. r THE McCARRAN ACT REVIEWED Y itF46 ~aitr FAIR, WARM 4 See rage .4 Latest Deadline in the State VOL. LXII, No. 98 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1952 SIX PAGES I I I Senate OKs MeDonald T HeadRFC Approval'Ends Feud with HST WASHINGTON-(P-The Sen ate yesterday confirmed the nomi nation of Harry A. McDonald t k. head the. RFC over protests o both Republicans and Democrat of White House "pressure" ani "force." A roll call vote of 46 to 23 ende a week-long feud with Presiden r Truman, who once said he woulc run the agency-the Reconstruc tion Finance Corporation-him ' self if the Senate delayed actiot on McDonald much longer. MC DONALD IS now head o the Securities and Exchange com mission. He is a Republican fron Detroit. He plans to take offic at RFC late today. Thirty Democrats and 16 Re- publicans voted for McDonald, and seven Democrats and 16 Republicans were against him when the roll was called after two hours of debate. Senator Douglas (D-I1L.) pro- tested what he termed White House "pressure" to confirm Mc. Donald. He added: "I never believed in yielding al the point of a pistol." DOUGLAS questioned whethei McDonald "is strong enough o able enough" to withstand the pressures of a political influence ring which the Senator said "i still lurking in the shadows." The big lending agency was sharply criticized by a Senate committee last year. The Presi- dent then reorganized it, abol- Ishing its old Board of Direc- tors, and naming a single ad- ministrator, W. Stuart Syming- ton, since resigned. McDonald succeeds him. Douglas insisted he was not questioning McDonald's "honesty or e cter' In g4 n speech. "It is my suspicion," the Sena- tor said, "that if we do make him head of the RFC it will be run by the White House. I had hoped not to be forced to say that." HST To Rest Before '52 Campaign WASHINGTON - (A) - Presi- dent Truman is going to spend three weeks at a favorite vacation spot, Key West, Fla., before plung- ing into his 1952 campaigning. His plans are.to leave Washing- ton late next week for his eleventh visit to the Key West submarine station where he likes to swim and soak up sunshine. After three weeks' relaxation the President will be ready for a campaign schedule which may develop into something like the 31,500-mile tour he made in 1948 to win a full White House term. Whether the President runs again this year or not, political associates poiit out, he is commit- ted to a rigorous program of speech-making in behalf of his party and friends. They do not expect him to announce a decision on his own candidacy until after his return from Key West. The President is booked to ad- dress the $100-a-plate Jefferson- Jackson Day dinner here March 29. Ask Approval For Seaway WASHINGTON -- (P)-- Top- ranking Administration officials asked the Senate Foreign Rela- tions committee at a hearing yes- terday to approve the long-debat- *ed St. Lawrence Seaway. Meantime, two presidential as- pirants-Senator-Taft(R-Ohio) and Kefauver (D-Tenn.) --and seven other Senators joined Sena- tor Aiken (R-Vt.) in co-sponsoring a bill designed to finance the United States share of the project by sale of bonds to private in- dividuals. % Historic NATO Conference Ends Ministers Agree To Rearmament Of Germany, Western Defense LISBON, Portugal-()-The Atlantic Allies closed their historic- meeting here yesterday with agreements to rearm Germany and put a massive Western defense buildup in high gear. They invited Sir Oliver Franks, British ambassador to Washing- ton, to be NATO's administrative boss, with headquarters in aris. Foreign, defense and finance ministers of the 14-nation North Atlantic Treaty Organization Council mej for five days. They hailed their conference as the most successful of the nine the NATO council has held since it organization in 1949. * * * * THEY HAD BLUE-PRINTED a vast master plan for defending the West against Communist aggression and set about to reorganize 5the sprawling setup under a Probe Begun By Morris Of Incomes WASHINGTON --)A'-- Newbold Morris announced yesterday the first step in his hunt for corrup- tion in government will be a study of all outside income received ay senior Federal officials. As Morris prepared to dig into the sources of such income, the Senate Judiciary committee voted unanimously against giving him power to grant immunity from proseution to witnesses who might otherwise refuse to testify on grounds of self-incrimination. * *, , THIS POWER, .together with authority to subpoena witnesses and documents, was requested for Morris by President Truman, who says he wants Morris to have a fre hand in searching out any of- ficial wrongdoing. The Administration's chief cleanup investigator disclosed that a questionnaire is about ready for distributio~ n tohe higher echelons of government service to obtain full details of all income received by the of- ficials from private sources. Presumably anyone who refused to fill out the questionnaire would be subject to possible' discharge. Morris said he would