SHAM IN WASHINGTON Y See Page 4 Latest Deadline in the State :43a ii CLOUDY, WARME VOL. LX, No. 136 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 1950 SIX PA I Communist BUDENZ BLASTED: Curb Asked By Williams Special Group To StudyProblem LANSING - () - Creation of a special commission to study methods of legally curbing Com- munism and the Communist par-.. ty in Michigan was asked yester- day by Gov. Williams. The Governor asked the legisla- tive appropriations committees for $15,000 to finance the study. WILLIAMS SAID he would ap- point "the best legal and consti- tutional authorities I can find" to the group. The commission would be made up of members of the law school faculties, the legal profession, the courts and the leg- islative judiciary committees. The proposal was a partial reply to a request of a recent American Legion anti-Com- munist rally here for legisla- tion outlawing the Conunist party in Michigan. "A fifth column of anti-demo- cratic forces is operating within our own country and our own state under the name of the Com- ' munist party," the Governor said. "This fifth column utilizes in its actvities the same liberties it seeks to destroy. * * * "IT CAMOUFLAGES its acti- vities under the guise of a poli- tical party but we all know it is not a political party within our American understanding of that term. It is a conspiracy, directed from abroad, aimed at the des- truction of democracy and de- voted to the global purposes of the Soviet Union." Williams said the group should' make an exhaustive study of the problem and consult all the lead- ing authorities. He warned, how- ever, that effective means of curbing Communism are hard to find. Attempts to forbid the be- liefs of Communism by law would require the creation of a " "thought police," he said. Editors Told 'Mu n'Hit Atom Project WASHINGTON - (P) - The American Society of Newspaper Editors was told yesterday that the government's "muzzling" of scien- tists has imperiled the atomic weapons program. GERARD PIEL, editor of the Scientific American, who burned 3,000 copies of his magazine last month under supervision of the Atomic Energy Commission, told 400 editors that: 1. AEC's so-called "shut your trap" telegram, sent to scien- tists formerly employed by the agency, is an "indirect censor- ship" of legitimate news. 2. Private industry has been frustrated by censor- ship in its effort to assist A- bomb production and H-bomb development. 3. Secrecy has "poisoned the relations of the AEC with the scientific community of Ameri- ca"-to the point that one uni- versity, Syracuse, has barred any future secret research con- tract. Piel squared off at AEC from the same platform on which Dr. Henry D. Smith, a comission mem- ber, defended the agency's policy before the editors' annual meeting here. Smyth explained that AEC is trying to steer a "middle course" in its censorship policy. It is dif- ficult, he said, to balance the interests of national security against the need for disseminating atomic knowledge and preserving free discussion. Piel related how Scientific American stopped its presses on March 15 after a request from AEC that it withhold technical portions of an article by Dr. Hans Bethe on the hydrogen bomb. Bethe is a contract consultant to AEC and a Cornell University phisicist. Plane Crashes N -ea Tokvo Lattimore Scoffs At 'Red'_Charges WASHINGTON-P)-Owen Lattimore yesterday derided charges that he was a member of a Communist cell and scoffed at Sen. Mc- Carthy (R-Wis) as a man whose knowledge is limited to "what he has learned from Charle Chan movies. Cited by McCarthy as the No. 1 Soviet spy in the United States, Lattimore turned a torrent of sarcasm on his accusers at a news con- ference in which he declared: "As a loyal American citizen who is not and never has been a Comunist or anything but an American, I say it is long past time to clean out the cesspool from which~ this campaign of character as- sassination, intimidation and vilification emanates." Clai1 ejects in Plane All U.S. Dispute * * * * * * SichigrasBra ws 11,00 LATTIMORE directed s ome of Mlust Keep Rent Lids --President WASHINGTON - (') - Presi- dent Truman said yesterday that millions would suffer serious hardship if Federal rent controls die June 30 as scheduled. He appealed to Congress for a year's extension of the law to head off "a wave of exorbitant rent increases" which, he said would surely follow a sudden lift- ing of controls. FAMILIES EARNING less than $40 a week would be hardest hit, the Truman Message said, many lines of business would be affect- ed, relief costs would rise and