AMERICAN LOSS IN CHINA See Page 4 Y Latest Deadline in the State 40P :43att]y k4iY t o,'/ 0 C] FAIR AND SEASONABLY WARM VOL. LX, No. 9-S ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, JULY 9, 1950 SIX PA . . battalion Behind orth Korean Line' * 4 * * Gov. Williams scaes Convicts 'Plo : Riot Nipped As Hostage Plan Foiled Guards Injured; Governor Unhurt MARQUETTE - (P) - Three hardened inmates of Marquette State Prison were foiled late yes- terday in their daring attempt to break out with Gov. G. Mennen Williams as hostage. The young governor escaped un- harmed in the near riot that was quelled by fast action on the part of guards and state police. *, * * BUT ONE of the convicts was shot and seriously wounded in the abdomen, the Governor's bodyguard was stabbed twice in the back,and a prison guard suf- fered a broken arm. All three convicts were serving long terms for armed robbery, and all were placed immediately in solitary confinement after their escape attempt was put down. THIS IS how Warden Emory Jacques, who was with the Gov- ernor throughout the brief vio- lence, described it: Williams arrived at the pri- son for an inspection shortly before 5 p.m. and entered the dining hall 'just as the convicts were starting an evening meal. "We were standing at the back of the hall by a glass door which goes into the kitchen," Jacques said. "Suddenly, one of the convicts, who was in the kitchen, opened the door and came out swinging a .mop handle. Another grabbed the Governor by the arms and dragged him into the kitchen." * * * HE - THEN menaced Williams' with the big kitchen knife. The Governor's bodyguard went to his aid., A third convict turned on bim with a smaller knife, wounding him twice in the back. Jacques shouted, "Shoot to kill!" The bodyguard, Sgt. George Kerr, then whipped out the gun he had carried with him into the prison and fired at his attacker as guards pulled the knife-wielding convict away from Williams and grabbed the others. ' 'Antigone and Tyrant' Opens Wednesday The theme of rugged indivi- dualism against the all-powerful state marks Jean Anouilh's "An- tigone and the Tyrant," opening Wednesday as the second offering of the speech department's sum- mer series. The play, based on the classical Greek legend of Antigone, will be presented in an individualistic manner, in contemporary dress and setting. Anouilh's latest play, the "Cry of the Peacock," opened on Broad- way last spring after "Antigone" was brought there by Katherine Cornell in 1946 after a successful run in Paris. Play Production's presentation, running through Saturday, is di- rected by Hugh Z. Norton of the department of speech. The cast includes Alice Juzek as Antigone, Nafe Katter as Creon, Richard Burgwin as the Chorus, Earl Matthews as Haemon and Joyce Edgar as Ismene. Pleven May Form Cabinet PARIS - (P) - Rene Pleven ILLINOIS SENATOR: Douglas To Talk SSocial Security Sen. Paul H. Douglas of Illinois, will give an address on "Public Responsibility for Social Security'' at 2:15 p.m. Tuesday in Rackham -Amphitheatre.V Sen. Douglas, who is a former economics professor at the Uni- versity of Chicago will give the second lecture of the summer sym- posium "The Quest for Social Security." * * * ONE OF THE EARLIEST advocates of old age pensions and unemployment insurance, Douglas drafted the first old age pension act passed in Illinois. After the Legislature passed this act in 1935 he * * * < was called on again in 1937 to help draft the state unemployment Mminsurance act. The Illinois Democrat worked under Franklin D. Roosevelt on the Consumers Advisory Board of the NRA and aided in the formulation of the Social Se- curity Act. He also was drafted by Roosevelt, then governor of New York, to serve as Secretary of the New York Committee to Stabilize Employment. As a member of the Illinois State Housing Commission, Dou- glass led a fight in the 1930s to reduce electricity and gas rates and to protect investors in private utilities from shady financial manipulations. And Governor Hor- ner of Illinois then recruited Dou- glas to draft the Utilities Act of 1933. DOUGLAS was elected a Chi- cago alderman in 1939 and gained fame for his fight against graft' and corruption in that city. In 1942, at the age of 50, Dou- glas enlisted in the Marine Corps KOREANS CHEER U.S. TROOPS-South Koreans line the streets of an unidentified city to gref and applaud U.S. troops as they arrived shortly before moving into front line positions in the shoo ing war. * * * * * * * * * MacArthur Named UN Commande SEN. PAUL H. DOUGLAS Senate Group proves U Money Bill, WASHINGTON-()P)-President Truman yesterday named General Douglas MacArthur to the unpre- cedented post of supreme com- mander for United Nations forces fighting the Communists in Ko- rea. The General was directed to fly the blue and white UN flag. THE ACTION coincided with re- ports from Europe that Russia may be interested in trying to end Statehood Bills May Get Action WASHINGTON - (R) - Sena- tor Joseph C. O'Mahoney (Dem., Wyo.) chairman of the Senate Interior Committee said today he is confident the Alaska and Hawaii statehood bills will be acted upon by the Senate before adjournment -- if there is an adjournment of Congress. the Korean clash - or, contrarily, may be maneuvering to raise false hopes in the West. The two developments sharp- ly revived the diplomatic side of the Korean situation and this presumably figured in an hour- long conference which Mr. Tru- man had