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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1951
Historic Old
Landmark
Given To 'U'
A century-old county landmark
has been turned over to the Uni-
versity to be used as a faculty
residence, President Ruthven an-
nounced yesterday.
The historic relic, built between
1841 and 1843, was donated by
Mrs. Katherine Dexter McCor-
mick, of Chicago, to be remodeled
into four separate apartments for
faculty use. Mrs. McCormick is a
granddaughter of Judge Samuel
W. Dexter, Washtenaw circuit
judge and one-time University
Regent.
The building, which is located
gdst outside of Dexter village, is
expected to be ready for occu-
pancy next fall.
Although the gift includes
funds which will be used to re-
model the interior of the struc-
ture, President Ruthven stressed
that the exterior of the 22-room
building will be preserved in keep-
i ng with its position as one of the
county's historical spots.
The colonial-style home, which
has sevred as a place of worship
as well as Dexter's first post-of-
fice, has been thoroughly photo-
graphed so that its architecture
and history may be recorded in
the Library of Congress.
Senate Asks
Testimony
From Young
WASHINGTON - ()- E. Merl
Young, who in 10 years rose from
a $1,080-a-year assistant messen-
ger boy to a $28,000-a-year execu-
tive, gets his chance today to say
whether he ever claimed he could
influence million-dollar govern-
.loans.
The Senate Banking subcommit-
tee yesterday ordered a full hear-
ing on charges of political influ-
ence in Reonstruction Finance
Corporation (RFC) loans.
Also due to testify today:
Young's accuser, Ross Bohannon
of Dallas, lawyer for the Texmass
Petroleum Co.
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ON FEB. 2 the subcommittee, in
a bitter report on the RFC en-
titled "Favoritism and Influence,"
had a special section set aside for
Texmass.
Young's price tag on his in-
fluence, according to Bohannon,
was $85,000.
Bohannon said he told RFC
Chairman Harley Hise about the
offer, that Hise said no such in-
fluence was needed and that
Young never was hired.
IN MAY, 1950, Texmass got a
$10,100,000 loan from RFC. The
company reorganized and went in-
to receivership after getting the
money.
Senator Fulbright (D-Ark.),
the subcommittee chairman, an-
nounced the plans for the hearing.
He said the subcommittee will
ask Young about reports that
his wife, a White House stenog-
rapher, wears a "beautiful white
mink or ermine coat."
Rep. Sutton (D-Tenn.) has said
that Mrs. Young was given the
coat-as "part of Merl's fee for
interceding with the RFC" in be-
half of a furrier.
Fubright said the subcommittee
also intends to look into huge RFC
loans to the Kaiser-Frazer Corp.,
and to see what connection RFC
Director Walter L. Dunham had
with officials of the firm.
Lecture Plans
To Be Made
B yUNESCO
A meeting of the United Na-
tions Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization will be;
held today at 7:30 p.m. in the
League to discuss plans for re-
organization of the group and the
sponsorship of lecture series.
The group plans to include Ma-
dame Pandit Nehru, India's dele-
gate to the United Nations in the
series, according to William
Grove, Spec. Prof. Manfred Ver-
non of the Poiltical Science De-
partment will speak at tonight's
meeting.
Grove emphasized that UNES-
CO has been one of the most con-
structive agencies of the UN. Its
purpose is to further the cause of
world peace through the inter-
change of ideas. Grove urged all
students who are interested in
furthering the ideals of the Uni-
ted Nations to attend the meet-
ing.
--Daily-Roger Reinke
LAY OF THE LAND--Surveying students have appeared on cam-
pus again, foretelling the advent of spring. Here Prof. Harold J.
McFarlan, of the engineering school, provides some tips for Bob
Redmon, '52E, as Clarence Donnor, '52E, signals to his partner
and John Frui, '51E takes notes.
NSA Travel Prospects
For Summer Excellent,
In spite of the tense world sit-
uation, the opportunities for stu-
dent travelabroad this summer
will be better than ever.
Unworried by possible competi-
tion from the all-expense tours
that the Army is offering, the Na-
tional Student Association is
planning a series of work, study
and travel projects.
THE NSA is offering a variety
of tours that may take students
through Western Europe, Latin
America, Japan, or the Philip-
pines.
Teen-Ager
Found Guilty
Of Murder
MT. CLEMENS -- (RF)-- Husky,
teen-aged Rodney McRae was
convicted yesterday of first de-
gree murder in the killing of
little Joey Housey.
Ro-dney, 16 years old, thus be-
came the youngest person in the
history of the Macomb County
circuit court and one of the
youngest in Michigan ever to be
found guilty of first degree mur-
der.
