Y ,J'tr4 tgan :43, ii MED SCHOOL BLANKS See Page 4 CLOUDY AND SHOWERS Latest Deadline in the State VOL. LXII, No. 22 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1951 Undeclared War Continues over Suez Gan( ilArea * * * * * * Senate OK's New British Sea, Air Forces. Sent to Zone (CCEPT u PL Tax Compromise WASHINGTON--(P-A new compromise tax bill, making the income tax boost just a little less, was passed quickly by the Senate yesterday. A voice vote in the Senate sent the modified revenue measure back to the House and a vote there today. The Hose voted 203 to 157 Tuesday against the bill in its original form. * s * THE NEW BILL is estimated to raise $5,691,000,000 in new taxes, compared with the estimated $5,732,000,000 in the previous one. In " most essentials, however, the two measures are the same despite --the $41,000,000 money difference. Committee Fails to old Jessup Bid WASHINGTON-(/P)-Presider Truman's nomination of Ambas sador-at-Large Philip C' Jessu as a delegate to the United Na tions was voted down by a Senat Foreign Relations subcommitte yesterday, 3 to 2. In the Senate, Republican; quickly demanded that the issu be settled once and for all by floor vote. * * * THE GOP DEMAND apparent ly stemmed from fears that if th Senate itself does not act on th nomination before Congress ad journs, President Truman might give Jessep a recess appointment A Senate internal security subcommittee has been investi- gating alleged subversive influ- ences on U.S. policy toward the Far East. Jessup, top adviser to Secretar; of State Acheson, had been assail ed by Senator McCarthy (R-Wis and Harold E. Stassen. VOTING AGAINST Jessup wer Senators Gillette (D-Iowa), Brew ster (R-Me.) and H. Alexande Smith (R-N.J.). For him wer Senators Sparkman (D-Ala.), th subcommittee chairman, and Ful bright, (D-Ark.) The subcommittee's adverse } recommendation' came as a crushing blow to the State De- partment which had fought tooth-and-nail to support Jes- sup and had carried on a run- ning battle with Stassen, one of Jessup's chief critics. Unless the Senate acts on th nomination, Truman could ignor the subcommittee's vote and send Jessup to the critical forthcoming sessions of the United Nation General Assembly. The Assembi meets in Paris next month. The ballot on Jessup was take behind closed doors. At the same time, the subcommittee voted 3 to 0 to confirm nine others nominat, ed by Truman as UN delegates. Legion Blasts rU.S. Leadership MIAMI-(')-A shouting, angry Y American Legion convention yes. terday demanded that the entire State Department leadership be fired. During a stormy final session marked by cries of "trickery" anc "politics," a minority led by Mich- ael L. Loony of Washington, D.C. fought in vain to block the caustic report by the Legion's foreign re- lations committee. The report said in part: "To obtain the leadership re- quired, we demand the immediate removal of the present corps o1 leaders whose every action has re- flected incompetency, indecision and defeatism." The convention elected Don R. Wilson of Clarksburg, W. Va., as National ,Commander succeeding Erle Cocke, Jr., of Georgia. Mrs. E. A. Campbell of Homer, La., was elected president of the American Legion Auxiliary. 'Two Blind Mice' ' T r dv 'Tn Rma qnld If the House should pass the bill today,. Congress probably could adjourn Saturday until January. If it turned it down again, there is a possibility of further delay or a special session during the time now set aside for vacation. House leaders called their mem- bers to meet at 10 a.m. CST today, ready to vote on the bill. Its chances appeared improved but it still was not a certainty by any means. MAIN CHANGES voted by the conferees: 1. There would be an increase of 11 per cent, instead of 12'/2 per cent, in the tax on the first $2,000 of surtax net income. It would affect all income brackets, since everyone pays the first surtax rate. It would trim the proposed tax in- crease on single persons as much as $2 a year and on married couples the reduction in the increase would go up to $4 a year. Esti- mated net loss in revenue: $68,- 000,000. 2. The maximum effective tax on long term capital gains, by both individuals and corpora. tions, would be increased from the existing 25 per cent to 26 per cent. Estimated revenue gain: $28,000,000~ 3. July 1. 