WSSF CONCERT .See Page 4~ Y Latest Deadline in the State Da114 COLD. SNOW VOL. LX, No. 51 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 23, 1949 PRICE FIVE CENTS * * * * * * * * * s Ward Verdict Promised by Chinese Reds 'People's Court' To Decide Guilt WASHINGTON-(P-The Chi- nese Communists reported yester- day that their "people's court" at Mukden has finished an investi- gation and will give a verdict on American Consul General Angus Ward and four members of his staff "in a matter of days." This first word on their fate was received by the State Depart- ment and gave new urgency to American efforts to free the five from jail. * * * TWO VERSIONS of a Mukden broadcast reported from Nanking and Shanghai call Ward and his staff members "criminals" and. "culprits" and said they have been questioned repeatedly since their arrest October 24. They wre charged with beating a Chinese employe of the consulate. The State Department, which has denounced the charges as "trumped up," meanwhile was awaiting first responses from thet 30 nations to which Secretary Acheson addressed an unprece- dented appeal for concerted in-1 ternational action in behalf of the jailed consul. Acheson's message went to the foreign ministers of Russia and of four Eastern European Soviet sat- ellites, among others. * * * THE BRITISH Foreign Office expressed "concern" yesterday over Ward's detention, and said the American call for a concerted protest is'being considered. Yesterday's development raised new uncertainties - whether the Mukden court will go ahead with a Communist-style trial regardless of the international outcry, and if so whether it will decree stiff jail terms or impose merely nominal sentences. " EfficacyOf Acheson Plea Questioned By JACK LAZARUS Faculty comments were pessi- mistic concerning the effectiveness of Secretary of State Acheson's personal appeal to 30 nations for urgent action in the release of American Consul General Angus Ward. The State Department's new step was labeled "a symbol of the United States' desperation in China" by Robert E. Ward of the political science department. * * * "THERE ARE so few things the United States can do to force the Chinese Red regime to act as we desire," he remarked. Doubt as to the effectiveness of the appeal was shown by Prof. Russell H. Fifield of the politi- cal science department. "Because the Soviet Union has most of the control in the Man- churian Regime, the only action done will be that which the Soviet Union desires," said Prof. Fifield. "IT IS RUSSIA therefore, who will decide how effective Acheson's appeal will be," he concluded. Donald F. Drummond, of thes history department, proposed that "it is entirely possible that the whole incident originated in Moscow as a blow to American prestige." Acheson's appeal was deemed "unprecedented and unusual" by Prof. Verner W. Crane, of the his- tory department. Four Slaves Q1-1 .7"t" ,-L - , * * * Survey Indicates Holiday Exodus Bitter Cold, -Daly-Wally Barth I DORIANNE ZIPPERSTEIN 1 . . . first in SL h re Fee raiadfaesbeome efctv Mony.da The high cost of transportation students from eastern states will have to pay 12/ per cent more to reach Ann Arbor from their homes. HOWEVER, train tickets may still be purchased at the old prices, railroad officials said. Taking the Thanksgiving holi- day into account, New Yorke Central officials here have not yet noticed any great demand for the lower priced tickets. According to railroad officials in Detroit, tickets bought before Monday will be valid after the new rates go into effect. * * * ALL RAIL lines east of Chicago and the Mississippi and north of Cincinnati will be affected by the hike in passenger fares. Trains from here to New York through Canada are not exempted from the rate boost. As an example of the effect of the increase, the present first class fare to New York is $31.76. Beginning Monday this fare will be $35.29. (These prices include 15 per cent federal tax.) However, airline ticket officials at Willow Run airport anticipate no rate increases. "rids Initiate Seven Seniors Druids, senior men's honorary society for all schools except engi- neering, yesterday, tapped seven senior men, The initiation began at nine o'clock on the Diag and ended in the late afternoon with the tradi- tional ceremonies consisting of washing the Druid Rock in front of Haven Hall. The men tapped and their tree namesare Bob "'Enduring Elm" Erben, Don "Net Nut" MacKay, Hal "Dribbling Dogwood" Morrill, Quent "Negotiating Narcissus" Nesbitt, John "Grinding Gum" Ghindia, Bill "Promoting Pine" Peterson, and Merle "Loquacious Linden" Levin. By BOB SOLTa Between 75 and 80 per cent of1 the students living in residenceo halls may eat their Thanksgiving dinner at home, but many of them will return to Ann Arbor for the weekend. This trend was indicated by es- timates made by dietitians of 4,- 586 students living in the two main quadrangles and six women's residence halls. APPROXIMATELY 1,300 stu-t dents will eat Thanksgiving din-3 ner prepared in the residencet halls.a On Friday, the pressure of£ homework and isolated threats of exams or double-cuts by in- structors will double the 1,300r figure to an approximate 2,500.