GOP STILL FOLLOWING OUTMODED POLICIES (See Page 4) Latest Deadline in the State 4Iaii4y SE SNOW iL URRIES, COLDER VOL. LXVI, No.68 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1956 *SIX F Vote Aids French Reds Eighty-Fourth Congress Hurts Hopes Government Anti-tax Party Established PARIS W) - France's hopes of ;. establishing a stable government have been doomed by an election that nobody really won. Balloting Monday by a record number of Frenchmen only strengthened the Communist par- ty, established the anti-tax follow- ers of Pierre Poujade and left no single party or group of parties powerful enough to rule alone. Unofficial returns last night from all of France and some over- seas precincts showed: 1. A startling success-49 seats- for the antitax, avowedly obstruc- tionist followers of Pierre Poujade. 2. An Assembly majority again split between the left and right wings of the center, moderate parties whose leaders have been alternating in short-lived, shak- ing coalition governments for years. Center Party Struggle This unresolved struggle of the center parties appears certain to push the unwilling forces of Pre- miere Edgar Faure and ex-Pre- mier Pierre Mendes-France into each other's arms if they ,are to survive. Confronted by the Communists a and the Poujadists, neither the right-of-center party alliance led by Faure nor the left-of-center group under Mendes-France is strong enough to take over the new government alone. But the bitterness engendered by Faure's dissolution of the old National Assembly and the heated ,charges and counter-charges of the campaign may make coopera- tion among the moderates impos- Bible for a long time. Precise Party Label The unofficial results give a pre- cise party label to each deputy elected. But some ran under two different party banners, and party discipline is weak in France - aside from the Communists, So- cialists and perhaps the untried Poujadists. There is no accurate advance gauge of how most of the men elected will vote in the Assembly in selecting a new premier, or on the urgent issues awaiting their decision. Unofficial tallies gave the Com- munists and their splinter party allies 147 seats - 52 more than they won in the last election in t 1951; the Socialists members of Mendes-France's Republican Font 88 - compared with 94 in the 1951 election; the Popular Republican Movement MRP, 70 - or 13 fewer than in the old Assembly. Seats Changed In 1951, the totals of the Radical Socialists, Union of Democratic and Socialist Resistants UDSR and Rally of the Republican Left RGR were linked for 77 seats. This year, these figures were separated giving the Radical Socialists 49, the UDSR 6 and the RGR 19, for a total of 74. From all sides came varying es- timates of the strength of the biggest blocs. There was little argument about the 147 seats for the Communists or the 49 for the Poujadists. But trouble started in trying to make a breakdown of the strength of the "Republican Front" led by Mendes-France and the right-of-center grouping which had been supporting Faure. The best estimates that could be made gave the Faure group 180 to 200 seats and 125 to 150 for the Republican Front, which includes the 88 Socialists as the biggest party. Sound Barrier Breaking Jet. Alarms City A jet plane boomed through the sound barrier Thursday, rocking Ann Arbor, and bringing a flood of frantic phone calls to police Awaiting Ike's Messag {. -Courtesy Ann Arbor News HATCHERS DEPART - University President Harlan H. Hatcher and his family shown here boarding a plane for the Far East Dec. 29. Pres. Hatcher, Regent Charles S. Kennedy, and Theodore Drews of the University's institute of Public Administration will tour the Far East for three weeks. Mrs. Hatcher and the children are spending the time in Hawaii. CITE RAID: Israel Rejects UN Bid TOt Police Boats UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (IP)-Israel turned down yesterday a UN suggestion that she keep her police boats well out into the Sea of Galilee to avoid alarming nearby Syrian batteries. Israeli delegate Mordecai R. Kidron stated his country's position in a letter for the UN Security Council. The Council has been dis- cussing the raid Israel carried out Dec. 11 on Syrian posts just -northeast of the Israeli-controlled Ike Finishes Final Work On Message KEY WEST, Fla. (M)-President Dwight D. Eisenhower finished work yesterday on two major messages to Congress then ex- changed New Year greetings by telephone with the legislative leaders of both parties. The leaders putina' call from Washington 45 minutes after the second session of the 84th Con- gress convened in this presidential and congressional election year. Ready for Business They told the President, con- valescing here from his Sept. 24 heart attack, that the lawmakers are ready for business. Then there was the New Year exchange and, on the part of the Democratic and Republican leagers, best wishes for the President's full recovery. Pres. Eisenhower, still saying nothing publicly about whether he' will seek reelection, informed the leaders he will have some business for them tomorrow-his State of the Union Message outlining the administration's 1956 legislative program. Of course that wasn't news to them-it had been announced be- fore. Just like the notification that Congress was back in harness, it was all a part of formal tradition. Budget Planned After finishing the State of the Union document, the President and Budget