UNION AMENDMENT See Page 4 wide Latest Deadline in the State uii4; CLOUDY AND SHOWERS VOL. LX, No. 146 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1950 EIGHT PAGES I I * * * * * * * * * Tobey Hits Race News Organization Hearing Closes Down Indefinitely WASHINGTON-(WP)-Sen. To- bey (R-NH) charged yesterday that officials of the Big Race News agency, Continental Press Service, are trying to lead Senate gambling investigators "down a blind al- ley." Tobey, exasperated as the in- quiry tried without success to trace all channels through which track information flows to the nation's bookie joints, urged the return of Continental officials for questioning. 4 s * * "PUT THE pressure on them to give us the lowdown on this thing," the New Hampshire legislator pro- posed. But the investigation shut down its hearing indefinitely yesterday on schedule. It has been studying legislation to halt the flow of gambling informa- tion across state lines. Soon a special Senate committee will launch an overall inquiry into organized gambling and crime rackets in general: G Chairman McFarland (D-Ariz) agreed with Tobey that "we must # complete this chain" of Race News movement. He said the investiga- tors are still at work on informa- tion which will go into the record later. CONTINENTAL has listed 24 news agencies receiving its ser- vice, adding that if others use it the information was being "boot- legged" without Continental's 4. knowledge. The Western Union Telegraph' Company has told the inquiry that its lists of circuits leased for Racing News shows 17 names not on Continental's list. Senators are trying to find out where the 17 get their news. Tobey's criticism came after the committee got a partial picture of how a smaller ($40,000 a year) race news service operates. Two Kansas City witnesses, Tano Lococo and Eddie (Spitz) Osadchey, told about their stan- dard news service in which they had as a partner the late mobster and ex-convict, Charles Gargotta. Weruette Cites U.S. Economy Over Russian. "If we look at the record of the two systems the supremacy of capitalism over communism is all too evident," declared Prof. J. Phillip Wernette ir a talk on Capitalism vs. Communism last & night. Speaking in the West Quad lounge, Prof. Wernett asserted that while Russia has been at an economic standstill the U.S. has been achieving the highest stan- dard of living in the world. * * "IN OTHER phases of their system, such as education and civil liberties, the Russians have gone steadily downhill while in a corresponding period of time the U.S. has shown marked advances in those fields," Prof. Wernette said. "Although the total output in Russia has increased since the revolution, output per capita has not." Prof. Wernette said that the main cause of this situation is a deficiency of original thinking which results from a system lack- ing in competition, and having a natural fear of thinking which is manifested in a police state. * * * PROF. Wernette declared that FBI Files Clh rs le To Union Election Plan Attacked By Wise Undesirable political intrigue would come into the picture if the senior offices at the Michigan Union were made elective, out-going Union president Bill Wise, '50 BAd, warned last night in a farewell address. Wise was striking at a proposed amendment to the Union Con- stitution. He predicted that the amendment would "toss out the win- dow" the idea of training and experience for senior officers and would turn their selection into, a "popularity contest." * * * * THE AMENDMENT Wise referred to would enable Union members to pick their president and recording secretary in all'-campus elections. '>Right now these two top officers are appointed by the selections committee of the Union Board of M en55' s J MEUDirectors. "Election of senior officers was tried around here before, Inives i ates but the set-up was changed in 1928 for a number of good rea- sons," Wise declared. "Let's not VFgo back and make the same mistake again." pointed President Jerry Mehlman, Men's Judiciary Council is mak- Wise spoke at a Union awards ing a thoruogh investigation of banquet which was highlighted by the vote fraud in the recent SL the inauguration of newly-ap- election and hopes to reach its de- "THE constitution definitely cision by May 12, according to must be changed," Wise asserted, Jim Smith, '50, chairman of the "but it must be changed wisely." ouncilthe casegedfSLrcandi dat He reminded his listeners that term Dudheycase'ofScandiera mass meeting of Union mem- Tom Dudley, '53, and the more bers has been called for May 16, than 100 fraudulent first place when constitutional changes will votes cast in his favor during elec- be up for approval. tions. Wise implied that one of the other pending amendments might "MEN'S JUDIC has been inter- serve to give students better rep- viewing many students connected resentation in the choice of offi- with the elections and particular- cers, but at the same time exclude ly the poll watchers in whose bal- the desire for election. l-+ 1 no +,n flen tn*a*-w*r Start Participants Bitter When Strike Ends Union Gets $100 Monthly Pensions DETROIT-(P)-Chrysler's 89,- 000 striking CIO United Auto Workers will start streaming back to work Monday-their 100-day strike ended. Settlement came yesterday on a note of' bitterness like that on which it began. Each side verbally slapped the other, after the 8:25 a.m. contract signing. * * * A TRICKLE of the 50,000 idled in Chrysler supplier plants al- ready had been called back to their benches in anticipation of settlement. It immediately jumped to a full-stream back-to-work movement with Briggs Manufac- turing Co., of Detroit and the Budd Co., of Philadelphia, order- ing 24,000 and 1,100 respectively, to return. When they end their string of Payless paydays, Chrysler work- ers will be going back with ev- erything they asked in the way of $100 monthly pensions (in- cluding Federal social security benefits), hacked by a jointly administered trust fund. The union got benefits it said equalled the "10-cents-an-hour package" it asked when the strike was called Jan. 25. It failed, how- ever, to get a union shop and tot- al benefits of 28 cents an hour that it demanded when negotia- tions on a new contract opened way back on July 6, 1949. * * * BITTERNESS marked negotia- tions from the walkout to settle- ment and as yesterday's signing was announced, UAW President Walter Reuther angrily told a press conference: "Chrysler Corporation has sunk to a low never before at- tained in the auto industry ... as late as yesterday Mr. Weck- ler (Herman L. Weckler, Chrys- 1r vice-president and general manager) prostituted the facts." Weckler repeated Wednesday his charge that the UAW was stalling settlement to collect a maximum strike fund under $1 weekly assessments against work- ing union members. " THE 12-WEEK assessment per- iod ended Wednesday. When all collections are in they will total approximately $7,000,000, of which less than $3,000,000 already has been expended. Elect Officers John McCarthy, Grad, of Water- town, N. Y., was elected president of the Business Administration senior class yesterday. Other senior officers are: Vice- President Charles Strickland, '51 BAd; Secretary, Richard T. Wood- worth, '51 BAd; Treasurer, Vir- ginia Ross, '51 BAd. Work on Monda y THE WINNER-Rep. George Smathers and his wife display broad smiles in Jacksonville, Fla., after his surprising defeat of Sen. Claude Pepper for the Democratic nomination as U.S. Sepator from Florida. Smathers, 36-year-old former Marine and self- styled "liberal" now in his second term in the House, defeated Pepper by a solid margin. The Democratic nomination in Florida is equivalent to election, as Democrats outnumber Republicans by better than 15 to 1. ,* * * * FLORIDA PRIMARY Fair Deal' Not Defeated With Pepper--Eldersveld Last Laugh OAKLAND - (A) - Seven- year - old Jimmy Anderson, playing the role of cattle rustler, jumped into a refuse can while the vigilapte pack clattered by. Jimmy's pursuers in the make-believe cowboy epic were stumped but had the last laugh when Jimmy's boots jammed in the trash can. Firemen had to be summoned to cut the rustler out of his difficulties. Reds Report Repatriates All Released FRANKFURT, GERMANY--(P) -Russia announced last night that repatriation of German war prisoners has been completed. The news chilled hundreds of thousands of Germans. It killed the last hope of family after fam- ily that a missing father, hus- band or son might return from the war. The news came too late, al- most midnight, for most Germans to learn of it immediately. Those who did were aghast. "IT IS frightening, terrible," said one. Dr. Kurt Schumacher, West Germany's Socialist leader, declared: "There are hundreds of thousands of German prisoners still in Russia." The Germans generally had no idea repatriation was near an end. The official Soviet news agency Tass said last night, in a dispatch broadcast by the Moscow radio, that the last group of prisoners totaling 17,583 had been returned. Two months ago the Russians said that virtually all German war prisoners except war criminals had been freed. German author- ities asserted, however, that the Russians still were holding some 400,000. The United States and France accused the Russians April 25 of lying to hide the fate of hun- dreds of thousands of German pri- soners. Group to Fight SpeakersBan A student-faculty group last night decided to join a Student Legislature subcommittee in com- bating the University ban on Com- munist speakers. . The group included members of the ad hoc committee which brought Communist Herbert J. Phillips to campus last week, plus representatives of SL and other campus organizations. Tentative plans were made to hold a campus-wide meeting fea- turing a speech on academic free- dom, preferably by someone who holds the respect of the University faculty as well as of the students. 'The group plans to ask Chancel- lor Robert Hutchins of the Uni- versity of'Chicago to be the fea- tured speaker at the meeting. lot boxes the faise votes were found," Smith said. Although Smith would make no statement as to the progress of the investigation thus far, Dave Belin, '51, chairman of the SL's Election Committee, of- fered this theory as a possible solution to the fraud: "Dudley's invalidated votes were so obviously fraudulent that it is hard to believe that either he or any of his friends would have bothered stuffing the ballot boxes with them," Belin said. "THEY HAD been marked iden- tically with apparently the same pen and ink," he explained, "and had been folded together and stuffed into boxes by 0's and 20's." Dudley, who has not been in- terviewed by Men's Judic as yet, was unavailable for comment. He had, however, completely denied any knowledge of .the vote fraud at the time of the discovery early election night. World..N.ews .Roundup By The Associated Press WASHINGTON - A two-year extension of the military draft law was approved unanimously by the House Armed Services Com- mittee yesterday. * * * BIRMINGHAM, ALA.-Regu- lar Democrats last night re- gained control of the party ma- chinery in Alabama. Late returns from Tuesday's bitter primary gave party loyal- ists a clear majority of 72 places on the State Democratic Com- mittee. * * * HOUSTON-Federal Judge T. M. Kennerly yesterday entered a final judgment in favor of some 8,500 plaintiffs seeking about $200,000,000 in Texas City disaster damages from the Federal govern- ment. AWARDS WERE presented to Wise at last night's banquet as well as to outgoing secretary Bob Seeber, '50 BAd. Board of Directors keys were awarded to Bill Tattersall, Hugh Cooper, Paul Rider, Dick Foote, John Linquist, Irwin Goffman, Jim Smith and Prof. Merwin Waterman. Gold keys went to Executive Council members Jim Root, Jerry Mehlman, Larry Stein, Bill Race, Bob Bristor, Bill Bristor, Bob Wal- don, Ned Stirton, Irv Barill, Bill Peterson, Hal Sperlich and Jim Callison* Keys were awarded to staffmen Keith Beers, Don Berns, Jack Byer, Victor Brooks, Bill Chin, Don Downie, Sumner Friedman, Chuck Good, Fred Itner, John Kathe, Jeoffrey Leigh, Dean Luse, Bob Miller, Bob Smith, Bill Sharp and Tom Mills. Wittenberg's A TO Banned By The Associated Press The Alpha Tau Omega frater- nity chapter of Wittenberg Col- lege - was indefinitely suspended last night following the death of a pledge during "hazing." Dean Niswonger, 20, Dayton, O., was killed by a truck and another pledge, Jerry Wendell, 20, also of Dayton, was injured after they; had fallen asleep on a highway.) The pair had been driven blind- folded into the country. Anyone who calls Rep. George Smathers' defeat of Sen. Claude Pepper in Tuesday's Florida pri- mary balloting a trend against the President's "Fair Deal" pro- gram is just doing some Wishful thinking, Prof. Samuel Eldersveld declared yesterday. The political scientist pointed out that the whole Florida campaign was too complicated to draw any such conclusion. * * * "FLORIDA, or for that matter Johnson Will Lead Festival Concert at Hill Choral Union and eight soloists assisted by the Philadelphia or- chestra and led by Thor Johnson will perform in the second May Festival Concert at 8:30 p.m. to- day in Hill Auditorium. Bach's Magnificat will be sung by the Choral Union with soloists Norma Heyde, soprano; Harold Haugh, tenor and Mack Harrell, baritone. Soloists in the Bach "Branden- burg Concerto No. 5" will be Alex- ander Hilsberg, violin; William Kincaid, flute, and James Wolfe, piano. William Primrose will be heard in Bartok's Concerto for Viola and Orchestra. Completing the pro- gram will be Ravel's "Don Qui- chotte a Dulcinee" sung by Mack Harell. any Southern state, has never been a barometer state," he noted. "It is therefore ridiculous to claim a pro-Republican movement be- cause of the results of the vote." Prof. Eldersveld explained that the issues in the Florida campaign were not clear cut..- Voters' decisions at the polls were made with consideration be- ing given to the complexities of local organizational fights with- in the Democratic Party, he said. HE REMARKED that Sen. Pep- per did not breeze into office in the 1944 election, and that he faced stiff press and business opposition in this one. "Sen. Pepper's equivocal stand on some issues did not help him in what turned out to be a dirty fight," Prof. Eldersveld said. Prof. Morgan Thomas, also of the political science department, ventured that Sen. Pepper's de- feat proves that you can't be too liberal in the South. * * * "PEPPER ASSOCIATED too much with leftist factions in the Democratic Party, Prof. Thomas said. "It gave Smathers a good chance to play on the Commu- nist and Negro issues." He said that the New Dealer's defeat came as no surprise as Sen. Pepper was not Southern enough in his attitude to these questions. And Prof. Thomas expressed doubt that Ohio's Democratic Auditor, Joseph Ferguson, stands much of a chance to defeat Sen. Taft in the fall elections. Not Included In Release Reveal Executive Policy Reversal WASHINGTON--()-President Truman yesterday agreed to give Senate investigators the complete State Department loyalty files- including some FBI data-on the 81 cases cited by Sen. McCarthy., in his charges of Communism in the government. Mr. Truman's reversal of his earlier refusal to open the files was announced by Chairman Ty- dings (D-Md) of a Senate Com- mittee which has been looking into McCarthy's allegations, * * * TYDINGS SAID Mr. Truman's approval does not cover any of the FBI files, which the President has adamantly refused to surren- der, but declared: "There will be FBI material in. the State Department files where there has been a full field investigation by the FBI." McCarthy told a reporter he will "have considerable to say about this maneuver" in a Chica- go speech tomorrow before a con- vention of Young Republicans. He said his address will be broad- cast nationally by a radio net- work. * * * TYDINGS' announcement cap- ped a day which saw McCarthy make a new charge-that State Department employes helped a spy ring feed .S. atomic secrets to Russia in 1945-and a former Fed- eral agent gave partial support to McCarthy's statement. In another development, the House Un-American Activities Committee h e a r d testimony from two witnesses that Wil- liam W. Remington, much in- vestigated government official, was a Communist in the '30s. Remington denied it. Tydings disclosed Mr. Truman's change on the loyalty files ques- tion at a late afternoon news con- ference. * * * IN MARCH, Mr. Truman had balked at turning over files to the Tydings committee on the grQund that it would harm the FBI's op- erations, wreck the Federal loy- alty program and "smear" inno- cent persons. Tydings said the President has ' now consented to let the commit- tee examine the State Department loyalty records after being advised that those files were scrutinized by four other Congressional commit- tees several years ago. The Maryland Senator said he showed Mr. Truman that the 81 persons McCarthy has named as Communists or fellow travelers "were the identical persons named in the 81 cases investigated by the Congressional committee." t',Funds Plan ,' 'To Be Decided In Legislature A final decision on the Uni- versity's record $19,915,000 ap- propriations request appeared near today as State Legislature leaders announced tentative plans for a May 19 adjournment. Another indication of imminent floor action on appropriations was a Republican House caucus called yesterday for a "progress report" on budget bills. PLANS were also afoot to call a caucus of majority Republicans in the Senate early next week to consider final budget bills. At stake in these deliberations will be a University request for a $13,870,000 operating budget and $6,045,000 for capital improve- ments. Gov. Williams cut the opera- tions figure to $12.500.000 in his LARGE CLASS REQUIRES STADIUM: British Ambassador To Speak at Commencement 4> Sir Oliver Franks, British am- bassador to the United States will be the speaker at the University's 106th Commencement, June 17. A tentative list of 4,645 students -a new record-will file into Michigan Stadium to hear the British diplomat and receive their fourteen of the University's schools and colleges. The College of Literature, Sci- ence and the Arts leads the list of total prospective graduates with 1,321. The Graduate school has 1,160. * * * some of its typically quixotic weather, the ceremonies will have to be held in Yost Field House. * * * SOMETIME in June prospec- tive graduates will receive two tickets each which can be used in case the exercises are forced available in the University dormi- tories for the immediate families of dormitory residents and other graduating seniors who are un- able to find a place for their par- ents, according to Francis Shiel, business manager of the residence halls. their sheepskins from the Regents at a local church. IT IS NOW a $20,000 affair with innumerable details to worry As- sistant Vice - President Herbert Watkins and his commencement committee.