PROSECUTOR OF ALGER HISS See Page 4 Y Latest Deadline in the State Patti; I p /K'y .EI/ 5 4 WARM, SHOWERS VOL.. LXIII. No. I164 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, MAY 24, 1953 TWELVE PAGES - - -- - - UN To Make New Korean Truce Offer Effort May Be Final Allies Say By The Associated Press A new, reportedly final effort to break the deadlock blocking a Ko- rean armistice will be made by the United Nations Command at Panmunjom tomorrow with con- cessions worked out by the Unit- ed States and its Allies. Concessions retain the principle of voluntary repatriation of all prisoners of war but apparently meet Red demands and Allied crit- icisms on some lesser points. The new coffer will be laid down, all available information shows, with a "now or never" admonition to the Reds. SOURCES in Tokyo said the of- fer which Lt. Gen. William K. Harrison will carry back to Korea probably will be coupled with a call for a showdown. Harrison, chief Allied negoti- ator, was winding up meetings in Tokyo with Gen. Mark Clark and the United Nations com- mander's political advisor, Am- bassador Robert Murphy. The revised Allied plan on the stalemated prisoner exchange is- sue was not expected to contain any major change in United States policy. Several top congressional lead- ers who attended special State De- partment briefing in Washington said they were not told of any "major change." / Some Washington authorities expressed belief that the coming conference may prompt the Com- munist high command to stall any Korean agreement in hopes that Churchill may press Eisenhower to soften his far eastern polices. * * * CHIEF RED negotiator for a Ko- rean truce today issued a state- ment attacking as illogical and il- legal the Allied contention that there are 48,500 Reds in Allied prison camps who refuse - and must not be forced - to return home. The statement, by North Ko- rean Gen. Nam Ii, was broad- cast over Peiping Red radio yes- terday-just a day before truce teams go back to Panmunjom for a new try at resolving the problem. Meanwhile, about 150 Chinese Reds smashed against main Allied lines on Korea's central front yes- terday but were hurled back by dug-in South Korean soldiers aft- er furious hand-to-hand fighting. The Reds struck at two points along the main Kumsong-Kumhwa Road, under cover of a heavy ar- tillery barrage. The Republic of Korea Capitol Division stood its ground and cleared the area of Reds in two hours. TV Extras Students interested in par- ticipating in a film being taken by CBS television are requested by David Epstein, director, to report to Rackham Amphithea- ter at 9 a.m. today. Extras will act as a student audience in a film on the Eng- lish Language Institute which will be telecast next fall. The film will depict the life of a foreign student from his arrival on campus to his depar- ture. Students who plan to attend are requested by Epstein not to wear sports attire. State Police Nab Second Of Prisoners MARQUETTE -(P)- Second of seven desperate convicts who es- caped from Marquette State Pris- on Friday was captured last night. State Police reported that Jo- seph Saunders was picked up in Marquette railroad yards. * * * TWO COAST GUARD helicop- ters and a State Police plane join- ed a ground force of 150 armed men yesterday in an intensive man-hunt. State Police troopers, prison guards, conservation officers and city police have blanketed possible escape routes south of Marquette with the strongest road block ever staked out in the Upper Peninsula. Forty cars with two men in each patrolled roads southward and neighbor police from. Wis- consin and adjacent territory have been alerted. The hunters combed the south- west section of Marquette on a hunch the convicts were holed up in the city dump area. There were no results. * * * ONE OF THE prisoners, 61- year-old Lloyd Burgdurf, was cap- tured and returned to solitary confinement shortly after the break. Police have received hundreds of tips of strangers beihg in the area, but most have proved fruitless since this is the fishing season which normally brings strangers here. There have been no reports of stolen cars, guns or ammunition in the area, which would have given the police clues to the whereabouts of the escapees. Belief that they are hiding in the woods is supported by a report from a search plane which spotted a campfire's glint before dawn yesterday. Ground searchers found only scattered footprints. Clardy Says Communists Plot '55 War Czech Prisoner Tells Conspiracy Rep. Kit F. Clardy (R-Mich.) claimed yesterday he had irre- futable proof of a Communist con- spiracy for war in 1955. Rep. Clardy referred to the tes- timony of a former Czech army officer who used the psendonym of Col. Jan Bukar. The report was released by the House Committee on un-American Activities. * * * COLONEL BUKAR told the committee he got his informa- tion by being sent to a top Rus- sian military academy and es- pionage school at Moscow where he spied for the Czech under- ground, according to reliable news sources in Washington. The Czech officer explained that Communist officers are studying American topography in preparation for war in 1955. Guns and tanks handed