UNIVERSITY OPINION NEEDED ON CALENDAR See Page 4 Y Latest Deadline in the State Datb F MLOUDY, SHOWERS VOL. LXVIL No. 118 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1957 EIGHT PAGES Cuban Rebels Attack Batista in Revolt Attempt a,, * w * * * * Fail in Try To Capture, Kill Leader Invaders, Guards Killed in Skirmish HAVANA, Cuba (P)-Armed reb- els stormed into the presidential palace yesterday in a bloody revo- lutionary attempt to seize or kill President Fulgencio Batista. Twenty men were reported killed in battle inside the palace. Twenty others were reported killed in scattered fighting outside the palace. Batista Survives The 56-year-old President, a vet- 4 eran of violence, survived and di- rected a successful tank-led coun- terattack on rebel supporters out- side the palace. Fifteen out of about 40 invad- Ing rebels and five palace guards 'were reported killed within ear- shot, of Batista. The attack on the palace appar- ently was in two phases: 1) A 40-man invasion team to tackle the palace guard and fight into Batista's private quarters and take him. 2) A covering armed force to deploy in nearby buildings and *keep up an outside attack. The invasion force broke past the guard and into the first floor where Batista has offices He was on the second floor finishing a late luncheon with two Caoinet minis- ters. Heavy Firing Heavy firing around the palace lasted nearly three hours. The government announced last night the rebel forces at the pal- ace had been beaten back and calm prevailed throughout the island. The group that invaded the pal- ace apparently clashed with the inner guard after storming the outer gates, while others fired on the palace from buildings nearby in a concerted attack. Students Armed The general attack was made by students armed with machine guns, pistols, rifles and grenades in the heart of Havana. Police and army and navy forces joined in a mop-up operation. Tanks lined up in front of the palace and extended a block be- yofid in each direction. Anti-Batista student organiza- tions were the apparent leaders of the attack. ~NY College *Head Bans, Red Speaker By EDWARD GERULDSEN A lively controversy has been raging at Queens College, Flush- ing, N.Y., over a recent ruling by Provost Thomas V. Garvey that Daily. Worker Editor John Gates would not be allowed to speak on campus today as scheduled. According to The Rampart, Queens College student newspaper, Gates was invited by the Marxist Discussion Group to participate in Academic Freedom Week, slpcn- sored by the Student Senate. The invitation was later 'p- proved by the Faculty Commit- tee on Student Activities, but with some reservations. Lack of Balance The committee noted a "lack of balance" in the program, which in- cludes appearances by civil rights attorney Osmond Fraenk' and Socialist Norman Thomas. In prohibiting Gates' visit, Gar- vey declared, "It would be unreal- istic and inconsistent with the in- tent of the by-laws and pertinent resolutions of the Board of High- er Education for us to bring to this campus a person who was convicted of conspiring to teach the overthrow by force and vio- lence of the very government which we are obligated to up- hold . ." The Provost was referring to the fact that Gates was indicted in 1949 for violation of the Smith Act along with 10 other top Commun- ists. He was later convicted. Gnn+rnvm.- FlaP9 Egypt To R Reported ume Gaz Prepared SControl I ~ 4', TIMELY PROTECTION: SGC Prop Health Ins By VERNON Student Government Counci health insurance program at the T SGC also asked its Student A port on the "North Campus grade The health insurance recomn Scott Chrysler, '59, who cited "ad "timely age" when students might "protection during period of incre program. Attempts to amend the finalr surance program as "voluntary" ment, which failed by an 8-9 vote,, said a compulsory program would place unnecessary burdens on stu- dents already covered by health insurance plans. An amendment by SGC Vice- PPesidint Jn nt N~ar-'Rarrtr A,.v,4 Tn v nf 'Nina, ' 'Q ,AAA ~~~~LU5 dd d 1U ~ J BIG GUN SILENCED - The NCAA Committee on Eligibility announced Tuesday night that Michigan's star forward Wally Maxwell is ineligible to compete in the NCAA hockey finals starting tomorrow in Colorado Springs, Colorado. axwell Declared Ineligible By BRUCE BENNETT i t s t t A *L R y2 i I d f c t c t Michigan's defending NCAA hockey titlists received a stunning to the motion the following: blow on the eve of their departure for Colorado Springs, Colo., and would Consultg this year's tournament when it learned that Wally Maxwell and Mike "The Council further expresses Buchanan have been ruled out of the tournament by the NCAA. its interest in consulting with ap- The ruling came late Tuesday night after a meeting by the rropriate University officials re- NCAA's Committee on Eligibility and caught athletic officials-here garding the type of insurance and by surprise. Prof. Marcus Plant, Michigan's Big Ten faculty representa-. the method of implementation." tive, said no one in the Michigan Athletic Department knew that the Mal Cumming, '58BAd, called -committee was meeting, much less for the North Campus school chil- 'wsMdren-bus problem, asking "that RETURNED: that it was discussing the Maxvell the study be conducted not only and Buchanan case. with regards to the University but "Therefore, we were given no the city as well." eopportunity to represent our side Cumming indicated it was time of the case at the meeting," Prof. student government began taking Plant said. an interest in North Campus prob- In H ouse Hockey Coach Vic Heyliger told