Y BROTHERHOOD WEEK 1 See Page 4 Latest Deadline in the State ~aitjr 0 0 SNOW, COLDER SNOW, COLDER VOL. LXII, No. 93 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1952 SIX PAGES SIX PAGES Korean Truce Hopes Brighten By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON-(P)-Prospects for an end to the war in Korea brightened considerably yesterday, but the chances for a permanent peace there remained so dim as to be almost invisible. The agreement between the truce negotiators on holding a Korean peace conference within 90 days after an armistice gives reason for hope that the fighting may be brqught to an end. * * *A * BUT THIS is regarded here in its long-range importance mainly as a piece of international shadow boxing with little significance for long term political developments in the area. The United States Government believes that if there is an armistice, it will open a new era of war-less tension and political conflict in Korea which may go on for years. It is therefore con- idered of utmost importance to get the best possible armistice ,, -Daily-Bill Hampton * * , * Sec-reteddi Plans Foiled By OfficiousPublicity Men By DONNA HENDLEMAN Hucksters have crushed the romantic sanctity of the secret marriage. Bo claim two young University students, who recently decided to get themselves hitched "in secret." BUT THEY DIDN'T count on the publicity fiends who evidently haunt the marriage bureau offices in Detroit. CBlood Drive ~Progressing Although the all-campus blood drive is a month away, the re- sponse to date has been favorable, according to Joseph H. Fee, Assis- tant tb the Dean of Students. The registration deadline is 5 p.m. today with cards expected to be received in large numbers from various distribution points includ- ing housing units, student offices of the League and Union, the information desk in the Adminis- tration Bldg., the Dean of Wo- men's Office and the Office of Student Affairs. * * *. IT IS HOPED that a minimum of 3,000 students, faculty and University employes will sign pledges for the drive which is expected to be one of the biggest in the country. Students under 21 who wish to be blood donors must obtain their pa ;ents' signatures on their pledge cards. Late regis- tration cards will be accepted, Fee said. Blood donations will be taken from March 10 to 21 when a 6-bed Red Cross mobile unit will be stationed in the basement of the South Quad. The clinic will be' open from 2 to 5 p.m. and 7 to 10 p.m. Monday through Thurs- day and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday during the drive. The campaign is being carried on by a coordinating committee headed by Fee and James H. Robertson, assistant dean of the literary college, in cooperation rwith the Michigan State Depart- ment of Health. The goal of the drive is to beat For within a day after they had applied for a license: Advertising especially geared "for the prospective bride" be- gan pouring into the coed's home in Dearborn. A notice of the contemplated event appeared in her home town paper. The family minister called her hurt and bewildered parents to ask how it all had happened. Her hurt and bewildered mother called long dfstance to ask. how "she could do such a thing.* * * * AND ON THEIR own the two recalcitrants decided they didn't want to get married this year af- ter all, and settled down to wait out a long engagement. But they groan when they think what might have happen-. ed if they had carried out their clandestine intentions. "We wouldn't have had a chance; we especially asked the woman in the license bureau not to let out the information, and she promised she wouldn't." * A 3 * BUT IN Detroit they didn't even want to issue the license. "They kept us waiting for hours while they decided if I was of age or not," the 19 year old woman re- called. "They finally gave in because they said we looked like a couple of nice honest kids." ,Legal marrying age for women in Detroit is 16. "I'm convinced now they just complied so they could break it up with publicity," the would-be groom asserted. Now happily engaged, the couple admits that they didn't really want a secert marriage. "But some people might; there ought to be protection against these unfair advertising practices." SL Meets Tonight Student Legislature will meet at 7:30 p.m. tonight in the dining room of Anderson-Strauss houses in the East Quadrangle. IFC Scores Daily Story on R ushing- 'Not Accurate,' ThorpeSays Interfraternity Council officials reacted' strongly yesterday to a Daily story concerning the "cru- cial position" of 11 fraternities taking part in the current rush- ing