-i IN THIS CORNER Y See Page 2 Latest Deadline in the State D~Ali CLOUDY, COLD TWELVE P1 VOL. LV, No. 115 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, MARCH 19, 1950 TWELVE, FA Elder Crew To See Ship Into Harbor Full Crew Found Safe In Pacific PEARL HARBOR - (A) - The ;inervy skipper and crew men who laved .the navy net tender Elder from explosion and fire in a week- long ordeal in mid-Pacific, vowed yesterday to see their charred lit- tle ship into harbor. The Hawaiian sea frontier com- mand, however, said present plans called for bringing them promptly to Pearl Harbor in another ship. IT WAS interested in learning the particulars of the whole opera- tion, including how a nearby transport passed them by four days before they finally were rescued. All the Elder's crew of 40 were found safe late Friday, 26 of them in life rafts into which the skipper, Lt. William F. Adams, had ordered them when the fire spread March 10. Lt. Adams and 13 volunteers who had stayed aboard and snatched the Elder from doom after a long "truggle, were located 17 miles away aboard their charred and helpless ship. THE PACIFIC fleet commander, Adm. Arthur W. Radford, yester- day "dispatched the traditional "well-done" signals to all hands involved. But - the Navy also started organizing an inquiry to find out why a military transport sailed near the stricken Elder last Monday without responding to frantic distress signals that included gunfire and flares. Lt. Adams in a radiophone in- terview was outspoken about his failure to attract attention of the transport General A. W. Brew- ster. * * * THE TRANSPORT is en route to Yokahama from San Fran- cisco. When' the Navy began in- quiring about the overdue Elder on Wednesday, the transport re- ported sighting the missing ship Monday in no apparent distress 700 miles from its destination - the atomic weapons testing island of Eniwetok. Lt. Adams said the Brewster passed within two miles and was in sight for an hour and a half but did not heed signals. "We signaled with everything we had aboard except our 3-inch gun. If we'd had ammunition left for that, we would have used it, too." The ammunition had been jet- tisoned while fighting the fire, which started at 2 a.m. Friday and was finally extinguished shortly before the Brewster hove into view. Rain Makers Plan NY Try NEW YORK - (P) - Some- where in the wooded wilderness of New York state's Catskill moun- tains, a small band of scientists is about to begin an experiment that may point the way to new life for vast areas of the earth. They're trying - for the first time on a day-to-day, scientfically controlled basis - to produce man-made rain. Their immediate goal is to coax from the heavens enough water to fill New York City's half-empty reservoirs, and ena a shortage that threatens to bedevil the nation's largest city for years to come. But this may be only the be- ginning. "In a world not producing enough food, there are many places suffering from a continuous lack of moisture and raim," scientists claim. Dorm Named For Late Dean The University s year-old new women's dormitory at last has a 'M' Icers Take Third in NCA A By RES HOLMES (Special to The Daily) COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.-Michigan's hockey team fought back yesterday afternoon, after another second period lapse, to whip defending champion Boston College, 10-6 and to take third place in the NCAA hockey playoffs. The Wolverines led at the end of the first period, 3-0, but lost their stuff in the middle stanza, as they did Friday night, and the score stood at 5-all going into the final period. * * * * WINGMAN GIL BURFORD cut loose for three goals in the first seven minutes of the third stanza, however, to put the game away for Michigan. Burford was also responsible for two of the goals in the first period and his game-total of five tied the NCAA record 4> Colorado's Thursday College. Carl night Lawrence set against Boston Soviet Zone Marks Falls, Stops Trade BERLIN - (P) - The Soviet zone's east mark plummeted in value to little more than two cents yesterday. The collapse paralyzed trade in the Russian sector of Ber- lin.I Rumors that the Russians would make their revalued ruble the monetary basis in the Soviet satellites, including East Ger- many, touched off the panic. * * * - A DENIAL by the East German bank of emission failed to brake the slide. The situation dramatized Ger- man's faith in the West mark, which is backed by European recovery and the reputation of the American dollar. It is worth 23.8 cents. Fifty-two money exchange of- fices, where Berliners trade East marks for West marks and vice versa, were thronged with long lines of persons trying to unload every East mark in their posses- sion. THE EXCHANGE officers re- fused todhandle any big amounts. They did business only with the small customers. They said they did not have enough West marks on hand to meet the demand. The office closed at noon - the usual hour on Saturday - with the official rate pegged at nine East marks to one West mark. The usually realistic black market hit ten to one. Banks in- dicated new official rates are a virtual certainty when business is resumed Monday. Find Body of Atom Scientist CHICAGO - (P) - The body of a young atomic research as- sistant at the University of Chi- cago was found on a fraternity house couch yesterday. He was John Wilber Goddard, 30. laboratory assistant in the University's institute for nuclear studies. Police said a "beaker of chemi- cals" was on the floor near the body, found in the Sigma Chi fraternity house. Dr. A. C. Webb, coroner's phy- sician, said an autopsy indicated that Goddard died of unnatural causes. He said there was no evi- dence of disease or death from natural causes. The physician said he will perform a chemical analysis on vital organs. An inquest will be held tomor- row. Before game - time - neither team showed much interest in playing the contest but once on the ice lots of hard and fast hockey was played. There were no penalties throughout the en- tire game, as the checking was hard but clean. Michigan carried the attack in- to the Boston zone for the major part of the game. Boston only came to life during the second period when they began to press the Wolverine defendersand man- aged to dent the net five times. THE TENSENESS and pressure which was evident in Friday night's game seemed to be non- existent in yesterday's contest. The Wolverines played loose and free, and were able to take advantage of almost every opportunity, whereas two night's ago they couldn'tthit the puck if they had five shots in a row at it. This was especially evident in the playing of Center Earl Keyes. Friday night his usual See 'M' SEXTET, Page 6 World News Roundup By The Associated Press PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia-The Vatican's last representative in' Czechoslovakia left the country yesterday under an expulsion or- der. The U.S. Embassy warned all American citizenssliving in Czech- oslovakia yesterday they are sub- ject to expulsion at a moment's notice and may be held incom- municado for a long time if ar- rested. * * SAIGON, Vietnam - Daring Indochinese guerrillas last night hurled machine gun and mortar fire at two American destroyers anchored here, but did not score a hit. * * * BELGRADE, Yugoslavia - Two top ranking members of Premier Tito's powerful Politburo said yes- terday Yugoslavia will pursue a straight and independent course in the cold war between the East and West. The speakers were Mi- lovan Djilas, secretary of the Yu- goslav communist party's polit- buro, and Edvard Kardel, deputy premier and foreign minister. * * * HONG KONG-The C hinese Communist 44th Army today was reported to have left Can- ton for a staging base for the expected invasion of Hainan, Nationalist Island of South China. * * * TAIPEI, Formosa - Nationalist sources grudgingly intimated to- day that their forces had made a commando-type raid on the Red China mainland about 200 miles south of Shanghai. McCarthy's Charges Go Unanswered Jessup Believed Preparing Reply WASHINGTON- UP) -Citing a presidential order, the Civil Ser- vice Loyalty Review Board last night refused to answer questions by Senator McCarthy (R-Wis.) about the case of diplomat John S. Service. Seth W. Richardson, the Board chairman, wrote McCarthy that if he wishes to pursue the matter further he should take it up with President Truman. * * * MEANWHILE U.S. Ambassador Philip C. Jessup was believed yes- terday to be preparing a major administration counter assault against Senator McCarthy's char- ges of Reds in the State Depart- ment. Jessup, a top-ranking policy adviser, will testify tomorrow before a Senate committee in- vestigating the Wisconsin sena- tor's contentions that Commun- ist sympathizers infest the De- partment. He named Jessup as one and the official flew here to reply. McCarthy has charged that Ser- vice, foreign service officer as- signed to India, is pro-Communist and that the State Department has ordered "a complete and thor- ough whitewash" of his case. The department called McCarthy's charges "dead and discredited." SERVICE has been ordered back from India to testify personally before the Department's Loyalty Board. This was recommended by the Civil Service Review Board and yesterday Chairman Richardson announced he was investigating to find out how McCarthy learn- ed about the Review Board's re- commendation before it was made public. d McCarthy sprang his informa- tion last Tuesday to a Senate committee which is hearing his charges that the State Depart- ment is riddled with Communist sympathizers. McCarthr also announced that tomorrow he will turn over to the committee the names in the 81 cases he outlined to the Senate on Feb. 20. He said then that the individuals in each case either work for the State Department now or did at one time. The committee has been trying to obtain the names