THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1-1967 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE T H U R D A Y FE B U A R 2,1 67 il E I C H G A N A I L I Mao Forces' Claim Town In Sinkiang Government Reports Opposition Forces Fleeing from Area TOKYO (P) - The turbulence sweeping Red China centered yes- terday on Sinkiang Province in the northwest. Peking wall posters said Mao Tse-tung's forces had seized the capital, and a nearby city that was a hotbed of resis- tance, and put a rebellious army of ex-soldiers to flight. The posters said Mao's support- ers were "in full control" of the provincial capital, Urumchi, and of Shihhotze to the northwest. The posters said loyal army units seized Shihhotze, reported captur- ed in bloody fighting by the ex- soldier army of 10,000 last month. There was no way of confirming these reports. They were the more confusing since other wall posters said Premier Chou En-lai called for a truce in the province that borders on the Soviet Union and had agreed to talk to its rebellious political and military leader, Gen. Wang En-mao. J apanese press reports had said this desire to talk apparently arose from the concern of Mao and his supporters that Wang might seize the nuclear installations and test- ing ground at Lop Nor in south Sinkiang. The whereabouts of Wang, who was said to command the loyalty of seven of the eight army divi- sions in Sinkiang, was not known. Japanese correspondents s a i d Wang had come to Peking in De- cember but presumably has re- turned to Sinkiang. k The day saw these other de- velopmentsin the power struggle: Mao's foes in Chekiang Province on the east coast were inciting an "armed struggle", to destroy the farming communes. It said those in authority were "arbitrarily dis- tributing collective funds, profits and food stocks to undermine pro- duction and national interest." -People's Daily, the official newspaper, declared the capture of Kweiyang, capital of Kweichow Province, "is the first spring thun- der -echoing in the skies over southwest China in the bitter days of winter." Kweiyang was a U.S. air base " until it was knocked out by a Japanese offensive in south China late in ,World War II. Peking correspondents of Jap- anese newspapers reported more than one million persons, led by Mao's teen-age Red Guards, wel- comed 60 Chinese students with anti-Soviet placards on their ar- rival from Moscow, --Associated Press SALUTE WITH MAO'S WORKS Communist Chinese students in Moscow wave books of Mao Tse-tung's sayings in an anti- Soviet demonstration. The students were denied permission to lay wreaths on Lenin's tomb, KAAN-KOMAREr: Czech Government S e n tences American Citizen, to 8 ,Years-, FCC Delays Nader Hits Mergin of Mergin 'Stanidards, ABC, ITT WASHINGTON (t - Ralphc Nader, one of the auto industry's WASHINGTON () - The Fed- severest critics, aimed his fire yes-" eral Communications Commission terday at the Commerce Depart- last night ordered International ment, chastizing its officials fort Telephone & Telegraph Corp. and what he called a "poor perform- American Broadcasting Co. to de- ance" in issuing auto safety stan-c lay their merger. dards. No specific time period was set, Nader. author of the book "Un-1 but under a timetable laid out by safe at Any Speed," said Congress the commission, the postponement should schedule a hearing to finds could extend to March 6 or later. - - The FCC voted 5 to 2 to delay 7= - the $2-billion merger while it de- cides whether to reconsider its Dec. 21 decision that approved thej Acted on Request The FCC acted at the request of: the Justice Department, which said the commission had not given American Motors Corp. repoiteda sufficient consideration to pos- a heavy quarterly loss and a fur- sible anti-competitive aspects of ther production cutback yesterday$ the merger. at its annual stockholders' meet-i The commission's decision came ing.v as a surprise. Earlier in the day General Motors Corp. also re-t the FCC said it would take no ac- ported a sales decrease of $534 tion yesterday on the case. million in 1966 and a decline in But when Commissioner Nicho- llearnings from $7.41 a share in las Johnson said later that he 1965 to $6.24 last year. would be away today the com- GM's fourth quarter sales ands mission decided to act. earnings, however, were only mo-i The commission made its deci- derately less than those of the 19- sion to act yesterday at about 3:30 65 fourth quarter. p.m., began consideration by 4:00 ; ncomer.Decline p.m. and completed it by 5:15. F ncot e y eline nc Gives Two Weeks? For the year, GM net income misTo gvee J declined to $1.8 million from $2.1 i The commission gave the Jus- jmillion in 1965, according to aa tice Department until Feb. 15 to preliminary report issued Tuesday.d file papers specifying the precise Sales declined to about $20.2 bil- issues which it wishes the commis- lion from $20.7 billion in 1965. sion to consider, as well as a list GM said final results will be dis- of witnesses it may wish to call if closed sometime this month. the FCC decides to hold hearings. AMC's directors also voted yes-' The order said also that rT&T terday to omit for the sixth con-Q and ABC would have until Feb. 23 secutive quarter payments of any to file with the commission all the dividend. information they deemed nerti- The firm's auto-building lines a nent to answer the Justice De- in Wisconsin resumed operations partment, as well as their list of Ja prosectie wtnesesan. 