RUSHING REVISION See Page 4 j [I: C 4fit La test Deadline in the State ~aii4 ,_ ~ ' . C, FAIR VOL. LX, No. 6 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, .1949 PRICE FIVE CENTS rI C*> House Names 'Scientist X In Atom Case Calls Minnesota Doctor Perjuror WASHINGTON - (/P) - End- ing a year-old mystery, the House Un-American Activities Commit- tee named a young midwest uni- versity professor as the shadowy "scientist X" it accused of slipping wartime atomic secrets to a man it called a Communist spy. The Committee said that "Sci- entist X" is Dr. Joseph W. Wein- berg of the University of Minne- sota and formally recommended that the Justice Department prosecute him on perjury charges. WEINBERG promptly denied the accusation, claiming it was a case of "mistaken identity." The Justice Department said the FBI has been investigating Weinberg "for a long period of time." A, department spokesman said when FBI reports on the case are completed they will be studied. IN MINNEAPOLIS, Weinberg, 32-year-old Assistant Professor of physics at the University of Min- nesota, told newsmen.: "I am innocent. At no time have I participated in any way in disclosure of any secret or classified information or for- mula to any unauthorized per- son." The young scientist also took a slap at the term "Scientist X," which he said is "a publicity-seek- ing phrase invented by the com- mittee." DR. J. L. MORRILL, President of the University of Minnesota, called for an immediate govern- ment investigation to "establish the truth in this tragic situation for the security of the nation and withistrict justice to Prof. Wein- berg." The committee accused Wein- berg of lying under oath when the scientist appeared before the House group in a closed- door session last year. The com- mittee said Weinberg perjured himself in denying: 1. That he was a Communist party member and attended "cell" meetings of the Young Commu- nist League. 2. That he knew Steve Nelson. The committee has called Nelson a Communist espionage agent. 3. That he knew Nelson's secre- tary, Bernadette Doyle. End Check-Up Of Vandenberg The results of Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg's examinations at the University Hospital are ex- pected to be known within two or three days. According to a report by Dr. John Alexander, well-known chest surgeon, the examinations are al- most completed. The possibility of an operation, suggested by Wash- ington friends of the Senator, will then be known. Vandenburg entered the hos- pital Monday night for a complete checkup and diagnosis of a lung lesion following a briefer exam- ination at the hospital last month. "After the results are known we shall discuss them with Dr. A. D. Smith, of Grand Rapids, Senator Vandenberg's personal physician and long-ime friend," Dr. Alex- ander explained. He reported the Senator as "getting along well and in his us- ual good humor." The veteran Michigan Senator has been one 'of the chief expon- ents of the Administration's bi- partisan foreign policy and is a former chairman of the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee. Army Game ID Students must present their ID English Fear Inflation-Stason By BOB VAUGHN There is fear of an inflationary spiral among the thinking people in England, according to E. Blythe Stason, Dean of the Law School. Recently returned from England where he spent two months studying British administrative law, Dean Stason said, "Devaluation of the pound caused profound concern 'in England, for the people had expected either a much snialler devaluation or none at all." * * * * "AT PRESENT THE government is holding the line but pressures are severe." The precarious position of England's economy is the result of inability to reach an efficiency comparable with that of the - United States, he said. Name Mao Tse-Tung as China Head By The Associated Press Mao Tze-Tung, a peasant's son turned revolutionary, was named head of the new Chinese Com- munist Government which will bid soon for international recognition. The 56-year-old Mao thus be- came leader in name as well as in fact of a regime which, has forcibly placed more than half of China under the Red flag. THE COMMUNIST radio in Peiping announced that Mao was elected chairman of the "Central Peoples Government" of "The Peoples Republic of China." The republic's announced aim is close ties with Russia. The broadcast, heard by :the Associated Press at San Fran- cisco, listed six vice-chairmen who will serve with Mao on the ruling government council. One is Madame Sun Yat-Sen, sister-in-law of Mao's arch ene- my, Generalissimo Chiang Kai- Shek. This was expected. She is in Peiping now. She long has leaned toward the Communists. Her late husband, Dr. Sun Yat- Sen, led the 1911 revolution which set up China's first republic. * * * MAO, MADAM