HEARING TODAY Y See Page 4 Latest Deadline in the State 44*r 4n a t CLOUDY, COOLER - VOL. LX, No. 134 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1950 SIX Senate Czechs Close U.S. Office In Prague Ilk, Treason Trials Opened For Six By The Associated Press Czechoslovakia yesterday order-v ed the United States Information Service closed and its director, Jo- seph C. Kolarek, to leave the coun- try. In other moves, the government put on trial six Czechs accused of treason and spying under the leadership of officials of the Amer- ican Embassy, and announced the sentencing of 16 persons on simi- lar charges at another trial con- cluded Tuesday. * * * AMONG THOSE sentenced was a 20-year-old *student, Jaromir Zastera, who claims American na- tionality because his father was a naturalized citizen. Zastera drew an 18-year sentence and is to be PHOEN expelled from the country after ven, lef his imprisonment. Two other Chester Czechs were sentenced to death, called one to life imprisonment and 12 Faculty to terms ranging from two to 25 years. The group that went on trial ' at Pankrac prison yesterday was 4/I headed by Jaromir Nechansky, 34-year-old former army major. L a He is a son-in-law of BohumilasnfreDpuyP- Lausman, former Deputy Pre- mier and leader of the Social Democratic Party. Nechansky Officia pleaded guilty to all the charges Michigan at proceedings witnessed by a jest with large audience. President In Washington it was said the just retu United States may ban Czech pub- capitol, t lications in the United States in retaliation for the action against the U.S. information service and its director. A note delivered to the U.S. Em- I bassy charged the U.S.I.S. with j t "spreading hostile and slanderous news," engaging Czechs for spying By activities, employing Czechs hos- CHICA tile to the government and oper- and eng ating without the government's a strike permission. day aga systems Report Action vital se rail tran In Indonesian, CONC N. Sande Hainan Wars cne in alnan arS yoked last of regist By The Associated Press board, in. Violence flared in one far east- the physi ern front last night on Hainan Is- ally repr land while on another Indonesian erately i rebels in Makassar surrendered tient. Th unconditionally after a bloodless doctor m battle. ment in Reports from the flaming battle on Hainan island last night said the Chinese Reds had landed 'GOLD fresh troops in small numbers and -- the Nationalists had brought in Ai more warplanes. THE ARRIVAL of reinforce- ments indicated the big Red drive to take Hainan was on. A civilian pilot reaching Hong Kong from Hainan said without confirma- tion the Communists had put ATL 5,000 new troops ashore. saves ani On the Indonesian front, as scientists soldiers surrendered, federal It ma troops swarmed ashore on kel- rays fro bes beaches south of Makasser,rasfo the Indonesian government an- IT S nounced yesterday. Lt. Col. R Makassar is the capital of East of anothe Indonesia, a state of this island Th nation which won independence of Am from the Netherlands last Decem- Colone ber. ber._Departme ate Schoo SL Liquor Ban Washing SIMIL research, M~eetingToday rseach Joe W. H and Moll Students representing all seg- sity of ments of the campus will meet at mented 7:30 p.m. today at the Union to and 48 d discuss the University's ban on Daily drinking in student residences. 30 days Sponsored by Student Legisla- vented ture's campus action committee, and sav the meeting is designed to enable of dogs a large cross-section of students Aureor to study the liquor problem and an anti Decorates Airmen Missing in Baltic * * * * * * R * * '2 Seeks Lecture Committee Seats, -1 i : i \. - i USi E 5 5 U 8 Y -Daly-Wally Barth VIX PROJECT LEADERS-President Alexander G. Ruth- t, shakes hands with Project National Executive Chairman H. Lang after a special meeting yesterday of seniors by Pres. Ruthven to inform them about the Project. Drive Chairman William Haber looks on. * ' * * * * thven Reports Capitol ids Phoenix Project _________11 Lash Out at Board's Ban On Debate Ask Investigation Of Speech Rules By JIM BROWN Student Legislature voted over- whelmingly last night to ask the Board of Regents to place four students on the University Lecturd Committee. Striking out in protest against the Lecture Committee's rejection of a Michigan Forum debate on "Communism vs. Capitalism," the Legislators approved a strongly- worded letter to the Regents urg- ing that the revamped Lecture Committee be given full power "to: pass upon requests by campus or- ganizations to bring speakers to campus." * * * DRAFTED BY the SL Cabinet early yesterday morning, the let- ter also asked for a joint SL-fac- ulty-administration committee "tos investigate all Regents By-laws affecting the bringing of speakers! to campus."