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VOL. LX, No. 123 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1950
EIGHT PAGES
Reds
Barred
from
Wayne
'U
Programs
Government
Lists Closed
GOT A 'LITTLE' LIST:
U' Minors' Names
To Senators
Truman Refuses'
rF.R PaACl Fi Cl
Given to
Taverns
X U]ue ese Fles
WASHINGTON-(P) - Presi-
dent Truman yesterday refused to
surrender loyalty files to Congress,
and a Senate committee investi-
gating charges of Communism in
the State Department promptly
issued subpoenas for the records.
Senator Millard Tydings (D-
Md) told newsmen he had signed
subpoenas for the complete files-
State, Department, FBI hand', U.S.
Civil Service Commission-on all
persons cited as pro-Communist
by Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis).
* *
TYDINGS made his announce-
ment within 20 minutes after
President Truman, on vacation in
Key West, Fla., disclosed his de-
cision to reject a formal request
of the Tydings subcommittee for
access to the secret Government
files.
In view of Truman's stand,
it is considered a foregone con-
clusion that subordinate officials
will decline to obey the sub-
poenas.
Tydings had previously said
that if behind-the-scenes negoti-
ations to get the records failed and
he were forced to issue subpoenas,
his face would be "pretty red be-
cause everybody knows we have
f no power to enforce them."
However, the issuance of the
subpoenas paved the way for a
possible test, in the courts, on the
question of whether the executive
branch of the government has the:
right to refuse any information or
papers demanded by Congress.
ALTHOUGH rejecting .the Sen-
ate committee's request, Truman
asked chairman Seth -Richardson
of the Civil Service Loyalty Re-
view Board to make a quick re-
view of all the cases named by Mc-
Carthy.
By JAMES GREGORY
A list of all University students under 21 years of age as of March
1 is being distributed to every beer and liquor dealer in Washtenaw
County.
Circulation of the list was accompanied by warnings from Uni-
versity and city officials that they*will crack down with increasing
severity on students who violate state and local liquor laws.
* * * ,*
THE ALPHABETIZED tally of some 6,000 names was prepared by
the Office of Student Affairs at the request of the Ann Arbor Police
%> J
SAC Action
Detains S
Calendar
Student Legislature's new plan
for the calendaring of student-
sponsored events was temporarily
shelved yesterday when the Stu-
dent Affairs Committee requested
the Legislature to clarify the "ad-
ministrative procedures" involved
in its proposal.
SL president Quent Nesbitt, an
SAC member, reported that the
committee decided to delay action
on the calendar plan "until the
Legislature sets forth a detailed
procedure to be followed in hand-
ling .all applications to sponsor
campus events."
* * *
PREVIOUSLY, SL had drawn
up a set of criteria by which all
events would be judged by itsj
calendar committee and had sub-i
mitted the plan to the SAC with
the recommendation that it be
given full approval power, subject
to appeal to the SAC.
In addition, the SL proposal
stipulated that its calendar com-
mittee should deny the holding
of an event only on the basis
of the sponsoring group's finan-
cial stability.
Department, in the wake of a re-
cent ,flood of liquor violations by
University students. The Univer-
sity's secretarial service mimeo-
graphed approximately 250 copies
for distribution by police and sher-
iff's officers.
Throughout the county, every
bar and tavern, every liquor store,
and any other store selling intoxi-
cants will be furnished with-one
of the lists, each of which runs to
nearly 80 double-column pages.
Dean of Students Erich A.
Walter said, "The lists were pre-
pared with two aims in mind:
to save the student the possi-
bility of being apprehended, and
to save the proprietor the pos-
sibility of losing his license."
Walter B. Rae, associate dean
of students, added, "It is hoped
that conscientious use of these
lists will serve the best interests of
our community."
CHIEF OF POLICE Caspar En-
kemann noted, "Use of the lists
won't stop the trouble entirely,
because there will still be some
changing of identification cards."
But if an older person loans
an I.D. to someone not of age,
the older person can be penal-
ized also, he pointed out.
All students suspected by police
of violating liquor laws will be
taken to court, Chief Enkemann
warned.
Tavern owners, and other beer
and liquor dealers contacted by
The Daily yesterday all favored
issuance of the age lists, and in
general, students under 21 ex-
pressed consternation when in-
formed of the new lists.
