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Truman
Refuses
To
Intervene
in Formosa
President's
Economic
Report Due
Mild Proposals
Expected Today
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WASHINGTON-(P)-President
Truman sends his annual eco-
nomic report to Congress today,
and the lawmakers have two rea-
sons to believe the message will
be mild and even mellow in tone.
Those reasons are:
1. The moderate phrasing of
his State of the Unbn message,
delivered in person Wednesday to
a joint session of the House and
Senate.
2. The restrained character of
the year-end report of his own
Council of Economic Advisers, is-
sued a week ago yesterday.
MR. TRUMAN spoke confident-
ly of the future Wednesday when
he touched on the nation's eco-
nomic achievementsn and pros-
pects. Notable advances have been
made toward a better life for all,
he said, and he envisioned the
possibility of a trillion dollar na-
tional income in 2,000 A.D.
He spoke of removing inequi-
ties in the tax laws, and hold-
ing down government spending
to a level he deems wise. Both
these points may be developed
further in the economic mes-
sage, and should be revealed in
some detail in the 1951 budget
he will send up to the Capitol
next Monday.
The current flourishing business
situation appears to have elimin-
ated any possibility that the Pres-
ident would ask for standby anti-
inflationary powers as he did in
last year's economic message.
IN HIS 1949 communication, he
came out for a $4,000,000,000 tax
increase, which he didn't get. The
tax adjustment program he will
seek this year calls for what he
terms a "moderate" amount of
additional revenue. The most pop-
ular feature of it, however, is the
widely predicted call for repeal
of some of the wartime excise
4 taxes.
If Mr. Truman's economic mes-
sage reflects the counsel of his
economic advisers, the adminis-
tration will seek the active coop-
eration of business in keeping the
nation's economy healthy. The
advisers - Leon Keyserling and
John D. Clark - said that the
businessmen need government, and
the government needs the help of
businessmen in developing "prac-
tical programs."
Chambers
Psychopathic
- -Psychiatrist
NEW YORK-(P)-A psychia-
trist testified yesterday that Alger
Hiss' chief accuser, Whittaker
Chambers, suffers from a mental
disorder which makes its victims
chronic liors and false accusers.
Dr. Carl A. J. Binger, called by
the defense in Hiss' second per-
jury trial, said the disorder is a
recognized mental disease known
as "psychopathic personality."
IN ALLOWING the mental spe-
cialist to testify, over strong gov-
ernient objections, Federal Judge
Henry W. Goddard said it was
probably the first such testimony
to be admitted in a federal trial.
Replying to a 70-minute ques-
tion by defense counsel Claude
B. Cross, Dr. Binger, who day
after day watched Chambers in
court, told the jury of eight
women and four men:
"Mr. Chambers is suffering from
a condition known as psycho-
pathic personality-a disorder of
character, the outstanding fea-
tures of which are amoral and
asocial behavior."
*. * *
SUCH PERSONS, the psychia-
trist, said, suffer from "chronic,
persistent and repetitive lying,
stealing, misrepresentation, acts
of deception and drug addiction.
Dr. Sanders Makes
Plea of 'NotGuilty'
Court Releases N.H. Mercy Slayer
On Unprecedented $25,000 Bail
MANCHESTER, N.H.-()-A haggard country doctor was at
liberty last night under $25,000 bail-an unprecedented court pro-
cedure-after pleading innocent to a charge of first degree murder
in an alleged "mercy" slaying of a dying cancer patient.
New Hampshire legal authorities were unable to name any prev-
ious defendant in a \capital case granted similar release.
*I * * *
ONLY THREE MINUTES were required to arraign the accused
physician, Dr. Herman N. Sander. This included reading of an in-
dictment charging he "feloniously, willfully and with malice afore-
thought did inject 10 cubic centimeters of air four times in close
Great Britain Plans
To Recognize Reds
British, U.S. Action Ends sChiang's
Hopes for Return to Mainland
By The Associated Press
China's triumphant Communists scored two great successes on the
international stage yesterday amid bitter recriminations in the United
Stp.tes' Congress.
