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VOL. LXIII, No. 73

ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1952

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McKennell Out
By PAUL GREENSBERG
John McKennell, '53BAd, classy left wing on Michigan's hockey
team was "temporarily suspended" by Athletic Director H. O. "Fritz"
Crisler for an altercation with a referee after a game in Denver,
Colorado on December 23.
The affair took place after Denver had beaten Michigan 5-4 in
a sudden-death overtime contest, and resulted from a dispute over

the legality of Denver's winning>
goal.
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CRISLER spoke to McKennell
and Hockey Captain John Match-
efts, '53, yesterday before he left
for an NCAA meeting in Washing-
ton, D. C. He also wired Cheddy
' Thompson, Colorado College Coach
and president of the National Col-
legiate Hockey Coaches Associa-
tion that he was reserving final
action until he received all of the
facts on the case.
Colorado newspapers had
made an issue over the incident,
even though the Referee, Mike
Yalich an ex-Colorado College
hockey player said that he'd
"just as soon forget all about
it." The press of Denver and
Colorado Springs created such
s furor that Crisler was forced
to act.
Michigan's Athletic Director
blasted the Colorado press saying
that he was "unable to recall an
incident in college athletics as
badly handled."
CRISLER ASKED for reports
from Denver Coach Neil Celley,
the Denver players and Referee
S Yalich. He was incensed that the
formal protest from the coaches
association was "undocumented as
to facts" and wanted the whole
story before making any final de-
cision on McKennell's status.
McKennell himself comment-
ed on the "unfair" way the press
magnified the incident and
maintained that he never hit
Yalich. Other Wolverines chim-
ed in to say that the four games

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JOHN MC KENNELL
. .
played in Colorado were the
most poorly officiated they had
ever witnessed.
A permanent suspension of Mc-
Kennell, the Wolverines second
leading scorer with 12 points and
leading goal-getter with. nine
would leave only Matchefts re-
maining of the great Michigan
first line after right wing Earl
Keyes graduated in mid-year.
The red-headed Toronto senior,
will not play in tomorrow night's
contest with Michigan State at
East Lansing and is a doubtful
participant in the weekend series
here with the University of Mon-
treal.6

Churchill, I
Ike Confer
In Privacy
No Report Issued
On First Meeting
NEW YORK - () - Presi-
dent-elect Eisenhower and British
Prime Minister Churchill sat down
before the comforting warmth of
a crackling fireplace yesterday to
chat as old friends do and doubt-
less to discuss world problems, too.
In the strictest privacy, they
spoke together for a little over an
hour and a half. At 6:45 p.m., Ei-
senhower left without making any
comment to newsmen and went
home to freshen up for dinner
with Churchill.
AS CHURCHILL arrived early
yesterday on the liner Queen Mary,
he spoke on numerous world top-
ics at a shipboard news confer-
ence.
Among other' things,, the 78-
year-old Churchill said that Al-
lied action in Korea has given
the world a "hopeful future" for
peace, but that he opposes any
extension of that war.
He also asserted that the danger
of another world war has receded.
He credited resistance to Soviet
aggression in Korea as the main
reason for that.
Nevertheless, he warned against
widening the fighting there, de-
claring that the "center of gravi-
ty" for peace "lies along the fron-
tiers of the Iron Curtain in Eu-
rope"-not in Korea.
* * *
BEFORE the conference a dele-
gation of Republican senators con-
ferred with Eisenhower and said
afterward they expected early
statehood for Hawaii.
Sen. William F. Knowland of
California said legislation to make
Hawaii the 49th state would be
introduced in Congress in a few
days and that he had "every rea-
son" to believe it would be ap-
proved.
Statehood for Alaska was not
discussed, he said.
In another phase of activity at
Eisenhower's headquarters, retir-
ing Republican Gov. Val Peterson
of Nebraska said he had accepted
"an important assignment" from
Eisenhower in the new GOP ad-
ministration. He declined to say
what the job would be.
World News
IRoundup
By the Associated Press
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Gov. Ad-
lai E. Stevenson said yesterday he
is planning a three-month world
tour, including Japan, Korea and
India, beginning about March 1.
The defeated Democratic pres-
idential nominee, who vacates the
Illinois executive office next week,
also told a news conference he has
no plans to run for public office
again.
PARIS - Rene Mayer, Radical
Socialist conservative financial ex-
pert, will ask Parliament today to
confirm him as the next premier of
France.
PARIS - Gen. Matthew Ridg-
way said yesterday the West's,
18 divisions in Germany would
not be defeated in a sudden

Russian attack but "would suf-
fer grievous blows."
* * *
A record high number of 962
persons met violent death on the
nation's streets and highways dur-
ing the Christmas and New Year
week ends.

