Your Su bscription Today A? 232 INCOMPETENCE COSTS MONEY Pg i4AJt t an r :4aitll k Ae-- 42Z see mae 4 Sixty-Seven Years of Editorial Freedom SHOWERS, COOLER 3 ANN ARBOReMICHIGAN, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1957 EIGHT S - . .... ilson Asks Cut Armed Forces .educed by.100,000; 'rolls To Drop, 35,000 ecretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson )0,000-nan cut in the military forces. to 40,000 civilians will have to be dropped uldn't wait any.longer," Wilson told a news conference.I e so close to the debt limit that the Treasury can't even noney." al limit on the national debt is 275 billion dollars, a figure ress. While he cited the debt limit as a pressing factor, -Wilson did not seem concerned by York etioii NGTON (A) - A federal to block the election of ers by the Teamsters s filed yesterday by a New York City area who charged fraud. aintiffs claimed that 80 per cent of the dele- he union's convention, to start Sept. 30 at Mi-. have been handpicked R. Hoffa and other officials to "rig" Hof- on to the Teamsters asked for an injunc- r convention election of ,rs until such time as tes are chosen by rank- iembers. was filed in behalf of security aspects. He said the re- duction can be acieved "without impairment of our national secur- ity." Secretary Wilson told a news conference the manpower cuts will force the Air Force to drop at least four wings, the Army to de- activate one additional division, and the Navy to lay up more ships. The Air Force now has 133 active wings and has been drop- ping slowly, to the 128-level authorized by the, current budget. The 100,000 cut in the armed serv- ices ordered Thursday is to be put into effect as promptly as possible with next June 30 as a deadline for completing it. The reduction was approved by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, the secretary reported. Last July 16, Sec. Wilson ordered a 100,000-man cut in the military forces. That reduction, coupled with the new one yesterday of the same size, would save an estimated one billion dollars. Voluner DEANS SAY: Housingf Situation improving By RICHARD TAUR The University men's housing situation has, eased, according to Karl Streiff of the dean of men's off ice. Those men still in the tempor- ary housing pool will be placed by the weekend, Streiff said. If the demand continues to ease, he not- eds some of the 60rooms that had been doubled up in men's resi- dence halls may be returned to their original status. The women's housing situation is also bright, Assistant Dean of Women Elsie Fuller said yester- day. The women did not use a temporary pool housing arrange7 nent this year. "Frederick House, the new wo- men's house in South Quadrangle, has gotten off to a wonderful start," Mrs. Fuller said. Foreign student housing is al- most taken care of, according to Kathleen Mead of the Interna- tional Center. More than three hundred students have been placed, with stragglers and late comers the only ones in need of housing. However, Mrs. Mead said, it will be hardest for these people. Very little housing is left. The off-campus housing situa- tion is still tight. Students are ad- vertising for room-mates to share the expense of large apartments. Two bedroom apartments, fur- nished, are running anywhere from 160 dollars a month to 200 ddllars. Most of the advertised housing is several miles from the 'ampus. CQst of furnished rooms runs tip to 12 dollars a day, and unfur- nished apartments can cost as much as 150 dollars. U' Asks City To Add Land A University petition to annex 144.55 acres of land to the city is now before the Planning Commis- sidn and is scheduled to be acted upon within a week to 10 days, ac- cording to city officials. The plot of land which pre- sently lies in the township will be an addition to North Campus. The North Campus area is already situated inside the city. A sizeable portion of the plot fronts along the northeast side of Fuller Rd. To the north-the land borders the south flank of Glacier Way. The plot is east of Oak Way and a small area of the property runs along this street. The land is made accessable by a network of roads totalling 8.26 acres. D1les Faubus Flouts Court, Moves Against Davies LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (R) - Gov. Orval E. Faubus, taking the of- fensive, struck back at the federalN government yesterday with two last-minute legal actions before today's crucial-court hearing on his use of the National Guard to bar Negroes from a Little Rock high school.. First, he refused to honor a federal subpoena summoning him to court as a defendant in a suit involving four recently passed Ar- kansas segregation laws. A few hours later, his attorneys moved to disqualify United States Distriet Judge Ronald Davies - scheduled, to hear the National Guard case Friday - on grounds that Davies is preju- diced against Faubus. Ruling Coming Davies himself will have to rule on the motion to dissualify. Reporters asked Faubus if, having flouted one subpoena, he will, obey the second, summoning him Calls on U To Enfore4 Resolution Cites Syrian2 Soviet Threal Charges Ri dize World t Jeopari Poison ussians Peace . an- Schmidt said he expected to go court Friday to seek a tempor- y restraining o der against lding elections" at the coming nvention. He said he will seek have a receiver appointed to iure honest selection of a new tch of delegates. Tlhe court action came as con- ation managers, undaunted by ,M-CIO charges that the Team.