I.. TAFT'S DEATH See Page 2 Latest Deadline in the State :4)att SHOWERS, CLOUDY VOL. LXIII, No. 30-S r ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1953 FOUR PAGES wmmmmmlm Nation Mourns Death of Sen. Robert Taft * * C.' Russian Protests ejecte by US State Dept. Says Plane Incident Occurred South of Combat Border By The Associated Press The State Department said yesterday the United States will reject a Russian protest about the shooting down of a Soviet passenger plane near the Chinese-Korean border-on the ground that the plane actually was south of the border in the Korean combat area. Moscow announced last night a note hadbeen sent to the United * States asserting that U. S. fighter planes. attacked a Soviet aircraft with 21 passengers and crew aboard when it was near the town of Communist Police Seize Relief Food BERLIN - () - Communist police, seized 100 tons of U.S.-fi- nanced food from needy East Ger- mans heading home from West Berlin and distributed it yester- day to Soviet zone welfare insti- tutions as "Soviet aid." The seizures, the first mass con- fiscation of the week, were con- centrated in six Soviet zone sub- urbs around Berlin. * * * EAST BERLIN police sent con- fiscated American food packages to 'a warehouse on Gustav Adolf Strasse, in Weissensee borough. There police trucks loaded up the food again and took it to old peo- ple's homes and orphanages. Red cloth banners on the trucks identified the food as Soviet. The Kremlin has an agreement with Premier Otto Grotwohi's Communist govern- ment to sell East Germany 57, million dollars worth of food- stuffs during the remainder of the year in return for strategic industrial goods. The confiscations began after a campaign of threats and propa- ganda failed to keep hungry in- habitants of the Soviet zone from streaming to the Allied sectors of Berlin to get for $1.19 a package of 'precious flour, fats and other food worth much more. Germans pass out the food to Germans. But all know the United States is foot- ing the 15 million dollar bill. The total of the packages delivered rose Friday to about 850,000. * * * HANS Hirschfeld, press officer for West Berlin Lord Mayor Ernst Reuter, said the program will be extended to all of the 18 million Germans under Soviet occupation if the Communist police do not effecvetively seal off West Berlin. West Berlin welfare officials pre- pared to supply a record-breaking throng of East German workers over the weekend. In nearly every industrial plant where anti-Communist strikes and riots flared last June 17, defiant workers were organizing expedi- tions to West Berlin. Premier Otto Grotewohl has admitted that the revolt engulfed 272 East German towns and at least 300,000 em- ployes in nationalized plants. Ac- tually, at least two million East Germans took part in the up- rising. Twenty, Die In Bus Crash MORRISBURG, Ont.-(Al)-A Montreal-bound bus crashed into the rear of a stalled panel truck yesterday and plunged with its sleeping passengers into the Wil- liamsburg canal. Twenty drowned. Seventeen oth- er passengers and the drivers of both vehicles survived. Screaming men and women smashed through windows and Huadian, 66 miles from the Chi- nese-Korean frontier. * * * THE PROTEST was relayed immediately by Ambassador Char- les E. Bohlen to Washington- even while Washington and Mos- cow are exchanging complaints ovar the incident of an American B50 bomber being shot down near Vladivostock. The incident referred to in last night's Moscow announce- ment occurred last Monday af- ter the Korean armistice was signed but before it became ef- fective. When news of the protest ar- rived here, State and Defense De- partment officials, being informed on the incident, were prepared to deal with the newest Soviet note in speedy fashion. * * *~ * THE State Department, spokes- man said last night .that "the in- formation we have is that it oc- curred well south of the Yalu Riv- er in the Korean combat zone." "We will reJect the protest," he said. This indicated that the Soviet Foreign Office would get a very quick response from Am- bassador Bohlen. Capt. John Ernest Roche, sole confirmed survivor of a B50 shot down in the Sea of Japan Wed- nesday, said yesterday that one and possibly two Russian MIG jet fighters attacked "without pro- vocation" when the big American bomber was definitely no closer than 40 miles from Siberia.. Roche said at a news confer- ence that he did not see any Rus- sian ships in the area or anything to indicate that any of the 16 other American crewmen had been rescued by the Russians. TO BE REPATRIATED-Chinese prisoners of war are shown de- barking at Inchon, Korea. They are part of the first group of 2,400 North Korean and Chinese POWs to