1. President Truman, in a major policy declaration, flatly refused
to intervene to save Formosa, big island off the China coast, from the
Reds.
2. Great Britain prepared to announce today that it is recognizing
the Communist government of China. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-
Shek's ambassador to London was called to the British Foreign office
and politely told Britain no longer recognizes Chiang's government.
Threa tened
Floods, Ice
GripNation
By The Associated Press
Rampaging winter built a 2,000-
mile long ice slide from New York
to central Texas yesterday and
rained new blows on the Midwest,
South and far West.
A wide band of freezing rain or
sleet turned highways into a mo-
torist's nightmare through east-
ern Texas, Arkansas, Missouri,
Kentucky, Tennessee, Illinois, In-
diana, Ohio, West Virginia, Penn-
sylvania and New York state.
* * *
AT LEAST three persons were
drowned and hundreds of resi-
dents were driven from lowland
homes as flood perils mounted in
Illinois and Indiana. Floods in-
undated some areas in Missouri
and Kentucky. Indianans braced
foi their worst floods in more than
six years.
Freezing weather brought new
damage to California citrus and
vegetable crops. Continued cold
was forecast.
The sleet brought an icy end to
springlike temperatures in the
southeastern and Atlantic sea-
board states.
ICE-LOCKED Memphis, Tenn.,
was in semi-paralysis. All schools
were closed. Thousands of resi-
dents were without electric power.
Street railway service was less
than 50 per cent of normal. Some
2,500 telephones were out of ser-
vice. Hundreds of ice-loaded trees
crashed. Air traffic was halted.
Freezing rain swept in on
Memphis Wednesday evening
and fell throughout the night.
Missouri counted two flood vic-
tims and Illinois had one.
Several rivers still were rising
in Illinois and Indiana as the
aftermath of drenching rains.
* * *
VINCENNES, IND., a city of
18,000, was endangered by a weak-
ened flood wall. Mayor William L.
Betz said he feared a 28 foot crest
on the Wabash River might prove
too great a strain. The wall was
built to withstand such pressure
but Betz said it was weakened in
a flood in 1943 and never was re-
paired.
succession into the veins of Mrs.
Abbie Borroto, 59, well knowing
the said air injections to be suffi-
cient to cause death."
To this, Dr. Sanders fairly
shouted: "not guilty." They
were the only words he spoke
loudly enough to be heard in the
packed courtroom.
Dr. Sander, little known be-
yond the circle of his general prac-
tice before the death of Mrs. Bor-
roto Dec. 4, had become an inter-
national figure when called before
the bar of justice.
* * *
NEW HAMPSHIRE provides the
hangman's noose or life imprison-
ment for first degree murder, al-
though the extreme penalty has
not been exacted in many years.
In far off Rome, L'Osserva-
tore, the Vatican's newspaper,
presumably stating the Pope's
opinion, cited the fifth com-
mandment, "thou shalt not kill"
in condemning mercy slaying,
and added:
"The fact is, that the doctor
(by committing a mercy slaying)
changes his mission to an inhu-
man one of giving death."
* * *
BUT THE prosecutor, Attorney
General William L. Phinney, in
approving the physician's liberty
under bail, explained this "rather'
unusual" procedure was followed
"because of Dr. Sander's high
moral character and standing in
the community."
Dr. Sander's release was made
conditional on his refraining from
practice until after his trial. De-
fense counsel objected to the stip-
ulation and agreed to it only
after Superior Court Judge Har-
old E. Wescott ruled it would not
prejudice the doctor's case.
Dr. Sander, father of three
young daughters, had continued
his practice, including delivery of
two babies, after the murder accu-
sation.
Court attaches indicated his
trial date will be set before the
first of April.
IRA Delegation
To Attend Meeting
Inter-Racial Association. mem-
bers last night laid plans to send
a University delegation to the
National Association for Advance-
ment of Colored People Conven-
tion in Washington, Jan. 15-17.
IRA also drew up a resolution
to support the civil rights crusade
of NAACP, particularly anti-poll
tax, anti-lynch and fair employ-
ment practices acts.
