IV PM9 Li lflzr tzguu 471 i1y a[ GERMAN REARMAMENT See Page 4 Latest Deadline in the State CLOUDY, OCCASIONAL SNOW VOL. LXII, No. 92 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1952 SIX PAGES. I I ,. Senate Hunts Shady Deals In Shipping Public Figures Realize Profit WASHINGTON -(M)- Senate investigators set out yesterday to discover how a group of public figures ran a personal investment of $101,000 in surplus ships into a profit of 3% million dollars. Vice-Adm. E. L. Cochrane, U.S. Maritime Administrator, told'them there is doubt as to th legality of at least one phase of the deal and that he has asked the Justice De- partment to investigate. THE DEAL was engineered in 1947 by Joseph E. Casey, Washing- ton lawyer and former Democratic member of the House from Massa- chusetts. He has named retired Adm. Wil- Y liam F. (Bull) Halsey, of World War -II fame; the late Edward R. Stettinius Jr., former Secretary of State, and Julius C. Holmes, Min- ister at the U.S. Embassy in Lon- don, among his associates. Also involved less directly, is Newbold Morris, the New York attorney chosen by President Truman to head the search for wrongdoers in the Federal gov- ernment. Senator Hoey (D-N.C.), Chair- man of the Senate Investigations f' Subcommittee, said his group wanted to find out if the deal was legal, "whether Federal taxes were avoided," and what arrangements were made for legal, brokerage'and other fees.' Cochrane, the first witness In the inquiry, testified he has asked the Justice Department to study the complicated transaction. Records of the case show that Casey and his associates put up $101,000 of their own money and borrowed $9,705,000 from the' Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. to buy eight war surplus tankers from the old U.S. Maritime Com- mission. SNational Roundup By The Associated Pres WASHINGTON-Chairman Mc- Carran (D-Nev.) of the Senate Judiciary Committee announced yesterday that he will oppose President Truman's request that Newbold Morris, the Administra- tion's No. 1 government house- cleaning investigator, be author- ized to grant immunity from pro- secution to some witnesses. s " WASHINGTON - G e n. J. Lawton Collins, Army Chief of Staff, assured Senator Moody (D-Mich.) yesterday that 70 Hawaii-trained soldiers w il1l have a full week's visit at home. Moody was interceded for the men, 50 of them from Detroit. Furloughed after completing T their basic training in Hawaii, they chartered a plane to carry them home. The plane which had been held up by bad wea- ther at Burbank, Calif., was able to take off yesterday. CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex. --Six Navy fliers were killed about 4 p.m. (CST) yesterday when two planes collided in the air about > five miles west of Rockport, Tex. The planes wer on a routine training flight from the naval air station here. They were not fly- ing in formation. Both were twin- engine Beechcrafts attached to the advanced training command here. Rushing Crucial For Fraternities Five Chapters May Be Shut Down; Low Membership Plagues Others By JERRY HELMAN This semester's fraternity rushing period may turn out to be an extremely crucial one for eleven houses on campus and for the fraternity system in general. According to statistics compiled from past pledge lists, there are five houses on campus which face imminent failure and another six with dangerously few members. 4.* * * *0- OVERALL FIGURES for the past few years also show a con- siderable drop in the number of men who have rushed and pledged fraternities since the post-war - - peak. At present, only 254 men are registered for rushing. This fig- ure is consistent with the con- stant drop in the number of rushees in the past few years- 421 in the spring of '50 and 392 in the spring of '51. Although several members of the Interfraternity Council are op- timistic about the situation, point- ing out that men can still register today and tomorrow, the small number of rushees in general may force several houses off campus by June unless they capture a sizeable pledge class.' SPIDER WEBB, '52, Chairman of IFC's Enforcement Committee, pointed out that the situation may be more serious than anticipated. "At the beginning of the semester we asked the houses on campus how many men they would need to open up next fall. They re- turned a total figure of 350," Webb explained. "With the present amount of registered rushees so low, it ap- pears that many houses may go far below their quotas," he con- tinued. And Webb also uttered the dire prophecy that "within 15 years there won't be a house left at Michigan." Fraternity men-contacted gave various reasons for the apparent] decline of .affiliated organizations on campus. . . . BILL MCINTYRE, '52, placed much of the blame on the IFC's outdated rushing policy. "At the end of the war, there were more men rushing than the fraternities could handle. So the IFC placed a number of restrictions on rush- ing methods.' "But with the present dearth of rushees, there is no reason for rulings to exist." An additional factor inbthe decline of fraternities has been the improvement of University residences. Many residents of the South Quad expressed doubt that their present