OPERA See Page x ter Ddi an Latest Deadline in the State B2aity 4 1 PARTLY CLOUDY & SHOWERS VOL. LXII, No. 203 ANNARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1952 FOUR'PAGES Bulgarians Leave DisputedIsland Greek Mortar Fire Pushes Small Communist Patrol From Gamma ATHENS-(IP)-The Greek general staff said Communist Bul- garian troops withdrew last night under Greek mortar and machine- gun fire from the tiny, disputed islet of Gamma in the Evros River, which forms the Greek-Turkish-Bulgariandrontier. After A day-long pounding of the island, the general staff said the Bulgarian troops-probably no more than of patrol strength- were seen evacuating the island. THE ANNOUNCEMENT said no Greek troops were sent to the island, since the only objective F ire Cause Still Stum ps SU.S. N\avy, of the gunfire was to get the Bulgar- ians out. The Greeks had given . the Bulgarians an ultimatum to get off the island - which both countries claim - and then open- ed up when the demand was ig- hored. TOKYO-V)-Far East Naval headquarters early today for the first time revealed details of the roaring fire and explosions aboard the aircrAft carrier Boxer Wednes- dar which killed nine men. It said the cause of the ccident is still undetermined. The account varied in some de- 4' tails from the version of the dis- aster announced earlier in Wash- ington, which attributed the acci- dent to an exploding jet below decks. * * * NAVAL headquarters in Tokyo said nine men were killed and 32 injured when the hangar deck was swept with flames and clouds of smoke. Navy headquarters gave the fol- lowing account: The initial fire was discov- ered shortly after dawn on the hangar deck one deck below the flight deck near the Number 2 elevator on the port side of the 27,000-ton carrier. Within a few seconds the flames swept down the deck, igniting gas- oline, bombs and ammunition in planes being readied for the day's operations. Plane crewmen rushed to the loaded aircraft to strip them of bombs and ammunition. - - - OVERWHELMED in the sudden ' smoke and flames, 63 men were forced to leap'into the sea. Heli- copters and small boats rescued all but one. In the engine rooms, the sweating crewmen donned masks to remain at their stations. The Boxer was cruising with Task Force 77 about 90 miles east of Wonsan. When the flames and explosions were quelled, the ship was reported able to continue in action, but she was ordered to Yokosuka, Japan, for repairs. The ship was under the com- mapd of Capt. Marshall B. Gurney of Portland, Maine, and Glenview, Ill. He had just taken over from Capt. Dennis J. Sullivan of Butte, Mont., who presumably was still aboard. * * * UN Intensifies Air War Over North Korea SEOUL-()-The Allied air war rose in fury yesterday with hun- dreds of fighter-bombers sowing destruction across North Korea and Sabres- destroying four MIG jets that tried to interfere. The fifth Air Force said five MIGs also were damaged, bring- ing Red losses to 15 destroyed and 19 damaged in four days of torrid combat. Allied losses, if any, are announced weekly. THE AIR FORCE was not talk- ing, but it seemed obvious the in- tensified air blows were designed to put pressure on the Commun- ists to quit stalling at the armis- tice table at Panmunjom. Great numbers of fighter- bombers took off from air fields laden with bombs, rockets and jelled gasoline and headed for the skies over North Korea. The Air Force said the total number of flights against enemy Aside from the announced withdrawal, the general staff blacked out all information as to the size of its forces, the gravity of the situation or whether either side had suffered casualties. Unofficial reports from the scene said the Greeks, moving up troops to the Bulgarian' border, were backed by artillery. * * * A GREEK diplomatic source at Istanbul, Turkey described the in- cident as local-a continuation of a series of flare-ups in the area over the last five years. * More than a week ago Bulgaria announced that she had sent a letter to the UN protesting that Greek forces stirred "provoca- tions" along the frontier. This complaint as recorded in the So- viet press charged the "provoca- tions" coincided with the visit to Greece of American Gen. Matthew Ridgway, Atlantic Treaty Com- mander. Bulgarians claim, the boarder at its disputed point changed when the Evros shifted its course five years ago and the island was thus theirs. Greeks dispute this. Czech Cities Deporting MiddleClass VIENNA, Austria-M)--Reports from usually reliable sources last night said the Czchoslovak gov- ernment is deporting thousands of members of the former middle class from the nation's key cities. The reports compared the wave of deportations to those in Hun- gary. Sx ,* THOUSANDS of families were said to have been forcily driven from their homes in Prague, Bra- tislava and other cities in the past two or three weeks. The reports said lawyers, ar- chitects, former factory owners and persons who held similar jobs before the Communists squeezed them out