SL AMENDMENT See Page 4 Y Swt... Latest Deadline in the State t Ily CLOUDY, WARMER VOL. LIX, No. 136 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 1949 PRICE FIVE CENTS U.S. Action Easter Sunday Spirit Infects Campus Frees Vraz From Reds Tension Eased By Official Move PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia - (A') -In a move officially described as intended to better Czechoslovak- American relations, the Czecho- slovaks freed Vlasta Vraz yester- day. The United States had protest- ed sharply against the secret ar- rest of Miss Vraz Saturday, de- manded her release, and asked to be informed of the "specific char- ges, if any." * * * - ZDENEK Fierlinger, acting for- eign minister, told U.S. Ambassa- dor Joseph E. Jacobs yesterday that Miss Vraz had been accused of complicity with persons plot- ting against the Communist gov- ernment. Fierlinger disclosed that Pres- ident Klement Gottwald had re- ceived a telegram from Rep. Adolph J. Sabath (Dem., Ill.), who was born in Czechoslovakia, asking for the release of Miss -Vraz. The acting foreign min- ister said he knew Sabath and indicated the telegram had been partly the cause for the speed with which she was freed. Fierlinger also told Ambassador Jacobs that a formal answer to the American note on the Vraz case will be delivered next week. * * * AFTER BEING held incom- municado for three days, Miss Vraz told a U.S. consular repre- sentative that she thought she was detained for an investigation into the political activities of others. Nervous after a week in prison, Miss Vraz said she plans to leave the country as soon as she can close the Prague office through which she distributed more than $4,000,000 in Americal relief sup- plies for Czechoslovakia since 1945. Released unconditionally, she went to the American embassy, where she met consular officials who escorted her home. Because of her nervousness, embassy per- sonnel advised her not to talk to interviewers. Students Hit High Living Costs Here Approximately 72 per cent of the students questioned in an in- formal Daily opinion poll think costs of living in Ann Arbor are high, and many of them made caustic comments about the prices set by local businessmen. Meanwhile, slightly less than 100 students have joined Club 211. which will serve 19 meals per week for $9.50 starting tomorrow. * * * THE SURVEY, which does not claim to be scientific, drew re- sponses from 237 students. An analysis of the statistics reveals that 77 per cent said food prices are high, 61 per cent felt the same way about rents, and 79 per cent called clothing prices excessive. Less than two per cent think food prices are low; approximate- ly five per cent think rents are low; and only one per cent think clothing prices are low. Of those who think rents arc low or normal, 54 per cent live in University dormitories, while only 42 per cent of the students polled live in dormitories. THE EATING CLUB, which needs 300 members, will open its doors tomorrow in a State Street cafeteria. Students can buy meal tickets for the week then, accord- ing to Mel Bondy, Grad., one of the organizers of the club. "It is the students' responsi- bility to combat high prices," he said. The eating club was mentioned by several students in The Daily's survey; one of them said it is "a way to beat high prices.'" * * * OTHER COMMENTS were di- rected against local merchants who were charged with monopolis- Rain To Dampen Hope for 8,500 Election Turnout Initelsive Campaign on Campus Narilg Climax for 116 Politicos Weathermen put a damper on hopes for a heavy voter turnout Tuesday and Wednesday for the campus elections. - Forecasters predicted showers for late Tuesday which they said may last most of Wednesday. STUDENT LEGISLATURE officials had hoped for an 8,500 turn- out-largest in history-on the basis of intensive campaigns being waged by 116 student politicians. Sixty-one are competing for 25 SL seats. Seventeen seek four literary college senior class positions. Sixteen are battling for six Michigan Union vice presidencies and 22 are fighting for positions in engineering classes. O With or without rain, students Wiho ihu an dnswill line up from 8 a.m to 5 p.m.Se a o a at voting both ath inee at rCa l Arch, Diag, behind Haven Hall, Alumni Memorial Hall, Union lobby and the Bus. Ad. Building, Manning the booths will be fcorps of student volunteers from eight organizations. tThey are: Alpha Phi Omega, Inter- Fraternity. Council, Association ? Daiy-Lmanian EASTER IN ANN ARBOR--After attending joyful church services this morning (lower left) in celebrationof Christ's resurrection 2,000 years ago, students stepped out in new spring finery to join the Easter Parade along the Diag (upper right). Some of the coeds, like Turry Welden (upper left) received corsages from attentive males. Typical of the couples who strolled along State St. to admire merchant's Easter displays were Jim Lorenz and Mary Burton (lower right). __<-I . Revived Drama Festival To Feature Galaxy of Stars After an absence of six