STUDENT LEGISLATURE Y ai Latest Deadline in the State ~IartP t~. See page 4 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1954 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, VOL. LXIV, No. 92 SIX PAGES Eisenhower Asks Lifting Of Seereey Urges Sharing Of Atomic Plans WASHINGTON-(P)-?residen Eisenhower, reporting "mighty in crease" . in America's atomi strength, asked Congress yesterda for authority to lift an eight-yea secrecy veil so that U. S. allies ca be told how to use atomic weapon on the battlefield. The President, in a special 3,700 word message, also proposed t end the government's present mo nopoly over the peacetime use o atomic energy for industrial pur poses-with safeguards against th ? growth of private monopolies. U. S. INDUSTRY, he. said "should be encouraged ... to as sume a substantially more signi ficant role" in the development o atomic power. Declaring that secrecy restric- tions of the 1946 atomic secur- ity law have been outmoded by the realities of 1954, Eisenhower requested numerous changes "for the purpose of strengthening the defense and economy of the United States and of the free world." The President's proposals, which he described as being of "the ut- most importance to the nation's defense and welfare," seemed like- ly to stir debate on Capitol Hill where some Congress members have expressed misgivings about disclosing U. S. atomic secrets even to this country's oldest and closest allies. SEN. KNOWLAND of Califor- nia, the Senate Republican leader, said he is confident the Senate- House committee will give "high priority" to the President's request. Eisenhower brief ly mentioned his at~tooc pro.1 ilt hlis after- noon nhews conference, He said he would like to see Congress take ac- tion at this session, but declined to say how urgent he regards the matter. The President's message did not spell out in detail how much data he would disclose on atomic wea- pons-or whether it would include information on the hydrogen "hell bomb." SDA Told Civil Rights Progress Lags "People's minds and ideas have a not kept pace with legislation in race relations," James Farmer, Field Secretary for the Student League of Industrial Democracy, said last night to members of the Students for Democratic Action. Farmer, speaking to the group about "The Unfinished Tasks of Democracy," praised the progress that has been made in the field of civil rights legislation, but he said, "The present Administration's po- sition threatens to stop that pro- gress." The speaker took issue with President Eisenhower's view that FEPC laws are an attempt to curb men's "evil morals." He stated that the FEPC laws are "designed to control the evil practices of man." However, Farmer said that he did not believe the main problem in race relations was legislation. "Favorable as I am," he stated, "toward legislative action, I be- lieve that we must take a moral stand to educate people in race relations." "Segregation tends to perpetu- ate prejudice," said Farmer, re- viewing the issues before the Su- preme Court in its pending deci- sion on segregation in schools. He thought that opposition in the South would collapse in face of a Court decision outlawing segrega- tion. Sallade Enters f Political Race Ann. Arbor City Council Presi- dent George W. Sallade, '43, yes- I Rumor ofuad Change Nipped By GENE HARTWIG Speculation that three more East Quad houses are being con- sidered for women's housing next semester was nipped yesterday by administration and residence halls officials. Commenting on quad-wide rumors that Greene, Hayden and Cooley Houses might be the next to become women's housing units Acting Dean of Students Walter B. Rea said that no consideration has yet been given to the housing problem for the fall.' * * * * UP IN ARMS at the possible threat of being ousted, Cooley House men handed Dean Rea a petition protesting any move to rs , Ikse Outlines fPlan Against e IKeression , President Eisenhower announc- - ed yesterday that emergency steps f against depression will be taken if employment does not rise within the next month. As union and business spokes- men clashed over the possibility of danger in present unemploy- ment figures, the President indi- cated that he might ask Congress to raise personal income-tax ex- emptions in order to increase pur- chasing power. CALLING FOR "urgent and ag- gressive" Federal action tobolster the economy, CIO President Wal- ter P. Reuther and AFL President George Meany testified before the Joint Congressional Economic Committee. According to a Detroit news- paper report, Reuther went on to say that sales of new cars for 1954 are estimated as three mil- . lion dollars under productive capacity by even the most opti- mistic officials in the industry. Capacity in the automobile h- dustry, he estimated, is eight million cars per year. tThis is only one example of how purchasing power will fail to keep industry going at a high-level rate in 1954, Reuther said. A good year "by any standards" set before 1954, however, was ex- pected by the United State Cham- ber of Commerce. It did admit that 1954 production will not match 1953 production. Commerce Department figures which set the jobless total as 3,- 087,000 in January were felt by