PRESIDENTIAL ASPIRANTS See Page 4 i1 tgau iiy FAIR AND MILD 4 Latest Deadline in the State VOL. LXII, No. 137 Action Asked On Truman Mill Seizure Study Proposal On Impeachment WASHINGTON - () - Rep. Bender (R-Ohio) yesterday pro- posed the appointment of a bi- partisan House committee to "ex- plore fully the possibility of bring- ing successful impeachment pro- ceedings" against President Tru- man. Bender said in a statement that the seizure of the steel industry and the President's remarks im- -~plying that he has authority to take over newspapers had raised "a constitutional question of the utmost gravity." Bender is a backer of Senator Taft of Ohio, who said in Boston April 17 that members of Congress should consider impeachment of Truman for his seizure of the steed industry. * * * SENATOR MUNDT (R-S.D.) predicted today that a blast Tru- man delivered at Congress yester- A day would lead to renewed de- mands for his impeachment. Tru- man threatened to keep Congress in constant session until New Year's unless it approves all the billions he has asked for defense. Although Mundt predicted an Impeachment move, he told a reporter he doubts it "will get past the stage of introduction of a resolution in the House bring- ing charges against Mr. Truman, plus a lot of pretty stormy de- bate." 01 don't think the Senate ever. vill sit in judgment on Harry Tru- man on charges voted by the House in an impeachment case," the Senator told a reporter. "But his recent actions surely will bring a stronger move to Impeach the President, and of course all things are possible." BENDER SAID President Tru. man had declared "that he has r authority to take over the news- papers, radio, television and com- munications system of the nation at the sole discretion of the Pres- ident." This referred to the President's statement at a news conference last Thursday attended by visiting members of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. COL. J. HALE Steinman, co- publisher of the' Lancaster, Pa., newspapers asked the President: "If you can seize the steel mills under your inherent powers, can you, in your opinion, also seize the newspapers or/and the radio stations?" Truman replied that under similar circumstances, the Pres- ident has to act for whatever is for the best of the country. That's the answer to your question, he added. The American Society of News- paper Editors (ASNE) yesterday passed a proposal that it rebuke President Truman for implying that he has power to seize the na-: tion's newspapers. (The resolution was offered by i Joseph W. Sagmaster, editor of the Cincinnati Times-Star.) No Action Seen Against Flyers SACRAMENTO, Calif-(AP)-Or- ders have come to Mather Field to stop disciplinary action against six Air Force officers who refused to fly, it was reported here yes- terday. The officers had been charged with disobeying orders to fly but . had continued on non-flying duty since. "Some other disposition is going tq be made of them," a Public In- formation Officer at the base said. Blue Team Wins Politicians defeated the hill- billies in Frosh weekend which ended last night with the an- } nouncement that the Blue team' had triumphed over the Maize. The Blue's winning skit was en- titled "Pardon My Politics" while the Maize performed "Moonshine Madness."j ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, APRIL 20, 1952 EIGHT PAGES i Flood Receding In Omaha Area Iowa National Guardsmen Called To Protect Mississippi River Valley OMAHA-(P)-Flood fighters squelched a new threat to Omaha yesterday and pressure eased here. But the wild Missouri River--overburdened along 700 of its Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri miles-still mauled the Midwest. * * * * AS IF NOT TO BE outdone, the Mississippi provoked new troubles in Iowa and Illinois. For the first time, Iowa National Guardsmen went on flood duty in Eastern Iowa's Mississippi Rive Steel Crisis Showdown Seen Near WASHINGTON-(IP)-The steel labor crisis headed yesterday for an early showdown with the gov- ernment planning to boost wages in the seized industry and mill owners girding for an all-out court fight to prevent it. The Senate set the stage for a vote tomorrow. on a Republican- sponsored attempt to end Presi- dent Truman's 11-day-old steel seizure. A pending rider on an appropriations bill would ban use of any Federal funds for operating the mills. * . * SECRETARY OF COMMERCE Sawyer, despairing of efforts to win an industry-union agreement on working conditions, served no- tice he intended to order new pay rates and working rules into effect tomorrow or Tuesday. Sawyer, the industry's boss under the seizure order, made an 11th hour stab at trying to egg the industry's private owners into an agreement with CIO president Philip Murray, who also heads the steelworkers union. But the move fell flat on the old stumbling block-the industry's contention that it needed com- pensating price allowances to pay for Murray's demands. Sawyer was believed ready to order into effect the full 26-cent pay increase "package" recom- mended by the Wage Stabilization Board. This includes an immediate 12% cent-hourly increase for Mur- ray's 650,000 members in the basic steel industry, with 2/2-cent in- creases next July and next Janu- ary. Workers now are estimated to earn just under $2 an hour. 'Othello' Late Per Granted Women who have weekday reservations for the Arts Theater production of "Othello" will be able to obtain late permission from the Women's Judiciary, it was announced yesterday. Permissions will be granted to- morrow and Wednesday from 2 to 5 p.m. in the Judiciary office in the League. The judiciary grant changed the picture for coeds who have not been able to get late permis- sions for the performances since last Wednesday. At that time the Dean of Women's office refused dean's permission for "Othello" performances. r valley. Three units were sent to Muscatine, Wapello and Grand- view. The water bearing down on these river towns is the water that last week assaulted St. Paul, Minn., with its worst flood of record. THE MISSOURI'S crest, still writing flood history in these mid- lands, rolled yesterday along the Iowa - Nebraska reaches down- stream from Omaha and Council Bluffs, Ia.