Second Front Page NOVEMBER 7, 1959 Page 3 NO ATTACKS Soviet Union Celebrates Anniversary of Revolt N -, LINES SHUT DOWN-Tarpaulins covered the nation's auto assembly lines as production dwindled to a measly 67,514 units this week, reflecting a 33 ,er cent drop from last week's 101,598 total. Booming sales of both the regular and compact models will be ultimately curtailed as General Motors plants canre to a near standstill while Chrysler and Ford effected short work weeks. Negotiations at 'Standstill ionStleelStrike EdUseen MOSCOW (-) - The Soviet Un- ion yesterday began a three-day celebration of the 42nd anniver- sary of the 1917 Communist revo- lution with emphasis on scientific progress, better living and peace. The observances started off with a keynote rally in the Lenin Stadium Sports Palace and a real holiday spirit throughout the city. Completely lacking were the at- tacks on imperialism and the martial spirit of the past year. Biggest Show The biggest show of enthusiasm at the rally came when speakers mentioned Soviet space accom- plishments and Premier Nikita Khrushchev's visit to the United States. All references to the United States were favorable and all were received favorably by the audi- ence. A parade today is expected to bring thousands trudging through slush before the greats of the Party and government atop the Lenin-Stalin Mausoleum in Red Square. Keynote Talk The keynote talk this year was, given to Averky B. Aristov, a member of the Party Presidium since June 1957. Deputy Premier Anastas I. Mikoyan was the speaker at last November's kickoff rally. The sports palace, which seats 14,000 persons, was jammed by the party faithful. They got off early in the afternoon to begin a holiday that will last through to- morrow. Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev and Mikoyan joined in applause for the bespectacled Aristov when he assailed those who, he said, slander the Soviet Union. No Slander "In the old days persons who uttered slanders had to lick hot cake pans," Aristov' said with homely phrasing. "We ought to have a punishment like that now for such slanderers. Leaders of the party and gov- ernment sat at a long table on the stage at one end of the huge hall where American showmen pre- sented an ice spectacle and the Harlem Globe Trotters basketball matches in the last year . Khrushchev sat next to Presi- dent Klementi Y. Voroshilov. The ceremonies were broadcast by radio and TV. Show Films After the meeting ended, tele- vision viewers saw films of the life of Lenin which have become a ritual of the festival. One scene showed Lenin in his home, fondling a gray cat while he talked to members of his family. Aristov recited Soviet achieve- ments and some shortcomings aft- er 42 years of Communist rule. After listing advances in agricul- ture and noting the amount of building under way, he said more consumer goods still are needed. He told his a u d i e n c e that drought last summer had affected agricultural production. TEAR GAS-Canal Zone police sprayed tear gas against anti-American demonstrators who stormed into the Canal Zone protesting United States control of the canal earlier this week. The police, who were assisted by United States troops, used tear gas and fire hoses on the crowd. Panama newspapers said the violence stemmed from resentment over American interpretation and application of treaties between the two countries. Canal Zone Border Quiete PpersAnalyzeViolence . _ _ _ WASHINGTON (P)- The steel strike yesterday entered its 115th day with peace talks at a stand- still, and not a sign from any direction that a settlement might be near. Steel Firnm, Union Reach Agreement ST. LOUIS (A) - The Laclede Steel Co., which employs about 3,500 production workers in near- by Alton and Madison, Ill., reached a tentative agreement yesterday with the United Steel- workers Union on a new contract. Members of local 3643 at Alton and 1785, at Madison were to vote on ratification Thursday. No details were' available on the agreement. The company and the union said they reached partial agree- ment covering "many substantial areas" prior to Aug. 31, when the old contract expired. The com- pany had continued in operation despite the national steel strike, now in its 115th day. "The remaining items were left open awaiting settlement of the big steel negotiations," local 3643 President Buddy Davils said in a statement. "However, in view of the long delay in concluding a contract be- tween the major steel companies and the United Steelworkers and the prospect of further indefinite delay, Laclede Steel Co. and the United Steelworkers have deter- mined it would, be undesirable to further delay completion of their negotiations."' A spokesman for Laclede said the firm accounts for about one- half of one per cent of the total national steel output. Ie Appoints Ambassador The nation-and the deadlocked industry and union negotiators- still awaited the Supreme