COMMUNIST THREAT See Page 2 Litest Deadline in the State ak DIatl~. s 0 00 0 0 0 0 FAIR AND COOL VOL. LXII, No. 197 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1952 FOUR PAGES Stevenson Blasts Talk Of TaxCuts Says He Will Run' Own Campaign SPRINGFIELD, Ill.-(A')-Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson yesterday told his first news conference since winning the Democratic Presiden- tial nomination that "foolish pro- mises" of substantial federal tax cuts can be "very misleading." Stevenson also said he proposes to run his own personal campaign -"as far as content of speeches and ideas"-but that be welcomes President Truman's help in the campaign.- THE GOVERNOR, in a jovial mood, met newsmen and photo- graphers on the executive man- sion lawn under the shade of an elm tree. He said he felt fine- "appetite good, pulse normal" and no longer is a reluctant candidate for President. "rm quite content with the Chicago Democratic Convention and its results." When asked about Dwight D. Eisenhower's recent remarks on reducing federal taxes, Stevenson declared: "I would hope that neither can- didate or party would offer hopes that are forlorn and at the same time be demanding a defense es- tablishment to accomplish our common objective." * * * HE SAID everybody wants tax reduction but it must be obtain- ed at the earliest opportunity "consistent with our needs." Eisenhower, the GOP Presi- dential nominee, remarked sev- eral weeks ago he believed fed- eral spending could be slashed $40 billion a year. Eisenhower did not specify any date for this goaL A newsman said that Eisen- hower had mentioned this as an objective. "As an objective I think it would be desirable to eliminate all taxes-but it's impossible," Stev- enson commented. THE DEMOCRATIC standard bearer said he regarded foreign policy as the "most important con- sideration" of the coming cam- paign. He added that he supposes his views and those of Eisenhower on this subject will turn out to be similar. "I hope we say nothing in the campaign to diminish the Wlle- ~ giance of our Allies and the de- dication to our cause," Steven- son asserted. Asked if he would keep Frank McKinney, Democratic National Committee Chairman, Stevenson replied "that's one of the many organizational plans I have not resolved." GOP Says HST Picked Dem Ticket By The Associated Press The Republican high command cut loose yesterday with a blast at the Democratic ticket of Gov. Adlai Stevenson and Sen. John J. Sparkman as "hand-picked can- didates of President Truman." Chairman Arthur Summerfield of the GOP National Committee said the Stevenson - Sparkman team will be expected to "carry + on. the Truman tradition." * * * ' SUMMERFIELD told newsmen that while there is a "deep cleav- age" in the Democratic party, the Republicans of once rival factions are forgetting their differences and will pull together in a great "unity" campaign. Summerfield also made it clear at a news conference in the nation's capital that he ex- pects Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio, the loser in a brawling fight for the GOP nomination, will be one of the big guns in the campaign to put Eisenhower in the White House. Taft has promised to cooperate. As for Stevenson, who won the Democratic nomination after get- ting the nod from Truman, Sum- Plane Spotter U. S. Court Calls Trucks Act Lawful Reds To Appeal To HighCourt By The Associated Press Michigan's Trucks Act, requir- ing subversive groups to register with state police, was upheld yes- terday in a split ruling by a spe- cial panel of federal judges here. The Michigan Communist party, which had challenged constitu- tionality of the act, announced it would appeal the judges' ruling, possibly to the U.S. Supreme Court. Superforts Blast Plant In Biggest Night Raid ( N --Daily--Matty Kessler CIVIL DEFENSE-A volunteer plane spotter telephones informa- tion concerning sighted aircraft inot the "filter center" at Grand Rapids from the new plane spotting station aloft the Union Tower. The station was moved to the campus yesterday afternoon from the old site on the edge of the fairgrounds. HSTlNames CoxToHa Wage Stabilization Board KANSAS CITY-(IP)-President Truman yesterday set up a new wage stabilization board to administer a program sharply clipped by Congress. Archibald Cox, a young Harvard law professor, was named chair- man and one of the board's six public members, succeeding Chairman Nathan Feinsinger. * * * * , BUT ALL THE labor and industry members named yesterday, and two of the public members, are holdovers from the old board. Ulti- THE THREE judges split 2-1 on the decision, with Chief Jus- tice Charles C. Simons of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and Judge Frank A. Picard upholding the constitutionality of the law. Judge