Fancies, Flowers and Finals See Page 4 L Latest Deadline in the State 4E at 4 0.0 0., * , FAIR, AND WARMER I vmfl .VV T.ll FAIR AND WARMER V kpju* . V, 1AN. J%% ANN AR1OK, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1955 SIXy PAnv.. _ _ _m --------- IaArt Lr11I ffi Professor Discusses Paris Pacts Approval May. Swing Balance of Power Final approval of German re- armament might swing the bal- ance of Central European power to the West, according to Prof. Karl M. Reichenbach, of the his- tory department. American-Backed Diem Beats Viet-Nam Rebel I $22 MILLION PLAN: 10 _... -- __.. 1 - 10 - ;0 -Courtesy Herman Silbiger AN INTERESTED CROWD WATCHES AS A WILLARD ST. ROOMING HOUSE BURNS. Fire Partially Demolishes Local Rooming House Attic 4. By LOU SAUER Ann Arbor firemen whipped a blaze yesterday in the attic of a rooming-house at 1208 Willard, near East Quadrangle. A faulty electric circuit had started the fire. The house was empty at 9:35 p.m. when three fire trucks arrived. A policeman had earlier kicked in the front door to gain entrance. Heat and smoke filled the attic, forcing firemen to run, choking, down the stairs into the fresh Spring air outside. Firemen Cool Attic Before Entering They then leaned a ladder alongside the building, and cut a thole in the roof. Inserting a hose SpectatorS Enjoy Blaze, Spring Ai By BOB JONES Onlookers filled narrow, tree lined Willard St. with a holida air yesterday, watching fireme battle an attic blaze. Itwas a beautiful Spring morn. ing. The department went to worl with door-smashing, roof-hacking fervor, and the crowd watchec happily. On the street, parents pointe4 to humming pump-trucks. "Lool at the firemen," they said to thei T-shirted, dungaree-clad, open- mouthed children. False Ceiling Hid Flames In the grey wooden building; firemen were being driven back by terrific heat and lung searing smoke. A false ceiling hid the advance of the flames, and burn- ing junk smoked noxiously. Meanwhile, the semi-subdued blaze broke out again on the roof, A high-pressure hose was trained on it. The powerful stream of water blasted shingles and ashes loose. Stored Auto Seat Burns A fireman leaned out of the at- tic windows, yelled at the onlook- ers below, then heaved a smould- ering automobile seat from the opening. It had been stored in the part of the attic which had just burned. Shingles again began to jar loose from the roof. Firemen were in the attic now, smashing a hole to allow another hose. Finally a booted foot broke through, and waved in the air. A father led his son away from the scene. "It's all over, Dave," he said. The little boy looked dis- appointed. Children Watched Blaze Two youngsters stood watching the firemen at work. "Boy, that place looks like a { tinder box," one of them said. "You wanna see a real- rat- trap?" said the other. "There's an old lady down the street collects sticks and papers and stuff. When that place goes . . . It had been a beautiful, excit- ing Spring morning. Class-cutters, kids and parents had had a good time. Nobody was hurt. Two Students Beaten in Arb Two University students were beaten Thursday by a group of Ann Arbor youths. through the hole, they put out most of the fire. When it was cool enough they entered and finished it off.. A false ceiling in the attic made it difficult at first to determine the heart of the fire. The back part of the attic was completely destroyed, and the sec- ond floor kitchen and living room were a shambles. The second floor was rented by y owner G. C. Hanselman to Peter Netherlands ratification, which came Thursday, completed the okay of the rearmament. "Ratification of the Paris trea- ties is of unquestioned value tc the West, the professor said yes- terday. Prof. Reichenbach was in Ger- many and France last summer. "Young Germans aren't enthus- iastic about rearmament," he said. "I must have talked to about 200 of them. They accept the idea of military duty as an obligation of service to the country." Prof. Reichenbach said he re- ceived a letter yesterday from a formerk"student, Lieutenant Lyle E. York, now stationed in Ger- many. Lt. York said Germans were very enthusiastic about restora- tion of full sovereignty. In August of 1954 Prof. Reich- enbach noted great disappoint- ment among Germans at the French attitude. French parlia- ment had just rejected EDC. "Germans have a real desire to cooperate with the French," he said. "Any acceptance of the new Germany will be very gratefully received." More realistic elements in France, Prof. Reichenbach said, must have been responsible for the acceptance of rearmament. "The French have accepted," he added, "but not enthusiastically." "It is hard for the Frenchman to want a new 'German army," Prof. Reichenbach declared. "Even an army reined in as the treaties stipulate will be hard to take. "In Paris last September, a Frenchman told me it would take 20 years for France to forget what the Gestapo did there during the war," he said, "But postponement of the Euro- pean defense for ten years more would be suicidal," Prof. Reichen- bach concluded. 'That must be what the French finally realized. "France would fiddle while Eur- ope burned." Report Bonn Talik Progress BONN, Germany (R)P - French Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer reported good progress yesterday in their talks to clear u noutstand- 1 enate Passes R WASHINGTON WP)-A five-ye 22 billion dollars, including a 42,5 state roads, was approved yesterda committee. To help pay for the federal g tee recommended a penny a gallon The proposed legislation also i: (D-Tenn) described as a "new a weight and size of trucks. Comproi L Sen. Gore called the bill a o ubGroup Load Bl ar highway program costing almost 00-mile network of toll free inter- ay by the Senate Public Roads sub- government's share, the subcommit- increase in the federal gasoline tax. ncludes what Chairman Albert Gore end far-reaching" plan to limit the )wise Bill compromise between a measure he sponsored and the Eisenhower ad- Iministration program formulated W lvn by a presidential commission head- W olveried by Gen. Lucius D. Clay. He said the subcommittee voted FU'U*O 16-3 to approve the amended bill, but declined to say who voted for or against it. He said the full com- mittee will take up the measure next Thursday and predicted it -Daily-Sam Ching would pass the Senate the follow- CASE CLUB WINNERS-Charles R. Moon congratulates Julius ing week. Poppinga (left) and Howard Downs, winners of the Campbell Special to The Daily One open dissent came from moot court competition. Moon had previously presented the men CHAMPAIGN, III.-Scoring in Sen. Prescott Bush (R-Conn), a with the award. every inning the Wolverine base- subcommittee member who said ' -' ball squad blasted Illinois, 13-3, the bill is "totally inadequate" in here yesterday to grab undisputed that it fails to meet the demands . / G possession of first place in the of modern high-speed traffic and I Big Ten standings. "dodges the issue of raising the B large sums of money needed." which were formerly tied with Calls For Ike's Program SUPREME HEADQUARTERS 'O bserver Michigan, dropped their encount- Sen. Bush said further it dis- ALLIED POWERS EUROPE P) ers, the Gophers losing to Iowa, criminates against states which .-Field Marshall Viscount Ber-/JA tir art'"' 7-3, while the Hoosiers dropped a went ahead and built needed roads, nard Montgomery of Alamein' 5-1 decision to Northwestern, including toll highways, without likes absolute quiet when he Unbeaten in Big Ten waiting for federal help. He said speaks at briefings as deputy Supreme Court Justice Earl he will fight in the full committee supreme Allied commander. Waen ndAscteJtis Unbeaten now in four. confer- to replace it with "President Ei- No one may cough. Harold Bn a S tan e ence games, Michigan will again senhower's forward-looking high- For the last five days, Mont- Harold Burton and Stanley F. put its record on the block tomor- way program." gomery has been speaking daily Reed were guests here yesterday row as it faces Purdue in a double Sen. Gore's subcommittee junk- to some 250 generals and ad- feeral Jstices of theSixonf-eof header. ed the President's controversial mirals and their aides in the F lith Pitcher Marv Wisniewski blast- plan to finance a multibillion- annual command post brain curt. ed a homerun, the first four-bag- dollar road program through a exercises. Chief Justice Warren told the 65 ger of his college career and his new federal borrowing agency. It Montgomery provided 10,000 judges from Michigan, Ohio, Ken- first hit of the season, to drive in also sidetracked an administration cough drops. They were distrib- tucky and Tennessee that the two of the runs in the second inn- proposal that the federal govern- uted in containers labeled in "problem confronting the, bar can- ing. Going all the way yesterday, ment reimburse states for money five languages. not be ascertained by sitting on Wisniewski allowed the Illini eight spent on toll roads that become Montg'omery pronounced the the bench." hits while striking out thirteen part of the interstate highway plan a success Warren, "An Observer" batters as he garnered his second system. Hesaidhecametothecon- conference win and his fourth vic- Sen. Francis Case (R-SD), whoHh tor,' the season. had sponsored a third plan, said' IT * ference as "an observer." ithe subcommittee bill is "a little vaccine j .1tn At a banquet last night, Julus Hlame on the financing end" but Poppinga, '56L and Howard Wolverine hitting was little "has many excellent features." FundIDown% '56L, received the Camp- short of sensational as eighteen Increase in Gas Tax GroWs bell Case Club competition award. hits were pounded out off three Sen. Gore estimated that in- After the awards, Associate Jus- Illini pitchers. Captain Dan Cline creasing, the federal gasoline tax The Victory Dimes Fund, creat- tice Harold H. Burton of the Su- led the onslaught by rapping out from two to three cents a galloned to insure free Salk polio vac- preme Court addressed the gath- a homerun, a triple and'a double would produce from 600 to 750 cine for every child in Michigan, ering. in five times at bat. million dollars additional has received an .overwhelming re- H'e revnuesponse. The third Michigan homer was a year. Over a five-year stretch ns agrees to hear only 15 to 25 per slugged by catcher Gene Snider, that would run from 3 to 3% bi- Morris A. Riley, Executive Sec- ce es submitte to it. who also had a single In three lion dollars. retary of the Michigan State Em- Out of 750 cases annually sub- trips to the plate. Star third base- The House Public Roads sub- ployees Association said the dimes mitted only 150 areheard. man Don Eaddy maintained his committee could only recommend 'are rolling in fast, but "there's H torrid hitting pace by hitting a such an increase. Tax legislation , no such thing. as 'enough' in a He went io a brief history of triple, a double and a single in must originate in the House Ways i campaign such as this. the Supreme Court, saying "Al- See DIAMONDMEN, Page 3 and Means Committee. The fund, set up by the Michi- most everyone knows there is a The House Public Roads sub- gan State Employees Association Supreme Court, but few know Scommittee is holding hearings of immediately after the announce- muc about it." Payments Due its own on various highway plans. ment of Dr. Jonas Salk's success Building Depicts Law Through Under the new legislation states has a goal of $1,000,000. The Ages Subscription payments for The could not pass new legislation ex- There will be no conflict with He described the building in Daily are due now. ceeding limits set by the bill after legislative appropriations from the which it meets, across the street Failure to pay may result in May 1, 1955 without losing their state general fund, according to from the Capitol Building. One of withholding of -credits, federal aid highway funds. Sen. Creighton R. Coleman .the freizes impressed him es- ~~~~~~~~T ... .+ . ... 1..., 1, & - : By The Associated Press Ngo Dinh Diem, the American- backed Viet Nam Premier who is fighting a political battle for his life, defeated the green-bereted commandos of the former river valley pirateGeneral, Le Van Vien eserday after 48 hours of gun- fire in Saigon's streets. This may have been only the first round, official military sources said today, U.S. Reasserts Support Weanwhile, in Washington the United States openly asserted its support for Diem only a few hours after France criticized him as no ' longer equal to the task of govern- ing his revolt-torn country. This backing, expressed by the State Department, brought into full )public view a backstage quar- rel between France and the Unit- ed States over how to establish a vigorous anti-Communist govern- ment in the former French Indo- china colony. It came shortly after the U.S. special ambassador, J. Lawton Col- lins, left by plane for Indochina, winding up a week of urgent con- sultations on how to deal.with the Viet Nam crisis. Faure Calls Diem Incapable. rA State Department spokesman reaffirmed long-standing Ameri- can support for Diem in comment- ing on French Premier Edgar Faure's remark in Paris that Diem was no longer capable of leading the Viet Nam government in view of the "painful and grave" fight- More than 500 soldiers and civil- ians have been killed in the battle for Saigon, official sources re- ported. Gen. Vien's shattered 5,400-man Binh Xuyen army was believed to have withdrawn deep into its own territory on the far side of the Chinese arroyo, the canal separ- ating Saigon from the adjoining Chinese city of Cho Long, to lick its wounds. Diem Refuses Summons Diem yesterday rejected a sum- mons from his chief of state, Bao. Dai, to an urgent conference on the French Riviera. Diem's Cabinet backed him up and said his presence here during the present crisis was "indispen- sable." The Cabinet feared the summons meant Diem was to be dismissed. Cho Lon, where the Binh Xuyen sought refuge, is a bomb-scarred, smoke-shrouded slum teeming with refugees from Communist- held North Viet Nam. I French Call Saigon Head Incompetent U.S. Reasserts Support of Diem i ing French-German problems. After a two-hour session with Adenauer, Pinay told reporters his expectations of success had in- creased. Adenauer said he was convinced "we will achieve something good for France and Germany, for Eu- rope and for the peace of the whole world." Although the agenda covered a number of issues, the success of the conference would mainly rest on satisfactory settlement of re- maining differences over the Saar. t --Courtesy Herman Silbiger FIREMEN SCALE LADDERS , TO QUELL BLAZE Hoff, teaching fellow in the Span- ish department. Hoff sublet the attic to Chris Heunekamp, Ful- bright scholar from Holland. Arrived After Fire Was Out Hoff arrived on the scene about 10:30 a.m., after most of the fire was out. The crowd around the burning house started to thin,. thinking the blaze had been conquered, when flames sta'ted to shoot from the roof. Excitement revived for a' shortI time until the fire was again put out. The violent hosing of the tar- papered roof sent chunks of dirt flying down at spectators. A pho- 250 DELEGATES HERE: Dorm Conference discusses Disciplin By CAROL PRINS Fifty thousand Big Ten students are being represented in the an- nual Residence Halls Conference in Ann Arbor this weekend. Disciplinary 'methods, social programs and service opportunitiesh>. 'for students were discussed in small groups by the representatives, as part of the first day of conference activities yesterday. Problems concerning illegal drinking, general disorder in the dor-x mitories and disregard of women's hours were common problems tox all of the schools. pecially. It depicts law through the ages,' as Justice Burton put it, "showing that we in the United States didn't invent law."{ e Programsf Explaining the reason for the Supreme Court, he said that he l had once analogized it to a little: boy in this way: He asked the child if he played baseball with - an umpire, and the child answer- ed, "Well, when we want to last the whole nine innings we do." U.S. May A dd Base mi Formosa WASHINGTON UPL-The Unit- ed States may nail down its de- termination to hold Formosa against any Red Chinese "libera- tion" plans by establishing an American base of jet fighter planes and U.S. Marine Corps ground troops there.l r . A final decision on the move,1 f which would be what the diplo-# I' { E i 1 a World News Roundup O~nGp By The Associated Press MOSCOW - U.S. Ambassador Charles E. Bohlen has been or- dered to Paris to take part in American, British and French talks on a future Big Four ml'eet- tographer, reluctant to step aside, "U" Driving Ban Called "Unique" took his picture at the expense of The driving ban at Michigan was cited as "unique" by the group. getting his suit covered with black A coed from Northwestern pointed to the lack of cars as partially pieces of tar. responsible for "all those cute bicycles." At 11:40 a.m. it was all over, and Straightening out lines between the student and administration firemen rested for .he first time in was seen as a solution to more student participation in campus life. two hours. Planning new dorms was a problem area in which students wished to -have greater authority. Louisville Railroad Campus-wide activities such as the Michigras and MSU's Sparty- cade were praised by representatives. It was agreed upon by all the Strife Spreads delegates that all-campus dances should be sponsored by larger student Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, British Foreign Secretary Harold MacMillan and French Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay are to open these talks May 8. BERLIN - West Berlin city of- ficials reported yesterday cargoes of 11 Western trucks have been seized by Communist East German road guards during the past two weeks. The trucks carried either metal products or scrap iron. East Ger- many is reported badly in need of scrap iron. I ,: E . ... _: :..