were the prime targets of the Czech gov- ernment At least 10,000 persons were re- ported forced to leave their homes in Prague and Bratislava during the first week of the deportations. * * * THE REPORTS received here said the first homeless families had left the two cities about July 18. Since then trainloads of de- portees were said to have been leaving two or three times a week. The reports said the Czech Com- munist government's aim appear- ed to be the same as in two other Soviet satellite states, Hungary and Romania-to destroy the mid- dle class and to make housing available for favored Reds. Removal of what the Hungarian government called "undesirables" from Budapest began May 21, 1951. The U. S. State Department radio estimated at the time that 30,000 persons had been evicted from their homes by early August of last year. New Schedule Set For Cinema Guild SL Cinema Guild's final summer Blatt Named To New U' opera Post Met Director To JoinFaculty Joseph Blatt, assistant conduct- or of the Metropolitan Opera Com- pany and now visiting lecturer in the School of Music opera work- shop, has been appointed director of opera production for the 1952- 53 academic year. He has directed the current speech department-music school production of "The Merry Wives of Windsor," in addition to mak- ing the English translation of the opera. He made his University de- but last night, conducting the comic opera. BLATT'S appointment as lec- turer and director of opera will permit the School of Music to ex- pand its voice curriculum to in- clude a major in opera, according to Dean Earl V. Moore. Training in roles for the standard operas will be given at the junior, senior and graduate levels. During his active musical ca- reer, Blatt has conducted opera and symphony orchestras and composed, in addition to doing formal teaching. He has been di- rector of the Vienna Conserva- tory and has lectured at Vassar and other schools in New York and Vienna. He began studying piano when he was only three years old and started conducting officially at the age of 19, assisting in a Czech- oslovakian opera house. Since then he has conducted opera in Ger- many, Italy, France and Eng- land, in addition to the United States. * * * BLATT HAS ALSO been guest conductor of many major orches- tras in the United States and music director of a radio station, WABF-FM in New York City. Recently he conducted the popular revival of "Die Fleder- maus" at the Metropolitan. He has conducted nearly all the op- erasin the Met's repertoire, and before coming to campus in June, toured with the opera com- pany. Blatt has described the differ- ence between American and Eur- opean opera: "In Europe there are operas; in America there is only one." He compared American schools of music to the many small opera theatres in Europe, saying that the graduate in this country is on the same level as the small opera performer of the Old Coun- try. He also said that the Univer- sity's School of Music is superior in providing the student with a complete musical education. Late Scores AMERICAN LEAGUE St. Louis 5, Detroit 4 NATIONAL LEAGUE New York 8-5, Brooklyn 2-7 St. Louis 7, Cincinnati 4 Philadelphia 2-10, Boston 1-2 Saucer Fees BOISE, Idaho - (P) -- The Boise City' Council met this week and-with a straight face -aproved the following sche- dule of airport landing fees for flying saucers: $50 per non-scheduled land- ing. $10 for the first three min- utes of "hovering rights:" $10 for each additional minutes at less than 1,000 feet. $1 tiedown fees for saucers less than 1,000 feet in diame- ter: $1 for each additional 50 feet. Eisenhower Hits Bigotry In .Politics DENVER-(1)-Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower yesterday denounced appeals to prejudice and bigotry in political campaigns. He said "those are the tactics of the Communists." The Republican Presidential nominee made the statement in expressing wholehearted approval of a resolution calling on all GOP candidates for public office to: 1. Reject political arguments and appeals based on religious or racial prejudices. 2. Censure attempts "to subvert the American tradition" through such appeals. * * * THE RESOLUTION was adopt- ed by the Minnesota GOP State Executive Committee, which also urged Eisenhower to endorse it. A copy of the resolution was pre- sented to the general Thursday by Mrs. Elizabeth Heffelfinger, Re- publican national committeewom- an from Minnesota. After conferring with Eisenhow- er, Mrs. Heffelfinger told report- ers her state has been "flooded" with anti-Semetic literature at- tacking both Eisenhower and President Truman. She called it un-American. Mrs. Heffelfinger also said she told Eisenhower he will have to speak out on farm problems dur- ing the campaign if he wants to carry the farm belt states in the November election. She said she had stressed to the general that the farmers of Min- nesota are anxious to have specific answers on farm matters. Mrs. Heffelfinger said that in 