4 . THE IRANIAN CRISIS See Page 4 \:Yl r e Latest Deadline in the State 4* :43 a t t . CLOUDY AND COLDER VOL. LXIII, No. 79 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1953 SIX PAGES omwmiw State L YL Head Teits'Purposes' Avowed Aims Conflict with Secret Report; Reveal Local Red Cell Link (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the fifth in a series of interpretive articles dealing with Communist Party and Communist-front groups in Ann Arbor and at the University.) By ZANDER HOLLANDER , Daily Feature Editor For someone who wants to understand the nature of the Labor Youth League a few hours with Balza Baxter, State LYL Chairman, is an illuminating experience. Baxter is a "volunteer organizer," the only one in the state. Though he claims to be unsalaried he admits to being supported by "contributions from friends and sympathizers." * * * * "I GET ENOUGH to live off of," he said. Repeated Daily requests that some LYL member be deputized to act as spokesman for the group, Ann Arbor's leading Communist-front, brought no result. It appears that no local member will accept respon- sibility for answering The Daily's questions-thus Baxter was asked to do the job. Although Baxter, a former Flint laundryman, refused to an- swer some key questions, here are the answers The Daily did get: There are 13 LYL clubs in the state, six of them in Detroit. Baxter refused to locate the remainder. While he .did not dispute recent testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee that Michigan's total membership was 210, he bragged that a membership drive completed four months ago had increased its numbers by one- third. t , * , OF PARTICULAR interest among Baxter's remarks was his reply to the question: why didr't the Communist Party revive the Young Communist League after the war? "The independence of young people was necessary-young people require freedom from control and have a certain uniqueness of interests. They aren't willing to join the Party and to accept Its discipline, or, they may not agree with all its principles." Baxter's statement is substantially at variance with the testimony of Harvey M. Matusow, New York LYL organizer and FBI undercover agent. Matusow explains the switch thus: "The Party members were quite unhappy about it (the formation of a Labor Youth League) because they wanted the name 'Communist League.' .. . The Party explained that 'we are not using Young Com- munist League because that would leave us open for indictment under the Smith Act.... The Party leaders became the same leaders in the Labor Youth League." * S S S THUS THE SAME PERSONNEL, such as Leon Wofsy, Lou Diskin, Mel Williamson, Joe Bucholt and Roosevelt Ward-all officials in the Communist youth movement and American Youth for Democ- racy, wartime Party youth front-became the national heads of LYL. Ward, incidentally, left the University in 1949, and has since been convicted of failing to comply with the Selective Service Act. Significant in reference to the local Naefus Club- YL relation- ship is Matusow's statement that Commhunist Party' leaders met with and directed LYL leaders on a "comparable level." Thus section organizers of the Party met with League section heads, and so on down the line. THE LOCAL League apparatus reportedly works like this: Party members within the LYL confer privately prior to the regular League meeting, which includes non-Party personnel. After receiving the Party-line from their liaison man with the Naefus Club they, in turn, present a united front to the League membership. The Naefus Club, contrary to general assumption, does not receive "the line" from Detroit Party headquarters. Members of the cell make periodic trips to Chicago for this purpose, contact- ng a major cell in the Communist network there. Miscellaneous data on the LYL: fl 1--Dues-35 cents per month from college members. 2-Numbers-around 6,000 nationally. 3-Meetings-roughly every two weeks, when 20-30 people congregate in a Party member's apartment. What, then, is the object of this f J-Hop Juniors, seniors and graduate students may purchase tickets to the '53 J-Hop from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. today at the Ad- ministration Bldg. Tomorrow through Friday all remaining tickets for the dance will be placed on sale. Tickets are $7 per couple. Eisenhower Holds Talks With Aides NEW YORK - (P) -- President- elect Eisenhower interrupted a busy day of policy talks yesterday for an historic shape-up luncheon with his new Cabinet and his key advisers. Theysmulled over foreign and domestic problems awaiting them Jan. 20, when the general takes office. AS THE 41/2 hour conference broke up for the day, James C. agerty Eisenhower's press sec- retary, told newsmen: "There was a discussion of the future duties of the administra- tion, foreign and domestic. The conferences will continue tomor- row." Earlier Eisenhower again talked patronage with Sen. Robert A. Taft (R-Ohio) and others, and discussed government reorganiza- tion with Rep. Brown (R-Ohio) and Sen. Ferguson (R-Mich). The President-elect also found time to choose Dr. James Bryant Conant, president of Har- vard University since 1933,' as new United State high commis-. sioner for Germany. Conant was chosen with the knowledge and approval of the new secretary of state, John Fos- ter Dulles. Japan Raps Tres passing TOKYO-A)-Japan early to- day protested violations of its ter- ritorial air by planes of a foreign power-presumably Soviet Russia -and warned that Japan and the U. S. would take steps to repel intruding aircraft. The Japanese government in a statement said "violations of our territorial air over Hokkaido by foreign military planes have of late become increasingly frequent. "Such trespasses are not only forbidden under international law but they constitute also a grave menace to the security of Japan." Hokkaido is the northernmost main island, separated by only a few miles from the Russian-occu- pied Kuriles and Sakhalin. British Rift Causes New Suez Crisis Premier Naguib Hints at Violence 'LONDON - (P) -- Egypt's strongman premier Maj. Gen. Mo- hamed Naguib stood up the Brit- ish ambassador in Cairo yester- day and a sudden new crisis arose in the Middle East over the Su- dan and Suez Canal. Instead of meeting Sir Ralph Stevenson to discuss the thorny Sudan question, Naguib addressed a students' meeting and said that "only over our dead bodies" will British troops remain in the Nile Valley. * * * THE FOREIGN Office here also was shocked and surprised to dis- cover that over the weekend Na- guib had scored a major victory by persuading a pro-British political party in the Sudan to switch its loyalty on a crucial constitutional issue. There was a possibility that Anglo-Egyptian talks may break down. Ambassador Stevenson hd hoped to present to Naguib a draft covering points so far agreed to between Britain and Egypt on pro- posals to give the eight million Su- danese the right to choose between unity with Egypt and complete in- dependence before the end of 1955. The students' meeting was called to commemorate "martyrs" killed in the Suez Canal zone fighting against the British in 1951 and 1952. Several thousand heard Naguib declare: "We will not permit any for- eign soldier to remain among us. Only over ourdeadbodies will they do that." He promised to allow the stu- dents to fight in the front lines "when the time of fighting comes." Britain has offered to pull her troops out only if Egypt agrees to join a Middle East defense organ- ization projected by the main Western powers and to allow the Allies to reoccupy the bases in time of war. Flu Injections Begin Today Anti flu injections will be given to students free of charge, begin- ning at 8 a.m. today in Health Service. Students may get the shots from 8 a.m. to noon and from 1 to 5 p.m. every day this week ending Saturday noon. Faculty members, University employees and student wives and husbands may also get in- jections for a one dollar fee. Those persons who are particu- larly sensitized to eggs have been warned not to get a shot except with the attention of the allergist. Students should enter the north door of Health Service for the free injections. All others should go in the south entrance so that they may pay their fee at the cashier's office. Senior Notice Sehiors graduating in Febru- ary who plan to participate in commencement ceremonies in June may make arrangements for commencement announce- ments and caps and gowns from 1 to 5 p.m. today at a special booth in the Administration Bldg. lobby. Senate R epor Velde Reply Announced By Hatcher Cites 'General' Nature of Probe By VIRGINIA VOSS Rep. Harold H. Velde (R- I.) has notified the University that the House Un-American Activi- ties Committee's forthcoming in- vestigation of alleged Communist activities on the nation's cam- puses will not be "directed at speci- fic institutions." President Harlan H. Hatcher yesterday read to a general fac- ulty meeting the statement sent to him by Rep. Velde, who is slated to head the House Committee under the incoming administra- tion. , THE SHORT telegram expressed appreciation for President Hatch- er's telegram of Friday which promised full University coopera- tion with the Committee. It also said: "Our investigation will be general in character rather than directed at specific institutions." President Hatcher cited Rep. Velde's statement as a "proper way" of approaching the inves- tigations. He said he felt that the new administration would be a "stabilizing force" and that Eisenhower's voice "would supplant that of McCarthy's." Indicating that the University has nothing to hide from any in- quiry, President Hatcher stated "I do not fear the future, least of all for the University of Michigan." -* * * THE UN-AMERICAN Activities Committee investigation was one of four topics President Hatcher discussed yesterday in the second annual President-faculty meeting which he said he intetids to es- tablish as a