EDITOR'S NOTE See Page 4 Y Latest Deadline in the State 742 ti149 FAIR AND WARMER 9- VOL. LXIII, No. 167 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1953 TEN PAGES UAWGains All Benefits At Chrysler GM Holds Out On Pension Raise By the Associated Press Chrysler Corp. last night am- mended its five year contract with the CIO United Auto Workers to include all the benefits granted the union earlier this week by Gen- eral Motors Corp. and the Ford Motor Co. Chrysler, as did Ford, agreed to raise its maximum pensions from $125 to $137.50 a month including primary social security benefits. The union last night went back to General Motors, the first of the Big Three to agree to contract changes, in an effort to boost GM pensions up to the new Ford and Chrysler level. GM AGREED TO all the new Ford and 'Chrysler changes last Friday but rejected the union's de- mand for a raise in its $125 a month pensions. The benefits ap- ply to 120,000 hourly rated and salaried Chrysler employes and 1900 retired Chrysler workers. All three companies have agreed tothese major changes in their contracts which run to mid 1955: 1) Adoption of the new Bureau of Labor Statistics price index as a pay guide to replace the govern- ment's expiring c6st of living in- dex.- 2) Transfer of 19 cents from the 24 cents gained under cost of liv- ing wage clauses since 1950 to base rates so that they cannot be wiped out by a sharp decline in living~ costs. 3) An increase in the so called nnual improvement factor (to cover improvements in production techniques without relation to liv- ing costs from four to five cents an hour each remaining year ofI the contract. BOTH FORD and Chrysler, agreed to 20 cents an hour raises for some skilled workers and 10 cents for the remainder. General Motors gave all its skilled em- ployees a fiat 10 cent boost. Robert W. Conder, Chrysler vice-president in charge of in- dustrial relations, estimated the .W I Williams A llows Tax Bil To Pass DETROIT - (R) - Gov. G. Mennen Williams told the people of the State last night that he permitted the Legislature's $35 million business receipts tax to become law because "the state is very near bankruptcy." The governor said he refused to sign the measure because "those who drafted it in secrecy, and forced it through the Legislature with- out adequate consideration, must bear the full responsibility before the .people." * * * * EARLIER yesterday, the governor took advantage of his consti- tutional right to let the bill become law without signature. He could have vetoed the measure or signed Hopwoods To Be Given In ]Program Stephen Spender, English poet and critic will address the winners of this year's Julie and Avery Hop- wood Contest at 4:15 p.m. today in the Rackham Lecture Hall. Talking on "Being a Young Writer, Past, Present, and Future," the famed poet will precede the presentation of awards to the win- ning contestants. ALTHOUGH best known for his poetry, Spender has done some I M , it. Explaining his stand in a state-wide radio broadcast, Gov. Williams declared his decision- provided the bill is constitutional --"will ensure some additional revenue to stave off financial disaster." A Republican "reply" took im- mediately to the air waves to an- swer the Democratic governor's at- tack on the GOP-controlled legis- lature. IN HIS SPEECH last night, Wil- liams said: "This tax is not based upon abil- ity to pay. It must be paid whether the enterprise loses or makes mon- ey." "Defectiveasthis new tax may be," he added, "It is not a tax on salaries and wages; it does not raid school funds or in- crease personal property taxes; and while it may have an indi- rect impact on certain prices, it is not a direct burden on con- sumers." "This bill." he asserted, "was conceived in secrecy, drafted in SL Defeats NSA Fund Cut Motions Group Discusses Hiring Secretary By DOROTHY MYERS Center of discussion at last night's Student Legislature meet- ing was a motion to drop affilia- tion with the National Students Association in favor of hiring a part-time secretary. The motion, introduced by Keith Beers, Grad., would have cut out all money necessary to pay NSA dues and convention registration fees. After lengthy discussion, it was defeated by a strong majority. Two other attempts to cut funds for next year's NSA Congress also failed. * * * THE RECENT Student Affairs Committee veto of an Inter-Fra- ternity Council decision to let rushing counselors participate in rushing activities in their indivi- dual houses was also brought up. Several members of the legislature questioned the SAC action. Pete Dow, '55, said at present fraternities appoint their weak- est "rusher" to be a counselor so he will not be present during house rushing activities. Dow claimed the present counseling system would have been greatly improved if the unanimously- passed IFC motion had met with SAC approval. Sarkm.,an Charge Hurt Chances for Contrary to Ike' PolicyHe Claims