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VOL. LXIII, No. 105 ANN ARBOR, MICHiGAN, SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1953
FOUR PAGES
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Irack Sw ming
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Teams Seek
OSU, Illinois Pace
Conference Meets
Titles
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Korean War
Supply Lag
Galls Senate
WASHINGTOI4 - (A) - Gen.
James A. Van Fleet's insistence
that GI's fighting in Korea are
plagued by an ammunition short-
age exploded :into a king-sized
uproar last night.
Senators demanded a face-to-
face meeting between the retir-
ing field commander and top Pen-
tagon brass and it seemed likely
that President Eisenhower would
explore the situation himself to-
morrow.
SECRETARY of Defense Wil-
son, declaring he had given the
ammunition question his "urgent"
attention, assured senators that
the Far East Command has
enough ammo to "counter any en-
emy attack in Korea."
A separate investigation was or-
dered by an armed services sub-
committee on appropriations, with
Sen. Ferguson (R-Mich) demand-
ing to know why any shortage
should exist when there has been
enough money at the armed
forces' command.
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VAN FLEET has an appoint-
ment to see Eisenhower at the
White House this morning. Press
Secretary James C. Hagerty said
the meeting was arranged earlier
in the week and had no connection
with Van Fleet's testimony about
ammunition shortages.
But it seemed unlikely that
Eisenhower, who spent a good
part of his life grappling with
military supply problems, would
pass up a chance to ask Van
Fleet how about it.
SSecretary Wilson's reassurances
were contained in a letter to
airman Saltonstall (R-Mass) of
the Senate Armed Services Com-
mittee.
WILSON said he would appear
before the committee Tuesday
with a "factual" reply. He said
he would be accompanied by Sec-
retary of the Army Stevens, Gen.
J. Lawton Collins, Army chief of
staff, and Van Fleet, retiring com-
mander of the Eighth Army.
Sen. Humphrey (D-Minn),
declaring there has been "en-
tirely too much loose talk by
some of these generals," urged
that Van Fleet and Bradley be
brought together before a Sen-
ate committee.
Humphrey said Van Fleet's tes-
timony before the armed services
and appropriations committees
was in direct conflict with what
Bradley had told the foreign re-
lations commitee.
Barbara Ward
Jackson Ends~
Michigan Visit
Terminating her week long visit
to the University yesterday with a
series of discussions and teas, Bar-
bara Ward Jackson, assistant edi-
tor of the London "Economist,"
left by plane for New York early
this morning.
Referring to her hectic schedule
while staying in Ann Arbor, Mrs.
Jackson said before leaving, "What
part of me is left, will return to
London sometime next week."
The noted Englishwoman who
inaugurated the Mott Foundation
lecture series delivered two major
addresses while at the University.
Minor speeches before clubs, tours
-waily-Betsy Smith
JIM HAAS (2) MIXES IT UP ALONG THE. BOARDS
'M' .Pucks ters Win, 8-3;
Clinch Second Place Tie
By DAVE BAAD
Scoring at least twice in each period, Michigan's rebounding
hockey team skated to an easy 8-3 decision over Michigan Tech at
the Coliseum last night to move into a second place tie with North
Dakota in the Midwest Hockey League.
The win put the Wolverines only one point behind league leading
Minnesota, and if they beat the Engineers again tonight a trip Wed-
nesday to the NCAA tournament at Colorado Springs is assured.
The outcome of the game was never in doubt after Michigan
raced into a 3-0 lead in the first period. The clinching fourth goal
came early in the second stanza
T1 and after that Vic Heyliger's crew
f t-H a rt1't V coasted into victory.
Track -
By ED SMITH
Special to The Daily
CHAMPAIGN - Establishing
themselves as the slight favorite
in the Western Conference track
and field championships, Illinois
qualified 13 men to Michigan's
nine before a sparse crowd here
last pight.
Michigan State followed with
seven qualifiers, while Iowa, Ohio
State, Wisconsin, Indiana, Pur-
due, Northwestern, and Minnesota
trailed in that order.
