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-1- V- V- f. i -vv :4 V- iv i Vfc i METRO FINAL SUNNY Like thoughts Mother NEWSPAPERS John S. Knight Tells His Views on Press Freedom. See Page 4, Section SUNDAY, MAY 8, 1949 On Guard for Over a Century 128 Pages Vol 119 No. 4 Fifteen Cents tt f- Academic Battles at Olivet College I) Jul) 11 LvJ ear oeiil emcnt flefce alf of Faculty to Leave in June to Set Up Own School Olympi Contract Ford May at Olivet College have been much In rre rress seeks to analyze the outlook at Olivet.

BY FRED OLMSTED Free Press Staff Writer atmosPhere at Olivet College is clearing. Presumably the academic battles are over. fJstrife w111 officially end in June, when half the faculty-the leave the campus permanently. A considerable body of students will follow. Reasnna fnr Vi c-rtiit mi Riding High to $91,600 Victory Aiiere was disagreement over tmdUon.

Poacies. -mere was a teachers' union issue. There were rumblings oyer "academic freedom." And there were mutter-ings about "Reds" and "Communism." i I I I i I i i i i I I II i 111 I if I i' I I I io J1- I 1 Blaster of all he surveys, Jockey Steve Brooks stands in his stirrups as he brings home Ponder first by three lengths in the 75th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs. If Brooks cheered as he stood up, he had reason. It was his first Derby victory.

Capot (right on rail) ran second, Palestinian (second from left) third and Old Rockport (third from left) fourth. The favored Olympia missed the picture. He finished sixth. Spy Probers Keveal Sensational Witness Link to Atomic Espionage Believed Found in Ex-Red Free Press-Chicco Tribune Wire "WASHINGTON The House Un-American Activities Committee has uncovered a' sensational new turncoat Communist witness who has blown the lid off the Russian atomic spy ring in 80 hours of secret testimony here this week. The.

witness described as far more important to the espionage probe than Whittaker Chambers and Elizabeth Bentley. Most persons concerned are inclined to belittle the Red issue. Likewise, most agree there was no direct threat to academic free- i dom. BUT THERE WAS a definite cleavage on the question as to how the college should be operated and how much voice the faculty should have in administration. This cleavage came to sham focus when Dr.

Aubrey L. Ash-by (Olivet '08), former vice president and general counsel of the National Broadcasting took over as president last fall. "In a college administration," says Dr. Ashby, "there must be one person representing the board or trustees to make decisions on the housekeeping problems of the institution. "I think the board of trustees should exercise the functions of administration, the faculty teach ana tne students study.

THAT MAKES IT clear that the faculty could not play as prom- ment a part as it did previous administrations, which Dr. Ashby cans -uaissez laire." Dr. Ashby believes In disci-; pline "moral, mental and phy-- steal." But It should be a "toler ant discipline," he adds. "I realize you can't run a col- lege as it was run in 1908," he said. We must change operations to meet cn jigmg conditions." He calls his approach the "liberal application of conservative experience." DOES THAT MEAN Olivet will become a more conservative institution? Dr.

Ashby shies from the label. Olivet is going to be neither ultra-conservative nor ultra-liberal, he hints. What about acrdemic freedom? "There hasn't been any violation of academic freedom," he says. "Neither the dean nor the presi dent nor anybody else has told the faculty what it could or could not teach. "I wouldn't even object to a course in Communism being given, provided this was counterbalanced by teachings in democracy and other forms of government.

"YOU'RE NOT going to equip students for life in this world if you don't let them know anything about what you say is dangerous." Olivet, he added, will seek to provide students with "all around development to meet the problems of life in a changing world." Dean James F. Mathias put it in a slightly different way. We don't want a one-sided coi- lege, either of the right or left," he said. "We want to go down the middle of the road, allowing our students to look both right and left." A PROFESSOR said: "You can't just bring boys and girls to college and tell them to do what they like. "You've got to have some order, without which freedom is meaningless." Townspeople say Olivet is going to be "a lot more conservative." "WE'RE C-AD to have the question settled," John Ugnian, publisher of the Olivet Optic, said.

"A successful college must have Turn to Page 2, Column 4 Death Strikes at PaVs Funeral VIRGINIA, Minn. (U.R) Toivo Nakari, 38, Meadowbrook, presented arms while the body of a comrade killed during the war was carried into a chapel for military reburial services. As he did so, Nakari fell dead of a heart attack. a Runs Sixth to 16-1 Shot Capot Is Second, Palestinian Third BYALCOFFMAX Free Press Staff Writer LOUISVILLE Calumet Farm's Ponder, a 16-1 shot who wasn't even considered a starter a week ago, gave more than 100,000 racing fans something to think and scream about when he scored a smashing three-length victory in the Kentucky Derby. Capot, who ran down the odds-on favorite Olympia in the stretch, was second.

