BEHIND THE LINES See Page 4 Yl r e Latest Deadline in the State ~IaitF WARM AND SHOWERS VOL. LXIII, No. 118 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 1953A EIGHT PAGES TafiPushes Vote On Bohlen Issue McCarthy Loses Hope of Blocking n Russian Embassy Appointment WASHINGTON - (P) - The fight of a Senate group against President Eisenhower's choice of an ambassador to Russia appeared to be all over but the last-minute speechmaking yesterday as Senator Taft opposed Senator McCarthy's efforts to call Secretary of State Dulles for new questioning. Taft, Senate Republican leader, announced he would bring the nomination of Charles E. (Chip) Bohlen before the Senate yesterday. He said he could see no value in the idea of recalling Dulles for sworn testimony. This had been proposed by McCarthy, who insists Bohlen is a "security risk." - With Eisenhower and Dulles Radio Stat Russian e ment May N Prop aganda lean Switch * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * }' standing firm for Bohlen, McCar- thy conceded the Bohlen nomina- nag tion can't be beaten when it comes to a Senate vote. McCarthy con- tinued his fight, however, accus- Seen as ing Dulles of making "untrue" statements about the case. U noMcCarthy's drive to beat the U nion G oa Bohlen nomination suffered a fur- ther blow today when R. W. Scott Mc Leod, the State Department's ATLANTIC CITY-('P)-Presi- new security chief, passed up a dent Walter P. Reuther of the meeting of McCarthy's Senate in- UAW (CIO) told his 1,300,000 vestigating committee. members yesterday that the guar- McCarthy and other anti- anteed annual wage is "at the Bohlen Senators had been count- top of our collective bargaining ing on McLeod's appearance to agenda." deal a blow to Bohlen. McLeod is In a report prior to the opening a former aide to Senator Bridges of the 14th UAW convention here (R-NH) who along with Senator today, Reuther promised the un- McCarran (D-Nev) and McCarthy ion that they will win the annual is leading the fight against Boh- wage in the next round of major len. negotiations. In another statement yesterday * * *Taft applauded Pentagon plans to ALTHOUGH auto-makers n-ut the rate of militaryspending tracts do not expire until 1955, and expressed hope that the Reuther said "The major corpora- slashes can go as deep as four tions will be asked, in the very billion dollars. near future, to work with us in a "It's certainly a move in the joint study of the guaranteed wage right direction-all I can say -is to facilitate bargaining later as that I hope the cut can be larg- our contracts approach their ex- er," the Ohioan said in comment- piration." ing on Secretary of Defense Wil- In addition the union ^hief- son's news conference statements tan said the UAW contract ill Friday. be amended to enable stronger Wilson n a me d no specific action to be taken against Com- amount but he told newsmen he munists, the union will challenge believes both spending and man- the new administration when power can be reduced without they are not performing in "he weakening the nation's fighting public interest; and the un- strength. ion's net worth is $13,846,433, in- Taft said he still believes that eluding a strike fund of 7,091,- Truman's budget estimates for 724. more than 78 billion dollars in the next fiscal year could be reduced The world's largest trade union by eight billions. He said this heard Reuther, who is also Presi- would include cuts of about 1% dent of the CIO, say the guaran- billion from domestic spending, 2%- teed wage is far more than a col- billions from foreign aid and four lective bargaining demand. He said billions from the .military. it is "a long step forward solv- ing the basic problem of otir time T R -the problem of full production IQ e s ed i fU Qmnlovment in a free so- RED LEADERS-Standing guard at Stalin's bier the men behind the attacks on appointed Friday; Lavrenti Beria, secret police head; Georgi Malenkov, premier; U.S.. and British planes are left to right: Nikita Krushchev, party secretary Marshal Nikolai Bulganin; Marshal Kliminti Voroshilov and Lazar Kaganovich. Sub-committee To Study Proposed Union Chanes' The outcome of Friday night's Union Board of Directors meeting was the recommendation for a four man sub-committee to study the present Union situation and to work with the League in arranging a combined meeting of the two Boards sometime after spring vacation. Marking a new step in the discussion of remodeling and adding to the Union, the committee's formation calls for one student, one faculty member and one alumnus in addition to Franklin Kuenzel, Union