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VO. LXII, No. 13
ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1952
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Fall Rushing
For Coeds OK'd
Dean Bacon Accepts Panhel Plan;
Informality in Rushing Stressed
By. MARY JANE MILLS
Dean of Women Deborah Bacon has approved a Panhellenic
Association plan to hold sorority rushing at the beginning of the fall
semester, replacing the present system of deferred rushing.
Rushing will begin on Saturday, Sept. 20 and continue through
Friday, Oct. 3 with registration to be -held on Thursday of orientation
week.
REASONS FOR INSTITUTING the new plan, according to Bev
Clarke, '52, Panhel president, was to allow incoming freshmen to
i rush without having to meet
Giant B-36
Cracks-Up,
15 Killed
Spokane, Wash. ()-A gian
10-engine B-36 bomber falterer
and fell on takeoff at Fairchil
Air Force base early yesterda
killing 15 of the 17 men aboard.
The huge craft, world's large
bomber, crashed through a fen
at the end of the runway and bur
into flames in a farmer's whe
field, leaving bits of wreckage i
its wake.
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SOMEHOW two men survived
They were seriously burned an
< suffered shock. They were unabe
to speak to investigators.
The B-36 hit with terrific
force and pieces fell off as it
bounced along the ground. I
stopped on the edge of the field
and burned fiercely.
"We were awakened by this av
ful crash and as we got out of be
all we could see was a big fire,
farmer Ernest Alf said.
"The crash made an awful ex.
plosion," Alf continued. "it lit u
the room like it was daylight. J
looked like it was only a bloc
away but it was a half mile."
WITHIN MINUTES, the B-3
with its huge swept-back wing wa
virtually a shell.
The 3% million dollar bomb.
er was taking off on a routine
training flight from Fairchild.
some 10 miles west of here.
Military policemen raced to th
scene and threw a guard around
the plane.
Fairchild said it couldn't con
firm Alf's report that the B-3
blew up. Air Force officials sai
they were unable to determine the
cause of the crash immediately
They said the plane got off the
ground but faltered and rippe
through the fence at 8:45 a.m
Young Wins
Owen Award
The Wendy Owen Memoria
Award has been presented to
Crawford Young, '53, Dean of Stu-
dents Erich A. Walter announced
yesterday.
Established through the estat
of former Daily Night Editor Wen-
dy Owen who died last summer
the award is given annually to a
Daily staff member for construc-
tive contribution to the campus
through his Daily work.
This year the award amounted
to $75. Selection is made by the
Daily senior editors, the dean of
students and the dean of women.
Young, a night editor, is from
Washington D. C. He was recently
elected vice-president of next
year's senior class and is a mem-
ber of Sphinx, junior men's hon-
orary society. He is affiliated with
Phi Gamma Delta fraternity.
Judge Forbids
Railroad Strike
CLEVELAND -(R)-- A Federal
judge yesterday forbade three
railroad unions to strike against
the Government, but said the
courts should not be used ."to im-
pel collective bargaining."
Spokesmen for the unions-
engineers, firement and conductors
said they would appeal the pre-
liminary injunction ordered by
JuLr ,Io 'w Vmih Ri Frn
scholastic standards.
However, rushees will have to
be scholastically eligible to go
through initiation proceedings.
Last year many pledges were
dropped because they failed to
maintain satisfactory averages,
Miss Clarke revealed.
Another reason given for the
new plan was to do away with
contact rules--a prohibition
against sorority women entering
dormitories until after rushing-
easing any existing pressure be-
tween independent and affiliated
women by getting rushing over
early.
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ACCORDING to the new plan,
all freshmen, transfer and upper-
class women will be eligible to
register for rushing next fall.
Freshmen women, however,
will still live in the dormitories
for their first year. Coeds
pledged in the fall will be initi-
ated the following semester pro-
viding they are scholastically
eligible.
Panhellenic recommended the
new system by a vote of 16 to 2
and added many new provisions
to pl.ce rushing on a more infor-
mal basis, according r to Miss
Clarke.
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UNDER THE new plan, opening
teas will be replaced by a series
of informal mixers to be held the
first three days of rushing. Re-
ceiving lines, elaborate decorations
and entertainment will be abol-
ished.
One set of parties will consist
of outdoor suppers planned so
the menus of the houses will be
standardized.
Only formal part of the entire
rushing system to be maintained
is the final dessert parties.
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TO FACILITATE the new pro-
gram, the Panhel rushing coun-
selor system has been expanded.