since the in- vestigation started ten days ago.! Drama, Music Featured At Arts Festival A program of music, darama and discussions ended the second day of the Inter-Arts Festival last night. The problem of integrating verbal and non-verbal mediums of art was discussed by a panel chaired by Alfred Storey, which included Harriet Risk, William' Wiiegand, Douglas MacIntosh, Theodore Sizer and Robert Shedd. * *, * NO REAL CHANCE for integra- tion in the arts exists till people in one field can be articulate in the others, Shedd declared. Three five-minute duologues, by Strowan Robertson, William Trousdale, '52, and Daniel Wal- dron, '51, were presented. Trous- dale's "This Ad Arbitrium" later became the subject of a critical discussion on the effectiveness of the symbolism used. The afternoon session featured a discussion on "the formal or- ganization of artistic materials," by a panel composed of Nafe Kat- ter, moderator, Grant Beglarian, George Wilson, Andrew Minor, and Jim Bob Stephenson. ON THE UESTION of obscuri- ty of form in art, the panel con- cluded that ultimate understand- ing of a work of art takes time, and that form is sometimes one of the last things to be understood. The festival will end today with programs at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Afternoon features are an overa- -frnb . r 'Pif.,- n n ron ("li An Belgian Leaves I.- -Daily-Alan Reid CORSET CAPERS-Racing against time, women lace madly in an effort to be the first to get their men properly corseted at last night's "lace it up" contest at the Michigan Theatre. Contestants are, left to right, Dick Hurst, Barbara Bright and Ben Gates. LcIUp*n*atPl * 'Lce It Up' Contes tants Pull Stings Cabinet King TI Resignse By PAUL BRENTLINGER Four women "laced it up" last night on the stage of the Michigan Theatre. They lacer up four corsets, which were 'being worn by four men at the time. All this was part of aspecial "lace it up" contest, held just before the late show began last night to publicize the forthcoming Union Opera, "Lace It Up." * * * FIGHTING against time and spirited organ music, the four young ladies feverishly pulled and twisted the corset strings in order to lace up their man first and win two tickets to the Opera. ON PHOENIX TOUR: President Ruthven Appointed Admiral In Nebraska Navy University NROTC midship- men had better polish up their saluting, for President Alexander G. Ruthven has just been ap- pointed a full' admiral - in the Nebraska Navy. He was issued his commission in Omaha, by Gov. Val Peterson Pastor Seeks 'H' Bomb Fast BEXHILL, Eng., - (P) - A Church of England pastor last night laid down the rules for his proposed "hydrogen bomb fast" for the two weeks between March 26 and Easter Sunday. It will mean "no food= for 12 hours during the day, except for a light breakfast and a light eve- ning meal," he said. "Water and fruit juice will be permitted." The Rev. R. S. S. Waterson ad- vocated the fast last Saturday. He urged Britons to stop work and begin a solemn fast next Sun- day unless a "national:committee" is formed to demand negotiations on atomic weapons between the U.S. and Russia. "It is not a hunger strike but more in the nature of the tradi- tional way we meet a spiritual crisis - that is by fasting and prayer," Dr. Waterson said. of Nebraska who wrote "there is but one rank in our navy. We are all admirals." * * * ADMIRAL RUTHVEN w as in Omaha to address more than 100 University alumni who ,gathered to hear him discuss the Michigan- Memorial Phoenix Project. The new Admiral, whose pre- vious 'naval experience is con- fined to serving as a member of the Board of Visitors of the Na- val Academy at Annapolis, de- Blared that he 'expects to re- ceive full naval recognition from the campus NROTC unit. Eight more cities are yet to be visited by President and Mrs. Ruthven in their month-long tour of the Northwest to publicize the $6,500,000 war memorial research program into the peace-time uses of atomic energy. * * * REACTION of alumni and other interested citizens to the Phoenix story is very encouraging, accord- ing to President Ruthven. They are particularly enthusias- tic over the fact that the Univer- sity is taking a firm stand against government control of research and education by not asking fed- eral funds for the project, he said. The Ruthven party, which in- cludes Phoenix publicists and drive officials in addition to the educator and his wife, will re- turn to Ann Arbor April 7. First to get a proper founda- tion around her man was Judy Norris, who had Dick HuIrst, '50BAd, under control in the record time of 5:03.2. Commenting on Miss Norris' victory, Hurst said "She is a nurse, and knows all about this sort of thing." Winning the "Lace It Up"!tickets was no particular thrill for Hurst, however. * * * , "I ALREADY have 100 tickets for the thing which I have to dis- tribute to my fraternity brothers, so I hardly needed two more,"'he moaned. Modeled after the "Doctor IQ" radio program, last night's contest featured "Doctor PDQ," actually Mike Craver,'50BAd, one of the stars of "Lace It Up."