.- Sir i4au :43Latt RIOT COOLER, SNOW See Page 4 Latest Deadline in the State 4. VOL. LXII, No. 120 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1952 SIX PAGES 4 3 S I * * Committee 3 L oRegents, Press Open Meeting Controversy Moves Towards Possible Compromise By CRAWFORD YOUNG The open meeting controversy moved towards a possible compro- mise yesterday, as the Regents agreed to negotiate further with the press. Representatives of the Michigan Press Association, which has been leading a drive to open the meetings of the Board of Regents and Michigan State College's State Board of Agriculture, discussed the problem With the Regents at a luncheon before the Board's March meeting. * * * * THE REPORTEDLY amicable discussions centered around the issue of admitting qualified reporters to the meetings as representa- tiveis of the public. i Satisfactory' progress was reported-and an MPA sub- committee prepared to meet fur- ther with the Regents to con- tinue the, discussions. The Regents were said to be in full accord with the principle that the public is entitled to full in- 4 formation regarding actions taken at the meetings. But it was point- ed out by some of the Regents that three-fourths of the debate at meetings dealt with material which it would not be "in the pub- lic interest" to have printed in newspapers while in the discussion stage. IT WAS emphasized by the Re- gents that at present all informa- tion is made public after action is taken. It was felt after the meeting that a compromise could be worked out -- probably through holding a press conference after each session. At Michigan State, where simi- lar negotiations have been under- way for a month, t has been re- ' ported that some such compro- mise settlement may be in sight. AFTER THE regular business 'meeting, which was, as per usual, closed, it was announced that a distinguished French composer, Darius Milhaud, will be at the University next year by virtue of being selected Oliver Ditson Fel- low for 1952. The traditional Ann Arbor Drama Season, featuring a se- ries of well-known plays and top actors every spring, has been taken over by the University, it was announced. Henceforth, the name will be "The University of Michigan Dra- ma Season." Previously, the dra- ma festival had been a community activity. s* * A TOTAL of $124,482.57 in gifts and grants was accepted by the Regents. The bulk of the money came from the Rockefeller Foundation of New York, which gave $84,- 650 for use by the Survey Re- search Center in two statistical studies. * Grants of $5,000 each were forthcoming from the Carnegie Corporation of New York for a Neal Eastern Studies summer fel- lowship and Parke Davis and Com- pany of Detroit for a tuberculosis immunization project under the direction of Prof. W. J. Nungester of the medical school. NINE FACULTY appointments were announced by the Regents. The literary college added three to its staff for next year. The speech department picked up two associate professors, Ed- gar E. Willis, from San Jose State College, and Edward Sta- sheff, television supervisor of station WNYE, New York. Reynolds McDonnell Denning will join the Department of Min- eralogy, after seven years on the faculty at Michigan Tech. * * * TWO FULL professors will join the business administration school next year. Frank P. Smith from the University of Rochester will be professor of finance and direc- tor of the Bureau of Business Re- search. Another new professor of finance will be George W. Wool- worth, returning from Dartmouth College after 22 years. He taught at the University from 1925 to 1930. The Law School named as professor S. Chesterfield Oppen- helm of George Washington University while the engineering college added a professor of elec. trical engineering from Cornell. Joseph G. Tarboux., Lester W. Anderson from Ari- zona State College will join the faculty of the education school as assistant professor. Dr. Henry Renfert, Jr., a re- search associate in the institute of Industrial Health, was named as- sistant professor of internal medi- cine. THE FOLLOWING eleven fac- ulty members were granted leaves by the Regents: Prof. Lewis W. Simes of the Law School, Prof. Catherine B. Heller of the architecture college, Prof. Konstantin Scharenberg of the medical school, Prof. W. E. Brit- ton of the English department, Prof. Walter W. J. Gores and Prof. Frederick C. O'Dell of the archi- tecture college, Prof. Leslie White and Prof. Mischa Titiev of the Anthropology department, Prof. Valentine B. Windt of the speech department, Prof. C. M. Sliepce- vich of the engineering college and Prof. Robert G. Rodkey of the business administration school. Prof. R. K. McAlpine and Prof. R. J. Carney of the bhemistry de- partment were allowed to retire a year early. Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri'Hit Property Loss Great; 200 Hurt LITTLE ROCK, Ark. --)- At least 113 persons were killed by tornadoes which cut a long swath through Arkansas and hit neighboring sections of Tennessee and Missouri. More than 200 others were in- jured. There was tremendous pro- perty damage. Ninety-nine were known dead in Arkansas alone in the worst disaster ever to strike the state. Eight were killed in Tennessee and six in Missouri. * * * ARKANSAS was raked by the whirling, powerful winds from one end of the state to the other. All told, about 25 towns and rural communities were hit by the twisters. They hurled houses off their foundations and tossed victims about like match sticks. The death-dealing winds hop- scotched across Arkansas from the southwest to the northeast, and hit in west Tennessee and south- east Missouri. HARDEST HIT was the area around Searcy, about 50 miles northeast of Little Rock. Orval Faubus, administrative assistant to Gov. Sid McMath, reported 26 persons had been killed in that area, and more than 100 injured. Reports of new disaster areas and additional dead came so fast it was difficult to keep the casual- ty counts up to date. The tornado reports started late in the after- noon and continued late into the night., Chinese Reds Aid Viet Mi, LovettCharges WASHINGTON--(A-Secretary of Defense Lovett testified yester- day that "some" Chinese Reds and "substantial quantities" of Chinese equipment have turned up in strategic Indo-China, where Communist-led troops are battl- ing the French. Some Congressmen and others gained the impression that Chi- nese Communist combat troops had gone into the fighting. But later high Pentagon officials said this wasn't so, so far as they knew. They said Lovett' meant Chinese arms supply officers and truck drivers. * * * LOVETT told the House Foreign Affairs Committee there was no indication that "substantial" num- bers of Chinese had crossed the border. But he said it was "always possible" that their entry could mean the same kind of buildup that preceded the first Chinese offensive in Korea last Novem- ber. Lovett's statement was made during a hearing on the $7,900,- 000,000 Foreign Aid program. The French mninistry for the Associated States of Indochina said in a statement issued in Paris: "We have received no information allowing us to suppose that Chi- nese troops have crossed the Indo- china border." The secretary devoted most of his testimony to a fresh appeal for approval of the full aid pro- gram. "Unless Congress can find soft spot§ in it," he said, "any cut would mean a decrease in our security. Hatcher To Speak At 'U' Convocation * H ouse 1 * Cuts llion Iudget by I/ M Athletic Prof its Drop In Past Year Board in Control Raps ACE Code 1= By TED PAPES Daily Sports Editor Michigan's athletic policies and activities were thrown open for public inspection yesterday when the Board in Control of Inter-col- legiate Athletics submitted its an- nual report to the University's Board of Regents. The comprehensive 37 - page statement was signed by Athletic Director H. O. Crisler and Marcus L. Plant, Secretary of the Board. It contained the following main points: I-A financial statement. re- vealing that net operaing reve- nue from the sports program for last year was $446,277.16, a 29.8 per cent decline from fig- ures of the previous fiscal year. 2-A review of Michigan's eligi- bility standards and their appli- cation. 3-A comparison of University sports policy with that outlined recently by the American Council on Education, and an indictment of the latter as inferior to regula- tions now in force in the Western Conference. NATIONWIDE concern over re- cent trends in inter-collegiate, ath- letics presumably precipitated the relatively long and detailed re-i port. The critical condition of amateur sports morality came to a head during.the past year in the -West Point "cribbing" scandal and the wave of "fixes" in college bas- ketball. The report opened with a brief statement of finances and revealed that once again foot- ball and hockey were the only varsity sports showing a profit from operations. Despite the fact that the Wol- erines turned in their first losing season on the gridiron in fifteen years, a margin of $662,502.96 was realized. That, plus a $4,761.71 profit turned in by Michigan's NCAA Champion hockey team, were the offsetting figures for de- ficits in every other varsity sport including basketball, baseball, track and swimming. * * * WITH FINANCIAL details out of the way, the report continued with an outline of varsity eligibil- ity regulations which had recent- ly been under fire from members of the faculty. It was pointed out that no double standard is in effect in cases of athletic eligibility as op- posed to eligibility for other cam- pus activities. Big Ten regula- See 'M' ATHLETIC, Page 2 Steel Battles WageJump NEW YORK-(A'P)-Mobilization Director Charles E. Wilson flew here yesterday as the steel in- dustry bristled angrily beneath a wage boost recommendation from the government. The industry did not flatly re- ject the Wage Stabilization Board's recommendations of Thursday for a 17% cent wage in- crease plus a union shop. But a nnresman for th in- By MARGE SHEPHERD The House, Ways and Means Committee yesterday reported out a slashed University operating budget of $16,936,650 for 1952-53. The recommendation was $1,- 500,000 less than the University's request of $18,575,000 and $214,000 below that of the state budget bureau. * * * "THE AMOUNT proposed is be- low that needed to support ade- quately the services of the Uni- versity," Vice-President Marvin L. Niehuss said in a statement. Ho expressed a hope that the amount will be revised before final pas- sage. This is the second blow to be dealt 'U' officials by the legisla- ture this week. Last Friday the Senate appropriations commit- tee knocked out a University de- ficiency request of $476,000 in reporting out an omnibus state def-iciency appropriation bill of $4,672,347. However, a $150,000 request for increased instructional facilities for the medical school, contingent on a fall entering freshman class of 200 or more, was left intact. A similar provision in the present 'budget appropriation resulted in a freshman, medical class of 204. * * * ND ACTION has yet been taken on the capital outlay budget re- quest of $5,385,000 which includes funds for new construction, mod- ernization and rehabiiltation of campus buildings. The proposed operating bud- get request, which is $3,730,000 over last year's figure was de- signed to make salary and wage adjustments, provide general operating and instructional sup- plies, staff increases and equip- ment replacement and to meet lncrea'sing costs. See FUNDS, Page 6 MacArthur's Backers Hint He Will Run By The Associated Press The political scene was full- of the customary names of Mac- Arthur, Taft and Warren yester- day as the "Wisconsin and New Jersey April primaries loomed on the horizon. Boosters of Gen. Dougla Mac- Arthur expressed new hope that he would run if offered the Re- publican Presidential nomination, and suggested that Senator Robert A. Taft take the No. 2 seat on the. General's bandwagon. * * -Daly-Auan ReUi ARTHUR BENFORD AND HIS TRUMPET * * * *I Trumpet Arthur Eugene Benford, his; trumpet and "Serenade in Blue," Thursday set off a chain reaction which resulted in more than seven hours of good-natured "rioting" that involved 2,000 University stu- dents.- Benford, who lives in Allen- Rumsey House, West Quad, ex- Triggers Trouble plained yesterday that he was just attempting to relax a bit when he began trumpeting after dinner. * * * BUT BENFORD'S serenade brought an answering trombone blast from the neighboring South Quad. Soon men from both the dorms were streaming down to World News By The Associated Press MJNSAN, Korea, Saturday, March 22-Communist truce negotia- tors toay produced new maps outlining in detail the areas around their ports of entry where neutral inspection teams can operate during a Korean armistice. But the Reds also explained their "compromise" for exchanging prisoners; the Allies said it didn't yield an inch on the Communist demand for forced repatriation. *I * * * SEOUL, Saturday, March 22-U.S. fighter-bombers lasted freight cars and buildings in the North Korean capital's port of Chinnampo yesterday and attacked Red front line positions. CORPUS CHRISTI-Ten Navy airmen were killed yesterday in the crash of a four-engine privateer patrol bomber. WASHINGTON-The government's cost-living index yester- day showed a drop of 0.6 per cent in February, for the first drop since June. * * * * HAVANA-Cuba's new revolutionary government turned back two Russian diplomatic couriers on their arrival here yesterday by plane from Mexico, it was learned from reliable sources. Madison St. and the evening's escapade, which was to touch every University housing unit on campus, had begun. The roving band of students fin- ally dispersed at 1:15 a.m. yester- day after they were thoroughly doused by rain and water from a fire hose wielded by Betsy Bar- bour residents. THE DRENCHING climaxed one of the most chaotic nights seen on campus in a long time, and left students talking of strange inci- dents.- One woman in Vaughan House reported that during a raid a man, grinning broadly, entered her room with suitcase Other stories and pictures' of the campus melee on pages 4 and 5. in hand. He announced he was the coed's new roommate and asked where he could "stow his things." In West Quad, during a coed counter-attack, a resident ad- visor, who is also an instructor, spied one of his women students parading through a third floor corridor. She greeted him by sticking out her tongue, then fled down the corridor. * * * JOHN CHAPPLE, Wisconsin publisher and National President of the Draft-MacArthur Move- ment, interpreted a new statement by MacArthur as meaning that the General "will accept the nomi- nation." But MacArthur, in a state- ment Thursday night, said there MUSIC FEATURED: Arts Festival To Present Second Program Today ------ SETS COUNTY RECORD: 'U' Blood Campaign Nets 1000 Pints was no nconsistency between his 1948 declaration that he would not shrink "from any public duty to which I might be called" and his present unwill- ingness to permit his name to be used in party primaries. / The second program of the 1952 Inter Arts Festival will be held at 8:30 p.m. today in Rackham As- sembly Hall. Beginning the program will be a Concerto for Chamber Orchestra, by Ed Chudacoff, Grad., and con- ducted by Richmond McCulver. Rolv Yttrehus' Violin Sonata, played by Unto Erkkila, violin; and Frederick Don Truesdell. pi- Grad., baritone. They will be ac- companied by Guinevere Dorn, '52M, piano. Sara Graf will read the poems of Anne Stevenson, '54M, Robert Rickert, '55M, Saul Gottlieb, '52, Donald Hope, Frank O'Hara and Kathleen Musser. Following the music and poetry, "Generation, Pro and Con," will hb discussemd hv a. nenl Prof Mar- The more than 1,000 pints of blood received during the two-week donation period of the University's all campus drive make this the largest single campaign in Wash- tenaw County, according to Mrs. Ethyl Atkinson, executive-secre- He added that although the drive is officially over any stu- dent or faculty member who has pledged to give blood but has not been able to donate and any others who have not yet signed a pledge card will still be able to narticinate. Red Cross, the state health de- partment and University officials. James H. Robertson, assistant dean of the literary college, has conducted the faculty and staff division of the drive, which has led the student division a close race. Meanwhile, a spokesman from the Taft headquarters said that the Senator from Ohio will ask formally that his name be with- drawn from the ballot for the April 15 Presidential Primary in New Jersey. Taft withdrew from the pri- mary Thursday, where he faced a