DRUG COMPANIES FAIL PUBLIC See Page 2 C, Ne Sir i~an ~~IaiF WARM, HUMID High-92 Low--70 Chance of showers, clearing for weekend. Seventy Years of Editorial Freedom VOL. LXXI, No. 4S ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1961 FIVE CENTS FOUR PAGES sDefend AliedRight OfAc'cess to Berlin State Department Refutes Power Of East Germans To Block Airway By The Associated Press The State Department yesterday bluntly denied that East Ger- many has any right to impose restrictions on Allied use of the air corridors between West Germany and Berlin. Yesterday's renewed denial of East German right to limit access to West Berlin focused fresh attention on the Pentagon's plans for military action if diplomacy fails. The department statement rejected specifically an East German decree on Wednesday which provided that after Aug. 1 foreign air- craft entering or leaving East German territory must register with an air service center. Underscores U.S. Determination The position taken is not a new one but it served to underscore the determination of the United States not to yield any part of what a it regards as its rights to unre- U.S. ORBITS FIRST TO IC 00 PRESIDENT KENNEDY ... wants new agency S eek Curb On Weapons WASHINGTON OP) - President John F. Kennedy yesterday asked Congress to create a permanent United States disarmament agen- cy to find methods for checking the world arms-race and means for enforcing any agreements reached. He sent Congress a bill to cre- ate an autonomous "United States Disarmament Agency for World Peace and Security." This would be a sub-cabinet-level unit re- placing the present United States Disarmament Administration which is a part of the State De- partment. The new agency would be the first of its kind in the world. The present administration is directed by John J. McCloy, the President's special adviser on dis- armament, and yesterday's rec- ommendations stem from Mc- Cloy's five-month study of the complex problem. The administra- tion was created last October by then President Dwight D. Eisen- hower. Inea letter transmitting the proposed legislation to the Sen- ate and House, Kennedy wrote: "Today, ability of man to mas- ter his environment threatens to outpace his ability to control him- self . . . The people . . . have not yet been able to banish the prim- itive threat of war. "The ingenuity that has made the weapons of war vastly more destructive should be applied to the development of a system of control of these weapons." stricted access to West Berlin. Secretary of State Dean Rusk said last night the West will take a number of steps over the com- ing months to make clear to the Kremlin that it stands firm on West Berlin. He said the aim is to avoid "dangerous miscalculation" by the Soviets. Explore Possibilities At the same time, Rusk said the Western powers should "explore every possibility of workingout a tolerable peace" that does not conflict with the- West's vital in- terests. The decree and the general background of mounting concern over the West Berlin situation presumably were high on the agen- da of yesterday's National Secur- ity Council session at the White House. These NSC meetings are tightly closed and detailed reports of its discussions never are re- leased. The Defense Department plans for a military showdown.-if one comes-also are secret. But 'it is known there are several contin- gent plans which are constantly being updated. And the broad out- lines of some of them are known. The plans for Berlin are just one section of strategic plans maintained by the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Those plans fall into three categories: a "joint long range strategic estimate," which covers a period of up to 12 years; a mid- range, "strategic objectives plan" covering a three-year period and a short range, "strategic capabili- ties plan," with a time period of one year. The last is the joint war plan which would be put into operation in case of hostilities. It may be assumed the Berlin recommenda- tions now have been moved into this category. The plans are not only contin- uously revised but have to be based on a number of different assump- tions ab'out the nature of a con- flict and how it would start. Strike Board Gets Extension WASHINGTON UP) - President John F. Kennedy yesterday ex- tended for three days the deadline for a fact-finding board to file its report in the maritime strike. The emergency board had been directed to file its report by today. David L. Cole, chairman of the board, advised Secretary of Labor Arthur J. Goldberg that the board wanted additional time to prepare its report and to attempt to bring the seagoing unions and ship op- erators together in an agreement. IN SOUTH: Says Reds Controlled .Bus Rides By The Associated Press JACKSON, Miss.