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VOL. LXIII, No. 103 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1953
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Struggle
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Dictatorsh ip
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-General Suggests
Draft Extension'
Malenkov,
Beriya Chief
Contenders
Van Fleet Calls for More Training; Bid by Molotov
Says Korean Military Victory Vital Also Possible
Western Doctors
Doubt He Lives.
Satellite Bosses Race to Moscow;
Vishinsky Absent from UN Meeting
By The Associated Press
Moscow radio announced early today Joseph Stalin's grave con-
dition is worsening.
A new medical bulletin said the Soviet leader is , .:. wiconscious.
The first fresh word on the Soviet premier's condition came after
the outside world had speculated he alread'y was, or might be, dead.
The 73-year-old chief of world Communism suffered a brain
hemorrhage Sunday.
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THE NEW BULLETIN said the Soviet leader has arteriosclerosis
in addition to the brain hemorrhage. This is an abnormal hardening
of the arteries.
It also said Stalin's blood circulation trouble has worsened
and that his breathing has also become more labored at times.
The bulletin said Stalin's pulse now is an irregular 108 to 116.
It was reported to have reached 120 soon after his seizure.
The medical announcement said Stalin continued unconscious
during the night. He lapsed into a coma not long after he
was stricken.
He is lying partly paralyzed and speechless.
SOME WESTERN medical men, after studying the medical bul-
letin think it likely the aging Communist leader is already dead.
There was a two-day lag in Moscow's. first announcement
that Stalin was gravely ill.
The outside world-and the Russian people-didn't know for 48
hours that Stalin was lying unconscious from his stroke.. Many
Westerners believe there will be a similar time-lag between Stalin's
WASHINGTON - - Gen. James A. Van Fleet told Congress
yesterday that he believes the draft should be extended from 24 to 301
or 36 months, that the Soviets are not interested now in a "shooting
war" and that only a military victory can end the fighting in Korea.'
Van Fleet said the draft should be extended to "better prepare our
boys to live" through combat, by
training."
With "a little more of what it
Investment
*Plan .Asked
ByJackson
- By MARK READER
A planned and thought out pro-
gram of economic aid is needed in
the world's underdeveloped areas
to achieve security, Barbara Ward
Jackson, first Mott Foundation
* lecturer told an Economics Club
meeting last night.
Mrs. Jackson will deliver her
ti final major address at 8 p.m. to-
day in the Rackham Lecture Hall
oxi "Moral Order In An Uncertain
World."
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THE ASSISTANT editor of the
London "Economist" proposed to
a capacity crowd in the Rackham
Amphitheater, that two per cent of
the national incomes of highly
developed powers would suffice to
maintain a steady momentum of
progress if invested in backward
areas.
"This is not a ruinous figure,"
she maintained.
Mrs. Jackson believedithat these
funds would off-set an increasing
birth'rate which normally lowers
permitting them more and better
takes to fight," he said, the United
States can gain a military triumph
in Korea without necessarily
broadening the war.
THE FIELD commander made
these statements in separate open
and closed meetings with the
House Armed Services and Foreign
Affairs Committees, in a dramatic
review of the Korean campaign.
Chairman Chiperfield (R-Ill.)
said in a statement, the gen-
eral expressed belief American
forces could "be withdrawn in
large numbers from Korea"
only after a military victory per-
mitted the * Americans to turn
over a shorter defense line to
the Koreans which they could
hold with American support.
This statement evidently neant
Van Fleet proposed regaining
enough of North Korea to estab-
lish a semi-permanent defense lineI
across the narrow neck of the
peninsula, from Pyongyang, the
North Korean capital, to Wonsan.
Chiperfield said Van Fleet "was
emphatic in stating that the war
in Korea must end in nothing
short of victory. Anything short of
that would be a defeat. Peace in
the Orient would require the uni-
fication of all, or almost all, of
Korea."
The general added that the Rus-
sian contribution to Communist
foi'ces in Korea "was forcing the
Soviets to take pressure off Eu-
rope and other critical areas,"
Chiperfield said.
By CAL SAMRA4
Daily Editorial Director
The death of Premier Josef
Stalin, anticipated at any time by
Western observers, may be the
signal for a titanic power struggle
within the Russian Communist
Party for control of its reins.
