THE, SOUND OFF AND) AN ANSWER See Page 4 Y L Latest Deadline in the State Daitlv I FAIR AND COLDER VOL. LXIV, No. 37 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1953 SIX PAGES N. Koreans Return, Listen to Red Talks Red Terrorization of Americans Cited as Reason for GI Return Balk By The Associated Press Anti-Communist North Korean prisoners of war pulled a surprise and walked peacefully into explanation tents yesterday for talks with Red persuasion teams after the Communists delayed the interviews for more than two hours with propaganda broadcasts. The explanations of repatriation rights from Red officers began at 6:14 p.m. EST to 500 North Korean captives. THE PRISONERS who had been expected to react violently made no move to riot at the Red broadcasts but drowned them out by rauc- tous singing and chanting. j 'Roughing It' Literary College Takes New Plan To Obtain Evaluation of Faculty ReotSt UIN To Study U.S. Charges of Atrocities UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.-(iP)- The UN Steering Committee rec- ompmended by a vote of 12 to 2 yesterday that the General As- sembly itself take up for full exam- ination the American charges of Communist atrocities in Korea. The Soviet bloc repeatedly blasted at the charges as "half- mad nightmares," an "invention, a fabrication and gross falsifica- tion." 4 . BUT THE American delegate, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., urged a full airing as a way to pay at least part of the great debt owed the "tragic memory of the victims of these atrocities." The Steering Committee can only make recommendations, but the Assembly is expected to approve this recommendation quickly. Lodge put before the Assembly last week a report by the ..S. Army of the deaths of tens 'of tousands of American soldiers and Korean civilians who allegedly suf- fered from torture and inhuman methods employei by Chingse Co Miunsts aid North Koreans. He acted swiftly after various members of Congress called for quick submission of the atrocity report to the Assembly. No date has been set for con- sideration of the case before the Assembly. Boston Harbor Scene of Blast BOSTON-(JP)--A violent explo- sion blasted through the Norweg- ian freighter Black Falcon yester- day touching off a fire which trap- ped a gang of longshoremen in a hold. At least seven were killed. Thir- teen others were taken to hos- pitals. IT WAS the fourth ship fire in Boston Harbor in 17 days. The other three were the ex- plosion and fire aboard the Navy aircraft carrier Leyte Oct. 16, a $100,000 fire on an experimen- tal fishing ship owned by the government Oct. 22, and a boiler flareback on a Navy radar ship, the USS William M. Wood, Oct. 26. Early reports indicated that the death toll might rise. Firemen dragged the waterlogged bottom of the ship, awash with loose car- go in six feet of water, searching for more bodies. Survivors said that the explo- sion came when a drum of sodium peroxyde tipped over, spilling some of its contents into some bauxite -aluminum ore-stowed in the bottom of the shop. Flames shot 200 feet in the air from the blazing midship hatch. Adenauer Victory Insures Maj oriy BONN, Germany - (/P) - The Hamburg State election endowed Chancellor Konrad Adenauer yes- terday with unchallenged author- ity to push through his program of arming West Germany in al- liance with the free world. The victory of Adenauer's coali- tion parties in the Hamburg vot- ing Sunday gave the Chancellor two-thirds control of both houses of Parliament. No reports of violence came from the camps where the In- dians hold 22 Amercans, 1 Brit- on and 332 South Koreans who by Communist account are re- fusing repatriation. A reliable source said, however that there was a reign of fear in the American camp and possibly 19 of the 22 would return to the United States if they knew the truth. THE SOURCE said the Reds have terrorized the Americans by telling them they can be executed as traitors if they go home. Most of the men are fearful because they wrote or broadcast pro-Com- munist articles. U.S. officers have not yet be- gun explanations to the Ameri- cans and have given no hint of when they will begin. The dead- line is Dec. 24. Elsewhere in this neutral zone, U. S. Envoy Arthur Dean and dele- gates from Red China and North Korea were deadlocked over ar- rangements for the Korean peace conference. NEVERTHELESS, the delegates assigned to work out details for the conference went ahead with an eighth session yesterday. They are deadlocked over the Red in- sistence in bringing Asian neutrals to the conference. The UN has voted to confine the peace talks to belligerents, with Russia in- cluded if the Reds ask Ur t e Soviets. Prisoner explanations were canceled Sunday when the Reds insisted on broadcasting reas- suring messages to all anti-Red prisoners. The Indians told the Reds this could not be done without provok- ing violence which the Indians do not have enough troops to control. When the Communists refused to withdraw their demand, the interviews were canceled. Late Sunday, however, the In- dians said the Reds had agreed to broadcast only to the 500 sched- uled for interviews yesterday. State Teachers Meet In Detroit A resolution opposing an In- crease in the number of educa- tioin credit hours required for hold- ers of teacher's certificates was