1951, instead of Jan. 1, 1952, would be the effective date for a cut back in the excess profits credit from 85 to 83 per cent. The effect would be to make the credit 84 per cent, rather than 85, for the calendar year 1951. Estimated gain: $60,000,000, but for one year only. Foreign Aid Cut Five Per Cent in Senate WASHINGTON-(P)-The Sen- ate made a 5 per cent cut in For- eign Aid funds yesterday then voted $7,208,401,400 for the de- fense of countries allied with the United States against threats of Communist aggression. Approval came on a roll call vote of 57 to 13. Senator Johnston (D- S.C.) joined 12 Republicans in op- posing the measure. It calls for $274,126,390 (M) less than the amount voted by the House. A Senate-House conference com- mittee will get to work immediate- ly ironing out the differences in the two versions. Most of the money will go for military equipment - aircraft, guns, tanks and other weapons. And most of the money will be in- vested in Western Europe, includ- ing Yugoslavia. The Foreign Aid bill is the big- gest appropriations bill still to be disposed of by Congress before it adjourns. Britons Victors In BridgeBattle CAIRO-(P)-British air-borne and sea reinforcements moved on the double-quick to the Suez yes- terday after British tank forces fought their first battle with Egyptian Army troops and won control cf a bridge in the grimly disputed area. A British Army spokesman said a British truck carrying stores was fired on, apparently by an auto- matic weapon, between Ismailia and Tel-el-Kebir. He said the driv- er stepped on the gas and got away without damage. * * * THE BRITISH WAR Office re- ported a British truck convoy had been attacked similarly in that area, but the spokesman said he knew r othing about a convoy be- ing involved. Gen. Sir- Brian Robertson, commander in chief of British land forces in the Middle East, was speeding back from London by plane with new orders to re- sist Egyptian ouster moves. The British Navy headquarters at Malta announced the third des- troyer flotilla was due to arrive in the Suez area today from the Per- sian Gulf, and the Cruiser Gambia, is about due at Port Said from the Mediterranean side. AIR-BORNE parachute troops from Cyprus already have been flown to the Suezrand another contingent is being readied at Ti- est for service in the Anglo-Egyp- tian Sudan. The first clash between Brit- ish and Egyptian Army forces was fought early Wednesday, but news of it was held back un- til yesterday by Egyptian cen- sorship of wartime character. In that action, British tank for- ces seized El Ferdan bridge, which crosses the canal about midway between Port Said and Ismailia. The British announced two Egyp- tion soldiers were killed and five wounded. No British losses were reported. El Ferdan is the link between Egyptian forces on the Sinai Pen- insula, the Asian part of Egypt, and the main African body of the country. The bridge is 15 miles north of Ismailia, a canal control point city, where seven Egyptians were killed and 74 wounded in the initial bloodshed Tuesday following Eg- ypt's move to get rid of the Brit- ish. National Roundup By The Associated Press WASHINGTON - The Senate adopted and sent to the White House late yesterday a joint reso- lution ending the state of war with Germany. Passage was by voice vote. It had received House approval last July. * * * WASHINGTON - The Senate Appropriations Committee last night approved a $4,000,000,000 supplemental money bill alter cutting off about $475,000,000 in military construction funds. r * * * * * * U.S. Key to Free World-Barkley - -------------<.* * * * Sour Note A group of Theta Delta Chi members sang their way into the Dean's office last night. While serenading pajama clad Delta Gamma sorority mem- bers, the Theta Delta Chi men were interrupted by the arri- val of an Ann Arbor police Scout car. Two complaints from neigh- bors had sent the officers to the song-fest at the corner of Church and Hill streets to en- force a local "noise" ordinance. The Theta Delt's were told to report to Dean Rea's office at 10 a.m. today. Delta Gamma then struck up with a hearty chorus of its own. Police shined their spotlight on the balcony for a while, then left with the noise problem more complicated than ever. Communists Reported FallingBack U. S. EIGHTH ARMY HEAD- QUARTERS -- Chinese C o m - munist forces w e rse reported abandoning tottering Kumsong in Central Korea yesterday before advancing American and South Korean ;troops now within sight of that battered Red base. On the western front, the last Chinese positions under attack fell almost 1without a shot to U. S. First Cavalry division troops aft- er 16 days of grinding batWe. * * * THESE TWIN successes round- ed out Gen. James A. Van Fleet's Eighth Army autumn offensive in the, west and east a rosy glow over the seven-day-old attack in the center. Allied oki'icers considered Kumsong, 30 miles north of Parallel 38, neutralized as, a Communist base. The U. S. Eighth Army com- munique said Allied troops were less than three miles south of Kumsong. Two key points were occupied in a 1,200 yard advance. Whether the Allies dart forward and occupy the city or pause to consolidate their lines. Kumsong no longer could be uoed by the Reds as a supply and concentra- tion. In the west Allied infantry drove against Chinese hill bunk- ers, expecting the usual torrent of fire and steel in return. Instead, there was hardly a, shot. Red resistance had sudden- ly melted, PEAFME TALK 0O RES U Veep Cites Democracy Expansion By DONNA HENDLEMAN The} United States must con-{ tinue to expand the horizons ofI democracy if there is to be hope for the free peoples of the world, Vice-President Alben W. Barkley declared here last night. Speaking to a packed house at Hill Auditorium, the vice-presi- dent opened the 98th Oratorical Lecture Series with a non-political address, "The Crossroads of De- mocracy." CITING the United States as the best example of democracy yet put into effect, Mr. Barkley traced the growth of the democratic ideal, within and outside of the boun- daries of the nation. "Since the Constitution was first ratified, the people, by grad- ual processes brought on by edu- cation and information, have strengthened our democracy with revisions," he remarked. "And along with the internal changes has gone a growth and gradual extension of the frontiers of democratic institutions." The Monroe Doctrine he cited as a policy of "intelligent self- interest." As it guaranteed demo- cratic institutions for our neigh- bors to the south, so it strengthen- ed our own interests and the in- stitutions of democracy, he said. * * * NOTING that the nation has grown strong along with its insti- tutions, the vice-president related the need for strong government to modern expansion. "The very complexities of our lives makes it necessary for democratic theories and institu- tions to be modified," he assert- ed. "The government must have the strength to truly be the agent and servant of the people." Economics and politics Mr. Bark- ley cited as two sciences which function together. "Good govern- ment and good economics go hand- in-hand." See BARKLEY, Page 2 HIST Remains VICE PRESIDENT BARKLEY ... strictly "non-political" U.S. D elegation Expects Soviet Peace Move at Paris WASHINGTON-P)-American delegates are getting ready for the Paris meeting of the Unitel Nations General Assembly next month in the expectation that Soviet Russia will make a new "world peace" gesture. Diplomatic officials said yesterday that the manner in which Russia rebuffed the recent American proposals for action to bring * * * OCabout a Korean armistice make it Tb 'ee-Mile J Zone Gets : Red Sanction Allies Claim 'Nice Progress' MUNSAN, Korea - (R) - The Communists late last night ac- cepted a Untied Nations compro- mise proposal for security zones of three mile radius around Mun- san and Kaesong. T h e Communist acceptance cleared a big roadblock in the way of renewed truce talks. THE REDS also scaled down their demand for a three-mile cor- ridor between the two headquar- ters of the respective truce dele- gations. They said they would agree to a two-mile attack-free corri- dor to Janmunjom from Mun- san and Kaesong. Col. Andrew J. Kinney, senior allied liaison officer, informed newsmen of these developments immediately after yesterday's one hour and 45 minute session. "We made very nice progress * Kinney said. "I think it is going to work out." THE FEELING at this UN com- mand advance headquarters was that the long disrupted armistice talks were close to resumption, possibly within a few days. TWO OTHER issues still clog the conference path.These are the right