..0 . CITY WILL ELIMINATE REPORTED FIRETRAPS See Page 4 Y Latest Deadline in the State Drntp CLOUDY, HILD VOL. LXV, No.50 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1954 SIX PAGES Council To Hire New Inspector Will Speed Fire-Trap Inspection; Combined Local-'U Effort Seen By LEE MARKS Approval of an additional building inspector by Ann Arbor's City Council Monday night looms as a significant step in the city's campaign to curb violations of the building code. Inspections of multiple family dwellings will be speeded con- siderably, according to Building Inspector John Ryan. "Our department now inspects an average of five to 10 homes a week," Ryan said. "Another inspector, since he will devote all his time to housing, should be able to cover close to 25 homes a week." Ryan estimated it will take only a year and a half to com- plete an inspection of apartments and rooming houses which pre- viously was supposed to take 10 A ll years. SAe University-City cooperation, call- ed "necessary" by Dean of Men Walter B. Rea, seemed closer as a result of the Council's decision. r1o1 r1o i1)1*It Ryan said University officials will definitely be contacted short- ly and attempts made to carry out Segregation a combined program. Council Approval WASHINGTON (P)-Examiner Howard Hosmer recommended to the Interstate Commerce Com- mission yesterday that it issue an order "prohibiting the contin- uance" of racial segregation on interstate passenger trains. Hosmer said such practices, on some railroads, violate the Inter- state Commerce Act which pro- vides there shall be no "undue or unreasonable prejudice or dis- advantage" among passengers. Examiner Differs In finding there is a law viola-1 tion,Iosmer differed from another ICC examiner, Isadore Freidson. On Sept. 30 Freidson held there was no constitutional provision or federal law which prohibits "rea- sonable segregation" of white and Negro passengers traveling in in- terstate commerce. Freidson's ruling stirred Negro! groups to action. They were joined Oct. 19 by Atty. Gen. Brownell who filed a brief in the case with the ICC, saying: "The time has come for this! commission . . . to declare un-; equivocally that a Negro passen- ger is free to travel the length and breadth of this country in the same manner as any other passenger." NAACP Complaint Hosmer's recommendation was to sustain a complaint filed against Freidson's ruling by the National Association for the Ad- vance of Colored People. Lawyers for the NAACP filed their complaint against more than a dozen railroads as a test of seg- regation practices. Some of the roads said they maintained sep- arate or divided accommodations for the races to meet the laws and customs of their areas. Some de- nied they practiced segregation. "The disadvantage to a travel- er who is assigned accommoda- tions or facilities so designated as to imply his inherent inferiority solely because of his race certain- ly is unreasonable," Hosmer said. The railroads took the position that the Supreme Court's May 17 decision holding t h a t public school segregation is unconstitu- tional has nothing to do with them. MSC Students Face Charges John Cox, one of twenty Michi- gan State students arrested last week for a paint raid on the Uni- versity campus, faces arraignment in Municipal Court this morning. , Municipal Court Judge Francis L. O'Brien fined six MSC students last Wednesday. He handed out similar penalties of a 5 fine and $6.85 in court costs to threemore Saturday. Trial of David Faulkner, son of State Senator Robert T. Faulkner, is scheduled for Nov. 30. Latest reports from East Lansing reveal no action against the stu- dent by MSC officials as of yet. However, an announcement is ex- pected today. MSC Dean of Students Thomas King has said he would interview each student involved before tak- ing any action. He indicated sus- pension and disciplinary probation as possible penalties. Nine of the 20 arrested were re- leased by Ann Arbor police for lack of evidence. During a brief 30-minute ses- sion, the council approved without comment the budget committee's recommendation allowing $5,000 salary and $1,000 car allowance for the new inspector. The request for the inspector was made Nov. 1 by the Building Code Committee, less than a week after Ann Arbor's third fire in eight months had claimed two lives. Ryan said the new inspector will devote full time to the job at hand. "He will spend half his time in the field making inspections and the other half writing reports, con- tacting violators and recommend- ing action," the building inspector noted. After the original inspections are completed, according to Ryan, the additional inspector will be re- tained and yearly inspections made to guard against laxity. The building department is now looking for a worker to fill the newly created post, Alderman John S. Dobson said. McClure Gets