with Secretary of State Acheson before making the Mac- Arthur announcement. The reports of diplomatic ac- tivity in Moscow came from Lon- don. They grew out of a meeting Thursday between Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and British Ambassador Sir David Kelly. Britain had asked several days earlier that the Russians intervene in Korea to restore peace. Accord- ing to London report, Andrei Gromyko is supposed to have ask- ed Sir David Kelly, British am- bassador, what Britain thought Russia might do. Thus- he ap- parently did not reject the Bri- tish idea outright as a similar as a private. He WASHINGTON - (AP) - A $34,- of Lt. Colonel 688,000,000 money bill to run the Bronze Star ar government this fiscal year was And in 1948, tw approved yesterday by the Senate discharge, he w Appropriations committee. Senate. It was $1,473,000,000 less than President Truman wanted. Russian IT GOES to the Senate for de- bate expected to start Tuesday; UNV then back to the House for agree- U ,L e ment on changes. Congress auth- orized departments to keep on MOSCOW - spending until it gets the bill Gazette yester passed. I The committee knocked out strongest Russia two controversial cost-cutting on Secretary-Gi amendments which the House and the United 1\ had accepted, and defeated a Commenting c substitute for them which Re- Korean case, the publicans had proposed. Secretary-Gener The one-package appropriation, right-wing socie lumping all services of the govern- Wall Street an ment in a single bill for the first American aggren time, covers most major expendi-inweckntherU tures. A notable exception is fixed ing wreckh a charges totalling about $8,000,000,- The attack m 000, including interest on the pect of Lie beir $256,000,000,000 federal debt. five-year term is 8,500 PHONE NUMBERS: rose to the rank and received the nd Purple Heart. No years after his as elected to the rs Blast Again R)-The Literary day levelled the n attack yet made eneral Trygve Lie Nations. on Lie's role in the gazette called the al a coward, a alist, a stooge of d an "abettor of ssion" who is help- JN. ay wreck any pros- ng re-elected. His s up early in 1951. proposal from the United Sta was rejected. * * * THIS REPORTED show of terest by Gromyko was interpre in London dispatches as a po ble Russian peace feeler. Authorities here did not co firm or deny that the actu event occurred. But they not that it'could be: 1-A hopeful opening. 2-A diplomatic cover to s off the West with meaning talk while the Korean fight g on. 3-A device to raise false ho in the world by hinting at pe without any intention to work it. Inj unction Orders End of Rail Strike CHICAGO - (A) - The gove ment seized the strikebound-F 'Island railroad yesterday and a temporary strike-ending cc order last night. The head of the striking switchmen then ordered hisn back to work at once. * * * A SERIES of rapid-fire de opments led to the strike canc tion. They were: The Army seized the railroa 6 p.m. on orders from Presid Truman. The strike leaders continued fiance of Mr. Truman's requ and refused to go back to w Federal Judge John Knight Buffalo, N.Y., on request oft Justice Department, issued temporary injunction. It order the strikers to resume their jo on the Rock Island. Arthur J. Glover, union pri dent, in Chicago told the stri to resume work. He made his nouncement shortly before r night. Communist Mov tSti1 Unchecked 1 American Armor Reported Not Y In Battle in Appreciable Strengt By The Associated Press A U.S. infantry battalion, cut off during the battle which p ceded Chonan's fall last night, apparently still is behind Commu lines in Korea. A communique from General MacArthur's headquarters first efforts to relieve the battalion were unsuccessful. There w no details about the unidentified outfit, nor was it clear whether battalion is conducting some sort of behind the lines action. Previously part of an American battalion was partially tray at Osan by the Communists, but most of its personnel manage reach American line later. Near the Chonan front, meanwhile, an American tank and fantry column was reported moving up to meet a Korean Gommu column reported pushing south after capturing Chonan. So far there has been no indica-> * * tion that American armor has clashed with the Communists any- U.S.-British where in strength. * * * EARLIER REPORTS said Amer- Nav lF r et ican soldiers, cursing the lack of VR orce t- t a n k s, heavier artillery a n d planes, were retreating in Korea. 11W d A communique from the head- 1 LIIV tUIJ quarters of Gen. Douglas Mac- Aruthr said massive North Ko- reancolumns of tanks, infantry TOKYO-P)-A furious V and guns which appeared simi- British naval bombardment lo alr to American "Long Tom" landslides that blocked the n ates 155's were threatening h i s road on Korea's east coast right flank. invader troops piling up be] But all was not black in the war the roadblocks are being rake in- picture. fire. eted * * * This was reported today ssi- FRONT LINE dispatches re- General MacArthur's commun ported the arrival of American which also disclosed that n .n- "military equipment" - probably units invaded North Korean ws ual tanks which are known to be in and pounded an oil storage a ed Korea now - and fresh men, even * * * as the small forward elements re- INTE treated through Chonan, 60 miles a Brit swLATTER engaget tall south of Seoul, the Korean capital. mm fire in close to shore less The tanks soon may be thrown hurled