1 IN SPITE OF DIRECTIVES, EMPTY SHELVES See Page 4 friF :4ai lii - i s- Si 1 Latest Deadline in the State PARTLY CLOUDY, WARMER VOL. LXIV, No. 33 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1953 SIX PAGES w SL Referendum On EXams Voted Wilcox Addresses Meeting; Group Puts Off Radulovich Case Motion By DOROTHY MYERS Student Legislature last night voted approval of a referendum to be submitted in campus-wide fall elections asking students which of three methods of final exams they would prefer and heard an address by former SL president Leonard Wilcox, '52. A policy stand concerning Air Force charges against Milo Radu- lovich, '54, was discussed but time prevented a final vote on the issue. FINAL EXAM PLANS to be put into a referendum are: F * * * SL Accepts Referendum On Sticker (4 1) "We should return to the system of final exams whereby seniors are not officially graduat- ed at commencement, but, are given a 'dead period' between the end of classes and the examina- tion period and a longer number of days to complete their exam-' inations. 2) "The method adopted last spring which enables seniors to be officially graduated at com- mencement should be retained. 3) "In order to allow seniors to be officially graduated at com- * f z Student Legislature last night voted down an extension of the. deadline for submitting referen- dums for fall elections but an eleventh-hour petition was accept- ed late last night. The proposal which will be plac- ed on the November ballot asks University students "Are you in favor of the distribution of a sticker of the 'Fair Play the Wol- verine Way' type to the Ann Ar- bor merchants?" AN ALTERNATE possibility for a means to check alleged discrim- ination among local merchants was formulated at a joint meet- ing of the SL Human Relations committee representative, faculty and administration members, and a member of Ann Arbor's chamber of commerce yesterday. Criticizing an original pro- posal by the committee to place stickers in windows of non-dis- criminatory merchants as an antagonistic, ineffective way of attacking the problem, the con- ference suggested ivpyestigation of suspected discrimination and approaching thi merchant in- volved Attending the meeting were Lar- ry Harris, '56, of the Human Rela- tions committee; Assistant to the President Erich A. Walter; Walter B. Rea, acting dean of students; Arthur L. Brandon, director of University relations, and Robert Gage, secretary of the Ann Arbor chamber of commerce. Harris emphasized yesterday that the new proposal at today's meeting was only an alternate to the sticker program as a means of reaching the goal program must be approved by the committee and discussed on the SL floor before it can be acted on, 'DESIRE': Panel Divided On Drama "Poet, bad playwright; religious, iconoclastic," were some of the conflicting opinions aimed at Eugene O'Neil during a panel dis- cussion following last night's Art Theater performance of "Desire Under the Elms." Prof. Edwin A. Engel of the Eng- lish department said the play was full of symbols "psychological, cultural and religious. The lead- ing character is seen as the Old Testament God, a God that is somewhat false, but indestruct- ible." The psychologist's point of view was taken by Prof. Milton Rosen- berg of the psychology depart- ment who said he does not think any of O'Neill's plays ought to be looked at as a "psychoanalytic analyses. O'Neill is a poet express- ing the culture of the times in the symbols he uses." Third panel member for the English department, Prof. Arthur M. Eastman, thought the play, was bad in that the characters "have no self-perception which adds up to confusion." Illinois Trip Ticket Sales To Close Friday is the deadline for mak- ing reservations on the Illini Lin- er, the Wolverine Club sponsored Press Hears Eisenhower Tell Plans Israel Ban Lifted, No Extra Session WASHINGTON-()-At a news conference yesterday President Dwight D. Eisenhower announced several courses of action to be taken by the Administration in the near future. He answered questions concern- ing action to be taken in Israel, the probability of his calling a special session of Congress to deal with farm problems and the course he expects to follow in next year's congressional campaign. HE DISCLOSED that yesterday the United States ended a 34-day ban on American aid to Israel and allocatedr26 million dollars to the new republic in the troubled Middle East. Concerning the move, he said he was "delighted" to learn Is- rael had decided to abide by a ruling of a special United Na- tions Commission in Israel's dis- pute with Syria. Later. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles announced the for- mal lifting of the ban he imposed on Sept. 25 after Israel refused to halt work on a Jordan River hy- droelectric project, as requested by the UN Commission. Syria com- plained that the project diverted water along the Israeli-Syrian frontier. * * * HE ALSO said that only a re- newal of the drought or some other disaster would prompt him to call a special session of Con- gress totdeal with troubles af- flicting the nation's farmers. Eisenhower made the state- ment on the heels of demands from some quarters that Con- gress return to Washington and set the legislative wheels in mo- tion to bolster sagging farm prices. Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.)' said earlier the President should call a special session unless the! Republicans come up soon with! plans "to meet the crisis in agri- culture." * . * IN ADDITION, the President in- dicated that he may take a liand after all in the next year's po- litical campaign. Of course, the President said, he is interested in the Republi- can organization and in keep- ing Congress under GOP con- trol. A week ago, Eisenhower said he wasn't going to use the presi-! dency as a campaign instrument' in partisan elections and would stay out of strictly local political scraps. Yesterday he gave the impres- sion he might take the stump in 1954 for a GOP program in Con- gress, if not for individual party candidates. Proofs Seniors may return 'Ensian picture proofs from 10 a.m. to noon and from 1 to 6 p.m. every day except Saturdays and Sundays through Nov. 13 to the Student Publications Bldg. New asacred by RdTrial Still Lacks Full Jury DETROIT - () - Prospective jurors were subjected to a second round of intensive questioning yesterday as attorneys sought to select a jury for the trial of six Michigan Communists charged with Smith Act violations. Federal Judge Frank A. Picard dismissed 16 more prospective jur- ors after accepting pre-emptory challenges from defense attorney Ernest Goodman and three of the defendants, Saul Wellman, Nat Ganley and Thomas DeWitt Den- nis, Jr. who are acting as their own counsel. * * * THlE 16 BROUGHT to 26 the total of prospective jurors on a 99- member, panel who have been dis- missed for causes or oy pre-emp- tory challenges. Fred W. Kaess, U.S. District attorney handling 'the govern- ment's case against the defend- ants, offered no challenges yes- terday. Wellman, Ganley and Dennis and' the other defendants, Mrs. Helen Winter, Philip Schatz and Wil- liam Allan, have a total of 30 pre-j emptory challenges during the questioning of the prospective jurors. The defendants are charged with violating the Smith Act by conspiring to teach and advocate the violent overthrow of the Unit- ed States government. * * * ' 4' 1 'R' 4. N x Commlunist's Army Photosy Tell Red AtrocitieS Secretary Claims Account Exposes Program of 'Torture and Murder' By The Associated Press The Army, in a new and ghastly account of Communist atrocities reported yesterday that 6,113 Americans probably were among the multitude of persons tortured and massacred in Korea. The new account of Communist brutality, the Army said, "ex- poses the enemy for what he is." * * * * TOGETHER with the report, which Army Secretary Robert T. Stevens said describes "the cold-blooded program of torture and R e ort ddd Says 6,113 GI's -Daily-Betsy Smith IF WINTER COMES, CAN SPRING BE FAR BEHIND? Goodbye to Indian Summer, Town Prepares for Winter -Daily-Betsy Smith LEONARD WILCOX ** * mencement, and to permit a 'dead period' between classes and final! examinations, we should attempt' to reschedule and shorten the Spring Recess." WILCOX, twice president of SL and a vice-president of the Na- tional Student Association, spoke on accomplishments and problems of NSA. Wilcox concluded his talk by censuring SL members for loafing on their job, saying "each of you is going to have to work a lot harder in the future to under- stand what the real meaning of SL is." He urged members to go out every week to students to ex- plain SL activities. TIME prevented. the Legisla- ture from taking a stand on the Radulovich case. Main motion now on the floor was proposed by Leah Marks, '55L. The motion censures "the theory of guilt by relationship recently used by an Air Force tribunal in judging Milo Radu- lovich a doubtful security risk." Ned Simon, '55, submitted a substitute claiming "evidence pre- sented by the Air Force in the Radulovich case was not suffi- cient." Simon argued that since the Air Force had specifically said Radulovch was not personally guilty, the main motion was not a valid one. UNLIKE previous Smith trials, of which there have seven, the proceedings here far have been quiet. Act been thus Judge Picard has called for no uniformed police in the Fed- eral Courtroom during the trial. There have been no