A SENIOR EDITORIAL See Page 4 Li L Latest Deadline in the State :4Ia tit- f( ' 1 FAIR AND COOLER VOL. LXIV, No. 49 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1953 SIX PAGES -- Investigator Sees Student Files Here Hatcher Talks On LYL Meeting By HARRY LUNN Daily Managing Editor An investigator of the House Un-American Activities Commit- tee has examined an undeterminec number of records of students and former students, it was revealed yesterday. Assistant to the President Erich A. Walter and acting Dean ol Students Walter B. Rea said the investigator submitted a list of students' 'names and examined their records sometime early in September. DEAN REA estimated that 15 or 20 individual records were ex- amined from the Office of Student Affairs files which date back to the fall of 1946. Earlier records are held by the Alumni Office, but Helen L. Schmutz, supervisor of the cata- log office, said she could not re- cal a, specific inquiry for the Committee since many requests for information are made by various security agencies. (Thus any number of records could have been examined in this office.) This was the first development in information on the House sub- committee hearings under - Rep. Kit Clardy (R-Mich.) slated to begin in Detroit after the first of the year since Rep. Clardy an- nounced that a number of people connected with the University had been subpoenaed. " 0 * MEANWHILE, University Pres- ident Harlan H. Hatcher yesterday disclaimed any University respon- sibility for the Sunday night meet- ing sponsored by the Labor Youth League. "As long as they are outside University confines, the Univer- sity cannot be responsible for meetings which citizens might want to hold," the President said. Under LYtJ sponsorship Thomas x D. Dennis, Jr., a defendant in the current Smith Act trial of alleged state Communis leaders in De- troit, spoke to a meeting closed to the press. Never recognized by the Univer- sity, LYL was cited as a Commun- ist-front organization by the House Committee on Un-American Activities on April 1, 1951. THE PRESIDENT yesterday had not heard any word from Rep. Clardy on what persons connected with the University had been sub- poenaed by the sub-committee. Rep. Clardy earlier had said such identification must come from individuals. No one on campus has yet made this ad,- mission. President Hatcher indicated he would like a code of procedure for handling student cases possibly arising from the hearings to come from the Joint Judiciary Council. It is understood the Council will take this matter up shortly. 'Discussing the general investi- gation of education, the President commented that one of the chief effects has been a disruption of the internal workings of institu- tions. "If we keep to facts "and retain our bearings, this can be avoided here," he said. Lawson Opens Law Lectures Prof. Frederick H. Lawson, pro- fessor of comparative law at Ox- ford University, inaugurated the seventh series of Thomas M. Coo- ley law lectures yesterday under the general topic, "A Common Lawyer Looks at the Civil Law." Referring to his talk as "a brief anatomy of civil and common law," Prof. Lawson told a standing-room audience of over 200 people that, "the law of the Western countries is divided into two great families; common law, derived ultimately White Disloyalty Charge Known, Truman Admits -Daily-Don Campbell SOUNDS OF 'U' LIFE WILL TAKE PERMANENT FORM ON RECORD IN '54 ENSIAN 'Ensian Introduces New Sound Media i v By HAROLD HORWITZ News, pictures and now music! Subscribers to the '54 'Ensian will be not only reading and view- ing important campus events of the year, but will have many of these highlights brought directly State .College Presidents to their ears on addition to the * a long-play record yearbook. *: *% Meet Here By PAT ROELOFS Two-hundred twenty-five Mich- igan college presidents, deans and faculty members will converie at 1:30 p.m. today in the Rackham Bldg. for the first session of a two- day conference on higher educa- tion. Theme of the seventh annual conference is "Implications of the Reports of Three Commissions on Higher Education." The three ma- jor studies to be discussed are "Financing Higher Education," "The President's 'Commission on Higher Education" and "Human Resources and Advanced Train- ing." EACH of the studies was made by a group set up soon after the war to study problems of higher education. This' conference marks the first time the three studies have been brought together to be discussed with non - commission members. Prof. Algo p. Henderon of the education school was a member of the President's Commission on Higher Education. Appoint- ed by former President Harry S. Truman, the group of 26 educa- tors, working on a budget ap- proved by the Government, made Its official report to the Presi- dent in 1948. Findings of the Commission- will be presented by Chancellor Thom- as R. McConnell of Buffalo Uni- versity, a former member of the: commission. M i a m i University