DEAN PEKE Y See Page 4 Latest Deadline in the State ~uti4 CLOUDY, WARMER VOL. LX, No. 131 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1950 SIX PAGES Tennis Court Fees Lifted By Board Students, Faculty To Get Free Use Free use of Ferry and Palmer Field tenni courts was granted to students and faculty last night. Hotly opposed court fees were lifted when the Board in Control of Intercollegiate Athletics turned ever its courts to Men and Women Physical Education Departments at the regular Board meeting. INTRAMURAL programs and Physical Education classes will get top priority. But when their schedules are filled, students may take the courts for free play. The Board action came after a recommendation from athleticI director H. O. "Fritz" Crisler, who reviewed the fee situation himself. The system calling for a 25 cent per hour fee had been a contro- versial issue since 1948. The fees caused the athletic administration to hire attendants to enforce rules limiting play to one hour in order to alleviate crowded conditions on the courts. * * * UNDER the new set-up the courts will be administered by the respective Physical Education De- partmets. The Board ruling will go into effect when the courts are opened this spring. Students had previously resorted to using city courts in protest of the 25 cent per hour fees. Chrysler Quiet On Settlement Offer by UAW DETROIT-()-Chrysler Corp. remained silent last night on the! subject of a new union proposal to crack the pension deadlock that has kept its plants closed down 72 days. Corporation negotiators receiv- ed the offer from the CIO United Auto Workers more than 24 hours ago, but they haven't yet made public any reaction to it. * * * HIOWEVER, while they were considering, company and union negotiators met jointly for three hours on non-economic issues be- fore recessing until today. An unofficial understanding had existed that non-economic matters would not be discussed until settlement of the pension r dispute, strengthened belief that the parties had reached agree- ment on the thorny pension angle. Chief among the non-economic Issues, it was reported, was the UAW demand for a union shop. * * * THE NEW UNION pension pro- gram departed for the first time from the UAW stand that pay- ments toward it must be made on a cents-per-hour basis. It still asked pensions of $100- a-month, including social secur- ity, to employes 65 years of ageE and with 25 years' service. These the corporation already had agreed to pay, but only on its own terms. The UAW has suggested that an actuary determine the amount Chrysler would have to pay for workers, retiring within the next five years. Then, it said, the com- pany would set aside-on an hour- ly, weekly, monthly or annual basis -enough money to keep the sys- tem running on an actuarily sound basis for 30 years. City Denies Suit For Street Dance The Ann Arbor City Council last night denied a request from eight :fraternities and sororities to close Tappan St. between Hill and Mon- roe for a street dance from 9 to 12 Peake Accepts Knox Deanship By JANET WATTS Charles H. Peake, assistant dean of the literary college, has been appointed dean of Knox College at Galesburg, Illinois. He will take the new Position September 1, ending a thirteen year association with the University, including three and a half years as assistant dean of the literary college. DEAN PEAKE'S decision to accept the position was termed by Dean Hayward Keniston "a serious loss to the University" but he congratu- lated Knox College on its good fortune in obtaining him as dean. "We are sorry to see Dean Peake go, but we are confident that in assuming this new task, he will have even wider opportunity to * * * t exercise the educational leader- T ydings Says Lattimore Cleared by FBI Records " xj .;" CHARLES E. PEAKE SL Candidates Get Ready For BigPush More than 55 Student Legisla- ture candidates will be given a brief respite next weep before launching their final intensive: pre-election campaigns when classes resume on April 17. Although the grueling campaign has not yet really swung out into the open, most candidates were more than wiling to hang up their, campaign slogans for the spring holiday. * * * MEANWHILE, SL officials have been feverishly working out a heavily-packed schedule for theE candidates when they return. Betty Bridges, '52, director of the Legislature's pre-election "open-house" program yester- day announced four new ad- ditions to the open-house sche- dule, swelling the total well over the 30 mark. The additions include open- houses at Delta Zeta sorority, 6 to 7 p.m., April 17; Chi Psi fraternity, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., April 18; Williams House, 7 to 8 p.m., April 20; and Sigma Phi fraternity, 6 to 7 p.m., April 24. In addition, one candidates' meeting at Alpha Sigma Phi fra- ternity has been canceled and. the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority open-house has been changed to 7:15 p.m., April 20. In