'Julius Caesar' at Stratford See Page 2 :Y gut 43Zal IBat 80o aG 0 1a0 4 Latest Deadline in the State FAIR, HUMID VOL. LXV. No. 26S ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, JULY 26, 1955 FOUR PAGES s .S. C S ,- .j * * * * * * * * *4 Red China Conference Set at Geneva n --- Meeting To Center FAbout Settlements Johnson To Represent U.S. Next Week at Ambassadorial Sessions WASHINGTON (M)-The United States, in a move to reduce Far East tension, agreed yesterday to a special conference with Red China. It will begin Monday in Geneva, Switzerland. The meeting, announced simultaneously in Washington and Peiping, will bring together special ambassadors of the two coun- tries, for the first time, to discuss outstanding problems.. The State Department said the special conference does not "in- volve diplomatic recognition" of Red China.. Face-to-Face Talks The -formal announcement said the ambassadors would discuss - "repatriation of civilians" and Show to "facilitate further discus- sions and settlements of certain T oll R oad other practical matters now at is- sue between both sides." This wording appeared broad enough to permit face-to-face talks with the Chinese Commu- nists for the first time on- a pos- o n Congress sible cease-fire in the Formosa area. LANSING (-Members of th Fifteen previous talks between f the American and Chinese Red diplo- State Turnpike Authoritytenta- mats in Geneva have been on a * tively agreed yesterday that the co slrbeeeit n en n a fat ofth prposd ridepot-consular level with an agenda fate of the proposed Bridgeport- limited strictly to repatriation of SFlatr'ock Toll Road depends on each others' citizens. Congress. A State Department spokesman At a conference with State acknowledged, to questioning re- q Highway Commr. Charles M. Zieg-acole , t qestmonsngdre ler, the Authority learned that if porters, that the ambassadorial Congress enacts a federal aid high- conference would have a. far wa mg ingtese broader scope than previous talks way program giving th state more limited to return of civiliana and than a 75-25 allocation of federal Aimericanorrocison s an funds, the state will have enough American war prisoners. money to build a free expressway Special Talks paralleling the proposed toll road Sen. W. F. George (D-Ga, route. chairman of the Senate Foreign George N. Higgins, Authority Relations Committee, proposed Chairman, said that he would call Sunday that Secretary of State a special meeting of the group as John Foster Dulles and the Red soon as Congress adjourns "to see China foreign minister get to- if we will have a turnpike or not." gether for talks within the next Imminence of Program six months. Carl H. Smith of Bay City, In a separate, second announce- another member, asked Ziegler ment yesterday, the State Depart- whether it was wise to go ahead ment said U. Alexis Johnson, with the freeway in view of the American ambassador to Commu- imminence of the toll road pro- nist Czechoslovakia, would repre- gram, sent the United States at next Ziegler replied that he had made week's Geneva talks. Johnson, who commitments to the Oakland and is also one of the department's Genesee boards of supervisors to top Far East experts, will fly to build the freeway and could not Washington for quick consulta- back out now. tions with Secretary Dulles before "If you build it right away," going to Geneva. -~Smith said, "We might as well_________ pitch the toll road out the win- dow." Approves Proposed Route Ziegler told Smith the proposedBiu freeway, paralleling U. S. 25 and U. S. 10 west of Flint, had top priorityina new arterial highway ByvChancellor system just getting underway. The Authority approved the pro- posed toll road route for 62 miles LONDON (A')-Chancellor of the from Bridgeport to the outskirts of Exchequer Richard A. Butler Pontiac, but later Higgins said slammed the brakes yesterday on t that this action may have been Britain's buying spree by tighten- premature in view of Ziegler's ing up installment buying. splans. He boosted the down payment The approval was subject to on such items as automobiles and what Higgins called "minor engi- household appliances from 15 to neering changes," but other sources 33/3 per cent but did not change said these could mean substantial the payment period, which ranges changes in the routes at various fr 2 to 4 years. , places to avoid disruption of com- om munity life. Sharp Cutback Higgins said the Authority plans Butler called also for a sharp to review the proposed route for cutback in capital expenditures by the remainder of the 113-mile pro- public and private bodies to halt ject with governmental officials, the creeping inflation threatening legislators and civic groups in the the pound sterling's position in Detroit area which have protested the world money markets. against the route. He asked for a tightening of bank loans but announced no Grandval Cancels change in the bank rate-the rate at which money is borrowed. Last Fact-Finding Tour February Butler boosted the rate from 3% to 4% per cent. There MEKNES, French Morocco ()- was speculation in financial cir- France's top administrator abrupt- cles the rate would go as high as ly canceled a fact-finding swing 6 per cent if Butler does not around riot-torn Morocco yester- achieve what he wants in halting day. inflation. His stop here touched off bloody Living It Up Too Much clashes between police and Moroc- Butler told the House, in ef- cans shouting for the return of fect, that Britain was living it up exiled Sultan Sidi Mohammed Ben Bt, rta nwas ling. t l A mericana NEW YORK 0) - There's just no pleasing everybody. The president of the Nation- al Association of Doll Manu- facturers yesterday wired an "official protest" to President