A JURY of six men and six wo-
men brought in the verdict after
just two hours and 45 minutes
of deliberation.
The accused youth, stolid and
sullen throughout the trial, only
gasped as the decision was an-
nounced.
Then he turned to George B.
Hubbard, his uncle and attorney,
and said a few words inaudible
to anyone else in the court. Hub-
bard dropped his head on his
folded arms for a few moments.
Rodney's school teacher moth-
er, Mrs. Josephine McRae, and
Mrs. Helen Housey, mother of the
eight-year-old slaying victim,
both burst into tears. The two
fathers comforted them.
Rodney must pay for the Sept.
9 killing by spending his life in
prison. Under Michigan law, a
first degree murder conviction
carries a mandatory sentence of
life imprisonment.
Some, known as "Hospitality
Tours" will provide an oppor-
tunity for students of limited
means to live for two weeks
with families in England, Hol-
land and Germany.
And for travelers in a hurry,
NSA's lightning tours will give
students a whirlwind tour through
six, eight or eleven nations.
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ANOTHER TYPE of tour will
allow students to study European
achievements in various special-
ized fields of knowledge such as
sociology, agriculture or journa-
lism. One of these is a special tour
through the world-renowned cul-
tural centers of Holland, France,
Germany and England.
There will also be work-camp
tours in many of the war de-
vastated countries outside of
the Iron Curtain.
"The NSA travel tours are pri-
marily aimed at providing Amer-
ican students with the opportun-
ity to meet foreigners and to
learn and discuss with them their
conceptions of life," according to
Lee Winneg, '51, manager of
NSA's Travel Bureau.
The Bureau, located at 122 S.
Forest, will be open from 3:-15 p.-
m. to 4:30 p.m. every Wednesday
and Thursday during the semester
and will have complete informa-
tion on all NSA summer travel
projects.
N6 Influenza
Increase Seen
Dr. Warren E. Forsythe, direc-
tor of the University Health Serv-
ice, said yesterday that there was
no unusual rise in the number of
cases of influenza reported to the
Health Service.
"Although there was a slight in-
crease Monday, yesterday pro-
duced only its usual number of
cases for this time of the year,"
he explained. "During the winter
months there is more of the dis-
ease around, and in view of the
reports from other parts of the
state, there is a possibility of an
outbreak here," he said.
The Health Service is continu-
ing to give free flu shots to stu-
dents in an attempt to prevent an
outbreak of the disease at the
University.
IFC Store
Will Return
Books Now
Students who failed to reclaim
their unsold books at the IFC Stu-
dent Book Exchange by the dead-
line last Thursday will still be able
to do so, Tony Palermo, '51, Book
Exchange manager, said yester-
day.
In about three weeks students
who for some reason or another.
feel they must have their books
back will receive them, Palermo
said.
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A MISUNDERSTANDING arose
over an article in The Daily, based
on information received from Pal-
ermo, stating that books would
also be returned last Friday.
However, the lease on Rm. 3G
of the Union, where the Exchange
was located, expired last Thurs-
day, necessitating the removal of
the unclaimed books to their stor-
age place in musty cartons in the
basement of the Administration
Building.
As there is a good deal of
trouble involved in getting in-
dividual books out of their off-
season quarters, the IFC is
waiting three weeks to give all
possible claims time to come in.
"We only want to do this once,"
Palermo explained.
But any bereaved owners who
urgently want their texts should
leave their name and receipt num-
ber in Rm. 3C of the Union, or
phone Chuck Good at 3-8591.
* * *
ACCORDING TO Palermo, the
Exchange has just finished its
most successful semester. A to-
tal of $3700 worth of business was
handled 1y the store, as compared
with the previous high figure of
$2600.
The Exchange, sponsored as
a non-profit enterprise by the
IFC, now has 1500 books left
over to start off with next fall.
Last term, the first time the
book store was able to keep
books over the semester, there
were only 500.
Since its reinstitution after the
war, it has been sponsored by
several groups, SL being the most
recent of IFC's predecessors. But
this was the first semester it was
a real success. "A permanent Stu-
dent Book Store may now become
a living reality," Palermo empha-
sized.
Sinai Given Post
Dr. Nathan Sinai, director of
the University Bureau of Public
Health and professor in the
School of Public Health, has been
named to the advisory panel on
public health administration of
the World Health Organization.
Election to Decide Three
SAME OLD THING-A group of University women gave the same old joke the same old twist Sun-
day when they dressed as men to rush a fraternity.
Proposed A
LANSING-(/P)-Michigan vot-j
ers will be asked to decide'on three'
proposed constitutional amend-
ments at the April 2 election.