1948, Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York, then the Republican Presidential nominee, had talked about such things as social se- curity when he visited Minnesota, and that the farmers were disap- pointed. Lady Marine Gets New Post WASHINGTON-,)-The Ma- rine Corps yesterday announced Col. Katherine A. Towg, director of women Marines, will retire next May 1 to become dean of women and associate dean of students at the University of California at Berkley. Gen.Lemuel C. Shepherd, jr., Marine Corps commandant, ex- tended his personal regards to the retiring colonel. "We shall miss her greatly but I am happy she will be in a position to continue her illustrious career as a leader of women," he said. TINY MONARCH AND FATHER-Walking the floor like any other father, Egypt's ex-King Farouk totes his seven-month-old son and successor, the newly-appointed King Ahmed Fuad II, around the terrace of his Isle of Capri hotel. world NVewus Roundup By The Associated Press WASHINGTON-The National Mediation Board last night asked the chiefs of three rail unions to postpone a threatened strike against the New York Central lines east of Buffalo pending the outcome of federal mediation efforts. No reply was received from the unions last night. The board's action came shortly after the unions had authorized their representatives in New York to call a strike-if necessary-as a result of a two-year dispute over working conditions. Government officials said the board is prepared to start media- Sen. McKellar Trails in Vote NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(T,--Rep. Albert Gore, 44-year-old Carthage congressman built up what ap- peared to be an insurmountable lead over Sen. K. D. McKellar last night as new returns poured in from the Tennessee Democratic senatorial primary. The 83-year-old McKellar, seek- ing an unprecedented seventh term in the U. S. Senate, was trailing Gore by more than 40,000 votes on the basis of unofficial returns from 1,624 of the state's 2,300 pre- cincts. The tabulation gave Gore 134,888 votes to 94,213 for McKellar. The Democratic nomination nor- nally amounts to election in state- wide Tennessee races. Rep. Gore has campaigned long and hard against the Memphis Senator McKellar. He pulled into an early lead in the state's pri- mary election. Walking the Baby Truman May Call Congress To Halt Price Increase WASHINGTON-UP)-President Truman said yesterday he is considering whether to call a special session of Congress to try to halt another upward price spiral. HE ALSO told his first news conference in over a month that he: 1. Would have supported Vice President Alben W. Barkley had the Kentuckian stayed in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. 2. Never considered backing Averell Harriman for the Na- tional ticket. 3. Believes the Democrats picked the best man and a winner in stion efforts immediately in New York. * * * HONOLULU - The United States, Australia and New Zea- land Wednesday set up a military organization for mutual security. A decision not to make any formal link now with other Pa-, cific nations was announced at the end of three days of confer- ences by Secretary of State Ach- eson and Ministers of External Affairs Richard G. Casey of Australia and T. Clifton Webb of New Zealand. * * e CAIRO-Maj. Gen. Mohammed Naguib, strongman commander- in-chief of Egyptian armed forces, said last night he would welcome military supplies from foreign powers, including United States, if they are offered. * * * TEHRAN, Iran-The semi-of- ficial newspaper Bakhtar Em- rooz accused several high Army officers yesterday of plotting a military coup. At least two of the officers nam- ed are known to be close to Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi. Moody Asks War on GOP Hatchet Men SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Young Sen. Blair Moody of Michigan proposed yesterday that the Dem- ocrats turn their campaign guns not only against GOP presidential nominee Dwight D. Eisenhower but also against those Moody call- ed the "hatchet men" of the Re- publican party. Moody made this proposal to Democratic presidential nominee Adlai Stevenson during a confer- ence in which he invited the Illi- nois governor to kick off his cam- paign with a Labor Day speech in Detroit. A REPORTER asked Moody to identify the "hatchet men" and he replied: "You know them as well as I do." Then he went on to men- tion the names of Senators Mc- Carthy of Wisconsin, Kem of Mis- souri and Jenner of Indiana. This proposal was among these other developments: 1. Moody urged Stevenson to challenge Eisenhower to a series of radio-television debates dur- ing the campaign. 2. Stevenson named Sen. Mike Monroney of Oklahoma to succeed Sen. John Sparkman of Alabama - Democratic vice presidential nominee - as head of the party's National Speakers Bureau. 2. Reports from Stevenson's headquarters indicated that the name of former Sen. Francis P. M. Myers of Pennsylvania is not among the top four being con- sidered for the post of Demo- cratic national chairman. 