SUN, and five other vice-chairmen were rubber- stamped in Peiping by the politi- cal consultative conference. Mao's election was unanimous. Possibly the others were too. AEC Defended By Committee WASHINGTON-(I')-A propos- ed report of the Senate-House Atomic Committee said that "in- credible mismanagement" charges by Senator Hickenlooper (R-Iowa) against the Atomic Energy Com- mission "could not be proved." The draft strongly defends the AEC's record of security of its vital secrets. Circulated in confidence to com- mittee members, the proposed re- port was backed up indirectly by a statement of Chairman McMa- hon (D-Conn.). McMahon told reporters the AEC and its chair- man, David E. Lilienthal, are "not guilty" "The English are cognizant of the problem, they are working on it and will solve it. It is incum- bent upon the United States to help them solve it." * * * ENGLAND'S government has developed two interesting devices to check the evils of bureaucracy, Dean Stason explained. The first is a system of ad- visory or consultative commit- tees composed of specialists and prominent citizens outside gov- ernment service. The committees serve as a channel for complaints from the people to the ministries. * * * SOME COMMITTEES also make recommendations regarding pro- posed administrative rules. Unless these are followed by the minis- tries they must be laid before par- liament. The primary duty of these committees is to see that the viewpoint of the consumer is presented to the administration, Dean Stason said. The second goverment adminis- trative innovation is the Select Committee on Statuary Instru- ments of the House of Commons. S * * * THIS COMMITTEE investigates important regulations proposed by the various departments of the government and submits its re- ports to Parliament. Chinese Stop U.S. Shipping Nationalist Destroyer Threatened Gunfire NEW YORK - (AP)-A Chinese destroyer threatened for a time to fire on one of three American ships held off Shanghai by the Chinese Nationalists, it was re- ported here. The Isbrandtsen line, operators of the ships, reported receiving cabled reports from the skipper of the flying independent that the destroyer was menacing it. * * * . HANS ISBRANDTSEN, presi- dent of the line, said a later cable advised, however, that the Chinese destroyer had pulled away and gone out of sight. The skipper originally had ra- dioed Shanghai agents of the line that the destroyer was "threaten- ing to fire on my crew and passen- gers." RUN, PASS, AND KICK-When the Wolverines take on the high- ly regarded Stanford eleven this afternoon they are going to have to exhibit plenty of all three. Don Dufek (left), is expected to carry a large part of the running load, Charlie Ortmann (center) is expected to spearhead Michigan's passing attack, and Walt Teninga (right) will use his talented toe to get the Wolverines out of trouble, should the occasion arise. *' ' * * Michigan Faces Indians Heated But Confident Hungyary gand Poland Drop Yugoslavs LONDON-(P)-Communist Po- land and Hungary fell quickly in line with Soviet Russia in re- nouncing treaties of friendship and cooperation with Yugoslavia. It seemed certain that the other members of the Tito-hating Com- inform will follow suit. They are Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovia, and Romania. THE SOVIET Union announced on Thursday that it had re- nounced its treaty with Yugo- slavia. Hungary's action was dis- closed yesterday and Poland made its stand known last night. It appeared that the Comin- form countries and Russia were heading for a complete severing of diplomatic relations with Yu- goslavia. Russia based her denunciation of the treaty on evidence sub- mitted in the treason trial of for- mer Foreign Minister Laszlo Rajk, who was convicted and sentenced to death in Budapest on a charge of plotting with Yugoslavs and Americans to overthrow the gov- ernment and replace it with a re- gime subservient to Premier Mar- shal Tito of Yugoslavia. HUNGARY and Poland said that was their reason, too. The only Yugoslav reaction thus far has been. expressed through Tanjug, the official Yugoslav news agency. -Tanjug said Russia's ac- tion was "one more proof as to who considers treaties between na- tions to be mere scraps of paper." INational Round-Up By The Associated Press WASHINGTON-The U.S. gov- ernment finished the first quarter of the fiscal year one and one quarter billion dollars in the red. LANSING - Governor Wil- liams appointed two unsuccess- ful Democratic candidates in the spring election to the State Eco- nomic Development Commission. WASHINGTON-The ranks of the jobless dwindled by 338,000 in September-the second succes- sive monthly drop in unemploy- ment shown ingthe late-summer business upswing. The Census Bureau reported a decline to a total of 3,351,000 un- employed. DAYTON, O. - The B. F. Goodrich Co. and CIO United Rui 1hr lWn,rrc Q lan ad an nw By MERLE LEVIN (Special to The Daily) PALO ALTO, Calif.