The counselors will accom-
pany rushing groups to the first
set of mixers in order to guide
them personally and promote a
close relationship between
rushee and counselor, Miss.
Clarke said.
The fall rushing system will be
used by sororities for the first
time since 1945. Sororities tried
rushing both in the fall and spring
from1942 to 1945.
HST Signs
Jap Peace
Document
Pacific Defense
Pacts Concluded
WASHINGTON-(A)-President
Truman yesterday signed the Jap-
anese Peace Treaty which will
formally end the long and bitter
struggle that began when Japanese
Sbombers rained destruction on the
U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor,
Dec. 7, 1941.
The State Department announc-
ed the treaty will become effective
April 28, restoring Japan to inde-
pendence and full sovereignty over
her home islands 62yeas after
the end of World War II.
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PRESIDENT Truman signed his
name to the blue-and-gold bound
document at 11:30 a.m.
The President also affixed his
signature to three related trea-
ties designed to set up a new
Pacific defense system aimed at
blocking the extension of So-
viet Russia's power, directly or
indirectly, into that strategic
area.
One of the security pacts, with
Japan, gives the United States the
right to station military forces in
and around Japan indefinitely to
protect it against the Communist
forces of Red China and Russia.
The other pacts are with the
Philippines and with Australia
and New Zealand.
* *
PRESIDENT Truman is expect-
ed to nominate Robert D. Murphy,
possibly today, as the first post-
war ambassador to Japan. Mur-
phy, now in this country, has been
ambassador to Belgium for the
past two years.
The new Japanese ambassador
is expected to be Sadao Iguchi,
present vice-foreign minister,
who was first secretary of the
Washington embassy at the time
of Pearl Haimbor.
The peace treaty was formally
ratified by the Senate on March
20, by a vote of 66 to 10.
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THE TREATY permits Japan to
re-arm, and although the post-
war Japanese constitution specifi-
cally bars rearmament it is ex-
pected the Japanese will now take
steps to build up non-aggressive
defense forces.
The treaty itself imposes n
direct reparations. It recognizes,
however, that Japan is obligated
to pay in excess labor and un-
used plant capacity for the dam-
age and suffering it caused dur-
ing World War II.
Under the pact, Japan's huges
war-built empire that stretchedj
from the Manchurian border into
the South Seas is reduced to the
four main Japanese home islandsl
-Honshu, Kokkaido, Kyushu and1
Shikoku-and a few small adja-
cent ilands.-
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Scores
Tatft
Talks
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Ohio-Senator
Will Outline
Platformi
Speech Slated.
For Hill at 12:15
By VIRGINIA VOSS
Sen. Robert A. Taft will spend
three hours of a whirlwind cam-
paign schedule in Ann Arbor today
to give a public talk at 12:15 p.m.
in Hill Auditorium,
Sponsored by the campus Taft
for President club, the Republican
senator from Ohio will deliver a
half-hour speech encompassing his
political platform followed by a
question-and-answer period. Taft
will be introduced by Regent Ros-
coe O. Bonisteel.
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PRESIDENT OF THE Taft forl
President club Ken Mackness, '54,
urged students and faculty mem-
bers to "hear Taft with an open
mind and weigh the points of his
political platform against those
of other political speakers. I
Sen. Taft will complete a}
Detroit-Ann Arbor-Lansing cir-
cuit in his one-day stay in Mich-
igan. The state's 33 unpledged
Republican Convention dele-
gates are Taft's main interest
in the brief visit.
This morning in Detroit. he will
be guest at a reception for Michi-
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-Daily-Don
HURON HOLIDAY--While flood waters ravaged a wide swath of the Missouri and Mi
valleys yesterday a University couple enjoyed the April sunshine along the banks ofa
running and rising Huron River. Small chunks of adjoining real-estate were inundated
lapping stream, with many tree trunks partially submerged and a 100-yard square lake;
ing on the Municipal golf course.
Rivers Rise As Flood
Victims Total_100,000
By The Associated Press
Muddy waters of the swollen Mississippi River edged higher yes-
terday in the flood-battered midlands area while the number of farms
and towns smashed by the raging torrent grew.
President Truman will fly over the area today accompanied by
the governors of the states affected by the flooding Missouri, Missis-
sippi and Red Rivers. The Red Cross added another five thousand
families to its tally of those hit by the midwest floods, giving a total
of 26,620.
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THE FIGURE IS PRESUMED to represent fully 100,000 persons.
-- - In St. Paul, Minn., the crest
of a disastrous flood will be
7 ~ j reached today, with 5,000 report-
W orld News ed homeless and millions of dol-
lars in property destroyed.
