr. Truman said religious faith had nothing to do with the appointment of Clark, who is a Presbyterian. He said he picked Clark be- cause of his qualifications and that's the only thing he consid- ered. He added he doesn't care whether a man is a Jew, Catholic, or Baptist, as long as he is qual- ified. Mr. Truman is a Baptist. Gothic Society To Organize Today The proposed Michigan Gothic Film Society will limit its mem- bership to all graduate students and faculty members. The Society will organize at 7 p.m., today, in the East Confer- ence Rm., Rackham Building. i LEFT BEREFT BY DEFT THEFT: Vandenberg GetsJ 1, Amateui CHICAGO - (R) - Inside job °amntrs, .rp rctn- T T..% _ m 9 Thieves Meddle in Company Funds two years and, from present indi-I ing losses due to employe dishon- responsibility, coupled with ier to do so again and in time he