Big Ten Na tators Clash -> By KEN BIALKIN Swimmers from nine of the schools in the Western Conference began pouring into Ann Arbor yesterday to compete in the Big Ten swimming championships which begin here tonight. Michigan State is the only school in the Conference that will not be on hand to try to wrest the crown from the hands of the favored Buckeyes of Ohio State. The only event slated for tonight at 7:30 p.m. will be the 1500 meter free style race. Admission to the meet is free. * * * * ENTERED IN TONIGHT'S 1500-meter race for Michigan will be distance stars Captain Matt Mann III, Gus Stager and Bob Wagener. The Wolverines' chief competitors in this race will be the aggregation from Ohio State. The Buckeyes are expected to enter Jack Taylor, Mike Stephanos and Bunny Nakama. Taylor, especially is the man to watch in this event. Purdue's Mike Kosmetos is given a good chance to grab one of the places that count. Conference champs Ohio State are rated as top-heavy favorites to retain their number one spot with the Wolverines in the dark horse position. Second place Iowa, weakened by the loss of their free style ace Wally Ris may still have a few things to say about the outcome of the championships. The competition swings imto full steam tomorrow with the swimming of the 50-yard freestyle, 220-yard freestyle, 150-yard backstroke, 200-yard breast stroke, 400-yard relay and the low- board diving. Probable entrants for the Wolverines in the 50-yard free style race will be Dick Martin, Bernie Kahn, Tom Riegal, Jim Dickerson and Bill Upthegrove. The competition will be keen in this event with OSU's Herb Kobayaski and Bob Congilliere swimming for the Red * * * t) * * * BOARD OF STRATEGY-Matt Mann (left) veteran Michigan swimming coach discusses plans for halting Ohio State's power- ful natators in their bid for a second straight Big Ten swimming championship with Matt Mann III, Wolverine captain and son of the coach. The three-day meet will get under way tonight in the I-M pool with the younger Mann seeking to recapture the 1500-meters title he won in 1948. BOB DUNLOP DUSTY GARST . ..Purdue .. Iowa and Gray. Iowa will send their great sprinters into the fray in the persons of Ed Garst, Bob Busch, Larry Dunbar and Bill Nicholson; with Chuck Thomas swimming for Purdue. THE 220-YARD FREESTYLE features Michigan's distance twins Mann and Stager while the Euckeyes will enter Stephanos who beat the twins last week in this event, as well as Taylor and Nakama. The Buckeyes almost completely dominate the entries in the 150-yard backstroke. Mike Peppe can take his choice from four great backstrokers, Taylor, Bill Sonner, Gordon Leaf or Joe Prata. The Wolverines will be on a more equal footing in the 200-yard breast stroke where Matt Mann can choose from among Olympic swimmer John Davies, Stu Elliot and Bill Austin. But as usual, the Buckeyes will have a couple of men making their bid for top honors in the persons of Jose Balmores and Bob Bartels. The final event of tomorrow evening's competition will be the 400-yard freestyle relay. Matt Mann will very likely stick with his team of Moss, Dave Tittle, Martin and Dave Neisch. ARTS FESTIVAL See Page 4 Y 1MwptAFg A& :43 at 1 , SNOW, COLD Latest Deadline in the State TOM" VOL. LX, No. 100 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1950 SIX FAG Judgement Studied in, UMW Case Bulletin DEFIANCE, O.--(P)-Presi- dent John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers Union last night was served with a sum- mons in the $1,150,000 damages suit brought against him by a coal mine operator. WASHINGTON - (P) - The U ited Mine Workers' contempt trial was completed yesterday and Judge Richmond B. Keech began studying the question whether to slap a huge fine on the union for the nation-wide coal strike. All in one swift-moving day, the government completed its case, r the miners used only one witness In their defense and final argu- ments were heard. NOW IT'S UP to Judge Keech, who heard the case without a jury. He said he could not say when he's likely to reach a verdict. Even while the trial was wind- ing up, there was another start on negotiations to end the giant strike gnawing away at the country's economy. The talks got nowhere, however, and were broken off until today. With coal strike negotiations thus deadlocked and more snow predicted, Ann Arbor faces a des- perate fuel situation, in spite of the huge University stocks being made available to the city. LOCAL COAL yards reported last night that they