Professors Review Events of 1953, Preview t By JOE PASCOFF and DOROTHY MYERS With just 14 days left before the year 1953 bows out. professors yesterday began reviewing the old year and speculating on what 1954 would bring. Future historians may find in 1953 the signs of a trend that led the world toward or away from another world war or established a unified Europe. Others may remember the bright traditions surrounding the coro- nation of Queen Elizabeth or the courage that led East Germans to attack Soviet-built tanks with nothing more than fists and stones. Republicans and Democrats alike will remember the inauguration of{ Dwight D. Eisenhower as President, turning out a political party that1 had been in power for 20 years. . * * * * TO A CURRENT historian however, the death of Stalin and thej Korean armistice seemed the most outstanding events of the year.I Commenting on the coming year, Prof. Preston W. Slosson of the THE EISENHOWER Administration, however has scheduled a reduction of 10 per cent in personal income taxes and repeal of the excess profits tax, effective Dec. 31. A reduction in excise and corporation taxes has been planned for April 30, 1954. The United States suffered its greatest tax cash deficit since the end of World War If. Governmental expenditures reached their peak in 1953-a situation generally attributed to the great rearmament expenditures. The Administration's farm policy, termed "inefficient and non- existent" by leading Democrats throughout the country, received ad- ditional comment from Prof. Kenneth E. Boulding of the economics department. Prof. Boulding said Agriculture Secretary Benson's prin- ciples are "sound, but difficult to effect." Secretary Benson's problems have been intensified by the legacies left him by his predecessors, the economics professor added. * * * * ALTHOUGH THERE may be "somewhat of a deflationary decline" 954 ' ~. y ,,$ history department said he thought there would be "no great change" in the future, affecting all segments of the economy including agri- in 1954. "The cold war will probably continue," he added, "but there culture, it will not be any spectacular decline, according to the pro- will be no major 'hot' war." Other predictions offered by the professor were that war in Indo-China would continue, and that a proposed conference be- tween Premier Malenkov and Western leaders "probably won't gain anything." On the national scene, Prof. Slosson said that while the Republicans may gain a few Senators in the next Congressional elections, the race for the House of Representa- tives could "tip either way." In the economic picture, Prof. Slosson foresaw "no recession" business and no reduction in taxes. fessor. I Regarding the international trade status of the United States, Prof. Wolfgang F. Stolper, also of the economics department, com- mented that in' 1953 the export surplus of the country was more than offset by Marshall Plan aid and other forms of economic aid abroad. "From the over-all view, the position of the United States was as satisfactory as could be expected in 1953;" he said. Prof. Stopler pointed out there may be a dollar shortage abroad. If this should become a reality, foreign inporters may find it more See PAST, Page 2 in EAST GERMANS HURL STONES AT SOVIET TANKS IN RIOTS PRESIDENT EISENHOWER ADDRESSES INAUGURAL CROWD MATTER OF FACT See Page 4 Yl r e tst iga Latest Deadline in the State A6V .,43 a t ty FAIR, WARMER wm tI VOL. LXIV, No. 73 ANN' ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1953 SIX PAGES I SI PGE _- t UN Studies Korean POW Repatriation Reds Said To Have Threatened Prisoner, PANMUNJOM - (A) - Unite Nations officers early today stud ied ways of getting in touch witt four Americans and 20 South Ko- reans reported wanting to qui Communisim but fearful of knife- wielding pro-Reds in the neutra zone compound. The report came from a Soutl- Korean who has just quit the ean +. . S THE NEUTRAL Nations Repa- triation Commission scheduled a meeting early today to deal with the stalling explanations to such prisoners. Something must h a p p e n quickly if any of the 22 Ameri- cans, one Briton and 77 South Koreans still awaiting explana- tions are interviewed. The dead- line for explanations to end is only five days away. A South Korean, KimMun Du, who said he slipped out of the compound while his companions were asleep, told a press confer- ence yesterday he believed that only fear of being stabbed to death held back four Americans and 20 South Koreans from returning home. Kim said he crawled through barbed wire in order to escape a camp where leaders brandished crudely made knives to keep all men in line. UN officers viewed Kim's pc- count with some degree of skep- ticism, saying if Kim could get out so could others. One UN official said, however, that "as long as there is a possible chance that some of the men real- ly want to come back and are held there by intimidation, we must do everything we can to try to reach them." Ex-Student Kills Parents By The Associated Press Dennis Wepman, 20 year old for- mer University student yesterday was held by New York City police on a. double murder charge. Wepman and a friend, Harlow Fraden have been accused of pois- oning to get the money of Fra- den's parents. The two were im- plicated by an unidentified wo- man friend of Wepman's, who re- x ported to police the scanty know-, ledge of the crime she had received from Wepman. Inheritance of $100,000, left by Fraden's parents, was the motive for the crime, which was consid- ered a double suicide or suicide and murder by police for four months following the deaths. Wepma-n was enrolled at the University as a freshman in 1950- 51, but left school after one year because of low grades. Judieiary Hears 'U', Midwest rh . . Schools Plan gGasesAtom Project {..:.iF ; PKO 4' 1., ^, A A1 ,. y ..Y , , ,, w ';. j', ,T . Tbree Campus Fraternities Involved In Unauthorized Parties This Term By GENE HARTWIG Cases involving at least three campus fraternities in unauthorized parties have been heard by the Joint Judiciary and the University sub-committee on Discipline so far this semester. Largest of the known fines laid down by Judic was $250 for an illegal drinking party involving members of Sigma Phi Epsilon fra- May Build Giant Atom Cosmotron The University together with -4 t j - Y Y El T I S six other Midwest universities may join in building a multimillion dollar cosmotron for studying the S tte cimposition of the atom. Board ternity held at Gleaners Restaurant Oct. 24. *' * * * { al The University of Illinois has ready set aside $10,000 for or- J REPORTEDLY all of the 15 to 20 couples at the affair were ganizational expenses of the pro- over 2 years old. 4owever, due to the large number of Sig Eps ject. - _ ---- _._--present the party was ruled a house function and the chapter UNIVERSITY officials are con- hosed tsidering the idea already under F r ni JP rice was, fined. study by the Universities of Min- No social probation penalty nesotaWysh on si ias o w- was involved. , Wisnsin, Indiana, Iowa S u s d" os d et and Iowa State College.' \ 1 House president Byron West, - Spec., declined to comment on the Administrative officials here action. said that no site has been se- A pproves Bridge Bid CHICAGO-W)-The American Farm Bureau Federation went on record yesterday for elimination of present mandatory high level farm price supports at the end of 1954 and for use of flexible price '.floors thereafter. The farm organization's 35thj annual convention rejected by voice vote a proposal that the fed- eration ask Congress to extend the high supports. IN CONVENTION resolutions, the farm organization said farm- ers should seek, with government aid, to get favorable returns by rebuilding shrinking foreign mar- kets and by developing new ones at home to absorb surplus produc- tion which is now bearing down on prices. Referring to high supports, the federation said it is not the responsibility of government to guarantee profitable prices to anyone. Rather, it said, price guarantees should be set at levels that would provide pro- ducers "reasonable price protec- tion against sharp down turns. The question of whether to al- low present 90 per cent parity sup-! ports for the so-called basic crops' -cotton, wheat, corn, rice, tobac- co and peanuts-expire at the end of 1954, as now scheduled by law,; is expected to be an issue at the next session of congress. It also may figure in next year's elections. Some farm groups want high price floors continued longer. In, addition to some cotton and wheat start farm bureaus, high supportC advocates include the Nationalf Farmers Union. Willowho pper * * * TWO OTHER CASES of un- authorized parties, one involving a sorority, the other a fraternity, are known to be pending Judic ...4' of -m ac ni lected for the cosmotron yet. The instrument would have a power range of 25 billion volts and would cost more than $10,- 000,000. action at present. AcrigtUnvstyps- Second of the three fraternity According to Unversity physi- c ases involved 15 members of cists the cosmotron would be used Acaciaewho were discovered af- for the study of the composition ter an illegal party Oct. 31 at and structure of atomic nuclei which intoxicants were served. and also to study certain nuclear The case has gone before Judic particles which exist only tem- but no announcement of action porarily but are nonetheless im- taken has been made.. portant in understanding the basic3 In the three remaining cases;laws of physics. Judic chairman Lee Fiber, '54, There are only three other' yesterday refused to comment on cosmotrons in operation includ- rumors about houses involved, i ing the three-billion-volt ma- pointing out that the Council had chine at the Brookhaven Na- not authorized publicizing the tional Laboratory on Long Is- cases at this time. land and a six billion volt in- Judic publishes a list of vio- strument owned by ; group of lations without names of houses California schools. in the Daily Official Bulletin at the end of each semester. Scientists and physicists are In the past it has also been the hoping that the Atomic Energy practice to make known violations . Commission or private foundations as they occur and are acted on by will finance construction of the Judic. Midwest cosmotron. Compared to the three cases al- One million dollars from Ford ready before Judie and the two at Foundation funds are at present present pending there was only being used for construction of the one fraternity violation-that of million dollar nuclear reactor to Delta Tau Delta-reported during be housed in the proposed Phoenix the entire '52-53 school year. lab on North Campus. LANSING (P)-Barring a State Supreme Court upset., Michigan Is ready to realize an old, old dream -a bridge between its Upper and Lower Peninsula. The State Administrative Board yesterday approved a bid of $95,- 858,000 for the $99,800,000 revenue bond issue to build the bridge. * * * THE BONDS, bought by a syn- dicate of New York and Chicago investment houses, will not be de- livered until the State Supreme Court has passed on the validity' of the bridge financing plan. Sen. Haskell L. Nichols (R-Jackson) has filed a court suit challenging the bonds. Despite a flurry of 11th hour . objections aid contests, the Ad-\ ministrative Board whipped out its approval unanimously and without debate a short time aft- er the Mackinac Straits Bridge Authority opened the single bid CAROLERS-A qua made for the bonds. the period of auth Reportedly, they plan to sell Ann Arbor before t' about four per cent of the bonds celebrations. to the public and the rest to large investors, such as insurance com-A panies. . Annual The bid was $50,000 above the minimum price allowed by the Decreases state in asking for bids. - - * * * Conference Held To, Plane GOP Policy No Mention Made Of Balanced Budget WASHINGTON-(P)-President Eisenhower pledged "further re- duction" in government spending as he and Republican legislative leaders wound up late yesterday their first round of conferences on the GOP program for the new Congressional opening next month. The chief executive said, "lead- ers of the Republican party will continue to present a successful, sound and productive program that will serve the welfare of 160 million Americans." EISENHOWER put in a 10-hour day witli members of his Cabinet, other key administration officials and Republican leaders of Con- gress. He gave them an advance look at the program he intends to present to Congress in January, with the emphasis on: The federal budget, the de- fense program, foreign opera- tions, absentee voting for over- seas servicemen, housing, labor law amendments and extended coverage for the unemployment insurance program. --Daily-Dean Morton iartet of local Christmas carolers, dressed in hor Charles Dickens, take a singing tour of hey leave for home and traditional Christmas acation Exodus I THE PURCHASE price allows the syndicate a commission of $3,944,000 if it sells the bonds at par. The bridge itself will cost nearly $81,000,000, but State Treasurer D. Hale Brake has said, without contradiction, that the total cost, including inter- est charges, will be $193,000,000. The population of midnight today. The annual Chris proceed full force tod extra bus sections w Lansing and other po will be added to Tole ty 0 IiWhile he said nothing about C ty I-opulat -on prospects of budget balancing, the By PAT ROELOFS President put in this paragraph ' Ann Arbor will decrease by nearly 15,000 before n the government's finances: n A"The fiscal outlook was for a continuation of the substantial stmas holiday exodus began yesterday, and will progress this administration has day. To accommodate homeward bound crowds, already made in its revision of till be scheduled from Ann Arbor to Detroit, the budget for fiscal 1954." ints in the state as need demands. Extra buses do, Detroit and Ypsilanti for the vacation rush. ATTENDING FROM Congress * * * * w ere Republia oiuns ofSe world News Roundup By The Associated Press LANSING-The Republican policy committee reported yesterday it will sponsor improvements to Michigan's workmen's compensation law in the 1954 Legislature. Speaker of the House Wade Van Valkenburg (R-Kalamazoo), policy committee chairman, said the group was considering recom- mending an increase of $2 to $4 a week in the weekly benefit rate, now ranging from $28 to $35 a week. ACCORDING TO ticket salesmen at the Union and local Grey- The bridge is scheduled to be hound offices, bus ticket sales were opened to traffic in November, "veryhigh"yesterda with the 1957, and is supposed to be paid peak of sales expected to be reach- for by 1980 e aes eteo ed late this afternoon. _____ _ .{ r __.._ _ ___..- . ...a w.. ... ,... ......... vr... .fJ Tickets On Sale GUAM-Two families totaling LANSINd-Gov.* G. Mennen nine persons were wiped out in "Willow Hoppers" may buy their the flaming crash ofea B-29 Williams kept the pressure on tickets for the special buses to-Wil- Superfort into military housing yesterday to retain nine unem- low Run Airport today in front of hereesterda the Union. Thesteray ployment compensation offices Buses will leave the Union at lives. T e v scti s st llare in the federal Department of La- 10:45 a.m., 12:05 p.m. and hourly the hospital. bor seeks to close. from 1:15 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. today. Tickets may be purchased at' MacMahon Talks On Foreign Policy Speaking at a political science m'ound table last night, Prof. Ar- thur MacMahon of Columbia Uni- versity analyzed the structure and problems of the administration of United States foreign affairs. Prof. MacMahon defined for- eign policy as a totality that rises out of fairly durable national in- terests. t I 4 } i A local travel agency reported that it had been "swamped with calls" for weeks from more than 1,000 students making plane reservations from near-by Wil- In l to itio thrnrh t SL Exam Plan Vote Postponed In the midst of a maze of mo- tions and suggestions concerning Student Legislature endorsement ate and House and chairmen of committees concerned with speci- fic legislative items. Eisenhower said that on the basis of the first day of a three- day confe'rence he was sure he spoke for all who attended in, declaring the GOP will keep on pushing for a successful, sound and productive program for all Americans. ow un to ci es rougou 0 f the Crary calendaring plan, S On housing, the President said, the country. president Bob Neary, '54, yester- Administrator Albert Cole of the Special trains sponsored by stu- day moved to postpone all discus- Housing and Home Finance Agen- dent and University organizations sion on the proposal until the next' cy "presented for consideration a had closed reservation dockets. Legislature meeting. legislative program with especial Students failing to make reserva- An almost unprecedented extra emphasis on assisting low income tions from Ann Arbor more than! SL session was called yesterday to families in obtaining good housing two weeks ago were waiting with discuss the controversial change accommodations." npaked1 hba for nnsihle an the University calendar which I