- Martha Cook leads the list with an estimated 58 per cent of the 151 residents scheduled to eat in the dorm dining hall during the four day holiday period. CLOSE BEHIND is NewberryC Child Singlet Survivor ofI Plane Wreck f OSLO, Norway -R)-- An 11- year-old Jewish refugee boy emerg- ed yesterday as the sole survivor of a plane wreck that broughtY death to 34 persons - 27 other children and seven adults. He is Isaac Allal, 11. His two brothers and a sister were among the dead. All 28 children were being flown from Tunisia to Nor- way for six months rest and'reha- bilitation when their Dutch trans- port plane lost its bearings and crashed Sunday night. * * * SEARCH PARTIES found the wreckage on a densely wooded hill-' side 30 miles southwest of Oslo. The twin-engined DC-3 trans- port, object of a four-nation sea, air and land search, was carry- ing four Dutch crewmen and three nurses in addition to the children. A police officer in charge of operations at the scene said 31 bodies had been recovered, 26 of them children. The other three bodies are believed to be under the wreckage. * * * ISAAC WAS sitting in his chair at the very tail of the plane when a party of home guardsmen, head- ed by Toralf Hagen, reached the scene more than 42 hours after the crash. He blinked and told his res- cuers in halting French that he felt "not bad." Though able to walk, he was hustled on a stretcher to an am- bulance and taken to the hospital at Drammen, 10 miles away. * * * THERE THE chief physician described his injuries as a scratch- ed nose, a swollen wrist and slight burns. "It is almost a miracle," said the doctor. Though suffering no apparent shock, it was hours before the boy told his name. Asked if he knew where he was, Allal replied, "Yes, I am in Nor- way. No?" with an average of 47 per cent of 105 residents eating in the dorm over the same period. East and West Quad are run- ning close together in the esti- mates. With only 502 eating in the East Quad on Thursday, the amount is expected to increase to 837 on Friday, and drop to an average of 650 over Saturday and Sunday. West Quad dietitians, basing their figures on records of past years, expect up to 500 to eat in the dorm Thursday, 800 on Friday, and possibly 600 on Saturday and Sunday. * * * BETSY-BARBOUR, with 114 residents, will have about 43 per cent of the dorm's coeds eating in the dorm over the four day period. Stockwell is expected to have a 40 per cent average out of the 125 girls in that dorm. Least busy will be Mosher-Jor- dan with an average of 38 per cent of its 475 women eating there dur- ing the four day period. Lowest with an average of 24 per cent is the New Women's Dorm with 510 Bresidents. THE DIFFERENCEbetween the number of residents in the dorms on Thursday, and those returning for Friday classes, ranges from about16 per cent in the New Women's Dorm ton44per cent in Betsy-Barbour.t Interview by phone with the heads of 16 fraternities and three sororities disclosed that a very high number of affiliates will re- 'turn to Ann Arbor on Friday, with most houses shutting their doors on Thursday. Students to Get Holiday Dinner More than 200 foreign students will spend Thanksgiving Day in Ann Arbor homes, thanks to local students and townspeople. Every foreign student who ex- pressed the desire to spend the holiday with an Ann Arbor family has been accommodated, according to Mrs. Kathleen Mead, Interna- tional Center hostess. "In fact, the number of calls was so overwhelming, we were forced to turn down many of the offers. However, we should like to thank everyone for being so coop- erative in inviting foreign students- for Thanksgiving," Mrs. Mead said. Fotre Hmn R e edinspoga. Thetay i Guest Answering the International Center's call to ask foreign stu- dents for Thanksgiving Day din- ner, the members of Theta Xi fra- ternity had as their special guest last night, Kathleen Dougall, Spec., of Argentina. Miss Dougall's presence at the fraternity's annual Thanksgiving dinner also marked the house's participation in the Student Legis- lature Human Relations program. The recently set-up committee is aimed toward the elmination of discriminatory attitudes and in- ter-group friction on campus. 