addition, SL's public rela- tions committee will distribute a brochure featuring statements and short biographies of each candi- date just before the elections on April 26 and 27. The brochure will supplement The Daily's annual feature section on the candidates. Last Issue With today's paper, The Daily ceases publication for the Spring recess. The next edition will appear on April 18. ship for which he so admirably prepared," Dean Keniston said, "Dean Peake posseses a warm human interest in the individual student, courage and good judg- ment in administrative assign- ments and vision of the kind of education, in the classroom and on the campus, that will do something to the minds of students and be re- flected in their lives," he added. DEAN PEAKE'S interest in stu- dents and their educational prob- lems is reflected in his initiation of the newly organized literary college student-faculty council, which will examine educational goals and make recommendations to faculty organizations. Dean Keniston said that no decision has been made regard- ing a replacement for the assist- ant dean. Dean Peake graduated from the University with a bachelor's de- gree after two years attendance at Michigan State Normal College. He received his master's degree in 1935 and doctor of philosophy de- gree in 1941. * * * AFTER GRADIJATION, Dean Peake taught at Chadsey High School in Detroit from 1931 to 1936. He joined the University faculty in 1937 as a teaching fel- low and became an instructor in English in 1941. He has served as assistant dean since February, 1947. Trumoanu asks More Benefits For Jobless WASHINGTON - (P) - Presi- dent Truman asked Congress yes- terday to authorize bigger jobless benefits to more people for a long- er time. * * * HE SENT UP a special message saying that unemployment com- pensation checks ought to: 1. Run up to $30 a week on a uniform scale over the nation, plus additional money for dependents. 2. Be forthcoming, if needed, for 26 weeks. 3. Be made available to an ad- ditional 6,000,000 persons not cov- ered by present law. ** * Legislators Approve Bill'' PO On Housing.'* WASHINGTON - (IP) - The House yesterday approved a bill for a $4,000,000,000 expansion of the federal housing program, in- cluding some special benefits for ex-GI's. There was no opposition. * * * THIS compromise to a much fought over proposal now goes to the Senate where quick approval is expected. Administration leaders say President Truman will sign the bill, although it's far short of what he asked for.>a> Here are some of the main pro- visions of the bill: 1. A new $150,000,000 program ofI direct loans to ex-GI's. 2. Special considerations for END OF TRIAL-Harry Bridges, veteran housing co-operatives. 3. An additional $2,250,000,000 on the West Coast, leaves the fee of mortgage insurance authority after his conviction on a perjury for the Federal Housing Adminis- his wife. Behind him are some tration. The FHA encourages home court records. construction by insuring mort- gages. 4. Another $500,000,000 o HOE WARD BOUND: FHA mortgage insurance for apartment dwellings, to cover applications received before this program expired March 1. 5. A $250,000,000 mortgage pro- gram to cover low cost houses in so-called distant suburban areas. MOST OF these programs in- By CHARLES ELLIOTT volve no federar subsidies. The With heads reeling from a last government-that is, the taxpay- minute flood of mid-semesterj ers-loses money only if the mort- bluebooks, today thousands of gages it guarantees go sour on ah.e large scale. haggard students will toss their Missing from the bill is its text-books into a corner, pull on most controversial part. a clean white shirt, and head for Truman had wanted $2,000,000- home. 000 set aside for a co-operative The vacation will bring wel- home building program for middle come relief from the books to income families. many students, who are looking leader of the CIO longshoremen seral building at San Francisco charge. He is accompanied by assistants carrying the defense ition Starts; ents Scatter forward to time. a whole week of spare * * * WHERE THE MONEY GOES: Expand Med School With Budget Boost Says Dean HE CITED an average of nearly 4,500,000 jobless in the first quar- ter of this year as evidence that the need for action is "urgent." All this would cost more mon- ey, of course, with higher unem- ployment tax rates necessary in some instances. However, Tru- man said the overall increase in cost would be moderate. The jobless insurance program is a joint Federal-State venture. The federal government issues the funds for the administration of the program and each state adminis- ters its own unemployment insur- ance law, collecting taxes from employers, determining who is eli- gible for the benefits, and saying how big they shall be and how long they shall be paid. (EDITOR'S NOTE-This is the fifth in a series describing the needs of the various schools and colleges of the University and the extent to which they will be