5,e m6c n 2 ai4 2/fA t6h L e MGadeAi ,4 e C/iit&maiad Jaapp f ew Y Latest Deadline in the State t _., :. "'- i ++ ' . v _ VOL. LIX, No. 74 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, DECEMBER, 17, 1948 PRICE FIVE CENTS Regents Will Consider Ban On Speakers SL, 'U' Senate Submit Proposals The Board of Regents will con- sider proposals on the political speakers ban at its monthly meet- ing today and tomorrow. Recommendations from the] Student Legislature and the fac- ulty Senate will be kept confiden- tial until the Regents have con- sidered them, according to spokes- men for the groups. "C A * BUT INFORMED sources have said both groups may ask for complete repeal of the controver- sial regulations which reads: "Speeches in support of par- ticular candidates of a political party or faction will not be per- mitted" on University property. President Alexander G. Ruth- ven said last night that the Re- gents may postpone a final de- cision on the rule until January, but will discuss it at this meet- ing. SL PRESIDENT Blair Moody said he and other members of the cabinet will not be called into the meeting. "We've submitted a written proposal, as the Regents re- quested," he said. From all indications the Board will make its decision at the Jan- uary meeting if not today or to- morrow, Moody added. * * * THE MEETING will climax a four-month drive for reconsidera- tion of the ban. Protests became vehement during the election campaign when campus political leaders blasted the ban as "restrictive" and said it was "hamstringing" student participation in polities. After a huge political discussion on the Diagonal was declared pro- hibited under the rule, the Uni- versity Senate voted for appoint- ment of the committee which re- ported back Monday. * *C * AND AT THE same time plans were initiated for a student Forum organized along the lines of the Oxford Union debate system. SL leaders said, however, that they favored repeal of the political speakers ban too. Radio Berlin Reopens After French Blast BERLIN - UP) - French engi- neers blew up the giant transmis- sion towers of Radio Berlin yes- terday but only silenced tempo- rarily Soviet Russia's most powerful, voice in Germany. Twelve hours after dynamite brought the two tall . towers crashing to earth in the French Sector Soviet commentator Heinz Schmidt was back on the air on the same wave length and appar- ently with the same broadcasting power. RADIO BERLIN'S personnel refused to say how they managed it, but German engineers said they . might - be using another tower at Potsdam. Schmidt told his radio audi- ence the day-long interruption of powerful Soviet broadcasting was caused by an "order from Washington," not by the French. The French said they blew up the towers in their sector because they menaced American and British planes flying into nearby Tegel Airfield. It took an hour and forty-five minutes to carry out the job. The towers - used before Germany's defeat to transmit the propa- ganda of Hitler, Goebbels and other Nazi leaders-were 262 and 393 feet high, respectively. Student Injured As Car Hits Bike Or-. IX TT-ie IM ciifa Holiday Exodus To BeginToday Students will disappear from campus today with the evacuation- precision of another Dunkirk. Transportation facilities have been hurriedly mobilized to meet the annual Christmas vacation rush and with the weatherman lolling on the sunny side of the street, the exodus promised to be a painless one. TAXICAB SERVICE is expected to be excellent-"unless weather conditions make driving difficult," cab managers reported. However, Willow Run Weather Bureau experts have reversed earlier rain and snow forecasts in favor of "two or three days of pretty fair weather." Temperature will drop to 25 degrees and the sky will be ribboned with a few clouds. Although reservations for special busses have been closed, com- pany officials promise extra coaches on runs to Detroit, Chicago, To- ledo, Flint, Bay City and Lansing. University automobile regulations will be lifted at noon today for the duration of the holidays according to John twin of the Office of Student Affairs. STUDENTS HAVE long since snapped up all reservations on DRIVING BAN-off at noon - * - * * * trains leaving the city today and ticket windows are expected to be jammed with students hoping to catch a seat on the run, ticket man- agers reported. NYC will have a Chicago-bound special scheduled for 1:05 p.m. and an eastbound train leaving at 3:10 p.m. to help empty the campus. Many students without specific transportation plans expect to take to the open roads. With driving conditions good and University auto restrictions temporarily suspended, hitch-hiking is expected to be excellent. e xe .