Exhibit Prize A University professor last night was named winner of the $300 Founders Society Prize, top award in the 45th Michigan Artists Ex- hibition. Prof. Thomas McClure, of the College of Architecture and De- sign, won the award with a steel sculpture of a bull. McClure is a nationally known sculptor whose work has won many awards. Also among the 27 prize win- ners were two professors of draw- ing and painting, Gerome Kam- rowski, who won the $250 Lou R. Maxon Prize, and Richard Wilt, who received an honorable men- tion citation. William Lewis of Ann Arbor won the $50 Contem- porary Groups Art Prize. Educators Here The eighth annual Conference on Higher Education in Michigan will be held today and tomorrow here. Representatives from colleges throughout the state will meet to hear lectures and take part in dis- cussions concerning basic prob- lems in higher education. Hungary Gives Field Freedom Mystery Ends After 5 Years BUDAPEST, (M - Hungary's Communist government announced early today it has released Noel Field and his wife, Herta, and dropped all charges branding them as American spies. Where the 50-year-old former U.S. State Department employe and' his German-born wife were today could not be ascertained. Un- til only 'recently their complete disappearance had been a mys- tery that baffled the Western world for five years. Budapest Radio The announcement of the release of the Fields was made over the Budapest radio. A spokesman at the U.S. lega- tion in Budapest, reached by tele- phone from Vienna, expressed sur- prise at the reported release of the Noel Fields. He said: "It is com- pletely new to me. As far as I know, nobody in the legation knew about their pending release. As far as I know, no contacts have been made with them." Not Surprised In Washington, State Department spokesmen said they were not sur- prised, if the report is true. These officials said the department de- manded the Fields' release in a formal note Sept. 28 to the Hun- garian Foreign Ministry and has sought a reply two or threetimes since. Noel went to work for the U.S. State Department in 1926 and was assigned to the Division of West- ern European Affairs. Helped OSS During World War II, he was in: Switzerland. He helped the OSS- to American cloak and dagger or- ganization-contact Communist un- dergrounds in Nazi-occupied coun- tries. After the war he directed relief work for the Unitarian Serv- ice Committee in Poland and Czechoslovakia. He quit that work in 1947. He went to Prague May 5, 1949, after telling friends he wanted to: study at Charles University there. He disappeared a week later. Soon afterward, the web of in- trigue began to spin around the Fields from bth sides. The Com- munists said he was an American spy. In 1949, Whittaker Chambers and Mrs. Hede Massing, confessed ex-Soviet spy organizers in Wash- ington, told U.S. authorities Field was a member of "another "So-. viet apparatus." Japanese Visitors Four Japanese newspaperman will arrive in Ann Arbor today to participate in the Internation- al Educational Exchange Service foreign leader program. Highlights of their visit will be tours of the campus, the Center for Japanese studies, The Daily, and a dinner and conference on "Higher Education." SL Petitions Petitioning for Student Leg- islature positions has been ex- tended to Monday. Those stu- dents interested in obtaining petitions for the SL seats may pick them up at Quonset Hut A. Bennett Charge To File Against Sen. McCarthy a Doomsday DAMASCUS, Syria (P) - Doomsday prophecies by a Mos- lem religious leader on Cyprus are reported causing some of his Turkish followers to flee to Syria under the impression the rest of the world's lands soon will sink beneath the sea. The independent newspaper Al Nasr quoted the leader as saying Syria would be spared. SL Hopefuls Ask Backing A list of thirteen candidates will be . presented to Common Sense Party members today for consid- eration for party backing. The listing has been formulated by the CSP Campaign committee which held interviews with all can- didates interested in receiving par- ty support. Janet Neary, acting head of the committee, said yesterday that the party would have "a high-level campaign, presenting the issues, problems, and our means of solv- ing them." Mrs. Neary added that "what the Common Sense Party wants is a working unit in whatever form of student government is finally se- lected. We believe there should be a check on certain members to see that they act when elected as they! campaigned." Also to be considered at the meeting will be the CSP constitu- tion for approval and presentation to the Student Affairs Committee, the means and methods of financ- ing the party, and the general cam- paign program. The meeting will be held at 4:15 p.m. today in Room 3S of the Un- ion. All interested students have! been invited to attend. World News Britain Aids . . UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.