PFFF 4f rAi zrn Da t t n 'U' SPEAKER'S BAN See Page 4 FAIR, WARMER Latest Deadline in the State VOL. LXII, No. 49 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1951 SIX PAGES Peace By Outlook New Rec - , - _ ..-- ----- -Daily-Bruce Knoll { LES MISERABLES-Caught by the camera are two University coeds making a futile attempt to escape from dormitory restrictions. TUNNEL TREK FOILED: Coeds Flee to Underworl By GAYLE GREENE Poking their way through the University's underground steam tunnels yesterday, two coeds spent several hours hunting for a secret door that would afford them un- noticed entrance and exit from their dormitory for future flights to freedom. Equipped with tennis racket, ukelele and suitcase the pair searched vainly and finally were Britain, Egypt Declare Truce At Ismailia CAIRO-(R)-The British Com- mand and Egyptian Government in the Suez Canal Zone declared a truce in Ismailia yesterday after a weekend battle there killed 1.5 British troops, Egyptian policemen and civilians. More than 30 persons were wounded. The Provincial Government agreed to disarm its police and the British promised to remove its re- maining military families as fast as possible from the bloody mid- way city on the Canal. Ismailia was the scene of the first outbreak of violence in mid- October when Egypt told the Bri- tish they must get out of the Canal Zone. Now it is reduced from its nor- mal 100,000 population to about 40,000 as a result of Egyptian families fleeing. The truce was arranged at a Canal station between Ismailia and Port Said "in the interests of public security," British Lt. Gen. Sir George Erskine told reporters at Ismailia. The Egyptian Ministry of the Interior in Cairo in a communique yesterday said Ismailia was "per- fectly calm" throughout the day. It said British forces were oc- cupying some streets but Egyptian police were "performing their du- ties as usual." It did not mention the truce terms. Egypt, in headlines and protests being prepared for circulation to governments over the world, ac- cused Britain of atrocities andj war-like actions in the Canal Zone. GrbsSlaves Once again the Pharoah has commanded his legions to cross the great desert and invade the land of the barbarians to pick Islaves for the Pharoah's court. I forced to return to the dorm in their puddle-soaked pajamas -- "back to the cell." * * * WITH THE tunnel trek, how- ever, they joined the ranks of fugi- tives from the police, lamp-blacked engineers and eager Romeos who have taken to the underground world beneath the campus. Even more desperate than the coeds were two Ann Arbor youths who two years ago sought refuge from the police in the tunnels. The boys, fleeing from the scene of a gas station rob- bery, were located by police in a passage under the Natural Sci- ence Building. According to Walter M. Roth, superintendent of the plant de- partment, the tunnels are general- ly quiet except for occasional visits from curious children, two fires which did cut off service, and the Athle-tes Jailed JIn Basketball jFix' Scandal By The Associated Press Five former basketball stars who were ipvolved in several "fixes" were sent to jail yesterday by an angry and stern judge who ignored the district attorney's mercy re- commendation. Judge Saul Streit brushed by a suggestion that the players had suffered enough and now deserve merely suspended sentences as he sent formner Long Island University star Sherman White to prison for one year. Connie Schaff of New York University and Ed Warner and Ed Roth of City College of New York were sentenced to six- months each. EX-LONG ISLAND player Eddie Gard was given an "indetermin- -ate" sentence which could be as much as three years. Gambler Salvatore Sollazzo was given eight to sixteen years in prison for spending $22,000 to bribe basketball stars parti- cipating in Madison Square Garden games. Sentences on nine other players indicted were suspended. Meanwhile, in Washington, sev- en college presidents agreed that "something has to be done" to remove whatever evils there are in the. intercollegiate sports program. The college presidents are mem- bers of a special committee set up by the American Council on Edu- cation-the first time in history such a high ranking group ever was named to look into sports. Eden Specks On annual initiation ceremonies of several engineering fraternities. *, * * ONE OF THESE, the Vulcans, annually leads its blindfolded and well-greased neophytes through the tunnels. Just as traditional as the Vul- can tunnel journey, are the tun- nel adventures of the "great lovers" of the campus. "Ever been in the underground tunnel?" asked he. "Why no," said she. Thus begins one of the many ro- mantic interludes of the under- ground passages. ACTUALLY, there is little ro- manticism in the dark dampness of the winding tunnel. Steam pipes and hot water ducts, as well as electrical con- duits and the wires of the tele- phone and clock system line the tunnel walls from South Quad- rangle to the University Hospi- tal. Although a single key will un- lock all doors entering the tunnel, it takes a separate key to open each individual building door. This prevents many more stu- dents from invading the lower re- gions, Roth said. It also prevents 't - kind of cheating which went on at Western Michigan College at Kalamazoo in 1943. USING THE tunnels, several of the students filched copies of a physics exam from the office of their physics instructor. Their nocturnal labors so tired them that the following day three fell asleep during the exam and of the rest, none did better than a low "C." Even in the underworld, crime doesn't pay. Deer Price By The Associated Press Eight deaths from gunfire was the human toll as