NICRESOLUTION QUESTIONED (See page 2) Y Sixty-Seven Years of Editorial Freedom 74a itH p CLOUDY, COLDERf VOL. LXVII, No. 67 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1957 FIVE CENTS FOUR PAGES AFL -C 0Ousts Teamsters; Corruption Charged * * * * * * * * * * * * * * S t J A s - AFL-CIO Decision Passed by5-1 Vote Ouster Fails To Impress Hoffa, Says He Will Still Head Teamsters ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. (RP)-The AFL-CIO yesterday expelled the International Teamsters Union by a 5-1 margin on charges it is domi- nated by corruptive influences, principally President-elect James R. Hoffa. w Vote on ousting the federation's largest affiliate was 10,458,598 for and 2,266,497 against. A roll call came after more than three hours of debate and a last-minute impassioned appeal from the Teamsters Union itself for a year's grace period. Evidence of Good Faith The expulsion offered concrete evidence of the federation's pledge it will rid member unions of corruption or throw them out. Four other Qunions face expulsion threats on Professors Term Move Desirable Expulsion of the Teamsters from the AFL-CIO yesterday has been termed a risky but wise move by a University' labor expert. Prof. Harold M. Levinson of the economics department said it was "basically desirable for the labor movement to take aggressive ac- tion in dealing with corruption. In the long run she movement will be better off." But he indicated that removing a union of the size and importance of nthe 1,500000 member Team- sters may cause the AFL-CIO in- ternal difficulties in the near fu- ture. Prof. Meyer S. Ryder of the business administration school said the Teamsters affair will have a retarding effect on the growth of the organized labor movement in areas where organi- zation is still relatively light. He said the action of AFL-CIO :President George Meany and the executive council in facing the problem and meeting it head-on have raised his stature greatly. Prof. Levinson said the Team- sters are sufficiently strong so that expulsion will not effect them greatly for the present. He doubted the AFL-CIO would try to establish a transportaion union within its ranks to counter the Teamsters. School Board Gives Support To New Plan The program to improve cur- riculums in the public schools pro- posed by Supt. Jack Elzay has gained the support of members of the Ann Arbor Board of Education. Dr. Frederic B. House; board president, said yesterday, "Several members of the board have indi- cated to me that plans should be considered for an early election to raise additional operational millage for the proposed program." The program includes plans to bring experts in to organize and co-ordinate programs on a depart- mental level, reorganize and im- prove the classroom teaching staff and reduce class sizes in some areas= "As a result of the May election all of us have recognized an obliga- tion to the voters to make changes in curriculums," Dr. House said. Fauri Given L1 rii~ A' =1T" i Al corruption charges. They are the Distillery, Laundry, Bakery and United Textile Workers unions. Their cases are expected to come before the convention next week. Contacted during a recess in his federal court trial on wiretap charges in New York, Hoffa said the ouster wouldn't weaken the union. "Still Head" "I'm still head of the Team- sters," he told newsmen. "Our plans were never made on the basis of the AFL-CIO.... They didn't build us and they won't weaken us." Hoffa said he believed the Teamsters would still be able to operate successfully. "We will be a willing part of the organized labor movement," he declared, "so long as they do not attempt to destroy our econ- omy or attempt to direct or con- trol us." Compromise Sought Just before the vote, AFL-CIO President George Meany revealed that Teamster Hoffa had made overtures for compromise during the past several weeks. Meany also said there were in- dications Hoffa wanted to resign and get out of the way. But he said he and Hoffa never got to- gether because Hoffa never showed up. "I cooperated," Meany said. "I stood on my head, did everything possible under the sun." No Plan to Resign{ Hoffa said in New York, how- ever, that he had no intention of resigning as president-elect. "Why should I quit?" he said. The last attempt for a meetiig between himself and Hoff a, Meany said came at 10:40 p.m. Thursday when a Teamster delegation called and said Hoffa was on the tele- phone and ready to come to Atlan- tic City, Meany said he asked the dele- gation to get a commitment from Hoffa and bring it to the conven- tion. Then Meany quoted the Team- ster spokesman as saying: "No, no. we can't try that, because he might repudiate us. We don't trust him." --Daily--Wesley Kar THE WINNER - McGill Goalie Michel Joyal sprawled on the ice stopping one of the shots of the Michigan ice squad in last night's game. Joyal stopped enough shots to emerge victorious 3-2. Standing guard is McGill Defenseman Doti McDonald. McGill Trips Michigan, 3-2 In Home Ice Curtain-Raiser By PAUL BORMAN McGill used Michigan's overanxiousness to its advantage last night asit edged the Wolverines, 3-2, in this season's hockey opener. The Maize and Blue wanted to win this one for their new coach, Al Renfrew, but their eagerness backfired with too fast passes and too quick shots to put them on the short end of the score as the final buzzer sounded. Michigan, however, will have its chance to get back at the Redmen from Montreal tonight when they conclude, the two game series at the Coliseum. The game INDONESIA: Expulsion Of Dutch Ordered JAKARTA, Indonesia P) -- In- donesia yesterday began driving out the Dutch