WOMEN IN UNIFORM See Page 2 Y Latest Deadline in the State Iaii4 a v0 o BRIGHT AND WARM ' VOL. LX, No. 8-S ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1950 FOUR PA GI's Retreat, Regroup for Defensive Actior -41 S * *. * * * * * * Freak Train Crash Kills 9 Injures 75 Coaches Derailed After Sideswipe MONICA, Ill.-(P)-Two high speed Santa Fe railway stream- liners, streaking eastward side by side, bumped midsections in a freak collision yesterday that brought crushing death to nine persons and injuries to about 75. The crash came at a stretch of tracks near Monica where daily the 90-mile-an-hour El Capitan flyer from Los Angeles passes the 70-mile-an-hour Kan- sas City Chief from Kansas City. BOTH TRAINS were bound for Chicago, 148 miles northeast. As the El Capitan began pull- ing ahead, its mail car lurched, left the tracks, and jacknifed into the first car and side of the Chief's locomotive. It was 4:40 a.m. central stan- dard time. The men's wash room of one El Capitan coach was crowd- ed with men. They were shaving before going to breakfast in the diner. Many passengers still were asleep on both trains. THE COLLISION slammed the El Capitan's coach back across its own tracks. The locomotive and several forward cars of the El Capitan broke loose and barreled down the tracks. The El Capitan's rear cars piled into the wreckage. Sleeping passengers w e r e bounced around in the cars like rubber balls. Twisted metal trapped some in their seats. Four of the dead were in the washroom of an El Capitan-coach. They were slammed into the walls and crushed to death. The victims were five men and four women. One man was de- capitated when thrown through a window. THE LOCOMOTIVE and two front cars of the chief also left the tracks. Several cars telescoped and tracks were torn up for a quar- ter of a mile. All available doctors, nurses and ambulances were rushed to the scene. Victims were taken to hospitals in Peoria, 20 miles south of the small village of Monica, and to Galesburg, 30 miles west. THIRTY-EIGHT were hospital- ized, some in critical condition, and the others were given first aid at the scene. Because of the early hour, rescue work was slow in start- ing. Some farmers came run- ning with axes and chopped paths to those trapped in the debris. All the dead were belived to have been riding the El Capitan. Crash survivors were put aboard a special train to be brought to Chicago. Movie, Panel To Highlight Arts Course A movie on Michaelangelo and a panel discussion on "Communi- cation in the Arts" will conclude the first week of the contempor- ary arts and society course. "The Titan," a film study of Michaelangelo's artistic develop- ment based on the painter's works, is being co-sponsored by the Art Cinema League, Inter-Arts Union and the contemporary arts course. IT WILL BE presented at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. today and tomor- row in the Architecture Auditor- ium. A German film, "The Titan" is narrated by Frederic March. The movie was made 15 years ago and was recently edited by Ro- bert Flaherty, who is considered the "father" of the documen- Altmeyer Advocates Greater Expansion . . Of SocialSecurity By PAUL MARX Expansion of our social security into a much more comprehensive system was called for yesterday by Arthur J. Altmeyer, commissioner of social security for the Federal Security Agency. With one third of the families in the U.S. earning under $2,000 a year and with many having no savings, our present system does not afford adequate protection against the economic hazards caused by cessation of income, Altmeyer declared. THE INADEQUACY of present federal social insurance is illus- trated by the great dependence of people on payments from local public assistance plans. Altmeyer' asserted that public assistance plans which should be our second R a l Strike line of defense against destitution provide average monthly benefits of $45 while the average benefac- S tor of federal insurance gets onlyp $26. In an economy as productiveF as ours people should not have to rely to such a degree on public assistance or relief for protec- tion from destitution. A Federal C H I C A G O-()-T h e AFL contributory social insurance Switchmen's union called off its plan based on benefits according strike on four of five western to wage loss should be our first railroads yesterday - eight hours line of defense, the formulator after President Truman threat- of the original Social Security ened drastic action if necessary Act said. to end the walkout. Altmeyer also adwocated passage But the union said it will con- of the National Health Insurance tinue its 12-day strike against the Plan as being necessary to relieve 8,000-mile Rock Island system "to families of the unbearable costs of learn whether free men in a free medical services. country can still bargain with He said the plan, which would their employers . . . without fear provide services by private prac- that big government will