demonstra- tions or picket lines as were in evidence at previous trials Goodman said his clients have informed him that no demonstra- tions will be held during the trial to their knowledge. At previous Smith Act trials, the selection of the juries consumed a great deal of time because de- fense attorneys were granted the right to question each prospective juror individually. Wilson Target Of Democrats By The Associated Press WASHINGTON-Main target of' Democrat fire against the Eisen- hower Administration in 1954 will be Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson. Indications from Democrats in Washington and throughout the nation have already been enough to point out that their period of kindness toward the Administra- tion is about at an end. Sen. Stuart Symington (D-Mo.) will be in one of the forward posi- tions when the 'full assault be- gins. The former Air Force secre- tary began his fire months ago at the Administration in general and Wilson in particular. Symington's main point of at- tack on the Secretary has been the five-billion-dollar cut in the Air Force appropriations. Wilson may be forced to slice defense ex- penses some more next year, too. With 1954 an election year and with control of Congress at stake the Administration would find it handy to have a tax cut for every- one, expenses reduced to balance the budget, and still enough mon- ey spent on defense to keep the country, amply protected. WUS Nets $500 In Bucket Drive More than $500 rattled into By JOEL BERGER I'm dreaming of a white Christ- ]nas" This frosty ditty played at 3 p.m. yesterday on the Burton Tow- er carillon, accurately describes the cool fall weather which final- ly overtook Ann Arbor. * * * AFTER DAYS of ,temperatures in the mid-80s last week, it has gradually turned cooler, culminat- ing in rain two days ago and in what seemed to many students to be freezing weather yesterday. Lit Confab Outlines Dual Resonsiblity Mutual responsibility of students and teachers in the classroom sit- uation was the topic of discussion at the first literary college confer- ence of the semester last night at the League. Such problems as what a stu- dent expects to get out of a course and what, in turn, is the instruc- tor's prime objective in his lec- tures were discussed. Prof. William Willcox of the his- tory department said his chief aim as a lecturer was "to get students to enlighten themselves as citi- zens." Many students at the meeting said that there was a lack of stim- ulation prevalent among lecture courses. Countering this, the fac- ulty said that the lecturer should not be wholly blamed for this lack o stimulation. The student should make some effort himself. With temperatures down to near 32 degrees this morning and an expected high of 50 or 55 degrees today, the weather- man at Willow Run has already expressed sad forebodings of rain tomorrow and Saturday. Although possible rain is fore- cast, during the next few days, average temperatures will hover around 55 degrees. Yesterday wind gusts were roaring along at up to 18 miles per hour. * *4 *. "NO MORE Indian summer this fall," the weatherman said. "Tem- peratures may possibly go into the mid 60's before winter really hits, but weather like we had last week will be gone for a long time." Just a week ago today the thermometer was up to 75 de- grees, one of the coolest days during the idyllic weather. Meanwhile, gasoline-station at- tendants reported a sudden rush for anti-freeze, while co-eds were seen buying more knee-socks in the last several days. Only a first snowfall is needed to make winter official. Union Office Lists Week-End Rooms Rooms for weekend rental in local homes may be obtained by consulting a list available from 3 to 5 p.m. daily in the Union Stu- dent Offices. The list has been designed pri- marily to enable students to find rooms for their parents and friends on weekends when the League and Union are full. Townspeople with rooms available have been asked by the Union to contact the Stu- dent Offices. , murder carried on by the Com- munist enemy," the Army released photographic evidence - pictures of mutilated GIs, windrows of bodies of Americans and South Koreans, heaps of blackened corpses of men roasted alive. The report was compiled by the War Crimes Division of the Army in Korea. It covered the period from the beginning of the war through last June 30. Its total figures for probable American victims of the Com- munist slaughter was not greatly changed from that issued in No- vember 1951, by Col. James M. Hanley, then an officer charged with gathering information about war crimes. The grand total of probable vic- tims of what Stevens termed the "calculated brutality" of the en- emy was placed at 29,815. * * ' THE 6,113 AMERICANS