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THE &LLINA showed their ex-
pected strength in the dash and
the hurdles while Michigan placed
most of its men in the middle dis-
tance events.
Wolverine John Vallortigara
started things off by turning in
his fastest time, :06.3, in the 60-
yard dash to qualify along with
Ross Coates of Michigan. Val-
lortigara shared honors with
Harland Carl, Wisconsin foot-
ball!stare for the best time In
the event.
Van Bruner showed his heels to
the Big Ten's best in the low and
high hurdles, 'running the highs
in the fastest time of :08.5 and ty-
ing Joe Corley of Illinois in the
lows with :08.0.
BRUNER finished in front of
Willie Williams of Illinois, the de-
fending champion, as they op-
posed each other in the same heat
in the lows. Wolverine .Jim Love
also qualified in the highs.
In the 880 Goeff Dooley sur-
prised by qualifying behind Can-
adian John Ross who posted the
See TRACK, Page 3
Class Officers
MeetingToday
University Vice-'resident, Mar-
vin L. Niehuss, will be the principle
speaker at the 27th Annual Class
Officers Council meeting at 12:15
p.m. today in Rm. 3 R and S of
the Union.
The meeting, expected to be at-
tended by about 100 class officers
from classes still on campus as
well as those which have grad-
uated, will consist of a workshop
session in the morning and an
afternoon business meeting.
Planning for class reunions in
June will be emphasized. at this
workshop, the fifth of its kind.
The Class Officers Council, a
unit of the Alumni Association, is
made up of about 1,000 class of-
ficers.
TSwmping -
By DICK SEWELL
Associate Sports Editor
IOWA CITY - (Special) - The
expected two-way battle between
Michigan and Ohio State began
to materialize here last night as
the two teams moved far ahead of
the pack in the race for Western
Conference swimming laurels.
At the end of seven of the four-
teen .events on the program, the
team totals stand: Ohio State 55,
Michigan 41, Michigan State 23,
Northwestern 19, Iowa 18, Purdue
8, Illinois 5, Wisconsin 3, Indiana
2, Minnesota 2.
Wolverine victories came in the
220-yard freestyle, and the 400-
yard freestyle relay. Scarlet and
Grey natators splashed home first.
in the 200-yard backstroke, 200-
yard breast stroke, and one-meter
diving.
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THE FIRST race 'of the evening
was also the closest. Michigan's
Don Hill was nosed out by an inch
by unheralded Keith Peterson of
Northwestern. Peterson got the
Jump and led by two feet at the
turn. Hill gained on the turn and
drew to within an eyelash of the
Wildcat swiftly at the finish. Iowa's
Dick Pennington finished third.
Peterson's winning time was
23.1, the same time recorded for
Hill and Pennington.
The biggest surprise in this event
came in theafternoon preliminary
sessions when defending champion'
Dick Cleveland of Ohio State was
eliminated in the semifinals. The
Buckeye, who had just recently re-
covered from a case of the mumps
finished fourth in the heat won
by Hill.
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OLYMPIC winner Yoshi Oya-
kawa won by five yards in his fav-
orite - the 200-yard backstroke.
The easy-going Hawaiian led from
the start and gradually increased
his lead. John Chase finished fifth
for Michigan.
See SWIMMING, Page 3
SL Guild Film
To Continue Run
Showings of the motion picture
adaptation of the Shakespearean
comedy "As You Like It," will be
continued at 7 and 9:15 p.m.
today, and at 8 p.m. on Sun-
day in the Architecture Auditor-
ium by the Student Legislature
.Cinema Guild.
Elizabeth Bergner and Laur-
ence Olivier play the leading roles
in this witty and clever Shakes-
pearean film. Accompanying the
feature will be a pair of Walt
Disney cartoons. Admission is 50
cents.
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Petitions
Students who took out peti-
tions for the spring all-campus
elections are urged by Student
Legislature election committee
members to return them to the
SL Bldg. immediately.
Deadline for returning all pe-
titions for the more than 40
posts open in the elections was
yesterday. A number of them
are still out.