* * *
MEANWHILE, the number of
students arrested for liquor viola-
tions in that past two weeks has
mounted to nine. Five of these
students pleaded guilty and were
fined, each paying a total of $51.25.
Four pleaded not guilty and will
be tried next week. All cases are
being handled by the Ann Arbor
Municipal Court.
Dean Walter said yesterday,
"Any student who is charged by
the local court for a liquor of-
fense has his case reviewed by
the Dean of Students' office.
It may also be referred to the
University Disciplinary Commit-
tee."
Municipal Judge F r a n c i s
O'Brien had this to say of liquor
violations by students: "The pen-
alties, of course, will be severe.
But I think the most tragic thing'
about any such violation is that
is leads to a criminal record."
Ambassador
Perishes in
Plane Crash'
Officials Refute
Sabotage Rumor
RAMSAYVILLE, Ont. - (P) -
American Ambassador Laurence
A. Steinhardt, American Ambas-
sador to Canada, and four other
men died yesterday in the explo-
sion and crash of a U.S. Embassy
plane which fell from a sunlit sky.
Apparently they chose in the
last desperate minutes of the
flight to take their chances with
the flaming two-engine aircraft
instead of trying low-level para-
,hute jumps. There was no indica-
ion that the plane may have been
Sabotaged, investigators said.
THE LONE survivor, who did
lump, said the pilot, Capt. Thomas
G. Archibald, struggled to keep
he doomed C-47 high enough tc
;ive those aboard time to jump.
Archibald was among those killed
MjSgt. Gwynne A. Long. 35
years old, of Vannoy, N.C., para-
chuted from the stricken plane
at 700 feet. Long, a U.S. Air
Force crew chief, was the only
one who got out of the accident
alive.
He only gave a vivid description
of the crash to persons at the
cene and later by telephone to
State Department officials at
Washington. This was his account:
THE PLANE was flying at 2,000
feet when the right-hand engine
Maught fire. Between the time the
:ire was discovered and the ex-
olosion occurred, those aboard
lonned parachutes.
"The pilot told sus all to keep
calm and he would give us enough
aeight to jump. I tried to get the
:est of them out the door but they
;aid they would stick with the
aircraft."
It was then, Long said, that he
jumped alone.
The 57-year-old Steinhardt, a
lawyer and director in numerous
corporations who adopted a dip-
lomatic career in 1933, had served
as the chief of diplomatic missions
in Sweden, Peru, Russia, Turkey
and Czechoslovakia at critical
periods before, during and after
the war. Since 1948, he had been
ambassador to Canada.
World News
Roundup
By The Associated Press
LONDON-Winston unurchill
told the House of Commons yes-
terday he believes a new world
war is neither imninent nor inevi-
table.-
The Conservative leader again
proposed that the Western pow-
ers use German soldiers in "a
combined system of defense"
against Communism.
* * *
WASHINGTON-The House
Judiciary Committee, which is
supporting a plan to abolish the
electoral college presidential
election system, approved the
Senate - passed Lodge - Gosset
Bill to submit the proposal to
the states in the form of a con-
stitutional amendment yester-
day.
* * *
CINCINNATI-A wave of high
school strikes spread over Ohio
yesterday with more than 600
students in four schools quitting
in defense of teaching personnel.
The walkouts were caused by
demotions and firing of teachers
or failure on the part of authori-
ties to rehire them. In no case was
loyalty to United States reported
to be an issue.
* * *
BORDEAUX, FRANCE-All 12
crew members were killed yester -
day when a six-motored French
seaplane being tested for freight
service plunged into the sea after
a wing fell off in flight.
TAIPEI, Formosa-The Chinese
-aiy-Cariyie Marsnal
LAST MINUTE WOES-A year of hard work produced the glassy
stare on the face of Jim Ebersole,''50. Ebersole, general manager
of "Lace It Up," has his pulse checked by one of his secretaries,
Lois Miller, '50, on the eve of the 1950 Union Opera's premiere.
