FEW AMERICANS SEEK ISA t rta Sixty-Seven Years of Editorial Freedom' 4hp 742 at I See Page 4 CL> DY, WARMER L. LXVII, No. 118 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 1958 FIVE CENTS SIX FIVE CENTS Rebels Battle Again For American Oil Conflict Flares at Surnatran City; Report New Province Joins Revolt SINGAPORE (JP)-Indonesian rebels declared last night they had resumed the battle for the American oil center of Pakanbaru and had gained support from another province in Sumatra. The radio at Bukittinggi, mountain refuge of the rebel regime. said Lieutenant Colonel Achmad Hussein's troops again were attacking the Jakarta government's paratroopers and commandos who seized Pakanbaru and its airfield Wednesday. The broadcast said Tapanullprovince in northwestern Sumatra had ousted the pro-Jakarta military commander there, Indicating AWOL Nicky, a Barbary ape bound for the Memphis Zoo, took a 17-hour' leave yesterday, all aboard the Navy supply ship Antares. Shinnying up the ship's rigging, he remained out of reach of paternal captors all night.. Next morning the crew rigged a food-baited cage trap at the foot of the mast, sent forward an officer as observer, and Nieky slowly approached the food. "He's under the cage." "Pull!" "Got Him!" No court-martial was planned for the simian AWOL BOOKSTORE: $ r Stud ents, Marshall 4 the province had joined the )eIs. Fraternity To.Consider Own Option Phi Gams To Discuss Choice" of Memibers By PHILIP MUNCK Phi Gamma Delta national fra- ternity may consider the question of local determination of member ship *next fall, according to Ken- nedy Shaw, assistant to the Dean of Statewide Education and a Section Chief of the Phi Gam national. At the moment, Phi Gam does not have a- restrictive clause but has a section saying that all men must be "compatible" with the, fraternity as a whole. In this case, "compatible" means the man must be acceptable in any chapter of the national fraternity. Compatibility Defined Compatibility, he explained, is defined by the national officers as it is "expressed by the dele- gates at the assembly." Like any organization, Shaw said, there are people in Phi Gam who are violently in favor of local determination and those who are just as strongly against. The suspension of the fraternity chapter at Amherst has not caused this increased interest, Shaw add- ed, but the incident did bring attention to the problem. Increasing Interest Appears Eisenhower Public Wor Asks ks pendin I hsiastic U' Backer ad at 88 "She'was a perfectly magnifi- cent woman of the old school,". was the way Dean of Women Deb- orah Bacon characterized Mrs. Helen B. Joy, a "strong supporter of the University, who died Thurs- day night at the age of 88. Mrs. Joy, with her two brothers, Senator Truman Newberry and John S. Newberry, gave the Helen Newberry Residence Hall to the University. The residence hall, which was completed in 1915, was named after her mother. Mrs. Joy, who liyed in Detroit, was active in many local and na- tional charities as well as being a loyal supporter of the Univer- sity. Since its inception' Mrs. Joy has been a member of the Board of Patronesses of Helen Newbury Hall. In spite of her advanced years,. she made at least three 'visits to the University every year, until illness prevented her from doing so last fall. The Helen Newbury Joy Aid Fund used to assist freshmen and sophomore women students who would have to withdraw from the University unless they received fi- nancial; aid was established by her in 1952. She also established a scholarship for a deserving medical student. Had Been "On Fence" Until now the province has been on the fence between joining the rebels and remaining loyal to the government of President Sukarno in Jakarta. Rebel sources in Singapore said it was 99 per cent certain that AtJeh, another province at the ex- treme northern tip of Sumatra, also would announce shortly it was coming out on the rebel side. This would bolster the rebels with about 150,000 warlike Moslems who long have been at odds with the Jakarta government, Pakanbarn, a city of 50,000 al- most in the center of Sumatra, is headquarters; of the American oil company, Caltex, which has mil- lions of dollars worth of installa- tions in the area. Two Battalions Attacked Two battalions of government paratroopers and commandos at- tacked the airfield Wednesday