UNSUNG HEROES Y L Latest Deadline in the State tl M I 1 t " . See Page 2 I HOT,HUMID VOL. LXV, No. 14S ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1955 FOUR PAGES I I i t Boat Missing Off Eastern Coast: Hoax? Messages Tell Of Submarine NEW YORK (P) - A mystery voice, trembling as though from terror, besought help at sea yester- day. The radioed plea claimed a foreign submarine picked up 21 survivors from an American fish- ing boat aflame and sinking off the . ew Jersey coast. 'Seasoned seafarers heard the wierd message beamed by radio- telephone. But there was mounting evidence that it was nothing but a fantastic hoax. No Evidence A vast air and sea search of S3,700 square miles of calrh Atlantic waters failed to produce any con- crete evidence to back up the mar- ine drama so vividly described by the voice crying out in the night. Last word received from a vessel identifying itself as the 40-foot fishing boat, Blue Star, was the agitated cry: "A submarine is surfacing about 350 yards from us. It is coming alongside. It is proceeding to take survivors aboard. It is not an A- merican submarine." t . Then a pause, and the voice trailed off with the words: "I don't think they'll let me talk any more." After that, silence and, despite hours of intensive search, no trace of any disabled fishing craft or its "occupants. Search to Continue All American and Allied submar- ines in the general Atlantic were accounted for. Coast Guard Capt. Julius F. Jay- cot, a veteran of 31 years' service, said the search would continue "as; iong as there is a possibility of someone being trapled out there." "I'm not excluding the possibil- ity that it's a hoax," he told re- porters. Jaycott said 21 seemed like an abnormal number of people on such a small craft. He also re- marked on the absence 01 calls from persons anxious about the fate of relatives and friends aboard 4 such a craft. He was asked what the Coast Guard would do if it was a hoax. Just Get Mad "Just get mad about it," Jaycott replied. "They practically never find the persons responsible." Searchers did find an orange life r jacket bobbing in the sea about 10 miles south of where the Blue Star was reported in distress. But . it bore no markings. An oil slick was sighted in the same area. However, Coast Guard officials said such a slick need not necessarily denote a tragedy. The tugboat Nancy Moran, tow- ing barges off Sandy Hook near the entrance to New York harbor, point about 35 miles out to sea off sages about 2:25 a.m. They purportedly came from a first picked up the distress mes- Barnegat, halfway down the coast- line of New Jersey. The voice on the radiotelephone said the Blue Star had struck a log and that a boiler room explo- sion had started a fire. World News Roundup By The Associated Press WASHINGTON (A) - Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell report- ed Thursday that employment rose to a new high last month and add- ed: "This should be the best year in, history for American labor." Mitchell's preview of forth- coming employment - unemploy-, ment statistics for June came as E Congress moved another step to- ward fixing the federal minimum wage level at $1 an hour. WASHINGTON - The Senate and House completed action on a compromise $3,285,800,000 foreign aid authorization bill yesterday and sent it to President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The measure is 123 million dol- lars short of President Eisenhow- er's requests, Actual fuj~nds to carry out the new authorizations must still be approved by both houses, and there may be a move for further cuts then. * * * CHICAGO -- Michigan Gov. G. Mennen Williams yesterday urged -Daily-Sam Ching ANYTHING WILL DO-Student uses the Summer Student Di- rectory to get a date. The 50 cent listing of Summer Session students,,on sale from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. today at the Publications Building, offers the social climber a selection of over 6,000 names from which to choose, including a specially added School of Nursing section for the prospective Casanova. Other fea- tures are a map of the campus area and a visiting faculty sec- tion. Only 250 copies are left. TO TOUR CAMPUS: Nu Visits Today U Nu, Prime Minister of Burma, will visit the University campus today. A tour of key campus sites will begin for Nu and his official party at 9:30 a.m. when they will visit the new Phoenix Memorial Labora- tory on North Campus. Accompanied by Assistant to the President Erich A. Walter, the Prime Minister will be guided by director of the Phdenix Project, Dean Ralph A. Sawyer of the graduate school, and assistant director Prof. Henry Gomberg of the engineering collegt. A visit to Clements Library, where rare books and documents *>dealing with colonial and Revolu- UI 4g tionary War periods are on display, Li I1Uwill follow. 