McCARTHY'S CHARGES See Page 2 latest Deadline in the State tii4p CLOUDY, SNOW VOL. LX, No. 114 3 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1950 FOUR PAGES McCarthy Attacks 'Whitewash' of Diplomat Soviet Zone Gripped By Money Panic German Mark Hits New Low BERLIN-. (P) -The greatest money panic since the war grip- ped the Soviet Zone of Germany s yesterday, sinking the East Mark to an all-time low. Fearful of a sudden currency reform, holders of millions of East Marks swamped the licensed ex- changes in West Berlin with of- fers. Although the exchanges had posted a rate of 7.6 East Marks for one West Mark today, huge lots of East Marks were put on the market as cheaply as 8.75 to one. THE EAST GERMAN bank of emission tonight said all reports of impending currency reform were "completely unfounded." In a statement distributed by the Soviet-licensed news agency AJI*, the bank said categorically that no monetary reform will be made. The bank claimed that the pre- sent money panic was "deliber- ately plotted" by the West Berlin money changers" in order to con- fuse the population and divert public attention from the steadily mounting capitalistic economy crisis in Western Germany and West Berlin." PRIVATE BANKERS reported they were flooded with calls from frantic East German companies to help unload their East Mark re- serves. West German exporters also joined the rush to convert ac- crued East Marks into western cash. To deal with the "tense situa- tion," West Berlin's money chan- gers held a long secret session last night preparatory to announcing today's official rate. Since January 1, the East Mark has declined nearly 50 per cent in relation to the West Mark. But the real nose-dive started a few days ago with rumors of a currency re- form. OTHER DEVELOPMENTS: German radio officials said yes- terday they had heard reports that the Russians were building about a dozen radio stations in East Germany to jam American Zone broadcasts. Effectiveness of radio stations in the U.S. Zone of Germany is already cut because the U.S. re- fused to accept reassigned wave- lengths given it by a European radio conference. Students Seek To Extend U.S. Visit of Giradi DETROIT- (AP) -University of Detroit freshmen* and faculty members sought petitions yester- day to keep Joseph B. Girardi in the United States. Girardi, 25. is "stateless," being a fugitive from the Communistic regime in Hungary and his tem- porary student's permit expires in 30 days. THE PETITIONS urge immi- gration authorities to extend Gi- rardi's permit, "thereby permit- ting him to complete his four years of college" at Detroit Uni- versity. Father John J. Benson des- cribed Joe as "a remarkable stu- dent when you consider' that lie has not yet mastered the Eng- lish language." Joe had the equivalent of two years college at the University of Budapest before he fled Commun- ist Hungary across Germany and Belgium. He reached Venezuela on documents issued by the In- ternational Refugee Organization, coming here last fall to enter Uni- versity of Detroit. * * * * * * * * * Boston licers Upset Wo iverin es, 4-3 Declares Lewis Ignored Decision CANTON, Ill.-(P)-An ousted local official of the United Mine Workers asserted yesterday that John L. Lewis secretly ordered his miners to ignore the Feb. 11 court order to end their nationwide coal strike. Lloyd H. Sidener, 44, said Lewis passed the word down through his chain of command until it reached him. Sidener said he received the order by telephone from Bernard Beasley of Canton, Chairman of Sub-District 2 of the Illinois UMW District. Beasley denied this. * * * * SIDENER WAS removed March 7 as President of Local 7445, Canton. He charged in a complaint to the National Labor Relations Iowa Court Gets Coed 's Death Story IOWA CITY-V'P)-A police of- ficer testified yesterday that Ro- bert E. Bednasek said he wa~s playing a "game of blackout" shortly before a beautiful blond coed was found dead. The officer was one of five wit- nesses called yesterday as the State started introducing testi- mony in the murder trial of the 24-year-old University of Iowa psychology student. "Blackout" is a stunt in which unconsciousness is produced by holding the breath and squeezing the neck. * * * BEDNASEK is accused of chok- ing to death pretty Margaret (Gee- Gee) Jackson, a psychology stu- dent who had been dating and was once "pinned" by Bednasek. Her body was found in a rooming house where he lived. The defense said that until his treatment, the defendant could not recall what happened after he had playfully placed his hands on Miss Jackson's throat to show the proper way to choke a person. "Benny will take the stand and testify what happened in that room as nearly as he can," Cekr Hamilton, defense attorney, said. "And what happenedain that room was strictly accidental." 