-PROGRESS REPORT See Page 4 .Moo iF r 4tjt Ci an ~i& aiti CLOUDY, COLDER Latest Deadline in the State VOL. LX, No. 144 ARiots Mark Celebration Of MayDay West Berliners Stone Red Police By The Associated Press Police were stoned in Berlin, planes flew over Moscow and 13 were killed in Johannesberg yes- terday as May Day was obseryed throughout the world. In the former German capital; anti-Communists stoned East Ber- lin police and tore down Soviet flags in a seething celebration but patient police action on both sides averted any serious violence. THE INCIDENT occurred when a western mob of 5,000 teenagers pelted 100 blue uniformed eastern patrolmen with brick bats in Pots- damer Platz. After 15 minutes, 300 West Berlin police reserves, respond- ing to a riot call, wedged among the demonstrators and pushed them back out of rock throw- ing range. Moscow's annual celebration featured what foreign observers called the greatest Russian fly- ing spectacle since the end of the war. FOREIGN AIR ATTACHES said this was the first time twin-engin- ed jet planes have appeared in any Soviet air show. They also observed that this was the first time the air force had displayed as many as 64 four-engined bombers. Last May Day there were less than a dozen of the sky giants. Generalissimo Josef Stalin, look- ing fit on the rostrum overlooking Red Square, reviewed the celebra- tion. * * * IN RACE CONSCIOUS South Africa, violence erupted and at least 13 Negroes were killed in clashes with police. Rioting broke out in the native quarters of Jo- hannesburg and at'. other towns in the vicinity. The outbreaks followed day long tension in which the gov- enment prohibited all May Day public gatherings and proces- sions, and Communist leaders unsuccessfully attempted t o carry out a protest strike. Highlighting the day in this country was the nation's first mock Communist occupation in Mosinee, Wisconsin. The demon- stration, conducted by the Ameri- can Legion and other civic organ- izations, was designed to show the town's 2,200 residents what life would be under Soviet rule. Locally, the only reported ob- servance of the holiday was in Ann Arbor's two Catholic church- es.. Hundreds of University students and townspeople gathered at St. Mary's Chapel and St. Thonas' to -pray for world peace as priests conducted the centuries-old May Day services of the church. Student Hurt In Auto Crash Two University students, injured in an auto accident that claimed one life Sunday evening on Ply- mouth Road, were reported in im- proved condition by Wayne Coun- ty Hospital official last night. Glen Mellinger, Grad, suffered a .brain concussion and lacera- tions. Marcia Staley, 52, also in- curred lacerations along with five fractured ribs.. The two students were return- ing from Detroit with Mellinger's parents when the mishap occured. According to police a convertible coming from the opposite direc- tion swerved directly in front of the Mellinger car. After the initial impact the car, drivenr by the younger Mellinger, swerved into and split a telephone pole. James Brown, 17, of Lincoln Park, an occupant of the convert- ible, was killed instantly. Union To Vote On Proposals ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN TUESDAY, MAY 2, 1950 SIX PAG 0 0 Dorr Appointed' Summer Head Prof. Harold M. Dorr of the political science department has been named to succeed Prof. Louis A.Hopkins as director of the University's summer session beginning Sept. 1. * * * PROF. HAROLD M. DORR .. . new Summer Session directorf Phone Tieup Threat Killed By Installers NEW YORK-(P)-A possible nationwide telephone tieup was averted yesterday only four hours before the deadline. Some 10,000 Western Electric installers ended their week-old walkout and called off plans to throw picket lines around strate- gic telephone exchanges through- out the country. The installers had hoped their picket lines would have kept about 230,000 phone workers away from their jobs, * * * BUT THE PICKETS didn't march. At 1 a.m., their union ne- gotiators called the whole thing off after a 15-hour bargaining session, with federal mediators sitting in. Wage negotiations began be- tween Western Electric and di- vision 6 of the CIO Communi- cations Workers of America, which had called the strike last Monday against the Bell Sys- tem's manufacturing and sup- ply unit. In all, 24 CWA divisions, in- cluding division 6, will now talk wages with the Bell System's pa- rent corporation, American Tele- phone and Telegraph Co., and its several subsidiaries. May Call FBI In Talkie Theft Unless the two government- owned "Handy-Talkies" which dis- appeared from the Union during election night are returned this week, the FBI may be sumioned, SL elections chairman Jim Storrie, '51, BAd, warned last