-The word "upset" will be in the thoughts and on the tongues of thousands1 of revenge-minded Californians here today to watch invading Michigan seek to extend its 24- game winning streak against Stan-l ford's surprising Indians. It's been two years since Michi- * **) ' 'M' Favored By Tradition ver Stanford This Year's Record Ranks Indians High By PRES HOLMESl (Sports Co-Editor) There seem to be an awful lot of conflicting stories about who willl come out on top in the battle be- tween Michigan and Stanford to( be played at 5:30 this afternoon.1 It could very well develop into a tussle of tradition (based on two1 previous games) and a very im- pressive early season performance1 (also based on two previousi games). S * * * "TRADITIONALLY" the Wol- verines have always scored 49 points against the team from Palo Alto. In the first Rose Bowl game in 1902 Michigan won 49-0. Forty- five years later the two teams met again, in Ann Arbor this time, and the Maize and Blue once more to- taled 49 points. Stanford pene- trated Michigan's defenses twice in the last half of that contest, however, and registered 13 points.1 On that basis Michigan ought to win the game 49 to 61, make it '7. Now let's look at the game from a western exposure. In just two outings the Indians have piled up enough statistics to make any team sit up and take notice, and sit back and wonder. * * * BOLSTERED immeasurably by1 the stellar performances of soph- omores Harry Hugasian, Gary Kerkorian, and Bill McColl the Indians have looked devastatingly impressive in their first two starts.1 They have averaged better7 than 40 points and 470 yards per game. Add to that the fact that Stan-{ ford leads the nation in this rather interesting item: Forward passes7 thrown without an interception. Spearheaded by Kerkorian, who See STANFORD, Page 3 gan administered a 49-13 whip- ping to a hapess Stanford team at Ann Arbor. But the sting of that defeat is still fresh in the hearts of Indian boosters. TO A MAN they feel that this is the year for revenge. Spurred on by Stanford's convincing 44-0 victory over ,Harvard and a pre- vious 49-0 victory over a good San Jose State Squad, some 80,000 fans are expected to be on hand by kickoff time (5:30 p.m. EST), the largest crowd ever to witness Stan- ford play any opponent but Cali- fornia. The latter contest is the big game for Stanford, but good. The student body here speaks of it in tones somewhat akin to reverence. But for today the Michigan tilt has replaced it as the game that must be won. THE ODDS makers have estab- lished the Wolverines as a 7 point favorite this afternoon but west coast writers have been almost unanimous in their choice of Stanford. The general feeling on the coast seems to be that the Wolverines are living on the repu- tation they have established dur- ing the past two seasons. One San Francisco scribe even went so far as to predict that today's contest would serve more as a yardstick of the compara- tive strength of Michigan and San Jose State than as a test for Stanford. * * *, THE TEMPERATURE was well up in the nineties yesterday and more of the same was predicted for this afternoon. Despite the fact that they worked out lightly for hardly a half hour the Maize See SEVEN POINT, Page 3 To Hold Holy Day Services Services for the High Holy Day will be held by Hillel Foundation tomorrow and Monday at Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. The services are scheduled for 8 p.m. Sunday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday. Memorial services will be held at 4 p.m. Monday. Yom Kippur, a period of atone- ment and fasting, brings to con- clusion 10 days of penitence which began on Rosh Hashonah, the Hebrew New Year. .Complimentary tickets for the services may be obtained at 1201 Hill. Auto Makers, To Feel UAW Pension Push DETROIT - (P) - The CIO United Auto Worker got set to open up its sweeping pension drive on many fronts at once. The UAW's objective is to bring other firms in line with the agree- ment signed with Ford Motor Co. * * * DEMANDS WILL soon be pressed intensively at seven auto concerns where wage negotiations alreadyare under way, the union said. Involved are a total of 182,- 000 workers. UAW President Walter P. Repther said efforts also would be made to get General Mptors Corp. to talk pensions. The G-M contact covering 275,000 does not expire until May 29, 1950. Ford was the pace-setting tar- get. The agreement there-first pension plan in the auto industry -gives the UAW a potent weapon against other concerns. * * * FORD WORKERS can now re- tire between the ages of 60 and 68 on company-paid pensions. These, coupled with social