Ostensibly, there are three lead-
ing contenders who aspire to suc-
ceed Stalin as chairman of the
Council of Ministers. They are
Lavrenti P. Beriya, who controls
the MVD, the Soviet state police;
Georgi M. Malenkov, secretary-
general of the CP central commit-'
tee; and V. I. Molotov, vice-pre-
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LAVRENTI BERIYA GEORGI MALENKOV AND PREMIER STALIN
. . . may seize power .. . likeliest successor is Stalin's confident
TIE FOR THIRD PLACE:
Michigan Icers Down Spartans, 8-4
mier.
* * * By PAUL GREENBERG muscle pull with the score tied' centered to Captain Johnny Mat-
THE STRUGGLE for power EAST A to G Daily early in the-second period. chefts who skated across the goal
among these three has been con- EAST LANSING-Classy Geoge * * mouth, faked goalie Gerry BerginM
tinuous in the past years, bu Lucier combined their talents to THE SPARTANS, current cel- out of his pads and slapped the
promises to be magnified with gierhco rinedPthkir taltt lar-dwellers in the Midwest Hock- puck into the twines.
Stalin's defeat imminent. Specu- give the Wolverin over Michigan ey League, threw a scare into the
lation as to which of them will State here last night. Wolverines when they brawled and BELLICOSE Spartan mentor
succeed Stalin or whether they fought their way to a 2-2 tie in the Amo Bessone switched goalies in
will join in a ruling duumvirate Chin netted four goals and got first frame, but the vaunted Michi- the second period putting sopho-
or triumvirate 1s_ futile at this one assist in the penalty-packed gan offense and rugged defense more netminder Jack Shackel-
stage. win, while Lucier turned in a blew the game open in the second ford in to spell Bergin. The strate-
The entire situation is cloud- beautiful job after replacing Wil- period as the Wolverine scored gy backfired, as goals by Ron Mar-
ed by the lack of reliable infor- lard Ikola who retired with a three goals to none for State. tinson, Philpott and Chin sent the
mation. Moreover, it is highly Chin opened the evenings Wolverines out to a 5-2 win at the
difficult to pin-point the well- D 1 scoring when he stick-handled second intermission.
spring of political power in the Police RepoL rthrough the entire MSC defense The two clubs then traded two
Soviet Union. S iland went the length of the ice goals apiece with Chin geting
Does power reside primarily in Thom as tillto score at 12:44. The Spartans both scores for the Maize and
the premier, is much of it held by then fought back to tie and go Blue. The fast-skating junior
the MVD-MGB forces, is it mon- fr Vout in front with two rapid- first flashed the light at 6:10
opolized by the secretary-general 1 neL I iuspect fire scores by Wing Weldon 01- when he and Pat Cooney collab-
of the party, or is it distributed in son. orated on a rapid-fire pass play
such a way that there is a balance Olson later added the fourth to send the Wolverines out to a
of forces within the party? These PoliSertnesttolivehimelgth'ng2tlad
'.a Ji tSpartan goal to give himself the -2 lead.
questions are unanswerable.
the standard of living in under- Hanlon Receives
developed regions. H iln R cie
"Economic forces alone will not
make us invest," she said, "if the
rate of capitalistic advance con-
tinues, supplies of raw materials
will be exhausted and this condi-
tion will force Western powers to
go outside their own frontiers."
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MRS. JACKSON felt "snags"
hindering improvement in the
poorer regions of the world are:
shortages of resources, climatical
differences, inaccessability of raw
materials and sociological prob-
lems existing in various cultures.
The inability of these areas
to save also creates complica-
tions which must be overcome,
she indicated.
"There is something fateful
about the parallel development of
India and China. The Chinese will
use rigorous forms to achieve sav-
ing, but something in the demo-
cratic process in India will pre-
vent saving," Mrs. Jackson mused.
"China may push ahead on the'
basis of brutality and India lag
behind on the basis of toleration,"
she concluded.
Arts Festival
Entries Due
Student entries for a special
exhibit to be held in conjunction
with the Fifth Inter-Arts Festival
from March 8 to 29 may be turned}
Point Four' Post
Dr. John J. Hanlon, former Uni-I
versity professor of public health'
practices, yesterday was named
director of health and sanitation
for the Technical Cooperation Ad-
ministration.
Since last July. Hanlon has been
associate director of the Technical
Cooperation Administration which
directs the "Point Four" program.
Willems Named
To Annapolis
Charles Willems, '54, has been
nominated for appointment to the
Naval Academy at Annapolis by
Rep. Alvin Bentley, (R-Mich.).