-Brit- ain contributed 44 pounds of atomic material yesterday to augment the 220 pounds put up by the United States as a start on an internation- al atomic stockpile for peace. Benson . . . WASHINGTON - Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Benson said yes- terday it would be a "serious mis- take" to raise government price supports for dairy products. At its annual convention here last week, the National Milk Producers Federation made plans to ask the new Congress to direct Benson to boost dairy supports to at least 80 per cent of parity. The present level is 75 per cent. * * 'Conspiracy' . WASHINGTON - The independ-1 ent United Electrical Workers yes- terday assailed as a "conspiracy" the policy of General Electric Co. of suspending workers for refus- ing to answer questions of con- gressional committees. ** * USSR Protests . . . UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. - The United States called on Russia yes- terday to accept an increase inj assessments to pay for United Na-1 .-Daily-Dean Morton "A MODERN MAJOR-GENERAL" New Censure G&S Company To Open With 'Penzance' Tonight fBy SI SILVER A father pleads for the protection of his four beautiful daughters on the sole condition that he is an orphan. This is only one of the illogical situations that- develop in the "Pirates of Penzance." the Gilbert and Sullivan Society's produc- tion opening at 8 p.m. today at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theater. 9 tions expenses. The Russians, who now pay 14.15 per cent of the budget, are protest- ing a proposed increase * * * itbecoinittee. .. UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. -- The1 UN Disarmament Commission will meet Friday to set up a five-pow- er subcommittee for private dis- armament talks as recommended unanimously by the General As- sembly. DISPUTES KNOWLAND: Dulles Denies Need for Policy Reappraisal Toward Russia Kindly Pirates Penzance," one of Gilbert and Sullivan's most popular oper- ettas, is the story of a band of soft-hearted pirates who won't harm orphans. Naturally everyone they capture. including the major- -- - general with the four daughters claims to be an orphan. 'U ' Leaders When the pirates discover the major-general's ruse mortal com- bat breaks out between the pirates Pesent ~and the police. The outcome is either death or glory for everyone Feeling that the campus is not concerned. fully aware of the differences be- Scholarship Financed tween present student government Tickets are on sale at the Lydia. and the proposed Student Govern- Mendelssohn box office at 60 and ment constitution, campus leaders 80 cents for today and tomorrow. have drawn up an "unbiased com- The Friday and Saturday per- parison" of SGC and Student Legis- formancesare priced at 90 cents lature. and $1.20. Hazel Frank. '56. Assembly pres- Profits from the production are ident, Stan Levy, '55, Inter-House 1 used to support a scholarship for Council president, and Ruth Ross- a needy member of the organiza- ner, '55. SL m'ember, outlined the tion. constitutions of the organizations Denunciation Of Watkins Causes Issue McCarthy Scoffs At Third Charge WASHINGTON ()-Sen. Wal- lace F. Bennett (R-Utah) an- nounced yesterday he would file a new censure count against Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis.) based on McCarthy's "communist handmaiden" attack on the Wat- kins committee and its chairman. Sen. Bennett made the an- nouncement on the Senate floor after his fellow Utah Republican, Sen. Arthur Watkins, called for the bringing of such an addition- al indictment on the ground Mc- Carthy has been guity of inde- cent contempt "right under our noses." Scoffs at Move Sen. McCarthy scoffed at the move to file a third censure charge against. him. He said it added an Alice in Wonderland note to a procedure that is getting "cur- iouser and curiouser. "If they're going to bring up a new censure motion every 'time I defend myself," he said, "it looks like we're going to be here indefi- nitely." Sen. Watkins, in a flareup of blazing -indignation, declared he would file a new contempt charge against McCarthy if no one else did. "Shown Contempt" Before the day's debate ended, Sen. Bennett announced he would seek to amend the present cen- sure resolution by adding a count that Sen. McCarthy has "shown contempt for the Senate by his personal attack on the chairman of the Watkins committee and the committee itself." Sen. Bennett, a former pres- dent of the National Assn. of Man- ufacturers, had not declared his stand on the question of rebuking Sen. McCarthy on the other grounds recommended by the Wat- kins committee. Won't State Position And he said today he still was not stating his position. In an- nouncing he would offer the new count, he said "the Senate should have the