THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1965 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1965 THE MICHIGAN DAILY 4 Aloa Rescinds rice nerease WASHINGTON (')--Alumnium Co. of America, the industry'sj biggest producer, last night can- celed price increases it announced last week -increases government officials attacked as inflationary. Alcoa officials informed Secre- tary of Defense Robert S. McNa- mara of the firm's willingness to withdraw the increases. Moments later, Alcoa headquar- ters in Pittsburgh, Pa., issued a formal statement rescinding the half - cent - a - pound increase for the metal. The price thus remains at 241/2 cents a pound. The company said it "felt com- pelled to cancel the price restora- tion because of the insistence of the government that it is urgently concerned about the possible ef- fect of any general adverse price increases on the national economy while the Viet Nam military oper- ations are being waged." In Johnson City, Tex., the Texas White House said President John- with McNamara and Deputy Sec- son had been informed of Alcoa's retary of Defense Cyrus R. Vance, decision, but would have no im- the spokesman said. mediate comment. In return, McNamara agreed to There was no immediate com- the immediate resumption of ne- ment by Reynolds Metals or Kais- gotiations for the orderly disposal er Aluminum & Chemical Corp., of 1.4 million tons of aluminum other major aluminum producers. now held in government stock- Alcoa President John Harper piles. and Executive Vice-President Lee The defense chief also said he Hickman informed McNamara of believed it would be possible to the firm's willingness to back off limit the quantity of metal dis- the price increases in a meeting posed from the stockpile next year to less than 200,000 tons. The Alcoa price rescinding was viewed by officials as a victory for the government in its attempt to avoid a wave of inflation by price increases. Arthur Sylvester, assistant sec- retary of defense, said Harper and Hickman told McNamara they continue to believe the price in- creases are required by the alu- minum industry to maintain ade- quate profits. However, Sylvester said, the Alcoa officials also said they rec- ognized the need to maintain price stabiitly at a time of rising de- mand and increasing defense pro- duction associated with operations in South Viet Nam. Therefore, the Alcoa officials said, they are prepared to rescind the price increases for aluminum ingot and -fabricated products an- nounced by the company. Sylvester said other members of the aluminum industry are being invited to join in the stockpile negotiations "and it is hoped they can be resumed promptly." Harper and Hickman requested the meeting with McNamara, Sylvester said. Officials of the General Services Administration announced Tues- day they had begun making prep- arations for the immediate sale of 100,000 tons of aluminum from the government's surplus stock- piles. Officials of Kaiser Aluminum and Dow Chemical Corp., two large aluminum producers, called Monday for renewed talks between industry and government over the amount and method of sale from the stockpiles. The aluminum price increases were announced last week and White House spokesmen immedi- ately made it clear the government considered the raises inflationary. At a news conference last Sat- urday, Gardner Ackley, chairman of the President's Council of Eco- nomic Advisers, described the in- creases as inflationary and not justified. I r i Power Failure Prompts SQuestions, Speculations and CONCERT DANCE ORGANIZATION PRESENT "AN EVENING OF DANCE" FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12 By The AssociatedPress NEW YORK-The enormity of America's most stunning tech- nological breakdown emerged with frightening clarity yesterday but the mystery of how it could have happened remained as dark as the 10-hour power blackout itself. About 30 million Americans, a sixth of the population, felt the effect of the paralyzing electrical failure in seven northeastern states and parts of Canada. At its peak, the breakdown spread over 80,000 square miles of the nation's most populous corner, trapped 900,000 persons in com- muter trains, elevators and office buildings in scores of cities, and set in motion a mobilization of police and emergency forces° un- matched outside of a war or dis- aster area. Origin Unknown Consolidated Edison Co. and Niagara Mohawk Power Co. offi- cials said they still could not pin- point the precise origin of the failure. The abrupt plunge into darkness brought home to those who exper- ienced it the utter dependency on electrical power. People stranded downtown and lucky enough to get a hotel room walked up many flights of dark- ened stairs to darkened rooms and found them without water be- cause electrical pumps were down. Cash registers wouldn't open, fill- ing station gas pumps wouldn't work, doorbells wouldn't ring. Five thousand off-duty New York policemen were called out r to aid the 7000 already on duty, Speculate Sabotage In foreign capitals, the word sabotage came quickly to many lips and found its way speculative- ly into, the press. Such speculation probably will die hard, despite 4? v---1 Where is our biggest challenge -- in. space, or on some battlefield? Or does it lie in the realm of thought, where men strive for deeper insight and spiritual re- newal ... for the discovery of man in God's image. There's so much more to life than what's on the surface. Hear this public lecture titled "The Mythology of Matter" by LENORE D. HANKS, C.S.B., member of the Board of Lecture- ship of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass. Christian Scic lecture FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12 8:00 P.M. AUDITORIUM A, ANGELL HALL Admission Free . Everyone is welcome Performances: 7:30 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. BARBOUR GYMNASIUM STUDIO ADMISSION COMPLIMENTARY p4 k I,.