Russia in World War II are employed at the school to teach Communist of- ficers how to use them, he said. Colonel Bukar's story showed he attended the school between 1945 and 1947, went home and then came to America in 1952. Van Fleet Admits Munitions Switch Told Newsmen Ammunition Supply Adequate, While Requesting More WASHINGTON-(P)-Gen. James A. Van Fleet confided to Sena- tors that, early last year, while he was vigorously complaining to his superiors about ammunition shortages in Korea, he told war corres- pondents he had plenty of ammunition. This was revealed yesterday with the release of closed-door testi- mony by Van Fleet and other witnesses before the Senate Armed Services subcommittee. VAN FLEET said he did this to fool the enemy and help the morale of his troops. The retired general of the Eighth Army added that other com- manders in Korea, who recently disputed his testimony about shortages probably did the same -Daily-Don Campbell FUTILE SLIDE-Northwestern's Clyde Schoenneman is tagged out by Bill Mogk in the fifth inning of first game as he slides into first base in an attemp t to avoid the tag. Michigan Baseball Team Defeats* ortwestern Wildcats, By DAVE BAAD ances by Jack Ritter and Dick Michigan's baseball club boune- Yirkosky sparked the Wolverines ed back into first place in the Big to their double win over North- Ten baseball race yesterday by1 western. sweepingboth ends of a season After yielding two unearned concluding double-header over the runs in the first inning of the first Northwestern Wildcats, 3-2 and game. Ritter tightened completely 5-3. and blanked the opposition on six 1 i i 4 -2, 5-3 thing. At the same time another Arm- ed Services subcommittee report- ed yesterday a continuous short- age of some ammunition caused "a needless loss of American lives" on the Korean battlefronts. The committee, headed by Sena- tor Margaret Chase Smith (R- Me.) claimed the shortage had "adverse" effects on military oper- ations and contributed to. the de- cision to fight a "sitdown war" in Korea. -* * * THE REPORT was signed by four of the five members of the committee who said that it was difficult to "pinpoint" responsi- bility for the shortage. J third innings of almost perfect relief ball in the nightcap, to rack up the second Conference decision of the season. He re- lieved Marv Wisniewski in the second inning with men on first and third and the score tied 2-2. * *The victory moved the Wolver- THE COMMITTEE, in a fore- ines a half game ahead of second- word to its testimony transcript, place Illinois. cinching at least a said: "The purpose in furnishing share of the Conference crown for this testimony is not al alarm the Ray Fisher's club. American public, but rather to in- form them of the perfidy of the TIlE ILLINI split a doublehead- Soviet government." er yesterday with Minnesota. but jstill have one more contest re- Colonel Bukar said he still is maining against Iowa, tomorrow. engaged in underground espion- If they lose to the Hawkeyes,' age, apparently for anti-Com- Michigan will be undisputed Big munist forces in Czechoslovakia. Ten champion. Iowa also split yesterday, win- Claiming that Russians call ning the first game from Ohio their foothold on the Elbe a beach- State, 8-2 and dropping the head against the West, Colonel; final, 2-1. This placed Iowa in Bukar said the Reds teach that third slot, out of contention for Korea is a Western beachhead the title because it has no pos- against communism. sible chance of bettering Mich- "We Russians must take over igan's ten won-three lost mark. the Dardanelles and Bosporus be- A pair of fine pitching perform-I fore 1955. We shall close in the ----- Mediterranean Sea and so will prevent the British and Americans UA WX T o Seek from having a passage through the Suez to the Indian Ocean. "We shall not wait until they For , C rysler strike, but we shall take over T Western Europe before 1955," the W age'Chances Czech colonel said. DE-TROIT-With basic chances scattered hits the rest of the way. The only serious threat came in the sixth inning when Larry Delle- field land Don Blaha blasted con- secutive singles with one out. TIlE Michigan lefthander forced' the next two hitters to pop up and ground out respectively to put down the threat. Yirkosky hurled five and one- Taling IMay Change Spies' Death Penalty WASHINGTON - Julius and" Ethel Rosenberg, convicted a tom spies, have been told that if1 they "talked." their chances of{ obtaining commutation for their death sentences would be better,j according to United Press reports. Justice Department sources saidj yesterday the husband-wife spy team has been informed that con- fessions of a prisoner are "always a factor" in determining whether the President should use his clem- ency powers. The information was relayed to the convicted couple even before President Eisenhower ruled three months ago he would not interfere with the court's sentence that the Rosenbergs are guilty of slipping atomic secrets to Russia and must die in the electric chair. But one department chief said the unofficial offer of, "more con- sideration for more talk" is still in effect. The Rosenbergs were convicted in April on charges