THE TRUCKS BILL See. Page 4 Yl r e Latest Deadline in the State 471A& t CW COOLER, SHOWERS ,VOL. LXII, No. 139 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1952 SIX PAGES MIND Riot Leaders Holding Out in Cell Block 15 " . * s -Daily-Roger Reinke DAZED HOSTAGE ESCORTED TO SAFETY Guard Tom Elliott is set free after three days of terror. --iuay-z.oger Reiuk SLASHED INFORMER TALKS TO REPORTERS f Holdouts turn over "Stoolie" -to authorities. oin Judie Might End Case Today Indications were last night that the Joint Judiciary Council may conclude its recommendations to the University sub-committee on the McPhaul dinner cases in a meeting at 3 p.m. today, "We still hope there may be a decision today," Dean of Students Erich A. Walter said last night. However, it is possible the matter might not be completely settled by the Judiciary until a later date. MEANWHILE, campus Young Progressives utilized a new avenue of protest to the McPhaul dinner investigation. YP members unanimously vot- ed to invite President Harlan H. Hatcher or his representative to attend the group's next meeting on Tuesday, April 29, and clarify the administration's stand on the investigation. In a letter to President Hatcher, the Young Progressives stated: "We have strong reason to believe that the administration has shown flagrant disregard for academic freedom, free speech and personal rights in regard to the McPhaul dinner." The group plans to confront President Hatcher with students r who claim to have been wronged in the investigations. .. The YP letter also said: "We wish it to be clearly known that we are not making an official charge against the administration at this time but are only seeking to determine if violation of 'stu- dent rights has occurred." FURTHER protest to the Mc- Phaul investigation came from Rev. Charles Hill of the Hartford Avenue Baptist Church in Detroit who spoke to a meeting of the- Ann Arbor Progressive Party last night. Rev. Hill, a fiery witness in last month's Detroit Red probe, stated that he didn't know "what McPhaul could say that would disturb the Regents." Earlier in his talk, he attacked the American educational system for its fear of "exposing students rto all philosophies.' * * * Twc other campus organiza- tions, Students for Democratic Ac- tion and the Young Democrats, ,went on record last night as op- posing the alleged tactics being used in the McPhaul dinner in- vestigation. SEEKS PRESIDENCY: Harriman Tosses Hat' In Democratic Arena WASHINGTON--(P)-Foreign Aid chief W. Averell Harriman tossed his hat into the ring yesterday in a full-fledged bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. The 60-year-old New Yorker told newsnen he Will conduct a fighting nation-wide campaign keyed to the Truman administra- tion's domestic and foreign policies. HARRIMAN CALLED for strong "progressive, liberal" policies on the-home front and "unfaltering world leadership" in foreign affairs. " A longtime disciple of the Roose- velt-Truman "Deal" programs, Re Evasion . dating back to Franklin D. Roose- velt's first year in the White House in 1933. Harriman was praised by Cailed Truce President Truman last week as a "great liberal" and as qualified for Tbll the presidency. Talking to reporters, Harri- man said he wanted to assure MUNSAN, Korea - (P) -Allied his supporters he would be an negotiators yesterday charged the active candidate-thus count- Communists with "evading" solu- ering reports that his chief tion t othe Korean truce supervi- function would be to hold New sion deadlock and said the UN York's 94-vote delegation to- Command "now awaits action on gether until leaders decided your part." whom to back at the national The chief Red staff officers re- convention. torted, "To be frank, I believe that Some party bigwigs had said there will be no progress at all last week at the outset of a fledg- until your side changes its atti- ling boom for Harriman that they tude . ." didn't expect the lanky, greying While the negotiators haggled New Yorker to go far on a na- for 19 fruitless minutes, a bar- tional scale. rage of UN artillery shells land- But Harriman noted that a ed just outside the neutral con- national Harriman - for Presi- ference site. dent Committee, headed by Sen. Lehman and Rep. Franklin D. It jarred the floor inside," re- Roosevelt, Jr., both of New York, ported Col. Don 0. Darrow, chief has been organized to push his allied staff officer, candidacy in a nationwide cam- Darrow opened the brief meet- paign. ing with a statement on the two Harriman, son -of the late rail- existing deadlocks-the Red nom- road magnate E. H. Harriman, ination of Russia as a neutral na- who once controlled 60,000 miles tion truce inspector and the UN of the nation's rail systems, is the demand for a ban on airfield con- fourth avowed candidate for the struction during an armistice. Democratic nomination. Senate Fails To Cut Off Steel Funds WASHINGTON-(W)-SeRator- ial critics of President Truman's seizure of the steel industry failed by a narrow margin yesterday in a move to deprive him entirely of federal funds to operate the mills. In the House, meanwhile, a reso- lution was introduced to impeach him for the seizure. There were predictions it probably never would come to a House vote. BUT THE Senate Banking Committee launched a move which may exert more pressure on .the Administration. It voted to in- vestigate government handling of the steel dispute-and to hold up action