LOOPHOLES See Page 2 'i r I , je Latest Deadline in the State Dailli , ,_ _ \ ,. ,1 , , , FAIR. PLEASANT VOL. LIX, No. 295 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1949 PRICE FIVE CENTS 'Cold War' Airlift To Be Demobilized Cutbacks Will BeginMonday BERLIN - (P) - The Berlin airlift, biggest western weapon of the. cold war, will go into cold storage starting Monday. American and British officials announced yesterday the greatest air freight operation in history will be reduced gradually until it is cut out entirely Oct. 31. * a r FOR NEARLY a year - from June 26, 1948, until the Russians lifted the Berlin blockade May 14 -the thundering stream of planes was the only means of keeping 2,000,000 West Berliners supplied with food, fuel and raw materials. The airlift surprised the Russians and heartened the Germans. The decision to retire the air cargo operation was taken be- cause adequate supplies have been stockpiled since the Rus- sians have permitted rail, high- way and water traffic to be re- sumed from the western zones. But the Western Allies made it clear they will be prepared to re- start the airlift on short notice if the Russians adopt new block- ade tactics against the four-power city, 100 miles inside the Soviet zone. * * * . THE GRADUAL reduction in operations, which starts Monday, will permit some of the airlift fliers to head back to the United States in September. The cutback program calls for a daily schedule of 3,700 tons for August, 2,100 for September and 1,000 for October. This will be a breeze for Amer- ican and British pilots who have averaged 8,000 tons of supplies daily since the airlift got into full swing. The peak was reached last Easter weekend when the transport planes flew nearly 13,- 000 tons into Berlin. THE AIRLIFT was expensive in lives and money. Seventy airmen -31 Americans and 39 Britons- were killed. In addition seven Ger- man civilians were killed in plane accidents. Official figures were not avail- able, but it was estimated the op- eration cost the United States about $12,500,000 or more a month. The British reported June 15 their share had cost 8,600,000 pounds ($34,400,000). Informed sources said the U:S. plans to maintain airlift installa- tions at Wiesbaden and Rhine- Main. An Air Force official said he assumed that even though the lift ended, training flights will continue. Gen. Bradley Outlines Arms Aid Strategy WASHINGTON - (P - Gen. Omar N. Bradley warned Congress yesterday that Russia is "bent upon absorbing the exhausted vic- tors" of the last war and he out- lined the broad defense strategy behind the European arms pro- gram. The Army Chief of Staff said that the program is based on the assumption that the United States, which is able "to deliver the atom bomb," would handle strategic bombing, while the European part- ners would be ready with ground - forces. TESTIFYING before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Brad- ley endorsed the Administration's plan to spend $1,450,000,000 on arms aid for non-Communist na- tions. And he pictured the need with these words: "In the place of the van- quished foe has arisen this new aggressor, bent upon absorbing the exhausted victors. "The spectre of another would- be master attempting to enslave our presently allied peoples has given a sense of urgency to our plans." * * * BRADLEY, who testified just before he planned to fly to Eu- rope to consult on the plans, said Minority Groups Survey Studies Different Attitudes (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the third 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 third section of the University Survey Research Center's report on "Campus Attitudes Toward Minority Groups," compares different group's attitudes towards minorities. Each student interviewed was given an overall "social distance" score on each minority group he was asked about. * * * * THE SCORE WOULD be a composite based on his rated willing- ness to room with, date, and live in the same house with, members of the particular minority group. A high score means more reluctance to have social contacts of this kind with members of the minority in question. A high score is 10 to 12. A less high score is 8 to 9. A low score means a relatively more favorable attitude toward contacts of this kind with the minority in question. A low score is 3 to 5. A less favorable score is 6 to 7. Arc de Triomphe Chinese Seize U.S. Consulate Post i.n Shanghai* Former Navy Employees Demand Back Pay for Two Month Period WASHINGTON-WP-More than 100 Chinese seized control of the American consulate general offices in Shanghai yesterday to enforce back pay demands against the U.S. Navy, the State Depart- ment reported. About 20 Chinese and other local non-American former employees of the U.S. Navy in Shanghai occupied the consulate offices at 7:30 (Shanghai time) yesterday morning, seizing the gate keys and pre- venting the gates from being shut, the report said. BY MID AFTERNOON the numbers had been increased to about 100 inside the building with more outside at 3:30 p.m. The beseigers locked the gates, imprisoning the AmerIcan SOCIAL DISTANCE TOWARDS NEGROES: Family Income: 3-5 Under $5,000 .................13% $5,000-$10,000 ...............12 Over $10,000... ...........12 Size of Home Town: Country, small town ..........14 City, 10,000-50,000 ........... 