Willems is a member of the
Student Legislature.
ACCORDING to many Russian
experts, the foremost contender
is Malenkov. Malenkov, though
comparatively young, has been
long active in the party. He serv-
ed as first assistant to Stalin's
private secretary, became a deputy
member of the politbureau in 1941{
and a full member in 1946.
Now, as secretary-general of
the party, Malenkov is regard-
ed as an energetic, merciless
organizer, exactly the same
qualities which enabled Stalin
to solidify his grip on the party
machinery. Stalin was also sec-
retary-general in the 20's.
Malenkov's main source of
strength is the fact that he has a
great deal of patronage at his dis-
posal-and patronage in the Soviet
Union, as in America, means
power..
The fact that Russian news-
papers recently paid their panegy-
rics to Malenkov has led many
observers to regard him as Stalin's
favorite. To be sure, Malenkov's
name has also appeared high on
the list of CP officials on program
cards, while his sulking face has
been no less obtrusive beside
Stalin's in photographs.
See RED, Page 4
a y t e possiolt L c B n ny
Thomas was the masked gunman"hatVtrick" for his evenngs la-
who invaded an Austin Ave. home bors.
last Thursday, although two nurs- Michigan tied the score at the
es who were in the home could end of the second period when at
not identify him in a police line-{
up yesterday.
Meanwhile, the former Univer-
sity Hospital janitor was arraign-
ed in municipal court yesterday on
charges of felonious assault and
unlawfully driving away an auto-
mobile without intent to steal.
Demanding examination on both
counts, he was remanded to Coun-
ty Jail when he failed to pay
$5,000 cash or property bonds on
each charge. Examination on the
twin charges has been set for
Tuesday.
Prosecutor Edmond F. DeVine
authorized the felonious assault
warrant after Thomas was posi-
tively identified as the assailant
who choked University Hospital
technician, Virginia J. Wrobleski,
at the hospital Saturday.
Union Social Hour
The second of the Union's de-
partmental coffee hours this se-
mester will be held from 4 to 5
p.m. today on the Union Terrace
foi students and faculty of the
speech department.
18:19 Doug Philpott brought the
puck .down the left boards and
EXPULSION:
YR's Amend
Constitution
Young Republicans last night
amended their constitution to al-
low for expulsion of a member by
a two-thirds vote of those present.
upon the recommendation of the
disciplinary committee.
The proposed amendment will
come before the Student Affairs
Committee for approval next Tues-
day.
After the amendment was ac-
cepted, the disciplinary com-
mittee recommended removal of
Bernie Backhaut, '55, from the
club.
The committee charged Back-
haut with "knowingly and will-
fully giving moral and financial
aid to other parties, falsely repre-
senting the aims of the club in
the press and conduct unbecom-
ing a Young Republican."
Backhaut will be given a chance
to dispute the charges at the next
YR meeting when a vote on the
committee's recommendation will
be taken.
Wolverine Club
Calls for Petitions
The deadline for Wolverine Club
petitions is 5 p.m. tomorrow.
Positions available are chair-
manships for special trips, pep
rallies, publicity, special affairs
aA Rlnek 'M' n ona re onen to
Just one minute later Spartan
captain Dick Lord beat Lucier
while Cooney was 'sitting out two
minutes in the penalty box for
tripping. Chin got that score back
in a hurry taking passes from
linemates Doug Mullen and Coon-
ey to knock in his fourth goal of;
the evening.
Olson got his final goal at 14:32
when, after Lucier had spread-
eagled to stop a hard shot by Derio
Nicoli, he plucked off the rebound
and stuck it into the net.
See CHIN, Page 3
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Tickets on Sale
For Trip to MSC
Reservations for the Wolverine
Club sponsored trip' to Saturday's
basketball game in East Lansing
can be made from 1 to 4 p.m. to-
day and tomorrow in the Admin-
istration Bldg.
Bob Golton, '54, club president,
announced that students taking
the Wolverine buses will have ap-
proximately two hours to spend in.
East Lansing after the game.
death and its announcement.
The news that the 73-year-old
world Communist chief lay para-
lyzed and speechless sent waves
of speculation through the West-
ern world.
It also sent Red bosses from the
satellites scurrying to 'Moscow for
an emergency conference.
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IN- WESTERN EYES the Rus-
sian dictator, whom the Vatican
calls "anti-Christ," is at least a
known quantity. The West has
been able to watch him, through
holes in what Winston Churchill
called the Iron Curtain, for three
decades.