Union Opr L It Up'
To Open Hsere Tonifoht
I
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1
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Tydings said the five mem- Nesbitt said that although the
bers of his Senate Foreign Rela- .AC members had almost reached
tions Subcommitteet, which has agreement on the Legislature's
been investigating McCarthy's criteria, they felt that "events
charges of Reds in the State De- should be judged on more than the
partment, unanimously backed financial stability of the sponsor-
his action in issuing the sub- ing organization and that the pro-
poenas. cedural steps should be clarified."
The President said he had come * *
to the "inescapable conclusion," HE PREDICTED that SL would
based on advice from U.S. Attor- probably outline the administra-
ney General J. Howard McGrath tive features of its plan "speci-
and FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, fically and in detail" at its next
that the loyalty files must be kept meeting and set up a hypothetical
"in strictest confidence." test case to clearly illustrate the
Truman explained this was ne- procedure.
cessary to prevent "injustice and Pointing out that any revisioni
unfairness to innocent indivi- of the calendaring procedure is "a
duals" who might be smeared by very important step with almost'
confidential data in FBI records; unlimited ramifications," Nesbitt
and to avoid "embarrassment and expressed no regret with the SAC's
danger to confidential infor- action.
mants. * * "This is an extremely compli-
Tated problem and we want to
THE PRESIDENT'S action and make certain that the final calen-
the swift reaction on Capitol Hill daring program is suitable," he
marked a day of fast-moving de-
By PAUL BRENTLINGER
Opeping with a lusty musical
description of "Cupid's Aid Lin-
xerie," the 1950 Union Opera "Lace
It Up" will have its world pre-
niere at 8:30 p.m. today in the
Michigan Theatre.
"Lace It Up" will cast a musi-
'al glance at the lighter' side of
labor-management relations in a
ingerie factory. The second in the
atest revived series of Union
>peras, this year's show promises
o be the biggest and most elabor-
ite since the roaring, 1920's.
* * *
AMONG.THOSE attending the
irst night performance of "Lace
t Up" will be Gov. G. Mennen
Nilliams. Gov. Williams will be
ipholding the tradition he es-
ablished last year when he at-
Union Setup
Again Subject
Of Meeting
The Michigan Union Board of
Directors will get together again
:onight with representatives of a
tudent group seeking campus-
vide election of the Union presi-'
!ent and secretary.
Amendments to the Union con-
titution, proposed by the 236
nember student group, will be in
for further study and discussion
it the second Board meeting in
Jwo weeks.
THE AMENDMENTS would
han ge the present method under
which the two senior officers are
selected by a Union committee.
fhe proposals were contained in a
-etitionwhich wascirculated by
ier~b Leiman '50 and submitted
our weeks ago.
Although Union president Bill
Wise, '50 BAd, considered the
petition "not adequate as it
stands," he said at the time that
he would be "more than happy"
to ask the Board, of Directors
to study it with Leiman's group.
Wise called a special session
March 9, at which the Board "rec-
ocnized the possible desirability of
changing the constitution," and'
resolved itself into a committee'
of the whole to meet with the
petitioners.
Whatever the outcome to to-
night's meeting, the amendments'
will have to go before a general
meeting of Union members for
Anal adoption.
tended the premiere of "Froggy
Bottom," the 1949 Opera.
Leading lady in the Opera will
Jim Lobaugh, '50SM. He will
play the part of Mary Lou Pay-
raiser, the boss' daughter who
falls in love with Bill Everstrike,
son of a local lingerie workers'
union leader. Herb Wolfson,
'51L, will sing the role of Bill.
Other featured players in "Lace
It Up" include George Boucher,
'51, as the night watchman; Allen
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Jackson, '51 a news commentator
Wishwell; Mike Craver, '50BAd, as
J. Hardly Everstrike (the boss);
Richard Ferle, '50, as union offi-,
cial Payraiser; Joe Stone, '50, as
the swami and Zander Hollander
as a labor mediator named Gen.
Vaughan.
* * *
VETERAN NEW YORK theatri-
cal producer William Holbrook
serves as director of "Lace It Up."
His most recent Broadway job
was that of special dance coach
for the current hit "Gentlemen
Prefer Blondes." Holbrook also has
directed several of the famous
Harvard "Hasty Pudding" shows.
