BLACK CAPS: HOW THEY GET THERE See Page 4 C, L Latest Deadline in the State i1 PARTLY CLOUDY, COOLER VOL. LXI, No. 140 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1951 SIX PA '4 I ,a I > * * * * New Engineering Head Appointed Prof. George G. Brown To Replace Retiring Dean Crawford July 1 Prof. George G. Brown, chairman of the chemical and metallurgi- cal engineering department, has been named dean of the engineering college to replace retiring Dean Ivan C. Crawford. Prof, Brown's appointment, effective July 1, 1951, was approved at the April 20-21 meeting of the Board of Regents. The announce- ment was delayed until the faculty could be informed at a special assembly late yesterday afternoon, 4 * * * * TEACHING ON the faculty since 1920, Prof. Brown was honored in 1947 when his title was changed to Edward DeMille Campbell Uni- versity Professor of Chemical Engineering. He is one of eight pro- fessors on the campus to be hon- Dorm itory Rates To * * Late Start, Inrase Many Ballo AirCollision In.Key West, Fatal to 43 KEY WEST--o)-A big Cuban airliner and- a small U.S. Navy plane collided with explosive fofce over Key West yesterday and spun into the sea, carrying 43 people to their deaths.' Water splashed 50 feet into the air as the transport, with.,34 pas-1 sengers and five crewmen, nosed- dived with a terrific bang into 20 feet of water. THE NAVY PLANE went to pieces as it fell and crashed into the ocean two miles west of the transport. It carried a four-man crew. Hundreds of sunbathers saw the planes meet at 4,000 feet altitudewith a noise that re- sembled an explosion. Eyewit- nesses at first believed that the Navy plane had blown up while alongside the liner. The four-engined transport, op- erated by Compania Cubana de Aviacion, left Miami for Havana at 11:03 a.m. (EST) bound for Havana with a passenger load that included 25 Americans. The col- lision occurred about 11:45 a.m. At 4 p.m., Lt. Clemons C. Pear- son, commander of the Coast Guard station here, said 19 bodies had been recovered but only nine identified. The condition of some of the bodies, he said, made iden- tification very difficult. ored when the Regents approved the establishment of distinguished professorships. As an outstanding chemical engineer, Prof. Brown is often called upon as an industrial and technical consultant. He spe- cializes in petroleum, fuels, fur- naces, liquid fuel utilization, gaseous explosives, distillation and thermodynamics, In 1949 he was made a director of the United States Atomic En- ergy Commission's Division of En- gineering. He was responsible for * * * 'Death and...' LITTLE ROCK - (?) - The Bureau of Internal Revenue made a $375 award to Louis J. Obserste, an employe here, for an economy suggestion. But when Obserste got his check, yesterday, it was $67.84 short. The Bureau withheld that much for income tax. Red 'Troops ForceINew UN Retreats TOKYO -(')-- Chinese Reds poured fresh troops into their Western Korea offensive todayand forced new Allied withdrawals to- ward Seoul along a 30-mile sector. The Communists captured Mun-? san, 21 miles northwest of Seoul. Munsan is 10 miles south of the 38th parellel on a main highway to Seoul. * *' * AN OVERRUN ALLIED unit was reported fighting its way out of a trap with the aid of tanks that made a rescue linkup. Details were lacking but a field dispatch report- ed the rescue effort was succeed- ing. The five-day-old Red offensive apparently had run out of steam in central Korea. And every- where the Reds were paying a terrific price. They lost 7,095 men or more in killed and wounded by ground ac- tion alone yesterday, and 1,000 or more were cut down by Allied planes - boosting the Communist casualties well past ,25,000 since the big offensive started Sunday.- REINFORCED REDS pounded their way seven miles south of the 38th parallel in the West. That put them within 20 miles of Seoul, war- ravaged capital already being de- serted by civilians. (Continued on. Page 2) I $40-50 Fee Hike Faced By Students Boost To Begin This Summer A forthcoming boost of 40 to 50 dollars a year in student dormi- tory rates was announced yester- day by Francis C. Shiel, manager of University Service Enterprises. Room and board charges in men's residence halls will be raised $50 a year, bringing the rates for double rooms to $616. Women students will pay $40 dol- lars a year more,sor a total of $626 for double rooms. THE INCREASE, averaging sev- en per cent per student, will be-' come effective with the start of the 1951 summer session. It was expected to meet climbing ex- penses of food served in dormitory dining, rooms and to increase its quality. An additional charge of $10 will be leveled on South Quad residents to cover costs of the telephones which will be In- stalled in every room The new rates were revealed by University officials yesterday aft- ernoon at a special meeting of student house presidents, who, were called together specifically to get a first hand briefing on the hike and the reasons for its adop- tion, * * * AT THE MEETING Shiel ex- plained how growing food costs necessitated the move. On the basis of reports from University food purchasers, he estimated that the residence halls would be forced to pay approximately 12 and one- half per cent over current prices. Shiel said the new room rates would both cover the percentage increase