its shells into coast 1 goes into battle for the first time. gets. The Americans had not yet com- pes mitted to action any major unit This 'action swirled aro ace above the Kum river, 'a natural Yangyang, 10 road miles no for barrier about 18 miles south ,of of the 38th parallel which divi Chonan and the same distance north and south Korea, north of Taejon, American field headquarters. Tokyo headquarters When the attacking wars indicated nothing larger than an retired, great oil fires were rag American battalion (possibly no The communique said the m more than 500 men) had yet seen power supply for Yangyang battle. was destroyed. * * * The communique did not FIELD headquarters said 17 when all this coastal bombard= more North Korean tanks had took place, but indicated it been destroyed, in addition to ear- was in progress. ern- Tier reports of about 40 knocked * * * Zock out. These estimates, however, IT SAID that the warships, got overreached by far the claims of causing landslides which blo ourt the Air Force which was credit- the cliff road, "are taking tr ed with most of the kills. which are piling up at these bl AFL The communique said the under fire." men North Korean offensive had been slowed, but -added that Cliff slides blocked the ci bridges blown out by the Air road between Samehok, 40 m vel- Force probably caused much of south of the border, and 1mw ella- the shortened pace. jin, about 25 miles farther sot Then it reported that the North .hic d at Koreans were massing tanks, in- This inor s the road edown ewhih dent fantry and guns in forward zones endn light armored units i for a renewed strike. From 80 de- to 110 tanks were reported moving apparent threat to Pusan, the ests up to the main front pointed southeast port. ork. through Chonan toward Taejon, in while elements of four more di- the visions with armor were being W orW New a concentrated along a 60 mile front red to the eastward. obs The communique said these flanking forces may be aiming By The Associated Press esi- either at a circling thrust at Tae- kers jon, or at a smash across MacAr- WASHINGTON-The Army an- thur's main communication lines nounced yesterday "an imme mid- at Taegu, 65 miles southeast of call for enlisted reservists to Taejon. unteer for extended activec < h .1 ]G "; R - 'd JAPAN, IRAN, FINLAND Foreign Students Support U.S. Policy, Action in Korea By JOHN FOLEY The United States foreign poli- cy is perfectly right, is the opin- ion reflected by foreign students interviewed by The Daily at a reception held by the International Center. Robert Kishaba, '54 and visiting Student Directory on Sale Tomorrow 4, * * * * "Eight thousand hard-working students for 50 cents" is the sales cry of Roger Wellington, editor of the 1950 summer student directory, coming out tomorrow. The directory holds 8,500 names, to be exact, as well as local and home addresses and phone num- bers. Wellington, who is also business manager and map-expert of The Daily, managed production single- handedly in the near-record time of two weeks after school started, employing a two-woman typing staff, one of whom worked 48 con- secutive hours. Selling again this year at "the lowest price in history," the sta- tistic-jammed book will be avail- able at all campus bookstores, Union and League and from cam- pus salesman at the Diag and En- gine Arch. Besides students' names the Prof. Hatorri Shiro, both of Japan, approved wholeheartedly the Uni- ted States' taking an uncompro- mising stand in Korea. OTHER STUDENTS felt that armed combat was the only course possible, and another added that this action should have been taken five years ago at the very begin- ning of the Communist action in China. Referring to a new U.S. poli- cy of limited aid to Iran, Ezat Golshan, Spec. said that Iran needs help, but weapons are not what that country needs. Iran needs to make social pro- gress along such fields as educa- tion above all, he said. * * * MASUD HOMAYOUNI, Spec., also of Iran, did not believe that Iran can continue to resist Rus- sian pressure and that she"ll have to make some sort of deal with them. Going north along the line just outside the Iron Curtain, Finland's present government is insecure due to the pact that it had made with Russia, according to Aarno Arola, Grad., of Finland. "R u s s i a doesn't understand words, only action," he said. Two South American a n d several other students querried agreed with the American stand in Korea, while Pablo Perez of Columbia thought that this ac- tion would also help the UN. d c e i TVA CHAIRMAN: Gordon Clapp To Spea k On Near East Tuesday * * * The possibilities of economic de- velopment of the Near East will bejt discussed by Gordon R. Clapp, Chairman of the Board of the Tennessee Valley Authority in an address at 4:15 p.m. Tuesday in the Rackham Amphitheater. The lecture, entitled "An Ap- ' proach to Economic Development. in the Near East," is being given in conjunction with the summer Institute on the Near East. for a minimum of one year or such longer period as may be quired." * * * MOSCOW-Russia accused Western Allies again yesterday violating the Italian peace tre with regard to Trieste. BERLIN-Water from the R sian sector of Berlin flowed : pipes in the western occupied s tors today after a six-day halt The agreement to restore water supply came the day a talks opened looking to the storation of normal trade betw, the Western and Russian zone Germany. 48 UN Members n~ -rr. r 7 T -.. _i. :::...