have a one day supply of coal left. The University will continue to grant the city up to 1,000 tons of coal, according to Walter Briggs, vice-president of the University. However, should the strike con- tinue, grants will be determined by the existing stocks and needs of the University itself. "After tomorrow, we may have to fall back on University supplies of coal completely," McCudden declared. SL Petitions Avaldable Now Petitions for this spring's Stu- dent Legislature election will be available from 3 to 5 p.m. today through next Friday at the SL office in the Office of Student Af- fairs, Administration Building. Legislator Dave Belin, '51, chair- man of the citizenship committee, announced that any student meet- ing University eligibility require- ments may join the semi-annual election race by obtaining the sig- natires of 150 students and re- turning the petition to the SL office by March 314. He urged all students interested Union To Discuss Fo oElection of Officers By BOB KEITH A special meeting of members of the Michigan Union Board of Directors will be called by Union President Bill Wise, '50, to discuss a student proposal seeking direct popular election of the Union's president and recording secretary, it was decided late last night. Attending the meeting will be representatives of a 236 member student group, headed by Herb Leiman, '50, which is hoping to bring about the new method of election. THIS DECISION was reached after Wise and Leiman met in the Union Student Offices and informally talked over a petition circu- %lated and submitted by Leiman calling for amendments to the SL Favors Union Constitution. The amendments would en- able all student member. -f the Union to vote for the president } and secretary every spring. ias Q uhsIti nn Wise had opposed Lieman's pe- tition on grounds that it would be contrary to the best interests of By JIM BROWN the Union, but the two men parted Student Legislature voted over- last night with an attitude of whelmingly last night to go on compromise and cooperation. * * * Senator Asks UN Meeting In Moscow McMahon Warns Of Atom Dangers WASHINGTON-(A)-Senator McMahon (D-Conn) called yes- terday for an unprecedented ses- sion of the UN General Assembly' in Moscow to work out "rascal- proof safeguards" against atomic war and the unguessed perils of the hydrogen bomb. In a major Senate speech, he warned that every tick of the clock brings closer the moment when the United States and Rus- sia will be glowering at each other astraddle stocks of horror weap- ons capable of ravishing this plan- et. "IF WE do not act, the atom will," he prophesied. r Cool Cooler FORT COLLINS, Colo.--()- The city jail was closed to wrongdoers yesterday-too lit- tle coal made the cooler too cool. Police Chief 0. P. Kelley or- dered the radiators turned off and the doors locked to ease the strain on the city's dwindl- ing fuel supply. It won't be open season for lawbreakers, however. Sheriff Ray M. Barger extended the hospitality of the Larimer County jail. record as "favoring the removal of potentially discriminatory ques- tions from application blanks of the various schools of the Univer- sity." The resolution lists "potentially discriminatory" questions as those concerning race, religion, former name if changed, ancestry of par- ents, birth place of parents, place of birth, occupation of parents, family education, family citizen- ship, nationality and photo- graphs. LEGISLATOR Don Abramson, '51, who sponsored the bill under the auspices of the campus action committee, said that he has con- ducted a personal investigation of the controversial questions ap- pearing on application blanks in several of the University's schools and colleges'and asserted that "vi- gorous SL action may speed re- moval of the clauses." Abramson and other SL mem- bers will now work closely with deans of the various colleges in order to push removal of the questions. A similar campaign was ini- tiated earlier this year by the Com- mittee to End Discrimination and other campus groups but so far has met with little success. EXTENDING their meeting 45 minutes past the usual adjourn- ment time because of a heavily crowded agenda, the legislators al- so voiced strong support for the World Student Service Fund drive which will be launched next week. Twenty-four SL members vol- unteered to donate blood for the drive early next week on the rec- ommendation of the cabinet who had earlier voted unanimously to contribute a pint of their blood to the campaign. Several