MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR w Li L Latest Deadline in the State 1446hp ,goo" :43 1 ELAL ,W"Vr t CLOUDY, ABOUT 5-8 ABOVE ,vr in VOL. LXVL No.d 67 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1955 j six R M VL« LA I an. l v v - en o Stories Of Year Named Geneva Conference, Ike's Illness Top List of Foreign, National News By PETE ECKSTEIN Nineteen Fifty-Five was a year of change, in face if not in facts. Speculation was high this time last year that a Big Four con- ference "at the summit" would be held, that Malenkov, Churchill, Mendes-France and Eisenhower would meet to attempt an East- West settlement. When in fact the Big Four did- meet at Geneva in July, only Eisenhower was still in office. Geneva -Hope Fades Much of the news of the year centered around the rise to power' of Krushchev and Bulganin, Eden and Faure, the changes in policy they effected, the conference they held with Eisenhower, and its dis- appointing ,aftermath. With the year nearly ended, the antagonisms of old still remain. If the fears of the 'world are not as great as when the year began, neither are its hopes. ' Of the ten top news stories of the year, the most important was datelined Geneva. That quiet Swiss resort town became the center of the world's attention as it hadn't been since the days of the League of Nations. Again the cause was peace. Few Fruitful Results East and West met in a series of four conferences. Tangible results came only from the two less auspicious, the scientific con- ference to exchange information on peaceful uses of the atom and the quiet ambassadors meeting which led to the release of Americans held in China. A tacit agreement that war was to neither side's advantage was said to have resulted from the meeting of the heads of govern- ment, but it was difficult to tell whether the "spirit of Geneva" survived the deadlock of the subsequent foreign minister's conference. Bulganin, Khrushchev Arrive The apparent cause of much that was new in 1955 was an effort- less, bloodless almost friendly shift in the leadership of the Soviet Union. Georgi Malenkov, believed to have held the real power in Russia, was revealed as a mere figurehead when he announced his resignation to an astonished world. His successor as Premier was a former political general, Nikolai Bulganin. But the man in control, or perhaps just the first among equals, was the Communist Party secretary, bald, stocky Nikita Khrushchev. If any year may be said to have a "man," Khrushchev was 1955's "Man of the Year." The new regime was characterized by con- ciliation and even accessibility, an unheard of attribute for Soviet leaders. 'Happiness Boys' The long-debated Austrian peace treaty was signed, and Khrush- Soviets Veto Japan UN Application Denounce Action As 'Veto Abuse' UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (P)- Russia yesterday cast its third veto against Japan in three days to bar Tokyo's application for U.N. mem- bership. The United States angrily de- nounced this action as an "abuse of the veto power." Gloomy Follow-Up Dtil .61s R fma INA T-O eIr Sp-Ieeds Uf arrng Syste Added4' This development was a gloomy foilowup to Wednesday's historic decisions which saw the Security Council and General Assembly ap- prove 16 new members. Eleven of the happy countries making the grade took seats behind shiny nameplates in the huge assembly hall and all were greeted enthusi- astically by cheering delegates. Bitterness arose in the Security Council, however, when Arkady A. Sobolev, Soviet delegate, vetoed a resolution by Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., chief American representative, Additionts UNITEaD NATIONS, N. Y. P) -The U. N. plans to spend $173,000 for added seating and equipment in the Assembly Hall and committee rooms to take care of the 16 nations approved as new members Wednesday. f a v or ing Japan's application. Japan had geen knocked out Tues- day and Wednesday by Russian vetoes and an angry Lodge assailed yesterday's action. He said it would} be widely resented in the world. Bargaining Pawn In Washington, the State De- partment charged that Russia has vetoed Japan in order to keep a "bargaining pawn" (in negotia- tions with the Japanese. The State Department appealed to Russia to reverse its stand quickly. -Daily-John Hirtzel and Dick Gaskill "GOD REST YE MERRY.. ." -- Christmas spirit pervades as carols ring through the bitter night air. Evans Scholars join with Delta Gamma before the sorority house on Hill Street. - -._ Red LSCHOOL'S OUT: ReciveClVacation Starts Today; ceiv* *e Israel Attack On Syrians chev led Russian delegations, fon in their romps through Yugosla See YEAR _D dly dubbed "The happiness boys," The Assembly sat for long hours Iiot I I sfas p rtes via, Geneva, jndia and Burma, Thursday in an effort to clean upD enounced 'S, Page t_____itsagenda.______Pt nBy DONNA HANSON KABUL, Afghanistan (P'-Snow "Bah, humbug," Scrooge scoffed. GUNITED NATIONS, N. Y. P) --and a comparatively cool reception "God bless us every one," Tiny Tim prayed. Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser of greeted Soviet Premier Nikolai "Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night," Santa Claus Egypt told the UN last night he Bulganin and Communist party laughed. considered the Israel attack on leader Nikita S. Khrushchev when "Two whole weeks without school," Marcia Flucke, '58 said. Syria last Sunday an attack on "Two holewee.s ithutscoolEgypt as well. tey arrived yesterdayon the last Today marks the opening of "two whole weeks without school" chag increasing Israeli for thousands of Michigan students and faculty members who will iaggression on Arab countries and Afghan Premier Mohammed be traveling to homes and vacation - said Egypt "is bound to deal with Daud and a guard of honor were points all over the c untry. this situation herself" with armed at the airport, but nowhere were Extra Transportation force to insure her safety. there the roaring crowds which I i- i had greeted the Russians in India i preparation for departi To Security Council and Burma. Michigan students, additional Nasser stated this position in a In keeping with the Afghan gov- means of transportation have beenRoundup letter to Secretary General Dag ernment's apparent intent to play ped ra plMian e lit fHammerskjold asking him to "con- h down the visit, flags and bunting New orkband Mminache-ivey this message to the members appeared belatedly on public build- By The Associated Press of the Security Council." Ing etedy bound, school-fatigued students. In yeseh . From behind his ticket cage at WASHINGTON - Secretary of', Omar Loutfi, Egypt's permanent In a brief speech at te airpor the Ne York Central Depot, Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson representative to the UN delivered Bulganin said Russia "knows Af- W. Hachey said, "Hafta add extra predicted yesterday that the five- Nasser's letter on the eve of a fi', ,'' ;* ^ghanistan is increasingly following coaches and special trains for year decline in farm prices-now meeting of the 11-nation Council a policy of neutrality ,while seek- home-bound students." Bah, hum- a controversial political issue-will to consider a Syrian complaint r,..,ing peace." He declared conditions bug!! come to an end next year under against the Israeli attack. *{'-, "exist "for expanding and strength- For the past week, the campus influence of a broadened adminis- Repercussions of the Galilee '" > ening Afghan-Soviet relations." scene has been a flurry of frost- tration farm program. battle came in other capitals. Observers here said the quiet bitten carolers, dejected blue book He said he believes that farm U.S. Slows Action reception was planned because the carriers and frustrated Christmas prices as a whole will not dip be- In Vahington, the United - government did not wish to spark shoppers. low the present level-which is 81 States was-reported to have slowed news story came from Geneva, where Soviet Premier Nikolai Bul- the latent anti-Russian feeling Anxiety Prevails per cent of the pa'rity price goal action on Israel's request for Edar Faure and British Prime traditional among Afghans. The In the classroom an omnipresent of federal farm-aid programs. American tanks, planes and other wight D. Eisenhower, French Premier government wants close Russian air of anticilpation resided as fac- Prices for the first 11 months of weapons - perhaps 50 million ties, these sources said, but does ulty members distributed and this year averaged 85 per cent of dollars worth in all - on account not want to appear a Soviet's sat- 1 collected the dreaded pre-Christ- parity. of the attack on the Syrians. The ysellite. mas blue books. With a cheery * * State Department sent word to silanti i pposes The Kremlin leaders flew to. this "Merry Christmas" professors dis- ALGIERS, Algeria-Continuing Israel it must have more time to mountainous kingdom on the missed their students, stood clear political murder and terrorist consider the shopping lists because southern borders of the Soviet of the exits and walked slowly out attacks in Algeria yesterday of tensions resulting from the raid eD em ocratsUnion from Stalinabad, capital of of the room, laden with blue books brought the week's toll to more and because of American' policy L thSoitRepbico T''dl-fk Eyet to be cretd than 8 rebels, natives and FrenchI governing the sale of weapons. Bad weather had forced them to on the hill, the scene is one of settlers killed. George Allen, assistant secre- WASHINGTON (") - Two working men who belong both to the bypass Kabul yesterday and land rooms scattered with half-filled Near Bone, terrorists shot and tary of state, conferred with Is- CIO and the Republican party complained yesterday that they and I in Termez, Soviet city 400 miles suitcases an not-quite-finished killed 84-year-old Bertrand Laca- raeli Ambassador Abba Eban at likeminded unionists are being forced to contribute to the Democrats. north of the Afghan capital. argyle socks lying on desks and banne, former mayor of the Alger- the State Department Tueqday. chairs. Gayly-colored wrappings ian town of Duvivier. The killing Barring further difficulties, it Harry F. Brothers of Ypsilanti, Mich., who said he had been a --------- ' are stuffed in wastebaskets and of the old man enraged nearby seems certain that eventually Is- menber of the CIO United Auto Workers for 15 years, told a news Y books are optimistically piled up French settlers. Two Moslems had rael will get the weapons, or most conference called by Sen. Curtis (R-Neb): Iritisl ajo- next to the luggage in preparation their throats cut near Guelma and of them, but not, however, until "It's no secret that the union bosses are taking vast sums from of "two whole weeks" of pre-exam two others were killed near Batna. the Syrian incident is cleared up union dues and are placing them at the disposal of the Democrats. Fatallv Tra s study. In the worst incidents of the through United Nations investiga- "As a Republican, I bitterly oppose being compelled to make in- Men already look forward w'ith last four days, 15 rebels wer killed tion and hearings. voluntary contributions through the use of my dues to finance the i glee to New Year's Eve parties and Wednesday when they were uap- Britain Protects party I vote against at the aLLI i Christmas meals. ped in a cave near Debel i'Dira. Britain formally protested to Is- polls.ta True, everyone looks forward to * * * rael against the raid and an- "And there are millions of rank NICOSIA, Cyprus UP-A British "two whole weeks of no school" CLEVELAND - Sen. Clinton nounced support of Syria's com- and file men in this country who army major turned a guerrilla but what then? EXAMS! Bah, Anderson (D-NM), chairman of plaint against Israel in the Se- S are as bitter about it as I am." band's ambush of his jeep into a humbug! the Joint Congressional Atomic curity Council Friday. In Ne sWalter J. Brauninger of Chelsea, death trap yesterday for the guer- - Committee, last night announced In Cairo, Nasser had told news- Mich., a CIO UAW member since rilla leader, a fugitive with a broad plans to get more informa- men Egypt "will take action if an- DETROIT (P)- Negotations be- 1942, told the same conference $14.000 price on his head. ov&e- Ita - Bo tion on present and potential other Israeli attack occurs" tween striking AFL CIO stereo- that independent surveys in Mi- Ma. Brian Coombe, 34, seized a .j peacetime uses of nuclear energy typers and Detroit's three major chigan showed 40 per cent of Sten gun and wentainto action e L T Ta- "out into the open." iwi Cs newspapers were in recess yester- uipon members had voted the Re- afterthef ld.i na cc, n F or Defense. Pointed Oui U.S. to Finance New Installatio PARIS (P--An urgent rel from Secretary of State Ji Foster Dulles that the So Union has re-opened the cod; effected a decision yesterday the North Atlantic Treaty OrgE zation to construct a trans-Er pean air-raid warning net, The NATO net will reach f Norway to Turkey and will backed by a new jam-proof c munications web The begin of this installation will be finan by the United States. Secretary Dulles' report acted on by foreign, finance, a defense ministers of NATO., NATO Backs Planners NATO's own military plate, backed Dulles with a waring the Russian military threat greater now than ever before, Soviets now have speedy bombers capable of blasting part of the NATO area with t mendous nuclear explosives., Proposals submitted in per by Gen. Alfred M. Gruentl supreme Allied commander Europe, for a more efficient ordination of air defenses as a s toward their eventual integrat were accepted promptly by NATO ministers. The Gruent program will lump the var national air defenses in four gions-North, Central and So Europe, and Britain. Gruenther told a news conf ence later that his command si felt coordination of air force- as much as the NATO maemb can undertakehnow. Gruenther's headquarters have the specific responsibility operating Europe's early warn line, the equivalent here to American-Canadian Distant Es Warning line across North Am ica. The communications network be built at the estimated cost rougly 42 million dollars, M until ize a new American inventi It is called the "scatter" syst4 Defense Secretary Charles Wilson, on behalf of the U.S. g ernment, offered to finance construction of three pilot link an offer which the NATO mi ters immediately accepted. ( link will cover the shorter hope Norway. The others will ' l Supreme Headquarters .A111 Powers in Europe with Naples, : Naples with the Allied base Izmir, Turkey. Only 250 Men Gruenther stressed that a ra screen would be of little, use European defense if its warni: could not be transmitted back headquarters and the consequ orders transmitted to guided n sile stations and air bases. He s the whole system could be oper ed around the clock with only men. The radar screen, the commu cations net and future guided n sie stations will be a joint NA enterprise. Gruenther was un to estimate the total cost. The ministers quickly appro- plans for the joint defense buil in 1956 and the tentative goals 1957 and 1958 Colleges Get Du Pout Gift WILMINGTON, Del. ()--E du Pont de Namours and Co., I: Inc., yesterday announced gra of $900,000 to more than 100 ui versities and colleges for the ni academic year. This is an increase over 1 year's grants which totalled $81 000. Crawford H. Greenewalt, pre dent of Du Pont. said "we h THE BIG FOUR-The year's top ganin, United States President D Minister Anthony Eden conferred Ike's Plan Not Revealed B agerty GETTYSBURG, Pa. (P)-Presi- dential press secretary James C. Hagerty said yesterday he knows nothing of a report that the White House is dabbling a finger in the March 13 primary in New Hamp- shire. The result was to keep in the air the intriguing question of what President Eisenhower's intentions are toward a second term and when he will offer the answer. On that, Hagerty had nothing at all to say.' The President himself was iso- lated from the political reverbera- tions around the Gettysburg White House press room. For him, it was