President John D. Millett will report on "Fi- nancing Higher Education." Thir- teen university presidents worked with Millett on this commission appointed by the American Asso- ciation of Universities. Carnagie Corporation and Rockefeller Foun- dation grants financed the study made by the national group. Under the auspices of the Amer- ican Council of Learned Societies a study by nationally known edu- cators in the field of human re- sources and advanced training was also made. University representa- tives on this commission were Dean Charles Odegaard of the lit- erary college and Dean Ralph Saw- yer of the Rackham School of Graduate Studies. An evening session at which Dael Wolfe, director of the com- mission on human resources and advanced training, will give a re- port will end the opening day meetings atn8:30 p.m. in Audi- torium A, Angell Hall. Emerson Hits Health Setup "ADDITION of the audio com- mentary to the visual and edi- torial story of the year is another step taken by the 'Ensian as a leader among college yearbooks," Managing Editor Bob Schrayer, '54, said. Giving an account of the Uni- versity year in review, the 16 minute, 8 inch disc will be at- tached to the inside back cover. Several of the outstanding cul- tural programs, social activities and athletic events will be in- cluded. The record will begin with an introduction by University Presi- dent Harlan H. Hatcher and will feature excerpts from the Choral Union Series, an Arts Theater per- formance, a classroom lecture by Prof. George Harrison of the Eng- lish department, Union Opera, Michigras, the Burton Tower Car- illions and J-Hop. In addition, the fall campus atmosphere will be presented with recordings of pep rallies, football and other athletic events and the Michigan March- ing Band. Co-op Council Reviews .Bid Recommend At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Inter-Cooperative Council last night an earlier deci- sion to bid on a house at 803 E. Kingsley was reviewed. The recommendation of an in- formal membership meeting held Thursday, was taken Tinto consid- eration and the Executive Board of the ICC was given discretion as to purchase policy. Unlike last week's membership meeting, which fell ten people short of a quorum, the Board of the ICC had power to take defi- nite action. Last week a motion to bid up to $16,000 on the house was passed by the ICC at the sparcely attend- ed meeting. Sixty members are necessary for a quorum, however only 50 were there at the time. "The record will be offered to students wishing to buy it at an additional cost of 75 cents," Bob Wells, 'Ensian business manager said. Handling production and sales of the record will be the task of the 'Ensian staff under the super- vision of record editor Jackie Schiff, '54, with technical super- vision of station WUOM. Pakistan Aid U nder Study WASHINGTON - (P) - The United States informally advised India yesterday that it is consid- ering a military aid agreement with Pakistan aimed at strength- ening free world defenses in South Asia. . Indian Ambassador G. L. Mehta conferred with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and said the session was devoted principally to discussing published reports of an impending military arrangement between the United States and Pakistan. The State Department made no report on the conference. However, it was learned that Dulles briefly sketched for Mehta the Americarf position. The essence of this is that the U.S. government has made no de- cision on what it will do about giving military equipment and ad- vice to Pakistan, but it is con- sidering such an agreement. TB Drive Mailing out more than 13,- 500 envelopes yesterday, the Washtenaw County Tuberculo- sis Association began its an- nual student fund-collecting drive. Each envelope contains 100 TB seals depicting a 'child singing Christmas carols. All the money contributed to the drive wil be used in Wash- tenaw County, according to Mrs. William Hopkins, execu- tive secretary of the associa- tion. lke Sees Fair Chang In T-H A ct CLEVELAND - P)- President Dwight D. Eisenhower promised the CIO convention yesterday that his proposals for amending the Taft-Hartley Act will be fair to labor, management and the pub- lic alike. In a letter to the 700 delegates, the President said he would sub- mit suggested changes stemming from the administration's months- long study of the law to Congress in January. HE ADDED: "I know you have a vital interest in the Taft-Hart- ley Act. I have previously stated my conviction that this law, while fundamentally sound, should be changed in some respects. "For months, members of the administration have been en- gaged in a searching study of the act. Our objective is to rec- ommend improvement in order to make possible a more free and vigorous collective bargaining process, to reduce government intervention in labor-manage- ment relations, and to promote sound and peaceful industrial relationships so essential to the economic