team up titioners paid with money from an with obstinate employers." insurance fund, is not state medi- * * * cine. Every state has workmen's AT ST. PAUL, Minn., officers compensation which actually is of the Great Northern Railway health insurance, but only applic- said the road will resume opera- able to industrial injuries and sick- tions "just as fast as we can." nesses, he added. s d * In San Francisco the Western A BROAD contributory social Pacific announced passenger insurance plan would provide in train service on its lines will be centives that yould lead to a resumed this morning. The greater common good and an in- California Zephyr service be- creased degree of personal satis- tween San Francisco and Chi- faction, the administrator said. cago will be resumed tomorrow. "Social insurance does not Only the Chicago Great West- mean giving everybody some- ern Railroad had not announced thing for nothing or paying peo- any plans by early today. ple not to work. It is not so* * much a redistribution of wealth FRANCIS A. O'NEILL, member as a better redistribution of wel- of the National (Railway) Media- fare. Itndefinitely does fit into tion Board who has been sitting our concept of a free society," in on union negotiations with the Altmeyer asserted. carriers in Chicago, said he had According to Altmeyer the goal no comment on the union's ac- of the plan is to provide a mini- pion. mum basic security which would A union spokesman said the mean equality of opportunity for Rock Island, which runs from everybody. Chicago and connects with With reasonable differentials re- West Coast lines in New Mexico lated to earned income and con- and Colorado, is paralleled by tributions the plan would allow other systems. He said a work each individual to build effectively stoppage on this line creates the level of security which he de- no emergency. sires for himself and his family, The union said its men will go he said. in .1k o ,t,1.'. annp . -r.rnin 'U' Faculty Promotions Total_103 21 Receive Full Professorships Promotions for 103 members of the faculty were announced yes- terday by the Regents, 21 to the rank of full professor. Associate professorships were given to 42,.while 40 were promot- ed to assistant professor. Four su- pervisory appointments were made in the department of physical edu- cation, three equivalent to asso- ciate and one equivalent to assist- ant professor. All appointments are effective in the fall. The list follows, with schools and departments: * * * Professor LITERARY COLLEGE: Angus Campbell (sociology and psychol- ogy), Carl Fischer (actuarial ma- thematics), Garnet R. Garrison (speech), George Katona (psy- chology and economics), John Le- derle (political science), Richard A. Musgrave (economics), Albert H. Sinith (botany), Bennett Wea- ver (English), William B. Willcox (history), Valentine B. Windt (speech). ENGINEERING C O L L E G E: William W. Gilbert (metal proces- sing), Holger M. Hansen (engi- neering mechanics), William S. Housel (civil engineering). MEDICAL SCHOOL: Dr. Jerome W. Conn (internal medicine), Dr. Cameron Haight (surgery), Dr. Edgar A. Kahn (surgery), Dr. Henry K. Ransom (surgery) and Dr. John M. Sheldon (internal medicine). DENTAL SCHOOL: Dr. Philip M. Northrop. BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION SCHOOL: Paul W. McCracken (business conditions). NATURAL RESOURCES SCHOOL: Robert Craig, Jr. (wood utilization). Associate Professor LITERARY COLLEGE: Reeve M. Bailey (zoology), Robert C. F. Bartels (mathematics), Richard C. Boys (English), Charles W. Cot- terman (zoology), Helen W. Dod- son (astronomy), Leon Festinger (psychology), Otto G. Graf (Ger- man), Wayne E. Hazen (physics), Eberhardt W. Heinrich (mineral- ogy), Wilfred Kaplan (mathema- tics), Raymond L. Kilgour (li- brary science), George Kish (geo- graphy), Karl F Lagler (zoology), Henry van der Schalie (zoology), Fred G. Walcott (English), Ed- ward L. Walker (psychology), Ed- gar F. Westrum, Jr. (chemistry), James T. Wilson (geology). E N G I N E E RING COLLEGE: Lloyd E. Brownell (chemical and metallurgical engineering), Paul F. Chenea (engineering mechanics), George M. McEwen (English), Jo- seph J. Martin (chemical and me- tallurgical engineering), Lawrence L. Rauch (aeronautical engineer- ing), Maurice J. Sinnott (chemi- cal and metallurgical engineering), George B. Williams (chemical and metallurgical engineering). MEDICAL SCHOOL: Alexander Barry (anatomy), Dr. Robert C. Bassett (surgery), Dr. Robert W. Buxton (surgery), Joseph P. Chandler (biological chemistry), Raymond L. Garner (biological chemistry). See BOARD OF REGENTS Page 4 -Daily-Roger D. Wellington COMMUNIST DRIVE CONTINUES IN KOREA-Spearing 60 miles south of Seoul, three North Korean infantry divisions preceded by a cutting edge of armor and backed by reinforcements in the Suwon area, forced American and South Korean defenders to fall back and regroup. On the east coast, Communist armies fanned out from Utcl'in and were