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VOL. LXVII, No. 4

ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1956

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Three Cypriot
Rebels Hanged
Greek Residents Call 3-day Strike;
New Anti-British Violence Reported
NICOSIA, Cyprus (R)) - Three more Greek Cypriot rebels were
hanged yesterday as fellow prisoners shouted and sang to protest
Britain's rule over this Mediterranean island colony.
A general strike by the island's Greek Cypriot residents went into
its second day. EOKA, a new nationalist underground organization,
circulated leaflets saying the strike would continue three days "in
tribute to three more heroes." Fresh anti-British violence flared.
Hanged behind the walls of Nicosia's Central Prison were Mi-
chael Koutsoftlas, Andreas Panayides and Stelios Mavrommatis.
Their deaths brought to eight the number of nationalist extrem-
ists hanged since Greek, Cypriots 18 months ago began a campaign
of violence to join Cyprus to Greece.
Koutsoftas and Panayides, both 22, were convicted of slaying a
Royal Air Force corporal. Mavrommatis, 23, was convicted of shoot-

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WilliamS HitS
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On Finances
By The Associated Press
Gov. G. Mennen Williams said
yesterday in Lansing that Michi-
gan schools face a "serious finan-
cial crisis" and laid the blame to
the Legislature.
"If the situation does not im-
prove quickly, the legislature may
have to come to the rescue of
the schools with an emergency
appropriation," the Democratic
governor said.
Clair L. Taylor, State School
Superintendent and a Republican,
said he doubted the "picture is as
dark as the governor has painted
it."
The big issue involved is how
much money the state sales tax
brings in. Two-thirds of sales tax
revenues are earmarked for state
school aid.
The Legislature determines the
formula under which aid will be
distributed, and actually appro-
priates the earmarked funds.
In Hastings, meanwhile, his
opponent, Detroit Mayor Albert
Cobo estimated how many votes
he'll need to beat Gov. Williams
in the latter's fifth bid for office.
Cobo said he would need about
60 per cent of the out-state vote
and hoped to be able to get 40
per cent of the vote from heavily
Democratic Detroit.
Speaking at a luncheon in
Hastings, Cobo said:
"If you people out-state can
produce four to five per cent more
votes than the 54 per cent Cobo
seems to be running now, we will
win with what we are going to
pick up in Wayne County."
Cobo said this meant he was
asking out-staters to match their
1,200,000 vote record of 1952 while
he chops away at Gov. Williams in
Wayne County.
Another term by Williams, Cobo
said, "will wreck industry with the
higher taxes his spending pro-
grams will require."
He also said the governor was
blocking construction of high-
ways.
"Everything you have gotten in
money to build highways in Mich-
igan," he said, "has been over the
governor's resistance. If you are
lacking adequate roads today, and
you are, you can blame your gover-
nor."
led Dancers
Snub London
MOSCOW (R)-A Soviet Culture
Ministry spokesman said yester-
day the Bolshoi Theater Ballet
visit to London has not been can-
celed officially despite the dancers'
refusal to appear there.

 ing at two RAF cyclists.
In the tense hours just before
the hangings, the nearly 400 oth-
er prisoners raised a deafening
clamor in their cells. They shouted
"long live BOKA," and sang the
Greek national anthem.
EOKA is the underground or-
ganization that has been leading
the campaign of violence against
the British.
Pleas Rejected
Gov. Sir John Harding turned
down last-minute pleas for mercy
for the trio. Tight security regu-
lations were enforced by British
authorities. The hangman's iden-
tity was kept secret as a precau-
tion against reprisal. It was re-
ported he was flown out of Cyprus
immediately after the executions.
Relatives visited the condemned
men before the executions. They
reported the three were "proud
to die as heroes."
Their bodies were buried inside
the prison grounds -- alongside
those hanged previously-to fore-
stall burial as "national heroes" if
the bodies were turned over to
their families.
The islandwide strike kept of-
fice, factory and constfuction
workers away from their jobs. The
island's newspapers were shut
down. Construction was slowed at
a Royal Air Force base at Akro-
tiri and at a joint headquarters
for Britain's Middle East forces.
Turk Shops Open
The island's Turkish Cyprit
population, about one-fifth of the
500,000 population, carried out
normal business activities. The
Turks are opposed to union with
Greece.
At Cyprus' east coast port of
Famagusta, three British soldiers
were wounded slightly by bombs.
The house of a secuity force
member there also was the target
of a bomb hurler.
Four persons, including two
schoolgirls, were arrested during
an attempted demonstration at
Kyrenia.
Jets Bought
By Israelis
OTTAWA () - Prime Minister
Louis St. Laurent announced yes-
terday that Canada will sell 24
Sabre jet fighter planes to Israel
in the next six months.
St. Laurent said the bulk of the
order would be canceled if any
political circumstances warrant
such a step in the delivery period.
Israel asked last spring for the
planes. They will cost more than
six million dollars.
St. Laurent's statement said
that the government was greatly
influenced in its decision to let
the sale go through "by the fact
that Israel's neighbor - Egypt -
has recently received large num-
bers of jet fighters from the So-
vietUnion and, even more impor-
tant, a considerable number of

-Day-Vern Soden
TILTS, CLASHES AND ENCOUNTERS-No matter what the
headlines call them, Daily sportstaffers are mainly preoccupied
with games, of all kinds and by all teams. Sports coverage is
just one of the maAy Daily activities open to tryouts. Initial
meetings for Sports, Editorial, Women's and Photography staffs
will be held at 7:15 p.m. Wednesday and 4:15 p.m. Thursday.
Business tryouts will meet at 4:15 p.m. Wednesday and 7:15 p.m.
Thursday.
CAMPAIGN NEWS:
Ike Addresses Farmers;
oAdlai To Speak Tdayr

Reserve Judgement,
President Requests
NEWTON, Iowa (IP)-President
Dwight D. Eisenhower, counter-
ing Democratic bidding for votes
of uneasy farmers, asked the na-
tion's producers yesterday to hold
judgment on his policies until he
can outline them in a major poli-
tical speech next week.
The chief executive told a Na-
tional Field Days audience, "You
will probably thinkc my views
crazy, but I am quite sure none
of you will think me dishonest."
Bareheaded and speaking in the
face of a blazing sun, President
Eisenhower added that GOP ad-
ministration farm policies and
programs have been based upon
recommendations of an Agricul-
tural Advisory Commission made
u of farm educators, practical
farmers and representatives of
farm organizations, including the
Farmers Union.
In making his appeal for an ar-
rested judgment on farm issues,
President Eisenhower had in
mind a speech scheduled for
Peoria, Ill., Sept. 25 and billed as
his "major" farm speech of the
campaign..
He doubtless had in mind, too,
the fact that his Democratic op-
ponent, Adlai Stevenson, will de-'
liver his first big farm speech
from the platform here today.
Stevenson already has attacked
President Eisenhower policies as
being hard-hearted toward farm-
ers.
If the shirt-sleeved audience,
made up mostly of farmers in-
cluding some from all parts of the
country, expected any political
fireworks, they were disappointed.

Stevenson, Meany
Talk Labor Matters
WASHINGTON (P)-Adlai Ste-
venson talked labor matters with
the head of the AFL-CIO yester-
day preparatory to taking off in
pursuit of the farm vote today.
Stevenson conferred for nearly
an hour in his hotel suite with
AFL-CIO President George
Meany, who told newsmen later
the Democratic. nominee "looks
very confident" about his chances
of defeating President Dwight D.
Eisenhower in the November elec-
tion.
This morning Stevenson flies,
hard on the heels of President
Eisenhower, to Newton, Iowa, to
deliver a major farm speech at the
National Field Days and Plowing
Contest.
Stevenson is sure to assail the
program, particularly President
Republican administration's farm
Eisenhower's stand in favor of
flexible price supports rather than
the Democrat-backed system of
high, rigid supports.
Stevenson's eight-day trip will
take him through several other
farm states and also to Denver
and some southern states before
he winds it up Sept. 29 or 30,
either in Washington or Chicago.
Then, a couple of days later, he
takes off on another campaign
swing, probably in the East. ,
Meany reportedly, opposed the
AFL-CIO's taking a stand in fa-
vor of either candidate this year.
The labor group's executive board
and executive council both voted
endorsement of Stevenson, how-
ever. And Meany said Friday that
"of course" he will support Ste-
venson.