Michigan's deer hunting season wound up its fifth day last night. Ten other hunters have died of heart attacks and at least 33 have been wounded by bullets. The kill is running from light to normal, and hunting condi- tions are improving, it was re- ported. SL Reports On Big Ten Conference By CRAWFORD YOUNG Student Legislature officials re- turned from a weekend Big Ten student government conference at East Lansing with a new self- confidence. The delegates reported that, in trading notes, it was discovered that the local set-up compared very favorably in almost all re- spects with the student govern- ments at other Big Ten colleges. THE BIGGEST morale-booster, according to delegation-chief and SL president Len Wilcox, was the somewhat surprising fact that last week's election turnout of ,500 was considered almost phenomenal by other delegations. It turned out that a vote of 38 per cent, which was disap- pointing to SL leaders, was the best in the Big Ten. At schools such as Purdue and Illinois, the turnout ranged around 10 per cent. The election figures seemed to have a direct correlation to the representation system' employed, Wilcox reported. At Purdue, where 8 per cent vote, there is a system of district representation. THE PRINCIPLE comparative weakness of SL was its shaky financial footing, he said. Most other Big Ten schools either have a student tax, or the prospect of getting one soon. However, along with increased financial support from the administrations often comes closer faculty supervision. Wilcox pointed out one apparent weakness of SL turned out to be relatively a strong point. Organi- zation, in theoretical terms, is far better elsewhere in the Big Ten. But speaking in functional terms, Wilcox felt SL worked as well as any. EQ To House SL MeetingTonight The first meeting of the new Student Legislature will be held at 7:15 p.m. today in the Anderson- Strauss dining room of the East Quadrangle. Arms Cut Plea .issued By Acheson PARIS--(AP)-Secretary of State Dean Acheson appealed yesterday to the world, and obviously to Jhe Soviet Union most of all, to accept Western disarmament proposals as a turning point on the road to peace. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky, who earlier had laughed scornfully at the propos- als, sat in poker-faced silence dur- ing the one hour and 20 minutes in which the Secretary patiently ex- plained the arms reduction plan to the 60-nation Political Com- mittee. After the committee ad- journed until today, Vishinsky left the room without saying whetier he had relented in any degree. He is expected to reply later this week. * t* * "I BELIEVE these proposals," Acheson said at the beginning of a detailed explanation of the Unit- ed States-British-French program "if accepted could and would pro- duce a turning point in history, a turning point at which the world could turn back from the tensions, the dangers which confront all of us in every country, could relax the effort toward armament which is going on all over the world and by doing so could find a way to solve some of the greatest ques- tions which divide East and West." A burst of applause rang out as Acheson sat back and listened to Jules Moch, France, also sup- port the plan. The proposals are contained in a resolution made public Sunday calling for a merger of the Atomic Energy Commission and the Com- mission for Conventional Arma- ments into a single 12-nation Dis- armament Commission, whose members would be the same as the membership of the 11-nation Se- curity Council plus Canada. Hatcher Fete Ducats Off eredt A total of 1000 tickets for the? inauguration of President Harlan H. Hatcher Nov. 27 in Hill Audi- torium are being made available to University students, beginning today. Students may pick up tickets at the information desk, first floor lobby of the Administration Bldg. All members of the University faculty are invited to participate in the processional and attend the in- augural ceremonies. Assembly for the processional will be at 2:15 p.m. in the Natural Science Bldg. There will be a reception in the Michigan League following the ceremony honoring the President and Mrs. Hatcher. -Daily-Malcolm Satz EARLY BIRD-Though Christmas is more than a month off the Ann Arbor Retail Merchants Association has started putting up street decorations along State St. Pictured is William S. Black adorning a lamp-post with yuletide trimmings. 'GAG RULE' OPPOSED: CCNVVY, California Bar Controlversial Speakers OnlTUBT~a ede r. BULLETIN TOKYO-(lP)-Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway yesterday said UN forces in Korea will continue to carry the fight to the enemy even though new proposals sub- mitted to the Reds in truce talks are accepted. the Reds held prior to the first talks on July 10. The Pyongyang broadcast list- ed these North Korean proposals to end the war: 1. Cessation of hostilities as the first step to achieve a peaceful settlement of the Korean question. 