I' STATISTICS ASIDE See Page 4 Latest Deadline in the State :4i a it CLOUDY, SNOW FLURRIES VOL. LXIV, No. 101 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1954 SIX PAGES 1 1 IPMI rI 111 A" Puerto Rican Nationalists Fire at House Members From Gallery; Five * * * * * * * * * Panhel Submits Procedure Change n Moves To Resolve Rushing Dilemma By VIRGINIA VOSS' Daily Editorial Director An eleventh-hour amendment to lower the majority required to approve changes in sorority rushing procedures from three-fourths to two-thirds will be submitted to houses this week as a result of a Panhellenic house presidents' meeting yesterday. But question arose last night if the change is necessary to solve the dilemma or if a defeat of fall rushing would merely mean a re- turn to the deferred rushing system. Early study by the'Student Affairs Committee had indicated that defeat of the fall system, which is now rounding out a two- year trial period, would put sorority rushing back on the "status quo" of the deferred system which had been in effect before the. present experiment was instituted. Last night, however; Panhel President Martha Hill, '54, main- tained "there is no status quo" and said the vote now being taken on fall rushing would establish Panhel policy on the complicated ques- tion. THE PROPOSED constitution change, which will be considered by houses tomorrow and Thursday, was formulated because house presidents feared a three-fourths majority in favor of either fall or spring rushing could not be obtained, Miss Hill explained. Amendment votes will be tabulated Monday preceding count- ing of votes on the fall vs. spring rushing question. Three-fourths of the houses must favor the amendment to put it into effect. Student Affairs Committee rulings requiring two weeks notice of constitutional changes which must be approved by the Committee could be waived, according to Acting Dean of Students Walter B. Rea. Thus it would be possible for the amendment change, if passed by sororities, to affect the rush- Senate OK's Appointment Warren Confirmed U.S. Chief Justice By The Associated Press The Senate yesterday confirm- ed the appointment of Earl War- ren as chief justice of the Supreme Court. Approval came on a voice vote with no audible no's and little dis- cussion. The vote ended a week's long delay during which Chairman William Langer (R-ND) of the Senate Judiciary Committee re- leased 10 "unevaluated charges against Warren at a public meet- ing. SEN. William Knowland (R- Cal.) and Sen. Kuchel (R-Cal.) praised the nominee in brief speeches. About 40 senators were present when the nomination was confirmed. Warren, the three-times gov- ernor of California and the Re- publican vice-presidential can- didates in 1948, has been serving under a recess appointment made by President Dwight D. Eisenhower last October. Warren's nomination to succeed the late Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson was submitted to the Sen- ate Jan. 11, but it was not until last Wednesday that the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to rec- ommended confirmation. McCarthy Set For Meeting With Stevens WASHINGTON-(A')-Sen. Mc- Carthy (R-Wis.) announced yes- terday that he and Secretary of the Army Stevens will hold their postponed face-to-face meeting to discuss the Army's handling of al- leged Communists. But it is expected to be a closed session instead of the ballyhooed, televised meeting which was sched- uled and then called off sudden- ly last week in the midst of a heated wrangle over the issue. McCarthy and Stevens' office both said the Army secretary had agreed to appear before the Sen- ate Investigations Subcommittee either Thursday or next Monday. ROTC: Commissions To Graduates Now Obscure By PAUL LADAS As 174 University Air Force and Army ROTC students approach June graduation, they are asking crucial questions which may af- fect any formulation of future plans. How many ROTC graduates will receive the commissions they were promised when first entering the program? How long will men be committed to active duty? And what becomes of those students who won't receive commissions? UP TO A year ago, such inqui- ries were ; not prevalent among ROTC students who unquestion- ingly expected a commission and two years of active duty after graduation. However, since early last summer when Congress launched its.economy drive on the armed forces that resulted in a reduction of the number of offi- cers and the subsequent abolish- ment of any guaranteed commis- sions except in the uneffected Navy, the status of ROTC men has been obscure and uncertain. Both the Air Force and the Army's officer-reduction sched- ules indicate that of the 15,000 men each