security bene- fits, will provide retired employes up to $100 monthly - Reuther's eventual goal is an industry-wide pension set-up embracing the union's 1,000,- 000 in the automobile and allied fields. During the tedious 118-day bar- gaining battle at Ford, contract talks elsewhere marked time to await the pattern. WAGE TALKS are now open at Chrysler, Briggs (maker of auto bodies), Hudson, Studebaker, Packard, Willys Overland and Kaiser-Frazer. Despite the Ford agreement, Chrysler still presents a hurdle to the UAW. The Chrysler contract provides only for discussion of wages at the present time. The corporation contends this does not require them to talk pensions-at least not until the full contract expires Aug. 1, 1950. The union, on the other hand, insists court decisions have estab- lished that pensions are a wage is- sue. Exactly what course will be fol- lowed against General Motors, the UAW has not announced. Nation Hit As Workers Leave Jobs million Men Idle In Labor Disputes By The Associated Press The steel strike is on. Across the nation, more than one-half million CIO United Steelworkers left their jobs, swell ing the total of idle in labor dis- putes to more than 1,000.000. WITH 400,000 United .Mine Workers also off the job, the na- tion had its first double-barreled coal-steel strike in history. The steel strike became ef- fective at 12:01 a.m., Eastern Standard Time. Philip Murray ordered his steel workers out at that moment in support of the union's demand for a program of company-financed pensions. BOTH MANAGEMENT and la- bor blamed the other for the strike. Murray and President Benjamin F. Fairless of the U.S. Steel Corporation gave these op- posing views: Murray: "This strike has been forced upon the union and the American people. The responsi- bility for this strike rests entire- ly with the company." Fairless: "Our collective bar- gaining negotiations have come to a complete impasse because of the unreasonable attitude of the un- ion." It was the first nationwide steel strike since 1946. THE DISPUTE boiled down to this: The union wants industry to pay the entire cost of insurance and pensions for the workers. Steel is willing to pay part of the cost but wants the workers to chip in, too. A presidential fact finding board favored the all company-financed plan. WHILE THIS point was being argued, three truces requested by President Truman had staved off a strike since last May. Truman decided last night he would not intervene again. A White House official bluntly as- serted: "He is through." The steel strike brought the number of strike idle in a dozen industries in the nation to 1,044,- 000. It could spread to another 500,00 steelworkers in fabricating plants. But these are not imme- diately affected. JOHN L. LEWIS, meanwhile, ordered 102,000 coal diggers to end their "sympathy" walkout, but 400,000 other miners continued their strike. Lewis said the strike of 80,000 anthracite miners in Pennsylvania and 22,OOQ soft coal miners west of the Mississippi is "not now vital to the pending wage negotiations." Negotiations with the coal op- erators akre deadlocked without sign of an early break. ti * * Can Company Agreement Comes Just Before Deadline CINCINNATI-UP-)-The Amer- ican Can Company and the CIO United Steelworkers agreed on terms for a wage increase and a company-financed pension plan less than a half-hour before CIO President Philip Murray's order of a nation-wide steel strike be- came effective. The company and union nego- tiators were in cnnference when NEW CHAPTER BEGINS: Isotope Lecture Opens Phoenix Project Phase By JIM BROWN The first chapter in the 1949-50 history of the Michigan Memor- ial-Phoenix Project will be writ- ten next Thursday afternoon by Hardin Jones, assistant professor of medical physics at the Donner Laboratory, University of Cali- fornia. While the gigantic $6,500,000 fund-raising campaign will not be kicked off until the Homecoming weekend when 200 regional drive Meanwhile, other phases of the Phoenix Project are already underway on campus. Prof. James B. Griffin of the anthropology department is con- ducting research on a project to ascertain the age of ancient ar- ticles by determining the degree of radioactivity in them. The measuring apparatus for this study is being built by Prof. H. R. Crane "DATELINE-EUROPE: Students Impressed by 'Solid'Dutch C EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the fourth in a serie sof articles by two Daily staff members who spent the summer in Europe as leaders of an NSA study tour.) esque architecture, the proverbial neatness, the quaint customs. People in some parts of Hol- land stil war wonden ses-. where in Europe was hospitality so evident. Even in Friesland where the inhabitants are noted for their reserve, the family who owned By BARNEY and DOLORES