Y itp4b i . ! ,. ,. 1 1 SRA REVAMP See Page 4 Latest Deadline in the State CLOUDY, SNOW SIX PAGES VOL. LXI, No. 100 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1951 L Groupays Contract Fight Crime Could WreckU.S. Expels Engneer Senate Probers Breaking of NROTC Pact Given Fear Mob Rule As Cause for Disciplinary Action WASHINGTON-(P)-Mobsters A University student has been expelled from the engineering col- are using fantastic crime and lege by the faculty Committe on Discipline for "unethical and irre- gambling, profits to finance an sponsible action" in breaking a contract. underground government that The student, Robert J. Lapham, '52E, was notified shortly before could turn subversive and wreck Christmas vacation that he would not be allowed to enroll for the the United States, the Senate Crime dommittee reported yes- spring semester in the engineering college. The disciplinary action terday. was based on a contract that Lapham had broken with the Navy late The crime investigators said in October after becoming a conscientious objector. the czar of a vast American un- - - * - derworld lives in Italy and is ACCORDING TO Prof. Axel Marin, chairman of the Committee "Lucky" Luciano, deported New on Discipline for the engineering college, Lapham was expelled be- York vice overlord. And there is " cause he indicated in his inter- evidence the Mafia, "Black Hand"-- view with the committee that "he Sicilian society, also operates here i was under no obligation to repay the report said, and may be the the Navy for the benefits he had "adhesive" holding gangs together. received under the contract." I * *T "We are concerned with the THE 35-PAGE report is a pre- IIloW ethics of our students as well as liminary one. But it said if Amer- their engineering ability," Prof. icans ever had any doubt that Marin explained. "If a student crime in the United States is or- does not live up to the Engi- ganized, that doubt is now dis- oneering code of ethics (an un- pelled by facts the committee has written set of laws) we feel that uncovered "over tcn months of the it is our duty to discipline the most intensive investigation of its If the weather man is right, a student in some way." kind ever attempted." stormy March wind and driving Lapham who became a regular It estimated "conservatively" rain will race across the campus Lmemr o heama re r that $20,000,000,000 changes today to blow holes into the hopes member of the Naval Reserve Of- hnseeyyainognzd of those who dreamed March ficers Training Corps in the fall ilegal gambliyeoar in organizedg "come i keam b of 1949, decided last fall to become It said the gangsters do not Sleet with freezing rain and a conscientious objector. Because hesitate to use murder, bombing wind velocities up to 25 miles ank of this stand he felt compelled to or any other form of violence to hour are predicted for today, and break his contract with the Navy eliminate competition. And it no immediate relief is seen by said large sums in protection mon- the Willow Run Weather Bureau. MARINE COLONEL William B. ey are used to buy off local and . * * McKean, commander of the Uni- versity NROTC unit, notified the 0 Marines Lead Armed Pus * * *L * * * La bor QaitsA11 lgeces gen.i n r i a T C 1 Wagea Board Rift Causes Total Break Action Ordered By Policy Board WASHINGTON-(IP)-Top labor leaders yesterday ordered a sweep- ing boycott of the home front control program, directing union men to "resign immediately" from every government mobilization agency. The momentous decision dashed hopes that labor's three members will rejoin the dispute-torn Wage Stabilization Board, and indi- rectly raised the threat of future r l strikes in industry. CTHE UNITED LaborPolicy Committee - 14 top officials of CIO, AFL and other major union groups - announced its unani- mous decision after a four and one half hour session yesterday. DEAD GENERAL HONORED-The flag-draped casket containing the body of Major General Bry- ant L. Moore, commanding general of the U. S. Ninth Corps, arrives at Haneda Air Force Base, Tokyo and is placed in a waiting hearse by GHQ honor guards. Maj. Gen. Moore died last week after a helicopter crash into the Han River. A' federal officials.* * THE RECENT warm spell de- engineering college concerning the Acknowledging "the gravity cevdmany into expecting a breach of contract. He recoin- of this decision," the policy THE REPORT added that there mild entrance fromn unpredictable!nmended thatcLapham be expelld oardchardsianew that "-ig Prof. M aurer is evidence of corruption and March. But past turn-abouts mddhatlaphatbeelled boardehard anew thatm"big connivance at all levels of gov- show that a blustery entrance from school, a prerogative given business" dominates the mobi- conmnaat a lllvlnfdo-iso thatsawblsteryentranc him by the regulations covering lization effort, and that the sev- 4ltlCl ll l ermnent andtis was the most and a bland exit are more a part NROTC students. l ab o r 'InI idation' testimony Following Christmas vacation jobs are used merely as "win- The committee said it is an in- Freezing cold with high winds five local student ministers and dow dressing." escapable conclusion that an un-' was recorded on March 1, 1949, religious leaders met with the Labor men accordingly are re- Two members of the journalism derworld government exists, con- with temperatures as low as 29. disciplinary committee to discuss signing from 24 advisory posts ( department yesterday voiced acid trolled by the mobsters. And on March 1, 1950, too, all the action. They failed to alter and other positions in the defense criticism of Argentinian Dictator "This phantom government en- Ann Arbor shivered when the the decision of the committee.