building up a possible enveloping action based on Pohangdong. * * * *. * * * Progressives Hit Tru man's KoreaPolicy The local Progressive Party has come out in opposition to U.S. intervention in Korea and has demanded "the immediate with- drawal of all American .armed forces from the Korean scene." This statement of policy ap- pears in a Progressive Party pamphlet put out by the national party and being distributed among party members is signed by Alice Sloss, a member of the national committee of the party. THE FULL STORY of the Ko- rean incident "has not yet been told to the American people" and indeed, is being deliberately kept from the American people," ac- cording to the pamphlet. "The sole evidence offered by the U.S. in support if its charges of Northern Korean ag- gression was the telegraphic re- port of the UN Commission on Korea." This was based "sole- ly on the selfserving declaration of the Southern Korean gov- ernment to that effect," states the pamphlet written for the Progressives by political analyst John J. Abt. The pamphlet cites what it calls circumstantial e v i d e n c e that Northern Korea was not the ag- gressor. The evidence offered is quotations from a dispatch by foreign correspondent Walter Sul- livansappearing in the New York Times on June 26. * * * IT QUOTES the UN commis- sion report as follows: "Government of Republic of Ko- rea states that at 04:00 hrs. June 25 attacks were launched in strength by Northern Korean forces along 38th Parallel . Pwongyang radio allegation at 13:35 hrs. of South Korean in- vasion across Parallel during night declared entirely false by Presi- dent and Foreign Minister." U.S. Military Leaders Say' Korean War Not Serious' WASHINGTON, July 6-(IP)-American military leaders said to- day the buildup of U.S. forces in South Korea is making steady pro- gress and despite stiff reverses the battle situation is "not serious in any way.', Late today, however, a Defense Department officer spoke in graver terms about the possibility of enveloping thrusts by the enemy. Dis- cussing, this, the officer told newsmen: "THERE IS NOTHING to be alarmed about, but it is certainly something to be concerned about." An official Army spokesman had previously declared: "Our forces now hold a strong% North Korea Fbrces Knife Southward Enemy Rushing ' Reinforcements BULLETIN AMERICAN HEADQUARTERS IN KOREA-(P)-The top U.S. general in Korea said today the North Koreans have put 15 di- visions, spearheaded by about 150 tanks, into the Southern in- vasion. "We now are seeing tanks in groups of 30 to 40 where earlier they were in groups of 10," the general said. The general estimated the combat strength of the 15 di- visions at between 75,000 and 90,000. TOKYO - (P) -Defense forces fell back and regrouped in embat- tled South Korea Thursday as the American commander there dis- closed that so far only 500 AmerI- cans have seen action. Three North Korean infantry divisions preceded by a cutting edge of armor speared 60 miles south of captured Seoul. * * * AT AMERICANheadquarters in Korea Maj. Gen. William F. Dean told correspondents the actions in- volving Americans so far had been small and no major engagement between GI's and North Koreans has taken place yet. The "half a battalion" of Americans sent against a Red Tank column were driven back but nevertheless did their job well. Their casualties were about ten percent. The commander asked corres- pondents to "help me pray for fair weather" which would enable the airforce to deal heavier blows to the lengthening Red supply col- umns. AN AIR FORCE communique said two railroad bridges and two highway bridges had been knocked out and claimed the Red move- ment southward had been slowed or stopped, a claim not wholly substantiated in dispatches frot other headquarters and from fight- ing areas. General MacArthur's com- munique, issued at 12:35 a.m. today, Tokyo time (9:35 a.m., Thursday, CDT) said the Com- munist invaders were pouring reinforcing troops, artillery, tanks and supplies into the Su- won rear area 23 miles south of Seoul to maintain their big southern push. Headquarters acknowledged that the major invader thrust was speared by the North Korean First, third and Fourth divisions (pos- sibly 30,000 to 40,000 men). Their immediate objectives were describ- ed as Osan and pyongtaek, 15 and 25 miles, respectively, south of the fallen airstrip at Suwon. ASSOCIATED PRESS correspon- dent Tom Lambert reported from the front, however, that the Red invaders already had overrun Py- ongtaek and had nosed into Cho- nan, 14 miles by road farther south and 60 miles south of Seoul. A new Red threat also was de- veloping on the rugged East coast, where the North Koreans established beachheads in am- phibious landings the first day of the invasion, June 25. The communique said one col- umn of an estimated 1,700 Reds fanned out from Utchin on the East coast and others were report- ed moving and building up addi- tional strength as far south as Pohang. * * * Russia Hits U.S. Blockade LONDON-(/P)-Russia charged yesterday the American blockade of Korea was a "new act of ag- gression" and warned she would hold the United States responsible for any damage to Soviet interests as a result of the blockade. It was in answer to one sent by the United States July 4 in- World News .Roundup By The Associated Press DETROIT-A pilot of the Great Lakes passenger ship City of Cleve- land III testified yesterday the luxury cruise steamer failed to sound danger signals before it crashed with a freighter in a fog on Lake Huron. The crash off Harbor Beach June 25 killed five passengers and injured 20 others. Carl Paul Luttenbacher, 25, the passenger ship's third mate, testi- fied at the trial of Capt. Rudolf J. Kiessling, master of the City of Cleveland III, on a charge of mis- conduct. ., * * WASHINGTON - Senators were told yesterday that the old Al Capone gang-the notorious "syndicate" - has revived and established tie-ups with mobs of racketeers over the nation. Virgil Peterson, director of the Chicago Crime Commission, gave that testimony to the Sen- ate crime investigating commit- tee and added that one of syndi- cate's alliances is with "members of the so-called Frank Costello gang in New York." * * * LANSING - At a grim and sol- uacx o worx wnenever rauroaa management wants them" on the Great Northern, Chicago Great Western, Denver, Rio Grande and Western, and Western Pacific. ARTHUR J. GLOVER, president of the union, announced its action at a news conference. The union called out its 4,000 members on the five roads June 25 tosupport its demands for a 40 hour work week at 40 hours pay - a demand rejected by a Presidential fact-finding board. The board instead proposed a 40 hour week at an 18 cents hour- ly pay boost - about half what the union wanted. President Truman called the strike unjustified. The patriotic thing to do, he said, was for the men to go back to work. But he would not say what he would do if his suggestion was ignored, for example, whether he would seek government seizure of the,-struck roads. defense position. The situation is not considered serious in any way." Asked if Gen.' Douglas Mac- Arthur, supreme commander in the Far East, has asked Wash- ington for more troops, the Defense Department spokes- man said he could not answer. He said thinking undoubtedly is going on about what should be done under various eventuali- ties. Questioned whether the Rus- sians are aiding the North Ko- reans in planning operations, the officer said he didn't know about that, but the invaders are cer- tainly putting up an aggressive campaign. * * * AIR AND SEA reinforcements are now being sped to the war zone, the high command said. At his news conference, Pres- ident Truman sounded a note of calm optimism in the face of some of the darkest reports yet received in the Far Pacific conflict. Everything will work out all right, Mr. Truman said. The President also told news- men that at present he has no plans (1) to call up the National Guard or the Reserves, or (2) to ask Congress for more money for the armed forces. ''Employees, Officials Meet Can Grievances A 30-man committee of hourly- rated University employees met with four administration officials yesterday in an effort to clear up a controversy over wages and other benefits raised by a work stoppage last week. The two-hour discussion brought the clarification of several points and a promise by University of- ficials to give consideration to the employee requests and to arrange. for a special Board of Regents meeting in a few weeks to consider the matter. * * * NO FUTURE work stoppage was expected, at least until after the Regents' meeting. Points cleared up, and bring- ing some understanding to em- ployees toward specific Uni- versity policy, were: 1. Employees are unsatisfied with the present sliding scale wage, which they claim is far lower than rates paid in this area. 2. GI apprentice trainees, whose certificates of promotion to the journeyman level are received by the University from the joint com- mittee responsible for accrediting such. training; will get the new wage rate calledfor by their par- ticular trade. 3. Sick leave, retirement, and severaldother policies must be clarified. * * * V I C E-PRESIDENT R o b e r t Briggs told the men that a new and complete personnel booklet for all employees will be ready for distribution soon. WORKING FOR 'CULTURAL FREEDOM': writers Answer German Reds, Says Professor Y , By PAULA STRAWHECKER "What made the International Conference of Writers meeting in Berlin significant was that it was Dewey and was attended by lead- ing intellectuals from 16 countries. We discussed the position of the European intellectual, and basic requirement for research, Arciniegas added. "Prof. H. J. Muller, Nobel Prize winner and former senior geneti- twice served as Minister of Edu- cation in Columbia and while hold- ing that office established two uni- versities for women.