POPULAR VISUAL ARTS EXHIBIT See Page 2 :Yl r e Sir ujau Latest Deadline in the State i43IaitA1] 0 rAIR - VOL. LXIII, No. 15-S ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1953. FOUR PAGES Possible Rhee, Robertson Agreement Due Today * * * * * * Signs Show Korean Head 'Capitulatn Joint Statement ExpectedShortly PANMUNJOM-(1P)-Allied and Communist truce negotiators met twice here today and signs were that President Eisenhower's spec- ial envoy had induced stubborn South Korean President Syng- man Rhee to abandon his opposi- tion to an armistice. In Seoul, Eisenhower's envoy, Walter Robertson told correspond- ents that he and Rhee "hope to issue a joint statement this after- noon." ROBERTSON made his com- ment as he emerged from a 20- minute meeting with Rhee at the presidential mansion. It bore out earlier Washington reports that the two were very near accord on an armistice with the Reds. Communist Correspondent Al- an Winnington of the London Daily Worker told Allied corres- pondents during the session, "I don't believe there is any ob- stacle to a truce that cannot be overcome providing America takesa responsible attitude to- ward the truce and gives evi- dence they are able to control Rhee." But in Seoul a South Korean, who is close to Rhee's side in the talks with Robertson, said "I be- lieve it would be correct to say there has been some progress but no agreement." * * * SUCH A cautious statement has been the tenor of the scanty pub- lie announcements made by Rob- ertson or Rhee's men since the talks started June 25. The U. S. Embassy at Seoul contacted shortly after mid- night on the Washington re- port, refused to comment on progress of the talks. In Washington, some U. S. offi- cials said the Rhee-Robertson un- derstanding amounted to an agreement. But others, pointing to Rhee's past changes of mind on the issue of truce co-operation, said only a signing would make it conclusive. . . S ROBERTSON and Rhee met Thursday but held no session yes- terday. Peiping radio, broadcasting an editorial from the People's Daily, the Communist party mouthpiece, continued its demands that the, UN put hobbles on Rhee If thex Allies want an armistice soon. This is believed to, have been the Y line taken by Red negotiators at yesterday's truce meeting. Williams Asks Executive Aid On Contracts LANSING - () - Governor Williams wired President Eisen- hower yesterday in an effort to find out something about the gov- ernment's future policy toward de-t fense contracts for the Detroita area.P The Executive office said Wil-a liams contacted the President aft-3 er Secretary of Defense Charles E. V Wilson "brushed off" his requestf Sof a week ago for a conference on- the matter. Keyruption? KANSAS CITY - (R) - For- mer President Harry S. Truman admitted yesterday he had done what many others have-car- ried away the keys to his hotel room. After a news conference yes- terday morning, he walked into the office of Miss Rose Conway, his secretary, dug down in his coat pocket and fished out two IKE TO (H LLE IGES U. S. REDS HELP' (CEPT keys. "Mail these dorf-Astoria," a smile. back to the Wal- he directed with -Daily-Chuck Ritz PROF. AUSTIN WARREN AT HIS ORGAN . .. a great metaphor * * *A * HNew Criticism' A uthority Cherishes Ikons, Organs By GAYLE GREENE When his disciples trek to the "chapel" of Prof. Austin Warren of the English department, they are ushered into a virtual gallery of Japanese prints, modern andMedieval ikons and endless rows of books. One side of the far wall is devoted entirely to woman saints; the Virgin Mary, St. Barbara and "sometimes Eleanor Roosevelt hangs there." The other half of the wall, more heavily populated, is dedicated to male saints, Christ and St. Nicholas, while a portrait of King Charles I illustrates Prof. Warren's Tory Socialism. "IDEAL MONARCHY may even be possible in our time. We all crave royalty-real royalty-not the bourgeois royaly like the house of Windsor," he said. An abstract drawing of a penicillin machine serves as a scientific ikon in the living room, another of a "piston or valve or something" serves as a "cell" Y- Big 3 Agree Beria Purge May Bode Ill Meetings Start Yesterday in D.C. WASHINGTON - () - The Western Big Three foreign minis- ters reportedly agreed yesterday that the Kremlin purge of Lavren- ty Beria might herald a tougher Russian policy towards the West. The three foreign policy chiefs reached this tentative conclusion, informed officials said, at their first meeting yesterday. AT