Court's decision whether to sustain or knock down a Taft-Hartley Law injunction ordering the 500,000 striking steel workers back to their jobs for 80 days. Whether the ruling would come today or later remained the court's own secret. The government ob- tained the injunction in federal court in Pittsburgh more than two weeks ago, but it has been held in abeyance pending the outcome of appeal. Menace to Health. In obtaining the back-to-work order, the government argued that the strike menaced the public health and safety-a contention the striking United Steelworkers Union fought vigorously, all the way up through the Supreme Court's hearing on the appeal Tuesday. On Capitol Hill Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) announced he will ask Congress next year to give the President potent new powers to halt strikes threatening to create national emergencies. He said he will introduce a bill to provide alternative procedures. Under one approach in the Morse Plan, the president would be empowered to appoint an emer- gency board with authority to issue an order settling a dispute after holding hearings and announcing findings. Allow Seizure closed plants, subject to congres- sional veto of his action within 10 days. . "We can no longer afford the luxury of prolonged disputes such as that now confronting the steel industry," Morse said in a state- ment announcing his plan. Strike-halting injunctions under the Taft-Hartley law may be is- sued for not more than 80 days, and the courts have no authority to extend or- renew then if the "cooling off" period fails to bring a settlement. The Supreme Court held its usual Friday closed-door confer- ence yesterday, presumably giving major attention to the steel case although there was no word of what went on. No Indication. There was still no indication when the Court might announce its decision on whether the 500,- 000 striking steel workers must re- turn to the mills under Court or- der. An 80-day injunction against the strike was issued Oct. 21 but enforcement was held up pending the appeal to the high Court. On its regular conference day the Court goes over pending cases and petitions for review of lower, court decisions. Ordinarily, there is no an- nouncement of actions until the court's regular session starting at noon Monday. Many persons familiar with Court proceedings, however, have speculated that the Court might announce its action in the steel case without waiting until Mon- day. PANAMA (A') - The Panama Canal Zone border was quiet yes- terday and Panama's newspapers came up with a unanimous ex- planation of the anti-American violence that occurred there this week.. The papers said it stemmed from Panamanian resentment over American interpretation and ap- plication of treaties between the two countries. N a t i o n a l i s t demonstrators clashed with United States troops Tuesday, Panama's 56th anniver- sary of independence from Co- lombia. The United States embas- sy was stoned and its flag was torn down. Protests were ex- changed between the two coun- tries. v , United States troops guarding the Canal Zone boundary with Panama City were withdrawn Fri- day and control was returned to police. Barbed wire barricades were removed from intersections and traffic restrictions were lifted. American troops remained on duty at the border between the Zone and Colon at the Atlantic end of the Canal. Panamanian complaints over the question of sovereignty in the Canal Zone date back almost to the signing of the 1903 treaty granting the United States a strip of territory for the Canal in per- petuity. Panama consistently contended that the Canal Zone was ceded for specific purposes and, althoug under United States jurisdictio the territory is Panamanian. The dispute over sovereign has been intensified by rece. Panamanian, accusations that ti visions of the 1955 treaty givir United States Is not fulfilling pra Panamanians equal t r e a t m e n and equal employment opporti nities in the Canal Zone. Panar contends lower wage scales sti prevail for Panamanians workir for the Canal administration. Another recurrent Panamania complaint is that the Canal ac ministration discriminates again. Panamanian businessmen in i purchasing. 'YOUNG, STURDY PEASANTS Russian, Women Expected To Carry Major Burden of Soviet Agriculture I0 The alternative procedure wouldI let the President seize and operate McElroy Plans Consolidating Military Requests, for Budget WASHINGTON (M - President Eisenhower has picked career dip- lomat Walter C. Dowling to be new United States Ambassador to Western Germany, informed sources reported yesterday. The Georgia-born Dowling is a 54-year-old foreign service officer with 29 years diplomatic experi- ence. He served from 1953 to 1956 as deputy United States high com- missioner for Germany and later as Minister Counsel at the Amer- ican Embassy in Bonn. LAST NIKGHT ! for Noel Coward's SPARKLING, HILARIOUS WASHINGTON (F') - Secretary of Defense Neil McElroy begins today the job of compressing money requests of the military services into a single package for submission as the 1961 military budget. McElroy has scheduled 'an all- day meeting with Deputy Defense Secretary Thomas Gates, former Defense Comptroller W. J. Mc- Neil, Deputy Assistant Secretary John Sprague ,Research Director Herbert F. York and Gen. Nathan Twining, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The session today is to be held aboard the Navy yacht Sequoia on the Potomac River. Next year's budget is expected to be about the same as the cur- rent year program - a 41 billion dollar expenditure, with requests for new funds totaling approxi- mately 40 billions. Of this, the Air Force may ask for between 18 and 20 billion in new money, the Navy about 11 bil- lion, and the Army about 9% bil- lion. The Defense Department's share, which includes money for such items as research and devel- opment, probably will run about 1% billion. Defense officials hope to have their requests assembled and ready for submission to budget bureau officials by the middle of this month. Further changes will come as the National Security Council and the Budget Bureau submit their views on the militray budget. The deadline for sending the over-all federal budget to the printers pre- liminary to submission to Cbn- gress usually is about mid-Decem- ber. By OVID A. MARTIN Associated Press Farm Writer WASHINGTON-Soviet Russia Is pinning its agricultural fture largely on the backs of sturdy{ young peasant women.. This is a big load because agri- culture is the weak link in theI Soviet economic system The part assigned the young farm women has been noted inf reports from the Soviet Union. But# the full significance of this can be appreciated only by a tour of the Russian farm areas. Scenes of women doing most of the hard, hand work on farms were deeply impressed on the group of agriculture department officials and newsmen (Editor's Note: Martin was one of them) who accompanied Secretary of Ag- riculture Ezra Taft Benson on his recent good will and trade tour of Russia, Poland, Yugoslavia, Fin- land, Sweden, Norway and West Germany. Women Do Most Soviet agriculture ministry offi- cials who went along with the Americans on visits to state and collective farms near Moscow and in the rich Ukraine, more than 500 miles to the south, freely re- ported that women are doing at least 60 per cent of the farm work. The visitors found women milk- ing cows, cleaning out livestock stalls, laying new bedding for ani- mals, doing the feeding, as well as doing the bulk of the hand work in fields that cannot be done by machinery. Most of these women-in the late teens, twenties and early thir- ties-showed little of the feminin- ity of American women. Yet, they showed every indica- tion of being satisfied with their' lot. Benson questioned a number of them and they seemed to show pride in telling of their work. Few Men The Americans found relatively few men on the big, factory-like farms. It was explained that many of the men living on the farms worked in factories in nearby towns and cities or drove trucks. The farm women wore coarse, heavy clothing, no makeup. None had an opportunity to attend school or to find other opportuni- ties. The ambition of most of them was to become milk maids. They draw the highest wages Most of the farm people watched the visitors from behind the fences. Few came out to join with the visitors, whether through or- ders or timidity was uncertain. In discussing the hard role as- signed the young peasant women, Benson speculated that their work would have, in time, a disastrous influence on marriage and rearing of children. It appears to him that these young women will have little chance or incentive to marry and make homes, harnessed as they are to hard work assigned in other countries largely to men. The Benson party did not dis- count, however, the farm produc- tive potential of Soviet agriculture. It traveled through areas rich in productive black soil. It saw in Moscow a display of Russian farm machinery, including tractors big .......... 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TO CARRY FUTURE-The future of Soviet agriculture, the weak link in the Russian economic system, is being carried by its young peasant women, who are doing at least 60 per cent of the farm work including hand work which cannot be done by machinery. Few men are found on the factory-like farms. NEW COMEDY "NUDE WITH VIOLIN" directed by Wm. Taylor j produced by ANN ARBOR CIVIC THEATRE, Inc. Tonight at 7:00 and 9:00 Tomorrow at 8:00 "Beautifully made .. , drama is engrossing, performance superb." -Crowther, N.Y. TIMES {'Hardly fit to be a teachcer for growing boys, even a teacher of classical languages, which he is." -Ibid. TERRENCE RATTIGAN'S "The Browning Version" Films of 1948 Rose Bowl tt +A ivchigan. I1s. ;A~ A' _e e 7 I l, a 5 4 U . S.C. I 11 I 11 II I I { {I 11