EDITOR'S NOTE See Page 4 C I i 4c Latest Deadline in the State att CLOUDY, WARMER VOL. LXIII, No. 108 ANN ARBOR, MICNIGAN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1953 SIX PAGES SL Granted New Authority by SAC Group Constitutions Will Be Viewed By SL, but SAC Keeps Final Power By CRAWFORD YOUNG Daily Managing Editor Student Legislature was awarded a significant new function yes- terday, as the Student Affairs Committee delegated in large measure its constitution-approving role. With one dissenting vote, the SAC moved to divest itself of a function which had proved time-consuming and annoying to the group, retaining the power of ultimate review of the constitutions. The new method will be on trial for the remainder of the semester. AN SL COMMITTEE will now go through the prelininary steps .'of accepting constitutions and rec- M' Sextet Communist Local Clergy Discuss New Velde Probe By MARTHA POPO Local clergymen gave opposite views yesterday when questioned on the investigation of the clergy by the House Un-American Activi- ties Committee suggested by Chairman Harold H. Velde (R- Ill.) , Velde's remarks, made Monday during a radio interview, led to the expectation that such an in- vestigation might be forthcoming According to the Associated Press Velde said yesterday that he does not plan to launch a hunt for Communists among the clergy "at this time." Several members of the Velde committee had regist- ered strong opposition to such a probe. * * * REV. FATHER Frank J. Mc- Phillips, of St. Mary's Chapel, didn't seem to oppose investiga- tions of this sort. "I wouldn't mind being inves- tigated at all," he said. "Any- one who objects to 'being ques- tioned probably has some doubts as to his own loyalty." Father McPhillips said he fav- ored an investigation of clergy because many subversive groups can work under the guise of re- ligion and should be watched. THE OPPOSITE view was given by Rev. Leonard Parr, of the First Congregational Church. "Men like Velde and McCarthy are out for notority and I have no time for their investigations," Rev. Parr said. Velde said he was afraid that his remark Monday night had been misinterpreted, "All I said was that it is within the realm of possibility that individual clergymen might be investigat- ed." Velde, who is now investigating Communists in education said it was entirely possible that the in- vestigation could get into the church field. He said such an in- vestigation should not be of churches, but of the churchmen, "including some who seem to have devoted more time to politics than they have to the ministry." Meader Acts In Li Case Rep. George Meader's introduc- tion of a private bill to the House of Representatives yesterday auto- matically delays action on the de- portation order regarding Dr. Vera, Hsi-Yen Wang Liu of the Univer- sity Hospital's pediatric depart- ment, according to Dr. Liu. The delay in deportation pro- ceedings will allow time for the Immigration Service to reverse its decision that Dr. Liu must leave the country by April 4 because-her student visa expired, making the actual passing of the bill un- necessary, the pediatrician said. ognizing newly formed campus groups. Final recognition will oc- cur when SAC officially approves the constitutions as worked out by the group with the advice of SL. The decision was regarded by SL leaders as a milestone in the growth of administration faith in the student government. Howard Willens, '53, SL presi- dent, commenting on the change, said "It is only logical that the student government should assist in the function of coordination of student groups by participating in the recognition process." The possibility of such a move long sought by SL, had been dis- cussed informally at irregular intervals through the fall. it became a reality yesterday when the SL representatives on SAC, Willens and Sue Popkin, '54, . presented a brief urging adop- tion of the revised procedure. Three reasons were cited for the Schange: 1) The SAC has been bogged down in small details of prelimi- nary review, when its time might be better spent in consideration of problems of boarder importance to the campus. 2) The sub-committee estab- lished by SAC to do the bulk of the work has performed inade- quately, because the student mem- bers are not ,able, owing to their campus positions, to give this job the time and patience it requires. 