Third was Palestinian, four and a half lengths behind the Greentree colt. TWO MORE HORSES and seven more lengths farther back came the weary Olympia, the 4-5 choice. He trailed Old Rockport and Halt to be beaten 14 lengths altogether. Dead last after the first half-mile of the" mile-and-a-quarter grind, Ponder moved up strongly to catch Capot in the final furlong and win going away. It was a victory just like his daddy Pensive scored in 1944 when he charged from behind to win in exactly the same time 2:0415.

With Olympia completely out of the money, all the payoffs were 1 big. Ponder paid. $34, $11.60 and $6.20. Capot returned $9.60 and $5.80 and Palestinian $4.80. ALTHOUGH OLYMPIA couldn't pick up the winner's share of $91,600, he did manage to beat half of the field of 14 three-year-olds.

Tired and fading steadily In the stretch run, he led Model Cadet, Duplicator, Johns Joy, Ky. Colonel, Lextown, Jacks Town, Vvme List ana Senecas Coir, to the wire. Steve Brooks, new contract rider for Calumet Farm, gave owner Warren Wright and Trainer Ben Jones an unexpected thrill when he turned Ponder loose. He also brought them unprecedented honors. For Jones it was the fifth Derby winner he has saddled in 12 years.

His first was Lawrin for Herbert Woolf In 1938, and the others were Whirlaway. (1941), Pensive (1944) and Cita tion (1948), all carryinr for Calumet. WRIGHT, TOO. shared in the glory. Not only did he accept a diamond-studded gold cup from Col.

Matt Winn for winning the Other stories and pictures on Derby in Society and Sports Sections. 75th running of the Churchill Downs classic, but he tied the late Col. E. R. Bradley in number of champions he bred and owned.

But the real credit must go to Jones, who never has finished worse than third with a horse in the Derby. JONES REALIZED that Jockey Eddie Arcaro would send Olympia to the front right away. He also figured, and rightly, that Johns Joy and Capot would try to match strides with the Hooper colt. So while that trio waged a suicidal duel for the early lead, Ponder was coasting along behind the field. Olympia reached the lead and held it by a length over Capot until they turned into the stretch.

Johns Joy, Wine List and Lex- town, all of whom tried to keep up, wilted in order, but not Capot. He collared Olympia three-six teenth of a mile out and drew into a three-length lead with an eighth of a mile to go. THOSE WHO had been watch ing the duelling leaders figured tnat tne race was all over, but on the outside came a streak of red. It was Ponder carrying the Devil's red silks of Calumet. In giant strides he ate up the gap between him and Capot.

The Greentree colt, spent after overhauling Olympia, had nothing left to meet the new threat. He took runner-up honors easily over Palestinian, who moved into contention around the stretch turn but couldn't close in the leaders. THOUGH THE time was comparatively slow for the fast track, the Diamond Jubilee Derby was one of the fastest ever run in the Derby which explains Olympia's downfall. He was forced to run the first furlong in 11 seconds flat faster than any other Derby horse to get to the front. At the quarter he was caught in :22 25, at the three-eights in 33 35, at the half in :46 25.

All tied or set Derby records for the distance. The betting handle on the big race was $1,032,582. It was almost double last year when only six horses ran, but it fell more than $200,000 short of the all-time amount bet on the 1947 race. Talks Associated Press Wirephoto UN Group Votes to Lift Franco Ban Spain May Regain Diplomatic Relations LAKE SUCCESS The United Nations Assembly's politi cal committee voted to lift a two- year ban on full diplomatic relations between UN. members and Spain.

The vote in the 58-nation com mittee was 25 to 16, with 16 ab stentions, in favor of a resolution sponsored by. Colombia, Bolivia and Peru. I The committee then rejected in 13 roll-call votes, paragraph by paragraph, a rival Polish resolution that would have tightened bans on Spain first voted hy the UN Dec. 12, 1946. THE DECISION came at the end of a bitter two-day debate during which Russia and her friends charged the United States has a military alliance with Generalissimo Francisco Franco United States Delegate Ray Atherton declared that was not true.

The committee vote still must be approved by a two-thirds ma- United Nations debate on Israel's application for membership is curbed. Story on Page 4. jority of the General Assembly in plenary session to become final. Backers forecast jubilantly that they would get the votes. If they do it would mean the United States and Britain which did not back the approved proposal could return to Madrid the ambassadors they withdrew after the 1946 resolution.

THE UNITED STATES and Britain led a group which contended nothing should be done about Spain at the current session on grounds the conditions within Spain have not changed. This group abstained on the four-nation Latin-American motion and voted against the Polish proposal. Mexico, Guatemala, Panama and Cuba split with the other Latin-American countries. They opposed even the slightest step toward bringing "Fascist Franco" as Mexico's Luis Padilla Nervo called him back into the community of nations. BACKERS OF THE successful motion contended that the 1946 resolution was a mistake.

