PHOENIX MEETING See Page 4 Y 1Mt tan Latest Deadline in the State BIaii4 , 5 C' FAIR, WARMER VOL. LIX, No. 154 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, MAY 8, 1949 PRICE FIVE CENTS Illini Errors Help 'M' Cop Wild Contest Eighth Inning' Rally Wins, 8-6 By SY SONKIN An excellent job of relief hurling by Wolverine Ed Grenkowski com- bined with wildness on the part of the Ilinois pitchers and sloppy fielding by the Illini yesterday gave Michigan its second victory in as many days over Illinois, 8-6. It was Grenkowski's second tfrip to the mound in college play, and he limited the visitors to three hits and one base on balls after coming ia for starter Bob Hicks in the fourth frame. THE ILLINI started their scor- ing in the first inning when John Neal singled to drive in Glen Tru- gillo, who had walked. With one down in the second, Hicks walked John Gugala, who later tallied on Trugillo's single to center. Hicks was shelled from the mound in the fourth when the Illi- n staged a four-run uprising. THE MAIZE AND BLUE chuck- er passed Fred Ballantine to start the trouble. and then served up a double to Gus Skizas. Gugala was passed to load the sacks, and all the runners ad- vanced as Bill Buchoz threw out Horace Tangman Trugillo rapped his second straight single to drive in Skizas and Gugala, and Herb Plews fol- lowed with another one-bagger, sending Trugillo to third and Hicks to the shower, and bringing in Grenkowski. THE NEW HURIER forced third-sacker Hank Anderssohn, the first man to face him, to hit a double-play to second, but Buch- olz fumbled the ball an everyone was safe with Trugillo crossing the plate. But Grenkowski took matters Into his own hands, striking out Russ Steger, and then forcing Neal to ground out to second. In the fourth, Tangman walked Grenkowski and Ralph Morrison, and Bucholz came through with a single to drive Grenkowski across with the first Michigan marker. * * * LEO KOCESKI opened the next frame with a long homer to cen- ter. After getting rid of Jack Mi,- Dnald, Tangman walked Bob Wolff and Hal Raymond singled him to second. Grenkowski again worked Tangman for a pass, loading the bases, and Wolff ran across on Willard Baker's long fly. The Maize and Blue tied it up in the sixth without a hit. * * * TED KOBRIN walked with one See 'M' FIREMAN Page 6 Compromise On Problems In Indonesia BATAVIA, Java - (P) - The Dutch and Republican Indonesians agreed to a compromise program today to settle the Indonesian problem. The Indonesians agreed to or- der a stop to guerrilla warfare estimated to be taking 100 lives daily. THE DUTCH agreed to rees- tablish the Indonesian Republic in its Japanese capital, the resi- dency of Jogjakarta, an area 40 miles across. As soon as the republic is re- established, the Republicans said they would participate in a round table conference at The Hague for the purpose of speed- ing the "unoonditional transfer of real and complete sover- eignty" to a United States of Indonesia. The Dutch on Feb. 2, set mid- summer as a time target for the transfer of sovereignty. But to- day's agreement ,was nearly two months behind the Dutch sched- ule. THE TRANSFER would be ac- complished by the creation of a Cement Footprint? 'Oh No,' Says Smith By JANET WATTS "I definitely will not put my foot in fresh cement for any reason!" So stood Shirley Smith, vice-president emeritus and occasional author, as press agents left no stones unturned in their attempt to publicize his movie "It Happens Every Spring" Thursday at the Michi- gan Theatre. * * * SMITH, WHO will be honored at the world's first author's pre- miere, has been asked to leave his tracks in a block of fresh concrete -for posterity. "I'm embarrassed about the whole thing," he said. However, theatre officials are cementing down their plans. * * * * WALTER ROTH, of the building and grounds department has built a form for the block and Carleton Angell, University sculptor, will inscribe the block with a facsimile of Smith's signature, according to Gerry Hoag, manager of the Michigan Theatre. "Mr. Smith is a little reluctant but we'll get his footprint if we have to hog-tie him," Hoag declared. The stunt was the idea of several of Smith's long-time professor friends who wished