GREEKS vs. INDEPENDENTS See Page 4 Y ,iCt an p43ati4 CLOUDY, WARMER Latest Deadline in the State VOL. LX, No. 107 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1950 SIX PAGES 11 4~ Ruthven Set For Phoenix Project Trip President Will Tour Northwest President Alexander G. Ruthven will leave Ann Arbor Monday on a month-long tour of the plains and mountains of the northwest where he will do official spadework for the University's rapidly inush- rooming Michigan - Memorial Phoenix Project. The trip is the second of a ser-' ies of itineraries on which Presi- dent Ruthven will criss-cross the nation to explain the Phoenix Project to the University's 130,000 alumni before the -kickoff of the fund drive in the fall. *e in PRESIDENT and Mrs. Ruthven, who have hardly gotten settled after returning from a similar trip of the southwest two weeks ago,l will visit 10 cities in an area which contains 4,000 University alumni1 before returning to Ann Arbor, April 7. Paced by a crew of publicity men and fund drive officials, the president will tell the Phoenix story to alumni groups and fund 0+14v- ch-irmen in Des Moines, Omaha ,Cheyenne, Spokane, Se- aule, 'Tacoma, Portland, Denver, Boise and Salt Lake City. The series of tours was planned' in response to insistent appeals by alumni clubs for more informa- tion on the $6,500,000 war-mem- orial research project into the peacetime uses of atomic energy. PRESIDENT Ruthven declared himself "thoroughly gratified" at the response which met his recent junket through the southwest. "Everywhere we went, there were large turnouts, not only of alumni but of other interested and prominent citizens as well." The organization for the fund- raising campaign is practically complete in the southwest section, according to President Ruthven. "Nothing but praise is due the efforts and genuine cooperation displayed by alumni, fund chair- men, press and radio on the trip," he declared. * * * Deadline Set For Student Phoenix Posts Tomorrow marks the last chance for students to seek seats on the nine Michigan-Memorial-Phoenix Project student drive working com- mittees, Marx Lubeck, '51, drive chairman, said. Appointments for interviews for the posts will continue to be made today and tomorrow in the Office of Student Affairs, 1020 Adminis- tration Bldg., he added. Members of the committees will plan and manage the student drive. They will not do the solic- iting themselves, Lubeck explained. The interviewing for the com- mittee positions, which total more than 50, is continuing to be done in Rm. 3511, Administration Bldg. Five of the committees will run the soliciting of the students whose goal for the drive will fall some- where between $100,000 and $200,- 000w The other committees will con- trol the speakers, personnel, spe- cial projects and publicity for the. student drive, Lubeck said.. Students who have been inter- viewed for committee chairman- ships are asked to register in the Office of Student Affairs, but will not require an interview, Lubeck continued. Further information on the stu- dent drive is available in the Office of Student Affairs. Speed Stops Leak T i - -s s -. -- .. - w. w--r . n -n L.---. Court Sentences Cop ion, Russian NEW YORK-(P)-Twice-convicted Judith Coplon was senteneced to prison for 15 years yesterday as a treacherous betrayer of her country. Her convicted co-spy, Soviet engineer and diplomat Valentin A. Gubitchev, drew a similar sentence-suspended, however, on condition that he be sent back to Russia within two weeks "never to return." * * * * FEDERAL JUDGE Sylvester J. Ryan tongue-lashed the defendants as he handed down the sentences. He said they would serve as a solemn warning against working "with others outside of our borders who would take from us our liberties." Pale little Miss Coplon, 28 years old, now may have to serve up to 25 years behind bars. Today's 15-year sentence is in addition to the 40 months to 10 year term imposed in Washington after her -' conviction last July on charges of stealing secret papers for the E1 Pt ZRussians. I' Requested yWilliams LANSING-(I)-Governor Wil- liams yesterday asked all groups interested to join in drawing up a Fair Employment Practices law (FEPC) for submission to the special legislative session. The governor asked for a meet- ing between Democratic and Re- publican leaders and the Michigan Committee on Civil Rights to agree on a FEPC bill. * * * AT THE SAME TIME he an- nounced plans to ask for a liberal- ization of the Michigan Unemploy- inent Compensation Law. The Governor asked legislative and civil rights leaders to meet in his office for a conference on the question March 16, the day after the legislature convenes. * * * THOSE INVITED included the Most Rev. Francis J. Haas, Bishop of Grand Rapids and honorary chairman for the Committee for Civil Rights; Senator Harold D. Tripp (R-Allegan); Senator Hen- ry R. Kozak (D-Hamtramck); Speaker of the House Victor A. Knox (R-Sault Ste Marie); Lt. Gov. John W. Connolly; Rep. Wil- liam Romano (D-Van Dyke) ; Rep. Robert M. Montgomery (R-Lan- sing); Dr. J. L. Leach of Flint, Michigan President of the Nation- al Association for the Advance- ment of Colored People; and Geo. Schermer of Detroit, chairman of the Committee on Civil Rights. Williams proposed the following changes in the unemployment compensation law: 1-Increase the maximum bene- fit period from 20 to 26 weeks. 