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Judge
Orders
Contempt
Citation for
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WASHINGkTON -(P) - Federal
Judge Richmond B. Keech yester-
day hurled a criminal contempt
of court citation at John L. Lewis'
striking union for defying the
court's order to dig coal.
The United Mine Workers, which
twice before has paid heavy fines
for flouting a judge's command,
must appear Friday and explain
why 372,000-soft coal workers have
refused since last Monday to obey.
IF THE union's story doesn't
satisfy
the court, a trial will beI
held next Monday.
Lewis himself was not named
in agovernment petition which
asked the court to take action
against the union for civil and
criminal contempt. The UMW
chietain has publicly called on
his men twice to bow to the
court's directive issued under
the Taft-Hartley Act.
The action came as the East
suddenly found itself in the grip
of bitter cold with many a house-
holder's coal bin nearly empty.
The nation's pile of bituminous
coal for all purposes was below a
normal 10-day, supply.
Work Order ..
KEECH SIGNED the citation at
request of the Justice Department
a few hours after he had renewed
his back to work order for another
10 days.
The original restrainer was
signed Saturday, Feb. 11. The
extension allows time for the
judge to rule on President
Truman's request for an 80-day
national emergency injunction
against the strike under the
Taft-Hartley Law. The renewal
followed a two-hour conference
in the judge's chambers with
both sides.
Elsewhere another session of the
extended negotiations between
union and operators over a new
contract ground to a fruitless re-
cess. Federal Mediator Cyrus S.
Ching, an observer, said he saw
no sign of progress.
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TECHNICALLY the citation is
a "rule to show cause" why the
union should not be punished.
Assistant Attorney General H.
Graham Morison indicated that
the union could "purge" itself
of the charge by returning to
work before Friday.
Apparently the only chance of
this was an unexpected agreement
between Lewis and the operators.
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Heavy Fine...
THUS there was a prospect of
another heavy fine on the United
Mine Workers. Their treasury,
now worth between $13,000,000
and $20,000,000, has given up $2,-
130,000 for two contempt convic-
tions. The first fine was $710,000.
The next one was doubled.
The Federal Court can make
the fine as heavy as it likes.
There was some talk that Presi-
dent Truman might ask Congress,
for powers to seize the mines, al-
though he has said he does not
want such power.
LEWIS had no comment on the
developments.
Mediator Ching told reporters
that Lewis and the operators are
standing on their 'previous posi-
tions, without budging.
Ching said the main items in
the dispute are the union's pro-
posals for a wage increase, wel-
fare fund boost, and shorter work
day.
Ching declined to say exactly
what Lewis is asking.
It is understood, however, that
the UMW chief is requesting a
$15.50 daily wage as compared
with the present $14.05, a boost in
the 20-cent welfare tonnage roy-
alty to 35 cents, and a reduction
of the 8-hour day to 7 1/2 hours.
Remain
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High Court ays Area Search
Y
Rule Gives
Powers to
Extra
Police
WASHINGTON-(P)-The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that
when police legally arrest a man they may also search a limited area
under his immediate control for evidence of a crime.
But the court laid down no sharp guide as to how far they may go.
The vote was 5 to 3.
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JUSTICE FRANKFURTER, who dissented, protested that the de-
cision "makes a mockery of the fourth amendment" to the U.S. con-
stitution, which bans unreasonable search and seizure.
In a somewhat similar case, the Court ruled 6-2 that a home
owner may refuse to admit a ci
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Choose Jury
For 'Merey
Killer'_Trial
MANCHESTER, N.H.-(P) -Dr.
Hermann Nelson Sander kept his'
head high yesterday as he watched1
the seating of nine of the 13 jur-
ors who will try him for murder as
an accused "mercy slayer."
Appearing calmly confident of
acquittal, the 41year-old country
doctor broke through a poker face
with an occasional faint smile as
the stage was set for a trial that
has already rocked the medical
world.
DR. SANDER is specifically ac-
cused of killing Mrs. Abbie Borroto,
59, Manchester housewife, by giv-
ing her air injections to cut short
her suffering from cancer.
Dr. Sander left the courthouse
with Mrs. Sander to spend the
night at home, still free under
$25,000 bail.
If Counsel for Dr. Sander have
carefully guarded their defense
with indications they may con-
centrate their case on the con-
tention Mrs. Borroto died solely
from cancer.
Truman Plan
For H-Bormb
CalledUnwise
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - A Quaker
leader yesterday branded Presi-
dent Truman's order to make the
hydrogen bomb "unwise and im-
moral," contending that first there
should be strenuous new efforts to
make peace.
