Administration Worries- About Busy Signals- Too See Page 4 Lit igan Dati *1 S ;i Latest Deadline in the State VOL. LXV, No. 40 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1954 CLOUDY, WARMER SIX PAGES Final SGC Draft Goes to Regents 12-Man Study Committee OK's Plan; Basic Concept Remains Unchanged By GENE HARTWIG Daily Managing Editor Final draft of the Student Government Council plan was approv- ed yesterday by the 12-man student-faculty study committee and sent to the Regents for consideration at their Nov. 12 meeting. Changing none of the basic ideas embodied in the original SGC plan completed by the Laing Committee last spring, the revised proposal more explicitly spells out jurisdictions and powers. In .completing its work, the study committee, appointed last month to advise Student Affairs Vice-President James A. Lewis on, solutions to questions raised by the Regents and Student Legis- Neuberger Gives De eW O S D New Totals Boost Case's Slim Lead Police Guard New Jersey Ballots; Senate Committee Will Probe Vote NEWARK, N.J. (R-Police stood guard yesterday over ballots in New Jersey's U.S. Senate election as new vote totals revisions boost- ed Republican Clifford P. Case's slim lead to 3,308 ballots. With 18 of the state's 21 county clerks having doublechecked and revised their final figures, Case appeared to be the probable winner over Democrat Charles R. Howell on the basis of unofficial counts. A. recount was possible. Meantime, Sen. Frank Barrett (R-Wyo.) announced that the Sen- 0 Victory in Oregon mocrats Senate Edge (Announee Plans ' Rep. Clardy To Continue Investigation Rep. Kit Clardy (R-Lansing) who v-as defeated in his bid for a sec- ond term by MSC 'Professor Don- ald Hayworth has announced that the House Un-American Activities Committee will hold investigations on November 15 and 16 in Detroit on Communist influence in the Square D strike. Clardy, who achieved prominence during his first term last year when he conducted investigations in Michigan, claimed that his de- feat was due to "attacks by left wingers." Referring to Clardy as "a medi- ocrity," Prof. Edwin E. Moise of the mathematics department said yesterday that "the electorate does not support a man who has achiev- ed the ultimate in notoriety." Protests Dismissal Prof. Moise who was active in protesting the dismissal of H. Chandler Davis from the Univer- sity faculty after his (Davis') ap- pearance before the Clardy com- mittee in Detroit last spring added that "Clardy won the election in 1952 m a i n 1 y on unwarranted smears about his opponent." Clardy has claimed that his op- ponent had "the help of all the left wingers in the country." He said that "the Republicans from the White House on down didn't fight hard enough to bring the is- sues before the people." Smears Are Discouraging "It's discouraging when you do the best you can for your country and then because of smears and anonymous attacks the peole are misled," he added. State Democratic Chairman Neil Staebler .commented that while "bread and butter issues were im- portant in this election there were certain places such as the Sixth Congressional District where they were superceded by moral indigna- tion." Staebler commented that this "moral indignation" among the voters particularly concerned cam- paign pamphlets in which Clardy published a list of enemies that in- cluded, according to Staebler "just about everyone except the Girl Scouts." New Sorority May Form On Campus A nineteenth sorority may add its name to the campus Panhel- helenic Association roster. Jean Bromfield, '55, Panhel president, announced yesterday that a group of about 30 women, headed by Carole Hackett, '56D, have banded together this fall with the hope of forming a sorority chapter. As yet unnamed, the group is holding weekly meetings under Panhel's auspices at various sor- ority houses. "Before anything else," according to Dean of Women Deborah Bacon, "it must build it- self into an integrated, cohesive unit." Next pear the group hopes to function as a local sorority, with a national affiliation coming by fall of 1956. Ann Arbor's City Pan- hellenic Association, Miss Broom- field said, would handle the group's affiliation with a national sorority. Need for such a group 'became lature, expressed hope that the mainbody of the plan and the "Addendum" be considered to- gether by the Regents. Need For Financing Point two of the "Addendum" provides that, "intrinsic in the.re- port is the implication of a need for financing student government as so carefully outlined by the Laing Committee. "A full examination of possible methods of finance led that com- mittee to the recommendation that an assessment per student per semester, levied on all students and payable at registration, was the most satisfactory method." The idea of a student tax was approved by a two to one votein the all-campus elections last spring. Implicit in the revised SGC plan is the power to assume financial controls now exercised by SL and the Student Affairs Committee. The question of expanding SGC membership beyond the original 18 is left open to action by the Coun- cil at anytime with Regential