- The doc- tor's assistants, stationed in the balcony and on the left and right downstairs, lured the contestants to the theatre stage. Besides the winning duo,- other lacers who pulled and tugged for the tickets were Nancy Townsend, John Reynolds, Ben Gates, '51, Barbara Bright, Ann Drew, Grad. and Ted Heusel, Grad. Vandenberg Gives'U' Aid Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, who underwent a major chest operation at the University Hos- pital last October, has donated $2,000 to tkie University of Michi- gan for Thoracic Surgery Re- search. The sum was included in a total of $78,000 in gifts accepted by the Board of Regents at their week- end meeting. Largest single gift was $25,000 for the Bronchial Asthma Re- search fund from Mr. L. J. Mont- gomery of Battle Creek. Another grant from the Ameri- can Cancer Society amounted to $23,000. Goverment Splits Over Exile Issue General Election May Be Result BRUSSELS, Belgium - (1) - The Belgian Government resigned yesterday and thereby postponed King Leopold's chance to return to his throne. The collapse of the government was caused'by the eight liberal ministers' ,who refused to go along with the nine pro-Leopold Social Christians in calling a joint ses- sion of the two houses of Parlia- ment to end the regency and invite the 48-year old monarch to' re- ' ' turn from exile in Switzerland. ONE OF THE possible results may be new general elections. The King, still in a jam be- cause of his surrender to the Germans after only 18 days of fighting in 1940, will not be able to come back until Belgum has a government which agrees to call Parliament into joint session. Parliament must then repeal a law of 1945 which bars Leopold from resuming his constitutional powers without its permission. * * * PRINCE CHARLES, brother of the King, who has been regent' since the liberation, had not yet started consultations, last night on formation of such a govern- ment. In refusing to agree to call a joint session the liberals stood by their pre-plebiscite position that the King must obtain a majority of the votes in the French-speaking South and East (Walloonia) and the socialist- dominated central Brussels area as well as the Flemish-speaking North and West. In the advisory plebiscite of last Sunday, in which the people were asked whether they wanted the King back, 57.68 per cent voted "yes." * * * LEOPOLD won 71.09 per cent of the vote in Flanders. But he failed to' capture the Walloon provinces where he received only 42.11 per cent, and the Brussels area, where he got only 48.17 per cent. Former Premier Paul-Henri Spaak's socialists, bitter Leopold opponents, said this showed Leo- pold would not be king of all the Belgians, but only of the Flemish. Socialist labor union leaders Friday called thousands of work- ers out in a 24-hour warning strike to demonstrate a conten- tion that chaos would result if Leopold returns. The strike was over yesterday. Reports from Charleroi, Mons and Naumur, the southern centers of the walkout, said the situation was normal again. But one leader implIed that new strike movements might take place Monday with the observation that "today is pay day." One way out of Belgium's dead- lock would be for Leopold to ab- dicate in favor of his 19-year-old, son, Prince Baudouin.-This is not likely. Special Meet Called For SL A LATE DEBUT: Night Owls To Welcome; Spring's, Tardy Arrival, _ _ _ - rs(sHORA sT UNION FINALE: Francescatti To Per form Toitor row Only night owls will be around to hoot a welcome to Spring when it arrives in full glory tomorrow night. The exact time of its arrival wll be 11:36 p.m., nearly six hours later than last year, ac- cording to Prof. Hazel M. Losh, o~f th'e ..actyrrnnm rI'nartfllpt. complete its yearly journey, in- stead of an equal number, Prof. Losh explained. This requires the insertion of an extra day every fourth year to make the calendar agree more nearly with the yearly path of the sun.. "If you look into the eastern sky Violin playing in the Paganini style is in store for concert-goers when Zino Francescatti performs in the final Choral Union con- cert at 8:30 p.m. tomorrow at Hill Auitorium Student Legislature will meet i special session at 7:30 p.m. tomor row at the Union, to reconside its new criteria for approving c disapproving student events to t placed on the University calenda Although the Legislators vote overwhelmingly Wednesday nigh to accept the criteria drawn u by Arnold .Miller, '51, they finall tabled a motion to amend one c the seven points as the meetin ended with a flurry of parli mentary confusion, The criteria will be submitte When he was ten Francescatti scored a musical triumph in the Beethoven Concerto, and at 20 established himself as a top vio- linist through the success of his fnrmsl rhebt with the Orchestra r ...., 1 v.. r.": :'.F, fr,'.":