Samuel R. Levering, of the
Friends (Quaker) Committee on
National Legislation, said there is
a chance that Russia might ac-
cept a disarmament plan and
might join the U.S. in a world
welfare program.
MEANWHILE, America's de9
Tense chiefs were reported pushing
plans for development of the
world's first atom-powered sub-
marine--a project that might re-
volutionize naval warfare.
On Capitol Hill, Congress mem-
bers began booming sites ranging
from Kentucky's famed Mammoth
Cave to the cornfields of Iowa for
setting up an alternate capital in
the event Washington is "blitzed"
by an atomic attack.
ty health inspector who does
%New York stamp dealer, Frank-
not have a search warrant. The
case arose here.
In the first case, which involved
New York Stamp dealer, Frank-
!rter said the Court had over-
urned a long series of unanimous
lecisions, some of them handed
own in recent years.
HE DECLARED that the Court
should show "respect for.contin-
uity in law," a seeming reference
to the tribunal's newer members.
The majority opinion in the
case was written by Justice Min-
ton, the Court's newest member.
Also in the majority was Justice
Clark. Minton and Clark were
appointed last year following the
deaths of Justices Rutledge and
Murphy.
Also in the majority were Chief
Justice Vinson and Justices Reed
and Burton. Justice Jackson joined
in Frankfurter's dissent, and Jus-
tice Black wrote another dissent.
Justice Douglas took no part.
MINTON SAID for the majority
that the search of the stamp deal-
er's office was reasonable because
he had a prior record of selling al-
tered stamps and because his ar-
rest was legally made on a war-
rant.
He was careful to say, how-
ever, that yesterday's decision
could not be regarded as binding
in all similar cases.
"What is a reasonable search is
not to be determined by any fixed
formula," Minton said. "The re-
curring questions of the reason-
ableness of searches must f 1,d
resolution in the facts and cir-
cumstances of each case."
FRANKFURTER acknowledged
that the case involved "a squalid
little defrauder," but he said the
effect of the majority decision is
to give law officers an "utterly free
hand . . . to rummage all over the
house" so long as they make a
legal arrest.
"Arrest under a warrant for a
minor or trumped-up charge has
been familiar practice in the past,
is a commonplace in the police
state of today, and is too-well
known in this country," Frankfur-
ter said.
ANNUAL INTERFAITH AWARDS-Dean Erich A. Walter (left), of the literary college presents
Joyce Simon with the Michigan B'nai Brith Council Interfaith Award and Deba Dutt with-the Arnold
Shiff Memorial Interfaith Award, as Rabbi Rerschel Lymon, of the Hillel Foundation, awards trustee
looks on. Miss Simon and Dutt received the two awards "as the two students who have done most
to further interfaith on campus."
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Idonesian Bias Cied As Poor Policy
4 -
Vogeler Spy
Case Verdict
Due Today
Faces Possible
Death Sentence
BUDAPEST, Hungary-(P)-A
possible death sentence faced Rob-
ert A. Vogeler, young American
business man, at the end of his
trial on spying and sabotage
charges today.
His British aid, Edgar Sanders,
and three Hungarian co-defend-
ants faced the same possible sent-
ence. Two other Hungarians were
liable to maximum sentences of
15 years.
THE FIVE-MAN People's Court
will hand down its verdict at 1
p.m. today.
Vogeler, 39-year-old assistant
vice-president of the International
Telephoneand Telegraph Com-
pany, speaking in a low, calm
voice, himself renewed his plea
for a "mild sentence.,,
Prosecutor Gyula Alapi, whc e
pleas sent Josef Cardinal Mind-
szenty to prison for life and
Laszald Rajk, Hungary's No. 2
Communist to the gallows, then
declared Vogeler and' Sanders
"great spies" and demanded the
"severest punishment'' for all
the defendants.
Vogeler, Sanders, Imre Geiger,
Hungarian manager of the Stan-
dard Electric Company, t h e
I.T.&T. subsidiary here, Zoltan
Rado, a department chief in the
ministry of heavy industry; and
Klemen Domokos, Standard Elec-
tric accountant, all were prose-
cuted under article three of an
act of 1930 which provides for the
death penalty for espionage. They
also were charged with sabotage.
another offense punishable by
death.
Students Plan
Court Action
Nine Negro studentsgot set yes-
terday to enter court action after
being denied admittance to the
University of Delaware, Newark,
Del.
Louis A. Redding, Negro attor-
ney of Wilmington, indicated he
would take the case to court after
the school's board of trustees re-
jected the nine's entrance appli-
cations.