general manager to near Ensian Call The 'Ensian business staff will hold a tryout meeting at 5 p.m. tomorrow in the Student Publications Building for all students interested in joining its ranks. World News Roui ndup t. ana Iu euiiyum pl y i- ciety in times of peace." "It is work we want and not pay! for idleness," said Reuther, "for only out of work can we get the goods out of which high living standards are made. There will be more and steadier work wh an management is required to oay+ for idleness." It is "not a question whether weI will get a guaranteed annual wage * but how we will get it," he added. Group To Ask Amendment On Gambling Blocked in their efforts to gain1 Prisoner Riot By The Associated Press United Nations guards quelled a threatening riot by nearly 4,- 000 screaming Communist Korean officer prisoners on Yoncho Is- land Thursday, the UN Prisoner of War command announced yes- terday. One U.S. officer was injured by Reds throwing stones. The Yoncho camp was the sce;e) of a serious riot March 7 during which guards killed 23 prisoners. In Korean action yesterday, two Chinese Red companies - about 350 troops-stormed an Allied ob- servation post on the Western front but UN defenders beat them off after 35 minutes of close-quar- ter fighting. Rice Named As Full Time EnglishHead Prof. Warner G. Rice was ap-j pointed full time chairman of the English department by the Board of Regents at their meeting Fri- day. Prof. Rice, who has been serv- ing as acting chairman of the de- partment since 1947, is at pres- ent Director of the University Li- brary. His appointment will become ef- fective Sept. 1, or as soon as he can be relieved of his duties as library director, after that date, President Harlan Hatcher an-i nounced. President Hatcher said that the executive committee of the literary college and the members of the English department had expressed their "urgent wish" that Rice de-3 vote his full time to serving as de- partment chairman. He also said no decision has been reached in regard to a possible re- placement for Rice in his role as director, a position he has held since 1941. Prof. Rice has been on the Uni- versity faculty since 1929. In another Regents action plans to employ a New York firm to study the possibility of expanding stack and book storage space in the Law Library received approval. Union plans. * * CORE OF DISCUSSION at tn- meeting attended by University President Harlan Hatcher and Vice-president Wilbur K. Pierpont involved the financial problems of entering into any extensive build- ir g program now. "Close to half of the proposed, three million dollar expenditure will have to be spent in reno - vating existing kitchen and ser- vice facilities alone," Jack Eh- lers. '53E, Union Secretary said. One course of action discussed at the meeting was the creation of a student activities center in con- nection with the Union. The Board pointed out, how- ever, that any building program would probably entail an increase ,in student tuition fees in order to cover costs. THE PROBLEM of how much students will be willing to pay for l . the increased facilities is one that must be worked out during the next several weeks by the Board and Union officers, Ehlers said. A reexamination of the pro- posed renovation and building program was initiated -at the Board meeting of Feb. 19 when Donald May, former member of the Board and present chair- man of the planning committee, reviewed the original plans for the addition drawn up five years ago. These plans called for a sixty foot extension to the north of the existing Union building. By the Associated Press HONG KONG-Two U. S. news and radio correspondents and an American ship captain were feared captured by the Chinese Commun- ists late yesterday near Hong Kong when an armed Red junk ran down and seized a small sailing boat,' flying the American flag. OAKLAND-The slow, grim task, of identifying the bodies of 35 air crash victims continued into the night yesterday as engineers stud- ied wreckage in hope of learning what caused a four-engine plane to fall from the skies late Friday. No one aboard survived. TAIPEH-Adlai Stevenson de- clared yesterday that the Chi- nese Nationalist stronghold of Formosa was essential to the de- fense of the free world. Later he had two talks with President Chiang Kai-Shek last- ing a total of two hours, before and after a formal dinner at the Generalissimo's residence. ST. LOUIS-Stuart Symington (D-Mo.), inserting frequent quips as he addressed party members yesterday said the Democrats in Washington are giving more sup- port to President Eisenhower than his own Republican Party. SOUTHHAMPTON, England -- Britain's Field Marshal Lord Montgomery, NATO Deputy Com- mander, sailed on the liner Queen Mary yesterday for military talks with President Eisenhower at the White House. DETROIT - Mayor Albert E. Cobo yesterday approved a city budget of $102,077,000 which would permit a five-cent reduc- tion in the tax rate for the new fiscal year. ALBANY. N. Y.