LEFT, RIGHT AND SENSIBLE Sjitr zau Ilaitli .000 m c See Page 2 Latest Deadline in the State VOL. LXV, No. 20S ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1955 COOLER FOU PAGES Bently Reveals Petition Signers Five Professors Named As Asking For Revisions in Immigration Act Six Ann Arborites are included in a House Un-American Activities Committee list of 36 Michigan residents who signed a petition urg- ing changes in the federal immigration law. (McCarran Internal Se- curity Act.) Rep. Alvin Bently (R), who made the list public this week, sub- mitted the information to the Congressional record. He said, "These individuals are not necessarily Communists, Communist sympathizers or fellow travelers." The petition, carrying a total of 73 signatures, was sent to Rep. Bentley by the Rev. Henry Hitt Crane, pastor of the Central Methodist Church in Detroit. Those included are Prof. Theodore M. Newcomb, chairman of the social - psychology doctoral pro- , Eisenhower Trouble f Sees No rom > Soviets Say Peace' Aim At Geneva -Daily-Hal Leeds IMPROVEMENT-Homeowners all over Ann Arbor are building fire escapes to comply with orders by the city's Building and Safety Engineering Department. Of 282 multiple unit dwellings inspected in the last year, 198 had inadequate means of egress. . 1i 1"BeCS ~Citynsects 282 K~ MlUnit Buildig By JIM DYGERT A total of 282 multiple unit dwellings were inspected by Ann Arbor's Building and Safety Engineering Department during the year ending June 30, according to the annual report released yesterday by John E. Ryan, head of the department. Only 15 of the total were inspected in the six months ending Dec. 31, 1954, after which Robert Miller joined the department as a full-time inspector. Inspections have been systematic since the first of the year in a two-year program aimed at covering all the city's 1,800 multiple unit dwellings. Ryan expects to accomplish the objective if the department s able to inspect about 15 a week. At present, about ten a week are being inspected. Townspeople Comply Townspeople have generally complied with orders to improve their property to conform with the building code, Ryan said. Almost all violators are working at taking care of violations, he added. Four major violations stood out in the report. Of the 282 buildings inspected, 198 had inadequate means of egress, 231 had electrical wiring violations, 158 had combustible storage and 110 had inadequate lavatory facilities. Fifty-nine had no third floor enclosure, though the law provides that a third floor be enclosed. Of 52 cellar dwellings inspected, 33 were okayed for continued occupancy while 19 were ordered vacated. 15 Certificates Issued Fifteen certificates of compliance have already been issued to property owners who improve their buildings in accordance with the department's orders. Ten more are in process. The department swore out only two warrants against balky prop-, erty owners, but both cases were settled out of court with their agreeing to comply, F1yan said. Included in the 282 buildings inspected were 22 fraternities. The main violation in fraternities, according to Ryan, was lack of cleanli- ness. All fraternities with violations - most of them, Ryan said,- have notified their alumni directors and have initiated plans to correct the violations. William Holland, University Sanitarian, has been assisting the department in inspecting fraternities and sororities. He usually follows up after the original inspection. After an original inspection is made, a letter is sent to the propert3 owner along with a list of violations that must be rectified within 90 days. A later inspection is made to determine whether violations have been corrected. Strike Halts Ferry Sr A cross Mackinac Straits gram; Prof. Arthur Dunham, School of Social Work; and emeri- tus professors Philip Schenk, Eng- lish; Leroy Waterman, semitics; and John F. Shepard, psychology. Also on the list was the Rev. Hen- ry Lewis, rector of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church. "No Accusations" Rep. Bentley, submitting the in- formation on the 35 state signers to the Congressional Record, said, "I am making no accusations but am merely presenting a summary, which is necessarily not complete, of the information regarding these persons which is of public record in the committee files." Prof. Newcomb made the follow- ing statement concerning Rep. Bentley's list last night: "Up to now, I had always supos- ed that my motives, in objecting to some provisions of the McCarran Act, were the same as those of the editors of this newspaper and of President Eisenhower and Mrs. El- eanor Roosevelt." He continued, "I guess it's a lot easier to publicize a list of names linked' through 'alleged' member- ship in dubious organizationsif you don't bother to check on the allegations than if you do. "In my own case, at least," the professor continued, "the results of a factual check would have been quite