BEHIND THE LINES See Pase 4 YI rL Latest Deadline in the State Da1t SCATTERED SHOWERS VOL. LXII, No. 112 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, MARCH 15, 1953 Daily Calls Moscow-'That's G-e-o-r-g-i, Op SIX PAGES erator Can you call Georgi Malenkov? The Daily tried to phone Russia's new premier early yesterday! morning. Result: 65 cents toll charge, three hours and forty-five minutes F of time, a chaotic repartee with four operators on both sides of the Atlantic and a word of greeting from a famed correspondent behind the iron curtain. * * * * ALTHOUGH the call never got through to Malenkov, Russian major Jerry Wisniewski, '53, who handled the job for The Daily, cut his way through a series of brush-offs and wire tangles with a morn- ing's worth of persistence. phone number, he got a good whiff of Soviet bureaucracy and the trials of modern communication. With an ear pressed to the same phone receiver, Daily City Editor Barnes Connable, '53, scribbled down the conversation which follows. * * * * 7:59 A.M. (3:59 p.m. Moscow time) Wisniewski: How do you do. I would like to place a call to Georgi Malenkov in the Kremlin, Moscow. I don't know the exact num- ber. This is The Michigan Daily calling. Operator: Just a minute . .. What is that city, sir? Is that in the United States? Op: No, sir. I'll call you back in a few minutes. 8:05 A.M. (4:05 p.m. Moscow time) Wis: How do you do. Op: Are you the party that's calling Moscow? Wis: Yes, thank you. Op: Can you give us additional information? Wis: This is The Michigan Daily calling. I can't give you his exact address. This is in Moscow, Russia. I'll spell his name. Georgi is the first name. G - as in good - e-o-r-g-i. Op: What is that, sir? G-o? Wis: G-e-o-r-g-i. The second name is Malehkov - M-a-1-e-n-k-o-v. Op: Yes, sir, but - Wis: I think you will get him if you call the Kremlin. Op: Hello, operator, did you get the spelling? Overseas Operator: Yes, I did, but our service to Moscow is not open until 9 o'clock. It's open between 9 and 11. We'll call you back. Op: All right. This is operator - in Ann Arbor. I have a filing at 7:59. What is your name, sir? Wis: The name of the party is Al Connable - C-o-n-n-a-b-1-e. Op: Connable. Did you get his name, operator? Overseas Op: Yes, I did. We'll call you back. Wis: Will you call back or shall I call you? Op: We'll call you back, sir. Wis: Thank you. Good-bye. * * * * 8:45 A.M. (4:45 p.m. Moscow time) Wis: How do you do. Ov: Hello. This is the overseas operator. The telephone in Moscow is not published. It does not answer. Wis: You haven't tried, have you? Ov: Yes, I have. I'm giving you a report. Wis: Can one call to the Soviet Union at all? Ov: What's that? Wis: I say, can one call to the ,Soviet Union at all? See MOSCOW, Page 2 i _ } Speaking with a pronounced Slavic accent, Wisniewski got Wis: In Moscow. This is in Russia, not in the United States, please. successfully past the Ann Arbor and overseas operators only to Op: What is your name and number? be snarled in Red tape with a curt and confused Moscow operator. Wis: This is The Michigan Daily, 2-3241, extension 33. Wisniewski never came close to asking the Communist chief a Op: Thank you. I'll call you back, sir. set of prepared questions. But in his vocal search for the Kremlin's Wis: How long you are calling back? Not too long, please? 4' S Purge Hinted In Gottwald's Quick Death ' Soviet Expert Adds New Facts A University Soviet government expert last night added fuel to Western speculation that the death of Czechoslovak President Kle- ment Gottwald yesterday was Kremlin-instigated. Announcement from Prague of the death of East Europe's most powerful satellite leader was not the first notice that Gottwald's life had been endangered, accord- ing to Prof. James H. Meisel of the political science department. s S s TESTIMONY BY Rudolf Slan- sky at Czech purge trials last-No- vember included a denouncement of a Dr. Haskovitz who had at- tempted to shorten Gottwald's life, Prof. Meisel pointed out. Though he drew no conclus- ions from the Slansky statement, Prof. Meisel asserted that the purged Czech Communist Party official must have been instruct- ed by his accusers to make public the attempt on Gottwald's life. Prof. Meisel noted a parallel be- tween the Slansky testimony and the Kremlin's accusations in Jan- JointAlliedNote Sent to Russia U.S., Britain, France Label Red Air Attacks 'Deplorable' in New Protest By The Associated Press United States, British and French High Commissioners accused the Russians yesterday of a "deplorable departure from the standards of humanity" in fighter forays against three British aircraft in less than 12 hours Thursday. In' a joint note of protest sent to Gen. Vassily I. Chukov, Soviet Commander-in-chief in Berlin, the High Commissioners described as "entirely unjustified" the destruction of a four-engine Lincoln bomber on the East-West German border, a mock attack by MIG fighters on another British bomber near Kassel in the U.S. Occupation Zone and buzzing of a British European- aI Ike's Cabinet Plan Receives AMA Support WASHINGTON- ) -Ameri- can Medical Association delegates yesterday endorsed President Eis- enhower's plan to lift the govern- ment Health and Security