CONGRESSIONAL IMMUNITY See Page 4 . YI r Latest Deadline in the State A6F AL-Abo t t CLOUDY, COOLER VOL. LX, No. 148 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN SUNDAY, MAY 7, 1950 EIGHT PA McCarthy Blasts ruman O, File pening Envoys Plan To Combat Red Threats Acheson Flies To Paris Meetings PARIS - (P) - A three-wall defense against Communist en- croachments is to be stiffened by Western foreign .ministers in a series of meetings beginning here today. U.S. Secretary of State Acheson is flying from Washington to at- tend the meetings, which will be shifted laterin the week to Lon- don. Wind, Flood Plague' Canada, Midwest By The Associated Press Winnepeg gave up its struggle against the raging Red River last night as billions of tons of flood water surged through broken dikes into, the city's streets. Flood waters swept over hundreds of blocks of the big grain center and threatened to force evacuation of the city's entire 300,000 popu- lation. DURING THE DAY the flood claimed its first life in greater Winnipeg. It was the second fatality in three weeks of severe floods sweeping the Red River valley. Thousands were evacuated from homes along the swift-running river and hotels turned their diningrooms into dormitories Servicemen for refugees. A last this WELL-INFORMED source night outlined the program way: .1 1-Aid will be shaped for France in theIndo-china war. 2-The North Atlantic treaty group will act for the first time on reports of its defense and other sub-committees. 3-The Western Powers will re- view what new steps can be taken to keep Germany headed west, in- stead of veering east * * * THE INFORMANT suggested, however, dramatic decisions should not be expected from the conferences, saying: "Keep in mind that meetings of the Western foreign ministers have been held about every three or four months for some time. They meet when there is enough to justify a meeting." At the same time Acheson said the Western Powers recognize that Russia has hardened her attitude on all fronts and counter-harden- ing is expectable. What he hopes for and trusts to get out of the diplomatic con- ferences, he said, is " a new sense of community in the North Atlantic area." He declared that he was en- couraged in his approach to the meetings by the by-partisan co- operation he has received from Republican and Democratic lead- ers of Congress alike. * * * AS ACHESON LEFT Washing- ton, French Communists called for a "peace demonstration" dur- ing his two-day visit to Paris. Foreign Minister Robert Schuman is expected to tell Acheson that France needs prompt and plentiful supplies of guns to win the four-year old war against the guerrillas of Ho Chi Minh. If the aid is not sent quickly, French diplomats say, there is a danger that Russian-supported southeast Asian Communist fight- ers may sweep through all of Indo- china and imperil both Thailand (Siam) and Burma. Acheson is to confer in Paris also with his top advisors on Ger- many. But the Acheson-Schuman talks are expected to stick close to the worsening situation in southeast Asia. House Votes Five Billion Dollars to VA W A S H I N G T O N,-(P)-The House yesterday tentatively ap- proved a $5,801,782,795 budget for the Veterans' Administration for the fiscal year starting next July That was the amount recoh- mended for the VA by the House. Appropriations Committee in a $29,000,000,000 " n e-p a c k a g e" budget bill which the House has been debating since before Easter. It compares with $6,007,615,000 re- quested by President Truman and $6,330,519,000 given the VA for the present year. ONLY ONE attempt was made to change the veterans' allotment. Rep. Allen (D-La), tried to add G uaran teed EqualLaws WASHINGTON--(P)-President Truman yesterday signed a bill designed to give soldiers, sailors and airmen equal treatment be- fore the law. He hailed it as "an outstanding example of unification of the armed forces." SECRETARY of Defense John- son said in a statement that the code affords "a number of very desirable protections for the ac- cused without interfering with mil- itary functions." Johnson said the code will not become effective until May 31, 1951, in order to give all branches of the military service a chance to study its procedures. The code, which the Presidents' statement described as a move to advance "the democratic ideal of equality before the law," contains these provisions: 1, Commanding officers are spe- cifically prohibited from criticiz- ing a court martial for its judicial actions. 2, Prosecutors and defense coun- sel in general courts martial-- which try capital crimes-must be qualified lawyers. 3. Any sentence involving a dis- charge or dismissal, or a prison term of more than one year, auto- maticaly goes before a board of review in the service of which the accused is a member. 4. Cases involving the death penalty or dismissal are further reviewed by the three-man civi- lian court. 