service prepares every year; only enough money has been appropriated to make about 5,000 of them active-service of- ficers. What is to become of the other 10,000 is a question which has been up in the air for almost a year. In a recent letter to University President Harlan H. Hatcher, the Commander of the Army ROTC, Lt. Gen. William B. Kean, clari- fied to some extent the Army's Y outlook on this complex situation. His letter reported that all stu- dents in the Army program were at least assurred of a reserve com- mission but that no speculation could be given about active duty. Thus there still remains to be solved the problem of how to ac- commodate a surplus of 10,000 Army ROTC men. Three solutions have been proposed, with none having been selected as yet be- cause of objections each one raises. ONE ANSWER would be to plead ing count Monday. Yesterday's house presidents meeting was called to consider the threat of a possible stalemate on the rushing vote, Miss Hill said. Because of a conflicting Women's Senate meeting, the two addition- al Panhel delegates from each house did not attend the discus- sion. S. . THREE possibilities for deciding the rushing issue in the event of neither a three-fourths or two- thirds majority were brought up by the house presidents. According to Miss Hill, Pan- hel could 1) re-ballot in hopes that enough votes would change, 2) re-amend the Panhel consti- tution to allow a simple majority to decide, or 3) delegate decis- ion-making power to Dean of Women Deborah Bacon and a group of individuals concerned with the matter. Dean Bacon last night had no comment on possibility number three, which she reportedly dis- cussed with the house presidents at yesterday's meeting. Panhel is a "responsible, level- headed" body, capable of handling the rushing question in the best interests of the campus, she said. Petitions Petitions for 24 Student Leg- islature seats to be filled in all- campus elections March 30 and 31 may be picked up from 1 to 5 p.m. daily through Friday and from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday in the SL Bldg. Twenty-two candidates elect- ed to the Legislature will serve for two semesters and two for one-semester terms. Petitions for nine J-Hop posts, seven Union vice-presi- dential positions, three mem- bers of the Board in Control of Student Publications and one Board in Control of Inter-Col- legiate Athletics member are also available. Candidates for four senior class posts in the literary and engineering colleges may pick up petitions in the SL Bldg. Deadline for returning all petitions is Saturday. Young Lists Separations, WASHINGTON-()-Chairman Philip Young of the Civil Service Commission told Congress yester- day that 355 out of 1,782 "secur- ity" separations in the government last year involved persons with subversive data in theirfiles. The long-awaited breakdown- classifying the suspects as alleged subversives, sex perverts, criminals and persons with other deroga- tory backgrounds - came after weeks of public outcry by Demo- crats for detailed information on the subject. PRESIDENT Dwght D. Eisen- hower said in his State-of-the- Union message .to Congress in January that 2,200 government workers had been let out under the new security program he ord- ered into effect in April, 1853. New Atomic Tests Opened WASHINGTON - (P) - The government t e r s e l y announced yesterday that an "atomic device" has been exploded in the mid-Pa- cific in the first of a new series of tests widely heralded to include a hydrogen bomb blast. The scene of the latest explosion was in the general vicinity of Eni- wetok Atoll, in the Marshall Is- lands, where the first hydrogen de- vice was detonated in 1952. Matching the airtight secrecy surrounding the current tests, yes- terday's brief announcement said merely: "Lewis L. Strauss, chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commis- sion, announced today that Joint Task Force 7 has detonated an atomic device at the AEC's Pacif- ic proving ground in the Marshall Islands. "This detonation was the first in a series of tests." -Daily-Dean Morton DON EADDY (33) TRIES TO PICK UP TWO POINTS FOR THE WOLVERINES. Cer Ni PdueTo Leave Big Ten Cellar By WARREN WERTHEIMER The Wolverine cage team put on a red-hot shooting exhibition last night and broke a seven-game losing streak by toppling Purdue, 83-79. The win gave Michigan a Big Ten mark of three wins and 10 losses and moves it out of the cellar and into an eighth place tie with Michigan State. The Boilermakers finished their Western Con- ference schedule with a 3-11 rec- ord. The Wolverines final contest ' will be at East Lansing Saturday R_ _AD__ E'_ night. * * * StrasO er THE MAIZE and Blue