fill one out himself, and that he would send another to Attorney General M- Grath, under whom he is a special assistant. Rank and file givernment work- ers will not be required to fill out the income questionnaire. Morris said a list of those to be question- ed is being worked out with the Civil Service Commission. Italy Accused Of BreakingTreaty LONDON-(A')-Russia accused Italy last night of violating its 1947 Peace Treaty and rejccred Italian *complaints that Russia balked Italy's admission to the United Nations. A Soviet note to Italy, broad- cast by Moscow radio, was beard here. The xLote said Italy will not be axle "tg evade responsibility for tie conceouences." streamlined non-military head- quarters in Paris to work at the side of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhow- er's Supreme Military Command. The ministers agreed to spread a network of some 200 jet fight- ers and atom bomber bases along the 2,000-mile front fac- ing the iron curtain to the east. Gen. Eisenhower is to get 40 divisions and 4,000 aircraft by the end of this year and double that in two years. They gave the green light to the formation of a six-nation Europe- an Defense Community (EDC) which would put west German troops in a one-uniform army at the side of those from France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy and uxembourg. * * * THE MINISTERS telephoned an invitation to Franks in Washing- ton to become NATO Secretary- General, boss of an organization drawn along the otitlines of the United Nations, headed by Secre- tary General Trygve Lie. Franks asked for two days to consider whether he will accept. The most immediate action resulting from the Lisbon deci- sions wil be to start work on half a billion dollars worth of "infra- structure," the NATO word for airfields, communications and headquarter4 needed to back up their armies. For this and for the other cosys of insuring the western world of safety from Communist attack; some 400 million taxpayers in the 14 member nations will have to d~g deep into their pockets. AIM Begins Reorganizing Campaign Fails To Achieve Election Quorum By SID KLAUS A reorganization of the falter- ing Association of Independent Men was begun last night follow- ing the group's second unsicess- ful attempt in two weeks to -at- tract enough representatives at a meeting to elect a new president. Two infdrmal committees were named by AIM's only remaining officer, vice-president Gene Moss- ner '52, to aid in the reorganiza- tion. ** * ONE COMMITTEE, under Sam Alfieri, '54, will attempt to estab- lish and define the purposes of AIM. The other, headed by Bert Braun, '54, wil try to revise the AIM constitution. Only 10 of the 17 houses now active in AIM sent representa- tives to yesterday's meeting. At least 12 houses (two-thirs of those on the active listi would have had to have been represented to form a quorum. (Last semester 21 houses were active in AIM, but five were dropped this semester for failing to have a representatives at three consecutive meetings.) .VIOSSNER became the only of- ficer of the five-man AIM cabinet following the resignation last night of the treasurer and the corresponding secretary. The presi- dent and recording secretary elected last semester are now scholastically ineligible. The treasurer Bob Reardon an- nounced he was resigning his post to join a fraternity. * * *. THE DISCUSSION at thb in- formal meeting last night centered around AIM's place on the Uni- versity campus. Former president Dave Ponitz, '52, said the group should continue in order tb act as the voice of the independent stig- dent. Another member claimed that the quadrangle governments were taking over AIM's function and drawing the active indepen- dents away from the Associa- tion. Others suggested that the group finl some project to work on ni an effort to attract members. When the reorganization com- mittees were being formed, only seven of the 13 representatives present at the meeting volunteered for committee work. The committee on AIM purposes will meet at 4 p.m. tomorrow in the' AIM office, in the Union. The constitutional revision committee will meet at 4 .pm. Thursday, also in the AIM office. Ruthven Starts New Class In Administration Former president of the Univer- sity Alexander Ruthven is filling a new role on campus, this time behind the rostrum. Yesterday from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., he taught his first course in university management to a class of 24 college presidents, deans and officials from both this university and o t h e r s. Among the colleges represented were Olivet, the Detroit School of Technology, Hillsdale, Wayne, Michigan State Normal and Mich- igan State College. The course is an attempt at the analysis and evaluation of observable trends in education -and an attempt to draw pat- terns for the future develop- ment of institutions of higher learning. It is planned for the adminis- trators of smaller schools, based on the assumption that these should lead in social and educa- tional trends, according to Mrs. Elsa A. Fisher, supervisor of the extension program for this area. Hockey Trip A limited number of tickets for the Wolverine Club spon- sored trip to the Michigan- Michigan State hockey game Friday will be on sale from 1 #n .