PHOENIX PROJECT See Page 4 A 6FAw ~Iuti4 CLOUDY COOLE Latest Deadline in the State VOL. Ll.No 165 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN SATURDAY, MAY 27, 1950 CLOUDYSXCOOL R SIX'. AGES Raids Ruined .Case Against tAmerasia Attorney Testifies Before Senate ' .:WASHINGTON-(P)-The gov-i ernment prosecutor on the 1945t Amerasia case testified yesterdgY that illegal raids pretty well knocked the props from under the Justice Department's court case. Robert M. Hitchcock, who handled the prosecution five years ago, made it plain that in his opin- ion the government was lucky to wind up with fines against two. of the defendants in the case. The 1945 Amerasia case involv- ed the alleged illegal removal of hundreds of secret government documents. Much of the evidence was seiz- ed in raids conducted without a warrant by agents of the FBI and the wartime Office of Strate- gic Services (OSS). 'Nothing is clearer under Fed- eral law," Hitchcock told the Sen-i ate investigating committee, "than that evidence secured as a result+ of illegal searches will be sur-1 pressed."1 Soon after Hitchcock testified,, Senator McCarthy (R-Wis) char- ged that the Tydings committee had carefully excluded parts of Hitchcock's testimony in a com-+ nittee statement to the press. He termed the Amerasia case+ a 'great white-wash.' In another development, the State Department fired a new blast at McCarthy, declaring that "The facts do not deter him in his reckless course." The 'Department cited the fact that McCarthy had failed to val- idate any of the statements which1 he has made. Amerasa was the name of a Far Eastern affairs magazine which had headquarters in New York. It is no longer published. Six persons were arrested in June of 1945 after raids by the FBI and the OSS disclosed fed- eral documents in the Amerasia office. All six were charged with conspiring to obtain illegal pos-; session of government papers. Last Friday, Frank Belaski, a wartime OSS agent who conduct- ed the first raid on Amerasia head- quarters in 1945, said in a radio broadcast that a famous person whose name he had given to the Tydings committee was involved In the Amerasia episode. Columnist Drew Pearson --; carried on his own personal in- vestigation and in his column Thursday wrote - "The interna- S tional celebrity, whom Bielaski claims 'towers head and shoul- ders' above anyone else in the Amerasia case, is John Hersey." Meanwhile, in New York, au-; thor John Hersey issued a state- ment denying that he ever had "any connection with Amerasia." ACL Control Transferred To SLBoard t ______ The Art Cinema League has been officially taken over by th3 University and plced under the jurisdiction of the Student Legis- ture. The ACL which was organized over a decade ago as an attempt to improve cinematic conditions in Ann Arbor has grown so large and its operation so complicated that it was felt by all concerned that the University should take it over, Prof. R. C. Boys one of the advisers to the ACL explain- ed. ASIDE FROM its cinematic purposes, one of the chief aims of ACL is to help recognized cam- pus organizations raise funds by a system of co-sponsorship. The increasing demand by or- ganizations for co-sponsorships has caused many complications which the University would be able to handle much more ef- fectively than the present- or- ganization, according to Prof. Boys. Under the new setup a Cinema Board composed of the chairman of the SL Culture and Education Committee, the treasurer and the two members at large of the SL Report IFC Ball Ticket S Preliminary reports by the 1950 IFC Ball committee reveal a shortage of $144 representing 40 unaccounted-for tickets. Ned Hess, '51E, ticket chairman for the IFC Ball, said yesterday that the financial report had been turned into .Dean Walter B. Rea, but that he had refused to accept it until the 40 tickets or the mon- portage West Little Awaits Re Trouble March; ey for the tickets had counted for. been ac- Expected Pattic Helps Make Tram DeathTrap CHICAGO,-(A)-R e a r doors jammed shut by screaming pas- sengers helped turn a crowded street car into a blazing death cell for most of the 32 victims of the street car-gasoline truck collision, the conductor stated last night. Wililam C. Liddell, 28, Negro conductor who escaped the in- ferno with several passengers through a smashed rear window, gave this version at a Chicago Transit Authority investigation. * * * LIDDELL WAS arrested, book- ed on a charge of leaving the scene of an acident and released on $100 bond posted by the CTA. The crowded street car and the truck hauling 8,000 gallons of gasoline rammed on the south side near the end of the eve- ning rush hour. Witnesses said the south-bound street car plowed into the side of the truck while making a left hand turn on a temporary turn-around. A flooded viaduct a block south prevented the street cars from making their usual runs. Charles G. Kleim, 44, a flag- man at the acident scene, said he waved his arms frantically in an effort to slow down the street car "but it kept on coming." He said the car should have come to a stop before making the turn, but didn't. Strike Halts Atomic Work OAK RIDGE, Tenn.