be transported towards repatriation from Cheju-Do and Koje Island. Americans A-mong First PO . s To Be Exchanged MUNSAN-(P)-A "good number" of Americans will be among sick and wounded Allied prisoners of war who are to be the first to come back when the exchange of captives starts Wednesday, the Peiping radio said yesterday. The broadcast, monitored at Tokyo, shed some light on Red plans for the prisoner exchange as developed in meetings with Allied House Votes Immigration Compromise Senate To Act On Proposed Bill WASHINGTON - () - The House last night voted approval of a compromise emergency immigra- tion bill to admit 214,000 refugees and aliens over the next three years. The bill, which grew out of a request from President Eisenhow- er, was whipped through in exact- ly three minutes by an unrecorded vote of 190 to 44. ONLY SENATE approval is still necessary to send the measure to the President for his signature. The compromise bill was ap- proved earlier in the day by a Senate-House committee named to reconcile differing versions of the measure passed by the two chambers. The final version fulfills in part a request made by Eisenhower April 22. The President asked that 240,- 000 refugees and other special quo- ta immigrants be admitted to this country in the next two years. * * * HE SAID "countless thousands" of refugees had been left homeless in Europe, their numbers increased in recent months "by the steady flow of escapees who have braved death to escape from behind the Iron Curtain.' Under the legislation, those admitted will be largely refugees, mostly from behind the Iron Curtain, but a limited number of Italians, Greeks and Dutch who have relatives in this coun- try also will be able to seek en- trance. The bill also makes provision for a small number of Asiatics and Arabs and permits 4,000 orphans from any part of the world to be admitted. Sen. McCarran (D-Nev.), chief Senate foe of the measure, told newsmen that despite admittedly tight security screening provisions written into the bill some Commu- nist agents from behind the Iron Curtain were bound to slip through. Dying Mother ViewsBaby TULSA, Okla.-- () -A young mother, said by medical experts to be incurably ill of cancer, yes- terday saw her 2-day-old baby for the first time. "Oh! It's a girl," Mrs. Colleen Alford exclaimed when she first glimpsed her daughter. She was told Thursday it was a girl, but her husband, Huey, said she was- n't fully conscious at the time. truce groups at Panmunjom. MEANWHILE, another meeting of the Korean Military Armistice Commission, the Allied-Red group which is overseeing the policing of the front-line truce zone, was set for 9 p.m. today, CST. The Peiping radio broadcast said the first group of returned Allied prisoners would be "non- Korean sick and wounded." It added that besides the Ameri- cans and British there would be French, Turkish, Columbian, Filipino, Australian and Greek prisoners. The Reds have said that they hold about 500 sick and wounded prisoners of all nationalities. They have promised to send back 12,763 Allied prisoners including 3,313 Americans. WASHINGTON ROUNDUP: Congress Rushes Bills As Dadlie A pproaches House Okays Debt Hike . .. WASHINGTON-(A)-The House last night gave the Eisenhower administration a swift first-round victory in the battle over a 15-bil- lion dollar hike in the federal debt limit, but storm signals were flying in the Senate. On a roll-call vote the chamber passed a measure to comply with the President's request. The vote on final passage was 239-158. EARLIER, the Republican-controlled chamber slapped down all efforts to delay action or amend the bill lifting the debt ceiling from 275 billion to 29.0 billion dollars. Passage followed warnings by Republican leaders that failure to raise the lid would prevent the government from borrowing enough money to pay its bills and might "create panic." Democrats protested bitterly that the eleventh hour request, coming as Congress was rushing toward adjournment, was not nec- essary. Some of them demanded drastic action ,now to trim govern- ment spending and halt red-ink financing. Senators Drop Korea Plans . . WASHINGTON-(o)-Four Senate leaders yesterday gave up any hope for adjournment of Congress this weekend, and dropped plans to go to Korea with Secretary of State Dulles. * * * * Food for Needy Bill Passed,... WASHINGTON-(I')--The House quickly approved last night a Senate-House compromise bill giving President Eisenhower authority to send 100 million dollars of surplus U. S. 