E -.4Y L it i9U ~aitF GOP PREVIEW? See Page 2 PARTLY CLOUDY Latest Deadline in the State I .VOLT. LXI.WNo.16-S~ ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1951 FOUR PAGES YV~l aw~ 1 vn 1 O " - House Votes rTo Permit 'Fair Profit' Democrats Hit New Proposals WASHINGTON-(P)-Over Ad- ministration protests, the House yesterday voted to ban all price controls which would prevent a t' "reasonable profit." Catching Administration Demo- crats off guard, farm state legis- lators rammed through a series of amendments that threw fresh r curbs on the Administration's price controls program. * * * IF FINALLY enacted into law, the amendments might cause a review of every ceiling price fixed by the Office of Price Stabilization to take into account cost-plus- profit data on all farm and in- dustrial products. OPS ceiling prices run into many thousands. Many Democrats were off the floor when the votes were taken. However, Majority Leader Mc- Cormick (D-Mass.) told news- men he believes the prospects are favorable for reversing the r actions. All votes so far have been ten- tative, subject to final approval when the House votes on the com- pleted bill for a new economic con- trols law. The present law ex- pires July 31. * * * LATE IN THE day, the House beat down an attempt to deprive the Wage Stabilization Board of its present power to handle labor disputes. The House defeated by a teller vote of 217 to 113 an amendment by Rep. Lucas (D-Tex.) which would have placed public mem- bers in a majority over the com- bined labor and industry mem- bers. Both the Lucas amendment and *nother by Rep. Kersten (R-Wisc.) would have clipped the Board's authority to settle labor disputes. National Roundup St. Louis Braces For Flood Crest Mississippi Expected To Reach Highest Peak in Hundred Years ST. LOUIS-/P)-Flood-wire St. Louis braced yesterday for the Mississippi's worst flood in 100 years as it felt the first blows of tor- rents which already have devastated vast areas and cities in Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. At least 23 persons are known to have lost their lives and yester- day three unidentified youths were reported to have drowned in back- waters of the Mississippi just south of East St. Louis, Ill. * * * * THE CREST of flood waters, still crippling the twin cities of Kan- sas City on the Kansas-Missouri border, are churning down the Mis- Single Stalls Undisclosed Issue Korean Agreement 'U Library Hours May Be Extended Top University officials have promised to work out some exten- sion of the proposed library hours for the fall, according to Len Wil- cox, '52, president of the Student Legislature. Wilcox, reporting an interview with University vice-president Wil- ber K. Pierpont, said that Pierpont would attempt to arrange a con- ference with President-elect Har- land H. Hatcher, library director Warner G. Rice and vice-president Marvin L. Niehuss to discuss the proposed 40,000 man-hour cut in library service for 1951-52. * *- * WILCOX complained in particu- lar about the proposed closing of the library on Sundays. Prof. Rice called the move necessary under the new budget requirements. Pierpont said that some ad- justment would be made to open the General Library at least from noon until 9 p.m. on Sun- days, Wilcox said. Whether any revision in the li- brary budget would have to be made will not be discussed until the scheduled conference, accord- ing to Wilcox. Pierpont said the conference will be held before the start of the fall semester and that adjustments will be made before classes begin. Attlee May Fly To Washington LONDON--(/)-Prime Minister Clement Attlee may fly to Wash- ington in August for a new series of personal talks with President Truman and other top American leaders, informed sources said yes- terday. The informants said Britain's rocky financial situation probably was the original inspiration for the idea, but that all problems common to the two Allies would be discussed. The trip still is in the planning stage, with no final arrangements made. (State Department offi- cials said they had had no hint through diplomatic channels of the impending visit.) Attlee's last trip to Washington last December was at a time when the British became alarmed over the possibility that the Korean war might spread into an all-out war in the Far East. By The Associated Press NEW YORK-A federal jury yesterday launched a probe into the mysterious grand secret disap- pearance of four bail-jumping leaders of the Communist Party in the United States. * * * WASHINGTON-President Tru- man urged Congress yesterday to increase social security insurance! benefits if it increased relief pay- ments. * * * WASHINGTON-The National Security Council yesterday ex- empted India from provisions of the Kem Amendment, which bars economic aid to any country sell- ing war potential materials to Iron Curtain countries. * * * NEW YORK-Possibility