and enable the resi- (Continued on Page 2) DelayCouu Cutler, Wilcox Lead SL Victo By CHUCK ELLIOTT Countinggot off to a slows slast night, following two day. voting in the spring all-can elections that saw a total of f students troop to the polls. The turnout was good, consi ing the drop in enrollment, election officials calculated percentage of the electorate vc at 41 per cent. THE FIRST BALLOT in complicated Hare System of latest starts in the history of Student Legislature. Officials as a possible reason the unus ly large number of ballots tc handled. Two candidates went over quota of 275 on the first cou Doug Cutler, '52, with 280 vo and Leonard Wilcox, '52, w 278. Both are incumbent members; Wilcox having ser as vice-president last semesti Block voting appeared wi scattered and generally scarce night. Only a few groups of v L -Daily-Burt Sapowitch BALLOT COUNTERS-More than 30,000 ballots were being sorted before the counting began last night in the Union. Tallying began at 7 p.m. and lasted until early in the morning. Inserted are Doug Cutler, 'N2, left, and Leonard Wilcox, '52, the first two SL candidates to be declared elected. Cutler received 280 first place votes while Wilcox snagged 278. Both men are incumbents of the / Army Cuts June Draft To 20,000 WASHINGTON - (P) - T h e Army plans to cut its June draft call to 20,000 men, and to bring home upwards of 20,000 battle- tired veterans from Korea each month starting in May. In May and June, the Army ex-1 pects to recall 15,000 reserve offi- cers to active service. They will help train an army expected to total 1,552,000 men on June 30. At the same time a 6,468,206,- 000 emergency bill to pay the costs of the stepped-up war in Korea- and fuel the rearmament drive on other fronts-won approval by the House Appropriations Committee yesterday. The committee made the figures public as it stamped approval on theemergency funds bill, which includes $46,800,000 for a top se- cret "project X" which the Atomic Energy Commission is in a hurry to carry out. Meeting Called LIIry ta1 1 A 1 l PROF. GEORGE BROWN .. new dean the chemical engineering phases of the Commission's reactor de- velopment program. * * * . HE HAS also gainedworld-wide fame for his retrograde conden- sation process for separating oil and gas emitted from oil wells, and his discoveries in developing high octane gasoline. Prof. Brown was elected presi- dent of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers in 1945. Born in New York City on Sept. 3, 1896, Prof. Brown gained a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from New York Univer- sity in 1917 and the degree of chemical engineer from that in- stitution in 1924. *. * * HE JOINED the University fac- ulty as an instructor in chemical engineering. He received a Mas- ter of Science degree inEngineer- ing in 1922 and the Doctor of Phi- losophy degree in 1924. He became an assistant pro- (Continued on Page 2) The revised edition of the Stu- dent Legislature constitution, called the Student Government Constitution, was ratified by the campus yesterday. In favor of the new constitution were 4,524 voters, with 1,050 op- posed . 828 ballots were voided by students, many of whom left them blank, A LARGE number of candidates written on the blank ballots showed that these voters were not familiar with the new document and refused to vote either way for that reason. The referendum on lowering the legal voting age in Michi- gan should be reduced to 18- year-olds produced a surprising split decision; 1,185 voted a strong yes, 1,309 yes 251 had no opinion, 1,642 voted no and 1,348 a strong no. Wide disagreement concerning the University regulation against the selection of campus "queens" was revealed on the other referen- dum. The vote on the queens question was; 1,525 a strong yes in favor of the regulation, 1,185 yes, 688 had no opinion, 1,777 dis- approved and 1,719 strongly dis- approved of the regulation. Included in the new constitution are provisions for replacement of legislators forced to leave the SL, an article setting forth the judicial branches of SL, and a reorienta- tion of the philosophy behind the constitution, This new philosophy is indicated in the new name of the Constitu- tion, the "Student Government Constitution",tAlso the preamble has been altered to make the Con- stitution stand for a student gov- ernment already in progress, ra- ther than the "beginnings of stu- dent government" indicated in the old constitution. Smart Elected' Campus Approves Student' Government Constitution 1 a 7 1 7 I 1 1 i , k c i t t t legislature. 1953 i-Hop Parade Led By Tinkhain Dave Tinkham led the parade of, nine sophomores elected to next year's 1953 J-Hop Committee last night with 400 votes. The eight other members of the Committee in the order in which they were elected are: Beth Smi- lay, Susan Craig, Ruth Oldberg, Janet Gast, Margery Boos, Sally Gnau, Robert Steinberg and Louis Zako. For a while last night it looked as if the tabulation of the J-Hop ballots might all be in vain and that a re-vote might have to be taken. The name of candidate James Harsant was left off the original set of J-Hop ballots which the SL received from the printers. The SL obtained a new batch of ballots which included the names of all the candidates. However, in a mixup on Tues- day morning, the Harsant-less ballots were distributed to the voting booths. When the error was discovered about an hour later all the ballots were promp- ly picked up and the complete1 ballots passed out. Harsant received only a total of 86 votes in the two-day balloting which was 179 votes less than the lowest elected candidate received. There were 189 ballots used without Harsant's name. So that in order for Harsant to have been elected he would have had to re- ceive votes on all but 10 of these ballots. Tom Walsh, '51L, of the election committee, asserted that, because it would have been virtually im- possible for Harsant to have re- ceived 179 votes out of 189 ballots, he would not be justified in pro- testing his defeat. * * * judiciary Voids .1,000 Ballots in Union Election (*.