0 Four books written by members A boutlChina of the University faculty will be presented to the Prime Minister by Vice-President Marvin L. Nie- Dulles Sees Red Money Troubles WASHINGTON (P) - Secretary of State John Foster Dulles was disclosed yesterday to have told members of Congress June 10 that the 'Russian economic system "is on the point of collapsing." The statement was contained in testimony he gave the House Ap- propriations Committee in support of the administration's foreign aid program. Part of his testimony was released for publication. Dulles din not go into detail about any possible Russian col- lapse, and elsewhere in his testi- mony merely said Russia was under a strain trying to keep up with mutual security efforts of the free world. Disagreement over Reference But, taken by itself, the "point of collapsing" reference seemed to reflect a considerable degree of disagreement within the adminis- tration about Russia's strength or weakness as the time approaches for Big Four talks at Geneva July 18. Only yesterday President Dwight D. Eisenhower told a news confer- ence that no one in the adminis- tration has said that the Russians are "coming to any conference weak." He went on to specify they are strong militarily, without say- ing anything about any other strengths or weaknesses. The State Department, when asked how the Dulles and Eisen- hower statements could be recon- ciled, declined comment. Does Russia Want Cold War Before either Eisenhower's news conference, or the release of Dulles' testimony, it had been apparent there existed a difference of opin- ion among U. S. officials as wheth- er Russia genuinely wants to end the cold war. Some policy-makers, apparently a majority, seemed to believe Ru- sia at least is ready to make some concessions aimed at easing ten- sions. An evidently smaller group has taken the stand that no end to the -old war is in sight. Moscow Breathing Spell However, both schools of thought have tended to agree that agricul- tural difficulties and the continu- ing arms burden are straining the Soviet economy and Moscow would like a breathing spell. The difference of opinion has been on how much Russia might be willing to give up to gain such a rest - much or little. The House committee record showed that on June 10 Dulles said the Soviets are "over-expanded, unable to meet their commit- ments." He said they were seeking "some respite against strains" of trying to keep pace with the West- ern world. Prison Search Nets Weapons By the Dozen WALLA WALLA, Wash. ()- Guards seized scores of weapons- knives, axes, hammers and base- ball bats yesterday as they con- ducted a cell-by-cell shakedown of Washington State Prison- after a two-day revolt. They moved the more than 1,700 convicts into open yards, under the rifles of state patrolmen atop the walls, and carried out various weapons hidden in cells during the rebellion in which nine hos- tages were held more than 26 hours. The weapons collection made six piles in a separate enclosure of the prison yard. Unarmed guards herded the men from cells into the open yard. Aft- er the search of cells they started moving the prisoners back into quarters for individual searches. But officials said these could not be completed Thursday and some men probably would have to spend the night in the open. Compromise On Flood Bill, U.S. Of Accepts F Payment -Courtesy University News Service HEAP BIG SMOKE-Dean Walter B. Rea accepts a genuine Sioux peace pipe for Michigauma Honorary from Elmer Clark and Jack Moylan. The pipe is the gift of Jack Grady, a 1942 gradu- ate. Pictured, from left to richt, are Clark; T. Hawley Tapping, General Secretary of the Alumni Association; Dean Rea, and Moylan. ENERGY, AMBITION: New Student Officers Revise ISA ted for Offer *Plane Back Down On Demand For Full, Pay Mooo f esOfficial Regret WASHINGTON (R) - The State Department served notice that Prime Minister U Nu of Burma is mistaken if he thinks the United States favors the admission of Red China to the United Nations. Press officer Henry Suydam said he was authorized to state that "there has been no change in United States policy to oppose the seating in the United Nations of a representative of the Chinese Com- munist regime." The Burmese Prime Minister, one of the leaders of Southeast Asia, had said at a news conference in New York Wednesday he had got the impression. in Washington "that most of the responsible peo- ple are not against the admission of Peiping into the United Na- tions." It was rather a question of timing, he had added. Asked whe- ther any question of timing was involved in the State Department's statement, Suydam said no - the time factor was deliberately left out of the statement. He went on to say the statement was occasioned by "a number of questions" springing from what U Nu said only a few days after his conversations w i t h President Dwight D. Eisenhower huss. University President Harlan H. Hatcher will host a reception for Prime Minister UN and 28 Bur- mese students who attend the Uni- versity at 11 a.m. Luncheon Planned Ninety-three guests will fete the Prime Minister, his wife, Burma's ambassador to the United States, James Barrington, and other mem- bers of the official Burmese party at a noon luncheon in the League. Following the luncheon, the group will return to Willow Run airport for their departure, ac- companied by Prof. Russell H. Fi- field of the political science de- partment and Prof. Richard A. Musgrave of the Economics de- partment. An honorary degree was sched- uled to be given U Nu today by University officials. It was learned yesterday from the Burmese Em- bassy that such anrhonor would be declined by the Prime Minister. Yesterday the Burmese party toured Greenfield Village and the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, greeted Detroit's Mayor Albert Co- bo and toured the city of Detroit. BY JIM DYGERT New life has been put into the International Students Association by its new president and vice- president. The Association began this sum- mer for the first time in its history a full program of social and recre- ational activities' under the lead- ership of President John A. Wall- work from Great Britain and Vice' President B. V. Govindaraj from India. Govindaraj is acting presi- dent during the Summer Session. Wallwork and Govindaraj were elected in June by foreign students on a program including that "In- ternational Students Association take over all International Center social activities and carry out an effective program with the finan- cial assistance of the University." Now Entirely in Charge On July 1, the International Center, a University administration Chicago Girl Found Dead CHICAGO M)-The discovery of the beaten, burned body of an 8- year-old girl yesterday touched off a search for a killer who was branded a "mad dog." The victim was Mary Manzo, a brown-eyed, dark-haired child who had been in the third grade in a public school. Three street sweepers found the tiny body in a long, dim under- pass beneath the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks at 46th St. and Normal Ave. on the South Side. Detectives said the body had, been burned in an attempt to de- stroy it. 'Mad Dog' Slayer Coroner Walter E. McCarron viewed the body and termed the slayer a "mad dog." Officials moved 100 extra police- men into the area-east of the stockyards - in a hunt f or the killer. Police Commissioner Timothy J. O'Connor said the girl probably had been "assaulted and then murdered." The body was clad in a white blouse and pink skirt. Mary was wearing them when she last was seen alive Monday evening. Moved from Scene Smudges of mud and a darker substance -possibly coal-- were discerned. They indicated the body had been in a field or base- ment before it was placed in the branch, announced its reorganiza- tion which included a relinquishing of the planning and conducting of a social program for foreign stu- dents. The ISA is now completely in charge of student programs, although the International Center stands by to provide any requested assistance. The Association's new program is an ambitious one, requiring en- ergetic leadership. Govindaraj has proceeded to provide it by appoint- ing 12 committees. Nine of the committees are headed by activi- ties chairmen who will take com- plete charge of projects. The nine are the Discussion, Display, Decorations, Publicity, Entertainment, Tours and Trips, Picnics, Sports and Formal Dance committees. Two others, the United Nations Week Committee and the Orienta- tion Committee, are under the direction of the president and vice- president. The twelfth, the Alumni Relations Committee, is headed by an auxiliary secretary. Three to Five Members on Each There are from three to five members on each committee, with various geographical areas repre- sented. Participation and cooperation are the themes of the new pro- gram. Govindaraj emphasized them in his greeting to Summer Session foreign students on behalf of the Association: The new program is also intend- ed to improve the co-ordination of actiivties with community organi- zations, encourage more foreign students to speak for foreign groups, and break up "national cliqueism" among foreign students. Now that it has succeeded in obtaining full responsibility for planning a program for foreign students on the University campus, the Association has set its sights on an ex-officio membership in the Student Government Council, on the ground that foreign students should be represented as part of the campus. Another objective is University sponsorship of a scholarship pro- gram for foreign students. A third is wider representation in