COLLUSION See Page 4' :Y Latest Deadline in the State :4ati4 L A CLEAR, COLD k i -.._,, , VOL LV No. 75 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 1950 PRICE FIVE CENTS ,UAW Man Quizzed On Bomb Plot .;Denies Attempts To Kill R euthers DETROIT - (P) - Detectives questioned a $58-a-week employe of the CIO United Auto Workers yesterday about a campaign of violence against the union over the past two years. William K. Thomas, 58 years old, steadfastly denied after five hours of questioning any know- ledge of the attempted assassina- tions of the Reuther brothers. * * * THE white-haired night watch- man also denied any knowledge of an attempt to blow up Union International headquarters other than his part in helping find a dud dynamite bomb planted there Dec. 20. After 13 hours of grilling, Thomas admitted late last night he faked a torture-kidnaping story early Friday. The hoax led police to question Thomas about the entire campaign of violence that led to an FBI in- vestigation. Detroit detectives said question- ing of Thomas was based on a theory some one with "martyr complex" might be responsible for the violence against the union. DESPITE OFFERS of nearly $250,000 in rewards, authorities have failed to solve the attempted assassinations of Walter Reuther, April 20, 1948, UAW president, and his brother, Victor, UAW educa- tion director, last May 24. Detective Inspector Joseph Krug said renewed questioning of Thomas so far had thrown no new light on the shootings or attempted dynamiting. Krug said Thomas admitted having worked on constructionj jbs where dynamite was used, but said he never had handled dynamite. Krug said Thomas many years ago had been reported "somewhat1 bitter" about the UAW. He lost a job at the Motor Products Corp.0 in 1936 during a strike. AFTER HE complained about it, Thomas was hired by the1 union as a part-time maintenance man at its headquarters and later as a full-time watchman. Police investigation disclosed Thomas had no right wing or left wing connections in the SUAW. The union has insisted all along the violence against it had nothing to do with any internal dissension. Walter Reuther con- tended the violence could be the work of Communists angry at his campaign against communism, the work of management, or some "screwball." After admitting the kidnap hoax, Thomas was held for in- vestigation of making a false re- port of a felony. Detectives said, however, they* were mainly in- terested in finding out what he knew about the campaign of vio- lence against the UAW. Men's Councils Have Openings Positions on two men's councils are open to eligible men, it has been announced. Petitions for Men's Judiciary Council, student "supreme court" may be picked up from 3 to 5 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday in the Administration Building, lobby. Three positions were open on the Council, and members will be interviewed and chosen by an SL appointments board. Engineering students are eligible for four positions on Engineering Council, and may apply by filing a letter listing qualifications and reasons for wanting a position. Letters are due Friday and may be placed in the Engineering Coun- cil Box on the second floor of the West Engineering Annex. Belin Will Chair Young GOP Meet David W. Belin, '51, was named yesterday chairman of a Big Ten Young Republican Conference to be held in Ann Arbor March 24-25, according to the Associated Press, as announced at a meeting of the etP.rng vnmmitteefor th enn- Shuffling Scenarists Deaths in Iowa Fire Hit 38 66-46 4- 1 1 '1 Five l out Iowa, -Daily-Wally Barth OPERA AUTHORS-Jack Leonard, left, and "Buzz" Durant, right, authors of the 1950 Union Opera, pause while creating a new dance routine for the show to check their scripts. Called Lace It Up," the rollicking musical comedy will be presented Mar. 29, 30 and 31 at the Michigan Theatre. * * * .