EXAMINATION SCHEDULE A6F 4:3zti4 . i 1, - ; f .^- .._ . See Page 4 Latest Deadline in the State VOL. LIX, No. 142 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 1949 SCATTERED SHOWERS PRICE FIVE CENTS 'M' Batsmen Find Missing Eyes,Win8-3 Indiana Victim Of Ten Hit Attack By SY SONKIN Michigan's batters, shackled in their last three games, broke loose yesterday for 10 hits, and romped to an 8-3 victory over Indiana. It was the Maize and Blue base- iall squad's first Conference win .his year. * * * THE PLAYERS on both sides were hampered in both hitting and fielding by a strong wind which blew across the diamond. Many times during the con- test a batter stepped out of the box and held up play because the wind was kicking upsand. In addition, the gale Wlaved havoc with a couple of balls that seemed ticketed for extra bases. BOB WOLFF clubbed a long one down' the left field line in the first inning that was pulled only inches foul and would have been a triple had the wind not caught the ball. Then in the top of the second, Hoosier centerfielder Bob Moore got hold of one of Smith's slants, but the gale held it up until rightfielder Hal Morrill could get under it. The Wolverines started the scor- ing in the first inning when they pushed over three runs on two hits, a pair of bases on balls and an error. * * * LEAD OFF MAN Willard Baker drew the first pass, and Bob Bucholz, trying to sacrifice Baker to second, beat out a bunt down the third-base line. Centerfielder Ralph Morrison also tried to sacrifice, but both attempts went foul and he worker hurler Don Colnitis for a pass, to load the sacks., Hal Morrill grounded to first- baseman Tex Ritter who threw the ball to catcher Tom Birko, but Birko dropped the toss and everyone was safe, with Baker crossing the plate. * * * THEN TED KOBRIN slapped a single into center field to send Bucholz and Morrison scampering across and putting Morrill on sec- ond. Jack McDonald, attempting to sacrifice his mates along, bunt- ed a pop fly to Colnitis, who See STRONG, page 2 Peace Parley Cheers Reds As Liberitors PARIS--(P)-The loudest cheers of the four-day-old World Peace Congress were given yesterday at the announcement of a Commu- nist war victory in China. The delegates sat in stunned silence earlier when one speaker criticized "proletarian bureau- crats" and mixed boos with cat- calls when an American, 0. John Rogge, said Russia lacks political freedom. THEY GOT THEIR first shock when Harvey Moore, a British lawyer told them, they could not be for war and peace at the same time and that: "Proletarian bureaucrats as well as bourgeois bureaucrats will have to learn that people want freedom of the individual, freedom of speech, freedom of elections and freedom to change their government if they want to." When the delegates sat silent, Moore demanded, "where are your cheers?" HE GOT A FEW then, and went on with the comment: "I rejoice to see so many Com- munists here advocating peace. It is a great step forward. If you are sincere, you cannot want war. "Do not deceive yourselves. You cannot be for war (in China) and peace at the same time," the Briton exclaimed. 'Ut'Featured In Auew uLook' A ten page picture story on the Red Teaching Poll Splits 'U' Faculty By PHIL DAWSON Faculty opinion in a Daily postcard survey was almost evenly di- vided on the State Legislature bill to bar Communists and ex-Commu- nists from teaching in Michigan schools and colleges. Slightly more than one-third of those polled-339 faculty members -returned answers. Of these, 52 per cent were against the proposal, 41 per cent in favor and seven per cent were in favor but wanted it to apply only to present members of the Party. THE PROPOSED LAW, now in the State Senate Committee on Education, consists of one sentence. "No past or present member of the Communist Party shall be employed as a teacher in any school, college or university in the State of Michigan." (Students voted on the bill in a referendum at the campus-wide elections Tuesday and Wednesday, opposing it 3,329 to 2,547--of those voting, approximately 55 per cent against to 45 per cent in favor.) FACULTY COMMENT in the survey ranged from "Communists ought to be deported" to "(the bill is) perfectly asinine." In favor of the bill, faculty members made these points: Membership in the Communist Party prevents free thought; Com- munists are agents of a foreign power; those who would destroy free- dom should not be allowed to work against it in the schools. -.