World News
Roundup.
By The Associated Press
ALGIERS - French helicopter
troops fell into a trap Friday 45
miles southeast of Algiers.
Reinforcements who attacked
the the rebels later found the
bodies of 21 French soldiers.
Four had been shot and the
throats of the others were slashed.
A large-scale fight was reported
under way last night.
French military sources here
said the helicopter-borne troops
had set out to find rebels reported
by intelligence officers. When the
soldiers landed, the rebels attacked
with automatic weapons.
INDIANAPOLIS-Rep. Charles
A. Halleck (R-Ind) described
former President Marry Truman
yesterday as "ou secret weapon."
"We hope they keep him going,"
he added.
DETROIT-Sen. Hubert Humph-.
rey of Minnesota, stumping the
Midwest for the Stevenson-Ke-
fauver ticket, said last night he
had found a substantial increase
in Democratic sentiment in the
area.
"And it doesn't take much to
carry them (the Midwest states),"
he declared.
Humphrey came to Michigan for
a two-day stand that included a
speech in nearby Waterford last
night and in Detroit tonight at a
dinner for Gov. G. Mennen Wil-
liams.
* * *
OTTAWA - George Drew re-
signed yesterday as leader of Can-
ada's Progressive Conserva-
tive Party.
Dr. Fay F. Farquaharson said
Drew, 62 years old, was suffering
from "severe physical and nervous
exhaustion."
* * * .
WASHINGTON-Rep. John Bell
Williams (D-Miss) said yesterday
House hearings are disclosing sta-
bility in those Washington schools
that remained all Negro, but a
drop in scholastic and behavior
patterns in integrated schools.
"You can draw your own con-
clusion from the testimony,"
Williams said in an interview..-
He is a member of the predomi-
nantly southern House subcom-
mittee studying the effects on
Washington schools of racial inte-
gration instituted two years ago.
The hearings are in weekend
recess.
The subcommittee has been al-
ternating on the witness stand
principals and teachers from for-
merly all-white schools which now
have substantial Negro enroll-
ments and others from Negro
schools which have drawn few or
no white pupils.

and help from other (Leftist) stu-'
dent organizations and. . . unions
which can always provide 100-150
personnel," Susumu Kobe, assis-
tant to the president of Waseda
said.
Under the exchange program,
nine Japanese professors are now
teaching at Ann Arbor in ex-
change for Prof.-Gordy and Prof.
Page, instructing at Waseda Uni-
versity. The demonstrators have
been sending cables to the Univer-
sity demanding recall of the Am-
erican professors and return of
the nine Japanese. They said this
exchange program would curb
Waseda's freedom. ,
Although there is another dem-
onstration planned at Tokyo air-
port when the professors arrive
with their families, Kobe com-
mented "I don't think there's any
danger. Those. people are always
careful to not go beyond a certain
line where they get arrested."
Kobe said he had talked by
trans-Pacific telephone to the
University campus and it will an-
nounce the Tokyo arrival time of
the professors. However, no one
in authority here was willing to
comment on the exact date of ar-
rival.
Contacted at his home, George
Granger Brown, Dean of the en-
gineering school, offered "No com-
ment," while Prof. Wyeth Allen,
also of. the engineering school,
flatly said, "I ddn't know anything
about it."
Meanwhile, Waseda's 28,000-
member student body has sup-
ported the American professors'
arrival
LivingCot
For August
Edge Down
WASHINGTON (A') --Consumer
prices edged down two-tenths of 1
per cent in August from July's
all-time peak but may be climb-
ing up again 'this month.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics
yesterday announced the August
reversal of a steep three-month
rise in living costs. It was attribut-
ed to a drop of nearly 15 per cent
in the cost of fresh fruits and
vegetables.
Despite the August dip, 100,000
aircraft workers, whose wages are
pegged to quarterly fluctions in
the governments' price index, re-
ceived 2 or 3-cent hourly wage
boosts.
Their adjustments were the re-
sult of jumps in the index during
June and July.
BLS Commissioner Ewan Clague
foresaw a possible climb again
next month because of the contin-
Uing price mark-up on meats,
clothing, fuel and automobiles.
These increases may well offset
any continuing decrease in fruit