passed by a majority of instruc- tors at a meeting of the Michigan Federation of Teachers in Detroit. Thirty junior and secondary col- lege teachers from Michigan met at the MFT fall conference Sat- urday. University representatives were Prof. Warren Rice, chair- man of the English department, Prof. Benjamin Bart and Prof. Ernst Pulgram of the Romance Language department, Prof. John Arthos and Eric Stockton of the English department. Another resolution passed at the conference will set up a commit- tee to study the problems and ade- quacy of present teaching pro- grams and experimentation in this field. -Daily-Chuck Kelsey ERINA OLSSON '56 AND DENNIS C. BERAN '57 PARTICIPATE IN FRESH AIR CAMP PROJECT Annual Fresh Air Camp JobaBegun As one of the many plans of the Interfraterpity and Pan-Hel- lenic Councils' program for con- tributing service to the commun- ity, about 500 sorority and fra- ternity pledges are participating this week in the Fresh Air Camp project. Groups of students from all the 43 fraternities and 23 sororities on campus will go to the camp from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. on week days and from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. this Saturday. * * THIS IS the second year that pledges will paint and clean up the cabins and tidy up the grounds of the Fresh Air Camp which is sponsored by University and pro- vides a social haven for over 200 U * Benson Ass Agicultural State Support HOT SPRINGS, Va. - OP) - Secretary of Agriculture Benson said last night the Eisenhower ad- ministration will ask the states to assume greater responsibility in stabilizing and promoting the na- tion's agricultural prosperity. With this increased emphasis on local leadership, Benson said, will go heavier financial responsibility. "Although it is always easy to look to Washington for federal grants," he said, "I am confident the states will meet this respon- sibility . . . A dollar can't make the round trip to Washington and back to a state without the bu- reaucratic bite reducing it." Benson, whose farm policies have come in for heavy criticism recently, did not say in a talk pre- pared for the Southern Govern- ors' Conference which responsi- bilities the states will be urged to take over. "The suggestions which we will make to the Congress early next year for improvements in the cur- rent farm programs will recognize the need for greater state and lo- cal participation," he said. Traffic Mishaps Take Two Lives Washtenaw county's traffic fa- tality record added two more names to bring the 1953 total to 45. under-privileged children during the summer. IFC and Pan-Hellenic Council plan to put 3,000 man-hours in- to the program, making it their biggest community service un- dertaking of the year. The project is aided by the Uni- versity which is contributing facil- ities and transportation for taking the students out to the camp, lo- cated on Patterson Lake. City council Views Milk Ordinance aIa Following numerous letters of Protest from University sororities, fraternities and cooperative hous- ing units, a city milk ordinance making legal the storage of 3 gal- lon milk containers was proposed at the city council meeting yes- terday. The ordinance submitted, which would amend another ordinance passed by the council in August was moved to a second reading. at the next council meeting. Now in effect is an ordinance re- quiring all milk in transit and in storage to be kept in not less than 5 gallon containers. Complaints leading to the new proposal were registered by hous- ing groups on the grounds that five gallon containers were too large for refrigeration units. Under the regulation they were required to transfer milk from the larger con- tainers to smaller ones. Dr. Otto Engelke, city health officer veri- fied the fact that this procedure was "unsanitary," following which the* new proposal was made. Ill.-Mich. Ticket Deadline Today Today is the last day that stu- dents may pay for their tickets to the Illinois-Michigan game this weekend Wolverine Club officials announced. On Thursday, tickets for the trip on the "Illini-Liner" may be pick- ed up. Both payments may be made and tickets may be picked up from 10 a.m. to noon from 1 to 4 p.m. at window 7 in the Ad- ministration Bldg. Planning the clean-up of the Fresh Air Camp was done by te Junior Pan-Hellenic Council's president, Debra Townsend, '56 and Carole Oliver while its admin- istration is being headed by the Junior Interfraternity Council's president, Bob Knutson, '56, and vice-president, George Richard- son, '56. Helping to supervise the pro- jects are the other officers of the Junior Interfraternity Council and pledge trainers from the various fraternity and sorority houses. At the end of the week a plaque will be awarded by the Junior In- terfraternity Council to the pledge class recognized as having con- tributed most to the success of the Fresh Air Camp Project. Local Vandals Wareak .Havoc The Homecoming - Halloween week-end was, an active one for local vandals a check of the Ann Arbor Police Department's com- plaint files revealed yesterday. Looting, destruction of prop- erty and Homecoming displays, and mischief kept the police active over the week-end. A UNIVERSITY janitor report- ed Saturday 10 youngsters were attempting to haul hoses and fire extinguishers from