2-Increase the maximum bene- fit from $24 a week to $30 a week and the additional benefit for each dependent child from $2 a week to $3 a week, making the maximum for four or more dependent chil- dren $42 a week. 3-Modify several disqualifica- tions now in the law. Bandmasters irect Concert Twenty-eight leading bandmast- ers will direct the Symphony Band in the first of two concerts at 8 p.m. today in Hill Auditorium. Marking the high point of the four-day American Bandmasters Association Convention which be- gan here yesterday, the concerts will feature famous band music and songs by the University Choir. The concerts are open to the pub- lic. Visiting conductors who rehears- ed with the band yesterday voiced unanimous praise for the music- makers and director William D. Revelli. Ohio State band director Man- ley R. Whitcomb commented, "A famous bandsmen once said that he wouldn't give five cents for anyone who didn't say his own band was the best. The highest nomnlman. na . r on na Ryan first sentenced blond, 33- year-old Gubitchev to 15 years imprisonment. Then he announced that Secretary of State Acheson and Attorney General J. Howard McGrath "have recommended that this sentence be suspended and that you be sent out of the coun- try." The judge said he had to follow the recommendation. He de- nounced Gubitchev as a betrayer of the cause of peace, but said he would suspend sentence "if ar- rangements are made for your im- mediate deportation." IN WASHINGTON, a spokes- man said the State Department thinks expelling Gubitchev rather than imprisoning him "would best serve the public interest." This country, the spokesman said, doesn't want to risk "pre- judicing the situation of Ameri- can citizens now in eastern Eur- ope." Gubitchev, speaking in rapid Russian, before he was sentenced, denied that he was guilty of any- thing. He accused the FBI of framing him, and assailed his ar- rest and trial as a violation of in- ternational law. National Round-Up By The Associated Press WASHINGTON - The House Rules Committee refused yester- day to give clearance to the Lodge- Gossett Constitutional Amend- ment to abolish the electoral col- lege and establish a new way of electing the President. * * * WASHINGTON-Edward V. Sittler, former Michigan Tech professor facing deportation for aiding German Nazis in World War II, may get a new hearing. His scheduled deportation is being held up because of a re- cent Supreme Court Ruling in another case. * * 4 WASHINGTON - The Senate voted 44 to 28 yesterday to keep rent controls going until June 30. WASHINGTON - John L. Lewis and the hard coal opera- tors today ratified a contract agreement and five-day produc- tion was back. End Russian Domination ..Acheson Urges Country To Enter Fight WASHINGTON-()-Secretary of State Acheson called on Ameri- can men and women last night to join with their government in a concerted, everybody-in tussle to defeat Russia's plans for "world domination." He called it "total diplomacy." The totality he had in mind ap- peared to be hardly less compre- hensive than total war . . . with- out the dive bombers and trench mortars. * * * ACHESON said the free world is engaged in a struggle fully as de- cisive for mankind as the success- ful fight against Nazism. But-, he said: "We clearly are not focusing our total resources on the win- ning of that struggle." He said that total diplomacy means that all branches of the U.S. government must work to- gether - he included Congress along with the executive depart- ments-and that other institutions of American life such as business, agriculture, labor, press and radio 'must agree voluntarily' to direct their efforts to the single purpose of the struggle. * * * ACHESON'S VIEWS were set forth in a heretofore secret speech released by the State Department with his approval in an effort to enlarge and clarify the kind of foreign policy line which he isj presently following.3 This policy holds that a Tru- man-Stalin talk, for example, would not solve any cold war is- sues at this time and that those issues can only be solved after expanding Russian power has been matched and cancelled by American and allied western power in critical areas of the world. Acheson's speech, making clear this definition of his policy, was delivered at a meeting of the ad- vertising council, a private organi- zation of leaders in the field of ad- vertising who frequently help the government on public causes. Senate Hit By McCarthy Tiff WASHINGTON-(/P)-A crack- ling two-hour row broke out in the Senate caucus room today when Senator McCarthy (R-Wis) ac- cused his Democratic colleagues of acting as a "tool of the state de- partment" in their probe of his disloyalty charges. The flarcup, witnessed by more than 20 spectators, came as McCarthy launched into the second day of his allegation that scores of Communists are or have been employes of the State Department. The public hearings are being conducted by a Democrat-con- trolled subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. -Bill Hampton "Look,-this is very kind of you Mr. Schultz-but in your case we'd be perfectly willing to make an exception. * * * * WSSF Seeks 'U' Blood For Overseas Students v Doctor Acquitted In 'Mercy Death' MANCHESTER, N.H.