'food to needy friendly peoples abroad. Passed by 143-15 standing vote, the compromise must still be approved by the Senate. * * * * teblomsa National Debt Limit Foolish, To Musgrave By LEAH MARKS- "The practice of Congress set- ting a debt limit makes little sense," said Prof. Richard Mus- grave of the economics depart- ment, discussing the proposed leg- islative measure to raise the limit. "Congress legislates taxes and appropriations, thus implying the debt requirement," he added in ex- planation. "Voting a debt limit is merely repetitious," Prof. Mus- grave said, pointing out the sup- posed issue of a higher debt ceil- ing is largely nuisance matter. ACCORDING to Prof. Musgrave the administration has gotten it- self into this difficult situation by raising expectations of early tax reductions during the campaign. "The important thing," he declar- ed, "is to have the amount of taxes needed to check inflation, and not whether to increase or re- duce the debt as such." Believing higher taxes are a better means of solving the na- tion's financial problems at this time than hiking the debt, Prof., Musgrave said, "Nevertheless, the national debt must be in- creased if tax receipts do not suffice to meet requirements for defense, foreign aid, and sim- ilarly important measures." Pointing out that raising the debt is not in itself very signifi- cant, he said, "The national debt has by now become an integral part of the country's liquidity structure." Banks, insurance companies and other investors will continue put- ting their money in government securities as a safe and desirable means of investment, he noted. "Therefore, the debt is not some- thing that has to be paid off, and so is not as important as many seem to think." August To Be Cooler Here 'WASHINGTON - (AP) - The weather bureau said yesterday its 30-day outlook for August calls for temperatures to average below nor- mal in the northern half of the nation except for near normal in the lower lakes, middle Atlantic states, and northwest coast. A he-nvrynm a ia mnP'I ato i v n. r SEN. ROBERT A. TAFT . .. Ohioan dies * 1 Capital Sees ITaft's Death Great Loss WASHINGTON- (A) --Politics were set aside in the Senate yes- terday for a great eulogy to Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio. President Eisenhower, members of Congress and many of Taft's political foes joined in praising him as an outstanding American patriot and statesman. * * * THE SENATE majority leader -"Mr. Republican" to millions of Americans-died in New York yes- terday of cancer. His death was announced to a hushedSenate bygSen. Bricker {R-Ohio who said In a barely audible voice: "The sad news has just arrived over the wires of the death of my colleague, the floor leader of this body." . Then came an outpouring of grief and paise which established eloquently the place Taft held in the hearts of the country's leaders. "THE SENATE has lost one of its leading members of all time," President Eisenhower said. "The American people have lost a truly great citizen and I have lost a wise counselor and valued friend." Deeply moved, the Democratic leader in the Senate, Sen. Lyndon Johnson of Texas, said "Bob Taft was one of our truly great men." FROM ONE of Taft's greatest antagonists, John L. Lewis, presi- dent of the United Mine Workers, came this comment: "Honest difference of opinion is what makes America a great nation and it is what made Sen. Taft a great statesman and a great American. His sincere con- servatism was an ingredient of our way of life." Flags in Washington and on all federal buildings in 'Ohio were lowered to half staff when news of the senator's death became known. GOP Leader Dies In Cancer Coma NEW YORK--(P)-Senator Robert Alphonso Taft, who guided the Republican Party for years but never won its command, died quietly yesterday, victim of relentless cancer that ravaged like wildfire. He was 63 years old. New York Hospital said he wasn't even aware of any illness until three months ago when his legs began to bother him. Death was due to "widespread, highly malignant, rapidly growing tumors," the hos- pital said. * * * *, TAFT'S FOUR SONS were by1 a.m. The veteran senator from Oh for about 13 hours. The hospital s Taft's Episcopal pastor fro' Tucker, prayed for the senator Old friends from Taft's four vain campaigns for the Republican presidential nomination also kept final vigil at the hospital. MRS. MARTHA TAFT, the sen- ator's wife, remained in Washing- ton. Confined to a wheelchair since 4stroke, she was flown to New.,York Tuesday when Taft first took a turn for the worse. She re- turned to the capital the next day. President Eisenhower called Taft's death a "tragic loss to America." Members of Congress-both po- litical friends and foes-and lead- ers throughout the nation paid tribute to Taft's character. No funeral plans were an- nounced immediately for the sen- ator, except that the body will be taken first to Washington and then to Cincinnati for burial. TAFT WAS THE son of the 27th President of the UnitedStates, William Howard Taft, and his own consuming ambition was to. TAFT'S BIOGRAPHY See Page 2 return to the White House as President in his own right. Four times over a period of 16 years, he sought the Republican presidential nomination. He final- ly gave up a year ago after Presi- dent Eisenhower defeated himon the first convention ballot. Taft was three times senator from his native Ohio, and he was one of the sponsors of the controversial Taft-Hartley La- bor Law. His greatest area of influence was in the Senate, where six months ago he became majority leader under the first Republican President in 20 years. His illness forced him to turn over the duties several weeks ago to Senator Knowland (R-Calif.), who now is acting majority leader. Taft had been counted on to guide President Eisenhower's pro- gram through a Senate where the margin of GOP control was never more than one vote. * * * ' HE WAS counted on to help keep a precarious balance in a Republican Party that, but for Taft's own sense of party loyalty, might have been split asunder by Eisenhower's 1952 nomination. Appointment Political Key COLUMBUS, Ohio - () - Gov. Frank J. Lausche's plan for his own political future appeared yes- terday to be the key to appoint- ment of a successor to Sen. Robert A. Taft. Ohio's Democratic governor, whose four terms have been mark- ed by independence of attitude and unpredictable decisions, refused even to discuss the subject. * .k * BUT BUCKEYE politicians fig- ured it this way: If Gov. Lausche decides he would like to run for the Senate in 1954, he will name a com- parative unknown, who will bow out gracefully after the interim or who would make only a minor opponent if he ran. If Lausche decides he doesn't want to be senator, he will ap- point a big-name successor, ona who figures to run strongly in 1954. * * * IF GOV. Lausche can't make up his mind at once, he will name an unknown. In any case, it looked like a cinch Gov. Lausche would name a member of his own party. That would shift the balance of power in the U. S. Senate by giving Democrats a plurality. Foremost among the names of strong candidates if Lausche givet up senatorial ambitions was that of Michael V. DiSalle of Toledo, Other Democrats of the "strong rating were Thomas A. Burke, mayor of Cleveland, and Rep. Rob- ert T. Secrest, the Senecaville Democrat who is in his eighth term in a nominally Republican district. Minister Flatly Denies Charge Of Accusers WASHINGTON-(P)--A Meth- odist preacher accused of Com.. munist connections was confronte(; with three accusers yesterday an( swore he didn't know them. Seated in the witness chair be, fore the House Un-American Ac. tivities Committee, the Rev. Jack R. McMichael stared stonily at Manning Johnson, a New Yorker who has testified that he knew the minister as a Red back in the 1930s. * * his side when death came at 10:30 hio had been in a coma and dying aid death was quiet and peaceful. m Cincinnati, the Rev. Luther in a near-by hospital chapel. Taft Vacanc r PUSHKIN, PIROSHKI MONDAY: Russian Cii' An original Russian style folk dance and a satire on a play by Aleksandr Pushkin will highlight the final meeting of the summer session Russian Circle, at 8 p.m. Monday in the International Cen- ter. The folk dance has been choreo- graphed and will be danced by Sonja Ivanovna Shewchin, '55, and Mary Ann Chacarestos, '54. * * * A POEM about Russian aristo- cracy in the nineteenth century, "Evgeny Onegen," written in play form, is the basis of the take-off on Pushkin. The group, however, plans to set their aristocrat in a modern setting.. Vic Gladstone, Grad., and Chuck LaDue will take part in the play, along with Miss Shewchin and Miss Chacarestos. * * * FOR THE BENEFIT of the aud- ience, most of whom are students ofm~ R ei s he".A..r,rt of ele To Give Dance, Satire F * * * * "I DON'T know him," McMich. ael said loudly. He gave the same answer when confronted with Mr. and Mrs. John J. Edmiston, a Waynes- ville, O., couple who have said in an affidavit that they saw McMichael at Communist-dom- inated meetings while they were z undercover agents for the FBI in 1940 and 1941. When the session ended Chair. man Velde (R-Ill.) issued a state- ment saying There can be no question in anyone's mind con- cerning the fact that there is con- e siderable evidence that perjury - A hahbeenrcommittedr nin Lh AS WORKED OUT by Senate-House conferees, House provision which would have limited the total any one nation to 20 million dollars. Although Eisenhower asked authority for two limited i to next March 15. the bill omits a value of food to years, Congress