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VOL. LXIV, No. 108 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1954
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McCarthy Blasts
Major Networks
Angered Over Refusal of CBS, NBC
To Let Him Answer Stevenson
NEW YORK - (P) - Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis.) declared
war yesterday on two major networks that refused him free air time
to answer criticisms from Adlai E. Stevenson.
McCarthy said of the two networks, CBS and NBC:
T "I intend to test whetheithey can give Stevenson time for a
vicious attack on me and then arrqgantly refuse me time to answer.
* * * *
THE WISCONSIN senator spent 24 hours of turmoil in New York
before winging back to Washington late in the day. He laid about in
Panhel
Fall
Rushing
rSACin
Decision
Upheld
by
7-5
Ballot
f.%5
House Acts
.On. Pay Bill,
Sales Tax
'N LANSING-(')-in an action-
packed session, the House yester-
day voted a pay raise for future
legislators, passed the Conlin plan
to revise the sales tax diversion
and approved reducing the work
week of firemen.
Racing to meet a Wednesday
deadline for passage of bills not+
acted on by either House, the low-1
er chamber passed the pay raise
measure 55-41.
* *
-' THE BILL would pay legislatorsI
a total of $5,000 a year after next
' (Jan. 1. They now get a total of
$3,900.
Rep. Adrian De Boom (R-
Owosso emerged as the prini-
pal opponent of the measure.
"The people gave us a blank
check when they permitted us to
set our own salaries," he said. "I
urge you not to misuse their gen-
erosity."
* * *
REP. ROLLO G. Conlin (R-Tip-
ton) author of the plan to revise
the sales tax diversion, had toac-
aept two changes he considered
weakening before he could get a
92-1 favorable vote on the plan.
One amendment, approved 55-
37, would write into the eon-
rsitution a permanent limita-
tion of the present three per cent
on the sales tax.
The other would permit mun-t
cipalities to count 50 per cent of
inmates and patients in their pop-
ulations for computing their share
Sof the diversion. At present, they
count all state wards. The plan
would have eliminated them from
athe count.
The main purpose of the pro-
posed constitutional amendment,
which now goes to the Senate, is
to pay school aid out of current
collections of the sales tax. Un-
der the present amendment, the
school aid appropriation is based
on collections of two years pre-
vious,
The bill to limit the work week
of firemen to 63%/ hours passed
52-46. The measure had been de-
feated 50-39 two weeks ago, but
it was laid on the table where it
was eligible for a second vote.
'h The bill lowers the present limi-
tation by 10 hours and provides a
second leave day for firemen every
16 days.
Cost-Cutting,
Buying, IFC
Stewards' Goal
Thirty-five fraternity stewards
met last night for an organiza-
tional meeting of the proposed
steward training program spon-
sored by the Interfraternity Coun-
cil.
Ultimate goal of the program,
designed to familiarize stewards
with cost-cutting techniques in the
kitchen and in buying, is a cooper-
ative food buying system among
campus fraternities.
The immediate aim, as set forth
in last night's meeting, is to learn
more about running a kitchen
through exchange of mutual prob-
lems and hearing experts speak
on buying and food preparation.
Present plans call for three
meetings a semester at which guest
speakers will discuss problems with
all stewards, while a board com-
posed of district representatives
will carry on in the interim.
Growing out of a meeting of
stewards and IFC officers held
two weeks ago the program is ex-
all directions with apparent zest,
and shrugged off casually a pur-
ported threat upon his life.
An anonymous phone caller
told Waldorf - Astoria Hotel
guards early today that "some-
thing terrible" was going to
happen to McCarthy. The caller
reportedly had a Spanish accent.
"If anyone is going to kill you
he won't call you up first," was
the senator's reaction,."I assume
it was some crackpot. I get this
sort of thing every day in the
week."
FORMER President Harry S.
Truman, in town briefly, remarked
of the purported assassination
threat that "we'd have no enter-
tainment at all if they killed him."
Then Truman added soberly: "I
don't believe in government by as-
sassination."
"It's a waste of time to ans-
wer dead politicians," cracked
McCarthy, when told of Tru-
man's comment. Then he added:
"That indicates he still has his
sense of humor."
Stevenson, the Democratic can-
didate for President in 1952, at-
tacked McCarthy and the GOP in
a speech from Miami Saturday
night. The networks, offered equiv-
alent time for an answer to the
GOP National Committee.
The committee named Vice
President Richard M. Nixon to re-
ply, reportedly as the personal
choice of President Eisenhower.
McCarthy contended it was fine
for Nixon to speak for the com-
mittee but that he, McCarthy,
wants to reply as well for him-
self.
"I think Dick Nixon is an excel-
lent choice to reply for the Fppub-
lican party," he told a news con-
ference. He added that he had no
idea whether Eisenhower dictated
the choice of Nixon.