the Association's House of Rep- resentatives, elected by national groups. This assembly must ap- prove committee appointments by the president and vice-president before they become final. WASIANGTON (P)-In a move to smooth the way for the Big Four Conference, the United States yes- terday accepted Russia's offer to pay half the damages for the shooting down of an American plane in the Bering Strait last month. Secretary of the State John Fos- ter Dulles had previously demand- ed full compensation for the loss of the Navy Neptune patrol plane, destroyed in a crash landing on Alaska's St. Lawrence Island after being fired upon by Soviet jet fighters. Compensation for Injuries Dulles also wanted full compen- sation for injuries suffered by 7 of 11 crewmen. Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov had offered to pay 50 per cent of the total damages for plane and crew. The exact sum is to be deter- mined later, State Department of- ficials said. The plane alone, minus equipment, cost about 1:Y2 million dollars. Releases Note The State Department released the text of a note to the Soviet Foreign Office yesterday; It was the latest in a series of exchanges following the attack on the Ameri- can plane on June 23. Dulles and Molotov had discuss- ed the matter face to face while both were in San Francisco attend- ing the United Nations meeting. Thursday's note wholly rejected Russia's version, which had sought to put responsibility on the United States. But the note was concilia- tory in tone. It contained an ele- ment of warning against repetition but also expressed desire for im- proved relations with Russia. Molotov had told Dulles the A- merican craft had violated the. Soviet-frontier and that there was "an exchange" of gunfire between it and the Soviet MIG. The inci- dent occurred in the area between Alaska and Siberia. Express Regret Russia not only offered to pay half the damages but, what was equally unprecedented, expressed regret at the incident. Dulles had said at the time of the offer that 50 per cent damages would not be enough. He had demanded total compensation. However, it apparently was de- cided that pressing the demand for total compensation would make a continuing irritant out of an issue which both sides evidently would like to see cleared away in advance of the meeting at the summit, be- ginning in Geneva July 18. Hence Dulles' earlier position was scrap- ped, INo0VWaterShortage Economists Worried By Consumer Credit Boom By the Associated Press WASHINGTON ()-The government's economic policymakers are a bit worried about an increase in on-the-cuff deals during the current business boom. There have been credit splurges in the stock market, consumer buying and home buying. Despite concern over mounting indebtedness in these fields, fed- eral policy-makers are still inclined to rely on indirect, rather than direct, controls to keep the boom from becoming dangerously puffed up on credit. That inclination is strong, and it is fundamental to the Eisen- 'hower administration's whole eco- More Vaccine Will Be Given NEW YORK (A)-The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis said yesterday that when more polio vaccine is available it will release it for second injections and booster shots. "It is our hope that second in- jections will be given as rapidly as possible during the next weeks and through the summer," foun- dation president Basil O'Connor said. By doing so, he added, adequate protection will be provided chil- But it does not exclude the pos- sibility that the Federal Reserve Board may soon for the third time this year crack down on the stock market with a direct control by upping margin requirements. The administration - and the Reserve Board--is delighted with the vast business improvement of the past year, most of it in the past six months. The economic policy-makers in Washington are glad to see the nation's investors give a big vote of confidence in the economic fu- ture by putting more money in the commercial stocks which repre- sent the nation's expanding pro- ductive machinery. Building, Buying Splurge Civil Defense 'Alert' Planned Anew for '56 WASHINGTON (M)-The White House yesterday disclosed tentative plans for a gigantic Operation Alert in 1956 in which all 'three branches of government will flee Washington while the armed for- ces stage war games. In a report to President Dwight D. Eisenhower on last month's three-day evacuation of 15,000 fed- eral workers from the capital un- der assumed H-bomb assault, Mob- ilization Director Arthur S. Flem- ming also revealed that: A "high-level task force" is studying whether "any other course of action" than martial law -which was proclaimed hypotheti- cally by President Eisenhower in the recent alert - can be invoked in a mass-bombing emergency. All falra ar.. - -- ..:., ..~J: