EDITOR'S NOTE - See Page 4 lflr uja Latest Deadline in 'the State A6F :43 Zt t ty 1/ COLDER VOL. LXIV, No. 103 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1954 * N - SIX PAGES 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 ,15 p.m. today and tomorrow and from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday in f4 t- the SL Bldg. Petitions for nine J-Hop . ,posts, seven Union vice-presi- dential positions, three mem- <> >:r:::* bers of the Board in Control of F.": .' r : Student Publications and one Board in Control of Inter-Col- . . legiate Athletics member are also available. -Daily-Don Campbell MOMENTO OF A STORMY MORNING - Central Michigan Hit byBlizzards Central Michigan was briefly paralyzed yesterday by what the weatherman termed the worst snowstorm in the stiate since 1951 as 40-55 mile-an-hour winds and five inches of new snow blocked roads, grounded planes and caused two deaths. State police reported that main roads were cleared and normal Willow Run flight schedules were resumed by late yesterday follow- ing the eleven hour snowstorm that subsided by 2 p.m. * * * * ALL PUBLIC SCHOOLS in Ann Arbor maintained regular classes all day although attendance was down as much .as two thirds in -- many of them. Buses carrying rur- Jury Indicts Law makers' Assailants By The Associated Press WASHINGTON - (R) - A fed- eral grand jury acted with near- record speed yesterday indicting four Puerto Ricans accused of wounding five Congress members in Monday's bullet-spraying burst of violence in the House of Rep- resentatives. The jury was reported to have voted almost immediately after U.S. Atty. Leo A. Rover complet- ed presenting the government's case in one hour and 45 minutes. .* * * ROVER told newsmen the grav- ity of the crime warranted the speedy action. Only six witnesses were used. The assailants, including the , self-styled ringleader, Mrs. Lo- lita Lebron, 34, were charged with assault with intent to kill and assault with a dangerous weapon. Police said three of the alleged gun wielders, including Mrs. Le- bron, have confessed, but a fourth, Irving Flores Rodriguez, 28, has refused to talk. Rodriguez was seized at a bus station shortly after the shooting in which the assailants, shouting "Free Puerto Rico!" and waving the flag of the island common- wealth, blazed away with Luger- style automatic pistoIs at some 250 lawmakers on the House floor. * . , * REP. ALVIN Bentley (R-Mich.), most seriously wounded in the in- cident, was reported "still in ser- ious condition but making satis- factory progress" in his fight to recover from bullet wounds suf- fered in Monday's shooting affray in the House chamber. In Puerto Rico, United States and insular officials probed yes- terday into Puerto Rican angles of the shooting of the five U.S. Congressmen, but kept their movements secret. Acting Gov. Roberto Sanchez Vilella told newsmen the Justice Department is studying a state- ment issued Tuesday by ailing Na- tionalist leader Pedro Albizu Cam- pos, who said the Purto Ricans who shot the congressmen were on "a journey of sublime heroism." U Budget Cut Included In House Bill Niehuss Stresses Expanding Needs By JON SOBELOFF Gov. G. Mennen Williams' rec- ommended cut in the University's operations budget request has been embodied in a bill by the House Ways and Means Committee. But the bill, introduced with a flood of other measures Tuesday afternoon, was immediately re- turned to committe. * * * UNIVERSITY Vice-President Marvin L. Niehuss said last night he was hopeful that the committee will make a new recommendation "more in keeping with the expand- ingineeds of the University.", As introduced, the bill would authorize $20,019,000 for cur- rent University operating ex- penses. The University original- ly requested $21,688,000. Meanwhile the University capi- tal outlays and new "human re- sources" requests are still in Sen- ate committee. They will probably be reported out sometime next week. IF THE Senate committee fol- lows Gov. Williams' suggestions, it will introduce a bill providing only $2,500,000 of the University's $14,337,200 capital outlays request, eliminating completely the $977,- 000 asked for "research and ser- vice in the development of human resources." The $1,569,000 slash in the op- erating budget request was hit by University officials when it was recommended in January by the Governor. The Governor's recommendation- and the present bill do represent an increase over last year's operations appropria- tion, however. Proposed merit increases of $860,000 for faculty members and $820,000 the University reggested to add staff and facilities to take care of the expected 1,000 student increase in enrollment next fall would absorb most of the $1,569,- 000 cut. THE PROCEDURE of introduc- ing a measure and immediately sending it back to committee is normal for appropriations meas- ures, which are generally written and introduced by a whole sub- committee rather than a single representative. The operations request bill was shrouded in secrecy and doubt while it was being written, but when it finally was introduced Tuesday it confirmed advance guesses that the governor's rec- ommendation would not be in- creased. Chances are fairly good, how- ever, that