meantime, on a bill to ex- tend the wage-price controls pro- gram. Since the Administration calls the program vitally necessary, some Senators figured the bank- ing committee's decision might act as a spur to settle the steel crisis. The senate voted, 47 to 29, to take up a proposal to bar the use of any federal funds for opera- tion of the steel mills, but because a two thirds vote was needed under the existing parliamentary situation, the move was defeated for the time being at least. A shift of four votes in the line- up would have given the foes of seizure the necessary two-thirds majority. Flood Waters Continue Rise In Missouri KANSAS CITY-(MP)-New rain poured a heavy new weight of water into the choked Missouri River yesterday. It sent expected flood crests up- ward, toppled more dikes and add- ed to troubles of weary flood fighters. More rain is in the off- ing. "WE'RE STILL in pretty bad shape," said river forecaster E. C. Corkill at Kansas City. Recognizing that, the House passed a $25,000,000 disaster re- lief bill in Washington yester- day for the stricken Missouri Valley. It now goes to the Sen- ate. Funds would be administered by President Truman, who already has been asked-for the second time in a year-to grant aid to his flooded home state. One Hostage Freed; Ten GuardsHeld Fourth Day of Melee Begins By ZANDER HOLLANDER and BILL WIEGAND Special To The Daily JACKSON-Block 15, powder- keg and grim holdout in the three days of rioting at Southern Mich- igan Prison, erupted a steady stream of knifed and slugged dis- senters yesterday climaxed by the release of one of eleven guard hostages whose lives have shielded riot ringleaders in the discipline block-known as "The Hole." Five convicts, purged as "stool- ies," were thrown chain-whipped and bleeding from the isolated block. A sixth, labelled "bugs" by inmates, stumbled out saying "they didn't want to hurt me." * * * THE ACTUALITY and threat of violence lingered like a pall over this world's largest prison with a continual din from scat- tered cellblocks and bands of knife-armed prisoners, the weap- ons stolen from the wrecked din- ing unit, roamed several buildings. Released hostage Thomas El- liott, a 24 year old prison guard, emerged unharmed but near nervous collapse. Turned over to waiting prison authorities by Block spokesman Earl Ward, a 28-year-old reported paranoid, Elliott took part in a weirdly cordial ceremony of farewell which Ward enacted twice for the photographers' benefit. Scant hours before, the same grin- ning convicts had held knives to the throats of the eleven hos- tage guards, including Elliott. The single release followed a radio broadcast by two Block 15 rebels, Ray Young and Russell Jarboe, in which the youthful pair reiterated the holdouts' 11 de- mands for reforms of "abuses." * * * IN A MODERATE and well- written statement, Young and Jarboe urged fellow prisoners over the inter-prison radio hookup to "please be quiet enough" so that intermittent negotiations between Warden Julian C. Frisbie's repre- sentatives and the Block 15 ring- leaders could be continued. The eleven demands got gen- eral agreement from the War- den at a news conference at 8 p.m. yesterday. Frisbie agreed wholeheartedly to the rebels' cardinal demand-that no re- prisals be taken against prison- ers for the riot. See RIOT, Page 6 Michigras Michigras tickets will be on sale from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. to- day and tomorrow, and from 9 a.m. to noon on Friday. Booths will be located in An- gell Hall, on the diag, and in downtown Goodyear's. Tickets may also be purchased at local drug stores. Tickets will be sold Friday and Saturday nights at Yost Field house. Students signed up to work on the ticket committee the nights of Michigras will be no- tified by mail before Friday, ac- cording to Nancy Brewer, '53, tickets co-chairman. -Daily-Roger Reinke CELL BLOCK 15 INMATES APPEAL FOR ORDER . Ray Young (left) and Russ Jarboe (right) cooperate with Vernon Fox, deputy warden, in a plea for quiet. * + Atom Bomb Launched in Mock Battle ATOM BOMB SITE, Nev.-(P)- An atom bomb, its searing heat and blast of unusual ferocity, was exploded yesterday as 1,500 troops huddled in foxholes along an atomic warfare "battlefront." The soldiers were unhurt by the mighty explosion, proving that foxholes can shelter men from even the World's most destructive weapon. Seconds after the explo- sion of the bomb, dropped from a B-50 and detonated at 3,500 feet only about 31/ miles from the troops, the soldiers and the gener- als who were with them stood up- and laughed. * * * THESE MEN were nearer than any human had been, except in heavy concrete bunkers-and ex- cept for the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki who saw the bomb closer and died. The explosion, in the crystal clear air of Nevada under a deep blue and cloudless sky, was a pictorial wonder. In the seconds immediately after the blast, with its accompanying unearth- ly brilliant light, a gigantic smoke ring floated upward over ground zero. Seashell colors- pink, salmon, cream-tinted it. For the first time, paratroopers were dropped to back up atomic fire power on a theoretical enemy. ONE HOUR and 45 minutes aft- er the explosion-when the radio- logical safety teams with their geiger counters found the area safe-about 120 picked paratroops leaped from four planes flying about 1,000 feet above the black- ened spot on the desert over which the bomb had