that they con- spired to give United States atomt secrets to Soviet Russia. The man on third scored on aI line single to left, but Yirkosky Strong exception was taken, quickly shut the door, limiting the however, by Sen. Estes Kefauver Wildcats to four hits the rest of (D-Tenn:) who criticized the the distance. He pitched bril- "sweeping generalties" in the liantly in the sixth when two majority report. Northwestern hits and a walkI The majority report went on to loaded the bases with one out. say that former President Harry He promptly retired Harry jSy Truman and his top Defense Stranski and Tom Calloway on and Army secretaries had "mis- foul popups to end the inning. calculated the aggressive designs Paul Lepley, Michigan's hottest oflintenat Commsis gns hitter during the past three weeks, "They didr not provide the sm. paced the Wolverine hitters with Thy idance prdthe mli-r fivehit inegttip.o h essary guidance for the military ufive hits eight tripstforthe planners," the report continued. double-header. In adiion tde "Neither did they take effective left handed hitting left fielder action to correct the situation drove in a pair of important runs acin t cecte iuton incudng hefirt amewinin Ewhen it became obvious to all including the first game winning parties involved." marker.* * The five hits lifted Lepley's sea- THE VAN FLEET testimony, son batting average to a lusty .333 which was released in a 709-page and his conference mark to . volume containing both public and The .333 mark made him Michi- private reports revealed that on gan's top hitting regular. April 1, the former Army com- Jack Corbett was the hitting mander told senators that Gen. hero of the nightcap. With the Maxwell Taylor, who succeeded score tied 3-3 and two men on him in his Korean post, had urged , in the last of the sixth inning, the departing Van Fleet to "tell he was called on to pinch hit the people back there what we for Frank Howell. The right need so we can do something handed power hitter came needshercd"h through perfectly with a long around here. See WOLVERINE, Page 3 Van Fleet said that when he agot back to this country he told al the"right people" in the Penta- Et aIvds ity Fill gon about the ammunition D. Fshortages and then wrote Gen. 'Detroit FHA4 Post Taylor.: t_"Max, I carried out my part Michi an Republican Senators! of it. Unfortunatelv there were L k i k i i i 1 3 r NSA Congress To Discuss Voting Academic Freedom' By FRAN SHELDON The Sixth annual National Student Association's Congress will discuss subjects ranging from academic freedom to 18-year-old vot- ing this summer in meetings devoted to an analysis of freedom, Scheduled to meet at Ohio State University late in August, the aims of the congress, according to Phil Berry, '53BAd, NSA vice-presi- dent in charge of national affairs, are the setting of organizational policy for the association and interchange of information and ideas between different representative O student organizations. LITERARY ANALYSIS: change that Berry claimed the 4 University can derive most benefit. ITJr "What we need most here is lead- ership and broadening experi- Approximately 20 University students representing several campus student organizations Kenneth Millar, detective story will attend the Congress. author, and Lesley Frost, the Formed in 1947, NSA was cre- daughter of poet Robert Frost, will ated to serve the need for a rep- be among the featured speakers resentative intercollegiate organi- July 1 and 2 at the University's zation. It is operated entirely by first "Symposium on Writing." students. Designed to find out what more * .:' . can be done and should be done AS A PART of its international by the University for writers in operations, NSA has done research its community, the symposium will on student problems in many areas touch on various facets of writing. of the world. According to Berry, it works wherever feasable to AUTHORS and would-be writ- counteract Communist Party in-|ers from all over the country will French A ttem pt To Form Cabinet PARIS - P)-- President Vin- cent Auriol said yesterday he is going to ask Socialist Guy Mollet to try to form a Cabinet replacing that of Premier Rene Mayer, oust- ed Thursday. Mollet, whose party has balked at the proposed rearmament of Western Germany, served as vice- premier under Henri Queuille in 1951. Earlier that year he tried himself to form a Cabinet during one of France's many crises but failed to get Parliamentary ap- proval. It is not certain Mollet will ac- cept. Political experts gave him little chance of success if he did try. The Socialists who, with 105 deputies, have the largest group in the National Assembly have preferred to stay out of recent French Cabinets. in their five-year contract agreed upon by the United Auto Workers and General Motors Corp., the un- ion will move on next week to Chrysler Corp. and the Ford Motor Co., according to reliable news sources. It has asked both companies for new talks and hopes to wind up similar amended pacts with them by June 1. * * * WITH FORD, however, the UAW is expected to press for, higher pensions, an item that was not included in the GM agreement Friday. UAW President Walter