Agency to Cabinet status, but kept their goal of a separate department of health. The House of Delegates, after warmly receiving a brief and un-' precedented address by the Pres- ident, voted down a motion to give "unqualified support" to his pro- posal. Instead they adopted a reso- lution calling it a "step in the right direction" and offering to support it as just that. THE ACTION came after a plea by Senate Republican leader Taft of Ohio, who also addressed the AMA governing body, for support of the plan. President Eisenhower, in his informal talk to the delegates promised that the Federal Gov- ernment would cooperate with them and not try to be a "big poobah" in the medical field. He said: "The medical profession will provide the kind of services our country needs better, with the co- operation and the friendship of the Administration rather than its direction or any attempt on its part to be the big 'poobah' in this particular field." irways liner headed from Munich <9or Berlin along the Frankfurt- Berlin air corridor. * * THE WESTERN Commissioners jointly demanded punishment of the Soviet pilots responsible and "measures to prevent repetition of such incidents." The get-tough policy is in line with that of the U.S. Air Force, which lost a Thunderjet to Czech-flown MIG's Tuesday. The Commissioners did not mention the shooting down of the Ameri- can plane, however. At the same time Britain order- ed that her training planes in Ger- many be fully armed and provided fighter escorts when necessary. The biggest Britishbomber com- mand exercise since the end of World War II will be held over the continent next week. At U.S. Air Force headquar- ters in Wiesbaden, Germany, it was made plain anew that Amer- ican planes will fire back if at- tacked again along the frontier. Routine flying and patrolling of the borders in the U.S. Zone of Germany will continue without change, it was announced, "al- though instructions to the pilots as to the means they can .use to protect themselves have. been re- emphasized." Opera Scenarios Due Tomorrow i Tomorrow is the last day to turn in scenarios in the Union Opera script contest, Mike Scher- er, '54, last year's general secre- tary announced yesterday. All entries should be addressed to Mike Scherer, Union Opera, and handed in at the main desk in the Union lobby, he said. Japan's Diet Dismissed By Yoshida Premier Takes Issue to People TOKYO - (A0) - Premier Shi- geru Yoshida last night dissolved the Japanese Diet and called for new nation-wide elections in an effort to keep his pro-American government in power. The 74-year-old prime minister made good his threat to carry the issue to the Japanese people after the Diet had voted his government out, 229-218. APRIL 19 was the date tenta- tively set for the Japanese to de- cide whether Yoshida has tied Japan's foreign policy too closely to that of the United States and whether his internal program is tending to revert the country to- ward a police state. Meanwhile, Yoshida remains at the helm of a caretaker gov- ernment-clinging to a post he has held since 1948 when Japan was under Allied occupation. Dissidents within his own ruling Liberal Party joined with three major opposition parties-the sec- ond-ranking Progressives and left and right wing Socialites-in put- ting across the non-conference motion by a narrow margin of 11. Working in this coalition was Mamoru Shigemitsu, leader of the Progressives who signed Japan's surrender aboard the Battleship' Missouri in 1945. He has been men- tioned strongly as a possible suc- cessor of Yoshida. , Ichiro Hatoyama said yester- day he will bolt the Liberal Par- ty of Yoshida and form his own party ' before the lower house elections. Hatoyama said the core of his group would be 22 liberals who voted for the non- confidence motion. While the Diet debated the mo- tion, 40,000 leftists, some waving red flags and brandishing bamboo spears, paraded through the heart of Tokyo shouting demands for Yoshida's overthrow. Yoshida has kept Japan closely in step with the United States on foreign policy. Opponents con- tended Japan could regain strength faster by playing a mid- dle course between the West and the Communists. Wolverines Bury Gopher Six, 7-3 Haas, Matchefts, Philpott Each Net Two Goals To Pace 'M' Pueksters By PAUL GREENBERG Special To The Daily COLORADO SPRINGS-Coach Vic Heyliger's battling Wolverine pucksters return-to Ann Arbor this afternoon with the big gold trophy emblamatic of the 1953 NCAA hockey championship. Michigan beat a cocky Minnesota team, 7-3, in the finals at the Broadmoor Ice Palace to win its third straight national title. THE WHOLE club got into the act as the Maize and Blue fought back from a 2-1 deficit at the end of the fI-st period and went on to win. After the game was over the Wolverines lifted Coach Heyliger to their shoulders, a fitting tribute to the man who has master- minded four tourney wins for Michigan since the title was originated back in 1948. Slick skating captain Johnny Matchefts got the most valuable player award and he and defenseman Alex McClellan were picked for the Tournament All-star first team. Willard Ikola, George Chin and Reg Shave got second team honors. Captain Matchefts, Doug Philpott