V RIGHTEOUS LEGION See Page 2 YI e SirF Latest Deadline in the State 14Ia i i41pp SHOWERS VOL. LXVIII, No. 13S 'Southern Manifesto' Protesting Civil Rights To Be Presented Today ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1956 FOUR PAGES FOU PGE Bill Declared AppDiroaching R .ecklessness House To Debate Issue Monday WASHINGTON (A)-A new Southern manifesto declared last night "the pending so-called civil rights legislation" threatens the liberties of all citizens. Signed by 83 members of the House from 11 states, the state- ment called on the House and Sen- ate to defeat the legislation. The declaration, in the form of a resolution, is to be read to the House by Representative W. M. Tuck (D-Va) today three days in advance of the start of debate on > the civil rights bill in the House. Advanced by the administration and supported by Northern Demo- crats as well as Republicans, the legislation was approved by the House Judiciary Committee. Set Up Commission Briefly, it would set up a bi- partisan Commission on Civil Rights, create a new Civil Rights Division in the Justice Depart- "ment, and make it easier for indi- vidual civil rights complaints to be taken into federal courts. "No one," the Southerners said In the resolution, "has the wild- est idea of the purpose for which the extraordinary powers created by this legislation will be em- ployed, and to grant them by such vague language as is contained 'in the bill approaches recklessness," Representative W. M. Colmer (D-Miss), a leader in circulating the statement, said its prime pur- pose "is to educate the people of the country" that the legislation "strikes at the fundamental con- cepts of our government." Beyrnd Question "It goes far beyond the racial question, far beyond the question of segregation," Colmer said. The statement was drafted by Colmer, Tuck and Representative, E. E Willis (D-La). xon- ates Contract Said 'Unlawful' WASHINGTON (P)-The Justice Department yesterday branded as "unlawful . . . and contrary to public policy" the ixon-Yates power contract which the govern- Ment entered at the direction of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Accordingly, department lawyers told the U.S. Court of Claims, the government is under no obligation to pay any of the 3% million dol- lars the contractors sought for work done before the contract was canceled. The cancellation also was ordered by Pres. Eisenhower. The lawyers for the department said the contract was void, pri- marily because of a conflict of in- terest they ascribed to Adolphe H. Wenzell. . Wenzell was a consultant to the government's Budget Bureau at the same time he was a salaried official of the First Boston Corp., of New York City, which became financial agent for the Dixon- Yates interest. The department told the court: "The role played by Wenzell ... involved a conflict of interest so contrary to public policy as to render the alleged agreement null and void." This was much the same argu- ment hammered on for months by the two Democratic senators from Tennessee, Kefauver and Gore, - and others who fought the Dixon- Yates plan. The fight began as a public-vs.- private power dispute, with Demo- crats contending it was an ad- ministration attempt to dismantle the Tennessee Valley Authority. The Administration argued that . the project would be in the public --Daily-Don Watkins SEYMORE CHATHAM Chatham Discusses Uses Of Linguistics By Critics By KEN JOHNSON "Linguistics can offer only auxiliary tools to the literary critic in his attempt to judge the work of a poet," said Seymore Chatham in his speech last night before the Linguistics Forum. Chatham also said that the study of the linguistic features in the poet's work cannot provide the basis for a judgment of the work, but can only give the critic a way to explain the features that he sees in it. According to Chatham, there are no inherent values for the smaller parts of words, such as constant clusters and alternation of vowels, at least on a world wide4>- basis. However, the poet may use out those readings which did not such groups to affect the way in represent the reading which the which the poem is to be read. As poet had in mind. Steel Strike Negotiators Continue No Progress Made In Meeting Yesterday; More Talks Today PITTSBURG ()-Steel nego- tiators yesterday resumed efforts to end the 12-day old nationwide steel strike and recessed nearly two hours later without a word of progress. However, another nego- tiating session was scheduled for today. The session appeared to end on a more amiable note than was evi- dent before it began when union President David J. McDonald said the industry "has no intention" to work out a new wage contract "at this time." The industry's top spokesman immediately denied McDonald's statement. And when the meeting ended neither industry nor union leaders had any further comment. Team Leaves The Federal Mediation Service's three-man team sat in on the meeting for only 45 minutes, then said it was leaving the two parties to "bargain in good faith." Shortly before the meeting re- cessed, the mediators were sum- moned back to the negotiating room. Joseph F. Finnegan, director of the Mediation Service, told news- men he felt the spirit of collective bargaining was evidenced in the meeting-the first negotiation ses- sion held since the strike of 650,- 000 steelworkers began July 1. Finnegan declared the govern- ment has no plans to sit in on Fri- day's session. Statements Exchanged The exchange of statements by McDonald and John A. Stephens, vice president of U. S. Steel Corp. and top industry negotiator, came shortly before the government-ar- ranged peace talks began, McDonald told reporters: "The industry again intends to offer its articles of indenture. This is evidenced by Mr. Stephens' state- ment which appeared in the morning newspapers. It seems to me the industry has no intention to make an agreement at this; time. The steelworkers want to make an agreement." Ike's