U.S. Views
New Soviet
Rule Warily
WASHINGTON - (A) - Con-
gress members generally agreed
yesterday that the emergence of
Georgi Malenkov as Soviet Pre-
mier Stalin's successor portends
little good for the Western world
and could heighten the danger of
World War III.
President Eisenhower had ono
comment.
ON CAPITOL Hill, Senate and
House members took a gloomy
view on the chances for any im-
provement in Ea st-West rela-
tions as a result of Stalin's death
and the elevation of Malenkov as
the new Soviet dictator.
Typical comment ranged from
predictions that Malenkov will
be even "tougher" than Stalin
to warnings that the United
States must keepits guard up.
Here is what they said:
Sen. Kefauver (D-Tenn): "Mal.
enkov is really more dangerous
than Stalin because he doesn't
know as much about the power of
the Western world as Stalin did."
Sen. Ferguson (R-Mich): "The
new Soviet leadership means a
continuation of the Joe Stalin con-
spiracy. It offers little hope of
peace."
Sen. Jackson (D-Wash) de-
scribed Malenkov and two of his
top aides, L. P. Beria and V. M.
Molotov, as "more aggressive-
ly anti-American than Stalin"
and said: "It doesn't bode well
for peace."
Sen. Wiley (R-Wis), chairman
of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee: "We can only hope
and pray that the new rulers will
abandon their drive for world
domination and learn to live in
peace with other nations."
World News
Roundup
By The AMsociated Press
SEOUL - Dogged South Kore-
ans smashed five Chinese attacks
against a small outpost on Sniper
Ridge yesterday and cut down an
estimated 104 of the attackers in
savage hand-to-hand combat.
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WASHINGTON - Arthur S.
Fleming, acting defense mobiliz-
er, yesterday called on all holdover
Democrats in policy-making jobs
to resign and make room for Re-
publican appointees.
He said they should do this re-
gardless of whether they have civ-
il service status.
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DETROIT - A wildcat strike
of 200 Budd Co. employes which
idled 20,000 Chrysler Corp.
workers for two days, ended late
yesterday afternoon in compli-
ance with orders from the CIO
United Auto Workers Union.
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Kremlin Shuffles
SovietHierarchy
Vishinsky Dropped; Molotov Takes
Strategic Post as Foreign Minister
By The Associated Press
Georgi M. Malenkov was named Prime Minister of the Soviet
Union yesterday to succeed Joseph Stalin.
.Malenkov has long has been one of Stalin's closest collaborators
in running the Communist party, and had been considered his most
likely successor.
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AT THE SAME TIME a communique of the Central Committee
of the Communist Party, the' Council of Ministers and the Presidium
GEORGI M. MALENKOV
* * *
"'announbed big streamlining
changes in the government ,as
thousands of people pressed to the
Hall of Coluns to pay a last trib-
ute to Stalin.
The announcement said the
changes were necessary to as-
sure "uninterrupted and correct
leadership" of the country and
prevent "an kind of disarray and
panic" following Stalin's death.
These changes were announced:
V. M. Molotov, former Prime
Minister, moved back into the post
of foreign minister where, he be-
came so well known in long con-
ferences with Western statesmen
after World War II.
He replaced Andrei Vishinsky,
who became permanent represen-
tative to the United Nations. (Some
diplomats saw the change as a
sign that Russia's UN policy
might become even tougher than
in the past.)
ANDREI GROMYKO, former
representative at the UN, left Lon-
don by plane for New York to fill
Vishinsky's place during his ab-
sence in Moscow.
L. P. Beria, long head of the
Soviet Union's political police,
was named interior minister
and head of the Ministry of
State Security which wag com-
bined with it. He presumably
remains boss of the secret Do-
lice and Russia's atomic ener-
gy program,
Marshal Klementi Voroshilov,
a vice-premier, was named chair-
man of the Presidium of the Su-
preme Soviet Parliament in the
place of Nikolai Shvernik.
Compromise
Unsuccessful
WASHINGTON - (A) - An ad-
ministration attempt to get in-
dustry and labor to compromise
their differences on the Taft-Hart-
ley Act collapsed yesterday.