Theodore Levin dissented. T h e Michigan Communist party and its secretary, William Albertson, had contended the law was invalid because it in- vaded fields already covered by federal law. They referred speci- fically to the McCarran Act, which requires Communist and subversive groups to register with the U.S. Attorney General. Albertson contended the state had no right through the Trucks act to deny the Communist party a place on the ballot but Judge Simons said in his majority deci- sion, "the state is not obligated to foster the Communist party by providing it with a sounding board for the dissemination of subver- sive propaganda at state expense. "When American democratic concepts are challenged by a to- talitarian - philosophy seeking world expansion, the presence in our midst of a highly disci- plined subversive group may spell the difference between se- curity and internal chaos." Judge Picard said the plaintiffs "seek the shield of our constitu- tion long enough so they may pre- pare and equip themselves to des- troy the very constitution and government that give' them pro- tection. We are engaged in no sham battle. It is a matter of sur- vival." In his dissent, Judge Levin said the Trucks Act if allowed to stand would create a situation "familiar in totalitarian countries-the stif- ling of free inquiry into political ideas that has characterized the group of our democracy." In Lansing, Attorney General Frank Millard announced enforce- ment of the Trucks Act will not be attempted until the U.S. Su- preme Court his ruled on its vali- dity. His announcement came a few hours after the three judges handed down their opinion at De- troit. J i i+ , , , North Korea rhMetal Plant' Shattered No American Losses Reported SEOUL, Thursday, July 31-(R) --American superforts blasted a sprawllhg North Korean metals plant into flaming rubble early today in the biggest overnight air strike of the Korean war. Sixty-six B-29's in three waves hit the military target near Sin- uiju in extreme Northwest Korea after civilians in the area had been warned for two months to clear out. THE BIG . BOMBERS, flying from bases in Japan and Okinawa, shattered the 12/2-acre plant with 660 tons of explosives for three hours despite intense Communist night fighter and anti-aircraft opposition. The Far East Air Force de- scribed results as "excellent." Superfort losses, if any, were not reported. Biggest raid of the war was a daytime strike June 23 by more than 500 Air Force, Navy and Marine planes at five North Kor- ean hydro-electric plants forming the nucleus of Asia's largest pow- er system. No B-29's participated in that strike. That was the opening of a' new "get tough" policy of which today's raid was another install- ment. * * ORE BOATS UNLOAD-Part of the huge Bethlehem Steel plant at Lackawanna, near Buffalo, , N. Y., is shown in this airview as ore boats that were tied up by the strike, unload cargo. The plant,; idle for 55 days during the steel strike begins now to come to life. * , l in SelP i e Theta Chii Branch Ousted The Dartmouth College Chap- ter of Theta Chi has announced its charter has been revoked be- cause of its refusal' to abide by the fraternity's National consti- tution restricting membership on racial grounds. The chapter reported the action of the national fraternity resulted from a letter it sent on April 25, advising the grand chapter that it would no longer be bound by the racial discrimination clause. Arthur H. Kiendl, Jr., assistant dean at Dartmouth, announced that proceedings had been start- ed to reorganize the fraternity on a local basis, calling it Alpha Theta. Late Scores NATIONAL LEAGUE New York 10, Chicago 6 Boston 2, St. Louis 1 Philadelphia 7, Cincinnati 3 Brooklyn 4, Pittsburgh 3 AMERICAN LEAGUE Chicago 7, New York 0 Philadelphia 4, Detroit 3 Boston 5, Cleveland 4, Washington 6, St. Louis 2 mately the board is to have 18 members but only 14 were named yesterday. The old WSB was abolished by Congress, in a huff over the board's proposals for settling the steel labor dispute by granting a union shop and a 26 cents an hour wage package. The new board must be con- firmed by the Senate, a hurdle that didn't confront the old agen- cy. Members can serve interim terms until the Senate convenes next January. IN REWRITING the economic controls law, Congress stripped the board of power to make recom- mendations for settling labor dis- putes, unless both parties ask it to step in. The President could re- fer disputes to the old board for settlement efforts. About all the new board can do is set Wage Stabilization pol- icies and rule on whether nego- tiated pay raises come within those formulas. The only public member on the new board who participated in the steel case is Thomas F. Coman, former labor news reporter. Paul N. Guthrie, former University of North Carolina professor, a mem- ber of the old board who was re- appointed yesterday, took his seat too late to deal with the steel dis- pute. WASHINGTON -- (A') - Price chief Ellis Arnall signed an order yesterday paving the way for a $5.20 a ton steel price increase- an increase he once delcared would make a mockery of price controls.