Two Profesr
Halted ByMobs'
By DONNA HANSON
The State Department has asked the University not to "make
much" of a recent "incident" in which two University exchange pro-
fessors were stopped .en route to Waseda University in Tokyo by
Communist-inspired demonstrators.
Vice-President Marvin Niehuss said, "As far as I know now, they
are again on their way."
According to an Associated Press story, Prof. Charles B. Gordy
and Prof. Edward L. Page, both of the industrial engineering school,
were delayed so that feeling against their arrival could be gauged
and physical safety could be guaranteed for themselves and their
families.
The demonstrations, labeled "Yankee go home", were put on by
a small, but well-organized group of Communists "with o lot of funds

Union, Head
Denies ILA
Readmission
WASHINGTON (A) - AFL-CIO
President George Meany ruled yes-
terday an exiled dockworkers
union has failed to rid itself of
gangster influence and must stay
out of his big labor organization.
Meany made known his decision
immediately after a 90-minute
conference with Capt. William V.
Bradley, president of the Interna-
tional Longshoremen's Assn.
The ILA, with a membership of
60,000, was ousted from the old
AFL three years ago on charges
it was dominated by racketeers.
Bradley failed to " convince
Meany of any cleanup and got a
flat turndown on his appeal for
ILA admittance to the merged
AFL-CIO.
Meany said he questioned Brad-
ley about whether any of the
cleanup conditions previously laid
down had been fulfilled by the
ILA and that he was not satis-
fied with Bradley's replies. He said
Bradley told him the ILA had
been "too busy" to carry out many
of the suggested reforms.
AFL-CIO conditions for ILA re-
admission include demands that it
rid itself of hoodlums and officials
having criminal records; that it
install democratic procedures to'
give members more voice in run-
ning union affairs, that it install
fair hiring practices on the New
York waterfront, and that it stop
ILA officials from "taking gifts
and bribes."
Meany said he ticked off these
conditions one after another with
Bradley and got no satisfactory
answers.
Suez Situation
Talk To Open
ISA Series
Representatives of the French,
British and Egyptian governments
will discuss the Suez crisis, Oct. 9
at the University.
First in a series of political dis-
cussions sponsored by the Inter-
national Students Association, the
debate will deal with the import-
ance of the canal to the respective
countries and the justification of
their policies.
Presenting British views will be
Consul Edward H. Moss from the
Consulate in Detroit. Salah Jaw-
fiq, cultural attache of the Egypt-
ian Embassy in Washington and
French Consul Jean-Paul Despar-
met will also participate. '
Andy Chaudhry, Grad, president
of ISA' and a student of interna-
tional law will act as chairman for

