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VOL. LXVI, 10. 153 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1956
CLOUDY, COOLER
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Greeks Hang
Two Britons
In Reprisals
British Say Men
Had Been AWOL
NICOSIA, Cyprus (/P) - The
Greek Cypriot underground said
yesterday it has hanged two Brit-
ish soldiers in reprisal for the
British hanging of two Greek Cyp-
riots.
A Greek Cypriot, scattering leaf-
lets boasting of the reported re-
prisal hangings, was shot dead by
a British patrol in Nicosia's main
square :Friday afternoon.
The British acknowledged that
the, two soldiers were AWOL but
raised doubts that they had fallen
into the underground.
'Judicial Murde'
The leaflets called, the execu-
tions of the two Greek Cypriots
'judicial murder' and vowed the
underground would answer hang-
ing with hanging, torture with tor-
ture.
The Greek Cypriots had been
condemned by British courts of
political shootings and w e r e
hanged on the British gallows
here Thursday morning.
EOKA Hangs Two
The outlawed underground
EOKA, National Organization of
Cypriot Fighters, said it hanged
Corporals Gordon Hill and Ron-
nie Shilton Thursday. It did not
British military authorities is-
sued a statement saying they had
no information that either Hill or
Shilton ever was in EOKA's hands.
They called EOKA's claim "pat-
ently an attempt to make propa-
ganda."
The British said EOKA never
had put forward any claim that it
was holding the pair as hostages
for the lives of -the two executed
Cypriots - Michael Karaois and
Adnreas Demetriou.
No Reaction Yet
The. leaflets strewn about Ni-
cosia's streets caused no evident
reaction among Greek. Cypriots.
People of Greek origin make up
about four-fifths of this British
colony's half million population.
The rest are of Turkish descent.
Nicosia has been calm since the
announcement of the hanging of
the two Cypriots. There is a spon-
taneous strike closing factories,
newspapers, shops and restaurants
but no violence.
None Injured
As Tornadoes
Hit Michigan
By RENE GNAM
High winds and slashing rains
struck the lower peninsula last
night as a baby tornado and local
twisters swept over the southern
portion of the state.
No injuries were reported, but
several areas listed damages.
Three miles northwest .of Ann
Arbor, a minature tornado swept
along in a northeasterly direc-
tion. Its funnel did not hit the
ground, however, and do damage
was reported.
Meanwhile, most portions of Ann
Arbor were under a sudden deluge
of rain,
Ann Arbor police, fire and civil-
ian defense units were on the alert
as to the threat of possible torna-
does.
In Kalamazoo, a twister dam-
aged three homes, destroyed two
garages and overturned two empty
trailer houses. Damages were listed
a t $50,000.
The winds struck Kalamazoo at
6:20 p.m., little more than an hour
after the entire lower peninsula
w had been alerted for possible tor-
nadoes.
Earlier in the evening, a high
wind hit Hastings, Mich., a town
located 30 miles north of Battle
Creek. These winds knocked a
chimney from one house, damaged
a barn, and killed upwards of 500
chickens.
The original tornado alerts were
to extend through 11 p.m. They
covered an area from northern
Indiana to Chicago.
Alerts issued in Michigan were
lifted at 10 p.m.
Daily To Run
Bridge Series
--Daily-Sam Ching
HONORS SPEAKER-David B. Steiniman, bridge builder, told
honor students yesterday, "We can no longer insist that material
things are more real . . than the intangibles of life and spirit."
Steinman Hits 'Godlessness'
In Honors Convocation Tal
By TAMMY MORRISON
Materialism in its purest form is no longer possible in today's
world, David B. Steinman told the Honors Convocation yesterday.
Because of the Atomic bomb, thought Steinman, "We can no
longer say 'I am a materialist,' now that we know that nothing is
ultimately material. We can no longer deny Creation We can
no longer insist that material things are more real or more enduring
than the intangibles of life and spirit," he said.
Speaking before nearly 1,000 students who received honors for aca-
demic achievement, Steinman asserted that the main threat to the
West is not the Communist eco-
Group Honors
T' Official
Director of University Bureau of
Appointments and Occupational
Information, T. Luther purdom,
was honored last night at the 15th
Annual Conference on Teacher
Supply, Demand, and Placement.
Purdom was prepared to give a
full report on teacher shortages in
Michigan when he was interrupted
by Chester Miller, superintendent
of schools at Saginaw, who turned
the luncheon into a 'tribute., to
Purdom who is scheduled to begin
his retirement furlough on July 15.
Mrs, Purdom was presented with
a check for $2,500, given by school
superintendents and other friends
of Purdom, while he received a
bound volume of over 400 testi-
monalletters.
Tribute took the form of a "This
is Your Life" affair with several
members of Michigan educational
institutions participating.
These tributes cited important
events in the lives of prominent
state educators.
nomic and political theories, but
its Godlessness, its open renun-
ciation of the moral and spiritual
values we cherish.
Pleading for a return to re-
ligion, the internationally-known
bridge designer said that the
twentieth century is gradually re-
solving the conflict between science
and religion._
Harlan H. Hatcher, president of
the University, conferred an hon-
orary doctor of engineering degree
upon Steinman for his achiev-
ments as a bridge builder, inven-
tor, poet and humanitarian.
Present at the Convocation was
Governor G. Mennen Williams.
Regents Vera Bates, Roscoe Boni-
steel, Alfred Connable and Eugene
Power also attended.
Special guests were members of
the current Asian-American Semi-
nar. They are V.K.R.V. Rao, di-
rector of the Delhi School of Eco-
nomics;. Bahder Djohan, president
of the University of Indonesia, Tay
Keoluangkhot, director general of
the Laotian Ministry of National
Education, Sam Sary, royal coun-
selor of Cambodia and Vidal A.
Tan, president of the University
of the Philippines.
MSU Head
Gives Talk
On Equality
'Need For Inequality
In Education'-Hannah
By JIM BOW
A revised definition of education-
al equality was presented yesterday
by John A. Hannah; president of
Michigan State University, in an
address at, Rackham Lecture Hall.
"Education for Inequality" was
the theme of the speech, presented
to the 1,500 members of the Mi-
chigan Schoolmasters' Club which
met in Ann Arbor Thursday and
Friday.
Significance of Inequality
"Absence of artificial or arbi-
trary barriers to a man's develop-
ment," were the words which Han-
nah used to describe equality and
its significance in America today.
"We are paying teachers uniform
salaries with1 little or no reward
for special abilities and effort,"
noted Hannah, "and what incen-
tive is there to make teachers
strive to do a better job?"
'Ideal Half-Achieved'
"We are giving equal pay for
unequal performance," Hannah
added.
He said that Michigan will nev-
er realize its full potential until
it is as much concerned with those
who are mentally superior as with
those who are mentally deficient.
"Men are meant to be equal
politically, not mentally," Han-
nah added.
The word which Hannah used
to describe a modern concept of
equality was uniformity."
"A certain amount of restless-
ness in this country is a result of
our failure to distinguish Between
equality and uniformity."
He described uniformity as the
idea of equality of individuals, not
of opportunity.
'Equality and Uniformity'
"Insecurity results from conflict
between such wishful thinking and
the realities of life. Our job is to
teach the sharp distinction be-
tween equality and uniformity,"
he said.
Hannah then applied this dis-
tinction to education. "By what
'principle doweallow children to
enter school at certain age and
advance, despite their differences?"
he asked.
National
Roundup
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON-A bill to pro-
vide $1,983,512,568 for the Agricul-
ture Department and affiliated
agencies in the next fiscal year was
approved yesterday by the House
Appropriations Committee.
The figure was more than a bil-
lion dollars higher than last year's
appropriation, but Agriculture De-
partment officials said a true com
parison could not be made because
of changes in the law and in the
bookkeeping on reimbursement
programs.
O N N ck
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - City
attorneys resisted an attack on
Alabama's segregation laws yester-
day with a persistent effort to show
that complaining Negroes were
willing to live under them until
recent weeks.
But the four Negro women who
filed a suit in federal court con-
testing the racial barriers on city
buses as unconstitutional insisted
they are opposed to segregation in
any form and always have been.
'
Fiscal
RAO STATES VIEWS:
Conference Investigates Asia's Role
By GERALD DeMAAGD
"We have had an excellent
chairman in Dr. Samuel P. Hayes,
Jr.," Dr. Vijavendra Kosturi Ran-
ga Varadaraja Rao said at the
closing session of the Asian-Ameri-
can seminar here last night.
"I for one have been able to
realize some things about America
that I didn't before," the delegate'
from India said. At a previous
session Rao had. called the con-
ference a failure because issues of
misunderstanding between the Far
East and Americans had been
avoided.
Dr. Charles E. Odegaard, dean
of the University College of Lit-
erature, Science and the Arts, ask-
ed the five visiting panel members
from the Orientto state their re-
spective countries' role in terms
of the coldwar conflict between
Russia and the United States.
Cambodia Special Case
Cambodia is marked by a special1
kind of economic neutrality, Mr.
Sam Sary, former vice Prime Mini-
ster of that country pointed out.