- He said later' that a steel price boost would trigger a new round of inflation and predicted it would cost the average American family about $100 a year. It was obviously a sore moment for the former Georgia governor who heads the government's ef- forts to keep a leash on prices. City Theaters To Ask Stay Of Tax Vote Attornies for Butterfield Thea- ters, Inc., will make a last-ditch effort today to prevent the city amusement tax proposal from ap- pearing on next Tuesday's ballot. They will ask the Michigan Su- preme Court to grant a stay of proceedings to allow time to per- fect their appeal from the opinion handed down earlier this month by Visiting Circuit Judge Archie D. McDonald. Such a stay of proceedings, if granted, would have the ef- fect of keeping the proposal to levy a special ten per cent tax on entertainments off the ballot next week. A similar bid was denied in a hearing here Tuesday by Judge McDonald. The theater chain claims that the election proposition is not legal because it presents substantially the same question to the voters that was turned down on April 7. State law prohibits a second vote on a defeated charter amendment within a two-year period. Judge McDonald ruled, however, that the two propositions are not the same, that the defeated pro- posal had largely to do with levy- ing and collection of rents and tolls and that the one to be voted upon next week confines itself to a specific tax on entertainment admissions. Arnall had vowed repeatedly he would never approve a steel price boost of more than $3 a ton. He made clear in yesterday's order; that it was not a matter of his own choice. , * * FRIENDS SAID there is a pos- sibility that Arnall will resign. The price director had no comment as such, but the for- mal order specified that the Of- fice of Price Stabilization was bowing to an "official and man- datory directive" from Acting Defense Mobilizer John R. Steel- man. Steelman ordered an average $5.29 increase for carbon steel, which represents about 90 per cent of steel production, to off- set a wage boost granted in a settlement of the crippling 54-day steel strike. The OPS order said Steelman's directive "deprives the Office of Price Stabilization and the di- rector (Arnall) of any indepen- MOVING: N~ew Quarters Established Prof. Wesley H. Maurer, chair- man of the journalism depart- ment, carried the lasi of his books into the department's luxurious headquarters in the new addition to Angell Hall yesterday. And as the long process of mov- ing books, filing cabinets and type- writers from the old journalism' building on State Street ap- proached completion, Prof. Maur- er- presided over the first class to be held in the new building. It was an informal affair with three students, coffee and the cut- ting and scraping of a telephone company man endeavoring to in- stall Prof. Maurer's telephone. Many of the books shown above are charred and warped as a re- sult of the disastrous Haven Hall fire that drove the journalism de- partment out of its old quarters in June, 1950. dent discretion or authority in connection with steel price." During months of dispute over, steel wages and prices, Arnall had1 insisted he never would approve a special steel price increase to off-, set a wage hike. He said a policy would add many dollars to the, average family's cost of living. * * * RIGHT ON the heels of the 54- day steel strike, John L. Lewis was reliably reported yesterday to have opened direct negotiations with a major segment of the soft coal. industry over a new work contract' for 450,000 soft coal miners. Lewis wrote Harry M. Moses eight days ago that the present soft coal contract will- expire. Sept. 22 if a new agreement is not reached. Moses is president of the Bituminous CoalOpera- tors Association and chief indus- try bargainer. Lewis was in direct talks Tues- day with the industry, an author- itative source reported. Barring secret agreement between Moses and Lewis, this source said, Tues- day's talks probably were aimed at setting up an agenda for full- scale contract talks to take place possibly in the near future. Lewis, Moses and Joseph E. Moody early last year did get to- gether, without any advance pub- licity at all, on a daily wage boost of $1.60 for 80 per cent of the na- tion's soft coal miners. The other 20 per cent are not represented by Lewis' United Mine Workers of America. Agents Reported In West Germany BONN-(W)-The West German government reported yesterday that 150 trained Communist agents have been slipped into West Ger- many recently from the Russian zone to incite strikes, and agitate against Bonn's treaties with the West. The official government infor- mation bulletin said the agents were members of East Germany's militarized people's police who had received special schooling in sub- versive tactics. BRIG. GEN. Wiley D. Ganey, Commanding General of FEAF, said the big raid would have a "psychological impact" on the Communists. Gen. James A. Van Fleet, U.S. Eighth Army Com- mander, has often said the Reds would agree to an armistice in Korea only if sufficient military' pressure were applied. The truce. talks have long been deadlocked. .,Van Fleet said yesterday the Reds had pulled 60,000 troops out of the rain-sodden front lines to escape punishing blows by Allied artillery and fighter- bombers. The United Nations ground- commander said the Reds thinned out their battle positions, appar- ently confident the United Nations would not launch a major offen- sive. He said he did not think there would be an armistice. The Reds still have one million fighting men in North Korea, Van Fleet said, capable of "striking at any point with considerable sur- prise," but they have been spread gut to a "position of readiness to wait out the war." a F * Van Feet J I i X 1 1 F1 G I world News Roundup J Eight Prison Riot Leaders Arrai1gned JACKSON, Mich. - (AP)-- Eight long-term convicts got a fast 200- mile bus ride and a day in court yesterday to answer to guard-kid- naping charges in Southern Mich- igan Prison rioting. Long before the end of a day which made some court and penal history, all were back in the Gen- esee County Jail in Flint. * * * THEIR QUICK TRIP--with all eight in shackles and the bus con- voyed by armed guards and police -figured in their mass arraign- ment for last April's costly mutiny and riot. Except for occasional sullen remarks and wisecracks of the chained bus passengers, the ex- traordinary transporting went forth without incident. At Jackson the men's court ap- pearance before Municipal Judge M. Grove Hatch was expedited. After a football-style whispered huddle before the bench, all eight stood mute and demanded exam- inations. Judge Hatch set these for varying dates in August. * * * . BEFOREHAND, the court ig- nored one or two contemptuous remarks from the group. The case against the eight is being handled by Prosecutor Sees , By The Associated Press CAIRO-Egypt's avowed anti-graft government last night abol- ished the titles of the Egyptian nobility, the powerful Pashas and Beys of the wealthy classes and high political circles. The strongarm regime that threw out King Farouk last Saturday pledged, howev.er, a continuance of constitutional monarchy under Farouk's half-year-old son, the new King Fuad II. The government also said it had revised Egypt's law which for- bids foreigners to own controlling interest in any business here. In a move apparently aimed at encouraging American and other Western investers, the cabinet decreed that foreigners may own 51 per cent of corporations instead of 49 per cent as previously allowed. * * - WASHINGTON-The Army charged last night that Soviet propagandists completely falsified and twisted excerpts from Maj. Gen. Robert W. Grow's famous diary for which the General was court martialled. In a surprise development, less than 24 hours after Grow was Poor NOTED PHILOSOPHER SPEAKS: Hook Calls Marx Dogma Pernicious Truce Chance, SEOUL, Korea-Chances for a Korean armistice are poorer now than ever before, Gen. James A. Van Fleet, United States 8th Army commander, said yesterday. He said the Reds actually need- ed and wanted an armistice .In June and November of 1951. "They were in bad shape both times," the United Nations ground forces commander told a press conference. "They were worried about the winter." "Well, they got through the win- ter. And ever since they have been tough traders at the armistice table." "To me," Van Fleet said, "re- cent trends indicate less chance of an armistice than ever before. Chances for an armistice are in direct proportion to the amount of pressure put on the enemy." ** * VAN FLEET warned that the Reds still have close to 1,000,000 By BOB MOELLER With a stirring call to the free peoples of the world to become the forgers of their own destiny, Prof. Sidney Hook of N.Y.U. de- clared in a lecture here yesterday that present-day Marxist dogmas constituted "pernicious social as- trology." He sought to demonstrate that this pessimistic outlook finds its center in the social philosophy of the Kremlin. "The truth of the matter is that Bolshevik dogmas and aggressive expan- sion, with absolute control over one-third of the earth, consti- tute a greater threat to world .. ............