years, Ann Arbor's famous drama festi- val will return to Lydia Mendels- 3ohn Theatre this year with a five week season stretching from May 9 to June 11. Distinguished by five outstand- .ng plays, the Festival will bring to Ann Arbor such brilliant stars if stage and screen as Basil Rath- bone and Martha Scott. * *, * "AH WILDERNESS" the only 2omedy from the master pen of Eugene O'Neill, will open the sea- son May 9. It will be followed by "Twelfth Night" on May 17, "Night Must Fall" May 24 and "As You Desire Me" May 31. "The Heiress," based on the novel "Washington Square" by Henry James, will open June 7 Lie Reveals Syria Truce With Israel LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y. - (P) - Secretary-General Trygve Lie an- nounced last night that Israel and Syria have signed a cease-fire agreement as a preliminary to further armistice negotiations. Meanwhile, troops still guarded the way to the Holy Sepulchre in the old city of Jerusalem. Mili- tary authorities, however, made special arrangements for Chris- tians to cross the lines to attend an Easter mass in the historic and conclude the 1949 season with its last performance on June 11. Valentine Windt, who was di- rector for the Ann Arbor Drama Season the three years preceding its war-time interruption in 1943, will again be director this year. * * * COUNTER SALES of tickets will open Thursday in the Garden Room of the League. Mail orders will be filled in the order re- ceived any time before then. Since it was first produced with George M. Cohan in the leading role, "Ah, Wilderness" has returned again and again to Broadway. The Ann Arbor production will star Ernest Truex, his wife Sylvia Field and their young son, Barry. Arnold Moss and Frances Reid will head the cast of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," and Lucille Wat- son and Donald Buka will star in "Night Must Fall," the spine- tingling melodrama by Emlyn Williams. * * * Marta Abba, the famous Italian See FESTIVAL, Page 3 World News Round- Up By The Associated Press SALMON BEACUa, Wash.-An earthquake-loosened side of a cliff broke loose and roared past this community yesterday morning, threatening the safety of the in- habitants of its 108 homes. BERLIN-Allied fliers shat- tered all Berlin airlift records yesterday and said they proved that combat divisions could be completely supplied by air alone. NANKING-Communist insist- ence on military bridgeheads on the south bank of the Yangtze River was reported yesterday to have thrown a new hitch into Chinese peace talks. * * * WASHINGTON-Rep. Lesin- ski (D.-Mich.) declared that a new Republican - backed labor law compromise proposal "is a sham that actually would toughen the Taft-Hartley Act." * * * DETROIT-A strike threat at the Ford Rouge plant was rein- forced with a union decision to poll 65,000 workers next week on a walkout. By FRAN IVICK While coeds read weather re- ports and envisioned an Easter Parade down State Street in ga- loshes, optimistic men at the Uni- versity went right ahead sending flowers and candy, and homesick students prepared Easter eggs over makeshift dormitory hot- plates. * * * MORE travel-minded students took a look at the dreary, snow- covered ground Friday, and doubled train traffic as they went home to spend Easter with the folks. This year's Easter Parade will be the best dressed ever, with better quality spring frou-frou being bought up at a cost about 20 per cent less than last year's, the nation's garment-makers declared. But the finery is geared to warm breezes, and Ann Arborites will probably have grim going in their light clothes. * * * THE AVENUE will probably look like a WAVE parade is pass- State Street Easter Parade Highlights Holiday Festivity ing by, as the majority of women's Easter outfits have as their main- stay sleek navy blue suits topped off by beige or navy bonnets. Despite the long Easter build- up, late-shoppers were still bumping and buffeting one an- other in local stores yesterday, with the most care and crowd- ing in the hat departments. Spring finery wasn't the only concern in Ann Arbor, where flor- ist store personnel are spending the day recuperating for a return to normal business after the ex- haustive trade of the past few days. * * , CANDY STORES bore their share of the load, with business more than quadrupled in the pre- Easter rush. Having sold most of its four-pound chocolate eggs, one establishment is preparing to melt down a-$50, 72-pound solid choc- olate bunny it had put in its win- dow display. Meanwhile, to give the Easter aura to their living places, many students bought stuffed rabbits or bunny balloons to brighten up their rooms. The more ingenious took to dye- ing eggs and holding egg-rolls be- fore church this morning. But the college students' touch was evi- dent even in these holdovers from childhood. COEDS OOOHED in childish delight at their eggs, many of which sported weird surrealist pat- terns--one end of the eggs done in misty chartreuse, the other dyed mauve with angnlar lines passing