I EISENHOWER AND '56 4 See Page 2 jcj:4r Latest Deadline in the State 4Ia i~I 0 00 o0 esm FAIR VOL. LXV, No. 17S ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 1955 FOUR PAGES SEC Chairman, Kefauver Brawl Armstrong Balks at Dixon-Yates Hearings, Faces Contempt Charge WASHINGTON (M)-The head of the Securities & Exchange Commission was threatened with possible prosecution for contempt of Congress yesterday in connection with the Dixon-Yates row. 4 The possibility was raised by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.), after SEC Chairman J. Sinclair Armstrong refused to testify whether his agency was free from White House "influence" in handling financial aspects of the Dixon-Yates private power contract. Armstrong stood firm on a declaration that he couldn't discuss f the question because of a standing presidential order not to disclose -confidential exchanges between Shneidewind balls Report Prof. Richard Schneidewind of the engineering college, who was one of the authors of a faculty committee report on Responsibili- ties. of the Faculty to Society, Which was revealed yesterday, said late yesterday he "didn't agree with the report." The report was made to the Faculty Senate in May. A mail ballot vote was taken to determine whether its principles would be ' accepted or rejected as Senate policy When the vote was counted last week, 353 faculty members op- posed accepting it, 317 favored acceptance. Copies of the report were in the hands of all faculty members six weeks before the May meeting. When copies were sent, all seven members of the committee had ;signed their names, and declared they had come to their conclusion unanimously., Changed His View Prof. Schneidewind said yester- day that as he studied he finished report over and over, he gradually changed his mind about his point of view about it. He said he felt that some "implications that should not be. made" were ap- parent in the report. "There was undue emphasis on matters other than those we were supposed to study," Prof. Schneid- ewind remarked. He declared that "only five sentences" dealt with the responsibilities of the faculty to society. He told the members of his com- mittee on the morning of the Sen- ate meeting at which the report was to be read that "The way the report was put together seemed to infer some things that weren't inferred" when the committee members first met to draw up their study. Four Committees The whole committee was ap- pointed, along with four other committees, last fall to discuss problems that had arisen in the Davis-Nickerson dismissal cases. Prof. Schneidewind said yester- day he believed that "another committee" studying the same problem "might come up with something, acceptable to more of the faculty members." Air Aaderny Fund Held Up WASHINGTON (P)-The purse string committee of the House came out yesterday against spend- ing any more money at the new Air Force Academy until all con- cerned agree on what it should look like. A row over the design of the Colorado Springs project has seethed in Congress ever since pro- posed ultramodern models for some of its buildings were undraped. The 125--million-dollar acad- emy conceived to take a place be- side West Point and Annapolis, was dedicated with considerable pomp yesterday. In reporting out a diversified money bill, the committee disap- proved 79 million dollars listed for academy. Going beyond that, it recommended against using for construction any funds left from 15 millions previously appropri- ated. ISA To Debate On United Nations executive departments of the gov- ernment. "I don't mean to imply by as-I serting the privilege that therea were any such communications,"4 Armstrong told a Senate Antimon- opoly subcommittee headed by Ke- fauver. Dixon-Yates Cancelled ] President Eisenhower ordered the controversial Dixon-Yates con-I tract canceled Monday after re- ceiving assurances from the City ofI Memphis that it would build a gen-l erating plant to . supply the elec- tricity the federal government hadI ordered from the private interests. President Eisenhower was re- porterd yesterday to have describ- ed the contract as "a good, fair agreement." Murray Snyder, as- sistant White House press secre- tary, said the President used the phrase in a talk with Edgar Dixon, one of the utility magnates with whom the contract was negotiated. Dixon Called In The President called Dixon in,; Snyder said, to express his appre- ciation "for the fine spirit and, cooperation with the Government" Dixon and his associates demon- strated "through the proceedings, designed to provide needed power. for the Memphis area." At the Senate hearing Sen. J. C. O'Mahoney (D.-Wyo,) complained "an iron curtain is being erected between Congress and the SEC." I Armstrong's refusal to answer questions, he asserted, is "another instance of the gradual attempt ofj the executive branch to extend' power over the whole government of the United States. Congress has been fighting for years to get greater access to docu- ments and other information of the executive branch in its investi- gations.; 'Fantastic Job. Twelve U.S. Men To Go To Russia Farm Leaders To Leave Soon WASHINGTON (R) - A dozen U.S. farm leaders who are going to visit Russia said yesterday they will keep their minds and eyes open and "our ears unplugged." Prof. W. V. Lambert, dean of agriculture at the University of Nebraska, told newsmen the 12- man delegation has 10 principal objectives. He said it has no pre- conceived ideas of what to expect. All the 12 men were at the De- partment of Agriculture to meet reporters except Lauren K. Soth, editorial page editor of Des Moines Register and Tribune. Observation Soth's editorial had suggested Russian farmers, admittedly lag- ging behind their production goals, could profit by first hand observationof Iowa's fabled corn- hog production. The Russian group of 13 farm leaders is scheduled to arrive in New York Saturday, flying the next day to Des Moines for a month's bus tour of the Midwest and West. The U.S. delegation flies from New York City for Hel- sinki, Finland, and thence to Moscow. Objectives Lambert said the 10 principal objectives of the group include: 1. Evaluate Soviet progress in agriculture generally. 2. Evaluate Soviet farm tech- niques and potentials. 3. Observe recent Soviet devel- opments in agricultural education. 4. Observe agricultural research. 5. Find out how the Soviet gov- ernment keeps farmers informed -whether through an extension service like the American way or through some other method. 6. Study marketing systems. 7. See some Russian people and let them talk with a representa- tive American agricultural group. 8.. Get acquainted with Russian farmers and agriculture. 9. Show the Russian people the United States is ready to cooper- ate with any people to raise liv- ing standards. 10. Possibly plant "a few seeds of understanding and good will" to help relieve international ten- sions. of Educating) Plan for Uniting Germany Ike Outlines U.S. Stand At Geneva 'No Commitments On Asian Problems' WASHINGTON (P) - President Eisenhower was reported to have assured congressional leaders yes- terciay he will make no commit- ments on Asia at the forthcoming Geneva conference. Three legislators who sat in on a White House briefing said the President made it clear he was not going to deal substantively with Asiatic problems in a meeting in which Asians themselves were not represented. From the legislators came this additional outline of American plans for Eisenhower's meeting with the Prime Ministers of Brit- ain, France and Russia, beginning at Geneva next Monday: Outline 1. The President will bring up the question of disarmament, in- sisting that it can be accomplished only by adequate, open and com- plete policing and inspection. 2. The United States will take the initiative in proposing that steps be taken looking toward uni- fication of Germany. 3. Eisenhower will attempt to keep before the conference con- stantly the issue of self-determi- nation for the peoples of the satel- lite states. 4. He does not expect the meet- ing to produce any final solution to existing problems but hopes it may bring some new approaches to those problems as well as a new spirit of cooperation. No Far Eastern Discussion As one lawmaker summed it up, the President said he was not going to Geneva with the aim of discussing Far Eastern problems. He would not agree, the President was quoted as saying, to take any steps that would involve the fate of nonparticipating nations, However some officials have in- dicated that if the Russians insist on bringing up Far East issues, the United States would be ready to discuss them. Sen. H. Alexander Smith (R- N.J.), who attended the briefing said at least 20 issues were men- tioned as likely to come up. Sen. Wiley (R.-Wis.) said "The sky's the limit." Sen. Wiley offered this impres- sion of Eisenhower's purpose: "The President is going on an exploratory expedition, so to speak, to find out if there has been a rebirth on the part of the Rus sians." Informal Talk Eisenhower himself discussed his purpose in an informal talk with a delegation of 69 foreign boys and girls; part of a group of 600 studying in the United States un- der an exchange program sponsor- ed by the American Field Service. He told them that at Geneva "we will try to explore the reasons why this world does not seem to get closer to peace, and try to find roads that if the world follows all you may live a little more tran- quilly than have the people of my generation." Sinker NEW YORK (A)-The liner Maasdam sailed for Holland yesterday and if she wasn't listing slightly, she should have been. Aboard was Theodore R. Grevers, a 440-pound private dectective from Battle Creek, Mich. Before the Maasdam sailed the ship's carpenter was com- missioned to enlarge a cabin bunk and to build a king-sized dining room chair to accomo- date the ample Grevers. MTA Elects~ Hggins New Proj ect Head Former State Senator George N. Higgins of Ferndale, a Republican, was elected chairman of the Mich- igan Turnpike Authority yesterday and began immediately to set things in motion for the comple- tion of the turnpike project. To study possible conflicts be- tween the proposed north-south tournpike and State Highway De- partment plans for freeway con- struction, Higgins set a meeting of the Authority with Highway De- partment officials for July 25 in Lansing. Higgins also announced plans to meet with Detroit, Dearborn and Oakland County officials to dis- cuss "three trouble spots" along the turnpike route. He said he wanted to clear up these contro- versies before the State Supreme Court rules on the Authority's con- stitutionality, possibly in the fall. Changes Require Funds When the question was raised as to whether the Authority had the money to make changes in the proposed route through the "trou- ble spots," Higgins indicated he Nould try to get an additional loan appropriation in case is was need- ed. Authority engineer E. Thomas Baker said the balance on hand was sufficient to complete the planning of the route as it has so far been worked out, but changes would probably require additional funds. The authority has been operat- ing on a $50,000 loan from the State Highway Department,.which will be repaid after the issue of $164,000,000 in turnpike bonds. Thebonds cannot be issued until a route is adopted by the Author- ity. Higgins said no one would buy th bonds anyway if the High- way Department was building a freeway parallel to the turnpike. Engineering Takes 9 Per Cent Of the original $500,000, expen- ditures have taken $438,134.62, leaving a balance of $61,865.38, according to the report made by Administrative Officer Otis Hardy. Engineering expenses accounted for approximately 90 per cent of the total expenditures. Also at yesterday's meeting, Jus- tin Whiting was named the Au- thorities new secretary and Carl H. Smith, Jr., was elected treasurer, Federal Aid In Vaccination Plan Approved WASHINGTON (A) - Plans for federal financial aid in vaccinating the nation's youngsters against polio jumped ahead yesterday as the Government released another 720,000 shots of Salk vaccine. By unanimous votes, both the House Commerce and Senate La- bor committees approved differing measures aimed at providing free injections for children under 20 and for pregnant women. Just who in these groups would benefit would be up to the states. It could be evervnne. SITE OF BIG FOUR CONFERENCE-This is a view of the cen-' tral section of the Palace of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, where the Big Four summit conference will open Monday. Once the seat of the League of Nations, the palace is now the Euro- pean headquarters for the United Nations. Exlvpert Predicts Tripling Of, Traffic in 50 Years In 50 years, automobiles and highways will be even more im- portant in our economy than they are now, according to an engineer- ing expert on highways. Speaking here yesterday, J. P. Buckley, chief engineer for the Highways Division of the Automotive Safety Foundation, declared, that in 50 years there will be two and one-half times as many ve- hicles on Michigan's highways as there are today, and travel will triple to a staggering total of 80 billion vehicle miles a year. Buckley was a member of a panel discussing "Transportation Horizons Unlimited." He outlined some of the changes that would OViet Proposes Collective Pre -Geneva Statement Has Warnmg Arms Paet Would Threaten War. MOSCOW (P)-The Soviet Un- ion proposed last night that the problem of restoring German unity be approached through a European collective security system. The Russians warned that any attempt to involve Germany in a military alliance "leads to an in- creased threat of a new war." The Kremlin issued the state- ment six days in advance of the summit conference of the Big Four at Geneva, and at the end of an important full meeting of the Soviet Communist Party Central Committee. East and West The statement, issued through the official news agency Tass, proposed that a European collec- tive security system could be joined by both West and Communist East Germany and that all Europeas states could participate, "irrespec- tive of their social and political differences." Any plan which would coun- tenance a choice by a unified Ger- many of joining and Western mili- tary alliance is rejected in the statement. It added that it was obvious the Western Powers in their turn would reject any pro- posal which envisaged joining a unified Germany to the Warsaw agreement, which set up a sort of Communist bloc NATO. In Washington, officials felt that Russia is hardening its basic position on German unification, in advance of the Geneva Conference. Changed Position At the same time the Moscow statement indicated to the officials that the Soviet government Is try- ing to steer away from the position It seemed to take several months ago: That German unification has become completely impossible since West Germany signed an alliance with the Western Allies. "The USSR opposes the policy of reviving German militarism and involving West Germany, or a reunited Germany, in any military groups," said the statement, "not because it fears a militarist united Germany, but because such a pol- icy leads to an increased threat of a new war . . ." The statement accused the West of attempting to sacrifice German unity to plans for a rebirth of Ger- man militarism. Soviet Trend' In Economics Told By Block Praised By Wolf bein Here "This country has done a fantastic job of educating the people," according to Seymour L. Wolfbein, Chief of the Division of Manpower and Productivity of the Department of Labor. Wolfbein addressed members of a guidance and counseling work- shop here yesterday. In his talk he opposed the frequent charge that because of poor guidance and counseling in schools there is a shortage of "creative manpower." He noted a rise in the number of people receiving high school and college education in this country, and concluded. that whatever manpower shortage exists now is the result of the low birth rate during the depression years. Interpret Facts Correctly Depression-born babies are those now in colleges and universities, Wolfbein observed. He criticized scientists and engineers