* * * * VACATION WILL ,FIND students dividing their time between Christmas dinners and other pursuits. Some will hold down part time jobs, others-bothered by their consciences-will brush up on .courses they neglected during the fall. But most will relax and enjoy a well-earned holiday away from the rigidity of classroom schedules and "inconvenient late hours and bans of one sort or another." However-Come Jan. 3: business as usual. *- * *' *A Ann Arbor To Become Ghost Town as Yule Holidays Begin ' Pucksters Hammer Toronto In North American Title Race n Hiss Denies Perjury Guilt In SpyCase House Accused of Ruin of Film Roll NEW YORK-UP)-Alger Hiss has formally pleaded innocent to perjury charges. At the same time, a Justice Department official claimed the House Un-American Activities Committee may have bungled a chance to indict a war- time spy ring. Hiss, onetime high - ranking State Department official, spoke out in loud, clear tones-"I plead not guilty to both counts"-at his arraignment. He had been accused of lying when he testified he had not made secret papers available to unauthorized peersons. THE JUSTICE Department of- ficial, who would not permit use of his name, told newsmen a House committee investigator had ruined one roll of films of vital government documents. This occurred, the official said, as the roll was being re- moved from a hollow pumpkin on Whittaker Chambers' Mary- land farm. "So far the FBI has been un- able to produce what was on the (one roll of) film," the official said. "The bungling amateur in- vestigator-and I use the word adviedly-may have prevented the possible indictment of an en- tire wartime espionage ring." * * * HOWEVER, the House commit- tee angrily retorted in a Wash- ington statement a short while later that the Justice Department spokesman's assertion was a "pat- ent fabrication" and a "vicious, sneak attack." Amid this exchange, U.S. Attor- ney John F. X. McGohey an- nounced that a subcommittee of the House group would hold a hearing at the Federal Courthouse -where the Federal grand jury sits here-and in Washington Rep. Mundt (Rep., S.D.), acting com- mittee chairman, said Rep. Mc- Dowell (Rep., Pa.) would ques- tion witnesses. Med School Gets P$32,100 Federal Grant The University medical school received a grant of $32,100 yester- day from the Federal Govern- ment to develop and expand psy- chiatric training for undergradu- ate medical students, it was an- nounced last night in Washing- ton, D.C. The grant to the University was one of 42 such allotments of Fed- eral funds totaling $1,498,333 to medical schools in various parts of the country. * * * DR. RAYMOND W. Waggoner, chairman of the University medi- cal school's psychiatry depart- ment and director of the Neuro- Psychiatric Institute here, said the University's grant will be used to hire an additional assist- ant professor and instructor in psychiatry. No provisions for student fel- lowships are made in the grant. Funds for the program will be spread over a three year period, with the first allotment becoming available for the 1949-50 school year. December Technic Sale Ens Todav WAITING-Pictured above are two impatient Christmas gifts. They just couldn't wait until Dee- cember 25 before making public appearances. The creature on the right is going to a psychologist, while his friend will be presented to a restaurant owner. The Post Office has requested that such gifts be delivered in person rather than through the mails. Marines Will Protect U.S. ]Lives in China American Support Denied ToChiang WASHINGTON - (A) - The United States served notice that American Marines at Shanghai Will protect American lives but will not take sides in the Chinese Civil War. This government thus erected another barrier against involve- ment in the conflict in which Gen- eralissimo Chian Kai-Shek has appealed, thus far futilely, for in- creased American aid. THE STATE DEPARTMENT re- affirmed its policy of political neutrality with respect to reported negotiations in Nanking for the formation of a coalitionChinese government which would replace Chiang's regime. The implication was that this government would not make any move to help keep the Generalissimo in power. Meanwhile on the Nanking front government counter-at- tacks outside the walls of be- leaguered Peiping and conflict- ing announcements over the es- cape or destruction of a trapped army group northwest of Nan- king featured rumor-wild Chi- nese war news.- Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek remained secluded. A reliable source said he was studying sug- gestions that he step aside to per- mit negotiations with the rampant Communists, but nothing had de- veloped. NEWSPAPERS, especially in Shanghai, bannered all day yes- terday that Communists had cap- tured Peiping and the northern commander, Gen. Fu Tso-Yi. In a dispatch timed at 7 p.m. General Fu's headquarters an- nounced successful counterattacks just outside the Pieping walls, denying the surrender. Points three and one-half to six miles outside Peiping were listed as re- captured, including the damaged electric power plant for dark Pei- ping. U.S. GREETINGS: Loaded Trains Assure Happy Yule Overseas DAYTON, O.-(P)-Americans laden with food and the Yuletide spirit have flooded Christmas trains with gifts for 43 nations. Officials of Christian Rural Overseas Program said the outpour- ing of national generosity was so great that in many states trains must now be split into sections. * * * * CONTIBUTIONS ARE COMING IN from areas where formal organizations had not been set up to handle the gifts. Small quan- tities of such wide variety of commodities have been contributed that processing is necessary before trains can be assembled. Original plans called for state dedications of a crop train prior to Christmas and another c dedication Christmas Day at the port of departure. Prced et RIenen 1 I By DOLORES PALANKER and JIM BROWN Ann Arbor becomes just an- other ghost town when University -tudents scatter for the Christ- mas holiday. According to a Daily survey of Ann Arbor merchants and Uni- versity officials, the old town just isn't the same place. LOCAL EATING establishp- mients, in general, will be closed down for at least part of the va- vation. The manager of one popular coffee spot, describing the "dead" atmosphere of Cam- pus Town, said, "It's senseless to stay open.' After a month of frayed nerves and greying hair, har- ried post office officials antici- pate a sudden drop in the vol- ume of mail next Thursday. With their facilities pushed to capacity by the Christmas rush, they especially look forward to a decrease in the number of laun- dry cases in the mail-the first indication of the post-Christmas slump. LOCAL PUB owners report that although there will be a vastly different atmosphere with the departure of the students, the townspeople will then have a chance to enjoy the Ann Arbor high spots. Clinton E. Castor, owner of the students' favorite beer haunt, commented on the ap- parent lack of Christmas spir- its. "Students just have too many blue books and when they return after vacation, they will have exams to worry about." In the students' absence, resi- dence halls will get a thorough cleaning and dieticians, after five-day vacations, will take in- ventory and plan menues for next semester. Approximately 29 women stu- dents, mostly from foreign coun- tries, will spend the vacation at Helen Newberry and about 50 men students, including 13 Latin- Americans, will live at Allen- Rumsey in West Quad. No meals will be served, but it is hoped the townspeople will invite them into their homes for dinners. Crop officials said the big dona- tions have delayed the schedules and will make it necessary in many instances to ship a compar- atively small number of cars from half a dozen points in a state in- stead of assembling them into one large train. * * * SPONSORS said a total of 2,000 carloads still is expected, with corn leading the contributions and wheat and soy beans following in order. Each state has planned one or more dedication services as its train is assembled for movement to a port. Then simultaneous ded- ications will be held Christmas Day at each of the ports from where relief goods will be shipped overseas. French .delay PreaceTreaty FRANKFORT, Germany -(I -The French have blocked com- pletion of an occupation statute which would serve as an interim peace treaty for Western Ger- many. Reliable sources in Paris mean- while, report that France is con- sidering sending a "Mission to Washington" to discuss impor- tant issues such as control of the Ruhr, France's economic ills and need for dollars, and the project- ed Atlantic Defense Pact. Of Labor Law Taft-Hartley 'Dead Duck' Says Morse WASHINGTON - OP) - Sena- tor Morse (Rep., Ore.) says the Taft-Hartley Labor Act is a "dead duck." He made' his comment as the CIO invited the American Feder- ation of Labor and the Railroad Brotherhoods to join in a united front for repeal of the law in