w ) EDITOR'S NOTE Y ,.a Latest Deadline in the State 40v :43 a t t U- / 44 See Page I ;; COLDER - - - ------- VOL. LXIV. No. 87 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1954 EIGHT {PAGES EIGhT PAGES Ex-Governor Michigan Senate,,, M VanWagonergNer ms ~Resigns Post OK's New Terms Damage Approaches Drops Off" Bridge Group To Lobby DETROIT - OP) - Former Gov. Murray D. Van Wagoner resigned late yesterday from the Mackinac Bridge Authority after he had registered as a lobbyist for one of the bonding. houses that handled the $99,400,000 Straits of Mack- inac bridge bond issue. Gov. E. Mennen Williams im- mediately accepted the resigna- ytion. VAN WAGONER announced his '~resignation from his home after arousing the ire of Gov. Williams and Prentiss Brown, chairman of the Authority, who said, "it is un- fortunate he became involved in such a deal." Van Wagoner said "I haven't done anything wrong, illegal or improper. However, I am not go- ing to let any action of mine r. adversely influence the Mack- inac Bridge or embarrass the Authority." Van Wagoner's resignation came only a few hours after he became the first ex-governor to register as a paid lobbyist. * * * LEGISLATORS said Van Wag- oner and Porritt had approached them about a House bill to auth- orize the Detroit Port Authority to acquire the Detroit-Windsor tunnel. "It never occurrel to me," said Van Wagoner, "that anyone would see anything improper in this. Members of other state boards, I understand are reg- istered as lobbyists and there is Ao connection between the Mackinac Bridge and the De- troit-Windsor tunnel project." In a formal statement accom- panying his resignation, the for- mer governor said "A few days ago I was informed that a. bill 'hail been introduced in the Leg- islature to permit the Port of Detroit Authority to buy the De- troit-Windsor tunnel. "I was asked by :officials of ' the Chicago firm to do what I could to aid in getting the bill adopted." The company is the selling agent for the tunnel's present owners, "While I was in Lansing, I met a couple of members of the Leg- islature and discussed the bill. It ' occurred to me in so doing I might be in technical violation of the lobbynig laws, so I immed- Tenure of State, County Positions Extended by Proposed Amendment LANSING-(Pj)-The Senate voted yesterday to place before the people next fall a constitutional amendment to give four year terms to state officials, county officials and members of the Legislature. All now serve two-year terms. The constitutional amendment, which does not need the gov- ernor's signature, now goes to the house. If passed there it would go directly on the ballot in November. SEN. DONALD W. Gilbert (R-Saginaw) lost an attempt to remove the legislators from the proposal, arguing that "it is fundamental that -legislators should remain close to tia 1M -Villion Dollar Loss Argue * * * * <" on Asian FI' VU l 0mu U f C P ef~ice IApartments Hit by Blaze r ' M' Ice men M eet Tigers In.WHLTilt te By MARV SIEGEL The flickering playoff hopes of teMichigan hockey team, buoy- anted somewhat by impressive vic- tories in its last five Western Hockey League contests, face an- other crucial test when the Ben- gals of Colorado College invade 1the Colesium at 8 p.m. today for the first of two two-point games. rColorado comes to Ann Arbor rwith a fast, rugged aggregation, anxious to resume its long rivalry with Michigan. Although the Ben- gals haven't fared too well in league play this year, its powerful On the Air Tonight's hockey game, as well as all remaining home games, will be broadcast play- by-play from rinkside by WCBN [and will be heard in East, West, -and. South Quadrangles as well eas the Womens' Dormitories. defense and the "Beat Michigan" emotional pitch generated by frus- trating defeats at the hands of the Wolverines in past years, are two potent factors in its favor. * * * THE DEFENSIVE bulwark of theTigers for the past three sea- sons has been goalie Ken Kinsley, one of the top collegiate net mind- ers in the nation. In the 1952 sea- gamewi0 be brndcasmnt a- the people who send us here." He contended that the law- makers are often restrained from+. making politically unpopular de- cisions because of the approach E of elections and that if they had four years between elections would be less careful to observe public desires. Sen. Cora M. Brown (D Detroit) replied that new