* 'Lace It Up' Zips in as Newest of Union Operas By PAUL BRENTLINGER "Lace It Up" is the title of the 1950 version of the Michigan Union Opera. I This latest model of the campus' traditional all-male musical comedy is the brain child of Jack-Leonard, '50, and -BryceBUZ' Durant, '50. Their scenario entry won out over 11 competing entries which were submitted to Opera manager Jim Ebersole, '50, since last may. * * * NIt ACCORDiNG TO LEONARD, "Lace It Up" takes a laughing look World News Roundup By The Associated Press Soldiers and guardsmen were mobilized yesterday for flood fighting in the Midwest, and an unexpected blast of cold heaped fresh damage on the California citrus crop. HONG KONG-The Chinese Nationalists reported increasing air raids and guerrila operations yesterday against the Commun- ists on the mainland. Meanwhile in Moscow Mao Tze-Tung, Chin- ese Communist leader, and the Soviet are believed to be near an agreement. Informed circles expect an important announce- ment. * * * TOKYO - The official Comin- form attack in Bucharest on San- zo Nozako, Japan's shrewdest Com- munist, presages a major upheaval in the party in Japan. * * * WASHINGTON - Rep. Dondero (R-Mich.) said yesterday he will introduce legislation next week to prevent deduction of endowment fund interest from government payments to land grant colleges for veterans' education. fat the labor-management rela- tions problem as it effects workers in a lingerie factory." Leonard and Durant are no newcomers to the Union Opera scene. Last year, they adapted the script of "Froggy Bottom" for musical comedy presenta- tion. "Froggy Bottom" was the first post-war Union Opera pro- duction., Strangely enough, the idea for "Lace It Up" did not come to Leonard and Durant as the result of a blinding flash of inspiration. * * * "WE JUST sat down one day and decided to write the 1950 Opera," Durant said. We deliberately looked for some out of the ordinary theme, and finally decided that the labor-management issue was just what we needed," he ex- plained. The "Lace It Up" script was ap- proved by the Union's Board of Directors after being recommend- ed by the Union Opera Board, which scrutinized the 11 scenario entries. * * * CASTING for the show will be- gin during the first week in the second semester, and the finished product is scheduled for produc- tion on Mar. 29, 30 and 31 at the Michigan Theatre, scene of last year's presentation of "Froggy Bottom." Iowa Guard Clifton Tops Both Teams McIntosh Leads MichiganScoring By JOHN BARBOUR A surprising Michigan fivel banged out their Big Ten Over- ture to the tune of a 66-46 win over a hard-working Iowa Hawk- eye squad at Yost Field House. last night. But almost overshadowing this was the brilliant performanceof a young sophomore Hawkeye from! Boone City, Iowa. YOUNG BOB CLIFTON in his first Western Conference game< clipped out 25 points plus a show of good ball-handling to remind a few of Murray Weir, and net more than half the Iowa point total. In the opening Mhinutes it looked like all Iowa and very little else. The Hawkeyes pulled a three point lead on the Wol- verines before three minutes of the first half had gone. They controlled the backboards and their ball-handling looked very tricky. Michigan still trailed by three points at the six minute mark when the score stood Iowa 10, Michigan 7. * * * THEN RECOVERING their bal- ance on MacIntosh's field goal from forward, they followed up with tallies by VanderKuy and Suprunowicz to take a 13 to 10r lead with the scoreboard clockr reading 13:32 in the first half. This time the Wolverines held. Hal Morrill swept the backboardf by the Michigan basket time1 and time again. High-springing Chuck Murray teamed to keep the inner court defense almost impregnable. Leo VanderKuy was kept busyt See WOLVERINES, Page 6 C Board Okays NewA Magazine 'Generation' Campus Pictorial Review Also Created Student publication history was made yesterday when the Board in Control voted approval of "Gen- eration," a new student magazine of the five arts. Another publication will appear early next semester in the form of "Campus," a pictorial magazine' covering the events and activities of the University. * * * SCHEDULED TO appear on campus March 17, "Generation" will take its stand as a sister pub- lication of The Daily, Gargoyle and 'Ensian. "Generation" aims to give ex- pression to creative works in arts ranging from literature to dance through the presentation of orig- inal short stories, poems, sculp- ture, paintings, plays, music and critical and interpretative essays on the arts. The staff of "Generation" will include a managing editor, busi- ness manager, art editor and as- sociate editor. Other editors will head various departments, includ- ing those for each of the five arts. "GENERATION" WILL operate on a tryout system paralleling that used by the other publications. Contributions for "Generation" are being accepted by Marvin Felheim of the English depart- ment at Rm. 2213 Angell Hall. "Campus, the picture magazine, will feature social events, student and faculty profiles, sports and articles of general