custom. Commenting on the 20 million dollar operating budget request to be put before the State Leg- islature, President Hatcher said he was certain "we will not get what is necessary but we will get some increase." Because the University seriously needs more faculty members, in- creased salaries and funds to make cost-of-living adjustments in material purchases, it has ask- ed for a three million budget in- crease "knowing that the State' was not in a healthy financial. condition," President Hatcher pointed out. Other than operating budget needs, "the only rational way to get ready for the future is by regular installments of capital outlay-a few million a year," the President said. Capital outlay requests for 1953- 54, totalling $7,640,000, include' funds for expanded library facili- ties, a new School of Music, in- itial construction for a Medical Science Bldg. and several rehabili- tation programs. Noting that the University was already out of a "breathing space" and into an upward enrollment curve, President Hatcher warned faculty members "we must be cer- tain to preserve the quality of our work." Committee Gives on Red Teachers Daily-Don Campbell PAUL GROFFSKY (17) AND MILT MEAD (7) BATTLE TWO HAWKEYES FOR A REBOUND * ** * Wolverines' Late, Surge Edges. Hawke yes, 66=61 By DICK LEWIS Down-trodden Michigan staged a dramatic ht to overcome Iowa, 66-61, and vacate the lar. States Urged To Remove Subversives Say Hundreds In U.S. Schools By The Associated Press The Senate internal security subcommittee said yesterday there are hundreds of American school teachers who- are Communists and who must be rooted out to protect future generations. In a 13-page report, the sub- committee recommended further investigation of Red influences in the nation's schools and colleges. "DESPITE THE unquestioned loyalty and self-sacrificing devo- tion to duty of the preponderent bulk of America's teachers," the senators said, "there are yet many hundreds of teachers who are Communists." The Senate group proposed that state legislatures probe the 'situation and urged that boards of education take steps, to re- moveteachers whose loyalty Is proved to be questionable. In addition, the subcommittee specifically recommended that it be empowered to continue its own inquiry in the educational field. IT WAS still not clear how the new Congress will handle its Com- munist investigations, although Senate Republican leader Robert A. Taft of Ohio said last night in Washington that the lines of jur- isdiction will be staked out be- tween committees to prevent over- lappingby the Senate's GOP pol- icy committee. Taft said it has not been de- cided whether McCarthy wil be given the major investigative role. He said he favored a search for subversives in colleges but only where there was evidence of organized Communist groups. He wouldn't investigate individ- ual professors, he said. The Senate report said that tes- timony had indicated specifically that Communist activity took place among teachers in Philadel- phia, Cleveland, Detroit, Buffal' and Madison, Wis. In Detroit, meanwhile, the City Loyalty Investigating Committee promised yesterday to study pos- sible communist influence in the city schools if requested to do s by the Board of Education. *5 *' * Three Deans In Agreement On Red Issue By- ALICE BOGDONOFF "There should be no Commun- ists on the University faculty." Three members of the Univer- sity community agreed on this point when questioned last nighi as to whether Communists should be allowed to teach in the schools Two members disagreed. The somewhat touchy . issu came up yesterday as a result di a statement. by the Senate inter- nal security subcommittee whic read: "A Communist is not a fi person to be placed or retained i a position to influence the mind of the youth of America."' last-ditch rally last Big Ten basketball Coach Bill Perigo's fired-up- Wolverines came with a rush from seven points off the pace to chalk up their second conference win in eight starts, dumping idle Purdue into the league basement in the process. y THE DESPERATION Maize and Blue surge came with less than five minutes remaining in the action-packed contest. Iowa had opened up a 52-45 gap early in the final complex of Party headquarters, liasion men, front groups and LYL members? According to Baxter the immediate projects of LYL are: 1-Peace-"only in a world of peace can the needs of young people be satisfied." 2-Elimination of inequality. 