They noted that the Assembly did not reaffirm it when it was brought up again in November, 1947. They said confusion has resulted because Argentina and several other countries have sent their diplomatic chiefs back to Madrid. They said their resolution did not change the declaration in the 1948 resolution that Franco's regime is Fascist and was helped to power by Hitler and Mussolini. Firm's Head Calls Strike Needless Says UAW Politics Has Role in Tie-Up BY ARTHUR O'SHEA Free Press Labor Writer Henry Ford II, president of the Ford Motor indicated a belief that the current strike might have resulted from "some political situation within the union." Ford also stated in a letter to all the company's employes that speedups were silly from the viewpoint of any sane manage ment." As the strike by 62,250 Rouge and Lincoln workers entered its fourth day, Ford predicted that an additional 144,000 employes of the company and its dealers would be affected if the strike continues. MEANTIME, evidence was mounting that the company would refuse to begin bargaining with the UAW (CIO) on contract and pension demands unless the strike is halted.

Still unanswered on the desk of John S. Bugas, Ford vice president in charge of industrial relations, was the union's re-mest of last Monday asking lhat a date be fixed this week for the talks. The letter, signed by Ken Ban- non, director of tne uaw iuiuj Ford department, asked that negotiations begin not later than next Sunday. The present contract ex-1 pires July 15. Asked if' the company wouia insist on a return to work before negotiations start, Bugas reply was a grim, "Well, the union's letter has not been answered." THE COMPANY contends the strike violates the present contract.

Ford said in his letter that "thousands and thousands of men and women are being unjustly penalized by this strike action. "You can add to the Detroit area employes and their families Turn to Page 2, Column 1 LUCKY LANDING Slips 1,000 Ft. Breaks Nose SAN RAFAEL, Calif A young woman rode a station wagon over a- em-bankmen. At the bottom of the steep hilL she crawled out as the car, upright, was stopped by a boulder. She had a broken nose and a cut eye.

She was Miss Alice Smith, 24, of San Francisco, a flier and secretary for a flight instruction company. Highway patrolmen said her southbound car was about halfway up the long grade approach to the Golden Gate Bridge. A tire burst. The car swerved across the roadway and plunged down the steep Greek Rebels Mass Forces ATHENS (P) The Greek General Staff said guerillas were massing in Albania along Greece's northwest border for a new invasion. The staff issued a special announcement reporting unusual movements of troops and supply convoys toward the Greek border.

The area threatened is about 20 miles west of Konitsa. Andy Finds Andy's reunion with his mother bore no dateline. Where she lives, what her new married name is, will remain untold. It will be easier that way for Andy to begin his new life. BUT ANDY not only has a mother now, but a father and a 2Vi -year-old brother.

His mother disappeared five years ago. Andy had been living with his grandparents since. His father had vanished before he was bornu. This ''is how' the Sun-Tele Police Save Fortune for Mrs. Willys Youth Caught with Stolen $98,600 Free Press-Chlcagro Tribune Wire NEW YORK Richard Strack, 26, a small-time burglar from a small upstate city, sat in a cell in the big town and rued the luck that narrowly missed his getting away with $98,600.40 the 40 cents in pennies.

Strack told police that he was "looking for something" to sell when he broke into the mansion of Mrs. Florence Willys, widow of the millionaire auto manufacturer, John N. Willys. Only a burglar alarm in the Willy's home prevented Strack from getting away with one of the largest cash hauls ever taken from a private home. UNAWARE THAT he had tripped the alarm, Strack was nabbed by police as he left the house with the money, wrapped in a towel.

How so much cash in $500, $100 and smaller denomination bills happened to be in the 14-room mansion was not immediately: explained. Mrs. Willys was reported to be In Florida. The Willys home is part of the estate of more than $2,000,000 left to Mrs. Willys, the daughter of a barber.

Willys died in 1935, eight months after their marriage. French Pilots Stage Walkout PARIS (U.R) Air France pilots went on strike until midnight Monday despite a Government decree requisitioning pilots and crews. The walkout for higher wages stopped all flights to French colonies and delayed service to London by three hours. Planes left for the United States on schedule, Air France said. PRESIDENT AUBREY ASHBY Favors 'tolerant discipline JOSEPH D.

BENNETT Llttle doubt we shall succeed I I TUCKER P. SjVHTH Expects to lead 100 away N.Y. Facing Transit Strilte NEW YORK (IP) Union leaders rejected a City mediator's proposals to halt a threatened strike Monday against the heavily traveled Third Ave. transit system. Union and management representatives had met earlier in separate session to study terms of the proposed settlement formula.