ap- proval. Two-Year Trial Basis If approved by the Regents next week SGC would probably operate on a two-year basis subject to final Regential approval at the end of that time. In order to do this it would be necessary to temporarily suspend Sec. 8.13 of the By-Laws which now delegates powers to SAC. In revised form the SGC plan takes on a more constitutional ap- pearance while retaining the fom of a statement of organization and operation. Regential approval of SGC would probably be given subject to an all-campus referendum. Student Legislature has already discussed the possibilities of con- ducting such a referendum in con- nection with their elections De- cember 8 and 9 if asked to do so. Referendum And Election The elections according to SL would include the SGC referendum which would be counted first as well as balloting for members of either SL or SGC. If SGC were approved in the referendum, the 11 people re- ceiving the highest number of votes would be elected to the new government council. Students would be able to indi- cate whether they were campaign- ing for election to SGC, SL or both and withdraw their names if the referendum failed to ratify the type of student government. they wanted . Should the referendum fail to gain student approval, elections would go ahead for the 23 seats open on the Legislature and SL would remain the student govern- ment on campus. Details of the suggested plan for conducting the election are . yet to be worked out. Draft Test Helen Gray of the Selective Service Board No. 341 in Ypsilanti has announced that applications for the college qualification test have arrived and are being dis- tributed. Mrs. Gray said that applications for the Dec. 9 test must be filled out and mailed before midnight of Nov. 23. The deadline for the April test is March 7. Relief Fund Inreag In a Huber House door-to- door drive late Wednesday, night, $45 was collected for The Daily Fire Relief' Fund, helping swell total contributions to ForOrgan ization Leaders Promise Cooperation With Eisenhower-If He's Right WASHINGTON - (P) - Democrats prepared today to take the helm in both houses of Congress, and spoke of cooperating with President Eisenhower when they consider him right. Although there had' been some talk they might pass up the Senate command-theirs to take by the narrowest of margins-that talk was swamped in statements of several top Democrats that they owe it to the pepole to take the responsibility. Such men as Sens. Walter George and Richard Russell of Georgia, John Pastore of Rhode Island, Albert Gore of Tennessee and Michael Mansfield of Montant all spoke ate Privileges and Election subcon urday "to get the lowdown" on the Mack Sells Share in A's To Johnson PHILADELPHIA (R)-Chicagoan Arnold Johnson yesterday bought the Philadelphia Athletics for Kan- sas City. Connie Mack, 91-year-old found- er of the American League club, signed the final paper from his sickbed. Johnson announced at a news conference he had acquired the franchise for approximately 3% million dollars from Connie and his two sons, Roy anld Earle. He said the grand old man of baseball would get $604,000, Roy and Earle $450,000 each. The price of 3% million is reached by adding a $1,200,000 mortgage and other debts of ap- proximately $800,000 to the price of the Mack stock. Johnson said one million more will be set aside to help build the last place Ath- letics into a first division team. Harridge Notified In Chicago, President Will Har- ridge of the American League said Johnson had notified him by tele- phone. He said a meeting of club owners to act on the sale and trans- fer to Kansas City will be held Monday in New York. Six of the eight clubs must approve the switch. , Johnson, who for months has waged an unrelenting campaign to bring major league baseball to Kansas City, concluded his deal while a shrunken Philadelphia group seeking to buy the team and keep it in this city cooled its heels in the lobby of Mack's apartment house. Connie, who will be 92 next month, hasn't eaten a substantial meal since last Thursday. That was when American League club- owners gathered in New York and said no to an eight-man Philadel- phia syndicate seeking to buy the A's and keep them here-the old master's fondest dream. Wife Speaks For Connie On the word of those who visited the apartment where the deal was sealed, Connie was shattered. His See TRANSFER, Page 3 mmittee will come to Trenton Sat- tight election. He said the subcommittee would interview candidates and leaders of both parties-although there had been no charges of misconduct- at the request of Sen. Robert C. Hendrickson (R-N.J.), who is retir- ing. During the day, Case gained a- thousand votes as the revisions continued. The state's 3,998 elec- tion districts gave him 861,181 votes and Howell 857,873. The ab- sentee and servicemen's ballots were included. Meantime, election ballots were under guard on orders from Atty. Gen. Grover C. Richman Jr., a Democrat, who said: "This is a protective procedure. They are in custody so that they cannot be tampered with." Orders Police Guards Richman ordered county prose- cutors-most of them Republican -to