the new Congress.' HE PREDICTED that the "real fight" over labor laws in the next Congress will center up revising of the original National Labor Relations or Wagner Act. "We want to make sure that the Legislature pendulum does not this time swing too far in the opposite direction," he said. Morse was one of three Re- publican senators who voted against passage of the Taft- Hartley Act and then supported President Truman's futile veto of it. CIO appeal for a united front was made by its president, Philip Murray. He wrote to the heads of the AFL and Independent Rail- road unions urging an early con- ference "for the purpose of coor- dinating our efforts in support of a common program of legislative measures." Celley, Gacek Pace Victors In 12- Rout Canadian Defeat Worst of Series (Special to The Daily) CHICAGO - Michigan's hockey team virtually tore the roof off the Chicago Stadium last night as it completely outclassed the University of Toronto sextet, 12- The Wolverines never looked better as they rolled up the larg- est score of the 13-game series between the two schools and won the William Thompson Memorial Trophy for the second straight year. IN TURNING IN the victory, Michigan gained the edge in the battle for the mythical North American title. The two teams meet again tonight in Ann Arbor. Six Wolverines figured in the scoring with both Neil Celey and Wally Gacek turning in the "hat trick." Celley with four goals and two assists led the Michigan point getters. Al Renfrew tallied twice for Michigan and Gill Burford, Wally Grant and Sam Stedman each got one goal. MICHIGAN could do no wrong. Their passing was brilliant ant, their defense was outstanding. Both goalie Jack McDonald and Paul Milanowski, who replaced him in the cage halfway in the third period looked especially good. McDonald was at his best when the Wolverines were short- handed and made several sensa- tional saves. The first period proved to be Toronto's undoing as the Maize and Blue pucksters lit the red light seven times. Grant started the parade almost as soon as the game began, with a goal from Celley and Burford at 0:57. Toronto's defense couldn't stop the Michigan powerhouse and be- fore the five minute mark had been reached, the Wolverines had tallied three more times. Ren- frew tallied from Gordie McMil- lan and Gacek at 2:07, Gacek from McMillan at 3:48 and Bur- ford from Grant and Celley at 4:37. * * * CELLEY NOTCHED two quick tallies half way in the period, scoring at 9:21 and 10:10, assists going to Grant and Starrak. Sixteen seconds later, To- ronto got its onlygoal, when Dick Howson tallied on a pass from his brother Don. See CELLEY, Page 3 'Ensian Photo Contest Gets New Deadline Pictures students will take dur- ing the Christmas vacations now have a chance of appearing in the 1949 Michiganensian. This was made possible by ex- tension of the 'Ensian photog- raphy contest, which was an- nounced yesterday. The deadline was advanced to Jan. 14, 1949. BILL OSTERMAN, 'Ensian as- sistant promotions manager, made the announcement of the exten- sion at the request of Alex Lman- ian. Lmaian, who is the Michi- ganensian photography editor, said he asked for the postpone- ment of the contest so that in- terested students could devote more time to the pictures they are taking, and take more of them. He added the request that pho- 'THOROUGHBRED' CARS: 'U' Grad's UniqueAds Attract Public World News At A Glance TEL AVIV, Israel - (P) - A proposed constitution for the new state of Israel is expected to be published next week, it was learned today. Then it will be handed by a constitutional parliamentary com- mittee to the Israeli Constituent Assembly which will be chosen in nationwide elections Jan. 25. * * * I * * * "1940 Studebaker Champion 2- door sedan. Dandruff Grey. Radio and heater. Good engine. Phil Hanson was almost killed last week when the brakes failed." With ads like this in The Daily Classifieds, Phil Hanson, energetic University graduate, has built up a promising business in used cars in Ann Arbor. "I am actually building up a following." The ads have had such results that a national advertising agency has contacted Hanson and wants to print them in its monthly mag- azine as an example of what can be done. Hanson figured out the dif- ferent advertising campaign as a DURING THE WAR Hanson was an armored corps officer and attended several automotive me- chanics schools where he learned the engineering side. Oddly enough, he majored in history and' geography at Michigan. The used car business is a hard one for one man to handle