LOUIS GRANICIH See Page 4 Y Latest Deadline in the State Iui1ij , CLOUDY, SNOW FLURRIES VL. LX., No. 73 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1950 PRICE FIVE CENTS Truman Refuses To Intervene in Formosa President's Economic Report Due Mild Proposals Expected Today .. p 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