pen- sions for the aged would be less adequate. The appeal preceded the op- ening of public hearings on the issue, the outcome of which is in doubt. Recent voting tests made this clear. The Senate banking committee will begin five full days of hear- ings Monday. The House banking committee has none set. A FEW WEEKS ago, Congress slashed a rent office request for emergency operating funds from $3,600,000 to $1,400,000 - then tossed in $2,600,000 to be used only for discharge pay of employ- es. This action threw a shadow across the agency's future when the question of continuing con- trols comes up, perhaps next month. Acheson Calls .Red Trieste Claim False WASHINGTON - (W) - Sec- retary of State Acheson yesterday r o u n d1y denounced Russia's' charges that the United States is violating the Italian Peace Treaty' by maintaining troops at Trieste. Acheson told his news confer- ence the accusations are a com- bination of "wholly false" state- ments anid "nonsense." * * * THE SECRETARY'S quick re- jection of Wednesday night's note from Moscow clearly foreshadow- ed similar emphatic turndowns by France and Britain. In a prepared statement, Acheson defended the right of Britain and the United States to keep troops in Trieste as "in complete conformity with the obligations of the Italian Peace treaty." + + his sharpest barbs at former Com- >munist leader Louis F. Budenz, who swore before a Senate inves- tigating comittee Thursday that Lattimore helped direct an Ameri- can-hatched Red plot to betray China to the Communists. Lattimore's counterattack cap- ped a day which saw these other developments: 1. Senate investigators sub- poenaed Dr. Bella V. Dodd of New York, a former member of the U.S. Communist Politburo, to confront Budenz next Tues- day on his testimony that high Communist officials had des- cribed Lattimore as a Commu- nist. Dr. Dodd has made a sworn affi- davit that in her four years in the Red party's top circles from 1944 to 1948 she never met Lattimore and never heard of him. 2. The Senate inquiry com- mittee , headed by chairman Tydings (D-Md), also sub- poenaed two former FBI opera- tives named by McCarthy to help substantiate his charges against Lattimore. The two are John J. Huber of Mt. Verno, N.Y., described by Mc- Carthy as a former FBI undercov- er agent who wroked inside the Communist Party for 10 years;! and Lawrence Kerley, now a New York Journal-American reporter. Russell Cites Blind' Attacks On Statesmen The men who have been entrust- d with the delicate problem of conducting our foreign affairs have made the object of unsup- ported and blindly virulent at- tacks that are ruining our stand- ing abroad, Francis H. Russell de- clared here last night. "People overseas who are clos- er to the threat of Communism know that you can't catch Com- munists by throwing stink-bombs," the director of the State Depart- ment's Office of Public Affairs charged. SPEAKING AT THE initial meeting of the eighth annual con- ference of Midwest Political Sci- entists, Russell said that the dam- age done by "too many wrenches" in the machinery of ferreting out Communists in government will take time to repair. He went on to hail the consis- tency of purpose and principle in the State Department's pro- grams to combat Communism War. "All of these policies were res- ponses to concrete situations that demanded action which was in the 'art of the possible'." Walter P. Reuther, president of the UAW-CIO, will address an open meeting of the conference at 4:15 p.m. today in Rackham Lecture Hall. All Previous Attendance Records Fall Slack Wire Artist Gets StarBilling By BOB KEITH Pandemonium reigned at Yost Field House last night as the big- gest Michigras in campus historyv drew a record-shattering crowd estimated at more than 11,000 milling patrons. The.spacious building was jam- med to capacity with the mob of students and Ann Arborites - young and old alike - who thronged the booths and mechan- ical rides. PROFESSIONAL slack wire artist Bob Stanley topped off the fun-fest with his free comedy an- tics on a tight rope gone loose. And it'll all be repeated from 7 to 12. p.m. today when the traditional carnival opens its doors to a second night of fes- tivities. For the youngsters, there will be a special free matinee at 1 p.m. presided over by little Mary Jane Brayton and Mike Kabat, who won the Michigras babyacontest this week. The field house will re- main closed during this perform- ance, but rides and refreshment stands outdoors will be going, strong. THE THOUSANDS expected to attend tonight's performance will be confronted with scores of gaily