A 15-member advisory commit-
tee named by Secretary of Labor
Martin P. Durkin at President
Eisenhower's suggestion broke up
in hot disagreement.
The five industry members re-
fused to go along with rules adopt-
ed by the five labor and five public
members requiring that the com-
mittee take a nose-count vote on
all controversial points.
The industry members, headed
by Adm. Ben Moreell, chairman of
the Jones & Laughlin Steel Com-
pany, took the position that bind-
ing votes by the advisory commit-
tee would encroach on the legis-
lative field.
George Meany, president of the
AFL, fired back a hot statement
that industry's position was "in-
defensible."
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PAT COONEY, George Chin and
Doug Philpott paced the Wolverine
offensive efforts, each notching
two goals. Chin added a pair of
assists to give him four points,
the top Wolverine individual effort
for the night.
The colorful forward was in-
jured midway in the third per-
iod when Lloyd Rautiola, Tech
wingman charged into him as
he was coming down the ice.
Chin was knocked out and had
to be carried from the ice.
See HOCKEY, Page 3
Mimes Elect New
Slate of Officers
New officers for the coming
school year have been elected by
Mimes, honorary society for Union
Opera members.
Harry Blum, '54BAd, was elect-
ed president, with Ken Rice,
'54A&D filling the vice-president
spot.,Secretary-treasurer is Doug
Povenz, '54BAd, and Jim Mills,
'55, is the new historian.
V. M. MOLOTOV
No Comment
By Vishinsky
NEW YORK - (YP) - Andrei Y.
Vishinaky; demoted from the post
of Russian foreign minister, said
yesterday he had no comment on
the selection of Georgi M. Mal-
enkov as Premier Stalin's succes-
sor.
"That's the- first time I heard
about it," remarked Vishinsky as
reporters informed him of Malen-
kov's selection.
Asked how he thought Malen-
kov's ascension would affect So-
viet polices, Vishinsky said, "No
comment."
MARSHAL NIKOLAI Bulganin,
named minister of the armed
forces in place of A. M. Vasilev-
sky, pledged in his first order, of
the day to strengthen the Soviet
Army's fighting might. He said
the army will keep "vigilant guard
over the USSR state's interests."
Vgslivesky,,and Marshal Geor
gi Zhukov, the first Soviet com-
mander in occupied Germany,
were made Bulganin's deputy
war ministers.
A session of the Supreme ~So-
viet was ordered to convene in
Moscow Saturday, March 14 to
consider the decisions reached at
a joint sitting of the Central Com-
mittee, the Council of Ministers
and the Presidium.
Funeral services for Joseph Stal-
in will be at noon Monday, and his
body will be placed on view next
to that of Lenin in the mausoleum
on Red Square.
DANCE, DRAMA, COMEDY:
One-Acts Make Spring Debut Tonight
PHENOMENAL RISE:
Strong Man, of Russia
Seen as Party Zealot
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By PAT ROELOFS
Dance, drama and comedy will
be featured in the Speech Depart-
ment one act plays to be present-
ed at 8 p.m. today and Monday
in Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre.
Opening the program is French
playwright J e a n Giraudoux's
"Madwoman of Chaillot." Origi-
nally written in three acts, only
the first act will be performed.
number on the bill. A British pro-
vincial comedy set at the turn of
the century, the play was written
by Stanley Haughton.
Lois Wasserman, '54; Virginia
Spurrier, '54; and Dale Stevenson,
'54, are cast in the show.
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AN UNUSUAL dance panto-
mine, performed in Oriental cos-
tume and accompanied in tradi-
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
WASHINGTON - (/0) - Georgi
Malenkov, Premier Stalin's rotund
protege, emerged with stunning
speed yeste day as the potential, if
not fully established, new strong
man of the Soviet Communist em-
pire.
His appointment as chairman of
the Council of Ministers, the key
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the virtual deification of Stalin
and his domination of the Soviet
and satellite leaderships.
While the significance of the
new line-up will be a subject of
probing and analysis on the part
of authorities here for months
to come, two conclusions appear
to be tentatively justified:
1. The speed with which Mal-
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