POOR MALE CROP THIS LEAP YEAR (See Page 4) Latest Deadline in the State DaitP ' E CL~OUDY, WARMER VOL. LXVL No.. 69 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1956 SIx PA I * . - - . . - - . . .- . .. ..- k x Senate Hearing RISING RAPIDLY: Activities Building Slated For Center Parties '57 Urged Angers Times To Form Governmen Communist Investigation Leads To Editorial Denouncing Committee WASHINGTON (A')-A Senate subcommittee's' hearings into al- leged "Communist ipfiltration" of the press resumed Tuesday, and led quickly to a clash with the New York Times. That newspaper charged that it was being made a target because of its condemnation of such things as school segregation and "McCar- thyism and all its works." Sen. James Eastland (D-Miss.) chairman of the Senate Internal Security. subcommittee conducting the investi- gation, replied that "the New York Times denies when no one has accused it." He said the Times is not under investigation. The Eastland committee yesterday heard two New York news- papermen testify they were Communists in the 1930's but quit the Team by Edgar Faur JUDIC OPENINGS FILLED: SGC ecommends Four Auto Ban. Procedures By DICK SNYDER Four recommendations to the committee- on implementation of -.<' Poll Shows Eden Losing Popularity Newspapers Lead Party Criticism 'LONDON (P-Political barome- ters showed a sharp decline yes- terday in the popularity of Prime Minister Anthony Eden at a time when he is planning his talks later this month in Washington with President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Eden's leadership has come under attack from sections of his own Conservative party. This has given heart to his Labor opponents now hammering at the 58-year-old Prime Minister's government. Laborites have accused Eden of failing to make decisions on diffi- cult problems. Now these charges are being echoed in some Conserv- ative quarters, including rank and file Tories in Parliment and big Conservative newspapers. Newspapers Attack Eden The Daily Telegraph and the Daily Sketcl>, both Conservative, have told Eden the British public expects firm decisions. Recent public opinion polls in- dicated the Laborites might de- feat the Conservatives if a na- tional elections were held now. Specifically, Eden's critics ac- suse him of failing to deal ade- quately with inflation at home and foreign policy abroad. Growing Russian penetration in the Middle East, an area of tra- ditional British influence, and failure 'to stop anti-British out- breaks in Cyprus have caused the most concern. Eden Government Embarrasse The Eden government has been embarrassed by disclosures that it had failed to plug loopholes through which private dealers were able to send surplus British arms to Egypt. The wisdom of the government's approach to the Israeli-Arab prblem also is quest- ioned. Conservatives said the restless- ness in their party began to de- velop when Eden postponed re- forming the government to his own pattern. The reshuffle finally came on Dec. 20. Unidentified Arsonist Sets Three Blazes An unidentified man, possibly a teen-ager, is suspected of setting three fires in the alley in back of 210 Main last night. The fire department was sum- moned to put out three small blazes. Two were ignited rubbish and a third was in the front seat df a '48 Chevrolet owned by Murry D. Wanty. Wanty, owner of the Wanty Shoe Store, was at work at the time and reported he heard a car ' door slam and went out in the alley to investigate. A man he de- scribed as a teen-ager fled when he saw Wanty appear. The first fire was in some rub- bish behind the Kresge store. The second was just past Wanty's- store, and the third was in the front seat of his car which had been parked in a small lot in the alley. A search of the area could not find any trace of the suspected arsonite. Prentrn m fiffman party in disgust and disillusion- ment. One now works for the Times and the other did so back in the 30's. The Times declared, in an edi- torial, that it would not knowing- ly employ a Communist. As for those who had some Communist association in the past or pleaded the Fifth Amendment, it said it would judge each case on its own merits. It seems an obvious conclusion, the editorial said, that "the Times has been singled out for this at- tack precisely because of the vigor of its opposition to many of the things for which Mr. Eastland, his colleague, Sen. William Jenner (R-Ind) and the subcommittee's counsel J. G. Sourwine stand. "If this is the tactic of any member of the Eastland subcom- mittee, and if further evidence re- veals that the real purpose of the present inquiry is to demonstrate that a free newspaper's policies can be swayed by congressional pressure, then we say to Mr. East- land and his counsel that they are wasting their time. This news- paper will continue to determine its own policies. ARCHITECTS SKETCH - Student Activities Building will be located behind the Administration Bldg. Scheduled for completion in early 1957, it will house student groups, deans. By TOM BLUES groups that will be available when ro After only