legislators need about two years to learn the legis- lative process and that longer terms would permit them to be, more valuable to their constitu ents., * * * THE MEASURE would allow a! governor only two terms, or eight Big Four Make 'Shade Of Progress' Austria Independence; Next on Schedule BERLIN - (') - Under a thickI cloak of secrecy, the Big Four; foreign ministers argued yesterday on peace measures for Asia. A Western source said "a shade; of progress' was made.j * * * years in office. There would be no THE SECRET talk, second of restrictions on the terms of other the week, lasted four hours with officials.!only a noncommittal 31-word The only negative votes were cast by Sens. Edward Hutchinson (R-Fennville) and Harold M. Ryan (D-Detroit). The chamber passed and sent to the House a consolidation of existing election laws, coupled with an amendment re-uniting the state and Presidential ballots. Democrats voted against the bill. ALSO APPROVED in the Sen- ate was a bill to raise the expense allowance of visiting Circuit Judges from $10 to $20 a day. A bill to require State Police to hire women for telephone answering and dispatching du- ties was killed in the House State Affairs Committee. Chairman Eugene C. Betz (R- Monroe) said the committee was impressed by the opposition of State Police Com. Joseph A. Childs. IFC Spring Rushing Signs 330 Students Three hundred-thirty men had signed up for fraternity rushing as of yesterday with more than four days left in the sign-up period. Formal spring rushing begins Sunday afternoon with openj houses and continues for .two weeks of smokers, luncheons and dinners. According to the Interfrater- nity Council the number of men signed up so far is considerably ahead of the same time last year when slightly more than 400 men rushed. Prospective rushees may sign up in the office of Bill Zerman, as- t f i , a 3 , . I i communique issued jointly after-! ward. But Russia and the Western powers agreed to take up the same topic in a third hush-hush meeting today. Then they will go on to the Austrian independ- ence treaty in an unrestricted afternoon session. America, Britain and France tried again yesterday to crack So- viet Foreign Minister V. M. Moo- tov's insistence on bringing Red China into a Big Five conference on sweeping global issues. THE WEST sought to bring Rus- sian influence to bear on Peiping to speed up the Korean peace con- ference and to stop supplying Communist-led guerilla armies in Indochina as a prelude to peace negotiations there. Only big stumbling block to the Korean' peace conference was Russia's continued refusal to sit alongside Red China and North 1Krea on the "a-zgressar" C Flames Run Wild For Five Hours By FRAN SHELDON Two men were posted as guard last night at the site of Ann Ar- bor's worst fire since the Haven Hall tragedy. The flames which gutted an'en- tire building on the northwest cor- ner of State and Liberty Streets caused damages estimated by Po- lice Chief Casper Enkmann at anywhere from $250,000 to $400,- 000 for the four stores and five apartments in the building. * * * THE STORES hit and virtually ruined were the Campus Drug store where the fire began, Marti Walk- er's Dress Shop, The Little Skip- per Toggery and a Carmel Corn Shop. Discovered by Dorothy Bevis, the fire was reported to the Ann Arbor Fire Department by her husband at 5:20 a.m. Although 45 firemen were on the scene before six a.m. smoke pre- vented them from reaching the flames until about seven. The fire raged for several hours before workers were able to get it under control. FAULTY WIRING was appar- ently the cause of the fire which began in the basement of Cam- pus Drugs and rapidly ascended through the walls until it reached the second floor apartments. When part of the roof of this section fell in, the impossibility of trying to save it became evi- dent and firemen concentrated their efforts on preventing the spread of the flames to the Gold- man Cleaning establishment and the block of stores on Liberty close to the burning building. Although the major fire was . completely under control by f0 a.m. smaller areas of the ice-laden building continued to break into V . 