Cambodia wanted to try an experi-
ment and couldn't immediately
make a choice between the east
and west he said, showing several
Michigan Senate
$8,190,000 Bill
-Daily-John Hirtzel
ASIAN-AMERICAN CONFERENCE-Visiting UNESCO panelists
discuss misunderstandings on Far Eastern, issues in an experiment
to promote greater international cooperation.
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Job Change
Given Red
Emplo yes
MOSCOW (AM-The Soviet Union
announced yesterday Soviet work-+
ers no longer will be bound to their
jobs by law.
The Presidium of the Supreme
Soviet Parliament revoked a series
of laws dating as far back as 1940,
thereby ending prosecutions of
workers who leave their jobs with-
out permission.
The announcement said workers
who now want to leave their jobs
can do so by providing two week's
notice.
Director of factories and insti-
tutions retain, however, the power
to fine workers for unjustified ab-
sences or to dsimiss them,
The dismissal still will be enter-
ed in the workers' labor book-a
sort of passport all workers in the
Soviet Union must carry. Such
notations remain black marks
against the workers.
The decree of the presidium,
which acts between sessions for
the Parliament, stipulated that
persons serving sentences for hav-
ing left their jobs without per-
mission are released, and prosecu-
tions pending on the same grounds
are canceled.
The decree indicated that labor
will continue to be directed into
areas where it is needed-such
as the so-called volunteer labor
being sent to open up new agri-
cultural lands in remote areas.
examples where economic pres-,
sures had been brought to bear on1
his country.
The Asian's attitude towardi
government is binding to a close+
unit, a family, that embodies the'
individual's silent desire to be sup-
phnorted by his group, Dr. Bahder
Djohan of Indonesia said.
The Indonesian views the Unit-1
ed States and Russia at the ex-1
tremes of two values of which the+
primary feature of Indonesian
policy is an active independence
which will attempt to combine the
best of the two systems he said.
Views India as Mediator
Rao, a close advisor to Prime
Minister Nehru, viewed India as, a
mediator between two great con-
centration of powers. "Even if we
wanted to we couldn't do anything
else," he. said.
He said it is not a question of;
power politics, but by establish-.
ing the beginnings of democracy,
India was only doing what the
United States is doing in a mili-
tary way.
Rao pointed out that Nehru was;
able to bring about a military un-
derstanding in two wars, the
Korean and Indochina conflicts,
because his country was not en-
tangled in military alliances.
"We want to play 'the historic
role that India has always played.
It has been given to us," he said.
India also did not want to join
in any alliances for fear it would
make the Russians desperate Rao
pointed out.
The Geneva conference deter-
mined that war can no longer be
an instrument of policy and it is
"high time that this is realized,"
he said.
Vedol A. Tam, president of the
University of the Philippines, said
that "the Philippines can speak
better for the Americans than they
can speak for themselves."
AEC Grants
TU' Use of old
Atomic Fuels
The Atomic Energy Commission
granted the University a license for
the use of spent atomic fuel-rod
particles, Dean George Brown of
the engineering school announced
yesterday.
The University is the first non-
government group to receive such
a license which permits the use of
fuels from government atomic re-
actor plants.
Additional :confirmation of the
license came from M. B. Kratzer
of the AEC who also addressed the
assembled University and Industry'
representatives. Kratzer, in a dis-
cussion period held during the
symposium, commented that such
licenses are "good for years."
Okays
GAving
Capital- Outlay
House Must
Act On Bill
Yet Today
By JIM ELSMAN
At 12:20 a.m. today the Senate
of the Michigan Legislature passed
the University's capital-outlay bill.
Senate action came after a Sen-
ate-House conference committee
finally offered the Legislature a
recommendation. They had been
in conference for over two weeks
when the Legislature convened for
an emergency session last Thurs-
day.
House action on. the bill must
come today to beat today's noon
adjournment of the Legislature.
Neihuss Pleased
Although the University request-
ed $17, 571,200 and received less
than half of that figure-$8,190,-
000-Marvin L. Nehuss, Univer-
sity vice-president and dean of
faculties, was pleased and praised
the Legislature for "giving us a'
start on those important buildings
of University growth."
House - S e n a t e disagreements
over three requests-music school,
and mental research and physics-
astronomy buildings-had bogged
the Legislature during the special
session.
The bill passed by the Senate
provides $39,000 for a mental re-
search building, $180,000 for a
school of music structure, and $28,-
000 for a physics and astronomy
building.
Senator Says Liberal
Senator Creighton R. Coleman
(R-Battle Creek), chairman of the
conference committee, thought the
committee's recommendations, as
passed by the Senate, "provided an
overall, liberal building program
for the University and other state
institutions."