interest to stu- ;, v TAX SUGGESTIONS: Truman To introduce Plans for Fiscal Year from By The Associated Press WASHINGTON - Tax recom- mendations figured high in the news yesterday as the nation waited for President Truman's budget message for the coming fiscal year which will be de- livered tomorrow. A tax increase of $2,500,000 with an equal slash in govern- ment spending to balance the government budget was recom- mended by Chairman Cannon (D-Mo.) of the House Appropria- tions Committee. * * -* BUT AN opposing recommenda- tion was expressed by the Com- mittee for Economic Development, a businessmen% planning organi- zation, which said tax cuts to- taling $2,500,000 are feasible this year. The committee, however, agreed with Cannon that feder- al costs should be cut and of- fered a program of how to do it. President Truman, who has asked for a "moderate" tax in- crease, is expected to offer a bud- get based on present business ac- tivity and present taxes, showing: spending, $42,000,0000-plus; in- come, $38,000,000-minus. King Peter To Talk At Hill Tuesday King Peter II of Yugoslavia will speak on "The Story of My Coun- try" at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday in Hill Auditorium, in the fifth lecture of the University Lecture Series. An Associated Press dispatch said last night that a railroad com- pany delayed one of its through trains for three minutes yesterday to take the king straight to Chi- cago, but he took another com- pany's train. Tickets will be on sale from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. tomorrow and Tues- day at the Hill Auditorium box office. Result: a $5,000,000. deficit not far f * , ,* REP. CANNON, who previously has said that Truman's spending1 requests must and will be cut, acknowledged that it might be im- possible to achieve a budget bal- lance "unless we have additional1 revenue." "I'll favor increases in taxes as long as they insist on spend- ing," he added. World Dollar eed Cited WASHINGTON - (P) - Secre- tary of State Acheson has given an urgent, top priority in the State Department to development of a new line of attack on the world dollar shortage, it was learn- ed yesterday. The conviction is spreading among some of his top advisers that more billions for European and other foreign assistance will be required after the end of the Marshall Plan in 1952. SOME OFFICIALS now say pri- vately that the United States probably will have to consider continuing foreign assistance for an indefinite number of years. Acheson's personal preference reportedly would be to assure oth- er nations of the dollars they need to buy American goods by further opening up American markets for their products. It is likely that he will throw his main emphasis on a tariff cutting, import expanding policy. What the State Department ex- perts are reported to be convinced of is this: unless the United States and Allied nations begin prepar- ing shortly for the end of the Marshall Plan, the cold war gains of the past two years may easily be lost. Quiz Kids 1 1 To Oppose t ProfsTodayt Win, draw or lose, four univer- sity professors will be on hand to1 compete in a mental marathon with the Quiz Kids at 3:30 p.m. today at the 1Rackham Lecture Hall. Tickets for the event have been grabbed up in record time but en- thusiasts may hear the Quiz Kids show over WWJ or WUOM-FM. * * * IN ONE CORNER will be the; academicians, Professors George Kish, of the geography depart- ment, Leo Goldberg, of the as- tronomy department, Harry Clyde Carver of the mathematics de- partment and Frank Livingston Huntley of the English depart- ment. In the other corner will be mental giants' and winners of three out of four bouts with university professors, Joel Kup- perman, 13, Lonny Lunde, 14, Pat Conlon, 12 and Brenda Liebling, 5. Joe Kelly, regular quizmaster, will referee. Initiating the week-long WUOM dedication program the Chicago Round Table will origin- ate at 1 p.m. today in the Rack- ham Hall and will be carried by stations WWJ and WUOM. * * ,* "WHAT IS Popular Culture Do- ing to Your Life" is the topic of discussion. Two faculty members, War- ner G. Rice, director of the Gen- eral Library and acting chair- man of the English department, and Prof. Howard Y. McClusky, of the educational psychology department and consultant in community adult education will participate in the forum. Henry Sans, chairman of the University of Chicago English de- partment will be moderator. Doors to Rackham Hall will be closed 15 minutes before broad- cast time for both radio shows. -Daily-Alex Lmanian ON THE BALL-Quiz kid Brenda Leibling, 5-and-one-half years old, second from right, gets the football lowdown from a quartet of University greats. They are, left to right, Wally Teninga, Athletic Director H. O. "Fritz" Crisler, Al Wis tert, Miss Leibling and Al Wahl, new football cap- tain. The Quiz Kids show originates from Univer ity station WUOM today. Bars Hinder Escape from Big Hospital Flames Consume Ward in 2 Hours By The Associated Press DAVENPORT Ia.