* * * * i OBJECTIONS to the bill were that: There are other dogmatic positions that also restrict the free search for truth; Communism will be defeated only in free compe- tition with democratic ideas. Communist Party membership does not necessarily disqualify a teacher-it is an individual matter; the measure would be difficult to enforce without turning into a witch-hunt; it is not the Legslature's business. Half of those against and one-third of those in favor of the bill made comments of which typical examples follow. PRO. "There is no such thing as freedom of intellect in the Communist Party." "Members of the Communist Party owe their loyalty to Russia and they would forcefully impose a dictatorship if they could upon See PENDING, Page 6 GIRLS IMPRESSED: High School Musicians Converge on' U' Campu s Building of Navy's New Ship Stops Johnson Orders Navy Halt Work WASHINGTON - (A)-A terse and crisply-worded order from De- fense Secretary Johnson yesterday ended the Navy's building of a colossal aircraft carrier whose planes could have engaged in stra- tegic bombing with atomic weap- ons. Johnson, after consulting with President Truman and the joint chiefs of staff, directed Navy Sec- retary Sullivan to order his de- partment to discontinue construc- tion of the 65,000-ton, $189,000,- 000 carrier "at once." THE KEEL of the carrier was laid only last Monday in the yards of the Virginia firm which had the contract, the Newport News Shipbuilding Corp. Johnson's order constituted a victory of the first magnitude for the Air Force in its long dispute with the Navy over what targets naval aircraft should at- tack in a war. Reduced to its simplest form, the question was: Should the Navy be allowed to build a carrier so big that heavy, small-range bombers could be launched from its flight deck to attack cities and factories? This, the Air Force had contended, was strategic bombing which should be done by the far- reaching, land-based bombers of the USAF such as the B-36, the B-50 and B-29. Nanking Taken by Reds As British Action Loomsi Coiniiunists * * 0 By JO MISNER Close to 5,000 high school mu- sicians blew their own horns in Ann Arbor yesterday and then cast a critical eye about the Uni- versity campus. Most feminine members of the 51 bands and 14 orchestras brought to the University yester- day for the State Band and Or- chestra Festival were highly im- pressed with the University. They typically described the campus as "beautiful" and expressed a keen interest in Michigan men. THE BOYS were a bit more caustic. Some of them said they prefe rred Michigan State. "The coeds here are o.k. I'd go out with one if she had a Cadillac and plenty of money," one of the boys commented. Most of the youthful per- Offer Lecture Oan Infant CArte Dr. Ralph M. Patterson, Uni- versity professor of psychiatry, will speak to students on "The Social and Emotional Relations of Parents and Children," 8 p.m. Tuesday in Rackham Lecture Hall. The lecture will be the last in a series on infant care and psy- chology, supplementing the mar- riage lecture series. Admission is free to all students. formers held the same opinion about the University Marching Band. They seem to look upon it as the "world's greatest" and those who plan to come to Michigan want to be in it. Many of the high school bands imitate Michigan formations dur- ing marching season. "Wte tried their high step in our band," one said. "But it didn't work. Every-f body got out of step-except me." AFTER COMPLETING their performances in Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor High School and Slau- son Junior High, many of the studentamusicians took seats in the auditoriums and listened tensely to their competitors. They also spent a good deal of time window shopping, ar- rayed in brightly colored uni- forms, many of them bearing medals enough for a Russian general. In the local five and ten-main headquarters for the visitors-they flocked appropri- ately to the counter bearing toy clarinets. "They sure had plenty of pep after the 300-mile trip down here," the Charlevoix band leader said. He'd had little difficulty getting the boys and girls back to the busses on time. "They know it's a long walk back," he remarked. The bus-drivers were generally less enthusiastic about toting the student musicians. "High school students are just children," one of the drivers commented. IN THE NAVY, there was a stunned and official silence. In the Air Force there was just silence. At Corpus Christi, Tex., Navy Secretary John L. Sullivan de- clined to say anything pending a study of the order. The new Defense Secretary had clamped a ban on comment by any high official of any of the armed forces regarding the carrier question. Even some of those no longer actively con- nected with the armed forces were silent. If the carrier United States had progressed beyond the few pieces of steel which have been laid for her keel, here is what she would have been: The biggest aircraft carrier in the world, with a flight deck 1,090 feet long, 190 feet wide, no "island" superstructure in her flush deck to obstruct the wings of big bombers landing and tak- ing off. Together with about half a doz- en other Navy warships, she would have been too wide to go through the present locks of the Panama Canal. The carrier could have been used for various combinations of planes, ranging from 120 fighters to 24 big bombers. Johnson's announcement gave no specific reason for ordering construction stopped. His decision was a reversal oT the opinion of former defense secretary For- restal who thought at least one of the huge carriers should be built to test its practicability. World News Round-Up By The Associated Press PARIS-About 9,600 Germans and 38 square miles of West Ger- many's frontier territory were taken over by four adjoining allied nations yesterday. The Netherlands, Belgium, France and Luxembourg occupied various small sectors. Most of the Germans in the affected areas accepted their new status with re- luctance, but resignation. * * * MT. CLEMENS-Former Gov. Kim Sigler today accepted a special prosecutor's assignment but disavowed any intention to make a comeback in politics. He was named by Circuit Judge Paul Cash of Alma to handle the state's bribery case { against Ivan A. Johnston, for- mer Macomb County prosecutor and State Senator. * * * BUCHAREST, Romania-Com- munihts apparently took another step today to strengthen the Com- inform wing in the party and the government. British Imply Force Backs China Charge Consul Demands Release of Ship SHANGHAI.