BERLIN NEGOTIATIONS DESIRABLE FOR U.S. See Page 2 Y 4 JA&r A&A OA t t an ~DAitp FAIR, WARMER High-84 Low-3 Increasingly Hot Seventy Years of Editorial Freedom VOL. LXXI, No. 20S ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1961 FIVE CENTS FOUR PAGES Tunisia Warns Of More Fighting Calls for Security Council Action To Force French from Bizerte TUNIS (A) - President Habib Bourguiba declared yesterday "fighting is bound to start again" if the French cling to their battle- won positions at Bizerte. He appealed to the United Nations Security Council for further action to force them back. "We have decided to resist until the end and we are prepared for new hostilities," the Tunisian leader told a news conference. "We have decided to inform the Security Council that this cannot continue." Bourguiba said other nations where France has military bases should act against those bases. He apparently referred to Morocco, where France shares one small base with the United States, and to nearly a dozen former colonies in Africa where France maintains a network of naval, air and army installations. Offered military Bon isteel Sweeps Con -Con Primary Passengers 1 Gain Release From Cuba MIAMI (M)-Thirty-two passen- gers and five crewmen of a hi- jacked Eastern Air Lines Electra returned from Cuba yesterday. Fly Back After being detained since their landing. Monday morning, the passengers and crewmen were freed by Prime Minister Fidel Cas- tro and flew to Miami on one of the twice-daily flights operated by Pan Amercan Airways between Florida and Havana. Castro gave no hint that he would release the $3.5 million air- craft. Some members of the con- gress said the United States should demand its return, and back up the demand with force. "Here is the occasion for which we have been waiting," said Sen. Spessard L. Holland (D-Fla), "be- cause here is an act of piracy pure and simple." Threatens Seizure Castro threatened in a radio- television speech July 5 to seize any American aircraft hijacked rand flown into Cuba. Presumably, this would be in re- taliation for the grabbing of seven Cuban planes in this country by Miami advertising man Erwin Harris. Government officials said there was a distinction, however. Cuban planes were taken over by law in the United States for satisfaction of unpaid Cuban debts. In New York, the Federal Bu- reau of Investigation moved to break up a purported Cuban plot to hijack five more American com- mercial airliners and fly them to Havana. Eastern, National and Northeast Airlines, the major New York-to-Miami carriers, were said to be the targets of the plot. Members of the Electra crew headed by the pilot, Capt. W. E. Buchanan, were hustled off by FBI agents on their return here for questioning about the incident. Livg Index Makes Hike NEW YORK () - The labor department reported yesterday that increases in most transporta- tion and housing costs combined with a seasonal rise in food prices raised the cost of living to a new high in June. The consumer priceindex for June - the average costs of the typical city-dwelling family - was 127.6, which meant that prices averaged 27.6 per cent higher than in the 1947-49 base period. The June index was two-tenths of 1 per cent above May and one- tenth of 1 per cent above the pre- vious high reached last December. It was nine-tenths of 1 per cent higher than June of 1960, mainly because of a 2 per cent rise in prices of services. Ewan Clague, commissioner of labor statistics, commented at a news conference there had been practically no change in the in- dex since last October. Clague foresaw factors "prob- ably on the upside" for the July cost of living figures, due a month from now. Report Backs 'help by some of Tunisia's Arab League partners, Bourguiba said he has informed them that he needs trained guerrilla fighters, planes, guns and mobile antiair- craft batteries. Possible Violence Bourguiba spoke of possible new "iolence despite the presence of UN Secretary-General Ilag Ham- marskjold, who arrived last night as the President's invited guest on a peace-making and fact-find- ing mission. He omitted reference to Ham- marskjold when he announced the new appeal to the Security Coun- cil. The Secretary-General's pres- ence has done little to ease Tu- nisian bitterness at French dom- inance at Bizerte, where France kept a naval-air base by treaty after granting this former protect- orate independence in 1956. Accuses Troops Bourguiba accused French troops of violating the Security Council's cease-fire order by refusing to withdraw to their prebattle posi- tions within the military enclave, though his own troops also have made no move to pull back. Tu- nisian soldiers and volunteers are standing pat at barricades they managed to salvage in the four- day action. The Tunisians want the French expelled from both the city of Bizerte, where Bourguiba declared they are acting like conquerors, and from the naval-air installa- tions. Hammarskjold said after an ex- ploratory conference with the Tunisian president last night he had not scheduled a visit to Bi- zerte. Britain Sets Higher Tax LONDON ()-Britain's conserv- ative government yesterday voted a 40 per cent boost in interest rates and a sharp tax curb on home consumption. After almost a decade of buy- ing consumer items as never be- fore, the British again must cut down. The problem is that de- spite prosperity at home, the cost of British manufactured goods is going up abroad and new competi- tors have cropped up in postwar markets. British goods are not selling as well abroad, and this island nation lives on international trade. Gold and dollar reserves have been fal- ing, imports have exceeded