NEW LANGUAGE PROPOSAL See Page 4 Y Latest Deadline in the State D~aiti CLOUDY AND MILD VOL. LXHI, No. 149 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1953 ________________________________________ ________________________________________ _______________________________________ SIX PAGES County File Won't Guide AA Censors Hemingway Tale, Appears on List The Wayne County Listing of "obscene" books will not be the criterion employed by local offi- cials attempting to have book dealers clear their shelves of such literature, the prosecutor's office revealed yesterday. Pulitzer Prize-winner Ernest Hemingway's book "Across the River and Into the Trees" is one of the books mentioned on the Wayne County list. Novels by James T. Farrell and Erskine Caldwell have also been cited as "obscene." * * * PROSECUTOR Edmond De Vine, also a member of the Law School faculty said traditional steps would be used by his office in determining what constitutes "obscene" literature. He outlined the possible steps to be taken in determining which books fall into this cate- gory: 1) The prosecutor's office will take no action on any book unless a citizen or a member of the po- lice department registers a com- plaint against the circulation of a specific work by local book deal- ers. 2) Once having received such a yomplaint, the prosecutor would investigate the work named. 3) The final step would be to take the case to court where a jury would judge the veracity of the charge. SEVERAL local book dealers re- port that they have received cop- ies of a list from a local publish- ing company enumerating a num- ber of books which are labeled "obscene." However, none of the dealers contacted would reveal the con. tents of the list. Last week Sgt. Claude Damron of the Ann Arbor police force ad- vised book dealers to rid their stock of the literature within thirty days or face public prose-, cution. Two merchants immediately af- ter the order decided to take the case to court if they are challeng- ed. As of yesterday both merch- ants had not abandoned their plans for a court battle. The Wayne County list of books contains the works of over one hundred authors and close to two hundred books which have been questioned on moral grounds. Triangles From'neath the heals of dusty feet, Within the vitals of the Arch, The great bronze seal called loyal men In dead of night to march. So came the men of Triangles. Once more beneath the pointed spires New faces toiled with fear; The seal of Triangles again shone bright Cleansed with blood and tear. So came- Frank Adams Joe Atkins Tom Benner Dave Davies Jim ~Ford Ron Geyer Fritz Glover Santo Ponticello Kingsley Joneson Jim Walters Prof. Emerson W. Conlon The plans are drawn; the die is cast, May those called prove their worth. Heller Files Reporter Bill WASHINGTON - WP) - Rep. Heller (D-NY) introduced a bill to accord news reporters the priv- ilege under law of refusing to re- veal sources of information except in special circumstances. These would include national security or concealment of a crime. The Heller proposal provides that newspaper and radio report- ers would not be required to di- ertllr. -. - "'o o * Legislature May Slash U' Grant Budget Slated for Vote Today; Automotive Lab Possible Cut An economy minded State Senate, expected to vote today on a proposed $335,000,000 budget for next year, may remove a new Uni- versity Automotive Laboratory from its fiscal considerations. The indication came yesterday when eight Republican Senators introduced a bill into the legislative chamber which would slash $4,494,000 from a $7,938,000 grant for new constructions at state institutions. Ensian The 1954 Michiganensian is beginning a program for pho- tographers for next year's staff. For those interested in grain- ing experience in this field there will be a meeting at 4 p.m. to- day in the Student Publica- tions Building. Those unable to attend the meeting but wish to be on the staff should contact the 'Ensian office at 2-3241. U' Surgeon To Operate On Godfrey Vote on SL Motion Hits Word Snarl Red Invasion of Laos Halts. as Supplies Fail; Move Would Bar French Receive 'US Aid OSA 'Bias' List By JON SOBELOFF Wrangling over the wording of a motion to request the Office of Student Affairs to exclude housing with racial or national origin re- strictions from its off-campus housing file kept the proposal from reaching a vote at last night's Student Legislature meeting. Amendments, substitutions and an amendment to an amendment * * * * ALSO THREATENED by an appropriation cut would be proposed building of campus roads, plans for 500 Saved In Harwich Sea, Crash HARWICH, England - P} - Two American freighters rescued nearly 500 persons, including scores of Americans, from a British steamship sliced through in a col- lision with one of the freighters 40 miles out in the North Sea be- fore dawn yesterday. The Duke of York, a 4,190-ton 'vessel operated by the British Railways on the 106-mile ferry run between the hook of Holland and Harwich, lost all her bow forward of the superstructure in the crash with the U.S. government freight- er Haiti Victory. * * * A SPOKESMAN for the British Railways said last night a radio message