'Vr IGNORANCE POLL See Page 4 Latest Deadline in theState aitl CLOUDY, COOLER * VOL. LX, No. 147 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN SATURDAY, MAY 6, 1950 SIX PAGES U.S. Protests Plane Issue In New Note Future Appeal To UN Possible WASHINGTON-(A')-The Bal tic plane dispute with Russia reached a stalemate yesterday wit] renewed American charges, tha s the Soviets are solely responsibl for the loss of the Navy privatee and its crew of 10 men. ,, A new note to Moscow accuse Russia of flouting its internation al responsibilities in dealing witl the dangerous episode. It implie strongly at the same time tha j this government does not intend to press the dispute further nov by means of more complaints to the Kremlin. * * * THE WAY WAS left open for a possible future appeal to the United Nations or action througi some other channel. "It is clearly impossible to resolve this issue so long as the Soviet government refuses to base its position upon the facts in the case," Moscow was told. "The Soviet government must however, bear the responsiblitit3 both for the action of its ai force and for the manner with which it has dealt with this in- cident." * * * THE FOURTH communication in the exchange was delivered in " Moscow by Ambassador Allan G Kirk and made public by the State' Department. Replying tc the Russian note of April 18, which was in response to the original ti American protest over the plane, the State Department: 1. Declared again that the only American military plane in the Baltic Area at the time was the Navy privateer patrol craft and not an Army B-29 bomber as Moscow contended. 2. Reiterated that the Navy plane was unarmed and was never' over Soviet occupied territory. 3. Charged Moscow failed to' carry out a careful investigation and insisted on an "erronious ac- count." GStudy Gives West But Four Years To Arm Report Russia To Top U.S. Strength WASHINGTON - (A) - The Defense and State Departments have decided that the western powers have at most about four years to build up their combined military strength against Russia. This conclusion, it was learned yesterday, is based on a careful study of all available information about Russian armament produc- tion, including atomic weapons. The study indicates to top offi- cials that Russia will reach a dangerously well-armed state, with a margin of power over that of the United States alone, by 1954. * ~* * SECRETARY OF STATE Ache- son is expected to emphasize this point in his discussion with west- ern foreign ministers at London during the next two weeks. His aim is to get all the western na- tions to enter fully into the joint defense program already laid out by military leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Nations. He is prepared to insist that the United States alone cannot possibly do the job. He believes that only the combined efforts of North America and Western Europe can keep pace with the growth o f Soviet military strength pow that Russia is manufacturing atomic weapons. In addition some officials con- tend that German factories should be employed to turn out non- combat types of equipment need- ed by the western armies, such as transport vehicles. BECAUSE THERE is a sense of eventual if not immediate cri- sis in this argument, some admin- Istration officials privately ex- presd concern yesterday that President Truman's declared op- timism about the world situation M'Nine Defeats Tough Illini, 6-5 Senate After Passes Slicing Glob F EO al Aid Special to The Daily CHAMPAIGN-A five run surge' in the seventh inning highlighted by a grand slam homerun by cen- terfielder Ralph Morrison pro- vided the Michigan nine with just enough to gain a squeaky.6-5 Big Nine decision over Illinois here yesterday afternoon. The triumph registered on a wind ravaged field was the fifth successive conference success for the Wolverines who maintained their first place margin. GOING INTO the seventh in- ning, Alby Plain, highly rated Il-j lini hurler, who had relinquished his first earned run in four league starts in the fifth inning had a 2-1 lead. Plain annexed his eighth strikeout fanning Bob Fancett to opentheuseventh. Gerry Dorr rapped out a single, but was erased attempting to reach third US May Quizl Klaus Fuchs Congress Continues Atom Investigations WASHINGTON- (P) --There were signsyesterday that the FBI may soon be able to delve deeper into the sensational Fuchs atmoic spy case. The British government, it was reported, has now agreed to give American FBI agents limited ac- cess to question Dr. Klaus Fuchs, the British scientist who was con- victed of betraying atomic data to Russia. *I * * OFFICIALS HERE said the Bri- tish agreement--capping months of unexplained delay-may pro- duce leads on other Soviet spies in this country. The FBI, however, was un- derstood to want unrestricted access to Fuches and the Bri- tish limitation may be regarded as unsatisfactory. Dr. Fuchs, now serving a 14- year sentence in England for vio- lating the British Official Secrets Act, worked on atomic secrets in the United States during and af- ter World War II. -Daily-Ralph Clark RALPH MORRISON . . . grand slammer S* * * when Ed Grenkoski singled a momen later. With two out and Grenkoski on first, Bill Bucholz walked and Leo Koceski beat out a single to short loading the bases. Morrison then collected his first hit of the ball game, a tremendous clout to deep rightcenter pushing home three mates ahead of them. * * * THE MAIZE AND BLUE contin- ued