-'- - - --- TODAY and TONIGHT NATHAN A. SCOTT, JR, TWO UNIVERSITYLECTURES: 4:15 and 7:30 pm.-Multipurpose Room, UGLI "THE CRISIS OF FAITH IN THE NEW THEOLOGY AND THE PROMISE OF GRACE IN POETIC ART" -Associated Press SHOT ATOP EMPIRE STATE BLDG. Tuesday night shows New York buildings blacked out while lighted New Jersey shore sparkles behind them. apparent official agreement in Washington that no sabotage was involved. The blackout news, conveyed to many people in Europe, Asia, Af- rica and Latin America in huge headlines, in some minds becomes a military fact. It remains so for them even though the U.S. State Department announced that an emergency generating system, put to an unexpected test, kept a net- work of military communications with northeastern bases intact during the power crisis. Consolidated Edison, w h i c h serves New York City and some of the metropolitan area, said in a statement that the blackout "seems to have been caused by a massive loss of generating capacity somewhere on the interconnected electric system to the north of our territory." "This threw so much load on the remaining facilities of the combined electric companies in the Northeast that they were unable to meet the demand and the en- tire electric system collapsed, los- ing its synchronism," the com- pany said. Government Reaction Uppermost in the minds of Washington officials was the se- curity of the nation, though the notion of sabotage seemed remote. President Johnson ordered Chairman Joseph C. Swidler of. the Federal Power Commission to direct an.investigation which is sure to raise questions about the power grid which, ironically, was set up to prevent just such a breakdown. Swidler stated the problem: "This incident demonstrates what everybody realized all along but never thought about: the ab- solute indispensability of electric power and the fact that we can't tolerate a system-wide interrup- tion under the highly developed power conditions we have today." / VIETNAMESE CONFLICT: Both Sides Initiate New War Tactlcs Nathan Scott was born in Cleve- land, reared in Detroit, and re- ceived his A.B. from the University of Michigan in 1944. Since then he has received his B.D. from Un- ion Theological Seminary, his Ph.D. from Columbia University, a Litt.D. from Ripon College, and an L.H D. from Wittenburg University. He is a priest of the Episcopal Church, a Fellow of the School of Letters of Indiana University, and pres- ently. is Professor of Theology and Literature at The University of Chicago Divinity School. Natl Fall Series Among a total of twelve, Scott has authored the following books: Rehearsals of Discomposure: Alienation and Reconciliation in Modern Literature The Tragic Vision and the Christian Faith Modern Literature and the Religious Frontier Albert Camus Reinhold Niebuhr Man in the Modern Theatre Samuel Beckett Four Ways of Modern Poetry han Scott, Jr. is the final lecturer in the sponsored by The Office of Reilgious Affairs, The University of Michigan By The Associated Press SAIGON--The Vietnamese war has taken two dramatic twists- the Viet Cong are no longer run- ning from the Americans, and yes- terday, for the first time, an American held operational control of a Vietnamese fighting unit. The Communists displayed their new boldness in three engage- ments in the past week. In the past seven days, more U.S. soldiers have died in the tropical jungles of South Viet Nam than in any week of battle since the Korean War. New Tactics The view here is that, the Viet Cong have adopted new tactics to cope with U.S. ground offensives. Instead of-melting into their jun- gle sanctuaries in the face of American combat troops, they are lying in wait just as they do against the South Vietnamese. Meanwhile, . Col. Thell Fisher of Springfield, Va., was in over- all command of Vietnamese ma- rines and American Leathernecks who moved yesterday against the Viet Cong on a rain-flooded coast 40 miles south of Da Nang. This was a departure from prac- tice of the last four years, in which American military men have been limited to advising their Vietnamese allies. Unaltered, how- ever; is the U.S. position that the struggle is fundamentally a Viet- namese war. The B'ani Brith Hillel Foundation jointly with Beth Israel Congregation Dedicates Its SABBATH SERVICE to "ISRAEL" Tomorrow November 12-TH IS WEEK ONLY AT 8:00 P.M. AHAROW S. KIDAN Noted Israeli Statesman and Journalist, will speak on "Israel's Immigrant Population; Cultural Pluralism or Integration" Student Participants: Alice Applebaum Barbara Becker Steven Goldberg Sima Juliar Shirley Tanner John Plower, Jules Gardin, CANTORS with THE HILLEL CHOIR Reception, Oneg Shabbat, and Discussion follows Service. 1429 HILL STREET ALL ARE WELCOME 11 World News Roundup ' M By The Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia - Presi- dent Sukarno announced yesterday he has lifted martial law imposed on Jakarta and surrounding ter- ritory "Oct. 2, a day after the Communist-inspired coup that failed. * * * HAVANA - Cuba's Communist regime pressed the United States yesterday to exchange Cuban po- litical prisoners for pro-Commu- nists jailed in other Latin-Amer- ican nations. UNITED NATIONS -- France spoke out yesterday for the first time in the United Nations on behalf of seating Communist China, and declared the long- standing dispute should be settled by simple majority vote. TONIGHT The University of Michigan Opera Dept. THIS IS THE MOST POWERFUL LETTER presents 'l RICHARD WAGNER'S IN THE ALPHABET... when used on election day! UNIVERSITY PLAYERS present in repertory LOHENGRIN I i 11 II I II I II I II liii I &%m o I#.L:&% I..hLl~.mi u. ~ v IIItllID ; 4faraefeI0t'