Angell Hall. The police got to the scene but the group had disappeared. On the same day the chain of the island barracade at E. and S. University was stolen by a person riding a bicycle. The complaint directs the officers to check local Homecoming dis- plays for the missing chain. On Halloween evening the win- dows of local shops were marked with soap and candle wax. Yes- terday the local merchants were busy wiping out the defacements. w * POLICE also received complaints on Halloween that groups of high school students were throwing pumpkins in the streets and at buildings. Sunday night witnessed the fall of Homecoming displays when groups roamed the streets of Ann Arbor and destroyed the unguarded displays. Few dis- plays remained intact at the end of the evening. Unidentified vandals also knock- ed down fences, let air out of auto- mobile tires, hurled garbage at a screened window and broke down the front door of a local resi- dent. A brawl occurred in a tavern downtown over a wager and an aerial disappeared from a car. Billfolds disappeared along with a pair of highly valued binoculars. Although it apparently was a busy weekend for the police one officer remarked yesterday the week-end had been more quiet than expected. Engineers Okay State Turnpike A turnpike from Detroit to New Buffalo on the way to Chicago Spain Bases Will Store Atom Bomb MADRID, Spain-OP)-The U.S. Air Force's top civilian and mili- tary heads disclosed plans yes- terday for strengthening America's strategic striking force by storing atomic bombs at the newly ac- quired bases in Spain. U. S. Air Force Secretary Har- old E. Talbott told a news con-' ference here the Air Force even- tually will have supplies of atomic bombs at the Spanish base for use against "a common enemy." *' * * TALBOTT and Gen. Nathan Twining, air Force chief of staff, are in Spain studying sites for five bases in this country author- ized by military and economic agreements recently concluded by Washington and Madrid. Talbott said he expects con- tracts for the bases to be let within four to six months and that some of the bases may be operational within a year. He added that a group of four big American contractors will handle the whole project, subletting to the Spanish aeronautical indus- try to provide maintenance for U.S. planes stationed in Spain. The project is expected to be one of improving and enlarging exist- ing bases rather than of building new ones. * * * TWINING defined the main function of the Spanish bases as a "rounding out of the strategic striking force." He added: "We need more bases, and this is a good place to have them. We need both strategic bases and tactical bases for fighters to pro- tect them and Spain. It would be a great step toward stopping our Communist enemies." The Air Force secretary made it clear there is no question of the United States' adopting a "peri- pheral policy" of "containing" the Russians with air bases in Britain, the Spanish Peninsula, Italy and Turkey. "Our first line of defense lies in Germany-but definitely," he said. 'U' Atomic Energy Confab Set for '54 An international symposium to discuss the peacetime uses of atomic energy will be held insAnn Arbor in June. Sponsored by the American In- stitute of Chemical Engineers, the conference will feature a demon- stration of atomic energy devel- opments, and the reading of pa- pers by many foreign scientists as well as those from the United States' Atomic Energy Commis- sion. The chemical engineering de- partment will conduct the pro- gramming for the conference. I r-.w.7.'V U -T 'Victor' "Victor" the prize-winning name selected by the Wolver- ine Club to be football team mascot was submitted by Har- ry C. Panagos, '57Ed. Panagos submitted this name because "the wolverine is 'liv- ing hell wrapped in fur' to all that dare cut across his tracks. Whenever he does battle he usually comes out on top. It's only fitting that the Michigan wolverine should be called Vic- tor, a winner in contest or com- bat." As prize, Panagos will receive a free trip to the Michigan- Illinois game Saturday. Detroit Trial Witness Set To Testify 'Today the first witness will tes- tify in the Federal Court trial of six Michigan Communists in De- troit.' United States Attorney Fred W. Kaess declined to identify the opening witness. * * * YESTERDAY'S opening day of the trial was devoted to state- ments by the prosecution and de- fense. Kaess traced the organization' of the Communist party. He out- lined what he said were party backgrounds of the defendants who are all accused of conspir- acy to teach or overthrow the government. Ernest Goodman, attorney for one of the Communists on trial, said that the prosecuion must prove that those on trial were attempting to actively overthrow the government. He said that it could be shown by the life of the defendants that they could not and would not have advocated the overthrow of the government by force and violence. * * * HE WENT ON to say that the fact that the Communists were going underground in this coun- try was recognized and that it is agreed that the Communist party here is friendly with the party in Russia. The movement to the under- ground is to "avoid harassment and persecution by the FBI and other agencies of the govern- ment." According to the Detroit Free Press Goodman also said that the