'K 'I I' I BOOK REVIEW See Page 4 I , tt itau Latest Deadline in the State :4Iaii4 FAIR AND W ARMER VOL. LXIII, No. 62 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1952 EIGHT PAGES Industry's WSB Men Quit in Row Truman Coal Decision Blasted By the Associated Press All seven industry members of the Wage Stabilization Board (WSB) .quit yesterday with a blast at President Truman for what they called the "perpetration of a fraud upon the American people." The row threatened to torpedo the Government's whole wage con- trol program. * * * THE INDUSTRY members, who constitute one-third of the Wage Board's makeup, said Truman'sI approval of a $1.90 daily wage in- crease for John L. Lewis' united miners was a "special privilege" extended to a few and made "sec- ond class citizens of all others." "As American citizens," they said, "we cannot subscribe to the theory that this sovereign gov- ernment should sacrifice the public interest to industrial hool- iganism." The Wage Board had voted to hold the miners' pay increase to $1.50 a day, on the ground that the higher figure, to which the coal operators had agreed, would "ir- reparably" damage the entire an- ti-inflation program. TRUMAN overruled the board, saying its action would lead to a nationwide coal strike and con- front the new Eisenhower admin- istration with a national emer- gency on its first day in office. In a letter to the President, the industry members said: "We cannot escape the conclusion that political expediency was a factor in this action." Asserting that the wage stabili- zation program is now "nothing but a sham and a mockery," the letter added: "If your action means that the small and the weak are to be restricted by wage controls, while the big and the powerful are to be allowed whatever excessive increases result from the threat of a paralyzing strike, then there no longer exists the equality with which all law and all regulation should be applied in a republic. Meanwhile in Boston the eight industry members of the New Eng- land Regional Wage Stabilization Board resigned yesterday in con- cert with the industry members of the national WSB. They said in a statement that they felt "the continuation of wage stabilization controls under pres- ent conditions would be meaning- less." Petitions Out For judiciary Council Posts Petitions for three positions on the Men's Judiciary Council may be picked up between 3 and 5 p.m. tomorrow through Friday at the Student Legislature Bldg. All petitions must be turned in by Friday afternoon, with inter- viewing scheduled foi' Saturday. Students may sign up for an in- terview when they take out a peti- tion. Interviewing is done by the SL Cabinet which selects members of Men's Judic. Michigan Cagers Down Pi*tt, 85-78 Wolverines Blow Early Lead, Then Stage Rally in Final Quarter To Win By DAVE LIVINGSTON Wolverine cagers blistered the nets with -31 points in the final period last night to erase an eight-point deficit and whip Pitts- burgh, 85-78, before a cheering Yost Field House crowd of 3,200. Forward John Codwell sparked Michigan's last quarter upsurge with 14 markers, which played a big role in ruining Coach H. C. Carlson's Panthers in their initial game of the season. ** * * THE MAIZE AND BLUE were forced to come from behind five -times to register their second Korea nWar End Asked ByUN Chief UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.-(P) -The president of the 60-nation UN General Assembly published last night his personal appeal to Red China's premier-foreign min- ister Chou En-Lai to end the Kor- ean fighting on terms of India's peace plan. The president, Canada's foreign secretary Lester B. Pearson, sent a similar message to North Korean authorities. They were in cables dispatched Friday, but not made public until last night, transmit- ting the Indian resolution to the Communists. Fifty-four of the 60 nations endorsed the plan; Mos- cow and company were opposed. * * * THE RED regimes have already turned down the proposals, but some sources, including India's V. K. Kishna Menon, hoped Pear- son's personal appeal plus his ex- planations of what the plan ac- tually does might open new ave- nues of approach. Pearson's 800-word appeal was sent as U. S. President-elect Eis- enhower was en route back to the United States after his three- day Inspection trip in Korea. The Indian plan, approved Wed- nesday, calls for no forced repatri- ation of Chinese and North Korean prisoners and no forced retention of them. It sets up a commission compos- ed of Sweden, Switzerland, Polafid Czechoslovakia to carry out re- patriation and lays down that POWs who refuse to return home will be cared for by the UN. A fifth nation would be named as the commission's tie-breaking um- pire. Red China and North Korea have demanded all war prisoners be returned, whether or not they want to go home. "The India plan represents ideas put forward by many governments represented in the General As- sembly whose unanimous desire is to bring peace to Korea," Pearson said in his message. "The resolu- tion can make this desire