26 of 'Tender Crew Saved PEARL HARBOR-(AP)-A res- cue ship yesterday picked up 26 of 40 members of the Navy Ten- der Elder, overdue since Monday at the atomic proving grounds of Eniwetok in the mid-Pacific. Navy search planes were order- ed to scan the Pacific for the 14 seamen still missing from the El- der. Board that the union fined him $50,000 and in effect barred him from working. He said this was punishment for his efforts to get other min- ers to obey the court's no-strike injunction. Sidener said in an interview that Lewis directed his 380,000 striking miners to disregard not only the court injunction but Lewis' own telegraphed plea for a resumption of coal digging. Lewis sent tele- grams ordering the miners back to work after he was served with the court injunction. * * * SIDENER said Lewis secretly passed a continue-strike order to State UMW presidents, who in turn notified sub-district board members, who passed it on to mine local presidents for the rank and file. Sidener said Beasley telephoned him at 2 p.m. Feb. 11 and said: "John L. Lewis said the whis- tle blew once for Monday (Feb. 13) pull everybody. There'll be no maintenance and pumping crews at the mines." Sidener said it was the policy at his mine that one blast of the whistle meant no work the next day and that three blasts meant the mine would operate. Former KKK Grand Dragon Wins Liberty MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. -(P) - D. C. Stephenson, former Indiana leader of the Ku Klux Kuan, won his 25-year fight for release from the Indiana State Prison lpte yes- terday. The former Grand Dragon, who was serving a life sentence on a murder conviction, became eligi- ble for parole two weeks ago when Gov. Henry F. Schricker commut- ed his sentence to time served to life. * * * THE FOUR trustees of the pri- son unanimously voted him a par- ole at their regular meeting yes- terday. St. Pat's Day Again Jinxes M' Puckmen Kelley Paces BU To NCA A Victory I By PRES HOLMES (Special to The Daily) COLORADO SPRINGS-For the second year in a row the St. Pat- rick's Day jinx got the best of Michigan's hockey squad. An Irish studded Boston Uni- versity sextet piled up all of its goals in the second period to turn back the Wolverines 4-3, in the second game of the NCAA cham- pionship playoffs here last night. JUST ONE YEAR ago today an- other Eastern squad, Dartmouth University, lowered the boom on Michigan in NCAA play to beat the Maize and Blue, 4-2. Last night in a game that had surprisingly few penalties, two against Michigan and three on Boston, called for a national tourney contest, the Wolverines saw a first period 2-0 lead van- ish into thin air as the Terriers exploded their devastating four goal attack in the middle frame. Two Irishmen, Jack Kelley and John Garrity, proved to be the biggest thorns in the Wolverines sides. Kelley poked in two of the Beantowner's goals and Garrity set a new American collegiate in- dividual scoring record as he post- ed one goal and added an assist to bring his season's total to 80 points. * * * IN THE BOSTON goal All- American Ike Bevins played a tre- mendous game for the Terriers as he kicked out 36 Michigan at- tempts. Jack Maclnnes was forc- ed to repel but 14 Terrier shots. Paul Pelow got Michigan off to an early lead at 49 seconds of the first period on a shot from 30 feet out that hit goalie Ike Bevins' pads and trickled through for the score. Ros Smith got an assist on the play. Then at 10:57, with Boston's Kelley off the ice for freezing the puck, Captain Wally Grant took a pass from Earl Keyes and fired a long shot from the left-hand corner that got past Bevins and put Michigan ahead, 2-0. THE SECOND period opened with both teams playing a more See SECOND, Page 3 Stalin Talk Plan Ignored By Presidenit KEY WEST, Fla.-(IP)-Presi- dent Truman ignored yesterday, a suggested radio-telephone talk with Premier Stalin and reviewed his troubled legislative situation with his top legal advisor. He decided to get a first hand report on the outlook for key measures in his "Fair Deal" pro- gram in a telephone conversation Monday with his Congressional "Big four." PRESIDENTIAL S cretary Charles C. Ross said Mr. Truman wil telephone Vice - President Barkley, Speaker Rayburn, Sen- ate Majority Leader Lucas and House Majority Leader McCor- mack, whom he usuelly consults every Monday at the White House. The decision to call the "Big Four" was made after Mr. Tru- man conferred for 45 minutes with Charles S. Murphy, his new special counsel, in the "Win- ter White House" on the legis- Festival 0 <0, Student Art Festival goes into its second session at 2 p.m. today with a program of music, short plays, poetry and discussions. At 2 p.m. in the Museum of Art,- Alumni Memorial Hall, an archi- tectural panel will discuss "Evalu- ation of Modern Trends in Archi- tecture." Robert Lyte will be mo- derator. FOLLOWING THE