-, agencies, including the military Juan Peron's coercion of the inde- forces its own law, carries out its temperature nosedived to 23 and At that time, Lapham had ap- agency, the committee announced. pendent Buenos Aires newspaper, own executions and not only ig- winds blasting at 20 miles an pealed his case to the Faculty They include AFL president Wil- La Prensa. nones but abhors the democratic hour backed up snow and rain. Committee, the engineering college lam Green and CIO president The squlbbling between Peron processes of justice which are held Bove ing unit. In his apeal let- li Murray, who have advisory and La Prensa, shut down 33 days to be the safeguards of the Amner- But March in those years, fol-., ter, Lapham said that he was will- holes by a labor dispute, exploded into ia cte he reort Ad. lowing a traditional script, turned ing to repay the Navy. . * * violence Tuesday when loyal em- It added c tizentathe if not curbed this eaceful during her last days. * EXPLAINING its action, the ployees of the paper battled their. underworld could become the ba- HOWEVER, according to Prof. committee declared the new 10 way back to work at a cost of one sis for a subversive movement ONE NATIVE Ann Arbor stu- Marin, it was felt that Lapham per cent ceiling on wage increases "which could wreck the VKry foun- dent took the opportunity to blast had not changed his mind toward is "unfair, unworkable and un- Court d-tionsofthi country March and its tricky weather by the obligation of the contract and . I wa isuUTesera danshscountry. issuing what he said was an an- that he appealed only to get back just. It was issued yesterday n an- r pn intoschoolsimultaneously, the labor headsD nual anti-March proclamation.IT sclsaid, with a price order under SsAE Fined for "It's the meanest month of the The discipiary committee which business is being allowed ,wholeyear here. They ought to claims that their action hastReeslcPn re. (, -e. ,j u~ u.strike it from the calendar. Just nothing to do with Lapham's Labor will not resume its Dirty Rushig like a senator-it blows hard, riles conscionetious objector stand or place on the wage board, the everybody up and then does a the request of Col. McKean for committee decreed, until the BUENOS AIRES - ( ') - A fed- The Executive Council of the fade-out," he said. his expulsion based n hi board is entirely "reconstitu- eral judge closed the printing Inter-Fraternity Council yeser- "I keep saying this year after Our action was upo s ted." And that, some officials plant of the anti-Peron newspaper Inter-Fyeare"nheysaidudisappointedy,"butlack of responsibility in a con- e.An day announced that Sigma Alpha March keeps coming around any- tract," Prof. Marnn said "From our said, means that chairman Cy- La Prensa last night, forcing its; Epsilon had been fined $50 for a .way." point of view he (Lapham) has no rus S. Ching and the other two loyal employes to abandon their violation of rushing regulations. ethics. He made quite an unfavor- public members must be re- efforts to resume publication aft- The infraction occurred Tues- able impression on the committee placed. er a'34-day shutdown. day night, when the IFC Enforce-o/ by his insistance that he was un- Two congressional investiga- Judge Roberto Durrieu ordered ment Committee, entrusted with Or IS der no obligation to repay the tions immediately were called. the newspaper's watchmen ex- policing rushing, discovered two Navy." Sen. Bricker (R-Ohio) said he pelled from the printing plant last Sigma Alpha Epsilon actives in Round p* * . will seek an immediate inquiry by night. He posted police guards the room of a rushee in the pri- P "THE NAVY WAS not interest- the Senate-House watchdog con- at all its doors for the duration rvate boarding house where he ed in reclaiming money invested mittee on mobilization. Sen. Mur- of his investigation of the bloody lived. By The Associated Press in Lapham," Col. McKean said. phy (D-Minn) promised that his incidents of Tuesday in which one As a further penalty, the fra- WASHINGTON - Ambassador There are no provisions in the Senate Labor Subcommittee will La Prensa employe was killed and ternity will not be allowed to John Foster Dulles suggested yes- NROTC administration for receiv- dig into the situation "as soon as 15 wounded while trying to return, pledge the rushee involved. terday the United States may not ing money from members who have it is humanly possible." to their jobs.