-The Republi- can-controlled New York State Legislature wound up a 74-day session late tonight by pushing through legislation designed to force New York City to turn over its deficit-plagued transit facili- ties to an independent authority. 'U' Musicum To Perform ' The University Collegium Musi- cum will give a program of pre- Bach music of the 15th, 16th tnd 17th centuries at 8:30 p.m. today in the Hussey Rm. of the League Rarely-heard compositions of Zapotocky Takes Over As Czechoslovak Chief VIENNA - (P)- Antonin Zapotocky was elected president of Czechoslovakia yesterday by the national Parliament to succeed the late Klement Gottwald. At the same time Viliam Siroky was chosen premier of the Rus- sian satellite and Antonin Novotny was put in charge of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. ZAPOTOCKY, a reputed anti-semite served as premier under Gottwald, and Siroky was vice-premier in the same regime. Novotny, another vice-premier, succeeds to the leadership of the Communist Party which Gottwald held. Thus it appeared that Zapo- -- -------- tocky would not hold the con- centration of power by which GrOss Doubts his predecessor had ruled. It was noted that in Moscow,(' Premier Georgi Malenkov re- eace VYOtLs moved himself from the secretar-O iat of the Russian CommunistM a tenyov Party. ____ Zapotocky is a veteran Com-I munist and . trade union leader, UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., - (A') a skilled orator, a successful novel- --U.S. Ambassador Ernest A. Gross ist and-in the opinion of experts asked the Russians yesterday here-possibly the only Commu- whether the peace declarations of nist still capable of keeping Czech- Prime Minister Malenkov are oslovakia's freedom-loving workers "empty words." in subjection. He called once more on the new Latest Move Gives West WW II Credit Allied Split Seen As Red Purpose By NATE POLOWETSKY LONDON-(/)-In a surprising switch of the old Soviet propa- ganda line, one of Moscow radio's best known commentators told the world today it was harmonious co- operation by the Soviet Union, the United States and Britain that produced victory in World War II. For years the Russians have in- sisted that the war was won by the Red Army, while the "capital- ist states" sat back and got rich. THE BROADCAST, by Boris Leontyev, immediately aroused the interest of Western diplomats in view of statements made by Soviet leaders since the death of Stalin and the coming to power of Geor- gi Malenkov as Prime Minister. Was it, they asked, part of a pattern which could be taken to mean the new Russian rulers are ready to ease up on the cold war with the west and come to some sort of terms? For the most part, the diplomats were inclin- ed to wait for more definite, concrete acts. The broadcast seemed to be par of some new phase of Soviet con- duct. ONLY YESTERDAY the Brit- ish Foreign Office disclosed that Russian Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov had personally promised to help obtain the release of nine British subjects and an Irish mis- sionary held by the North Korean Reds. For another thing, only two days ago the Russian command- er in Germany had proposed that he and his counterpart Brit- on, Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick, get together to try to prevent any more incidents like the shooting down of a British bomber by Russian MIGs. And these had followed speeches by Malenkov stating that there were no outstanding questions be- tween East and West that couldn't be settled by peaceful means. Some Western observers spec- ulated that the Russian gestures, particularly towards Britain, might be an effort to split the British- American alliance by playing one against the other. They also speculated that the Russian move might be prompted more by internal considerations than by any effort to settle real problems with the West. i Slichter Sees High Economy DETROIT-(jP)-Because of the cold war, the economy of the United States is more "formidable than ever," Harvard economist Sumner H. Slichter said here yes- terday. He told a group of business men and industrialists that Russia has forced this condition upon the United States. This country faces years