intermission, five poems by University students will be read by Charles Olsen. The poems are "Being of Your Flesh" by Howard Staley, "Jazzing Around" by Saul Gottlieb, "The Message" by T. E. Parker, "The Latest Consecration" by W. B. Trousdale and "One Kind of Growth" by Howard Staley. Switching from the spoken word to the vibrating string, Andrew Lisko, Edward Troupin and Joan Bullen Lewis will play to perform George Wilson's "String Trio." The afternoon program will be1 concluded with a discussion, "Formal Organization of Artistic Materials." Moderator Nafe Kat- ter will be assisted by Lester Fa- der, Jack Juebler, Andrew Minor, Lou Orlin and Jim Stephenson. * * * "DOES CONTEMPORARY De- sign Meet Current Demand?" will be the problem of a visual art pan- el when the Art Festival recon- venes at 8 p.m. in the Museum of Ar. At the conclusion of the pan- el discussion, four poems set to music by Lee Eitzen will be per- formed by Leslie Eitzen, soprano and Dolores DiLorenzo, pianist. The pieces are entitled "Stop- ping by Woods on a Snowy Eve- ning" by Robert Frost, "A Ques- tion" by John Synge, When You Are Old" by W. B. Yeats and "Sil- ly Sweetheart" by Walter de la Mare. * * * THE MUSIC to the final song is written by Grant Beglarian and * * * Continues Today -Daily-Wally Barth STUDENT ARTS FESTIVAL-Murray Gitlin and Bernice Wein- berger practice for the Modern Dance Club's presentation of Wil- Gam Trousdale's poem "The Old at the final session of the three p.m. tomorrow. is based on Strowan Robertson's "Tell Me Another One." Following a brief intermission three duologues will be present- ed. The first, "A Fable" by Strowan Robertson will be act- ed. by Reid Shelton and Charles Olsen. The second, "This Ad Arbitri- um" by William Trousdale will feature Bette Ellis and Nafe Kat- Overflow Audience Jams First Inter-Arts Session An enthusiastic overflow crowd jammed Alumni Memorial Hall last night to see and hear the first session of the Inter-Arts Festival. The audience heard a concerto for orchestra by Edward Chuda- coff, the introductory lecture to the Festival by Prof. Charles L. Stevenson of the philosophy de- partment, and saw the world pre- miere of a locally-made film, "The Well-Wrought Ern." They also wandered among the exhibit of visual art objects in the two gal- 'Generation' Sales Continue Today A few remaining copies of "Gen- eration," campus literary maga- zine will be on sale over the week- end and Monday, according to Norman Gottlieb, business mana- ger of the periodical. Sales wil continue at all the Arts Festival Meetings today and tomorrow. If there are any left by Monday, we will sell on campus from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., said Gottlieb. leries of student work devoted to the Festival. PROF. STEVENSON, address- ing himself to the question, "What's the Good of Art, Any- way?" pointed out that the ques- tion itself is often rejected by ar- tists and philosophers because they feel that art is its own re- ward. But, he said, it is possible and desirable to go further, and in- sist that artistic creation and ap preciation havecextra-artis- tic value-that art has the func- tions of developing our sensiti- vity and insight, and of pro- viding an ideal or blueprint with which to compare the ac- tual world. A number of philosophers and scientists have maintained that art involves "emotional exercise." Aristotle described it as katharsis. Freud talked of a theory of sub- limation., INTERPRETING this type of theory in other terms, Prof. Ste- venson said that most of us "learn more about psychology in art than anywhere else." City". The dance will be staged day arts festival beginning at 2 ter. The concluding duologue will be Daniel Waldron's "Icarus and The Fair". The cast includes Joyce Edgar and Charles Olsen. The evening program will end with a discussion, "Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication." Sunday's program of symphony music, ballet, modern dance, met- rical psalms and discussions will conclude the Festival. World News Roundup By The Associated Press BRUSSELS-About 100,000 Bel- gian workers struck yesterday to demonstrate their opposition to the return of King Leopold to the throne. The country voted in a "popular consultation" last Sun- day which resulted in a majority of 57.7 to ask the king back. SALTZBURG - Two Ameri- can soldiers were sentenced to long prison terms by an Army court martial in Salzburg, Aus- tria, yesterday on charges of kidnapping a Romanian-born mystery man and turning him over to the Russians in Vienna. * *-* WASHINGTON - Gen. Muir S. Fairchild, 55, Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force, died unexpectedly last night of a heart attack while at his quarters at nearby Fort Myer, Va. * . .