program. IFC Rushing Chairman Pete Thorpe said figures released by Spider Webb, IFC Enforcement chairman were "not accurate." THORPE tagged the conclu- sions of a story in yesterday's Daily, based in part on Webb's statement, as "arbitrary ... based on superficial investigation." In a letter to The Daily, the IFC Rushing Chairman pointed out that the conclusions were reached "by counting the pledges each house accepted during the last two years." The Daily reasoned falsely that "obviously, the lowest five are doomed to imminent failure and the next six lowest have danger- ously few members," Thorpe charged. ALTHOUGH Thorpe himself indicated at a meeting of rushing counselors last week that "ap- proximately 10" fraternities would Rushing Registration for fraternity rushing will come to a close at 5 pm. today at the Interfrater- nity Council's booths in the Un- ion and Administration Bldg. be in danger if activities were not stepped up, he is now understood to be less pessimistic about the situation. Thorpe continued that "facts such as the minimum member- ship needed to keep the frater- nity financially solvent, the sup- port expected from alumni in maintaining the chapter,and the results of Spring Rushing were disregarded" in The Daily story. He refuted the quote from Webb that the absolute minimum fra- ternity pledge quota was 350 men. "THIS FIGURE is not accur- ate," Thorpe asserted. "The cor- rect figure is confidential to the IFC Rushing Committee and is well below the rumor quoted by Webb." The IFC Executive Conmittee is planning to meet tonight and according to Thorpe "will re- lease the number of men signed up for Spring Rushing, and a statement about rushing. It is expected that the state- ment will contain an explanation on the number of men rushing, and an outline of what the IFC has done during the rushing pro- gram. A Stunt? In a move that an irate fra- ternity man branded a "cheap publicity stunt," the men of Gomberg house threw the plush South Quad open for rushing with an, ad in today's Daily. Doc Dubois, 53, rushing chairman, assured rushees that the House had completely "solved the woman shortage problem by having Stockwell as its sister dorm." There are three Stockwell women to every Gomberg man. Reds Still Ask-Russian SuperviSoll By The Associated Press Communist insistence on in- cluding Russia as one of six neu- tral nations to supervise a Korean armistice yesterday appeared to be building up into a third major truce barrier. The United Nations command has turned down the Soviet Union as a neutral inspector and so far has refused even to discuss the action. Both sides agred t neutrals should be mutu ly ac- ceptable, the Allies conten ed. * . s FOR THREE DAYS the Reds have challenged the Allies to give a reason for rejecting the nomi- nation of Russia. The subject almost certainly will come up again in meetings in the next few days. While truce committees were wrangling U.S. Sabre Jets flying cover for bomber missions de- stroyed three of an estimated 150 enemy MIGS that tried to inter- cept them over Northwest Korea. And in Washington, the latest on flying saucers-strange looking orange globes over Korea-is be- ing looked into by the Air Force. Bomber crewmen have reported seeing globe-shaped objects of an orange color on flights over Korea on the nights of Jan. 29 and 30. Coast Guard. Rescues 21 BOSTON- (P) - Daring Coast Guardsmen-risking their lives- snatched 21 shivering seamen from the stern end of the split tanker Fort Mercer yesterday as raging seas mounted the ice- coated deck. Thirteen other members of the interpid crew elected to stick with the rent ship-one of two tankers that cracked in half Monday. The death toll of the double disaster rose to 15 last night. Six of thedMercer's crew were listed as dead and nine crewmen of the Pendleton- the o t h e r ship smashed by fierce seas - were missing. arrangements made while negotiations on basic terms are still underway. The essential issue in the truce negotiations is relatively simple- if both sides agree that the war is no longer profitable, what price is each willing to pay to end it? * * * * NEITHER the Communists nor the United Nations appears to have any hope for an all-out victory with the forces available. So a negotiated end of the fighting becomes at least a practical possibility. On the broader question of peace, however, the issue is infinitely more complex-who is going to control Korea ulti- mately, the free democracies led by the United States or the Communists led by the Kremlin? Presumably the Communists would be willing to trade away their claims for control if the United States were willing to pay a price such as letting Formosa go to Red China or recognizing the Chinese Communist regime. However, officials have made it clear these things are out of the question. THE KOREAN peace conference, if held, must therefore be concerned with such matters as the unification of Communist and non-Communist Korea and the kind of government which would rule over such a country. Thereis presently no basis for belief that either the United States or the Russian bloc would be willing to make such conces- sions as would permit Korea to be unified and ruled by a govern- ment on which both sides could agree. The question of a Korean conference was one of the issues which had to be settled before the final terms of a truce could be considered worked out. BUT SOME very difficult problems still have to be settled before a cease-fire can be agreed upon. 1) Agenda-The agreement by the negotiators on what they See KOREAN, Page 6 Senate Bill Seeks Open Regyent Door LANSING-OP)-The Senate un- tangled a parliamentary snarl yesterday and accepted introduc- tion of a proposed constitutional amendment which would force the University Board of Regents to open its meetings to the press. The proposed amendment, ap- parently the only legal means of forcing the meetings to be open, would also apply to the Michigan State College Board of Agricul- ture. ALTHOUGH the proposal was filed a week ago by Senator Har- old M. Ryan (D-Detroit), it was refused introduction on grounds that it was past the deadline for introduction of bills. Ryan, supported by Attorney General Frank G. Millard, chal- lenged the ruling Monday night, asserting a constitutional amendment is embraced in a joint resolution and is not the same as a bill. Yesterday the Senate gave in and voted to admit Ryan's pro- posal, along with any other con- stitutional amendments. (No comment was immediately forthcoming from University of- ficials. At its last meeting, the Board of Regents offered to meet with press representatives in March to discuss the controver- sial closed meetings issue.) MEANWHILE, members of the State Board of Education, gov- erning body for Michigan's nor- mal colleges, said they have no objections to letting the public in on its deliberations, and have had an "open door" policy all along. "We have nothing to hide," commented Charles G. Burns of Grosse Point Park. "Reporters are always welcome at our meetings. In fact, we hope they will attend to keep informed on our problems." And Lee M. Thurston, secretary of the education board, state sup- erintendent of public instruction, and ex-officio member of the Uni- versity Board of Regents to boot, had this to say: "There are personnel problems that it would serve no purpose to publicize. However, I believe newspapermen should be informed of them, and allowed to make their own judgments." Iranian Oil Issue 'Paresolved' Mossadegh, International Bank Negotiators Announce Agreement TEHRAN-W)-Premier Mohammed Mossadegh and an Inter- national Bank mission issued a joint communique last night saying that partial settlement of the Iranian oil crisis has been agreed on. In a last meeting before the bank's special mission leaves for Washington, the negotiators agreed to continue efforts for full set- tlement of the dispute with Britain over operation of the nationalized oil refineries.' Germany, Big 3 Near Agreement Plans for European Army Crystallizing LONDON -UPA The Western Big Three Foreign Ministers and West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer announced yesterday they had swept away obstacles to the Unified European Army in which both France and Germany are scheduled to take part. They were significantly silent, however, about giving West Ger- many a role in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A COMMUNIQUE said the con- ferences here since Saturday among U.S. Secretary of State Acheson, British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman and the German Chancellor "marked a decisive turning in the cause of peace." Trouble remained evident, however, in Paris apd Bonn. Adenauer, flying back to his capital, said "the way is now clear" for conclusion of an Allied- German peace contract. But spokesmen of the powerful Social Democrajc opposition charged he was "too soft" and had made agreements insufficient to meet German demands for equality. The French National Assem- bly half-heartedly voted approval yesterday of the idea of a Euro- pean Army, but specified that no Germans should be recruited un- til parliaments of all six proposed members had ratified the Army treaty. NO DETAILS were announced on the agreements reached. The negotiations were report- ed to have broken down last Saturday but members of the Iranian Parliament oil commit- tee intervened directly a n d saved the talks. Discussions have centered on the bank's proposal to manage the idle Iranian oil industry tempor- arily until a final settlement of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company operation dispute. * * * This began last April after Iran nationalized the billion and a half dollar-British-built oil in-. dustry. Mossadegh has insisted any agreement must be under the na- tionalization law which provides Iran must have complete author- ity over exploitation and refining of its oil reserves. A play set within a play will take the center of the stage at Lydia Mendelssohn Theater as the curtain rises at 8 p.m. today on' the Student Players' production, "Joan of Lorraine." Written by playwright-novelist Maxwell Anderson, the play re- volves around actress Mary Graves, the person, and Mary Graves as she portrays historically famous Joan d'Arc. THE CENTRAL conflict in the story concerns the moral scruples of Joan-would she have stooped to petty politics and conniving to achieve her "heaven-sent" ends, or not? Actress Mary, portrayed by Patricia- Skinner, '52, says ,Joan would not, while her director, played by Jim Brodhead, '54, says she would. How they will resolve this di- lemma, as well as how Ander- son's Joan will save France, comprises the evening's bill of fare. Tickets for "Joan of Lorraine" are on sale at a special price of 50 cents for tonight's performance. All of her performances will cost 75 cents or $1. D-aily-A1 Reid DAUPHIN CROWNED - The heir to the French throne, played by special student Roy Strozzi, receives his crown from Joan of Lorraine, portrayed by Patricia Skinner, '52. YD's To Enter Local Politics Prof. Arthur M. Eastman of the English department and chairman of the Ann Arbor Democratic or- ganization told a meeting of Young Democrats last night to fulfill their political obligation through local political work. He drafted about half of the 24 members present last night for soliciting work preceding the municipal election in April. The YD's also decided to aid the Civil Liberties Committee in se- curing signatures on petitions re- questing placement of the speak- ers' ban issue on spring SL elec- tion ballots. FIRST AMERICAN TRIP: Hill Audience To Hear Norway Ch oir Tonight the 2,810 pints record versity of Texas. of the Uni- ] National Roundup By The Associated Press WASHINGTON - A House judiciary subcommittee sharply rejected yesterday President Truman's request that his clean- up chief, Newbold Morris, be given power to grant immunity ' from prosecution to witnesses in his investigation of government corruption. '1 * * * WSHINGTON - T h e Sen- 4te Banking Committee yesterday +nr ~rnt -a er . } - -_.,. I II tin-alos FROM HELL TO THE BIBLE': Charles Lau oCaptivates Audience at Hill By ALICE BOGDONOFF All 200 pounds of Charles Laughton leaned over a stack of books 'A '' ."" and proceeded to read to a jam-packed Hill Auditorium audience last night.> A spell was cast as the dramatic Englishman led his listeners from the home of Little Red Riding Hood to Shakespeare's magic wood and to the Gettysburg battlefield within two hours. Telling of his wonder at the enormous wide-open spaces of ..:{' America, Laughton "pounded across the continent in a giant %. diesel' ashe read a "moonbeam and train" scene from Thomas The Singing Boys of Norway will present the eighth concert in the Choral Union Series at 8:30 p.m. today in Hill Auditorium. Opening their program with "Grosses Amen" by Olavsknaben, the opening group of songs will also include "Star Spangled Ban- ner," "Misere Mei Deus" by Gre- gorio Allegri, "Rex Tremendae Majestatis" from the "Requiem Ave Verum Corpus" by Mozart, "O Jesuslein Zart, Dein Kripplein Ist Hart" by Bach and concluding with "Exultate Deo" by Pales- trina. * * * THE OTHER two groups of songs which the Singing Boys will present include works by Grieg, Svendsen, Lindemann and Mendelssohn. For their collection of Nor- wegian folk songs the boys will don native costumes. The group's 1952 tour of Ameri- ca where they are giving concerts in 60 cities, marks the first trip to this country by the Choir. The trip 'is part of the celebration of their 25th anniversary as an or- ganization. *, * * SOPRANO STAR of the Choir is the extraordinary 13 year old Pelle, who can sing eight tones above high C and has one of the m o s t phenomenal coloratura voices now in existence. I .......