- - n -m nA -v tarnic House Detroit Red Investigation * . . . . . * . . HEARINGS BEGIN-A large crowd formed early yesterday, with many vieing for the few choice seats available in the Federal Court where the House Un-American Investigating Committee is prob- ing Communist activities among auto workers in Detroit. U.S. Accused of Stalling ByRed China Premier MUNSAN, Korea, Tuesday, Feb. 26 (IP)-The Communists today rejected an Allied compromise plan which would drop Soviet Russia and Norway from the proposed list of six neutral observers of a Korean armistice. The Allies had objected to Red nominations of Russia. They of- fered yesterday to drop Norway if the Communists would withdraw their nomination of Russia. ax : r f Group Launches . s s Sues Talks To Connection With Unions ProbedFirst Rayburn Video Ban Criticized DETROIT-(R)-Without bene- fit of television, the House Un- American Activities Committee opened its "Communism-in-Mich- igan" hearing before a packed house here yesterday. Outside the Federal Building, site of the hearing, pickets march- ed in a demonstration against the committee's presence, but other- wise the occasion was quiet and orderly. I * , * * IF THERE was any explosive feeling, it was in the attitude of committee members over Speaker Sam Rayburn's ban from Wash- ington on televising the session. The two Republican minority members of the five-man sub- committee, Reps. Jackson of California and Potter of Michi- gan, prgtested vigorously. A federal judge's court room, filled with nearly 100 spectators, pending witnesses and others, heard a former undercover FBI operator testify of widespread Communist Party attempts at or- ganization in industrial Detroit from 1943 to 1947. THE WITNESS was Richard Franklin O'Hair, one-tim private detective in New York who was engaged p er 18B to spy on h, Comnmuist Party in Detroit. Naming at least three score individuals, O'Hair told of party organization among workers in automobile plants. ' O'Hair said he was recruited in- to the Party formally by one Har- ry Glassgold at an Earl Browder rally in Detroit's Graystone Ball- room, a dance hall on Woodward Ave., not far from downtown. He said Glassgold once had told him of seeing Browder in a cafe in New York City nd had re- ferred to the former arty boss as a "wonderful man." FOLLOWING the testimony, the Committee launched a search for a Detroit Public Schools art teach- er whom O'Hair named as a local Communist Party official. The FB spy identified her as Eleanor Laf- frey Cook Macki, allegedly mem- bership director of the Midtown Communist Party Club with which O'Hair was affiliated. The Detroit Board of Education said a Mrs. Eleanor Laffrey Cook has been employed in the public schools as an art teacher since 1929. Meanwhile,. Rep. Potter said investigators for the Committee have been unable to locate Wil- liam Glenn, the Grand Rapids factory worker who went to Mos- cow last year and was fired. "We don't know where he is, Potter told a reporter, "but we're looking for him and getting out a warrant-subpoena for him to be served by the Marshal at Grand Rapids if he 'shows up." Glenn was among a group of workers invited to Moscow after a world labor meeting in Europe last year. When he returned his employer told him his job was no longer available. Her appealed to the CIO United Auto Workers, of which he is a member, and the union insisted he be put back to work under their contract with the company. The case still is in the process of ad- judication. Also subpoenaed by the commit- tee are two Wayne University Stu- dents, who made a vain attempt last week to get the student coun- cil to pass a resolution condemn- ing the inquiry. Students Honored At SRABanquet Al Friedma.52n ' Pre.of Hillel WITNESS O'HAIR Open Saturday CAIRO -- (1P- - Premier Aly Maher Pasha said last night Egypt and Britain wil ones talks Satur- day on the thorny Suez Canal and Sudan issues. But, he warned, if his govern- ment does not get what it wants, it will join theEgyptian people in their "struggle." A B:;tish Embassy; spokesman said th^ Premier had invited Am- bmsa cor Sir Ralph Sti enson to meet Y.Im. Aly Maher was named Premier last Jan. 27 after bloody anti- British riots in , Cairo. He has taken a more conciliatory attitude than his predeccesor. The current crisis broke out last October after Egypt repudiated its 1936 treaty with Britain, and demanded that British troops get out of the 6uEz Canai and recognize King Far,,;k as ruler of the Sudan. A CHINESE SPOKESMAN Allied negotiators today told JUST AIN'T TRUE: Rumors of Large Scale Failures Denied by 'UT Bids Open For Cooley Construction By MARGE SHEPHERD The University will submit plans and specifications for the $850,000 Cooley Memorial Laboratory