Battleship New Jersey Hits Wonsan As Air, Ground Fighting Slackens By The Associated Press Sen. Sparkman (D-Ala.) said yesterday that Sen. Taft (R-Ohio) "may have torpedoed chances for a truce in Korea" with his speech in Cincinnati Tuesday night. Taft, the Senate majority leader, suggested that "we might as well forget the United Nations as far as the Korean War is con- cerned." He said he did not believe in the- UN as an effective means to prevent aggression and that if a truce cannot be reached, the United States should "let England and our other allies know that we are withdrawing from all further; peace negotiations in Korea." f Taf'tl Truce i - - - -- r-- ---- haste, and adopted in ignorance of A report from its contents. I do not believe I am Reorganization telling any secrets when I say the presented by Bill bill was, written by lobbyists and former chairman tax attorneys for a few business * the now-defunct Committee wasj McIntyre.Grad..s of the group. * * DUTCH AMBASSADOR-Jan H. van Roijen, Netherlands emis- sary to the United States, talks with University President and Mrs. Harlan H. Hatcher. West Must St"ay United, Says Dutch Ambassador By FREDDI LOEWENBERG Warning that the Western nations must remain united and strong in order to cope with the Communist menace, Netherlands Ambassador to the United States Jan H. van Roijen said yesterday that the NATO powers should get together to plan for increasing the economic potential of the West. Speaking on "Nato and the New Soviet Peace Offensive," van Roijen recalled that despite a change of tactics by the Kremlin, the ultimate goal of the Russians re- - . -- interests. STEPHEN SPENDER ... poet, critic, author writingy in the fields of politics and newly-granted benefits would cost the corporation an addition- al $7,000,000 a year. It took the company and the union only nine hours of negotia- tion during the past two days to wrap up the agreement. The index change is especially significant since under the old contract the workers at GM and Ford were slated to loose two cents. New Addition To Daily Code Told by Young A new addition to The Daily's Code of Ethics was announced yes- terday by retiring Managing Editor, Crawford Young, '53. Put into effect in 1940 by stu- dent editors and approved by the Board in Control of Student Pub- lications, the code constitutes a statement of basic principles guid- ing the operation of The Daily. The new addition came as a re- sult of several months study by the senior staff and the Board in Control. The statement reads that the general standards of good taste required in regular publications apply to J-Hop extras and other supplements. It was instituted as a result of certain articles in this year's J-Hop edition, in an attempt to avoid publication of articles in bad taste in the future, according to Young. "The cooperation between the board and the students in estab- lishing basic principles of Daily op- eration has worked well over the years," Young said. "It is especially significant in this time, when strict control and censorship of collegiate press freedom seems to be the rule at other universities." OW - 'morals. Among his prose works is "European Witness," which shows' the effects of Nazism on the Ger- man intellectual. The Hopwood Awards were first granted to the University in 1930 by playwright Avery Hopwood and his wife Julie. The purpose of the grant was to further creative writing on the part of the student. * * * THIS WAS accomplished by the establishment of the present con- test with awards given annually to the winning students. Consisting of major and minor divisions, drama, poetry, fiction and essay are accepted as en- tries. Competition is open to all un- dergraduates in the minor divi- sion, providing they are enrolled in at least one creative writing course in either the English or journalism departments. All graduate students are eligi- ble for the major division compe- tition, and seniors may enter ei- ther. Both the lecture and the pres- entation of the awards are open to the public. In rebuttal, Senator Higgins asserted, "This is a good bill-- fair and, just." He added, "It is the fairest tax bill presented to the Legislature. We believe it will stand the test of time and, after it has been in operation, the facts will prove it is equita- ble." Higgins continued, "It is a broad-base, low-rate bill which will keep our schools operating. patients in mental hospitals well fed and clothed and will balance' the budget." Randall Slated To Give Talk At Graduation' Keynote speaker at the Univer- sity's 109th Commencement Junel 13 will be Clarence B. Randall, in-t dustrialist, author and currently chairman of the board of the In- land Steel Co.1 A former ECA missionary to Paris, Randall has become famous as the author of "A Creed for Free Enterprise" and "Civil Liberties and Industrial Conflict." He is a frequent contributor to the "At- lantic Monthly." Before delivering his