satisfied if the University's $1a3,870,0 yappropria- tion request is granted by the State Legislature.) By ROMA LIPSKY The University Medical School will be able to increase its incom- ing freshman class from 150 to 200 students next fall if the State Legislature complies with budget requests reports Dean A. C. Fur- stenberg of the medical school. DECLARING that the $1,809,000 increase above this year's expenses in the proposed University schools and colleges budget definitely re- flects the need of the medical school, Dean Furstenberg said: "There is a pressing need for more well-trained doctors. We stand ready to meet this need, but our ability to do so is en- tirely dependent on substantial increases in medical school ap- propriations." He outlined the most immediate operating needs as: 1. Additional laboratory space for basic science departments; 2. New staff appointments and increased budget for current oper- ating expenses. ONE OF THE major items in the University's budget request is $2,800,000 for a new Outpatient clinic. The Clinic was termed by Dean Furstenberg as "an essen- tial addition to the University's medical facilities." IN THE dental school, legisla- tive appropriations are needed for increases to the teaching staff, amounting to $54,500, "represent the imperative needs of this school," he said. The public health school's! greatest need is "enlargement of its teaching program to keep up, with advancements in health and! medicine," Dean Henry Vaughn! said. Some funds are received from outside sources, but basic assis- tance from the University is re- quired, Dean Vaughn added. * * * AT THE present time, the fu- ture of the University's appropria- tion requests from the Legislature is uncertain. Gov. G. Mennen Williams in his record-breaking $340,000- 000 State budget speech, recom- mended $12,500,000 for the Uni- versity's operating appropria- tions, and funds for a remodel- ing program of the Natural Sci- ence Bldg. as well as for the medical school's proposed Out- patient clinic. His budget has been rejected by an economy-minded Legislature and the Republican majority is currently holding hearings on a new operating budget. i ALTHOUGH exams have kept most students firmly at their school-work most of the week, class attendance appeared to thin out a bit yesterday, and res- taurant owners reported the us- ual lessening of business has al- ready begun. The big rush will find trans- portation facilities well braced, as extra trains and buses are readied for action. Almost every mode of travel will be used, from the inevitable thumb to airlin- ers. Local cab companies announce that they are adequately prepared for this afternoon's rush to the airport. Also, the Wolverine Club is making available three special buses to airport-bound students. These buses will leave the Ann Ar- bor bus depot at 2:05, 3:05, and 4:05 p.m., MEANWHILE, downtown suds dispensors reported a roaring bus- iness last night as students cele- brated the forthcoming liberation.' According to one well-oiled pat- ron, "This is only the beginning!" Only about 60 men are expected to remain in the Quadrangles, all of them being accomodated in Allen-Rumsey House, the only house that will stay open during vacation. * * * WHILE students are quietly en- joying their vacation, Ann Arbor will not be exactly empty. Seven hundred experts on far eastern affairs will pull a switch on the general evacuation policy to meet here for their second annual con- vention next week. For those individuals whose conditioned minds automatically turn to the thought of the inevi- table return in a week or so, there are happy rumors that the Arb may be shaping up for summer activities by that time. FinLis Rodney, the Adams House muskrat, has been laid in his final resting place in a corner of the West Quad. Mistaken for a rat, the re- nowned rodent was clubbed to death with an empty bottle by an unidentified, merciless stu- dent near the Union Tuesday. One of his masters found his body and screamed, "That's not a rat! It's a muskrat! They've killed Rodney!" Tenderly placed in a tin can casket, he was lowered into his grave while taps were sounded. Dulles Gets. Post As Aid To Acheson By The Associated Press John Foster Dulles, New York Republican lawyer and veteran of 40 years in international affairs, yesterday accepted the State De- partment's offer to serve as con- sultan to Secretary Acheson. The move marked an attempt of Republican foreign affairs leaders and the Truman administration to set up U.S. bi-partisan foreign policy as a going concern again. *' * * DULLES WAS chosen for the top level consultant job after Acheson, by authorization of the President, had conferred with top Republican members of. the Sen- ate Foreign Relations Committee. In New York Dulles said he had decided to take the assign- ment because of the urgent need for national unity in the face of a Russian "threat" as grave as "any we have ever faced in a shooting war." He said that President Truman