-The "Free- dom Rides" were "directed, in- spired and planned by known Communists," the chief of the Mississippi highway patrol charg- ed yesterday. Brig. Gen. T. B. Birdsong told a press conference at least two riders arrested during efforts to desegregate Jackson transporta- tion facilities attended a Soviet- directed seminar in Cuba last Feb- ruary. The charges brought an almost immediate denial from a New York official of the Congress of Racial Equality. Birdsong said 202 American stu- dents made the trip to Havana and heard addresses by nine of- ficials of the Soviet Union "to teach students how to make sit- ins, walk-ins, kneel-ins and free- dom rides." He claimed that CORE was re- sponsible for the "Freedom Rides" and is a Communist front group. Earlier this week, Gordon Carey, field director of CORE, said he planned the rides in February. He labelled Birdsong's charges of Communist domination "so ridicu- lous as to merit no reply." Because the reputation of scores of imprisoned "Freedom Riders" is at stake, Carey said he felt compelled to answer the accusa- tions briefly. "The 'Freedom Rides' have no connection whatsoever with the Communist party in this nation or any other," he said. Birdsong said other riders had records of auto theft, burglary, grand larceny and dishonorable discharges from military service. Of ficials -AP wirephoto STEAMING FORWARD-The British Admiralty sent this carrier, the Bulwark, toward the Persian Gulf yesterday with 600 Royal Marine Commandos aboard. The Marines-here practicing a com- bat operation with helicopters-are readying themselves for possible trouble in Kuwait, an oil-rich nation on the gulf. Kuwait Def ies Iraqi De-mands Nuclear Instrument Works Successfully Surpass Russian Achievements In Race To Use Atonic Power By The Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL M--The United States hurled the first atomic battery into space early yesterday morning as part of a spectacular sky triple play in which one rocket blasted three satellites into orbit. The successful orbiting of the nuclear device in one of the satellites gives American scientists a significant lead over Russia in the race to harness atomic power for space explora- tion. Predicts Generator Use A governmental official predicted operational atomic gen- erators will be used in satellites by next year. The first nuclear device rocketed into orbit fedf S ee KUWAIT (P)-The Sheik of Ku- wait defied Iraq's claims on his oil-rich nation yesterday and said his people stand behind him in maintaining the sheikdom's new independence. Three days of popular demon- strations and a deluge of tele- grams from desert Bedouins and oil workers of the Arab middle class confirmed his determination, he said in his first official state- ment on the crisis. Military sup- port from Britain gave it muscle. The British are keeping their advisers with the Sheik's brigade- sized army. British troops at Bah- rain, another oil center 270 miles down the Persian Gulf, are re- ported being strengthened. Warships Converge The British Admiralty in Lon- don announced that the aircraft carrier Bulwark is steaming from Karachi to the Persian Gulf with 600 royal marine commandos. Three other British warships also are on the move in the Far East, reportedly bound for the gulf. Iraqi gunboats opened fire from Kuwait's territorial waters on Iranian motor launches transport- ing food to Kuwait Thursday, the Iranian newspaper Keyhan re- ported in Tehran. No mention was made of casualties. The Cairo newspaper Al Ahram said two fully equipped Iraqi ar- my brigades moved up to Kuwait's border. The Kuwaiti education minister, in Cairo, said the bor- der was quiet, however. Quoting Iranian customs offi- cials at the Persian Gulf oil port of Abadan, the newspaper Key- han said Iraqi gunboats were caus- ing difficulties for the 100 Iran- ian launches carrying food to Ku- wait since Iraq barred export of food to the sheikdom. Passengers aboard the launches were quoted as saying several Iraqis in Kuwait were accused of attempting to blow up the Kuwait oil refinery Wednesday and were arrested. The British, with big oil inter- ests in the Kuwait fields, are pledged to answer any call for military aid by Kuwait's ruler, Sheik Abdullah As-Salim As-Sa- bah. Relys on Subjects But the 66-year old ruler also is counting on his 320,000 sub-, jects, who have the highest per capita income in the Middle East Need for Aid To Viet Nam SAIGON, Viet Nam ()-Ameri- can officials believe the United States will almost certainly have to put out more military aid than now planned to save South Viet Nam from the Communists. Just how much is a matter of debate. Faced with the loss of Laos and the growing Red guerrilla threat here, the United States recently agreed to foot the bill for 20,000 more troops in -the South Viet- namese army. This was part of a program out- lined by Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson on his visit here in May. The program also included help for the faltering civil guard; United States specialists in health, welfare and public works, joint long-range economic development and appeals for allied help in the guerrilla war. Military experts said the troop support must be regarded as just the first step if an already serious situation is to be kept from grow- ing worse. and the region's best school and hospital system, thanks to oil rev- enues of $3 million a day. They hardly could want these benefits to be submerged by annexation to Iraq. "At this crucial time in the his- tory of Kuwait," said a statement issued by the Sheik, "they (the people) have shown a spirit which has demonstrated to the world that we are ready to defend our- selves." I The lightly bearded Sheik is- sued the statement from the Sif Palace, Kuwait's administrative headquarters. French Police Subdue .Riots By Farmers NIMES, France (W) - Angry French farmers, ignoring govern- ment pleas for quiet and patience, clashed with police in a bloody demonstration in the streets here yesterday. Forty-nine riot police were in- jured, seven seriously. Fighting broke out after a group of several hundred farmers mounted on tractors rolled into Nimes at the same time a meeting was taking place in Paris between Prime Minister Michel Debre and French farm leaders. Pelt Police The farmers pelted police with rocks. Riot police retaliated with swinging clubs and finally broke up the demonstration with tear gas. Seven of the injured police were hospitalized, including the squad's commander, who had a fractured skull. His condition was described as grave. Several farmers were reported injured, none seriously. Clash Violently The clash was one of the most violent in the three weeks of dem- onstrations throughout France by farmers unhappy over farm prices. Meanwhile, in Paris the three- hour meeting between the prime minister and farm leaders ended on a more happy note. They termed the conference constructive and said other meetings will be held next week. The meeting got under way after Debre urged farmers to end the demonstrations and help chart a new agricultural program. a small amount of power to the Transit 4-A satellite yes- terday. Transit 4-A was one of three satellites hoisted' into orbit from here by a Thor-Able-Star rocket. The four and a half pound nu- clear instrument was attached to the top of the 175-pound satellite and hooked up to provide 2.5 watts of electricity to two trans- mitters and other instruments. The radioactive element was a small charge of plutonium 238. Nuclear generators are now be- ing developed for the Surveyor project, which will land large packages on the moon starting in 1963. AEC Reveals Job The Atomic Energy Commission announced earlier yesterday that the first working assignment for the power units will be in opera-j tional Transit satellites scheduled for launching next year. Once perfected, these genera- tors will provide satellites with a lightweight, unlimited power sup- ply and permit communication with space vehicles soaring mil- lions of miles away. The Navy hailed the triple fir- ing and one officer said it "looks like the most successful launch we have had." Vice Admiral John T. Hayward, deputy chief of naval operations for development, said that suc- cess of the mission makes him hopeful the Transit navigation system will be the first operational satellite network in the world. The other satellites were Greb, a 55-pound sphere which carried two detectors to measure X-ray radiation from the sun, and In- Jun, a 40-pound drum-shaped parcel which measures intense radiation in the Van Allen radia- tion belts and reports on auroral phenomena such as the Northern Lights. R. B. Kershner, supervisor of Johns Hopkins laboratory's space development division, said the nu- clear power plant "looks like an excellent possibility" for meeting the Transit system's needs for five-year battery life. Miller Cites Differences In Satellites "Something for everybody" is the way a University astronomer and former Navy-man described the successful United States sat- ellite firings. Prof. Freeman T. Miller, chair- man of the astronomy depart- ment, emphasized last night the differing purposes and functions of the three satellites all launch- ed from a single Thor-Able-Star rocket. The publicized part of the or- bit group, the one containing the experimental atomic power pack, will be used as part of the Navy's Transit navigational system. Sight the Stars Under normal conditions, sail- ors locate their position courses using visual sightings of a few known stars. The stars are often obscured by partial cloud cover which makes the job difficult, Prof. Miller explained. The Transit system lets the sailor "get his bearings" by sight- ing the precision orbits of the artificial satellites. The last of the three satellites is the one "which interests Prof. Miller the most. It is a 40-pound packet which measures the in- tense radiation of the Van Allen belts and its effect on auroral phenomena. Describes Difference Prof. Miller described the dif- ference between this and the first section as the contrast between an engineering feat and a project which adds to our basic store of knowledge. "All three of the satellites are good achievements. Their relative importance depends on the per- son's interest. When I was in the Navy, I would probably have thought the navigational aspect the most important," Prof. Miller said. DMOND VIEWS CIVIL WAR: South Clung Tencoul'to U-D Reveals 'Master Plan' For0$25 Million Growth The University of Detroit revealed a "master plan" of development yesterday that calls for raising $25 million for capital expansion and operations. The outline-detailed in a 26 page brochure-is set up by priori- ties. The first and second priorities cover a 10 year period and require 6$ million each. The money would cover the costs of six new buildings, a faculty fund for salary increases and research, a scholarship fund and a student loan fund. The new build- ings will be for biology research, engineering laboratories, creative arts, architecture, student services and administrative center. A third priority, also for $6 mil- S lav ery lion, would finance new classrooms and graduate school buildings, strengthened the South's power. scholarship and salary endowment Abolitionists were charged with and land acquisition. attempting to undermine a yen- The fourth priority calls for $4 erable American institution, million to be used for scholarships and salary endowment. Under a Give 'Corrupt Bargain' "special projects" classification, The "corrupt bargain" by the another $3 million would be spent framers of the Constitution which for a student chapel and a wom- gave the South three-fifths more en's dormitory. than their just representation and Britt Announces Plan which tacitly accepted slavery by The Reverend Father Laurence guaranteeing it for 20 years con- V. Britt, S.J., U-D president, an- t r i b u t e d. to disproportionate nounced the tentative plan at a Southern power, he said. luncheon for 35 Detroit business, Prof. Dumond termed slavery industry and civic leaders. "the mark of social insanity" in The recommendations stemmed which a white skin replaces 'due from a request several months ago process of law' and habeas cor- by the school's trustee to study the pus and in which mob violence re- present and future position of the places free inquiry and discussion. privately supported institution. When overcome at last by num- The brochure made a strong bers despite the three-fifths rule, point of the "community-orient- By RUTH EVENHUIS " "The Civil War began because there were three and one half million slaves and would not have begun otherwise," Prof. Dwight L. Dumond of the history department said yesterday. "It was a heroic effort by a Christian people individually and in association to reconstruct a democratic society which had been fragmentized by 200 years of slavery," he said. The South's defense of slavery was based on the assumption that the slaves were less than human and as such were not parties to the Constitution. Don't Receive Rights Thus, the guaranteed right of every nerson to "life. liberty and had the power to abuse everyone of another color. "Being white, they thought themselves above the law." The same principle keeps Negro children in separate schools today, Prof. Dumond said, the fear that they might excel. He blamed the Southern clergy- for "pure sophistry" in their treat- ment of slavery as a political rather than moral question and in refusing all discussion in order to maintain "separation of church and state." Neutralizes Agency This "neutralized the one agen- cy in democratic society whose function is reform." Prof. Dumond said that the small Southern aristocracy was able to keep a nation of 20 million 11 County Democrats Choose Chairman Washtenaw County Democrats last night elected Peter Darrow of Ann Arbor as new county chairman. Darrow, who graduated from the .: i I I I C -AP Wirephoto I