7 y iately went down to the Secre- son Kinsley, as a sophomo e, gar- tary of State's office and paid my nered the coveted honor of being , $5 and got a license to talk to chosen asthe NCAA's Most Valu- the legislators." able Player and won additional kudos in the form of his selection as first string goalie of the Denver Plan Proposed Post's All-Midwest squad. Holding to the axiom that a For SL SAC fgoalie is only as good as his de- fensemen Coach Cheddy Thomp- son uncovered a sophomore sen- Y teor~yanizat L I sation in Doug Silverberg, as side of the table as proposed by FIREMEN TURN OUT TO BATTLE YESTERDAY'S ST the United Nations. minister, is under great pressure Oc a T f* y iB lB at home to start talks on settle- 9~ ./ __ ment of the Indochina War. He went into yesterday's meeting de- NO ONE was hurt in the fire termined to pin Molotov down to Everything was smoke and ice. which razed four stores in the; a clear position on this. Amazed and slightly thrilled heart of the "campus town" shop-j Bidault said Red China first crowds standing behind ropes gap- ping area and no one injured. But must demonstrate good faith in ed on for hoursryesterday as crews everyone concerned was shaken. helping end Asia's "little war" be- of the Ann Arbor Fie Depart- Soon after the fire was report- power, the battled the worst blaze to hit ed in the early hours of the -the city since Haven Hall was gut- morning telephones began to , n I F ted in flames in 1950. crackle around the city. Off-duty Meanwhile, in Indochina French firemen were called urgently to warplanes ranged north of Luang the scene of the blaze. A har- Prabang yesterday to pound anIPolitica sI rassedreporter left a half-drawn invasion fvrce f 10.000 Vietminassdhrporer!efta hlf-raw )y Crowds -Daily-Don campbell ATE STREET BLAZE flame throughout the day with the last minor fire occurring at about 4:30. The building was checked later in the evening. No evidences of newo beakq nneaed. the crowd as he hosec Later, abated, ti a cigaret breather work. On( had been flames to had been He stoo from his f and held it sne11-hound IJ *44. Y .Jtw u t tl-uU Z5 Uj~JcAi t:U. An anonymous student "outside observer of student government ac- tivity on campus" yesterday pre- sented a brief to the Student Af- fairs Study Committee suggesting a long-range plan for complete re- organization of student govern- ment. The proposal called for a uni- cameral student government sub- ject to review by a faculty group { which would decide "high-level policy questions." According to the unknown ideaj man, this student governmentI would encompass a unicameral house consisting of high officers of major campus organizations and "a few elected members rep- poised and polished a backliner as can be found. The teaming of Silverberg with the veteran Phil Hilton poses a formidable de- fensive obstacle to the Wolver- ine ambitions. The offensive punch of the Ti-E gers rests with the high scoring line of Harold Cowan and Ken Smith at the wings and center Clare Smith. This line is unique in that only one member on it, Co- wan, had seen action before this season-and limited action at that. * * * HOWEVER, the sophomore duo of Ken and Clare Smith leads the Coloradoans in scoring, Ken is the more prolific goal-getter while , v 1t1.11111111 reported less than two days' march from the im ilr d -~ Ta^; u e impel iea rzoyai Laotian ! sistant to the dean of students, capital. 1020 Administration Bldg. until Wednesday.I Judic Petiic Three men and two will be appointed to t Judiciary Council on t of petitions now availabl Student Legislature Bl Applicants must have 60 credit hours. The pet turn deadline is We W-11 7 7 Ons women he Joint he basis The planes strafed and fire- bombed the crack Communist- led 308th Division moving in north of the Nam Nga river, about 35 miles from King Sis- avong's capital city which the French have vowed to defend. I Review Ire's Administration President Eisenhower was the subject of high praise and sharp criticism yesterday as Young Re- publicans and Young Democrats held their first meetings of the spring semester. Michigan leader of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, Gus Scholle, told local YD's that Eisen- hower and the Republican Admin- istration must take immediate steps to avoid a serious downward slide. bath to cover the story. got the sm The hook - and - ladder c r e w s headaches. poured tons of water into the been repla burning building and black smoke the smoke clouds issued high into the cold some of thi morning air. * * ANOTHE THROUGHOUT the freezing forming on dawn the battlers tried