EDITOR'S NOTE See Page 2 Latest Deadline in the State :4Iat~ X000 FAIR AND WARMER VOL. LXII, No. 183 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1952 FOUR PAGES GOP Convention Adopts Platform } Republicans Blast Administration For Corruption, Socialist Trend CONVENTION HALL, CHICAGO-)-The Republican National Convention yesterday adopted a 1952 Platform bristling with denun- ciation of the Truman Administration-and in its words-charting v a road for free men to "march into a new day." A 6,000-word campaign document-which will become the text- book for GOP campaign orators in the months ahead-accused the Democratic Administration with losing the peace abroad and with trying to set up a socialistic state at home. 4'* * 4 AN ANTICIPATED battle over the platform stand on the touchy Desperate To Bl( Taft Forces Rally Victory )ck Early Ike issue of civil rights failed to deve Frisbie Out As Warden At Jackson By The Associated Press A "get tough" policy was order- ed at riot-wracked Southern Mi- chigan Prison yesterday with the firing of Warden Julian N. Fris- bie and the naming of William H. Bannan to succeed him. Bannan, 52-year-old Deputy Warden at the Ionia Reformatory for the past 14 years, is generally recognized as a "tough" penolo- gist. He was instructed to take ov- er at the Jackson Institution, the world's largest walled prison, im- mediately as provisional warden. * * FRISBIE, 60, a retired Marine General who ran the prison through two inmate uprisings in the past three months, was accus- ed of failing to get the situation under control after the disastrous April riot and mutiny. He had been placed on probationary sta- tus at that time. State corrections commissioner Earnest C. rooks, who anounce the shakeup after a conference with Gov. Williams, said of Ban- nan's appointment "He has been instructed to bring that institution under control, re-establish discipline and get the State Police out of Jackson." Bannan, who came here from Ionia and then went directly to Jackson, said his first move would pbe to investigate last Sunday night's disturbance, when prison- ers ran rampant in one cellblock and held two guards until their demands for restoration of privi- leges were met. In Jackson, Frisbie said last night he was displeased at his "summary" dismissal, and af- firmed that he had done the best he could "with the means at my disposal." Meanwhile, a study of Michi- gan's prison setup by the Osborne Association has been authorized by the special committee named by Gov. Williams to look into the prison problem. John Barker Waite, Professor Emeritus of the University Law School, will study the state's crim- inal code for the association. Truman Signs 46.6 Bilon Defense Bill WASHINGTON- (VP) -A bill providing $46,600,000,000 in de- fense funds for the next 12 months was signed by President Truman yesterday. It furnishes the cash to estab- lish a powerful 143-wing air force by the middle of 1955. THE EFFECTIVE strength of the Ar Force now is about 90 wings. A wing ranges from about 18 heavy bombers to 75 fighters, with administrative and mainten- ance personnel. Although the bill gives the Army, Navy and Air Force five billion dollars less than the President requested, it does not carry the 46 billion ceiling on military spending voted by the House. ml.. mll 11~ ... tnn d . nn lop. Northern proponents of com- pulsory federal action to end ra- cial discrimination in employment of workers interpreted a "middle- of-the-road" plank as favoring their position. Adoption of the platform came on a unanimous voice vote after Sen. Eugene D. Millikin of Colorado, chairman of the Con- vention's Resolution's Commit- tee, had read the lengthy docu- ment to the delegates. In bitter tones of denunciation, the Platform charged that the party in power has been fostering class strife for political purposes and hampering domestic progress by "unnecessary and crushing taxation." It said that freedom and liberty at home had been lost, and prom- ised to re-establish them. S * * * Here, in brief, are the major planks of the GOP Platform: FOREIGN POLICY - Promises to win peace through collective security measures on a global ba- sis and to "restore" American pres- tige abroad. Charges that Tru- man policy swings between "timid appeasement" and "reckless blus- ter." NATIONAL DEFENSE -Prom- ises to remedy the "disgracefully lagging" defense program with utmost speed -- particularly air power. COMMUNISM -- Carges the Democratic administration with appeasement of Communism at home and abroad, and promises to clear the disloyal out of gov- ernment. TAXATION--Would cut govern- ment spending, balance the budget and reduce taxes. AGRICULTURE-Promises a farm program free of "socialis- tic controls." Favors pariy pric- es at the market place. LABOR -Favors retaining the Taft-Hartley Law, with modifica- tions. 'U' To Move Into Angell Hall Addition The University is scheduled to move into the new $4,700,000 An- gell Hall addition next week, Vice- President Wilbur K. Pierpont an- nounced yesterday. According to Pierpont, the func- tional, three-unit addition will be completely furnished by the end of August, slightly ahead of sched- ule. Classrooms, office and audi- torium units have been named Mason Hall, Haven Hall, and Angell Hall Auditoriums res- pectively. Mason Hall, one of the first University buildings, was long a campus landmark. Haven Hall first housed the Law School and later held literary col- lege classes until it was spectac- ularly burned to the ground in June 1950. Taft Forces Still Sure Of Victory CHICAGO-(P)-Sen. Robert A. Taft's battered forces piled back into the fight for the Republi- can Presidential Nomination yes- terday and claimed gains in a comeback from Wednesday night's