3-An improved GI bill for returning veterans. However Baxter's version of the LYL program does not iltogether jibe with the capsulization of aims which completes the League's sec- ret directive to members. These are: "Advance our collective work! "Strive for collective leader- ship! "Learn from our mistakes and successes! "No more servility to Jim Crow! "Double the membership! "Master Marxism-Leninism!" It is this disparity between public and private pronounce- ments which governmental auth-. orities feel makes the LYL worth surveillance. North Koreans Hurl Big Attack SEOUL - P) - North Korean WORLD CHAMPION: McEwen Ends Record Setting Track Career Don McEwen, Michigan's fabulous distance runner, hung up his spikes for good yesterday when he announced he would accept a job in his native Canada after graduation this month. McEwen thus closes the books on three years of college competi- tion which saw him establish two world's distance records and a hand- ful of American, Big Ten and Michigan collegiate records. Michigan's track coach, Don Canham, called the Canadian thinclad the "best college distance runner in history." Canham pointed out that McEwen's college records and his remarkable consistancy place him ahead of other college greats who went on to set track records after <> GREETINGS: Army To Call- ROTCGrads WASHINGTON-(P)-The Ar- my said yesterday that ROTC graduates who complete training this winter will be ordered to ac- tive duty within 60 days after grad- uation because sufficient funds have been found to finance the service. The Army had said previously that all reserve officer graduates, except those commissioned in the engineers, would wait until the summer to start their tour of active duty. Captain William Langworthy of the University's Army ROTC said yesterday that only one student here will be immediately affected by the decision. However, approximately 50 sen- iors now in the ROTC will receive their degrees and commissions in June, and, under the new plan, will be called into active service within 60 days. period, but that was whittled down to 59-54 with 5:15 left. Sharpshooting guard Don Eaddyrbegan the fireworks with a pair of accurate one-handers that came within 40 seconds of one another- and narrowed the deficit to one point, The clock showed four minutes and 10 sec- onds to go, Reserve forward Brue Allen tap- ped in the clincher, making it 60- 59 at the 3:20 mark, but the fast- breaking Wolverines were still not finished. Michigan went into a mild freeze that ended abruptly after 45 sec- onds when Eaddy was fouled, drawing an automatic pair of char- ity tosses. Eaddy canned both of them as the Maize and Blue wid- ened its margin to 62-59 at 2:15. * * * AFTER CENTER Paul Groffsky netted a free throw, his 19th tally of the evening, Hawkeye guard Chuck Jarnagin buoyed Hawkeye hopes with a long one-hander to make it 63-61 with little more than a minute to play. Iowa immediately stole the ball in a scramble under its own basket and broke down the court, but a jump shot by Dea- See GROFFSKY, Page 3 Nino In at l c graduation. Among McEwen's marks are legs on the world's indoor and outdoor distance medley relay teams, the world's indoor two mile record, the nationalrcollegiate two and four mile outdoor records and the Big Ten outdoor mile record. IFC TALKS MAJOR PROJECT: IHC Handles Numerous Ac (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the third in a series of articles on the origin, structureand activities of the Inter- House Council.) By MIKE WOLFF A recent Daily poll indicated the affair of Bert Braun, '54, was the main incident quad residents could recall when queried about Inter- House Council activities. Although the removal of the However, the talks collapsed after IHC representatives Sam Alfieri, '54A, and Ted Bohuszew- icz, '54A, rejected an IFC trial plan allowing Greeks in quad common lounges and Club 600 during formal rushing. In a report submitted yesterday to Dean of Students Erich A. Wal- ter, quad leaders called for de- ness Manager of Residence Halls, to invite University Vice-president Wilbur K. Pierpont and Francis C. Shiel, Manager of Service En- terprises, to a joint discussion of the problem. In addition, IHC leaders co- operated with Schaadt to in- crease the pay of quad bus boysj from 75 cents to 80 cents an to ua u DEAN BLYTHE Stason of the " ' " Law School maintained that "a eiv ti eS e Prel s Communist is not a seeker after truth but is governed by precepts that are handed down by what he - considers a higher authority, and Chuck Weber, '52, said the results four new princes were added to therefore is not fit to hold a posi- of a current telephone company the College of Cardinals yesterday tion on any level of the school survey of the situation will be re- in the richly colorful traditions of system." leased to the IHC before any ac- the Roman Catholic church. Concuring with Dean Stason, tion is taken by the Administra- The majesty of the ritual was Marvin L. Niehuss, University tion. tempered by sorrow, with Pope vice president and Dean of Fac- In the realm of public rela- Pius XII expressing his grief that ulties added that "a dismissal tions, IHC leaders met wih IFC two of the new cardinals were un- of a faculty member should ap- officers in September to discuss able to leave Communist-domin- ply only in cases of proven ac- mutual problems such as rush- ated lands to receive their honors tive membership in the Com- ing and the possibility of issu- in person. munist Party." mommassem .I I