tallied S, 46.6 percent of its shots durng the tussle including a dazzling 52.5 Upens .Today in the first half. All five .of Mich- igan's starters scored in double Arrayed in bright costumes, stu- figures, but particularly outstand- dents in the .speech departmentl ing were Paul Groffsky and Milt and School of Music will presentl Mead. Richard Strauss' "Ariadne of Nax- Groffsky, finally snapping out os" beginning its five-day run to- of his scoring slump, exhibited day at 8 p.m. in Lydia Mendels- the type of play he showed last sohn Theater. year when he led the Wolverine Praised by critic Milton Cross for point makers. The 6-4 junior "combining music of satiric wit operating out of the pivot, con- and urbanity with melodic pas- nected with 11 of 16 shots for a sages of incomparable richness," game high total of 24 points. He the opera was adapted from an- also led the winners in rebounds cient Greek legend. with 12 and played a good floor The production which con- game. . tains much of Strauss' roman- The 6-7 Mead made his last tic lyricism will be directed by home appearance his best of the Prof. Josef Blatt and Prof. Val- year and possibly of his college entine Windt with costumes by career. Playing the full game for eytise th costesrby the first time this season, Mead Phyllis Pletcher and scenery by dropped through 60 per cent of Jack E. Bender. his field goal attempts as he piled Tickets are priced at $1.75, $1.40, up 19 points. $1.00 with a special student rate See WOLVERINES, Page 3 of 75 cents for opening night only. taken into custody. Four of the would-be assasins were arraigned before U.S. Com- missioner Cyril S. Lawrence last night and held in bonds of $100,- 000 each to cover charges of fel- onious assault with intent to kill. The U.S. attorney for the Dis- trict of Columbia, Leo A. Rover, told Lawrence two of the five con- gressmen are in very serious con- dition and that there was a grave possibility one or both might die. THE WOUNDED congressmen: Alvin M. Bentley (R-Mich.) a graduate of the University, struck in the left side below the heart. Ben F. Jensen (R-Iowa), hit in the left shoulder. * * * CLIFFORD DAVIS (D-Tenn), shot through the calf of a leg. Kenneth A. Roberts (D-Ala), wounded in the lower part of his leg. George H. Fallon (D-Md.), shot in the fleshy, upper thigh, the bullet passing all the way through. * * * AT POLICE headquarters, the Puerto. Ricans were identified as members of the nationalist Inde- pendence Party in Puerto Rico. Two other members of this party tried to assassinate President Tru- man in 1950. Bentley, most seriously wound- ed of the five congressmen shot down, last night underwent sur- gery in Casualty Hospital. The congressman has only a "50-50 chance" to live, his physi- cian said after the operation last night. * */ * "THE OPERATION was a suc- cess," said Dr. Charles White, who assisted in the operation at Cas- ualty Hospital. Dr. Joseph .young, surgeon and chief of staff, had called the operation "exploratory." 'Describing Bentley's condition as critical, Young said it now ap- peared that Bentley suffered a perforated lung, stomach and, probably, the liver. * * * LIKE THE attack on Truman, yesterday's shooting took place without the slightest advance warning. The House was considering a bill for the recruitment of Mex- ican labor. Speaker Martin had been asked if a quorum were present, and he had counted the house. Moments later, at 2:31 p.m., this placid scene was turned into the wildest confusion. Wounded Two Legislators Seriously Injured Bentley in Critical Condition; Davis, Jenson, Roberts, Fallon Also Hurt WASHINGTON-OP)-At least three men and a woman, spectators in the House gallery, yesterday suddenly shouted, "Free Puerto Rico!" waved Puerto Rican flags, and cut loose with wild, indiscriminate pistol fire that wounded five congressmen. Two congressmen were hurt seriously. The other three had leg injuries. The gunmen and their woman companion, Puerto Ricans from New York City, were overpowered and captured immediately. House Speaker Martin (R-Mass.) said they were part of a bus- load of Puerto Ricans who had come to the capital yesterday. He said around 20 of them have been! Meat Truck Halted Here A truck carrying a cargo of un- refrigerated meat scheduled for delivery to several local restaur- ants was halted early last week from completing its shipment, it has been learned. According to Dr. Otto K. En- gelke, health officer of Ann Ar- bor's Board of Health, the driver of the truck was sent back to his Detroit company with a written warning that legal action would. be taken if unsanitary meat ar- rivals continued. .