reverses at the hands of the Con- vention. The bitter make-or-break vote tests with Gen. Dwight D. Eisen- hower's troops are due to start this morning. CHALLENGING the Eisenhower camp's claims that victory for the General is in the bag, Taft told a news conference "I expect to be nominated." He denied persistent rumors that he might quit the race and throw his support for the pres- idential bid to Gov. Earl Warren of California, as a means to block out Eisenhower. "I have no plans to throw my Convention votes to anyone if I could, and I don't think I could," Taft declared. Aides had said the same thing earlier about recurring rumors that he might bow out and support Gen. Doug- las MacArthur against Eisen- hower. Taft said he had talked by tele- phone with MacArthur during the day, but declined to discuss de- tails of their talk. He declared cat- egorically, however, that the Vice Presidency was not even mention- ed in the conversation. MacAr- thur has been one of his coun- sellors on military policy problems, and supports him for the nomi- nation. Taft drove back into the fight declaring he saw no signs of any significant desertions from his ranks as a result of ranking de- feats which Wednesday night blocked the seating of heavily pro-Taft delegations to the Na- tional Convention from Georgia and Texas. The upsets cost him valuable Convention votes, but the Sena- tor insisted he is gathering re- placements. He predicted the first ballot on nominations will give him between 530 and 535 votes, some 80 short of the 604 required to nominate but enough to mean the upper hand over Eisenhower. * * * IN EISENHOWER headquarters, an obvious air of confidenc pre- vailed yesterday, fanned by vic- tory in key GOP Convention test votes and by a swelling stream of callers. There was increasing talk of a quick nomination. The visiting well-wishers in- cluded Gov. Theodore R. Mc- Keldin of Maryland, who pre- dicted that Eisenhower would win the party Presidential prize on the initial ballot. "He may very well be right," said Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. of Massachusetts, Eisenhower's campaign manager. Lodge added, however, that he had never made such a claim him- self. * * 4 * * * PART OF MICHIGAN'S DELEGATION CAUCUSES WHILE ELSEWHERE IN THE HALL IKE DELEGATES STAGE A PARADE * * * * * Austerity LONDON -(UP) --A shocked House of Commons heard a left wing Laborite proposeWed- nesday that financially hard- pressed Queen Elizabeth turn Buckingham Palace into an apartment house to help make ends meet. But the house defeated by overwhelming majorities that suggestion by Emrys Hughes and others aimed at cutting the Queen's wages. Gate-crashers Barge in on Convention By MIKE SCHERER Special To The Daily CHICAGO - Convention Hall was packed to the rafters Wed- nesday night for the crucial ses- sion which saw General Eisenhow- er jump into the lead for the GOP presidential nomination. Gate-crashers. already having a field day at the Convention, were in their glory. Many succeeded in entering, but more were caught and turned away. Kefauver, Russell, Harriman Fight on for Democratic Nod By The Associated Press Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee, who hopes to succeed President Truman in the White House, accused the Republican National Con- vention yesterday of having made the American worker "the for- gotten man." Kefauver, front-running candidate for the Democratic presiden- tial nomination, said the newly unveiled G.O.P. platform had given the waste-basket treatment" to labor proposals, and he declared: "In its eagerness to serve the Wall Street wing, the Republican party once again has turned its back on 16 million trade unionists." ______________________________*___*___*_( SEVERAL SYSTEMS of effec- tive gate-crashing have been em- ployed. Demonstration mobs often used sheer force to push their way into the hall. Bribes to doorkeep- ers, ushers and sergeants-at-arms were frequently tried by single Convention fans. But the method which has worked most effectively to date is one requiring teamwork and at least one ticket. The first partner gains entrance with his ticket, then sends the ticket out to his cohort via a page. However, once the gate-crasher is sitting with a delegation in the midst of things, he finds he would Allies Plan Big Four Meet WASHINGTON - () - The Western powers planned today to offer to meet with Russia for the specific purpose of cerating an "impartial" commission to deter- mine whether free elections can be held throughout divided Ger- many. The proposal might mean a break in the long East-West de- bate over German unification, but it was hinged on conditions which some diplomats doubted Moscow would accept. The United States, Britain and France, in new identical notes, gave notice that Russia must agree in advance to genuinely free elec- tions in the Soviet Zone, and to participation of a free German government in negotiation of a peace treaty. Russia, which has been press- ing for a Big Four conference on Germany for the past four months, thus far has failed to make a commitment on these points. know more about what is going on if he had stayed home and watched television. Although the excitement is certainly greater, the vastness of the whole affair makes it difficult to follow. Few delegates seem to know what is going on in crucial meet- ings outside of Convention Hall. It took more than an hour for re- sults of the Louisiana delegate quarrel in Credentials Committee hearings to get to parts of the convention floor. BOREDOM WAS the keynote of Wednesday afternoon's session, which had to stall until the Cre- dentials Committee report was ready. It was rather disconcerting to watch Convention speakers giv- ing their all on the