-()- The British Consul General last night strongly implied that force would be used if necessary to rescue the sloop Amethyst and its 60 remaining personnel from a Chinese Commu- nist trap in the Yangtze River. The Communist radio in Peiping meanwhile charged that the four British ships shot up by the Reds since Wednesday were fired upon because they joined the National- ists in the war. * * * A BRITISH FOREIGN OFFICE spokesman in London indignantly denied this, stating the Amethyst and the others which vainly tried to rescue her "only fired in self- defense and did not fire until fired upon." This spokesman also said one of the British ships, the 10,000- ton cruiser London, was fired on by Nationalists as well as Com- munist Vrtillery. He did not elaborate on this. British sources in Shanghai previously had de- nied rumors of Nationalist firing. The death toll aboard the four British ships was officially put to- day at 43, instead of the previous 44. More than 80 British seamen were wounded, some of them criti- cally. The Communists said they themselves suffered 252 casualties. THE 1,375 - TON AMETHYST, first fired upon Wednesday morn- ing as she sought to reach Nan- king to supply and protect British embassy personnel, was still pin- ned in the river about 50 miles east of Nanking. Drama Critic To Give Two Lectures Here Macgowan Talks To Start Wednesday Kenneth Macgowan, movie pro- ducer, drama critic and head of the department of theatre arts at the University of California at Los Angeles, will give two public lectures Wednesday and Thurs- day. Macgowan's first lecture will be given at 4:15 p.m. Wednesday in Rackham Amphitheatre under the auspices of the Department of Fine Arts. His topic will be "Masks and Demons." * * * THE ORIGIN of the mask among primitive peoples and the growth of the primitive masked ritual into drama and theatre will be explained. Macgowan will il- lustrate the lecture. The second lecture, sponsored by the Art Cinema League, will be given at 4:15 p.m. Thursday in Rackham Lecture Hall on "The Screen-A Better Black- board." Macgowan, drama and motion picture critic for Boston, Philadel- phia and New York newspapers for several years after his gradua- tion from Harvard, became a theatrical producer in 1923 work- ing first with Eugene O'Neill and Robert Edmond Jones. In 1932 Macgowan went to Hol- lywood and spent 15 years there producing such films as 'Little Woman', 'Lifeboat' and 'The Story of Alexander Graham Bell'. Swarm on DAMAGED BRITISH CRUISER-This British cruiser London is shown at a wharf on the Whangpoo River in Shanghai, China, shortly before battle casualties were removed. It shows plainly shell marks on the hull and superstructure inflicted by Chinese Communist shore batteries during a running battle on the river. Some 15 were estimated dead and 23 wounded on the ship. Former Polish Official Reveals U.S. Spy Ring WASHINGTON.-( P)-The House Un-American Activities Com- mittee produced tonight documentary evidence and testimony under oath that the Polish embassy here has been a nest for spies. Twenty-seven documents and the testimony were supplied by Gen. Izyador Rudolf Modelski, a former embassy official whose ap- pointment backfired on Poland's Communist regime. * * * * THE TESTIMONY points to at least two espionage networks op- erating out of the embassy, one supposedly specializing in atomic secrets, the other branching into Canada and Mexico. Modelski's papers and what he said are included in an official committee report. It indicates that the Poles were after everything from humdrum economic figures to military super-secrets. His story told of a Russian spy master pulling the strings. Torn Cap ital Weak Defenses Peril Shanghai By The Associated Press SHANGHAI-Chinese Comasmu- nist troops today triumphantly oc cupied Nanking, reports filtering in from that Nationalist capital said. They had been waiting only for daylight to take possession of the city, lighted by a flaming water- front and torn by a day of looting and killing. THERE WAS nothing to stop them. The Nationalist Govern- ment had fled to Canton in the south. Communications with Nan- king ceased two hours before the prearranged entry. Shanghai, China's great port, was bare of troops. Its only appar- ent defense was a flimsy 35-mile wooden fe'nce studded with mud pillboxes. * * * BUT THE GARRISON com- mander vowed to defend the city "come what may." The U.S. Con- sul General warned 2,479 Amer- ican citizens to leave while they could. The Communists' Peiping ra- dio, in its first comment on the