Statehood
Bills Merged
WASHINGTON - (oP) - The
Senate agreed yesterday to put to
a vote tomorrow a proposal to
bring Hawaii and Alaska into a
combination statehood bill - the
only chance, two Western Demo-
crats said, for Alaskan statehood
at this congressional session.
The test ballot was set on a
merger plan submitted by Sen.
Anderson (D-NM). And it prob-
ably will be close, the way senators
are lined up now.
Both Anderson and Sen. Jack-
son (D-Wash.) told the Senate
that Alaska won't get statehood
now unless it is tied to admission
of Hawaii. Anderson cited historic
precedents for admitting states in
pairs.
"If we keep Alaska separate
from Hawaii we are defeating
Alaska," Jackson declared.
ROBIN HOOD'S MEN:
Ike Appoints
New Deputy
Of Defense.
Anderson Replaces
Kyes as Secretary
WASHINGTON-(/)-President
Eisenhower yesterday tapped Sec-
retary of the Navy Robert B. An-
derson, a 1952 "Eisenhower Demo-
crat," for Deputy Secretary of
Defense.
Anderson was nominated to re-
place Roger M. Kyes in the No.
2 slot at. the Pentagon. Kyes has
resigned effective May 1.
* * *
THE 43-YEAR-OLD Anderson
left business, ranching and legal
interests in Texas to become Navy
secretary on Feb. 4, 1953. The
White House said a new Navy
secretary won't be selected im-
mediately.
Presidential Press Secretary
James C. Hagerty told reporters
he had no information on re-
ports it 'might be Gov. John
Lodge of Connecticut.
Kyes turned in his resignation
Saturday. He is a former execu-
tive of General Motors Corp. and
had agreed to come into the gov-
ernment for only a year. Actually
he is staying three months longer
than that.
* * *
KYES AND the White House'
have disclaimed any link between
the resignation and the flare-up
between Secretary of the Army
Stevens and Sen. McCarthy (R-
Wis.).
But some insiders at the Pen-
tagon have an idea the Stevens-
McCarthy row over McCarthyI
investigating methods might
have weighed against the selec-
tion of the Army secretary to
move into Kyes' spot.
Petitions
Petitions for 22 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
in the SL Bldg.
Twenty candidates elected 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 ofj
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 to the SL Bldg. is Sat-
urday.
Clardy Cites
1Postponing
LANSING, Mich. - (P) - Rep.
Kit Clardy (R-Mich.) said yes-
terday that hearings of the House
Un-American Activities Commit-
tee in Detroit would undoubtedly
be postponed at least until the
end of April. They had been
scheduled for March 29.
Clardy is at his home in Lan-
sing recovering from an attack of
virus pneumonia.
He said the postponement was
caused by previous commitments
of other members of the subcom-
mittee.
Commenting on the shooting
of five congressmen by a group of
Puerto Rican Nationalists, Rep.
Clardy said: .m
"There is no doubt in my mind
there was Communist inspirationI
and direction behind the whole
OK Amendment
Change by 1-1
Long Controversy Ends After
Marathon Four Hour Meeting
BY HARRY LUNN
Daily Managing Editor
Panhellenic Association's long simmering rushing controversy wa
finally resolved yesterday as the Student Affairs Committee reache
a narrow seven to five decision for fall rushing.
The affirmative vote on Panhel's rushing recommendation ch
maxed a marathon four-hour meeting complicated by jurisdiction
issues and involved debate.
Final voting found two students siding with five faculty ar
administration members to back up the fall method while five studen
opposed it in favor of the spring<>
THE FIRST HUNDRED--Engineering College color movie shown
here in the process of filming will be given its public premiere to-
day, with showings scheduled for 7- 8 and 9 p.m. in Auditorium A,
Angell Hall. Filmed by the Audio-Visual Education Center, the
movie commemorates a century of engineering instruction at the
University. The plot depicts the College'-of Engineering as seen by
Phineas Wilbur Jones, 1854 E., who falls asleep while taking his
final exams And awakens today.
AA City Charter Group
Votes for Reorganization
By PAT ROELOFS
Members of the City Charter Revision Commiission last night
voted to reorganize completely Ann Arbor's charter rather than amend
the present charter.
Commission member Prof. Paul Kauper of the law school pointed
to the language of the present charter, citing "inconsistancies, ambi-
guity, obsoleteness and incompleteness" in the document, and proposed
that complete revision take place. -
"SUBSTANTIAL changes in the charter can only be made by
complete revision" Prof. Kauper stated. All of the Commission mem-
bers agreed that the task of -- -
system. Only rarely has an SAC
vote split so definitely between
students and faculty.
* * *
SAC ACTION came after re-
sults of a sorority vote favoring
fall rushing by a 418,to 167 count
were submitted to the committee
by Panhel president Martha Hill,
'54.
She also placed before SAC
a constitution revision changing
the required vote on rushing
regulations from a three-fourths
to two-thirds majority.
Miss Hill explained that the
constitutidn change was necessi-
tated by the realization that a
three-fourths decision probably
could not be reached oi either the
fall or spring plans.
Actual Panhel vote was 69 per
cent in favor of the fall method.
The constition change passed nar-:
rowly with 14 houses voting for it
and three against-just the min-
imum requirement.
* * *
AFTER a preliminary hassle on
its jurisdiction over such consti-
tution changes, SAC passed the re-
vision by a vote of 10 to one with
one abstention.
With this issue cleared away,
the committee was ready to
tackle the main debate on the
merits of Panhel's rushing pro-
posal.
But at this point another juris-
dictional problem arose as one
member maintained that SAC
merely should determine if. proper
procedure had been followed by
Panhel formulating the regulation.
Generally, however, the com-
mittee seemed to hold that the
issue must be viewed substantively
as well as procedurally in light of#
its- ramifications on the entire4
campus community.
This point was particularly
stressed by opponents of the fall
system who felt the overall ef-
feet of spring rushing was bet-
ter for the campus.
Co-op Group
New Ruling
Student Affairs Committee took
further - action yesterday in its
investigation of Inteicooperative
Council handling of a recently ac-
quired apartment house.
SAC members voted to send ICC
officers a letter suggesting that
basic improvements be completed
on the property as rapidly as pos-
sible and directing that no addi-
tional persons be moved into the
apartments without written per-
mission of Acting Dean of Stu-
dents Walter B. Rea.
* *' *.
TWO WEEKS ago SAC asked
ICC president Jack Hillberry,
'56A&D, to appear and explain
why a student family had been
moved into the house contrary to
a committee ruling that health and
building inspection approval must
precede occupancy.
Yesterday Hillberry admitted
he and fellow officers had vio-
lated the ruling but claimed
they had misunderstood the
committee's intent.
The issue goes back to last Sept.
.22 when SAC overruled a housing
sub-committee report and granted
ICC authorization to purchase the
apartment house at 803 E. King-
sley.
Authorization was made subject
to the provision that no one move
in until the house had been ap-
proved by University and city
authorities.
However, ICC allowed a fam-
ily needing emergency housing
to occupy an apartment in Jan-
uary without the required in-
spection. Subsequent notifica-
tion of the building's habitation
brought a iont Unversity-city
SAC Gives
As a matter of precedence and thing. This nationalist business is
seniority, the secretary of the a lot of bunkum. What we had in
Army ordinarily would have had Congress was a practical display
the inside track over the secretary of what the Communists mean
of the Navy or secretary of the when they talk about overthrow of
Air, if somebody from the service the government by force and vio-
secretariat, was to be promoted. lence."
Yet evep- p though both the
White House and the PentagonM
gave Stevens a measure of sup-
port in his row with McCarthy-
Stevens said the senator abused
a general called as a witness and
the senator said he didn't-there
probably would have been some
eyebrow lifting or more pronounc-
ed reactions in Washington had
Stevens been named deputy sec-
retary.
Referenda Due
For SL Elections
All referenda for the spring all-
campus elections, March 30 and
31, must be submitted to Babs
Hillman, '55Ed., Student Legisla-
ture elections director, before 7:30
p.m. today.
According to the present student
government constitution, campus
advisory referenda to be included
on the ballot must be requested by
petition of 600 students.
Lea hy's Slam
AT' Ignored
By Officials
A blast by former Notre Dame
football Coach Frank Leahy at the'
National Collegiate Athletic As-
sociation and the Big Ten received
little comment from local athletic
officials yesterday.
Leahy, writing in a notional
magazine, picked the University
of Michigan as one of the schools
which resented Notre Dame's
"dominant position in football,
and more recently, Michigan
State's."
UNIVERSITY Director of Inter-
collegiate Athletics, Prof. Herbert
0. (Fritz) Crisler, had only this to
say: "Mr. Leahy was always meti-
culous as a coach in details and in
accuracy. I wish he were as meti-
culous and accurate in his writ-
ing."
Football Coach Bennie Ooster-
baan refused to comment. NCAA
President, Dean A. B. Moore of
the University of Alabama grad-
uate school answered the article
saying that the NCAA was in-
fluenced only by facts in censur-
ing Notre Dame last year for
I
amending sections of the present
charter would be cumbersome, and
would also be a burden on local
voters.
The group did learn, however,
that it is possible to incorporate
present favorable sections of the
charter into a revised charter.
The necessity of revising the
charter now was pointed out by
committee members, in view of the
growing city. Prof. Robert C. An-
gell of the sociology department
predicted that Ann Arbor's popu-
lation would be as high as 100,000
within 50 years.
One of the main issues to be in-
cluded in a revised charter will be
reapportioning city wards. Brof.