to pay Smith a sincere tribute, Hoag said. "THE ORIGINAL IDEA was simply to honor Smith, but this whole thing has snowballed into tremendous proportions over-night. More than 25 Detroit newsmen and Movietone Newsreel will be here. And even Life magazine has shown signs of interest," Hoag declared. Plans have been made to place the tablet on display directly in front of the theatre for the week following the premiere. Premiere tickets will go on sale at 11 a.m. tomorrow at the Michigan Theatre box office. They will be sold on a reserved seat basis. Two tickets will be allowed to each purchaser, Hoag announced. * * * * MAYOR WILLIAM BROWN has proclaimed Thursday as "Shirley Smith Day." ' Meanwhile, Mr. Smith looks on the whole thing as a "lot of silly hullabaloo." But he admitted that he'll be at the theatre Thursday night for the premiere celebration. HEADED FOR DETROIT: SatWieSearch for Missing Student Bfegins Contact With Strategic Rail City Broken shangha t'ops Still Holding Out SHANGHAI-(/P)-All commun- ications have been lost with Kash- ing, strategic rail city 62 miles southwest of Shanghai,san official announcement said yesterday. Only a few hours before, the government reported repelling the reds at the Kashing airport. ** * THE COMMUNISTS, in a broadcast last night, announced capture of a town 33 miles north of Tsingtao in a drive aimed at that anchorage of the U.S. West- ern Pacific fleet. Vice-Admiral Oscar Badger, Commander of U.S.cNaval For- ces in the Western Pacific, was believed to be Tsingtao aboard his flagship The Eldorado, along with the transport Chil- ton and a few other auxiliaries. The Communists, in a broadcast from Peiping, also reported cap- ture of the last two nationalist holdout cities in the north on the Peiping-Hankow railway. * * * ACTUALLY, Tsingtao and the far northwestern provinces remain in Nationalist hands. The Shanghai Nationalist gar- rison reported continuing Red pressure on the outer defenses of Shanghai but said all at- tacks were repelled in sharp fighting. The communique said 10,000 Reds attacked Kunshan, 35 miles west of Shanghai, but were driven back after an 8-hour fight that ended late Friday night. It said 5,000 Reds were hurled back from Taichang, 30 miles northwest of Shanghai. Mayor Offers To Mediate in Ford Strike. Management Silent On Earlier Attempt In a move designed to end the three day old Ford strike, Detroit's acting Mayor George Edwards of- ferd the services of a citizns com- mittee to settle the dispute through mediation. This move, which cane late last night, was the second attempt made by civic officials to intervene in the walkout, which has affect- ed 65,000 Ford workers. EARLIER YESTERDAY the striking automobile workers ac- cepted a mediation propsal offer- ed by Mayor Orville L. Hubbard of Dearborn, home of the mam- moth Ford River Rouge plant, scene of the walkout. Ford made no reply to Hub- bard's suggestion that manage- ment and union leaders meet to settle the dispute in the may- or's office next Thursday. The Edwards proposal would of- fer the services of Detroit's labor- management - citizens committee to mediate the dispute. The com- mittee, a civic group, can function as a mediator only if both parties agree to submit the issues to it. * * . * THERE WAS no comment from either side on Edwards' offer. However, Henry Ford II has indi- cated that the company is willing to "sit down and discuss" the auto workers' charge of a produc- tion speedup, which has been a primary cause for the walkout. Ford has denounced the strike as "particularly bad because it is unnecessary." "Company officials cannot un- derstand why a strike was called," he said, "unless it was promoted by some political situation within the union." Flames Gut School UN Asked To Lift Franco Spain Ban Political Connnittee Votes 25 to 16 To Resume Diplomatic Relations LAKE SUCCESS-(A)-The United Nations Assembly's Political Committee voted yesterday to lift a two-year-old ban on full diplo matic relations between UN members and Spain. The vote in the 58-nation committee was 25 to 16, with 16 ab- stentions, in favor of a resolution sponsored by Colombia, Brazil, Bolivia and Peru. * * * * THE COMMITTEE then rejected in 13 roll call