- WP)- A strike by AFL workers on a vital atomic plant construction job has spread to other building projects virtually halting all construction work here. The Atomic Energy Commission reported that AFL workers on an atomic laboratory, a high school and 450 new dwellings joined the wildcat walkout which began Wednesday on a $227,000,000 ato- mic plant project. William H. Davis of New York, Chairman of the Atomic Energy Labor Relations Panel, requested Richard J. Gray, President of the AFL Building Trades Department at Washington, to use his influ- ence in getting the 3,000 strikers ,to return to their jobs. The strike started Wednesday when some 700 common laborers and hodearriers walked out in ap- parent protest against failure of an arbitration board to hand down an immediate decision in a wage dispute. ACCORDING TO the procedure followed in the past, Hess, acting as ticket chairman for the dance, is held responsible for all tickets and the money from ticket sales. "I can't figure out where the missing tickets could have gone," Hess claims. "The tickets numbering from one to 1366 were distributed to fraternities. When the tickets were placed on sale on the diag the follow- ing day, the only ones we had were those running from 1406 to 1500." Hess said thatthe committee had done a great amount of checking with fraternities and with their own records, but that it had failed to clarify the situa- tion. * * * IT WAS DISCOVERED the week of the dance that a number of tickets were missing. A three- weeks check ending yesterday fi- nally revealed that the money re- presenting tickets numbering 13- 67 to 1406 had not been turned in. Jack Heaphy, '51, general chairman for the Ball, has re- quested anyone who might have purchased one of the tickets to get in touch with him. Hess's method of distribution worked in the following way: sev- eral series of tickets were allotted to assisting men for re-distribu- tion to fraternition. Each man was to handle tickets for four or five houses. THE RECORDS do not show which of the fraternities received a specific series of tickets. There is no record of the missing 40 tickets going to a specific person for redistribution. Lie Says UN Must Decide ChinaCrisis LAKE SUCCESS-(P)-Trygve Lie said last night the China cri- sis in the United Nations must be settled by July, and a start made this year to end the Cold War. * * * IF THE CHINA crisis is not settled this summer, Lie said, the September General Assembly of 59 nations will meet in confusion "and I do not know what will hap- pen." The U.N. Secretary-General, speaking to reporters here for the first time since his one and one-half hour talk with Prime Minister Stalin, declined to re- eal whether Stalin made any new proposals for ending the Soviet bloc's walkout against 29 U.N. organizations over the is- sue of Chinese representation. The Russians have demanded the U.N. kick out the Nationalist Chinese and give the place to the Communists of the Peiping re- gime. The Russians so far have been voted down in their ouster moves. Lie said today that if there is any reality behind all the work that has been undertaken to get the issue settled it must be ended in June or at least not later than July. Engineering 'Deadweek' Plan. Denied Faculty Rejects Exam Exemption The engineering faculty yester- day turned down exemptions from final exams for certain students and a "deadweek" inthe engin- eering school before finals, propos- ed by the Engineering Council and overwhelimingly favored in a stu- dent-faculty vote early this month. But Dean Walter J. Emmons, secretary of the engineering school, said that the faculty fa- vors a "deadweek," a period in which students would receive no quizzes, bluebooks or problems, but that the final decision rests with the individual instructor. * * * "WE FEEL that there should be no loading of students before finals, and that instructors should use discretion in scheduling such work during the week before fi- nals," he said. Gordon Saxon, '51E, president of the Engineering Council, said that the faculty's decision was not what it expected. "The Council will approach the faculty again on the 'deadweek' proposal, backed bydmoreathan 90 percent of the student and fac- ulty voters," he added. HOWEVER, the Council did not decide to bring the proposal ex- empting certain students from fi- nal exams up before the faculty again. Council treasurer Bob Brun- graber, '51E, also expressed dis- appointment in the failure of a "deadweek" to become an offi- cial function of the engineering college. "The 'deadweek' proposal was a solution to a problem of students, and it would have eliminated the 'necessity' of preparing for a blue- book a day or two before a possible final exam the first Saturday of the schedule," he said. World News Roundup By The Associated Press OMAHA-Senator Wherry (R- Neb.) proposed last night that President Truman and Premier Stalin exchange diplomatic notes to clarify the American and Rus- sian position in the, cold war. LANSING-Charles F. Hemans, once star witness for the sensa- tional State graft grand jury, yes- terdayhunexpectedly pleaded guilty to a charge of bribery. Hemans was chargedrwith pay- ing a $200 bribe to former Rep. George O. Harma while he was still a member of the legislature on April 30, 1941. , * * Youth Told Not To Enter AlliedZone' Big-Three Asks UnifiedGermany BERLIN - Allied armor stood guard last night on the borders of West Berlin despite the fact that the Communists have ordered the youngsters in today's Whitsuntide march of East Berlin youth to stay out of the Western sector. No trouble was expected by Al- lied officials. * * * MEANWHILE, in Bonn, the three Western Allies countered the Communist "Peace and Unity" campaign with new demands to Russia that all Germany be uni- fied through free elections and guarantees of individual freedom. Letters from the American, British and French High Com- missioners to the Soviet com- mand proposed that a freely' elected nation-wide government should lead immediately to ne- gotiation of a four-power Ger- man peace settlement. U.S. Limits Romanian Di lomats WASHINGTON-(P)-The Uni-; ted States drew a line around the; capital area yesterday and told, Communist Romania's diplomats they can't step across it without specific permission. It was retaliation for the So- viet satellite's restrictions on Americans in Bucharest. * * * WEBB FIRST said that the re- strictions on the Romanians here was unprecedented in American peacetime history, but several hours later the Department said there had been one case. This was between June 7 and July, 23, 1941, when the Soviet Flmbassy staff in Washington was limited in movement to an area within 50 miles of Washing- ton. Russian consulate staffs elsewhere were similarly re- stricted. WEBB SAID there is no pre- sent plan to limit the movements of Soviet Ambassador Alexander S. Panyushkin and his staff, one of the largest here. It numbers two score officials exclusive of dependents and employes, who re- main free to travel all over the U.S. CED To Scan Ensian Photos The Committee to Eond Dis- crimination yesterday decided to check Michiganensian graduation pictures in an attempt to discover if the medical school has a racial quota system. A subcommittee was appointed to check yearbooks for several years back to determine the re- presentation of various minority groups among medical school graduates. This, CED hopes, will throw new light on the medical school's admission policy. TUNG OIL BANQUET: Steere, SRT President Wains Cooley Cane Prize_ Norm Steere, '50E, president of Sigma Rho Tau, the engineer's Stump Speaking Society, won the coveted Cooley Cane award last night. The Cane is presented each spring to the member who con- tributed the most to the organi- zation in the past year. It was a gift to Sigma Rho Tau from the late Dean Mortimer Cooley of the Engineering College. The award was presented by Ellsworth J. Re- CIO Electrical Union Clai ElectionWin BALTIMORE- (A') -The CIO's new electrical union has lured another big block of workers away from its rival in their fight over charges of Communist domi- nation. Both sides claim victory in Thursday's collective bargaining election among 96.000 employes at 57 General Electric plants across the country. A TABULATION by the Nation- al Labor Relations Board regional office here showed: The CIO's International Un- ion of Electrical Workers (IUE) won the right to speak for 53,- 970 workers in 49 bargaining units. The United Electrical Workers Union (UE) won the right to re- present 36,683 workers in 40 units. * * * THE "POPULAR VOTE," which technically has no bearing in the contest of strength but tends to show the cross-country division of sentiment between the two ri- vals, gave 47,486 for the IUE and 35,763 for the UE. nier, the recipient. of the award last year. * * * GEORGE D. PFAFFMAN, '50E' received the Gavel Citation for meritorious worl in the Stump Speakers Society. The gavel, made of tung wood, continuing the "Tung Oil" theme of the banquet.' Daniel C. Wilkerson, a patent attorney and engineer for a large automotive manufacturing company in Detroit, was the guest speaker. He said, "The constant opening of new en- gineering fields assures jobs to an ever-increasing amount of engineers.", Prof. Walter E. Lay of the mech- anical engineering department won the prize for the best faculty impromptu speech. Prof. William W. Hagerty of the engineering mechanics department was the adjudicator, and Dean Walter J. Emmons of the En- gineering College presented the Tung Oil Crown. Prof. Robert D. Brackett of the engineering Eng- lish Department, who