and Jakarta claimed capture of the town. The government 'claimed cap- ture of the nearby Minas oilfield the next day; and capture of Du- mal, ,an oil port for the other major field- at Duri, Wednesday night. Government forces previ- ously reported taking islands and, an oil port at the mouth of the Siak River, east coast outlet for oil exports. ' War Material Captured Premier Djuanda of, the Ja- karta government said American- made war material was> captured; by paratroopers at Pakanbaru. He did not charge the United States had sold arms to the rebels, but that surplus stocks might have been picked up on the open mar- ket. Col. Hussein, in a broadcast from Padang, declared "from this moment on we do not rec- ognize Sukarno as president of the Indonesian Republic." His statement appeared to sever the last tie of the rebels to Sukarno. One rebel leader was quoted as saying "if Sukarno were in out midst he would be hanged as a war criminal." The left-wing newspaper Bin- tans Timur said the weapons were dropped from an Australian air force plane. This was denied by Australian Ambassador L. . McIntyre. Mor( Comment Depression Bills Urged ByWilliams Calls Unemployment Situation 'Disaster' LANSING (A')-Gov. G. Mennen Williams, disclosing estimates that unemployment in Michigan now is, at 400,000, yesterday called the situation a "major economic disas-" ter." He called for the "strongest pos- sible" measures to halt the reces- sion. He specifically urged:' 1) Quick approval of his pro- posal for state building authority For Security Council UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. MP)-Russia formally objected yesterday to debating disarmament in the Security Council but did not bar a possible procedural talk. The Western Powers have proposed the Council approach as a means 'of bringing the deadlocked East-West talks back to life. They were somewhat but not wholly disappointed by the Russian reaction. The reaction came in a Moscow statement and in a private meet- ing between Soviet Delegate Arkady A. Sobolev and United States disarmament representative James J. Wadsworth, who had outlined Western views to Sobolev last week. T ESLf- Two-Stage Program KESSEL The Western plan calls for a two-stage program: 1) a meeting of the 25 - nation Disarmament uestion Commission ands2) a meeting of the 11-nation Security Council. Both would be procedural, aimed C andiday solely at a resumption of private talks. -_ PROPOSAL FAILS: Soviets Veto Arm Talk By RALPH LANGER Reactions today on the pro- posed Union bookstore varied from "It's a darn good deal.. ." to the opinion of one local bookstore owner that it would ".. . put me out of business."V Phil Zook, '60, this year's Stu- dent Book Exchange manager, thought the bookstore was a "great idea" and cited examples of students going to Detroit in order to buy books more cheaply than they could in Ann Arbor. Prices "Out of Line" Zook felt the book prices in Ann Arbor were "out of line" and said he knew of several students who felt it paid them to go to Detroit to purchase books. Bob Marshall, local bookstore manager, declared that the Union bookstore, which probably would operate pn a discount basis, is "financially unfeasible." Marshall said bookstores oper- ate on a very narrow margin and that it would be impossible to give a substantial discount without subsidy. He said'most of the insti- tution-owned bookstores through- out the country operate either on a cooperative basis or are subsi- dized in some way. Would Ruin Bookstores Marshall also felt that the Union store would ruin Ann Ar- bor's bookstores. He said that Ann Arbor ranks behind Harvard, Yale, and Princeton in quality of bookstores and he thought the loss of these stores would be ".:. a great cultural loss to the commu- nity." A loss to the city's tax base is also probable according to Mar- shall. Since bookstores pay taxes on their inventory and fixtures as well as sales tax and business re- ceipts tax,- the loss of several bookstores would. apprepiably les- sen the tax base of Ann Arbor and would ". . increase the pressure- on the University to contribute to the city funds. I :artial Law , %ts Cubas; Shaw explained there appears, to be increasing interest from in- side the local chapters of Phi Gam in discussing the problem of mem- bership at the September meeting. In addition to Amherst, Phi Gam chapters at Williams Col- lege, Dartmouth, University of Wisconsin and University of Colo- rado are operating under- time clauses which require them to show evidence of not having bias" clauses. Is Undergraduate Decision Shaw emphasized that the deci- sion for, or against, the policy of local deterination will comerfrom the undergraduate members of the national. "There are numerically more undergraduate votes than gradu- ate votes even if all the alumni chapters attended the meetings- and history has shown they don't," Shaw said. For' example, he said, the na- tional officers cannot expel a chap- .ter, such as Amherst, from the national. Only a four-fifths vote of the assembled convention can do this. Hoff man Tells, 'Of Pressures WASHINGTON (P)-Rep. Clare R. Hoffman (R-Mich.) told Senate racket probers today that pres- sures from high Democratic and Republican places, but not from President Dwight D. Eisenhower, halted a 1953 House investigation of James R. Hoffa., As to who actually is responsible, he' said flatly, "I don't know who it was." Hoffa now is president of the scandal-scarrered Teamsters Un- ion. He was Michigan boss of the Teamsters when a special House' committee on which Hoffman served suddenly called off hear-' ings at which Hoffa was a witness., The 82-year-old Hoffman was hotly critical of the decision to halt the probe, but never has spelled out just whom he blamed and didn't today, either. Bmbing HAVANA, Cuba (P)--Tight gun ule was enforced throughout this Bland yesterday. An unprecedent- d wave of violence subsided, at east for the moment. Only one bomb explosion was eported near Havana-contrast-. d to the usual daily 'menu of urnings, train holdups, wrecking ommunications, kidnapings and The Russians had threatened to boycott the Disarmament Commis- sion; the West wanted it merely to pass the issue to the Council. The Council in turn would be asked' to urge -renewal of East- West talks in private. USSR Would Boycott Sobolev now has told Wadsworth the Soviet Union definitely would boycott any meeting of the com- mission. But he did not bar the Council; he simply said Russia objected to the Council taking up disarmament now. There was no immediate com- ment from the Western delegates on what to db now. The Soviet Foreign Ministry is- sued a statement along the same general line as Sobolev's declara- tion. The Russians repeated their as- sertions that the Disarmament Commission was powerless to act, because 16 of its 25 members "be- longed to military blocks directed by Western powers.', GOV. G. MENNEN WILLIAMS ... asks recession bills with powers to immediately start; more than 55 million dollars in new construction at state colleges and other state institutions. University Would Gain (The University would receive $15,837,000 for construction ,,of educational and medical facilities. (Gov. Williams outlined the 55 million dollar revenue bonding program in a special message to the Legislature in January. Mich- igan would borrow funds to fi- nance enumerated projects. Rent- als to-'be paid by the state for the new facilities out of annual legls- lative appropriations would be pledged against repayment of the bonds.)' 2) Prompt congressional a proval of President Dwight -. Eisenhower's recommendation that the federal government foot the cost of paying extended unemploy- ment compensation benefits to jobless. wrkers who have ex- hausted state eligibility. Asks More Benefits 3) Legislative action to grant the present maximum of 26 weeks' job- less pay benefits to all workers laid off after a minimum of 14 weeks in covered employment. Gov. Williams also called for more federal road money, a com-, plete statewide survey of public. works projects and mobilization of public support through a state- wide citizens committee for state building programs. Gov. Wililams said the Eisen- hower administration "has waited too long. It has allowed this reces- sion to grow into a real crisis," he said. The status of David Kessel, Grad.,, as a Student Government Council candidate will be con- sidered by Joint Judiciary Coun- cil. Kessel may not be permitted to run for SGC because he is a teaching assistant,/ besides being a full-time student, Assistant Dean of Men John Bingley told The Daily yesterday.. Bingley 'said the question is whether or not a member of the teaching staff should also be on SGC. Kessel and other graduate students are in a "very peculiar position," he said; they have a dual status, but are "neither fish nor fowl." iToAnnouni New Declin In Industr Eisenhower Reviev Economic Situatio At Cabinet Meetin WASHINGTON (p) - Pres Dwight D. Eisenhower asked gress for $171,450,000 in p works speedup appropriations terday as government sources closed that a further drop industrial production will be nounced Monday. The new decline to be repo in the Federal Reserve Bo index of industrial production February suggests that unemi met may fall to drop this m( as predicted by President E hower. A drop of $1,800,000,000 in annual rate of personal life last month was reported by Commerce Department. Drop in Wages The dropoff from Janu largely in wages and salaries, ried the income rate down $341,800,000,000, on an an basis, as compared with a - rate of 347a billion dollars re ed last August. Last month's figure, while c 11/2 per cent from the August was still one per cent above income level of February 1957 President Eisenhower revie the economic situation at an usually long Cabinet sessior was the regular Friday mor meeting but it continued for and one-half, hours. White H press secretary James C. Hag reported that various aspect the economic situation were ered, amiong other things. Senate Favors Constructior In an overtime session last n the Senate passed a resolutio put Congress on record as favc acceleration of $1,175,000,001 job-producing military const tion projects, .One of a series of anti-reces moves, it drew bi-partisan sup in its 76-1 rollcall passage sent it to the House for action. lone no vote was cast .by Norris Cotton (R-N.H.), an ponent of the "pump prim theory. President Eisenhower's ret for emergency speed-up appr< ations included 1251/ million lars for river and harbor flood control projects of the A Engineers, and $46,200,000 hospital construction. Hagerty declined to say wh er there had been any discu: of a possible tax cut, a move has been receiving wide atter on- Capitol Hill as an econ booster., Court Seizes MFL Assets FLAREUP: x - President Fulgencio Batista pt the, 7,700-strong national po- e, and the army, navy and air rees in a state of alert. Police, troops and coastguards- en patrolled streets in rebellious ntiago de Cuba, in Pinar del o, Matanzas, Cienfuegos, Ha- na and other rebel hot spots. lice and other armed forces, med with extraordinary powers,, oke up groups of Cubans when- er they attempted to congregate. Under the suspension of consti- bional guarantees, effective un- April 26, they could arrest and s thousands of Cubans into jail necessary, without charging em, and hold them indefinitely. Authorities rigidly enforced nsorship of the press, radio and evision and international tele- onic communications. Censors pped out all Cuban items from aerican newspapers before they' re allowed on newsstands. ['hey required operators in tele- one exchanges to sever connec- ns when anyone tried to relay the United States news of the uation in Cuba.' 0-O p' Party In v estigated House Investigators Divided On. FCC Probe Penetration i r r .WASHINGTON (M--House investigators split sharply yesterday on whether their probe of the Federal Communications Commission has done more than scratch the surface of alleged influence on federal agencies. In a new flareup of long-simmering discord in the House sub- committee on Legislative Oversight, Rep. J. B. Bennett (R-Mich.) said he doubted if the inquiry has gone skin deep into the question - a statement which led Chairman Oren Harris (D - Ark.) to invite LANSING (M-)-The 59-year-old Michigan Federation of Labor was officially declared dead today. Ingham County Circuit Judge Marvin J. Salmon issued a decree' turning over the funds, property and records of the labor organiza- tion to the AFL-CIO. The assets total $171,000 and include a headquarters building in Lansing. The federation had refused to merge with the AFL-CIO and offi- cers ignored a recent merger meet- ing at Grand Rapids. The MFL was founded in 1899 and received its, charter from the American, Federation of Labor in 1901. George Meany, national AFL- CIO president, ordered its charter revoked end the assets seized after' the union defied merger efforts. The' federation has claimed a membership ranging from 250,000 to 350,000. It has a strong repre- sentation from the Teamsters