Reuther to be an understatement. The CIO figures show that 3% and 33/4 million persons are without1 jobs. British Move To Aid EDC I BERLIN () - A new British8 move aimed to help the Frenchs government win ratification of theE European Defense. CommunityY project was reported in the workst last night.Y Diplomatic informants said For-c eign Secretary Anthony Eden9 plans to disclose soon the terms of a treaty between Britain and the six-nation EDC group. The idea, they reported, is to time the an- nouncement of a closer British re- lationship so that it comes short- ly before the French parliamen- tary debate on ratification, slated possibly for April . The British hope is that the terms of the new treaty, which was negotiated last year, will go some way toward satisfying hesi- tant French deputies, the infor- mants reported. -0 turn their quarters over to women. A number of individual letters objecting to such a move were also received by Dean Rea. Fear of losing their house has also been expressed in Hayden on the south side and Greene, located on the North side of the quad where Tyler and Prescott houses already accommodate women students. Pointing out that any changes in the present setup would depend on whether men can fill the resi- dence halls, Dean Rea indicated that any further houses given over to coed residence would probably be in the north end of the quad. * * * "IN THIS CASE where there is no emergency and no time ele- ment student opinion should be considered by the administration in determining whether houses will be turned over to women," Dean Rea said. Manager of Service Enter- prises Francis C. Shiel quashed the stories as rumor and point- ed out that any decision to convert men's housing would involve the Residence Halls Board of Governors, adminis- tration officials and considera- tion of student opinion. No date has been 'set for the Board of Governors to meet al- though both Dean Rea and Shiel said a meeting would probably be held in several weeks to tackle. the problem. Senate Votes To Reword Bricker Plan Change Slated In 'Which' Clause WASHINGTON-(%)-By a 44- 43 vote, the Senate yesterday knocked the controversial "which" clause out of the treaty powers amendment of Sen.tBricker (R- Ohio) and substituted a provision that treaties shall be the supreme law of the land only if "made in pursuance of this constitution." Both Bricker and Administration forces supported the change, which will permit Supreme Court review of treaties. In a sideline development of the month-old Bricker amendment fight, Clarence Manion said the White House had fired him as chairman of a special presidential commission on federal-state rela- tionships because he supported Bricker's proposal. * * * OTHER highlights in Congress yesterday: President Eisenhower asked Congress to amend the Atomic Energy Act to permit giving Amer- ica's Allies information about bat- tlefield use of nuclear weapons and to encourage industrial develop- ment of atomic power. The House passed and sent to the Senate a compromise ver- sion of a bill to increase pension benefits of retiring Congress members and employes. The House Ways and Means Committee voted to exempt the first $1,200 of retirement pay from income taxation, after rejecting Administration efforts to limit the exemption to those with small in- comes. * * * AN EFFORT to sidetrack all pro- posed amendmnts to the Taft- Hartley Labor Law was defeated in the House Labor Committee. The House beat down a bill which would have permitted the government to exchange publicly- owned lands for privately-held woodlands. Eisenhower asked $435,894,255 of Reds Offer 'Police Plan In Germany BERLIN-(P)-Russia proposed yesterday a Big Four agreement on the strength and armament of all police in divided Germany, and I creation of all-German commit- tees to promote better relations between the East and West re- publics. U. S. Secretary of State Dulles said he would consider this a "rather feeble substitute" for the West's plan of German unifica- tion by free elections. The British and French foreign ministers also agreed to ,discuss today this new Russian "little solution" for the gigantic German problem. SOVIET Foreign Minister Molo- tov offered his surprise motions after failing again to budge the West from its refusal to remove troops from Germany in six months for the sake of "European security." The troop withdrawal scheme was denounced immediately by Dulles as "what we did under very analogous circumstances in Korea immediately preceding 1950." "Our withdrawal in that case did not produce security-it produced war," the American said. * * * MOLOTOV'S police proposal fol- lowed bitter charges across the conference table in the Soviet em- bassy that both the East and West were creating big aggressive Ger- man armies. All the quarreling over police stemmed from Molotov's renewed demand that the West kill the six- nation European army project with West German troops. He shied away, however, from committing himself on French Foreign Minister Bidault's repeat- ed question: Would the proposed Soviet collective security pact for all Europe be incompatiable with the North Atlantic Treaty Al- liance? SL Motion Approves Proposed Building for Student Activities FIL FESTIVAL-Scene above is taken from "Man of Aran," scheduled for showing March 1 as part of the Flaherty Film Fes- tival. The English department will sponsor the series of four docu- mentaries produced by the late Robert Flaherty. Tickets for the Festival are priced at $2 and ,will be on sale from 1 to 4:30 p.m. today through Friday and from 9 a.m. to noon in the Administration Bldg. lobby. 'U' Ranks W..ith Leaders In FOA Exchange Plan ASSISTANT DEAN of 'Men', Residence Halls Peter A. Ostafir called the rumors wholly unfound- ed and expressed certainty that there would be enough men to fil the quads in the fall. Ostafir pointed out that Chicago Housi had been turned over to womer last fall when enough men to fill the house failed to return. An understanding reached last fall calls for Chicago House to be returned to men's residence next semester. Dean of Women Deborah Ba- con denied having knowledge of plans to house women students in any more of the East Quac houses. Pointing to the increased need for additional women's housing since September 1951, Dean Ba- con said that some decision on next semester will have to be reached in the near future. Admissions figures for the fall semester while inconclusive show 874 men and 963 women admitted so far compared to 857 men and 842 women for the same time last year. Sidney F. Straight, assistant to the director of admissions ex- plained that the proportionate in- crease of women is tending to be greater than that of men for next year. s ,t 11 I The University was listed yes- terday among the leaders in a Foreign Operations Administra- tion program which allows U.S. colleges tQ provide technical aid agbroadr on a, ntrf hack I the Truman Administration, is getting renewed emphasis under a new formula worked out under FOA Chief Harold Stassen. supplemental appropriations, in- cluding 35 millions for jobless ben- efits. ' , I w orta hews nounaup f f 1 !E s.Not only fitting in with the Eis- Requested by the FOA, the enhower Administration's aims of University Institute of Public Ad- fostering private aid in the for- ministration established an ex- eign aid program, the new ar- change personnel program with rangement was cited ashaving de- the University of the Philippines finite possibilities for the future. two years ago. * * . * * WORKING two ways, the pro- THE PROJECT to build up the gram brings foreign technicians public administration department to the United States for study as in the Philippines is presently dir- well as sending American tech- ected by Prof. Ferrel Heady who nicians abroad. Jelin, Marks Fill Positions On Cabinet Seven Appointed In SL Shuffle By BECKY CONRAD Student Legislature last night went unanimously on record in favor of the proposed Student Ac- tivities Center. Originally proposed last week by SL president Bob Neary, '54BAd., the motion calls for a center pro- viding "predominantly business facilities for student organizations without duplicating or competing with existing recreationaland so- cial facilities." * * * UNDER the proposal, this build- ing would be managed by a board composed of elected students and business advisors whose duties would be limited to managerial supervision of the Center. A student fee spread over a period of 15 or 20 ears would finance the Center. SL member-at-large Janet Net- zer, '54, pointed out the present situation of "cramped quarters for campus organizations." . She ex- plained the Center would not com- pete with social activities of the League or Union, but would pro- vide central office facilities and meeting rooms for student organi- zations. DAILY MANAGING Editor Har- ry Lunn, '54, chairman of the 13- member board studying 'such a building, told the Legislature the study group hoped to hedthe. plan to the Board of Regents in March. Possible construction, he add- ed, would begin late this. year. The plan was taken to Univer- sity Harlan H. Hatcher and Vice- President Wilbur K. Pierpont ear- lier this fall and further study of the proposal was approved by the Regents at their January meeting. Decisions yet to be made by the committee include location, mode of financing and whether to in lude an Office of Student Affairs in this wing. THE LEGISLATURE elected Steve Jelin, '55, to the vacated post of SL treasurer and Leah Marks, '55L, to fill his position as corres- ponding secretary. Replacing Vic Hampton, '54 BAd., who resigned his Cabinet post Monday, Jelin will serve un- til Cabinet elections are held in April. The English honors stu- dent served a partial. term as treasurer in the fall, and was elected corresponding secretary after fall elections. Running against Larry Harris, 56, for corresponding secretary, Miss Marks is the only four-year member serving on the Legisla- ture. TWICE BEFORE a Cabinet member in the position of mem- ber-at-large, she has served on the Student Affairs Committee three semesters.. In her speech before the elec- tion, she emphasized that the major job of SL in the six weeks before the campus goes to the polls is to awaken students to the need for student govern- ment. 1V4iss Marks added that she was not asking SL to "dig up. old is- sues, but to open its eyes to exist- ing problems." Later in the meeting, the Legis- lature voted to petition the Stu- dent Activities Committee -for SL to play host for the National Stu- dents Association regional mock UN assembly, March 27 and 28. William Duffy, '55, Hazel Frank, '56, Dick McKenzie, '55, Donna Netzer, '56, Dennis Sills, '55, Anne Schmitz, '54, and Wil- bur Wright, '55 were appointed to fill seven vacated seats in the. Legislature. Neary announced the resigna- I By The Associated Press 1 LANSING-The Senate passed the first appropriation bill of the session yesterday. The chamber approved and . sent to the House a $44,593,348 I welfare bill, which includes $38 million for public assistance and direct relief. CALCUTTA, India-Three top Communist leaders of Beng'al. state resorted to parliamentary immunity yesterday to evade arrest in connection with two days of mob violence that has brought death to six persons in Calcutta. Demonstrations continued and police opened fire on rioters again as the Red triumvirate took refuge in the legislative halls. *i * * * * ROME-Communist-inspired violence pouring pressure on Pre- mier Mario Scelba's new government yesterday spread south to Sicily. Three women and a 16-year-old youth were trampled to death in a stampede flight from police tear gas bombs. Other clashes occurred in industrial Northern Italy, where several persons were injured in strike disorders. * * * *a DETROIT-William Allan, one of six top Michigan Com- munists convicted of Smith Act charges, yesterday faced de- portation proceedings. U.S. District Attorney Fred WV. Kaess said he will start immediate deportationrproceedings against Allan, the only for- eign born defendant in the four month conspiracy trial which ended Tuesday. Allan was born in Scotland. *1 * * C is Ass't Director of the Institute. It's plans include developing the service training program and the public, administration library at the University of the Philippines. FOA spokesmen said that the program which dates back to Myers Signs As Lobbyist Yesterday marked the first time a lobbyist has registered in Lan- sing as an advocate of 18-year-old voting in the state. The program is not limited to+ I land grant colleges but is open to any school whose facilities can be matched up with - the technical needs of a country. A contract is signed between a U.S. university and the foreign host university or government agency, with the FOA and either the foreign government or uni- versity paying the cost. Contract arrangements are al- ready working in several coun- tries, while FOA is negotiating with 14 U.S. universities and col- leges and having preliminary talks with 20 others. Play Tickets Reservations for "The Moon Is Blue," being performed in Detroit Sunday will go on final sale from 3 to 5 p.m. today at the Union Student Offices. Sponsored by the Union, the trip is priced at $3.50, including both tickets for the Schubert Theatre performance and trans- portation to Detroit. I In registering, Dorothy Myers, 4iPe tions '55, also became the youngest lob- IS byist in Michigan. A member of the local Young Democrats' execu- Any organization whose purpose tive board and national commit- is. the promotion of international teewoman for the Young Demo- understanding may petition for cratic clubs of Michigan, Miss My- representation in the House of ers plans to work for bi-partisan Representatives of the Interna- support for a state constitutional tional Student Association for the amendment and to secure a public current semester. Petitions should hearing for the lowered voting reach P.O. Box 2096 by Friday, age proposal. Feb..26, 1954. Ii Kir To Discuss SLife in Moscow Today Speaking from two years first- hand experience in Moscow, Mrs. Lydia Kirk will discuss "Life in Moscow Today" at 8:30 p.m. today in Hill Auditorium. Mrs. Kirk as the wife of Admiral Alan Kirk, our former ambassa- dor to Russia, has a background CHICAGO - The board chair- ART BS man of the Tennessee Valley Au- AR1T BS . T thority hit last night at what he termed "the common myth, too ,ra l often honored, which holds that arshaU D government can never do a job as well or as economically as can private contractors." By PHYLISS LIPSKY Gordon R. Clapp offered as an Textbook prices could be lower- answer the 20-year record of TVA ed 15 per cent through a Universi- which he described as "an organ- ty aided book store, Bob Marshall, ization skilled in management of local book merchant said yester- men and materials and pledged day, but the competition would to the practice of performance force commercial book stores to and accountability time after eliminate speculative stock such time." as art books. * Speaking before the Student rEXTBOOKS: iscusses Bookstore Prices versity facilities or receiving a direct subsidy would affect the local books business, forcing merchants to eliminate specula- tion in suchbuncertain areas as first novels by new authors, or art books which are too expen- sive for the average student, Marshall observed. .. Sch a store woul sae sb i.. area. Marshall also declared that the Wayne store does not speculate on books whose sale is uncertain. In the case of a cooperative the book merchant pointed uot that the competition would be fair' but "the going would be rough." A cooperative store. usually. I