CITY EDITOR'S SCRATCH PAD See Page 4 wan DaitR CLOUDY, COLDER Latest Deadline in the State VOL. LXI, No. 105 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN WEDNESDAY, MARCH t, 1951 r SIX PAGES I * * Yanks Senate Fight Develops on Army Size *C Cross * * Han; t * + s * Vote Today on InductionCeiling WASHINGTON - (P) - Sena- tors;putron a bitter fight yester- day over proposals to clamp a ceiling of 3,500,000 to 4,000,000 on . the nation's armed manpower. They agreed finally to vote on the question this afternoon. * * * FOR A TIME there appeared a prospect that the Democratic and Republican leadership might get together on a compromise some- where between those figures. Some of the head men hoped by that means to head off furtherI talk on the issue which unexpec- tedly held up progress on the bill for 18-year-old draft and a sys- tem of universal military training.; .Red Guns Blast Way for U) River Thru N. Korean Cori Cuts Allied Lini TOKYO -(W) - Allied infan today crossed the Han River e of Red-held Seoul but enemy fo es loosed an attack in east-cent Korea which may mark the bei ning of an expected Red count offensive. The Han crossings were mr at two points east of Seoul ii flanking move against that anci Koreai capital. The crossing, achieved after tillery pounded Chinese Reds the north bank, broke the quiet the long dormant western fr The attack opened at 6:15 ami Drive *pn* Opens 1 An Editorial ... The Student Affairs Committee is to be congratulated on its passage of a regulation requiring all campus organiza- tions to remove discriminatory clauses fromtheir constitutions by 1956. By taking this action, the Student Affairs Commit- tee upheld a principle which lies at the very foundation of a democratic society-the principle that all men should. be accepted as equals regardless of their race or creed. Many objections to this particular regulation have been raised. But the importance of this basic democratic principle outweighed all the objections to the proposal. It was for this reason that members of the SAC voted for the resolution. 4' ' * * ' fl h *thSA We believe that the decision of the SAC was a wise one. Assuming an intelligent interpretation of the provisions of the regulation, the University community will be benefited by this action during forthcoming years. -The Senior Editors 95 PERCENT TAKEN IN: IFC .Leaders Rejoice Over Big Pledge Total Motion Passed by One VoteMargin Will Force Fraternities To Oust Discriminatory Clauses by 1956 By JIM BROWN By an extremely narrow seven to six margin,-the Student Affairs Committee yesterday voted to require all campus organizations to re- move discriminatory clauses from their constitutions by 1956 or be denied official University recognition. The momentous action, which needs only the approval of the President of the University to become effective, culminated more than two years of effort and agitation by a host of campus groups and stu- dent leaders for a ruling which would force local fraternities to get rid of their controversial bias clauses. * * * ' * * * -AP News Photo FRONT LINE FIRST AID-A Marine scout, shot in the bead by machinegun fire, is attended by two corpsmen near Hoensong. Government, Labor Break ShowsSigns of Settlement 4 I r Te aSenate finally rcessed By The Associated Press Labor Policy Committee gave this the amendment by Senator Organized labor's break with unofficial outline of the terms: the menmentby enatr ,the government's mobilization Morse (R-Ore) for a 3,500.000- program showed some signs of The major requirement is that man limit on the cynbined .hlgashd. a new wage board of 18 members: strength of the Army, Air Force, healing last night. .be set up with power to handle Navy and Marines. They have But across the breach, union disputes. had no ceiling since the August chiefs traded hot words with mo- flurry of defense legislation aft- bilization chief Charles E. Wilson.r r talks. Union leaders met with Morse first proposed a limit of Economic Stabilizer Eric John- 3,000,000, then went to 3,100,000 ston for the first time since they: and finally 3,500,000, the figure pulled out of the mobilization pro- President Truman uses in talk gram last week. They said later about plans. they were hopeful at least part,1 * *of their differences with the gov- SENATOR CAPEHART (R- ernment, could be settled. Ind) then proposed 4,000,000. He In Florida, Wilson flew to see withdrew that proposal when the President Truman, who is semi- WASHINGTON-UP)-The gov- voting agreement was reached, vacationing at Key West. Wil- ernment announced yesterday all, but said he will reoffer it separ- son said later that' "nothing and new purchases of tin for the na- ately later if Morse's amendment nobody" must interfere with the tional stockpile will be suspended loses. country's buildup of military immediately. strength. And he said neither he Suspension of the purchases for The sharp debate closed out .nor the President knew what "all the stockpile had been recoi- for the night with a comment the shooting" by labor leaders is, mended by the Senate Prepared- from chairman Russell, (D-Ga) about.