other Legislators volun- teered to work on solicitation com- mittees for the drive. t -l - TC . Ts f ra WISE COMMENTED that "while About a dozen of t in my mind the petition as it tors listened attentiv stands is not adequate, I will be pink-faced colleague more than happy to ask the Board the Joint Congressi to form some type of committee tee on Atomic Energ to study it with a student group." active worker in thel Leiman regarded the opportun- lations Committee. ity to meet with the Board a After the westernl "highly significant step towards outtheir program, h solving the question of election in- should insist that it] stead of appointment of the two by the United Nations Union senior officers." the Soviets' capital,v At present they are chosen by bates broadcast to e a Union "selections committee" of the globe. consisting of four faculty or "IF THE Soviet rul alumni members and three stu- real town meeting of1 dents, he pointed out. their Moscow citade Leiman added that last night's "then we may truly h discussion "brought to light cer- ful talks. tain points mentioned in the orig- McMahon noted tha inal petition that need further posal was advanced b elaboration and discussion." States four years ago Under the Union Constitution, a Nations backing, butl general meeting of student mem- jected by Russia. Nev bers must be called to adopt the called for a general r proposed amendments. problem. INTERVIEWS NEXT WEEK: the 96 sena- vely to their who heads onal Comit- gy and is an Foreign Re- powers work e said, they be discussed s Assembly in with the de- very quarter Lers permit a the world in l," he said, ope for fruit- at such a pro- y the United , won United has been re- vertheless he eview of the SelyTruman Promise on Education Aid Stand Against Photos On Entrance Forms WASHINGTON -(UP) - The House Labor Committee voted yes- terday to hold up action on federal aid to education until President Truman gives definite assurance that schools will be free from federal controls. Chairman Lesinski (D.-Mich.) said the committee will write such safeguards into the legislation if the assurances are not forthcom- ing. The group approved 13 to 11 a resolution by Rep. Kearns (R.- Pa.) asking the Presidential pledge. It also voted to use a Senate- approved aid bill as the basis for working out a compromise of dif- ferences over the controversial leg- islation. This bill, passed last May, auth- orizes an annual appropriation of $300,000,000 to help states pay teachers' salaries and other oper- ating expenses. It leaves to the states whether aid should go to private and parochial schools, as well as public schools. Presidency Claimed b Chiang, Li Dispute Disturbs Political Circles TAIPEI, Formosa - (R) - Li Tsung-Jen tossed a political bomb into Nationalist China today. He said he would challenge Chiang Kai-Shek's right to the presidency. Chiang resumed as chief of state yesterday, relegating acting Pres- ident Li to the Vice Presidency he held before the Generalissimo re- tired in January, 1949. Li announced from New York, however, that he still is presi- dent and is "making ready" to return. Most quarters here say Li's sur- prising declaration was a gesture and predicted confidently he would not return. But there was no denying that Li's stand dis- turbed political circles. Less than 30,000 square miles of his once vast domain - smaller than any of the provinces of P,ed China - remain under Chiang's effective control. In resuming the presidency he left just 13 months ago Chiang called on his predecessor, acting President Li Tsung-Jen, for aid. The Generalissimo sent Li a telegram in New York, where the vice-president is recovering from a recent operation. It asked him to "please contact American lead- ers both in and outside the gov- ernment on my behalf." Questions Strategy WASHINGTON -- (P) - The House armed services committee Yield yesterday that the whole theory of basing U.S. strategy on atom bombing is an open question which should be studied thor- oughly. InternationalS Hunt Seen Likely After Fuchs Case, Court Sentences Communist to 14 Years for 'Grossest Treachery' LONDON-(P)-The likelihood of a vast international spy hunt was raised last night by disclosures in the trial of Dr. Klaus Fuchs, the atomic science wizard sentenced to 14 years in prison for betraying American and British secrets to Soviet Russia. A purge of the British Intelligence Service was demanded by Lord Beaverbrook's ,'Evening Standard" in the first British editorial com- ment on