Large outlays, which the two
houses had agreed upon before the
institution of the conference com-
mittee include; $1,000,000 for an
undergraduate library and $1,400,-
000 for a social science and langu-
age building.
Large Sum to Medical Bldg.
Largest single appropriation in
the Senate passage was $2,008,000
for a medical science building. A
fluids engineering structure re-
ceived $1,000,000.
University requests for remodel-
ing and additions fell $513,000
short of the asked-for $1,173,000 in
the Senate passage of the capital-
outlay bill.
A proposed school of educatio
building received none of the Uint
versity's $686,000 request.
North Campus development was
given $100,000 of its $300,000 re-
quest
The dental building was award-
ed none of its $340,000 request.
Inter-Staff
Air Dispute
Breaks Out
WASHINGTON (P)-The long
struggle between the air generals
and air admirals burst into the.
open again yesterdayas the Air
Force declared the Navy's big
carriers could deliver only a
"small" strategic punch against
a foe.
This caused some raised eye-
brows inasmuch as President
Dwight D. Eisenhower and Secre-
tary of Defense Charles E. Wilson
have recently been stressing the
might of the Navy's aerial arm.
The new flare-up of interserv-
ice rivalry came to a head in a
hearing before, a Senate Appro-
priations subcommittee on the ad-
ministration's $33,650,000,000 de-
LOSE ONE MATCH:
Michigan Netters Score
Easy Win Over Illinois
By ED SALEM
Not even high winds could stop Michigan's tennis team yesterday,
as it steamrolled its way past the University of Illinois 8-1.
. Today the Wolverine netters will tryfor their 28th straight when
they meet Ohio State at Columbus.
Playing in his usual number one spot, Barry MacKay completely
outclassed Illini sophomore Carl Noble, 6-2, 6-2. It took MacKay just
45 minutes to do the job, as he displayed the fine form which led to
his selection on the preliminary Davis Cup squad.
In the number two position, Wol-T
BIG FIRST INNING:
Michigan DownsIllini,
7-2,
in Baseball Victory
By HANK ROSENBAUM
verine Dick Potter had a bit of
trouble with, Harry Brandt, but
after some initial difficulty, swept
through his opponent 6-2, 6-0.
Brandt's "patsy-ball" style of
playing apparently bothered Potter
early in the match, as it took him
15 minutes and some 22 points to
win the second game. He did set-
tle down, however, and at one
point in the second, set won 14
consecutive points.
Michigan's third player, Mark
Jaffe had some trouble with John
Weiss' fine net game, but Weiss
tired and unable to keep tip the
pressure, lost to Jaffe, 7-5, 6-1.
Neither Michigan players John-
ny Harris nor Dale Jensenlooked
especially impressive as they scored
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TICKETS NOW WARN, NOT SUMMON:
Police Department Extends Bicycle Lic
By DALE
Owners of unlicensed bicycles
the next few days to find that the
are warnings rather than court sum'
Due to the fact that the city c
than 5,000 applications during the
Police Department has extended the
May 21. No bicycles will be impound
Warning
Police began today to issue r
unlicensed bicycles left parked on
no fine, but are intended to remind t
ordinance.
However, any person found ridi
be given a court summons carrying
Lt. Walter Krasny of the police
city is "trving to be fair to the stud
With the assistance of two Illinois errors, the Michigan base-
ball team scored four unearned runs in the first inning to send the
team on to a 7-2 victory over the Illini.
The Wolverines will try to improve their 2-1 Conference mark
today when they meet Purdue in a double header at Ferry Field,
starting time 1:30.
Shortstop Moby Benedict got the game off to a good start as he
" sent a line drive single into left
field. Bruce Fox and Howie Tom-
melein were safe on errors to fill
® ~the bases, with nobody out.
ense D eadline Steve Boros then sent a double
play ball to the Illinois shortstop,
McGHEE Rolla McMullan, who bobbled the
may be somewhat relieved' during ball but recovered in time to get
tickets attached to their bicycles Tommelein at second while Bene-
monses. dick scored.
lerk has been swamped with more Al Sigman followed with a single
past three weeks, the Ann Arbor scoring Fox, and Bob Sealby fol-
e deadline for obtaining licenses to lowed it up with another safety
ed before that date.
Tickets scoring Boros and sending Sigman
ed and white warning tickets on to third. Frank Ronan then laid
city streets. The tickets involve down a perfect squeeze bunt that
the owner that he is violating a city sent Sigman across the plate withj
the final run of the inning. Two
ing a bicycle without a license will walks followed to load the bases'
a one dollar fine, but Benedict who had started it
department, emphasized that the all, struck out to end the inning.
ents." He added with reference to ..., , +-r ~~_