27 after a two-week shut-. Sprospective witnesse-s. down. A new closing effective Feb. The Justice Department then 13 will cover 10 working days. c would have until Feb. 28 to notifyN the FCC if, by that time, it had No Further uCts any more evidence. And this must 'We plan no further shutdownsa be presented to the commission by after that and we will make nok March 6. f, further cuts in our work force,"k The proposed merger, announ- President William B. Luneberg ced publicly Dec. 8, 1965, would said. "We genuinely regret the involve a stock transaction of be- hardships this will cause our peo- tween $350 million and $400 mil- ple, but we sincerely expect we lion and create a company rank- have seen the last of it." ing 20th among the nation's cbr- Roy D. Chapin, AMC's new man porations, with assets exceeding in motion, told stockholders the $2 billion. Stockholders approved company has a bright 'future des- the merger. pite heavy losses in its last quarter Weakened Safety Asks Investigation out why the National Highway to wait until it receives Safety Agency performed so plete legal text scheduled for pub- poorly. lication later this week. Nader referred to issuance by Some sources said the standards the agency Tuesday of 20 auto won't change the general appear- safety standards to be included on ance of automobiles and the engin- cars beginning Jan. 1, 1968. All were softened from earlier pro- posals and three were withdrawn. The industry itself was publicly silent on the standards, preferring les Slip, rs Loss and last fiscal year. He reported a net loss of over $8 million for the first quarter cf its current fiscal year, compared with a profit of over $4 million in the same period a year ago. Future Development Chapin and Luneberg, who took over as AMC president on the same day Chapin was elevated, said AMC's automotive future will include development of a car which will be between the smaller imports and the smallest Ameri- can-built car. This confirmed Chapin's earlier indication that AMC would take aim on the import market now dominated by Volkswagen. American Motors' own Rambler American currently is the lowest- priced car built in the United States, and the projected new car will undercut that price. It also will be smaller. Chapin predicted U.S. car sales, including imports, would level off at about 8.5 million in 1967, com- pared with 9 million in 1965. "We have no illusions about the difficulties that the company faces and we know we must convert the company right now into a profit- able one by more effective mar- keting and getting more people to know us," Chapin said. eering changes that may be re- quired won't be very noticeable to the average car buyer. But they could cost the buyer more money. The safety requirements ordered by the Commerce Department for automobiles beginning next Jan. 1 are: -Labels for all essential con- trols, and accessibility to a driver restrained by a safety belt. -Automatic transmission con- trol sequence, from left to right, bf park, reverse, neutral, drive, low. -Hydaulic break hoses meeting specific standards. -Limitation of light reflecting surfaces within driver's vision. -Outside rear view mirrors for cars where inside mirrors provide insufficient vision field. -Impact absorbing steering sys- tem inside passenger compart- ment. -Limit of five inches on the distance a crash might drive steer- ing mechanism inward toward driver, -Shatter-resistant windshield glass. -Elimination of spinner hub caps and other winged sheel pro- trusions. -Rupture-proof fuel tanks. -Windshield defrosters and de- foggers. --Windshield wipers and wash- ers with two-speed wipers and specified wiping area. --Parking brakes and fallback brake system, with warning light to show service brake failure. -Specified requirements for lights and other such safety de- vices. -Softening and padding of in- side areas. -Latches and hinges engineered to prevent doors springing open in crash. the com- PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia (A') - Ending a three-day secret trial, a Prague court yesterday convicted Vladimir K a z a n-Komarek, a Czech-born American, of heading a spy ring early in the cold war and sentenced him to eight years in prison. Kazan-Komarek, 42, is a travel agent from Wellesley, Mass., who was seized last Oct. 31 under spec- tacular circumstances on a pur- ported emergency stop at Prague Airport of a Soviet airliner on a flight from Moscow to Paris. The Russians and Czechs said the landing was made for technical reasons. The U.S. State Department ve- hemently protested the arrest and Democrats Ref use Seniority To Southern Representative has retaliated by denying visas to most Czechoslovak applicants. Kazan-Komarek took the sen- tence calmly. "He is satisfied with the ver- dict," his lawyer, Vaclav Petracek, told a reporter after the sentence was passed behind closed doors in the small municipal court. "We will not appeal it." Kazan-Komarek, a naturalized U.S. citizen who is president of a travel agency in Cambridge, Mass., was accused of having organized and directed the activities -of an antistate group as the paid agent of a foreign intelligence service from the fall of 1948-a few months after Communists took over the Czechoslovak government -until December 1950. Czech sources said the espionage group was American. (7 WASHINGTON (P) - House Democrats refused 134 to 100 yes- terday to restore Rep. John Bell Williams to the seniority ranking he lost two years ago when he bolted the party to support Barry Goldwater for president. Williams, a 20-year veteran from Mississippi, said the party caucus vote against him "ran the South out of the Democratic party." "This is a calculated insult to the State of Mississippi and espe- cially to the Democratic party of Mississippi," he said. Friends of Williams sought un- WEATHER WORSENS: New Storm Hits Chicago After 23 Inch Snowfall successfully to have him restored to the No. 2 position on the House Commerce Committee. This was the spot he held before a party caucus voted 157 to 115 two years ago to send him back to the foot of the table in retalia- tion for his open support of the 1964 Republican presidential ticket. Decline Service While yesterday's caucus action technically would leave Williams in 15th place among Democrats on the committee, he told news- men he would decline to serve on this or any other House com- mittee, "I can't be accepted as a Mississippi Democrat." The move to restore Williams' committee seniority was opposed by the liberal Democratic Study Group, which circulated. a letter to all House Democrats asking that they vote against the restora- tion effort. The study group, headed by Rep. Frank Thompson, Jr. (D- N.J.), said that to restore senority to Williams would be to "invite wholesale defections from the Democratic party to segregationist third party candidates in 1968." 'Bread and Butter' Seen as Primary Reason for Spanish Labor Unrest MADRID, Spain (A")-Spain had more labor unrest in January than in the whole of 1966. It comes as Gen. Francisco Franco is prepar- ing the nation for a government presided over by a prime minister, a chief of state and a monarch. The experts say the primary factor in the unrest is workers' bread and butter. But they add an underlying factor: a test by labor leaders of the easing of old re- strictions by the Franco regime to bring a semblance of democracy to Spain. "Some of the leadership doubt- less is politically inspired," said one labor expert. "But the main factor for general support of pro- posals for protest demonstrations, extra income of 1965 and 1966 work stoppages, and sit-down when employers were asking them strikes was the desire to make to work overtime and paying well more money, some of which was for the extra work," the expert 11 lost when economic expansion here was curbed by the govern- ment's own anti-inflation meas- ures.", Workers, he added, had been beginning to enjoy the extra in- come, to have money in their pockets, to contract for an auto- mobile or a new television set on time payments when they found the extra pesetas missing from their pay envelopes. "Some workers raised their liv- ing standards on the basis of this 'i said. "With the extra money gone, with some of them facing pay- ments they couldn't meet, with others bitter because their regu- lar pay was pretty skimpy beside the former overtime, they were easily attracted to appeals by =some extremist labor leaders for action." Among other things, workers have been demanding that the minimum wage of $1.40 a day be doubled. By The Associated Press Chicago, still dotted with tow- ering drifts from a record 23-inch snowfall, last week, reeled under another weather onslaught yester- day is a new storm, expected to develop into near blizzard propor- tions, closed in on the city. As the leading edge of the new storm hit with snow and sleet, some outlying schools which had just reopened called off afternoon classes 'and sent. the children home. Zenith Radio Corp. canceled its afternoon work shift. The Auto- matic Electric Company's North- lake plant canceled its afternoon and night work shifts. Stand-by Alert The Cook County Highway De- partment and sheriff's office put their men on standby alert which could cancel days off. Hundreds of crews, some using snow-removal equipment borrow- ed from Wisconsin and Iowa, have been working steadily for a week to clear main traffic arteries, sec- ondary streets and neighborhood side streets and alleys of old snow. The job was partly completed.. Cleanup operations, still were un- der way in some neighborhoods to permit truck deliveries of heating fuel oil and coal as the leading edge of the new storm hit Chicago. Worst of Storm The Weather Bureau at Chicago said the city was on target to get the worst of the new storm's fury. The bureau forecast that the storm, with winds building up to 40 miles an hour, could cover the city with at least 6 more inches of snow and cause considerable blow- ing and drifting. Northern I Illinois and Indiana were expected to take the greatest punishment with other sections of the Midwest getting 2 to 4 inches of new snow. The storm, which developed in the Rockies, spread across the northern and central Plains to the Great Lakes. A collision of warm, moist air moving northward from the Gulf from Canada provided the ingre- dients for the new storm. The Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry estimated the. total loss to business in last week's storm at $150 million. Es- timates of lost wages ranged be- yond $30 million. World News Roundup ] . mr m mmm m m mmm m mm mmmmm m m m- m m m m m ---- mmm m m r w * * I ' 1! } 3 i By The Associated Press WASHINGTON -- The space agency's two top administrators will go to Cape Kennedy, Fla., to- day for an interim report on the space capsule flash fire that killed three astronauts, it was announ- ced yesterday. Then James E. Webb, chief of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and his de- puty administrator, Robert C. Sea- mans, will return here to report back to the chairmen of the Sen- ate and House Space Committees, Sen. Clinton P. Anderson (D- N.M.), and Rep. George P. 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