effective because its acceptance will make it possible to achieve an armistice and a complete and immediate cessation of hostilities." straight triumph for mentor Bill Perigo. With Michigan trailing 62-54 as the decisive fourth stanza began, Codwell poured in a one- hander and a free throw in the first 30 seconds to narrow the margin to five points and initi- ate the Wolverine rally. Pitt's Mickey Zernich put a tem- porary crimp in the Michigan out-' burst by sinking a foul, but Wol- See FLURRY, Page 6 SL Proposal Discussed At Meeting "Mutnally satisfactory progress" was the reported result of a dis- cussion of Student Legislature's proposal to end bannings of speak- ers held yesterday by the Lecture Committee and four student rep- resentatives. The Lecture Committee came to no final decision on the SL pro- posal, however. Debate of the issue will continue at another meeting sometime before Christmas, and committee approval or disapproval may be registered at that time. * * *. DISCUSSION of the SL plan to institute post-judgment of speak- ers under criteria listed in a Re- gents' by-law hinged prominently on the problem of administering the proposal, according to SL pres- ident Howard Willens, '53. Willens and Phil Berry, Grad., are both regular non-voting stu- dent representatives on the com- mittee. Two other students, Dave Brown, '53, and Ted Fried- man, '53, joined the discussion and will also sit in on the pre- Christmas meeting. Set up to eliminate pre-judg- ment of speakers, the SL proposal asks that recognized student or- ganizations be allowed to sponsor speakers of their choice on Uni- versity property if they submit to the Lecture Committee a signed pledge that Regents' criteria will not be violated. The Lecture Committee was or- iginally scheduled to rule yester- day on a Young Progressives' peti- tion to hear controversial author Howard Fast. However, YP mem- bers withdrew the petition Friday prior to Fast's off-campus talk yesterday afternoon. Santlas Sacked TOLEDO, O.-M'P-Five San- ta Clauses-in full costume- showed up in municipal court yesterday, charged with solicit- ing funds without a permit. They are members of the Volunteers of America. Police arrested the Santas on the complaint of the Salvation Ar- my, which has licensed Santas around Toledo. Maj. J. L. Dignum of the Volunteers said the ordinance requiring permits "puts us in a class with beggars" and declin- ed to make out application pa- pers for the Santas. The Santas promised not to solicit over the weekend. Their case will be heard tomorrow. I Fast Says Government R uins B.ooks By DIANE DECKER "Literature is dying in the Unit- ed States because it cannot thrive under the prevailing police state," author Howard Fast said yester- day. The controversial figure main- tained that the contemporary American scene is one where "evil and conscienceless men have seiz- ed control of the means of produc- tion and are making unprecedent- ed profits through war." APPROXIMATELY 60 students gathered in the Unitarian Church to hear the off-campus address. Conforming with regulations laid down by Unitarian Minister Ed- ward H. Redman, the sponsoring students checked each member of the audience at the door against a guest list drawn up in advance. Blasting national lethargy to- ward the present state of affairs, Fast commented, "During the Hitler regime, we in America felt a sense of shock when almost 100 professors were expelled from German universities and when books were burned. Since 1948, more than 300 professors. have been removed from our uni- versities under the same condi- tions, the same bonfires have burned, but there is no wave of protest." Fast commended the Congress of Vienna, which meets Dec. 12, as the "greatest grouping of peace seekers the world has ever wit- nessed." The author was a repre- * * * Eisenhower Dulles on Will k -Photo by Jerry Fedor CHRISTMAS SPIRIT-A couple pauses on the way home from their Saturday night date for a closer look at the mammoth Christmas tree standing on the steps of the General Library. Recent- ly put up, the annual tree in front of the library is a sharp reminder of the approaching yuletide season. 'M' Outskates Larries,6I .4, By PAUL GREENBERG 3 It started out as the opening hockey game of the season, but. it ended more like a back-lot brawl. When the smoke cleared, the Michigan pucksters were out in front 6-1 and on the scoreboard the Wolverines had taken the first step on the road to the defense of French Jail Six Tunisian Party Heads I 1 i I 1 t their NCAA crown. For the har- rassed St. Lawrence sextet, it was their third straight loss. * * * THE LARRIES had previously dropped an encounter to McGill 4-0 and were beaten by Michigan State, 3-2. Coach Vic Heyliger's squad powered its way to a 5-0 lead in the first two periods and started to coast in the third. Then, after St. Lawrence broke goalie Willard Ikola's shutout bid as Chet Stefanowicz scored on Neale Langill's pass at 2:03 of the final period, the roof caved in. A tie-up on the right boards in the Saints defen- sive zone turned into a