A UNIVERSITY administration
ruling two years ago permitted Ne-
groes to enroll at Delaware "for
courses of study leading to a de-
gree for which a course of study
leading to the same degree is not
furnished in any institution pro-
vided by this state within this
state."
In this light, university
spokesmen explained, the only
course thus open to Negroes is
in the graduate engineering
school. The group sought admis-
sion to the undergraduate
school.
Workers
Defiant
"Injustice and arrogance will al-
ways lead to violence-the Indo-
nesian revolution shows that dis-
crimination, as the Dutch prac-
tised it, doesn't pay," Raden Su-
wanto, cultural and educational
attache to the Indonesian Embas-
sy declared last night at the Stu-
dent Religious Association's an-
nual Brotherhood Banquet.
It was the practise of the Dutch
planters to oppress the Javanese
farmers by using the most fertile
lands for their own plantations,
Suwanto explained.
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"AS A LITTLE BOY, I was so
1 515 Receive
U' Diplomas
Diplomas are now in the mail
for a record-breaking 1,515 grad-
uates who completed degree re-
quirements earlier this month.
Establishing a new high mark
for February, the 1,515 figure
shattered the previous mid-year
record of 1948, when 1,432 received
their sheepskins, according to di-
ploma clerk Myra Biddlecome.
All but two of the University's
14 schools were represented in the
list - the medical and nursing
schools.
February graduates, having no
special mid-year commencement
exercises, are eligible to take part
in the June program.
used to seeing the white planters
with their protecting police every
time there was trouble, that I
came to associate the three al-
ways," he said.
The Dutch practise was to treat
"Europeans" as superior, Suwanto
said, "and Europeans' generally
meant anyone but the native Jay-
anese," he remarked.
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"IT WAS INTERESTING to me
to watch the Indo-Europeans after
the revolution painstakingly try-
ing to point up their Indonesian
background when beforethey were
anxious to be considered Euro-
peans," Suwanto noted.
Suwanto said he believed the
Dutch would find that there was
more opportunity for them in
the islands now that1 they were
no longer trying to force inequal-
ity on the Indonesians.
Sales To open
By The Associated Press
PITTSBURGH--Rebellious soft coal miners last night shrugg
off the government contempt action against them as their no contri
no work walkout went into its seventh week.
"It doesn't make any difference," declared veteran miner FrE
Harper at Library, Pa.
* * * *
"NOBODY IS GOING to pay any attention to a contempt, ci
tion. The men are determined not to work without a contract. Tl
figure the government isn't going to put 370,000 of them in ja
The government wants the miners adjudged in contempt for fa
ing- to obey a week-old federal court "back to work order."
Again there was violence in the coal fields. At Knox County
officials and employes of two' * * *
"When people treat each other
as equal individuals, then you can
have brotherhood - when people
discover their common interests as
equals and begin promoting their
mutual interests," Suwanto con-
cluded.
Two awards for "outstanding"
interfaith work were also pre-
sented at the banquet. Deba Dutt,
Spec., of Jeypore, India, won the
$100 Arnold Shiff Memorial Inter-
faith Award, and Joyce Simon, '51,
received the Michigan B'nai Brith
Council Interfaith Award for $50
worth of religious or interfaith
books.
Michigra s Plan ned
For April 21, 22
Michigras, all-campus carnival,
will be held April 21 and 22, and
not April 28 and 29, as previously
announced, according to a Central
Committee spokesman.
The mass organizational meet-
ing for committee members sched-
uled for tomorrow has been post-
poned, he announced.
New Students' ID
New students at the University
may pick up their ID cards from
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. today and
tomorrow in the lobby of the Ad-
ministration Building.
coal firms. The sheriff said he
had reports that about 600 men
had met and broken up into sev-
eral groups, heading for various
coal operations.
Officials were told that a band
of men in 25 automobiles swarmed
into the Richland Coal Company
offices near Barbourville, beat up
the two operators, broke furniture,
tore telephones from the wall and
backed a truck into an elevator
shaft.
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IDLED BY the increasingly bit-
ter disputedwere 42,000 workers in
industries dependent on goal.
Ford Motor Company officials
were reportedl taking a look at'
their coal supplies, sending fear
of new production cut-backs run-
ning through Ford wrokers.
S nllenber ter
Enters Plea
Of Not Guilty
Dr. Neil H. Sullenberger, former
University Hospital staff member,
pleaded not guilty to a charge of
assault and battery yesterday af-
ternoon in Ann Arbor Municipal
Court, after a University employee
charged he hit and insulted her.