P. Reuther made this clear Friday when he said GM had "stepped up its obligations" on several basic revisions and that others should "pioneer" on pensions. Instead of a 4-cent hourly pay increase due as an annual raise June 1 for approximately -335,000 GM auto and appliance workers, they will get 5 cents. IN ADDITION, 40,000 skilled tradesmen in GM's auto plants and others in its electrical ap- pliance plants will get a 10-cent hourly increase. The other CIO union to win contract revision with GM is the International Union of Elec- trical Workers (IUE). GM and the UAW yesterday an- nounced settlement of a strike atI GM's central foundry division at Tilton, Ill. Some 2,500 UAW members, off their jobs since Tuesday, started back to work. Production is ex- pected to be fully resumed by to- morrow. Reservations Open F". F""th"11 Tran ~n i . Homer Ferguson and Charles E. Potter yesterday recommended ap- pointment of Wendell O. Edwards, special lecturer at the School of Business Administration, as dis- trict director of the Federal Hous- ing Administration in Detroit. If he received the appointment, Edwards said he would admin- ister the office "efficiently and economically, giving the best of service to the public." U1 1. llIIlG4l , U 1 11 some spokesmen in Korea who said they had plenty of it." Van Fleet said that statements by Gen. Taylor had "watered down" complaints about ammuni- tion shortages. Van Fleet said the statement which came at a time he was short of ammunition and was protesting to the United Nations command in Tokyo and to Washington, "was for enemy consumption." RFC To Give Port Huron, Disaster Aid, PORT HURON-(JP)-Financial strains involving individuals who suffered from Thursday's tornado in Port Huron were partially re- moved yesterday by a statpment issued by Kenton R. Cravens. Cravens, administrator of the Reconstruction Finance Corp., made Port Huron and its sur- rounding area eligible for disaster loans to replace damage to homes and businesses. HE AUTHORIZED the Detroit RFC office to set up a branch in Port Huron to accept applications for help. Damage in Port Huron to accept applications for help. Damage in the Port Huron area has been estimated at roughly $2,600,000. Meanwhile, police in the area have established an extensive blockade around the city and Sarnia, Ont., which was also hit by the torna o. Authorities hope the blockade will prevent thousands of motor- ists from snarling the clean-tip work in the area. All traffic except authorized workers and residents has been banned from the site of the tor- nado's destruction. Printed stick- ers have been issued to emergency vehicles using the Blue Water Bridge which connects the strick- en cities. * -* THE RED CROSS has reported- ly also given assurance that every damaged home will be repaired or rebuilt. Nearly three hundred homes would be involved in such an enterprise. The twister destroyed $1 homes and damaged 202 before hopscotching across the St. Clair River into Sarnia where it wreaked havoc in the heart of the business section. Moving quickly, the Red Cross listed 300 families in Port Huron and in neighboring communities as tornado sufferers. It got machin- ery into motion immediately to help the most helpless. The area was flooded with mech- anical equipment as crews of vol- unteers cleared trees, removed de- bris and pushed over buildings and homes adjudged impossible to re- pair. The tornado claimed five lives and Port Huron and Sarnia hos- pitals still contain 35 of the in- jured. Six persons still remain in critical condition in Port Huron's General Hospital. Officials claim that it will be months before the tornado's de- struction can be erased. Ambassador Will Speak on NATO "NATO and the New Soviet Peace Offensive" will be topic of a talk by Dr.. J. M. van Roijen, Ambassador of the Netherlands to the United States, at 4:15 p.m. Wednesday in Clements Library. The talk which will be open to the public is sponsored by the po- litical science department, the Law School and Clements Library. Wolverines Set rw -u 11n 'UNIQ UE' CONCERT: 'U' Symphony To Perform nsor First on Writing' "American Sahib" and "Inter- view with India." Prof. Allan Seager of the Eng- lish department, whose latest novel is entitled "Amos Berry," will speak at a luncheon meeting on "The Writer as Thinker." * * * AFTER AN afternoon meeting to consider fiction manuscripts, the symposium will move on to a talk by Millar about "Social Mean- ings of the Detective Novel." Author Millar will also lead Strings will be featured in a unique University Symphony Or- chestra Concert at 4:15 p.m. today in Hill Auditorium. In addition to the Orchestra, the Stanley Quartet and string play- ers from four high schools will combine to create an "echo" effect for the performance of Mozart's "Serenade for Four Orchestras." * * * TWO STRING groups placed in far corners of the second bal- cony will accompany the Orches- tra and Quartet on stage in a per- formance of Mozart's "Serenade." Opening number of the pro- gram will be Chausson's "Sym- phony in B-flat" played by the University Symphony. Tschai- kowsky's "Elegie" from "Sere- nade for Strings, Opus 48" will be performed after intermission.