decorated sideshows and game booths prepared by some 53 cam- pus organizations. Wiliams House's "human pin- ball machine" was judged theI most original attraction last night, but prizes will be award- ed later for booths with great- est attendance and largest in- take. An all-expenses-paid evening with lovely Joan Carl was won late in the evening by 20-year-old Knight Houghton, '50. He was the first carnival-goer to report at the prize booth with 200 Michi- bucks won at concessions. DINNER APRIL 28 at the Un- ion with the airlines hostess, and a show or dancing afterwards, are in stor for Houghton. Students attending tonight's1 Michigras were warned by ticket co-chairman Mary Watt to pur- chase general admission tickets on the Diag this morning to avoid huge lines at the door. Defeat of Red ' Invasion Told By Nationalists' TAIPEI, Formosa-()-Shat- tering defeat of the five-day-old Comunist invasion of Hainan Is- landtwas claimed late last night by the Chinese Nationalists. The Nationalist accounts said more than 6,000 Reds surrender- and 2,000 to 4,000 were killed in all-night battles that ended at dawn yesterday. THE HAINAN capital city of Hoihow reechoed to the popping of firecrackers as the Riationalists celebrated the news in traditional Chinese fashion. (Stanley R i c h, Associated * * * * * * * * * ny Resisting Planes .To Be Fired On Indemnity Claiin Called 'Absurd' MOSCOW-(UP) .-Russia bros. quely rejected every demand of the United States yesterday ove its missing Baltic plane and re peated orders to airmen to shoo down any resisting aircraf caught over Soviet territory. The Moscow government in note declared it was "clearly ab surd" that the United States de manded compensation for a four engined U.S. navy privateer an( its crew of 10' which disappearec April 8. The U.S. has insisted. tha the navy plane was unarmed. * * * MOSCOW DECLARED t h American plane involved that da in an exchange of fire was a "B 29 flying fortress" which pene trated 13 miles into Soviet terri tory south of Lepaya, Latvia while trying to "photograph So viet defense installations." -Daily-Alan Reid THE WINNAH!-Under a spreading palm tree, captured maidens await their fate on the Delta Delta Delta-Sigma Phi Epsilon float which won first prize in yesterday's Michigras parade. As ruth- less South Sea islanders terrify their pretty vic tims, Anne Kermath, '53 Mus., left, boldly faces dancer Patricia Keast, '51, center, while Nancy Dorsey, '53, right, shies away in fear. * * * *n* In* * * 'Tarzan Float Wins in Parade * * First prize in the colorful Mich- igras Comic Capers parade yester- day afternoon was copped by the Sigma Phi Epsilon-Delta Delta Delta float, portraying Tarzan in the midst of apes and sarong-clad beauties. The Sigma Chi-Martha Cook version of Smoky Stover squirting out a blaze in Romance Languages Bldg. won the second place tro- phy, while third prize was garner- ed by the flapping, quacking Don- ald Duck constructed by Alpha. -Daily-Burt Sapowitch WHAT'S THAT?-An Ann Ar- bor youngster stares in amaze- ment at one of the gigantic, brightly-colored balloons which sparked yesterday's Michigras parade. Elmer Davis To TalkToday Keynote speaker at the annual Phi Beta Kappa initiation ban- quet, at 6:30 p.m. today in the League, will be Elmer Davis, noted radio news analyst. He will talk on "The Scholar in a Time of Peril' 'at the banquet which brings 100 new members into the national honorary asso- ciation. In addition to 11 years broad- casting experience, Davis has been on the staff of the New York Times and is the author of many books, including "Times Have Changed," "Love Among the Ru- ins" and "Show Window." World News Roundup By The Associated Press BERLIN-The Western Powers invited the Russians to return last night to four-power rule in Berlin but without the veto privi- lege that wrecked the old ma- chinery. The American, British and French commandants in a joint news conference told correspon- dents they "hope" the Soviets go along with a proposal for city- wide elections and then come back to the Kommandatura. * * * BRUSSELS, Belgium-Reliable sources said King Leopold agreed yesterday to stay out of Belgium while his 19-year-old son, Prince Baudouin, takes over interim rule. NEW YORK-Scattered walk- ou tflared along America's vast grid of telephone wires yesterday, threatening to blaze into an all- out national phone strike next week. Gamma Delta and Phi Kappa Tau. *' * * HONORABLE mention awards1 went to Zeta Psi's Mrs. Katzen- jammer, Kappa Sigma and Chi Omega's Terry and the Pirates and the Keystone Kop melodrama conducted by Zeta Beta Tau and Alpha Epsilon Phi. Judging chairman Judy Loud, '50, reported close decisions in every category, with scores of magnificent floats competing in the mile-long parade. Raucous clowns, calliopes, an- cient cars and bands from campus and nearby high schools added to the carnival flavor as thousands of' students and townspeople lined Ann Arbor streets, ten deep in places, to witness the spectacle. * *.