In the Vatican, Pope Pius XII
prayed for a better future "for the
oppressed Russian people" and for
the conversion of Stalin.
President Eisenhower expressed
his sympathy to the Russian peo-
ple and voiced the hope that God
will watch over them "regardless
of the identity of government per-
sonalities."
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MEANWHILE, the Council of
Ministers, cabinet of the USSR,
and the Communist Party's Cen-
tral Committee in Moscow an-
nounced that they were "guiding"
the party and country and ex-
pressed confidence that 'the 200
million Soviet people, "in these
difficult days," would rally round.
At the United Nations in
New York yesterday Iron Cur-
tain delegates carried on busi-
ness as usual despite their ob-
vious worry and concern over the
grave illness of their leader.
But the star of the group, Rus-
sian Foreign Minister Andrei Y.
Vishinsky, was absent. Rumors
flew that he was preparing to hur-
ry back home, but other Russians
wouldn't talk and there was no
confirmation.
World News'
Roundup
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON-Senate Repub-
lican Leader Taft of Ohio yester-
day called for a "cooling-off" per-
iod in the bitter'rift over the word-
ing of a resolution denouncing
Soviet Russia's violation of World
War II agreements.
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SEOUL-Tough South Kor-
ean infantrymen-supported by
Allied planes and artillery-re-
gained a scarred height on the
Korean Central Front yesterday
in x 23-hour battle that left al-
most half of the Chinese Com-
munist attackers dead or wound-
ed.
WASHINGTON - Secretary of
State Dulles yesterday settled the
controversial John Carter Vin-
cent loyalty case by permitting the
veteran career diplomat to retire.
BONN, " Germany - The vast
Krupp industrial empire which
armed Germany for three wars
was broken up yesterday.
Alfred Krupp agreed to sell his
family's coal, steel and iron hold-
ings.
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WASHINGTON - President
Eisenhower said yesterday the
nation "must be ready stead-
fastly to meet the worst" that
might happen-an atomic war,
by building a strong, vigilant
civil defense system.
WASHINGTON - A Federal
Court jury trying the perjury case
of Dr. Joseph W. Weinberg-once
called "Scientist X" in a congres-
sional probe of ' atomic spying-
failed to reach a verdict yesterday
after deliberating for five hours.
Weinberg is accused" of falsely
swearing that he had never been
a member of the Communist party.
LANSING-Charging Republi-.
cans with trying to put one over,
House Dem6crats yesterday block-
ed the effect of a bill designed to
give the state treasury and schools
a temporary $20,000,000 boost.
SpringElection.
Petitions Due
Petitioning closes tomorrow for
the spring all-campus aections of
March 31 and April 1.
Petitions are available at the
SL CITIZENSHIP SERIES:
MIXED EMOTIONS:
Sleepy Reactions Vary
As Stalin News Hits
Leadership Problems Demonstrated
By VIRGINIA VOSS
The second Student Legislature
citizenship program took up the
case of autocratic vs. democratic
leadership last night with the aud-
ience for a jury and student dem-
onstrations as evidence.
Main conclusion reached in the
group dynamics session was that
democratically led committees get
persons, who worked with the
interest of the group in mind,
and two "disrupters," who didn't.
Uinder two different types of
leaders, committee members, .each
playing roles unknown to the
other, discussing student apathy
toward extracurricular activities
and improvement of faculty eval-
uations.
in the role of "democratic lead-
er," observers noted that dis-
cussion hinged on ideas rather
than personalities. Constructive
viewpoints, the audience report-
ed, were allowed to flourish un-
der the second committee chair-
man.
The drawbacks of democratic
nnrnfinnc ,wvr niintpd nut in
Fifteen minutes after the news-
paper went to press aty3:30 a.m.
yesterday, a lone copy of The
Daily began to circulate through
a sleepy and unsuspecting Ann Ar-
bor, bearing the world significant
headline, "Stalin Lies Near Death."
By the time newsboys and deal-
ers had distributed their wares to
the public, a score of townspeople
hr alreadv reacted to the news
mented: "All I can say is it's a
pity if he doesn't die."
The more general reaction was.
one of surprise and wariness on
the part of those who read the
issue. "When did it happen?"
"How bad is it?" and "Who will
succeed Stalin?" were the ques-
tions most frequently asked.
A NIGHTla rhnr. havinog heard
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