They would provide:
1. Annual sessions of the legisla-
ture.
2. A $500' death benefit to the
nearest relative of Michigan ser-
vicemen who die during the Ko-'
rean war.
3. Immediate $3,000 annual pay
raises for six State Supreme Court
justices.
Bridge Playoffs
Slated forToday
The qualifying local playoffs
for the National Intercollegiate
Bridge Tournament will be held
at 7:30 p.m. today in the Union
ballroom.
Those qualifying for the tour-
nament 'will meet players from
other colleges in the next round
which is played by mail and be-
gins Saturday. The winners of
this round will receive trophies
and a free trip to Chicago where
they will meet the other mail
round victors. For the past two
years, University players have
reached the national finals each
time but they failed to capture
the top prize.
mendments
THE HOUSE ACTION followed
exactly the decisions of a Republi-
can caucus preceding the session.
The proposal for annual ses-
sions would supplant the present
constitutional provision calling
sessions every second year.
In practice the legislature has
met annually for many years, but
the even-numbered year sessions
have to be called as special ses-
sions by the governor and the
legislature is limited in special ses-
sions to consideration of only sub-
jects opened by the governor.
* * *
THE $500 death benefit would be
paid to Michigan residents who
died in service since the start of
the Korean war until the end of
the present emergency as deter-
mined by a legislative act.
The money for the payments
would come initially from $10,-
000,000 remaining from the
$235,000,000 bond issue floated
in 1946 to pay the World War II
veterans' bonus.,
Supreme Court Justices' salaries
were increased from $12,000 to
$15,000 a year in 1948, but under
the present constitution justices
can not receive the increase until
they are reelected. The six-year
terms of only two of the eight jus-
tices have expired since the in-
crease was approved, so only the
two, who were reelected, are en-
joying the pay raise.
Tydings Says
Opponent Won
Through 'Lies'
WASHINGTON -(P)-- Millard
Tydings, for 24 years a Democratic
senator from Maryland, said yes-
terday that "lies" beat him in the
last election.
But the man who defeated him,
Senator Butler (R-Md.), said Tyd-
ings is resorting to "reckless and
unjustified attacks upon me."
These two views were presented
to a Senate elections subcommit-
tee. It is studying the Maryland
election, won by Butler by 43,000
votes.
Tydings said he hopes the
committee will recommend crim-
inal libel action against those
who spread the "lies."
Butler said the investigation is
a "fishing expedition." He asked
what grounds the committee had
for continuing it since, he said, the
proper Maryland authorities had
certified his election.
TYDINGS BROUGHT IN a copy
of a four-page tabloid called "from
the record," which was circulated
during the campaign.
He said this "scurrilous litera-
ture" contained a "faked photo-
graph" showing him with Earl
Browder, former Communist Party
secretary.
Tydings said the tabloid was
printed on the presses of the Times
Herald "at about one half of the
real cost."
U' Bulletin
Gives Draft
Information
Draft-puzzled students will be
able to get many of the answers
to their questions from the latest
University publication, the Armed
Services Bulletin.
Prepared by Richard Correll,
director of the University's Armed
Services Information Center, the
11-page Bulletin is a concise com-
pilation of draft laws and enlist-
ment policies.
IT IS KEPT UP to date by ad-
ditions issued as soon as new reg-
ulations are announced.
The Bulletin has already been
distributed to University admin-
istrative units both on and off
campus and to all deans and
academic advisors.
Within the next few days copies
will also be sent to fraternities,
men's dorms and co-op houses.
INDIVIDUAL STUDENTS may
obtain a copy at the Center, Rm.
505 Administration Bldg., or at
the Office of Student Affairs, the
Union basement or the Informa-
tion Desk in the Administration
Bldg.
The Bulletin is part of a
three-pronged program t h e
Center has undertaken to ac-
curately inform students about
the Armed Services and the
draft.
Together with the Union it has
set up an information board in
the Union basement on which
new regulations are posted as
soon as they are issued.
The third phase of the program
will be initiated Sunday when the
Center will cooperate with The
Daily in publishing a question and
answer column on any phase of
draft or enlistment policies. All
students who desire information
on Selective Service or the Armed
Forces should send their questions
to The Daily.
Art Loan Prints
AvailableToday
Students who selected prints
from the Art Prints Loan Collec-
tion last week may pick them up
from 8 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m.
to 5 p.m. today, tomorrow and
Friday in Rm. 510 in the Admin-
istration Building.
In addition, prints which have
not been rented and prints which
were not in the League Ballroom
exhibition will be available to stu-
dents who desire a second print
or failed to select one previously.
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