-Daily-Burt Sapowitch
NEW MEN'S DORM SITE-Three workmen from a Detroit construction company stand on what
will soon be part of the $5,000,000 men's residence hall, as a steamshovel does its bit during yes-
terday's preliminary excavation. Expected to house some 500 men in its west wing by September,
the eight-story residence will mean home for 1,500 University men upon probable completion by
September, 1950. It has been financed by issuance of self-liquidating bonds.
Construction Begn On ANew Dorm
By DON KOTITE
The new men's dormitory inched
toward reality yesterday as a
weather "break" permitted the
start of actual construction of the
long-planned $5,000,000 project.
Handfuls of curious students
and townspeople stopped occa-
sionally on walks surrounding the
Madison Street site, opposite the
International Center, while a crewI
of nearly 30 went ahead with pre-
liminary excavation.
ALL BUILDING lines were laid
out and excavation work on the
structure's eight-story east wing
was completed yesterday, a spokes-
man for the Detroit building firm
handling the job said.
Five of the seven houses or-
iginally standing on the plot
have already been removed. The
NEGATIVE TROUBLE:
Local Photographer Proposes.
New Dance Picture System
By BOB KEITH
Assailing present methods of
awarding picture contracts for big
campus dances, a local photogra-
pher proposed that the Student
Legislature adopt a plan which
"would put control of the picture-
taking more directly in the hands
of the University."
In making the proposal, Bob
Gach, owner of a local camera
shop, yesterday charged that the
set-up now used by committees of
dances such as Homecoming and
World News
Roundup
By The Associated Press
CAIRO - Final returns
night from Tuesday's general
tion gave the pro-western
last
elec-
and
VIOLIN-PIANO DUO:
List and Glenn To Team
In Hill Concert Tonight
reformist WAFD Party an abso-I
lute majority in the Egyptian
Parliament.
* * *
PRAGUE - The Communist
government expelled an Ameri-
can student and seized a Czech-f
language bulletin of the U.S.,
Information Service yesterday in.
actions moinciding with fresh
attacks upon the United States
in the controlled press.
The student ordered out is
Savel Kliachko, of Palo Alto,
Calif., once held in Slovakia five
days on suspicion of spying. He
came here last summer from
Columbia University's School of
International Affairs on a schol-
arship to study at Prague Uni-
versity.
* * *
ATHENS-The cabinet of Pre-
mier Alexander Diomodes resign-
ed yesterday and sources close to
the palace said last night the king
will ask John Theotokis, speaker
of the Parliament to form a new
government.
CHICAGO - Four railroads
serving the Middlewest yester-
day announced train suspen-
sions effective Sunday in com-
pliance with an Interstate Com-
merce Commission order neces-
sitated by the shortage of coal
for passenger service.I
Listed in the 147 trains dis-
continued by the New York
Central are 14 runs serving the
J-Hop have led to "favoritism,
exorbitant profits by photogra-
phers, duplication of contracts
and alleged fraud."
* * *
UNDER GACH'S PLAN, being
considered by SL's varsity com-
mittee, the photographers would
be paid by the dance committee.
Students attending the dances
would receive negatives and con-
tact prints from the photographer
and could then have finished
prints and enlargements made up
by any photo-finisher. They would
also pay a fee directly to the dance
committee for the photographer's
services.
He pointed out that contracts
could include the overall price of
the job, and that any student or
professional could take the pic-
tures for a nominal price because
of the low overhead involved.
* * *
"THE PLAN cuts out publicity,
and commercialism and clearly
steps on those who are out to
make a killing on big jobs," Gach
asserted.
He cited a "constant state of
turmoil" in present awarding of
contracts because of inexper-
ience on the part of dance com-
mittees. "As a result, the stu-
dents aren't getting what they
deserve," he asserted.
Varsity committee member Ar-
nold Miller, '51, who favored
Gach's proposal, called picture
taking on campus "highly com-
mercial." Miller cited "enormous
rates, unnecessary time of pro-
cessing, and poor quality pictures."
