BLACK YEAR IN SPORTS See Page 2 Li L 41tIt ,43ati 4$' , 4.-u-'- i; c t oV P? O\ Latest Deadline in the State VOL. LXI, No. 31-S ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1951 FAIR FOUR PAGES Speculation On Provost Denied Here Neihuss Called Possible Choice ' By JOHN BRILEY "It's news to me," Marvin L Niehuss, vice-president of ti University, said yesterday to ru mors that he will shortly be a: pointed provost. A University spokesman ad. mitted that Niehuss was bein considered for the number tw executive post at the .University but said that any such discussio was still in the "unofficial" stag A Detroit newspaper report tha the appointment would c o m within a week was categoricall denied by University officials. THE OFFICE of provost, vacat ed by James P. Adams shortly be fore President-elect Harlan H Hatcher was appointed last spring is normally filled by the Regent on recommendation of the Presi dent. University officials claim tha President-elect Hatcher did nc submit a recommendation to th Regents before leaving for Cali fornia. However, it is expected that a new provost will be provided soon after his return at the end of this month. President-elect Hatcher's terr begins officially September 1, an' it may be that a provost will no be named until after that date, University spokesmen report. * * * IN ANY CASE no appointmen at the University, even of depart- ment secretaries, is official unti approved by the Regents. The next Regents' meeting is scheduled for some time in early September. The post of provost was create in 1945 when the growth of th University necessitated a division of top administrative duties. Vice-President Niehuss, w h o was also mentioned as a possible successor to President Ruthven has held his present post sinc 1944. He graduated from thi University in 1925 and received his Bachelor of Laws degree here in 1930. He has served on the University staff for all but ty years since 1927. Among those supposedly being considered for Vice-President Nie- buss' position, if he gets the pro- vost appointment, is Lee M Thurston, '18, State superinten. dent of public instruction. Job Training For Teachers Set for Fall Professional education of indus- trial teachers and coordinators will be combined with practica on-the-job work in a new voca- tional-industrial curriculum an- nounced by the School of Educa- tion. " The program, which will begiin this fall, is one of the first to rec- ognize the appropriateness of the part-classroom, part-factory type of training in the preparation of teachers, according to Prof. Ralph Wenrich, chairman of the voca- tional education department, whc wil be in charge. Plans are being worked out with the cooperation of management at three large automotive corpora- tions. Students will be able to receive up to 25 hours credit, or one-fifth of the total credit required for a degree, through work experience on a job. The time spent at work in fac- tories will vary according to the student's previous experience. "In many cases it may be pos- sible to place a student on a job in his own community where he can gain the required experience," Prof. Wenrich said. The new curriculum is designed to prepare students for one or more of the following types of work: teachers of the practical or shop skills of a particular trade; tcachers of information related to trades or occupations; and coor- dinators of secondary school co- operative education programs. Controversy Hits 'U'nGrid Hopefu I By DAVE THOMAS Daily Managing Editor A prized University freshman football prospect who was described as "one of the most widely sought-after athletes of recent years" found himself in the center of the widening West Point football controversy today. Duncan MacDonald, former star quarterback of Flint Northern High School who is scheduled to enter the University as a freshman this fall jumped into the nation's headlines yesterday after being quoted in a copyrighted Chicago Tribune article which said that West Point officials had employed high-pressure methods to lure X * * Thim into the Academy. Blaik Claims Recruitment Justifiable WEST POINT, N. Y. - (P) -. Army football coach Earl Blaik conceded yesterday that West Point recruited five to 11 high school football players a year and defended the practice as "per- fectly proper" He defined the recruiting as inviting the athletes to the Aca- demy for a "cram course" to help them pass entrance examinations -with their expenses during the course paid by "interested civilian alumni." "If we did not do that, we would be unable to have any athletes in West Point able to play a normal schedule," Blaik said. i 4 * A* FIFTEEN OF the 45 players on last year's football squad entered the Academy with this help, he said. Blaik issued his statement in the midst of a nation-widecon- troversy over. the threatened dis- missal of 90 cadets, including a number of football stars, for cheating in classroom examina- tions. The coach said 24 athletic prospects invited to the Aca- demy this year studied for sev- eral weeks from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. But only seven succeeded in passing the stiff exams and only five finally entered the Academy. "The whole procedure was per- fectly proper and correct and not contrary to the rules of the as- sociations to which we belong," Blaik said. * * * HE GAVE his statement after the Chicago Tribune quoted Dun- can