living conditions could be improved upon in fraternities. At a rushing counselors meeting a week ago, the problem was dis- cussed at length. It brought out that there is considerable anti- fraternity talk in the dormitories that is not being countered by the IFC. Although complete figures on sorority rushing are not yet in, since xinformal rushing is now be- ing held, it is also evident that many sorority houses will not meet their quotas.' New A tom Tests Slated A tEniwetok WASHINGTON-(P)-U.S. air- craft types not yet used to deliver atomic bombs may get a chance at the assignment in a new test series scheduled shortly in the mid-Paci- fic. The Defense Department and Atomic Energy Commission yes- terday announced the new series in a guarded statement which gave no exact date but said that preparations were under way for tests at Eniwetok proving grounds. OFFICIALS indicated that little more information will be public until after the new atomic series is completed. The announced results of pre- vious atomic tests in the Pacific and in Nevada, however, led to the belief that a full-scale effort would not be warranted at this time in the distant reachers of the Pacific unless the officials re- sponsible believed that they had new and more improved weapons to try out or that untried air- planes were ready for testing as live bomb carriers. In previous atomic tests the air dropped bombs have been delivered by the same kind of B-29 Superforts which did the Job in devastating raids on Hiro- shima and Nagasaki in World War II. Both the Air Force and the Navy have since developed newer and faster atomic bomb carriers, aside frmo the giant B-36 bomber which was developed for the spe- cific purpose of carrying the atom- ic bomb from the United States to any target on earth. STALL SUCCESSFUL:r Allies, Reds Settle Fifth AgendaItem Staff Officers To Clear Details MUNSAN, Korea, Tuesday, Feb. 19-()-Allied and Com- munist truce teams today reached final agreement on a post-Korean political confer- ence. Staff officers will work out mechanical details to p u t agenda item five -recommen- dations to the belligerent gov- ernments-into the final armis- tice agreement. Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy, sen- ior Allied negoetiator, told the Reds his staff officers would not be authorized to make a n y changes or additions in the word- ing of the agreement. The agreement in today's full dress session leaves only two ma- jor points of dispute in the ar- mistice talks. Still to be settled are the ques- tions of voluntary repatriation for prisoners and the rebuilding of Red military airfields during 'a truce. * . * THE COMMUNISTS promised to inform the UN command when they wanted the staff officers to meet. The agreement was reached in a 56-minute plenary session at Panmunjom this morning. No further meeting of the full truce teams was scheduled. The agreement reached today would have the military com- nanders recommend that a high level political conference be called within three months to consider "withdrawal of all for- eign forces from Korea, the peaceful settlement of the Kor- ean question, etc.?' North Korean Gen. Nam I1 in- sisted that staff officers work out the details. Joy said "there is nothing for the staff officers to do. Tnelusion of the draft as it stands in the armistice agreement will consti- tute a complete solution." ,* * LATER, however, Joy agreed to the staff officer meeting "to com- plete mechanical details." Nam said the Communists con- sidered the principle agreed to to- day as "merely a draft, which our side considers necessary to be re- written as an article In the armi- stice agreement." Joy said the principle itself was enough and should go into the truce document as it now stands. Wild Seas TankMen Missing 48, Big 3 Talks Show Signs Of Progress LONDON-()-The Big Three foreign ministers and West Ger- many's Chancellor Konrad Ade- nauer took two big steps yesterday toward preventing German pride and French prejudice from wreck- ing the Western defense buildup. Informed sources said the four- power talks, which continued far into the night, ended with plans by Britain, France and the United States to meet French demands fo: guarantees that German par- ticipation in a European army would not mean the rebirth of German militarism. * *, * FRENCH Foreign minister Rob- ert Schuman also was said to have agreed to negotiate a settlement of the Franco-German row over the future of the rich Saar basin. Ade- nauer is believed to have assured Schuman, U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson and British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden that he will take part in such negotiations. Settlement of the dispute is one of Germany's conditions for joining the proposed European army. Official spokesmen said the ministers made "some progress" on several issues confronting them. But they also left several questions unsettled. The outcome of the London talks could break a political log- jam in Paris, where the govern- ment of Premier Edgar Fare faces a vote of confidence on the European army issue today, anl in Lisbon, where top-level confer- ences are paving the way for the opening tomorrow