address, Randall will be given an honor- ary degree from the University. President Harlan H. Hatcher will present a brief statement of con- gratulation to the seniors follow- ing Randall's speech. Howard Willens, '53, former Student Legislature president, who has been chosen by the Senior Board to represent the graduating class, will also give a short address. i\IcINTYRE SAID the commit- tee's failure to reach any agree- ment on the nature of the problem of representation in the legislature was due to insufficient planning, poor attendance, weak leadership and a pre-conceived attitude on the part of committee members that SL might lose strength if it were reorganized. He recommended to SL a plan for establishing an Administra- tive Council, which the Reor- ganization Committee had un- officially approved. The Admin- istrative Council plan would pro- vide for a small group of cam- pus leaders to coordinate activi- ties of SL with other student groups. Tony Bonadio. '54, chairman of SL's international committee an- nounced that Don Messersmith, '53, had been unanimously selected by a student-faculty board as the University's first exchange student to the Free University of Berlin. Ron Herr, '54, was appointed SL Administrative Wing coordinator and assistant manager of next year's student book exchange. Bill Morgan, Grad., was named,as fall Cinema Guild Manager. Final Issue With this issue The Daily terminates publication for the semester. The summer Daily will go into operation on either Tues- day, June 23 or Wednesday, June 24. The Daily's nightly news broadcasts have also been dis- continued until the paper re- sumes publication in September. mains the same * * Lead InNina HE CITED a fear in European 'N.n countries that it was the purpose To BePla d. of Russia to split the United States off from the other NATO nations. The Dutch Ambassador em- By Horton phasized that economic as well as military planning should be Edward Everett Horton, known made a matter of immediate ae A erec' Hortekom- concern within the framework as one of America's favorite com- of our anti-Communist alliance. edy actors, will play the leading Maintaining that the Western role in the fourth play of the Europeans should start by deal- Drama Season, "Nina," scheduled ing with the problem of creating a to open Tuesday in Lydia Men- single market and economic in- delssohn Theater. tegration of Europe. he remarked nr I"nesteUieSttsmksit In the play, a farce involving unless the United States makes it the wife-husband-lover triangle, possible for us to trade we shall not Horton takes the role of the hus- be able to do without your aid." Hon th Discussing NATO'S accomp- band. lishments, the ambassador cited Touring with "Nina" for fifteen the great improvement that has weeks on the west coast Horton come about in the morale of the returns to appear in the play in Western European countries. leading summer theaters through- out the mid-west and east. HE POINTED out that the two Supporting Horton in the com- developments which havesaved edy are MartaLindenrwith Gor- Eur ope from dissension, neutral- don Mills as the lover. ism and Communism in some Following "Nina," the 1953 Icases has been the Marshall Plan DaaSao ilwn p t and NATO.- Drama Season will wind up, its i; ., f ,; i SPARKMAN SAID this is "a di- ametrical contradiction" of Presi- dent Eisenhower's policy. Taft's speech, Sparkman told a reporter, "amounts to telling our allies, England, France, India and others, that 'we don't need you and don't want you'." Sparkman, the Democrats' vice-presidential nominee last year, is a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a former American delegate to the United Nations. Hehprotested that Taft's speech, read before the National Confer- ence of Christians and Jews by his son, Robert A. Taft Jr., was badly timed, coming at a crucial point in the truce negotiations. * * * "I CAN'T understand the very bad timing in this," Sparkman said. "Communist Russia has been trying to drive a wedge between the United Nations Allies, and now Sen. Taft's speech appears to do it for them." The White House declined yes- terday to comment on Taft's state- ment or to indicate whether it represented a serious difference of opinion between the President and his chief lieutenant in Congress. In his address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors here April 16, Eisenhower spoke out against "isolation" and declared: "We are ready . . . to make of the United Nations an institution that can effectively guard the peace and security of all peoples." The UN has just made a new truce proposal to the Communists and is awaiting their answer. An official government source said South Korea will present its own ideas to the Allied Com- mand at Munsan later today on how to solve the prisoner ex- change deadlock. Details of the proposal were not disclosed. * * * MEANWHILE on the fighting scene yesterday the battleship New