- ness Subcommittee until Britain _. of the Armed Services Commit- tee that if war comes it will start with atomic attack in which "this capital city will be the prime objective of an ag- gressor." He questioned how Congress could be convened to lift a nili- tary manpower ceiling if that happened. The subject of a manpower limit came up shortly after the Senate by a 77-14 vote had turned down a proposal by Morse to cut all the services down to the three- year enlistment term which is the army's minimum for volunteers. Morse accused the Air Force, Navy and Marines of "stockpiling" manpower at the Army's expense by high pressuring youths to en- list for longer terms in order to avoid ground forces duty. Organized labor was reported to have agreed on a set of terms under which it would reenter the! government's wage stabilization program., A leading figure in the United Local Group outlines- Plan To Aid McGee, The Student Committee to save Willie McGee organized a. full- scale program last night to gain increased support for its move- ment, after launching its initial leaflet distribution campaign yes- terday afternoon. Included in the Committee's program are plans for a "monster rally" here next week at which the wife of the Mississippi Negro, sentenced to die on March 20 aft- er a series of appeals on his con- viction for criminal assault had failed, would speak. THE EXACT DATE and place of the rally are not yet definite. Myron Wahls, chairman of the Committee said he, was going to Detroit today to consult with members of the Civil Rights Con- gress which is sponsoring a tour by Mrs. McGee, and to make final arrangements with them for the rally. The Committee is also form- ing a speakers' bureau which would have members of the Committee explain the facts of 41ha -,Vla oacP inm~mhrc'o AFTER GETTING to the north bank, the infantrymen moved across sandy flatlands against: moderate resistance. At theteastern end of the cen- tral front, the North Korean Sec- ond Corps unleashed a heavy as- sault against the South Korean Seventh Division. First reports' indicated a Red penetration. Allied officers told AP corres- pondent Tom Stone this blow, struck eight to 12 miles north- east of the allied-held highway town of Pangnim, might be the opening of a Red counter-offen- sive. However, it fell in a moun- tainous terrain unsuitable for any swift movements. One regiment of the South Kor- ean Seventh Division reported it was under attack at 6 a.m. by four Red regiments. West of the South Koreans, two American divisions-the seventh and second-have been cutting up North Korean units and chas- ing them deeper into the track- less mountains. THE SECOND DIVISION slog- ged forward yesterday more than a mile in a blizzard on the trail of casualty-riddled Korean Reds. The North Korean Second Corps which hit the South Korean Sev- enth Division this morning has been moving down for three days in support of the badly-mauled North Korean Third Corps: One aim of the attack might be to relieve pressure on the road junction town of Soksa, 15 air miles northeast of Pangnim. Fighting raged two miles south of Soksa, on a road leading to the east coast at Kangnung. Communist concentrations have suggested the Chinese are deter- mined to try again soon after two recent failures to score a break- through in central Korea. But to- day's attack was made more than 30 miles east of the Hoengsong area, where the Chinese have been massing. U.S. First Division Marines are pushing north of allied - won Hoengsong toward concentrations of the Chinese Third Field Army. An Eight Army communique to- day said the Marines advanced 1,000 to 2,000 yards yesterday across rugged mountain terrain. and other non-Communist coun- tries agreed to stop what the Sen- ators termed "gouging" of Ameri- can taxpayers by tin mine owners and speculators. Announcing the decision to stop new purchases, the General Serv- ices Administration said: "The policy is expected to con- tinue until the price of tin reaches a reasonable level." L *A * THE GOVERNMENT'S decision was announced by Jesse Larson, the General Services Administra- tor. While only stockpile purchas- es of tin will be suspended, he said purchases by the govern- ment for industrial use will be