-(P)-Dr. Hermann N. Sander was found innocent in 71 minutes yesterday of charges he murdered a hopeless cancer patient in an "act of mercy" to end her suffering. A 12-man jury freed the mild-mannered country doctor who t6,4 newsmen he hopes to resume his practice "within a few weeks." * * * * CONFIDENT THROUGHOUT the 14-day trial that drew world- wide attention, Dr. Sander smiled happily and kissed his loyal wife who has been by his side from the day the case broke. "It's wonderful to have it over with," said the 41year-old doctor. Women spectators and others in the courtroom sounded cheers despite the warnings of Judge Harold E. Wescott against demonstrations. (1 -i "Student blood for service mon- ey," will be the cry of World Stu- dent Service Fund drive captains today, as they seek to seep more of the life-giving fluid into the University blood bank, to provide money for needy students abroad. With five days of WSSF Week gone, Fund Chairman Wym Price announced the total pledged do- nation at 134 pints-amounting to $2010. "Added to the pre-WSSF contributions of $1500, this means there's $3510 pledged so far," he said. * * * BOOTHS for students to pick Last Day For SL Petitions, Belin Warns up and drop pledges will still be up today-the last day-at the League, Union, Administration Building and Angell Hall lobby. Boxes for pledges still. remain in the Parrot, Dascola's, and on the Diag. Returns from three more or- ganized houses were reported yesterday with seven for Phi Sigma Delta and Helen Newber- ry Residence and six for Mosh- er. 'But Zeta Beta Tau's 20 pledges remain untouched, ac- cording to drive captains. Students may also still make ap- pointments for donations-worth $15 a pint-by calling the Uni- versity blood bank directly, Price said. He reminded students under 21 that they would need a signed permission slip from parents, and noted that WSSF had such pre- pared blanks available at Lane Hall or at pledge booths. ** * BLOOD DONATION is relative- ly painless, according to blood bank officials, who pointed out that in addition to aiding j'ie WSSF Fund for students abroad, donors would also be helping the blood bank to build up its reserves for transfusions. Students who have contribut- ed have testified in surprised fashion to the ease with which donation takes place. According to bank officials, the liquid volume of the blood donated is replenished by the body in only a few hours, and most important elements return to the blood in a couple of days. The only effect is a slightly lowered resistance for about two months until the red blood cells are rebuilt, according to blood bank officials Donation takes a half hour. And even county solicitor Wil- liam H. Craig, who helped prose- cute Sander, grinned. * * * BUT SEEMINGLY happiest of all was 71-year-old Louis E. Wy- man, white-haired chief defense counsel who came up with a not- able victory in his first murder trial in a legal career that has carried over a half-century. Attorney General William L. Phinney, 40, the chief prosecutor and long-time friend of Dr. San- der, quietly left the courtroom after the verdict was announced,' Earlier, he had frankly admitted to the jury it was "particularly difficult" for him to ask conviction of the doctor he's known since boyhood. * *.* BUT HE HAD demanded justice on the grounds Dr. Sander had "taken the law into his own hands" when he injected air into Mrs. Abbie Borroto, 59, Manchester housewife. Dr. Sander had maintained throughout that the 59-year-old woman-a close family friend as. wellas patient - was already dead before he made the injec- tions after "something snapped" in his mind. Mrs. Borroto's husband and daughter testified at the trial and told jury they still felt "kindly" tot! ard him. But Dr. Sander's acquittal does not necessarily mean the end of his troubles. Laborites Win In Test Vote LONDON-()P)-Britain's Social- ist Labor government won its first formal test of strength in the House of Commons last night by 14 votes. The result put off, for the time being at least, a new parlia- mentary election. By a count of 310 to 296, the La- borites of Prime Minister Attlee beat down a Conservative motion of censure on state ownership of the iron and steel industry. Laborites were jubilant over their victory, in view of their shaky overall majority of only seven seats in the House of Com- mons. Government leaders were aware, however, that they are still not out of the woods. All students planning to seek' election to Student Legislature in this spring's all-campus election must pick up their petitions at the SL office in the Office of Stu- dent Affairs by 5 p.m. today, ac- cording to Legislator Dave Belin, '51. Although 49 students have al- ready withdrawn SL petitions and several more are expected today, Belin predicted that this year's election race "will be wide open." * * * HE POINTED out, however, that only four students have taken out petitions for Senior Class officers in the literary college and only one person for the senior officers in the College of Engineering. Petitions are also available for students desiring to seek election to one of two student seats on the Board in Control of Intercollegiate Athletics. House Group Bars Bias In Education Bill, WASHINGTON - () - The House Labor committee decided yesterday that if it authorizes any federal aid to schools, there must be no racial discrimination in dis- tributing the money. It is not at all certain, however, that the committee is going to ap- prove any aid bill. A bitter argu- ment has been raging since last year over whether parochial and private schools should be allowed to share in some of the projected benefits, such as bus service for pupils. President Truman told his news conference yesterday he still wants the legislation passed, bul said it's up to Congress to settle de- tails in dispute. The committee is working over a Senate-approved bill 9uthoriz- ing $300,000,000 a year in federal help, but leaving it up to the states to say what schools get the money. By a vote of 10 to 5, the com- mittee adopted an amendment by Rep. Powell (D.-N.Y.) which would do three things: 1. Prohibit racial discrimination by requiring that federal aid be apportioned at the school rather than the district level, meaning that all pupils would share alike. 2. Give about 19 "needy" states -principally in the South-enough federal aid to bring the average total expenditure up to a minimum of $60. a year per pupil. 3. Provide non-needy states with federal aid amounting to $5 per pupil a year, so apportioned that all districts must be brought up to a minimum outlay of $100 per pupil per year. City Lawyer To QuizRFC WASHINGTON--P)-A Senate subcommittee investigating the Reconstruction Finance Corp. yes- terday chose George Meader, vet- eran of the Senate War Investiga- tions, to head its staff.. .Meader is a Washington and Ann Arbor lawyer and a Republi- can. Chairman Fulbright (D.-Ark) of the subcommittee told a reporter Meader will head the investiga- tion's staff and serve also as chief counsel. The group is inyestigating RFC lending and administrative poli- cies. Among other things, it is expected to look into disputed RFC loans totaling $37,500,000 to the Lustron Corp., Columbus, Ohio, pre-fabricated housing firm placed in receivership Monday on RFC foreclosure action. IFC Elects Three Bill Duerr, '50E, yesterday was elected vice-president of the Inter- fraternity Council. DISCRIMINA TION DEBA TE: MacDougall Questions Sincerity of Affiliates 1 By DON KOTITE "No campus fraternities or sor- orities at present are sincere in any form of their anti-discrimina- tion feelings." That's the way Gordon Mac- Dougall, summed up his views on the University bias question as he and Tom Walsh, '50L, last night addressed listeners at an East Quad - sponsored informal discussion in the Quad lounge. SPECIAL guests at "Round Two TTnniTvrc T. o-islatinn on Dis- lature Human Relations Commit- tee members and residents of the new International House. Altogether nearly 100 persons heard the speakers and flung questions at them during a post- discussion get together in the snack bar. MacDougall expressed disap- pointment at the fact that "not one affiliated group belongs to Committee to End Discrimina- tion," declaring, "on that basis, they actually seem not to want to deplored the fact that it only for- bids University recognition to en- tering organizations with restric- tive clauses, and fails to reckon with discriminatory groups now existing on campus. MacDougall demanded a "de- finite time limit" for removing bias clauses from constitutions of those fraternities and sor- orities having them. By enforcing a deadline, he felt, those organizations desiring to ad- REALIZATION that "all of us oppose discrimination" is appar- ent, Walsh declared, but he main- tained a valid solution is possible only through legislation initiated by the students, via either Student Legislature or student organiza- tions. But on the other hand, he pointed to "the difficulty in se- curing affiliated groups' coop- eration with SL's Human Rela- tions Committee if pressure to remove discriminatory clauses is sion between groups-would such a case. I individuals and; stand defeat in * * * HE WENT ON to suggest two projects which he thought might alleviate any strong discrimina- tory feeling among students: 1. Revision of the intramural athletics system structure along competitive lines-providing for game schedules between dorm, af- filiated and "iidependent" inde- pendent teams, rather than intra- II i i .I i I.