Omaha and Council Bluffs, Ia.,
are waiting' for an historic crest
to hit tomorrow. It is still ques-
By The Associated Press tionable whether the dikes will be
NEW YORK-Federal mediators able to hold the expected 27 feet
scheduled a "marathon" joint ses-. of water.
sion last night between union and Meanwhile, Michigan flood'
management in the strike of 16,- dangers eased yesterday, indicat-
000 Western Electric installers and ing the worst was over. For a 24-
added this cheerful note: "We hour period the mounting water
have gotten to the stage where we levels, the result of the Easter
hope to reach a settlement." weekend storms, had caused wide-
* * spread concern.
Several state highways were
MOSCOW-There isnice- flooded and some families north
here that the Soviet in oirclesof Grand Rapids were driven from
e th i Uni ay theirhomes.
son came upwith an invitation terhms
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Aies Char
Reds Usin
'hone yIs
MUNSAN, KOREA -
Allies scolded the Reds
terday for trying to use t
issue" of Russian neutr
bargaining point in t
locked Korean armistice
Subdelegates arguing t
ervision met for 20 sec
terday-just long en
schedule another session
"The United Nation
mand will not permit tl
issue of 'neutral Russia
has been fabricated by t
munists-to be confus
the fundamental probl+
realistic armistice and t
of the United Nations C
troops which can be th
by a buildup of enemy a
The statement referre
key issues blocking agre
truce supervision: Comn
sistence on Russia as o
neutral nations to polic
and an Allied demandI
on military airfield co
during an armistice.
Communist truce n
have hinted repeatedly
ness to withdraw Russi
nation if the Allies ret
their position on airfield
N.J.;
Today
Gets Most
Of State's
Delegates
Kefauver Takes
A." Unicontested Vote
NEWARK N.J. ()Homecom
v Ing Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
today pocketed most of New Jer-
sey's 38 Republican presidential
votes in an impressive Eastern sea-
board primary victory.
Outdjstancing Sen Robert A.
Taft of Ohio after a shaky, lead-
shifting start, the five-star gen-
eral swept this industrial state's
Republican popularity contest by
a margin that might give 'im an
85,000 edge over Taft in a total
vote of about 500,000.
THE GENERAL'S potential vi-
tory seemed likely to give him the
Campbell majority of the State's 38 delegates
ssissippi to the July Chicago nominating
a~ swift- convention. Taft might get a few
by the of thenm. At least one unopposed
appear- candidate who was. elected is a
appar- supporter of former Gov. Harold
E. Stassen of Minnesota.
IIn 2,478 of 3,840 precincts, the
count in the state-wide popularity
'I I contest--persuasive but not legal-
ly binding on the delegates-stood
Y Eisenhower 190,659; Taft 128,418;
Stassen 10463.
fs e I In the Democratic primary,
Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennes-
see, ex-crime buster and coon-
aG}- The skin cap campaigner, ran away
again yes- from a scattered field of write-
he "phony in candidates. But he may not
ality as a get n the State's -32i Democratic
he dead-convention votes.
etalks.
ruce sup- If the Eisenhower victory trend
:onds yes- continues, New Jersey would be
Tough to combined with New York and pos-
htoday. sibly Connecticut to give him an
ns Coi- Eastern seaboard bloc of votes
he phony balancing the Ohio-Illinois-Wis
,'-which consin-Nebraska bloc preponder-
he Com- antly for Taft.
ed with * *
em of a WITH MORE than half of the
he safety State's voting districts tabulated,
aoniand Eisenhower was getting nearly
ureatened 57.3 per cent of the vote, Taft 40
irfields" per cent and Stassen 2.7.
Id to two Democrats who had not voted
uement on in their party's lasttwo primar-
nuis in es could cross over to obtain
ne of six i Republican ballots, and many
e a truce, Eisenhower supporters thought
for a ban most of those who did so backed
nstruction their man. However, there was
negtiaors no reliable estimate of the um-
egoiatorsiEber of crossovers.
a's nomi- This primary may be the last
eat from on-the-ballot meeting between
s. Eisenhower and Taft before the
July Chicago convention, unless
both finally wind up on the Ore-
gon primary ballot May 16.