get police guards for ballot boxes and voting machines where- ever possible and other guards where officers were not available. "I have received complete co- operation," he said. Democratic leaders were re- checking local elections returns throughout the day in the hope of turning up more returns for How- ell, but they were making no claims. Howell, a congressman, heard some Democratic reports come in and then told newsmen: "I will not concede defeat. I ex- pect our people, to be through with their reports by tomorrow morning and, when I have looked at them, I will make a. decision then." NAACP Hears .Psychologist Dr. Winifred Ingram, Clinical. Psychologist, Children's Service, of the Neuropsychiatric Institute ad- dressed a meeting of the National Association for The Advancement of Colored People yesterday. Dr. Ingram discussed the Ne- gro's adjustment to prejudice with- in his society. She particularly considered the danger done by the Negro who in trying to overcome his racial status uses certain mech- anisms which may intensify the racial stereotype. In other business the organiza- tion considered a proposal to hold a "Desegregation Week" with in- terested groups participating. CHARLES R. HOWELL CLIFFORD P. CASE PROPOSED POWER PLANT: IkegWants Dixon-Yates Deal Despite Objections (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first in a series on the Dixon-fate contract controversy.) By LOUISE TYOR Despite Democratic charges of "giveaway" and a slim majority in the Atomic Energy Commission, the Administration seems deter- mined to go ahead on the Dixon-Yates contract. The controversy began last July 16 when President Eisenhower ordered the AEC to negotiate a contract with the Dixon-Yates util- ities companies for a $107 million generating program. This was done ove rthe objections of a majority of both the AEC and Tennessee Val- ley Authority. The proposed plant would feed 600.000 kilowatts of electric energy into the TVA system. This would replace power that the Tennessee Valley Authority is fur-f ing the Atomic Energy Com- mission plant at Paducah,The idea of the program was to enable TVA capacity to meet other Shown.[Doubt regiona Ineeds without requiring new appropriations. However, pro- BA n r tests rose almost immediately. I V Al SO Public power advocates argued that the President had arbitrarily WASHINGTON )-- Senator chosen the Dixon-Yates firm Clinton Anderson (D-NM) charg- without ordering competitive bid- ed yesterday the Dixon-Yates pow- ding. er group "will not venture one 50 In addition, the contract had cent piece" in a new 107 million been drawn up after the Admin- dollar power plant it proposes istration had refused to supply the building under a government con- TVA with funds to build a new tract. plant to meet growing power needs. Top administration officials on The issue became the main part the other hand, defended the pro- of a Democratic filibuster in the posed contract as being in the Senate over revision of the Atomic public interest, "entirely fair as Energy Act. They charged that a business proposition for the gov- the AEC had no authority to con- ernment" and a good example of tract for power it would not di- how free enterprise works. rectly use. Anderson, long an opponent of Pass Atom Act the proposal, said the group in- In answer to the charge, the tends to reclaim its contemplated Administration passed the Atomic 5% million dollar investment by Energy Act of 1954, which gave entering into a cost-plus contract such authority to the commission. with a subsidiary for building the Section 164, which gives AEC the plant at West Memphis, Ark., and power to negotiate the Dixon- retiring the investment from the Yates contract, also requires that profits. all power contracts be submitted The charge was made in open to the Joint Congressional Com- hearings and in an interview as mittee on Atomic Energy. -A per- the Senate-House Atomic Energy lod of 30 days must elapse while Committee began a dramatic post- Congress is in session, but the campaign review of the controver- Joint Committee may waive the sial contract. The Atomic Energy 30-day period by a written resolu- Commission has approved the con- tion. tract but has not signed it,- t .x t t t t out positively in favor of organiz- ing the Senate as well as the House. The Democrats passed up a similar opportunity last year when the Republican-Democratic division was almost as even. Johnson to Lead Sen. Lyndon Johnson of Texas slated to be the Senate majority leader, reserved his comment. He said he would be in Washington Friday and talk about the situa- tion then. At the same time, Sen. William Knowland (R-Calif.) talked cheer- fully of switching from majority to minority leader next January, if the Republicans want him to continue to be their chieftain. The Democrats nosed into a position for Senate control early today with announcement of the election of Richard L. Neuberger, a 41-year old author; to the Ore- gon Senate seat held for a decade by Republican Guy Gordon. Tight Race Neuberger's margin was thin as a wafer, however, and conceivably could be upset by rechecks. The final, official report from Oregon isn't expected until about Dec. 1. With only five of the st'ate's 2,499 precincts unreported Neu- berger was ahead by 2,190 votes. The count was Neuberger 285,031, Gordon 282,841. The five outstand- ing are in sparsely settled Eastern Oregon. They could not change the outcome. Neuberger, a prolific writer for regional and national publications and a persistent advocate of pub- lic power for the Pacific North- west, gave the Democrats a total of 48 seats in the Senate. That's just half the Senate membership of 96 but Sen. Wayne Morse, (Ind.