night. The portable wireles radios, used to direct voting procedure, may be returned to Storrie at 407 Chica- go House, West Quad, and no penalties will be inflicted, he said. Prof. Hopkins will complete his 16th year as summer session head and end a 44-year association with the University when he be- gins his pre-retirement fur- lough in the fall. AN EXPERT in the field of pub- lic government and American law, Prof. Dorr's previous connec- tion with the summer session in- cludes serving as chairman of the committee which organized the 1946 summer session lecture series on the social implications of mod- ern science. He was also one of the first faculty members to teach sum- mers in the state colleges of education under the University's program of cooperation in grad- uate education. Last Summer found Prof. Dorr in Germany where he served as special consultant studying the legislative procedures in the Ame- rican ,Zone of Germany. * * * AS A RESULT of his recom- mendations, the State Depart- ment set up an exchange program to bring German legislators to this country for observation of legislative processes in this coun- try. Prof. Dorr is now in charge of the first group of six Germans to come to the country under this program. This summer, Prof. Dorr will return to Germany to continue his work in the exchange pro- gram. Prof. Dorr has been on the Uni- versity faculty since 1929 when he was appointed to the post of in- structor. He became an assistant professor in 1935, after receiving his doctor of philosophy degree from the University in 1933. He rose to an associate profes- sor in 1939 and was appointed full professor in 1944. World News[ Roundup By The Associated Press WASHINGTON - Admiral For- rest P. Sherman won quick ap- proval from a house committee yesterday for a $350,000,000 Navy modernization program covering a guided-missiles ship and an atom- ic-powered submarine. LAKE SUCCESS - The Rus- sians have indicated to United Nations officials they they will boycott the forthcoming session of the Commission on the Sta- tus of Women instead of stag- ing the usual walkout. * * * LONDON - The Labor govern- ment squeezed out a one-vote vic- tory in the House of Commons: last night in a surprise conserva- tive assault on an appropriation for the Ministry of Transport.f WASHINGTON - Congress finished action on a bill pro- viding stiff penalties for re- vealing information about se- cret government codes and sent It to President Truman. NEW YORK - The successful broadway hit "South Pacific" won the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for drama last night while the annual award for fiction went to A. B. Guthiie's best-selling historical novel, "The Way West." Florida Vote Will Decide PepperFate Four States Hold Primaries'Today By The Associated Press Senator Claude Pepper battles for his political life today in a torrid Florida primary election many regard as the first test of the Truman program in 1950's balloting. The ,extent of the test is dis- puted. FLORIDA IS one of four states{ holding primaries today. Elsewhere interest centers on a contest in Alabama between regular and anti-Truman Dem- ocrats for control of the state party executive committee; a Democratic senate nomination fight in Ohio, and scattered house contests in Indiana. In all, nominations will be made for three senate, 49 house, and two governors' seats. * * * A 36-YEAR-OLD Marine combat veteran, Rep. George Smathers, now in his second term in the house, is trying to unseat the vet- eran Senator Pepper, with some basic philosophies of the "'Fair Deal" wrapped up in the struggle. Pepper says Smathers talks like a Republican. Smathers has tried to picture the Senator as an associate o f Red-front groups, which Pepper denies. Smathers opposes much of the Truman program. Pepper goes down the line for it except the FEPC, and labels himself one of the President's staunchest "Fair Deal" supporters. REPUBLICAN LEADERS say they would regard a Pepper defeat as indicative of a national trend against the Truman administra- tion because of the issues involved and the transplanted cross-section, of the Florida population. Democratic chieftains do not see it that way. They call it more of a personal fight and of only statewide significance. Pepper, with 14 years in the Sen- ate behind him, campaigned as an advocate of more federal financ- ing, broader public services, in- creased old age assistance and a1 national health program. ChMaraton is' Corporation Sees Strike EndingNear Union Maintains Issues Unsettled DETROIT - failed to agree how close they ment of the Strike. (W) - Negotiato late yesterday a were to a setti 97-day Chrysl -Daiy-Burt Sapowitcn AIM CABINET--Elected last night are the new officers of the Association of Independent Men. In front are president Dave Belin, '51, and Vice-President Ray Litt, '52E. In the rear from left to right Senior Adviser are Cal Klyman, '51, Secretary Hugh Fleetwood, '52, and Treasurer Ralph Greenwood, '52E. Negotiation JAW Continu r * * , 1 'i I l t i 1 1 1 c l i AIM Elects Dave Belm To TopPost In an unopposed contest Dave Belin, '51, was unanimously elect- ed president of the Association of Independent Men at its meeting last night in the Union. At the same meeting AIM voted to rally independent men in op- position to the pending amend- ment to the Union constitution that "would make it more diffi- culti for students to call general meetings for constitutional revi- sion." A FULL SCALE publicity cam- paign to be staged within the res- idence halls was planned in order co gain a large turnout for the Union meeting May 10. AIM also went officially on record as opposed to signing CED's open letter to the Medi- cal School. In stating AIM's position, past president Mary Failer claimed that the open letter policy has essen- tially become a publicity stunt on campus and in this case would serve to negatively antagonize the Medical School rather than cause it to favorably review the prob- lem at hand. Student Legislature Cabinet members will meet with the Uni- versity Lecture Committee behind closed doors at 4 p.m. today in the Union to discuss the Committee's ban of Communist Herbert J, Phil- lips from speaking on campus. Today's meeting will be held to give Legislators an explanation of the reasoning behind the Commit- tee's ban and to determine wtiat effect the ruling will have on fu- ture Michigan Forum debates, ac- cording to SL President Quentin Nesbitt, '50 BAd. * * * "WE WANT to see where differ- ences of opinion lie so that we may take steps to ensure that future debates will be allowed," Nesbitt declared. The Legislature requests equal student representation on the Committee in a strongly-worded letter which will be sent out to all members of the Board of Regents this week. THE LETTER to khe Regents urges that the revamped Lecture Committee be given full power to pass upon requests by campus or- ganizations to bring speakers to the University. The letter also asks for a joint SL - faculty - administration committee "to investigate all regents by-laws affecting the Infant's Body Found by Road The body of a three to four month old baby was found late last night on River Road between Ann Arbor and YTpsilanti by a passing fisherman, according to police reports. The Sheriff's Office was still investigating the incident early this morning. Official reports will be issued later today. SL Cabinet, 'U' Officials To Discuss Debate Ban bringing of speakers to campus." In addition the Legislature has requested an opportunity to dis- cuss the entire matter with the Board at its next meeting. "At this meeting the Legislature particularly would like to find out if the Regents' interpretation of their by-laws corresponds with the interpretation given by the Lec- ture Committee," Nesbitt added. Communists' Attorneys Win Sentence Stay NEW YORK-()-Attorneys for 11 Communist leaders convicted last year today won a temporary stay of the lawyers' own sentences for contempt of court. However, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals did not rule on the lawyers' motion asking that the sentences be stayed until after the Supreme Court, rules on the case of the Communist leaders. THE COURT granted the tem- porary stay of sentences pending determination of the lawyers' mo- tion. This motion would indefi- nitely postpone serving of the con- tempt sentences. The court gave no indication when it would rule on the lawyers' motion. The appeal of the convictions of the Communist leaders, on charges of conspiring to advo- cate violent overthrow of the government, is not scheduled to be heard by the Court of Appeals until June 12. Five attorneys for the Commun- ist leaders, and one of the Com- munists, Eugene Dennis, who act- ed as his own lawyer, were cited for contempt at the end of the conspiracy trial by Federal Judge Harold R. Medina. Bargaining teams for Chrysler Corp. and the CIO United Auto Workers pushed their marathon, non-stop negotiations past the 51- hour mark without - final agree- ment. * * * HERMAN L. WECKLR Chrys- ler vice-president and general manager, indicated only technical wording of a new contract was holding up strike settlement and a back-to-work parade. The union promptly replied that "there are still unresolved issues." The union's International Ex- ecutive Board, in a special session, heard from UAW President Walter Reuther and UAW Chrysler dir- ector Norman Matthews that some issues were yet to be settled. * * * EACH SIDE took a back-handed verbal slap at the other. Despite the