7 City, 50,000-Million ..........13 Metropolitan area ............15 School Class: Freshmen ....................13 Sophomore ................... 7 Junior .......................10 Senior.........................10 Graduate ....................20 Sex: Male .......................11 Female ......................14 Membership in Fraternity, Sorority: Member or Pledge............11 Neither Member or Pledge .....13 Religion: Jewish .......................19 Protestant .................... 8 Catholic......................24 * * * * STUDENTS WERE ALSO given composi ingness to room with, date, and live in the s students:° * * * * SOCIAL DISTANCE TOWARDS JEWS: Family Income: 3-5 Under $5,000 .................33% $5,000-$10,000 ...............33 Over $10,000 ..................31 Size of Home Town: Country, small town ..........38 City, 10,000-50,000 ...........24 City 50,000-Million ..........40 Metropolitan area ............30 Class: Freshman ....................41 Sophomore ........ ..........36 Junior .......................23 Senior .......................31 Graduate ....................38 Sex: Male.......................30 Female.....................41 Membership in Fraternity, Sorority: Member or Pledge ............30 Neither Member or Pledge ....34 Religion: Protestant ...................31 Catholic .....................47 6-7 32% 34 30 8-9 35% 31 25 36 30 34 32 36 28 27 36 37 34 28 30 34 63 29 29 32 39 25 27 30 33 37 30 26 31 31 26 33 9 37 26 1a-11. 17% 23 30 17 23 25 22 19 31 25 20 15 -Daily-Barnett Laschever ARCH OF TRIUMPH-Standing at the head, of the beautiful Champs Elysees, the famous French monument is lit up for the second time since t he beginning of the war on Bastille night, July 14. A tricolor beam of light pierces through the arch lighting up the sky overhead with the colors of France. A rnbassador Welcomes Students to Netherlands 22 23 32 17 6 25 20 te scores on their will- ame house with, Jewish 6-7 39% 40 21 36 40 33 35 43 31 38 34 34 8-9 23% 19 28 23 26 14 25 8 23 29 25 22 23 18 28 20 10-11 5% 7 19 2 9 12 10 7 8 10 10 6 8 9 14 5 38 30 28 40 37 27 (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the third in a series of articles on the National Student Association sum- iner tour of Europe by Barnett and Delores Laschaver, D~aily staff mem- bers. Mrs. Laschever is the former Delores Palanker, a Daily night editor.) ROTTERDAM (Delayed) -Call- ing them "young diplomats" and, "ambassadors of goodwill," Her- man Baruch, American ambassa- dor to The Hague, officially wel- comed the 1,500 American and Canadian students who arrived here this morning aboard the S.S. Volendam. The central figure in a welcom-' ing committee consisting of the mayor of Rotterdam, Dutch and American officials and members of the N.B.B.$.-the Dutch stu- dent organization which together with the USNSA helped arrange for the sailing of the Volendam- Baruch told the students they were on a special mission bringing with them "the spirit of America" and "the spirit of freedom." FOLLOWING the ambassador's greeting, a Dutch military band Heat Wave Fatal to 72 By The Associated Press A mid - summer heat wave steamed the eastern seaboard in record temperatures anddhumidity yesterday, pushing its death toll to 72. In the West, a chill night-time 34 sent the citizens of Big Piney, Wyo., scurrying for blankets. Cool air from Canada brought relief to the midwest. * * * THE PHILADELPHIA, Pa., area counted 37 deaths at least partly due to heat during the current hot spell. Deputy coroner Matthew A. Roth said it was the highest total for any heat wave there in 10 years. Newark, N.J., sizzled at 100 degrees, a record for the date and the fourth time this year the thermometer has gone into three figures. The mercury reached 97.8 de- grees in New York City, topping all earlier marks this summer and setting a new record for July 29 of any year. struck up the "Star-Spangled Banner" and the Dutch national anthem. Coffee was served to the sleepy students who had walked the decks while the Volendam lay for 12 hours yesterday off the coast of Holland. Most of them had stayed awake to see the ship weigh anchor at 10 p.m. yesterday and slip quietly up the Maas River to dock at 1:04 a.m. today at the Holland-Amer- ica Lines' new glass-enclosed pier. TO MAKE the landing complete, at approximately 1:10 a.m. one of the last of the 13,000 bottles of beer consumed by students during the voyage sailed through the air to break two huge panes of glass in the new dock. The handful of Dutch students and officials on the dock to greet the students were well aware that the Americans had arrived. Passengers wandered off to catch 40 winks and be up again at 5 a.m. to make breakfast and go through Dutch customs in time for de- barkation at 8:30 a.m. Each student was provided with a box lunch. Debarkation was by groups, de- pending up on the destination. * *Y* NSA TRI-NATION and South- ern Tours headed for Paris, the Italy-Switzerland group for Rome, the International Tour for Brus- sels, the Columbia World Study Tours for London, another group for Switzerland, while others went to Scandinavia, Germany, Finland, Czechoslovakia and Austria. Each NSA tour was officially greeted by representatives of the N.B.B.S. who advised the group leaders about transportation and plans which had been made for them by student organizations of each country they were to visit. Our tour, the General Tri-Nation group, will go first to France for two weeks. A week and a half will be spent in Paris and the re- mainder of the time in Grenoble with side trips to Chambery, An- necy and also to Geneva, Switzer- land. * * * THE TOUR will then take in Holland with most of the allotted two weeks spent in the resort re- gion of Friesland. Foreign Aid ill Revised In Committee Remain Intact WASHINGTON - fAP)- A huge foreign aid bill, center of a dis- pute which threatens to hold up $26,000,000,000 in appropriations for various government agencies, was revamped in a Senate Conp, mittee yesterday. But amendments which caused the row remained largely intact. It was anyone's guess whether the revised bill would prove ac- ceptable to enough Senators to end the big logjam. * * * THE COMMITTEE will formal- ly send the bill to the Senate floor Monday. One big point of argument in the original measure was an amendment, backed by some farm state senators, stipulating that $2,000,000,000 in foreign aid funds must be used for the pur- chase of surplus U.S. farm com- modities, or not used at all. The Senate appropriations com- ihittee, working over the bill yes- terday cut these required pur- chases by 10 per cent--to $1,- 800,000,000. * * * THE COMMITTEE stuck by an- other controversial amendment, earmarking $50,000,000 of econ- omic cooperation funds for Spain. In its new version the bills total $5,647,724,000, which in- cludes money to carry on the Marshall Plan of European re- covery, and aid to occupied countries. The Senate had sent the bill back to the Appropriations Com- mittee Wednesday after a tangled dispute centering around conten- tions that the amendments violat- ed the Senate rules by writing "new legislation" into an appro- priation bill. * * .* THE COMMITTEE reworded the amendments yesterday to try to get around that objection. One of several other changes in the bill today eliminated $150,000,- 000 in lending authority for the ECA, the agency which adminis- ters the Marshall Plan. staff of 13 people and 35 Chinese employes. They were described as former Shanghai employes of the Navy which pulled out of that port be- fore the Communists occupied the city late in May. They are de- manding pay for the period since their jobs ended, plus separation and other bonuses. THE NEW INCIDENT closely followed the siege of two officials of the American-owned newspaper Shanghai Evening Post, by for- mer employes demanding back pay and bonuses. The Department was advised that the police flatly refused to intervene and that the Commu- nist military control commis- sion's alien affairs bureau also failed to take action to restore order. The report came from the con- sulate general. John M. Cabot is the consul general at Shanghai but officials said they did not know whether he was present per- sonally. He has been trying to return to the United States by plane with Ambassador J. Leigh- ton Stuart. EARLIER IN THE week the State Department spoke of "dif- ficulties" the Communists were putting in the way of Stuart's ar- rangements to leave. The State Department was ad- vised that American officials, under authority from Washing- ton, have proposed a settlement known to be acceptable to more than half the claimants. But they had been requested by the Communist Alien Affairs Bu- reau to defer the