platform, while practically no one listened. But as the long-awaited re- port came yesterday,the at- mosphere changed to one of electric excitement. The declaration of an uncom- mitted state always creates a tense moment in roll calls, and yester- day was no exception. After individual roll calls of the huge New York and Pennsylvania delegations, the Hall broke into gales of pent up laughter over a 10 minute argument between Con- vention officials and a Puerto Ri- can delegate who wanted a poll of his three man delegation. He got his request and delivered an extra vote to Eisenhower forces. Late Scores AMERICAN LEAGUE Philadelphia 11, Cleveland 0 New York 10, St. Louis 2 Chicago 2-4, Washington 0-2 NATIONAL LEAGUE Pittsburgh 6, New York 4 St. Louis 10, Philadelphia 3 Ohio Senator Must Face BallotToday Rowdiest GOP Convention Ever BULLSEIN As The Daily went to press at 1 a.m. today, the Eisenhower forces were staging their whoop- ing demonstration and all four candidates had reputedly reach- ed an agreement to adjourn aft- er the nominating speeches. Un- der this agreement the firstbal- lot was scheduled for 10:30 a.m. today. CONVENTION HALL, Chicago -(P)--Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhow- er's victory-scenting forces built their strategy last night on clinch- ing the GOP Presidential Nomi- nation on an early ballot before harried ranks of Sen. Robert A. Taft could regroup effectively for a desperate never-give-up fight. However, Taft forces did get a breather. The balloting on a nom- inee was put off unil today be- cause of a series of "the-man-who" nominating speeches which lasted into the early morning hours to- day at the 25th Republican Na- tional Convention. Even with that delay on a showdown, the Eisen- hower camp was talking more and more of a first ballot blitz. YET FAVORITE son candidates on whom Eisenhower depends to flock to his standard-Gov. Earl Warren of California and former Gov. Harold E. Stassen of Min- nesota-still held to hopes of a deadlock that would give them a chance. So the whole outcome of the roughest, rowdiest Republican Convention battle in years re- mained in doubt. Eisenhower, nevertheless, was clearly out front at last and run- ning hard. His leaders attempted at every turn to make capital of two key test vote victories on the convention floor that gave the General the bulk of the disputed Georgia and Texas delegations in the early morning hours yesterday. Late yesterday Eisenhower had lined up nine more delegates, whereas Taft had picked up only one. THE Associated Press tally of delegates stood like this:- Eisenhower 523. Taft 487. Others 110. Uncommitted 86. Needed to nominate 604. In Convention Hall last night and this morning the various party orators turned out their best ef- forts' for their respective candi- dates. Sen. Robert A. Taft was placed in nomination by Sen. Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois, who said "Taft has the courage to do the un- popular thing when principle de- mands it." Taft's name was the first of the expected contenders to be placed before the convention. Then Sen. William F. Know- land of California put California Gov. Earl Warren in nomina- tion as "a candidate who can give the leadership the nation now so desperately needs." Next in line to be nominated was Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower -who was hailed as the man to unite his party and drive "the stench and stigma" from Wash- ington. Gov. Theodore Roosevelt Mc- Keldin of Maryland, in a formal nominating speech, entered Eis- enhowe's.. a efnin the bitter Snubbed Spy Goes to Jail LONDON-(1P)-Spindly, pasty- faced William Marshall, a foreign office radio operator who said snubs of his countrymen turned his head toward Moscow, was sen- tenced yesterday to five years in prison for jotting down British secrets and handing some to the Russians. Marshall, 24, declared "I am still innocent" as the Judge, Sir Pat- rick Barry, pronounced the com- paritively light sentence in his- toric old Bailey KEFAUVER, campaigning in Ill- inois, said he expects to win the Democratic nomination on the fifth or sixth ballot at the Chicago Convention starting July 21. In Washington, D.C., Russell put a high rating on his own chances. Emerging from a White House talk with President Truman, Rus- sell told newsmen: "I would not exchange places this morning with any other candidate for the Democratic nomination." Meanwhile in Detroit another candidate, Averell Harriman, de- scribed the 1952 Republican Plat- form last night as "one of the most unconvincing documents of all time." NATIONALIZATION CONTROVERS Y DIMINISHES: British Parties Nearing Accord on Domestic Policy (EDIToR'S NOTE: This is the second in a series of interpretive articles dealing with impressions of Europe today. The author, next year's Daily City Editor, is working in Europe during the summer as a free-lance writer.) By BARNES CONNABLE Special to The Daily I * * * * i been poorly implemented in some areas, on the surface has done little harm and considerable good. l , , , I LONDON-Major differences between the Labour and Conser- vative parties here seem to be pretty much non-existent. British businessmen we've talked with have cited opposing stands on international economic policies. A few have indicated a cleavage haA.CorI nn +ni ntit n sn fn+tonalinzation FOR INSTANCE, in medicine, a jealously-guarded profession in America, rates and service have apparently remained on a fairly stable level. We must look behind the figures for another significance of Labour reforms. The evils are reflected in the pub talks, the ban- alities of cocktail circles and the jokes of cabaret singers. This is the cradle-to-grave nhilosonhv. the constant awareness of ~.. ~'-1~.'