Dave Pease, varsity committee
chairman, said his group was con-
sidering the plan as a means of
(1) taking a lot of commercialism
and underhanded dealings out of
large campus dances, (2) enabling
dance committees to follow a con-
crete policy and (3) giving stu-
dents pictures at nominal prices.
FACULTY GLOBE TRO
'U' Represe
other two will remain until the
entire 1,150-man structure is
completed, probably by Septem-
ber, 1951; he said.<
A rough grading of the land was{
made yesterday, and projectingI
basements were all levelled off, thet
company spokesman explained.
Workers will begin to pour con-
crete footings today or Monday,I
he added.
* * *
A DOUBLE-WING affair, the
new dormitory will tentatively ac-
commodate about 500-residents in
its west wing, by next September,
University Vice-President Robert
P. Briggs said earlier in the week.
Financed by issuance of self-
liquidating bonds, the dorm will_
be divided into seven houses,
three in the east section and four
in the west. It is patterned after
the modern women's residence'
hall, completed early last year.
A long central section broken up
by projecting wings on both sides
will grace the new building above
the third floor.
The first two stories will house,
in addition to student rooms, four
dining rooms, a kitchen and
lounge space.
Rev.Kauff man
To Retain Post
Church Board
IgnoresControversy
OWOSSO - (P) -The Rev. Al-
bert W. Kauffman, center of a
controversy a month ago after
he wrote a letter to the magazine
"Soviet Russia Today," will keep
his job as pastor of the Congre-
gational Church at nearby Ver-
non.
The Congregational board de-
cided that today at its annual
meeting.
The controversy started after a
nationally syndicated column car-
ried parts of Mr. Kauffman's let-
ter in which he referred to "fool-
ish patriots" and "legionnaires."
The American Legion promptly
demanded an apology. The minis-
ter told his congregation that his
letter had been misinterpreted and
that he meant to cast no reflec-
tion upon the American Legion.
He said he used the terms in their
historical sense.
The board of education at Sun-
field, where Mr. Kauffman was
employed as superintendent of
schools, fired him but then rein-
stated him.
IT WAS A DOUBLE BLOW to
Chiang's hopes of building up For-
mosa as a possible springboard
from which to jump back some
day to the mainland wheresthe
Communists had beaten him.
A hot debate raged for hours
in the Senate. Sen. Knowland
(R-Calif.) cried that the Ad-
ministration had betrayed the
non-Communist Nationalists. If
Formosa falls, he said, the
United States' first line of de-r
fense may become its own Paci-
fic coast.z
Senator Connally (D-Tex.),1
chairman of the foreign relationsa
committee, replied that Formosa is
not important enough to risk war
trying to save it.I
* * *
PRESIDENT Truman servedd
notice that the U.S. government
intends to steer clear of the up-
heaval which has put much of
China into Communist hands.
"The United States govern-
ment will not pursue a course
which will lead to involvement
in the civil conflict in China,"
said a statement he issued at his
news conference.
Last night it was learned that
Americans on Formosa, of whom
there are between 100 and 200, are
being quietly told to leave. Offi-
cials believe that the Nationalist
government there is threatened
with an internal upheaval as well
as a Communist amphibious at-
ack.
DISPATCHES from London
said the British would announce
recognition of the Reds about
noon (7 a.m., E.S.T.) today.
The British have substantial
trade and other interests in
China, but British officials
sought to discount this factor.
They explained that "nothing
would be gained by boycotting
indefinitely a government ruling
over a vast territory and popu-
lation."
Secretary of State Acheson
made plain the United States
would be in no hurry to follow the
British example. Any question of
recognizing the Chinese Commun-
ists is premature at this time, he
said at a news conference. Nothing
will be done, he said, without con-
sulting Congress.
PRESIDENT Truman's state-
ment drew caustic criticism from
Republicans who have been de-
manding aid to Formosa, but ap-
plause from Democrats who said
intervention might start World
War III.