Cold Snap
The student who has been
bathing in the Florida sun for
the past two weeks of vacation
may not relish the thought that
temperatures here for the New
Year are "a little bit under
normal."
According to weather fore-
casters at Willow Run, today
will be marked by a drop in
temperature and occational
snow flurries.
Expected low is 12 degrees
with a high of about 22. The
Weather Bureau says that the
normal minimum temperature
for this time of year is 19 de-
grees.

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Judge
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U'Honors
Late Geology
Professor
In tribute to a renowned geolo-
gist and explorer, the late Emeri-
tus Prof. William H. Hobbs, the
University is flying its flag on the
diagonal at half-mast until me-
morial services for the famed cam-
pus figure tomorrow afternoon.
Prof. Hobbs died Thursday aft-
ernoon at his Berkshire Rd. home
after a three month illness. He was
88 years old.
* * *
MEMORIOL services for the ge-
ology professor and scholar who
has a dozen parts of the earth's
surface named after him will be
held at 4:30 p.m. tomorrow at St.
Andrew's Episcopal Church. The
body has been cremated.
Known around the world for
his several expeditions to Green-
land and research in the South
Pacific region, the white-
bearded professor was no lab-
oratory scientist. He took an
energetic interest in all things
geological and at one time ad-
vanced evidence that an Italian
named Zeno beat Columbus to
Discovering America by 100
years.
Massachusetts born, Prof. Hobbs
was a member of the University
of Wisconsin faculty before com-
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--Daily-Don Campbell
MILT MEAD OF MICHIGAN BATTLES FOR A LOOSE BALL WITH CAPTAIN TOM WILLIAMS
(15) AND MERRILL HATFIELD (4) OF OHIO STATE IN LAST NIGHT'S GAME.
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CITY ROUNDUP:

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'52 Bows Out Without
Incident for Ann Arbor

By ERIC VETTER
Old man '52 and bright eyed '53
looked pretty much alike to Ann
Arborites during the yearly transi-
tion period as the town hummed
smoothly during the student va-
cation without any catastrophic
events.
Topping city news during the 16
day student recess was the an-
nouncement by Prof. Jesse Or-
mondroyd, of the engineering col-
lege, that he will oppose Republi-
can incumbent William E. Brown,
Jr., for mayor in the April elec-
ee-tion.
Prof. Ormndroyd, 55, has been
a resident of Ann Arbor since 1937
and a professor at the University
for the same length of time. He
joins Max R. Frisinger, candidate
Frank Costello
Serving Term
At MilanJail
Frank Costello, reputed king-
pin of the underworld, is quietly
sitting out an 18 month jail sen-
tence at Milan federal correction
institution 12 miles south of Ann
Arbor.
The big time New York gamb-
ler was moved to the penal in-
stitution the day after Christmas,
when his lawyers succeeded in
having him transferred from the
federal penitentiary in Atlanta on
the grounds that his sentence does
not call for confinement in a pen-
itentiary.
Costello has about 15 months
yet to serve of his 18 month sen-
tence for contempt of Congress.
He was ordered transferred to
Milan by Attorney General James
P. McGrannery who denied a plea
by Costello's attorneys that he be
released for being illegally held at
Atlanta.
Acting Warden David H. Heri-
tage, of Milan, said he did not
know how long Costello would re-
main at the institution, which is

for city council president, at the
top of the Democratic slate in
the spring contests.
* * *
OTHER election news involved
the filing of petitions for various
city council and board of super-
visor posts. A complete Democrat-
ic and Republican slate has been
drawn up for the $ council posts
with the exception of wards two,
three and five where primaries will
be held on Feb. 16 to decide the
Republican candidates.
Weather during the holidays
was of an un-winterly variety.
Except for snow last weekend
the -weather highlight was a
thick, soupy and dangerous fog
which rolled into town as stu-
dents were leaving before
Christmas. The smog caused nu-
merous auto mishaps and was
regarded -as the worst fog in
recent years.
Despite the lack of snow, city
merchants were sure Santa had
visited town when they finished
counting their tills after the
Christmas buying rush. Cash reg-
isters showed sales up about three
percent over last year, a new city
record.
One record that didn't fall, how-
ever, was the issuance of marriage
licenses during 1952. Leap near
just wasn't a successful one for
Ann Arbor lasses with only 1008
applications for licenses being re-
ceived by the county clerks office.
This is 180 under the five year
high set in the last leap year, 1948.