were included among 11,622 United Na- tions militarynvictims, 17,354 civil- -ians and 839 others whose status could not be determined. Statistical charts contained in the report showed that the great bulk of the atrocities oc- curred in the year beginning with the start of the war June 25, 1950, with the high tide of the Red blood bath coming dur- ing the first six months of the enemy advance. The charts also showed that by far the greatest number of war crimes were committed by North Koreans (72 per cent). Only 27.3 per cent were charged to the-Chi- nese Communists. Blame for the remainder was not fixed because the Army said it was unknown. * * * MEANWHILE at Panmunjom yesterday U. S. Envoy Arthur Dean handed over to the Com- munists a "formula" he hopes will crack a three-day deadlock in his mission to set up a Korean peace conference. Dean has been insisting that the Communist Chinese and North Korean delegates begin talking about a time and place for the conference. The original opening date under the armis- tice was Tuesday. Dean gave no details. A reliable source said however, the "for- mula" probably would be a propo- sition that the delegates change the subject to the time and place for the conference. The argument would be that the delegates have devoted most of the first three days to Communist demands that Asian neutrals take part in the peace conference and it is time to change the subject. National Roundup By the AssociatedPress NEW YORK-General Motors Corp., biggest of the world's in. dustrial titans, sold nearly 8 bil- lion dollars worth of its products in the first nine months of 1953 it was revealed yesterday. That was more than the corpor- ation ever sold before in any full calendar year. UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.-A Nationalist Chinese scientist urg- ed the UN Assembly yesterday to declare the Communist charges that the United States used germ warfare in Korea are false and to condemn the Soviet Bloc "for their deliberate, malicious fabrications." * * * LANSING - Michign's new Civil Defense Advisory Council got under way yesterday with Gov. G. Mennen Williams' dec- laration that civil defense "may be the determining factor in ob- taining peace." NEW YORK-Mayor Vincent R. Impellitteri prodded milk strie peace talks yesterday as he put off summoning deadlocked nego- tiators to City Hall for a meeting. The negotiators reported that they were making progress in pri- vate talks and asked foi a little more time. WASHINGTON - King Paul and Queen Frederika of Greece arrived yesterday, voiced warm appreciation of American aid in war and peace, and were wel- comed to the White House by President and Mrs. Eisenhower. * * * GRAND HAVEN-Governor G. Mennen Williams said last night he would urge the 1954 legislature to increase the duration of unem- ployment compensation in Michi- gan. TNEW YORK-The Jenner com- mittee delved into Soviet espion- age of the 1930's and 40's yes- terday, calling a number of wit- nesses in an open, televised hear- ing. The star witness, a former Rus- sian intelligence officer said there were up to 25 Red spy rings in this country in 1941 and "they may have expanded considerably dur- ing World War II." Triangles From 'neath the heels of dusty feet Within the vitals of the Arch, The great bronze seal called loyal men In dead of night to march. So came the men of Triangles. Once more beneath the pointed spires, New faces toiled with fear; The Seal of Triangles again shone bright, Cleansed with blood and tear. So came-Bob Constant, Al Fey, Tim Moulthrop, Dick Nyberg, Chuck Stickels, Tom Wilcox and Prof. Richard G. Folsom. (e? Crosswalk Please! LABOR STATISTICS: Last Month Most Costly in History WASHINGTON-(P-The av- erage American paid more for his basic living needs last month than ever before in history. That's what the consumer price index for September showed when it was released yesterday by the Labor Department's Bureau of La- bor Statistics. THE INDEX-a composite ofj average retail prices paid for basic good and services of 46 cities-- index, dropped a fraction between August and September. * * * HOWEVER, this was more than offset by increases in the cost of clothing, housing, medical atten- tion, beauty shop services and oth- er personal care, recreation and transportation. The bureau reported a contin- ued drop in prices of fruits and vegetables and a moderate de- cline in meat. nnutv.and fish fee, fresh milk, bread, lard and. restaurant meals. Food prices last month were 1.4 per cent below September, 1952. * * * RENTS LAST month were 6.5 per cent higher than a year ago and 15.9 per cent above June, 1950. This, the bureau said, re- flected "continuing effects of rent decontrol." Other holigine osnts--coalp1and