to Harwich reported one body had been s'een in the wreck- age of the crippled Duke of York and it was feared two other per- sons might be dead. He said he did not know the source of the re- port, however, and had no official confirmation. Survivors told dramatic stories of the terror in this potential tragedy of the sea, but said there was no panie. The lifeboat drill precision of the rescue operations minimized caseualties among the 436 passen- gers and 72 crewmen. EARLIER, a regional manager of the Railways Shipping Service, Capt. Robert Davis, said "we ap- pear, on the figures, to be six pas- sengers missing." Six of the sur- vivors were injured. No Americans were known to be among them. The Duke of York and the 7,607-ton Haiti Victory, headed from Bremen to the United States, rammed into each other in the darkness near the Gal- loper Point lightship. The crash sliced off and sank the entiresforward section of the British vessel and startled passen- gers from sleep. The Haiti vic- tory, standing higher in the wa- ter, escapednwith a gash in her bow. * * * THE PASSENGERS and most of the crewmen abandoned ship under orders from Capt. R. B. Adams, her master, and the 10,687- ton American of the American- Hawaiian Steamship Co., which was nearby.' a new of an boiler and the construction undergraduate library. 1Arthur Godfrey, well known ra-| were all discussed before time ran President Harlan H. Hatcher dio and television personality, is out on the session with no action declined comment on the con- in University Hospital awaiting taken on the original motion. templated budget reduction. anoeainacrigt*ji - an operation according to Uni- * * The University appropriations versity Hospital nurses. EARLIER in the meeting SL were termed by the Senators The operation, scheduled to be president Bob Nea'y, '54B.Ad., re- who introduced the bill as "un- performed within a few dad's by ported that the Legislature's pro- necessary when the state is Dr. Carl E. Badgley, head of the posal for a return to the "old" ex- broke." orthopedics department, is a vi- amination schedule with its "dead The proposed economy move is tallium cup arthroplasty. An op- weekend" before the first day of slated for a Senate vote today. eration of this sort involves in- exams has been submitted to the * * * serting a metal cup over the head Deans' Conference. COMMENTING on the bill, of the femur bone, providing a Neary commented that it ap- the head of the Automotive Lab- false joint to enable the leg to peared. "highly unlikely" that oratory said the present campus move more easily. any change could be made this building which was erected in * semester, but expressed hopeful- 1865 is a dangerous fire hazard. ACCORDING to a University ness that a future return to the He maintained that half of doctor, after such an operation old schedule might be granted. the laboratory is constructed of the patient would be required to !The parliamentary hassle on the wood and that the roof of the remain in bed from two to three housing discrimination motion re- building leaks during the heavy weeks. During this time he would volved around two sentences of Ann Arbor rains. have to undergo physio-therapy the proposal as originally framed Leaders in the Senate were re- treatment. by Sam Davis, '53, who moved that portedly regrouping their forces ,He would probably not fully re- SL recommend: in an effort to defeat the pro- cover for six weeks and then would "That upon being informed by jected budget manuever, and it still require the use of crutches, a landlord that a housing unit is appeared doubtful that the "econ- the doctor added. already rented, the student may omy" faction could muster enough Dr. Badgley who is a renowned request OSA to remove the listing votes to bottle up the construc-' orthopedic surgeon previously from the file." tion items. operated on Godfrey at Harvard. Such action should be taken . _ _The operations were necessitat- provided the OSA finds either that el by injuries Godfrey received thethousing actually is occupied in an automobile accident sev- or that occupancy has been re- eral years ago. fused on the basis of prior rental' fame after World War u when he Opposition to the clause was started his coast-to-coast morn- based on the contention that it i ~ing radio program.' would hurt landlords who barred ,: _. . { 5}5 t i ' t E -Daily-Malcolm Shatz TABLE' CARVING - Seniors Russell H. Baily Jr. and Howard 0. Christenson continue the tradition and leave their signatures carved for posterity on the table top in the Union Stag Room. Until May 28, any male senior can carve his name in the table after receiving a chisel from the basement cloak room. Educators Comment On Knowland Urges Air, Naval Power Dulles Supports ForeignAid Plan By The Associated Press The Communist Vietminh in- vasion of Laos kingdom yesterday appeared to have halted abruptly because the Reds had overstretch- ed their supply lines. Elements of Ho Chi Minh's forces, in numbers described as impressive, were heading north- ward from the heart of Laos af- ter over-running a third of the country since their lightning thrust invasion began April 12. ENEMY UNITS were withdraw- ing