free-for- all. After the altercation sinimered down, Alex McClellan and Telly Mascarin of the Wolverines, as well as Wally Behan and Charles Lundberg, St. Lawrence defense- men were sent to the showers. By the Associated Press Six Labor and Nationalist lead- ers were thrown into an intern-t ment camp yesterday as an after- math of the assassination of Far- hat Hached, Secretary General of1 the Tunisian Labor Federation.r French authorities said the group was picked up to forestall a general outbreak of violence. ONE OF THOSE arrested was Mohamed Messadi, successor to Hached in the top Labor position. A three-day general strike called by the Federation was effective in parts of this troub- led French North African Pro- tectorate. Various reports of violence, which caused the death of at least two persons, were re- ceived from throughout the1 country. Meanwhile at the United Nations1 the Western Big Three yesterday gave the hands-off treatment in widely different ways to the ex- plosive question of Tunisian in- dependence from France. Britain's Selwyn Lloyd, Min- ister of State in Prime Minister Churchill's cabinet, told the 60- nation political committee it had no right to discuss the issue. He called it one of French domestic, not international, concern and said for this reason Britain would not comment on rights and wrongs in- volved in Tunisia. ANY MALE student from any school in the University may peti- tion for a post if he has 60 hours or more of credit and is academi- cally eligible. Composed of seven members, the Council handles a variety of cases. The Perry case involving violations of quadrangle election rules is a recent example. Five of the seven members sit on the Joint Judiciary Council as well. The five positions ro- tate among all the members, so each person serves on Joint Ju- die part of the year. The Joint Council handles a great many cases involving stu- dent infractions of University reg- ulations which are referred to it by the Office of the Dean of Stu- dents and the Dean of Women. The Council recommends action to the University Sub-Committee on Discipline which must approve all recommendations. The three open positions are 'BLUES' REBORN: Eleven Year Old Daily Reflects Innocent' U.S. By MARK READER Only 11 shopping days were left before Christmas. Humphrey Bogart was chasing after the "Maltese Falcon" at the old Majestic Theatre and the whine of the "Birth of the Blues" cap- tured the imaginations of Ann Arbor movie-goers. SOMEONE LIVING out on Church Road was selling some spaniel puppies to anyone who was interested and a local laundry offered to carefully darn student's socks at a low price. James P. McGranery, U. S. Representative, said that he in- tended to ask Attorney General Francis Biddle to investigate the position of Mike Jacobs, New York boxing promoter. The Wolverine hockey team was trounced by London, a Canadian sextet, by the score of 6-1. Professor Theodore M. Newcomb of the sociology department, after an exhaustive 4 year research study announced that "there is only a slight increase in liberalism" in the attitude of students between entrance into college and final graduation. Homer Swander, a Daily staffer praised Wendell Wilkie's deci- sion to defend William Schneidermann, secretary of the Communist Party in California, whose American citizenship had been rescinded because of Communist affiliation. -Daily-Don Campbell HOWARD FAST sentative at the 1949 World Peace Conference, which is sponsoring the Congress of Vienna. MAINTAINING that the Rus- sian government is actually seek- ing peace while the United States wants only war and war profits, he called America, "the only coun- try in the world surrounded by an iron curtain." He particularly crit- icized the government for refus- ing to grant certain foreign trav- elling privileges. The author is confined to this country, under penalty of five year imprisonment for crossing a border, since serving a jail term in 1947. At that time, Fast was one of 11 members of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Com- mittee convicted for contempt of Congress. Fast, who is on the board of directors of the Daily Worker, na- tional Communist organ, told of recently completed construction on a "concentration camp" at Allen- town, Pa.-which he said was "America's fifth and largest." State Recount To BeMonday LANSING, Mich. - (P) - Mich- igan went ahead yesterday with plans to begin a recount of its governor's election results tomor- row even while a multi-sided argu- ment went on over the question of whether the Senate results should be rechecked at the same time. Election officials, whose original tally showed Democratic Governor G. Mennen Williams a winner by some 8,618 votes over his Republi- can challenger, Fred M. Alger, Jr., were set to begin the recount in Wayne and 13 other counties to- morrow. The rest of the state's 83 counties will have their retabu- lations underway by Dec. 15. Any one's guess was as good as the next fellow's insofar as the status of a possible recount in the Blair Moody-Charles E. Potter Senate race was