MacDonald, a Flint, Mich.,' high school football star, as say- ing he and other potential Army players had a six-week expense- paid vacation at the Academy this summer. MacDonald later said the story was a "misrepresentation of facts." Blaik said no high school play- ers were "high-pressured" to en- ter the Academy and declared some were invited to the cram course after asking for theop- portunity. "Some months ago," said Blaik, "I received a letter from Duncan' stating his interest in entering' West Point. Upon investigation I found that he was a very high type of boy who was outstanding. as an athlete and a leader in his school ... "In order for high school boys such as Duncan to have a fair chance of passing the Aca- demy's stiff entrance examina- tion .. . it is necessary for them to take at least a short cram1 course prior to the date of ex-' amination. "For that purpose I invited3 Duncan and some other boys inl a similar situation to come to West Point in May-the entrance exams are held here about the middle of June-and do some ex- tensive studying.l "No guarantee was or could be1 given that they would be able to pass the exams." THE TRAINING was given, he said, by civilian instructors whoi were not members of the West Point faculty.t See CADET COACH, Page 3 MAC DONALD, six-foot one- inch, 180 pounder who was a unanimous all-State selection last fall, was quoted by the Tribune as saying he and 22 other outstand- ing high school prospects spent a six-week, expense-paid vacation at the U. S. Military Academy this summer. The newspaper said MacDonald told of being given promises of "easy appointment" to the Academy, tutorial help in passing entrance examinations and assurances of "draft free status while playing football at West Point." Army football coach Earl Blaik, currently in the midst of a nation-wide controversy over the threaten dismissal for cheating of 90 cadets, including' most of the members of his football team, promptly denied the Tribune allegations. MacDonald himself at brief press conference in Flint yester- day afternoon declared that the Tribune story was "a distortion of facts and truth." Accompanied by Bruce Greg- ory, former University football lineman of the twenties and now a prominent Flint businessman, the strapping athlete refused fur- ther comment on the situation. Gregory whisked MacDonald out of the press conference in a mat- ter of minutes and prevented re- porters and photographers from taking pictures of him or contac;- ing him after the conference. ,f, s IN ANN ARBOR the admissions office disclosed that MacDonald had been pre-enrolled in the Uni- versity since July 9 as a pre- business administration student in the College of Literature, Science and the Arts. Dean of Students Erich A. Walter also said that MacDonald had applied for an Elmer Gedeon Memorial Scholar- ship but that his application would not be acted on . by the Committee on University Scholar- ships until later in the month. Officials said that the Flint schoolboy had satisfied the ac- ademic requirement by ranking in the upper quarter of his high school class. Gedeon scholarships 'which are being awarded this year for the first time, are financed by a year- ly $15000 grant from the Board in Control of Intercollegiate Ath- letics, and are open to students who exhibit "moral character, good citizenship, scholastic abil- ity and physical ability and capa- city." The cash awards are based upon need and run up to a maxi- mum of $1,000 per year, officials said. University Athletic Director Herbert O. (Fritz) Crisler agreed with MacDonald and Blaik that the football player was misquoted. "The implication, of course, is that West Point offered him a terrific deal to play football there' and Michigan gave him an even bigger deal. That is not true at all," Crisler said. "He had been considering Mich- igan before, tried a bit of West Point and didn't like it . . . "We're not bidding for anyone." Crisler added. In the Tribune story, MacDon- ald was quoted as saying that he had passed the entrance exam af- ter being coached by special tu- tors but had decided not to at- tend the Academy after all. Flint school officials admitted that MacDonald had been allowed to finish his last six weeks of high' school work at West Point under the special course offered by the Academy this spring. Aid Wanted For Chinese By Truman Asks Investment In Chiang Army WASHINGTON-W)--President Truman wants to invest $307,- 000,000 in Chiang Kai-Shek and his Nationalist Chinese on' For- mosa, it was learned from Senate sources yesterday. The Senate's Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees have been asked to approve $217,- 000,000 in military aid for the Nationalists and $90,000,000 in eco- nomic assistance during fiscal 1952, which started July 1. THE ADMINISTRATION has included the amounts in its $8,- 500,000,000 military and economic aid program now being considered by the committees. Senator H. Alexander Smith (R-N.J.), {who favors the idea, said the money would be used to strengthen strategic Formo- sa's defenses rather than to pre- pare the Nationalists for an ag- gressive war against the Com- munists who have taken over China proper. Smith said Mr. Truman's de- cision to help the Nationalists rep- resents "quite a. change in the Adid Cut Slated WASHINGTON - (R) -- The House Foreign Affairs Commit- tee has decided tentatively to place the entire foreign aid pro- gram under a new high-level official, members said last night. They added the committee also has agreed tentatively to cut one billion dollars from the $8,500,000,000 foreign aid pro- gram urged for next year by President Truman. Administration's thinking from the time, 18 months ago, when the President announced there would be no more military aid for Chiang Kai-Shek's forces." * * * A STAFF REPORT to th6 Sen- ate's Special Subcommittee on Foreign Economic Cooperation cautioned yesterday that if any further aid is given to Chiang Kai-Shek there should be "ag- gressive United States administra- tion of the aid to insure that the U.S. taxpayer gets what he is paying for." The report was released by Sen- ator McCarran (D-Nev.), subcom- mittee chairman. It was prepared by a staff member of the group after a six-week tour of the Far East. Demand Awaited by U-N * * * * We Pass? A novel manner of announc- ing the cancellation of a sched- uled exam was innovated yes- terday by Prof. Douglas Mor- gen, visiting philosophy'lectur- er from Northwestern Univer- sity. Prof. Morgen greeted his class with a wide smile and this note on the blackboard in place. of the usual test question: "How do you interpret this sentence? There will be no quiz today." Youths Bear Torches for Red Festival i 1 BERLIN--(v)-East Berlin trot- ted out that old favorite of Nazi and Communist times, the torch- light parade, to pep up the "World Youth 'Festival" last night. With high Communists looking on, a column of blue-shirted east German youth carried "peace torches" through the streets to whip up interest in a cultural program. ** * FOR MANY of the half million boys and girls who have attended the first four days, this night wound up their share in the Kremlin-sponsored festival, due to run two weeks. Trains and buses carried most of themsback to their homes over- night, while others are being brought into Berlin as replace- ments. In this manner, the Commun- ists plan to achieve their goal of 2,000,000 participants with- out trying the impossible-get- ting that many crammed into East Berlin at one time. Thousands of the Blue Shirts will go back to the Russian zone with a new idea of the West. Between 60,000 and 70,000 came into West Berlin this week to see its sights for themselves, cadged ice cream, cake or anything they could get to eat and willingly talked politics to whoever would listen. They carried big appetites.Indi- cating the food they were getting in the Soviet sector left something to be desired. West Berliners continued to hold out the hand of generosity to the Communist youth who came over, but were getting a lit- tle tired of it. Most of the wan- derers were interested first in something to eat and second in somethingto read. House Hears War Probable WASHINGTON - () - The House heard members assert yes- terday that there is "only a mini- mum hope" of averting world war and that the threat is so close that American military supply bases in Europe are being pulled back from natural Russian inva- sion routes. Rep. Mahon (D-Tex.), chair- man of the appropriations sub- committee which has charge of military budgets, sounded the "minimum hope" warning at the opening of debate on a $56,062,800 Armed Services supply bill. There was no indication, how- ever, that their words had created any major sensation among law- makers accustomed to grave warn- ings when military money bills are up for action. TOKYO MEETING-Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy, (center), senior UN negotiator at the Kaesong truce talks, is greeted by Col. L. G. Clarke on Joy's arrival at Tokyo for a conference with Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, supreme commander. Joy and Maj. Gen. L. C. Craigie, aonther negotiator (right) arrived after Gen. Ridgway broke off negotiations Saturday because of the presence of armed Chinese troops within Kaesong, site of the talks. JOE'S BOYLING: Senate Committee Gets Job To Oust McC(arthy WASHINGTON -(") - The Senate committee which denounced some of the tactics of the 1950 Maryland Senatorial contest as "des- picable" was assigned yesterday to pass on a move to oust Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis.) from the Senate for his part in the campaign. It got the job shortly after Senator Wherry (Neb.), the Senate Republican leader, had charged-and the Democratic National Com- mittee had denied-that the move against McCarthy was an attempt by the Democratic organization to take the heat off its own chair- man, William M. Boyle, Jr. Tuesday an Expenditures Investigating Subcommittee had agreed to look into charges that Boyle attempted to influence Government loans or conracts. Boyle has de- * * * ";n,4 +Inn n 1100+in-n 9i ' 4-47' l t " Red Answer to Ridgway Accuse U.S. of Stalling Label Pretext' As Insufficient TOKYO-(P)-The Communist top command played a waiting game on the interrupted Korean cease-fire talks yesterday while ac- cusing the United Nations of "stalling" tactics. There still was no official re- 3ponse to Gen. Matthew B. Ridg- way's Tuesday night demand for new Red assurances that the neu- trality of Kaesong would be scrup- ulously observed. COMMUNIST propaganda or- gans, particularly the Peiping and Pyongyang radios, harped on the Allied supreme commander's "un- reasonable" attitude. They said Ridgway was making a "mountain out of a molehill" over the ap- aearance qf combat-armed Red