4 ] If Clean Tactics MarkVoting Zippersteiii Wins On First Ballot By PETER HOTTON An election turnout of 6,991 vot- ers braved near freezing weather yesterday and Monday to climax the "coldest and cleanest" all- campus elections in Student Legis- lature's history. This vote was only four below ast spring's election and 22 below the all-time record set last fall. DORIANNE ZIPPERSTEIN was the first candidate to be elected, piling up an all-time record of 279 votes in the first count. She is the first woman ever to be elected first in an SL election. Two other candidates went over the Hare System quota of 210 on the first count. Bill Duerr, who received 225 votes and incumbent and SL Vice- President Quent Nesbitt, who polled 224. Jack Armstrong was elected on the third count, Nancy Watkins on the eighth and Gordon Mac- Dougall on the 15th. Irving Sten and George Qua were elected on the 17th. For the other SL win- ners, see box on this page. ONLY "DIRTY WORK" found by Men's Judiciary Council in the entire election were two forged -Daily-Wally Barth SL TABULATES HARE VOTE-Pictured above is the Hare System of proportional representation in action at the Union last night, as used °in the all-campus elections of 28 SL positions. SL President John Ryder writes number changes as third place votes are redistributed as first place votes in the third count. In the background, candidates look hopefully on. * * * * * * * Publication Board Positions Go to Brown, Jans, Walsh B. S. Brown, Tom Walsh and James P. Jans last night won the three positions on the Board in Control of Student Publications and Jim Mitchell copped the place on the Board in Control of Inter-) collegiate Athletics. On the sixth count for J-B1p.1 Committee candidates, Ned Hess' was out in front with 4,107 points. He received 145 first-place votes. Second was Rostom Tandourjian with 3,687, with 226 firsts. The J-Hop counting is by the weighted system; 10 points for first place to one point for 10th. BROWN HAD 3,268 votes; Walsh 3,250 and Jans 2,898. Oth- er Publications candidates were: Dick Morrison, 2,115; "Potsy" Ryan, 1,685; Richard Allen, 1,625; Paul Rider, 1,521 and Lloyd Put- nam, 795. Brown acknowledged the sup- port given him and reiterated that he would do "my best to provide the campus with better publications." Walsh said, "I appreciate the campus' continuation of my term in office and will continue to serve its members fairly." 'IN THE RACE for Board in Control of Intercollegiate, Jim Mitchell came out on top- with 1,- 969 votes. Kal Klyman was run- ner-up with 1,776 and John Powers and Jim LoPrete following with 1,- 638 and 594 respectively. A run-down on the top 12 can- diates for J-Hop Committee for nine positions in six of nine counts as The Daily went to press shows, with numbers in parenthesis indi- cating first-place votes: Ned Hess (145) 4,107; Rostom Tandourjian (226) 3,687; Joan Broomfield (71) 2,635; Janet Dewey (57) 2,561; Paul McCracken (50) 2,482; Ellen Van Waggoner (60) 2,476; Diane Faulk (33) 2,439; Nan Byrnes (63) 2,435; Mary Lou Porter (46) 2,393;f Ann Maurer (60) 2,383; Dev Pease 48) 2,296; Roger Garfink (78) 1,- 915. "This run-down in the sixth count does not necessarily indicate that those mentioned above will make the J-Hop Committee," J- Hop elections supervisor Howard Johnson said. He added, however, that it was a "pretty sure" indica- ion. S, SLRace Numbered names are those of students elected in order: (numbers in parenthesis are candidates' first-place votes.) 1. Dorianne Zipperstein (279) 2. Bill Duerr (225)! 3. Quentin Nesbitt (224) 4. Jack Armstrong (209) 5. Nancy Watkins (195) 6. Gordon MacDougall (136) 7. George Qua (188) 8. Irving Stenn (164) 9. 'Edwin Lewinson (151) 10. Bob Vogt (184) 11. Tom Walsh (130) 12. Dave Belin (171) 13. Cal Klyman (145) 14. Keith Beers (124) 15. Ned Miles (133) 16. Earl G. Keim (166) 17. Nancy Coleman (105) Those still in the running as The Daily went to press at 2:15 Sa.m.are: Don Abramson Sam Altman Keith Beers Joe Cobane Tom Cramer Dick Creal Larry M. DeVore Edmund Gibbon Walt Hansen Chuck Hattaway Sally Hughes (Gresham) Howard Johnson David Litowsky Arnold Miller Jo Misner Walter Obbereit Tom Rice Hank Wilson Tabulations' Show Slight' BlocVotitg, Bloc vote exchanges appeared spottily in last night's Student Legislature election count as The Daily went to press. Tabulations made on 26 ballot counts were compiled from the re- distributed ballots of candidates dropped from the running. IN MOST cases, the ballots were widely distributed when second and third place votes were tabu- lated, but signs of bloc voting ap- peared in several instances. As of the 26th count, heaviest