different from those implied by the Congressman. If he had the facts, I believe he would have seen that some of us believe so deeply in 'the land of the free' that we want to make it more accessible than it now is to many foreigners who also love freedom." Disclosed June 5 Rep. Bentley first disclosed in- formation about the petition in a news release June 5. He said then he hoped to support most of the changes in the McCarran act rec- ommended by President Eisenhow- er. He declared this week that Rev. Crane's letter with the list of sign- ers made him "somewhat suspi- cious" of the motives of some who were pressing for the revisions.' Prof. Shepard told The Daily yesterday he had received a copy of the petition urging changes in the immigration law from Rev. Crane. "In substance, the petition called for repeal of the McCarran Act and enactment of a more reas- onable measure in its place," Prof. Shepard said. "Rep. Bentley wants to put any- one who is half-way liberal on a subversive list," the former psy- chology professor said. Organizations Listed He was listed as being a member of the Civil Rights Congress, Na- tional Federal for Constitutional Liberties 1942, 1945; American Council of Soviet Relations, cited by the Attorney General in 1948; the Mid-Century Conference for Peace, 1950 and 1951, and was Cocharged with publicily defend- ing the Communist Party in 1941. The Rev. Lewis, past member of the American Committee for Pro- tection of the Foreign Born, said he could not remember specifically what the petition urged, but he was sure it was "not subversive." Prof. Dunham was listed as hav- ing belonged to the Committee for Peaceful Alternatives to the Atlan- tic Pact in 1949 and 1951; contrib- uted money to "Social Work To- day," described by the committee in 1944 as a "Communist magazine. Trial Opposed Prof. Newcomb sponsored a call to the 1949'Bill of Rights Confer- ence which opposed the trial of Communist leaders on conspiracy charges, according to the commit- tee. In addition, he was a member of the American Committee for Protection of the Foreign Born, and American Youth for Democ- racy. Prof Waterman was cited for the following on Bentley's list: member of the Civil Rights Con- gress 1947; Conference on Con- stitutional Liberties in American 1940 and 1944; American Commit- tee for Protection of Foreign Born; National Council of American-So- viet Friendship 1946-47; Joint An- ti-Fascist Refugee Committee 1951 and 1947; National Council of the Arts, Sciences and Professions 1952; American Committee for Democracy and Intellectual Free- dom 1940 and 1942; and the New York Conference on Inalienable Rights 1940 and 1944. Prof. Schenck belonged to the American 'Committee for Protec- tion of the Foreign Born in 1948 and 1953; the Michigan Civil Rights Federation in 1943 and 1952; and the National Federation for Constitutional Liberties 1942. Barefoot The campus took on the at- mosphere of a "cow college" yesterday as students waded through the flooded Engineer- ing Arch in bare feet. Those who lacked the fore- sight of removing their pedi- gear while crossing puddles were forced to do so when they got to class. Meanwhile, window ledges doubled as drying racks for shoes and socks. Bulganin Hopes For Cooperation MOSCOW (P-Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin said yesterday the Soviet Union is going to Ge- neva seeking peace but it has not- ed war preparations by other states. He observed that the U.S.S.R. has ''a very good army with all the necessary equipment" to safe- guard its security. Bulganin pledged the Soviet delegation to the summit talks to great efforts to "attain the lofty aims o fthe conference," and ex- pressed hope the other powers would exert equal efforts. The So- viet aim, he said, will be to find a common ground for easing ten- sion and strengthening confidence among states. He read a statement, announced in advance as a general declara- tion on the summit conference opening Monday. He apparently took note of the recent suggestion of French Premier Edgar Faure on the possibility of using money saved in cutting arms production for improving standards of living. Business-like Cooperation The Soviet Premier said relaxa- tion of tension could lead to "busi- ness-like cooperation" a m o n g states, and added: "This would enable the states to use the colossal funds, which now finance armaments, for the good of the peoples." Bulganin received correspon- dents at the Kremlin. With him' were the other top members of the Soviet delegation to Geneva: Com- munist Party boss Nikita S. Khrushchev, D e f e n s e Minister Georgi K. Zhukov, Foreign Minis- ter V. M. Molotov and Deputy ForeignMinister Andrei Gromyko. No Questions He read the statement in Rus- sian. It was translated but no text was given the reporters. About 5 correspondents had come prepar- ed to ask questions, but once the statement was translated, the Soviet leaders strode briskly from the room. The whole thing lasted just 20 minutes. "Some people," the statement said, "think capitalism is better than socialism. We are convinced the opposite is the case. This argument cannot be settled by force, through, war. Let everyone prove in peaceful economic com- petition whether he is right. "It is said that even a bad peace is better than a good war. As broadcast by Moscow radio, this was translated "a good quarrel." And if we exert all efforts and achieve not a bad, but a good, real peace, millions of men and women in all countries will draw a sigh of relief." -Datly-Hal Leeds DEDICATION - University President Harlan H. Hatcher yester- day formally accepted the new Architectural Research Laboratory from Unistrut Corporation. He then turned it over to Dean Wells Bennett of the architecture and design college for research. i NEW TAXES APPROVED: House Committee Votes To Pass New Roads Bill WASHINGTON A) -- The House Public Works Committe voted 22-6 yesterday for a biggest-in-history road-building program over the next 12 years, and-recommended 12 billion dollars in new taxes to help pay for it. Approved for House action was a bill calling for 48% billion dol- lars worth of construction for public roads, including about 35/2 bil- lions to be put up by the federal government. Most of this would go to complete 40,000'miles of superhighways across the nation. The federal gasoline tax would be upped a penny a gallon for the next 15 years-from two to three cents-and levies on several other Reds Geneva Next Stop for Ike After Talk Hopes Russian Pledge Sincere WASHINGTON OP) -President Dwight D. Eisenhower took off for the Big Four conference yes- terday, declaring there will be "no trouble" with the men in the Kremlin if they really mean their words of "conciliation and toler- ation and toleration and under- standing. The chief executive made the qualified forecast in a dramatic TV-radio address shortly before his plane, Columbine III, took off for Eisenhower's potentially fate- ful meeting with the leaders of Russia, Britain and France. In the broadcast he declared that if a 10-year-old spirit of mu- tual distrust can be lifted at Ge- neva, then "we will have taken the greatest step toward peace, toward future prosperity and1 tranquility that has ever been taken in all the history of man- kind." Leaves Airport The President, with his wife and son accompanying him, took off from Military Air Transport Service Airport at 9:18 p.m. EDT- 7:18 p.m. (CST) Only a few minutes before hie had ended his broadcast withh plea for every American to pray in church next Sabbath for success of the Big Four conference-for an end to the threat of the "ter- rible scourge" of war. In his pre-flight broadcast E- senhower promised he and Sec- retary of StateJohn Foster Duil- les would be firm in principle yet conciliatory in attitude at Ge- neva. Eisenhower said Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin "talked toler- ance and understanding" at Mos- cow yesterday. If that spirit really animates the Soviets at Geneva, he said, "there'll be no trouble be- tween the Russian delegation and this country." Too Many Programs He warned at the outset that the world's problems are too many and too serious to be settled at a single conference--a conference, he said firmly, that will last no more than a week as far as he is concerned. On the whole, however, the President's attitude was one of conciliation - of promising the United States will not reject any hand outthrust in true friendship,. "Did you n9te" asked the President, "the speech made Y Premier Bulganin in Moscow this morning? Every word he said was along the line that I am now speaking. He talked on concilia- tion and tolerance and, under- standing. Words Reflective "I say to you, I say to all the world, if the words that he ex- pressed are truly reflective of the hearts and minds of the men in the Kremlin-as we are sure they are reflective of the hearts and minds of all the people in Russia, as in the hearts and minds of all the people everywhere, then there'llbe no trouble between the Russian delegation and our own at this coming conference." Earlier in the day the President had said that "new vistas" will be opened to the world if statesmen at the Big Four conference can reach "useful areas of agreement" on handling international prob- lems. In a message tinged with hope, the President told Congress: "There are signs that the world may be entering a new phase in international relationship." Britain Abandons Salk Vaccine Trial State Trade . Study SlIated A comprehensive foreign trade study in Michigan will be conduct- ed by the Legislative Reference Service of the Library of Congress, it was announcd yesterday The study was requested by members of the Michigan Con- gressional Delegation. To be conducted in two phases and to take approximately nine months, the study is the first to be carried out on a state-wide basis at the request of a large body of members from both parties from a state. In the first phase, approximately 15,000 business firms, trade or- ganizations and individuals will receive questionnaires. After these are answered and returned to the Legislative Reference Service, the second phase will involve selective field trips. I ST. IGNACE, Mich. )--Ferry ,service across the Straits of Mack- inac was halted last night by a strike. Shortly before midnight, boats began tying up in St. Ignace. Within minutes, four of the five ships were docked here. The other, the Vacationland, was expected to tie up across the straits in Mackinaw City for lack of docking space on this side. Docked here were the City of New Forum Chapter Opens Freedom Forum, "designed to help citizens explore, on a grass roots level, the role of individual liberties in our society at a time when many people are concerned with the problem of how to main- tain security without jeopardizing the individual's liberties," has or- ganized a chapter in Ann Arbor. Freedom Forum is a national or- ganization boastinga500 chapters, The loca group was formed this week. Petoskey, the Straits of Mackinac, the City of Cheboygan and the City of Munising. Cars Waiting About 100 cars on this side of the straits were awaiting passage when the strike hit before the midnight deadline. State officials at Lansing had warned they would be striking against the state and would be li- able to dismissal for a work stop- page or any unauthorized absence from work of more than two days. The Ferry workers asked for a' pay boost of 30 cents an hour, time and a half on Saturdays and dou- ble time on Sundays. The state Civil Service Commission granted them a flat 15 cents an hour pay boost recently. "We've done all we can," StateI Highway Commissioner Charles M. Ziegler said. "The business of pay is in the hands of the Civil Service Commission. All we can do is try to keep operating with what men we have left." Five Ferries The state employs 260 men to operate the five ferries that haul cars and passengers across the straits. Georna W. L ra v .1irnAn_ O automotive items would be in- creased. Rep. George H. Fallon (D-Md.), acting committee chairman, re- ported the measure will be redraft- ed over the weekend for technical purposes and brought before the House group for a final vote Mon- day. Democratic Leader John W. Mc- Cormack (D-Mass.) has listed the' bill for early action by the House, probably by next week. The Senate has already passed' a multi billion dollar highway con- struction measure of its own, which doesn't include a method for financing. President Dwight D. Ei- senhower's program for highway expansion called for financing through long-term borrowing's, but this was turned down in both the Senate and in the House commit- tee. In a day-long session, the com- mittee gave its final approval to these tax increases: Gasoline, from2 to 3, cents a gallon; diesel fuel, from 2 to 5 cents a gallon; truck tires larger, than 8/2 by 18, 5 to 15 cents a pound; inner tubes for these tires, 9 to 15 cents a pound; truck tires, from 71/2 to 8:/2 by 18, 5 to 8 cents a pound; camelback, a rubber compound used in making retreat tire, a net tax of 15 cents a pound. 'Talbott Offers 'No Apology Of Any Sort' WASHINGTON (A') -Secretary' of the Air Force Harold E. Talbott whose connection with a New York firm is under study by Senate in- vestigators, said yesterday he has "no apology of any sort to offer for any of my business associations." Talbott has a date with mem- bers of the Senate Investigations subcommittee next week to dis- cuss the business connection, which he has maintained throughout his service as Air Force chief. Chairman John L. McClellan '(D-Ark) sid the senMtre wrmlrol SIASSI, FOREIGN LEADER: Iranian Educator Visits Campus By MARY LEE DINGLER If you've been complaining about' the grade system here being tough or complex, don't expect sympathy from students attending the Uni- versity of Tehran. Ali Akbar Eiassi, Dean of the College of Literature, Science and Arts at the Iranian University and a guest of the United States State Department explained the compli- cated grading system in use at his University. At Tehran students receive offi- cial reports that rank them on a numerical scale ranging "anywhere from one to twenty" as opposed to' the simple alphabetical classifi- cation used here. some of our antiquity for some of your modern educational advance- ments;" the noted educator added. A dignified, charming man, Dean Siassis accomplishments are not limited to the educational field. Author and Playwright Besides experience as a teacher and, administrative official, the Dean has written several books including works in both French and- Persian. Between 1919 and 1925, a period of modern development in the Iranian Theater Dean Siassi wrote several plays which were produced in his country. Although he ha~ s knt himnelf ,: . f a ' ti . - ........ ... C...