The popular vote contest here
could be the deciding factor in
t/>' determining how the majority of
the State's 38 GOP Convention
s ',C - delegates vote at Chicago.
edwta WDrizzling rain held down the
balloting in some of New Jersey's
unistindusthilarey asbt in riden-
ay dispute tial sections, where Republicans
retary of are concentrated, there was heavy,
y but not early voting by New York com-
ver man- muters.
mpowered
ernment ub Formed
out man-' r
probably 1 or Stevenson
to court._____
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n law and Nearly 20 supporters of Gov.
that the Adlai Stevenson of Illinois, an un-
ver get a announced Democratic Presiden-
that in- tial nomination possibility, met
Stley Act last night to organize a campus
providedStevenson for President club.
nse situa- The group elected John Apple,
'53, as temporary president and
n of the appointed a committee to draft a
said "it constitution.
s well to Future action of the club de-
ley Act, pends on a statement Gov. Steven-
nt delay son is expected to make tomorrow
nable to clarifying his political intentions.
VACCINE POSSIBLE:
Polio Linked to Blood
In StartlingDiscovery
NEW YORK-(A)-The end of Polio may be in sight due to a
surprising discovery that polio strikes first in our blood instead of
nerves.
Two reports of the blood discovery, by Dr. David Bodian of Johns
Hopkins University and the other by Dr. Dorothy Horstmann of Yale,
were made yesterday to the Federation of American Societies for
Experimental Biology.
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gan's Detroit-area national con-
vention delegates.
Immediately following his Hill
Auditorium talk and a 1:15 p.m.
luncheon at the League, Taft will
head for Lansing for a gigantic
press conference with editors of
Michigan newspapers. He will
leave Michigan for Massachusetts
tonight to begin campaigning for
the April 29 primary there.
AN ANNOUNCED candidate for
the Republican Presidential nomi-
nation since October, 1951, "Mr.
Republican" has primary victories
in Wisconsin, Nebraska and Illi-
nois behind him.
See SENATOR, Page 6
SL To Meet
In EQ Today
Twenty-two new student legisla-
tors will take their seats for the
first time at 7:30 p.m. today when
SL holds its weekly meeting in the
Strauss-Anderson dining room in
the East Quad.
I
to hold a sesson of the United
Nations general assembly in
Moscow.
LAS VEGAS, Nev.-The second
nuclear blast of the Atomic En-
ergy Commission's spring series
flashed quickly yesterday in theE
southern Nevada sky.
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TRENTON, N. J. - Convicts,
screaming they were the "scum
of society," seized four state prison
officers as hostages yesterday,
grabbed control of the prison print
shop and demanded the warden be
removed.
MEDIATION STALLED:
Steel Talks Break Doi
,Wage Boost Conside
Federal mediation efforts in the seized steel industry's pa
broke down yesterday and Government steel manager Sec
Commerce Sawyer announced he would "proceed promptly
precipitately" to consider giving CIO steelworkers a raise o
agement's head.
Under President Truman's executive order Sawyer is e
to deal with employment terms for steelworkers, but any go
_ -_ _move to boost pay with
agement consent would
send steelmen hurrying
POLIO VIRUS was supposed to go from the stomach to the nerves.
Monkeys and chimpanzees got polio virus in their food, the same
as humans are known to do. But it was found a few days later in
their blood. Sometimes it re- ,
mained in the blood for 15 days.
During all this time the animals
were not sick in the slightest de-
gree.
This explains why the blood
route of polio went undiscovered
so many years. Nobody looked
there when animals were not
sick.
Dr. Bodian said the new con-
cept of polio is that while the virus
stays in the blood, the blood makes
antibodies to destroy the virus.
But sometimes it does not make
enough of these protectors, and in
that case the virus leaks into
neres f the s ninnl ord n'f~and
IG&S PRESENTS OPERETTA:
'Princess Idt
By ALICE BOGDONOFF
After months of intensive re-
hearsal, the Gilbert and Sullivan
Society will present "Princess Ida"
at 8:00 p.m. today in the Lydia
Mendelssohn Theatre.
"Princess Ida," Gilbert and Sul-
livan's only three-act operetta, is
seldom produced because of stag-
ing difficulties and technical ex-
To BeGiven Tonight
age-two. As the plot continues,
Hilarion, now 23 years old, in-
vades "Castle Adamant" in an
attempt to obtain his legal bride
from her intellectual hideout.
The Society solved the staging
problems of three different sets
by using several levels in each
scene. One of the acts shows a'
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CAMPUS EXPERTS or
national affairs agreed
seizure question may ne-
Supreme Court test and
vocation of the Taft-Ha
would probably have
further delay in the ter
tion.
Prof. Clark Dickinson
economics department
might have been just a
invoke the Taft-Hart
but it would have mea
which would be objectio
now