to in- terested construction companies this week. Bids for the building, which is the first scheduled for construc- tion in the new 267-acre North Campus across the Huron River, must be received by 'March 18, University officials said. * * * AUTHORIZATION to begin construction of the laboratory was granted last month from the U.S. Office of Education in Washing- ton, which handles all requests made by institutions of higher education to the National Produc- tion Authority. With the authorization came permission to acquire the neces- sary amounts of steel, copper and brass during the second, third and fourth quarters of 1952. Funds for the building have been provided by donations for a memorial to Mortimer E. Cooley, dean of the Engineering College from 1903 to 1928, and by the En- gineering Research Institute. * * * NOW LOCATED in the East En- gineering Bldg., the Institute will be moved to the new building upon completion. Designed by L. T. Gabler of Detroit, the Laboratory will be built of reenforced con- crete and is of modern design. Construction is expected to begin in April or May. Anronriation of funds for at the truce talks in Panmunjom the attempt to exclude Russia was without "tenable reasons." Red China's premier accused the United States yesterday of stalling the truce talks while Icarrying out germ warfare in an ^ ttempt to prolong the war. The United Nations command trok no immediate cognizance of the charge broadcast by the Pei- ping radio in the name of Chou En-Lai, Red premier and foreign minsi er. The Reds have made the bac- teriological warfare complaint per- iodically in the past when truce talks faced an impasse, but never before have linked the two and never have made the accusation at such a high level. The Allies al- ways have scoffed at the charge as fanciful. * * * CHOU' .broadcast statemert comcided .with an Allied offer to drop Norway as a neutral truce inspector if the Reds would with- draw their nomination of Russia. Meanwhile on the central Kor- ean front Allied mortar fire broke ue a Communist assault last night. Three Chinese groups harried an Allied patrol for 22 hours before tney viere driven off. Disease Halts Meat Imports From Canada WASHINGTON - (IP) - The United States yesterday halted im- ports of virtually al livestock and meats from Canada because of an outbreak of foot-and-mouth di- sease in Saskatchewan. The Canadian Department of Agriculture announced in Ottawa that infected herds would be rounded up and destroyed'to wipe out the disease. The disease is easily spread and is the dread of. all livestock men. Inspectors all along the U.S.- Canadian border were ordered to stop all shipments from Canada of cattle, sheep, goats, and hogs, as well as fresh and frozen meats from those animals. In Canada officials planned to ask the United States to ease re- strictions, but "there was doubt they would succeed. Prime Minister Louis St. Laur- ent called an emergency meeting of the-cabinet. By CRAWFORD YOUNG The University did not flunk out 2,000 students last semester. The University's academic standing has not fallen to a point where wholesale scholastic dismis- sals are necessary to salvage a tar- nished reputation. THESE popular campus rumors, variously attributed to deans, aca- demic counselors and administra- tion clerks "who had mailed out the notification ' slips," were de- bunked yesterday by official Uni- versity figures on failures in the literary college - which accounts for the vast majority of dismissals. Only five per cent of the 1,248 freshmen iii the literary college avnnd.A yhe .v - . _- -. r THE ENGINEERING college likewise reported flunking figures which showed no signs of abnor- mality. Dean George Granger Brown indicated that there was a slight increase, but it was a "nor- mal fluctuation" rather than a sig- nificant trend. As a rule, five to six per cent are putronethe "home list," but some are later reinstated. This time the ratio went up to be- tween seven and eight per cent, although figures are still incom- plete, according to Dean Brown. The other 13 smaller schools of the University rarely provide many academic dismissals, and there was nothing to indicate that this semester was any different. Thc; nrigin of h+ mn cis rm+- PHILADELPHIA BOUND: 'U' Symphony To Give 'Annual Concert at Hill The University Symphony Band' with saxophonist Sigurd Rascher as featured soloist will give its an- nual concert at 8:30 p.m. today in Hill Auditorium. Although the band's concerts are usually free to the public, ad- mission will be charged this year and all proceeds put toward the trip to Philadelphia which the band will make next month. D E il T nPierTwl'n hi, Wmlli, n 1n_ cludes the first half of the pro- gram. During the second part of the concert Rascher will hold thej spotlight with his "Introductionj and Samba," written especially for him to demonstrate the four octave range he can get from the saxophone. The band's part of the program continues with "Toccata and Fuone in n urinon" h Bah .er..