- !r Union is dominated by cor- pt leaders, planned a hearts- d-flowers farewell for retiring esident Dave Beck. eeck Hoffa Lssert Union ndependence MIAMI, Fla. (A') - Teamsters ion President Dave Beck and adidate James R. Hoffa--who 3w Beck's praise--said yesterday y'd like to retain AFL-CIO ties, t consider the Teamsters could t along independently if need 3eck arrived yesterday for con- tations preliminary to next ek's Miami Beach convention of Teamsters. Both he and Hoffa ve been targets of AFL-CIO at- ks in an anticorruption cam- gn. Asked if he favored the Team-, rs Union remaining an AFL- 0 affiliate, Beck said, "I'd prefer unless they try to tell us. who will elect for our officials and to interfere with the autonomy our union. 'John L. Lewis was able to stand ne with his United Mine Work- union and, in my judgment, can we if necessary." Iwo Missiles 'ired by U.S. IAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP)- least two projectiles were fired m the Missile Test Center here terday, one believed to be the THAMESVILLE; Ont. (R),- An a r m y of volunteers yesterday scraped away 25,000 pounds of poisonous cyanide flakes acciden- tally spilled through the center of town. The 1,100 townspeople s&ghed with relief last night in the midst of lingering but diminishing dan- ger Neutralizing chemicals were be-, ing sped here under police escort to destroy the last menace to the, town's water supply. The sodium cyanide was spilled for more than 300' feet along the railroad right-of-way shortly be- fore midnight Wednesday when a Canadian National Railways pas- senger train sliced through a trac- tor-trailer carrying the cyanide from' the E. I du Pont Co., in Buffalo to Detroit. The engine crew received some burns. The truck driver received shoulder injuries.' -Daiiy-Charles Curtiss APPROACHING 4 A.M.--Dr. Henry J. Gomberg, assistant director of the Michigan Memorial-Phoenix Project, and Charles W. Ricker, reactor operator, supervised the loading of the nuclear reactor. - University Reactor Set OOff Yesterday North Campus Atomic Installation Activates Self-Sustaining Reaction tBy RICHARD RABBIDEAU A few seconds before 4 a.m. yesterday morning, the first self- sustaining nuclear reaction in the State of Michigan began on the University's North Campus. It was an historic moment for the state and the University and Culminated two years of planning and construction. The only other university-owned reactor in operation is lo- cated at Penn State. The Ford Nuclear Reactor began operating 55 minutes " after technicians added the final uranium element to the fuel rack 20 feet below the surface of the giant to court today. "You just wait and see," the governor replied. Obedience Indicated He was smiling, almost casual, in his manner. The Arkansas Democrat report- ed, in a copyrighted story yester- day, that if Davies orders Faubus to withdraw the Guardsmen from Central High School in today's hearing, the governor will obey. Then, the Democrat said, he will wash, his hands of all respon- sibility for any violence - which he has predicted from the first - that may break out in Little Rock. Appeal Likely He will also carry his fight to ahigher court, tlie newspaper said, by appealing the 8th Cir- cuit Court of appeals in St. Louis. And if necessary, he will go all the way to the Supreme Court, the report said, in an all-out fight for the rights of the states as against the powers of the federal govern- ment4 - The subpoena that Faubus de- fied ordered him to appear before a three-judge panel in a suit brought by 10 Negro ministers. They asked the judges to set aside legislation, passed this year by the state Legislature, to preserve segregation in Arkansas schools. Motion Granted The judges granted a motion to postpone the hearing on this suit. A somewhat similar suit is due for a hearing in a state court. They put back any further federal hear- ing, pending the outcome there. In refusing to obey the suig- mons to the hearing on, the suit brought by the 10 ministers, Fau- bus told the court in a letter: "Almost from the very begin- ning of our Republic, it has been uniformly held that the chief ex- ecutive is not compelled to comply with a subpoena unless he chooses to do so. "In this particular case, be- cause of the obvious ulterior mo- tive of those who obtained the subpoena, I do not choose to com- ply with it." Cost S Job Scarcties Force U Student Drop-Outs Rising school costs and falling levels of summer employment have put many students in an economic vise, University officials believe. The squeeze has deferred students' plans for entering the Univer- sity, forced some undergraduates to drop from school for at least a semester and put many other student on precarious financial footing. Michigan residents seem to have felt the squeeze most, according pool. Neutrons, tiny atomic particles, of a "trigger" and struck atoms in were fed into the rack by means the uranium. The atoms were split and gave' birth to more heu- trons. With each addition of uranium, more neutrons were produced un-G til, with the addition of the 18th fuel element, the trigger was no longer needed and the reaction became self-sustaining. The process took 20 hours. Only a fraction of a watt of power, or less than that required to light a bulb, was produced in the fifteen minutes which the reactor was allowed to run. After the reactor has been thoroughly calibrated and studied, it may be run at a million watts. Committee Condemns U' Dismissal The American Civil Liberties Union urged the University to re- consider the 1954 dismissal of H. Chandler Davis, former mathe- matics instructor, and Prof. Mark Nickerson, formerly of the phar- macology department. Davis was dismissed by the Uni- versity after refusing to answer questions about his alleged com- munist background in the 1954 House Un-American Activities subcommittee hearings.; See COMMITTEE, Page 2 Strike Over NEW YORK ()-Agreement was reached early today to end 'the four-day old nationwide strike of 23,800 telephone equip- mei installers of the Western