of Allied planes to fly over neutral areas and Allied re- sponsibility for Korean partisan activity within security zones. But they were not expected to prove as difficult to solve as the size of security zones. The meeting opened at 11 a.m. (9 p.m. today, Ann Arbor time), one hour later than scheduled be- cause fog fore j the Aled group to travel fr4mn Munsan- to P- ni rjom by jeep istead nf heli- coptei. Student Clears Stand on India, Pakistan Crisis Mohammed Sulaiman, president of the Pakistan Students Associa- tion, said last night that he wished to correct any false impres;ons which mayhave been drawn from his statement in yesterday's issue of The Daily on the assassination of Liaquat Ali Khan. Any implication that India was directly involved in the murder of the Pakistani prime minister had been unintentional, Sulaiman ex- plained. WHILE ANY possibility deserved consideration, Sulaiman went on, there is no concrete evidence to support the theory of Indian in- stigation of the killing. "Actually," the Pakistani stu- dent said, "Liaquat Ali Khlan was regarded in India as a steadying and moderating in- fluence as far as India-Pakistan relations were concerned. "He would be the last person India would have wished to see removed in the present critical stage of the Kashmir dispute," Sulaiman said. India was brought into the slay- ing, Sulaiman pointed out, when it became known that the assassin was an Afghan tribesman. Kirk Hints U.S., Red Troubles MOSCOW-(P)-Russians said yesterday U. S. Ambassador Alan G. Kirk had dropped "rather strange hints" about some possible difficulty between Russia and the United States if Korean armistice talks end in failure. They used the word "nepriyat- nosti," which can be translated as trouble or unpleasantness. How- ever, it can often mean something considerably stronger than either trouble or unpleasantness In Washington, a State Depart- ment spokesman said last night the Russians had "misused" and: "distorted" the words Kirk used to them in making public the Sov- iet version of what the Ambassa- dor said. Silent on '52 WASHINGTON - (A') - Presi-_ dent Truman said todey his deci- sion whether to seek reelection will be made public when he deems it politically expedient. He indicated this would not be before mid-January. almost certain that a major new Moscow move is in the making. * * * THEY LOOI for one or more of these Soviet proposals: 1. A "peace pact" among the Big Five Powers--the United States, Russia, Britain, France and Communist China. The So- viet bloc has been urging this in recent weeks. The West, holding that the UN is the prop- er agency for peace; has shown no interest in the idea. 2. A new meeting of the Big Four Foreign Ministers to take up east-west disputes which previous sessions failed to settle. 3. Revival of plans for world disarmament and atomic control-- again minus the provisions which the UN has insisted on to assure compliance. Premier Stalin hint- ed the interest of Moscow in this, in his October 6 announcement that Russia had set off an atomic bomb. President Truman forecast yes- terday that the U. S. will respond t;c any new. Soviet prop., ,al with caumlon. He told his news con- ference that he stands by his statement that an agreement with Moscow is not worth the paper it is written on. SL Petitions Dune in Today All tiinej nrna nt4 f PROMISING YEAR AHEAD: Arts Theatre To Open Second Season Today I By VIRGINIA VOSS With a year of successful arena- type productions behind them and- a promising cast and adventure- some program ahead, the Arts * Theater Club will open their cur-' rent season tonight with the American premiere of Jean-Jac- ques Bernard's "The Sulky Fire." French playwright Bernard has i..Ann a lrnrisnmirmo ant ' * * * Fire" is notable for its simplicity, intimacy, and lack of theatricality. Director Strowan Robertson ex- plained. "Because of its author's in- flurntial position in contempor- ary drama, the play, at the same time, satisfies the goals of ex- p.! nment and pioneering which have occome reauirements of * * * Vassar and the University of Illi- nois, will appear as Blanche Mer- in. The role of a neighbor wo- man, Jeanne, will be handled by Paulle Karell, a Canadian actress who has experienced drama inI every phase-on the stage, in ra- dio, motion picture, and televi- sion. o . o W' ~