5. No death sentence-and no lesser penalty against any general or officer of equal rank-can go into effect without presidential approval. Senators Set For Filibuster WASHINGTON-UP)-Southern- ers limbering up for a marathon filibuster said yesterday they would wage "all-out war" against the Administration's FEPC bill in the Senate next week. Sen. Johnston (D-S.C.), a lead- er of the Dixie group, served no- tice of a showdown battle in a communique for his colleagues, saying: "We are thoroughly convinced that the passage of this mon- strosity will mean a 'Pearl Harbor for the south'." Street car, bus service and tele- phone communications were dis- rupted in sections, one bridge was knocked out and another was opened to traffic only intermit- tently. MEANWHILE a vicious spring storm roared off into eastern Can- ada, leaving a trail of multi-mil- lion dollar damage, at least eleven persons dead and scores injured in the central United States.' The winds, which reached hurricane force in some places, battered a nine-state area Fri- day and early yesterday. Three persons were killed in both Iowa and Wisconsin, two in Illinois andaone each in Nebraska, Texas, and Ohio. A WANDERING storm, carried by gale winds up to 80 miles an hour in the northwestern part of Ontario, caused power interrup- tions in several widely-separated areas early yesterday. Stump Tour Lengthened By Truman WASHINGTON-(P)--President Truman added a ninth major ad- dress today to a 16-state stump- ing tour which he will start today on behalf of Democratic candi-I dates for Congress. A schedule already so tight that it promised to keep the President busy day and night was expanded; at the last minute yesterday to in- Auto Strike. Pact Okayed By Workers Overwhelming Approval Voted DETROIT - (A) - CIO United Auto Worker members gave over- whelming approval today to the strike settlement their union lead- ers reached with Chrysler Corp. Completed votes in 27 UAW Chrysler locals across the country showed majorities ranging from 94 to 89 percent. THE CORPORATION, informed of the ratification, planned to get its plants in operation Monday. Some 89,000 production workers will be recalled then. The contract, ending a 100- day strike, was signed by com- pany and union representatives Thursday morning. It provides $100-a-month pensions, includ- ing social security, and other benefits. Maintenance workers and ma- chine repairmen put key Chrysler plants in shape today to permit resumption of production Monday. * * * UAW SECRETARY - treasurer Emil Mazey announced the inter- national union had spent more than $3,000,000 to help Chrys- ler strikers. He estimated an addi- tional $1,000,000 would be spent in strike assistance before Chrysler workers get their first pay checks. Reporting results of ratifica- tion elections, Norman Mat- thews, UAW Chrysler depart- ment director, early returns in- dicated overwhelming approval. The union reported that income from its emergency strike assess- ment as of May 4 was $3,161,124.- 54. The union's working members were assessed $1 a week for 12 weeks to help finance the strike. Gales assist Forest Fires In Michigan EAST TAWAS-(IP)-Fanned by In'iiqn 27 separate forest -Daily-Ed Kozma FESTIVAL FANS-Lusty spring breezes whip Ann Arbor music lovers, forcing them to clutch their hats as they entered Hill Auditorium yesterday afternoon for the third in the series of 1950 May Festival Concerts. The four-day bonanza of classical music will end tonight when Marian An- derson is heard with the Philadelphia Orchestra. * * * * * Remington Denies Red Membership WSHINGON,-(A) - William W. Remington disputed point-by- point yesterday testimony of two admitted former Communists who said the Commerce Department economist was a party member in 1936-37. Remington's attorney, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., did most of the talking at a hurriedly called news confer- ence. Remington nodded assent to what Rauh said. * * * IN ADDITION to pointing to what he called "many discrepan- cies" in the testimony of Kenneth McConnell and Howard Allen Bridgeman, Rauh accused Chair- man Wood (D-Ga) of the House Un-American Activities Commit- tee of: 1. Prejudging the Remington case. 2. Trying to trap him into si- lence on what McConnell and Bridgman told the Committee in executive session. (Only part of their testimony has been made public). Meanwhile the Un-American Activities Committee was hearing Elizabeth Bentley behind closed doors in connection with its cur- rent investigation into Reming- ton's loyalty. Tickets Available For GameFlight Tickets for the airplane trip to New=York for the Army-Michigan football game Oct. 14 are going fast, according to John Zabriskie, publicity chairman of the Wolver- ine Club. Sales will reopen May 29 and again in the fall. Zabriskie sug- gested that students planning to make reservations early next se- mester purchase their Army game tickets before vacation begins. Milstein, Anderson End 1950 May Festival Today Climaxing the 1950 May Festi-! val, Violinst Nathan Milsteineand contralto Marian Anderson will appear in the last two concerts to- day at Hill Auditorium. The Choral Union will share honors with Nathan Milstein at the 30 p.m- concert. Led by Thor s hnson and assisted by the Philadelphia Orchestra the group will sing "Shicksalslied" (Song of Destiny) and "The Cycle," Sym- phony No. 4 by Peter Mennin. * * * MILSTEIN, noted as the great- est of today's younger generation violinists will play the Brahms New Russian Policy Hinted In Germany BERLIN, --()-Berlin buzzed with reports tonight that the Rus- sians are preparing some drama- tic new step in their German poli- cy. These reports, none confirmed, hinted the Kremlin might be aim- ing to beat the Western powers to the punch on some such action as easing occupational controls, a move which would be popular with the Germans. * * * OTHER SPECULATION was that Moscow might move to tie Soviet-controlled East Germany into its ring of Cominform satel- lites in anticipation of West Ger- many's going into the Western European Council; reduce occu- pation forces or write a separate peace treaty for East Germany. The outraged German reac- tion to the Russian announce- ment this week that the repa- triation of German prisoners of war is ended suggested the Kremlin has a propaganda prob- lem on his hands., I elude the additional address-this h nignu" G"" one at Cheyenne, Wyo., May 9. fires burned yesterday in the nor- * * * ther half of Michigan's lower THE PRESIDENT'S 12-car spe- peninsula. cial train will carry him 6,400 By 7 p-m., all but one were un- miles through predominantly Re- der control, the State Conserva- publican territory, as far as Grand tion Department reported. Coulee Dam in Washington State, * * * where an address is scheduled fori May 11. Of the nine important speech- es, the hardest-hitting is ex- pected to come at Chicago on May 15, where the President will stop on the way home to deliver a full-scale political address at a big party rally. Republicans are prepared to fight back vigorously. They con- tend that the defeat of Sen. Pep- per by Rep. Smathers in the Flor- ida Democratic primary can be traced to Pepper's espousal of the "Fair Deal" and to general dis- satisfaction with the way the country is being run. FAST ACTION by fire fighters kept the total fire-swept area down to 540 acres, an excellent re- cord in view of stif gales. A fire eight miles south east of Standish in Arenac county was the only one still raging un- controlled. Twenty-five acres burned in Missaukee county southwest of Houghton lake. In Clare county, seven small blazes destroyed 74 acres. Sparks from a broken power line fired leaves and grass and started a fire that burned over 80 acres near the Iosco-Arenac county line 10 miles south of East Tawas. Violin Concerto augmented by the cadenzahe composed for the work. Acclaimed the "priestess of3 song" Ann Arbor favorite Mar- ian Anderson wil make her sec- ond appearance here in two years at 8:30 p.m. Miss Anderson will sing the Mahler "Kindertotenlieder," Two Hispanic Pieces by McDonald and Liszt's "Jeanne d'arc au Bucher." The program will also include the Philadelphia Orchestra directed; by Eugene Ormandy playing Pro- kofieff's "Classical Symphony", and the symphonic poem "Pines of Rome". by Respighi. * * * CLIMAXING a season of 26 concerts this year, Miss Anderson has appeared in more than 740 concerts before some 4nillionlis- teners in nearly 300 cities. Among the many citations and honors from countries all over the world, she has received three honorary Doctorates of music, has for six! consecutive years been recognized: as radio's foremost woman singer, and is represented in a mural in the Department of Interior in Washington commemorating her Easter Sunday concert in 1939 before 75,000 at the Lincoln Mem- orial. World News Roundup By The Associated Press BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.-Calm and beautiful as a fairy princess, Elizabeth Taylor recited wedding vows with hotel heir Conrad Hil- ton Jr. yesterday. The couple is to leave soon on a European honeymoon but they "left for a short trip first. Asked if he would say where they were heading last night, Hilton replied: "It's not too far away." * * * FRANKFURT, Germany - A west German newspaper pro- posed yesterday that Trygve Lie, Secretary-General of the United Nations, ask Prime Minister Sta- lin what has become of Ger- many's missing war prisoners. Lie is scheduled to confer with Russian leaders in Moscow next week. * * * AMARILLO, Tex. - Panhan- dle voters today elected Texas' first Republican congressman in 24 years - Ben H. Guill of Pam- pa. Returns from all of the 28 counties in the 18th congres- sional district, with 70 per cent complete, gave Guill nearly 2,000 votes more than his near- est opponent, a woman who left a government job in Wash- ington to run. Presidential Action Called 'Dishonest' President Says Evidence Lacking WASHINGTON - (P) - Sena- tor McCarthy last night accused the Truman administration of "deceit and dishonesty" in deal- ing with his charges of Commu- nists in government, and was ac- cused in turn of failing to offer "any evidence whatsoever" about wholesale disloyalty. McCarthy, speaking before a convention of the Midwest Coun- cil of Young Republicans at Chi- cago, assailed President Truman's action in making available to the investigators State Department loyalty files on 81 cases cited by the Wisconsin Republican. He said these files were inadequate and "phony.' But Senator Myers of Penn- sylvania, deputy democratic leader in the Senate, said in a speech at Honesdale, Pa., that McCarthy had failed to cone through with anything but "new charges" when investiga- tors tried to pin down his alle- gations about State Department employes. Myers, who did not mention Mc- Carthy by name, declared that the government's employees "have' been given a clean bill of health after thorough investigation" dur- ing the government's four-year loyalty program which works "hand in glove" with the FBI. * * * AS FOR THE loyalty files re- leased to the investigators, the Pennsylvania Democrat said that the committee is studying them since it has "no evidence from those who have brought the charges." Meanwhile contempt citations for Earl Browder and Frederick Vanderbilt Field were laid be- fore the investigators today with a recommendation that they take action aginst the pair. The group will consider Monday whether to vote to cite the two men who defied a Senate foreign relations subcommittee by refus- ing to answer a number of ques- tions. * * * EDWARD P. MORGAN, attor- ney for the five-man panel study-- ing Senator McCarthy's charges, proposed that the whole Foreign Relations Committee act against the two witnesses. Full Senate approval also would be required to send the cases to the District At- torney for court action. During his Chicago speech McCarthy asserted that to do a real job of investigating, "all of the files must be broken open," and he mentioned the files of the FBI, Civil Service Commis- sion, Central Intelligence Agen- cy, Army Intelligence, Navy In- telligence and the Secret Ser- vice. He demanded "honest action" and declared again: "There are Communists on our Federal pay- roll." HE BITTERLY attacked Secre- tary of State Acheson, again say- ing "the days of dilettante diplo- macy are running out on Mr. Acheson and his fancy comrades of the Kremlin." McCarthy noted that Acheson had refused to turn his back on Alger Hiss, who was convicted of perjuring himself in denying he gave papers to a Russian spy. AS FOR THE loyalty investiga- tion, President Truman three days ago reversed his earlier refusal to release government loyalty files on the 81 cases McCarthy cited in a Senate speech last Feb. 20. The approval does not apply to FBI files-which McCarthy has contendedall along are re- quired to prove his charges- However, Senator Tydings (D- Md), the committee chairman, said there would be FBI mater- ial in some of the State De- IT'S HARD TO IMAGINE IT NOW: World Observes Fifth Anniversary of V-E Day By DAVIS CRIPPEN Five years ago tomorrow the fighting between Germany and the Allies stopped officially, the European part of man's most de- structive war was ended. Probably as on the other May 8's since 1945, a few statements will be released, a speech or two delivered, but probably, as before, the occasion will be observed most in the memories of people all over the world, remembering briefly Another, a former German in- fantryman, said: "It's rather hard to imagine it now, here in Ann Arbor." * * * BUT THOUGH it's hard, they'll all probably stop and think, and finally remember: Roy Albert, '51 A & D, will remember a road between Stet- tin and Wittenberg in central Germany. When he heard the news of surrender, he had been member the lights being turned on in Bournemouth, England for the first time in over five years. * * * HER HUSBAND Charles will remember a chateau near Paris with a wine cellar. Rudulph, who plans to start work in political science in the Graduate School next fall, was that far on a trip back to the front. But the men in the chateau ning in Rouen. In the Engineering Corps, he was working in a gaso- line 'refinery in the French city. Therefore he and his co-workers didn't have any rifles to shoot. In fact, they couldn't even go out. The anti-aircraft gunners on the ships moored off the city in the Seine had gotten tanked up and were shooting all their guns. The continually falling shrapnel kept every- one inside. Rhenish village of Buederich. Stumpf, now here studying on another Press club fellowship was in the prison at the time with about 125,000 other German pri- soners. The only way the prisoners knew the war was ended was when the guards started shoot- ing and celebrating. BUT there was no celebrating for them. Stumpf isn't sure but the