Electric Co. Cold',VaCc11e 'Not Cure-All' BALTIMORE(W- Dr.Winston H. Price said yesterday his vac- cine for one strain of the com- mon cold virus is "merely the opening wedge," not a cure-all, but it could lead to a complete preven- Live. f, Dr. Price's isolation of the "JH virus,", actually accomplished four years ago, was emphasized Wednesday night with his disclo- sure that he has developed a vac- cine 80 per cent effective against that virus. Named the JH virus because of its initial discovery during an out- break of colds among a group of Johns Hopkins medical students and student nurses, it is the first "true" virus of the common cold. Although it is the only common cold virus discovered to date, the Johns Hopkins scientist empha- sized at a news confegence yester- day that "there are at least one aiid possibly more viruses which must be isolated if we are to have the complete picture. Flu Outbreak; Gains Strength WASHINGTON (P)-The Public Health Service reported yesterday that about 100,000 cases of Asian flu have developed in the United States. Half of these were reported in the last week, a spokesman said, See ASIATIC FLU, Page 2 and reports of scattered "itbreaks are coming in. Dr. G. C. Dauer, medical adviser in the National Office of Vital Statistics, said late reports indi- cate widespread incidence of the disease in Mississippi and Texas. Louisiana was said last week to have experienced statewide occur- rence. Dr. Dauer described the Mississippi-Texas situation as not necessarily state wide, but as rep- resenting regional outbreaks.' Boamb Tested U nderground ATOMIC TEST SITE, Nev. ()- History's first full scale under- ground atomic bomb test was con- ducted yesterday with puffs of dust and falling rocks the only surface effects. UNITED NATIONS, N. Y Secretary of State John I Dulles, yesterday accused Soviet Union of risking w threatening Turkey and bt up Communist arms in Syr He charged the Soviets wi gaging in acts apparently at impairing the freedom an dependence. of some Middle nations, and called u p o United Nations to take u situation. Sec. Dulles made the state in a major policy speech del to the 82-nation U. N. G Assembly. It dwelt mainly o Middle East and disarmame Violation Charged Dulles said Soviet actions Middle East constitute a vic of a U. N. resolution. callin member nations to refrain' intimidating other countries the General Assembly "oug least to discussit.". He added that the United "reserves the right, in the of That discussion, to inti concrete proposals." A United S t a t e s deleg spokesman said the United had no firm proposals rea this time, nor any specific N East, issue to submit for U. N cussion. Reply Coming Syria has said it may charges in the U. N..of aggr against the United States. A ian spokesman said his cou foreign minister, Salah Bita no doubt reply to Dulles in S policy speech next week. Jawdat Mufti, a member c Syrian U. N. delegation, come Od that his country "has no i tion of threatening any c neighbors. Dulles said that the Sovie ers, following the "Stalin - line, began "an intensive : ganda designed to incite the nations to believe that with arms, with Soviet technician: with Soviet political backing could accomplish extreme ne alistic 'ambit ons." "This Soviet Communist has made the most progre Syria where Soviet bloc were exultantly received where political power has in ingly been taken over by who depend on Moscow. Tru triots have been driven fron sitions of power by arrests timidations," he said. Forum Grou Plans Talks to the University Admissions office. "This has been about the tightestl year we've seen for getting stu- dents summer jobs off campus in this area." He reports that there has been a "noticeable increase in the num- ber of freshmen accepted for ad- mission who gave financial reasons for their inability to start school ag scheduled. Student jobs obtained through the University Placement Service dropped on-third when compared to 1956. They fell even more com- pared to 1955, when Michigan auto assembly plants offered employ- ment to many University students. This summer's totals-232 jobs- represet a drop of 450 jobs from the summer of 1955. On the cost side, the 25 per cent See RESIDENCE, Page 2 T+ ,A 630 One placement officer commented,l CAMPUS CRAMP CURE: Railroad Ticket May Be A bbreviated-Groesbeck By MICHAEL KRAFT The semesterly journey down the blanks of the railroad ticket may eventually be shortened. "We're going to have a meeting this semester with the depart- ments represented on the registration forms to see if they really use all the information they request," Edward G. Groesbeck, Director of the Office of Registration and Records said yesterday. "For years, we've been trying to eliminate duplications but we obviously still have a long way to go," he pointed put. On the ticket, which contains 14 separate coupons, a student must fill in his name and Ann Arbor address nine times. Foreign students and non veteran men of draft age have anoth- er space to fill out with the same information. Name and address of parent, guardian or spouse is requested eight times and three blanks wan nrinfa~A *fn nfl.ntnfar~riin Student Government C forum committee has alre ceived answers from many requested to speak by the according to Don Your Union president. The list includes such people as John Gates, edito Daily Worker, and Will Buckley; Jr., editor of the N4 Review; Roy Wilkins, presi the NAACP and Russell Ki known conservative writez man Thomas of the socialis and Frank Meyer, a Natioi view contributor, The forum committee wa lished to bring speakers to to stimulate thinking and c ute to discussion in areas cation and controversial qL of politics and religion. SGC felt that these are not adequately covered in t y _ . , "