incident involving British war- ships on the Yangtze, charged British and Chinese warcraft with joining in an attack on Communist positions along the north bank of the river. The account said that 252 cas- aalties had been caused by the shelling of Communist positions and that the British government "should be fully responsible for the losses." * * * IN TOKYO General MacArthur today promised to help bring Americans out of China if neces- sary. In response to a question hand- ed in by the Associated Press, his headquarters said that MacAr- thur has assisted evacuation of Americannationals and is pre- pared to continue this assistance as necessary, upon request. AT LAKE SUCCESS, Britain's intelligence service was reported to have received copies of cap- tured papers showing the Soviet Union is aiding the Chinese Com- munists. The Chinese delegation met to consider the report. Such documents might lay the basis for an appeal to the United Nations. MEANWHILE in Washington the quick Communist sweep across the Yangtze convinced American military advisers yesterday that the Chinese Communists can seize Shanghai if they so desire with perhaps little fighting. However there is some official suspicion here that they may de- cide to bypass China's great port city and its teeming millions, ra- ther than assume the burden of its administration at this time. AFL Blasts New Measure As Obnoxious WASHINGTON-(P)-The AFL served notice on Congress yes- terday that it considers a coalition substitute for the Administration Labor Bill as obnoxious-or more so-than the Taft-Hartley Act which the unions want repealed. This blast at the bill sponsored by Rep. Wood (Dem., Ga.) with Republican backing came from George Meany, AFL secretary- treasurer, in a radio speech. AS HE DELIVERED IT, House members were straggling back to the Capital from a 10-day Easter S * * DURING THE WAR, Modelski was Undersecretary of War for the Polish Government exiled in Lon- don. He said he collected the doc- uments dealing with spying while he was military attache at the Washington, embassy from May, 1946, to last August. All along, he said, he coopera- ted with American military in- telligence and still is cooperating. The General related he walked out with the documents when he broke officially with the Red-dom- inated government in Warsaw. ''May ]Face BudgetSlice A million-dollar slash in the University's budget request to the state legislature seemed likely yes- terday. The budget, in the form of a bill, will be presented to the Legisla- ture tomorrow or Tuesday by Rep. Rollo G. Conlin, chairman of the House Ways and Means subcom- mittee considering the bill. While Conlin gave no specific figures on what the bill would spe- cifically ask for, it was learned that the University's original bid for a $12,500,000 operating budget for the fiscal year would be cut by about a million dollars. Michigan State College faces a proportionately equal slash in its budget request, it was further learned. Reds Caught Smuggling in BritishZone Berlin-(P)-The British caught the Russians trying to slip canal boat traffic through the counter- blockade of Berlin today. The outcome was that British Maj. Gen. G. K. Bourne sent an official protest to the Russians alleging a violation of the British zone. 4' * * THE BRITISH said this is what happened: Erich Froehlich of the British sector took his tugboat down the River Spree to the Soviet sector April 4 to pick up some materials for his boat. He was detained. On April 19 Froehlich was or- dered to tow three Soviet barges through British sector waters to Potsdam, in the Soviet sector. Armed Russian soldiers were placed on the barges, though it is against four-power agree- ments for armed soldiers to go into another sector. Froehlich engineered a break- down of his engine and had to be towed back from Potsdam. When he got opposite the Charlotten- burg locks in the British sector he cast off from the Russian- manned tug and shouted for Bri- tish police. CLOSE YOUR BOOKS: More Education You Get, Less Children You Have By FRAN IVICK The more education you get, the fewer children you'll have. For the degree-winners keep strict control over the number of children they have, whereas peo- ple who leave school earlier have their offspring freely, according co Prof. Byron 0. Hughes, of the education school. "Unfortunately, it is usually the most prolific who are the worst risks for parenthood from the standpoint of biology and their to reverse roles, because many off- spring of less intelligent parents are severe population liabilities. "Their parents show negli- gence, irresponsibility, have little control over themselves and the children have less. Providing for the lower grade mentality runs into a huge drain on the na- tional income. But it's not only a problem of childless marriages, he said. For the proportion of women who don't get husbands is much larger among those with advanced de- HOMEGROWN TALENT SHOW: Gulantics Revue Set for Tonight at Hill The Gulantics Revue to be staged at 7:30 p.m. today at many "firsts" will have another in this~ .'chnxxr ennnc'nrpH by ., *Ininnn give the audience a pre-show spar- k-pan rnit. therm 4i-n ~h-. mn-nd, ri'hn