Director Rowland R. Hughes whipped the annual, bud- get message into final form at a 45-minute conference in Eisen- hower's office. The White House announced that the budget message will be sent to Congress Jan. 16. It report- edly calls for spending about 63 billion dollars in the fiscal year starting July 1. Spending during the current year is expected to total about that amount, too. After Tuesday's c o n f e r enc e Hughes reiterated that the admin- istration is hopeful that the bud- get for both this year and next can be ballanced. But he again declined to speculate on a tax cut. Secretary of the Treasury Hum- phrey has said the budget must be balanced before taxes can be(re- duced. Police Clash With Rioters At Columbus COLUMBUS, Ohio (P)-Manage- ment and union blamed each other yesterday for a serious, flareup of violence at the struck Columbus plant of Westinghouse Electric Corp. A mass demonstration of strik- ing AFL - CIO International Union of Electrical Workers supplied the spark that touched off the pre- dawn struggle between strikers and police. In Pittsburgh, negotiations aimed at settling the 12-week strike at Columbus and 29 other Westing- house plants were broken off by the company but early last night another negotiating session was scheduled for today. A company spokesman said James Finnegan, director of the Federal Mediation and Concilia- tion Service, asked two company representatives to meet with him at the Philadelphia office of the service. The spokesman said Vice Presi- dent Robert D. Blasier and Clark Frame, director of labor relations, will attend the Philadelphia ses- sion. Also scheduled to be present, the company spokesman said, are James B. Carey,,president of the union, and Al Hartnett, secretary-. treasurer. The strike clash in Columbus, quelled within an hour after its start, left one picket dead - of a heart attack - the coroner's of- fice announced. At least eight other persons suffered injuries ser- ious enough to require, hospital treatment. Police arrested 90 per- sons and jailed them while charges were being prepared. An undetermined number of automobiles were damaged as po- lice accused strikers of throwing stones and wielding clubs in oppo- sition to officers trying to break up the demonstration. A Westinghouse spokesman in Pittsburgh said the company ne- gotiators walked out after "the sea. Canadian Maj. Gen. Edson L. M. Burns, UN Palestine truce ehief, in a Dec. 20 report to the Council said the raid cost 56 Syrian and 6 Israeli lives. He said it followed Syrian shelling of an Israeli police boat the day before and suggested that Israeli keep such boats away from the shoreline which is only about 32 feet from the Syrian line. Burns declared: "The Israeli right to send Police boats to patrol anywhere in Lake Tiberias and the Sea of Galilee would in no way be impaired by a new gentlemen's agreement to keep them at a certain distance from shore." SGG Plans Driving Ban Djiscussion Recommendations for adminis- trative implementation of the new driving ban proposals will be dis- cussed. at tonight's Student Gov- erment Council meeting, 7:30 in the Union. Constituent opinion on the prob- lem of policy and enforcement will be welcomed at the meeting, ac- cording to SGC President Hank Berlnier, '56. The Council is also expected to pass on the nomination by the executive- committee of Debbie Townsend, '56, Gene Hartwig, '56, and Fritz Glover, '56, as student members of an Office of Student Affairs committee which will form- ulate procedures and policy re- lating to the proposed ban modi- fication. By-Law Accepted At its last meeting, SGC approv- ed a motion requesting that Coun- cil-selected students be allowed to work with OSA on such a com- mittee and that a final committee report be submitted to SGC before presentation to the Regents. The Regents accepted "in prin- ciple" the proposed amendment of By-Law 8.05 at their December meeting and scheduled full con- sideration of it as the first order of business at their next meeting, Jan. 27. Also up for discussion at today's meeting is a motion tabled at the last meeting that each SGC can- didate be asked to show evidence on the basis of his graduation date that he will be able to ful- fill his obligation to serve a full one-year term unless he has pre- viously served on the Council. Presentation and tabling of the motion followed rescindment of previous Council action requiring evidence of expected fulfillment of one-year terms, regardless of prior Council membership. Final Report Due Donna Netzer, 156, will pre- sent the final report of the struc- ture study committee which was charged with drawing up recom- mendations for a more efficient Council organization. A motion for rescheduling sen- ior class elections will be pro- posed by .Daily Managing Editor Dave Baad, '56. Holding senior officer balloting at a time other than the all-campus voting would make for more meaningful class participation, according to Baad. 356 KILLED: New Year Holiday Sets' Traffic Death Record By The Associated Press Weekend traffic deaths set a new record for a three-day New Year holiday period. However, the total was far short of the recent Christmas holiday mark. The final tabulation for the New Year weekend including delayed reports, yesterday showed 356 traffic deaths, 72 deaths in fires, and 72 in the miscellaneous class. The overall total was an even 500., It broke the three day New Year total of 317 set in 1953-54.