-Death toll in the fire which struck while pa tients slept and roared through the psychiatric ward of one of Iowa's major hospitals early, yes- terday rose to 38 women. Coroner C. H. Wildman, who of- ficially placed the death toll at 38, said 35 bodies were taken but before nightfall. Bodies of three others "almost certainly" were butied beneath a toppled brik wall, he said. A crane was in use last night to probe this debris. SCREAMS OF women patients in St. Elizabeth's mental ward building of the 300-bed mercy hos- pital sounded the alarm as they awakened to find themselves trap- ped in "a flaming hell." Within two hours only the charred shell of the building re- mained. Fire Chief Lester Schick said "I doubt if we ever find out what caused the fire." He said it start- ed in a room on the east side of the building and spread into the hall, up a dumb waiter shaft, and then spread-eagled over the top of the building. * * * BARRED WINDOWS prevented firemen from reaching many of the victims and they perished In their rooms. State Fire Marshall Zack Cook said at Des Moines the hospital last was inspected about two years ago. He said that Ins- much as his department includes only five men, such inspections are made only on request of city or county authorities. Sister Superior Mary Annunci- ata, head of the hospital, said 31 other patients were treated for burns or injuries. With 38 pre- sumed dead, she said this account- ed for the 65 women and three men known to have been in the destroyed ward. ALL OF THE DEAD were women. All except Mrs. Anna Neal, 52-year-old nurse's aide, were pa- tients. The three men escaped, two by leaping from windows. The alarm was sounded at '3 a.m. (EST) when flames broke out on. the second floor of the three- story brick structure. AT LEAST 10 other persons died in fires throughout the nation yesterday besides the 38 who died in the Davenport hospital tragedy. In Missoula, Mont., two-year- old Gorden Moldena died while his grieved parents were making funeral plans for five other child- ren who died a day earlier when their two-story frame house burn- ed down. Nine other children were burned to death yesterday, six in a Ban- gor, Me., farmhouse, and three in Woodward, Okla., while their mother was outside looking for the mailman. Briggs Asks Aid forScience _ Suggesting that Americans are "tooucomplacent regarding the amount and quality of expert re- search personnel available," Uni- versity Vice-President Robert P. Briggs Iriday night called for more support for basic research at the University. He told members of the Hi Twelve Club meeting in Lansing that there is a real need for addi- tional funds to finance the train- ing of research scientists. - "It is difficult to attract finan- Al ~ -nnairtfor the training nf VOODOO PERCHANCE? Native African Statue Find Baffles 'U' Profs. TO PERFORM BOTH NIGHTS: By JIM BROWN The discovery of a carved wooden statue in the Upper Pen- insula has left University anthro- pologists baffled over a strange mystery - how could traces of African native civilizations turn up in Michigan's North Woods. The statue, a 28-inch black figure wa foundvby Ford Inger- tive African life, much of the time in Timbuktu, identified the statue as a figure.of a male war- rior, probably representing a specific individual. African natives often carve per- sonal representations and believe that the spirit of an individual resides in such figures after Ellington and Prima To Play at Hop Duke Ellington and Louis Prima will share bandstand honors for the 1951 J-Hop to be held Friday and Saturday, Feb. 10 and 11, in the Intramural building, it was those with reservations from 9 toI 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday1 and Friday in the Administration Building. Students will be re- quired to present identification1 groups which have been allotted booths at the Intramhural Build- ing are asked to submit names of chaperones to the J-Hop Commit- tee immediately, announced Ned