troops at Kaesong six days ago. It was the Red attempt to minimize the importance of the neutrality violation that led Ridgway to reject an official Communist explanation of the incident last Monday. The last nine sessions of the suspended talks had been dead- locked over a basic issue-where to draw a line for a buffer zone between opposing Red and UN forces. THEhALLIES sought a line along the present fighting front while the Reds insisted it be drawn along the 38th parallel. Neither side appeared willing to compromise on the point, when 140 Red troops suddenly appeared within 100 yards of the truce meeting last Saturday. The Allied negotiators then were withdrawn. However, Ridgway sent four cease-fire delegates back to Korea yesterday after secret conferences in Tokyo. They were to resume the talks on one condition. That was "complete compliance" by the Commun- ists "with your guarantee of neutralization of the Kaesong Iarea." Allied air activity was main- taining a hot and heavy pace over Korea. A communique yesterday announced almost 700 sorties were flown up to midnight Tuesday. Ground fighting was confined to patrol activity. In Washington the Defense De. partment announced that U.S. battle casualties in Korea reached 80,430, an increase of 351 since last week. The figures included 21 dead, 13 missing and 317 wound- ed-the smallest rise since the first casualty summary was issued one year ago. Soviet Papers Blast U.S. Call Of Friendship MOSCW-(AP)-Izvestia led off the Soviet press yesterday in tell- ing the Russian people not to be deceived by the friendship mess- ages of the United States Congress and President Truman. It seemed clear that the Soviet government has made its pro- posed five-power peace pact the cornerstone for bettering relations with the United States, and that American rejection of the pro- posal is going to be interpreted here as- rejection of real friend- ship for the Soviet Union. All Moscow papers gave a big play to the exchange of messages between the American President and Soviet President Nikolai Shvernik, and the U. S. Congress' resolution declaring Americans World News' Roundup By The Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran - The British and Iranians apparently found some common ground last night for a solution of the five-months old oil crisis. Negotiating teams from the two nations held their second meeting since the arrival of British Lord Privy Seal Richard Stokes and re- ported they had made "some progress." WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Acheson said yesterday he is sure Russia will wage a . propaganda campaign during the next four weeks to disrupt the Japanese peace conference at San Francisco. WASHINGTON - An attempt to attach the controversial St. Lawrence seaway proposal to the $8,500,000,000 Foreign Aid Bill failed late yesterday in the House Foreign Affairs Committee. ROSCOMMON, Mich. -Michi- gan's "Little Hoover" Committee yesterday urged that the powers of the State Civil Service Com- mission be trimmed. niec the accusation. THE SENATE Rules Committee by a vote of 9 to 3 yesterday ap- proved, for transmission to the Senate itself, a report from a Pri- vileges and Elections Subcommit- tee which said a "despicable, 'back street' type of campaign" was put on for Republican John Marshall Butler in Maryland. The report noted that Mc- Carthy was active in Butler's behalf in the campaign which cost the veteran Democrat Mil- lard Tydings his Senate seat. At the same time the Full Pri- vileges and Elections Committee, headed by Senator Hayden (D- Ariz.), turned over to the sub- committee the resolution by Sena- tor Benton (D-Conn.) calling for expulsion of McCarthy. The full committee approved the subcommittee report and also endorsed its vote to refer the document to the Justice Depart- ment. * * * BENTON IS pressing for quick public hearings but Senator Gil- lette (D-Iowa), chairman of the subcommittee, told repprters it will be "considerable time" before his group can do anything about it. Two Republicans on the rules committee-Senators Hendrickson (N.J.) and Iargaret Chase Smith (Me.)-voted with the Democratis to pass the Maryland election re- port along to the Senate. McCarthy Will Name Alleged Communists WASHINGTON --(P)- Senator McCarthy (R-Wis.) said yesterday he intends to give the Senate the names of 29 past or present em- ployes of the State Department whose loyalty has been questioned. He told a news conference he will disclose the names in a speech on the Senate floor today. "SOME VERY HIGH officials" are on the list, McCarthy said. He reported most of the employes are under investigation on charges ranging from association with Communists to Communist affilia- tion. The Wisconsin Republican said he thinks all employes whose loy- alty is in doubt should be sus- pended, on the reasoning that "if an employe is charged with em- bezzling from a bank, you don't let him still have access to the till." When he suggested suspen- sions to Secretary of State Acheson and sought assurances that suspected employes were not being allowed to see secret papers, McCarthy said, he got a letter "saying in effect, 'go to hell'." At the time, the department accused McCarthy of "a political stratagem." It said some of the persons involved were not in the department, while others had been ~cleared. HA VEN HALL ARSON APPEAL: Confusion of Stacy Case May Resolve Itself I i