ex- ports and there has been a loss of confidence in the strength of the British pound. The government's measures are aimed at reversing this trend, al- though some of its most influen- tial critics claim that the only real solution is for Britain to loosen its historic commonwealth ties and join the European Coi- mon Market and try to compete on the continent. Ex-Regent Beats Eseh, Christman Nominee To Face Grossmnan in Election By JUDITH OPPENHEIM Roscoe o. Bonisteel last night handily won the Republican nom- ination for the first state legis- lative district's Constitutional con- vention post. Piling up 4,670 votes, Bonisteel, at the latest available figures, decisively defeated his opponents Marvin L. Esh of Detroit and Lewis G. Christman of Ann Arbor with 1,044 and 2,571 votes re- spectively. Bonisteel will oppose Democrat Allen W. Grossman of Saline in the Sept. 12 contest for conven- tion delegates. The winner will represent the first legislative dis- trict at the convention which opens October 3 in Lansing. Former Regent Bonisteel, a former Regent and member of the Wayne State Uni- versity board of governors, is past president of the State Bar of Michigan, member of the State Board of Law Examiners of Mich- igan, and vice-president of the Historical Society of Michigan. He believes that one of the principle issues of the convention will be restoration of responsibility to local government within the state "so that it can meet the problems confronting it." On other issues, Bonisteel favors a four-year term for the governor with a limitation of two terms. "This is precisely what I stand for and what I shall continue to stand for." He commented that he wishes to retain the present status of the state universities as bodies within the state yet with a sub- stantial degree of independence. Bonisteel commented, "I thank all my frinds and fellow citizens who knowingmy love for theistate of Michigan helped me win the election through their work and votes." Reapportionment He does not believe an entirely satisfactory plan for reapportion- ment of the state Legislature has been submitted yet. Grossman, who was unopposed for the Democratic nomination, is the Saline city attorney and has a private law practice in Sa- line. He believes the single most im- portant issue to be considered at the convention will be reappor- tionment. "The house should be appor- tioned on a strict population basis," he says. "Although some consideration may be given to- ward function and area, Senate apportionment must be more closely related to population," He favors maintaining the con- stitutional status of the state uni- versities. Yesterday's primary narrowed the field of prospective con-con candidates to 288. Half of these will be elected Sept. 12 to fill the 144 convention post. Each senatorial district and each legislative district in the state will be represented by one dele- gate. Prof. James K. Pollock of the political science department was unopposed for nomination as the Republican candidate from Washtenaw's senatorial district. His opponent in the September election will be Robert W. Carr, a teacher of government and his- tory in the Ann Arbor public schools. Carr was unopposed for the Democratic nomination. * * * * * '* * Kennedy Urges Increases. For.A White House May Request Added Taxes Propose No Change In Current Deficit WASHINGTON (P) - President John F. Kennedy served notice last night that he will ask a tax in- crease, if necessary, to balance the federal budget in the next fiscal year and to finance the buildup of military spending he proposed. However, the President said that although the deficit for the cur- rent fiscal year, which started on July 1, will climb beyond $5 bil- lion instead of the $3.7 billion pre- viously predicted, it will not be met by a general tax increase. "The Secretary of the Treasury and other economic advisers as- sure me . . . that our economy has the capacity to bear this new re- quest," Kennedy said. Amount Indefinite The prepared speech did not specify how much of the $3.454 billion of new defense budget re- quests would be spent in this fis- cal year. This disclosure evidently was left for part of his brief bud- get request to be sent to Congress today. However, the speech indicated that at least $1.5 billion of the total new funds would be poured into the military and civil defense buildup in this fiscal year. Even so, Kennedy said, the recovery from the business recession is beinge achieved with deficits "far smallert than those of the 1958 recession."c Promises Balance "This improved business outlookr means improved revenues," Ken-t nedy went on, "and I intend tos submit to the Congress in January2 a budget for the next fiscal year (1963) which will be strictly inf balance. 'To Increasel Civil Defense . r WASHINGTON () -Presidentk John F .Kennedy announced last night he will ask an additionals $207 million for a "new start" in civil defense. That would virtually treble the $105 million previously asked oft Congress for protection of civilianst against any nuclear assault on the American mainland. The President said his new money request to Congress would be used to identify and mark space in existing private and pub- f lic buildings which could be used for fallout shelters; to stock the shelters with food, water, first aid kits, tools and "other minimum essentials for survival."1 The funds also would be used toa improve the warning system and fallout detection systems, Kennedy said, including the new "buzzer" warning system attached to elec- tric circuits in each home. Lpproprlations, Draft ............Calls on U.S. :: : ::.:::: .::::::.::.::. :: p:.i:Pi:t-iTo: