MUST GO ALL-OUT FOR SCIENTISTS Sixty-Seven Years of Editorial Freedom See page 4 [II, No. 79 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1958 FIVE CENTS S nians e Down Plane P) - Red Albania re- terday it has forced seized an American jet ie and its pilot. ne apparently is a tes T33 that has been ce it took off Dec. 23 eauroux, France, for .y. Soviet-style jet fight- y forced down a Brit- lane last week anld re- d its crew Saturday. official radio Tirana S. trainer pilot's name d Keran. An informed e said the missing T33 I by a 'Maj. Howard was last reported 10 ing time south of Pisa, n /Italy,, on Dec. 23. ilot was aboard. and American planes r it for days, extend- operations over much n Italy and the Tur- a. ington, the State and )epartments reported o official word of an plane being forced dals in both depart- trying -to check tle nian-language broad- iranaIthe Red capital, T33 seizure. nian version as heard ia said the T33 had in- Albanian territory from It, said the plane flew ia from the direction of town near the Greek 'U' Galed Ready To Drop WIHL Expected Breakup To Include Minnesota and Michigan State /By SI COLEMAN Michigan, Michigan State and Minnesota will officially and si- multaneously announce today their withdrawal from the Western Intercollegiate Hockey League, reliable sources said last night. There has been a rumor to this effect circulating for nearly a year -since the conclusion of last year's' NCAA playoffs. However, in recent days events have occurred which transposed this rumor to fact. Ike For BMissiles, Top Soviets Deny Manned Rocket1 Eligibility a Factor. The three schools officially withdrawing are members of the Big Ten and the WIHL. The withdrawal would not ." effect until the close of both take this Refute Claim MVan Aboard REPORTED POLICY: Soviets Incite Brazilitan TT a I3T Cy Dr. Francis PAcceptsPost Wth MilitaryT Dr. Thomas Francis, Jr., chair- man of the.University Department of Epideihiology, has recently been appointed'President of the United States Armed Forces Epidemio- logical Board. Dr. Francis, who will assume the post today, served as chairman of the Board's Commission on Influ- enza from its inception in 1941 until 1945. Dr. Francis,'who is a graduate of Allegheny College, and Yale University, has been at the Uni- versity since 1941, although he served as a consultant to the Sec- retary of War during World War II. The Commission on Influenza is one of 13 such commissions com- prising the Epidemiological Board. These include the Accidental Trauma Commission, Acute Res- piratory Disseases Commission, Rickettsial Diseases Commission, and others. Each commission unit is an ac-. tive laboratory and field study group concerned .with the investi- gation of epidemic problems and their prevention in the armed forces. Each is composed of a number of investigators working toward this end. According to Dr, Francis, the commissions' activities reflect to I .U uses Cut il Bank LSHINGTON (A') - Secretary griculture Ezra Taft Benson yesterday tle administration ses to do away with the er-range part of the soil bank e end of this year. son made the announcement news conference in which he said prospects for 1958 crops very favorable and declared Agriculture Department bud- or the fiscal year beginning July 1 will be no larger than urrent one of nearly 51/2 bil- iollars. / e part of the soil bank he the administration will rec- end ending is called the an- acreage reserve. This takes a half billion dollars a year. dffers federal payments to ers who retire allotted acres production of corn, cotton, t rice and tobacco - major is crops. This part' is sched- to end with 1959 but Benson sed chopping it off a year r. called for increased emphasis ae longer-range reserve part e soil bank. This authorizes ents to farmers who 'retire including full farms, for long ds of time and plant the land ich long-range conservation as grass and trees. ison said the administration to send its farm recom- .ations to Congress in a spe- nessage possibly Jan. 15 or hese are expected to call for er freedom for farmers in dng their production, and discretion for the depart- in setting price supports. ison, who has been under attack from time to time, reporters he thinks Congress give much more favorable deration to administration proposals than it did in ve Parking its Extend strictions trictions on five University rg lots will be extended gh the evening hours until season. Several reasons have been given for the bre akup. There is /a gen- eral tension within the league concerning an equalization of rules that will put all schools on the same basis as far as eligibility, scheduling, and other matters are concerned. Just before Christmas vacation a report quoted Ike Armstrong, Minnesota's athletic director, as saying that he felt the league has not fulfilled the objective it was set' up to do, that of promoting a well knit organization of certain= schools interested in hockey. Outside Game Ruling Reference has been made to the scheduling this year of eight games between Denver and Col- orado. There is supposedly a spe- cific rule in theleague's consti- tution that definitely prohibits this. Th , rule states: Each team shall !play each: other league team at least two and not more than four league games during a regu- lar season." Eligibility has also been an area of tension within the league. This problem has had more signiffi- cance perhaps with Michigan than any other school. Ineligibility Penalty Just before the start of last year's NCAA playoffs at Colorado Springs, Colo., three Michigan players were declared ineligible. No mention of the possibility of their ineligibility had been made throughout the entire season. Speculation has it that since the withdrawal involves B} g Ten schools, there will eventually re- sult the formation of a Western Conference hockey league. Other Possible Teams Ohio State has formed a hockey team this season and has played several games, one with Michigan State.. Both Illinois and Wiscon- sin' formulated plans to organize hockey teams. I]&I Memibership Restriction Study Possible Student Government Council will consider a motion to study progress in fraternity and sorority membership restrictions at its meeting tonight.1, The motion was tabled at the last 'meeting- after a long discus- sion. It asks that a committee be appointed to look into member- ship restrictions. SGC will also appoint members to the self-evaluating committees to consider areas in which the Council might be strengthened. Treasurer Scott ;Chrysler, '59- BAd., will present a report on the