well-being of Ameri- can working men and women and to the welfare of all elements of our nation." The message was read at the afternoon session of the conven- tion's first day, only a couple of hours after CIO President Walter P. Reuther lambasted the Eisen- hower Administration's tax pro- gram as "the big steal." Delegates listened attentively to the Presi- dent's message but afterward had neither applause nor cheers. World News Roundup By The Associated Press PANMUNJOM - Without ex- planation, the Communists com- mand suddenly called off repatri- ation interviews with 500 Chinese anti-Red prisoners yesterday only a few hours before the talks were to begin. Meanwhile the United States rejected Panmunjom as a Korean peace conference site yesterday but offered to recommend that neu- trals join in the fateful meeting under certain conditions. A * oI WILMINGTON, N.C. - The FBI struck before dawn yesterday among the remnants of a one-time' stronghold of the Ku Klux Klan and arrested 14 alleged former members on charges of kidnaping and flogging a brother and sister.' M l WASHINGTON - T h r e e Americans who reportedly reached suburbs of the forbid- den Mosom holy city of Mecca have been imprisoned but may now have been released, it was disclosed yesterday. NEW YORK - The crucial test of a new poliovaccine will start; Feb. 8 with shots for up to one one million school children in the second grade,. Only second-graders in some 200 selected counties will get the vac- cine which shows every promise of protecting safely against polio. reedom Week' Opens With Forum By DOROTHY MYERS Academic Freedom Week will get underway with a forum on "The Effect of Congressional Investigations on American Education" at 7:30 p.m. today in Architecture Auditorium. Moderated by -Prof. Preston W. Slosson of the history depart- ment, the panel will include Frank Blackford, Gov. G. Mennen Wil- liams' legislative secretary, Philip Hart, legal consultant for the State and George Wahr Sallade, president of the Ann Arbor City Council. * * * HARRY DEXTER WHITE HARRY S. TRUMAN GOVERNING all sessions of the week's activities will be rules pass- ed last week by the Student Af- fairs Committee. An SAC meet- ing originally scheduled for yes- terday to ieconsider one of the rulings was postponed until Fri- day. SAC has been requested by, Student Legislature to remove the rule which requil'es that all motions or resolutions presented during any of the week's ses- sions be signed by those in favor of the resolution. Several student leaders express- ed belief yesterday the ruling would not be eliminated by SAC because of the subpoenas sent out to unnamed persons connected with the University by the House investigating subcommittee head- ed by Rep. Kit Clardy. AT A NEWS conference yester- day University President Harlan H. Hatcher indicated he consid- ered the SAC safeguardsas "nor- mal, right and important." The name-signing requirement is needed, President Hatcher de- clared, adding that the SL pro- posal to drop the provision is "not enough of a safeguard." "From a general point of view," he said, "the subject of academic freedom is worthy of discussion and open to discussion. The topic may be debated at any time any- one sees fit to debate it," Presi- dent Hatcher said. Everyone is alert to the point about signing resolutions, he said, continuing "the least SL can do is prevent floating elements from coming in and going away from the sessions." Pres. Hatcher indicated, how- ever, that he had no objection to a Labor Youth League member being on a panel discussion sched- uled for Thursday. ANOTHER SAC ruling requires that any literature made available at any of the week's sessions be labelled as representing only the opinions of the publishing group and not the opinion of the Univer- sity. Since SL has not yet obtained a stamp suitable for labelling See ACADEMIC FREEDOM, P. 2 McCarthy Bill Aimed ,4t Colleges By The Associated Press Colleges that refuse to dismiss staff members who won't cooper- ate with investigating committees will be hit financially under leg- islation being prepared by Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis.). Speaking in an interview, Mc-. Carthy said that his staff has been- instructed to draft a bill that would remove tax exemptions from foundation funds given to colleges and universities which employ fac- ulty members who invoke the fifth amendment. THE WISCONSIN senator, who has just completed a Maine speak- ing tour, said, "Of course many foundations and their expendi- tures are very fine. This legislation wouldn't affect their good work. "But if a foundation gave money to an educational insti- tution that kept on its teaching staff fifth amendment person- nel or espionage agents, it would lost its tax exemptions and any contributions to the foundation by individuals no longer would be "deductable for income tax purposes." McCarthy said that Harvard University was one school which, would be affected by his bill, which