-Ore.) reaffirmed that he will vote with the Democrats when it comes time to organize the Sen- ate in January. There was no question about the' overturn in the House. The Demo- crats gained solidly there--though by not nearly as much as is cus- tomary for the "outs" to win in a mid-term election-and elected 232 Representatives to 203 for the Republicans. Practically speaking, it has been a coalition of conservative Demo- crats and Republicans who have had thetmost say about legisla- tion~ in the 83rd Congress and the same situation should continue the next two years in the 84th. Cooperation Stressed The president, Lyndon Johnson and House Speaker-To-Be Sam Rayburn all have now announced attitudes of working together san the basis of what is good for the country. Eisenhower took his stand at his Wednesday news conference, and Rayburn and Johnson said Demo- crats would stand back of the President when they thought he was right, oppose him when they thought he wa swrong. Sen: Michael Mansfield voiced a similar feeling today, saying: " 'We won't oppose him for the Ipurpose of achieving political' gain. We will not criticize him just for the sake of criticism.. . The Democrats will always place the welfare of the country ahead of the future of the party" McCarthy x Debate Opens" On Monday WASHINGTON (li-Sen. William Knowland (R-Calif) said yesterday. the Senate will reconvene Monday as scheduleld to act on a censure resolution against Sen. Joseph Mo- Carthy (R-Wis) and "the debate is just going to have to run. .its course." Knowland, the Republican floor leader, said he expects the special session will last at least two weeks. The McCarthy camp has suggested. it might last until nearly Christ- mas. Knowland, questioned at a news conference about a suggestion by Sea. Carl ayden (D-Ariz) that the start of the session might be 'de- layed as one result of Tuesday's elections, said he had heard of no request for a postponement. McCarthy Demand McCarthy, in a renewal of his feud with Secretary of the Army Stevens, said yesterday he will de- mand that Stevens tell "why he is hiding the secret master respon- sible for coddling" former Maj. Irving R. Peress. In view of election results which apparently mean he will be re- placed by a Democrat as chairman of the investigations subcommit- tee, however, McCarthy said he now doubts it will be possiblefor him to subpoena witnesses for fur- ther questioning about the Peress matter. The promotion and honorable discharge of Peress, a New York dentist whom McCarthy has called a "Fifth Amendment Communist," was one of the chief causes of the McCarthy-Army row investigated by the Senate last spring. Two Officers Reprimanded Stevens, replying to a new in- quiry by McCarthy, wrote the sen- ator Wednesday night saying that two Army officers have been offi- cially reprimanded for delay in handling the Peress case. He did not name these officers. Commenting on Stevens's report, McCarthy said in a telephone in- terview: "This letter is completely phony. It doesn't answer who was respon- sible for this honorable discharge and promotion, and it indicates that the Peress case was handled the same as others ." Ferguson May Fill Vacant Court Seat DETROIT (T) - Friends of de- feated Sen. Homer Ferguson began; booming him today for a United States Supreme Court vacancy. Ferguson, swept out of office along with other Michigan iRe- publicans in Tuesday's election, was being mentioned for the seat. held by the late Justice Robert H., Jackson. At his home in Detroit, Ferguson ' said he had no comment' on re- ports he will remain in Washing- ton aftei r narv. PHILIPPINE SENA TOR: . . _ R _ _ 9. . ..,.., Laurel Calls For Economic Reform By LOU SAUER Vehemently objecting to "nonsense"! and iinjustice°7 in the BellTad 4 r. " .}:: :;;:rTi....ade r' Act, Philippine Senator Jose P. Laurel' yesterday stressed his nation's need for the elements necesayfropltpliclan economic freedom. Se.Lueitoue sone of the mot"st influential political figures in the Republic of the. Philippines, will have completed fifty years of public service at the end of his prsn eaoiltermi 1957. Beginning hstl ihahsoofPipin government ant ..f :.:": :Y..r.s" :"::.:"::.:. r:..:::..:"...:".::.economy, Sen. Laurel expressed belief that when his country was .::{;: :{,.;;..;:{.. .<..,.. . .:.,under Spanish domination the trade situation was much more ad- f.... r.r ;.:.: .anta..geo s t a it is at present. He i inthecountry7 to revise the Bel Trade Act of 1946 which k~r"':.'i'. t:; {l~:{4r ..r.. 1.>21 oulnes trade relations betwee~n the TUnite.d Stantes and the.Piini