By DICK LEWIS
Invading Ohio State dealt a list-
less Michigan five its most crush-
ing defeat of the current cam-
paign last night, pounding out a
decisive 79-46 victory at Yost Field
House and dropping the Wolver-
ines deeper into the depths of the
Big Ten basement.
The wild-shooting Maize and
Blue trailed all the way while ab-
sorbing its fifth setback in six
conference outings and sixth loss
as against three wins on the sea-
son.
* * *
FRESH FROM a surprising 88-
point total in a three-point loss to
league leading Indiana. Michigan
turned in one of the poorest dem-
onstrations of shooting ever seen
on the local hardwood.
Coach Bill Perigo's charges at-
tempted 96 shots from the floor.
Only 16 of them went all the
way through for a dismal 16.6
percentage.
Fast-breaking Ohio State, with
center Paul Ebert and forward
'Court Rules
AorainstCIO
WASHINGTON-(A)-The CIO
United Steelworkers failed yester-
day in their effort to get a quick
Supreme Court ruling on the val-
idity of the 80-day injunction pro-I
vision in the Taft-Hartley law.
The court turned down without
comment a request of the union1
for a review of a decision by U. S.
District Judge John Knight hold-
ing the provision constitutional.
Judge Knight, in holding the
80-day "cooling off provision" of
the Taft-Hartley Act constitution-I
al, granted the government an in-
junction restraining the . steel-
workers from continuing a strike
at the American Locomotive Co.
plant in Dunkirk, N. Y.

Bill Wilks teaming up for 40 tal-
lies, hit on 31 per cent of its shots
and had the game wrapped up
from the opening moments.
The winners' margin was 8-2
with three minutes gone, and withI
Ebert counting with nine of his3
22 markers in the first period, OSU
was on top, 20-9, after 10 minutes.
DURING THIS session, Michi-
gan shooters found the range on;
a mere three of 23 attempts from
the floor.
The red-clad Buckeyes went
into some shooting doldrums of
their own in the next stanza,
and as a result they still retain-
ed an 11-point, 32-21, bulge
at halftime. Michigan fired
through four for 25 in the sec-
ond quarter' with guard Don
Eaddy hitting on two field goals,
his only points in 17 attempts
on the evening.{
Lone semblance of a scoring
surge came during the secondl
chukker when Eaddy converted on
a fast-break and John Codwell
followed with a jump shot and
free throw. That made it 25-15,
as close as the Wolverines got for
the rest of the contest.
A futile attempt to keep evenI

with the hustling Bucks fell to
pieces at the start of the second
half as center Paul Groffsky,
Michigan's high scorer in the first
eight games; fouled out over the}
vehement protests of Perigo.
* * *
GROFFSKY HAD just rung up
a hook shot and charity toss to
spearhead a Michigan thrust. He
was waived out on a controversial
hacking call by the officials and
after that the roof caved in.
With all their starters getting
into the act, the Buckeyes threw
in 12 successive counters to wid-
See BASKETBALL, Page 3
Estimate 27
Die in Crash
BELFAST, Northern Ireland--
(A)-A twin-engined British air-
liner crashed and burst into flames
while landing near here last night,
killing at least 27 of the 35 per-
sons aboard and injuring seven.
Only one of those aboard escap-
ed apparently unhurt. The surviv-
or was hurled from the tail of the
plane as it broke up. All other
crew members were killed. Most
of the passengers were British.

nemazns en
NEW YORK - UP - The sen-
tencing judge all but reprieved
the Rosenberg atom spy team
yesterday until the White House
decides whether they must die
for treason.
Federal Judge Irving R. Kauf-
man, keeping an earlier promise,
said the execution of Julius Ro-
senberg and his wife Ethel will be
stayed automatically if they apply
for presidential clemency by Sat-
urday - four days before their
scheduled Jan. 14 electrocution in
Sing Sing Prison.
* * *
HIS STAY would hold until five
days after President Truman or
President-elect Eisenhower makes
a decision. Eisenhower takes of-
fice Jan. 20 and Truman may pre-
fer to leave the decision to him.
The White House seems the
only recourse now for the con-
victed traitors. Further court
appeals are in the works but
have little chance of success.
Meanwhile, to the constant
drum-beat of Communist propa-
ganda, pickets by the hundreds
marched in 24-hour vigil across
from the White House in Wash-
ington. They demanded mercy
for the Rosenbergs.
* * *
FANNED BY the Communists,
world protests mounted Over the
pending execution, first of its kind
in American history.
The Rosenbergs were convict-
ed March 29, 1951, of conspir-
ing to turn America's A-bomb
secrets over to Soviet Russia.
Only last week, in denying them
his personal clemency, Judge
Kaufman called their crime
worse than murder.
The Rosenbergs, in Sing Sing's
death house since the spring of
1951, have steadfastlyhmaintained
their innocence as the sands of
their lives drained away.
House Group
To Undertake
CollegeProbe
WASHINGTON - () - The
House Un-American Activities
Committee will "bear the burden"
of a congressional search for sub-
versive activities on college cam-
puses, Rep. Velde (R., Ill.) said
yesterday.
Velde, who is in line to head the
committee, told a reporter that he
does not anticipate any conflict
with the Senate Investigating
Committee, although Senator Mc-
Carthy. (R, Wis.) chairman of the
Senate group, recently announced
his interest in the college field.
"I think the burden of the in-
vestigation will rest with us," said
Velde.
* * *
VELDE announced that investi-
gators are already combing intel-
legence files against reports of in-
formants on activities of profes-
sors at major universities,.
"There is no definite number
of schools under investigation,"
Velde said, "but I suspect there
are a good many which have
subversive activities of one type
or another."
Velde continued by stating that
the committee is prepared to meet
charges of "thought control" lev-
eled by some educators.
Skit Night Entry
Dpnatlihp Fytended

PROF. WILLIAM H. HOBBS
ing to the University geology de-
partment in 1906 He remained
here as a professor and director of
the geology laboratory until 1934.
AA Council Votes
On Charter Group
The Ann Arbor city council
moved last night to hold the elec-
tion of representatives to the city
charter revision commission after
the general April elections.
Approval of the commission
study rests with the voters in
April so the council decided to
wait until it was certain a study
group would be approved before
representatives were elected to it.

VISIT FIVE CITIES:
Union Opera Ends Most
Lucrative Trip in Years
By BOB APPLE
On the second last day of 1952 the 33rd Union Opera, "No Cover
Charge," ended its Christmas road tour.
The trip proved to be the most successful one, money wise, since
the days before the war.
* * * *

HESS TO OPEN WITH SCHUMAN:
May Festival Soloists, Conductors Annoi

THE SHOW PLAYED in five towns drawing about 7,200 persons.
Although complete financial
reports have not yet been tal-
lied, Mike Scherer, '54, Opera
general secretary, put $4,000 as
Ia conservative estimate for the
Ishow's net profits.
un2ced e-'''-
The money made in each town
y* *goes to that city's alumni commit-
tee where it is in turn placed into
a Regents' Scholarship Fund.
SCHERER also said that the
Opera drew more people than any
other post-war show.
: Cleveland, which sponsored

Nine soloists, four .conductors,
the Philadelphia Orchestra, Uni-
versity Choral Union and Festival
Youth Chorus, will combine their
musical talents in the six concerts
comprising the 60th annual May
Festival, to be given April 30, May
1, 2, 3 in Hill Auditorium.

prano; Janice Moudry. contralto; senting two short works, th

I Harold Haugh, a members
School of Music faculty,
and Kenneth Smith, bass.
Saturday afternoon
Youth Chorus will parti
in the first half of the pro
under Marguerite Hood.

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of the Brahm's "Song of Triumph," andj
tenor; "Prairie," by Normand Lockwood,
a work specially commissioned by
the Johnson for the festival. The
cipate composition is based on the poem, -
ogram "Prairie" by Carl Sandburg.
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