founded the organization, emphasized in his speech that the society is a group of men learning how to speak - not a society of speakers. Debts to U Must be Paid All student accounts with the exception of those on which pay- ment is not yet due, must be paid or renewed not later than the last days of classes, Herbert G. Watkins, University Secretary, an- nounced yesterday. Failure to pay due accounts will result in the withholding of grades, transcripts, credits and refusal to allow students to register in any subsequent semester or summer session until payment has been received, Watkins said. In Berlin the war of words be- tween the East and the West had developments that dazed even this propaganda-hardened city. - The British sent armored cars and steel-helmeted soldiers to back up West Berlin's German police at potential trouble spots. THE BRITISH commandant, Maj. Gen. G. K. Bourne,claimed the Communist Freie Deutsche Jugend (Free German Youth) ral- ly would result in a "clear victory" for the West. The East launched a weird propaganda campaign charging the West is dropping potato bugs from planes to destroy East Zone crops. Several members of the Soviet zone "People's Police" - which three Western powers contend is a new illegal Germany Army - have deserted to the West. One told reporters that he would rath- er have good soup on the West than politics in the East. The 'original Communist threat that they ivould storm into West Berlin was dropped more than two months ago when the Western Allies replied that they would counter such a move with force. Barnes Talks At Journalism GroupBanquet Newspaper men are better off now than they have been for some time, Russell Barnes, Detroit News foreign - correspondent said last night. NOSTALGIC REUNION: University Old-Timers Review Past of Mimes A nostalgic aggregation of Uni- versity old-timers met at the Union last night to help celebrate the revival of something close to their hearts - Mimes. Composed of teachers, musi- cians and prominent business men - each a former Mimes member - the alumni group came here from all over this part of the country for the occasion. Feasting on sirloin and ex- changing yarns about the Univer- sity of days gone by, they joined students in bringing Mimes back to life after nearly two decades of non-existence. * * * This story was pieced together last night by reminiscent alumni. Prof. Donel Haines, of the journa- lism department, well remembered the original Opera, which he help- ed write when he was a student here in 1908. * * * IT WAS in 1912 that Union Op- era members conceived the idea of Mimes, alumni recalled. Several of the society's orig- inal members attended last night's banquet. One of them, Robert G. Beck, came here from Goshen, Indiana. He told of writ- ing lyrics for "Contrary Mary," the first Opera to be produced HARTFORD - A federal jury was sent to bed last night without reaching a verdict in a $200,000 libel suit against a Connecticut housewife who called Larry Adler and Paul Draper pro-Communists. WASHINGTON-A bill designed to "black out" interstate trans- mission of horse and dog rate bet- ting data before the races are run was approved by the Senate Com- merce Committee today. * * * WASHINGTON-For the first time in its 23-year history, the National Spelling Bee ended in a two-way draw today-and for a very good reason. Still on their feet, and spelling like crazy at the finish, were Col- quitt Dean of College Park, Ga., and Diana Reynard of Kirk Junior High, East Cleveland, O. Ensian To Finish ,.. ." " , . -. ATOM STUDIES STARTED: 'U' Plans Expanded Phoenitx Project Speaking at the initiation ban- quet of Sigma Delta Chi, profes- sional j o u r n a 1 i s m fraternity, Barnes said that this apparent prosperity is due to the modern accent on advertisement rather than the "idealistic editorial side of newspapers." THE BEST WAY to break into a metropilit n daily is to first gain news judgment experience on a small town paper, he pointed out. Although it is extremely difficult to find a position without that experience, the average wage paid to Detroit newsmen is 110 dollars a week. New officers of the fraternity elected were George Bruske, '50 LSA, president; Robert Bailyn, Grad., vice-president; Marvin Epstein, '51 LSA, secretary; Ro- (EDITOR'S NOTE -- This is the first in a series of articles designed to acquaint Daily readers with pre- sent and future plans for the use of Phoenix Project funds.) By VERNON EMERSON With more than $35,000 of Mich- igan Memorial-Phoenix Project Grants to faculty members from a $60,000 working fund were made by the Project Ad- visory Committee soon after the Memorial was announced in the spring of 1948. Since that time nearly a score of radiation on plant growth and plant genetics. Isotopes have been used to test basic chemical structure, cosmic radiation, nuclear disintegration, and to improve equipment design- ed for atomic energy work.