of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Council. YD's To Hear Prof. Eastman The Young Democrats will meet at 8 p.m. today in the Garden Rm. of the League to discuss the role their organization will play in working with senior Democratic groups in the coming election campaigns. The principal speaker will be Prof. Arthur Eastman of the Eng- lish department and head of the Ann Arbor Democratic organiza- tion. Following the speech, tne YD's will make plans for a debate with the Young Republican Club on some aspects of Taft's policy. A proposal to send a protest to Student Legislature on their re- cent settlement of the bias clause issue is also scheduled for discus- sion. AIM Cancels Vote On New President Lack of a quorum at last night's Association of Independent Men meeting forced the postponement of a proposed presidential elec- tion, made necessary by the scho- lastic ineligibility of last semes- ter's president-elect, G o r d o n Greenberg, '52. An election will take place at the next regularly scheduled AIM meeting. LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL?-Sing Sheng, airline me- chanic of Chinese birth and his American-born wife, tell re- porters about the decision in voting which will force them to move from their new home in South San Francisco, Calif. When Sheng learned of resentment against his moving into the com- munity he attended a meeting of residents, proposed a referen- dum and promised to abide by the wishes of the majority. Having lost the decision, the Shengs will spend "Brotherhood Week" searching for a new home in some less biased section of town. 'BrOtherhood Weee Given Sm-allReeptionhere Destroy Two Wi'Basketball Team Stops Wisconsin Badgers, 56-55 By ALICE SICHLER Although Brotherhood Week is being celebrated on an interna- tional scale February 17 through 24,; Ann A r b o r schools and churches are doing little to ob- serve it. Outside of a few exchange ser- 'U' Employes N ominlated in Two ards By ZANDER HOLLANDER University employes won the Democratic nominaitons for alder- man in the Fourth and Fifth Wards yesterday in a primary vote which was even lighter than most observers predicted. University Museum technician James O. Mason and WUOM radio engineer Dean Coston edged into the Democratic slots on the April 7 ballot for City Council posts while Russell J. Burns, a 36 year old insurance agent, walked away, with the Republican nomination. in the Third Ward. * * * ONLY 609 voters went to the primary polls in the three wards. About 700 had been expected. Here are the totals: In the Third Ward Burns got 220 votes to the 91 cast for Wil- liam L. Carman Jr. The fourth Ward saw Mason, with 121 votes, beat out Herbert L. Mummery in a close race. Mummery drew 103 votes. And in the Fifth Ward, Cos- ton's tally of 39 votes pulled in ahead of Hugh F. Pierce's 36 votes. When the poll's closed at 8 p.m. yesterday a look at the $350 to $400 budget, used for printing bal- lots, paying inspectors and mail- ing absentee ballots, showed that the primary cost the city 55 to 65 cents for each voter. mons, little evidence of special ef- fort on the part of churches can be found. Nor can positive action be observed on the part of the schools. * * * ON THE CAPUS, the Student Religious Association at Lane Hall, has scheduled an annual Brotherhood Banquet for 6 p.m. Monday as a climax to the week. The banquet will feature Dr. Ed- win Aubrey as speaker. It is open to the public. The Hillel Foundation will make two inter-faith awards to stu- dents who have done the most to further inter-faith ideals and principles at the banquet. *. * ** ON THE NATIONAL level, a campaign for gift of blood to the armed forces is being carried on as part of the week's observance. Because of the nation's blood bank facilities are limited, cam- paigners are asking for pledges, not donations. Brotherhood Week is spon- sored by the National Confer- ence of Christians. and Jews. The NCCJ and its European partner, World Brotherhood, hold that brotherhood can be achieved without seeking a union of reli- gious bodies and without weaken- ing the loyalties or modifying the distinctive beliefs of those of any creed. * * * PAUL G. ROFFMAN, director of the Ford Foundation summed up his feelings about Brotherhood Week: "Such phrases as 'human dig- nity,' 'equality of opportunity,' 'brotherhood of man' have a re- sounding ring when we fling them over the footlights of our shores; but the world is waiting skeptic- ally to see whether we perform as well as we speak. "This responsibility demands that each of us be at least as earnest about the rights and free- doms of other people as we are of our own," Hoffman concluded. Coast Guard, Planes, Keep Up Search Rest of Crew May Be Safe in Bow BOSTON - (P) - A howling northeast blizzard - the worst storm of the winter - took 29 lives in the Northeast yesterday and left 56 seamen unaccounted for after two tankers split apart in wild seas below Cape Cod. Thirty two seamen were pulled from the crippled stern of the tanker Pendleton several hours af- ter the ship split in two-but the crew of 43 of the tanker Mercer were unaccounted for. 4' * * AT LEAST TWO of the Pendle- ton's crew apparently drowned during rescue operations. One fell into the swirling water and an- other dropped between a motor lifeboat and steel hulk of the Pen- dleton. Others missing were believed to be aboard the drifting bow of the Pendleton. Coast Guards said they detected no other sign of life on the dere- lict bow, reported by survivors -to have been occupied by the captain and three mates. A minute after the 32 were taken off, the Pendleton's stern rolled over and sank in breakers that crashed 25 to 30 feet high on nearby North Chatham beach. THE STORM took at least 25 lives throughout the northeast and buried much of New England under twenty feet of snow. Twenty died in New England, four in New York and one in New Jersey as the storm reached blg- zard proportions. While the Pendleton rescue was in progress, othe Coast Guard craft were battling raging seas in an effort to save men known to be aboard the widely separated bow and stern of the other tanker, the Fort Mercer. Both sections were being driven southeastward by gale-whipped waves. The cutter Yakutat radioed she had contacted the Fort Mercer's bow about 30 miles southeast of Chatham and was striving to get a line aboard. The 32 of the Pendleton's com- pany saved were taken off by Chief Boatswain Donald Bangs and three mates in a motor whale- boat. Repeatedly they ploughed through buffering seas -past the tanker as a plane dropped flares to light the stormy scene. Each time the boat passed, a man leaped for the pitching whaleboat, and only one missed. GOP Hopefuls Enter Race In Pennsylvania By The Associated Press The names of three top Repub- lican presidential possibilities- Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Harold E. Stassen and Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower - were entered today for Pennsylvania's statewide GOP preference primary April 22. Neither MacArthur nor Eisen- hower signified formal approval of the petitions filed in their be- half.'Under Pennsylvania law, such consent is not necessary, but a candidate may withdraw his. name any time up to Feb. 25. MEANWHILE, campaigning in the "heart of one of the great agricultural areas of America," Harold E. Stassen last night summed up his farm policy in six words: "Full parity prices with- out government controls." "The American economic sys- tem cannot long be successful un- 's I By GENE MACKEVICH Michigan may not have a championship basketbal team this season, but they were heroes last night. Their new found status is the direct result of a 56-55 victory over Wisconsin before a spotty but boisterous crowd in Yost Field House. Lau ghton i .Action: x. * s 0 WITH approximately 4:30 re- maining in the game and the vic- tors leading by one point, the Maize and Blue began to freeze the ball. Expert dribbling and ball- handling, especially on the part of guards Don Eaddy and Doug'Law- rence, permitted Michigan to maintain possession for nearly half a period. Eight times personal fouls were called on the Badgers, but the McCoynien waived the shots and repeatedly took the ball out-of-bounds. Twice Wisconsin obtained pos- session of the ball during the M freeze. With only a minute and ten seconds left on the Field House clock, the Badgers had a shot at Michigan's basket, but Lawrence came up with the re- bound to start the Wolverine stall functioning once again. The other time came with sec- onds remaining when reserve guard Si Johnson stole the ball, broke, and sent a one-hander toward the bucket. It hit the rim, bounced out, and Eaddy grabbed and held fast to the rebound for some three seconds until the final horn blew. * 0 s THE WIN pushed the Wolver- ines into eighth place in the Big Ten race with a 3-7 record. Purdue (3-8) and Wisconsin (2-7) round out the lower portion of the Con- ference standings. Michigan jumped off to a 22- 16 lead at the end of the first quarter, and they managed to WASHINGTON -- Walter P. Reuther, speaking before the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, of the NAACP, said last night that abolition of the fili- buster in the Senate "will be equi- valent to 140 military divisions in the struggle with Communist tyranny for men's minds, hearts and loyalties." Business Staff Calls Tryouts With a welcome mat still.out, The Daily business staff will hold its second tryout meetings of the semester today at 4:00 p.m. in the I 'U' AIMS TO TOP TEXAS: Blood Pledges Due Tomorrow By BARNES CONNABLE Registration cards for next month's gigantic all-campus blood donation drive should be turned in by 5 p.m. tomorrow to the Of- fice of Student Affairs, 1020 Ad- ministration Bldg., Joseph H. Fee, assistant to the dean of students, announced yesterday. Those under 21 years old must obtain their parents' sig- natures on their pledge cards before being admitted as blood donors. The. cards may be turned in later than tomorrow's deadline, Fee said, but "the earlier the bet- ter for the convenient schedu- record of the present blood donor' champion, t h e University of Texas. The drive will be one of many which have been sweeping the nation's campuses since little University of Idaho started the ball rolling with a 1,014 pint total. Although the campaign will de- liberately lack the "rah-rah" Tex- ' d :;.. ::::: .:.