IKE'S ROLE AT GENEVA Se Page 4 . Latest Deadline in the State :43 a t t pop t 7 , HOT HUMID Vol. LXV, No. 27S ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1955 EIGHT PAGES o..ww ww Construction Bill Rejected ByMouse Highway Showdown Scheduled for Today WASHINGTON (P)-The House late yesterday rejected a proposed sibstitute for the sharply different highway construction bills being pushed by Democrats and Repub- licans. It then put off until today the schowdown between the Demo- cratic plan, involving new taxes, and President Dwight D. Eisen- hower's proposal to raise money through long term financing. .A standing vote of 178-89 knock- ed out the substitute proposal, offered by Rep. T. A. Thompson (p-La.). It called for a billion- dbllars-a-year rate of federal gov dolla s-a-year rate of federal spending over the next 10 years fbr interstate super highways-far less than the rates proposed by the Democratic and Republican plans. New Arrangements Thompson's plan also left out any new financing arrangements. Backers of some sort of big pro- gram won a preliminary victory when the House voted earlier 274- "148 to take up the legislation ipder procedures laid down by its Rules Committee. But it remained to be seen whether the Democratic version, with new taxes to pay the cost, or resident Eisenhower's plan, to raise the money with long-term bonds, would win out in the show- down voting. May Be Killed ,There was also the chance enough opponents might join to- gether to kill the whole program for this session of Congress. Chairman Howard W. Smith (D- Va.) of the rules group said that's just what the House should do, this close to adjournment. He spid voting for either the Demo- c1'atic or Republican versions would be "buying a pig in a poke." But a parade of Democrats ar- gsped for the bill offered by Rep. G. H. Fallon (D-Md.) and ap- proved by the House Public Works (ommittee. It would impose $12,- 423,000,000 in added automotive axes over the next 16 years to help y the road building costs. ke Sent New Reserve Bill WASHINGTON (VP) - Congress sent President Dwight D. Eisen- -bower a new military reserve bill yesterday, far less compulsory thand he and the Pentagon had a ked. A -A voice vote in the Senate com- pleted action on the bill. The Tlouse approved it, Monday on a roll call of 315-78. A major new feature provides for a special active duty course of up to six months for young volun- teers, who would thereafter serve in the active reserves for seven and a half years. . Present or former servicemen could not be required to go into the active reserve, but the bill holds out some inducements to present service men enabling them ti cut down the length of their ac- tive duty by volunteering for the reserves. { Brownell Help O.K.: Talboti Air Force Secretary Makes Return Appearances Before Subcommittee WASHINGTON ()--Secretary of the Air Force Harold K. Talbott contended yesterday it was perfectly proper for him to seek an opinion from Atty. Gen. Herbert J. Brownell on the legality of a proposed America. contract between his private firm and Radio Corporation of America. Sec. Talbott made a return appearance before the Senate Investi- gations subcommittee which is studying the propriety of his maintain- ing a partnership in a' firm whose clients included defense contractors. Previous testimony has developed'that the firm-Paul B. Mulligan & Co. of New York-wanted RCA to go into a contract for its services as a management engineering pany. RCA'wanted assurance from Brownell that this would be legal, S M in view of Sec. Talbott's position. Not Personal Attorney Sec. Talbott said that'when he Proves Hard sent John A. Johnson, the Air Force's general counsel, to talk to " Brownell about the case last Jan. To R ussians 6, Johnson was not acting as his personal attorney-"He was repre- senting the Secretary of the Air LAURENS, Iowa (A>) - Soviet Force on a matter of propriety." farm leaders yesterday had diffi- ro told newsmen yester- cultyueday he turned down Johnson's re- quest for a ruling because it was system of government price sup- "against our policy to give an port for agricultural commodities. opinion to an outside firm like "That's nothing," said an Iowa RCA." farmer who stood nearby. "You Meanwhile; Democrats hammer- farmr wo sood eary. Youed away ate the situation. Sen. can't rightly blame the Russians Wayne Morse (D-Ore) told the for not understanding the govern- Senate that Sec. Talbott had mis- ment price support system. A lot used his office. Democratic Chair- of American farmers don't under- man Paul M. Butler said in a state- stand t eiter."t that "If Mr. Eisenhower is, stand it either.going to keep his campaign prom- The Russians-seven of them- ises, he will have to act