Attack Aids Medicine PLYMOUTH, Ind. ()-A noted heart surgeon said last night Pres- ident Dwight D. Eisenhower's heart attack may bring the same kind of medical progress that President Franklin D. Roosevelt's ailment brought in polio treat- ment. "President Eisenhower's illness has made heart disease the nation's No. 1 medical topic today, and there is every indication this heart-consciousness will result in a greatly stepped-up research pro- gram to find the answer to thei puzzling killer," said Dr. Harris B. Shumacker, Jr., surgery chairman in the Indiana University School of Medicine. "A great many exceptionally1 promising clues have been un- earthed and are being intensively3 pursued," Dr. Schumacker told a: meeting of Kiwanians, Rotarians< and Lions at Plymouth Countryi Club. Positively To Policy By Wriston 'Frequent Absences WASHINGTON-The sharpest attack yet made on Secretary of State John Foster Dulles' habit of dashing about the world came yes- terday from one of his own top level advisors, who recommended that he hobble his wandering feet. The outspoken counselor is Dr. Henry M. Wriston, president emer- itus of Brown University and the man who has done perhaps more than any other to help Dulles re- organize the United States for- eign service. He is an advisor on administra- tive and personnel problems when needed and a member of an ad- visory committee for the Foreign! Service Institute. s Dulles' Trips Criticized Eden Plans Self-Rule For Cypriots; Dispute Be Overcome I Address Avoids an example of this, Chatham cited the works of Keats. Using a-tape recording of three different readings of Macbeth's first soliloquy, Chatham illustrated another use for linguistic science as a tool for literary critics. By demonstrating the different read- ings of the passage with the tape and then comparing them in graphic form by a diagram, Chat- ham illustrated the use of linguis- tic marks to show the differences in stress and interpretation. He said that this could not be used to teach the proper way to read the passage, but only to point Absence Harmful In an article in "Foreign Af- fairs," a magazine published by the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, Wriston writes that frequent absences of Dulles or any other secretary of state from his office here are positively harmful to the making and conducting of U. S. foreign policy. The President does not get the advice he needs, according to Wriston; U. S. ambassadors abroad as shown up almost as messen- ger boys and the secretary him- self loses broad understanding of the problems he must solve. "The vital requisites for the ef- fective discharge of the duties of the Secretary of State are perspec- tive and wisdom," Wriston wrote. "Those qualities find their most effective employment when there is at least a modicum of leisure for quiet reflection." Visited 38 Countries Dulles, since becoming Secre- tary of State 3% years ago, has traveled more than 300,000-miles --or better than 11 times around the equator-and visited 38 coun- tries. Dulles himself defended his traveling in the course of a brief talk yesterday to the Girls Nation, a gathering of high school girls sponsored by the American Legion auxiliary. Russia Takes arms Ceiling UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP) -- Soviet Delegate Andrei A. Gromy- ko agreed yesterday to proposed Western ceilings on armed forces of world powers. But he stirred up a bitter anti- Communist barrage by assailing Western policies around the globe. The Soviet deputy foreign min- ister told the U.N. Disarmament Commission- Moscow is ready to accept Western proposals to cut to 21 million men each the armed forces of the United States, Soviet Union, and Communist China and to 750,000 each the forces of Britain and France. He rejected President Dwight D. Eisenhower's "open skies" inspec- tion plan. Then he took off on blasts against the West, its defense pacts, and particularly American "mon- opolists" who are, he said, push- ing the armaments race to garner huge profits. Harm ul' Making WADE McCREE, Not Going to' Negroes in Government Vital Today-Mcree By ADELAIDE WILEY Present day trends show that Negro officeholders represent all people instead of only their Negro neighborhoods. They feel more representative of total communities than they did ten years ago, Wade McCree, Detroit circuit court judge, said yester- day, in the University series, "Patterns of American Culture: Contri- butions of the Negro." "In America, the term Negro is social and political," McCree remarked. "Anyone with a trace of Negro blood is considered Negvo- this is not like it is in other coun- tries where whoever is not black is about ignorance and incompe- called white. tence of Negroes during Recon- "Still, the Negro's position has struction." imrrnmma i ~fmm+hm nnhltim With thm ift ath Am d pt NATO *Terrorism ' -Dally-Don Watkins Such studies can also be used to show the difference between poetic writing and normal speech. The first has a traditional two stress pattern, while common speech has a four stress pattern. It is the difference between the two which brings much of the emphasis to the reading of poetry. Chatham has recently been ap- pointed to a position in the Eng- lish department at the University of Pennsylvania. He has been an instructor in the English depart- ment at Wayne State University and a Fulbright scholar in the Netherlands. improved since the anteoellum (Civil War) period in various stages." Southern Public Schools A stride forward for Negroes in government was during Recon- struction when "so-called carpet- baggers brought the idea of free public schools to the south, and initiated compulsory attendance laws. "Negroes sent to Congress dur- ing Reconstruction stressed the need for amity and amnesty, along with other things," McCree said. "I say this to refute the old myth h nLeF x1 eenn nmenamenT southern states made it practically impossible for Negroes to take part in politics, he pointed out: "And George White, the last Negro in Congress told government, 'This may be a temporary farewell but the Negro will come back.'" 'Even in Miami' The Negro did come back, Mc- Cree smiled, and in the present era, beginning with Oscar Duprees in 1926, we have had more and more Negroes involved in govern- ment-"even in a Miami police court." Greek Issue LONDON ({A) - Prime Minister Anthony Eden said yesterday Britain will push plans to give self- government to Cyprus, but - .t "until terrorism has been ove- come." Eden brushed aside the idea of putting the dispute over the island colony before NATO now. The United States reportedly favors this course. Eden's statement to Parliament on government policy avoided any reference to self-determination. This is the No. 1 demand of Greek-speaking Cypriots fighting, to end British rule and join the island with Greece. In Nicosia, Governor Sir John Harding told the people of Cyprus that island extremists are begin- ning to crack. Therefore he saw no reason for further delay in devel- oping self-government. Eden said Lord Radcliffe, a legal expert, will fly to Nicosia Friday to start work on "the framework of a new liberal constitution." This constitution, Eden said, will include "safeguards forthe inter- ests of all communities." Cypriots of Greek blood make up about four-fifths of the population, which also includes many of Turkish descent. Turkish Cypriots oppose union with Greece. Thgy contend that if British rule Ug ended the island should revert to Turkey. Dr. Fazil Kuchuk, chairman of the "Cyprus is Turkish" party, said in Nicosia that Eden's state- ment is "good news and satisfac- tory." At the same time, he said the Turkish minority cannot accept paper safeguards and renewed a demand for equal representation for Turk and Greek Cypriots in the upper house of the proposed National Assembly. Tito, Nasser, Nehru to Meet On Neutrality BELGRADE, Yugoslavia GP - Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, leading champion of Arab independence of East-West blocs, came to Yugoslavia yesterday for conferences with two other world exponents of neutrality, His eight-day stay in Yugoslavia' will be concluded with a meeting with President Tito of Yugoslavia and Indian Prime Minister Nehru at the secluded island of Brioni, Tito's Adriatic retreat. Political informants predicted the talks will produce some sort of agreement aimed at expanding and promoting their own neutral- ity bloc among nations. Public statements of- the three leaders already have indicated a considerable area of agreement on a policy of "active coexistence" with both East and West power groupings, but independence from them. Egyptian press dispatches said a top subject of discussion will be the efforts of countries still under foreign domination to achieve full independence, and that "obviously the Algerian problem will figure prominently on the agenda." The Egyptians predicted that a warning would be issued to France, which has thousands of troops fighting Algerian nationalists, that her policy in North Africa is a "direct threat to world peace." Many other international prob- lems are expected to figure in Nasser's talks here. Nasser is repaying a visit which Tito made to Egypt last December He will be accompanied by Nehru when he returns to Cairn byaiv GOVERNOR'S ULTIMATUM: State Auditor To Fight 'Irregularities' Charges SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (M)-State Auditor Orville E. Hodge, the center of a snowballing investigation of charges of irregularities, made it plain yesterday he will fight to stay in office. Hodge, the dapper, 52-year-old reputed millionaire, told newsmen he expected to comply with Governor William G. Stratton's ultimatum for a $100,000 personal bond on "Monday or Tuesday." The governor, like Hodge a Republican, Wednesday notified Hodge that he would declare the office of auditor vacant unless Hodge could double his present $50,000 - personal bond within 20 days. There had been speculation that Hodge might have difficulty in ib rary getting a bonding company to put up the surety since his office af- fairs are under both state and federal investigation. Hodge, however, said he would have "no trouble" making the ad- ditional bond-the maximum' re- quired by law fat the auditor. - Hodge backed down somewhat yesterday on his earlier insistence that he would remain as t1e regu- lar Republican nominee for audi- tor in the November election, even, if party leaders decide to back an independent. He told newsmen he is undecided about his future plans. He made the disclosure in mid- afternoon-while sheriff's depu- ties were combing the city for him' to serve him with a grand jury subpoena in the speeded-up state onstruction Pushing GOP CANDIDATES: Pleasing To Eisenhower GETTYSBURG, Pa. (R)-President Dwight D. Eisenhower made it "absolutely" clear yesterday that he still would be pleased to team up with Vice President Richard M. Nixon on the Republican ticket this year. The recuperating President also decided to go back to Washing- ton and the White House next Monday or Tuesday. It was Republican National Chairman Leonard W. Hall who told reporters Pres. Eisenhower still would be happy to have Nixon as his " vice presidential running mate. Today the President will have a to s chance to give that assurance to Hall flew in from Washington yesterday for an hour's political I huddle with Pres. Eisenhower. Nixon arrives tpday, with Secre- tary of State John Foster Dulles, mainly to report on his round-the- world trip and calls at six Asiatic I capitals. The expected rather than the unexpected came out of the Eisen- hower-Hall conference and a sub- sequent session the Republican chairman held with newsmen. There was word that: Pres. Eisenhower will appear in person at the GOP National Con- vention in San Francisco in Aug- ust to accept his nomination. The assistant Republican leader, in the House, Representative Charles A. Halleck of Indiana, will