votes, paragraph by paragraph, a rival Polish resolution that would have tightened bans on Spain first voted by the SCHOOL FIRE-Dense clouds of smoke and flames billow from a section of Pottstown, Pa., senior high school. The fire caused damages estimated at $80,000. All classes for the 800 pupils were suspended, indefinitely after the Thursday blaze. The fire department said that the fire apparently started in the school heating plant. Three firemen were hurt. POLICIES EXPLAINED: No Prejudicel Involved InU'_Halls Officials Say A state-wide search was begun yesterday to locate University stu- dent Loren Seager, '52E, who has been missing from the West Quad- rangle for almost a week. Seager, who left his Adams House room at about 6 a.m. last Sunday, was believed to be headed alone for Detroit in an attempt to hire a sailboat. * * * . A PRELIMINARY search of the Detroit waterfront area last Wed- to Detroit "to do some sailing on the river" and would be back that evening. He was described by' a friend as being in good humor the night before he left. SEAGER WAS suit and carried canvas handbag lieved to contain garees. wearing a grey a small brown which was be- a pair of dun- LOREN SEAGER nesday by several of his dormi- tory friends, revealed that Seager had not been seen in that area. Before leaving the residence hall, Seager wrote his roommates a note saying that he was going Barker Gets Appointment Prof. Ernest F. Barker, chair- man of the Department of Phy- sics, has been notified of his ap- pointment to the board of gov- ernors of the Argonne National Laboratories in Illinois. The laboratories constitute a co-operative enterprise for the study of nuclear physics. Spon- sored by 27 midwestern univer- sities, including the University of Michigan. An attempt was made to con- tact his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Seager of Kalamazoo, when his failure to return to school was reported by room- mates, Bruce Sodee, '52, and Henry Braxton, Jr., '52. * * * A CHECK of Seager's friends disclosed that he hadn't been seen since Sunday, May 1. Seager is 18 years old; has dark brown hair and eyes; me- dium complexion; 5 ft., 8 in. tall; and weighs 140 pounds. Any knowledge of Seager's whereabouts since last Sunday morning should be immediately re- ported to the Ann Arbor police. Urges .revised Tax Structure State controller Robert Stead- man urged revision of the Michi- gan tax structure here yesterday in an address before a tax con- ference. Appealing for "a more balanced and equitable tax system," Stead- man cited major faults which exist in the present system. Chief of these is the fact that the structure is regressive, bear- ing most heavily on lower income groups. Also the major revenue sources are so earmarked and re- stricted that the legislature is handicapped in providing essential state services, he claimed. Steadman also criticized the tax system on the ground that it was too complicated, having been de-' veloped on a piecemeal basis. (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first in a series of six articles dealing with the policies employed in student housing facilities, with particular reference to racial and religious fac- tors.) By BUDDY ARONSON "There are no considerations made of race, religion or color in accepting residents in Men's Resi- dence Halls." Such is the stated policy of all University housing units. As evidence of its policy, the statement issued by the University points out that all freshmen are guaranteed acceptance in a resi- dence hall, and that as many up- perclassmen will be accepted as space permits. * ', * HOWEVER, IN requesting room in the Men's Residence Halls, the applicant is required in the appli- cation form to indicate his relig- ious preference and to include his photograph. Miss Edith Gowans, Adminis- trative Assistant in charge of men'~s room assignments, said that the question of religion is I7rumm Sets Pace of Parley On Freedomd Prof. Emeritus John L. Brumm will keynote the organizational meeting of a campus Provisional Committee for Academic Freedom at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Un- ion. The Committee will be pattern- ed after the precedent-setting Committee To Abolish the Ban and