through both. Most of the girls at Martha Cook were content with mere of independent Men, Pan Het, Assembly, Union, League and Couzen's Hall women. Voters will be required to show their ID cards and a transcript of their scholastic records if their class is not shown on the card. A special page of candidate's statements and vital election in- formation will appear in Tues- day's Daily. Transcripts will be available at the Offices of Dean Mary C. Brom- age, Rm. 1514 Administration Building, for women; and Dean Erich A. Walter, Rm. 1010 Admin- istration Building, for men. * * * MEANWHILE, on a poster- splashed campus, politicos went into the stretch drive to pick up the last-minute votes which could decide the races. Meetings and openhouses scheduled tomorrow will keep them running from early after- noon until late evening. AVC has planed an all-campus rally at 3 p.m. tomorrow, in the See ELECTIONS, Page 3 ' Democratic, A libi Tactic Draws Fire WASHINGTON -- (P), - Re- publican Chairman Hugh D. Scott, Jr., accused the Democrats today of using "cry baby" alibis for Congress' failure thus far to complete much of President Tru- man's legislative program. Senator Sparkman (D-Ala.) said Scott is talking too soon and the 81st Congress will end "with an excellent job done." * * * SCOTT SAID: "The Truman administration leaders on Capitol Hill are giving a perfect imper- sonation of the youthful bully who runs home to mama." Noting that Democrats con- trol both houses, the GOP Na- tional chairman said in his statement that if the opposition party could agree on a program it could pass it without any Re- publican help. Scott charged that Democratic leaders "know they can't get more than a very small part of the Tru- man 'promise - the - world - with- fence-around-it' program through Congress" and are holding im- portant bills in committees. Sparkman told a reporter he doesn't think the Republicans can dodge responsibility for taking up most of the time in Senate debate. Wally Beery Dead at 64 BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.-()- Wallace Beery, the movies' lovable rascal with the gravelly voice and squash-like puss, is dead. He slumped to his living room WASHINGTON - () - Sena- for McCarran (D.-Nev.) charged today that the State Department's division of Far Eastern Affairs is "definitely soft to Communist Russia." He made the charge in a state- ment accusing the State Depart- ment of opposing "even the sug- gestion of any aid to fight the ris- ing tide of Communism in Asia," * * * McCARRAN is the author of a bill to authorize a $1,500,000,000 loan to help the Chinese Nation- alist Government fight the Chi- nese Communists. Secretary of State Acheson condemned the proposal in a letter to Chairman Connally (D.-Te.) of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Acheson said it would involve thisr 3ow try in an undertaking of such magnitude it "would almost surely be catastrophic." Senator Bridges (R.-N.H.) ex- pressed strong resentment over Acheson's attitude and said Con- gress ought to make a complete investigation of the State Depart- ment's treatment of Chinese af- fairs. MVcCarran said, "when our own State Department peddles the Communistic propaganda line, as in the case of the Department's assertion that Mao Tse-Tung, the Chinese Communist leader, is not a real Communist, it is time some- thing was done about it," Turning to Acheson's letter;,he described it as "both inaccurate and misleading." MoCarran took particular exception to the cabinet officer's statement that American aid to China since V-J Day has totaled more than $2,000,000,000. Ousted Red Professor Will Speak.Today Prof. Herbert J. Philipps, recent- ly dismissed from the University of Washington because of "ad- mitted membership in the Com- munist Party," will speak at 4 pm. todayin the Union. Under the sponsorship of the Young Progressives, Prof. Philipps will discuss the "Freedom of the University Professor." PROF. PHILIPPS, and two other Washington professors dismissed on similar charges, are presently touring the country to present their case. The American Association-of College Professors and other civ- Ipil liberties groups are investi- gating the dismissals, according to Gordon MacDougall, president of the Young Progressives. The dismissals set off a nation- wide controversy regarding the aptness of Communist Party mem- bers to hold teaching posts. Prof. Philipps, who was in the philosophy department, had taught at the University of Washington for more than 20 years, and was dimid 1bydeciion of a seven COOLEY LECTURER: Prof. Chafee To Treat Equity * * * Tomorrow the University plays host to one of the "big names" in the legal profession when Prof. Zechariah Chafee, Jr., delivers the first of the Thomas M. Cooley law lectures at 4:15 p.m. in Hutchins Hall. himself to domestic problems, Prof. Chafee was a member of the United Nations Conference on Freedom of Information in 1948. At present he is further- ing the cause of free speech as a member of the UN Sub-Com- I ~