promptly visited Tuesday the farm of Taf- in the case of Secretary of the Air. ford J. Tinius of Laurens. They Force Harold Talbott." were greeted by Tinius, his wife, Quotes Statement and their daughter, Sandra, 14. Butler quoted two 1952 state- Inspect Corn Plant ments by President Dwight D. Ei- Three of the Russian group in- senhower. One was that "If I cluding delegation head, V. V. should ever find a rotten apple in Matskevich, stayed behind in any barrel given to my care, it Humboldt to inspect the Dekalb won't take me three and a half Hybrid Seed Corn plant. Two of years to get rid of it," The other the Russians are in Peoria, Ill., at was that President Eisenhower's the Caterpiller Tractor Plant. administration "will not tolerate There were, perhaps, as m any deviation from an uncompro- Ther wer, pehaps as anymising code of honesty and ethics as 300 neighbors, relatives, and onlokersassebledat ,e Tndusin. government service." onlookers assembled at the Tinius Sec. Talbott's appearance yester- farm to take a look at the men day was brief. He: came to the from Moscow. committee room with a prepared On the Tinius farm, the Rus- statement which he asked that he sians came to a corn crib contain- be permitted to holp up until all ing 1500 bushels of corn sealed the testimony is in. Chairman J. L. under government loan. The farm- McClelan (D-Ark.) agreed and in- er, and the American coordinator structed Sec. Talbott to return this of the Russian tour, all attempted iorning. to explain why this corn was The committee took some testi- sealed.- mony late yesterday, in Sec. Tal- Words Fly Fast bott's presence, from George B. Words in Russian and English Gelly, manager of the Washington wereflinrthiekrn F d tinaIOI1 ?office of the Douglas Aircraft Co. Tasty Hats PAIS (A-A Frenchman as found a new wayt,serve up spaghetti and dried orange peel. He makes hats out of them. Really! The spaghetti, cooked and curled on a tulle base, looks like heavy lace. And the orange peel, glued on like shingles, might be a rough straw. So why not use bace and straw? Well, there isn't any novelty in them, so - Ahile, who like to be called the Mad Hatter of Paris, has gt the new season's hat shows off to a screwball start with the spa ghetti bonnet. The orange peel number, besides smelling like a fruitcake, drips raisin-sized di- amonds over one eye. Vandals Mar. Evita Peron monuments BUENOS AIRES (P)-Striking on the national day of mourning for Eva Person, vandals yesterday defaced posters and monuments erected to her memory in towns of Buenos Aires Province. The dynamic blond wife of Pres- ident Juan D. Peron died of cancer just-three years ago. The incidents occurred as Peron- ista legislators ended a week-long squabble and accepted President Peron's directive to change officers of the National House of Deputies. The move was a, defeat for the party's labor wing. Attack Reported Poilce said the vandalism occur- red in three towns near the eapital and a newspaper reported an at- tack in another town. In addition, police said, a bomb exploded at the local branch of the General Confederation of La- bor in the town of Olavarria. The building front was damaged and windows were blown out but there was no reports of any injuries. On this third anniversary of her death all public activities except transport and essential services halted for 24 hours. Radio stations broadcast only subdued music and memorial pro-' grams. Clock Hands Twisted In Balcarce, the hands of a clock erected by workers' contribu- tions in her memory were twisted. The clock's hands had been stop- ped at 8:25 p.m., the minute of her death on July 26, 1952. In San Antonio de - Areco, two1 tar bombs were tossed on the Eva Peron Monument in the town square. On the troubled political front7 here, the Peronista deputies bowed to the President's orders by ac- cepting the resignations of their leaders and designating replace-+ ments. Reds Hear Speech MOSCOW (A')-In an unprece- dented move, Moscow radio yes- terday broadcast the text of Pres- ident Dwight D. Eisenhowe's Monday night TV-radio report to the American people on the Ge- neva summit meeting. The full text also was carried by+ the official Soviet news agency Tass for newspaper publication. PLAYER PIANO: Sec. Dulles Formosa Cease-Fire -Daily-arding Williams PANELISTS-Discussing "The Future of Michiggan's Northland" are (left to right) Prentiss M. Brown, J. Joseph Herbert and Walter F. Gries. The program was presented as part 'of the special summer series on 'Michigan.' Seeking Four-Man Panel Talks' _ About State By The A O~f lte Frouk Ch A four-member panel agreed PARIS - Fe yesterday that the future of Mich- called a news c igan's Upper Peninsula appeared on the third i "far from dismal." he f romE the present Eg The discussion entitled, "The imprisoned 60, Future' of Michigan's Northland ents. was chaired by University regent The plumpe J. Joseph Herbert. Ito answer pers Panelist Prentiss M. Brown ex- when asked if1 pressed the belief that the com- should be rest pletition of the Mackinac bridge replied: would greatly aid the development "In some f of Northern Michigan.