to work on Plain and counter- ed once more in this frame on suc- cessive singles by Hal Morrill, Pete Palmer, and Captain Bob Wolff. Wolff's run producing hit sent Plain scurrying from the hill with six earned runs charged to him. Errors by the Michigan bat- tery, Grenkoski and Palmer, gave the Illini a single run, and the losers counted twice in the eighth on four singles to shave the margin to one slim run. Grenkoski proved himself ca- pable and escaped without fur- ther damage to fashion his third Big Nine victory. Illinois jumped into an early lead with a run in the third on a two base error by Bob Wolff and a singleby DickhRaklovits and tallied again in the fourth on a walk, a single by Russ Steger, an infield out and a squeeze bunt. MICHIGAN BROKE into the scoring column in the fifth when Dorr reached first after forcing See WOLVERINES Page 3 World.JNTws Roundup INFORMANTS who asked their names withheld told newsmen that "as of now" the British and Amer- icans working on the Fuchs case are cooperating. Meantime the atom bomb came in for renwed attention in investigations unrelated to the FBI probe. These were the de- velopments: 1. William Remington, 32-year- old Comerce Department official, twice a target of Congressional investigations, told the House un- American activties yesterday that; he did not know about the A-Bomb{ Project when he was working in the War Production Board. * * * REMINGTON said he had heard about the Army's Manhattan Pro- ject-the code name for the se- cret wartime project-but didn't1 know it was developing an A- Bomb. Two witnesses testified Thurs- day the knew Remington as a Communist. He swore he was nev- er a Red. 2. Senate investigators were re- ported seking data on Senator Mc- Carthy's charge that State Depart- ment employes helped feed atom- ic secrets to Russia early in 1945 in the "Amerasia case." THE WISCONSIN Republican himself was priming a double- barreled new attack in his cam- paign against alleged Communism in the Truman administration-- and Democrats were ready to fire back. Administration lieutenants told newsmen on Capitol Hill they are ready to uncork "something new" in the way of a counter barrage against McCarthy in the senate on Monday. But meanwhile McCarthy will get in two fresh blasts over the weekend-in speeches at Chicago tomorrow night and at Janes-! U.S. Claims, Reds .Have Prisoners BONN, Germany - (2'- Anti- Communist feeling surged acros West Germany yesterday as the stunned populace realized the full import of Russia's announcement that all German war prisonerE have been returned. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer bitterly charged that 1,500,000 Germans - including "tens of thousands of deported civilians"- are still missing in the Soviet Union. He demanded, in the name of humanity, that the Kremlin ac- count for their fate. The Chancel- for made a special appearance be- fore the West German parlia- ment. * * * U.S. HIGH Commissioner John J. McCloy declared at his Frank- furt headquarters that Russia has failed to account for "many hun- dreds of thousands of German prisoners of war." "I think the world should know what happened to them and to the many thousands of German civilians who also dis- appeared into the Soviet Union," McCloy said. U.S. officials in Frankfurt said McCloy and U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson will discuss the German war prisoner situa- tion when they meet in Paris Sun- day. STATE DEPARTMENT officials in Washington labelled Russia's announcement, made Thursday through the Tass News Agency, "fantastic and absurd." They esti- mated the Soviets are still holding "at least" 200,000 German troops in forced labor and prisoner of war camps. Tass said the last group of war prisoners - 17,538 of them - had been returned to Germany. Ade- nauer used Soviet figures to sup- port his declaration that 1,500,000 are missing. The Chancellor said that in 1945 Tass reported 3,500,000 Germans held in Russia. Thursday's an- nouncement said 1,939,063 had been repatriated. He said that still leaves more than 1,500,000 unac- counted for. The announcement plunged hundreds of thousands of German homes into mourning unparalleled since the last days of the war. It also brought forecasts from West German leaders that the Russians had spelled the end of the Com- munist party in Germany. Senate Group Slashes Grant WASHINGTON - (') - The Senate Finance Committee yes- terday slashed away most of the increases which the House had ap- proved in federal grants to the states for public assistance to needy persons. The action was taken as the' committe virtually completed its work on a House bill revamping the government's vast Social Se- curity System. The committee also disclosed it had agreed to an even broader ex- tension of coverage under the old-age and survivors' insurance program than it previously an- nounced. It raised to 8,000,000 the addi- tional persons for whom coverage will be compulsory. This was done by including, among others, 1,000,- 000 or more farm workers and "borderline" agricultural laborers. damage. * * * * * * * * , Fierce Wind Hits Midwest FLOOD MENACES WINNIPEG-Double walls of sandbags hold waters of the flooding Red R from spilling down Lombard Street in the heart of the Winnipeg business district. High wa nas driven more than 100 families from their nomes in the suburbs of the Canadian city. Me while strong winds raked midwestern United States, causing at least several deaths and wide-s