THE three-hour session, Secretary of State Dulles, acting British Foreign Secretary Lord Salisbury and French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault focused their attenion on the reason be- hind Beria's sudden ouster from his post as deputy premier. Responsible informants who attended the conference told reporters all three agreed the development may foreshadow a reversal of Russia's recent soft. er policy. Despite his job as secret police chief, Beria was believed to favor a conciliatory approach toward the West and the satellite peo- ples, officials said. THE FOREIGN ministers' meet- ing, the first of seven sessions scheduled in the next five days, got under way with Secretary Dulles publicly noting the Beria incident. "A new convulsion is under way," he said. "Within Russia itself, Beria, the leader and sym- bol of a police state is himself put under arrest." In opening the conference, Dulles said "we meet at a time of great opportunity.'' Dulles asserted that Beria's sud- den elimination shows "inherent weakness" within Russia even though Communist rule may re- main and "continue to threaten" the Western world. * * * DULLES spoke out a few hours after summoning the American ambassador to Moscow, Charles E. "Chip" Bohlen, home for urgent consultation on the situation in Russia. Bohlen "foresaw and reported the probable elimination of Ber- ia," according to a State De- parment announcement. In view of this, Dulles has ordered him to fly from Paris where he' has been since July 8.' State Department officials said Bohlen left Moscow July 6 and headed for Paris in order to be ready for a quick flight home ift Beria was purged, as he expected. Offers E.Germany Emergenc Food WASHINGTON-(A)-President Eisenhower last night challenged Russia to accept American food to help feed the hungry, rebellious people of Soviet-controlled East Germany. In a dramatic stroke-designed to seize the initiative at a time when- Russia is torn by strife in the Kremlin itself and facing -bitter unrest in the satellite countries-the President laid the offer directly on Moscow's doorstep. If Russia accepts, the whole world will note that it took American food to help feed a Communist-run country. If the Soviets refuse, the hungry East Germans and other Moscow-dominated peoples may wonder at the humanitarianism of the Kremlin. * '. * * THE PRESIDENT said in a note to Moscow that the United States is offering 15 million dollars worth of food to the East Ger- mans and is ready to start deliv- 9 -Daily-Chuck Ritz ART FAN CATCHES UP ON THE BACK FUNNIES IN "COMFORTABLE SURROUNDINGS" * * New Display Techni que Featured at Exhibition By BECKY CONRAD In order to give the impression of continuity and at the same time, variety, Prof. Francesco Della Sala of the architecture college has devised a unique system of metal tubing and wallboard panels for an exhibit in the Museum of Art." The exhibition on Popular Visual Arts is on view until Aug. 7. Set in a transparent arrangement of structural steel tubing, panels of the exhibit hang in hexagonal niches. With a basic design, the tubing is arranged in various forms by three shapes of connections. * * e *n SPACE AND LIGHTNESS in the setting for the show have been decor. "I wasn't sure which side was up, but there was printed matter on the back and I went by that," Prof. Warren said. In the midst of his ikons, Prof. Warren, author of what has be- come the bible of the "New Critics" can be found working on five new books, a very natural way of writ- ing, according to the professor. I work according to my mood, time available and the amount of strength," he explained. "A GRADUATE student once asked if I ever got mixed up. My mind is so clear, I can't become confused; it's not like a student's notebook with a dozen little tags sticking out," he added. Pacing the floor, Prof. Warren pointed to one of the few re- maining chairs in the "Taj Ma- hal" -and elaborated on his sit- ting down philosophy. "I keep moving the chairs out," he said. "I love space. I admire Hindu ladies who sit cross legged on floor - perfectly straight - up- right, yet not rigid, not maso- chistic. Sitting thus calls for physical and spiritual disci- pline." Having thus disposed of seden- tary subjects, Prof. Warren donned a slate grey Japanese robe and ex- plained that one of his books, an autobiography up to the age of 30, has one chapter written around the organ as a central metaphor for the whole of life. "I'VE WRITTEN of the organ Aging Issue Improving Panel Says The discussion of the problems of the man who doesn't want to sit back at the proverbial retire- ment age of 65 years and wait for his pension checks to roll in came to a close yesterday with the final session of the conference on Ag- ing. Herbert R. Harper, retired rep- resentative of the Department of Health Welfare and Education, told the group he felt the day of statistic compiling was giving way to one of constructive action. DUBBING this old age question "the greatest social problem of the next 50 years, second only to the prevention of war," Harper em- phasized his feeling that real pro- gress was beginning to replace dis- cussion. His reference was to such groups as the Fifty Plus Club which has been formed in Lan- sing with the aim of getting old- er people together to put their skills to productive use. emphasized, according to Prof. De English Talk To Be Given By ACDEditor The author of the popularly used "American College Dictionary" will be the featured speaker at the fourth meeting of the Confer- ence of English Teachers on Mon- day in Angell Hall, Auditorium C. Editor Clarence L. Barnhart will give an illustrated public lecture on his specialty "The Dictionary as a High School English Text." Important questions deciding the fate of the high school stu- dent's English career will be dis- cussed, among them the role play- ed by the dictionary in his educa- tion. Barnhart will also express his views on the standards for judg- ing high school level dictionaries and the various types of diction- aries available - today. He will enumerate the skills. needed to use a high school dic- tionary effectively and the ques- tions most commonly referred by confused students to the infallible dictionary. The final item discussed will be the part that the dictionary should playtin the high school English class. Besides having edited the Amer- ican College Dictionary Barnhart is also the editor of the Thorn-I dike-Barnhart dictionaries. Ile Wins Battle On Profits Tax WASHINGTON -- (RP) - The House yesterday overwhelmingly passed President Eisenhower's long embattled proposal to extend the excess profits tax-handing the P~i'd..nt hiq hio-oestf iptorv vet . lta Sala, "because the viewer must be drawn to the content and not the design of the exhibit." Currently drawing up diagrams of the system, Prof. Della Sala will apply for a patent, since to his knowledge no structure like it has yet been designed. ORIGINALS and reproductions of famous magazine and book il- lustrators, cartoonists, photogra- phers and advertising designers are shown as "the art of the peo- ple, who don't feel comfortable in the surroundings of a convention- al art museum," according to Prof. Donald Gooch of the architecture college. Cartoons, ranging in antiquity from "The Yellow Kid" to "Pogo," line the many-colored panels of the exhibit. A page from a 12th century Biblical manuscript on exhibit established the strip form of continuity for comics of the modern day. Science fiction designs, art from the pages of children's books and George Cruikshank's illustrations for Dickens' novels represent the extent to which an artist can make a living by illustrating in the' modern sense, catching the eye of prospective readers. ering it "immediately." The food would be chiefly grain, sugar, lard, soybean oil and some other commodities needed in the hunger-pinched East zone of occupied Germany. Eisenhower's move capped mounting suggestions in Congress for "positive action" to wrest the initiative from Russia in the East- West cold war,particularly now that the Soviet hierarchy has been shaken by the firing of Rus- sia's No. 2 man in the Kremlin, Lavrenty P. Peria, head of the Soviet secret police. THE PRESIDENT'S move re- called his election campaign pledge last year to work by every peace- ful means for the liberation of the captive peoples behind the Iron Curtain. It was also a step in line with his repeated declarations of hope for re-uniting Germany, split into two hostile zones since the end of World War II. Presumably the food offer was made directly to Moscow'because the United States has never recog- nized the new East German Com- munist government. It still deals with Soviet occupation authorities on questions affecting East Ger- many. HOWEVER, in this instance, Eisenhower chose to put the matter directly to the Kremlin, which now must decide whether to accept help from a nation its propaganda vilifies around the clock, or to let the East Germans go hungry. A White House statement issued late yesterday under the Presi- dent's name, while the Chief Exe- cutive himself was in Texas, said he had instructed the American charge d'affaires in Moscow to make the food offer. The President directed Secre- tary of State Dulles and Mutual Security Administrator ^tassen to "take steps to see that this food is made available in Germany without delay." Beria's Fall Tells World. Of RedSplit By EDDY GILMORE STOCKHOLM, Sweden - (R) - Unless the formula has been changed, Laventry P. Beria, high. chieftain of the Soviet secret po- lice, sat in one of his own cells in Lubianka Prison last night, an ex- ample of how the Communist par- ty devours its own. A few days ago he was the first deputy chairman of the Council of ministers, a member of the all- powerful party Politburo, minister of security and down in the par- ty's books as one of Joseph Stal- in's closest comrades in arms. Who helped do him in? * *. * THE APPOINTMENT of Sergei Kruglov, a big lumbering police- man, as his successor is intrigu- ing. Kruglov was a friend of So- viet Foreign Minister V. M. Molo- tov. Perhaps Molotov has now wedged deeper into the powerhouse door. Is anyone else next? Premier Georgi M. Malenkov has won the first round, but any. thing can happen In Russia. In the power vacuum that followed the death of Stalin the first round may not be the final one. In the ruthless grasping for power that was going on in the Kremlin, the German uprising, coming on top of the disclosure that the Moscow "doctor's plot" was a frameup, gave MalenkoV the chance to reach for his gun first. * * * BERIA is being denounced in Moscow, among other things, for trying to put the police before the party and government. If this can be believed it means he was try- ing to arrest some of his colleagues, possibly Malenkov himself. Is Beria going to confess? If not are we going to see a new sort of Soviet trial? That is possible but not probable. The Moscow announcement does. not say he has been arrested. But. he has-been turned over to the Supreme Court, and that prob- ably means he will get the works. The Beria affair is utterly fan- tastic and made up of many puz- zles. But it is as clear as the face on the Kremlin clock that throughout the Communist world now party members from the highest to the lowest feel the ter- rible hand of political horror clutching at their necks. The enor- mity of Beria's disgrace is an in- escapable reminder that but for fate they might be sitting where he is. I ANOTHER BUSY DAY: as Isaac W aton wrote of nsing," WILLIAMS was quoted as wir- he explained. "One can analyze ing the President: the human mind, body and theol- Dt "Recent stories that the defense ogy using the organ as metaphor." department intends to by-pass De- Since his organ is too large to troit in future defense contracts be moved into the "chapel,"C have not been satisfactorily ex- Prof. Warren must content him- C r i itel t P o es plained. The vague denials which self with a piano, but by his ges- have come from the Pentagon have tures, it seems that he actually not sufficed to dispel public con- expects organ strains to emerge. WASHINGTON-(P)en. Jos- and subversion have touched off cern. "I should like to play with three eph McCarthy (R-Wis.) made repeated controversies. "This concern is sharpened hands and five legs. I don't even news on two fronts yesterday; the "I will accept the resignations," by the current announcement of mind using my nose," he said. first concerning resignations from McCarthy told reporters. "If they a general cutback of defense "The whole body becomes a sacra- his Senate subcommittee and the don't want to take part in un- production. At best, this will ment in playing the organ, as in second over the son-in-law of for- covering the graft and corrup- mean lay-offs in Detroit. But a Hindu dance." mer Secretary of State Dean Ach- tion of the old Truman-Acheson if these cut-backs should be car- More than a decade later, while eson. administration, they are, of ried out in a discriminatory teaching at the University of Democrats angrily resigned in a course, entitled to refuse." manner we are going to face Iowa, Prof. Warren teamed up body from the Senate Investiga- Certainly, he said, the subcom- serious economic dislocation in with a close friend, Rene Wellek, tions subcommittee because Chair- mittee will continue to function 41. i1 +...+ .....-...a«-i....., __- *n+-_ ----r- man McTrhithy ~hadben given