held to "the barest minimum." In a report made public over the weekend the Senate Prepared- ness Subcommittee, said the price of tin has gone up more than 150 per cent since just before Korea. The report said it would cost hundreds of millions of dollars more to achieve the stockpile goal at present prices than at prices prior to the Korean conflict. Fraternity leaders yesterday ex- pressed surprised optimism over the unexpectedly large percentage of rushees pledged to fraternities as a result of spring rushing. Three hundred seventy-five out of 393 rushees were pledged, a phenomenal 95 per cent, and also the highest spring pledge total since the war. * * * BY WAY OF COMPARISON, 331 out of 427 rushees pledged last spring. Last fall, there were about 600 rushees, of which approximate- ly 475 were pledged. These figures indicate that the usual ratio of pledges and rushees is far less than the 95 per cent which pledged this time. .record Vote Cast in Bus Ad Council Race Seven members were elected to the Business Administration Coun- cil yesterday after the largest turn- out to the polls ,in the council's history. The newly elected members are Eleanor Boja; Dan Duncansen; Jerry Good, 52BAd; Jack Hamer, 52BAd; Marilyn Matthews; Ann Patterson, 52BAd, and Joseph Yakes, Jr., Grad. The new members will assume office at a 1 p.m. meeting of the council tomorrow. They will hold office for a year. A total of 353 votes were cast in the semi-annual election. As this is close to 40% of the bus ad stu- dent body, it sets a new voting record. Bruce Sodde, '52, rushing chairman for the Inter-Frater- nity Council, explained this as a result of fraternties being more serious about rushing, and thus doing a better job of selling rushees on fraternities. He denied, however, that the war had had any influence on the large percentage taken. "The Korean conflict is a declining factor on campus. Everybody seems to have acclimated themselves to the situ- ation, and it is having less of an effect on their actions," he said. * * * ANOTHER unusual sideline on this semester's rushing was that 114 out of the 393 rushees, or al- most a third, registered for rushing after the first announced deadline for signing up on Feb. 17. Bob Vogt, '51, IFC president, attributed this largely to the confusion over whether men on academic probation could rush. About forty of these were finally permitted to rush, contrary to the originally announced policy, accounting for a good portion of the 114 in question. The 111'C leaders felt that the general tenor of rushing had sub- stantially improved this time. One fraternity, Sigma Alpha Ep- silon, was slapped with the fifty dollar fine which is automatically levied for any "dirty" rushing, while two others, Pi Lambda Phi and Zeta Beta Tau, were cleared of charges brought against them. Dr. Patterson Resigns; Joins OSUJ Faculty Dr. Ralph M. Patterson, a mem- ber of the Medical School faculty, has resigned to accept the chair- manship of the psychiatry depart- ment at Ohio State University. He will also become superinten- dent of the Health Center of the Ohio State Medical School. The appointment is effective April 1. Dr. Patterson explained that the Ohio State Health Center is a new unit of the School, similar to Uni- versity Hospital in function. Dr. Patterson has been on the THE VOTE ITSELF c a m e shortly before 6 p.m. as the deep-J ly moved SAC members were bringing to a close their second tense and drama-packed special session called to consider the res- olution. It was recommended by the Student Legislature several weeks ago. Earlier, several SAC members had sought vainly for a com- promise through which the ac-- tion might come from within the Inter-Fraternity Council it- self and it was only after a1 third recount that the resolu- tion was passed by a one vote margin. Although all of the SAC mem- bers agreed that it would be high- ly desirable if any action enforc- ing removal of the bias clausesI were to come from the affiliated1 groups themselves, a majority of1 the committee felt that the IFCi would not take such action undert its own power. IC officials, however, have the perogative of appealing the SAC's1 actionl to the President of the1 University. * * * IN ADDITION to setting the 1956 time limit, the new regula- tion stipulates that each organi-- zation affiliated with a national1 organization must petition for re- moval of t h e discriminatory clauses at its annual convention. If the group fails to comply with this stipulation it will be denied official recognition im- mediately. Strictly religious groups "whose primary functions are religious in nature" will be exempt from all of these requirements. * * * THE