-L - _ More than 1,000 ballots in the Union vice-president race were in- validated last night by Joint Ju- diciary in a controversial decision which drew at least one strong protest from the ranks of the Stu- dent Legislature. Blame for the voided ballots was! placed on the SL by John Ryder, '53L, Judiciary spokesman. Ryder charged "misunderstanding and mismanagement in the manning of election booths. " SL ELECTION policy had re- quired that the ballots be punch- ed to the left of the school in which the voters placed their mark, according to Ryder. Bal- lots thrown out of the contest were those on which counters detected no such punches. At the same time, Tom Walsh, '51L, veteran Student Legislator, maintained that the dispute was not under the Judiciary's juris- diction. "It is an SL policy mat- ter," Walsh said. "SL violated its own election rule causing a large- scale disenfranchisement which would call for an SL decision." In the less turbulent class of- ficer elections, Nancy Watkins, won the literary college senior class presidency by a wide mar- gin, rolling up 476 votes. Others elected to senior posts in the college were: Vice-presi- dent: Bob Leopold. Secretary: Perry Captures Athletic Positioni Bob Perry, '52E, student legisla- tor and East Quadder, won a stu- dent seat on the Board in Control of Intercollegiate Athletics with 1,649 vot'es-564 over his nearest competitor. Joan Beeman. Treasurer: Irv Stenn. IN THE engineering school, .the following were voted into senior class positions: President: Wil- * * * * * * SL, Race These candidates were eled ed to the Student Legislatui last night ip.the following ord er: Doug Cutler Len Wilcox Swede Lauritsen Pete Hal Dick Demmer Ole Haroldson The following candidates wer still in the running last nigh at 2 a.m.: Gerald Abramow Sondra Diamond Judy Gallup Jerry Gleich Robin Glover Dave Guttentag Pete Johnston Jean Belle Jones Phyllis Kaufman Ed -Kerr Jerry Kremer Diana Lahde Leah Marks Bob Neary Jules Perlberg Sue Popkin Larry Price Tony Ringold Ronald Seavoy Jim Turner Spider Webb Dot Wendler Rog Wilkins Howard Willens numbering more than 20 were ported during redistributions. A number of irregulariti were reported in the balloting 1 John Ryder, '53L, president the Men's Judiciary Coune whose organization was charge of policing the enti election procedure. Main amoz them was the huge vote inva dation in the Union vice-pres dential race, and an extra lar number of ballots voided for i correct marking in the SL coum ing proper. Two hundred twenty-seven I lots were declared invalid by Judiciary. According to Jim St rie, '51, legislator working on seventh election, the sum was cc siderably higher than usual, though there have always bee. certain number of invalid ball( 5. * * SPECTATORS BEGAN to crc the rope surrounding the count area shortly after 9 p.m. wI ballots were still being dumped of the big metal boxes, sorted, a shunted off to the other count -Daily-Burt Sapowitch NANCY WATKINS .. ,new president liam Hickman. Vice-president: David Barrett. Secretary: Duncan Erley. Treasurer: Charles Good. Thad Epps and Bob Erf were elected junior class president and secretary respectively in the en- gineering school. In the sopho- more class, Stephen Qua won the' presidency while George' Cotter l was elected secretary. Despite the electoral squabble in the Union vice-president battle, winners were announced as fol- lows: Literary college and grad- nate schools: Jim Witzler, '52. En- gineering and architecture schools: Sam Alfieri, '54A. Combined schools: Gene Mesh, '52BAd. Law school: James Callison, '53L. Med- ical school: John Finger, '54M. Dentistry school: Bill Daines, '53D. New, Aids for Incoming 'U' Students Revealed Plans for three "new student" days, early enrollment and off campus counseling have been revealed for this spring and summer by Director of Admissions Clyde Vroman to aid new and prospective students in gaining information about the University. The "new student" days, scheduled for May 12, 19 and 26 are geared to assist prospective students and parents in visiting the resi- dence halls and campus. They will also receive information and counseling about educational plans " STUDENT VOTES THRICE: SL Election Officials Prove Unwary and programs of study. FOR THE students and parents who won't be in Ann Arbor during The Navy ROTC will not be able to accept enrollments until the regular time in September. By VERN EMERSON Campus election officials ap- my faith in the honesty of the person's face," a woman official "I was pretty sure there was something funny," one said. "I