northward from sectors em- bracing the royal seat of Luang Prabang, the Plaine des Jarras, and Xieng Khouang. The reason appeared to be olb- vious-the enemy could no long- er sustain advanced spearheads which have been encamped in the hills around Luang Prabang the. Plaine des Jarras to the south, and within 35 miles of Paksame south of Xieng Khou ang. Meanwhile in Washington Sen. Knowland (R-Calif.) advised Sec- retary of State John Foster Dulles "not to foreclose the possibility of using our air and naval power" if it should prove necessary to stop Communist aggression in Southeast Asia. The Californian offered this ad- vice as Dulles appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations -Com- mittee in support of the admin- istration's proposed $5,800,000,000 foreign aid bill. DULLES SAID the United States has started talks with several al- lies on a possible appeal to the United Nations for action to deal with the Communist-led invasion of the Indochinese state of Laos. He said flatly, however, that this country had no plans to send, American troops to fight the Communists in Southeast Asia. The apparent turn in events in favor of the French Union forces came as six U.S. Flying Boxcars- the first of possibly two or three dozen under stepped-up American ald - reached Hanoi yesterday } t New LanguageProposal POW Plan By The Associated Press The senior Allied negotiator said the Communists agreed this morn- ing to the Allied proposal to keep prisoners refusing immediate re-# patriation in Korea after an ar- mistice. Lt. Gen. William K. Harrisont Jr., said the Reds accepted theI Allied position on balky prisoners in an important eight-point Com- munist proposal. * * * THE PROPOSAL was presented during a 26-minute session. The Allies then asked for a re- cess until 8 p.m. today, and the Communists agreed immediately. A Communist source outside the conference hut said the new Red proposal called for the re- turn to. their homelands within two months after an armistice of all prisoners who want to go home. This source said the Communists also suggested that a neutral na- tions repatriation commission be set up to facilitate the rturn to their homelands of the remaining prisoners of war, but the Reds again refused to name their choice of a neutral guardian. Value of Law Career Cited By Bonisteel Terming law "the greatest pro- fession of all," University Regent Roscoe O. Bonisteel spoke to the Michigan Crib, pre-law society yes- terday on "Opportunities for Law- yers." While emphasizing that oppor- tunities in law result only after hard work, Regent Bonisteel said the rewards of a law practice more than compensate for the effort. He related personal experiences from his years as a practicing at- torney and State Bar Association examiner. Regent Bonisteel listed a lawyer's ability to render serv- ice to the community as his greatest reward. The following Crib officers were also elected at this meeting: Don Kenney, '54, president; -George Kircos, '54, vice-president; Louise Milligan, '56, recording secretary; Frank Spence, '57, treasurer; Lynn Epstein, '54, corresponding secre- tary. students merely because they wereI individually "undesirable," not be- cause' of race or national origin. The Legislature also appointed Fred Hicks, '54, as a permanent representative to the University's Committee on Student Loans. Opening the meeting, Neary told the legislators that the President's Conference had "improved since last year and that "honest and! forthright discussion" had char- acterized the top-level parley. * .* Student Role Cited at SL's I Annual Dinner' The role of activities in the life of the student, and the role of the student in the formation of ad- ministrative policy highlighted talks given at the annual Student Legislature banquet last night. In a brief address to the Legis- lature at the annual affair honor- ing the retiring Cabinet and grad- uating members, President Har- Ian H. Hatcher urged campus lead- er:s to familiarize themselves with the world-famous points of inter- est on campus such as Clements Library and the Museum of Egyp- tology. Prof. Roger W. Heyns of the psychology department, a close associate of the Legislature and a member of the Student Affairs Committee, addressed the group on student responsibility and the po- sition of the student in decision making. Prof. Heyns pointed out that the greatest misunderstanding be- tween students and the adminis- tration lies in the three general fields: validity of group decisions, responsibility of youth and the at- titude of the administration. Claiming that there was a def- inite need for "clearing specified and agreed upon areas" Prof. Heyns cited as examples the re- cent controversy over the rent increase in the dormitories and the administration's decision concern- ing the final exam schedule. Howard Willens '53, retiring SL. president pointed out that student opinion must necessarily play an important part in the decision making of the administration by By ARLENE BELL "An understanding experience in the study of a foreign language is one of the important elements of 'higher education," said Prof. Charles N. Staubach, chairman of the department of Romance Lan- Ann Arbor High School, Thad Carr, said "Languages may not be important for every student and a subject such as American history may be equally as valuable in a student's education." Y 5 1'. C x t t 1 t guages yesterday. Staubach's statement was in ac- Fry's 'A Sleep cord with opinions expressed by - both University and local educa- o f ri n tors concerning the proposed Prisoners change in the literary college, language requirement from one .OpensTonight THE PROPOSAL, passed by the' literary college faculty Monday, states that "all candidates for a bachelor's degree from this Col-I lege shall complete a fourth se- mester course in a foreign lan- guage, or display equivalent pro- ficiency in an achievement test." Prof. Ernest Pulgram, of the ro- mance languages department, thought the proposal "a good idea. The present requirement of one year is too little to accomplish the best ends. Learning to read and talk a language is important but it is more important to learn how other people think, which can only be accomplished through further study." French professor, Charles E. Koella, advocated the mastery of at least one foreign language for' every American college student. "The Latin-American countries follow the practice of requiring students to learn niore than one language," he pointed out. A social science instructor from "A Sleep of.Prisoners," a post- season production of Art Theater, will give its opening performance at 8:30 p.m. tonight at St. An- drew's Church. The play, written by British playwright Christopher Fry, is la- beled one of his mature lyrics. In "A Sleep of Prisoners," Fry tells the story of four soldiers impris- oned in a church in enemy terri- tory. Gerald Richards, Ken Rosen and John DeVoe of the Arts Thea loaded with troops and war Car- ter group will play three of the goes. They took off immediately four soldiers. James Jones, '53, re- to reinforce the .French Union cently cast in "Deep Are The IfL Roots," will play the fourth GI. forces in aos. The production of the play will mark the first time that Arts Lloyd Workers Theater has performed in a I church. T. S. Eliot's "Murder In A Cathedral'" was given in simi- Vote Support lar surroundings in Ann Arbor, by another theater.To Busbo Tickets for the performance may still be obtained at the Theater, 2091/ E. Washington.-hirty-five waitresses and bus- THE NEW AND THE OLD: Three One-Act Plays To Be Presented SHADES OF 1776: boys of Alice Lloyd Hall voted to support student workers in the three men's quadrangles in their demands for a wage increase at an organizational meeting last * * * * Three one-act plays, including a student written original and a pre-Shakespearian farce, plus a condensed version of a Greek classic, will be presented by the Speech Department at 8 p.m. to- day and tomorrow in Lydia Men- delssohn Theater. Eugene Hockman, graduate stu- dent in creative writing and alum- nus of universities in Hungary, Czechoslavakia and Austria, wrote the one-act play "Address in Prague" last year. According to playwright Hock- man, "Address in Prague" has uni- versal application, for it symbo- lizes" the spiritual pheonomena of great numbers of people who feel they are fugitives from the earth." Leading roles in the first play of the evening, directed by Frances Reitz, '53, are being taken by Jo- ann Tracar . ci' - r Rihx? . A p Famous Quotations Brin Varied Student Reaction By MARK READER "I wouldn't sign a thing like tb Several hundred students were in my life." asked to sign excerpts from the Others who recognized t Declaration of Independence on Declaration either didn't "belie campus yesterday. in declarations of faith" or f One hundred ninety-one signed that actions and not signatui the document, but the majority of really count:" those approached either outright- However, as the day progress ly refused to affix their signatures arguments became more serio or became involved in heated ar- and heated. * guments and sober discussions of The .disputes revolved arou the desirability of doing so. the following quotes from the D * .laration: UNDER a petition entitled 1) "All men are cre'ated equa "Statement in Reaffirmation of Many maintained that this w c14 night. At the meeting a grievance com- mittee of five student workers was set up, four of whom will meet to- morrow with Leonard A. Schaadt, business manager of the residence hat halls and representatives of the East, South, and West Quad- he rangles. eve In a formal statement drawn up elt by last night's meeting the stu- res dent workers said, "We agree that the raises proposed by the quad sed groups are just, and will lend our ous I strong support to those groups and call on all other student employees nd to do likewise." ec- At tomorrow's meeting Schaadt will give his decision on a wage l " plan proposed to him by represen- was tatives of the three quads last enabling a better understanding Basic American Principles," the not a true statement. Tuesday, of any problem. Civil Liberties Committee took 2) "When a long train of abuses -- -- --three phrases from the Declara- and usurpations, pursuing invar-EO Bans Son 111 F lT -1 m- .,,fi-,,.w- ~ +v inhlv thp uim nhiant nonn U D n R AMOS.