* * * THE COMPANY involved in the infraction is reportedly the same one tagged in a Daily series over a year ago to have then been sup- plying horsemeat to a few Ann Arbor restaurants. The defective meat cargo was Intercepted by a health officer for Washtenaw County. The truck was found to be carrying no refrigeration equipment and was allegedly laden with an ac- cumulation of dirt. Refrigeration facilities are re- quired in all trucks delivering cer- tain perishables into the Ann Ar- bor area. Such trucks are also sup- posed to be hosed down after each run. However, it was reported this had not occurred with the truck involved. * * * MEANWHILE, new regulations from the city Board of Health have been dispatched to all Ann Arbor restaurant owners requir- ing all persons employed in eating establishments to have x-rays tak- en before inspectors conduct an- other survey into the health con- ditions in local eating places. A letter sent to restaurant men said a certificate would be issued by the department to each employe who passed the exami- nation and would then become part of his restaurant work iden- tification. The system of x-raying all res- taurant employes in Ann Arbor had been discontinued several years back but new health regula- tions passed in Oct., 1953 put the rule back into effect. Heavy Snows Blanket City, Expect More March roared in with blustery 30-mile-per-hour winds and five inches of new snow yesterday re-. placing sporadic end-of-the-month rains. A total of between six and 10 inches of snow is expected to cover the ground today with snow flur- ries continuing according to the Willow Run Weather Bureau. ** * NEAR BLIZZARD conditions re- duced visibility to less than one mile in rural areas surrounding Ann Arbor late yesterday. State Police warnings were issued to all motorists to be aware of danger- Security issue Subject Of B~rownell Talk Todayfi Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr. will analyze "Our Internal Security" at 8:30 p.m. today in Hill Auditorium. One of the top advisors in the 1952 presidential campaign, Brownell was described by Time magazine as "the best political strate- gist of the Republican party." BROWNELL HAS managed other major campaigns of his party, including the presidential tries of<" Gov. Thomas E. Dewey. Receiv- ing his start in politics in the New York State Assembly; Brownell served for five terms and intro- duced legislation to establish min- imum wage standards and reor- ganize New York city government. Concerning his office, the At- torney General has said, "I feel that the Department of Justice is a keystone of the republic; if it fails, all that our youth has fought to preserve, crumbles."s As administrator of the Justice Department, Brownell acts as principle legal advisor to the Pres- ident Tickets for the lecture will be on sale from 10 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. today at Hill Auditorium. POSITION CAUSES CONTROVERSY: New International Center Chief To Be Chosen By DOROTHY MYERS As speculation rose among for- our meetings. Although they are eign students that several pros- only attached to, and not members pective directors of the Interna- of the committee, they have had tional Center had recently been in- a chance to meet several of the terviewed on campus, it was re- people under consideration and ported yesterday that the two stu- have been kept fully informed of dents appointed to the committee the activities of the committee." to choose the new director have Dean Ford explained that the not been fully consulted by the committee was "just an ad hoc committee for several weeks. group that will make recommen- "The committee* now trying to dations to University President -t__- s___ - .. _. I L ..... r i .t.1. W.it L l was charged, "and at only two committee meetings out of at least six or seven, have students been invited to attend." "THE FIRST meeting, in No- vember, was very informal and in- troductory. At another, held in December, the students were al- lowed to present the committee with a full brief prepared by In- fnrnatinnn] ofCit.An..+A cenrnin+tnn said, "There has been no clear- cut, over-all policy of the Center applied uniformly to all foreign students. To a great many foreign students the International Center is completely unknown, or if known it has generally failed to acquaint them with the American way of life." More specific criticisms of the Center claimed that: lowed to present individually their ideas on the future policies and directorship of the Center. "ISA members, after their ur-, gent request to listen to these reports, were absolutely refused admission to these meetings," it was reported. According to several sources, the choice of new directors has nar- rowed down to three men, none of I