the legislators may raise the appropriation at least slightly before the bill is brought up for a full House vote. Courts Given OK To Hear' Labor Cases The House Labor Committee voted yesterday to give Federal courts power to hear unfair labor practices ases which now come before the National Labor, Rela- tions Board. -° Voting 14-13 to take from the board the quasi-judicial powers it has exercised for nearly 20 years,; the committee split sharply across party lines. * *-* THE FIVE-MAN board decided about 9,900 election cases last year, its records show. Prof. Russell Smith of the Law School said last night he doubted very much if the meas- ure would ever be made law. "Even if it got past the- House, it could never get past the Sen- ate Labor Committee," he said. The labor law authority saw the proposed change as part of al movement to make administration of the law more effective. He pointed out that the five-man NLRB was heavily burdened with its great caseload. But he added that labor prob- lems are now so complex that a special agency to handle them seemed in order. That has been the philosophy of the government ever since the Wagner Act, he explained. GIVING POWER to decentral- ized NLRB offices or .to the states might lead to more effective ad- ministration Prof. Smith thought. The Taft-Hartley act has al- ready stripped the NLRB of its investigating and prosecuting pow- ers, giving them to a separate agency. Now the board is limited to hearing and deciding com- plaints and deciding union repre- sentation questions. Panhel To Vote On Revisions Voting is being held in sorority houses this week on the amending of the Panhellenic constitution and on the fall versus spring rush- i al students did not make sched- uled trips, however, and elemen- tary schools allo'ped local child- ren to take a holiday if transpor- tation difficulties hampered their parents in taking them to school. Local utility ompanies re ported only slight power troub- les and trains wer unaffected by heavy snows. Buses however. were running late during the morning with ) +egular time schedules resumed: by 5 p.m. Because of translportation diffi- culties, second and third shifts at a few industrial plants were sus- pended. Regular wok has been re- sumed today, however. Although University class at- tendance was up t par througli- out the day, students' conversa- tions centered on the blizzard as they shivered through deep snows on the campus. A few, undaunted by 15-degree temperatures troop- ed to the Arboretum complete with skis to take advantage of the year's best skiing weather. *~ * * AT ANOTHER POINT in the midwest, the snow storm dropped 12 inches on Chicago, depositing 10 inches along Mic3igan's Lake Michigan shoreline. Metropolitan D e t: r o it was blanketed by 6 inches of snow. The Motor City experienced its worst traffic jam in ?many years yesterday when the city's snow removal crews were unable to complete their job aliead of the' morning rush hour traffic. Temperatures fell sharply in southern Michigan last. night add- ing to the troubles facing snow{ removal. Winds up to 50 miles an hour are expected to drift the new snow in all areas., Tax Cut WASHINGTON -- (P) - The House Ways and Means Com- mittee yesterday brushed aside Eisenhower Administration op- position and approved almost unanimously a billion dollar an- nual cut in about 20 excise taxes. The changes, if finally enact- ed, would take effect April 1, presumably bringing widespread price reductions on the articles affected. Ikse A tacks McCarthy's Procedures President Eisenhower criticized Senator McCarthy in a statement concerned with the "disregard of the standards of fair play" at a press conference yesterday. McCarthy, stating that he would continue investigating Commu- nism, retorted, "If a stupid, ar- rogant or witless man in a posi- tion of power appears before our committee and is found aiding the Communist Party, he will be ex- posed. The fact that he might be a general places him in no special class as far as I am concerned." THE BRIEF flare-up between' McCarthy and Secretary of the Army Robert T. Stevens was brought about by McCarthy's rough handling of Brig. Gen. Ralph Zwicker. Yesterday the President praised Zwicker by name as one of the officers to whom all Americans owe a "lasting debt." The President also added, as an afterthought, that he would fully support Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in a pend- ing argument with McCarthy, according to the Detroit Free Press. The forthcoming brawl is con- cerned with the demotion by Dulles of Scott McLeod, regarded as McCarthy's representative in the State Department. * * * IN HIS formal statement about McCarthy, President Eisenhower did not refer to the Senator's charges that Army officers had "coddled" and "covered up" Com- munists. When questioned about this, the President admitted that he had put something about it in the original draft of the message, but that he had dropped it out for the sae of brevity. However, he said strongly that he did not believe that any senior officers of the Army have tried to cover up Communism. Miracle Drug Talks To Open "Miracle Drugs" is the subject of a forum to be held at 8 D.m. today at Rackham Amphitheater. Five local doctors will discuss questions submitted by the pub- lic dealing with all types of anti- biotics, vitamins and hormones. Participating doctors are Dr. Jer- ome Conn of the Medical School, Dr. Craig Barlow, Dr. Paul Wicht, Dr. Arthur Allen and Dr. B. C. Payne. Moderator of the discus- sion will be Dr. Robert Ideson. Sponsored by the Washtenaw County Medical Society, Medical School, the Ann Arbor News and the Ann Arbor Kiwanis, forums will be held every Thursday until April 1. According to John Rae, chair- man of the Public and Business affairs of the Ann Arbor Kiwanis, possible topics for future f6rums are arthritus, alergies and cancer. --Daily-Dean Morton PANEL PREPARES DISCUSSION ON THE VALUES OF THE EFFECT OF PSYCHOANALYSIS ON ETHICS AND ART Faculty Panel Expresses s hoanalsis Views By FRAN SHELDON A capacity crowd of more than 300 lammed Angell Hall's Audi- torium B last night to hear three experts in diversified fields treat psychoanalytic theory in connection with their various arts. Standing spectators lined the back of the auditorium as Prof. Paul Henle of the philosophy department, Prof. Marvin Felheim of the English department and Prof. Daniel Miller of the psychology department swapped opinions concerning the relative merits of the theory. * * * *. LEADING OFF THE discussion, Prof. Miller defined theoretical psychoanalysis as the motivational approach to behavior. Men are governed, he said by a number of SL Favors Student Vote Before Reorganization motives usually in conflict. "To satisfy one of these wishes causes the other to suffer, and be deflected," the psycholo- gist explained. A person adapts himself to these frustrations by a series of defense mechanisms such as forgetfulness, distortion or cancellation, the ex- pert noted. According to the psychoanalytic theory, he said people have de- veloped "styles that characterize their conflict." As an example Prof. Miller cited Hamlet who was "pretty irresolute and just couldn't act." * * * IN ANSWER to him, Prof. Fel- heim agreed that although some "mythical sophomore" perhaps has the tendency to view Hamlet "as though he were his roommate" it is impossible to approach the char- acter as. "an individual with an aberration who needs a cure and whom an analyist can help." His reaction has to some ex- tent been anticipated for us by the very structure of the play and the necessity for Hamlet to tell us explicitly what he is about. "And then he does not speak except in blank verse. I should think blank verse would be tricky for any analyst con- fronted with a patient," he said. It is only where the psychoanaly-' ist stops and the asthetitician takes over that a work "becomes really alive and transcendent," Prof. Felheim concluded. ASSERTING that he had never tried to psychoanalyze Hamlet, Prof. Henle called the psycho- analytic theory "a source of per- plexity." See PANEL, Page 6 Taylor views Puerto Rican Shooting In House Gallery By JOE PASCOFF Monday's assault on the House of Representatives members by three fanatic Puerto Rican terrorists has caused loud repercussions throughout the free world and has aroused considerable speculation asj to the adequacy of relations between the United States and Puerto Rico. The latest Puerto Rican assault and the earlier attempted assassi- nation of former President Truman in 1950 have to many people -*been interpreted as a sign of the Boston Pops To Perform Here Today Arthur Fiedler, an honorary fire chief in over 20 cities, will conduct the Boston Pops Tour Orchestra for the last concert of the Choral Union concert series'at 8:30 p.m. today in Hill Auditorium. Among the orchestras Fiedler has conducted are the San Froli- cisco, Boston, Toronto, Minneap- olis, NBC, Seattle and San An- tonio symphonies. In his spare time he conducts the Boston Fire- men's Band and is a member of the fire department there. * * , ON THE program today will be Wagner's "Entrance of the Guests from Tannhauser," W e b e r 's "Overture to Oberon," Handel's "Largo from Xerxes," Offenbach's "Suite from Gaite Parisienne," Tschaikowsky's "1812 Overture," Porter's "Selections from Kiss Me Kate," Gade's "Jalousie" and El- gar's "Pomp and Circumstance." Tickets priced at $3, $2.50, $2 and $1.50 may be purchased at the University Musical Society of- fice in Burton Tower until 5 p.m. and .after 7 p.m. at the Hill Audi- torium box office. IUC Meet Today Inter-House Council will meet at 7:15 p.m. today in the main dining room of West Quad. Discussion is planned on the conversion of more men's houses in the quads to women's houses. 'Government Change Must' Have Assent' Prof. Laing Asks Practical Views By BECKY CONRAD In a double-feature vote, Stu- dent Legislature last night called for student participation In draw- ing up any plan of campus gov- ernment reorganization. The first proposal favored 22 to three with one abstention, recom- mended that "any proposals con- cerning reorganization of student government be voted on favorably by SL and/or the student body." * * * SECOND of the motions en- dorsed requests the Student Af- fairs Study Committee to appoint further- student voting represen- tation on the group during their discussions of student government reorganization. After accepting the first rec- ommendation unanimously and the second witholt dissent ear- ly in the session, the legislators voted to reconsider the questions and heard Prof. Lionel Laing of the political scienee department, chairman of the study -group, ex- press views concerning the SL moves. Prof. Laing felt, "Passage of the two motions could be expressive of want of confidence in the study committee's work." * *, HE EXPLAINED the group is at present in a critical stage of de- liberation and the Legislature's ac- tions constituted the first set-back received by the committee. "If you want effective studenW government" Prof. Laing de- clared, "you must consider the practical side." SL corresponding secretary Leah Marks, '55L, framer of the two motions, described the actions as "procedural." She added, "Now is the time to express student opinion." If Student Legislature post. pones the question until after the study committee reports to Uni- versity President Harlan H. Hat- cher in April, she continued, this action then "would constitute a vote of no-confidence." SL Treasurer Steve Jelin, '55, claimed the two recommendations now stand as a "vote of interest." SL CONTINUED consideration of the proposed constitutional re- visions and ended the process of taking it up section by section. Next, week, the Legislature will vote on the 10-page document as a whole. Later in the SL session, the Legislature acted to set up a booth on the Diagonal to record student signatures in favor of Regents' action on one of the four proposals concerning a modification of the driving ban. Scheduled for March 15 and 16, the petition will ask that action be taken at the March meeting of the Regents. The Legislature also voted to submit a referendum to the stu- dents at the spring elections stu- dent opinion of the Block "M" section. Author To Read Own Short Story Katherine Anne Porter will read one of her famous short stories, "Flowering Judas," at 4:10 p.m. today in Rackham Lecture Hall. Miss Porter, visiting lecturer in English, will deliver the first in a series of readings-lectures by mem- bers of the English department. Prof. Donald Pearce will present "Selected Poems of W. B. Yeats," March 25; Prof. G. B. Harrison, "Songs and Monologues," April 29; and Prof. Arthur Carr, "A Read- ing of Light Verse," May 13. Steering Group Marie Training Aims At Combat Service Skill (EDITOR'S NOTE-This fs the sec- and in a series of artieles aimed graduates, and the Platoon Lead- at informing non-ROTC students, er's Class is intended for un- primarily June graduates, about the dergrads. Students who ai-e not various branches of the Armed Forces.) citizens or who are pursuing By PAUL LADAS courses in theology, medicine, Since the Marine Corps" primary, and dentistry are ineligible. function is to engage in combat Basic qualifications for both action, particularly amphibious these programs are that an appli- warfare, its training program and cant pass a stringent mental and service is aimed at producing skill- physical examination, which makes ed fighting men. allowances to men with nothing Unlike other services, every one less than 20:30 correctible vision. of its members must be carefully The PLC program, offered only instructed in the essentials of bat- to juniors, sophomores and fresh- tlefield duty. Its basic preparation men, is similar to an ROTC course course is often considered the stif-I except that there are no interfer-I fest but also the one which best ences with studies during the nor- qualifies a man for combat. mal school year. It is open to col-' intense desire of the Puerto Ricans for independence. * * * PROF. PHILIP B. Taylor of the political science department how- ever holds a different view. "I don't see any real reason why the Puer- to Ricans should want independ- ence," the professor said. In ex- plaining his position Prof. Taylor alluded to the fact that the Puerto Ricans would have to pay a high price for independence. Puerto Rico is primarily ag- ricultural and their chief crop is sugar most of which is export- ed to the United States. "Under their Commonwealth status," the professor commented, "no tariffs are levied on the sugar, hence, the price is kept low. "If the, is- land gained independence, tariffs would be levied causing the price to rise and the result would be a substantial loss to the United Sttie' market." NEIGHBORS PROTEST: Oxford House Experiment Postponed By LEE MARKS A proposed sociological study gents asked Vice-President Marvin part of the neighbors wouldn't slated to be held at 805 Oxford L. Niehuss and Prof. Theodore help the study," commented Bran- Street this semester, has been Newcomb, chairman of the doc- don. pstpned dh u toepstes s byn toral program in social psychology* * postponed due to protests by and director of the study, to try THEXETITION also pointed out neighbors. to work out the difficulties with that the members of a former A petitin,drwbuinessman, those Ann Arbor residents who had fraternity that had occupied Ox- Kempf,Aand signed Arbor ingsre signed the petition. When the ford House until last year, "in- dents, has caused the Psychology neighbors refused to change their censed, embarrased and disturbed" . . -___ .. nositionn the TTniversity was forced the neighbors. V J 3 ing program. - .) I