he hopes to introduce the first of next year. , * ,, * MEANWHILE in Philadelphia' five school teachers yesterday re- fused to tell a subcommittee of the House un-American activities committee whether they ever were members of the Communist Party -but all said they were not mem- bers 'now. Two others -- one suspended from her teaching job and the other resigned eight years ago - took the same line in testifying at Congressional hearings investigat- ing alleged red infiltration among the Quaker City's 8,000 school teachers. Mrs. Lillian Lowenfels, wife of "Walter Lowenfels, a writer for the Communist Daily worker recently indicted on charges he advocated overthrow of the government, charged she was "fired" by the Philadelphia Board of Education" "because of this investigation." 'Calls Charges Of Brownell., 'Cheap Trick' Students Gather To Hear Speech By The Associated Press Harry S. Truman said last night he -know of VBI reports concern- ing the loyalty of the late Harry Dexter White, but he retained him in the administration in order, not to stall an intensive investigation of Communist activity. The former President also charged the present administra- tion has "fully embraced, for po- litical advantage, McCarthyism." SPEAKING gravely to a nation- wide radio and television audience, Truman presented his answer to charges made 10 days ago by Atty. Gen. Brownell., Brownell asserted that "White was known to be 'a Communist spy by the very people who ap- pointed him to the most sensi- tive and important position he ever held in the government ser- vice." Truman called Brownell's alle- gations "phony," "false," and "cheap political trickery." He said the Brownell blast which set off the current political tempest was "cheap demagoguery." Taking up the White matter in detail, the former Persident said a lengthy FBI report on alleged subversive activities in this coun- try, was sent to the White Hbuse in December 1945. * * # "THE REPORT contained many names of persons in and out of government service concerning whom there were then unverified accusations" Truman said. "Among the many names men- tioned, I now And, was that of Harry Dexter White, who had been in the Treasury Depart. ment for many years and who was at that time an assistant secretary of the Treasury." He said as best he' could deter- mine "I first learned of the accu- sations against White early inFeb- ruary 1946, when an FBI report specifically discussing the activi- ties of Harry Dexter White was brought tap my attention." HE ADDED the report "showed that serious accusations had been made against White, but it point- ed out that it would be practically impossible to prove those charges with the evidence then at hand." Truman said he sent a copy of the report to the late Fred Vin- son, then secretary of the Treas- ury, and later ciscussed it with Secretary Vinson as well as with Secretary of State James Byrnes. Here on. campus the former President's speech had a very tell- ing effect on University students gathered to watch and listen at television sets in South Quad- rangle. The close of the speech drew standing cheers from many of the' spectators and others said it was probably his best speech. Camp Project Saves $500 An evaluation of the Fresh Air Camp Project made by the Junior Interfraternity and Panhellenic Councils yesterday showed that the program saved the University approximately $500. The figure was arrived at by Walter Roth, head of the plant department, who assessed the work done at the camp by pledges as being worth $600 if the University had hired painters for the job. The $100 difference is attributed to the cost of paint which the plant department supplied. POOR SEATS? 'U' Denies OSU Charge By BECKY CONRAD Denying reports by disgruntled Ohio State officials over "poor seats" for. Saturday's game, Athletics Business Manager Don Weir said yesterday "we gave them the same seats every visiting college gets and we receive a similar allotment when we travel to other campuses." Under Big Ten conference rules, the visiting school must be furnished a minimum of 3,000 seats "within the playing field stripes." The University alloted Buckeye fans exactly 3,000 seats, runing DE, E). from midfield to the goal line. ac-D 0 cording to Weir. THE REMAINING 13,000 seats furnished Ohio State rooters are on the far end of the giant 97,- 000-seat stadium. Ohio State officials say the game is far from a sellout. Ac- cording to the Associated Press, Ohio State ticket director George Senior Board Takes Survey of Schools By PHYLLIS LIPSKY How can seniors be induced to attend their own graduation? Whether final exams are given. before or after the last day of state wide publicity campaigns and the elimination of final exams for potential graduates. Official figures show that ap- rn-rim A -'ly'twn-thi.,rds f +the sen - tirely. At other schools it lasts from two to six days. In addition to other plans, prop- aganda techniques are employed at two of the schools contacted.