one month of con- construction is finished. It struction the Student Activities Panhellenic President Debbie in Building, new location for all stu- Townsend, '56, commented yes- be dent organizations, is rising rap- terday, "Here is physical proof of idly, Lynn Fry, supervising archi- the University's endorsement of sid tect for the University said. student activities as a natural and stv Located on Jefferson St. be- important part of a student's is hind the Administration Building career." Of the new center is slated for com- Many small groups will benefit ou pletion on Feb. 1, 1957. greatly by having a permanent ta The excavation is almost com- meeting place instead of using any ha pleted, cement footings for the!I e Csoo om available at meeting time. is hoped that student interest joining campus activities will stimulated. The greater part of the west! de of the building will contain udent offices while the east side reserved for offices of the deans. ffices will be situated around the utside windows with the secre- riat separated from them by alf partitions. . the new driving ban proposals were drafted at last night's Student. Government Council meeting in the Union. Passed on straw votes after discussion of a list of administrative proposals, the recommendations deal with registration fees, judicial procedure, additional University enforcement powers and allocation of fines. The Council also approved the appointment to one-year Joint Judiciary Council terms of Mike McNerney, '58L, Bob Burgee, '56, Joe Collins. '57E, Shirley L wson, '57, and Mary Nolen, '57 BAd. -- *" Motion Defeated In other action, the Council de- feated a motion to require evidence le of ability to fulfill one-year terms on the part of all SGC candidates except those serving previously on the Council. Survey Savs Also passed was a motion to/ hold all senior class electiops on a day other than all-campus SGC By BILL HANEY balloting. America's college fraternities All Council members were pres- r ent at the four-and-a-half-hour are still choosing their members ong meigpeieoon a basis of race, religion and na- Vice-President Joel Tauber. '57. ' tional origin according to a survey Tnonpolicyconducted by the National Com- and procedures relating to the tiotten Fraternities in Educa- driving proposals accepted " in tion. principle" by the Regents at their Dr. Alfred McLung Lee, presi- December meeting will be reviewed dent of NCFE and chairman of as presented by student members the department of anthropology of the office of Student Affairs and sociology at Brooklyn College, committee established to draft conducted the survey and made administrative details. the results public Jan. 3, in his eoi rarriiswtor. on World News L Roundup By The Associated Press DETROIT - The Detroit news- paper strike passed the five-week mark yesterday with a non-econ- omic issue snagging the dispute' Into one of the longest big-city tie-ups in history. And there was no sign of a break thatrcould bring an im- mediate resumption of publica- tion by the Detroit News, Detroit Times and Detroit Free Press with their daily circulation of 1,300,000. WASHINGTON - Sen. Henry Jackson (D-Wash) said yesterday' Russia may have guided missiles that could- deliver H-bomb strikes at targets 1,50.0 miles away-in- cluding "virtually all" U.S. Stra- tegic Air Command bases overseas. Jackson, chairman of the Senate Armed Services subcommittee on atomic weapons, told reporters "there is reason to believe" the' Russians may have developed such faster-than-sound weapons. WASHINGTON - The Navy Antarctic expedition reported to Washington yesterday that one of its transport planes flew over the' South Pole Tuesday - the third time an American aircraft has been there. WASHINGTON - The Demo- crats and the AFL-CIO jumped ion Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Benson yesterday for linking low farm prices with city wage rates. National Democratic Chairman Paul M. Butler and George Meany, president of the AFL-CIO, both accused Benson of trying to make city workers the scapegoat for the "failure" of the administra- tion's farm program. WASHINGTON -Almond-eyed Tokyo Rose, one of the siren voices of the Japanese radio during World War II, gets out of jail at the end of the month. Council Drops Primary Vote Feb. 20 primary elections to choose party candidates for two City Council seats were canceled at a council meeting Tuesday night., The election is not necessary be- cause there is no contest within the Republican and Democratic parties for the two seats of alder- foundation have been poured, and wall construction has started ac- cording to Theodore Mills, super- visor of construction. Original plans which specified structuralsteel columns and beams! have been revised. Cement is be- ing used instead because steel is too slow and would greatly reduce chances of finishing the project on time, Mills said.'I When it is finished the build- ing will contain offices of the deans as well as facilities for stu-! dent organizations, which include{ Student Government Council, In- terfraternity Council, Inter-House Council, Panhellenic Association and Assembly. In the rear will be a one story1 workshop where the various groupsc can construct material items such as displays and floats.1 Few campuses offer the type of permanent facilities for student 'U'( ToBuild AutoRam--p t For Staff IkeCo ress Move o Aid Farmers, Cut Surpluses WASHINGTON (P) - Congress and President Dwight D. Eisenhower moved quickly yesterday to try to get more money into farmers' pockets and cut down the vast piles of government-owned surpluses. u uThe election year race to help the farmers - whose income has been falling while the rest of the economy booms - immediately produced one big area of agreement: There should be a "soil bank" or "fertility bank" scheme under which the government would funnel money to farmers who retire crop land from unnecessary p'ro- duction.- , The White House announced ont I -U this second day cf the new ses- will send a special farm message P ogressive to Congress on Monday. toC nrs nM n a.Chairman Allan Ellender (D-La) said the Senate Agriculture Com- mittee had agreed to go to work at once on a broad new farm pro- gram and try to have it "on the Professor Fredrick A. Hayek of President's desk by February 15th."' the University of Chicago said last Ellender said he would try to! .niversityeolChicagosdls keep the farm relief program out night that the only purpose of of politics, saying: high progressive taxation was to "The way farm prices have been f reduce inequality of income. going down recently, it hurts Re- Speaking before approximately publicans as well as Democrats." 150 members of the Economic, White House secretary James C. club on "Progressive Taxation," he Hagerty said at Key West, proposed a system of taxation Fla., that President Eisenhower is whereby the maximum tax imposed speeding his program'to Congress whrb hIaiu a moe because of the great importance would be limited to the same he attaches to the farm problem. rate as the proportion of total e a esnational income used for govern- Republican politicians have ex-nt ni ue. rg .n pressed frank concern about the ment expenditures. crop price situation, with both He said the high progressive presidential a n d congressional taxation rates have not helped the elections' coming up this fall. poorer section of the population Democrats are blaming the ad- for whom they were designed and ministration for the decline, while that evidence suggests high rates Republicans reply that the drop are not necessary to raise the got started under farm policies funds which government needs to laid down by Democratic regime. meet its requirements. Student Members Approved Student members approved by the Council were League President Debbie Townsend, '56, Joint Judic Chairman Fritz Glover, '56, and former Daily Managing. Editor Gene- Hartwig, '58L. The recommendations were: (1) That a registration fee of approxi- niately three dollars be used for proper enforcement of driving regulations, but primarily for al- leviation of the parking situation. (2) That all justiciable infrac- tions shall be handled by Joint University to stop and question Judiciary Council. (3) That enforcement officers be empowered, if possible, by the students suspected of violating University driving regulations. (4) That fines collected from in- fractions of University driving regulations be allocated toward construction of parking facilities. Cinema Guild Positions Open Cinema Guild petitioning opens 8 a.m. today. Petitions may be picked up at the Office of Student Affairs, 1020 Administration Building, for four Cinema Guild positions: public re- lations,; sponsor relations, treas- urer and secretary. Positions are open to all full- time students who meet the Uni- versity's scholastic requirements. book Frateritieswithout:both erhood." Lee said 10 out of 61 leading fraternities still have written rules against members of certain races and religions. Sorority Restriction Only one of 32 leading sororities has such a restriction, he added. Lee charged however, that al- through most fraternities and so- rorities do not openly acknowledge discrimination in their rules, "in! most cases it is very much alive, even though underground." , "Very quietly-and, in all but one case, without written state- ments of policy-sororities segre- gate themselves even more effec- tively than fraternities do," Lee added. . Discrimination Termed 'Aryanism' This underground discrimina- tion is termed "Aryanism" by Lee. "To the extent that Aryanism persists in them; social fraternities represent a basic threat to democ- racy in the United States and to, the effectiveness of American lead- ership in world affairs. "If men's and women's fraterni- ties will rid themselves of this dis- asterous theory and practice, they will contribute to the development of democratic leadership," Lee ex- plained. Lee blames "fraternity profes- sionals" and alumni for prevent- ing chapters from pledging mem- bers of minority groups and in general developing a variety of subterfuges for barring undesired applicants. Comimunists Now Hold 147 Seats Anti-Tax