The threatened walkout of union workers against New York City's largest bus and trolley company involves the firing of two employes, retroactive wage payments and what the union calls a company speeedup. Navy Bomber to Commemorate First Atlantic Hop NEW YORK (rP) A sleek Navy bomber will take off on a trans Atlantic flight from here Sunday to commemorate the historic flight 30 years ago of the NC-4, first plane to span the Atlantic. The bomber is expected to complete the crossing to Lisbon, Portugal, in 15 hours. The NC-4, a canvas and plywood seaplane, made it in 19 days. The plane will carry as passengers Adm.

Albert C. Read and Chief Aviation Pilot Eugene S. (Smokey) Rhoads, who made the crossing with the NC-4. Tour HOSTESS ICE CREAM dealer, has pecial Mia oo pint tray pk. today.

AdT. s7 I 1 He has given the spy hunters in executive session documentary evidence said to make the Chambers' "pumpkin papers" look like elementary school reading. 0 0 THE WITNESS is Paul Crouch, a middle-aged supervisor in the varitype rooms of The Miami Daily News. He concluded his secret testimony Friday night and caught a plane back to Miami Saturday. But he, will return here when public hearings on Russian espi-onge are resumed May 24.

Crouch was a Communist for 17 years and long an official organizer. He quit the party in 1942. He once held an honorary commission in the Russian army. ONE OF Crouch's last and most important assignments in the party, he told the committee, was as an organizer in Alameda County, near the University of California at Berkeley. University scientists were engaged in highly secret atomic research at the i'me.

He has given the committee a direct and long-sought link between underground Red activities of the prewar Hiss-Chambers days and the Russian infiltration into the ranks of atomic scientists. CROUCH HAS given the com mittee more proof of the accuracy Turn to Page 2, Column Transport Tie-Up ROCHESTER, England (U.R) A strike by more than 1,000 bus drivers and conductors paralyzed transportation in 12 towns and villages in Kent County. Andy's plea in a three-week-old newspaper given her by a neighbor. She called her husband home from work and together they telephoned a friend In Latrobe, where Andy lived with his grandparents. Arrangements were made to bring Andy to her.

The little boy's letter for his mother brought more than 1,500 offers of adoption. But Andy held out for the one letter signed "Mother." It took three weeks but it came. Father of 3 Drowns as Boat Sinks Arthur Behn, 38, of 14916 White, Allen Park, drowned when a fishing boat capsized in the Detroit River near Grosse He. His companion, Donald Swim, 35, of 15205 Markese, Allen Park, was rescued by Kenneth J. Dahl-ka, 39, of 337 George, Trenton.

SWIM CLUNG to a life cushion and floated near Dahlka's boat-Dahlka said he tried to pull him into the boat but Swim was too heavy. He threw Swim a line and towed him three-quarters of a mile to Fox Island. When they got Into shallow water, Swim wag able to help himself get into the boat. He promptly kissed the bottom of the boat, Dahlka said. The body of Allen, father of three children, had not been recovered.

1 Dies, 34 Hurt in Bus Wreck LORAINE, Tex. (P) One person was killed and 34 were injured Saturday morning when a loaded Greyhound bus overturned on a slippery, curve approaching an underpass. The bus was en route from El Paso to Dallas. Its rear end was crushed. It was raining at the time.

T. M. Harris, 51, of Bartlesvillej was killed. On Inside Pages SECTION A Garden 13 Guest 6 Music 7 Radio 6 SECTION Financial 10-11 Travel 5-9 Sports 1-4 SECTION Amuse'ts 20-21 Society 1-22 SECTION Classified 1-8 Weather Map 9 SECTION Books 7 Bridge 6 Crossword 7 Horoscope 3 R'l Estate 8-11 Town Crier 1 TO CALL THE FREE PRESS: WOODWARD 2-8900 For Want Ads Call WOODWARD 2-9100 EASTER PLEA HAS HAPPY RESULTS 10-Year-Old Mother After Years graph told of the reunion: The boy and his mother hugged each other wordlessly. There were tears in his mother's eyes, but a wide grin on Andy's freckled face.

"The best Mother's Day present I'll ever have," she said. "I made a mistake by going away," his 27-year-old mother said. was just young and crazy, I guess. Both sides have suffered. Maybe we can be happy now." HIS MOTHER said she saw PITTSBURGH (JF) Andy Tompos, has found his mother.

The Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, to whom Andy directed his wistful plea for a mother because "everybody who has a mothef has good luck," wrote a happy ending to the tale. Andy's desire to find his mother as "an Easter present" came to light on Palm Sunday. He was disappointed on Easter, but the eve of Mother's Day finds the 10-year-old's dream come true. The newspaper's story of rv rife.