disagreement, Fed- eral Mediator E. X. Sconyers. said "there has been much pro- gres" toward ending the walk- out that has idled 89,000 Chrys- ler Corp. workers and 50,000 em- ployes of its supplier plants. Estimated costs of this second longest and costliest strike in the automotive industry mounted to $1,307,478,640 yesterday, including $227,500,000 lost in commissions by the firm's 10,574 dealers. The walkout was called Jan. 25 in a dispute over financing of monthly pensions of $100, includ- ing Federal Social Security bene- fits. Since then agreement on this point reportedly has been reached, but other contract issues - have snarled settlement. Among these is time that shop stewards may de- vote to union activities during work hours, seniority, and union security. Lattimore Hit, Upheld Before SenateGroup, WASHINGTON-()- x-Com- munist Freda Utley testified yes- terday that Owen Lattimore's writings showed his subservience to Communist Party discipline," but an American magazine editor staunchly defended Lattimore. Demaree Bess, editor and for- eign correspondent of the Satur- day Evening Post, told Senate in- vestigators that he never saw "ev- en the slightest evidence" that Lattimore was becoming "even the mildest form of fellow travel- er" when Lattimore visited Moss- cow in 1936. BESS ALSO declared tht Lat- timore "learned considerably more from Soviet intelligence officers during , that Moscow visit than they did from him--and this in- formation has since been made available through Mr. Lattimore to four own intelligence services and to the State Department." Mrs. Utley testified that in her opinion, Based on her knowledge of Communist opera- tions,' Senator McCarthy (R- Wis) "under-estimated" Latti- more in calling him "the top" Russian espionage agent in this country. Under questioning by Senator Green (D-RI), Mrs. Utley ac- knowledged she had no personal MICHIGAN PLAN: Educational Values Of Dormitory Life Stressed DR. WILLIAM C. °MENNINGER Dr. Menninger To Talk Today On Psychiatry Dr. Wiliam C. Menninger, clin- ical director of the Menninger Foundation, willspeak on "Psy- chiatry for Everyday Needs" at 8 p.m. today in the Rackham lecture hail. Dr. Menninger is a past presi- dent of the American Psychiatric Association. Brigadier General of the Army Psychiatric Association, he is consultant in neuropsychia- try for the Veteran's Administra- tion. * * * . . IllS LECTURE,r which is being sponsored by Nu Sigma Nu medi- cal fraternity, will be aimed at a lay audience as well as specialists in psychiatry. It will be open to the public. Dr. Menninger has been in- fluential in taking the stigma from psychiatry so that more people who need it will get psy- chiatric service. He is the author of "You and Psychology," "Psychology in a Troubled World," and "Psychiatry, Its Evolution and Present Status." * * * IN HIS acceptance speech, pres- ident Belin, an SL member and chairman of the Big Ten Young Republicans, called for a future AIM policy that will be directed to serve the campus first rather than just the independents. He also promised immediate revitalization and reorganiza- tion of the entire AIM structure. Other officers elected last night were Ray Litt, '52E, vice president; Hugh Fleetwood, '52, secretary; and Ralph Greenwood, 152E, trea- surer. Former vice president Cal Kly- man, '51, was appointed senior ad- visor to the AIM executive coun- cil. (EDITOR'S NOTE-This is the fifth in a series on the Michigan House Plan of residence halls.) w By JOHN DAVIES "We can't use this residence hall as a hotel-if a student isn't getting educational values from living here, he will be asked to make room for some man who will." This view, expressed by a resi- dent adviser of a West Quad- rangle house, is a concise explana- tion of a student's obligation to- wards group living under the i adds to the house morale, he added. What about "deadheads"-the completely inactive students? "We give them a period of grace, realizing that he may join the group later. But if there are no reasons why he can't become active we feel that he isn't gain- ing by living here, and is simply taking up the space of someone who would," the staff man said. TAG DAY TOMORROW: Students To Man Fresh Air Buckets By HERB CUE STON The little kid on the diving board will be looking up at you tomor- row from posters all over cam- pus as the University Fresh Air Camp holds its annual Tag Day proudly hang from contributors button holes. Each year in the past Univer- sity students have contributed several thousand dollars for main- taining the 240 underprivileged psychologically unadjusted city boys. The boys,-ranging in age from eight to 14 are recommended by 25 cooperating social agencies in Michigan that believe that a sum- A WEST QUAD housemother