bloc voting appeared scattered throughout the West Quad. One Allen-Rumsey man dropped, and of his 97 re-distributable ballots, 54 were divided among six other West Quad candidates. Highest total for one Quad candidate in this count was 18. The largest single figure was a transfer of a 49 vote bloc in the 13th count. The exchange was be- tween two independents who had run on the same slate. * * * IN THE 23rd count, an Alpha Xi Delta sorority candidate picked up 39 votes from a Delta Tau Delta fraternity man. Thirty-four votes were trans- ferred from a Chi Psi to a Theta Delta candidate on the 20th count. Other large transfers were: 25 votes from Hayden to Cooley House, both in the East Quad; 19 votes from Sigma Delta Tau so- rority to Zeta Beta.Tau fraternity; 19 votes from Alpha Gamma Delta sorority to Theta Xi fraternity; and 18 votes from' Alpha Sigma Pi, to Zeta Psi. The over-all trend, however, was for candidates to pick up votes a few at a time from each other. See PICTURES, Page 6 candidate petitions. This year 81 ballots were spoiled compared to 40 last spring. Slugging it out for 41 coveted positions on SL, J-Hop Commit- tee and the Boards in Control of Publications and Athletics were the 99 candidates, most of whom elbowed their way into the Un- ion's counting room, where more than 100 volunteers sat at a huge horseshoe table tabulating ballots. Ballot counting for the other races went on in other rooms on the third floor of the Union. The crowd dwindled down slowly but surely as women left to meet reg- ular or late permissions, but the counters had to look forward to an all-night stand. .* * * BIGGEST CRISIS in the elec- tion came early yesterday evening when election officials could not find the ballot box at the Law Club on their round of polling places. The box was found a little later in safe hands at the Union where cold attendants had taken it at 5 p.m. Campus police Harold E. Swoverland and Ike Slander fol- lowed the University truck on its rounds in picking up. ballot boxes to insure an honest elec- tion. Another able safeguard was provided by Assistant to the Dean of Students John Gwin. Amidst all the confusion of sev- eral hundred workers in the small Union room, three election offi- cials told of the noting in a tran- scribed broadcast which will be aired over WHRV at 12:30 p.m. today from the Angell Hall stu- dios of the Speech Department. ANNOUNCER Tom Cramer in- terviewed SL President John Ry- der, Publicity Chairman Ginny Bauer and a Daily reporter who covered the elections. Miss Zipperstein, when she heard of her land-slide vote, said, "I was wdisappointed that the campus vote was not bigger, but it feels wonderful to be elected." She plans to continue her work on SL and the National Student Association. Bill Duerr, runner-up, said, "I was glad all the people I contacted came out and voted. But I'm sur- prised the vote wasn't higher be- cause of all the organized cam- paigns to get the vote out." Nesbitt said that he would try to fulfill his three point campaign program: to secure permanent SL headquarters with regular hou3s; n Ira Tnn-raiinaha1ida~vand I CONVOCATION SATURDAY TO HONOR RULER: Shah of Iran Promotes Western Culture World News[ Round-Up By The Associated Pgress BUDAPEST, Hungaryr- Hun- gary announced yesterday the ar- rest of three communications com- pany executives, including Robert Vogeler of New York, on charges of espionage and sabotage. The communique declared all had con- fessed. Vogeler, 38, is an assistant vice president of the International Telephone and Telegraph Com- pany of New York and its roving representative in Eastern Europe, with headquarters in Vienna, Aus- tria. * * * '. By JIM BROWN Ruling over a country whose history sinks deep into the an- cient culture and tradition of the Eastern world, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, is a hearty exponent of Western industriali- zation and democratic ideologies. program for Iran which his father had initiated several years earlier. The war, however, shattered the already thriving expansion program and left the little country in an extremely pre- carious position. Occupied by allied forces in August, 1941, r. with an eye on the rich Iranian oil fields, have made repeated de- mands for special concessions and have caused considerable internal unrest within the country. Observers have predicted that the Russiansawill eventually move into Iran by force unless{ tary equipment, the Shah is ex- pected to request additional arms and technical advice. Second, the forward-looking monarch is seeking American loans to help finance his $656,- 000,000 program for the develop- ment of Iran's backward agri- Um m ~