Un- ion, which has been denied mem- bership by the AFL-CIO. Senator B.its county Action On .Str ikers WASHINGTON 1P)1-Shebbyga n County, Wis., authorities. were censured at a senate hearing yes- terday for not coping with violence and, vandalism in the Kohler Co.' Strike. "You can't tell me they have fully discharged their duties," Sen. John L. McClellan. (D-Ark.) said after hearing testimony from She- boyga~is police chief, Steen W. WInke. Sen. McClellan, chairman of the Senate Rackets Committee,- de- cared,. there was no excuse for the county officials; not convening .a grand Jury, plaing witnesses un- der oath and finding out who was to blame for the disorder. The United Auto Workers struck the Kohler Co.-, a plumnbing fix-~ tures firm at Kohler, .Wis., nearly: four years ago. in a dispute over wages and working conditions. The strike is still going on, although the' company has resumed opera- tions. Heimke complained about what he described as lack of coopera- tion from former Sheriff Theodore J. Mosch. He also said Mayor Ru- dolph J. Ploetz of Sheboygan wasn't very helpful during a dock- side riot July 5, 1955. Robert P. Kennedy, committee counsel, commented that it makes no sense to hear the police chief, blame the sheriff and others'when the chief himself made no arrests at the dock. Heimke testified he has received 930 complaints connected with the strike, 572 from nonstrikers, 58 from strikers and 300 from dis- interested third parties, Fearhe said, made fithard to .prosecute successfully. "The strike built up a feeling of fear - fear of being retaliated against, fear of having their homes paint-bombed, fear for their families," Heimke: told the committee.i Heimke. said Mosch did .nothing to control the dockside disorder in 1955. A crowd of several thousand prevented the unloading of a ship carrying clay for the Kohler plant.i Bennett to dig as deep as he" pleased. More Argue Other members then got into the argument, which stemmed from testimony by Miami radio operator A. Frank Katzentine that he conducted himself "in an honorable, ethical manner" in a fight for a Miami TV license. Katzentine lost out last year to a National Airlines subsidiary but the FCC has asked court permis- skon to re-examine the case in view of the resignation under fire of Commissioner Richard A. Mack and other developments arising from the House probe. Whiteside Involved The testimony Thursday in- volved Thurman A. Whiteside, whose financial relationship with Mack is under federal grand jury I' INTERESTED ONLY IN 'NON-WAR': i Mrs. Fleeson Calls America Unprepared for Peace, By THOMAS HAYDEN Washington columnist Doris Fleeson yesterday assailed Ameri- cans as hypocrites who are neither searching nor planning for peace. She claimed that the State De- partment is interested only in creating' a "non-war" situation, Speaking under the auspices of the University journalism depart- ment, Mrs. Fleeson declared that at the present time,"no one in the United States government hopes for peace in the foreseeable fu- ture." In fact, she said, the United State is ntally nnrenard fnr lems if the situation should arise, she said. "This shows that no ohe in the government expects peace." Russia could face the prospect of peace with greater ease, Mrs. Flee- son thought, since a great number. of consumer goods 'are needed by its people and new, industries could be built. Politically, she noted that the Soviet Union might suffer from peace, in that Red dominance would be challenged by her satel- lites, notably Poland and Hungary. Perhaps the Soviets "would be willing to pay this plice," she skid, since their system of buffer Cprus- Issue To Be Debat By Model U j Representatives of 57 cou will meet at 9 a.m. today in P ham Auditorium to debate the prus issue in a simulated U Nations meeting. Mxcept for the actual Cie; Assembly of the United Na this will be the largest assi of its kind in the world. Spon. by the International and Acad Services Committees of the U in cooperation with the Int tional Students Association assembly will have 126 stu representing their native c tries. All countries will have a representation with the exce of Russia. Daily Editorial Di James Elsman, '58, a stude Soviet affairs, will represen Soviet Union. The resolution was drawn't a planning committee selecte th deeiatsant, ,,esetin Monaco Heir . :_' = : II