A jury trial was set for 9 a.m.
March 9, by Municipal Judge
Francis L. O'Brien, before whom
Dr. Sullenberger was arraigned.
DR. SULLENBERGER, was re-
leased under a $50 cash bond.
Washtenaw County Prosecutor
Douglas K. Reading authorized a
warrant for Dr. Sullenberger's ar-
rest Friday, and Mrs. Louise Phil-
pot, the alleged victim, signed the
warrant as complainant yesterday
morning.
Reading ordered the police in-
vestigation which resulted in
authorizing of the warrant. He
did- so after Mrs. Philpot com-
plained that Dr. Sullenberger hit
and insulted her Jan. 20 in Uni-
versity Hospital, while she was
on duty as an elevator operator.
Dr. Sullenberger was discharged
from the hospital staff as a result
of this altercation.
Asked for comment by a Daily
reporter following his arraignment
yesterday, Dr. Sullenberger re-
plied, "I don't want to waste my
breath on you, sonny boy."
Cold Blasts
Hit Michigan,
Most of U.S.
By The Associated Press
The South, East and Midwest
bundled up for expected 15 to 25-
below-zero weathei last night, as
the mercury contrarily jumped tC
the 60's in the scSuthern Kansas
and Missouri plains.
Swiped by a frigid wave moving
down from Canada, Michigan was
colder yesterday than most of the
nation. It was freezing in all re-
gions, and most got snow. U.S
weather forecasters predict th
same today.
SUBZERO readings were com-
mon in New England states anc
New York state-where coal is
being rationed-all day yesterday
New York City, Newark and Phila-
delphia suffered through their
coldest day of the winter.
Even in sunny Florida, citizens
of the state's northern regions
abandoned sun-bathing desires
as the mercury dipped to 27
above.
Meanwhile, backwaters of the
Red, Black and Mississippi Rivers
continued rising slowly in east-
central Louisiana. A million acre:
are flooded and 9,800 persons have
fled their homes.
But flood dangers declined in
upstream areas between Cairo
Ill., and Memphis, Tenn. Warme:
weather helped cheer the home-
less.
'May Be
Location of
Atom Movie
The University may be the site
of a motion picture on the peace.
time uses of atomic energy.
Cecil B. DeM'ille, Hollywood
movie producer, suggested the pro
ject to President Alexander G
Ruthven in Los Angeles where
the educator addressed University
alumni on the Michigan-Memor
ial Phoenix Project.
DeMILLE DECLARED that th
motion picture industry is con
scious of its obligation to educat
the public on the useful applica
tions of atomic energy and sug
gested to President Ruthven tha
the filming of the picture be don
at Ann Arbor.
The Michigan-Memorial
Phoenix Project is a $5,000,000
research program into the peace
time uses of atomic energy plan-
ned as a war memorial for Uni-
versity World War II dead.
President Ruthven, who is o:
For Marriage
Series Today
'
World News Rountdup
By TIhe Ass~ocia ted Press
WASHINGTON - The government last night slashed its new
European Recovery Fund request to $2,950,000,000 from $3,100,000,000
in the face of threats in Congress to cut it even deeper.
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Tickets for the Marriage Lec-
ture Series will go on sale at 2
p.m. today for seniors, graduate
students and married students.
Sales for the series which opens
Feb. 28. will continue from 2 to 5
p.m. and 7 to 8 p.m. today and to-
morrow. Women may buy tickets
at the League, men at the Union
and married students at Lane Hall.
THE REMAINING tickets may
be purchased by any student from
9 to 12 a.m. Thursday. The $1.50
cost of the ticket covers all lec-
tures. ID cards must be presented
at time of purchase.
Othei lecture dates are March
7, 21, 22 and 28.
Reform Win.s
JUST ONE LITTLE KISS:
Betia ny SVlit Over Queen's Coronation
MINEOLA, N.Y.-A 55-year-
old Long Island Railroad motor-
man was accused in court yes-
terday of causing Friday night's
BERLIN-The Russians kept a
tight ban last night on shipments
of metal outbound from Berlin but
BETHANY, Okla.-(/)--One lit-
tle kiss has electrified the 2,500
folks in this town, just west of
Oklahoma City.
People of Bethany are split into
two emps over whether punish-
sode would cause them trouble.
The youths staged an automo-
bile parade downtown but were
stopped by police who said they
needed a permit. They stormed
the mayor's office, but he refused
The students were back in school
yesterday and received this warn-
ing from Buford Ingram, president
of the school board:
"We're going to clamp down on
this thing---we're going to rule it
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