of a reconciliation between Rita Hay- worth and Prince Aly Khan was reported by her attorney yesterday -provided the Prince meets one "primary condition." Bartley Crum, the film star's lawyer, staved off all attempts to pin him down on the nature of the condition. >souri River to its meeting with the Mississippi above St. Louis. They lashed last night with full fury at central Missouri. They poured into 20 blocks of Jefferson City, state capital. Electric service to the capitol and other state buildings was threatened by water backing into the state power plant. The crest is expected to hit St. Louis Sunday. The weather bureau predicted the Mississippi would go to 40.5 feet, the highest it has been since 1844. In 1947 the river caused an es- timated $9,000,000 damage when it reached 40.3 feet. City officials were confident St. Louis could weather the blows but they took no chances with a flood which already has been the costli- est in the nation's history with damage estimated at $750,000,000. Every major department of city government, the fire department, the police department, the water division and others, were alerted to an emergency basis in St. Louis. MEANWHILE, in Washington, President Truman speedily signed a $25,000,000 flood relief bill yes- terday and ordered government of- ficials into action to help the flood-stricken area. The President signed the relief bill less than 12 hours after re- turning from an air inspection of flood disaster areas in Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. Acheson Gives Reassurances In SpainIssue WASHINGTON - 03) - Secre- tary of State Dean Acheson of- fered Britain and France reassur- ance yesterday that they will lose neither arms aid nor their stand- ing as areas to be defended if this country makes a militaryarrange- ment with Spain. The Secretary stated the Ameri- can position at a news conference shortly before dispatches from Spain reported that an agreement in principle had been reached on United States use of Spanish air and naval bases. Acheson did not indicate the dealings had gone so far. HE ACKNOWLEDGED that ne- gotiations have been going on in the face of objections from the two big European partners in the West's defense, and held out to them these two promises: 1. "It has been and is our firm intention to see to it that if West- ern Europe is attacked it will be defended-and not liberated." That was his answer to ex- pressed fears that a deal with Spain might mean that the United States plans to hold at the Pyrennes Mountains in case of Communist attack, leaving continental Europe to be over- run and depending on freeing it later by a drive-from the Span- ish peninsula. 2. A clear priority already has been set up for deliveries of Amer- ican arms to Britain, France and other members of the North At- lantic Treaty organization and "there will be no change in this procedure." The report from Spain quoted authoritative sources as saying the agreement in principle had been worked out at a long conference Tuesday between U. S. Admiral Forrest P. Sherman and Spain's Generalissimo Franco. Acheson described Sherman's talks as only "tentative and ex- planatory." That would fit in more or less with the Madrid re- ports that formal details are to be worked out later by a mission of armed services and state depart- Joe Walcott Takes Title SKnockout Charles Stopped In Seventh Round PITTSBURGH-(P)-Jersey Joe Walcott, incredible 37-year Cam- den, N.J., scrapper, climaxed an amazing rags to riches saga last night by knocking out Ezzard Charles in 55 seconds of the sev- enth round to win the World Heavyweight Championship. He is the oldest man ever to win the title. A SMASHING left hook that landed flush on Charles' jaw drop- ped the 29-year-old Cincinnati champ on his face with a stun- ning shock. Charles tried to pull himself up and was just about to make it at the count of nine when he tumbled on his back into a neutral corner. A 5 to 1 underdog making his fifth bid for the crown, he al- most won from Joe Louis in 1947. The amazing Walcott scored one of themost stunning upsets in recent ring history- a-, shocking as Ray Robinson's recent defeat by Britain's Randy Turpin. Walcott's payoff punch brought a swarm of fans storming into the ring. It was several minutes be- fore the police could clear the invading horde. C, * , . THIS DAZZLING surprise be- fore a whopping crowd that jam- med Forbes Field, knocked out a Joe Louis-Charles match, tenta- tively scheduled for New York in September. Charles, however, was protected by a return match con- tract. He probably will meet Wal- cott again instead of the Louis match, and the Brown Bomber will have to wait another year for a chance. Making the ninth defense of the crown he won by outpoint- ing Jersey Joe at Chicago in June of 1949, Ezzard ran flush into that zinging left from the "old man of the ring. This third match of the "series" between