Dwight D. Eisenhower for his purchase in Geneva of some dolls for his grandchildren. Dollman David Rosenstein told the President the entire American toy indultry was "shocked" by this "spotlighting of foreign dolls." Rosenstein said he is sending the President some 100 per cent American dolls "as gifts and constant reminders." Ar-my Plans To Arrest Turncoatis WASHINGTON UP)-Pentagon officials said yesterday that the Army will arrest-and later court- martial - three turncoat former American prisoners of war as soon as their ship docks in San Fran- cisco Friday. The Army's decision, endirt weeks of legal uncertainty about what could be done about the trio, was taken after intensive consul- tations with the State and Jus- tice Department, the officials said. Therthree Americans who were captured in the Korean fighting, turned their backs on their coun- try and then changed their minds, are William C. Cowart, 22 years old, Dalton, Ga.; Lewis W. Griggs, 22 years old, Jacksonville, Tex., and Otho G. Bell, 24 years old, Hillsboro, ' Miss., and Olympia, Wash. They refused repatriation after the Korean armistice and went to Red China instead. The three former soldiers are now aboard the President Cleve- land sailing homeward on the last leg of their journey. An official announcement set- ting forth the Army's plans for the three is expected sone time this week. Meanwhile Pentagon officials told a reporter how the Army's decision will be carried' out. Army officers will board the liner at San Francisco with cus- toms and immigration officials. The men will be summoned, in- formed that they are under mili- tary arrest and told that they will be held on various charges, in- cluding aiding the enemy and mis- conduct as prisoners. Geneva Sharpens World Feelings Chief Executive Says Nation Will Work Cooperatively With U.S.S.R. WASHINGTON (R) - President Dwight D. Eisenhower said last night that as a result of the Geneva Big Four, talks "there is a sharp- ened realization by the world that the United States will go to any lengh to achieve peace." He said that to do that, we will work with the Soviets coopera- tively. Repeating to the nation at large what he already had told con- gressional leaders earlier in the day, President Eisenhower said "there were no secret agreements made," at the Geneva meeting. He added that this applied to unwritten as well as written agree- ments. TV Broadcast In a nationwide radio-TV broadcast, the President spoke of proposal to trade military blueprints with the Russians. He said the main purpose ink hL 28 PRESIDENT RETURNS - President and Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower are greeted by Vice President and Mrs. Richard Nixon upon their arrival at national airport in Washington from Geneva, Switzer- land. The president is seen shaking hands with Nixon a moment after leaving the presidential Columbine plane. TOP AIR FORCE LAWYER:' Ewing Testifies About Sec. Talbott a, WASHINGTON (A:) -- Secretary of the Air Force Harold E. Talbott was quoted yesterday as saying he had the top. lawyer in the Air Force "representing me" in a pri- vate business transaction last Jan- uary. The testimony, to the Senate In- vestigations' subcommittee which is looking into Sec. Talbott's out- Tennis Partner Becomes 'Shock'j WASHINGTON (P)-Sen. Stuart Symington (D-Mo.) heard to his apparent surprise yesterday he was once a tennis partner of a witness before the Senate Investigations subcommittee. Sam Ewing, a Radio Corporation' of America lawyer, was testifying in the committee inquiry into the business associations of Secretary of the Air Force Talbott when Sen. George H. Bender (R-Ohio) start- ed asking Ewing if he'd previously known any of the investigating senators. Ewing said no after each name listed until Bender came to Sym- ington. side business activities, came from Sam Ewing, an attorney for the Radio Corporation of America. Ewing said Sec. Talbott seemed annoyed at RCA's hesitance in ex- pending a contract with Paul B. Mullgan & Co., a New York man- ufacturing firm in which the sec- retary is a special partner. In other developments at an afternoon-long public hearing, the subcommittee: 1. Received evidence that Sec. Talbott telephoned the president of the Union Oil Co., at a time the Mulligan firm was trying to land a contract with Union Oil. 2. Heard from Mulligan that the management engineering firm has paid Sec. Talbott $132,032 in prof- its on his partnership in the two years following Sec. Talbott's en- trance into his Air Force position in February 1953. Mulligan insisted he never used Sec. Talbott's name in trying to get business; Sec. Talbott himself tes- tified last week that he had tried to help Mulligan on a personal basis, but had never used the pres- tige of his government office to drum up business. Ewing told of a. telephone call he received about Jan. 4, 1955, when Mulligan was trying to ex- tend a contract from RCA. Ewing said the call came from John A. Johnson, the Air Force general counsel, and that Johnson said he understood RCA was "troubled" about the legal ques- tion of a contract with a firm which had Sec. Talbott as a part- ner. Party Leaders Reseek Peron BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (A)- Argentina's Peronista party lead- ers appealed to President Juan Peron yesterday to change his mind and remain as chief of the movement he has bossed since 1946. Peron was reported by high party sources, however, to have remained firm in his decision of July 15. At that time he declared in a broadcast that the Peronista revolution was over and he was becoming "president of all Argen- tines, friends and foes." bringing this forward was to con- vince everyone of this country's sincerity in promoting peace. In proposing aerial inspection of arms establishments on a recipro- cal basis with Russia President Eisenhower said he had in mind that this might lead to a broaden- ed system of inspection. The acid test should come next October when the foreign minis- ters of the Big Four get down to the business of translating gener- alities into action, he said. The President said he believed he and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles "made crystal clear" this country's attitude toward such things as the plight of the Soviet satelites. But the subject that took most of the delegates' attention, he said was a full exchange of visitors be- tween East and West. 