the Committee To End Dis- crimination and will seek as wide a representation as possible, ac- cording to Joanne Stoller, one of the group's organizers. MISS STOLLER emphasized that all interested students who are not connected with any or- ganization, as well as organiza- tion representatives are invited to attend tomorrow's session. "Everyone irregardless of his political convictions, who is con- cerned with the firings of pro- fessors and students for exer- cising their freedom of expres- sion, as evidenced at nearby Olivet, is urged to join with us and help preserve this freedom," Miss Stoller declared. * * * SHE SAID that faculty mem- bers are also eligible and encour- aged to join the Committee. included in order to help her form an accurate overall view of the student. She cited other questions on the application form pertaining to such factors as age, occupational objective, military experience and personal habits, as being helpful in giving her a good idea about the kind of person the applicant is. * * . *. BY HAVING this information, Miss Gowan declared that she is able to assign roommates who will be compatible. "Religion is but one of many factors considered in making room assignments," she said. Miss Gowans admitted, however, that an incoming student who does not indicate by name a preference for a particular roommate is al- most invariably assigned one of his own religion. (A PROTESTANT student liv- ing in the East Quad reported to me that he was astonished when his housemother told him, "I'm terribly sorry but a mistake has been made and you have been assigned a roommate of a dif- ferent religion than yours.") .. . . "The system of rooming men together on the basis of religion has proved itself as the best means of enabling us to achieve our prime aim-that of getting the student adjusted as quickly as possible," Miss Gowans as- serted. She also said that Negro stu- dents are roomed together rather than assigned rooms with white students because "our experience See OFFICIALS, Page 8 Realtors Apply For Rent Hikes WASHINGTON-P) - At least 500,000 landlords already have taken the first steps toward seek- ing higher rent returns under the new control act, the Federal Hous- ing Expediter's Office reported to- day. That many have taken out of- ficial blanks on which to petition for a rent increase as provided under the "fair net operating in- come" formula released only last Monday. But Federal rent officials point- ed out that this stampede to ob- tain the legal forms does not mean a broad-scale lifting of rent ceil- ings, because each landlord's peti- tion will be handled separately for' approval or rejection. UN Dec. 13, 1946. The decision came at the end of a bitter two-day debate dur- ing which Russia and her friends charged that the United States has a military alliance with Generalissimo Franco. U.S. delegate Ray Athreton de- clared that was not true and Brit- ain's Hector McNeil answered "lie" today to an additional charge by Russia's Andrei A. Gromyko-that Britain was selling jet planes and other war materials to Franco. * * * THE COMMITTEE vote still must be approved by a two-thirds majority of the General Assembly in plenary session to become final. Backers forecast jubilantly to- night they would get the votes. If they do It would mean the U.S. and Britain-which did not back the approved proposal -could return to Madrid the ambassadors they withdrew af- ter the 1946 resolution. Whatever the Assembly decides, it will conclude action on one of the major items brought over to the current spring session of the Assembly, now due to adjourn May 14, from the third regular session at Paris last fall. * * * REMAINING major items are the future of Italy's prewar col- onies, Israel's application for ad- mittance to the UN, and two draft conventions affecting press free- doms under discussion in the So- cial Committee. One of these con- ventions already has been post- poned to the fall session. Western Bloc Sets Date for Soviet Talks By The Associated Press The United States, Britain and France quietly disclosed yesterday that they will talk over major German questions before meeting with Russia in Paris two weeks hence. Without official fanfare, diplo- matic