who blame the low number of students entering their fields on poor counseling in high school. "We must be careful to interpret facts and figures correctly," he cautioned. Guidance and counseling people have a terrific challenge before them, according to Wolfbein. As high school enrollments continue to, rise, counselors must be prepared to take on increased loads, he warned. In addition, he told the audience, colleges must train more counselors of higher quality than we now have. In.today's sessions of the workshop, Prof. Max Wingo of the Education school will talk on "The Future of Progressive Education" at 9 a.m. in Rm. 4009, University High School. Discussions on use of audio-visual aids in education and teaching of foreign languages in elementary school will also be held today. come about in auto transporta- tion and highways. Included in the future developments he men- tioned were: separate highway lanes for specified speeds, heli- copter removal for disabled cars, new bridges traversing large lakes, illumination on highways making headlights unnecessary, pavements that dissolve snow and sleet, and non-stop cross-country through- ways. Navigation As for the future in aviation, Peter Altman, engineering consul- tant and vice-president of Conti- nental Motors Corporation, stated that simplified and reliable navi- gation aids will be developed so that the pilot will have to have only a minimum of navigation knowledge. The distance between Los Angeles and New York will shrink in flying time to the dis- tance between Detroit and Grand Rapids, he estimated. He added that the proposed Douglas Turbo-Jet DC 8 schedul- ed for delivery in four years will be able to fly non-stop between the United States and Europe re- gardless of head-winds and at a speed in excess of 550 miles per hour. Prof. Aarre K. Lahti of the Col- lege of Architecture and Design foresees the main problem of fu- ture transportation as one of en- ergy. He believes that petroleum sources will either be used up or will be conserved for purposes that substitutes can't fulfill. The panel was part of the Uni- versity's Summer Session program of special events related to Michi- gan. Bright Auto Future Cited The future will bring great pro- gress and prosperity to the auto- mobile industry and to the state of Michigan, according to James J. Nance, president of the Auto- mobile Manufacturers Association and the Studebaker-Packard Cor- poration. Nance spoke on "The Impact of the Automobile Industry on the People of Michigan." Michigan's Role "Although Michigan's percent- age of the total automobile pro- duction of the United States has decreased in the last few years, there has been a great increase in the total production in the state," Nance said. He emphasized that while "The industry is decentraliz- ing, the expansion programs in other states are dwarfed by simi- lar programs in Michigan." Nance also pointed out the great effect the industry hAs on the state's economy. Auto workers make up almost 50 percent of the state's manufacturing workers and almost a quarter of the total num- ber of employed persons in the state. "As one of the largest em- ployers in the country and the largest single user of iron and steel products, the automotive in- dustry has become one of the most watched factors in the economy," he declared. PULITZER PRIZE WINNER: News pa perman Stowe to Teach Here Herbert Block spoke last night at the second in the series of the Russian Studies Program on, "So- viet Economy, Its Growth, Capaci- ty and Trends." Block, who is Special Assistant on Economic Affairs in the Divi- sion of Research for the USSR and Eastern Europe in the De- partment of State, was introduced as, "the best informed man in our government." In his introduction Block said that there was much controversy in interpreting economio growth of the USSR. The difficulty was because "there were no real hard facts," he said. All the figures -released by the Russian government must be checked and rechecked to deter- mine their authenticity, he re- minded the audience. The differences in the opinions of the experts can be logically ex- plained. Each may be basing his results on data from different years, hence varying results. Be- sides, ever~y scholar has a pre- conceived picture of his subject, 4 __ Leland Stowe, who will be a vis- iting professor of journalism at the University this fall, has won distinction not only as a news- paper writer but also as an author. He was a Pulitzer Prize winner for best foreign correspondence in 1930 while he was Paris corres- pondent of the New York .Herald Tribute. Ten years later, while with the Chicago Daily News, he was given the Overseas Press Club of published in 1941. "They Shall Not Sleep" was a 1944 publication. "While Time Remains" came out two years later and also was pub- lished in Italian and Portugese. "Target: You" came out in 1949. To Leave 'Reader's Digest' Prof. Wesley H. Maurer, chair- man of the Department of Jour- nalism, says that Stowe will leave his present post as roving editor of Reader's Digest in September F u -e rN ri gPaLiberalizing Curriculum . The School of Nursing is nowv operating entirely on a four-year program leading to a degree of Bachelor of Science in Nursing. Previously, a five-year program .raC fn-nr- nr.C. The at well as being able to work as an expert technician. Other Areas Because the modern nurse is ex- pected to do more than minister