'Greatest Possible Agreement' And here, he said, there was iThe greatest possible agreement." Each side assured the other oft- en, he said, of its desire for concil- iation through such contacts with one another. "I do know that the people of the world want peace," President Eisenhower said. He added there was great pres- sure from the people to bring that about., Everyone at Geneva, President Eisenhower said, felt the "great longing of mankind' for peace. "I believe that only with prayer- ful patience, courage and toler- ance, with eternal vigilance, can we keep alive the spark kindled at Geneva," he said. Lasting Peace But if that is done, he declared, the lamp of lasting peace at last may be ignited. Occasionally during his 15-min- ute talk, the President glanced down at notes on his desk. From time to time he donned his glasses. PresidentEisenhower said at the outset that Secretary of State Dulles and he went to Geneva to "represent the aspirations of the American people for peace" and the principles on which it should be based. What he described as almost unanimous bipartisan support of Congress was a big help, he said Too, there had been thousands of telegrams of support from ordi- nary people as well as business, church, labor and other organiza- tions. "Peace and the result of peace." he said, "involves perplexing prob- lems." Army Moving To Seoul Base TOKYO ()-The U. S. Army announced yesterday it is moving its major ground force headquar- ters in the Orient from Japan to South Korea. The move appears to be a con- cession to both the major allies in the north Pacific, Japan and South Korea. An announcement said Gen. Isaac D. White, who assumed com- mand only Sunday of Army forces Eisenhower Gives Report To Congress WASHINGTON (M)- President Dwight D. Eisenhower told leaders of Congress yesterday it looks like the Russians are ready to negoti- ate for world peace in a new "at- mosphere of friendliness." In a generally optimistic report on the Big Four conference, the President also was quoted as hav- ing told the legislators that no secret agreements of any kind were made at Geneva last week. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles followed this up by telling newsmen: "There's nothing to conceal about this conference." Hope and Caution Vice President Richard Nixon and 24 members of the House and Senate gathered at the White House for the briefing. President Eisenhower and Sec. Dulles talked to them for nearly an hour and a half. Their report was described as a mixture of hope and caution. Both Republicans and Democrats praised it for its frankness, and Sen. W. E. Knowland of Califor- nia, the Senate's GOP leader, gave this summary: Situation Hopeful "The situation growing out of the conference is hopeful but the problems ahead are not discount- ed." Hagerty issued this statement after the briefing: "The President expressed the belief that the outstanding fea- ture of the meeting was the ap- parently sincere desire expressed by the Soviet delegation to discuss world problems in the future in an atmosphere of friendliness and a willingness to sit down together to work out differences. Jet Air Base Not. Settled- WASHINGTON (P)-Today may be the day of decision on the Air Force proposal to build a jet fight- er base near Cadillac, Mich. The House Defense Appropria- tions Subcommittee has scheduled a closed session on the matter. Congressional sources have re- ported the appropriations group has ruled out Cadillac as the site because construction there would cost 10 per cent more than at other proposed lactions in Kalkas- ka and Manistee counties, These sources say the subcom- mittee made that decision last week and plans to so advise Secre- tary of the Air Force Harold E. Talbott in a letter, Committee aides are said to have completed a draft of the letter. Presumably, the session today is to take final action on the letter. When signed by Chairman Can- non (D-Mo.) of the full appropria- tions committee the letter is ex- 'ONE MUST KNOW LOVE': 'Happy Time, ro Be Perf ormed Samuel Taylor's comedy, "The Happy Time," will be presented by the speech department at 8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre Based on a book by Robert Fontaine, the "happy time" of the title is the growing up of twelve-year-old Bibi Bonnard (played by Michael Staebler), the youngest member of a French family living in Ottawa. Bibi's father, a good-natured, whimsical musician, leader of a vaudeville orchestra, wants his son to grow up to understand the warmth and humor of life, to understand that "to be truly a man one must know two things: one must know love, one must know truth." The comedy has been directed by Prof. Hugh Z. Norton, of the speech department, and scenery for the French-Canadian play, which takes place in Ottawa in the early 1920's, has been designed by Prof., Jack E. Bender and built under the supervision of Robert Armstrong and students in stage craft courses. All of the 1920 costumes have been designed by Phyllis Pletcher and assembled by Marjorie Smith, Beverly Canning and costume course students.