these old rivals yanked the big crowd out of its seats with shocking speed. Instead of a cham- See JERSEY JOE, Page 3 'Corpse' Feller Survives Death Described to local police as a corpse by an anonymous phone call last night, Siegfried Feller, '50, returned to the land of the living long enough to confirm rumors of his continued existence. Feller, former managing editor of Generation, campus arts maga- zine, first learned of his "demise" when he was awakened by police flashlights on the lawn of Angell Hall where he had been catching forty winks, nestled close to the bosom of mother earth. After proving to the satisfaction of two husky officers that he reg- ularly rented a room in the cam- pus area, Feller said he had no difficulty establishing the fact that he was alive. Police said that they had re- ceived a report that there was a dead body on the Angell Hall lawn and had rushed over to investigate. LONG LIVE THE KING-Watched by his 20-year-old son (right) who now becomes King Baudouin I, King Leopold III of Belgium ends an unhappy 17-year reign as he signs the abdication document in a single ceremony at the royal palace in Brussels. Others looking on at the historic event are Gen. E. M. Leboutte (left), Belgian air force chief and Baron Edmond Carton DeWiart, (second from left), court chamberlain. RENT GOUGING UNCOVERED: Committee Hits Servicemen's Housing WASHINGTON-P)-A "sordid' and rotten picture of substandard k housing and rent gouging" of, servicemen and their families wasz painted yesterday by a Senate preparedness subcommittee. It was based on spot checks1 made by the committee's own in- vestigators at three training cen- ters crowded with thousands of; men and officers called to duty since the Korean war started. The investigators spent from two to four' days in each area. THE REPORT said servicemen1 are forced to pay exorbitant rents! to house their families in con- verted garages, chicken coops,1 barns, tool sheds and "in one case, a house built of whisky bottles and beer cans." The unusual report, which car- ried photographs of some of the "housing," covered Camp Breckin- ridge, Ky., Camp Rucker, Ala., and Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. The report said rent controls are supposed to operate at these centers b u t many landlords "openly flout the directives or rent control boards" and operate on a basis of "get what you can." "Rent gouging ranges from a commonplace 100 per cent up to 500 per cent over rentals previous- ly obtained for comparable quar- ters," the report said, and singled out these examples: Gen. Renfrew Calls Student Deferments Wise Investment The college student deferment ally wants to can work his way program was upheld as a "brave through college. act of statesmanship" that will "Sixty-five per cent of the men pay high dividends in future years now in college are paying for their by Brig. Gen. Louis H. Renfrew, education with money they are deputy director of the Selective now earning or have - earned, or Service, in a speech before the through scholarships, fellowships, Summer Education Conference and other sources other than their last night. homes," he said. A "doll house" in Waverly, Ky., originally built as a playhouse for a small girl, that was rented for $45 a month to a sergeant, his wife, three children and mother- in-law. A "BOTTLE HOUSE" built of old whisky bottles, beer and oil cans and rented to a corporal and his family of three for $25, near Camp Breckenridge. The report explained that un- der the present federal Rent Con- trol Law much of this type of housing is exempt. Any structure not previously used for housing .is exempt. Many soldiers are afraid to report gouging landlords for fear of being evicted, the report said. The report requested the defense department to make an immedi- ate survey of the whole housing 1 situation and ask Congress for any legislation or other corrective measure necessary. Envoy Meets Iran Leaders, TEHRAN, Iran-(M)-W. Averell Harriman, President Truman ' s special envoy, met Iran's legisla- tive leaders yesterday to discuss the Anglo-Iranian oil company dispute which has halted oil ship- ments from the southern Iran fields. The conversations were reported still in the "explanatory" stage with no indication that Harriman had yet made any specific pro- posals to break the deadlock be- tween the British-owned company and the Iranian government. An official account of the meet-j ing said he appealed to the Iran- ians "to combine wisdom and rea- son with enthusiasm to solve the difficult problems" of nationaliz- ing the Iranian oil industry. Harriman conferred twice with Premeir Mohammed Mossadegh Monday and is expected to see the Premier again tomorrow. Delegations End Seventh Conference See Alien Troops As Vital Problem By The Associated Press Korean armistice talks ended abruptly in early afternoon today with every indication that Com- munist and United Nations dele- gates still are locked over a key issue in their cease-fire agenda. The delegates broke off their meeting at 1:25 p.m. (10:25 p.m., Wednesday, Ann Arbor time) at Kaesong after they had worked through the noon hour without interruption. In all, they met less than two hours at this seventh session. The negotiators will meet again tomorrow. * * * THE TIE-UP probably has come on Red demands for withdrawal of foreign troops from Korea. Red radio , broadcasts have drummed this demand insistently. The seventh meeting began at 11 a.m. and 20 minutes later the conference recessed for 30 minutes, an official Army news release said. UN DELEGATES arrived in Kae- song at 10:45 a.m. by helicopter. They went directly to the confer- ence, site where they held a pre- meeting huddle. The Communists arrived five minutes later and also met separately before the formal conference began. An Allied motor convoy of communication and service per- sonnel together with 14 corres- pondents reached Kaesong an hour earlier. It was believed that some sort of compromise might soon be worked out to permit the nego- tiators to finish their job of draw- ing up an agenda. NEWSMEN covering the sixth session at Kaesong yesterday, not- ed growing hostility of Communist soldiers, policemen and residents inside the conference city. It was in marked contrast to the preced- ing days. Correspondents attributed the change in attitude of Kaesong's population to efforts by their Communist rulers to discourage any show of friendliness. Meanwhile, on the battlefront, a virtual unofficial cease-fire set- tled over the entire warfront yes- terday, but Allied planes kept up their drumming attacks on Red roads and rail lines. The only ground action reported was a brief skirmish between two patrols on the eastern front, northeast of Inje. Two Reds were wounded. The Peiping radio continued charging that United Nations forces are attacking despite the Kaesong cease-fire talks. Willow Village To Be Exempt From Razing Willow Village has been declar ed exempt from the demolition or der originally set for July 1 which had been extended until August 15, according to Walter Funkhous- er, director of the Village. The exemption means that the Village will continue to operate past the August 15 deadline re- gardless of Congressional action on the presently efiective Housing Act of 1950. * * * FUNKHOUSER said that the Village was exempted on a clause of the demolition order which called for the exclusion of all tem 'WORLD CRISIS': Thorp To Speak Tonight On 'Economic Challenge' "Draining our universities ofr students even for two-year service periods would create a serious shortage of trained industrial and scientific personnel 10 or 15 years from now," he declared. * *C *C ENGLAND IS facing such a shortage today because she did not defer students in either of the world wars, he said. Russia, he pointed out, did not draft its stu- dents even during the Stalingrad siege, when it was most desper- ately in need of manpower. { Answering t h e frequently- voiced criticism that the defer- ments create a "rich man's war, a poor man's fight," Renfrew asserted that any man who re- AT YESTERDAY afterr session of the conference, Clague, commissioner of labc tistics for the Department o. bor, predicted that if Ame economic achievements durin next 25 years match the pros. the United States won't ha worry about winning the ecot race with its enemies. "By 1975 our output s] be three times what it is assuming that increases in size of the labor force an productivity continue," he Clague also claimed that suming the productivity ra an American worker to be 1( Russian worker would rate 12 on the same scale. Willard L. Thorp, assistant sec- retary of State for economic af- fairs, will discuss "The New Inter- national Economic Challenge," at 8:15 p.m. tonight in Rackham Lec- ture Hall, as the third lecturer in the summer series concerning "The United States in the World Crisis." Thorp has been with the De- partment cf State since 1945 and has held his present position since 1946. He was a special adviser on economic matters at the Paris eeace Conference and at the New York meeting of the Council of ~~~^~~~ ~ CROWD OF 700 DISAPPOINTED: Stranded in Bloomington, Players Cancel Opening A wayward house trailer with an addiction for breaking down in towns named Bloomington, caused the cancellation of the down for the first time in Bloom- ington, Ind., where the company had spent a few days in last min- ute rehearsal before beginning their nation-wide tour. that "there's a jinx on the whole tour," informed the dir- ector that they would be un- able to arrive in time to stage even a late performance. ience for his spirited "apology," and the theatre management announced a revision in the pro- gram and began the long task of exchanging and refunding tick- I offmWII/Mll I .I I i .,V ,. ., w ..