of a cold war economy but that this does not mean that a rising stand- ard of consumer manufacturing and buying has to be hampered Slichter said. He predicted a period 'of higher wages and production with little or no federal control and a near balance in supply and demand. "The Truman Administration," he said, did a splendid job of hold- ing down defense spending and whether the Eisenhower Admin- istration can do as well is the question." VICE PREMIER Viliam Siroky nominated Zapotocky for the pres- idency, Prague said, and called him "the closest friend and col- laborator of Gottwald." Gottwald died last Saturday- only three days after he returned from Stalin's Moscow funeral- of what doctors said was "acute pneumonia and pleurisy." Prague, in its running account of the session, said Zapotocky's nomination and election were greeted with thunderous cheers and loud hand-clapping. At the moment of Zapotocky's election, Prague said, the presi- dential flag was hoisted to the top of its staff on ancient, towering Hradcany Castle. It had been at half staff since Gottwald's death. The election took only 15 min- utes, Prague said. Soviet leader to show his sincerity and work for peace "in the name of humanity." * * * . IN A MOVE from a neutral quar- ter to see whether the Russians really mean peace, L. N. Palar, In- donesian delegate who has steered a careful middle course in the East-West cold war, proposed for- mally that the 60-nation UN Po- litical Committee take up imme- diately a Polish proposal wrapping up Moscow's peace plan for Korea and other problems. The committee adjourned un- til tomorrow so delegates could go into a huddle on this sur- prise move. Palar begged the delegates to take advantage of what seemed to be the right atmosphere for ac- tion and not go home from the As- sembly "empty-handed." i i statutory legalization of rafiles! and bingo games, members of the Washtenaw Inter-Organizational iFIEDLER COIN J CTS Committee last night decided to seek passage of a constitutional rsno amendment to make such types of 1 os t Ps gambling legal when operated by churches. fraternal or natriotic 7o Play at Hill Monday, * * * * CAMPUS SURVEY: Trends in Membership Of Organizations Seen groups. Viennese-born Hilde Somer will After hearing State Rep. Lewis perform as the featured soloist G. Christman of Ann Arbor ex- with the Boston "Pops" Orchestra plain that a constitutional prohi- conducjted by Arthur Fiedler at bition stood in the way of such a 8:30 p.m. tomorrow in Hill Audi- law, the group abandoned plans torium. to have a bill introduced on their Acclaimed on numerous trans- behalf in the State Legislature. continental concert tours as a "pi- * * * ano sensation," Miss Somer was TELLING representatives of 40 the first scholarship student to local clubs, veterans' groups and graduate in two years from the lodges that he was not personally Curtis Institute of Music in Phil- opposed to raffles or bingo, Rep. adelphia. The usual minimum Christman said outside of a con- study period is four years. stitutional change the only way to T r runsuh ame o canc ws oTHE CONCERT program in- run such games of chance was to cludes Berlioz's "Rakoczy March," "have local law enforcement offi- Tyumes'er'Rakoc"Magnh," Thomas' overture to "Mignon," cers with blind left eyes.' Richard Strauss' waltzes from "Der He pointed out, however, that Rosenkavalier," Chabrier's "Es- County Prosecutor Edmund F. pana Rhapsody" and Tchaikow- (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first in a series of articles surveying cam- pus organizations with respect to their success or lack of success in building membership. Future articles will deal with opinions on causes and cures for the situation.) By VIRGINIA VOSS Campus organizations-a total of some 140 of them-are always crying for members, but sevei al are crying a little louder this year. Lagging membership, far from being a campus-wide dilemma, has caused concern for a tew types of organizations, althougn several others have joined in the "vwhat do we do about campus apathy" despair. The League reported a sharp de- cline in the number of women peti- tioning for top senior positions, although sophomore and junior posts have called in more applica- tions than in the past. Only one person has applied for Joint Judi- ciary chairmanship, which falls to a woman this year. * * * 2. POLTICAL clubs, aside from the expected post-election slump, are as a whole drawing fewer members than in comparable years. The Civil Liberties Committee, which numbered more than 100 in its heyday last spring, is now :. :. pp YY .t M...