2. Acceptance of the "just and reasonable" proposals made by the North Korean and Chinese Red Army to withdraw each of the opposing forces two kilometers (1.24 miles) from the battle line and Pesta lish. h a bufhrfnn zn ,4,lou ed I rPpsa Pyongyang a _,_ Broadcast z Lists Terms Enemy Reverts To Old Demands By The Associated Press High level political maneuvers by the foreign ministers of North Korea and Communist China thoroughly confused the Korean armistice outlook yesterday while truce negotiators were in recess. Potentially the situation could result in a breakdown of the four- months old talks at a time when agreement had seemed closer than ever before. * * * THE IMPENDING Allied plan called for an armistice before Christmas. In effect, the North Korean and Chinese Foreign Ministers, in dove- tail statements, reverted to stands By HARLAND BRITZ Two controversial figures have been barred from speaking at two of the nation's largest universities. At City College of New York, the Student Council has called a Stu- dent-Faculty Committee's refusal to allow Paul Robeson the use of their Great Hall, an "abridgement of academic freedom." And far across the country at the University of California, the national chairman of the Inde- 'Ens ian Sale The '52 edition of the Michi- ganensian will be on sale from 8:30 a.m. to 4 pm. today in the Angell Hall lobby. Campus sales manager Dick Shephard, '54, said yesterday that the 'Ensian will only be available at its present price until December 21, when a 10% raise will go into effect. I BUT NOT LIKELY: Regents' Rule May Bar Senator Taft pendent Socialist League was re- l Witdawal of alle fused permission to debate there 3 Withdrawal of all foreign >today. troops from Korea. toda*.4. Severe punishment of those THE CALIFORNIA Dean of responsible for the atrocities com- Students, Hurford E. Stone, an- muted against Koreans opposmg nounced that Max Schachtman the prolongation of the Korean had been barred because official war and ganst peace-lovng University approval had not been obtained. MEANWHILE, on the fighting Schachtman was to have de- front, Communist forces, stung by bated with Prof. Francis Her- Allied line-straightening successes rick of Mills College, on the re- in the Pukhan River area, seized cent British elections. -He was the initiative last night and going to defend the policies of launched a series of medium at- the Labour Party. tacks and probes all across Korea. Onay one Red attack was sue- The Socialist League is listed as cessful. North Koreans won two subversive by the Attorney-Gen- hills along the east coast, south eral. Dean Stone claimed, "We of Kosong. (the Board of Regents) would not knowingly invite any officer of an organization declared to be subversive by an official govern- ment source to speak on campus." To Clarify ROBESON HAD been invited to speak on January 10 at the New Atrocity Tal s York campus by the college chap- ter of the Young Progressives of America. By The Associated Press Meanwhile, a student refer- The Defense Department dim endum at Ohio State University closed yesterday it has asked Gen. has indicated an overwhelming Matthew B. Ridgway for a more disapproval of the controversial specific "clarifying" statement on "gag rule" banning certain speak- the reported Communist slaughter ers from that campus. of some 5,500 American prisoners of war in Korea. The final tabulations showed High officials at the Pentagon 2,986 students voting against said they expect Gen. Ridgway's the rule and 637 approving, headquarters in Tokyo to issue a The ruling yesterday caused the new statement very soon, perhaps Midwestern Psychology Associa- within 24 hours. tion to Sunday, to cancel their scheduled convention at OSU. THESE officials said it should Prof. Calvin Hall of Western contain answers to certain spegific Reserve University said the 1,200- questions sent to the far. eastern member organization was unwill- commander in a series of earlier ing to seek the approval of Pres. The latest message to Gen. Howard Bevis before meeting. Ridgway was sent today after defense officials had digested the Po Still Flooding, Supreme Allied Commander's Nov. 18 statement. Detroit over 100 Over the weekend, Gen. Ridg- way expressed regret over the man- ner of timing of a report on the ROVIGO, Italy - (RP) - Heavy atrocities released to newsmen last rains pushed crests of the Po River Wednesday by Col. James M Han- By ALICE BOGDONOFF A Board of Regents' rule looms in the path of enthusiastic young Republicans who want to bring Sen. Robert A. Taft here to speak. The ruling, passed in 1949 as a modification of the previous ban on all political speeches, stipulates that a political speaker may not use University property to foster his own political purposes. His speech must be confined to the education of the student. But as Prof. Carl Brandt of the speech department and secretary of the Lecture Committee which passes on speakers, pointed out, "This is a difficult line to draw." * * * * PROF. BRANDT supported political speeeches as "an essence of education" but was careful to point out, "Hill Auditorium is large and convenient and there is danger of its being used as a sounding board. This might give the impression that the University is taking sides." Prof. Louis Eich, chairman of the committee, also agreed that political speakers such as Taft should be allowed to talk here but added that to balance the accounts, "the Democrats should bring somebody." The ruling has nothing to do with acused "spoon feeding" of the stu- dents, but is primarily concerned with the use of state property. ** * * WHEN ASKED if the property ruling harmonized with the educa- tional function of a university, Prof. Brandt pointed out that the committee has barred only three major speakers in 15 years. The men were Gerhard Eisler, Carl Marzani and Herbert Phillips-all avowed Communists. He termed the controversial Phillips' ban a "borderline case." Citing the recent Supreme Court decision upholding the conviction of 10 Communists in New York, Prof. Pollock upheld the Lecture Com- mittee rulings as following the example of the national government. "The concept of freedom of speech does not mean absolute free- dom," Prof. Pollock said. * * WHEN THE PROTEST by Ohio State faculty members against a speakers' ban was broached, Prof. Pollock asserted "we haven't had any problem like that of Ohio State." Prof. Eich refused to comment on OSU case on the ground I