burst. The army now had the hypo- thetical enemy where it wanted him. He had been blasted by the bomb. * * * * * Ike Scores Easy' s * Pennsylvania Win By The Associated Press Pennsylvania Republicans gave Gen. Dwight D. Eisenh. wer an overwhelming popular vote last night as results came in from the state's primary election. In New York, Eisenhower's friends won seven of 11 New York Republican primary contests, indicating he will receive at least 85 or 90 of the State's 96 votes at the Republican National Convention. * * *' * THE GENERAL was running about five to one ahead of his op- ponents in the Keystone State preferential presidential balloting. Only one of his opponents was on the ballot, Harold E. Stas- sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio was third behind Stassen, but had asked his supporters not to write him in. The preferential vote is not binding on the state's dele- gates to the nominating conven- tion in Chicago. Taft had said the results of the popularity poll would not affect the presidential preference of delegates at the July party con- vention. * * * ON THE Democratic side of the ballot, Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee was ahead in the pop- ularity contest. There were no candidates on the Democratic bal- lot, all names being written in. Most of the 94 New York Demo- cratic convention votes will go to W. Averell Harriman,' director of the Federal Mutual Security Agency, endorsed by 45 of the state's 62 Democratic county chairman as a "favorite son." President Truman, who has said he won't run again, Sen. Robert S. Kerr of Oklahoma, and Gov. Ad- lai E. Stevenson of Illinois, who said he "could not accept" the par y nomination, trailed Ke- fauver in the popularity contest. The Pennsylvania GOP ballot-, ing early this morning, with 4,266 of 8,421 precincts reporting, stood at: Eisenhower, 413,388; Stassen 54,005; Taft (write-in) 49,135. Lecture's Get Rave Notices The three lecturers, soon' to ap- pear in the Marriage Lecture Ser- ies, were given "raving reviews" by informal student "reviewers" following the completion of last year's series. Many of the students came up with such comments as "excellent speaker-be sure and include him next year," "'very frank and well presented" or "held the audience in rapt attention." The opinions were given by the students following the last lecture of the 1951 Series on an evaluation sheet. The three lec- turers, Dr. Allan C. Barnes, Prof. Ernest G. Osborne, and Dr, Evelyn M. Duvall, will soon speak in the 1952 Series. Dr. Duvall is the author of the -book, "Facts on Life and Love" which the New York Times called "sane, sound, reassuring." Prof. Osborne is the field consultant of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers and holds a profes- sorship in the Columbia Univer- sity Teachers College. He is the author of the book, "The Family Scrapbook." Tickets for the series will be on sale from 10 a.m. to noon and 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. today and tomorrow in the Union, the League, the Administration Bldg. and Lane Hall. Assistant Dean of Studentsala W. Parker, chairman of the series, urged all students to bring their ID cards when purchasing tickets. Cookie To Give Honors Talk Alistair Cooke, chief United States correspondent of the Man- chester Guardian, will be the main speaker at the 29th annual Hon- ors Convocation, at 11 a.m. Fri- day in Hill Auditorium. Honored at the program will be 613 students who have received OPENS MAY 13: Noted Stars To Spark Spring Drama Season WILCOX BOWS OUT: SL To Elect New Cabinet Tonight A host of celebrated Broadway- ites will invade Ann Arbor on May. 13 to open the University spring Drama Season. First on the bill of five plays is "Goodbye, My Fancy" which will star Sylvia Sidney, familiar ac- tress of stage, screen and televis- ion. The plot of this comedy iA laid in a typical college town and is slanted to please the local aud- ience. * * * JOAN BLONDELL will arrive on Broadway, which are now be- ing filled by Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronin. The week of June 2 heralds an- other topnotch play-"A Date With April," starring Constance Bennett. "A Dak With April" will open in New York next fall with the same cast.' To ring- down the curtain on the series, birector Valentine Windt of the speech department is bringing "Venus Observed" to Ann Arbor. Written by Chris- By HARLAND BRITZ Leonard Wilcox's long career as president and member of Student Legislature will come to an end tonight as the semi-annual SL Cabinet elections take the campus spotlight. The politicking will take place as a part of the weekly SL meet- ing at 7:30 p.m. in the dining room of Strauss-Anderson houses at the Ea Qua. Chairman Roger Wilkins, '53, is the only sure candidate but either of the presidential hopefuls may wind up as a contender for the veep post. Bob Neary, '54, also looms as a darkhorse. SUSAN POPKIN, '54, and Jean Jones, '53 are in the race for re- cording secretary. Miss Popkin is the present public relations direc- tor, and Miss Jones heads the cul- IN CONTENTION for the two member-at-large posts will be Shirley Cox, '54, Sondra Diamond, '53, and Robin Glover, '53. Miss Glover is currently corresponding secretary. Miss Diamond is chair- man of the International Commit- tee, while Miss Cox is NSA co- ordinator. In accordance with usual SL tradition, it is doubtful whether any of the newly elected legisla-