concerned. Potter had a 46,000 margin in that one in the November balloting. The quartet drew match miscon- duct penalties along with their five-minute fighting fouls. * * * FIFTEEN minutes passed be- fore the game resumed, as tem- pers cooled and the Coliseum rang with cries of "rabbit stew" in hon- or of Referee "Rabbit" McVeigh who had expelled McClellan after the scrappy defenseman was pok- See BRAWL, Page 6 Professionals, Students Star In 'Messiah' Highlighting the Christmas sea- son will be the annual performance of Handel's "Messiah" at 2:30 p.m. today in Hill Auditorium. The second performance of the religious oratorio, presented by the University Musical Society, will be sung by the Choral Union, accom- panied by the Musical Society Or- chestra, organist Mary McCall Stubbins and four professional soloists, all-"under the direction of Prof. Lester McCoy. FAMILIAR to Ann Arbor aud- iences as the oratorio soloists are Nancy Carr, soprano; Eunice Al- berts, contralto, David Lloyd, ten- or; and James Pease, baritone- bass. Nancy Carr is well-known to Chicago radio audiences through her many performances over the air. Contralto Eunice Alberts has made eight performances with the Boston Symphony Orchestra un- der Serge Koussevitzsky. Versatile David Lloyd has sung more than 100 performances from coast to coast last year. Bass-baritone star of the New York City Opera Company, James Pease, was trained as a lawyer, but switched to singing after his dis- charge from the Air Force. eet Island Rihee Urges IKe To Seek PeaceKey General Leaves As Reds Attack By the Associated Press Sunday, Dec. 7-The cruiser Helen a, with President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower aboard, steamed through boiling seas to- night for a rendezvous with Secre- tary of State-designate John Fo- ter Dulles at Wake Island tomor- row. Eisenhower and Dulles will hold a series of conferences aboard the Helena to mold the new admin- istration's policy toward Korea and the entire Far East. THE HELENA is returningEi- senhower from a history-making. three-day visit to Korea which fulfilled the general's campaign promise to investigate the war first hand in an effort to find a new approach to an honorable peace. Dulles will fly to Wake Island from the United States, and will be transferred to the Helena by helicopter. Others who will be close to Eisenhower in the new administration will accompany Dulles, but it has not yet been disclosed aboard ship who they will be. He will com fresh from a series of meetings with U.S. Secretary of State Acheson and other top State Department officials, said Presidential press secietary James C. Hagerty. MEANWHILE, in Seoul, Presi- dent Syngman Rhee said he urged Eisenhower to find a solution to Korea because "our people have become impatient." The Republic of Korea Presi- dent declared he expects Eisen- hower "will do what he can to break the Korean stalemate at the earliest possible time." Rhee emphasized, however, that Eisenhower made no commitments at their conferences during Eisen- hower's unprecedented, three-day visit to this war-torn land. And as Eisenhower's plane was leaving Korea Friday night, the Red air force let loose with its heaviest night attack of the war. The U.S. Fifth Air Force said last night the raiders were re- pulsed by Allied night fighters and blistering anti-aircraft fire, al- though some Communist bombs were dropped near an air base. Galens Make New Record In Collections Netting over a thousand dollars mnore than ever before, the Galens yesterday wound up their twenty- fifth annual Christmas drive with $6,861.75 for the children in the University Hospital. Ann Arborites contributed 20 per cent more than last year's pre- vious record of $5,600, according to Walter Kirsten, '53, director of the medical honorary's drive. "We are extremely delighted that the contributors were so gen- erous," Kirsten declared. "The Ga- lens would like to extend a sin- cere 'thank you' to all those who contributed and participated in the drive and a special thanks to Dean Waltr B. Rea for all his help," he added. Proceeds from the drive main- tain the Galen Workshop, the Children's Craft Library and con- tribute to the annual Christmas Party given for the hospital child- ren. PROBLEMS AIRED: Literary Meetings Start Second Year By ELEANOR ROSENTHAL The literary college's answer to the problem of lack of student voice on educational matters, thet Literary College Conference, cele- brates its second anniversary to-t day. The first conference was heldt of a successful meeting of facul- ty and student opinion." The conference work is planned by a 14-student steering commit- tee, the members of which are chosen by petition for their inter- est and capability. Petitioning is usually held in the fall and spring of steering committee members and student guests. The subcom- mittees, using the results of the discussion as a springboard, in- vestigate the topic further and pre- pare a report on their findings. These reports are presented to the dean of the college and chan- I ... 't'.,Ri { .. x jir