* WASHINGTON-Federal Judge J. Waties Waring, of Charleston, S.C., recommended yesterday that immediate pressure be put on Congress and the White House for human rights to provide racial equality. Calls State Department Prejudiced FBI 'Police State' Plan Criticized By The Associated Press WASHINGTON - Senator Mc- Carthy charged yesterday that the "boss" of the State Department's Loyalty Board has issued a man- date for a "complete and thorough whitewash" of diplomat John Ste- wart Service. Slamming back at Deputy Un- dersecretary of State John E. Peu- rifoy, who accused McCarthy Thursday of reviving "dead, dis- credited, disproven" pro-Com- munist charges against Service, the Wisconsin Senator, a Repub- lican, said in a statement: "This is the sort of thing we know goes on behind closed doors, but this is the first time the de- partment has had the effrontery to publicly tell their owl loyalty board how to prejudice the case before hearing the facts." McCARTHY HAS charged that Service has a "crystal clear" rec- ord of favoring Communism. McCarthy's new blast at Peuri- foy came less than 24 hours after the State Department official warmly defended Service as a vic- tim of "baseless" attacks and de- lared it was "a shame and a dis- grace" that Service should be brought back for a new loyalty hearing. A NEW defender of Service's loyalty stepped forward, mean- while, in the person of Rear Ad- miral Ellis Zacharias, retired, for- mer Deputy Chief of Naval In- telligence. Zacharias told newsmen in Milwaukee he would personally vouch for the "patriotism and integrity" of Service. He said he knew Service's work well, and declared he was certain that some of McCarthy's informa- tion is "inadequate and erron- eous." Meanwhile, in Washington, the Department of Justice expressed grave concern over a Congressional proposal which it said might lay the FBI open to criticism as a "state police organization." The plan, already approved by the House, would require the FBI to pass judgment on the loyalty of some government employes. Hitherto it has merely investigat- ed loyalty cases, without drawing conclusions of its own. PEYTON FORD, Assistant to U.S. Attorney General McGrath, said he reflected the views of FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover and Sec- retary of Jefense Johnson in de- claring: "The proposal is fraught with peril, not only to the bureau, but also to the country itself." Ford wrote members of the House Interstate Commerce Com- mittee that the FBI is now sole- ly an "investigative and fact- gathering" agency which submits reports without any attempt -to evaluate the data turned up in its investigations or to make recom- mendations. Bowron Asks Civilian Atom Defense Plan WASHINGTON-(IP)-Los Ange- les' Mayor told Congress yesterday that the cities have no idea what to do about civilian atomic de- fense and he criticized Washing- ton's handling of the problem. "We don't know who is respon- sible," said ; the witness, Fletcher Bowron. "We don't know whom to contact. If Washington can't handle this, it can't handle a war without tremendous waste of ef- fort." TESTIFYING as the Senate- House Atomic Committee held its first public hearing on civilian de- fense, Bowron said there should be one agency responsible for this SAC ACTION NEXT: SL's Calendar Criteria Gains Campus Approval ) N Student Legislature's new cri- teria for approving student events to be placed on the University cal- enedar were greeted yesterday with general campus favor. Although the criteria must be submitted to the Student Affairs Committee for final approval next Tuesday, leaders of several major campus organizations supported SL's new plan for calendaring stu- dent events. * * * MARGE FLINT, '50, president of the League, called the list of criteria "very well thought out." "It seems to cover nearly every point which should be consider- Legislature, pointing out that "it would provide a basis for greater student responsibility." "And possibly it would elimin- ate the frequent financial failures among student-sponsored events," he added. S * * * JACOBSON was seconded by Betty Jo Faulk, '50, president of Pan Hellenic Association, who said that "an adequate screening of student-sponsored events by SL is necessary to eliminate over-crowd- ed weekend schedules." Miss Faulk reported that the Pan Hellenic Association had NO ORANGE ALLOWED: City Survives Wild St. Patrick's Day n.7 Ann Arbor police had a quiet time of it last night in spite of an over-abundance of beer-drink- ing "Irishmen" jamming down- town streets and taverns from about 1 p.m. yesterday, celebrat- liquid, too, according to the man- ager. But all five closed promptly at midnight against all student protest. After the witching hour, however, singing groups still straggled along the streets. But New York didn't have a monopoly on March 17 celebra- tions. Green-bedecked Boston observ- ed St. Patrick's Day and evacua- tion day together. Evacuation day