4. The new Democratic national chairman may be named Sunday after Stevenson talks here with the present chairman, Frank E. McKinney of Indianapolis. * * * MOODY TOLD reporters he had suggested Stevenson make an is- sue of "political integrity" by hammering at those Republicans Moody claimed had "misrepre- sented and distorted" to the American people the facts about the Democratic administration. Asked to expand on his charge of misrepresentation and distor- tion, Moody said one example was this: that the Democratic foreign policy had stopped the Commun- ists in Europe, Asia and the Middle East-but that Republican critics had made it appear as though this policy was fostered by Commun- ists. Then Moody said: "It's going to be a funny campaign train to see Eisenhower and Jenner and Kem on the same back platforms. And I wonder whether Eisenhower will throw his arms around McCarthy and ask people to "Vote for my boy, Joe?" Auto mobile Retail Ceiling os To BeHalted WASHINGTON-- (') -Govern- ment officials said yesterday basic dollars-and-cents retail ceiling prices of new passenger automo- biles will be wiped out in an order to be issued within the next few days. An Office of Price Stabilization official told a reporter, however, the action generally is not expect- ed to affect retail car prices except in Texas and possibly a few other Gov. Adlai Stevenson. This was no reflectionon the other contenders, he added. 4. Will discuss with Stevenson at a cabinet luncheon next Tues. day all possible'steps to achieve party victory in November includ- ing the President's own part in the campaign. Truman has said he is willing to get on the stump and range far and wide, but says he is now Just a buck private. Stevenson has shown signs of not wanting to be too closely identified with the Truman administration. The President would not elabo. rate on the possibility of a spe- cial session. He said he would await developments before decid- ing whether to call Congress back and when. * * * PRICE STABILIZER Ellis Ar nall said after a White House call Wednesday that a special session may be necessary "if food prices continue to get out of hand and skyrocket." Congress in June re- jected administration requests for tougher price controls, and there has been no indication of any mass shift of sentiment. A firm no comment was the ; way Truman handled a ques- tion whether Arnall had sub- mitted his resignation. He has been reported ready to quit. During the exchange with re- porters, the President disagreed with Duke Shoop, correspondent for the Kansas City Star, that Truman "took a beating" in Mis- souri Tuesday in backing J. E. Taylor for the Democratic sena- torial nomination. W. Stuart Sym. ington beat Taylor handily. The President said the result did not affect his standing in Mi- souri, that he has a right to vote for anybody he pleases in the pyi. mary. Sentence 14 Conmmunists In California LOS ANGELES - (AO) - Cali- fornia's 14 top-ranking Commun- ists were sentenced yesterday to five years in prison and fines of $10,000 each. They stolidly heard the maxi- mum sentence pronounced by U. S. Judge William C. Mathes after he upheld the verdict of a jury finding them guilty of conspiracy to teach and advocate violent overthrow of the government, in violation of the Smith Act of 1940. The 14 defendants immediately filed notice that they will carry the case to the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Those sentenced are: Frank Carlson; Dorothy Healey Connelly; her husband, Philip M. Connelly; Ben Dobbs; Ernest Otto Fox; Mrs. Rose Chernin Kusnitz; Carl Rude Lambert; Albert Jason Lima; Al Richmond; William Schneider- man; Frank E. Spector; Mrs. Lor- etta Starvus Stack; Henry Stein- berg and Mrs. Oleta O'Connor Yates. Judge Mathes passed sentence after denying motions for a dir- ected verdict of acquittal -and for a new trial. Local Stevenson Club Organizes A group of independent voters met last night for the purpose of forming an organization to sup- port the election of Governor Ad- MICHIGANDER TO MUGWUMP: Sperber Analyzes U.S. Political Slang .. * By HARRY LUNN Religious terms, Indian titles and animal names have all had a part in forming the complex political slang which has grown up in the American electoral system. Prof. Hans Sperber of Ohio State University cited these weird derivations as he traced the origins of such words as "platform," "Mugwump," "Michigander" and "doughface" at the Linguistics Forum last night. * * * * * AN EXPERT on political word history, Prof. Sperber is currently working on a dictionary of American politics with his associates at Ohio State. No existing political dictionary gives extensive derivations of these familiar slogans and nick-names, so research had to be done from old speeches, writings and books. On campus this summer to teach several courses in the Eng- lish department, Prof. Sperber got his class interested in the derivation of the words "Wolverine", and "Michigander." - ~. , , . " .;.