+ The committee, 'to be appoint- ed immediately by President Alexander G. Ruthven," would particularly study the By-laws under which the highly contro- versial debate between avowed Communist Herbert J. Phillips and J. Phillip Wernette, of the business administration school, was banned, and recommend possible substitutions to the Re- gents. In addition, the Legislature re- quested an opportunity to discuss the entire matter with the mem- bers of the Board at its next meet- ing. CITING THE NEED for.students to acquire a first-hand under- standing of the "ideological clash" The Student Legislature- sponsored all-campus meeting to study the University's liquor ban will be held at 7:30 p.m. today, at the Union, instead of 4:15 p.m., as previously an- nounced. (See story at bottom of page.) between Capitalism and Commu- nism, the SL letter asserted in part:, Russian Act Labeled As 'Barbarous' U.S. Dismisses Moscow Charge WASHINGTON,- (IP) -The Senate in a mood of cold fury unanimously voted praise and decorations yesterday for the ten U.S. airmen lost in what this country calls a Russian attack on an unarmed plane over the Bal- tic. The vote of 66 to 0 was preceded by denunciations of the Russian action as "criminal" and "bar- barous" and by demands for steps to see that nothing of the sort happens again. IT FOLLOWED by about an hour a contemptuous State De- partment dismissal of a Russian Tharge that the American plane was on a mission of deliberate pro- vocation. * * * -Daily-wally Bartn ONE AMONG 20,000-Sanderson Smith, Grad., is congratulated by Bill Peterson and Val Lemper, of the Michigras Central Com- mittee, after he was picked by chance yesterday to be the student , judge on the panel which will review floats in the Michigras parade Friday. * * * * * * I Washington greeted the -Memorial Phoenix Pro- widespread enthusiasm, tAlexander G. Ruthven, rned from the nation's old a special meeting of Vational toundup The Associated Press AGO-Railroad firemen inemen yesterday called for 6 a.m. next Wednes- inst four vast railroad which would cut off gments of the nation's nsportation. DRD, N.H.-Dr. Hermann r's right to practice medi- New Hampshire was re- night by the State Board ration in medicine. The biting language, asserted cian was guilty of "mor- ehensible action in delib- njecting air into his pa- ne board hinted that the ight apply for reinstate- two months, however. University seniors in Hill Auditor- ium yesterday. A t o m i c Energy Commission members called the project "the greatest movement that has yet appeared in respect to the pre- sent world condition," the educa- tor reported. * * * CHESTER H. LANG, national executive chairman of the fund drive, was also on hand at the meeting to tell the 2,800 gradua- ting seniors that as new alumni they will have to contribute their wholesale support if the required $6,500,000 is to be raised. He asked a minimum pledge of $150 from each of the pros- pective alumni to be spread over the three years of the drive. He declared that the group could also be of immeasurable aid in spreading information about the Phoenix Project. * * * ACCORDING TO Dr. Ruthven, President Truman also was hearty' in his approval of the project. Sen. Brian McMahon, chairman for the joint House-Senate Defense Committee also pledged strong Phoenix support. Fourth Judge 'Selected' For Michigras Parade l I ESCAPEE * * * Violent Maniac Still atLarge Ann Arbor residents today were warned of the escape of a violent maniac from the Chi Psi Frater- nity house last night where he had been imprisoned for the past week. The madman, a dark hairy na- tive of Mangalore Island off the coast of Burma, is a freak show attraction brought here by Chi Psi Fraternity for their 'Hall of Wonder' in Michigras tomorrow and Saturday. HIS ESCAPE, at 9 p.m. last night, came as climax to a long argument between the fraternity and the Michigras Central Com- mittee. Against the committee's ad- vice, the group arranged to bring him to Ann Arbor through a West Coast agency. Manager of the agency, Herbert Tripp, assured Chi Psi booth chair- man Dick Leasia that the madman was quite harmless in daylight and only became dangerous at night. He is still at large this morning. Because he crossed the 'M' seal in front of the library at 12:03 yesterday, Sanderson Smith, Grad., was chosen as the bewil- dered fourth judge on the panel which will review floats in the mile-long Michigras parade to- morrow. Somewhat stunned as the clowns rushed down and picked him out of the crowd amidst band fanfare, Smith joined the Chicago House Marching Band in a brief march down the Diag. He declared himself pleased at the prospect of enjoying the parade from the reviewing stand to be built in front of the Union. * * * WITH HIM on the panel are Vice-President Marvin Niehuss, representing the administration, Miss Marie Ha twig, of the facul- ty, and Cecil pal, head of the Ann Arbor City Council. More than 50 men will be needed to hold down the he- lium-filled balloons in the Michigras parade, Jerry Mehl- man, parade co-chairman an- nounced yesterday. Men wishing to apply should see Mehlman between 3 and 5 p.m. today in Rm. 3 D of the Union. )EN DRUG': ireornycin May Cure Ray Atom Exposure- By The Associated Press ANTIC CITY-The golden drug, aureomycin, miraculously mals sprayed with deadly amounts of X-Rays, two teams of said yesterday. ay be a life-saving drug for humans exposed to X-Rays or to n atom bombs. AVED 80 per cent of animals given deadly doses of X-Rays, Roy D. Maxwell reported. But without the drug, 80 per cent ie group of animals died from radiation sickness. he dramatic new studies were reported to the Federation erican Societies for Experimental Biology. l Maxwell is chief of Radiobiology at the Army Medical ent Research and Gradu-" * * *" ol, Army Medical Center, ;ton. T Cnutg Drama Expert To Tafli Today Prof. B. Ifor Evans, Principal of Queen Mary College in the Uni- versity of London will lecture on "The Contemporary Theatre in England" at 4:15 p.m. today in the Architecture Auditorium. Closely associated with Arts groups for the past ten years, Prof. Evans is currently active in the Arts Association of Great Bri- tain. He is the author of many critical analyses and philosophi- cal novels on English literature. Prof. Evans is appearing under the auspices of the English de- partment. Winning floats in the parade will be announced tomorrow evening at Yost Field House during the carnival. Trophies will be awarded for first, second and third, places, with three honorable mentions. The parade will include the 20 huge helium balloons, in the shapes of animals and grotesque characters. Following them, and interspersed in the line of 35 floats which follow, will be five marching bands. The students floats, sponsored and constructed by campus or- ganizations, have as their "Comic Capers" subjects such cartoon characters as Donald Duck, Bath- less Groggins, Dogpatch inhabi- tants, Keystone Cops, and Too- nerville Trolley frequenters. Rounding out the parade fes- tivities will be a circus calliope, ancient automobiles, Michael McDermott, depart- ment press officer, told a news conference he had read the story, which appeared in the controlled Moscow magazine New Times, but had "pretty much forgotten what lies they told." He described the maga- zine as "beyond contempt." On Tuesday the State Depart- ment fired back a harshly worded counter-protest -n response to Moscow's charge that the plane violated Soviet territory and at- tacked interceptors. *****In* ***** * THE UNUSUAL Senate call for posthumous honors to the Navy airmen was an obvious answer to Russia's action last Thursday in bestowing the Red Banner Award on four Soviet airmen for "excel- lent fulfillment of their duty." Meanwhile unofficial backing for the U.S. view that the plane was downed over the oen sea came from American Air Force officers in Germany. The ship believed to be in- volved was a Navy Privateer which took off from Wiesbaden April 8 on what U.S. officials report as a routine training flight to Copenhagen. It was not heard from after it crossed the German coast. The U.S. version is that it car- ried no weapons with which it could make such an attack as the Russians reported. Budenz Flies To Washington For Hearing WASHINGTON,-- (IP) -F o r- mer Communist leader Louis F. Budenz flew to Washington yes- terday on the eve of a heralded "stand or fall" test of Senator McCarthy's charges of Commu- nism in the State Department. * * * BUDENZ IS scheduled to testi- fy today before a Senate sub-com- mittee, headed by Chairman Ty- dings (D-Md), which has been looking into McCarthy's sweeping allegations. McCarthy has billed Budenz as a star witness and said Bu- dent will swear he knew Owen J. Lattimore, a one-time State Department consultant on Far East affairs, to be a member of the Communist Party. Meanwhile, informed aides on Capitol Hill indicated that John H. Huber of Mt. Vernon, N.Y., ho says he worked as an FBI under- cover agent in the Communist Party's top circles from 1938 to 1947, is one of two secret witnes- ses McCarthy wants subpoenaed. USSR Balks Holy City Plan LAKE SUCCESS,-(P)-Russia withdrew support unexpectedly yesterday from the United Nations "By following such a policy of sheltering its students from hearing the proponents of un- popular ideas, we believe that the University has failed in its responsibility to encourage stu- dents to hear, discuss, inquire into, criticize and evaluate all of the ideas which are involved in the issues current in our so- ciety." The Legislators also unanimous- ly passed a statement of policy on "the role and function of a state institution of higher learning in our Democratic society." Copies of this policy statement will be sent along with the letter to each member of the Board of Regents and the University administration. MEANWHILE, members of the University faculty were split yes- terday over the debate issue. Prof. James Ormondroyd, of the engineering college, said that "it is quite foolish to have such a ban.' We ought to be able to argue about anything-especially something so important." Prof. Ormondroyd was secon- ded by N. Marbury Efimenco, of the political science department,a who said that "it is rather un- fortunate that a university of this size should forbid the dis- A UTO STRIKE NEARS END: Reuther, UAW Chief, To Speak Here I ,AR good results, in allied were reported by Dr. Howland, Frank W. Furth y Coulter of the Univer- Rochester. They experi- on more than 1,200 rats ogs. doses of aureomycin for , given by mouth, pre- sickness in most cases, ed 80 per cent of a group , Colonel Maxwell said. mycin, like penicillin, is biotic made by a mold SimilarStudies The use of antibiotics like aureo- mycin is one of many approaches to solving the problem of saving the lives of people exposed to atom bomb rays, Dr. Fred J. Hodges, chairman of the roentgenology de- partment of the University Hos- pital said last night. Research in the problem of atomic radiation, and its effects Walter Reuther, president of the United Automobile Workers (CIO), will address the eighth an- nual conferencehof midwest poli- tical scientistshere Saturday. Unless the 86-day-old Chrysler strike is over by Saturday Reuther will leave strike negotiations only long enough to deliver his speech. * * * His address at 4:15 p.m. Saturday in Rackham Lecture Hall will be open the public. R E U THE R TOLD Chrysler workers yesterday in Detroit that they could expect an early settle- ment of the strike. "It won't be long now before Chrysler Corp. will have to sit down and sign an agreement," he declared. Chrysler and union negotia- tors went into joint session late yesterday in a new effort to reach a settlement. Reuther said only details of a plan to pro- vide workers $100-a-month pen- sions, including federal social Russell will speak on the "ac- tion level" of foreign policy at an open meeting at 8 p.m. to- morrow in Rackham Lecture Hall. Davis, who will address a Phi Beta Kappa dinner here Saturday, will take part in a round table discussion of academic freedom Sunday morning. * * * . ... _. - -