* YOUNGSTERS got their biggest thrill out of the gigantic helium- inflated rubber balloon figures of Indians, animals and toy soldiers. Brought in direct from New York by the Ann Arbor Retail Mer- chants Association, the balloons appeared in this area for the first tim e... A slight drizzle earlier in the afternoon threatened to post- pone the parade until today, but the sun broke through the clouds in the nick of time. The only serious mishap occur- red just after the parade got under way when Joanne Hoey, '50, fell off the Chi Psi-Sorosis float. Miss Hoey sustained leg and arm in- juries and was taken to Health, Service for x-rays and treatment. Judging the some 35 entries yere Cecil Creal, head of the Ann Arbor City Council; Marvin Niehuss, vice-president of the University; Marie Harwig, of the physical edu- cation department, and Sander- son Smith, Grad. It repeated the assertions of the Soviet protest of April 11 that a B-29 ignored signals to land, fired on Soviet fighters and disappeared toward the Baltic sea when the Soviet fighters fired back. Therefore, the note declared, the Soviet government cannot ac- cept even "for examination" the American demands made three days ago. THESE DEMANDS included compensation, severe punishment of the responsible Soviet aviators, a thorough Soviet investigation of the incident and categorical guarantees against a recurrence. The Soviet note was handed to U.S. Ambassador Alan G. Kirk at noon by Foreign Minis- ter Andrei Vishinsky. It con- cluded by declaring the United States was trying to "cover up the illegal actions of certain of its subordinates who dis- graced themselves by grossly violating the generally recog- nized rules of international law." Secretary of State Dean Ache- son told a news conference in Washington the Soviet charges that a B-29 invaded Soviet'terri- tory were "fictitious allegations" which the Russians knew were not true. THE CATEGORICAL rejection of the American demands anger- ed members of Congress. House Democratic Leader McCormack (Mass.) suggested it was time to break dimplomatic relations with Russia. The House suspended oth- er business and voted 330 to 0 to award posthumous honors to the 10 lost fliers. The Senate already had approved the resolution. Chairman Vinson (D-Ga.) of the House armed services commit- tee declared the Russian armed services had committed an "act of aggression," "a murderous, das- tardly, despicable act which has been officially condoned by the Russian government." Czechs Must Close ChicagO Consulate-U.S. WASHINGTON -(VP) - T he United States hit back yesterday at an anti-American campaign in Communist Czechoslovakia with an order closing down the Czech consulate general rin Chicago. The newest development in the American tit-for-tat policy toward the Soviet bloc was in retaliation for Czechoslovakia's shutdown of the U.S. Informa- tion Service and its demand for PREDICTS RED PUSH: Trieste Student Claims Soviet Protest Insincere Russia's note to the Western powers demanding that occupa- tion troops clear out of the Tr- este area is a well timed propa- ganda stunt to stir up a flame in the compact Mediterranean hot- bed, Alvise Barison,gGrad., of Tri- este charged last night. "The Soviet demands are aim- ed at starting trouble in Trieste, which, along with Berlin and Vi- enna, will be a major center of action when the Communists be- there as false. "There are no more than 12 small customs boats in Trieste permanently." Pointing out that the Soviet notice made no mention of the removal of Yugoslav troops oc- cupying Zone "B" of Trieste, Bar- ison said that Kremlin officials may be trying to win Tito back to their fold. * * * "IF BRITISH and American forces withdrew from Trieste it PROPOSED COMMITTEE: Pollock to Address New Hoover Group Prof. James K. Pollock, chair- man of the political science de- partment, will speak at an organi-f zational meeting of a proposedf caimpus branch of the Citizens support for the findings of the Hoover Commission. * * * ESTABLISHED immediately af- ter the Commission's recommenda- ized Tuesday will be part of this division. Prof. Pollock, who was a mem- ber of the Hoover Commission, will Rwynlo~ithe mnurnoses andi oals of