right to pass" on the question whether McCarthy should be censured for his attacks on the Watkins group. This new censure move stems from Sen. McCarthy's statement last Wednesday that the Watkins group acted as an "unwitting handmaiden of the Communist party" when it recommended cen- sure for him on the other two counts-contempt of a Senate committee and giving abusive treatment to an Army general. Just before Tuesday's session ended, a McCarthy supporter, Sen. George W. Malone, (R-Nev.), an- nounced he would move for a vote Friday or Saturday on rejecting the Watkins committee's censure recommendations. This would pro- vide the first test of voting strength in this extraordinaryses- sion between backers and oppon- ents of the censure move. Heaton To Lecture On Immigration Prof. Herbert Heaton of the Uni- versity of Minnesota will lecture on "British Immigration to the United States, 1789-1812" at 4:15 p.m. tomorrow, Auditorium C, An- gell Hall. Prof. Heaton, professor of econo- mic history at the University of Minnesota since 1927, has recently written a biography of one of Amer- ica's greatest economic historians, Edwin L. Gay; graduate of the University and first dean of Har- vard's School of Business Admin- istration. Prof. Heaton has writ- ten several books on economic his- tory, with special emphasis on in- WASHINGTON (/P) - Secretary of State Dulles said yesterday he! saw no need for a full dress re- appraisal of American policy to-1 ward Russia, as proposed by Sen- 1 ate Republican Leader William Knowland (R-Calif.). "I do not myself see any imme- diate emergency which requires either that review or discussion should be on any different basis from what it normally is," he told, his news conference. Dulles also stated, in what was a fresh warning to the Chinese Coinmunists, that any attack on the Chinese Nationalist stronghold of Formosa would mean hostilities with the United States. Could Defend Islands He said the American 7th Fleet, which is assigned to guarding the 7 rrV _ I island of Formosa off the Chi-' nese mainland, conceivably could go into action to defend the Tach- en Islands, some 200 miles north. of Formosa. But the secretary declined to say at a meeting yesterday. i f 5 1 - .s -r .argoyle (Jut to Lunch Toaay definitely that the Tachen chain would be defended, although he noted it is the site of radar de- vices which warn Formosa of any air attack from Red bases around Shanghai. Sees No Stalemate Apparently with firm White House support, Dulles made it clear that he disagrees with Sen. Know- land's view that present American policy is leading toward an "atom- ic stalemate" which opens the way for "nibbling aggression" by Rus- sia. Sen. Knowland expressed his views in a Senate speech Monday. "I think our foreign policy has taken into account all necessary elements," Dulles said. "We don't know very clearly just what is behind the Soviet words. In a sense, you may say.that their soft words involve in themselves some change of tactics, Doesn't Perceive Change "But one must look behind the words to see what the deeds are, and I don't perceive as- yet any change in the actions, the con- duct, the deeds of Soviet Commu- nists and their associates." Dulles said he is ready and will- ing to continue discussing foreign policy before congressional com- mittees, in speeches, within gov- ernment councils and at news con- ferences, as he has done in the past. But, he said emphatically, no new emergency has arisen which would make a full-scale review of foreign policy necessary. Knowland contends that poli- The outline will be presented to = all dormitories, fraternities and sororities with the recommenda- tion that a student interested in SGC speak to residents on the dif- ferences between the two groups. The major governing bodies, IHC, IFC, Pan-Hellenic and As- sembly have expressed interest in such a program, and Assembly has already scheduled speakers to visit women's dormitories. Priests Arrested. BUENOS AIRES, Argentina W) -Police announced yesterday the arrest of three of the two dozen priests accused by President Peron of working against his govern- ment. Novelist To Speak About Jefferson Novelist John Dos Passos will speak on "Jefferson's Times" in the third University Lecture Course performance at 8:30 p.m. tomor- row at Hill Auditorium. The Chicago born novelist, au- thor of "The Head and Heart of Thomas Jefferson" is currently making his first lecture tour. His recent works include "Most Likely to Succeed" and a trilogy entitled "District of Columbia." Tickets for tomorrow's perform- ance, at $1.25, $1 and 50 cents, can be obtained at the Hill Auditorium box office, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and 10 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. to- morrow. Irish Rebels as . ,;;e ' 4 t4 . .......... 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