to bring cernedly if the blaze under control. A solitary had been h fireman pearched on a ladder high when toldr in the air caught the attention of Se Stan' Kenton, Ja Present Concert atLl.U llulu 14It) JjJ4.fl VUUCSt *., d the flames. MERCHANDISE damage was when the fire finally estimated for the Campus Drug red firemen paused for store at $65,000 and for the Little te and a .momentary Skipper Toggery at $20,000. No before going back to figures were available concerning e of these men said he the Marti Walker Dress Shop. too busy fighting the Men drilled in the, streets in notice what time they front of the fire-wrecked build- brought under control. ing in an attempt to get to a d with water dripping gas main, and firemen hacking face and said, "We all and shoving at the rubbish in- noke. Most of us have side worked to get to the main He said crews had through the blocked off base- ced at intervals due to: ment which was still issueing which almost overcame smoke. le fire fighters. Large crowds of University and * * * Ann Arbor High Students and fac- ER fireman with icicles ulty began to crowd the area at his helmet asked con- about 8 a.m. The Police Depart- any of his "buddies" ment roped off the burning area urt and seemed relieved and the fire trucks and posted a no. guard. e POST, Page 8 The owner of the Embassy Ho- tel offered rooms to any of the eight tenants of the burned-out % z S tar s apartments over the stores. Even as smoke was pouring from the roof of the building, pumps onwerhtwein operation to remove water several stores, even those unharm- ed by fire were flooded as deeply as nine feet. No other damage, I however was done to these stores. 3le at the The advance rebel force was be- ldg s lieved paving the way for the main iat least invasion force which has advanced dnesday, 19 miles within 24 hours. If it keeps up this pace. the 308th should, reach Luang Prabang tomorrow. resenting those students who are See ICERS, Page 7 y jb. 17. not members of any of those a-ge ----- - _ _ This all student group would QUIET HERE, THOUGH: take over remaining SAC func- tions. 7l T Y TE TI / T * * * IT WAS pointed out that now some SAC functions have been delegated to other groups. Student Legislature has taken over jobs of calendaring student activities and review of organization constitu- , tions. Newcomer to the committee Clyde Recht replaced outgoing member Pete Lardner, '53E, who graduated this semester and left for the army. IN ew orl entra f roxy W ar Lot oms 4-> By JON SOBELO.FF A "barefisted ba trol of the giganticP tral railroad was d terday as 50 railr and college official seminar on execs here. The "barefisted " I Young, who claims to be the Young denied he wants to sup- ttle for con- largest single stockholder in the plant White as president. New York Cen- New York- Central, (he and his While Young was board chair- devectiyes allies are estimated to hold man of the Chesapeake and oad executives about 300,000 of the company's Ohio, the C&O bought about '.s held aqiet 6,447,410 shares of common one-eighth of all the NYC utive training stock) has attacked the present stock outstanding. But the In- " management as the "Morgan terstate Commerce Commission battle" was non-ownership board." refused to permit interlocking SCHOLLE particularly attacked Charles E. Wilson and Arthur Summerfield of the President's cabinet. Of Summerfield he said, "He inspired one of the most cor- rupt and crooked deals in this- state." He asserted the present Postmaster General, when director of Republican campaign finances in Michigan, forced car dealers to pay one dollar to the campaign fund for every car they sold. Meanwhile Prof. James K. Pollock, chairman of the politi- Dissonance will be the keynote when Stan Kenton and his or- chestra, along with a host of jazz "greats" present a "Festival of Modern American Jazz" at 7:15 and 9:30 p.m. tonight in Hill Audi- torium. Sponsored by the Pan-Hellenic Association and the Inter-Fra- ternity Council, the show will fea- ture pianist Erroll Garner and his trio, long-time Kenton vocal- ist June Christy, saxophonist Lee Konitz and Candido and his bon- ? _o drum. Communist Trial Enters Final Stage DETROIT - (P) - The lengthy oft-delayed Smith Act conspiracy trial of six Michigan Communists moved into the semi-final stages yesterday. Final arguments began before a Fedralr~ Court jury of seven wo- ~-