Jersey led a new assault on the Communist port of Wonsan. The air war, meanwhile slacken- ed and ground fighting was light all day yesterday. Quad Judic 'May Lowner Perry .Fine The Inter-House Council Judi- ciary will meet today in a general session to reconsider the amount of the $40 fine it levied on Bob Perry, '53E, for violating the University rule against "soliciting" in the quadrangles. The decision to hold the special session followed a recommendation by the Joint Judiciary Council that the IHC group reconsider the fine, termed "excessive" by the Joint Judiciary subcommittee on the Perry case. * * * A SPOKESMAN for the IHC Judiciary felt the fine will "prob- ably be reduced" at the hearing today. Perry was accused of violating the University rule during his successful campaign for a Stu- dent Legislature seat. Joint Judic heard the case when Perry appealed the IHC Judiciary decision. "I won't pay the fine unless I'm forced to by the University," Perry said. Dean of Men Walter B. Rea com- mented last night that any fine imposed by the Joint Judiciary Council is a debt to the University. Perry, a senior, would face a hold- up of credits necessary for his graduation if he refused to pay such a debt. YR, YD, SDA Conf abs Set A round-up o campus political clubs shows that three local groups will be represented in national and state conventions this summer and early next fall. Getting the Young Republican National Federation convention off to a start June 11 in Rapid City, S. D., President Dwight D. Eisen- hower will address the political group on the opening day of the biennial conference. Campus Young Democrats will be represented in two conven- tions early this fall. The State meeting will take place in October in Detroit to dis- cuss 18-year-old voting, constitu- tion revision and to elect a new slate of officers. Three representatives. from the campus Students for Democratic Action will attend their national convention Sept. 12 through 15 at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Regents To Get Judiciary Charter Dean of Students Erich A. Wal- Commenting on how the free world should respond to the Russian peace offensive, van Roijen said, "there should be no lessening of our watchful- ness." On the other hand, he added, the West should seize every op- portunity to lessen international tensions and end theKorean War. Turning to the European De- fense Community, van Roijen termed the possibility that EDC may be realized "fairly good." run with" The Hasty Heart" be- ginning June 9. John Dall takes the lead part as an arrogant wounded Scotch soldier in the convalescent wards behind the lines. ATOMIC ENERGY: Legal Aspects Discussed 20TH CENTURY PAGEANT: Elizabeth II To Be Crou rn I 1. - - --%. j - lolk I-h Arl r'%W Ali A I 4" * * * By PAUL LADAS The attention of the world will be focused on London, England Tuesday when Elizabeth II will be crowned Queen of the United Kingdom and British Common- wealth. On that day the Common- wealth's 540 million people inhab- iting 14 and a half million square miles of the earth's surface will reaffirm their loyalties under a new Elizabethan reign. m e w . .i Ujesaa "The Dutch people favor a .1 greater degree of pooling of sov- ereignty within NATO," he add- ed. "However they realize that celebration will alleviate England's the time is not yet ripe for such dollar shortage by attracting a union." - American tourists. Discussing the proposed Big All England has made elaborate Three Conference in Bermuda, van plans for the celebration, but the Roijen commented that it was greatest spectacle will be in the wise for the West to get together historic city of London where the and be sure that they are in ac- Coronation will take place in cord. Westminster Abbey. ---- ---- - Climaxing the Coronation, B k To StartBook the Archbishop of Canterbury, Geoffrey Fisher, will lower the Collection June 1 3,000-diamond-studded St. Ed- By BOB JAFFE A greater degree of cooperation between private industry and gov- ernment is needed in the field of atomic energy, Dean E. Blythe Stason, of the law school said yes- terday. Dean Stason maintained that al- though government should retain supervisory control, atomic elec- tricity and chemical production can safely be put into private hands. He said that the govern- ment, in its effort to be ultra- cautious, goes slower than would private industry in these fields. UNDER THE present Atomic tthe Atomic Energy Act for private interests to own facilities for the production of fissionable material." THIS LIMITATION, he contin- ued, prevents the development, in private hands, of the so-called "breeder" type of reactor, which is the only feasible medium for the use of atomic energy in the pro- duction of electric power. The Law School head pointed out that the Act makes it un-I lawful for private interests even to own fissionable material. In- stead, he pointed out, "the ma- terial must be obtained' on loan i,