Bearing the burdens of the
world on his shoulders tonight
will be Jim Ebersole, '50. Eber-
sole has served as general mana-
ger for the Opera this year, and
has supervised the whole pro-
duction of "Lace It Up."
His assistants include music
chairman Don Wyant, '50 SM,
program chairman Dale Coenen,
'50, promotions manager Cliff
Rogers, '50 BAd, production mana-
ger Jim Johns, '50, and general
secretary Bob Russell, '50.
Bill Boyer, '50 -SM, will wield
the baton for the "Lace It Up" or-
chestra.
A HUSBAND and wife team, Mr.
and Mrs. Bob Mellencamp, were
responsible for sets and costumes
for this year's Opera. Mellencamp
designed and executed the elabor-
ate settings for the show, while
his wife supervised a crew of stu-
dent seamstresses who made the
costumes which she designed for
the Opera.
"Lace It Up" will be presented
again at 8:30 p.m. tomorrow, and
at 3:15 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Friday,
at the Michigan Theatre. Evening
performances are completely sold
out, according to promotions
chief Rogers, but a few tickets re-
main for the Friday matinee. They
will be available at the theatre box
office.
Muskrat Ramble
A wild muskrat captured by
West Quad "hunters" Sunday,
chewed its way out of the fibre
wastebasket "cage"' and was
free again today.
The furry intruder, nick-
named "Rodney" burrowed
several holes in the court of
the WestBQuad according to
"keeper" Bernie Scud, Grad.,
which suggest that Rodney, the
muskrat may intend to make
the Quad his permanent home.
250 MiltionH
Cut fromt
ForeignA id
eie
WASHINGTON --( ) - House
advocates of cuts in foreign spend-
ing succeeded yesterday in chop-
ping $250,000,000 out of the Mar-
shall Plan funds for the year be-
ginning next July 1.
Shortly afterward, a group of
farm legislators got enough sup-
port to take out of the foreign
aid bill a provision substituting
$1,000,000,000 worth of Govern-
ment-owned surplus food for that
amount of European recovery
cash.
THE NET effect was to make
the European section of the aid
bill a $2,700,000,000 cash allot-
ment, down a quarter of a billion
from what Pres. Truman wanted.
The cut - foreign - spending
forces, led by Republicans,
failed earlier in an attempt to
reduce the appropriation by
$500,000,000.
Today much the same forces
that knocked out the surplus-
substitute provision will try to tie
up the cash for open market pur-
chase of the same sort of surplus
commodities that would have been
obtained from government stocks
under the bill's original language.
Voting on amendments got un-
der way after several Republican
representatives called for reduc-
tions. They argued that too much
spending abroad weakens this
country and may even smooth the
path of Russian aggression.
THE ADMINISTRATION hit
back with the contention that
Russia will never set an hour for
an attack on the U.S. "if we do
the things we ought to do in our
self-interest." Democratic leader
McCormack (Mass) made that
reply for the Truman forces.
The first amendment up was
one by Rep. Smith (R-Wis) to
make a half-billion dollar cut in
economic cooperation adminis-
tration funds for Europe.
It lost 152 to 137.
Then Rep. Case (R-SD) made
the less drastic proposal for1a
$250,000,000 cut. It eked out a 165
to 163 victory.
Dorm Prexy
Group Meets
The first combined meeting of
the House President's Committee
of Assembly and the Association
of Independent Men-an out-
growth of the recently defeated
proposal to form a separate Inter-
Dorm Council-was held last night
in an initial move to improve
residence hall life.
Though the motion for a sep-
arate group was defeated, the
plan was incorporated into the
existing independent organiza-
tions, Assembly and AIM.
Set up on a student service bas-
is, the house president's group at
last night's meeting named three
working committees-social,, aca-
demic and general service.
Communists
Denounced
As Enemies
Henry Cancels
Proposed Debatex
Branding them 'enemies of our
national welfare," President David
D. Henry yesterday barred Com-
munists from participating in
orograms at Wayne University.
According to the Associated
Press, Henry vetoed plans for Her-
bert J. Phillips, avowed Commu-
nist and Alfred Kelly, Wayne pro-
fessor, to debate Communism at
Wayne on April 26.