Health Insurance program,- and Phil Zook, 160, Student Book Ex- change manager, will report to the Council on progress made on 'SBX. 6oviet romket snot 168 miles up' shortly after Jan. 1 and that the man abroad parachuted success- f ully. A Soviet Foreign Office spokes- man, questioned along similar lines by Western correspondents, said he was unable to say any- thing about the accounts published abroad. Asked if the Soviet government would have an announcement on the subject, the spokesman saidl so far as he knew there was no! communique In sight. A Moscow radio broadcast heard in London quoted the official Soviet news agency Tass as say- ing it knew nothing of a manned rocket flight. It quoted the agency's deputy director as saying it was "com- pletely incomprehensible" to him how Western news agencies had obtained such a report. In Wash- ington, the White House said it is not known there if the story is true or not.; Killian Urges eEducation WASHINGTON (1) - President Dwight D. Eisenhower's top sci- entific adviser said yesterday Rus- sia has not passed the United States yet in the general tech- nological field "but has a strong will to do so." Dr. James R. Killian Jr., said this country, to stay in front, must invigorate scientific education and put more sustained xffort intoI advanced research. "Too much of our research has been subject to stops and. starts and changing levels of support or skiort-term financing," he said. In a speech prepared for a Wom- en's National Press Club dinner, Killian said: "Let me make my conviction immediately clear that the United States today is technologically strong and growing stronger. I do not believe that we have lost our technological leadership, nor that we are predestined to lose it in the future-provided we increase our technological zest and aduac- ity and do not fail to remedy our weaknesses." would serve as a spearhead for a hostile policy against the United States. This -was interpreted as mean- ing the Soviet *Unioni would launch a campaign to create poli- tical misunderstandings between the United States and Latin American countries, with offers of aid as the opening wedge. Latin American Communists helped draw up the plan, said the government official who disclosed the report. Russians Offer Aid The Russians have offered oil equipment and other technical as- sistance to Brazil and are seek- ing to renew cultural and diplo- matic relations, which were sev- ered in 1947. Brazil has seemed to be reluctant to respond to the Soviet overtures. Foreign Minister Jose Carlos de Macedo Soares has said President Juscelino Kubitsehek will lay down Brazil's policy on relations .with Russia within the next few weeks. The Foreign Office docu- ment may be a large factor in Kubitschek's decision. Argentina recently annotnced plans to send a trade mission to the Soviet Union and the satellite countries. Argentine credits have been building up in the Commu- nist countries because she has been selling more than she has been buying there. Red Chinese Refuse U.S. Passports HONG KONG (A) - Red China has refused to accept the pass- ports of three American mothers visiting the Communist mainland to see their prisoner sons. Communist authorities granted them visas on separate piecestof paper to allow them to enter the country. Peiping radio said yesterday the passports were returned when a Chinese border official noted the State Department had described Communist China as "those por- tions of China under Communist control." The broadcast said the Ameri- cans were told such phrases showed the United States govern- ment's hostility toward China and the passports could not be ac- cepted. It added, however, that the visi- tors were not responsible for the statement and because they had traveled a long distance, the visas were granted. The three women are Mrs. Mary Downey of New .Britain, Conn., Mrs. Jessie Fecteau of Lynn, Mass., and Mrs. Ruth Redmond of Yonkers, N.Y. Mrs. Downey is ac- companied by her son, William. They made the trip in response to a Communist invitation to visit their sons, imprisoned on espio- nage charges. cri p_ r__ I Parachuted HostilityAgains MOSCOW ()-Soviet officials in RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (W) - World Communist leaders re- a position to know said yesterday cently decided to offer Soviet aid to Brazil to make it a spearhead of night they have no information Latin American hostility to the United States, a high government about a Russian rocket carrying source said yesterday. a man into space. The official said the Brazilian Foreign Officer has prepared a A spokesman for the Soviet secret report sh wing the plan was outlined at the November meet- Academy of Sciences and thefing of Communist leaders in Moscow. C'mmittee for Cultural Relations f Hostile Policy Noted with Foreign Countries made this ' The source says the report shows the Foreign Office has proof- response to questions about Mon- minutes of meetings held in Moscow - that a new tactic was adopted day's unofficial reports that a against the West whereby Brazil ' ..untit, "^^~bt-n+ n 4 1Q i~ l nO uui . f 1 7 r DR. THOMAS FRANCIS, JR. .. . receives new post a considerable extent on the gen- eral public. For example, the Com- mission on Influenza, which has its headquarters at the University Virus Laboratory, pioneered in the development of surveillance methods which led to the plotting of the course of Asian flu during' the recent epidemic here. The original' flu vaccine, devel- oped with techniques originated here at the University, led the way to the relatively simple develop- ment of mass-produced Asian flu vaccine in 1957. WITH MONEY PROBLEMS: State Leislature Convene s Today By MICHAEL KRAFT Michigan's Legislature convenes in Lansing today for another session with the state's financial problems. Acknowledging that the state is in a "very serious financial emer- gency," Governor G. Mennen Williams has proposed that the Legis- lature approve a 21 million dollar increase in intangible taxes and passage of a bond issue to finance new construction. Affected by Legislative action will be the University's request of $37,274,000 for operating expenses and $11,517,000 for new buildings. Next week, the Legislature will receive the Governor's budget which dollars by doubling the intangiblej tax on bank deposits, the earningsj of stocks, bonds, and intangible properties. The proposal has re-j ceived a wary reaction from Legis- lators. Rep. Rollo G. Conlin (R-Tip- ton), chairman of a long range tax study committee called the solution a "bits and patches ap- proach."