-the only river cities so far able to strait-jacket the Mis- souri monster. The new scare at Omaha de- veloped last night just a few hours after the crest had passed. River pressure blew open an underground sewer in an indus- trial-railroad riverfront area. Water backed up in the sewer, burst through pavement and gushed up and over an estimated 1,000 acres just upstream from central downtown Omaha. Unable to seal off the water welling up a full third of a mile behind the levees, engineers sealed the sewer at its mouth in the river by dumping in huge steel beams, steel plate, 500 tons of rock and thousands of sandbags. The trick was successful. The flow was chocked almost completely and pumps yesterday returned much of the backed-up water to the channel. Meanwhile, the river continued to drop slowly and tension built up during the dramatic 10 day river battle began to ease in the twin Iowa-Nebraska cities. * * * FROM A HIGH of 30.24 Friday, the level dropped yesterday nearly one foot and another two foot drop is expected today. Every hour thus brought height- ened hope that the almost unbe- lievable last minute job of bol- stering and raising levees had stood up against the most mon- strous flow of water ever recorded here. Hope Looms For RiotEnd RAHWAY, N.J.-fA')-Authori- ties yesterday saw hope for an early end to the mutiny of 231 convicts, barricaded in a waterless prison dormitory for the third day with nine guards as hostages. The state's top prison officials arrived at the New Jersey prison farm today as the mutineers show- ed some signs of organizing a committee to discuss terms for the end of the revolt. * * * THE HUNGRY convicts were seen to go into huddles, believed to be the prelude to selecting a spokesman to talk to authorities. Indications that the demon- strators were weakening were highlighted by the display of a bed sheet sign reading "water" fluttering from a glass-shattered window of the red brick dormitory. But officials moved patiently and cautiously, concerned over the safety of the hostage guards. No Decision Reached Yet on Dinner Students Charged In McPhaul Case By 'CRAWFORD YOUNG Joint Judiciary Council "hopes to reach a decision by Wednes- day" on the fate of 14 students charged with violating a Regents' by-law by attending the McPhaul dinner, Dean of Students Erich A. Walter announced yesterday. Although there was some specu- lation that yesterday'smarathon session would come up with recommendations to the Univer- sity sub-committee on discipline, deliberations on the cases were not completed by the end of the day. THE LAST FIVE of the 14 de- fendants were called in yesterday morning, with the afternoon ses- sion presumably debating what decision to make. Present at part of yesterday's session was President Harlan H. Hatcher. He did not attend Thursday's meeting of the Judiciary. Another addition to the com- pany present was Prof. Axel Marin of the engineering college, a mem- ber of the discipline sub-commit- tee. Other non-students sitting in on the session were Associate Dean of Students Walter B. Rea, who customarily attends Judiciary meetings, and Dean of Women Deborah Bacon and Prof. William W. Blume of the Law School, head of the discipline sub-committee, who do not normally attend the meetings. The other member of the sub- committee is Prof. Arthur Van Duren, chairman of the academic counselors of the literary college. * *.* THE JUDICIARY HAS, in addi- tion to the testimony received from the 14 defendants, 124 single- spaced typewritten pages of testi- mony before the original special faculty-student investigating com- mittee, set up to probe the "cir- cumstances surrounding the din- ner" March 6 in the Union, where banned speaker Arthur McPhaul gave a talk. The investigating committee was composed of Dean of Stu- dents Erich A. Walter, Dean Rea, Dean Bacon, Prof. Blume, Len Wilcox, President of Stu- dent Legislature, John Merow, chairman of Men's Judiciary, and Mrs. Betty Wiles Ohlheiser, chairman of Women's Judiciary and Joint Judiciary. Although almost 30 students attended the dinner, the investi- gators were only able to turn up the names of 14. Those 14 Vere all charged as individuals with violation of the Regents' by-law which states: "No permission for the use of Uni- versity property for meetings or lectures shall be granted to 'any student organization not recog- nized by University authorities, nor shall such permission be granted to any individual student." * * * 11 Students Blast McPhaul Investigation Eleven of the 14 students known to be present at the Mc- Phaul dinner yesterday issued a sharp blast at the special faculty- student investigating committee which lodged charges against them with the Joint Judiciary Council. In a prepared statement, the defendants, all of whom face pos- sible disciplinary action, contend- ed "we did not break any Univer- sity regulation" and strongly ques- tioned procedures used in the course of the investigation, "If anyone is guilty," the signers of the statement con- tinued, "it is the individual or individuals who gave permission for the use of the room in the Union." Regardless of its interpretation, the students said, the regulation was not "enforced impartially in a non-discriminatory manner." Term For I of 25,000 GI Enlistees T 4 Those Now 7* $R Serving lit ByIncrease Service Extended By Nine Months WASHINGTON- (W) -A nine- month extension of the enlist- , ments of many Armed Forces vol- unteers whose regular terms were .° due to expire in the year starting July 1 was announced yesterday by the Defense Department, which . , said about 125,000 are affected. The extension applies to volun- teers in the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marines but it does not cover S - - {Selective Service registrants who { "'' h