- The Chairman of the Bridge Authority, Brown noted that at the B rano present time a trip across the Mackinac Straits takes about two Reach( hours, but that the bridge will en- able travellers to cross in about ten minutes. The illegal The bridge," he added} "will University fo help to draw the sections of the Branoff, '56, ha state closer together by breaking municipal cour down some of the physical and Prosecutor Edr psychological barriers that have with the perm existed in the past." plainant. Also participating in the panel The woman was Walter F. Gries, Superintend- complaint agai ent of the Welfare Department of in ghim with the Cleveland Cliffs Iron Company of another wit in Ishpeming. after being for "'The St. Lawrence Seaway will the warrantt present even greater opportunity cording to city for economic advancement all Branoff, acco along Michigan's shoreway," Gries an, had pushe commented. He expressed regret apartment aft "That I won't be around in fifty an acquaintan years to see the changes." off was not th Srld News Roundup Associated Press harges . . ormer King Farouk onference yesterday anniversaryof his Egypt and charged gyptian regime has 000 political oppon- ex-monarch refused sonal questions, but he felt a meoharchy tored to Egypt, ie orm I thinly that the Soviet visitors apparently be- gan to get a glimmer of what it was about. American farm journalist John Shrohm, coordinator of the Rus- sian trip, explained the merits of the price support system. He said: "If, for example, the price of corn should rise above. the support figure, say from a support figure of $1.60 a bushel up to $1.75, then the farmer can simply re-pay the government the loan and sell the corn at the high- er price." But Soviet farm planning chief, Boris Savelev, is no fool. "But that never happens does it?" he asked Strohm- Strohm, amidst laughter from the onlooking farmers, was forced to admit that Saveley was quite right. It rarely happens. A-1 1 ifoyal Glance New Weapons Aid Soviets BONN, Germany (-) - Western intelligence sources said yesterday new deliveries of modern conven- tional weapons have strengthened the firepower and increased the mobility of Soviet army division in Eastern Germany. These Western informants said 1955 deliveries included 1,000 T54 tanks to replace the outmoded World War II T34's, 1,500 new guns, 600 armed personnel carriers, 150 amphibious vehicles and over 100 new towing vehicles for heavy artillery. The shipments were accompan- ied by 25,000 new troops from. Russia, presumably specialists in the new weapons, intelligence sources said. They assumed the newcomers would replace time-ex- pired conscripts returning home. The armament shipments were described here as the largest sent b ythe Russians to Germany since 1945. West military observers re- gard them as probably long-plan- ned modernization similar to that being carried out by NATO forces in West Germany. The United States 7th Army has received guided missiles and addi- tional atomic cannon in the, last year. The British Rhine army is trying out a new tank and has begun experiments with a new or- ganization of division suitable for atomic warfare. Pentagon Reports Fate of Soldiers WASHINGTON (M)-The Penta- gon reported to Congress yesterday it has learned the fate of 474 American servicemen missing' at ff Case es End entry case against otball star Tony as been dismissed in t at the request of mond F. DeVine and aission of the com- who had signed a nst Branoff, charg- "entry on premises hout authority and bidden," asked that be withdrawn, ac- police. ording to the worn- d his way into her er being told that ce sought by Bran- ere. would be correct. That should be left to the Egyptian people." Russia agrees . . . LONDON-Russia agreed yester- day to repatriate 16 Japanese citi- zens held in Soviet prison camps since World War II on charges of being war criminals. Russia's Ambassador Jacob Mal- ik said the 16 Japanese - so far unidentified - had completed prison sentences on charges of be- ing war criminals and would be released immediately. Heresy . . MINNEAPOLIS - The Rev. George Christ, Jr., of Rurham, Wis., will go on trial before seven of his fellow Lutheran pastors in Milwaukee today on heresy charges. It will be the first such trial in the 65-year-old-history of the United Lutheran Church in Amer- ica. Dr. Paul E. Bishop, president of the Northwest Synod of the church, announced the action yes- terday. Large Fire . . TORONTO - Four bush fires linked up today and blazed up in a mightly 100,000-acre holocaust north of Blind River, 90 miles east of Sault Ste. Marie. Earlier reports said two fires in that area had joined after being whipped by winds up to 25 miles an hour. Youthful Actor Follows Mother 'Says Danger Of War Not Very Great Nationalist Help Seen As Pledge WASHINGTON (A) - Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said yesterday the United States will sound out the Red Chinese on the possibility of a cease-fire in the Formosa Straits when ambassadors of the two nations meet in Geneva Monday. He also told an audience of newsmen that "the war danger has reduced" as a result of the Big Four conference in Geneva last week. A major goal of the new meeting in neutral Switzerland, the secre- tary announced, will be "to find out . . , whether the Chinese Communists acceptrthe concept of a cease-fire" around Formosa. In the past there have been inter- mittent clashes between National- ist Chinese who hold the island and Red Chinese. Cease-Fire Principle Secretary Dulles said the United States is already on record as ac- cepting the cease-fire principle in other divided countries like Korea, Germany and Viet Nam. While this country is supplying military equipment to the Nation- alist Chinese, he went on, it is on the basis of a Nationalist, pledge that no force will be used in their dispute with the Peiping regime except through joint agreement with the United States or in case of an emergency. Conciliatory Gesture Secretary Dulles told his news conference another aim of the up- coming Geneva meeting will be "getting back the Americans,.. still detained in China." In a conciliatory gesture toward Peiping, Sec. Dulles tied only two strings to the United States-Red China conference announced Mon- day: No implied diplomatic recog- nition of the Peiping regime, no prejudicing of the rights of Na- tionalist China, America's ally. CIO Ends Negotia DETROIT (P) -- Chrysler Corp. and the CIO United Auto Workers ended a negotiating session yester- day with a joint announcement branding reports of agreement be- tween the two as premature. Sources close to the secret ses- sions had said the company and union appeared agreed on a broad area of a new wage contract to replace one expiring Aug. 31. But after yesterday's four-hour session the two parties issued the following announcement: Announcement "Newspaper reports that Chrys- ler and the UAW-CIO are near an agreement are premature. The parties are continuing negotiations in an effort to reach a satisfactory agreement. The parties will meet again at 1:30 p.m. (EST) tomor- row." Robert W. Condor, Vice Presi- dent for Industrial Relations, and John Leary, Labor Relations Direc- tor, headed the Chrysler negotiat- ing team. Top spokesmen for the union were Emil Mazey, Interna- tional Secretary-Treasurer, and Norrman Matthews, Chrysler De- partment director. News Blackout Bargaining is going on under a news blackout agreement. The union, however, is know to have replied Monday to a Chrysler offer submitted a week ago. The fact that no rejection was announ- ced indicated partial agreement, and union spokesmen said as much, in effect. A company source indicated Chrysler's offer contained a layoff pay plan similar to that negotiated BY ERNEST THEODOSSIN Michael Staebler is having a "happy time" this summer portraying the lead in the new speech department offering. Michael is called Bibi by his co-workers, after the character he portrays in the Samuel Taylor comedy, "The Happy Time" opening at 8 p.m, today at Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre and continuing through Saturday evening. Michael finds it difficult to explain just why he is acting at all, but he knows definitely that he "ilkes it a lot." There is some speculation among the cast's members that the twelve-year-old may have inherited some talent from his mother, actress Berdette Staebler, who appeared last season in two Dramatic Arts Centre productions, "Moon in the Yellow River" and "The Cocktail Party.". Like her son, Mrs. Staebler performed in play production while enrolled as an undergraduate at the University, although her campus career did not begin quite so early. The young actor had to learn how to-pedal a player piano for his role as the so nof a 1920's Ottawa, French-Canadian family. At first the going was tough, but the player piano has since been fixed and pedaling has been easier. The piano, complete with old-time rolls, with which Michael opens +h st. cr+ nP wa rh.,.mvvpr -rn.m Pr nf_ rnn Senssn nt the hitor :. 't ~ ip.. :.-_ fr... h ...... ..:: iii:'-: }?.tivv' ... :.; f ...