Senator Vandenberg of Michi-
gan, ranking Republican on the
Senate foreign relations com-
mittee, withheld any detailed
comment, - but issued a state-
ment of regret that the admin-
istration had acted without a
"realistic consultation" with
Congress members.
"Every practical discourage-
ment to Communist conquest,
short of active American military
participation, should be pursued
in China and throughout the Far
East," he said.
New Power
Policy Asked,
By Truman
WASHINGTON---)-Presdent
Truman called yesterday for pub-
lic power development wherever
it is feasible and where private
interests are ndt ready to do the
job as cheaply as the government.
Underlining his power policy at
a news conference, he circled the
nation with an outline of power,
navigation and flood control pro-
jects he has urged in the past.
* * *
HE DUMPED into the middle a
vast central valley project to im-
prove the upper Mississippi and
Ohio rivers, intended to be car-
ried out gradually in conjunction
with development of the Missouri
river.
He reiterated opposition to
power development of the St.
Lawrence separately from the
navigation phases of the I*6mg-
pending Atlantic -to- the- Great
Lakes seaway as urged by Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey of New York.
The President said he wants all
or nothing on the St. Lawrence
project; that power development
alone would benefit only Ontario
and New York, whereas that and
simultaneous opening of the wat-
erway to ocean shipping as far
west as Chicago and Duluth would
benefit the whole United States.
ANSWERING a question which
touched off his oral swing around
the country on river development,
the President said his message
proposal for public power pro-
jects in New England covered
the long-dormant Passamaquoddy
tide-harnassing project in Maine,
and also river development.
He said he will send a letter to
Congress later on the New Eng-
land proposition. If the Niagara
river development is needed in
connection with the St. Lawrence
project he will favor it - the
broader the plan the better - but
he doesn't think that is included
now.
King Peter To
~Speak Jan. 10
On Yugoslavia
King Peter, II, of Yugoslavia,
the young ruler whose reign was
interrupted by Nazi occupation,
will present "The Story of My
Country" at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday
in Hill Auditorium.
Originally scheduled to speak
on February 15, the date of his
talk has been changed to permit
him to return to Europe at an
early date.
* * *
HE BECAME King of Yugo-
slavia following his father's as-
sassination in 1934, when he was
only 11 years old.
Three regents were appoint-
ed to rule for him until he was
18. When one of the group sold
out the country to Germany In
1939, popular demonstrations
forced the resignation of the re-
gents and a traitorous cabinet,
and cheered a new government
formed under King Peter's lead-
ership.
By PHOEBE FELDMAN
Eugene List and Carroll Glenn,
famed pianist-violinist husband-
and-wife concert team, will appear
at 8:30 p.m. today in Hill Auditor-
ium, playing a program of five
works.
The concert is the fourth in the
University Choral Union's Extra
Concert Series.
LIST AND MISS GLENN will
first play Haydn's Concerto for
Violin and Piano in F Major. Next
on the program is the "Rondo
Capriccioso" by Saint-Saens; Ra-
vel's "Ondine" and the "Hungar-
ian Rhapsody No. 6" by Liszt. The
duo will conclude the concert with
we played
marked.
many encores," List re-
* * *
EXPLAINING, he said that "if
an American plays a beautiful
phrase, Democracy goes up a peg
in the minds of European people."
Trieste's newspaper, Messag-
gero Veneto, called the concerts
"a good omen to the world
peace.'
In this country, music critic Olin
Downes declared "the young pian-
ist, Eugene List, is an admirably
equipped virtuoso and a true mu-
sician," and the New York Times
acclaimed Miss Glenn's appearance
in the "capital of the world" as a
)TTERS:
itatives Travel World
From Pakistan to South Africa,
from crowded cities into the most
remote areas of the world, the
University sent out its represen-
tatives last year.
Altogether, more than 50 Uni-
making observations at the La-
mont-Hussey Observatory.
Much of the traveling was done
in Europe by 22 of the faculty
members. Research work there
included wind tunnel design in
seas work done by the faculty
members. Also consultation was
done for Federal and United Na-
tions agencies.
The World Health Organization
called on one doctor to aid in the