lems. essentially the same story as Plant Motion Tabled when reached by The Daily at A motion to change the Univer- WASHINGTON (P - President Colorado Springs late last night. sity regulation forbidding student Dwight D. Eisenhower said yester- He said, "I . knew nothing of activities after the seventh day day he is shoving off for the Ber- the NCAA action until Athletic before final examinations was Director H. O. (Fritz) Crisler con- tabled yesterday. mudh conference by slow boat to- tacted me Tuesday night." The substitution suggested said day, leaving it to Congress "to go Heyliger continued that he was "Activities may not be calendared ahead and cut" his budget if it given to understand that the during the final examination can. NCAA move was not spontaneous, period." In effect, President Eisenhower but possibly was the result of a The motion was tabled when was bouncing right back to the protest by Colorado College. He al- SGC President Joe Collins, '58, House a resolution it adopted Tues- so went on to say, "There was no- said Assistant Dean of Men John day asking him to pick places for thing I could do about the rul- Bingley was preparing a report to substantial reductions in his 72- ing as the widespread NCAA Ap- the Council on the University billion-dollar budget for the 12 peals Committee could not be Regulations handbook. months starting July 1. He did tell reached in time to appeal the ac-- a news conference "I will be just tion," which apparently only ap- FBI A as helpful as I can." plies to the playoffs. ' B Arrests The President announced he is Crisler could not be reached for boarding the guided missile cruis- comment. er Canberra at Norfolk, Va., to- The present ruling grows out of ami es H offa night for "a very slow trip to Ber- a decision by the NCAA at its muda." meeting last March. The Eligibility WASHINGTON () -- The FBI The chief executive meets there Committee's ruling at that time announced last night the arrest March 21 with British Prime Min- held any player to be ineligible of James R. Hoffa, a top official ister Harold Macmillan for con- who had accepted any money for of the Teamsters Union, on charges ferences he said are bound to playing while in high school. of attempting to bribe an attorney deal with the North Atlantic Trea- In addition, they added a clause to get data for him from the files ty Organization, the Mideast, and making the ruling retroactive to of the Senate committee now in- other "important areas. of the include. anyone in college during vestigating the union's activities. world." the 1954-55 school year. The Department of Justice said He said he has no plans for "any No one in the Michigan Athletic Hoffa, chairman of the Central great changes" in the foreign aid Department was informed of this;States Conference of Teamsters, program he already has submitted clause and officials here figured E was charged with violating the to Congress. I See NCAA, page 7 federal bribery statutes. )ses Student uTrance Plan NAHRGANG .l yesterday called for a student University beginning in September. ctivities Committee to study and re- school children bus problem." mendation came from a motion by dvantageous" rates, protection at a be excluded from family plans, and eased travel" as reasons for such a motion by qualifying the health in- failed. Arguments for one amend- Reveal Union Paid ;$5,000 3To Official' WASHINGTON -(A) - Senate probers produced evidence yester- day the Teamsters Union paid a mysterious $5,000 fee to the law- yer for William M. Langley, in- dicted district attorney of Port- land, Ore. Reginald Mikesell, secretary- treasurer of Teamsters Council No. 37 in Portland, testified he signed the check but had no idea what it was for. "It does sound a little silly, doesn't it?" Mikesell acknow- ledged. r Third Week He was before a special Senate committee investigating rackets, now in the third week of an inves- tigation of alleged links between highly placed teamsters officials, public officials and the Portland underworld. Sen. Karl Mundt (R-SD) said he felt the $5,000 check was "a rather important link that but- tons this whole thing up" with al- legations of "Langley working in collusion" with teamsters officials ,and Tom Maloney, a Seattle gam- bler, The district attorney, a Demo- crat and still in office, is under indictment on charges of mal- feasance and failure to conduct prosecutions. Records Destroyed Mikesell told the senators the records of Teamsters Council 37 probably won't show the purpose of the payment to Langley's law- yer because most of the books and correspondence files from mid-1954 onwards have been de- stroyed - "to make more office space." This is the period under inves- tigation by the senators. Gilbert and Sullivan Society will open its second production of the year, "Princess Ida," at 8:45 p.m. tonight in the Lydia Mendelssohn theatre. Performances will also be giv- en at 8:15 p.m. tomorrow and Saturday. There are only a few tickets left for the weekend shows. The operetta is a satire on a women's college where all students vow to "renounce mankind" and devote themselves to "stern philo- sophy". Princess Ida, after her betroth- al at the age of two years, se- cludes herself in Castle Adamant, the girls' school where the villainy of men is preached. She later be- comes president of the school and turns against all mankind. However, Prince Hilarion, her young bridegroom, is determined to claim his wife and enters Adam- ant disguised as a girl. Inevitably, his masquerade is discovered. The students, who have SGC Forum Asks Opinions, Student and faculty opinion