authorities in Washington, London and Paris said a review of their common policies in western Germany was logical. and neces- sary before the council of foreign ministers meets. * * * THOUGH THE western powers asserted that they were not "gang- ing up" on Russia, developments spotlighted the possibility that Russia will enter the conference with a "divide and conquer" stra- tegy toward the west. Meanwhile, in Berlin, British Foreign Secretary Bevin voiced optimism for a successful agree- ment with the Russians on the German problem. "We have had enough quarrel- ing and now we all want peace," Bevin said upon his arrival for weekend conferences with British and German officials. Eastern Heat Wave Is Over Cool Front Checks High Temperatures By The Associated Press Most of the nation's eastern half cooled off Saturday after an unusual spring heat wave. The southeastward spread of a wide cool front kept temperatures from rising near the 90 and above levels recorded Friday in NMew York and Pennsylvania. However, Washington, D.C., reported a noontime 91 before the onset of Red Germian Council.Asks Bonn Confab BONN, Germany - VP) - The Communist-led East German Peo- ple's Council was reported bid- ding again last night-on the eve of the adoption of a West German constitution-for a unity meeting with Western German leaders. The Soviet-licensed news ser- vice ADN said the Eastern Ger- mans sent delegates to the Bonn Constitutional Convention a tele- gram asking that the two groups meet to discuss: 1. Measures to guarante that Germany's unity will be restored. 2. A peace treaty and the with drawal of occupation forces. * * * TWICE BEFORE the Soviet Zone Council has appealed to the West Germans to work for union of East and West Germany. The West Germany rejected the previous appeals on the ground that any unified govern- ment of East and West Germany at this time would be under Soviet control. A similar re- jection was generally expected here for the latest invitation. The Bonn delegates will lay the foundation for a new nation today. Bitterly opposed by the Com- munists, the nation will incorpor- ate the states of the British, French and American zones along a federalistic line. Final adoption of the constitu- tion at a plenary session of the Constitutional Convention today will touch off Germany's first gen- eral election campaign - except for the Soviet zone - since 1933. Two Concerts Today Close May Festival Conductors Will Be Johnson,_Ormandy Music lovers will hear two con- certs at Hill Auditorium today as the 56th May Festival draws to a close. At 2:30 p.m. Thor Johnson will conduct the Philadelphia Orches- tra in Dvorak's- Concerto in B Minor for Violoncello and Orches- tra featuring violoncellist Gregor Piatigorsky, and Villa-Lobos' Chor- os No. 10 "Rasga O Coracao." * * * THE PROGRAM continues with the world premiere of Gomer's "Gloria in Excelsis," featuring Shirley Russell, soprano, Harold Haugh, tenor, Tann Williams, con- tralto, Martial Singher, baritone, and the University Choral Union. Mary McCall Stubbins will be at the organ. Eugene Ormandy will conduct the final festival concert at 8:30 p.m. in Barber's Adagio for Strings. Featured soloist, Pia Tassinari, soprano,dwill sing Gluck's "0 del mio dolce ardor" from "Paride ed Elena," Mo- zart's "Deh vieni" from "Nozze di Figaro," Pergolesi's "Stizzoso, o mio stizzoso" from "La Serva Padrona." Miss Tassinari continues with Mascagni's "Vio lo sapete" from "Cavalleria Rusticanna," Bioto's "L'altra notte in fondo al mare" from "Mefistofele" and Tirindelli's "Primavera." CHIPS OFF THE OLD BLOCK: "Ah, Wilderness" To Feature Family Trio By PHYLLIS KULICK "There's no business like show business" according to the Father- Mother-Son team of Ernest Truex. Equity, we are the largest acting family in the Union." This fig- ure includes three sons, two ain...n4*c.., %and .nw anht.c own opinion of the theatre, and on everything in general. "I am the least stage-struck' . mamnhr f my amilv'Mfr. " 'Trn to Truex because of the oppor- tunity it gave him to get away from the farces, the hen-pecked huhnn droles. which have been child star doesn't intend to carry his education into college like his older brothers. "We'll see," his mother nut in.