had confirmed to him that bi- partisanship is the policy of the administration. "Secretary Acheson tells me that the President and he believe that I can help them to find the policies and to achieve the unity we need. I feel that it is clearly my duty to respond," he said. World News Roundup By The Associated Press TAIPEI, FORMOSA - A new nationalist amphibious raid only 20 miles from Red Shanghai was disclosed yesterday by the Chinese Nationalist headquarters. * * * WASHINGTON - The United States has tentatively rejected Is- rael's request for heavy American weapons such as artillery and tanks. * * *, WASHINGTON - CIO - AFL merger, possibly bringing in other major labor groups, may not be far off. CIO President Murray's trial-balloon proposal for a joint working committee brought comment from AFL President Green that merger chances are "better today than they have been in the past six years. And in a letter to Murray, John L. Lewis said he will recommend that his United Mine Workers ex- ecutive committee endorse the program. East Expert Senator's Report Hit ByMcCarthy WASHINGTON - (R) - Sena- tor Tydings (D-Md.) said yester- day that FBI records clear Owen Lattimore "completely" of Com- munist spy charges preferred by Senator McCarthy. Tydings, Chairman of a Senate Investigating Committee, said fur- thermore that four members of the committee hold the same opinion after inspecting a "complete sum-. mary" of FBI files on Lattimore, far eastern expert. THE FIFTH MEMBER, Senator Hickenlooper (R-Iowa), who was out of own when the committee visited FBI Director J. Edgar Hoo- ver, will view the records next week. Hardly had Tydings made his announcement when McCarthy told reporters that "either Tyd- ings hasn't seen the files, or he is lying. There is no other al- ternative." * * IN REPLY to McCarthy's state- ment, ,Tydings said: "I'll let my reputation for ac- curacy stand. It is significant that no member of the commit- tee contradicted the statement when I made it in the presence of the committee." The chairman saved his state- ment until Lattimore had co pleted before the committee his defense against McCarthy's charg- es. The witness told the commit- tee, and, McCarthy to his face, that McCarthy is a contemptible liar, the tool of discredited fana- tics, and a violator of Senator- ial responsibility who ought to resign. After hearing Lattimore's for- mal 10,000 word reply to the man who called him the biggest Soviet spy in the country, Tydings made this statement. "I THINK AS chairman of this committee I owe it to you and to the country to tell you that four of the five members of the com- mittee, in the presence of J. Ed- gar Hoover, head of the FBI, had a complete summary of your files made available to them. "Mr. Hoover himself prepared these data. It was quite lengthy and at the conclusion of the read- ing of that summary in great de- tail it was the universal opinion of all the members of the commit- tee present and all others in the room, of w ich there were two more, that 'there was nothing in that file to show that you were a Communist or ever had been a Communist or that you were in any way connected with any es- pionage information or charges. "So that the FBI puts you com- pletely, up to this moment at least, in the clear." Political Boss Shot to Death KANSAS CITY-(IP)-A burst of gunfire ended Charles Binaggo's Northside political power yester day in the rooms of the First Dis- trict Democratic Club on Truman Road. Sprawled on the floor near the body of the opposer of the Pen- dergast machine was his top mus- cle man, Charles Gargotta. * * * REP. MACK (R-NY) said he will ask Congress to make a'"complete inquiry" into the "affiliation of crime and gangsters with politics in Kansas City." And Rep.Short (R-Mo) said Secret Files Absolve Far REVERSE PROCEJDURE: Busy Signals Clog Woire As Women Fan Fires By RICH THOMAS Whoever first noticed that "--in spring a young man's fancy light- ly turns to thoughts of love" had the right idea but the wrong gen- der, according to new evidence turned up on campus. It's the women, and not the men, who clog the telephone wires each spring, New Women's Dorm switchboard operators reported. parties, Island picnics and Sun- day afternoon strolls. Such a startling fact could not go unchecked, and a quick canvass of men's dorms and rooming hous- es confirmed the point. * *-* THREE OUT OF every five men contacted enthusiastically verified the springtime trend. FROM FAR & NEAR.: Contribution~s A dd To A SSE Fund By AL CLAMAGE Contributions to the Alcoholic Student Service Fund (A.S.S.F.) have been pouring in from all over the country ever since the Scotch-taped to the note were three aspirins. Several days later came a fifty- cent piece through the mail from two students, Bruce Huffman, '50 bution for the humiliation of four years of illicit drinking during which time I developed a reflex which still causes me to look quickly over my left shoulder be- fore downing a glass of that amber