and Jim Haas, allithree first line regulars tied for the scoring honors with two goals and one assist each. Michigan opened the scoring early in the first period when Jim Haas, carrying the puck along the right boards, swung in sharply to score a clean shot at 5:28. * * * * DCK MEREDITH gave the Gophers an equalizer a short time later, when he grabbed a pass at the Michigan blue line and then flashed in unmolested to beat Willard Ikola. At 11:34, Minnesota's great first line put the Minneapolis sex- tet out in front. The Gophers swarmed all around the Michigan net and finally Dick Daugherty converted a short flip pass from Gene Campbell to give' John Mariucci's crew its second marker. Trailing 2-1 at the end of the first period, the Wolverines tied it B road ast up at the 6:15 mark .of the second stanza, on Doug Philpott's rebound The Daily's radio newscast shot after Jim Mattson had suc- will move ahead five minutes cessfu'lly blocked a screaming 30- beginning tomorrow night. footer off the stick of Reg Shave. The late news show, heard on Doug Mullen put the Wolverines WHRV, will hit the air at 11155 back on top a short time later by p.m. Monday through Friday driving the puck into the twine starting tomorrow. Hereafter out of a melee at the Ski-U-Mah WHRV will sign off the air at goal mouth. midnight. * * * -Daily-Chuck Kelsey JITTERBUGS CAVORT AT UNION OPEN HOUSE* Union Welcomes 2,000 More than 2000 people streamed through Union $ortals yesterday to take part in the annual Union Open House. Highlighted by, General Motor's "Previews of Progress," and Michi- fish's water ballet, the affair was termed a success by Union offi- cials. SCHOLARS took in the GM science show, others swarmed to the Michifish demonstration, the sports enthusiasts watched the all- World News Roundup By The Associated Press SEOUL - Sabre Jets caught seven Red MIG-15 jets in their deadly radar gunsights yesterday in the second straight day of sky fights near the Manchurian bor- der. Three MIGS were definitely shot down, two probably destroyed and two damaged, the fifth air force reported. CAIRO, Egypt - The United States yesterday joined formal- ly for the first time Anglo-Egyp- tian negotiations over with- drawal of British troops from the Suez Canal Zone. PARIS - A foreign office spokesman said yesterday that Premier Rene -Mayer would pro- nnp in avhinr+in a .harn in. "pnnuse campus tournament finals and co- eds went to the mixer. The open house ran for four hours with tours of the build- ing and the tower rounding out the program. Little effort was. made to enforce the traditional Union front door policy. Jack Watson, '55, beat Al Man- gus, '53BAd., for top laurals in the ping pong tournament. Bowling honors went to Gordon Hutchin- son, Grad, while Ralph Cross, '56E, took second. First place in pool went to Moe Wasserman, Grad., who marked up 100 points to 50 for second place Jim Marshall, '56. Tom Dudley, '53. edged out John Steck, '54BAd., 50-48 for the billiard crown. I KLEMENT GOTTWALD 4 uary against nine Soviet doctors, charged with killing two Russian leaders, * * * DETAILED Prague reports of the 56-year-old Gottwald's death (at 5 a.m. yesterday Ann Arbor time) listed the causes as pneu- monia and pleurisy, complicated -y a chest hemorrhage. Speculation that the Stalin- supported leader may have been purged as a result of his failure to meet Russian demands for in- creased Czechoslovak productiv- ity was balanced by opinion that Gottwald had been known to be in il 1nnl .i .,nr n- - fin HONORS CONVOCATION: Go Williams To Speak On Human Resources NOT USED HERE YET: Blind Plane Spotters Aid in Defense By GENE HARTWIG Although they haven't been used here yet, blind plane spotters might easily mount the sky watch on the Union tower, George P. Smith, chairman of the local air ar1PofPn. a sA 7ac,+mictra I Speaking on "Developirg Hu- man Resources in Michigan," Govt G. Mennen Williams will address the education school's Eighteenth Honors Convocation at 3 p.m. to- morrow in Rackham Lecture Hall. Dean Willard G. Olson of the education school will introduce the governor at the convocation hon- oring 403 candidates for teaching certificates. * * * FATLAWING the governor's THE WOLVERINES were a man short four times in the middle session but the defense held the Gophers off. Ikola was kayoed briefly at the six minute mark when he was hit by Meredith charging into the nets on a break- away. Opening the third frame with a one goal bulge, the Maize and Blue pucksters were content to lay back and let the Minnesota team come to them. But when Gopher captain Tom Wegleitner was sent to the cooler for interference Michigan went on the offense, and scored at 3:38 with Johnny Matchefts getting the goal to make the score 4-2. Then, keeping the pressure on, the Wolverines stretched their lead to three goals as Jim Haas "inrn - no I ca ulewnr a -t+ . "The blind are particularly effective in night spotting and during bad weather when vis- ibility is poor," Hennrikus said. "We have found that because of their well-develoned sense of DEFENSE chairman Smith pointed out that the local plane spotter station on the top of the Union tower is at present under- manned, with only 28 observers on duty, one at a time.