3) SL has the available person- nel, facilities, and desire to do the tedious work. * * * IBackhaut Case Ended In SAC Conference The Young Republican-Bernie1 Backhaut feud was brought to an9 abrupt halt yesterday. The Student Affairs Committee accompanied approval of a YR constitutional amendment allow- ing expulsion of members with a directive to the organization de- claring that the amendment could not be an ex post facto weapon against Backhaut, controversial Daily letter-writer. * * * ACCORDING to Jasper Reid,t Grad, YR president, the groupI will comply with the SAC ruling and drop the proceedings whiche had been initiated against thet vocal Backhaut. "The decision ist a fair one," he added. Two minor revisions of the9 amendment were also requested byv SAC. A three-fourths vote for ex- pulsion was asked instead of the1 two-thirds majority proposed byJ YR, and a seven day waiting per- iod between the meeting where the charges were preferred and the trial of the recalcitrant mem- ber was suggested.n See BACKHAUT, Page 6 t] Senior Ball Date t The Senior Board announced last night that the Senior Ball I will be held May 29 in the Leaguev ballroom. The band will be an-e nounced at a later date. Heads West For Playoffs Seeks To Retain NCAA Laurels Michigan's injury plagued hock ey teaih, which last weeken fought its way into a first plac tie in the final Midwest Hocke League standings, leaves today fo Colorado Springs and a possibl third straight National Collegiat hockey title. The fourteen man squad will de part from in front of the Unior at 12:30 p.m. THIS TRIP marks the sixt straight year that Vic Heyliger's hockey teams have qualified foi the NCAA championships, and the Wolverines are shooting foi their fourth title. Michigan opens its portion of the festivities Friday night, en- gaging Boston University's Ter- riers, one of the top teams of the East. The Terriers, who failed to get past the first round in their only other appearance in the tournament, have racked up nineteen victories this win- ter against only four defeats. Minnesota, co-titlists in the Midwest League clashes with Ren- sselaer Polytechnic Institute in the opening playoff game Thurs- day evening. * * * THE TWO winners play Satur- day night for the championship, with the losers meeting for third place honors in an afternoon con- test. Although several Michigan players are nursing bruises as a result of the rugged Michigan Tech series, all of them should be ready for the opening face- off, Friday. See WOLVERINE, Page 3 Ho us eOK 's Hawaii Bill WASHINGTON- (A - The House yesterday approved a bill to make. Hawaii the 49th state in the Union. On a roll call vote of 274-138, it sent the measure along to the Sen- ate. President Eisenhower favors the legislation. s ." DEMOCRATIC leaders in the House almost succeeded in sending the bill back to committee because it does not also provide statehood for Alaska. Their recommital mo- tion was defeated, however, 227- 182. This is the third time the House has approved statehood for Hawaii. Two previous bills, calling for the admission of both Hawaii and Alaska, died in the Senate. Before ,yesterday's final vote the House agreed to cut Hawaii's representation in the House from two members to one. It also adopt- ed an amendment requiring con- gressional approval of the consti- tution to be adopted by the Ha- waiian state government. A total of 177 Republicans and 97 Democrats supported the Ha- waiian bill on passage. Former Governor Groesbeck Dies DETROIT-(P)-Former Gover- nor Alexander J. Groesbeck, 79, three-term Republican chief exe- cutive of Michigan, died yesterday in a Detroit hospital of conges- tive heart failure. He served as governor from 1921 to 1927, his tenture marked by vigorous activity during which he changed the entire system of state government. U.*S. Jet Over Germany . panel Hits Red Probes In Schools By VIRGINIA VOSS Nearly 200 persons assembled at last night's third Student Citizen- ship program heard a panel of four issue a concerted condemna- tion of current Congressional in- vestigations of Communism in the education field. While differing over concepts of "academic freedom" and ac- cepting Congress' right to inves- tigate, panel members unanimous- ly felt that present investigations were falling short of their goals. SPEAKING IN the Student Leg- islature-sponsored discussion of academic freedom were visiting Prof. Henry D. Aiken of the phil- osophy department, Prof. Jamesi K. Pollock of the political science department, Prof. Preston Slosson of the history department and Al Lowenstein, Yale law student who was formerly president of the Na- tional Student Association. In the heated, often witty de- bate, Prof. Aiken described the present intellectual environment of the nation as one moving to- ward orthodoxy and a "fear of the intellectual in general." Prof. Slosson concurred with Prof. Aiken in the belief that "no university can sit by and watch the investigation of other univer- sities" without protest. THOUGH Prof. Pollock felt that current probes would not so di- rectly affect this University, he noted that "as a political scien- tist, I disagree with the present investigations." Lowenstein objected to inves- tigators' notion that they could, by questioning, determine who is or is not teaching Commun- ism. See FACULTY, Page 6 -Daily-Don Campbell CRANE CLEARS WRECKAGE OF GRAND RAPIDS-BOUND VREIGHT * * .* * * * o * MIGs Down !- I By SID KLAUS Associate City Editor HOWELL--Two giant railroad cranes today were clearing wreck- age of a Grand Rapids- bound freight which piled up here early yesterday morning, just a block from the depot. Thirty-eight of the 103 cars in the Chesapeake and Ohio train leaped from the tracks as the freight raced through the southern edge of the city at 7:20 a.m. A WITNESS to the crack-up, Station Agent Henry Branch, said Asian Nations Living Better Says Costello Rainy Night The weather was fair outside but for the members of Alpha Epsilon Phi sorority it was raining inside last night. Slickers and boots were donned for protection against the "rain" coming through the ceiling as a result of burst pipes. No water is available anywhere in the house with the exception of three inches on the floor. IHC Hits Plans For Rent Hike Roger Kidston, '54, East Quad president, charged that the Board of Governors might be breaking faith with quad residents if they go ahead with plans for a resi- dence hall rent hike. At the Inter-House Council meeting last night, Kidston went explained that protests were the result of a similar rent raise made last year without first consulting residence hall leaders. Quad resi- dents had been assured that such action wouldn't be repeated. Kidston therefore moved that "the IHC go on record as opposing any final action on the rate change by the Board of Governors until the IHC is informed as to the need for the change." the derailment was caused by a broken wheel. "Just as the train passed the depot a huge chunk of wheel dropped off one of the cars in the middle section," he said. Only the center of the train was derailed-the engine and cars at either end of the train remained upright and undamaged. None of the five-man crew was injured. Branch estimated that the train was travelling at 50 miles per hour when it passed -the station. Mounds of coal littered the torn road-bed alongside the twisted steel remains of the many coal laden cars. Cans of orange juice were strewn around on overturned box car. By noon, wrecking crews had already begunclearing the single track and telephone company em- ployees were repairing the 10 util- ity poles which were leveled by im- pact. * * * RAILROAD officials said that service along the line would prob- Cancer Grant Given To 'U' The University's cancer research program has received a $20,000 American Cancer Society Insti- tutional Grant, Dean Albert C. Furstenberg of the Medical School announced yesterday. ably be restored this afternoon. They would make no estimate as to the amourt of the damage.- The scene of the wreck attract- ed hundreds of curious spectators, many of whom remained through- out the afternoon watching the cleanup. State police roped off the area, when it became apparent that some of the town youngsters were carting off the cans of fruit juice. KU.' To Present Bach Chorale At Hill Friday One of the University music school's most involved productions, Bach's "Passion of Our Lord Ac- cording to St. Matthew," will be presented at 8 p.m. Friday in Hill Auditorium. Sixteen hundred students from 31 Michigan high schools, mem- bers of the University Choir, Can- danto Club from Ann Arbor high school, Women's Glee Club, Uni- versity Orchestra and Ann Arbor Civic Orchestra will perform one of the greatest masterpieces of musical literature. Prof. Maynard Klein of the music school, coordinator of the program will conduct 45 members of the two orchestras and 260 Uni- versity Choir singers on the stage. U.S. orders Strong Note To Prague Conant Protests Border Violation WIESBADE, Germany - (1) - Two Communist MIG 15's roared out of Czechoslovakia yesterday and shot down an American F84 Thunderjet on routine patrol over the U.S. zone of Germany, the U.S. Air Force announced. Another American fighter plane escaped the chattering guns. * * * LT. WARREN B. Brown of Hen- derson, Colo., emerged with only scratches as he parachuted into a Bavarian woods 15 miles from the Czech frontier. His F84, an early type of jet outclassed by the So- viet-built MIG15s for at least three years, crashed and burned out. Lt. Donald C. Smith, of Marys- ville, O., Brown's flying mate on the patrol, flew back in the second F84 to the Fuerstenfeld- bruck Air Base, near Munich, without having fired a shot. U.S. High Commissioner James B. Conant denounced the attack as "a grave incident, a gross vio- lation of the U.S. zone border by satellite or Soviet aircraft." THE UNITED States govern- ment ordered the U.S. ambassador to Prague, George Wadsworth, to draw up in his own words "the strongest possible protest to Czech- oslovakia's Communist govern- ment. President Eisenhower's press secretary, James C. Hagerty, said in reply to a question that the White House had no com- ment. Secretary of State Dulles, ar- riving at WashingtonAirport from a week-end trip to UN headquar- ters at New York, told reporters there: "We take a serious view of the situation and have instructed our ambassador in Prague to make the strongest possible representation. Meanwhile we are looking into the situation further." Rubinstein To Perform Tomorrow- World-famous pianist Artur Ru- binstein, currently on his 16th con- secutive tour of the United States, will appear at 8:30 p.m. tomorrow in Hill Audtorium. For his fifth Ann Arbor per- formance, Rubinstein will play Franck's "Prelude, Choral and Fugue"; Chopin's "Sonata in B minor, Op. 58"; Debussy's "Pre- lude in A minor," "Poissons d'or" and "La Fille aux cheveux de lin." The program will also include Ravel's "Ondine," Villa - Lobos' "Prole do Bebe," and Liszt's "Valse Oubliee" and "Hungarian Rhap- sody No. 12 in C-Sharp major." THE WARSAW-BORN pianist came to America in 1906 and gave his first Carnegie Hall concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Since then he has covered more than two million wiles and played concerts in every country in the world except Tibet. Tickets for the Choral Union concert will be on sale from 9 to 11:45 a.m. and from 1 to 4:45 p.m. daily in the Burton Tower offices of the University Musical Society. Thomas Hearing Moved to Today A crowded municipal court agenda forced postponement of the examination of Benny Thomas from yesterday to 9 a.m. today. By JOEL BENGER Asian nations are today exper- iencing a renaissance from de- gradation to a new and more de- cent way of living, according to William Costello. The Far Eastern News Bureau Chief for CBS said in a journalism lecture series talk at Rackham Am- phitheater yesterday that "Asia is now passing through the valley of the shadow. Asians are trying to make up in a hurry the 150 years that left them behind the rest of the world." COSTELLO said the greatest tragedy in Asia today is the fact that Asians want independence, but are afraid of the consequences with Russia in the picture. "However, Costello said, "if Communist attacks, the Eastern nations will fight." Already, he continued, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Persia have quiet- ly formed a confederation to "pro- tect the soft underbelly of Asia from Communist aggression. This- may someday be the keystone of Middle Eastern defense." Israel, Costello stated, is split by so many emotions that solution of the problem is practically im- 7ossible at present. "In this pow- 'der keg region, both the Arabs and Jews are doing themselves irreparable harm," he added. Chiang Kai-shek's army on For- mosa isn't nearly as formidable as the public has been led to be- lieve, according to the newscaster. Arts Theater Club .( .1 t 'U', 136TH ANNIVERSARY: CRACKDOWN ON BINGO, RAFFLES: Local Groups Seek Legal Gambling) Hong Kong Graduates To Celebrate_ Birthday By ERIC VETTER As local alarm clocks begin ringing next Wednesday morning, the University of Michigan Alumni Club of Hong Kong will begin cele- brating the 136 anniversary of the University's founding. The Hong Kong birthday party will start at 7 p.m. Hong Kong time (6 a.m. Ann Arbor time). The clubs 45 members will hold a ban- quet where Jack Y. H. Yoen, '32, president of the club, will speak. DESPITE THE 13 hour jump on the United States, the Hong Kong group will not be the first to celebrate the University's found- ing. Any party held within a week of March 18 is considered official by the University. Bob Morgan, assistant alumni director, said this is because Unicersity officials, administrators, faculty members and stu- dents would be unable to meet requests for appearances if all the celebrations were held on March 18. The Ann Arbor Congressman, whoapreviously had expressed re- luctance to file such a bill, took action after an investigation led him to the conclusion that the pressure of time did not permit any other alternative. By HARRY LUNN Prosecutor Edmond F. DeVine's crackdown on bingo and raffles in the county has aroused leaders of local clubs and fraternal orders to seek nassage of a state law tn l- force the law rigorously, accord- ing to Frank Kildau, chairman of the group fighting for more lib- eral legislation. Many of the 41 organizations Vine other than bingo and raffles "are against the law and must be treated as any other form of gambling."