on the University Calendar will be aired tonight at Student Govern- ment Council's Calendar Forum to be held at 7:30 p.m. in Rm. 3R of the Union. The present calendar, now be- ing evaluated, includes a short- ened Christmas vacation and com- mencement of fall semester class- es on a Thursday instead of the following Monday. Next year classes will resume at the end of the week following New Year's Day. After SGC's Jan. 16 resolution calling for "an immediate evalua- tion. of the ' calendar, University President Harlan Hatcher an- nounced a 12-man student-faculty administration committee to make an "exhaustive study" of the Uni- versity calendar. Members of the committee, headed by Prof. John C. Kohl, of the engineering department, have been invited to the forum and most have indicated that they will be present, Janet Winkelhaus, '57, SGC Public Relations Director, ca; never laid eyes on a man before, become enthralled with his mascu- line characteristics and remark about his "chin that scratches." Soon the castle is swarming with men as Ida and Hilarion battle ov- er Ida's destiny. DULLES: 'U.S. Force Uses Atom'. CANBERRA, Australia (-)-Sec- retary of State John Foster Dulles said last night American fighting forces almost everywhere in the world carry atomic weapons as "al- most a normal part of their equip- ment." He did not specify whether United States forces are equipped with live atomic warheads, but it has been disclosed previously that the United States has stockpiled such equipment at its NATO bases in Europe. Dulles jalso told the people al- lied with the United States in Southeast Asia that their danger from Communist a'ttack is as great as the present danger in the Mid- dle East. He said this is true al- though Red China has switched from overt threats to a campaign of subversion. Dulles disclosed that the United States and Australia both are con- cerned that Soviet Russia may be engaged in.-other activities in Ant- arctica - on the SEATO pact's southern flank - under the guise of building scientific bases for the International Geophysical Year. Prof. . Tillie To Talk Here Prof. Paul J. Tillcih of the Har- vard Divinity School will speak on "Psychiatry and Religion" at 4:10 p.m. tomorrow in the Rackham Lecture Hall. The address is under joint spon- sorship of the Department of Psy- chiatry and the Faculty Commit- tee on Studies in Religion, which is featuring his talk a a na,4 r'f -Daily-David Arnold EN GARDE!-Warfare begins in a final scene from the Gilbert and Sullivan Society production, "Princess Ida," to be presented at 8:45 p.m. tonight and 8:15 p.m. tomorrow and Saturday in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. Princess Ida' Opens Today B en- Gurion To Reserve Right To Act UN Secretary To Fly To Cairo Saturday CAIRO (P - Egypt apparently has decided to restore her rule in the Gaza Strip within the next few days. Another full-blown Middle East crisis may be precipitated. Prime Minister David Ben-Gur- ion told the Israeli Parliament In Jerusalem yesterday his country "reserves freedom of action in case Egyptians return to the Strip." Bunche Confers In New York it was announced United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold is flying to Cairo Saturday for consultations. The Egyptian intention was re- ported last night by an official of the Palestine Department in Cairo after UN Undersecretary Ralph Bunche had a 90-minute confer- ence with President Gamal Abdel Nasser and a 45-minute talk with Brig. Gen. Salah Gohar, director of the department. Maj. Gen. E. L. M. Burns, UN commander. sat in on the talk between Bunche and Gohar. Egypt has Right After his talk with Nasser, Bunche made clear to newsmeri that the UN was not disputing Egypt's right under the 1949 arml stice with Israel to administer the former Palestine coastal area, nor even attempting to postpone the entry of Egyptian administrative officials. A series of mollifying moves by UN officials had indicated, how- ever, they hoped Nasser of his own volition would delay the move until tempers have had a chance to cool, Last night thousands of Gaza Strip Arabs staged a demonstra- tion in anticipation of the early resoration of Egyptian rule. Crowds paraded, shouting "Death to Is- rael" and "Long Live Nasser." Mounir el Rayess, the former Egyptian-appobted mayor who has been restored to his post in Gaza City by UN forces, pleaded with the crowds to avoid violence and to behave "with dignity." Israel Urges Gaza Be Kept From Egypt WASHINGTON () - Israel ap- pealed to the United States last night to keep Egypt out of the Gaza Strip as an object lesson that no nation can break its Interna- tional commitments. Israel's Ambassador Abba Eban, in a half-hour call at the State Department, also told the United States in effect that Israel feels it has a moral commitment from President Dwight D. Eisenhower that Israel's withdrawal from Gaza shall "not be in vain." Purpose Told The purpose behind the Israeli action appeared to be to try to get the United States to take a strong- er stand concerning Egypt and the Gaza Strip. In return the hope seemed to be that United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammar- skjold also would be firmer. Hammarskjold reported last Feb. 22 that Egypt was expected to re- frain from ecercising its right un- der the Palestine truce to patrol the Gaza Strip. On the assumption that this would hold up, Israel agreed to withdraw from Gaza, which it had captured from Egypt it 1 0 fn ,- i n nr..mr--in STUDENTS ENJOY RARE WEATHER: warmth, Balmy Breezes Herald Spring Debut ... o ., i { Yz .}i,} MEIRIMMEM;