SAC ON the recommenda- tion of the Legislature, also left one small loophole for fraternities which find it impossible to push the removal of the discriminatory clauses through their national or- ganization by 1956. Such fraternities who can prove that there is a "substan- tial probability that all such discriminatory clauses will be removed in the near future" after the 1956 deadline, may be granted one year extensions by the SAC until the clauses are finally removed. In addition, if an organization is forced to become inactive be- cause of a national emergency of war, the length of the period of inactivity will be added to -the 1956 time limit. * * * THOSE SAC members who vot- ed against the regulation all agreed that the discriminatory clauses should be removed but felt that a compromise could be worked out with the IFC which would be less antagonistic to the affiliated groups. They also felt that it was un- fair for the University to deny recognition to a local fraternity which was unable to remove the bias clauses in' the face of pow- erful national and alumni or- ganizations. The majority of the committee, however, felt that the SL's recom- mendation that one year exten- sions be granted to groups which might have failed to remove the clauses by 1956 if they could show Long Contest Ends with' Bill Passage By CHUCK ELLIOTT The question of how to get rid of discriminatory clauses in fra- ternity constitutions has had a. long and turbulent history on this campus. Ever since the fall of 1948, when news of anti-fraternity dis- crimination action at Amherst College moved students here to think about the matter, there has been continuing ,discussion and legislation in the Student Legis- lature and other groups, ending in the plan passed yesterday by the Student Affairs Committee. IT BEGAN FORMALLY when the SL set up a committee to study ways to rid fraternity constitu- tions of restrictive clauses. John Ryder, '53L, SL vice president at that time, was appointed chair- man of this Committee on D*- crimination, containing represen- tatives of SL, the Inter-Fraternity Council, Panhel, the League, the Union, and other campus groups. In April, 1949, Ryder made the committee report to the leg- islature, a report that was to form the basis of the historic "Michigan Plan," and over con- siderable opposition from fra- ternity groups the SL passed the two resolutions growing out of the report. First, the Student Affairs com- mittee was asked to refuse recog- nition to any future organization which prohibited membership be- cause of race, religion or color. This, in effect, barred recognition of any new fraternities which had such discriminatory clauses. Second, the constitutions of all organizations were to be placed on file with the SAC. - These two resolutions, the core of the "Michigan Plan," passed the SAC early in May, 1949, by a one vote margin. It had been hotly debated on campus, the main point being that affiliates felt they should be allowed to treat the question among them- selves. THE "MICHIGAN PLAN," how- ever, did not affect groups already in existence, but the SL let con- sideration in this direction ride pending expected action by the Inter-Fraternity . Council. During the Fall of 1949, the IFC tried to reach agreement on steps to be made by local chapters in remov- ing the discriminatory clauses through national conventions. In December, 1949, the IFC Committee on Discrimination presented a program whose two points would have to be com- plied with by each house or recognition would cease. First, each house must write a letter to its national /organization pe- tioning for removal of the clause, and, second, must pre- sent a motion for the removal of the clause at the group's na- ational convention. But the IFC House President's World News Roundup By The Associated Press LAKE SUCCESS--.The United States, confronted with an appar- ent snub by Red China to UN peace feelers, was reported yes- terday to be renewing demands for action by a special UN com- mittee set up to study possible forms of punishment. * * * PARIS -- A controversy that has bogged down so many East- West meetings-how basic is- sues should be interpreted -- caused sharp clashes between 'SEEING THINGS' AT HILL: John Mason Brown To Speak Today S* * 4 John Mason Brown, critic, author and lecturer will speak at 8:30 p.m. today in Hill Auditorium. The lecture is the sixth in the 1950-51 series of the University Oratorical Association. Brown will For many years before the war Brown was a New York drama critic. But in 1942 he entered the Navy as a Lieutenant, and though he didn't know it then, his days as a newspaper critic were at an end. .. ..: :. k " ::.