the case since the arrest of Fuchs Feb. 2. British law prevents comment on cases pending in court. * *' * * DENOUNCED BY LORD GODDARD, the Lord Chief Justice of England, as a betrayer not only of his friends but of "the inven- tions of your own brain," the 38- quad year-old German-born Commun- ist was given the maximum sent-s ence of 14 years yesterday in Old Bailey Court. The prosecution described him as a Jekyll-Hyde N e ibership personality. - The highlight of his 90-min- ute trial was the disclosure that By DON KOTITE he has given information which Anderson House Council, East presumably could set off a hunt Quadrangle, has withdrawn by fora his Soviet contacts in the unanimous vote from the Associa- United States and Britain. tion of Independent Men, house Fuchs' only, defense was that he president Robert Baker announced had told all he could about the last night. Soviet agents he contacted. His In a statement to The Daily, attorney, Darek Curtis-Bennett Baker declared that a report from described this information as of his dorm's AIM representative, "valuable practical assistance" to Melvin Wachs, implying that AIM the authorities does not represent the wishes of Positions Open on Phoenix Committees By JOHN DAVIES Providing an opportunity to take a direct hand in what Presi- dent Alexander G. Ruthven has called "an undertaking larger than the University itself," the Michi- gan Memorial-Phoenix Project will interview for more than 50 posi- tions in the student drive begin- ning next week. Mary Lubeck, '51, student drive, chairman, in announcing the posi- tion openings, revealed that sign- ing up for interview appointments on the nine working committees will begin today in the Office of Student Affairs, 1020 Adminis- tration Bldg., and last until next Friday. * * * * * , .1 r I the quadrangles, one dorm chair- nan from each of the smaller nen's dorms and two members-at- arge. (Must now live in dorm and ?xpect to next year.) Other City Student Drives Com- mittee-Seven students who will organize League houses, co-op ouses and students not living in dormitories or affiliated groups. Speakers Committee - Five members who will organizethe Speaking program on campus and in alumni clubs in the state. Personnel Committee - Five members who will supervise the selection of all personnel other than the committee members. P ... ammn iti -i ve * * .* THE CHIEF Justice told Fuchs he had committed the "grossest treachery," and done "irreparable and incalculable harm" to the United States as well as the land of his adoption. In - the courtroom crowd of nearly a hundred reporters, in- cluding those from Iron Curtain countries, and an international as- semblage of jurists, diplomats and even a representative of the royal family, the dome-headed scientist easilygwas the least conspicuous looking. With the light gleaming from his spectacles, Fuchs calmly stood before the court after the charge had been read. With one hand in a pocket, he spoke the word "guilty" in tones scarcely audible. .deport Plate Number -- ( winI Just getting their new license plates is not enough for student drivers, the University announced yesterday. They must also turn in the new license numbers to the office of the Dean of Students, Rm. 1020, Administration Bldg. Until they do, their permits are invalid, ac- IAndersonHouse, formed the basi for the house's decision. He added that Anderson, havin voted unanimously at a recenr meeting to push the proposed in ter-dormitory "Residence Hall Council," was thwarted on tha desire by AIM. He quoted Wach' report that "continued represen tation of the House in the AID council would further no con structive purposes." * * * MEANWHILE, leaders of cam pus independent groups indicate yesterday that the task of carry. ing out Tuesday night's decisio by house presidents to coordinat all unaffiliated residence group: will fall mainly on the presidents shoulders. The accepted motion-vetoing creation of the separate "Resi- dence Halls Council"-provides for formation of a joint com- mittee of AIM and Assembly members to work out problems intended for the proposed inter- dorm body. Assembly president Mary J Wilson explained that "if such committee is formed, those hous( presidents who have indicated in terest will serve on it." ALTHOUGH ne still feels th proposed council "would encom- pass much more than the existin organizations can handle," Eat -Daiy-Alan Reid MOCK INTERVIEW-Dick Johnson, '51, Jeanne Lange, '51, and T ..tr.....,. i-* a . . a . . - - .--. I .1