proposal. The consulate report put re- sponsibility on "the lack of ef- fective action" by the Communist Alien Affairs Bureau. Nathan Calls Steel Profits 'Phenomenal' NEW YORK-(P)-A CIO steel- workers' spokesman charged yes- terday that the steel industry is rolling up "phenomenal" profits at the expense of employes and consumers. Robert R. Nathan, former New Deal economist, told President Truman's fact-finding board that the industry's policies are hurting the national economy. * * * NATHAN SAID STEEL profits are the highest in history and that the industry can well afford to grant the 30 cents an hour in- crease the union is asking in a wage - pension - social insurance "package." This demand includes a fourth round wage increase of 121% cents an hour. a The three-member board is hearing evidence in a dispute that led to a strike threat by the 900,- 000 union members earlier this month. LUN. Halts Atom Energy Control ,Job Deadlock Sent Back toBig Six LAKE SUCCESS -- (P) - The United Nations Atomic Energy Commission gave up yesterday a three-year struggle to agree on international atomic control. It put the deadlock squarely up to the big five powers and Canada, who are beginning top secret talks Aug. 9. * * * THE COMMISSION voted 9 to 2 to stop work until the six coun- tries can find some basis for agreement. But the delegates themselves say there is at present io sign of a break in the East- West impasse. The Soviet Union and the So- viet Ukraine voted against the majority. Their delegates de- manded to know why the major- ity wanted to "kill" the com- mission, stop its work, "lock the door and throw away the key." Dr. H. R. Wei, Chinese scientist and commission chairman for July, responded: "Time . is running out. The atomic armaments race is on. It is the duty of this commission to tell the world that the work can- not be done now." * * - * HE THEN informed the com- mission that his government had started the wheels rolling for the six-country consultations. "I hope the Permanent mem- bers of the commission (the six countries involved in the con- sultations, the United States, France, Britain, China, Russia and Canada) will give away their pride and prejudice and work for agreement," he sad. The majority members of the commission want an international control authority checking and supervising the atom from the mine ore stage to final use. They insist this authority must not be subject to the Security Council veto. The Soviet Union wants an in- ternational control authority with powers of periodic inspection, but with its work coming under the Security Council. State Reports 2,500 jobless In Ann Arbor More than 2,500 people are out of work in Ann Arbor. The Michigan Unemployment Commission reported that unem- ployment in Washtenaw County this week was between 7,000 and 8,000. OFFICIALS of the commission predicted that the number of job- less people would continue at that level for the rest of the summer. However, they expressed hope that manufacturing in the county may rise after the summer. Commission spokesman said an indication of the present eco- nomic situation may be foundin the large number of persons who are returning to their nrwr 24 7 19 6 the tabulations Jewish students interviewed were excluded from of social distance towards Jews. NEXT: Discrepancies between self an'd friends on attitudes toward minority groups is studied in "Campus Attitudes Toward Minority Groups." 'GRASS ROOTS' PARLEY: Dissident Republicans Adopt Program, Plan Convention CHICAGO-(P)-A group of Republicans from 25 states, discon- tended with their party's policies, adopted a program yesterday and laid the groundwork for a later "grass-roots" convention. Fred A. Virkus of Chicago called the conference, contending the GOP needs revitalizing. The 105 attending all were either delegates or alternate delegates to the 1948 Republican National Convention. AFTER TWO DAYS of closed committee sessions, the dissident I Republicans: Recommended a labor policy based on the Taft-Hartley law. Urged a farm policy based on government purchases in the open market. Called for a Republican round- up, or grass-roots convention, be- fore the next elections. Represen- tatives of county GOP organiza- tions would be invited. * * * IN THEIR POLICY statement, the Republican group asserted, "There must be returned to the states the rights, privileges, and duties which have been MISSESS, MIZZES, MISS, MIZZ-MRS.: Expert Finds Ten Ways To Pronounce Madam i Good morning, Mrs. Cooper. based on the Field Records of "We don't care whether you~ the Linguistic Society's Atlas." pronounce that name 'Cawper,' 'Kuper,' or 'Kaaper.' 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