- Other accusations which had recognize as legal Russia's posses- broken contracts. "If the mnoney * * * Those who got into the plant been brought to the Council sion of Kurile Islands and South had been repaid it would have gone THE LABOR revolt oversha- Tuesday were thwarted in their proved either inconclusive or com- Sakhalin unless Russia partici- into the Navy 'conscious' fund," dowed everything else on the con- attempt to get out an issue yes- pletely unfounded. pates in making and signing a the Colonel continued. trols front yesterday, but at the terday by Durrieu's ordering them A delegation of Sigma Chi's peace treaty with Japan. The engineering college handles Office of Price Stabilization, there to a police station for questioning. turned up at the meeting to refute * * * all its own disciplinary cases sep- were these developments: They had planned to make an- the claim that they had been ' MT. CLEMENS-Expressing his arately from the rest of the Uni- A nationwide investigation of other try, at reopening the news- rushing in the dorms, but found disdain, 16-year-old Rodney Mc- versity. This practice is also fol- meat prices was ordered, to see paper today to publish tomorrow's that no charges had been brought Rae heard a judge yesterday sen- lowed in the Law School. whether packers and whole- issue. Last night's order from against them. tence him to life in prison for Lapham wa elected president of salers are complying with price Durrieu forced them to give up the September slaying of youth- the Wesleyan Guild, a Methodist ceilings. that plan. ful Joey Housey. youth organization, in the spring A spokesnan said "it won't be Several thousand turned out yes- Clay Says Send * * * of 1950,t many days" until price ceilings terday for the funeral of Roberto E oLONDON--A Laborite, a Liberal He will be allowed to apply for are ordered on livestock. Meat is Nunez, 36 years old, a newspaper Men to Europe and a Conservative peer each readmittance into the engineering under price controls, but live ani- hoist operator at the La Prensa ______called yesterday for the resigna- college next fall. Lapham, who mals aren't. Slaughterers have plant who was the victim of Tues-; WASHINGTON- P) --Gen. Lu- tion of ailing Foreign Secretary does not plan to make an issue of complained rising prices for live day's battle between the loyal em- DClay said yesterday that f Ernest Bevin to make way for a the question, hopes to enter the animals have caught them in a ployes and gangs of sluggers and cius D.a y saidysrda tatii man in good health. college then. , freeze.gunmen. ll da hJ~. dA 1 i tAG1IOA.. gundmen. - -- - - -- i dead and 15 injuries. Gangs of' gunmen and sluggers had, opposed them in their fight to work. * * * PROF. WESLEY 1. -MAURER, chairman of the department, said the incident was Peron-inspired. He pointed out that the La Prensa has long been a great bulwark for Constitutionalism and opponent of Peron. The paper's opposition to Peron--although forced into a mild tone-has precipitated this incident, he explained. "Peron has employed two effec- tive methods of clamping down on the La Prensa, the same tactics which brought other Argentinian newspapers. under control," Prof. Maurer continued. * * * HE EXPLAINED that the pro- government News Vendors Union had started a strike Jan. 26 after echoing demands for a 20 per cent share in advertising revenues. The pro-government Printers Union called a sympathy strike, and Tuesday's fracas was the result of some La Prensa em- ployees returning to work against the will of the unions. A second clamp on the La Prensa and other papers, according to Prof. Maurer, was a government decree imposing newsprint restric- tions on all Buenos Aires news- papers. :* * * PROF. MAURER considered the entire incident unfortunate and referred to the La Prensa as "one of the greatest newspapers in the world." Raymond Courage, Grad., Prof. Maurer's assistant and a journal- ism student who has studied Per- on's consistent intimidation of Ar- gentina's newspapers, also lashed out at the Argentinian leader. Courage indicated that "the out- look for the press in Argentina seems to be a continuation of ;the struggle by Peron for suppression of all criticism against the govern- ment." Guard Units f WASHINGTONL-(P)-Two more National Guard divisions conceiv- ably may have to be called into federal service this year, Gen. Law- ton Collins, Army chief of staff, said yesterday. Six divisions of the National Guard already are training in a.