PHILLIPS was fired by the
University of Washington for hav-
ing "subversive leanings" and has
since been connected with the ._
Civil Rights Congress, an organ-
ization on the attorney-general's
subversive list.
Henry declared, "In making
this decision, I realize that I
am establishing a precedent for
a new policy at Wayne, but
Congress, the attorney-general
and court decisions have shown
clearly that the Communist is
not to be regarded as an ordi-
nary citizen of a minority opin-
ion, but as an enemy of our
private welfare."
Henry claimed that this was an
organized attempt on the part of
certain groups to bring Phillips
before student audiences through-
out the-United States.
"Communists are dedicated to
violence, disruption and discord,"
Henry said, "and I can not be-
lieve that the University is under
any obligation in the name of ed-
ucation to give them an audience."
'HE DECLARED that when a
Communlst secures an anademk
setting for his propaganda, he
succeeds in his purpose of leading
the public to believe that their
colleges and universities are hos-
pitable to the aims of the Commu-
nist Party.
Speaking for The Collegian,
the Wayne newspaper, Jeanne
Smith asserted that this move
had set a dangerous precedent
for a supposedly liberal college.
"But we're all in sympathy with
President Henry," she continued.
"He is caught between the pres-
sures of Detroit papers who call
Wayne a Red hot-bed, and the
power of the state legislature to
grant appropriations."
Acheson Picks
Republican As
London Aide
WASHINGTON-() - Secre-
tary of State Acheson, under
heavy Republican attack, last
night chose a Republican to ac-
company him to London for a
series of major meetings in which
Western nations will chart stra-
tegy in the cold war.
John Sherman Cooper, former
Republican senator from Ken-
tucky, will serve as one principal
advisor to Acheson, the State De-
partment announced. The other
will be Ambassador-at-Large Phil-
lip C. Jessup, who has hotly denied
charges by Senator McCarthy (R-
Wis) that he has an "affinity for
Communist causes."
THE ANNOUNCEMENT had the
effect of reaffirming the confi-
dence the State Department and
Trumn Administration-repose in
Jessup.
The London meetings, to start
May 8, will consist of a session
of the 12-nation North Atlantic
Council 'and separate confer-
ences of Acheson, British For-
eign Minister Bevin and French
Foreign Minister Schuman. All
the meetings will deal with
various aspects of thestruggle
of the Western powers to build,
up their strength against So-
viet Communism in Europe and
Asia.
Cooper was elected to the Sen-
ate in 1946 to fill the unexpired
velopments in the three-weeks old
inquiry set off by Senator McCar-
thy.
These included a new threat of
a lawsuit against McCarthy and
a fresh attack in the House on
Ambassador-at-Large Phillip C.
Jessup.
Law Students
Receive Fines
Removing Letters
Cost Seven $5 Each
Disciplinary action against sev-
en law students for misconduct
was announced yesterday by Dean
E. Blythe Stason of the law
school. .
The Administrative Committee
MEET THE PEOPLE:
'Open House Program'
To Start SL Campaign
By JIM BROWN
More than 55 Student Legisla-
ture candidates willlaunch a mass
invasion of student residences to-
morrow with the opening of SL's
pre-election "open house pro-
gram."
Betty Bridges, '52,sdirector of
the program, which is under the
auspices of the citizenship com-
mittee, reported yesterday that
28 dormitory and affiliated groups'
have volunteered to sponsor open
houses for this spring's all-campus
elections.
press his views about SL, fol-
lowed by a general discussion
session, Miss Bridges explained.
"We believe very strongly that
every student should vote and
know who he is voting for," she
said, "and we feel that the open-
houses are an excellent medium
through which to achieve this
goal."
* * *
DAVE BELIN, '51, chairman of
the citizenship committee, said
that in some cases sponsoring
DEBATERS TO TANGLE:
Federal Aid Chosen As Forum Topic
Rev. Fr. Celestin Steiner, presi-
dent of the University of Detroit,
and Prof. Preston Slosson, of the
hitnrvd enartment, will tangle
DAVE FRASER, '50, co-chair-
man of the Forum committee, said
that the debate topic was origin-
ally suggested by several students
REPEATING the procedure es-
tablished at the first debate on the
independent-affiliate issue, the
'F'i m ill fa*,ir' 1 aminute talks