prosecution must depend on "po- litical rather than criminal evi- dence." He told the jury of seven women and five men that govern- ment evidence is usually not dis- puted by defendants. He also said that the prosecution would intro- duce much printed matter, add- ing that the witnesses will be in- formants or spies. - 1- Up Comment Type Rating Results Will Not Alter Promotions By GENE HARTWIG A new plan for obtaining "stu dent opinion on courses and teach- ing" in the literary college was ,adopted at yesterday's meeting of the college faculty. Contained in a report by the committee appointed ,a year ago to review the experience with "stu- dent evaluation of the faculty" the proposal consists of two main points: 1) "The literary college shall conduct annually, through the departments, a student-opinion questionnaire on courses and teaching. The questionnaire shall in part be uniform throughout the college and in part reflect the special situations- and purposes of departments and individual teach- ers. * * * "THE COLLEGE part of the questionnaire shall consist of broad questions that call only for comments and verbal characteriza- tions, with no number or letter rat- ings; the departmental part' of more detailed qestions, prefer- ably without the use of number or letter ratings. "The main object of the plan shall be to improve instruction and any administrative use of the results, especially in matters of salary increase and promo- tion, shall take place at the de- partment level, and then only on the basis of departmental de cision, after full discussion with- in the department. "The form of the questionnaire and the procedure in handling it shall aim especially at eliciting deliberate, considered student re- sponse, in the interest of guiding students toward standards of real educational significance as well as of making the results as mean- ingful as possible. 2 "The college shall establish a standing committee to work out details of the college part of the questionnaire and of related pro- cedures in accordance with the principles stated above." This group will consist of five mem- bers appointed by the executive committee of the college. * * * PROF. SHOREY Peterson of the economics department, who head- ed the committee, described the new program as "placing the em- phasis on the educational, process and the benefits that may result for both students, in examining the criteria by which courses and teaching are judged, and faculty, from a systematic solicitation of student opinion." "The new plan is not intend- ed to be a student evaluation of faculty as under the old system of numerical ratings but rather a help to instructors in improv- ing their own teaching," Prof. Peterson emphasized. Under the old faculty evalua- tion plan adopted in 1948 on a five year trial basis, a system of broad appraisals by departmental committees and student ratings, used by the committees as one among a variety of elements in the evaluation of teaching, was pro- vided. According to the report the prac- tice of assessing faculty services by departmental committees ap- peared unworkable and that part See NEW, Page 6 Vulcan, Calls, STUDENT ELECTION ISSUES: SL To Face SAC Makeup Problem World News Roundup By The Associated Press HOT SPRINGS, Va. - {A') - The governors of Florida, Georgia, Tennessee and Kentucky discussed yesterday a proposed Florida-to- Great Lakes express highway. Gov. Herman E. Talmadge of Georgia said the group hopes to work out traffic patterns and highway improvements for a con- tinuous road from Miami to Chicago. He said the plan is to let each state develope its share of the highway but to make it a continuous expressway. By DOROTHY MYERS (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is first in a series of articies on election issues involved in coming Student Legisla- ture elections.) One of the major issues which' will face Student Legislature in the period immediately following next week's all-campus elections is the question of Student Affairs Com- mittee membership. At present SAC members are dent, Daily managing editor, League president, chairman of Women's Judiciary, two mem- bers of SL, one of whom must be the president and one a wom- an and the chairman of Joint Judiciary (except when this officer is a woman, the vice- chairman serves.) Many students not on the Legis- lature, as well as many SL mem- bers, have expressed belief that members or all student members to SAC, while 12 answered in the negative. Many of those answering af- firmatively qualified their re- plies by saying that although they believed SL should appoint all student members, it should not appoint only SL members to SAC. But the whole consideration of SAC membership is really an im- * * * NEW YORK - The governing body of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. declared yesterday that "a subtle but potent as- sault upon basic human rights is now in progress" in America. Moreover, the church charged, "loyalty to truth" is being sac- rificed for propaganda purposes. * * * * * * PEARL HARBOR - Adm. Robert M. Carney, chief of na- val operations, said yesterday Navy carriers are capable of de- livering an atomic bomb but avoided answering whether car- riers could strike an enemy with a hydrogen bomb. *' * * I SAIGON, 'Indochina - Maurice Dejean, French commissioner