- tive service and two of them, the, 40th of California and the 45th of Oklahoma, leave for Japan next month for occupation and defense duties., Gen. Collins, appearing before the House Armed Services Com- mittee, said there are no present plans to summon additional, divi- sions, although smaller guard un- its may be activated. But he said there is a possibility two divisions may be called. He did not wish to discuss the reasons publicly but offered to go over the question privately with the committee. SL May Stiffen Election Rules A motion to stiffen election rules, with provision for severe disciplinary action for violations was heard and tabled by the Stu- dent Legislature last night. The motion will, if passed, limit election campa gn expenditures to $25 for each office, require an, itemized statements of expenses from each candidate, and forbid placing of campaign literature on trees, lamp posts, in classrooms, or other places prohibited by ex- isting regulations. Violators would be subject to disqualification or other disciplin- ary action by the Joint Judiciaryl Council. The Legislature also heard a report by Mary Lubeck, '51, stu- dent chairman of the Phoenix Project fund drive. Hits Peron's Army May' of La Prensa Call Up Two UN Forces Advance on WideFront Infantry Crosses Han; Hits Islan -TOKYO - () - United Stat Marines led a powerful attack t day by allied troops and plan along a 25-mile front in centr Korea against the heart of Ch nese Red defenses. Simultaneously, United Stat Third Division infantrymen c the western front crossed the Ha River in assault boats and a tacked a two-mile-long sand i land southeast of Red-held Seot Both actions met fierce ene resistance. * * * PRIMARY purpose of the b central front assault was to mal the Chinese either stand at fight or withdraw from the o sector best suited for enemy cou ter-offensive. Purpose of the Third Divisio action was to get troops acros the southern loop of the Han establish a bridgehead, the move tanks across the shallow northern loop of the river it flatland southeast of Seoul. Third Division soldiers ran in' hard-fighting Reds near ?.nche on the north side of the Islar and Chamsil near the southe shore. THE CENTRAL front assai gained ground despite bitter cf position. United States First Main Division troops, spearheadni the assault, quickly capture 600-foot "Clover Leaf Hill," a strategic height in the Hoeng. song area. A Marine spokesma said the attack was progressini on schedule. The drive by American, Brti! Commonwealth and South Kore troops was aimed at heavily mai ned Communist mountain po tions north of the road hub Hoengsong, AP Corresponde Stan Swinton reported from Uni ed States Eighth Army headqua ters. THE 25-MILE attack front e: tended generally eastward fro Hoengsong. The new attack amounted t. a westward swing of an alie punch which earlier in the weel crushed North Koreans aroun Pangnim, 24 miles southeast o Hoengsong. Clearing weather over the rai: soaked central front enabl1 planes to support the ,new Allil limited offensive. Other primary aims of the ne thrust were to cut enemy supp: lines north of Hoengsong to tx Chinese divisions and to im'pe: Hongchon. That Chinese asset bly center is 15 air miles nort west of Hoengsong. Hoengsong, a wrecked no-mar land, was not considered of a military value by the attackil allies. Pleven Cabin Calls It Quits PARIS- (A') - The coaliti government of Premier R e r Pleven, which has steered Fran through the first stages of r arming for- Western Europe, r signed last night because of deadlock in parliament o V E changes in the French electi' law, a domestic political issue. The cabinet had been in offi 10 days short' of eight monti It was" France's 16th since tl liberation of this nation from tl Germans. President Vincent Auriol relu tantly accepted the resignati after refusing it twice previous within 24 hours. He summon political leaders promptly for tal on the choice of a successor Pleven. Burglary Hearin, imu speea anea 1 iliil man a i building up Western European de- fenses, he's convinced that within a year Russian aggression will "seem unprofitable." To help build these defenses, Clay said, American troops must be sent abroad without any limi- tations on how many may go. Clay pis a formner governor of the United States Zone in Ger- many. Clay testified before the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees. These com- mittees are considering a resolu- tion by Senate Republican leader, Kenneth Wherry of Nebraska, n., 4 nP. -nnm.- r.Qnin a' Tn if TWO DIFFER ON ALMOST EVERY ISSUE: Reimann, Brown Clash Head-on in Hot Mayorality Race 1~n * * . . . By VERNON EMERSON With several issues already in the "hot" class, Ann Arbor's may- orality race seems destined to be a fast paced one. Democratic candidate Lewis C. Reimann and incumbent. William E. Brown, Jr., have squared off nynafa anh ha nnc _ra.In been an independent. One of his main arguments is that city Ann Arbor elections should be non- partisan. "Decisions in the city govern- ment are not made on a parti- san basis-there is no need for electing the government on such is wrong with the document. "There are some things wrong with the charter, of course, but there should not be any slap-dash revision of it." As for University payment for city services, both amen declared that the school owes some con- problem should be undertaken in a business-like manner so as not to endanger city-University relations and create a town and gown division," Reimann said. Streessing that at present there is no real feeling of controversy between the city and the Univer- sity, Brown agreed that coopera-