rear guard which held on after colonial days and ran the nation's rich oil, rubber and business empires. With a show of grim determina- tion in its presre campaign to take over the Jungles of West, New Guinea, the Indonesian gov- ernment ordered the Netherlands government to begin immediate evacuation of most of the 46,000 Dutch citizens. One source said all would be ex- pelled except skilled technicians. Many are Indonesian-born Eura- sians who have never been else- where. Dutch Firms Seized Seizure of Dutch banks, planta-' tions, factories,' clubs and busi- nesses by Communist-led unions and workers gathered force throughout the 3,000 islands. . The Dutch government called for an emergency meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organiza- tion to discuss these developments. The British government warned Indonesia that it is endangering its own interests. The United States was reported to have expressed concern to the Foreign Ministry in Jakarta over the expulsion order. Airline Workers Out The 28 Dutch employes of KIM Airlines and their families--about 100 persons - were the first or- dered to leave. Justice Minister Gustaaf Manegkom told them to pack up as soon as possible. He said it would be all right with him if all the Dutch were gone within three days but added that he knew it was impossible. Information Minister Sudibjo told a news conference it is only a matter of time until Dutch-In- donesian diplomatic relations are broken. The Netherlands has been asked to close seven of its eight consulates. The Indonesian Embassy in the Netherlands has been instructed to evacuate the 5,000 Indonesians in that country, many of them students on Dutch scholarships. Vanguard Rises Two Feet, Burns U.S. Moon Launching Postponed One Month by Mechanical Failure CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (R) - The Vanguard test rocket -with United States hopes for some recaptured prestige aboard-barely struggled off the ground yesterday, then fell back and exploded. Instantly destroyed were the greater part of the 72 foot- long vehicle and virtually all prospects of putting an Ameri- can satellite into an orbit around the earth in 1957. Apparently the Soviet Sputniks will be the only man- made orbiters of this year. Hundreds Watch Missile Burn The flames and smoke of the bitter ending of Vanguard TV-3 (Test Vehicle number three) startled and saddened thousands of watchers on Florida beaches, and other hun- I PROF. RICHARD FOLSOM .. . new RPI president RPI Elects U'Engineer As President Prof. Richard G. Folsom, direc- tor of the Engineering Research Institute, was elected president of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Insti- ute yesterday. Prof. Folsom will leave his pres- ent post when he thkes over the presidency of RPI at T oy, N.Y., March '.1. Livingston M. Houston, who is retiring, has been the tech- nical school's president for 14 years. 'Regret Loss' University President Harlan Hatcher said yesterday, "We deep- ly regret the loss of Prof. Folsom to the University faculty. His leaving is an example of the eom- petition which we face for good men in his field and in almost ev- ery field of higher education. "We are very sorry to see him go, but wish him well in his im- portant new assignment." Approached by RPI Mrs. Folsom explained that her husband had been approached by RPI as to his interest in the job. After deliberating, he decided to consider the offer. Prof. Folsom is in New York this week at a con- vention of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Prof. Folsom came to the Uni- versity in 1952 to serve with ERI. Before that he was chairman of the Mechanical Engineering Divi- sion of the University of Cali- fornia. No successor to the ERI post has been named. Hammars jold returns, Home From Beirut BEIRUT, Lebanon 'P) - Dag Hammarskjold left for New York yesterday after quickly coding a new rash of Israeli-Arab hot spots menacing the peace of the middle East. Thy United Nations secretary general left his New York office just a week ago when a convoy wrangle threatened to erupt in shooting between Israel and Jor- dan. Angry clashes also echoed on the Israeli-Syrian border. The flying peacemaker stopped off in Beirut for lunch with For- eign Minister Charles Malik. He told Malik of agreements reached on his five-day tour of Jordan, Israel and Syria. starts at 8:30. First Period Even Last night's crowd of 2,400 saw n even first period with both of- fenses looking shoddy, but in the final two periods, the visitors, p l a y i n g in their fifth game, showed that experience does make a difference as they generally out- played Michigan. The Wolverines fought hard, but it wasn't enough as the Red- men tallied the winning goal at 15:36 of the final period to clinch the game.I Defenseman Len S i g u r d s e n notched the tie-breaker on a drive from the Michigan Blue line. Fwhich was unintentionally screened by a Wolverine defense- man and went past the searching eyes of Michigan netminder Ross Childs. dreds in the launching area. Fortunately, none of the 42 persons in the immediate area was hurt. Oddly, too, the 6.4-inch alumi- num sphere which was to have been America's partial answer to Russia's space challenge survived the crash - and kept sending out its radio signals all the while. Satellite Still Signaling J. Paul Walsh, deputy director of the Vanguard project -- the United States satellite launching program-said the three and one- quarter pound ball was found in the area, still emitting its track- ing voice despite the considerable damage from the shock. Walsh, who was standing in a hangar in direct view of the launching stand - but a safe dis- tance away - said the rocket ac- -tually rose two to four feet into the air. Walsh said he was on the tele- phone to his boss, Dr. John Ha- gen in Washington, D.C.,. at the time. and had just finished giving the countdown. Explains at Meeting "We had counted down to zero, then said 'fire' and 'first ignition"' Walsh recalled at a 90-minute news conference two hours after the failure., "Up to then everything had worked perfectly. "The rocket started to leave the stand, and in two seconds of burn- ing rose two to four feet. 'Something Happened' "Then something happened-we don't really know what. "We lost thrust, somehow. The engine was not pushing the rocket up.' "The rocket fell back down into the stand, and then fell over. There was a terrific noise - a series of rumbles - and then a very rapid burning. A ball of flame shot up to 50 or 100 feet. "No 'one was injured - except perhaps for pride." Four Soloists To Perform In 'Messiah' 'U'Experts Say Failure' Not Unuisual By DAVID TARR The failure of the United States' satellite-carrying Vanguard rocket to leave the ground was described yesterday as neither unusual nor surprising. University rocket expert Nelson W. Spencer of the electrical en- gineering department said that in the development of a rocket fail- ures like the one yesterday are rather common. Spencer, head of a University research group that has been'prob- ing the earth's atmosphere with rockets since 1946, emphasized the rocket did not explode. Mechanical Equipment Failed He said the failure was due to mechanical equipment. "The rock- et fell over when it didnot lift properly igniting the fuel. It is much like a gas tank truck getting in a wreck and burning." Prof. Leo Goldberg, chairman of the astronomy department, said he was not surprised at the failure. "Firing a rocket is an exceedingly tricky business. It involves a whole series of steps and every step has to work." He said any missile has only an even chance of being launched succesfly Failure of the launching attempt was compounded by the public in- terest and political'pressure creat- ed by Russia's Sputniks, both men said. 'Impossible Position' "The group (handling the Unit- ed States project) was put in a completely impossible position by being forced to predict when, the missile would be launched," Prof. Goldberg remarked. He urged the next attempt at launching the satellite be made without announcement. Citing the "bad psychological effect" the failure will have on other nations, he said, "This is one time a tight security cloak should have been used." Politics Caused Furor The country would have heard nothing about the rocket's failure if it were not for the great political implications attached, Spencer said. "It was unfortunate that a prior announcement of the launching had to be made, but in a sense it was impossible to avoid. It makes the work of the project directors much more difficult." Spencer was skeptical over re- ports that the Army would, now be asked to launch an earth satel- lite using its Jupiter C missile. The Vanguard project is under Dean Rea Foresees Shortage In 1958 Student Loan Funds With only $180,000 currently in student loan funds, Walter B. Rea, dean of men, yesterday predicted that the funds will fall short of the anticipated $240,000 in loans to be asked by students in Feb- ruary. Loans have jumped 45 per cent over last year's demand, Dean Rea said. The funds are usually hit heaviest in February, he con- tinued, and although some outstanding loans will be repaid by then, they will not be enough to offset IM' Unable to Drive From then on, the visitors effective in their efforts to Michigan from mustering a drive. See SWITZER, Page 4 were keep solid DRIVE GOAL $8,000: Galens Collects $3,000 on First Day the need. - Present funds have about $1,- 000,000 available for student loans Of this, over $660,000 is outstand- ing and $200,000 "is so restricted that it cannot practically be con- sidered available for loans," he added. Plans to meet the anticipated By JOHN WEICHER Galens collected "slightly over $3,000" yesterday, in the first day of its fund drive. according to Bob Jewett, '58B4. Galens president. The medical honorary society's drive will conclude today. The goal is approximately $8,000, Jewett said. Proceeds from the bucket drive are used for children in University Hospital. Jewett said the first day total was a little less than was received on the first day last year. He expressed the hope that the goal could be reached today, "with a big push." Two Reasons Given He listed two reasons for the decline in funds. He said that the honorary had only "16 or 17" buckets out yesterday, instead of the 25 it had hoped for. He blamed this' on the fact that several members of Galens were ill and others were doing clinial work out of town. February and later spring de- The traditional Christmas per-j mands have been formulated by formances of George Friedrich University officials, James A. Handel's "Messiah" will be pre- Lewis, vice president of student sented at 8:30 p.m. today and'2:30 affairs, said. New sources for stu- p.m. tomorrow in Hill Auditorium. dent loans are being explored, he Appearing with the University said, to buttress next year's an- Choral Union and thesUniversity ticipated demand. Musical Society Orchestra will be Adele Addison, soprano, Eunice ~~* Alberts, contralto, Harold Haugh, 5 A 1 1 eeVnI Ttenor, and Paul Matthen, bass. fo'r'TodI The performances will be given Iunder the auspices of the Univer- Set for Today sity Musical Society. Miss Addison, now on her -sixth (tfl:4-. riern.i: .r., - ..2,. *I 1'r-r~n ixap nnnn,.. 4n ,.. . fmir nP nc, ' - -