Angell drew up three maps of pos-
sible warding zones. Pointing to
Women Pool
Set for. Use
The new $1;000,000 Women's
Swimming Pool will see its first
activity at 4 p.m. today, bringing
to a climax more than twenty
years of dreaming and planning.
An informal initiation of the
pool will include members of the
Women's A t h 1 e t i c Association
Board, Michifish, the Physical Ed-
ucation Club, the League Board,
and the staff of the Women's
Physical Education Department
and the house athletic managers.
Formal dedication of the pool is
scheduled for Aplril 17.
The first contribution to the
swimming pool fund was made in
present unequal wards in terms of 1931. The fund accumulated ap- Supporters of the Panhel possinspectionwhich turned up defi-
registered voters, he outlined pos- proximately $29,000, with the re- tion pointed to the large vote with- it stndard ondi
sible new wards with emphasis on mainder paid by the Board in Con- in the system for fallrushing and
city expansion in all directions, trol of Intercollegiate Athletics. maintained that there was little Since then major improvements
if any difference betwveen fall and on inhabited apartments have
spring plans in their impact on been reported to the committee,
other sectors of the campus. but ICC is' still committed to sink
Assembly Association had vehe- $5,000 into the structure to make
omently opposed the fall plan and major improvements. The approx-
charged that it had an unhealthy imate purchase price of the struc-
effect on dormitory life. Last night ture was $16,000.
By The Associated Press Assembly president Dolores Mes- SAC also voted yesterday to un-
WASHINGTON - The Senate Republican Policy Committee siger w 5Ed. saidhvoter perso -dertake a study of the ICC consti-
agreed yesterday on a set of guiding principles for Senate committees niewaetof te egatooahek utcooglrfylns-frsp i
:g ra m -2:r --- --- a eof the legality of Panhel anan--s
but withheld their publication until today. *,* procedure. bility within the organfization it-
One member of the group, asking not to be quoted by name, said! "We must look to the futureai self and between the organization
the suggestions were being advanced in the hope they would be ad- re-emphasize giving the incoming
hered to, but he declared there was no wVay to force their observance. women a more comprehensive view The investigation will be made
* * * * of dormitory life," she commented by the Student Legislature com-
LANSING, Mich.-The McCune bill to forbid dramatizing of } on behalf of her organization. mittee on . constitutions which
drinking in television beer and wine advertisements was advanced Speaking for Panhel, Miss Hill serves as an SAC sub-group for
last night to a final vote in the House after an hour and a half debate. expressed pleasure at the out- examination of student organiza-
I enma of+the aatnation constitutions.
~:. UI11L~ k U~*I JA*U iRAS
Green Feathers Identify
Indiana U' Protesters
By FRAN SHELDON '
"Robin Hood's Men" are.at the
University of Indiana.
The exodus from their natural
habitat occurred as a protest ma-
neuver against "McCarthyism and
book-burning."
Students sporting green feath-
ers as identification call the move
result of concern about "the grow-
ing trend in this country to staba-
lize men's thinking, the results of
which include a growing fear on
the part of individuals to 'speak
out' and defend the true American
giving tryouts to high school
alterably opposed to totalitar- prospects for athletic scholar-
ianism, which is ever present in ships.
World Communism." To Leahy's remark that a group
w s r :: t come o te meeing.
Expressing faith in the "dignity of Big Ten schools "frequently WASHINGTON - Two House WASHINGTON - Sen. Salton- "The decisive vote in favor of
of man" and the duty of the state commit football sins more grevious members, Rep. Shafer (R-Mich.) stall (R-Mass) announced ester-!fall rushing by.sorority women was H ASC Refuses
to protect this dignity, the group by far than tryouts,t' Moore said and Rep. Feighan (D-Ohio), be- day the Senate Armed Services based on a general feeling that theBi
has become concerned that "few that the NCAA investigates all re- lelieve last week's wounding of five Committee plans to take testimony system was beneficial to everyone AF AcademyB
McCarthyism," a move that is "tries only the caught, and can't, congressmen by a group of Puerto March 18 from Defense Secretary on campus and not merely to af-
"grw ism daily, three thei trny the caught nRican fanatics was part of the Wilson and other high defense filiated women," she said. WASHINGTON - (R) - T
growing daily, threatening the try the uncaught. worldwide Communist conspiracy. officials on the question of Com- House Armed Services Commiti
Aomg they "are not oppos- munists in the armed services. Wil*i s T V yesterday refused to accept a Se
Althoughheoa o Comu- oflei ens WASHINGTON - The Atomic $ * College Ig0 View ate change in a bill setting up
ing McCarthy's right to be con- Energy Commission disclosed plans Air Force Academy and took ste
cerned about threats of Commu- O ds SS late esterday to build four more - . Bun thw th m int
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