Revised Plan
Displeasing-
To France
LONDON () - The 18-nation
Suez conference ended. yesterday
with majority agreement to form
the Suez Canal Users' Assn.
-SCUA-within 10 days.
But France expressed such dis-
appointment at the association's
final form as to cast doubt on
Western unity.
French Foreign Minister Chris-
tian Pineau surprised the meeting
by withholding immediate ap-
proval, apparently viewing the
project as too favorable to Egypt.
Japan, Pakistan, Sweden, Iran
and Ethiopia expressed reserva-
tions. All, however, were much
warmer toward the final revised
plan for the association than they
were toward its original terms.
One of SCUA's first tasks wil
be to seek the United Nations' help
by mid-October in reaching a final
settlement of the Suez dispute.
Secretary of State John Foter
Dulles went directly, from the last
conference session to London Air-
port and boarded a military plane
for Washington. He is to report to
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
immediately on arrival.
Sec. Dulles, author of the asso-
ciation plan, told airport report-
ers:
"It was a good conference. It
fulfilled good work and there was
a cooperative .spirit. I think the
results are solid. I am very satis-
fied with the outcome."
SCUA's governing body, com-
posed of one delegate from each
country joining it, will meet Oct.
1 in London.
Its immediate tasks will'. be:
To prepare a joint case for in-
ternational control of the canal
and by mid-October ,present it to
the U.N. Security Council with a
request for endorsement.
To seek Egypt's cooperation for
the "safe, orderly, efficient and
economical transit" of the ships
of its members through Suez.
To investigate ways of bypassing
the canal should it ever be closed
to them.
US' May Stop
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Tolls To Egypt
WASHINGTON ()-U.S. offi-
cials said yesterday the Treasury
probably will soon stop American
ships from paying Suez Canal
transit tolls directly to the Egypt-
ian government.
This would supersede an Aug. 3
ruling advising U.S. shippers to
pay tolls to Egypt but "under pro-
test and without prejudice."
It would bring the United States
closer in line with Britain and
Francehon the issue of tolls, but
would have small practical effect
since the number of U.S. ships
using the canal is relatively few.
The British and French require
all of their ships plying the canal
to pay tolls to the old Suez Canal
Co. which was ousted by Egypt's
July 26 nationalization of the
canal.
None of this money goes to
Egypt since Britain and France
have frozen all assets of the com-
pany.
Investigating
Bridges Beating

SAUSALITO, Calif. (A')- Harry
Bridges, controversial West Coast
waterfront leader, was beaten up
in a night spot yesterday and an
investigation was started to deter-

1-A TURNS 'F-G' IN SOUTH:
Lawyer's Deferment Slows Draft.

But Mikhail Chulaki, director of modern jet bombers, of which Is-
the troupe, later said it would not rael possesses none."
go to London without British gov-
ernment guarantees of . safety Farmers Allowed
from incidents such as the shop-
lifting charge against Nina Pono- Soil Bank Changes
mareva, woman discus champion.
The dancers announcedin the WASHINGTON UP)-Farmers
government newspaper Izvestia who made 1956 soil bank acreage
they would not fulfill their Lon- reserve contracts without fully
don engagement because the Brit- understanding the program were
ish had not dropped the charge given a chance yesterday to revise
agairnst Mrs. Ponomareva. or cancel these agreements.
Soviet diplomats in London had Secretary of Agriculture Benson
hinted the tour would be canceled announced the move. He said mis-
unless British police abandoned understandings had resulted from

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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (A')--Ala-
bama draft boards, hot under the
collar over an indefinite defer-
ment ordered for Negro attorney
Fred D. Gray, yesterday threat-
ened a deliberate draft slowdown.
At least one board promised no
registrants white or Negro, would
be called up for induction "until
Gray is drafted."
And an appeals agent, Alton L.
Turner of Crenshaw County, re-
signed with an angry blast at Lt.j
Gen. Lewis B. Hershey and the
National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People,
Gray has been an attorney for
Negro groups in the months-old
boycott of Montgomery city buses.
Charging that Hershey had

board resigned Monday after
25-year-old attorney failed to
port for induction.

Since then three county appeals Selective
agents, a State Appeals Board 30-day d
member and the entire Barbour new ind
County board have resigned in Monday.
protest at Gray's deferment. Three
Even though Hershey directed County d
Gray's board to reopen his case ty appea
on two occasions, the members test of
refused and forced Hershey to in-' Memb
tervene to keep Gray from being board sa
inductedew '"
inducted. sification
Gray had been deferred as a the dura
practicing minister" until he hit One .o
the limelight as the boycott at- State Se
torney. group w
His' case was reviewed by the from Bu
local board which determined that Gray go'

the
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orderedu
ust.
On in

up for induction in Aug-
struction from national
Service .headquarters a
delay was ordered and a
uction date set for last
members of the Barbour
draft board and the coun-
Ls agent resigned, in pro-
Hershey's action.
ers of the Bullock County
id they were setting up a.
G" --Fred Gray - Clas-
for all eligible 1-As for
tion of the squabble:
f the members, former
n. L. K. Andrews said the
ould not "send anybody
Ilock County until Fred
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