Group Increase Power P A R I S FP)'- Premier Edgar Faure, who provoked the general election in France by dissolving the old National Assembly, con- luded yesterday the results were: not as disastrous as they first seemed. He urged the center parties td put aside their campaign hatreds and form a governmental team to rule France, and said it could be effective. Faure addressed the Foreign' Press Assn. while the final official results still were being tabulated. Communists Gain Seats These showed the Communists will have 147 seats in the new As- sembly-52 more than in the 1951 election-and that the followers of Pierre Poujade, who first gained fame by advocating a tax strike among small merchants, wll have 49 seats. These figures do not include overseas territories for which re- sults have not been announced. The Premier attributed the strength of ,these two extreme parties to a wave of antiparlia- mentary feeling throughout te nation. Defending his dissolutiony decision, he said that ending the old Assembly had not created this animosity to the legislators but had helped reveal its existence Now, he said, the middle-of-the- road .parties must work together "because if we leave our insttu- tions in the condition they are now, we will be submerged." Same Parties Alternating These parties of the center are the same whose leaders have been alternating in power at the head of shaky coalition Cabinets for more than eight years. Faure asserted that the bloc of stubborn opposition in the new Assembly is not greater--and even a little smaller-than it was imme- diately after the 1951 election. At that time there were 95 Commu- nists and 107 deputies committed to Gen. Charles de Gaulle and pledged not to work with any goy- ernment. The 1951 election law was de- signed to reduce the number of Red deputies. The same law wa not effective this time because the center parties fought among them- selves instead of presenting a com- mon front against the Commu- nists. The result was that the Communists have an Assembly contingent more in line with thei popular vote. Prize Drama Opens Today Ann Arbor Civic Theater's pres. entation of the Pulitzer Prize-win. ning play "Picnic" opens at 8 p.m today in the Lydia Mendessohr Theatre. Written by William Inge,"Pic nic" is directed by Ted Heusel 3nI features Al Douglas, Joan Con over, William Taylor, Marilee Mer- riman, Nancy Witham, Lois Sy. mons, Autumn Routson, Pat Smit and Carl Gingles. It will run through Saturday." "Picnic" also received the Ne York Drama Critics' Award. I played for a season and a half On Broadway. Tickets are available at the Lydia Mendelssohn box office. Law Test Set For. ebruary The Law School admission tes required of applicants for admis sion to a number of leading Amen By LEE MARKS Construction of a parking struc- ture for staff members is under consideration according to Man- ager of Service Enterprises Fran- cis Shiel. Shiel would not comment on possible locations or details of the structure but said it would be financed by revenue from the Uni- versity's parking program. The University anticipates build- ing a series of parking ramps to alleviate the parking situation, Shiel commented.. Only one is definitely being con- sidered now but Shiel said they would be built, "as we can afford them." On Feb. 1 the University will place about 1080 University Hos- pital parking lots under the over- all parking program. The lots are now controlled by the Hospital. Hospital personnel will either have to buy parking permits; which will cost $10 for the rest of the year or else use metered lots. Their parking now is free. Three types of parking spaces will be provided. There will be 580 reserved spaces (requiring the $10 permits), 220 metered spaces for staff members and 280 metered spaces for patients. The .380 spaces behind the School of Public Health 'are still free. Shiel pointed out that starting Saturday parking lots will be' policed through Saturday noon in- w M. ...v ...... . J _.___>- .r SET $57,600 GOAL Facis Dickinson Speak at Polio Drive Dinner By ERNIE THEODOSSIN Washtenaw County polio drive got under way last night with a kick-off dinner honoring some 125 volunteer workers and county dignitaries. The financial goal set by the county chapter is $57,600, to be used in the treatment of poliopatients in the local area. The campaign will run through Jan. 31, with a special door-to-door "march of mothers" drive, Jan. 26. Guest of honor Dr. Thomas Francis, Jr., of the epidemiology department and director of the recent Salk polio vaccine trials, told an attentive audience at the Loyal Order of the Moose-sponsored dinner, that more money is needed to find other, less expensive and easier-to-use remedies for the disease. 'Accidents' Unexpected Dr. Francis commented that the "accidents" in last year's spring Salk runs had not been expected, but that all evidence points to the essential effectiveness and safety of the new vaccine. He added that present runs with test monkeys employing a new drug have been successfu l.and that eventually something analogous to the iodine - -A -U .. -